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Order your books for the upcoming semester, buy some cool FSC gear, or find the perfect gift for someone special.
Phone: 863.680.4186
Fax: 863.680.6272
Have questions about finalizing enrollment or paying your Student Account balance? The Business Office can assist you with finalizing your enrollment. In addition, they can answer questions you may have about your Student Account or the release of the balance of your financial assistance to you.
Phone: 863.680.4154
Fax: 863.616.6467
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Questions about roommates, housing, and other student services? Come to us! Here at FSC we strive to make your experience on campus a positive and impactful one, and our well-trained staff and resident advisors will ensure this.
Phone: 863.680.4209
Fax: 863.680.4195
Take advantage of the different types of federal, state and community aid available to you, and find the help you need to get through the application process!
Phone: 800.205.1600
E-mail: email@example.com
Mail Services provides postal services such as stamps, priority mail, insured mail, tracking services and a variety of other United States Postal Service services to the campus community. It is also the home to mailboxes and postal delivery for students.
Phone: 863.680.6222
The Registrar's Office will assist you in taking care of official business such as verifying your admission or enrollment status or obtaining an official Florida Southern College transcript. They can also help demystify the confusing world of incoming credits for you and assist you in figuring out what classes you do and don't need in order to graduate.
Phone: 863.680.4127
Fax: 863.680.4565
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Find information on test dates, test registration procedures, and test day policies for a variety of national standardized exams, such as CLEP, ACT, LSAT and others.
Phone: 863.680.4299
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The Association of Campus Entertainment (ACE) constantly provides FSC students with exciting activities, and is your primary source of entertainment on campus. They sponsor a wide variety of events throughout the academic year. Every event put on is unique and identifies with the culture of Florida Southern College, because it is organized by people who know exactly what that means!
Love to compete? More importantly, love to win? You should think about Florida Southern Athletics. The Mocs have won 28 division II national championships, including 19 NCAA sports and a fantastic water-skiing team. Get in contact with a coach, check out the scores and photos from a recent game, view rosters, and follow all FSC athletics news on the athletics website!
Phone: 863.680.4244
The student-led campus ministries are at the heart of religious life at Florida Southern. Virtually every night of the week there is an opportunity for students to put their beliefs into practice and live out their faith. With a variety of offerings, its easy to find your niche, develop your leadership skills, and discover your place in a ministry to be passionate about.
Phone: 863.680.6211
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Whether your interests lie in cultural, social, educational, or recreational activities — we have something for you! Check out the student life calendar for more information on the clubs and meetings going on around campus.
Phone: 863.680.4499
Fax: 863.616.6464
Along with friendships and fun, Greek organizations excel at bringing out the best in their members. Through involvement in their various activities and philanthropies, brothers and sisters develop leadership, organization, communication and interpersonal skills. Even more importantly than these skills, members of Greek life develop a bond that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Phone: 863.680.4499
A unique arts series, the Festival of Fine Arts provides students with invaluable opportunities to attend outstanding performances, interact with guest artists, and perform with faculty and peers. Most events are free to students.
Phone: 863.680.4296
Here at the Life and Cultural Center, we provide students with volunteer opportunities in the community. We especially concentrate our services with minority and international students, but provide programs to everyone in order to enlighten them to the diverse culture that is engrained within our Florida Southern College family.
Phone: 863.680.6285
Fax: 863.680.4443
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Florida Southern College has many ways for students to get involved on campus. There are more than 80 student organizations covering a diverse range of topics—something for everyone.
Bill Langston, the Dean of Student Development, helps guide both undergraduate and graduate students from freshmen orientation through graduation. Bill, along with the rest of the staff promotes academic and personal success with services such as academic counseling, personal goal setting, transfer support services, student conduct and more.
Florida Southern College believes that immersing yourself in a different culture, or even country is a key component to your education. That is why we offer study abroad programs, and even guarantee a 'Journey' after your junior year of college. These programs provide you with the opportunity to redefine yourself and the world around you, while simultaneously connecting this knowledge with your studies and giving you academic credit.
Phone: 863.616.6411
Fax: 863.680.3088
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Channel your inner adventure! FSC Recreation provides you with plenty of opportunities to get in touch with your nature side and involve yourself in outdoor activities ranging from deep-sea fishing trips to rock wall climbing to paintball battles.
Don't wait until senior year to start using all of the services the FSC Career Center can provide for you! Our career counselors can help you think about possible majors, explore your unique skills and interests, and consider ways to experience the real world of work during your college years. The center maintains updated lists of jobs and internships for qualified students. Dedicated career counselors work with students on resume writing, interviewing skills, preparing for graduate school and professional networking. And when it's time to leap into the real world, the Career Center can soften the landing through its extensive alumni network.
Phone: 863.680.4390
Fax: 863.680.5121
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Get out there and help someone! Florida Southern College offers plenty of different service clubs and individual service programs for students who want to give back their time to the community. You could make sandwiches for the homeless, construct houses for the needy, or donate your services to any other worthy cause.
Needing some extra cash? FSC provides tons of different employment options for students, ranging in anything from secretarial duties to food services to being a bicycle technician. Check out the job board to see what departments are hiring student workers. You must have a certain level of financial need to qualify.
Counseling hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Located in the Thrift Building, 1st floor, Mon-Fri. 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM; Sat/Sun 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM. There are times when all of us need support when navigating the freedoms, responsibilities and social interactions of life. The caring staff members at the Counseling Center are a confidential resource for any and all of your concerns, large or small.
Phone: 863.680.6236
Available 7 days a week: Mon-Fri. 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM; Sat/Sun 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Florida Southern's Student Health Center provides professional, efficient, and cost-effective medical care in a comfortable and caring environment.
Phone: 863.680.4292
Princeton Review recently ranked Florida Southern #6 in the "Everybody Plays Intramural Sports" category. Our amazing intramural program offers both individual and team sports. You don't need to be a star athlete to participate—just play for fun, physical activity, and sportsmanship!
FSC's Wellness Program encourages a holistic lifestyle focused on health, fitness, and recreation. Activities at the Wellness Center include aquatics, fitness, group exercise classes, intramural sports, and outdoor recreational programs.
Phone: 863.680.6290
The FSC dining staff works hard to provide you with the best food your meal plan can buy. We offer six dining options on campus including Wynee's Bistro, Terrace Cafe/Freshens, TuTu's Cyber Cafe, Buck Stop, Grill Master and MocMart Convenience Store. If you're looking for information regarding nutrition facts, dining hours, or Wynee's daily menu come here!
Need a parking permit? Lost your ID Card? Want an escort to walk you back to your room after a late-night study session? The Office of Campus Safety can help.
Information Services provides the technology you need during your time at FSC. Here, you will find an array of networking and computing resources.
Phone: 863.616.6426
With state-of-the-art computing facilities and an extensive collection of educational materials, which can even be accessed online, our Library and Archives provides educational resources that enrich your learning.
Phone: 863.680.4164
Need a ride? This is a free service to students, providing complimentary cab rides from anywhere in Lakeland back to campus, if you have an emergency situation or feel unsafe. This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Be sure to have your Student ID ready, and to tip the drivers. Just call 863.665.8151. Key chains with the phone number are available in the SGA Office.
Phone: 863.665.8151
We facilitate the student accountability process, serve as investigators for student Title IX issues, provides prevention, education, and awareness programs, and maintain compliance for federal and state mandates.
Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should contact us. We are here to help.
Phone: 863.680.4196
Fax: 863.680.5121
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Seeking information, assistance, or guidance in your college career? The Student Solutions Center serves as a central support and referral department for any questions or problems you may have. Through our services, we seek to help students succeed academically, personally, and in life.
