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BUTLER COUNTY, Kan. – A 3-month-old girl died after being left behind inside a hot car last weekend.
The girl's mother says she accidentally left the child inside the car after returning from a baby shower in Kansas on Saturday, KAKE reports.
Investigators say the mother claimed she was tired as she had been up late the night before and laid down from about 12:30 p.m. until around 4 p.m.
The parents of the child have six children, five of which were adopted.
"It seems like a very good family, very well-natured, took very good care of their children. Like I said, it's been a very tragic event that's occurred there," said Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet.


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Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to giants like WordPress and Wikipedia, sites all over the web are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed.
Honestly, I don't pretend to understand everything about the impact of SOPA/PIPA. I am strongly against trademark and copyright infringement. These are theft, plain and simple. But I'm also against censorship. Mostly I don't have a lot of faith in the government to manage this judiciously, nor in corporate entities not to use the laws frivolously and to the point that no one can ever post anything without risk of being shut down, blocked or sued.
Plus I didn't know what I was going to post for today anyway. So if you're visiting on Jan 18 … feel the solidarity.
Or, you know. Don't. I respect your stance.
(Unless of course you're an Internet Pirate, in which case ARGH! You suck).


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Industrial 3D Scanning Technology
The ATOS series of industrial optical 3D scanners provide accurate scans with detailed resolution at high speeds. ATOS delivers three-dimensional measurement data and analysis for industrial components such as sheet metal parts, tools and dies, turbine blades, prototypes, injection molded parts, castings, and more.
Optical 3D Measuring Machine
The ATOS ScanBox is a complete optical 3D measuring machine that was developed by GOM for an efficient quality control in the production and manufacturing process. Nine models are available for different part sizes and applications.
Industrial computed tomography
GOM's computer tomograph is specifically designed to meet the metrological needs of industry. The GOM CT delivers high-precision and repeatable measuring data providing complete surface meshes in maximum resolution. Measurement and evaluation are carried out in a simple workflow supported by GOM Software.
Optical 3D Coordinate Measuring Machine
The portable TRITOP system measures coordinates of 3D objects quickly and precisely. Measuring tasks that traditionally were performed by tactile 3D coordinate measuring machines can now easily be carried out with the TRITOP system.
Mobile Optical 3D Measuring System for Online Photogrammetry
PONTOS Live is GOM's tracking system for positioning components, as for a precise alignment on CNC machines or for the adjustment of fixtures. Combined with the GOM Touch Probe, PONTOS Live allows the inspection of areas that are optically difficult to access.
3D Motion and Deformation Sensor
ARAMIS is a non-contact and material-independent measuring system based on digital image correlation. It offers a stable solution for full-field and point-based analyses of test objects of just a few millimeters up to structural components of several meters in size.
Optical Forming Analysis
The optimization of sheet metal forming processes, considering the right material choice and tool optimization, is a decisive factor for competitiveness, particularly in the automotive industry. The optical 3D forming analysis system ARGUS supports such optimization processes.
GOM Inspect is a software for shape and dimension analysis, 3D inspection and mesh processing for 3D point clouds and CAD data sets from fringe projection or laser scanners, coordinate measurement machines (CMM) and other measuring systems. The GOM Inspect software is used in product development, quality control and production.
GOM Correlate is a software package for digital image correlation (DIC) and 3D motion analysis in materials and components testing. The software is used for the determination of material properties as well as for the validation and optimization of numerical simulations. GOM Correlate is applied in basic research, product development and failure analyses.


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No Celtic player will get to play in the Champions League proper this season and not even many ex-Celts can lay the claim. Cillian Sheridan has had more loan moves than hot dinners but his travels have led him all the way to Cyprus and to the Champions League group stages.
Sheridan only joined Celtic in 2006 and quickly found himself in the first team, two days after his debut he was offered a 3 year deal by the club. Celtic have had their fare share of young hoops bursting onto the big stage but it is only a handful who manage to maintain top flight football. The Forward went from Champions League football against the likes of Manchester United to soon finding himself listed for loan. From memory I can't think of too many young prospects who go out on loan and find their way back into the big time.
Sheridan looked to have joined a long list of players who were good, but not good enough for the first team. He started off with a loan moves to Motherwell, Plymouth Argyle, and St Johnstone before eventually getting picked up by CSKA Sofia in 2010. He spent the year in Sofia before getting loaned back to Scotland with St Johnstone and then eventually bought by Kilmarnock. His Kilmarnock season was is most successful bagging 9 goals in 26 games.
In 2013 he signed for Apoel and featured heavily for them in his first season. It's almost six years since he made his Champions League debut for Celtic but this season he helped secure a Champions League group place when he scored in the 75th minute against HJK for Apoel. Both player and club will have their work cut out for them as the draw for group F threw up Barca, Ajax and PSG. Easy.
This time around the player is taking nothing for granted as it all came in it's stride the first time as a 19 year old.
"As a 19-year-old with Celtic I probably didn't appreciate just what a big deal it was to be in the competition and I was only a young lad sort of coming into the team but this time I've played my part in getting the side there and feel much more like one of the team.
"It's good; the build-up to the game last night really brought it home just how important this all is; it's the pinnacle of the club game."
Apoel will travel to the Camp Nou on Day 1 to face an already flying Barca team and I'm sure any manager taking a squad of underdogs to the Camp Nou will have a certain Neil Lennon dvd to study two home and away ties that nearly got rewarded with an unbeaten Barca experience.
With not much Celtic related to cheer for in the Champions League this season, Celts are Here will be routing for Cillian especially against an Ajax, a support that still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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Research Studies
Self Ligation in the year 2000, a comparative assessment of conventional ligation and self-ligation bracket systems.Berger J. Journal of Clinical Orthodontics 2000.
