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Administrative Value - The
usefulness or significance of records to support ancillary operations
and management of an organization. (2)
Archiving - 1. Used for electronic
records, it is the procedure for transferring information from an
active file to an inactive file, storage medium, or facility. 2.
Act of creating a backup copy of computer files. (1)
Authentication - The judgment
that something is genuine, based on internal and external evidence,
including its physical characteristics, structure, content, and
context. (2)
Backup - 1. The process of duplicating
information primarily for protection in case the original is lost
or destroyed. 2. A copy of the record. (1)
Contextual Information - Information
that is in addition to the actual text of the document such as date
sent, sender's identity, addressee's identity, routing information,
and return receipts. (1)
Continuing Value - The enduring
usefulness or significance of records, based on the administrative,
legal, fiscal, evidential, or historical information they contain,
justifying their on-going preservation. (2)
Delete - A function that enables a
user to initiate action to remove all or part of a previously entered
text, field, or record from display and indexing. May or may not
be a permanent removal. (1)
Discovery Proceedings - Once a legal
action has been initiated, either party, under the rules of discovery,
has the opportunity to inspect documents in the possession of the
other party. Actual process also includes interrogatories. (1)
Disposition - The actions taken
with regard to records as determined through their appraisal. Actions
might include transfer to storage, destruction, or preservation
for archival purposes. (1)
Document - 1. Recorded information
regardless of medium or characteristics. Frequently used interchangeably
with the word record. 2. A single record item (letter, memorandum,
form, or report) consisting of one or more pages. (1)
Evidential Value - The value of
those records of an organization that is necessary to provide legal,
authentic, and adequate documentation of its structure and functioning.
File Classification System - A logical
and systematic arrangement for classifying records into subject
groups or categories based on some definite scheme of natural relationships
representing numbers, letters, or key words for identification.
File Management - The creating, retrieving,
and updating of records within a file, including housekeeping activities
on the contents. Also could include the analysis of the filing equipment
to determine the most efficient at the most economical price and
reviewing the classification system. (1)
Filtering - A pattern through which
data is passed. Only data that matches the pattern is allowed to
pass through the filter. (4)
Fiscal Value - 1. Pertains to financial
matters in general. 2. Value attributed to a records series that
documents financial transactions. Such records are usually required
for audit purposes. (1)
Hard Copy - 1. A document made using
durable media, in human-readable form. - 2. A printout. (2)
Historical Value - 1. Records that
are retained permanently for purposes of enduring value and not
necessarily for business purposes. (1) 2. The usefulness or significance
of records for understanding the past. (2)
Information Technology (IT) -
1. Any tool, device, or process based on technology applied to an
information handling function or to any part of the information
life cycle. 2. Name of the computer information department in certain
organizations. (1)
Intellectual Property Rights -
A group of intangible rights that protect creative works, including
copyright, trademarks, patents, publicity rights, performance rights,
rights against unfair competition. (2)
Legal Value - 1. Value inherent in records
that provide legal proof of business transactions. 2. The value
of records in demonstrating compliance with legal statutory and
regulatory requirements. (1)
Local Area Network (LAN) - A data communication
network intended to allow several computers, connected through one
computer within a limited geographic area, to share data and software.
Long-Term Record - Records that have
historical significance; records having continuing value to the
organization. (1)
Metadata - Data describing stored
data; that is, data describing the structure, data elements, interrelationships,
and other characteristics of electronic records. Record profile
data. (1)
Migration - Moving from one electronic
system to another, usually in upgrading hardware or software without
having to undergo a major conversion or re-inputting of data. (1)
Nonrecord - 1. Items that are not
usually included within the scope of official records, e.g., convenience
file, day file, reference materials, drafts, etc. 2. Documents not
required to be retained and therefore not appearing on a records
retention schedule.(1)
Permanent Value - The ongoing usefulness
or significance of records, based on the administrative, legal,
fiscal, evidential, or historical information they contain, that
justifies their continued preservation. (2)
Public Record - All documents, papers,
letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic
or other tapes, electronic data-processing records, artifacts, or
other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics,
made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with
the transaction of public business by any agency of North Carolina
government or its subdivisions. (3)
Record - Recorded information, regardless
of medium or characteristics, made or received by an organization
that is evidence of its operations and has value requiring its retention
for a specific period of time. (1)
Record Copy - The official copy
of a record that is retained for legal, operational, or historical
purposes, sometimes the original. (1)
Records Appraisal - The process
of evaluating records based on their current operational, regulatory,
legal, fiscal, and historical significance, their information value,
arrangement, and their relationship to other records. (1)
Records Destruction - 1.
The disposal of records of no further value by incineration, maceration,
pulping, or shredding. 2. The definitive obliteration of a record
beyond any possible reconstitution. (1)
Records Management - The
systematic control of all records from their creation, or receipt,
through their processing, distribution, organization, storage, and
retrieval to their ultimate disposition. (1)
Records Retention Schedule (RRS) - A comprehensive
list of records series titles, indicating for each series the length
of time it is to be maintained. May include retention in active
office areas, inactive storage areas, and when and if such series
may be destroyed or formally transferred to another entity such
as an archives for historical preservation. (1)
Records Series - A group of
identical or related records that are normally used and filed as
a unit, and that permit evaluation as a unit for retention scheduling
purposes. (1)
Retention Period - The time period
records must be kept according to operational, historical, legal,
regulatory, and fiscal requirements. (1)
Server - A computer or device on a
network manages network resources. For example, a file server is
a computer and storage device dedicated to storing files. (4)
Vital Record - A record identified as
essential for the continuation or survival of the organization if
disaster strikes. Such records are necessary to re-create the organization's
legal and financial status and to determine the rights and obligations
of employees, customers, stockholders, and citizens. (1)
1) Guideline for Managing E-mail. Prairie Village, Kansas: ARMA
International, c2000.
2) A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Richard Pearce
Moses. SAA, c. 2004. www.archivist.org/glossary
(viewed 11/29/2004)
3) North Carolina General Statutes 132-1. (viewed 11/29/2004) http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Statutes/GeneralStatutes/HTML
4) Webopedia Online Dictionary. http://www.webopedia.com
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"While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams quote from 1798
What John Adams warned of has happened. The American people are no longer moral and religious people, so politics is irrelevant. Politics cannot civilize beasts.
And please don't call modern Christianity a religion. It is a sick joke. Today only traditional Anabaptists practice real Christianity. The only difference between a modern Christian and an Atheist is that the Atheist doesn't violate the Third Commandment.

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The Secret Service detained the man after he sent emails threatening emails to the FBI
A Washington man was arrested on Tuesday for threatening President Obama in emails sent to the F.B.I. When Secret Service agents went to his house to arrest him, he charged at them with a shotgun in hand.
Anton Caluori lives in Federal Way, Washington. Caluori sent a threatening email to the F.B.I. threatening the President in some way. The F.B.I. thought enough of the email to forward it to the Secret Service, who worked with the Federal Way police to track him down. When they went to his house on Tuesday to arrest him, he didn't exactly go quietly:
When Secret Service agents went to the man's apartment in Federal Way, he "charged at them" at the front door carrying a shotgun, some ammunition, and another weapon believed to be a pistol.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire.