Phone: 863.680.4900
Fax: 863.680.4567
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USACE Galveston District staff joined the Safe Kids Greater Houston Water safety team during the2013 3rd Annual Katy Aquatics Make-A-Splash event to operate a life jacket station, provide mandatory personal floatation devices to those kayaking, as well as provide information to both children and adults on legal requirements and discuss the importance of buying, using and properly fitting a life jacket.
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"Turbo" is the most pleasant surprise of the 2013 summer movie season! It is a smart, funny, involving animated action flick that surprised me by how grounded in the real world it is despite an admittedly goofy premise. The film centers on the title character (voice of Ryan Reynolds), a garden snail who wishes he had great speed. Actually, Turbo dreams of one day racing on the NASCAR circuit, a crazy aspiration that brings him into constant conflict with his pessimistic brother, Chet (voice of Paul Giamatti), and the dozens of other worker-drone snails who labor and live in a suburban Southern California homeowner's vegetable garden. Fed up with his humdrum existence, Turbo ventures out of the neighborhood one evening and marvels at the speeding traffic on a nearby highway. The force of a passing semi propels him off the overpass and into a "Fast & Furious"-style drag race where he is sucked into the nitrous-fueled engine of one of the hot rods. He emerges changed, suddenly possessing great racing speed. He is soon discovered by Tito (voice of Michael Pena), a good-hearted young man who runs a taco business with pragmatic brother, Angelo (voice of Luis Guzman). Tito and Turbo end up being kindred spirits, as Tito also has big dreams of being more than he is. He soon discovers Turbo's amazing power, and the plucky snail is able to give him the idea of entering the Indy 500. OK, now there are a dozen different ways this flick could have failed. Its main plot is absurd, of course. A snail racing in the Indy 500? How could spectators see him? How could the TV cameras pick him up? The visual solution arrived at in the film is simple. Turbo leaves a streak of neon blue behind him wherever he runs. So, it is always clear where the tiny snail is in relation to the big, imposing race cars on the track. I also like that "Turbo" gave us three distinct worlds and made them all feel very real. The first act of the movie is set in that wonderful vegetable garden, and it's basically a big workplace for snails with a demanding foreman, a system of operations, daily lunch breaks, periodic safety meetings and so forth. Then, Turbo and Chet leave their comfort zone and inhabit Tito and Angelo's world in the second act. The two human brothers operate their failing business in a rundown strip shopping center. The animation in this section of the film is just terrific, a bit similar to the downtrodden Radiator Falls of the first "Cars" movie, but with a more gritty city feel. The third act is where the animators get to show off, taking the action to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I like the efficiency of storytelling in this last act of "Turbo." There could have been a lot of time wasted on the road trip from California to Indiana, but there's not. And when the characters get to Indy, the screenwriters believably get Turbo entered into the race and - BOOM! - the race starts. Yes, the premise is preposterous. But sometimes the most memorable films have featured the nuttiest story hooks. A farmer hears a voice that tells him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield. A runt pig is raised by dogs and embarks on a career in sheep-herding. A puppeteer takes a boring job as a file clerk and discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. Those were all nutty, nutty stories that could never have worked unless executed by filmmakers with a clear vision of how to bring those stories to screen. Now, "Turbo" will probably never be mentioned in the same breath as "Field of Dreams," "Babe," and "Being John Malkovich." But the film works. It's a miracle that it works. It really shouldn't have. But it does, and I loved it.
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I'm looking for a partner for weekend rides starting/ending in DTLA (or Metro Rail -accessible points). Current distances are mid/upper 30s, looking to build to low/mid 50s. Typical cruising speed is 17-20. Anyone interested?
I'm looking for a partner for weekend rides starting/ending in DTLA (or Metro Rail -accessible points). Current distances are mid/upper 30s, looking to build to low/mid 50s. Typical cruising speed is 17-20. Anyone interested?
I am in LA and ride 20-60 miles but I do not maintain a speed of 17-20. I would say I am more iike average of 10-12 with some periods over 15mph on flats. I dont like feeling any stress to ride faster than I am comfortable. I do sunday rides with the West LA Cycling Club. They are on meetup.com, they are at my pace. We leave from Marina Del Rey, ride to Palos Verdes and back. I usually start from home in Baldwin Hills (east of Culver City) now which is mid LA. I do other rides around town on my own and other group rides i find that arent too fast. Check out flying pigeon bike shop rides, google that, there are some monthly rides with them but they are under 20 miles roundtrip and no faster than my pace. If you havent found it yet, google midnightridazz and see all of their rides. I havent been doing them.
IF you go to the WLACC meetup.com site you will see there is a guy organizing occasional rides at a 17mph+ pace. I havent been on any yet.
Thanks for the link, but MdR is too far away. I don't want to have to drive to ride.
However, I will check if Meetup has any groups closer.
Check the ride schedule for the Pasadena Triathlon Club (http://pasadenatriclub.com). Some of our Saturday rides start in Pasadena at Jones coffee, which is off the Gold Line at Del Mar, or in Sierra Madre, about 4 miles from the Sierra Madre Villa station. Usually a main and a coached ride option, both of which can be pretty fast, your range being right in between them. Distances will range from 30-70 miles.
You dont have to drive to ride to go to MDR. You can bike from home to MDR and then do the group ride, that is what I do. From DTLA you can take the bike lane on Venice Blvd the entire way. Or you can get on the Ballona Creek Bike path at National and Jefferson in Culver City, which takes you to MDR.
Also the fast rides of WLACC are not held in MDR. They are organized by Stein and so far he has held some in the Griffith Park area and also driving to bike on the SART. (I havent attended those.)
PTC has had some rides of interest, so I'll keep an eye on them.
To clear any misunderstandings: (1) my flatland cruising speed is 17-20 but my overall beginning-to-end pace is in the 15s, so I'm not a fast rider; (2) I want to keep the start/end points near Downtown or within a mile of Metro Rail.
If you take the new Exposition Metro train to the (current) last stop west you are at Jefferson and La Cienega which is within a block or two of of the start of the Ballona Creek bike path.
So if you did that you would be on the metro, then on the path for about 8 miles then you could be in MDR for the Sunday WLACC rides or also there is another group ride Sundays in MDR that is faster, that leaves from Dock 52 in MDR. They have a website you can find it googling dock 52 bike ride in MdR.


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* Contract manufacturing services offered by more than 50 companies to medical devices and equipment companies. Some companies build only components and sub-assemblies while others manufacture the final product for OEMs
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Many of the local contract manufacturers in Singapore are listed, and have a long track record serving the precision industries such as the Hard Disk Drive (HDD), consumer electronics, automotive and aerospace sectors. To meet the stringent requirements characterized by these sectors, Singapore companies have developed design capabilities and high quality production processes which helped them to easily migrate into the medical technology sector.
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Friday - December 22, 2006
Andy Irons and his board were light as
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Happy holidays, wave riders! Were you there? Did you catch it? I'm sure you've read or heard about it - Kauai's Andy Irons winning the "whole enchilada" (Bro' Bruce Irons' quote)! It would be enough for any human to win just one of the events of the most prestigious Vans Triple Crown, let alone win the most coveted of the three events: the Rip Curl Pipe Masters, let alone the title of Triple Crown Champ ... Let alone do both ... and accomplish this feat an unprecedented four times! Let's be even more clear here: Nobody's ever done it even twice, let alone four times.
