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The Intel IT employee newsletter, sat down with Matthew Rosenquist, an IT information security strategist who recently reached the midway point of his 6-month rotation working with Intel PC security products team focusing on strategic planning. Intel CIO Diane Bryant is a strong advocate of such job rotations, believing it not only grows the person doing the rotation, but gives other parts of the company exposure to IT's greatest resource—its people.
If you missed it, see Part 1 of the series.
Q. Now that you're settled into your new job, how are things going?
Outstanding! The product groups have welcomed me into the teams and shown the upmost patience with my persistent questions. They, in turn, leverage me as a resource to provide insights of how the consumer and enterprises will view and challenge our security designs and initiatives. I provide the tough questions that the market will voice.
Q. What's one of your key roles in the group?
I sit on the PC Strategic Planning team which ties into the very heart of our products and the bulk of Intel's revenue. From this position, I have access to work with specific technology groups to recommend new use-cases, help refine focus to maximize benefit, and drive product roadmaps. In the planning discussions, I help build the Intel playbook with the development of relevant new security feature stratagems, identifying emerging opportunities, warning against inaccuracies of anticipated benefits, and recognizing industry nuances that may lead to unintended consequences in the future. In short, I'm doing what I do best—constructively adding to the planning conversations for a better end result.
Q. So, what have you learned so far?
I've been exposed to the complex world which develops and manages the process to make intricate technology changes to our products. The cooperation, focus, and deep interaction across hundreds of people are truly mind-boggling. I never knew the amount of time, resources, and effort necessary to innovate, make changes, and deliver our technology to the world. It almost seems surreal as all this feverish effort is for products that will emerge three to five years from now. Unlike IT, these groups rarely have the luxury of seeing or touching something tangible. Everything is on paper, in theory, and described in varying ways. This is all about planning for what doesn't yet exist.
In security, we're looking to develop meaningful capabilities and services to intersect customer and service provider needs of the future. Many volatile factors affect how security as a market will vary, including how technology evolves, the different ways people will generate and handle data, and the innovative methods attackers are sure to develop to achieve their objectives. Peering into the future is more of an intuitive art than science. Traditional tools of market analysis, partner surveys, and finance estimates are represented in pretty charts, but they're attempting to forecast the highly chaotic security industry; therefore, potentially misleading as nobody can accurately predict the future security opportunities. In the product groups, I've found common sense discussions are what really drive decisions. The more knowledgeable the people in the room are, the better the outcome. I've learned a lot about how Intel delivers products, but I'm still looking upwards at the mountain. With every step, I learn and contribute.
Q. From your fresh perspective in IAG, have you learned anything new about IT?
After 15 years in IT, I know the great effort we place in making it easy for the other business groups to leverage us. However, now standing on the other side of the fence, I've seen how, in some cases, IT is still difficult to engage. Sometimes, we put our own processes and metrics ahead of what's needed or best for our enterprise business. There are times when this is the right decision, but we must be open to those times when it's not. Situations where the business value to our stockholders exceeds the value of alignment to established processes do occur. Breaking with practice may cause a short-term hit to IT efficiency, but may result in a much larger dividend to Intel. As a support and enablement organization, every level of IT must be aware of the big picture and ready to contribute in non-traditional ways.
On a humorous note, I've always believed IT had far too many acronyms. My viewpoint has now changed. Since I started in IAG, I've been inundated with a flood of new abbreviations and acronyms. So many, in fact, I started my own personal glossary to keep them all straight. I've surpassed the 350 mark with no end in sight. I add a handful more every day. I'll never again complain about how many acronyms IT uses!
Q. So, what have they learned from you?
The planning and engineering teams are world-class experts on developing and delivering superior integrated computing technology. Designs and features involving processing speed, power efficiency, and I/O are well understood from both the supplier as well as the consumer perspectives. Intel is masterful in leading, adapting, and transforming the industry. We've proven brilliance in establishing our brand and selling our products. Security, however, is a new and unfamiliar beast. We're short on organic security expertise to understand the drivers in the security industry, practical integration and operational challenges, as well as how to sell security to consumers and enterprises.
