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Note! I wrote this after a friend gave me a challenge to deviate from my own 'voice'. So the narrator's {politics, religion, priorities} are not my {x}. It turns out that the narrator uses some pretty foul language in his internal monologue, for which I apologise, as well as for the roughness of the style.
It's a Monday morning, and the Sun is warm on the carpet. I stretch, and pad into the kitchen to where my Pop Tarts are hiding in the cupboards. The birthday card from Allison lies on the tabletop from where I opened it last night – I open it again to see Michael's infant signature, and smile. I've quite a bit of time before I need to catch that tram to take me into the Complex proper. Time enough for coffee.
I blink against the sunlight and rustle my paper as the tram rolls South-East. The Tidings has no Sudoku puzzle, but makes up for it with a good letters page – I guess I'm a sucker for an argument. A good argument, I mentally correct myself – the long-running thread arguing over where the bay defenses will be sited isn't what I'd call gripping reading.
At my desk, I find Doug's handwriting all over one stinker of a work assignment. The Governor's office has put in a special request for a biographical short to support his re-election. They can't say that, of course – to be using the gubernatorial clout to produce election materials would be against the law, and one thing Governor Bracknell has not done during his term is break the law. No, siree. He may have cut the funding for public mental health initiatives; he may have been less than friendly to people who don't have no morals – violent, even; he may be under investigation for passing bribes back and forth all around the country. But no one could say he'd broken a single law, and everyone did use the intra-city wireless networks now, and the computerised pedestrian rollways.
"Hey, Rod. You all ready for the tour?" I start, a little, involuntarily. Mica has been standing behind me for five whole minutes, I bet. I nod, and sip my second cup of coffee.
The tour-bus snakes Eastward down the corridor, my hands on the steering wheel. Mica's next to me, her head high and out of the sunlight as she talks around Doug's script, looking back at our visiting assholes.
"So, I'm here with Rod today," nudging me in the shoulder, "to give you all a better idea of what is is we're up to here. Have you all read our brochure?"
I turn left. I'm heading down towards the full-scale model in the old warehouse, where I can give these councilors a high-schooler's understanding of how our Time Machine works. Getting silence as a reply, Mica carries on with the script.
"Way back when, before the Complex, historians across the US had to guess at what people were thinking in the past. We used to use newspapers, recordings, books; you name it, we used to use it to make guesses." Mica shifts slightly into my personal space. I shift away, and turn left again. "Even after video was invented, we kept guessing. The thing is, the news cameraman never quite seemed to be in the right place at the right time – and he sure as hell didn't ask the right questions." She shifts even closer. I shift away again, and think of Allison.
One of the suits in the back has raised his hand to ask a question. I see Mica's hair flick as she nods at him.
"What dangers are there associated with your time machine?"
I turn my head so as I can talk, and ease off the gas pedal. "None. The machine is housed by concrete that's two metres thick and runs off on-site generators. It's totally safe."
The councillor, acting like the little weasel he looks just like, kept his eyes right on Mica. "I repeat my question: What dangers does this Complex pose to humanity? Do you not risk changing history with your recording devices?" This jackass hasn't read a bit of the material he was sent. I start to quote from the brochures.
"The Well-Posed Theory of Time -"
"Please," he interrupts, still looking straight at Mica. "I would like an answer from our guide, rather than our driver." Mica shoots me a nervous look, and quotes from the same damn page. I jam my foot down and wish for a cup of coffee, and she gives them her warmest smile.
"Well. As Rod was saying, the 'Well-Posed Theory of Time' tells us that we can't just go back to yesterday and change stuff and blow up the universe – if we go back, we were always meant to go back." She nods, encouragingly. "It's kinda like fate."
The weasel makes some sound like "buh-", I think, but Mica has started talking and isn't going to stop now. I force myself to relax, meaning my right arm ends up just touching against her thigh. I think of Allison.
The assholes have been packed into Jake's office to watch a video roll about how great we are, and Jake is hanging out around my desk. I sip my coffee, and add a little detail to the diagram I'd drawn in the talk earlier. Power generators cast a shadow, and Michael is hiding there with his toy gun, ready to bang-bang any evil councilors trying to destroy history. I talk, figuring Jake won't go away until I do.
"You picked my target, yet?"
"Nah. Bracknell wants someone nice and historical who'll make his term look good. Someone with computers, and he'd like it if they were clean-shaven and stinking rich so they'll look good on the town screens." I can feel him looking at me. Jake's not a bad guy, but sometimes he gets on a guy's nerves. "How's Allison? And Michael?"