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Australia and New-Zealand
We are looking for distributors for constantly growing range of our products around the world.
Our products are available through a global distribution network and can reach even the most distant places within a few working days. Our network consists of over 30 distributors around the globe, and all together we distribute our products to nearly 50 countries. If we do not have a distributor in your country, kindly contact us directly for further assistance and service.


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Microsoft's just went on the record with RPG-TV and said the Fall Xbox 360 Dashboard Update will be hitting in November, which technically is still a part of Fall. Previous updates have also been released in late November (as close to Winter as you could push it while still being Fall), but all those new features coming this time might be cause for delay, even though they skipped the Spring update for this reason. Seriously Microsoft, will we have to wait another three months to get the ability to make a little avatar that looks like ourselves? You're forcing us to turn on our Wiis?
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It was 5 years ago today that I made my first post on this blog, way back in 2009. I can't believe it's been that long. Now, there are more than 500 posts and more than 73,000 views. I'm hoping for another 5 years on this blog, even if I'm no longer living in Japan. I still have tons of photos to post.
Here is my original blog post.
Thanks for reading everyone!


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2013 NFL Draft Position Rankings: Defense
Jamie Collins hasn't lost momentum since his strong performance at the combine, and he could go at the end of the first round. (Bobby McDuffie/Icon SMI)
In the absence of QB prospects like Andrew Luck or top-flight running backs like Trent Richardson, could this year's draft shine a spotlight on the defensive side of the football early? It certainly seems possible, especially given the number of players with elite potential there -- and the challenge facing coaching staffs to slow the league's recent offensive breakthroughs.
Who are the top prospects at each position? Here's a look at the top five, plus a few risers and fallers as we approach the draft.
Offensive position rankings | BURKE: Big Board 4.0
Defensive Tackles
1. Sharrif Floyd, Florida
2. Star Lotulelei, Utah
3. Sheldon Richardson, Missouri
4. Sylvester Williams, North Carolina
5. Jesse Williams, Alabama
I'm not quite as high on Lotulelei as others, but he still received a bump thanks to clean medicals and a nice Pro Day showing. There's a bit of a drop-off from Richardson to Williams, but any of the five listed here could wind up as Round 1 selections.
Rising: Brandon Williams, Missouri Southern.
Williams has had a positive buzz surrounding him for several weeks now -- enough that could push him into Round 2, when all is said and done. He stands around 340 pounds but is athletic for that size.
Falling: Montori Hughes, Tennessee-Martin.
Hughes is another hulking presence at 6-foot-4 and 330 pounds, but off-field issues -- he was dismissed from Tennessee's program before landing at Tennessee-Martin -- could wind up driving him down pretty far in this draft. Those issues are nothing new, but Hughes is not the sure-thing prospect for which teams might brush those worries under the rug.
Defensive ends
1. Ziggy Ansah, BYU
2. Bjoern Werner, Florida State
3. Tank Carradine, Florida State
4. Damontre Moore, Texas A&M
5. Datone Jones, UCLA
A hearty welcome to the top five for Tank Carradine, who's here with an asterisk. Should Carradine prove at his April Pro Day that he's 100 percent (or closing in on 100 percent) after a knee injury ended his 2012 season, he could warrant a top-15 pick. The other change: Dion Jordan, the No. 1 DE in our last ranking, has been moved to the OLB category -- he sounds as if that's where he would prefer to play, even if he won't say it specifically, and he'd be a better fit there.
Rising: Tank Carradine.
As mentioned above, Carradine's status in the draft thus far has hinged and will continue to hinge on his knee. If he's able to allay the fears about using a Round 1 pick on an injury risk, Carradine's college tape speaks for itself. There may not be a better pure pass-rusher in this draft.
Falling: Sam Montgomery, LSU.
Montgomery's work ethic continues to be the No. 1 concern for teams considering the LSU product, and he fact that he admitted to taking games off against lesser foes did nothing to help that situation. Don't be shocked if Montgomery drops beyond Round 2, in spite of his obvious talent.
Outside linebackers
1. Dion Jordan, Oregon
2. Jarvis Jones, Georgia
3. Barkevious Mingo, LSU
4. Khaseem Greene, Rutgers
5. Sio Moore, UConn
Again, Jordan's on the move, from the DE category here -- he's a more natural fit as a 3-4 OLB than a defensive end, both from a pass-rushing perspective and in terms of his overall game. To make room for him here, Jones and Mingo dropped a spot, while Stanford's Chase Thomas fell just outside the top five.
Rising: Jamie Collins, Southern Miss.
Collins was one of the stars of February's combine, and he has not lost any of that momentum in the month since. There's even a little talk that he could sneak into the latter portions of Round 1, where several 3-4 teams are in need of an athletic pass-rusher.
Falling: Brandon Jenkins, Florida State.
Jenkins, 6-foot-3 and 265 pounds, posted a 5.0 40 time at his Pro Day, simply furthering the notion that he's a bit of a defensive "tweener", stuck between being an undersized DE and a slow OLB.
Inside linebackers
1. Alec Ogletree, Georgia
2. Arthur Brown, Kansas State
3. Kevin Minter, LSU
4. Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
5. Kiko Alonso, Oregon
This is the same order coming out of the combine, but keep an eye on Alonso (more on that in a second). There are plenty of positions that appear to be wild cards heading into the draft, and this one is no different. Any of those top five could go in Round 1, with Brown and Ogletree carrying the potential to really climb.
Rising: Kiko Alonso.
Alonso plays an aggressive game against the run, doing what he can to make himself a force in the hole. If you compare his tape to that of Minter or Te'o, it's Alonso that often comes off as the more athletic talent. He may still wind up lasting on the board longer than Minter or Te'o, but that doesn't mean those players will be better pros.
Falling: Nico Johnson, Alabama.
Johnson had sports hernia surgery in February, then muddled through Alabama's Pro Day. The Crimson Tide have a second Pro Day scheduled for April 2, so he'll get another shot, but the book is somewhat closed here -- Johnson will be a solid two-down linebacker but likely not much more.
1. Dee Milliner, Alabama
2. Xavier Rhodes, Florida State
3. Desmond Trufant, Washington
4. Jamar Taylor, Boise State
5. Jordan Poyer, Oregon State
This is another group where no one can seem to agree on rankings -- at least after Milliner (and even that's a bit in question, as Trufant has closed the gap). I'm partial to Taylor and Poyer, but it would not be that hard to slot in David Amerson, Darius Slay, Johnthan Banks or a few others. The point being, this is a deep crop.
Rising: David Amerson, N.C. State.
True to form for the cornerbacks, opinions vary wildly on Amerson. But he flew down the 40 track at the combine (4.4) and then followed up his work in Indy with more impressive numbers at N.C. State's Pro Day. Though he was inconsistent in college, Amerson has the upside to warrant an early selection.
Falling: Johnthan Banks, Mississippi State.
Banks improved his 40 time from the combine (4.59) to his Pro Day (4.51), and he is not a corner that lives on his speed anyway. Still, you can make an argument that he's actually the second best Mississippi State CB available, behind Darius Slay. Both are very talented defensive backs, but Slay has done more since the end of the season.