A retrospective assessment of clinical studies relating to the effectiveness and efficiencies of self-ligating brackets as compared with conventionally ligated straightwire appliances. Methodology
More than twenty published articles/clinical studies were analyzed.Findings
Self-ligating brackets were found to provide greater patient comfort, shorter treatment time, reduced chair time and more precise control of tooth translation.
Self-ligating brackets demonstrate dramatically less friction. Such reduction in friction can help shorten overall treatment time, especially in extraction cases. The authors of several studies reported an average of four months reduction in treatment time and a significant savings of chair time in changing archwires.
Self-ligation reduces the risks of percutaneous injury. It also protects the patient from soft-tissue lacerations and possible infections from the cut ends of steel ligatures.
Elastomeric ligatures not only show a rapid rate of decay and deformation, but they are often associated with poor oral hygiene. With the elimination of ligatures, self-ligating appliances can significantly improve the hygiene of all patients.
"As more orthodontic practices embrace the concept of self-ligation, it is becoming apparent that stainless steel and elastomeric ligatures will eventually be as outdated as full banding is today. Considering the advantages of self-ligating brackets for the clinician, staff, and patient, they (self-ligating appliances) may well become the 'conventional' appliance systems of the 21st century."


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Those who know Loredana Bessone well would describe her as a perfectionist: she will not sleep for days until she gets things done. Leadership is a word that comes up more than once when her colleagues try to define her.
Professional and tenacious, she is the mastermind behind the CAVES and Pangaea courses that help train astronauts to work in high-risk environments for future space exploration.
"Extreme environments on Earth, such as caves, are gyms to train our ability to take risks safely and become efficient explorers," she says. "We prepare astronauts to act as field geologists, speleologists and biologists, all at once – science is always part of the mission," she adds.
'Course designer' is a limited title when it comes to encapsulating this woman's frenetic activity. From the lights that illuminate the darkness of a cave to the flow of lessons, the alma mater of CAVES and Pangaea monitors every detail of the training. Sharp and energetic, multitasking is among her virtues.
Loredana doesn't miss any opportunity to praise her team. One quickly realises how she pushes everybody to perform at their best. She greatly values motivation, and builds respect and trust around it. But don't you dare be late or too slow.
Astronauts are not immune to her inquisitive nature, and are thrilled by the team's passion for real exploration.
Her background is full of what she calls "creating opportunities." At 25 years old, she started designing computer courses for astronauts at ESA. From there she moved on to train European instructors for the International Space Station and got involved in behavioural skills courses for astronauts, flight controllers and winter over personnel of the Italian-French Antarctic Station Concordia. Underwater training for spacewalks and survival courses are also part of her CV.
Meet Loredana Bessone, a risk-taker who took on the challenge of answering our barrage of questions without hesitation.
Question: Describe yourself in three words.
Answer: Control-freak, action-oriented, demanding.
Q: When did you know you wanted to work in the space arena?
A: In high-school I loved astrophysics and cosmology. I always loved science and technology. After my thesis at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) I happened to land in ESA as a Young Graduate Trainee. I was trapped there I guess.
Q: What is the main thing you demand from your team?
A: Loyalty, excellence, willingness to share their experience, ambition, humbleness (despite their excellence), and dedication.
Q: What are you most proud of?
A: The CAVES & Pangaea teams, and the achievements they share with ESA and human spaceflight.
Q: Either at the office or hanging on a 100-metre wall, what drives your work?
A: The challenge of designing unique and formative training experiences for very demanding audiences.
Q: What does it take to become a 'cavenaut'?
A: It's easy: apply to be an astronaut and then get assigned to a CAVES training event. After that you just need to learn technical speleology, cave science, survey, cave photography, and execute a scientific mission in a damp, dark, cold alien and risky environment, whilst being an excellent leader, communicator, decision maker, team member and follower in a multicultural and multidisciplinary team of astronauts and cosmonauts.
Q: You wanted CAVES to become one of the best space analogues on Earth. Mission accomplished?
A: According to the participants to the last six editions, yes – fully accomplished. The debriefing of CAVES 2019 started with "Fantastic training! The best analogue we know on Earth of a mission to the International Space Station," and finished with "Humbling to have a team of experts of such a level that dedicate their time and expertise to train us. A 'wow' team."
Q: You land on the Moon, and you enter a lunar cave. What is the first thing you would do?
A: Make sure I have all required resources for my stay and means to come back to the surface.
Q: Three feelings you experienced inside a cave?
A: Awe, peace of mind, humbleness.
Q: The strongest impression you had leaving a cave after six days of exploration?
A: The fragrances of Earth, moss, leaves, flowers. For a couple of minutes everything comes through your nose as an unexpected wonder, whilst the sun paints the world in colours so vivid. All around you is augmented reality.
Q: One thing that made you really happy during CAVES 2019?
A: The excitement in the eyes of Nikolai Chub when he learned he is now a fully qualified speleologist, certified by the Italian Alpine Club.
Q: Your favourite cave food?
A: Freeze-dried fruits by Michele Pontrandolfo.
Q: Your favourite caving gear?
A: The Grigua CAVES shoes of Gaibana.
Q: What is the most difficult part of working with astronauts?
A: A sports coach or a flight instructor have been excellent sportsmen or pilots before. As an astronaut instructor, you have never gone to space. To be credible you need to excel. In CAVES I have instructors who are recognised explorers worldwide. They humble astronauts with their expertise.
Q: If you were an astronaut, who would you like to be?
A: Myself, but I would rather be a scientist.
Q: Women at the top of the space endeavour. Do you care?
A: I care for excellence. Women need to be given opportunities from their childhood. After that, you do not need to distinguish individuals by sex, but by their abilities.
Q: How do you handle stress?