As an example, faster processors, longer battery life, new human/computer interactive modes, and social enabling technology are all sexy and consumers will pay, stand in line, and generally drool for such features. Security, on the other hand, is not sexy. Nobody waits in line for the release of the latest security product. Consumers and enterprises don't want to pay for security; they only do so because they feel they must. So, the marketing strategy is completely different from the traditional models.
This is where IT, specifically the information security organization, can add tremendous value. Within IT, our security department is well versed in the usage challenges of security technologies, the ever-changing threat landscape, and the important role attackers play in the changing trends of what's important. Every day, IT evaluates the value of security programs, competing technologies, services, and capabilities for internal use. This is the very data needed for our external strategic planning. Additionally, with the acquisition of McAfee, we have another world-class security organization to leverage. I bring my experience of the security industry to the planning discussion and am working to establish permanent links between the internal IT resources and the IAG development teams. I challenge the engineering-minded teams with the behavioral and usage aspects of the industry. At times, this can be an uncomfortable discussion. Engineers are wired to think about achieving functionality. As an example, engineers tasked with building a hammer will make it strong, cheap to build, ergonomic, and efficient—able to sink nails in one skillful swing. With their job done, they can rest easy in knowing carpenters will be able to use the hammer to build wonderful things with such an efficient and effective tool. Often, the security aspects are missing. Can the hammer be counterfeited, stolen, or used as a weapon to threaten others? These are important considerations in the security product space. Translating back to Intel, we don't want our products compromised or used in malicious ways, especially when they're designed to promote security.
Tactics to insure security considerations are understood, include the infusion of 'Red Team' principles—thinking how the bad guys do, profiling the most likely threat agents, and learning from historical attack methods. These exercises are used by Intel information security internally and can be equally important tools to temper the external feature design process. In spearheading these discussions, I help expand the scope of work from the 'does the design work' mindset to include 'how can someone break it or leverage it to do something malicious.'
Recently, I've been involved with market value and competition analysis. This includes giving input on how our products will be evaluated by the security industry. In IT, we are particularly critical of outlandish claims of certain security product vendors peddling their wares to Intel, which are quickly dismissed. Our marketing claims must be realistic and accurate. They must properly reflect what we can deliver in the security space. We can't make the same mistakes we've seen from others in the industry who rely on fear, uncertainty, and doubt to artificially drive short-term sales. Important checks and balances exist. Nowadays, a healthy worldwide security community takes the role of evaluating and vetting products and services as expert proxies for the customers. They quickly callout companies who overstate their products or make misleading claims and are particularly ruthless to established corporations looking to leverage the 'security' moniker just to sell more products. Understanding how these security experts will measure effectiveness, value, and longevity goes a long way in properly positioning our marketing message. Ethically, Intel always strives to be open, straightforward, and do the right thing. So it comes down to the accuracy in the message of what we deliver.
Q. So, what's next?
Moving forward, I hope to land more security product pilots internally, build more cross-organizational bridges to share insights, and contribute to strategies and designs that intersect future business opportunities in the market. So far, the journey has been exciting, educational, satisfying, and frustrating. The most important measure for me, though, is when I wake up each morning—I look forward to the challenges ahead. Halfway through the rotation and I continue to enjoy every day. I can't wait to see what happens in the next few months!


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Once upon a time, if you wanted Asian food in the Valley of the Sun, you went to a cheap, charmless ethnic joint in a low-rent part of town. You could count on Formica-top tables, tourist-board posters thumb-tacked to the walls and servers with limited English skills. Except for a handful of ethnic-restaurant adventurers who likely moved here from California, Chicago or New York, your fellow diners would be homesick immigrants.
But over the past decade, Asian food has burst out of its niche. First, it became trendy, the domain of hip elites, before seeping into the mainstream. Today, skittish folks who feel uneasy in hard-core ethnic surroundings can confidently dine on dumplings, noodles, spring rolls, steamed buns and clay pot dishes in fashionable neighborhoods, sipping exotic cocktails amid youthful crowds in lively settings.