There are just three who've won both titles once: Slater did it in '95, Tom Carroll in '91 and Derek Ho did it once in '86 - and that's it! Not even six-time Triple Crown champ legend Sunny Garcia has this rare honor. To win the Pipe and the Crown in one shot is extremely distinctive. Such stats just illuminate how great our Kauai son is. It is highly unlikely that any of you reading this right now will ever see such a four feat again in your lifetime ... no matter what your age. The only way you'll see it again is if Andy Irons does it for you with five - amazing stuff.
Oh the energy emanating from the Ehukai Arena on Thursday, Dec.
14 ... it rumbled and raged like the waves 20 meters from shore. It lifted the thousands of spectators to their feet and their roars to the sky. Everyone - surfers and non surfers alike - knew they were a part of something very special that day. And in the end, history was made, a record was broken and souls were satisfied.
It took the blessings of nature and the rare talents of two special athletes to deliver the day: Kelly Slater and Andy Irons. The competitive fire between these two is extraordinary. Each hates to lose ... and each loves to win! Let's see the definition of these powerful words: Hate: "a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action."
Love: "a strong positive emotion of regard; Passion." Well, these guys know how to act with passion! They channel all their energy so intensely it allows them to do things even they didn't know they could do.
The one that got Irons back in the game against Slater in
the last 10 minutes of the Pipe Masters
Did you see these guys after each unbelievable barrel? They'd raise their arms overhead and look to shore as if amazed themselves. And it was amazing - jaw-dropping wave-riding. The best were blowing their own minds!
The scores prove it. To be sure, there have been bigger waves in past years of the Pipe Masters ... and it's always a rush to watch and ride! However, this final had two freaks in the near perfect 6- to 8-foot lineup! Men who have sharpened the cutting edge of surfing competition and hold 11 years of world titles between them - they are the two most dominant surfers of the past decade and a half. But they hold so much more. They bring out the best in each other. Again, scores proved it.
Slater had this final so in the bag that announcer and Pipe legend Liam MacNamara quipped, "Well, I'm signing off ... see you all next year." Not one soul would've thought that Slater, with a 9.00 (out of 10) and an 8.83, could be beaten. He was so deep on those Back Door tubes you'd just be in shock when he'd bust out the end. Slater was on fire - doing what he does best at his best! Nobody beats him when he's got his mojo on - nobody!
Then along comes Mr. Iron Will, who just never counts himself out. Andy captures a fat 10-foot beast and parks it inside the tube's foam ball (deep as you can get) ... then the beast spits him out at full speed. Andy does-n't kick out in relief, but floats up and over the meanest inside close-out sandbar; it was an explosion! He's gone from view in the 10-foot wall of white water with the bottom about 2 feet below his board. He reappears to the thunderous decibels of an astonished crowd. He lifts his arms over his head and lays his relieved body into the calming white water ... and gets 9.87!
Not done, he streams over to Slater knowing he's back in this game - big time! Just one wave away with a minute left in the greatest show on earth, Andy Irons played Moses himself with a scripture that spoke of victory. He muscled and hustled a wave away from Slater to go right on Back Door (Pipe's right hand side). He free falls straight into a 6-foot tube on a vertical drop, and is inside as deep as one can be the entire way - 10 feet back on the foam ball again on a nasty, fast, thick and throaty wave! Irons just pumped and weaved perfectly inside this miracle wave, and at the wave's end emerges with 10s across the judges' scoreboard! You see, when even judges can't imagine a wave being ridden any better well, that's a 10, baby! Oh yeah, Andy Irons' fists were hitting the heavens in elation. He did it ... he did it again! Legendary head judge Jack Shipley claimed, "It was the best final I've ever seen."
In the end, the victorious Irons was also a humble warrior. Andy respectfully spoke into the mic, "I have to give credit where credit's due ... Kelly's amazing out there ... he helps me do what I do." He looked at Kelly and said, "You're an amazing surfer." That's Andy Irons, Hawaii's greatest, most amazing surfer.
I'll be writing about this one for awhile. Hey, next up: We're in the holding period for the third annual Bank of Hawaii North Shore Tow-In Surfing Championships now to March 31, 2007! Stayed tuned for the BIG day ... it's gotta be 20 feet and peeling on the outer reefs! Go to the SURFNEWSNETWORK website and read more!
I'll see you here after Christmas!
GQ, Dropping in 4 U!
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KIEV, Ukraine — Jackbooted young men in World War I helmets patrol the muddy sidewalk in front of the parliament building, their chapped hands wrapped around clubs and ax handles, their black-and-crimson armbands telling of allegiances to the far right.
Camouflage-clad men armed with hunting rifles control traffic a few hundred yards away, their faces hidden by black balaclavas no longer needed for warmth in the late-winter thaw. The self-appointed sentries eye drivers and pedestrians funneling into a single-lane gap in the walls of bricks, firewood and sandbags that barricade Ukraine's once-elegant capital city.
At Independence Square, the baroque, monument-filled plaza known here as Maidan, the jobless and aimless have taken the place of the victorious political activists who have gone on to parliament or gone home. The stragglers sit hunched around barrel fires, dull eyes peering out from soot-stained faces, rolled-up sleeves baring the tattooed insignia of ex-cons and forgotten veterans.
The women in floral kerchiefs who tended bubbling pots of borscht or boiling vareniki to feed those demanding a better future have mostly drifted away, leaving the holdouts to shake down workers at the handful of coffee shops and bakeries in business for "donations."
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Stray dogs forage for scraps among the piles of garbage around camps clustered beneath signs heralding the origins of their inhabitants: Kharkiv, Ternopol, Yalta.
Banks of portable toilets flank the grubby tent clusters, their doors torn off for makeshift shields during the deadly heat of the confrontation last month, their users in plain sight of those who now mill about.
Yulia "Ruda" pulls the flame-red hair for which she acquired her nickname — Red — into a stretchy yellow headband identifying her as a volunteer with the Self-Defense Forces of Ukraine.
"By staying here, we are showing the true image of the self-defense forces," says the 28-year-old art director for a local disco, among the businesses not yet back on their feet after the months of chaos in the country. "We are guarding against new provocations, but we are also making repairs to property damaged during the protests and bringing back public order. But it takes time."
As she spoke, her posture erect and her hands clasped behind her back in the style of a soldier at ease, a battered flatbed truck pulled up to a smashed newspaper kiosk with panels of fresh glass, a moment of normalcy in this flower-festooned colony of drifters and debris.
Like all good lies, the disparaging words of Russian leaders — that the protesters who toppled Ukraine's governing order are fascists and criminals — have a grain of truth.
Maidan in the waning days of 2013 was filled with students, doctors, clerks and factory workers angered by President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to abandon Ukraine's path toward association with the European Union. But the protest, confronted by waves of brutality, ended up meeting violence with violence, with the infiltration of crudely armed forces less interested in democracy than revenge.
Much like the Occupy movements that began on Wall Street in 2011, the Maidan protest became a magnet for the discontented of every ilk: nationalists, anti-communists, radical environmentalists, soccer hooligans and anarchists. Ad-hoc militias took to the streets in paramilitary gear, lobbing firebombs at government strongholds and beating back at the Berkut riot police who attacked them.
Today, Yanukovych is gone, but hundreds of the self-appointed enforcers remain on guard.
At the Dnipro Hotel on the western fringe of Maidan, two masked toughs with footlong hunting knives block the entrance to the adjacent London Pub, through which the few paying guests must enter and have their belongings ransacked.
At the sole opening in a wall of debris separating the hotel from Khreshchatyk Street, a masked man advertising his views with the "Right Sector" armband vets prospective entrants, a shiny new 7-iron at the ready.
Inside, in the dimly lit corridor leading to the reception area, a camouflage-clad defender sits in the shoeshine chair, a high-powered rifle resting on his knees.
But for all its menace and squalor, Maidan remains a place of reverence.