A: By focusing on tasks and goals. Once they are achieved, I sleep to recover.
Q: Science or exploration?
A: Scientific exploration.
Q: What is your favourite place on Earth?
A: My mountain hut: 1500 m high in the Italian Alps, with a view on Monviso.
A: Moon or Mars?
B: Moon, then Mars.


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50 Cent Reveals How His Mom Made Him Beat Up The Neighborhood Bully... At Age 5
Book: From Pieces To Weight
Year: 2006
What happened? When five-year-old Curtis Jackson got into a fight with a bigger kid, he came home crying to his grandmother. But his mother wasn't having it. "My mom was, in a word, hard. She was real aggressive. As a disciplinarian, she was stern. As a motivator, she was even harsher." She sent 50 back out to fight the kid, saying, "I don't care if he's bigger than you. You pick something up and hit him with it if you have to. But you're not going to come back in here crying." Curtis did as his mother said and cold clocked homie with a huge rock. The kid never messed with 50 after that day.
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What transpires in Shelley Baranowski's book Strength Through Joy is the attempt and overall success to democratize tourism and to show the social and racial harmony among the tourists who took part of these all-paid vacations. Multiple examples illustrate how this social harmony was not as simple or cohesive as hoped though. Party members benefitted from greater accommodations or access to extra activities whilst the workers were confined to small cabins and the regulated activities. The tourism en masse did not yield the expected enthusiasm among the local establishments where private clientele deliberately separated from the travellers. Single women were the subject of scrutiny due to their fraternization with the locals and their seemingly provocative attitude toward men. Another example is presented with the regional divide that fuelled some racist comments among Germans themselves.
All these trips were attended by undercover surveillance agents which role was to report on every daily event. These organized cruises and trips were the showcase of the superiority of the Third Reich and the author mentions multiple times how the racial and social component played a role in their success. Rewarding the workers with free tourism was the way to boost the productivity, especially in the armament industry and it was also a mean to support the propaganda through the voices of the people and not only the party.
Italy which did not have the same financial power to propose such trips, used a different approach to rally more people under the fascist ideology. Like for Germany, the mass-consumption was the pitfall to avoid but the nationalization of markets helped Italy to create a national consciousness that was sustaining the build of a new "Italian" identity ( De Grazia, 152). Radio as a popular source of entertainment became the mean to reach a far-out rural population which was crucial to the idea of an Italian identity. Movies and traveling theaters (although differentiated between professionalism and amateurism), facilitated the diffusion of a regulated mass culture that reinforced the idea of collectivism . Italy favoured traditional popular pastimes which were heavily controlled by the state in order to erase class or regional differences.
The difference between Germany and Italy in the matter of popular culture diverge according to these two readings. Italy, less successfully though, did propose trips. But overall, the activities were more practiced nationwide as a way to endorse nationalism and fascism through traditions and cultural identity. On the other hand, Germany went countrywide and beyond its borders to display its racial and material superiority. The element of racial difference weighs heavily in the way Germany showcased itself, even toward Italy which was seen as less developed and disciplined.
Shelley Baranowski, Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 1-10, pp. 162-98
Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1981), pp. 151-86


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Can you believe I'm still not finished with Emma? Yep, that's right. I have no clue why I can't sit and read this particular book. I am hoping to be able to finish it this week. I'm usually a much faster reader than this! I'm hoping to be able to stick with my daily posts & blogging schedule that I've created, but if I don't you'll see posts eventually! 🙂
On another note, I don't think I've mentioned this before but I'm in the process of writing a book. It is something I have always wanted to do but have never gotten around to it. What is it going to be about, you ask? I've yet to figure that out, to be honest with you. Right now I'm leaning towards a fiction novel set in the present day. Setting and plot are slowly developing, but I'm going to wait on revealing that. 🙂
So, I know that is a short update, but hopefully, I'll have more to discuss with you later this week if I can finish reading Emma!


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Is getting certified worth it? Part 2: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
This is the second of our 5-part series to help small business owners evaluate whether federal certification is right for their business. You can read the first part of the series, which discussed the 8(a) Business Development Program, here.
Does attracting potentially millions of dollars' worth of new business interest you? With government contracting work, you can open the doors to additional business that larger companies are not eligible to receive. For instance, government agencies and corporations that do business with the government are mandated by law or corporate policies to spend approximately 20 percent of their budget with small, disadvantaged companies.
Many federal, state, and city contracts that are set aside for certified small businesses go unclaimed because those businesses do not know how to be recognized as a small business. Certification is a review process designed by the certifying agencies to ensure that the business is actually owned, controlled, and operated by applicants that are an underserved group such as women, minorities, or veterans. Each program, however, comes with unique rules and compliance hurdles.
Be cautioned that the Small Business Administration (SBA), the agency responsible for approving four of the five programs we will discuss in this series, denies a large percentage of the applications it receives. For example, the SBA rejects approximately 70 percent of applications under the 8(a) Business Development Program. If your application is rejected, all of the programs require that you wait a mandated time period before reapplying, in many cases one full year. Moreover, once you do reapply, your application will likely receive closer scrutiny the second time around. To have the best chance of getting certified, your application must be fully and correctly completed, with all proper documentation accompanying the application.
Below is the second of five main federal certification programs we will discuss in this small business series.
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
A program similar to SBA's 8(A) program is the Department of Transportation (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE). This is a federal program that is administered by each state's DOT.
The DBE program provides contracting appointments for small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Since 1983, a statutory program requires DOT to ensure that 10 percent of the funds authorized for the highway and transportation financial assistance program are to be expended with DBEs. Each DOT assisted state and local transportation agency is required to establish annual DBE goals.