I sip and look at my paperwork. "The state's cut down the medical program again, and Michael's nearly 18. Pretty soon he'll have to start earning dough if he wants to eat."
Jake takes the hint and pipes down a little. The diagram has got the Time Shell now, filled up with Pop Tarts. The quiet doesn't last.
"Maybe Babbage."
"Charles Babbage. He came up with the idea of computers in the first place. English rich guy." I guess he decides to give up on me for today, and stops leaning, getting ready to buzz off. "I'll leave it up to you, okay? Just this has got to be done by Wednesday so it's good for next week's election. Think about Babbage."
I type in the finished abstract and save it to the database.
"The Father of Computing: Technological marvels abound in the world of today as they never did in the past. We are fortunate indeed that we at the Complex can look back and get an accurate picture of the yesterday, with people and a way of life so different from our own, so that we truly can appreciate the advances we have made – as a species and as people."
I type in the date and set the computer to number-crunching.
7 June 1954
I pick 'Biopic' from the menu, and save the name to the database.
"Alan Turing"
I pick up a hand-camera, and step into the Time Shell.
"Mr. Turing?"
The cramped English house has no central heating, and Alan doesn't keep any coffee. I have him on a chair, his arms gently and firmly bound so I don't leave any marks, his chest mis-shapen and his smooth chin below thin cheeks. He's awake, so I talk some more.
"Hey, there, Mr. Turing. I'm gonna to call you Alan, and you can call me Rod. You were about to commit suicide, weren't you Alan?" His dark eyes look at me. Wheedle, wheedle, wheedle. "I know you were, Alan, see, and I know you haven't written a suicide note. So that's where I come in, see. I'm like your suicide note, Alan. I want you to tell me all about your life, and then, Alan, I'm going to let you go, and you can eat your tasty apple. I'll even stay, if that's what you want, cause a man ought to have company when he goes to the Lord, Alan. See, Alan, I'm from the future..."
Jake is fucking furious.
"Jesus, Rod! What the fuck were you thinking? What the fuck were you thinking? You sent that into the system without even fucking showing me? Jesus H. Fucking Christ"
"Please stop saying Jesus, Jake. I was told a short biopic on a father of computing. I filmed a short biopic on Alan Turing. I got back, and I sent it off - just like I normally do."
"No. No, no, no. You knew that this was meant to be for Bracknell's campaign. Even without that, you just put a video of a man taped to a chair – taped to a fucking chair – explaining how the government has forced him into suicide, and how life isn't worth living – you just put that mother-fucking video on every screen in every city in the fucking state."
Jake seems upset. I take a swig from my hot cup of coffee, and burn my mouth. He continues, more in control.
"Rod. I just don't know what to say. I just don't know what to say. You're going to lose your job, I'm going to lose my job, the Complex is probably going to be shut down – or at least put on a tight leash, and God knows who's going to get into power now you've done a number on Bracknell. You know what he did for us? Jesus, Rod."
I wince, a little, and my mouth is still burning. After a while I notice that Jake has left – I guess I heard a door slam, and after a little bit longer I notice that Mica is standing next to me. She's been there all of five minutes, I bet.
"Why, Rod? What on Earth possessed you? We've got good jobs here - why make trouble?" I turn to face her, and lean in. She leans back, and I lean in closer, and imagine fucking her rough.
"I think there are a lot of things in this world, Mica, that are real, real sad. And I think it's even sadder that being honest, making a good pic – have you even watched my biopic?" She nods. Good. "I think it's sad that just doing something as simple as being honest and doing the job you're supposed to do can make people angry. I think that's real, real sad." I force a laugh, and open up my arms big. "Hey, according to the Well-Posed Theory of Time, I was even supposed to go back and tie that guy up. So I guess I was just doing my duty, right? I'll admit it, it was even a little bit fun – you shouldha seen his face when he woke up, and when I told him I'd come from the future. Man, I could have laughed so fucking hard." I force another chuckle, and carry on. "And when he died? How do you reckon that was, Mica?"
Mica's crying. I guess she's going to lose her job as well, or something. Turing hadn't cried – he'd been a real man, even if he had been a fairy who offed himself.
"Fuck you, Rod. Fuck you."
I consider my words real carefully, before I respond.
"Yeah, well, fuck us all."
The tram home is cold. I think of Allison, and Michael.
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"Aren't they cute?" gushed the visitor as she looked through the stained-glass at the children in the nursery. One has to admit that babies do provide a spontaneous form of creative expression and entertainment. But the ecclesiastical nursery is rampant with structured chaos indicative of early childhood, complete with short attention spans and selfish propensities.
In one corner children are listening to nursery-stories which have been told over and over for generation after generation. These stories develop imagination and conceptualization, but do they have any application to living?