Mounds of carnations laid out in orderly rows beneath photocopied pictures of the fallen heroes of the revolt stand 3 feet high in places. The wilting cut-flower berms flank the brick and sandbag barricades, splashing the landscape of ruin with incongruous color. Candles in tinted glass jars and faux gilded screw-tops flicker, left by survivors and revolution tourists paying their respects to those forever silenced.
Nikolai Semenyanka, gripping a metal crutch like a staff in his huge right fist and a hand-rolled cigarette in his left, is holding court outside a tent with other veterans of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a war fought for a previous Kremlin's expansionist aims.
"We didn't fight for this country to lose it to another," he says of the battle against Yanukovych and the seething conflict between Russia and Ukraine that now threatens Kiev's hold on the strategic Crimean peninsula.
Semenyanka looks a generation older than his 46 years. He fears a shooting war could erupt in Crimea, not because of any real enmity between Russians and Ukrainians but from the manipulated sentiments of "maybe 60 or 70 hotheads and adventurists" riled up by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Of course we are afraid of war!" Semenyanka bellows. "Putin has turned these two fraternal peoples against each other until they are on the verge of firing their guns."
Russia's moves on Crimea, where its Black Sea fleet is based on territory leased from Ukraine, has diverted the international spotlight from Maidan. And the shift of battle lines from Kiev to Simferopol, Crimea's regional capital, has raised further questions about why and whether the revolutionary stragglers at Maidan are serving any useful purpose. Semenyanka insists he and his comrades are ready to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian aggression, despite injuries some suffered during the long battle in Kiev.
Dmytro Yarosh, head of the Right Sector militia-slash-political party that has given the Kremlin its most powerful ammunition in discrediting the Maidan protest, points to the situation in Crimea as justification for keeping his far-right foot soldiers on patrol.
"Ukraine is practically in a state of war with the Russian Federation, and it was not us who started this war," he says. Defending the gains of the revolution and the territory of Ukraine "is the constitutional duty, not only of the armed forces, but of every citizen of Ukraine," Yarosh says.
Others who come to the square argue that the guardians of the revolution must stay in place until Ukraine's May 25 presidential election, to keep the interim authorities honest and responsive to the demands of those whose defiance and bloodshed put them in power.
"I think we have to keep it," Viktor Shur, a 45-year-old film director, says of the mess that is Maidan. "It's not just a memorial to those who died. … We need Maidan to keep our voices in the new government's ear."
On Institutskaya Ulitsa, uphill a few hundred yards from the grubby tents and blaring sound stage, Irina Denisova fiddles with a plastic lighter, trying to put flame to the wick of a memorial candle. An oncologist with a busy schedule, she didn't have a chance to pay her respects to the victims until more than two weeks after the protest drove out Yanukovych.
She surveys the discordant canvas of makeshift memorials, bustling history tourists and languid figures slouched on muddy sandbags fashioned into chairs.
"We should preserve the memorials, to honor those who died," the doctor says.
"But the rest of this should return to normal," she says, with a wary glance at an encampment that resembled a Dickensian den of thieves. "The sooner our city gets back to normal, the sooner we will heal."


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Despite the threat of rain, more than 400 motorcycle riders trekked around Pasco County last Saturday visiting local fire stations to thank first-responders for the live-saving job they do every day.
It was part of the Pasco County Choppers 2013 9/11 Gratitude Ride and Poker Run, which serves two purposes every year: remembering the lives lost on that tragic day 12 years ago and thanking and raising money for Pasco County Fire Rescue's benevolent fund.
That money is used to help families of local emergency service personnel if they fall onto hard times.
"All the money that you help raise today does not go to buying any equipment whatsoever," said ride organizer Dan Turner told the crowd of riders at the opening ceremony that morning. "It goes to the men and women of Pasco County Fire Rescue, no matter how they need it."
The ceremony started at 9:45 a.m. with a short speech to the leather vest-clad crowd and included the presentation of the American flag by the Fire Rescue Honor Guard, a moment of silent for the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and Taps played on the trumpet.
"This is a 9/11-themed event and we wanted to do something on a local level to acknowledge our local emergency services right here in our backyard," Turner said. "A lot of lives were lost on 9/11, not only citizens but law enforcement and all kinds of emergency services."
"It's been 12 years-can you believe it?" Turner asked, referring to the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the crash in Pennsylvania of the fourth hijacked airliner. "Unfortunately, a lot of us, a lot of people, have forgotten all about it. Cheryl and I wanted to make sure everyone remembers. Never forget. "
Pasco Fire Rescue Chief Scott Cassin also stepped in to say a few words.
"I want to express our gratitude to what you folks are doing here today. We remember all the public safety personnel we lost that day just doing their jobs, what they do every day, saving lives and property."
After the ceremony, hundreds of motorcycles poured out onto Land O' Lakes Boulevard from the Pasco County Government Center to head to the first of three stops at Pasco Fire Rescue firehouses, Station 15, on Trinity Boulevard.
The bikes overwhelmed the station's small parking lot and hundreds of riders milled about the station seeking out fire rescue personnel to shake hands with, hug and thank.
"Such a mixed variety of people showed up today and everyone is so kind," said one rider, Tammy Gardner of Temple Terrace. "It's all about remembering how tragic 9/11 was but these people put their lives on the line every day."
The ride itself was free but riders could pay $10 to participate in the poker run for a chance at a prize at the end of the event. Organizers also sold 9/11 Gratitude Run T-shirts and raffle tickets for the big party at Quail Hollow Country Club in Wesley Chapel at the end of the ride.
Other than Trinity, the motorcycle procession stopped at Pasco Fire Rescue Station 14 on River Ridge Boulevard in New Port Richey and the training center, Station 20, on Little Ranch Road in Brooksville.
Last year, about $2,000 was raised for the Fire Rescue benevolent fund. Turner said the numbers were down from pervious years because of rain. This year, despite it being overcast, the ride raised $5,500.


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A workshop on "Evolution of Laws relating to Anti Corruption Measures and their Implementation" was organized by the Vigilance Department of East Coast Railway at ECoR headquarters, Rail Sadan, Bhubaneswar yesterday.
Addressing the seminar on the occasion, Shri Umashankar Mishra, IPS & Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I) urged upon the Railway Officers to come forward and deliver their duties without any fear or bias. They should also enhance their knowledge on professional field; know the rules and working system instead of simply following by others while taking any important decision. He also said that, the decentralization of power sometimes helps and sometimes damages the system and encourage the corruption. The corruption at the highest level must be checked. The investigating organizations like CBI & Vigilance should be autonomous and free from Govt. clutches to deliver impartial and judicious decisions, which will help common people at large.
Presiding over the function, Shri Indra Ghosh, General Manager, East Coast Railway expressed his happiness and appreciated the Vigilance Department's attempt in eradicating corruption in Railway system. In addition to the financial honesty, intellectual honesty is more required i.e. the existence of morality amongst staff and officers & devotion to duties with all knowledge on Railway System and Workings.
While giving the welcome address, Shri Subrat Tripathy, Sr. Deputy General Manager cum Chief Vigilance Officer of East Coast Railway informed about the awareness campaign undertaken by the Vigilance Department of East Coast Railway. He also sought help and co-operation from each and every department and also every staff & officers to help eradicate corruption in Railway working.
Dy. Chief Vigilance Officers of East Coast Railway Shri M.K. Behera and Shri P.K. Patel co-ordinated the program. The seminar was attended by all Principal Officers of East Coast Railway.