Most qualifications for participation in the 8(a) program and the DBE program are the same. The DBE program, however, has a few differences from the 8(a) program, including the presumption that women-owned-businesses are disadvantaged. The DBE program also sets different limits on owners' net worth and firm's gross revenue.


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How the West Was Whitened: "Racial" Difference on Cather's Prairie
- Western American Literature
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 41, Number 4, Winter 2007
- pp. 393-417
- 10.1353/wal.2007.0050
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Windows 8.1- Keeping my fingers crossed
I've been using Windows 8 since November of 2012, and I really want to like it, but as much as I try to enjoy it, I really find it frustrating.
I've been using computers since the days of DOS (Disc Operating System) , and I skipped the move to Windows 3.1 and fought Windows 95. By the time Windows 98 was released, I had accepted that we were going to move forward with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) and mouse, but I continued to use command prompt and keyboard shortcut keys. When I finally embraced XP, it was awesome; and I can still whip around the interface with or without a mouse. XP was straightforward, nothing fancy, and did what it was supposed to do, which is why it's been around as long as it has. I was even one of those few people who liked Vista (it ran beautifully on my Apple MacBook Pro). Windows 7 was – and is – solid, and again, I could navigate the system without the use of a mouse. When I replaced XP systems with Windows 7, a quick how-to lesson was all that was needed and my users were able to get back to business in no time. So when it was time to replace my last Windows 7 laptop, I decided to order it with Windows 8, since I had to learn the new operating system so I could assist my clients as they move off of XP. (See my first impression of Windows 8 here).
(Really if you are still on XP you NEED to start planning to move off before April 2014.)
My new system arrived and I planned to spend a few hours getting used to Windows 8 (it shouldn't take more than that to get familiar with the operating system) and setting it up. Two hours in and I was beyond frustrated and I had clients needing assistance ASAP, and I couldn't figure out the basics. By the time my husband arrived home that evening, I was fit to be tied. I complained about some of my struggles with Windows 8, and how I was under the gun to help my clients, and I couldn't; and he said I was a "such a user". Well guess what, I am a typical business user and I don't have a day off to learn a new system.
After having to Google how to restart the system, then figuring it out, I couldn't imagine how my clients were going to deal with it on their own. The very thought of plopping a Windows 8 system on a client's desk and walking away from it was terrifying. As I start replacing/upgrading XP systems, I am still recommending and installing Windows 7 for my clients.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some really cool things with Windows 8 which I really like, but as it stands right now, I know my clients will hate the interface and will experience some of the same issues I did. The biggest complaints I have about Windows 8 are:
1. Too many clicks to get access the application/file I need. Overall, I find it takes longer to get to where I need to be.
2. Too many shortcut keys that don't make any sense
3. That horrible "modern user interface". This interface makes no sense for business use. I never use it, and curse loudly, with words that would make a trucker blush, every time I am popped into it.
For the sake of my clients, and many others, I hope Microsoft has taken a serious look at how corporate users use Windows 7 and make the operating more business-friendly. From what I have seen so far, it looks like 8.1 will be more business user friendly. Looking forward to trying it. My 12 yr old son has already installed the preview and is enjoying the new features.
What are your thoughts on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1?
Are You A Prisoner To Your Tech Support?
It's Monday morning and you come into the office to discover that your network is down for unknown reasons. You call your IT Professional, only to find out that he/she has been in a serious accident and is in critical condition. You quickly Google for another "tech" in the area, and call and explain the situation to him/her. As each moment passes, you are unable to do your job. Later that day, you see your "geek angel" in the front lobby and you are immediately relieved knowing your problem is going to be fixed. He/she takes a look at your infrastructure, and tries to access some resources. He/she suspects it's a problem on the server, and needs an account with administrative privilege to resolve the issue. You look at the specialist, and with a sinking feeling, you realize that you don't have passwords, account information, or any other useful documentations, and the situation quickly goes from bad to worse.
Those of you who know me will hear me refer to the "hit by the bus file". This is a file, paper or electronic that documents your entire IT implementation. Consider this…one day you need IT support and you call your "IT guy" and find out he was crossing the road and was hit by a bus. You now have to bring in someone else who has never seen your systems or implementation before, and this new person will have to figure out how your tech fits together before he/she can even start to assist you. He/she can't start to take anything apart to troubleshoot if they don't know how to put it back together again for your implementation. It's very much like a completed puzzle. You can see how all the pieces fit together, but without the picture on the box to refer to, the puzzle may not easily go back together again if some of the pieces need to be modified.
Your IT support person is also not un-replaceable. Any person who holds your IT structure to themselves is (in my opinion) either selfish, lazy, or is hiding something. Yes, this may sound harsh, but in my experience, it almost always comes down to one of these three factors.
1. Selfish – they want to feel like they are a key element of your companys structure. You and your data are now hostage of your IT support.
2. Lazy – they don't want to take the time to document your structure. This should be part of the contract, and a professional will always include this.
3. Hiding Something – they might not use legitimate/legal software and this could be their way to hide it (follow-up post to come).
You are now at the mercy of whoever holds your information. You are trapped.
As a small business owner, you need to be responsible for both your data and network.
Your trustworthy IT Professional should be leaving you:
- All usernames and passwords for all equipment
- A list of all service providers, including ISPs, and any hosting service
- A backup number to call
- A network schematic
- Documentation for custom application
- A list and location of all software installers
- Backup procedures
- Router configuration
This file should be updated whenever there is a change to the infrastructure. For example, you change your ISP, or add a new file server. As someone trying to help you, there is nothing more frustrating than realizing the documentation you have is not accurate.
Keeping your documentation current and accurate is critical in protecting your data. If your IT specialist (either on contract or on payroll) does not provide this information, you are at risk of becoming a "prisoner". Take the case of Terry Childs, the network administrator for the city of San Francisco. He refused to give up the administrative passwords to his supervisors, and it cost the city almost $900,000 USD to regain control of their own network. This is an extreme case, but it demonstrates what can and has happened.