1. Kenny Vaccaro, Texas
2. Matt Elam, Florida
3. Jonathan Cyprien, Florida International
4. Eric Reid, LSU
5. D.J. Swearinger, South Carolina
Cyprien and Reid changed places in this ranking, but everyone after Vaccaro may (and probably should) end up being selected in Round 2 or later. Swearinger remains a tantalizing prospect -- he's an absolute missile out of the defensive backfield.
Rising: Josh Evans, Florida.
A lot of people overlooked Evans, the other Florida safety, to focus on Elam. And while Elam stands well in front of Evans as a prospect, the latter will be picked at some point, probably on Day 3. He may turn out to be a steal there, too, as a player who can step in and cover right away.
Falling: Eric Reid.


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Okay, gang, it's almost time for me to submit the list of categories for the Castle theme at Bricks Cascade 2014. I'd like you to help me do that by weighing in on what categories are most interesting to you. We need to come up with a list of about 4 categories, so, drawing either from the list below or your own ideas, give me your 4 votes for interesting themes.
Procedural details
* Please indicate whether you're planning to attend Bricks Cascade 2014. I'll entertain votes from other folks, but I'll weigh votes from con-goers higher.
* Please list up to 4 preferences in order of importance to you.
* If you provide a new idea, please give a sentence or two laying out what would qualify for the category, and what criteria should be used to judge creations for the category; if you use one of mine, feel free just to list it by name.
* I reserve the right to reject theme ideas for any reason including inappropriate content, difficulty to build a suitable trophy, or capricious whim. I'm asking for your opinion, but the process may be a little more involved than just tallying the votes and submitting the list.
* You may post your vote or edit your post for the next several days, until the thread dies out, or until I get pressed for a final list of categories, whichever occurs first.
So, without further ado, here is a list of possible categories to start the discussion:
Best Architecture
This goes to the creation with the most distinctive architectural look and feel. Criteria include the creation's ability to capture a period, motif, or style; the creative use of parts in expressing the style; and the visual impact of the creation's architecture.
Best Building
This goes to the creation with the best single non-military castle-age building, such as a mill, shop, stable, smithy, tree fort, or bazaar. Criteria include the building's visual impact and the creativeness of the use of parts in the design of the building.
Best Fortification
This goes to the creation with the best fortified or military building, including a castle, keep, donjon, holdfast, fort, or tower. Criteria include the creative use of parts in the depiction of the fortified building in brick and the building's overall visual impact.
Best Contraption
This goes to the creation with the most believable or fantastic contraption, such as a war machine, siege engine, water wheel, water clock, forge, or golem. Criteria include the creation's ability to depict the contraption in an interesting, fantastic, or believably historical way and the creative use of parts in the design of the contraption.
Best Character
This goes to the creation with the best individual character, creature, or hero. Criteria for judgement include the character's visual impact, creativity, and importance to the overall creation.
Best Story
This goes to the creation that most effectively tells a story in brick. Criteria include the inventiveness in depiction of the story; the creation's ability to express the motivations of the character or characters in the story; and the creation's expression of comedy, drama, pathos, horror, or tragedy.
Best Faction
This goes to the creation with the most interesting army, group, clan, guild, or faction. Criteria include the distinctiveness of the faction; the creation's ability to express the
faction's unifying tenets and goals in brick; and the creative use of parts to tie into the group's garb, color scheme, armament, equipment, and/or decoration.
Best Peasants
This goes to the creation that best utilizes and depicts workers or townsfolk of low station, including peasants, servants, slaves, farmers, or artisans. Criteria include the creativity in depicting the peasants; the creation's ability to show their role, job, or plight; and the creative use of parts in showing their work, equipment, garb, dwellings, and surroundings.
Best Historical Creation
This goes to the MOC that best depicts a historical event, scene, or vignette from the classical period, the middle ages, or the Renaissance. Criteria include the recognizability of the creation's intended material and the believability of the depiction of the event or scene.
Best Fantasy Creation
This goes to the MOC that best depicts a fantasy event, scene, or vignette from the world of mythology, magic, and/or high fantasy. Criteria include the creation's originality; its ability to evoke emotions such as whimsy, wonder, awe, or terror; its ability to express the rules or tenets of its mythos in brick; and its ability to encourage a viewer to suspend disbelief and to become immersed in the fantasy.


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You fold your transparent mobile phone so that it fits into your wallet and charge it on the way to office using your helmet. While in a meeting with your boss, you switch on your washing machine with your phone. Your fancy jacket runs your laptop as you make an award-winning presentation. If this sounds like a sci-fi movie script, you may soon be a part of it.
Flexible, single-layer mobile phones, solar jackets and helmets for energy generation and storage on-the-go and smart power out.
The transparent and foldable mobile phones are made of graphene, the new super material in the tech industry that's extremely thin, strong and flexible.
The bulky solar panels of today could soon be replaced by aesthetic 'solar trees' near your offices and homes with 'leaves' made of small panels to generate electricity.
Fluid and flexible solar panels that can be moulded into any shape can make current solar panels a thing of the past as India targets generation of 100 GW.


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Program Details
The objective of the Marketing Ph.D. Program area of the Krannert Graduate School of Management is to educate cutting-edge future researchers who will contribute to the advancement of Marketing and Management Science. The program is a very focused one and the emphasis is put on quantitative methods and their applications in Management Science.
Students learn theoretical models and their empirical applications related to consumer behavior, organization buying behavior, pricing, product design, advertising, promotion, sales force, distribution, new product planning, marketing planning, and strategy decisions in their doctoral coursework in Marketing. The Research-Methods Requirement prepares students for research by providing necessary skills and tools through rigorous coursework. The Marketing doctoral seminars expand this research-methods base and expose students to specific Marketing applications. The goal is to provide an opportunity for students to identify contemporary, substantive marketing problems and come up with creative and original research ideas.
Students are expected to have basic quantitative skills. The required coursework addresses and builds on these quantitative skills. Depending on their interests, a student's research may cover a range of topics, such as advanced statistics & econometrics, optimization techniques, economic theory, psychology and decision theory.
Unique Features
- Faculty on Editorial Boards for top academic journals, including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Strategic Management Journal
- Quantitative research receives special emphasis in program of study
- Coursework includes rigorous classes from economics and statistics departments
- Doctoral fellowships available
- Small program with low student-faculty ratio
Student Profile (what we look for in an applicant):
- Strong analytical background in engineering, mathematics, economics, etc.
- MBA is helpful, but not required; graduate degree a plus.
- Work experience not required, although applicants typically have some experience in finance, consulting, or a technical field such as engineering.
Typical Program of Study
First year:
- Marketing doctoral seminars (fall & spring)
- Microeconomic theory (fall)
- Econometrics (fall & spring)
- Minor Area and/or MBA electives
Second year:
- Marketing doctoral seminar (fall and spring)
- Econometrics (fall)
- Applied Statistics and/or Microeconomic theory electives
- Minor Area and/or MBA electives
Typical Minor Areas of study include applied statistics and microeconomic theory. There is a comprehensive preliminary exam typically after the second year. The dissertation research is primary focus after the preliminary exam is completed.