A seminar was also organised at Khurda Road Division to mark the occasion of Vigilance Awareness Week, wherein eminent journalist Dr. Ashok Panda addressed the Senior Officers and Staff in Khurda Road Division. Dr. Panda urged the Railway Staff and Officers to feel the belongingness and possessiveness towards the organisation. They should work for the system instead of appeasing the mighty. Presiding over the Seminar Divisional Railway Manager Shri S.K. Mohanty said that Corruption is a very indivisual term. It all depends on the person concerned to what extent one can keep himself free from corrupt practices. He cited many examples where one can conduct himself with good morality and remain spotless. Although, it is very difficult to practice it. Shri M.K. Poddar, Addl. Divisional Railway Manager gave the welcome address and also thanked the guests for attending the programme.


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Foreign Secretary's Press Briefing on India's Nuclear Doctrine, 19 August 1999
India through its actions, deeds and words has once again established itself as a renegade member of the United Nations with a long record of actions, contrary to International Law and principles of humanity. Some people thought that New Delhi was indulging in electioneering gimmicks but the announcement of a nuclear 'Doctrine' by India should leave no doubt in any body's mind that what India is saying or doing is not merely an electioneering campaign. it is a calculated and deliberate policy seeking to promote its hagemonic and aggressive designs.
Today I shall focus on basically this aspect i.e., Indian Nuclear Doctrine. It will also deal with the question of India-Pakistan relations in the aftermath of the Kargil crisis and then briefly touch upon Afghanistan because there have been some developments.
The Indian assertion of capability of manufacturing the Neutron Bomb and "India's Nuclear Doctrine" recommended by its National Security Board indicates that India is about to embark on a further and even more dangerous escalation in the nuclear and conventional arms build-up. The recommended "Doctrine" confirms India's craving to be recognized as a global power through nuclear and conventional militarization and aggressive actions.
This comes in the wake of India's massive military operation against the Kashmiri freedom fighters and India's naked military aggression in shooting down the unarmed Pakistan Navy plane and the cold-blooded murder of 16 Pakistan Navy trainee personnel. Obviously we are seriously concerned at these developments, which if anything, pose an intensified threat to the peace and stability of the region. No doubt we will take into account all these factors to ensure our own defence.
India has declared that it will establish "sufficient, survivable and operationally prepared nuclear forces". Thus, despite the best endeavors made by Pakistan for strategic restraint India is poised to go ahead with the deployment and operationalization of its nuclear weapons and delivery systems. It would inevitably frustrate the central purpose of the "strategic Restraint Regime" proposed by Pakistan to India at the last round of talks under the items, "Peace and Security". And we believe that it also calls into question the validity of satisfaction that was expressed by India's interlocutors during disarmament dialogue i.e., those famous eight rounds of talks, held since May last year.
The Indian declaration of the proposed Doctrine, in fact, negates the acceptance of any kind of restraints by India indicated during the Jaswant Singh-Talbot talks, particularly with regard to the deployment and operationalization of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Now, what is the reality of those eight rounds of dialogue that India had with the US. What was the positive outcome that was claimed by both sides and is nowhere seen in the Indian "Doctrine". These are the questions that need to be answered.
The proposed Indian "Doctrine" also makes it clear that India's nuclear escalation will be accompanied by further build-up of India's conventional warfare capabilities. This is a matter of deep concern to Pakistan, because the vast majority of India's conventional "assets" are deployed against Pakistan. The growing imbalance in conventional military capabilities will intensify Pakistan's reliance on its nuclear capabilities to deter the use or threat of aggression by India.
We do not want a nuclear arms race in South Asia. This has been our policy. In fact, for decades we tried to promote the goals of non-proliferation in South Asia. We took several concrete initiatives which were rejected by India and conveniently ignored by the international community, particularly the champions of non-proliferation. So our diplomatic initiatives, spreading over a quarter century before May last year's tests are on record and an evidence of our policy. After the tests, we offered to India a Strategic Restraint Regime to prevent nuclear arms race and maintain nuclear deterrence at the minimum levels. However, Pakistan cannot afford to ignore the Security implications of India's new doctrine and its ambitious and its grandiose plan of nuclear weapons' development, deployment and operationalization including its Thermonuclear and Neutron bombs claims. The development of our nuclear programme, let me make it clear, will be determined solely by the requirements of our nuclear deterrence capability which is now an indispensable part of our security doctrine.
We are convinced that, following last year's nuclearization, the best option for Pakistan and India was to promote a genuine and comprehensive Strategic Restraint Regime envisaging mutual and reciprocal moderation in the nuclear, missile and conventional fields, and a serious endeavour to resolve underlying disputes, particularly of the Jammu and Kashmir, which is at the heart of all problems in our region.
India's No First Use Policy
India has been, as you are aware, lately trumpeting its so-called no-frist-use policy. Obviously no body has been impressed by this propaganda, because it is a farce. No-first-use has never been accepted as the basis for determining the deterrent postures of any of the Nuclear Weapons States. This has been the case over the past 50 years or after the Second World War. Indeed, India itself places no credibility in 'no-first-use'. If it did, it should have accepted China's assurance of 'no-first-use' and of non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon States. What was the need for India then to develop its own nuclear arsenal? So there lies the hypocrisy of India's claim to pursue no-first-use policy. As I said, if India had accepted China's no-first-use offer, that would have obviated the need for India's nuclear weapons acquisition, much less for operational deployment of nuclear weapons.
Finally, if India operationlizes its nuclear weapons, Pakistan will be obliged to follow suit and South Asian operationalization of nuclear weapons could have a domino effect on other regions. So what would be the consequences? I think it is time now that the world community and major powers take notice of the scope and magnitude of the threat and dangers that are posed not only to the regional peace but also to global peace and stability by Indian nuclear arsenals.
India's 'no-first-use' declaration is, in fact, designed to secure for itself "recognition" as a nuclear weapon State which would flow from the "acceptance" of its no-first-use and non-use "assurances". It is for this purpose that India has offered to ratify the non-use assurance Protocol to the Treaty establishing the South-East Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone, although this Protocol specifically identifies and invites the US, Russia, China, UK, and France only. Secondly, India will seek to justify the acquisition of a large nuclear arsenal by arguing that its nuclear forces should be large enough to sustain and retaliate against a nuclear first-strike.
Pakistan-India Relations
The Human Rights Watch report released last month has publicized graphic evidence of massive human rights violations by the Indian forces in IHK. It says that " the Indian security forces engage in brutal forms of torture which have the sanction of senior officials". Clearly this represents a severe indictment of Indian State terrorism perpetrated against the innocent and the helpless Kashmiris suffering under the yoke of Indian military occupation.
To cover up its State terrorism publicly castigated by the Human Rights Watch report the Indians are labeling the indigenous Kashmiri struggle for their right of self determination as "terrorism". Besides, to frustrate the international community's desire that dialogue between Pakistan and India should resume, India is now posing a precondition for an end to the Kashmiri liberation struggle labelled, as I have said above, as terrorism. This amply betrays India's continued intention to deny the Kashmiris their fundamental rights and her determination to bludgeon them into submission. History shows that such designs of subjugation of people never succeed. Kashmiri people have suffered these brutalities and subjugation for fifty years. They would not hesitate to suffer for another 50 years, but they would never compromise on their struggle which would continue and eventually succeed. This has been the lesson of history. People's struggles can never be suppressed.