What is the cost of your systems being unusable? What if those systems are down for an extended period of time? What would it cost for someone to have to figure it all out before fixing it?
If you don't have current IT documentation, call your IT Specialist and ask, or if need be, demand that this documentation is updated or created. Don't be held captive by your IT support.
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Students have not always been exposed to the language of literature in the ways they are today. By that I mean the technical language of reading and writing that brings with it a deeper understanding of a text. If we want them to comprehend, to think, and to succeed, we must continue to expect students to reach for this type of deeper understanding.
That's why we need to have conversations about text structure, main idea, and genre. These are the tools we use to bring us closer to an author and his/her subject or storyline. Genre, for example, is the type of text we read. Technically speaking, genre is defined as "a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter".
I have always believed that the best way to teach reading, and foster the enjoyment of reading is to allow readers to choose books in their preferred genres and at their personal reading levels. At the same time, we must all recognize that branching out to explore new territories can also be rewarding. I look at this with a fairly eclectic approach. It is much akin to a buffet: we peruse the buffet, looking past the sneeze guard, and we find the dishes we enjoy, but we also might take a little from an unknown dish. Just to try it. Just to see if it might be something we like. The same is true of our reading choices.
My four-year-old, like most other four-year-olds, tastes food with his eyes - judging a book by its cover, so to speak. Somehow, he has decided he does not have to put food into his mouth to know he likes or does not like it. He misses out on so many good dishes because of this. The same things happens when we quickly dismiss a book because the cover or the title does not appeal to us. There might just be entire food pallets out there, just waiting for us to discover them, but we will only know them if we try them first.
I'm not suggesting students should try a little bit of everything - that would be unreasonable - but to try an occasional new taste, or in our case an occasional new genre. That makes sense...doesn't it?


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STR's preliminary August 2019 data for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, indicates significant growth in both supply and demand.
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STR analysts note that as the market prepares to host EXPO 2020 (20 October 2020 through 10 April 2021), hotel rooms are being competitively priced in an effort to stimulate demand and keep up with accelerating room supply. This has been a common trend among the majority of key markets in the Middle East since the drop in oil prices in 2014.
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Dictator Donald Trump (DDT) used tweets on Friday to attack the conservative evangelical publication Christianity Today founded by Billy Graham because it advocated his impeachment. Adding to his 15,000+ lies in less than three years, he called the publication "a far left magazine, or very 'progressive,' … which has been doing poorly and … knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call…." He also tweeted, "I won't be reading ET [sic] again!" Graham's son Franklin Graham criticized CT's position but said he had not read the editorial about impeaching DDT. Mark Galli, editor-in-chief of the piece, retired on January 3 after 30 years involved with the magazine.
DDT continued to threatened $250 million funding for Ukraine by blocking a $1.4 trillion spending package funding the federal government through the end of September 2020 if it contained the provision that he must release funds for the U.S. ally within 45 days. Democrats gave in to his demands to keep the U.S. from a shutdown by withdrawing the deadline for the funding release. The bill also lost a mandate that letters authorizing the release of congressional funding must be made public. In the $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), DDT got his "space force," and government employees got 12 weeks paid parental leave.
The bills also raised the federal minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 and a 3.1% pay increase for the troops and civilian federal employees. DDT got $1.375 billion for his wall, partly repair and less than the $8 billion he wanted. Defense spending increased by $22 billion. Elimination of three taxes to pay for the Affordable Care Act adds $373 billion to the deficit over the next decade. Forty-seven Republicans, once the party of fiscal prudence, voted for the budget that leads to more deficits. The GOP tax 2017 tax law already reduced U.S. tax revenue which fell 2.5 percent of tax-to-GDP in 2018, the most of any country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Republicans managed to keep violent white supremacists in the military by blocking an amendment while non-violent transgender recruits are banned.
DDT's signatures on the bills avoids a government shutdown days before the first anniversary of the last one, a rancorous event that lasted 35 days and cost the U.S. economy $11 billion.
With a vote of 385 to 41, the House passed another major bill this week, the trade deal with Mexico and Canada called NAFTA Lite. The bill looks very different from DDT's original draft; even the AFL-CIO approves. Gone are the pharmaceutical protections for drug companies, and appearing are higher labor standards in Mexico, faster dispute resolution, higher environmental standards, and stronger enforcement of the deal. Mexico almost backed out with the requirement of five people from the U.S. to supervise its labor arrangements. While not perfect, the new trade agreement is considered better than the original NAFTA, passed 23 years ago.
These major accomplishments negate DDT's and Republicans' assertion that the impeachment inquiry kept the House from addressing any other issues. DDT called the opposing party "the Do-Nothing Democrats," but "do-nothing" better fits Republicans. The House's hard work is visualized in this photo of 275 House bills DOA (Dead on Arrival) in the Senate because (Do-Nothing) Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuses to acknowledge them.
Facebook removed over 600 accounts connected to the pro-DDT conspiracy website The Epoch Times for using artificial-intelligence identities to push fake stories about topics including impeachment and elections. The network, "The BL," was operated by Vietnamese users pretending to be Americans and using fake photos created by algorithms to fake real identities. In pushing the pro-DDT conspiracy theories, The Epoch Media group spent $9.5 million on ads to spread content on the pages and groups that FB suspended. DDT's official FB page posts their stories. A U.S.-based media company, The Epoch Media group, has now joined foreign governments to use foreign people posing as U.S. people to push pro-DDT content to its 55 million followers. Publisher of the U.S. editions of The Epoch Times, Stephen Gregory, claimed that it has no connection to BL because it's part of Epoch Times Vietnam and that their former employees creating and working for BL doesn't show any connection with its 89 pages, 156 groups, and 72 Instagram accounts. The largest buyer of pro-Trump ads on Facebook until August, The Epoch Times was banned from buying FB ads after the company consistently violated FB's political advertising rules.