But my experience at two new Asian hot spots suggests that the food isn't always keeping up with the good-time vibe.
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e-Learning and implications for New Zealand schools: a literature review
Publication Details
This e-Learning literature review examined texts across a range of countries, but within a relatively short time frame of the preceding five years. A range of criteria were used to select or eliminate studies for closer review (see Methodology and Methods section). Some key terms are defined for the purpose of this review: outcomes, e-Learning, tools, affordances, Web 2.0.
Author(s): Noeline Wright
Date Published: July 2010
This review, commissioned by the Ministry of Education, seeks to principally address two key questions:
- What is the nature of existing evidence linking e-Learning to improved learning outcomes for students in primary and secondary schools?
- What teaching and learning practices maximise (any) benefits of using e-Learning?
These questions provide the scope and framework for the literature review, which is in turn to inform the development of e-Learning policy and projects intended to support students' learning throughout their schooling. Thus the review outlines the nature of existing e-Learning evidence related to school students' learning outcomes and explores key ideas related to pedagogical practices that best link the e with learning. The literature review is designed to:
- Identify what constitutes high quality evidence of effective teaching and learning in relation to e-Learning
- Examine relationships between e-Learning and effective teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools via the research literature evidence, both nationally and internationally (as identified in the RFP)
- Provide the findings for the design of a teacher-as-audience summary of the literature review so that schools can more readily contextualise the findings for their own e-Learning development purposes.
- Examine evidence related to student outcomes and e-Learning
- Identify gaps in both research and potential areas of interest for initiatives, thus providing the Ministry of Education with the evidence for possible directions for subsequent e-Learning professional development and research projects, such as the Digital Opportunities and Software for Learning programmes
In order to achieve the above, it is necessary to:
- outline the New Zealand educational context of the review
- define important key terms, such as 'outcomes', 'e-Learning' and 'affordances'
- explain the literature review methodology and methods
- identify the nature of the evidence and key trends and themes, and
- explore implications for schools.
New Zealand educational context
- The section reviews the policy framework related to learning, e-Learning and the future profile of learners. It notes key points in policy documents that link to connectedness and the role of e-Learning in supporting current and future learners.
- The section notes the growing ubiquity and affordability of technologies which can be harnessed for learning purposes, and how this pushes against regulatory and rule-bound frameworks in schools.
This review takes cognisance of the policy context of education in New Zealand, and positions it inside key ideas about education, curriculum, pedagogy and learning as outlined in relevant policy documents. These include the New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007), the Key Evidence document related to Ka Hikitia (Ministry of Education, 2008), and the Ministry of Education's outline of what a 21st century learner needs (Ministry of Education, 2006). These, along with other complementary documents, are briefly explored in order to highlight the trends and concepts important to the review's key focus of learning outcomes and e-Learning.
The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) outlines for both English medium and Maori medium classes the overarching vision, principles, values and key competencies of the "official policy relating to teaching and learning… in New Zealand schools" (Ministry of Education, 2007, p. 6: English version). Essentially, the expectation is that students emerging from our schools will be "young people who will be confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners" (p. 7), regardless of whether they are using Maori or English as their first language. The words 'connected' and 'actively involved' in the quoted statement can easily refer to digital connections and the sorts of social networking that many young people already engage in, and which can be harnessed educationally. The extent to which these tools and abilities are, or may be, purposefully harnessed educationally in our schools is part of the brief of this review, along with examining the pedagogical issues hinted at in connecting and actively involving students in lifelong learning. A 21st century lifelong learner will, as outlined in various policy documents (such as Ministry of Education, 2006), need to be proficient e-Learners, since many information sources will be accessed digitally.