Pakistan believes that our region, with all its tortured history of tensions and conflicts, deserves peace with justice, dignity and honour. For this purpose the Prime Minister took a bold and difficult decision which averted a wider conflict. We remain firmly committed to peaceful resolution of all disputes including the core dispute of Kashmir. We will not shun the path of dialogue. But for dialogue to commence we need assurances of its serious and substantive nature and its result oriented direction. To revert to a meaningless dialogue is not desirable nor are we going to run after such dialogue, I must make it clear. We are not begging for dialogue, a dialogue that is meaningless and produces no results, and a dialogue that we have experienced over the last 50 years. Now, a new phase has begun. This time the dialogue will have to be meaningful and result oriented. That is the type of dialogue that Pakistan would like to have. We would not like to have any meaningless and futile dialogue. Such an exercise will be counterproductive and a betrayal of the international community's well-motivated and sincere desire for peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute, which today poses the greatest danger to international peace. Kargil has already demonstrated this stark reality.
I must also mention to you that after playing politics with two bodies of the Kargil martyrs, India is now playing politics with 8 Pakistani detainees. Having made the offer to return them to Pakistan India is now procrastinating. On our request that they should be handed over to the ICRC, India is now posing obstacles clearly with a view to taking some kind of propaganda advantage out of the issue. This is reprehensible................
Question-Answer Session:
The following issues were discussed during the question-answer session.
lAsked as to what would be Pakistan's response to "India's Nuclear Doctrine", the Foreign Secretary stated:
"Today we are talking only about India's doctrine. As far as our nuclear doctrine is concerned, we have always made it clear that our nuclear capability is only for our security and deterrent purposes. So we have not made any announcement about the operationalization of our nuclear weapons, because we have been sincerely pursuing the concept of a Restraint Regime since last year, as it was one of the subjects that were discussed in our dialogue with India. So obviously the direction of our nuclear weapons programme will be determined by India's actions. As I have mentioned in the Opening Statement, India's latest move can lead to a situation where Pakistan may have to follow suit. In that case there will be a domino effect not only in South Asia but in other regions, as well. So, still there is time for the world community to put a stop to that domino effect and to bring about a situation where the concept of a restraint regime is made acceptable to all."
lAsked if Pakistan was planning to take that point of view to the Conference on disarmament and other international fora, the Foreign Secretary stated:
"We have already raised this matter in the Conference of Disarmament today (19 August) in Geneva and we intend making demarche to other world powers, as well. This is a very serious development with far-reaching implications, not only for Pakistan's security but also for the peace and stability of the world at large. It is a challenge; it is an affront to the entire international community. So if the major powers are interested in peace and stability at regional and global level they must take cognizance of this very ominous development."
lAsked what kind of restraint Pakistan would observe if India deployed nuclear arsenal along its border and what would be Islamabad's likely response in that case, the Foreign Secretary observed:
"We will never compromise on our vital interests, and all possible measure will be taken in this regard. This has been the policy of the government from day one. You may recall that even last year after India's tests we gave the world a chance to demonstrate its sincerity in terms of preventing India from pursuing its nuclear ambitions, but nothing happened and we were forced to respond. So let me assure you that as for as Pakistan's security interests are concerned they will be kept fully in mind in every decision-making. But we do the deployment and operationalization of nuclear weapons. Because as I said earlier, it will have a very serious effect not only on this region but on the world at large."
l To a question on delinkage, Pakistan's signing of CTBT and safeguards for vulnerable states, the Foreign Secretary said:
"First of all the question of delinkng with India; you can not delink your security form India's aggressive postures. We never said that we are going to delink our security interest from India's aggressive designs. So if India continues to build up and operationalizes its nuclear arsenal, how can we remain unmindful of that ominous reality? We are delinking the question of signing of CTBT, which is totally a different matter and has nothing to do with the situation which has arisen as a result of India's announcement of its nuclear doctrine.
About vulnerability, I think it is for the world community to decide- whether they will act against vulnerable states or weather they will act on the basis of principles of ethics? So it is not the question of vulnerability, it is the question of principles. If India's nuclear programme poses threats to the region and to the world peace, the world powers must take some action to prevent it. It has to be kept in mind that delinkage was applicable only in the context of non-proliferation regimes. Absolutely there is no question of delinkage. We will have to remain linked to the ratio, proportion and magnitude of the threat that India's actions in this field pose to Pakistan's security.
lAsked if it was possible for Pakistan in the given situation to sign CTBT before 30th September, 1999, the Foreign Secretary said:
"On CTBT our position was enunciated by the Prime Minister in his address to the UN General Assembly last year. Since then we have been monitoring the situation because we had undertaken to sing CTBT in an atmosphere free of coercion and pressure. Now, it has to be seen whether there has been any qualitative progress towards removal of that coercive atmosphere. Obviously there has been no improvement on this front; on the contrary, there has been aggravation of the situation. India's Nuclear Doctrine is in itself a development serious enough to make it absolutely unavoidable for us to keep the question of signing CTBT open until we can be fully assured that there will be no threat to Pakistan's security. When there is any progress towards the removal of coercive atmosphere, certainly we would like to honour the commitment that we had made in the words of the Prime Minister."
lAsked if it meant that Pakistan was not going to sign the CTBT by the end of September 1999, the Foreign Secretary stated:
"I don't think that there is any such obligation. We will, of course, take a final decision keeping in view what is happening in our neighbourhood. As already stated, there was a requirement of the removal of coercive atmosphere. One has to see whether there has been any progress in that direction. So far there has been none. The the overall atmosphere also has deteriorated. The Kargil situation, India's war-mongering and recent shooting down of our Navy aircraft have no doubt contributed negatively. The atmosphere is certainly not propitious for us to take a decision at this stage with regard to CTBT. Now, India's Nuclear Doctrine has further aggravated the situation. We will have to evaluate the implication of all these developments before we reach a final decision with regard to CTBT. So I would like to say that the question of signing CTBT remains open."
lTo a question about the prospects of talks with India in the given situation, the Foreign Secretary stated:
"First of all, I don't think there can be any talks with India before their elections. Secondly, the way they are talking and making statements, even if they are meant for their own people as part of election campaign, that hardly contribute to the amelioration of the atmosphere. So, as I said earlier we are not running away from dialogue but we are also not begging for dialogue. Then there are India's pre-conditions. India should be very clear that if she seeks to impose conditions than we can also do that. India will have to cease its state terrorism in Kashmir before we accept to talk to her. I am just trying to suggest that imposing conditions does not serve any purpose.
A dialogue is meant to resolve problems and your cannot add to those problems before you start a dialogue. So we hope that India will realize that our region has already suffered bloodshed, violence, wars, conflict, tensions for the last fifty years because of India's intransigence, its state terrorism, its brutalities perpetrated against the kashmiris. So it has to put an end to all that. Let us hope that sanity would prevail in India with coming to an end of the election campaign. Because we know that last year how keen the Vajpayee government was for resumption of dialogue. Although we know that the intention many not have been very sincere but after all there was an agreement in New York between the two Prime Ministers, that there was a need for both countries to resolve their problems through peaceful means, and that peace and security was the supreme interest of the two countries. So let us hope that after the elections, once the dust settles down there, things would improve".
lTo a question about President Clinton's likely involvement in resolving the Kashmir issue, the Foreign Secretary said:
"We have always been of the view and it has been our experience that bilateral track with India remains barren, sterile and has never led us to any conclusion. Yet the world powers keep suggesting to both India and Pakistan to resolve their problems through bilateral talks. As stated earlier, we do not run away from dialogue. So the involvement of a third party would certainly be useful. It is not the question of mediation or arbitration; third party involvement in any manner can facilitate the process of bilateral dialogue."
lTo another question with regard to President Clinton's recent letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Foreign Secretary said:
"President Clinton sent a letter to our Prime Minister on 14th August, 1999 and has also addressed a similar letter to the Prime Minister of India. In his letter to our Prime Minister, the US President has expressed sorrow and grief at the loss of innocent Pakistan Navy personnel. It was in fact a message of sympathy on this cowardly act of aggression by India. In the letter President Clinton has appealed for resumption of negotiations between Pakistan and India.