One of the many lies in DDT's Wednesday Michigan rally went viral, and Republicans, including DDT's sycophant Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), demanded that DDT apologize. In response to Rep. Debbie Dingell's (D-MI) vote for impeachment, DDT said that her husband, a World War II veteran and former member of Congress, had gone to Hell. DDT also falsely claimed that Rep. Dingell had called him after her husband's service to praise DDT when he called her. Pelosi said that DDT "misunderstands … that cruelty is not wit."
The Dingell attack is part of DDT's five ruling hallmarks:
Governing as perpetual warfare: us against them to inflame base and create deep divisions.
Governing by exhaustion: a war losing participants from boredom.
Governing by grievance and hyperbole: victimhood and martyrdom from declaring the BIGGEST or BEST or WORST as shown by the comparison of his impeachment to the Salem witch trials and the crucifixion of Jesus.
Governing by defiance: no matter the evidence, DDT also claiming that he's never wrong.
Governing with "alternative facts": over 15,000 lies in less than three years along with stories with no identification of people or changing names of characters. (Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) supports this position by telling Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), "We've beat the facts back all the time.")
In exhaustion, the fifth top official at the Pentagon resigned within the past week from these positions: international cooperation in weapons systems, Asia policy, personnel and readiness, advanced research, and intelligence. Acting chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney is expected to depart following the impeachment trial after being ignored in personnel, policy, and impeachment decisions. Rumor suggests his replacement is founder of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who said he won't run for re-election and may work for DDT, something that he's done for the past three years.
More exhaustion at DDT's Michigan rally appeared when his "four more years" chant died in fewer than ten seconds. At the rally, DDT also claimed, "The steel is back": Two days later, US Steel laid off 1,545 workers in closing its Great Lakes Works mill near Detroit. In October, 376 Louisiana steel workers lost their jobs when Bayou Steel shut down its mill in LaPlace.
Senate Republicans keeps allowing Russia to interfere in U.S. elections while DDT's administration fights to protect Russia from sanctions, but Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who usually walks in lockstep with DDT, introduced legislation to punish Russian people and companies for its interference in the 2016 election and its targeting of Ukraine, Syria, and dissidents for attacks. Sanctions were partly because of Russia's capture of Ukrainian sailors and ships. DDT's State Department sent a 22-page letter to Graham in opposition to his bill. It passed out of the Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with opposition from five of the 12 Republicans. McConnell can block the bill from going to the Senate floor.
After DDT met with Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, in the Oval Office during the impeachment inquiry, Vladimir Putin-approved state TV confirmed that DDT is a Russian agent in a segment called "Puppet Master and 'Agent'—How to Understand Lavrov's Meeting with Trump." And DDT isn't the "puppet master" as this photo, requested by DDT, shows in Lavrov standing as the power behind the throne.
Russia does expect DDT to "face a very unhappy period" after he leaves the White House. A joke was whether Russians should "get another apartment in Rostov ready." Former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych settled in Rostov-on-Don when he fled to Russia in 2014. Valery Korovin, director of the Center for Geopolitical Expertise, said, "There are no disagreements or contradictions between Trump and Russia." Putin-supporter and law professor Mikhail Antonov said, "Putin has expressed undisguised delight with the crusade led by Trump and Giuliani to whitewash Moscow's interference in the U.S. elections" and pin the blame on Ukraine.
Former White House officials say that DDT passes Russia propaganda such as the false theory about Ukrainian hacking supporting Clinton because Putin told him to do it.
A federal judge allowed the lawsuit against DDT and his administration alleging violation of federal records law after DDT confiscated and destroyed his meeting notes with Putin. No detailed records of DDT's and Putin's communication in their multiple meetings exist.
The White House is catching crazy from DDT's conspiracy theories: reporter Brian Karem said it's claiming that Hillary deliberately lost the election by getting help from Russian hacking so that DDT could be impeached. Although the logic sounds wacko, that is the culture of DDT's administration. DDT also claimed that Democrats started trying to impeach him before he declared candidacy.
After DDT pardoned military war criminals, his approval rating with service members dropped—42 percent approval. Half of them gave DDT an unfavorable rating.


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For some 200 million Africans fish is the main source of animal protein. This is one third of the continent's population. 10 million Africans, many of them artisans, are directly depended on fisheries for their livelihoods. On top of this, fish is one of Africa's prime export products, contributing significantly to some of the national economies.
These facts alone should make evident that fisheries have a significant social and economic value. So, it is the more surprising, that scant attention is paid to how fisheries can push Africa's agricultural development.
"But why is that?" That is the question I asked Msekiwa Matsimbe, Aquaculture and Fisheries Scientist, working with the NEPAD Regional Fish Node in Malawi. NEPAD is the New Partnership for Africa's Development, a body of the African Union aimed to eradicate poverty and create economic growth.
A growing appetite for fish
"What we see is that the supply of fish cannot longer meet the demand", Msekiwa explains. "In the past three or four decades many factors have disturbed the balance. The population has grown and demand has also risen, from urban consumers, who are becoming richer and now can afford to buy more fish, as well as from developed rural communities. Many marine and inland fisheries have been over-exploited, because of both local and foreign fishers; some inland fisheries have declined because of pollution and environmental degradation."
These issues have been sidelined up until now, as fisheries were rarely incorporated in any of the main agricultural development programs and policies such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Attempts to change this have only started recently, but building the much needed capacities to acquire change will need time.