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Mum thought he was at childcare but he was in her car, dead
ONE child sick with gastroenteritis, another teething - restless all night in his mother's bed, a recent dog attack on a family pet and the back to school routine changed.
It was all these things in combination that led to a regional Victorian mother having 'forgotten baby syndrome' and the tragicdeath of her 22-month-old son, a court has heard.
Noah Zunde was found dead in a car outside a Kyneton childcare centre in February 2015. He was just 22-months-old, a much loved son and little brother, a "gorgeous little boy."
At the time Noah's father paid tribute to his son on Twitter writing, "We lost our beautiful son today."
"Hug your children. Hug them and never let them go."
"I love him more every day. Forever." he said, referring to his baby boy.
"I'll always know I cherished every day. Every laugh, every adventure, every cuddle. Miss you noey X."
His family had moved to the small town of Kyneton, north west of Melbourne hoping for a better life for their two kids.
Noah's big sister had recently started school and the family was adjusting to a change of routine.
The Victorian Coroners Court has heard that on the morning of February19th 2015 Ms Zunde believed she had dropped Noah at childcare, it wasn't until the afternoon when she returned to collect him she realised the devastating truth - he had been in the back seat the entire time.
The court heard evidence from a medical expert that in the weeks leading up to Noah's death Ms Zunde hadn't been able to sleep well as she had been sick, with suspected gastroenteritis, her daughter too had been ill, The Bendigo Advertiser reports.
On the night before he was left in the car little Noah had slept in his mother's bed, restless due to teething, Ms Zunde's partner, Andrew Krespanis told police she had virtually had no sleep at all.
Expert neuroscientist, associate professor Matthew Mundy said in the report that "Ms Zunde had suffered several days of acute sleep deprivation."
On the morning on February 19th Ms Zunde's routine was changed when she had to drop a misplaced travel card to Mr Krespanis at Kyneton train station.
Mr Krespanis said Ms Zunde was "considerably distressed" by the change of routine and the possibility that their daughter might be late to her primary school.
The report said that Ms Zunde then went straight to Tylden Primary School and dropped off her daughter, rather than taking her son to child care.
She then went home to do chores for the day.
Ms Zunde said the childcare centre is "very close to ours, a left turn directly opposite the right turn to our house. I can only assume I automatically made a right turn instead of left".
She told police that "Noah must have fallen asleep on the way which is something he hardly ever did."
Ms Zunde said she had been on "auto pilot", according to The Bendigo Advertiser.
There Noah stayed all day, while temperatures reached 31 degrees, only discovered when Ms Zunde went back to pick him up from childcare, to be told he'd never been dropped off.
In Mr Mundy's report he said that in the car Ms Zunde could not see Noah's baby seat, so she had no visual reminder her son was in the car.
"Without a visual cue to the presence of Noah, it is less likely that Romy Zunde would have been reminded of his presence after a failure in short-term memory of driving home instead of to Bambini daycare,"
"This seems important, since he would normally be making some kind of noise during the journey. Again, these observations would also suggest a lack of external 'cues' to prompt the maintenance of Romy's short-term memory".
He said that "Ms Zunde had suffered several days of acute sleep deprivation. She was overwhelmed with confusion and thought about several alternatives where she could have left Noah."
The family had recently added a new day to Noah's childcare, and had been under stress after dogs attacked their pet pigs.
Professor Mundy said that Ms Zunde's habitual memory took over and led to an error.
"In my opinion, it is possible that due to the recently changed routine for the destination of a Thursday drive [which would otherwise have been to the family home], and the competing and confusing information from the other items held in long term memory [arrangements for Fridays, arrangements for previous weeks etc], there was a potential for error introduced into the day's travel."
Together all these changes, and the exhaustion Ms Zunde suffered led to "forgotten baby syndrome".
The inquest continues.
This article originally appeared on Kidspot and has been reproduced here with permission.


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Equity futures are down substantially this morning with the DOW all the way back down to just above the 10,000 area. The dollar is higher, while the Euro made a new low overnight. Bonds are higher, oil is lower, and gold continues higher against the rest of the commodity complex signaling underlying trouble in our monetary system and geopolitical instability.
Unfortunately, it was a very memorable Memorial weekend… BP's "topkill" failed and their stock is down 14% this morning. Israel boards activist ships in international waters, 9 activists die. China's economy continues to show signs that the bubble is bursting, Europe continues to show debt stress, while Korea tensions remain high. Of course no change to the fundamental debt picture and so while these may sound like transitory events, they are not, they are just the beginning of the "other" events that will likely continue to ripple around the globe – the underlying tension is a money system that doesn't work… the bad math of debt allows other events to rise.
Don't worry though, "buy when fear is high" is the usual mantra, and that was again being touted on Bloomberg this morning:
June 1 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest monthly drop in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index since February 2009 is ratifying Mohamed El-Erian's prediction for a new normal of below-average returns. Analysts say not so fast.
Combined price estimates from more than 2,000 forecasters tracked by Bloomberg show the S&P 500 will rise 25 percent in the next year, the fastest projected rate since February 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The rally above 1,350 will be led by industries most tied to the economy, according to analysts who boosted individual share projections by an average of 0.9 percent in May, the 14th straight monthly increase.
The estimates show Wall Street firms are discounting El- Erian's assertions as well as Europe's credit crisis and instead focusing on economists' growth projections, which call for U.S. gross domestic product to expand 3.2 percent this year and 3.1 percent in 2011. Analysts are telling investors to buy landlord AvalonBay Communities Inc. and tractor maker Deere & Co. to benefit from the fastest expansion in six years.
The S&P is forecast to rise 25% next year? LOL, will that be after it falls another 50%? To me this type of statement is proof positive that bearish extremes are not anywhere near.
By the way, the monthly drop in the DOW was the largest May drop in 70 years! It was the largest May drop in the S&P going back to 1962. "Sure," say the bulls, "but the next two months that follow were average up months." That's exactly the type of thinking that occurs when you don't understand the underlying fundamentals.
ZeroHedge ran an article this weekend stating that the ECB has been withdrawing the liquidity, now 78 billion Euros, it recently placed as a part of that trillion Euro bailout. It would seem that they are pandering to the markets which reacted quite negatively to the bailout. That type of flip-flopping will not calm markets, it shows that they are grasping at straws and don't understand the fundamentals or psychology at play.
Manufacturing ISM and Construction spending are released later this morning, the big report of the week will be the Employment situation released on Friday. Speaking of employment, HP just announced that 9,000 more layoffs are coming.
Below is a 60 minute chart of the SPX. To me this now clearly looks like we just dropped out of a rising wedge that was wave 4 and that we are now in wave 5. Together, the five waves comprise the larger wave 1 down. Rising wedges when broken to the downside usually target the base of the wedge at a minimum, thus I would expect prices to fall at least to the prior lows and probably to new lows on this wave.
If the wave 5 scenario is playing out, we should get a wave 2 of 5 bounce and then more sharp selling. Wave 5 would be followed by a significant and longer lasting bounce for a larger wave 2.
Keeping mindful that there are always other possibilities, it's also possible that the rising wedge is not wave 4, and that it's the 'a' wave of an a,b,c. I personally don't like that count, but it's there. If that's playing out, then we will rise up into the 1,140 area sooner, that move will then likely be followed by a larger wave 3 down movement.