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The Apostle Paul lamented the fact that the Corinthians were still "babes in Christ" (I Corinthians 3:1). His desire was to "present every man mature in Christ" (Colossians 1:28).
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EU participates in International Dialogue on migration in Geneva (25/04/2012)
Stefano Manservisi, Director-General in the European Commission Home Affairs Department, spoke at today's International Dialogue on Migration Special Session on migration crises as one of the five panellists. The panel figured high-level government representatives from Costa Rica, the US, Zimbabwe and the Philippines brought together by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and moderated by IOM Deputy Director General Laura Thompson.
Mr Manservisi distinguished between addressing on the one hand the short-term aspects of migration crises such as last year in Libya, where the EU assisted the voluntary repatriation of more than 30.000 foreign-country nationals, and on the other hand the need to developing a more long-term approach to anticipate and better confront migration crises. He saw this very much as a global requirement. The Director-General presented the EU policy linking the management of the humanitarian short-term situation with the mid to long-term development strategy and working also on strengthening synergies between migration, development and mobility. This is also the philosophy behind the revised and enhanced "Global Approach to Migration and Mobility" (GAMM), which the EU Ministers are going to discuss at their meeting on 26/27 April. The GAMM is conceived as the overarching framework for the EU external migration policy, consisting of the four pillars legal migration, irregular migration, migration and development, and international protection.
The European Union is a major partner of IOM and UNHCR. Work is under way to strengthen the relationship between the services of the European Institutions and IOM with a view to regularly exchanging information and analyses. The European Commission has granted € 730 million in the Horn of Africa in 2011 only and is currently managing the growing migration effects of the crisis in Syria. It also advocates regional protection schemes as one of the means to tackle migration crises and where it has developed experience notably in 2005 in the Great Lakes region, in Northern Africa last year and now in the Horn of Africa.


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Paula Goodyer It's hard to lose weight at Christmas - but you can avoid putting it on.
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Our little cherry tomato plant has suddenly gone crazy and is producing ripened tomatoes almost every day. With quite a few tomatoes on hand, along with an invitation to a potluck, I decided to put together a pasta salad. This version is a take on a BLT sandwich, plus a few other ingredients to add a bit more flavor. Be sure to make this several hours before you plan to serve it so that all the flavors have time to meld together.
BLT Pasta Salad
Serves 6-8
3/4 of a pound of rotini pasta
1 cup mayo
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, finely chopped
Juice from half of a lemon
1/2 tablespoon lemon zest
1/4 cup red onion, diced
8 slices bacon, chopped
2 big handfuls of spinach, chopped
1 cup cherry tomatoes (slice large ones in half)
Cook the pasta according to package directions. Drain and then spread the pasta on a baking sheet. Allow the pasta to cool in the refridgerator for about an hour. It's important to chill the pasta otherwise, if you skip this step, the hot pasta will make the mayo dressing runny.
While the pasta is cooling mix the mayo, lemon juice, lemon zest, thyme and onion together in a small bowl. Season with a pinch of salt. Cover the bowl and store in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Once the pasta has cooled combine it with the mayo mixture in a large bowl. Add in the cherry tomatoes and chopped spinach.
Keep the pasta salad covered in the fridge until ready serve. Shortly before it's served stir in the bacon. If you add it in too soon it won't be as crispy, so hold off adding it in until right before serving.


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You walk in into a famous DVD shop in Brunei. On the walls are hundreds of clear plastic DVD sleeves with poorly-printed dvd artwork slipped in. Some of the price tags are crudely marked with highlighter pens, intending to show that is a 'clear copy' instead of a rough, bootleg cinema one. They're all priced between $2-8, the equivalent of between GBP 1-4. You see boxsets of famous TV shows, some of which hasn't even aired on your cable TV. The prices vary according to the number of discs in the boxset, but they're still relatively cheap. You grab a copy of Avengers off the shelf, and ask the cashier, "clear kah ini DVD?" The cashier assures you that it's the newest, clearest copy you can get, and offers to test it with their DVD player. You're satisfied with the quality, and bring it home for a measly price of $2.
For those unfamiliar with how rampant piracy is in Brunei (which means most of you), no, that scene did not happen in an underground, hidden shop that requires you to navigate through a labyrinth of crack addicts and smokey alleyways. You can find that DVD shop in one of the biggest shopping areas in Brunei. You can find it in plain sight, with no attempts to hide it.
Or at least you used to be able to. After the government actually realised that, you know, we actually do have laws against piracy, the crackdown started.