Running out of time
But how much time is there? To keep up with the present levels of consumption, as the population grows, fish harvest will have to increase. As there are only few possibilities to increase the harvest from Africa's coastal fisheries, aquaculture seems to be left as the one plausible alternative. While worldwide 35 percent of fish production already comes from aquaculture, in sub-Saharan Africa it's only 3 percent.
"The slow development has been there for several reasons", explains Matsimbe. "We are mainly lacking adequate technologies and human capacities for research. We lack advisory services in the development of relevant management strategies and policies. What we need here is strong North-South and South-South cooperation. We need better collaboration and draw lessons from leading aquaculture countries such as China."
And certainly there is a great potential to learn from Asian countries, including China, on aquaculture and methods such as integrated fish farming systems. But looking around Africa will give you great examples too.
Ghana for instance has been promoting aquaculture actively for almost two decades. The government has been pushing the development of the sector by setting up institutions that are responsible for developing fisheries and aquaculture policy as well as directing and establishing research priorities; the objective there has been to produce enough fish to cover 60 percent of the protein intake of Ghanians.
Not as gloomy as it might seem
So maybe the situation for fisheries in Africa is not a gloomy as it might seem at a first glance. It is clear that the development of the aquaculture sector is an important aspect to improve the livelihoods of millions of Africans. But to achieve this certain conditions have to be fulfilled.
"There is huge potential. We see many farmers getting more and more interested in aquaculture", Matsimbe tells me. "In some of the areas where we are having pilot projects, other farmers see how well aquaculture works and also want to get involved. This is great, but we also need to improve governance and management systems. We need to make sure the sector development is included in general agricultural development plans. Apart from aquaculture, we also need to better protect the capture fisheries to manage and maintain their contribution to livelihoods, and to protect coastal and freshwater environments…"
Source: Original Blogpost by Anna Deinhard (IWMI), in cooperation with Msekiwa Matsimbe (NEPAD Regional Fish Node), two of the AASW social reporters on the FARA-AASW Blog.
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Spring is in the air and with it a desire to serve lighter side dishes. As much as I love salads for some reason I rarely make them. And contrary to popular opinion, salads can be a lot more than a plate of leafy greens with a few tomato wedges thrown in. Lettuce and arugula can serve as the base but the options for building upon them are only limited by your imagination. In fact, you can make a salad that doesn't include any leafy greens at all.
I made this cucumber salad to accompany grilled fish. The Greek yogurt tamed the tangy flavor of the feta while the addition of cumin and mint added a hint of a flavor surprise. Served with a garlic pita bread, the entire meal was both easy and a hit.
2 large English cucumbers, peeled and thinly sliced
1 small red onion, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons fresh mint, minced
1 Teaspoon fresh thyme, minced
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1/4 Teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Juice of one lemon
1/2 cup Greek yogurt
2 ounces crumbled feta cheese
1/4 Teaspoon cumin
2 Tablespoons olive oil
- Combine the cucumbers, onion, and garlic in a medium-sized bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss to combine.
- Add the mint, thyme and lemon juice. Stir and let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- In a small bowl combine the Greek yogurt, cumin and olive oil. Stir in the feta.
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How to export Mac Address Book contacts to CSV, Excel, and other formats
Simple yet packed with features
Exporter for Contacts (formerly "Export Address Book") is a popular Mac app to export Mac Address Book contacts to CSV, Excel, and various other formats, capable of organizing export setups into reusable templates to make repeated exports a lot easier. Compared to similar apps, Exporter for Contacts offers the highest level of flexibility for exporting contacts data from iCloud and other sources.
The app lets you export selected contacts, groups and whole address books from Apple's Contacts app and lets you decide which contact details should be exported. It's very easy to use but highly flexible and configurable and works well with all macOS versions from Mac OS X 10.9 to macOS 10.15 Catalina. The long list of supported export formats includes:
- Excel Workbook (native Excel XLSX format)
- CSV and tab-delimited text
- Outlook for Windows (2003 and 2010 formats)
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3 Ways to Relax If You Have a High-Pressure Job
1. Rest When You're Tired
I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday weekend. I was able to get away to visit my wonderful in-laws in beautiful Bucks County. (Those are my feet relaxing.)
I had planned to spend the weekend working on some projects I haven't had a chance to start, but ended up relaxing and not doing any work. A few years ago, (ok, maybe even last year) this would have been unheard of, and if I didn't do any work I would have felt extremely guilty the entire visit. Maybe you can relate to this.
Dr. Christiane Northrup, an expert in women's health, says, "The most radical thing anyone in our culture can do is to rest when you're tired."
As someone who doesn't necessarily take time to rest as much as I should, this really resonated with me. As a result of not working this past weekend, I now feel renewed and able to tackle the above-mentioned projects with more focus and motivation.
Start noticing when you're tired and need to rest, and instead of ignoring it, pick one time during the week to listen and respond, figuring out the best way for you to rest in that moment.
2. The 10% Rule
I could tell you a list of things to help you relax. But what I think is relaxing might be completely different from what helps you relax. (For example, I find reading Victorian novels relaxing, but you might not agree!)
Think about the #1 thing you could do to relax; what would make the most positive impact in your life? Now do 10% of whatever you came up with. For example, maybe it would be to meditate for 30 minutes daily. So you could quiet your mind for 3 minutes a day. This makes it manageable so you don't get overwhelmed. And ask me at your next session if you want a 1-minute meditation technique.
3. Get A Session
Reiki, reflexology, and hypnosis sessions offer deep relaxation, and there's a growing body of scientific data documenting that this kind of mind/body work shifts the body out of the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system mode to parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system dominance. A body that's highly stressed seems to forget how to do this on its own, and sessions can assist in resetting and balancing the body.
I love that more and more of my clients see the value of this, and come on a monthly basis as a proactive measure to keep their body, mind, and spirit in balance.