SPX 1,090 is still a key level. Get back above there and it's more bullish, otherwise bearish. There's support in the 1,056 and then 1,040ish levels. A break below that 1,040 level will trigger what looks like a larger Head & Shoulder's pattern - we may need more time to fully develop the right shoulder, but it doesn't have to be proportional time wise. It may be that we develop a more complex movement that takes us up to 1,140 and that would make it more proportional.
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In yet another "no-duh" moment, the politicians who are paid by you to supposedly work for you are finally waking up to yet another central bank scam. I wrote about this in real time as it was happening last year, no one paid attention.
Criminal, Traitor, and former Secretary Treasurer of the United States, Hank Paulson, pushed for and received the right to PAY BANKS FOR THE MONEY THEY HOLD IN RESERVE.
Here's the resultant chart of "Excess" Reserves:
Can you guess when they started paying money for reserves?
Now, let's set the record straight… it's a huge advantage to the banks to be able to use their "fractional reserve system" in the first place. In fact, it's actually one giant Ponzi scheme, but let's ignore that. Banks, by charter, are granted the right to lend out more money than they possess – that is how they make their money, and it's also how most of the money (credit money) is made.
Along comes the financial crisis and Paulson begins lobbying to PAY THE BANKS FOR THE MONEY THEY ARE REQUIRED TO HOLD IN RESERVE. This is a concept that is JUST CRIMINAL! Again, banks make plenty of money (too much w/o usury laws) simply by lending money they don't have – that's a right only a chartered bank has, you and I don't have that ability. Yet, all of a sudden it makes sense to use OUR MONEY to pay them interest on the money they hold so that they can loan US money at usurious rates? HUH???
At any rate, the appropriate palms were lubed and this SCAM made it past the politicians who are now complaining about it.
Kucinich - the Federal Reserve is paying banks NOT to make loans, " One Fraud after Another"
Naturally, the banks didn't want to HOLD MONEY without interest because they know what they and the Federal Reserve are doing to devalue our money. So, there they were holding massive NEGATIVE RESERVES for the first time in history (the charts and definitions were changed during this timeframe by the Fed). Along comes paying for reserves and what was massive negative reserves turns into an instant historic surplus!
No one but me (that I know of) wrote about it at the time and I even had many commentators respond that it was appropriate to pay banks interest on their reserves! NO IT'S NOT! The banks are REQUIRED to hold reserves as a premise of their ability to be a bank! They do not and should not ever be paid to hold reserves, much less at a higher rate of interest than they can receive elsewhere.
Again, watch Paulson's personal investments and see who profits. I repeat - Criminal and Traitor.
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PS - Why is it that the "EXCESS RESERVES" totals more than $750 billion, but the "NON-BARROWED RESERVES" only totals $150 billion? Could it be that there is over $600 billion in BARROWED RESERVES? Of course, that's what all the government bank bailout loans are for. Yet, we are paying them money for the reserves on which they borrowed from us so they can lend it back to us at a higher rate??? Did you follow that? Ludicrous!
Chart of "Non-Borrowed Reserves:"
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Kucinich – The Federal Reserve is paying banks NOT to make loans…
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Help! I want to change jobs! Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Help! I want to change jobs! Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Taiwan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message chi-chiJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 127Location: Back in Asia! Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:54 pm Post subject: Help! I want to change jobs! Ok I think that I've posted some helpful advice on here, so hopefully one of you guys can help me out. I really like Taiwan and want to stay here and also keep my current apartment (stay in the same city.) Unfortunately, my job is a real bummer. Without going into detail, it is so bad that I have gotten complaints from the management and the parents after two days of working there. I want to leave asap. I am not a good fit there. My arc is being processed. I've already got a new paper? put in my passport, but my boss won't be picking up my ARC until early in May. There is a clause in my contract saying that I can leave anytime during the 1st month, (I just started last week though I've been here awhile.) I just need to give them 3-4 weeks to find another teacher. Someone told me that if I want to leave, it will be easier to do it before I have a ARC. I think I will be getting that on May 3...if I have them cancel it, my tourist visa is good only until May 20. I just want to change jobs without having to go to HK. Anyway I don't know how to put all this together but I just want to get out but I CANNOT afford a trip to HK and wouldn't want to go there right now anyway. I can tolerate the job for a little while longer if you guys think it's actually better to wait and leave after I have my ARC. If anyone has any ideas you can respond on here or PM me. Thanks Chi-Chi Back to top SunpowerJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 256Location: Taipei, TAIWAN Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 4:47 pm Post subject: Where are you? If you don't take the job and the ARC that goes with it, you'll eventually have to leave the country on another "visa run.' Have you thought about going the "Student Visa" route? If you're in Taipei, there are a lot of schools that you could sign up with in order to get your visitor visa. I paid about $10,000 for 3 months of language classes and that gave me a visa that was good for 6 months or about 180 days. You have to renew it at the police station every 2 months, though. Obviously, there are both pros and cons to this but I know quite a few seem to prefer it this way. Good luck - But if you don't accept the ARC and quit the job you have now, you'll have to leave the country and re-enter on a 30 day visitor visa. Back to top OkamiJoined: 25 Jan 2003Posts: 121Location: Sunny Sanxia Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:10 am Post subject: If you're in a large city such as Taipei, Kaoshiung, or Taichung, you should have no problem. Taipei would be the best though. Complaints are common. The problem is if management holds them against you, because they never stop doing so. You can easily quit your job, just dop it after you have been paid, unless you have enough money to get you through. ARC's are a funny thing, because the rules for getting another one change from city/county to city/county. You can explain to the boss, that your not a good fit and ask for a transfer letter for your ARC. They may or may not give it to you. WIth the Ministry of Labor taking over the issuing and processing of ARCs, everything is pretty much up in the air. I would follow Sunpower's advice. Chinese classes to extend you visa and to teach English, is a very common tactic. I do it. This is not Korea. No one hunts us illegals yet. There are no rewards for turning us in. Just don't do it in Taidong as the FAP there has a police officer who will not hesitate to bust you. You must be absolutely legal in Taidong. Everywhere else is ok. You will have to take a trip out of Taiwan, go to Japan, get your visa processed and come back in. CYA Okami Back to top AristotleJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1388Location: Taiwan Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:54 am Post subject: Don't let them have your passport and don't let them put your ARC in your passport. Ask for an advance and walk out quietly. Get a multiple entry, tourist visa and go the student route until you find someplace you like. Best advice I can give you in your situation. Back to top chi-chiJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 127Location: Back in Asia! Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: I am in Kaohsiung and although I don't have my ARC yet, the govt is processing it. I already have a multiple entry visa in my passport and a resident visa. I believe that my boss will be picking up my ARC on May 3. Can I still do the tourist visa/Chinese classes thing, or am I already locked in? Btw, if I decide to stay for a while, how do I deal with a bitchy TA (teaching assistant?) And are the TA's normally this bad in Taiwan? Back to top OkamiJoined: 25 Jan 2003Posts: 121Location: Sunny Sanxia Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:36 am Post subject: Dealing with TA's: Grab a cup of coffee and read carefully as this could prove insightful Analysis: Your Chinese TA (zhongshi) is an overworked under appreciated (normally female) member of society. Add to this family pressure; no chance of advancing in society; the pressure to get married; rude, ignorant, overpaid, and untalkative foreign teachers (waishi); you tend to get a very mean creature. Procedure: 1. Smile, always no matter what, the more pissed off you are the more you smile. A smile will change your demeanor and how you are viewed. 