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The brand identity system aims to answer these purposes in all senses. It values diversity by not imposing a graphical style or a close set of features and it appeals to participation by providing design tools to customize the logo.
The European Capital of Culture will create rich and diverse memories in each one of us, and the brand will be, by itself, a guardian of this realm. At the end, there will be multiple representations of the European Capital of Culture as many as the imagination may create.
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Launching your new startup and turning that dream you've had for a long time into a reality is really exciting. So exciting, in fact, that it can be all too easy to overlook some of the more pressing issues that lie under the surface. In their eagerness to get their product out, many entrepreneurs fail to ask the "big questions":
If you're an existing or aspiring entrepreneur and ever plan on launching your own startup, this class is an absolute must. You'll see how to keep yourself grounded and not let your excitement get the best of you. Because after all, failing to address the "big questions" can lead to disastrous consequences, or at the least, dilute your product to the point that it fails to live up to its potential.
The class will consist of a short talk on the most important things to consider before launching, followed up by Q&A, discussion, opinion-sharing, and story-swapping.
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The Glam'Eyes Day2Night Mascara creates two very different looks using a double cap system: for a naturally long Day look select Length; for Night opt Volume to maximise lash for seriously thick lashes.
The wand works by twisting the first cap to release the separating lengthening wand, this contains enough product to make lashes look defined but the bristles in the wand separate the lashes. Placing the wand back into the tube and twisting the second cap pushes the brush into the product and releases it without scraping any off. This means more mascara is deposited onto the lashes for a thicker look.
Same brush just different amount of product!
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For an office to party look try layer over your day make-up by using a darker eyeshadow on the outer corner of the eye and pull under the lower lash line. Apply a black liner to the waterline and smudge along the top and lower lashes with a cotton bud then complete the look by applying the Volume on Rimmel Glam'eyes.
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FRANCE / Hyères: Contest awards Design Parade 7Prize given
published : July 05 2012
category : highlights
Design Parade 7 Grand Prix: Julie Richoz………………… Public Prize: Marc Sarrazin.
Design Parade 7 Grand Prix: Julie Richoz/ France-Switzerland / Arrotolare, Bouleau
Taking inspiration from her observations on systems or materials which fascinates her, Julie Richoz re-appropriates their essence in order to create objects in the series Arrotolare and Bouleau.
Inspired by the movements of a crumb collector, made out of rolled metal, the desk set Arrotolare collects everything that rests upon the desk, in a single movement. Halfway between a desk pot and a desk tray, the containers are just as often placed horizontally as vertically, revealing or hiding their contents as they are turned towards, or away from us. Consorting with one another, the different items within the set embrace one another, thus creating an ensemble. Each design exhibits a simple construction, based upon a sheet of metal that is cut out, bent, and then sealed with a plastic stopper.
The series Bouleau takes its inspiration from a round, industrial, metal clamp. Even though it is made out of a rigid material, the quasi-crenelated, cut-out form of the clamp makes it more flexible. By translating this to wood, one obtains a similar flexibility. The waste paper bin and the desk tray Bouleau are made of a supple, birch plywood, a metal ring, and an aluminium base. All of the items are held together thanks to the elasticity of the wood. Beyond its practical uses, the cut-out design of the clamp, translated to wood, fashions the aesthetic of the series.
Public Prize: Marc Sarrazin / France / Rêveils
The designer believes that the traditional functions applied to the objects which surround us, are like potential articulations, between different universes. Based upon the development of the cognitive sciences, the advent of new technologies, and putting great emphasis on the irrational – counterpart to the rational – , he is looking for transitions which may allow him to penetrate into our everyday lives, in unexpected ways.
Jury: François Azambourg, President of the jury, Fernando Amat Vincon, Paloma Canizares, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, Raymond Guidot, Didier Krzentowski, Inga Sempé, Brynjar Siguðrarson, Magnus Wästberg.
Each year Camper invites a designer to participate in Master Class in Master Crafts workshop in Son Fortesa, Majorca, this year the designer is:
Michel Giesbrecht
The Grand Prix Design Parade 7 consists of:
• a research residency of one year at Sèvres - Cité de la céramique
• a creative residency at the CIRVA, Marseille (International center of research on glass and arts) which will result in the creation of a vase.
• a grant of 5 000 euros given by Galerie kreo to develop a personal design project
• a solo exhibition at the villa Noailles in July 2013
• the three-volumes set Phaidon Design Classics
Following the festival, Paloma Canizares, PCM Madrid and jury member proposes a collaboration for an edition to Julie Richoz
To know more about Design Parade 7
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Calling Those With a Passion for Teaching, Learning and the Desire to Make a Difference in the Beautiful Countryside of Iwate, Japan!!!