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Newest American Idol Judge Kara DioGuardi Is "Getting Her Groove"
September 21, 2008 11:00 AM by Paulene Hinds
Kara DioGuardihas finished participating in four sets of American Idol 8 auditions; New York, Jacksonville, Louisville and San Francisco andKara says sheis beginning to feel more comfortable being a part of the judging panel.
"I just know I'm getting my groove, loosening up and forgetting about the big elephant in the room," she told the New York Post about joining American Idol judges Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell as the Fox mega-hit's new fourth judge.
"The first few cities I was like, 'Oh my God, the camera is on me', it was a little strange," she continued. "But I'm starting to let my true self come out. You forget about the camera and start being you. And that's been fun for me."
She also told the newspaper that she's been "pretty honest" in her opinions about the contestants.
"I think you're going to see me be nice at times, but I'm a little more hard on the contestants," she told the Post.
"That's kind of my motto: 'All right, I'm gonna give you another chance, but you're skating on thin ice,'" she said. "If there's something there, I'll give someone a shot, and then kill 'em during Hollywood week."
When Fox first announced that DioGuardi would be joining the show, producer, Simon Fuller described her as a "smart, sassy lady," and she has been living up to those words so far!
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Happy Thursday! It's time for another round of It's OK Thursday with Amber and myself!
I can't believe its the last day of January….come on 2013 slow down a little!!!
It's OK….
That I was really nervous for the first #TrendyonTwitter party Tuesday night and Sarah had to talk me off the ledge…so glad it went well
That I forgot to take my Celexia til 1 PM yesterday…never happens
That I had no idea the superbowl was this coming Sunday til the Today show told me…once the Cowboys are out I stop caring
That A and I have bought far too many tickets for Comedians, concerts, and musicals already this summer…our weekends are so booked!
That I am counting down the days til the quadruple date weekend of the year with Steph, Sar and Sarah my besties!
That I got up to the starbucks yesterday and for a split second forgot my order….talk about lack of sleep
That I am semi dependent on falling asleep with the TV on when Im alone
THat I should never watch Datelines on kidnappings before bed…see above
That I spent over $150 on makeup last week….oooof
That I am very aware I spread myself too thin…oh well….it all gets done
That I EEEEKED in a good way when we booked our flights for San Diego…so excited to explore a new city
That this is my motto
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Reflections from ERT Personnel
Reflections from ERT Personnel
"We were invited to speak at a forensics class at a high school but ended up addressing the entire school. We set up demonstrations, allowing the students to see some of our evidence collection techniques first-hand. They saw how similar and how different evidence collection is when compared to what's on television."
- ERT member, Charlotte
"Our presentations almost always include a discussion of the ERT's 12-step process to manage a crime scene, followed by a show-and-tell of several pieces of ERT equipment and supplies. A common theme at all of these events is that the kids see us as real people. And because some of the youngest kids we meet sometimes don't seem to grasp what we do, I usually bring a football or baseball to toss around at the outdoor events—plenty of smiles in return!"
- ERT member, Cleveland
"Among other activities, we take part annually in Kids and Cops Day at the Texas State Fair. We prepare an ERT display and let kids lift their own fingerprints off the side of an ERT response vehicle. The feedback we get is always positive, and the event is also very rewarding—many people stop by the booth just to thank us for what we do."
- ERT member, Dallas
"The FBI took part in a program at a Native American reservation school. Generally speaking, there is some mistrust of law among Native Americans, but in this situation, it was nice to relate to the kids on a personal level. I set up a fingerprinting station, which was a huge hit with the kids. They left our station smiling and laughing."
- ERT member, Detroit
"The Houston FBI has partnered with a foundation to introduce at-risk kids to the benefits of science, technology, engineering, and/or math (STEM) education. Part of this process is to introduce the kids to people whose careers require STEM education. Our ERT offers a crime scene investigation day, and those of us who participate enjoy the enthusiasm and inquisitiveness of the kids and always leave the event feeling lucky to have a job that kids think is awesome!"
- ERT member, Houston
"Generally, our presentations are a combination of discussions about how we chose our careers and forensics demonstrations and practical exercises. Students love learning and trying the techniques they see on television, and they really love taking home a record of their own fingerprints. Being a role model to female students is especially fulfilling to me."
- ERT member, Los Angeles
"Community outreach helps paint the FBI in a favorable light and explains what we really do—reality vs. TV. These interactions may be the only time these kids meet someone from the FBI, and we may possibly spark an interest in becoming a law enforcement officer. It's also important, when possible, to show the diversity of our team."
- ERT member, New Orleans
"We took part in a community outreach event at a Jewish children's museum. In addition to making them aware of what we do to secure the country and encouraging them to look at us as a potential career opportunity, we're sending a message that we are working together to build a society that encourages diversity and religious freedom."
- ERT member, New York
"It's hard to say how our outreach directly affects the students we talk to….I like to think they come away realizing we are not caricatures or one-dimensional law enforcement stereotypes."
- ERT member, Philadelphia
"We held a presentation at an event sponsored by a Somali American organization and attended by young people and their parents…many of the adults expressed their interest and admiration for what we do. Sometimes fear makes people unwilling to engage with law enforcement and hurts us in the long run—especially when communities have potential crime threats that need to be reported to the FBI or another law enforcement agency. By using ERT members and their expertise, we can engage communities in a non-threatening and positive environment to educate them about our work."
- ERT member, Portland
"Each year, our ERT assists at a local high school's winter break session, which is designed to expose students to future careers—one of the classes is a forensics class. Most of the previous interaction these kids and their families have had with the FBI has not been good, but our presentation introduces the kids to actual FBI employees in a positive setting. The ERT is one of the most requested guests for this class, so the teacher actually schedules us first and then fills in the rest of the speakers afterward."
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We have all sorts of beautiful birds in our backyard: finches, wrens, quail, robins, and they all seem to get along just fine. We enjoy watching them and feeding them. But now a group of magpies has settled in the area and chase the birds away from their feeders, and will even divebomb our dogs if they get too close! Any idea on how to chase the magpies away but without killing them and to ensure that the rest of the birdies stay?
Nicole from Ontario
Go on the internet. go to search engine "Dogpile" type in Magpie trap you should be able to find what you are looking for there. It is a round chicken wire trap. Catch and release type.
Good luck
I had a similar problem with magpies and squirrels eating the largest portion of the birdseed I left out for the little birds. I was filling the birdfeeder every 3 days and spending a lot of money on seed. Finally I went to Walmart and found a silo shaped feeder made out of plexiglass (or some sort of thick plastic). It has several ports in it that only small birds can access. The crows and magpies don't even try. I only have to fill the birdfeed every 1 to 2 wks., depending on the time of year. Note: I tried using the thin plastic silo feeders which worked for awhile, but were eventually torn apart by either the squirrels or magpies/crows. It's worth spending the extra money ($30.00 Can.) to get a sturdy one. Now all I have to do is try to figure out how to keep the magpies out of the suet feeder.
How can I get rid of the magpies but keep the rest of the birds?
Good quality accurate air rifle, leave the first magpie carcus out on the ground
and the others will come down to it, you can pick those off as they land. Its the only reliable way of clearing them out.
This probably the best solution. But our Magpies seem to be smart when I have my air rifle with me.
We have so many now that they've dramatically reduced the population of the smaller birds.
Is there any way of feeding magpies some sort of contraceptive to stop them breeding? This would solve the problem in a year or two.
We have this problem as well and the folk at our City (Calgary) helpline recommended the following (humane) options.