2. Learn the language or at least seem like your trying to learn and ask them questions about it. My best moment this week was when a student mouthed in English, "[email protected]#$ you" and I whispered back in his ear in Taiwanese, "Go eat $h1t." 3. Talk to your TA, not as a coworker, but as a person. Ask them about their weekend and what they are trying to do with their life. Learn about their boyfriend/husband/lack of, their family, their school, where they have gone, and what they know. 4. Care about your students. I will grab a student and tell him quite clearly in English and Chinese to stop screwing around and study and do their work. I now bring a lighter into class and explain that anyone caught doing their homework in class will see their homework burned in retaliation. Discipline is love; just make sure you know what the difference between discipline and abuse is. 5. Be approachable, look at what they are doing and ask questions. Ask them out to dinner as a group. Do a short language exchange with one of their friends. There are so many little tricks to get your zhongshi on your side that at the end of the day most problems can be traced to you and how you are viewed. 6. Ask about the last waishi. Often he (normally a he) will be the reason why you are so thoroughly disliked. Find out what he did to piss her off, She will more than likely tell you what it is, and dont do those things. My head zhongshi went to a meeting and all the other teachers complained about their waishi. She now knows how good she has it. She helps me with a lot of little things and Weve gotten to know each other better. Im trying to hook her up on a date with this one English guy. I do a Taiwanese-English language exchange with another zhongshis boyfriend. I talk to another zhongshi about living in the US since we have that in common. I help another zhongshi with her English occasionally, tell her about the bad things I learn in Taiwanese and Chinese, and gave her a Swedish porn VCD. I always say high and occasionally talk to the one that I dont teach with. I also talk to my laoban and his wife(the real laoban) in Chinese and English. Youll work it out, quit, or be replaced. I imagine after Korea, that Taiwan should be a piece of cake. 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Riom, France, June 19, 2012 – Roowin SA, a French CRO (contract research organisation) that provides high-value-added fine chemistry services, announces today that it has moved into new premises in Riom, near Clermont-Ferrand, in the Auvergne region. The move will strengthen Roowin's position as one of the few companies in France that offers a comprehensive range of services, from early-stage research to the production of GMP batches for phase I and II clinical trials. This relocation also represents a new milestone in the company's development.
The company is moving into 1,500 square metres of premises at Riom-La Varenne that are currently owned by Schering-Plough. They include laboratories complying with regulatory GLP (good laboratory practice) and GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards, as well as offices and warehousing. These facilities have 50 per cent more space than Roowin's old premises and incorporate cutting-edge equipment that will enable the company to increase the quantities that can be produced and offer an even higher quality of the services it provides to its clients.
The new equipment from which its clients will benefit includes an LC/NMR 500 MHz machine combining liquid chromatography with nuclear magnetic resonance for more rapid and accurate screening. Only a few laboratories in France have access to this technology. In addition, Roowin is now equipped with ultra-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (UPLC/MS) instruments, infrared equipment, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technology. In the area of synthesis, Roowin can now undertake low-temperature work as the result of acquiring a liquid nitrogen unit operating at minus 80C.
The move is being welcomed by local authorities. "Keeping industrial activities going at the Schering-Plough site in La Varenne is a priority for Riom town council, the regional development office of the department of Puy de Dome, the Clermont-Ferrand Community, and the Community of District Councils of Limagne-D'Ennezat, one of the founder members of the future joint Biopole Clermont Limagne association," explained Herve Prevoteau, director of the Clermont Limagne biocluster. "Roowin is a large independent firm in the fine chemistry sector, and we are going to help it grow still further to our mutual benefit in terms of job and wealth creation. It will find its full place in the pharmaceutical industry of the Auvergne region."
"It was hard to find a place that corresponded to all our technical needs," said Patrice Rool, the chairman of Roowin. "That is why we are delighted to be moving to Riom, which offers all the advantages we were looking for. We are planning to develop our activities further and in particular to invest in additional clean rooms."
Roowin began the move into its new premises on May 1. The operation is being spread over two months to ensure continuity of service to the company's clientele. To secure a smooth transfer of its operations, ongoing projects will continue to be run from the old site until June 30, while new projects are being handled by the staff installed at Riom since the beginning of May. The company is to maintain its sales office in Paris.
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Roowin SA is a CRO providing high-value-added fine chemistry services. It has a custom synthesis and manufacturing activity that enables it to supply quantities ranging from a microgram to more than 100 kilos. Roowin is one of the few firms in France that provides a full range of services to pharmaceutical companies, from upstream research to the production of GMP batches for phase I and II clinical trials. It occupies 1,500 square metres of office and laboratory space where all its development and production facilities are located, housing state-of-the-art equipment that is constantly renewed. The company's clients include leading names in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, chemicals and biotechnology industries in Europe and North America.
The company possesses several patents covering the development of new innovative synthesis processes and has obtained ISO 9001:2008 and GMP (good manufacturing practice) certification.
Roowin was founded in 1998 and has been based in Riom, in the Auvergne region in central France, since May 2012. The management team is composed of PhDs, executives and engineers with a chemistry background. Around 60 per cent of the company's revenues come from its international activities.
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The recent pattern of pro-Russian unrest and fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine resembles a Russian military playbook used in exercises simulating invasion drills, according to a new analysis.
The analysis, by ex-NATO commander Wesley Clark and Phillip Karber, a former Defense official in the Reagan administration, comes as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko unveiled a 14-point peace plan Friday. The plan was announced despite NATO evidence, disputed by Russia, that President Vladimir Putin is resuming his nation's buildup of troops near the Ukrainian border.
Poroshenko ordered his forces to cease fire Friday for seven days, ending June 27, when he is expected to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
The analysis by Clark and Karber, which is based on 35 meetings they held in Ukraine with members of the military and political leadership there, shows that clashes between ethnic Russians and Ukrainian government forces fit a model long practiced by the Russian military — and the Soviet Union before that. Under this model, taken from Russia's Exercise Zapad and employed notably in the nation's 2008 invasion of Georgia, Russia uses a "presumed condition of ethnic conflict" in order to place special forces behind enemy lines, according to the analysis.
The exercises then typically follow through with simulated large ground assaults against former Warsaw Pact members and former Soviet Republics. Ukraine is a former Soviet Republic. The exercises climax with the simulated use of nuclear weapons.
An earlier version of the pair's analysis included a recommendation, adopted by the White House, to provide the Ukrainian military with non-lethal aid such as body armor, night-vision goggles and secure communications.
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• The unrest has been marked by a level of coordination and leadership by Russian citizens and military officers that undercuts Russian official and media portrayals of indigenous uprisings to protect the rights of ethnic Russians.
• Evidence of Russian leadership and military equipment has been documented in multiple images and news reports from Ukraine.
• Geographically, the violence is focused in an area of Ukraine's southeast where the terrain is least interrupted by marshes and rivers, making it the hardest for Ukrainian troops to defend against a ground assault.