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Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2013, at 10:12 p.m.
- IN YOUR LIFE AND IN THE LIVES OF THE STUDENTS YOU TEACH, THIS IS IT!* FRIENDS ENGLISH SCHOOL has an opening for a DYNAMIC English Teacher who relishes the rare opportunity of not only teaching, but also running and helping to build up an English school. Located in Morioka, the capital city of Iwate prefecture, FRIENDS ENGLISH SCHOOL is part of the Active English Academy group. ACTIVE first opened its doors in 1992 and has been serving the communities of 4 cities where our schools are located for the past 21 years. Our staff teaches at public kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, a prefectural college in addition to our own in-house English language students. Active also runs an international kindergarten in Morioka.
* Morioka is a city of 300,000 in central Iwate. It is flanked by mountain ranges to the east and the west with easy access to the major cities located to the north and south. (Tokyo is 2.5 ~ 3 hours south by superexpress train. The nearest ski resort is only a 40-minute drive while the nearest coast is an hour and a half to the east.
* This position is NOT for the faint-hearted, shy or those with major homesickness or communication issues. FRIENDS ENGLISH SCHOOL is the place for a teacher who HAS STRONG LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATION, PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS, IS KIND, DEDICATED, LOYAL AND DRIVEN TO LEAVE THE PLACE BETTER THAN WHEN SHE/HE FOUND IT.¡@As life in the countryside can be more challenging than that in the city in some ways, Morioka is a place only for those who are independent and genuinely seek a more peaceful, greener and quieter lifestyle.
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A CHANCE conversation at the Malvern Autumn Show unearthed a family connection between two strangers.
Mark Walker, of Walker's Garden Retreats, used his late grandfather William Richard White's cottage in Oddingley as inspiration for his stage garden inside the show's Good Life Pavilion.
While Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry was on stage Mr Walker, from West-on-super-Mare, struck up a conversation with an elderly man who was having trouble viewing the stage and ex-plained the basis for his des-igns.
It turned out that the man, Colin Smith, was from the village near Droitwich and knew Mr Walker's grandfather and Grange Cottage in Trench Lane.
Mr Smith has since visited Mr White's grave at St James Church to lay a bouquet of roses on behalf of the family.
Mr Walker said: "It's been absolutely brilliant to meet Colin.
"It was one of those one in a million chances or a twist of fate.
"Our family live in Weston-super-Mare and we haven't been able to leave flowers on his grave for some time so it was a lovely gesture.
"My mum was so happy about my lucky chance meeting."
Mr Walker and Mr Smith have swapped e-mail addresses and have kept in touch.
The stage, designed by Mr Walker, featured a model of the black and white cottage, hens, grow your own vegetables and popular 1970s toys such as a space hopper, act-ion man and scooter.
"I used to play there as a child and I have happy memories of playing in the beautiful garden.
"My grandparents were very rural and lived very simply, they were people who didn't want to move with modern times.
"The stage design included all the things we would play and all those little elements of spending our childhood at the cottage."
He has created charitable show gardens at the Malvern shows for many years as well as designed exhibition gardens at Hampton Court.
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Cute clubbing outfit but everyone has that leotard now.
Little sister, I know you want one. :) I want one, too!! Look for this dress there okay? Puhleaaase!
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Linda Polman is a Dutch freelance journalist. She publishes her reportages, columns, and analyses in Dutch newspapers and magazines, as well as in newspapers like The Times and The Independent (London), Expressen (Sweden) and Internazionale (Italy). She is also the author of four published books.
Her third book, We Did Nothing, about the UN peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti, was published in six languages and is still being used by a.o. peacekeepers and diplomats as a work of reference. It was shortlisted for the Index on Censorship Award (London) and the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (Berlin). Her fourth book, War Games – The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times, was published in 2009 as L'Industria della Solidarietà by Bruno Mondadori (Milan). In 2010 the book will also be published in the UK, the US, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Poland. As a war correspondent, with her special interest in international military and humanitarian interventions, Linda Polman lived and worked in countries like Afghanistan, Haiti, Rwanda, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. When in Holland, she teaches in the School for Journalism in Utrecht and she is guest lecturer for military academies and for several faculties for International Relationships and International Development Cooperation Studies.


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Question: What is Square Dancing?
Answer: A dance form that involves a group of couples executing dance figures that involve interaction of the dancers as called by a caller to music. Usually involving 4 couples that start and end in a square formation.
Question: What is round dancing?