The Key Evidence (Ministry of Education, 2008) document reports that when schools focus in meaningful ways on addressing the learning needs of Maori and aim for improved learning outcomes, achievement gains can be huge. While the concept of 'outcomes' will be addressed shortly, there is a clear link made with "emphasising good pedagogy" (p. 18). This particular idea, of a close relationship between pedagogy and outcomes, is pertinent to a review of e-Learning, since there is a clear trend linking co-constructive and student-centred pedagogies and e-Learning. This also links to the NZC policy framework focus on 'Effective pedagogy' (Ministry of Education, 2007, pp. 34-36), which outlines the practices and knowledge considered important in fostering positive learning relationships with students. As in the Key Evidence document, this highlights the critical role of teachers in facilitating effective learning spaces (for example, temporal and intellectual), places, and practices, and harmonises with the evidence from Te Kotahitanga, which asserts that effective relationships between students and teachers are necessary for learning (Bishop & Berryman, 2006).
The futures orientation implied in the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) is echoed in the e-Learning Action Plan (Ministry of Education, 2006), which asserts that, "today's students need to be confident and capable users of ICT and to understand how to use ICT effectively across the curriculum" (p. 8), and that "e-Learning can contribute to the development of the [key] competencies" (as outlined in the NZC) and observes that these competencies should be "applied in ICT-rich contexts for all students" (p. 8). This implies that such tools are readily available and used in schools while iterating that the "most significant within-school factor" (p. 9) contributing to student achievement is the quality of the pedagogy teachers provide. Teachers who use ICT routinely in their classrooms are more likely to be attuned to students' learning needs, and allow a much greater level of interaction and collaboration to take place (OECD, 2005). These ideas are iterated as strong possibilities in The New Zealand Curriculum and a range of national and international reports (CERI-KERIS International Expert Meeting: ICT & Educational Performance, 2007; Cowie et al., 2008; Campbell, 2001; Gilbert, 2005; Ham, 2009; Johnson, Levine, Smith, & Stone, 2010; Mentis, 2008; OECD, 2005; Somekh, 2007) . Such pedagogic practices are in tune with learning environments encouraging reflection, collaboration and co-operation, connections to prior learning, ample opportunities to grasp new learning, and an inquiry focus. These are the kinds of pedagogical actions envisioned in NZC and reflected in the Key Evidence document. The centrality of teachers to e-Learning/ICT-rich classrooms is discussed more fully in a specific section of this review related to pedagogy. And in any discussion of e-Learning, the term 'ICT' must be addressed; it is the 'communication' in the IT that is critical for our purposes, and this will be addressed specifically later.
Also relevant to this discussion are the several trends outlined in the latest Horizon Report (Johnson et al., 2010), because these hint at directions for e-Learning. The first and foremost of these trends identifies mobile technologies as having the greatest significance for education. The second argues that pedagogy has a central place, especially when it involves "hands-on, purpose-driven, authentic, and other active learning approaches" (p. 2). The third trend identifies the "increasing connectedness of people around the globe" (p. 3) as having significance in education. The final trend is the increased capability of computer technologies to deliver connectedness coupled with greater affordability; there is a growing ubiquity of technological tools. These trends are considered in this report to be crucial for education, especially since technology developments are creating an increasing "user-centric nature of internet applications and tools" (p. 3).
The regulatory framework in which teachers operate is also a contextual factor. Two important features for secondary schools, as an example, are the regulatory regime of qualifications and the compartmentalisation of subjects into timetables, which may affect students' ability to deeply engage in learning with and through technological tools. This is explored later in the review. There are also the complications of staff and students' regular access to the tools themselves, coupled with the effects of firewalls and other safety and security protocols that schools maintain. These provisions are usually designed to block access to objectionable sites and to avoid viruses, for example, but they can also block access to potentially useful sites. These issues are relevant across all education sectors. For example, the Horizon Report acknowledges that "security concerns often go too far" (p. 3) when it discusses the limiting effects of specific firewalls and security protocols for tertiary education. Schools struggle, it would seem, to strike a balance between security/safety and access for learning. Such frameworks and contexts, including the ability of schools to fund and sustain e-Learning affordances, are important to acknowledge.
What follows is a clarification of key terms used in this review. These include: 'outcomes', 'e-Learning', and 'affordances' and Web 2.0.