The turmoil in Ukraine began late last year, when the country's former president, Viktor Yanukovych, conceded to pressure by Putin and reneged on his pledge to pursue closer ties with the EU. That decision touched off massive protests that eventually forced Yanukovych from power in February. Russia reacted by annexing Ukraine's Crimea region, which was followed by a campaign of violence by pro-Russian separatists in the country's east.
Poroshenko's peace plan is the first step in what he hopes is a concrete strategy to end the conflict that has cost more than 350 lives, but he said Ukraine's troops would still return fire if attacked.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, said Friday that the Russian president is committed to dialogue on Ukraine and is planning to have a phone conversation with President Obama in the coming days.
Janusz Bugajski, an analyst at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, says the pattern described in the analysis — of sponsoring civil and ethnic unrest — is an old Soviet and Russian tactic "that has been refined by modern technology, more extensive channels of disinformation and professional special forces."
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BOSTON -- A dog helped save her owner who was badly injured in a car crash just days before Thanksgiving, reports CBS Boston.John Miles was walking his dog Lucy in Dorchester, Mass., as he does every day, when both of them were hit by a car.
Miles blacked out and doesn't remember what happened. Lucy, a husky-beagle mix, who was also injured, limped to a nearby dentist's office and barked until help arrived. She limped back and stayed by John's side until emergency crews arrived.
"I'm very happy that Lucy did what she did," Miles said. "Makes me feel wonderful because if a dog as good as her can get recognition for doing something above and beyond good for her."
Miles had no identification on him, so first responders used Lucy's ID tags to determine who they were.
"What I'm being told is she sat there and was crying and everything else, you know because I couldn't get up," Miles says. "That's the type of dog she is."
Miles suffered major injuries including two broken legs, a broken arm and 15 facial fractures. He will undergo surgery on Thursday. Lucy is currently limping around with a torn ACL and leg fractures. Right now, she is clearly missing her owner.
"We found out that beagles actually cry, they have tear ducts," said Caitlan Miles, John's daughter. "So after the accident, when I was home with her, she had tears running down her fur. She is walking around lost without him."
Lucy will have surgery on Friday. A fund has been set up to help pay for the cost of her care.
"Once the winter's over, if I'm recovered and Lucy's recovered you can bet we'll be out doing our walking again," John said.
Boston Police told CBS affiliate station WBZ-TV the driver stopped after the accident and will not be charged.


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Go with the Grinders at Eastern Style Pizza
One of my rules for scouting out places is that whatever they stress on the sign is probably the best thing they have. There may be shrimp, gyros, and chicken chow mein on the menu, but if the sign says Giuseppe's Pizzeria Roma, well, you calculate the odds.
So I spent a long time driving past Eastern Style Pizza on a mostly kosher stretch of Touhy in West Rogers Park, because I figured it was a kosher pizza joint. (There actually is one just a few doors down.) Not until I went with my friend Michael Morowitz, who grew up in the area, and his kids one Saturday afternoon did I learn that everything I assumed about it was wrong.
The owner, Frank, is Greek, and the pizza, though New York/East Coast-style and perfectly fine for a quick slice, is not the main attraction.
Instead, it's really a grinder joint, an East Coast style of sub sandwich that you don't see much here. Here at least, it's whatever you want on a long crusty roll—long enough that two could easily share a sandwich—that might be smeared with tomato sauce and topped with onion, green pepper, some seasoning, and mozzarella, and then baked in the oven. Not microwaved, not run through some conveyor belt contraption with a heating element, but baked for a very long ten or fifteen minutes in an actual oven like you have at home.
What comes out has all the simple, warm, and comforting virtues of hot bread and gooey oozing mozzarella. Which is to say, if this doesn't make you happy and feel eight years old again, you're already dead.
I like the meatball version, and it's also good with something like pepperoni or salami. But there's about a zillion choices, from a Philly Cheese Steak grinder to Chicken Parm to a gyros grinder. (No chicken chow mein grinder, though.)
There are mostly two kinds of sandwiches in this world today—the awful chain sandwiches of plastic meats and chemical-tasting bread of which we will not speak further, and artisanal sandwiches made with housemade this and housecured that. Eastern Style Pizza, the grinder place, belongs to a fast-disappearing third category, the original kind of working class sandwich, which was nothing artisanal, nothing you couldn't make yourself, but freshly-made with real food. The kind of sandwich you might well have had on the Jersey Shore—before it became a TV show.
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Fairfield is a town in Franklin county, Vermont. It was formed in 1763 in N.H. from Chittenden county, though the following competing claims for its origins are N.Y. 1773. It has used the following other name(s): Meath. The probate and court district for Fairfield is Franklin. For more information, contact the town at 25 North Rd., P.O. Box 5, Fairfield 05455. On the attached map, Fairfield is shown as 10 in Franklin county.
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The Loch Ness Glamping retreat combines high-end camping with monster-watching. You can look for Nessie while lounging inside a custom-built Armadilla eco pods. This vacation idea is so inspired, we can only wonder: Why has it taken this long for the rest of the world to start putting together monster-centric vacation packages for the cryptid curious? Bigfoot watching from a fabulous four-star tree hut, Chupacabra spa retreats in the desert, Dover Demon lighthouse adventures... We would pay big bucks for this!
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Kansas DWPT Commission Awards Big Game Permits
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Salina, KA — Seven Kansas conservation organizations were awarded 2012 Commission Big Game permits in a drawing conducted at the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission meeting Jan. 5 at Kansas Wesleyan University's Hauptli Student Center Salina. Ninety-eight eligible applications were submitted for the seven available permits, which could include deer permits, one elk permit, and one antelope permit.
Winners of the permits include the following:
- National Wild Turkey Federation, (NWTF), Hays (elk permit) — Jared McJunkin, west conservation field supervisor, [email protected], 785-396-4552;
- Ducks Unlimited (DU), Wichita Chapter No. 017 (antelope permit) — Roger Zettl, district chairman, [email protected], 316-722-0951;
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF), Greater Wichita Chapter (deer permit) — Steve Bell, Kansas volunteer chair, [email protected], 316-648-1993;
- Friends of the NRA, Pratt County No. KS-40 (deer permit) — Rick Chrisman, field representative, [email protected], 913-294-9956;
- DU Topeka (deer permit) — Jeff Neal, district chairman, [email protected], 785-221-6625;
- NWTF Iola (deer permit) — Jared McJunkin, west conservation field supervisor,[email protected], 785-396-4552; and
- Friends of the NRA, McPherson County No. KS-38 (deer permit) — Rick Chrisman, field representative, [email protected], 913-294-9956.
Qualified applicants must be local nonprofit conservation organizations or Kansas chapters of national organizations based or operating in Kansas that actively promote wildlife conservation and the hunting and fishing heritage.
Commission Big Game permits were first awarded in 2006. Winners purchase the permits and typically auction them at their respective conventions and banquets to raise funds for conservation projects. After a permit is sold by an organization, the amount of the permit is subtracted, and 85 percent of the proceeds are sent to KDWPT to be used on approved projects. After the projects are approved, the money is sent back to the organization for the project. The other 15 percent may be spent at the organization's discretion.