Here's to finding ways to relax a little more in our daily lives.


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"While visions of sugar plums" and cupcakes "danced in their heads"…
Here's a quick'n EZ project for last minute decorations. A box or basket of these would also make a sweet hostess gift!
You'll need:
- Smoothfoam™ Ball - 1.5"
- Flower Soft Sprinkles - Polar White
- Petit four cupcake papers
- Red Pony Bead
- Tacky Glue
- Lo-temp glue gun
- Ornament Hanger
- Large jump ring (or make your own with wire)
- Cover the top half of the ball with tacky glue, then add the white sprinkles.
- Glue the ball into a petit four cupcake paper. Use a low-temp glue gun to adhere a red pony bead at the top.
- Attach the jump ring to the pony bead then add a decorative ornament hanger.
Now sit back and enjoy those cupcakes! Each one has zero calories so you can make as many as you like!
Enjoy! Y'all come back now.........
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Ari Shohat, founder and manager of webcaster Digitally Imported (di.fm, sky.fm) responded to the news about webcasters not owing the new royalties on Monday with a new angle. Regardless of where the various involved parties stand on webcaster royalty rates, all of them are talking about the same time period: 2006 to 2010.
Even if new rates are set that work for webcasters and SoundExchange alike, the end of that term will present another clean slate and another round of negotiating, leading to uncertainty about whether webcasters that thrive from 2006 to 2010 will be driven offline once the upcoming term is over.
Shohat wrote,
"To me one of the biggest issues that people hardly mention or understand is that even if the previous agreement is extended in some way until 2010, that still is only a reprieve. We net radio operators are increasingly frustrated when our businesses or full-time hobbies are constantly on a life-line, with absolutely no guarantee of renewal after the next term.
"Even if something is settled now, all bets are off in 2010, and we're back to square one, and back to spending a fortune on legal. Meantime, the pool of investors, or companies willing to work with us long term is shrinking as they think our business cannot be relied on. And they are right. What other business do you know of where the operator doesn't know if they will be allowed to operate like before every 5 years?
"The sad story behind the scenes is that a lot of talented and passionate people are not getting into this business, new technologies aren't springing up as fast, and the existing people are considering of doing something else for a living."


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Robust precoding for network MIMO with hierarchical CSIT
ISWCS 2014, 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, August 26-29, 2014, Barcelona, Spain / Also on ArXiv
In this work1 we consider a wireless network with K cooperating transmitters (TXs) serving jointly K receivers (RXs). Due to the practical limitations of the backhaul network, it is relevant to consider a setting where each TX receives its own imperfect estimate of the multi-user channel state, denoted as the distributed channel state information (CSI) setting. We focus in this work on a particular distributed CSI configuration called hierarchical CSI configuration in which the TXs can be ordered by increasing level of CSI. This scenario is particularly relevant for future networks with heterogeneous backhaul where the TXs connected with a weak backhaul link will receive only a coarse estimate while the TXs with a stronger backhaul will have a more accurate CSI. In that scenario, we formulate the optimal precoding as a team decision problem. Solving optimally this problem is extremely challenging such that we propose a heuristic approach allowing to obtain a simple, yet efficient and practical, precoding algorithm. The proposed precoding algorithm exploits the hierarchical structure of the CSI to make the transmission more robust to the imperfect CSI knowledge at the TXs.
|Robust precoding for network MIMO with hierarchical CSIT
|June 2014
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Thursday July 18th, 2019
Male infertility may be more common than you think. In fact, male infertility accounts for up to 50% of all infertility complications. Male infertility is described as the inability of a male to achieve a pregnancy in a fertile female, often commonly due to semen deficiencies.
A healthy young male produces around 100 million sperm daily, however this number declines with age, poor health, heat exposure, chemicals and radiation.
Around five per cent of the Australian male population of reproductive age is thought to have low sperm counts or quality. The most common causes of male fertility problems are due to issues with sperm production in the testes or reproductive tube blockages.
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Oxidative stress occurs when your body's own antioxidant defences are overwhelmed because of disease, old age, unhealthy lifestyle and even environmental pollution. This stress can lead to serious complications like tissue injury and inflammation, increasing the risk of chronic disease contributing to male infertility.
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Serial is now officially the most popular podcast of all time. For most people, it's an intriguing or entertaining story; for a few people–most of whom live in Baltimore, where the murder at the center of the series took place, it's hitting all too close to home.
If you're enjoying Serial, consider spending time with these stories that the put the podcast into context:
+The wonderful Jon Ronson interviews Adnan Syed's family, who still live in West Baltimore. It's a heartbreaking account of how the murder, the trial, and their aftermath have shattered the family. Adnan's dad spends hours alone, praying; his older brother is completely estranged from the family; his younger brother is haunted by the idea that his family will never be whole again.
+Hae's brother's post on Reddit, in which he praises the podcast but also reminds its rabid fans that "TO ME IT'S REAL LIFE. To you listeners, it's another murder mystery, crime drama, another episode of CSI."
+This Guardian article, about how Redditors are finding out details (full names, social media profiles, etc.) of people mentioned in the podcast. "Serial is, after all, not a work of fiction. It is about real people. Real people who also, as the story unfolds, have Google, Facebook and Reddit accounts. And who are really in prison, or really in danger of ending up in trouble with law enforcement, or even just with their privacy violated, as a result of all this," Michelle Dean writes.
None of this means I plan on quitting podcast, of course. But it's a good idea to keep the human side of the story in mind when we indulge in our fandom.
- The Effect of a Dilapidated Home on a Baltimore Block - September 19, 2017
- The Ku Klux Klan Is Apparently Still Alive and Well in Maryland - August 24, 2017
- Baltimore May Be Getting a Professional Soccer Team - September 16, 2016


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