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My brothers and Sister and I even quit touring at one point so that we could be at home more and be with our wives and children and do what Fathers and Husbands should do. We don't just have children; we need to raise them as well.
At one point we all moved back to Branson, Missouri to work together in our own theater that my brother Jimmy found so that we could all stay together in one place in order for our families to live somewhat normal lives. This way, we would still be able to continue our careers as entertainers with our children in school and to serve in our church callings, and by being good neighbors. And now, the audiences would come to us instead of us always traveling to them. It worked well!
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In an interview with The Associated Press, Butch Davis said he and his wife support Drew's decision. Tammy Davis says her son was "concerned about how we'd feel" but they told him it was his choice.


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Oh, the soap opera that is the kingship of David. Seriously, some of ths goings ons in David's household depicted in 2 Samuel would do well for a daytime Emmy. Incest, rape, brothers and half-brothers plotting against each other about sisters and fathers with mothers and friends joining in. It just twists and turns and convolutes.
We eventually get to a point where David has to flee Jerusalem because of the rebellion of Absalom. What a mess. On the way out, Zadok and the priests follow David with the Ark. Now, if you were the legit King, annointed by God, you'd rather like having the Ark follow along and have the priests give you legitimacy. But David does something rather weird…he sends them back.
Seriously? You've got down right rebellion and you have the endorsement of the official "church"…and you turn it down? Are you nuts?
I think, though, Solomon wasn't the only wise king. Check out David's words.
Then the king said to Zadok, "Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the Lord 's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again. But if he says, 'I am not pleased with you,' then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him." The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Do you understand? Go back to the city with my blessing. Take your son Ahimaaz with you, and also Abiathar's son Jonathan. You and Abiathar return with your two sons. I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me." So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and stayed there. 2 Samuel 15:25-29 NIV
This harkens back to what Samuel told the Israelites about Kings and reminds the reader of Deuteronomy 17:18-20 where Moses gives instrutions about what makes a good king. Essentially, a good king is a king who recognizes his place before God and humbly submits to God, even if it threatens his position and power. David sends the priests back to Jerusalem essentially to say that God is God in Jerusalem no matter whether or not David is King.
Wow. I wish all leaders were like David here, whether political, corporate, or ecclesial. Even we in positions of leadership in our families need to know that we are subject to God. David does not accept the endorsement of the priests, not because he doesn't want it, but because he recognizes that God is the real power behind the throne. Humble submission…I wish we all did this, all the time.


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I know a little bit about vintage road bicycles, but almost nothing about older mountain bicycles.
I have started looking a bit more closely at the old mountain bikes that come my way and the more I look, the more interesting they become. I presently have a half dozen or so tucked away in The Old Shed.
My most recent found at the Dump bikes is a very nice GT Timberline that needed next to nothing to make road worthy and safe to ride (pump up the tires, lubricate this and that and a bit of minor tuning).
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"Archer," Adam Reed's fantastically bawdy, esoteric reference-happy FX animated comedy, spent its first four years in a time-warped world of espionage in which the fashions and technologies were from multiple eras and the Cold War never ended. It was never very clear how the International Secret Intelligence Service -- aka ISIS -- worked, other than it was a not-always-successful business that seemed to take on jobs for private clients as often as it did ones in the national interest. But seeing as how much of the time the company's missions turned out to just be personal errands -- going to Monaco to get back one of Malory's (Jessica Walter) sex tapes, or stealing a diamond as payback for losing a contract to rivals ODIN, or attempting to rescue Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) from the pirates he's since joined -- none of the staffers seemed all that aware either. "Archer" is a show about globe-trotting secret agents that's really just an extremely dysfunctional workplace comedy -- which is how it was able to dump the whole spy thing in this month's season five premiere "White Elephant" when the feds raided the office, revealing that ISIS was never sanctioned by the U.S. government to begin with.