KDWPT regulations allow someone who buys a Commission Big Game permit at auction to also purchase another deer permit valid for an antlered deer or, if the Commission Big Game permit is for an elk, to also draw (or have drawn in the past) an antlered elk permit. These would be the only situations in which an individual could have valid permits for two antlered deer in one year, or to have previously drawn an antlered elk permit and still be able to obtain another one. One antelope and one elk Commission Big Game permit are offered in the drawing.
In 2011, permits were won by two National Wild Turkey Federation Chapters — McPherson Smoky Valley Strutters Chapter (deer permit sold for $6,000) and St. Paul Neosho River Struttin' Toms Chapter (deer permit sold for $6,500); two Ducks Unlimited Chapters — El Dorado Chapter No. 027 (deer permit sold for $6,000) and Johnson County Chapter (deer permit sold for $5,000); two Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams chapters — I-70 Chapter (deer permit sold for $4,000) and Southeast Chapter (elk permit sold for $9,100); and the Safari Club International Kansas City Chapter (deer permit sold for $5,100). The permits sold for $41,700, providing $32,320 for state habitat projects.
The Commission also listened to discussion about potential changes in the wildlife rehabilitator regulations, including a staff decision to no longer permit outdoor holding facilities located within city limits and primarily in residential areas. Potential regulation changes to reduce user conflict on public lands were discussed and included use of treestands and ground blinds, decoys, baiting, and commercial guiding. Discussion about potentially allowing hunters 16 and younger and those 55 and older to hunt with crossbows during the archery carried over to the evening session.
The only items discussed during the public hearing session included Secretary's Orders to approve 2012 Free Fishing Days for June 2 and 3, and setting Free Park Entrance Days for all Kansas state parks. The approved resolution allows all parks to have an Open House with free entrance on March 31. Each park then selected an individual Free Entrance Day that coincided with a special event held at the park. For a complete list of Free Park Entrance Days, visit www.kdpwt.state.ks.us.


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Expect steep drop in solar thermal costs, expert says
The new head of Australia's solar thermal research effort says the cost of generating electricity can be halved by 2020, placing it on course to match the renewable energy contribution from solar photovoltaic technologies.
Manuel Blanco, an international specialist in solar energy, started today as director of the CSIRO-led Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI). The initiative has $87 million in funding over eight years to advance so-called concentrating solar power technologies, which typically tap solar energy using mirrors or lenses to drive steam turbines.
Dr Blanco said a "technological leap" would be needed to cut generation costs from 25 cents a kilowatt-hour to 12 cents by 2020 but collaborative efforts between Australian and overseas scientists could achieve the goal. Costs had fallen by about 25 per cent over the past five years.
"The market for concentrating solar thermal power is not as developed right now as for photovoltaics but it will get at least as developed," he said.
Since solar thermal mimics many aspects of conventional fossil-fuel power stations, efforts to improve the latter's efficiency will also aid the spread of the new technology. Concentrating solar may be used to complement existing power stations or operate in combination with wind or biomass units, he said.
Dr Blanco, whose previous posts include directing the solar thermal energy department of Spain's National Renewable Energy Centre, said Australia was an obvious place to focus research.
"The country has a large potential for solar energy – one of the best resources in the world," he said.
Renewable energy lobby group, the Clean Energy Council, hailed Dr Blanko's appointment.
"The recruitment of an international leader in solar thermal power to Australia reflects the massive opportunity for this technology,'' Kane Thornton, deputy chief executive of the Clean Energy Council, said.
''It's great to see Australia reversing the solar brain drain and attracting world-renowned leadership back to one of the sunniest countries in the world," he said.
ASTRI plans a workshop this month in Canberra to hone research priorities, ranging from the forms of concentrating technology to the storage potential.
Issues such as the ownership of the technologies developed are also still to be worked out. The initiative includes six Australian universities, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia Corporation and Arizona State University.
Peter Hannam writes on environment issues for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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This does not apply to personal appearance services provided in a health-care facility (e.g. cosmetic surgery) or at a declared health service (e.g. acupuncture).
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Businesses providing higher risk personal appearance services need to ensure their premises comply with the building standards in MP 5.2 of the Queensland Development Code.
People who personally provide higher risk personal appearance services must achieve the competency standard HLTINF005 - Maintain infection prevention for skin penetration treatments. Business proprietors of higher risk services must ensure people they employ or contract to provide services achieve this competency standard. For further information visit the TAFE Queensland website or phone 1800 308 233.
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Manisha Koirala undergoes successful surgery
Manisha Koirala, who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, underwent a successful surgery in New York Monday
"Manisha underwent a surgery on Monday at around 9 a.m. I got a message from her family members and they said it was a successful surgery," Subroto Ghosh, Manisha's manager, told IANS.
"Manisha's mother, father and her brother are by her side. One of her close friends is also there with her," he added.
Several speculations regarding her health were made following her hospitalisation in Mumbai.
Manisha was admitted to the Jaslok Hospital Nov 28 after she reportedly fell unconscious. However, the reason behind her illness was not made clear. Later it was reported that she is flying to the US for treatment for cancer.
The actress, who has worked in critically acclaimed films like 'Dil Se' and '1942: A Love Story', made her debut with 'Saudagar' in 1991. She recently made a comeback with Ram Gopal Varma's 'Bhoot Returns'.
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Sometimes being a food writer is a pinch-yourself job: You get to have experiences that make you pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming.
As an N.C. food writer, a lot of my pinch moments have involved barbecue. I once got to spend three days on the road by myself, eating at 17 barbecue joints, covering over 1,000 miles and crossing state lines twice. I've gotten to sit up all night minding whole pigs, I've shoveled coals with Boy Scout dads, and I've judged so many barbecue contests, I've lost count.
Late last fall, photographer Corey Lowenstein from the Raleigh News & Observer met me at the Skylight Inn in Ayden, way out on a two-lane road in Pitt County. Our newspapers share resources, which means building working relationships in whole new ways.
For myself, I just had to hold on to a notebook, watch everything that happened and not screw it up.
Photographers don't have it that easy. They have to haul equipment, clamber around in tight spots and get their faces and their lenses right down into the heart of things, no matter how hot or smoky. Corey was right in there for hours, doing an amazing job and bringing back some of the best barbecue photographs I think I have ever seen.
We writers get our names in big type on the tops of stories. Photographers get tiny little credits below their pictures. But they deserve much more, and Corey certainly earned recognition.
My story on the art and tradition of wood-cooked barbecue will be here for the next few days. Even if you skip reading it, you shouldn't skip the audio-slide show and the pictures by Corey.
Ms. Lowenstein, it was an honor doing business with you.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Wood-cooked barbecue: Thanks, Corey
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As part of our outreach and education commitment, the AAVSO provides a list of prepared PowerPoint presentations written by AAVSO members, intended for you to use in a talk or presentation about variable stars and how to study them. These presentations cover a wide range of topics: from Variable Star Observing Techniques to Dark Sky Preservation to CCD Photometry Techniques. Intended audiences range from general public to advanced astronomy meetings.
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Below are presentation files that are available for download (as ppt or pdf files) from the 99th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO. Click on the title to view or download the presentation file.
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