Answer: A dance form that involves the dancing of a choreographed pattern of figures to a specific piece of music with a defined rhythm. The choreographer has written a specific sequence of figures that will fit the music with a pleasing body flow. This form of dance is often cued but may also be performed as a memorized routine. The term round dancing came from the formation that the couples make on the floor (a circle). What is round dancing?
Question: What is the role of the caller, cuer, prompter?
Answer: A leader responsible for directing the dance. Provides guidance for the choreography/flow of the dance.
Question: Where can I get Square Dance Apparel in the Denver Colorado Area?
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Also you can get many items at any Square Dance festival in the USA. Venders are always at the festivals.
Question: Where can I find a class to teach me how to Square Dance?
Answer: Many of the local clubs provide training starting at different times of the year. Please check the clubs and lessons pages.


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EasyRunner is a program launcher that is easy to operate. You add buttons simply by clicking in an empty place on the main window grid and defining its associated command. You can also have indefinite levels of sub-menus, each with their own buttons and hotkeys. If wanted, you may lock the user interface with a password to keep the end user from changing it. EasyRunner is distributed as a platform-independent starkit.
Ellogon is a multi-lingual, cross-platform, general-purpose language engineering environment, developed in order to aid both researchers who are doing research in computational linguistics, as well as companies who produce and deliver language engineering systems. As a language engineering platform, it offers an extensive set of facilities, including tools for processing and visualising textual/HTML/XML data and associated linguistic information, support for lexical resources (like creating and embedding lexicons), tools for creating annotated corpora, accessing databases, comparing annotated data, or transforming linguistic information into vectors for use with various machine learning algorithms.
The Enhanced TightVNC Viewer, SSVNC, adds encryption security to VNC connections. The package provides a GUI for Windows, MacOS X, and Unix that automatically starts up an STUNNEL SSL tunnel for SSL or ssh/plink for SSH connections to any VNC server and then launches the VNC Viewer to use the encrypted tunnel. On Unix and MacOS X, a VNC viewer with many new features is provided. The short name for this project is "ssvnc", for SSL/SSH VNC viewer.
Esperantilo ("Tool for Esperanto") is a UTF-8 editor with linguistics functions for the language Esperanto, and is also a system for computer aided translation. It contains a spell checker and grammar checker for the Esperanto language. It can translate Esperanto text in different formats to Polish, German, English, and Swedish and from Polish and English. It also supports computer aided translation by interactive machine translation. Translation memory can be used also for any language pairs. It is an XLIFF editor. It supports XLIFF and TMX (Level 1) formats. Machine translation uses direct translation at the syntax level.
Funpidgin is a modified version of the Pidgin instant messenger application. It was made in response to the controversial auto-resizing textbox that was implemented in Pidgin. Current features of Funpidgin include manual resizing and the ability to turn off persistent window placement. Funpidgin's releases are meant to coincide with Pidgin's releases.
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Company: Leadership
BioTeam is actively involved with our customers, our community, and our industry's future. Each individual plays an important role in contributing to the advancement of informatics as a tool to enable great science to happen.
Ari E. Berman, Ph.D.
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Ari began his High Performance Computing career working for the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate in Biology/Zoology. While there, he helped design and build several commodity medium-scale clusters, as well as deploy, integrate and maintain large networks of mixed architectures. During this time, he became an expert in Perl and shell scripting, learned about parallel programming techniques, and deployed several web-based interactive programs. He then entered graduate school at UT and received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology with concentration in Neuroscience and Bioinformatics in 2005. In the following two postdoctoral fellowships at UCSF and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Ari gained a lot of laboratory experience in mouse model development and neurodegenerative diseases as well as a great deal of direct bioinformatics experience. During this time he continued developing and maintaining HPC infrastructure to assist in his research. Recently, Ari has gained expertise in disaster recovery, high-availability, data security, and centralized high-performance, high-volume storage systems. Ari's career goals are to seamlessly combine his HPC/hardware infrastructure skills with his biology/bionformatics and software development skills to provide a mechanism to support his hobby of brewing beer for BioTeam.
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Anushka studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University before receiving her Masters in Bioinformatics from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has spent the last ten years working in NGS with a focus on building bioinformatics pipelines for data management, analysis, and interpretation of genome sequence data. At the J. Craig Venter Institute, she used open-source and proprietary code to implement both production and customized systems to manage and analyze data from targeted re-sequencing of human, bacterial, viral, and synthetic genomes. She then worked at Complete Genomics doing bioinformatics analysis of whole human genome sequence data to help develop the internal genome assembly processes and final product for the sequencing-as-a-service company. Subsequently, Anushka transitioned to Product Management to spearhead the Complete Genomics Cloud project and also managed their open-source analysis software tool suite. She is particularly interested in understanding the broad range of scientific computational needs and building relevant and efficient solutions that produce actionable information.