Details, details. What's a group of highly skilled, selfish, petty agents with terrible impulse control to do? Well, there's always that literal ton of cocaine they've had sitting around that they can sell off. Season five has found "Archer" making the switch from an espionage series to "Archer: Vice," with the ISIS crew going from a mostly terrible intelligence agency to a mostly terrible drug cartel ("How hard could it be? I mean, if Mexicans can do it..." mused Malory, with characteristic awfulness) -- and what's been so enjoyable about it is the way the switch has provided a refresh for the show without significantly altering its DNA.
"Archer" is about the bickering, conniving, reluctant permanent connections between its characters, who were apparently always operating on the wrong side of the law before, anyway. Tweaking their missions from ones about dealing with KGB agents, cyborgs and cyborg KGB agents to ones about Miami dealers and the yakuza has not significantly altered the overall feel of the show, even in its new digs -- the cavernous Tunt family mansion. It's even allowed multiple callbacks to past seasons, from Ron Perlman's Ramon Limon ("Honeypot") to George Takei's Mr. Moto (this Monday's episode, "Drift Problem").
The longer "Archer" runs, the more it's confronted with that question particular to animated series -- its characters will only visibly change if they're made to. They could feasibly stay the same forever, like, say, "The Simpsons," essentially resetting at the end of every episode, or they could change and grow, or whatever Archer and company do instead of growing. The pleasures of "Archer" tend to be wonderfully silly and in terrible taste, but at the same time the characters do have a history -- Archer's had his heart broken and had a health scare, Lana's (Aisha Tyler) now pregnant (though not making any noticeable changes to her hazardous lifestyle) and Archer and Lana, despite having an utterly disastrous and stories relationship, now have moments of tenderness between all the bickering. The ISIS team has become a family -- an offensive, disastrous, hilariously abusive family -- whether they're in the office or not.
I asked Adam Reed about time passing on the series at New York Comic Con a few months ago, and he said he saw the characters as "growing as people but not necessarily improving as people." "We are learning more about them," he noted. "And that's one of my favorite things -- to suddenly learn that Pam is an underground fighter or Woodhouse was in the RAF. Once we learn those things, I guess on some level that helps inform who they are and maybe why they act like they do, but at the same time, they're pretty much jerks." Jerks who are now in the process of losing (or eating) cocaine, and who, if the "Baby, Please Don't Go" montage at the end of the season premiere continues to be a reliable indication, will soon be starting coups and getting tangled up in CIA arms deals. This new season has been reassuring proof that "Archer" can explore new territory while remaining true to itself -- whether they're back in the office in a sixth season or not, all doing an alarming job of raising Lana's baby.


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Tunisia is a North African country with one of the richest cultural heritages in the world. It is home to the ancient city of Carthage, which was graced with the rule of such legendary peoples as the Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans, and Arabs, and is now a World Heritage Site. From the Sahara Desert to the Atlas Mountains, its landscape is as rich as its history. It's Mediterranean coast is certainly not lacking in beautiful beaches, as well as bays and hidden harbors. Take a Tunisian cruise to experience this jewel of the Mediterranean!
Tunisia's Cultural RenaissanceTunisia has a complex history, and has been influenced by many legendary cultures: native, Phoenician, Roman, Ottoman, Arab, and French. The ancient city of Carthage has been declared a World Heritage Site, as it is three thousand years old and has been ruled by several of those legendary cultures mentioned. The Tunisian government is currently working with UNESCO to conserve and restore this incredible site. A Tunisian culture cruise is a perfect way to visit this window into history.
Although Islamic fundamentalism and radicalism has been repressed in the country, the majority of Tunisians are Muslims, and so Islam plays a huge role in the country's cultural identity. Many Tunisians observe the tradition of praying five times a day. Tunisian family life is highly influenced by Muslim tradition as well; it is the most important aspect of Tunisian life.
Arabic is the official language spoken in the country, although French is still spoken in some areas as well.
Tunisia is in the midst of a cultural renaissance; President Ben Ali has designated a large budget to develop the country's cultural aspect, with a significant focus on human cultural achievements. Museums and art galleries abound in the country's urban centers, especially in the capital city of Tunis. Tunisian literature, theater, and poetry have already begun to follow in the footsteps of internationally-renowned Tunisian film.