Keep a loaded water gun handy on the deck and shoot the birds whenever you see them. (Pellets or scatter shot from other types of guns could harm neighbours.)
Plant marigolds. Magpies are averse to strong odours. Scatter moth balls around your yard.
Ask your butcher for scraps and lace the meat with hot peppers or pepper spray. You may wish to do this only when you can keep an eye on the bait to ensure no other animals or small children come in contact with it.
Good luck!
Rose Anne
i use a slingshot with wristbrace but the ammo i use are silver jawbreakers, just in case a neighbors window gets hit then the ammo melts away with the rain. and if the ammo is found then all that is said is "damn kids." and i've found that if you hang a few 4" disco balls with the small mirrors around the yard, that discourages the magpies because they don't like the moving reflective lights.
I found that hanging CDs on the clothes line (so they can spin in the breeze) keeps them away. :) The reflected light scares them, and does them no harm.


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The Wider Image is an award-winning photojournalism app from Thompson Reuters. It is a fresh take on reporting stories among news apps, revolving mostly around photographs. Stunning snaps taken by renowned journalists are stacked, with intermittent text, interactive sections, audio, stats and more. The app just got updated bringing a bunch of new features and for us, Apple TV users, AirPlay compatibility is the noteworthy one.
Infuse never fails to amaze us. If you've gone through my first review of this awesome video player, you might remember that we concluded it as one of the finest in its class. Supporting almost all known formats on Earth, smooth streaming from network devices, a plain flat iOS 7 based design and an elegant solution to the subtitle problem, we thought Infuse had reached as far as a media player could. But with the latest update Infuse 2.2.2, FireCore raises that bar still higher.
In our last post, we came across some stunning implementation of the dual screen AirPlay functionality of iOS – showing different screens on your Apple TV (the gameplay) and your handheld (the controls). In case you din't catch that one, you can read it here. Thanks to a few tips from our readers and some digging from our part, we've come across more dual screen games you can play on your Apple TV. In fact, we think the games in this post are better that the last one, at some points. So lets dive in!
If you've read our reviews on previous versions of Infuse, you'd know how much we love this video player. And if you've used it before, you'd also know why. Sporting one of the best user interfaces in the game, chewing up all formats one could think of and stuffed up with premium features, it's been our favourite even from the 1.x times. Then Infuse 2.0 showed up and revolutionized things by dropping it free, giving an iOS 7 based flat design and including the much awaited "streaming" feature.
Apple TV sure has alot of apps/channels but unfortunately a web-browser isn't one of them. And with good reason too. Ever tried to use the browsers in so called Smart-TVs? Well I have and can assure that using the remote as a pointer for surfing is annoying and is "injurious" to your forearm. Well, now thanks to AirWeb, anyone having an AirPlay Mirroring-enabled iOS device will be able to browse smoothly on their 40-incher.


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Our eight-bed inpatient center is located on the second level of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, adjacent to the Physical Therapy, Occupational and Speech Therapy Departments. All rooms are private and wheelchair accessible to meet the special needs of our patients.
Our team of experts is dedicated to helping people with physical disabilities achieve their highest level of independence and functioning. The team includes the patient's physician, physical, speech and occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other professionals as needed.
Family conferences are held as needed to enhance family understanding and involvement. The patient's length of stay depends on progress toward goals and the most appropriate level of care.
Our patients work on mobility and daily living skills in a transitional living apartment and other environments that simulate real-life settings. Our Transitional Living Apartment is located on the rehabilitation unit. This apartment is specially designed and equipped to prepare our patients for independent living in the community.
Our patients may occupy the apartment for a 24-hour period by themselves or with a family member or caregiver prior to their dismissal from the rehabilitation unit. This apartment provides an opportunity to educate the patient and caregiver in the activities of daily living (ADLs) and functional tasks while still in a hospital setting. This apartment stay may help to identify potential needs in planning your discharge.
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I have built a few lugged frames which seem pretty good, but I am unclear about pinning. I have been using a homemade jig, and have not been pinning at all.
Is there something I am missing? A lot of the good builders use pinning, but I don't really understand what it does. When should I be pinning?
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Spring, 2016
Celebrating our community's 16th year!
Welcome owners, residents and visitors of the Glenridge community.
This is the official home website for the Glenridge HOA of NC, Inc., located in Cornelius, North Carolina. All information pertaining to the Glenridge community development, and it's HOA, can be found here. Please feel free to explore the entire site.For the most up-to-date news and information about the Glenridge community and its HOA, please check the 'Community News' page on this site.
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The debate, at the moment, swings between two poles: the law-is-the-law side argue Twitter ought be treated like any other type of publishing, thereby subject to the same libel, defamation, and other legislation that covers publishing content. The-Internet-is-outside-the-law side argues Twitter is an unmitigated free and open space, where national legislation has little businesses. It is a battle of two world views, and my sense is the law-is-the-law side is gaining the upper hand.
Of course, I'm simplifying positions to render my own appear more reasonable, but something is definitely missing: that technology sometimes changes the nature of jurisprudence: and forcing offline law to cover online spaces is disrupting legal concepts and enforceability. The law cannot act entirely at odds with social norms, and those norms are being reshaped by technology.
Take the concept of 'public', which is at the heart of much of the recent bother. Simply put: certain things are illegal in public but not in private. You can be racist in your home in front of your family, even to a small group of likeminded people in a pub. But you cannot grab hold of a public address system and start spewing race hate. Similarly, you might accuse someone of being a paedophile to a friend, but broadcasting that on television is quite a different matter.
So what is Twitter? Recent judgments suggest it is public. Journalists, such as David Aaranovitch in his 10 golden rules of Twitter, appear to be taking a similar tack and so does the government. But this is not strictly true. First, many Twitter users have their tweets as private: only viewable by their followers. Automated data mining software might be able to find them, but they are by any reasonable measure, private.
However, one of your followers might re-tweet your original missive: and suddenly your private chat becomes a public statement in a way never intended. I do not think someone else repeating what you say makes it a public statement at all - but the interface of Twitter, the way it appears on the screen - doesn't lend itself to that interpretation.
Then there is the platform itself: its speed, limited characters, gossipy nature: all lend an air of insignificant to content. People often report things they disagree with but find of interest, without endorsing it: sarcasm is a popular currency. In fact, it can even be helpful: during the 2011 summer riots, looters using Twitter to incite riots/post pictures of their loot were re-tweeted by citizen watchdogs in the hope the police might notice, and to preserve the incriminating content.
It gets even more complicated, because a number of cases are being brought against algorithm writers for the auto-complete: a former first lady of Germany is suing Google because if you type her name the word 'prostitute' comes up as a prompt. As Google argued, they merely catalogue other people's content - so take it up with them. Lord McAlpine was trending on Twitter, and many people were simply reporting that fact (thereby making it more likely to trend, incidentally).
Of course, much of Twitter is public, and is intended to be. The root of the problem is that we suddenly have 10million Twitter users subject to quite complicated publishing law that used to only apply to a small number of trained journalists with legal support. Clearly everyone at school now needs a crash course in publishing law - as they are likely to one day be subject to it. 'Twitter made me do it' is of course not a defence. But 'Twitter made it a lot easier for me to do it, it was taken out of context, and frankly, I didn't really know exactly what I was doing' ought certainly be a mitigating factor.


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The beginning of the piece is indeed O Lord Save Thy People.
The 1812 Overture is famous for its very epic finale, and though the piece was written to celebrate the anniversary of Russia's victory over France in 1812, the piece's finale is very often used for the 4th of July during fireworks displays.
This is the entire recording of the piece; to hear the very famous finale. Enjoy!