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Formerly of Blackstone Computing and Genetics Institute, Dagdigian specializes in research computing and infrastructure technology issues in the life sciences. A supporter of free software and open standards for life science research, he is a founding member of the Bioperl Project, co-founder of the Bioclusters mailing list and serves on the board of directors as Treasurer of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. While at Blackstone Dagdigian was project manager and technical lead for the creation and integration of the Vertex Pharmaceutical VAMPIRE cluster, which replaced an existing Top500 supercomputer used for cutting edge discovery research and informatics. Dagdigian received his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Biotechnology and occasionally finds the time to continue his graduate coursework at Harvard Extension School.
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Stan Gloss joined with founding partners Van Etten and Dagdigian to form BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. At Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. Gloss earned his MS at the University of Buffalo and was a department chairman and faculty member at Quinnipiac University.
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Aaron's 15 years in the development of scientific software began during his Neurosciences PhD at the University of North Carolina, but quickly turned toward genomics and bioinformatics. While working first in the pharmaceutical industry and later in next gen sequencing companies, he's developed solutions within many of the major threads of the last decade of bioinformatics (EST mining; genome and Affy array annotation; analysis and execution frameworks; text mining; chemical and biological data integration; short read analysis) in a variety of technological contexts (Java GUIs; Oracle and MySQL database systems; SMP machines; 3 tiered Web architectures; compute clusters; command line tools; Web 2.0; cloud computing). His biggest pleasure is in the development of simple software tools that make analysis and data accessible to the growing number of scientists that can no longer get by on Excel alone.
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Osborne studied the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces at MIT and did post-doctoral work on plant genetics and genomics at UC Berkeley. Subsequently he was a lead bioinformaticist for the group that sequenced and annotated Arabidopsis chromosome 1. He has been Director of Information Technology at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a Group Leader of Bioinformatics at Cadus Pharmaceuticals, and CTO at Cognia Corporation. At his own consulting company he worked on a variety of open source and commercial projects, with an emphasis on data integration, technical documentation, and data visualization. He is a long-time core contributor to the open source community, including the Bioperl bioinformatics toolkit and the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD).
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Van Etten contributes the perspective of a biologist in helping BioTeam's academic, government, biotech and pharma clients solve their computer-aided research problems. His mission to provide "ease-of-use" to scalable research computing is expressed through his contribution to the development of BioTeam's iNquiry software product.
Van Etten received his PhD in Genetics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Following his graduate research, Van Etten was Senior Software Engineer at the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research where he contributed to the genetic mapping of the rat, and was the Head of Informatics for the Mouse Radiation Hybrid Mapping Project as well as Whitehead's contribution to the SNP Consortium. Van Etten took these high-throughput computing (HTC) research skills to Blackstone Computing as Principal Bioinformaticist where he designed, built and configured HTC environments to support computer-aided research for many academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical institutions.


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Largo grad makes immediate impact
By NANCY MORGAN
Published November 19, 2006
Ole Miss wide receivers coach Matt Lubick expected Dexter McCluster Largo to make an impact on the field, and he was pleasantly surprised the freshman also would serve as a role model for his teammates on and off the field.
"We knew Dexter would be special when he got here because he was so outstanding in high school," Lubick said. "When he got here, we switched him from running back to wide receiver and his attitude was amazing. He had a great pre-season. ...His passion and work ethic are absolutely remarkable and he's a perfect role model, even as a freshman."
McCluster, the Times' 2005 all-Suncoast Player of the Year, wasted no time establishing his presence in Division I. In the Rebels' season opener with Memphis, McCluster recorded 268 yards, including a touchdown, in a 28-25 win.
For his efforts, he was named SEC Freshman Player of the Week. This was followed by Rivals.com naming him National Freshman Player of the Week.
"I've been a running back all of my life until I came to Ole Miss," said McCluster, 18. "When I was told I would have a chance to start if I converted to wide receiver, I was definitely willing to do it.
"It's taken some getting used to. Both a running back and wide receiver require good concentration and you have to be able to handle, hold and catch the ball. I was used to taking the handoffs as a running back, and once I catch the ball, the rest is just like a running back."
McCluster said there's more technique to being a wide receiver than running back, and he worked hard in the preseason to learn his new position. By the season opener, McCluster had earned his start.
" In high school, everyone is around the same size, but in college, you have 300 to 360-pound guys out there," McCluster said. "I'm on the small side, but I believe if you have heart, determination and the Lord on your side, you'll do okay."
"As a running back, I never paid attention to any of the NFL wide receivers, but now I see a lot of them that are successful and are relatively small."
From the time McCluster first played football with the Largo Junior Packers at 10, he never stopped. Though he also played baseball, it was football that was his passion. His dad, Marcus, also played at Largo and went on to play running back at Eastern Kentucky.
"When it came down to it, my choices were Ole Miss, USF and WVU," McCluster said. "After my dad and I visited the schools, I knew it was Ole Miss where I wanted to go. I see the makings of a great team here and I think once everything comes together, we're going to shock a lot of teams."
Unfortunately for McCluster, in his sixth game he injured his neck on an 18-yard opening kickoff return against Vanderbilt and has been out the past four games.
"I really want to be out there," McCluster said, "but in the meantime, I've been lifting weights, getting stronger and watching lots of film to help tighten my game."
Through the Rebels' six games, McCluster accrued 574 all-purpose yards, still the team's second highest.
We're excited about Dexter's future with Ole Miss for what he brings on and off the field," Lubick said.
MORE FOOTBALL: Colgate sophomore Jacob Stein (Shorecrest) is averaging 57.3 yards per kickoff.
- Wake Forest's Kevin Marion (Dixie Hollins) executed an 81-yard touchdown run in a 21-14 win over Boston College.
- Cornerback Leon Wright (Northeast) has 14 tackles for Duke and is returning kickoffs and punts.
SWIMMING: Junior Grant Johnson (Clearwater) helped Florida open its SEC season with a win with his first-place finish in the 200 freestyle against LSU.
SOCCER: Columbus State's junior defender Megan Honig (Countryside) was named to the Peach Belt Conference all-tournament team and repeated her position on the all-conference squad. Honig also was selected to the Daktronics/CoSIDA Division II all-Southeast Region second team.
- Sophomore David O'Brien (St. Petersburg) posted two goals and two assists for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The squad, with a 10-4-4 season record, was invited to the ECAC New England Tournament.
- U.S. Coast Guard sophomore Abbie Harms (Lakewood) tied for second in goals, scoring three over eight games.
- Senior Jenny Borschel (Lakewood) tied for third in goals scored this season for Jacksonville. A 1-0 win over No. 2 Stetson advanced the Dolphins to their first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 2000.
- Freshman Regan Riley (Seminole) was a starting defender for Jacksonville and had the team's second-best shot percentage.
DIVING: N.C. State diver Austin Hampton (Admiral Farragut) recorded an Atlantic Coast Conference-best score of 348.81 in the 1-meter dive against Maryland and Duke. The sophomore qualified for the NCAA Diving Zones.
SOFTBALL: Courtney Lewellen (Seminole/USF) was inducted into the USF Softball Hall of Fame this month. USF's 2000-03 starting catcher was a 2003 NCAA all-Region second-team member, selected twice to all-Conference USA and to the C-USA all tournament team in 2003.
VOLLEYBALL: Chelsea Lazar (East Lake) led Marshall in blocks with six against UAB. Against Memphis, the junior middle blocker posted a career-best nine.
- HCC sophomore Kim Clark (Northeast) was named to the Florida all-tournament team after HCC upset Miami-Dade City. The outside hitter collected 24 kills and 10 digs against the No. 4 team. HCC is in Missouri competing in the NJCAA National Tournament.
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Last week I attended the Goldman Sachs two day training session for faculty in their nationwide program to grow small businesses and create jobs. The program is now offered in 17 cities and operates through local community college partners. The Miami partner is Miami Dade College.
In each city the program will run for five years with several groups of new entrepreneurs trained in each city each year. The national goal is 10,000 entrepreneurs trained by the end of five years and 2,000 have already completed the program.
The program includes classroom instruction, special skill development workshops (financial statements, negotiation, legal), continuous mentoring by full time advisors and access to various sources of capital. The curriculum was developed by Babson College and is complete and very well thought out.
The curriculum was designed to work with business owners regardless of education level or work experience. For example, there are no textbooks, pre-assigned readings, excel spreadsheets or accounting classes, as one might expect to find in a college environment. The curriculum and pedagogy would also be suitable for high schools to use in their classrooms. The absence of textbooks, readings, etc. might allow students to simply follow their passion to start a business.
To apply for the program a business needs to meet three requirements:
- Revenue of $400 thousand to $2 million
- In business 2 years
- Have 4 employees
After submitting an application, business owners go through an interview process. The entire program is described here and the application can be found here. Applications in Miami will re-open shortly for the second group of business owners to go through the program.
I will be teaching a module on business opportunity and a session on negotiation.
I believe the program is conducted only in English.


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