A Tunisian culture cruise is the perfect way to take in some of this rich heritage!
Tunisian TerrainTunisia is a small country in North Africa, bordered on the south by Libya and Algeria on the west. Located on the Mediterranean, Tunisia boasts some beautiful beaches that a cruise to the country will surely take advantage of. It has an extremely varied landscape packed into its small land area.
The legendary Sahara Desert covers almost 40% of Tunisia's landscape, across the southern area of the country. This low feature is dramatically contrasted by the Dorsal, which is the northern edge of the Atlas Mountains; it rises out of the northwest corner of Tunisia. The northern tip of Tunisia is characterized by low, rolling plains and hills called the Tell. The Sahil plain covers most of the northeast peninsula, and is famous for its olive production. The Steppes lie between the Sahil and the Dorsal.
Politics of TunisiaTunisia is, for the most part, a single-party government with a strong presidential regime. Ben Ali has been in office since his 1987 ouster of Bourguiba. His party, the Democratic Constitutional Rally, has been the only legal party for several years.
The President and the Chamber of Deputies come up for election every 5 years, and are selected by popular vote. The President appoints his Camber of Advisors, who terms of six years. The President also appoints the Prime Minister and cabinet. Although Tunisia is a small country, it is divided into 24 governates, or provinces.
Mediterranean ClimateTunisia has a beautiful Mediterranean climate. The best time to take a Tunisian cruise stretches all the way from October to May. The summer months can be extremely hot, and so are considered the "off-season" for visiting the country. Temperatures can drop to cool mid-50s at night, and reach a perfect 80 during the day. Sunshine is abundant, making for gorgeous days year-around. Spring is a particularly good time to visit, when the landscape is blanketed with wildflowers.
Cuisine Culture of TunisiaTunisia's diverse past has contributed to the evolution of a sophisticated food culture. It is mainly based on olive oil and Mediterranean spices that create a flavor unique to the region. Bread is still the most basic component of most meals, whether it's the French baguette or traditional unleavened country bread.
Lamb is the base of many meat dishes in Tunisia, whether flavored with cumin, coriander, or tomato paste. Seafood is also common, from shrimp to sardines, and fish is often grilled to a mouth-watering perfection.
Olives, capers, and hard-boiled eggs will appear as garnishes on many side dishes and salads in Tunisia. Baklava and other pastries have been borrowed from the country's Turkish influence, rounding out your meal on a Mediterranean cruise perfectly!
Tunisia's Environmental ThreatsTunisia faces some serious environmental threats to its landscape. Loss of agricultural land is a current challenge, as erosion is threatening 76% of arable land. Overgrazing is also degrading range and forest lands across the country. Overcrowding in the country's urban areas, combined with poor sanitation regulations and infrastructure have created some serious pollution problems as well.
On the brighter side, Tunisia is at work protecting endangered species inside its borders, and has established four national parks. NGOs and non-profits have become involved to conserve Tunisia's diverse environment; in fact, a World Wildlife Fund campaign was successful in saving the Atlas deer from imminent extinction.
Road to Tunisian IndependenceTunisia's mid-1800s government made a series of bad decisions that led to the financial downfall of the country. Governor Bey attempted to borrow money from France in an attempt to save his country by "Westernizing" it. France took this as a cue to move in, the era of French colonialism began in Tunisia. The country was officially named a French protectorate in 1881.
Tunisia has the dubious honor of being the first site of operations by the Allied Forces against the Axis during World War II, and continued to be a region where serious battles were fought. After the war, the nationalist attitude that has developed within the country intensified.
France relented and granted a degree of autonomy to the North African country. The French population in Tunisia prevented complete independence until 1955, and a year later, Tunisia elected its first Prime Minister, Habib Bourguiba. France finally evacuated completely in 1963 after heated conflicts over the independence of neighboring Algeria.
Bourguiba was ousted in 1987 by General Zine el Abidene Ben Ali. He signed diplomatic treaties with Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania, but instituted repressive measures against Islamic activists that were beginning to make a strong political showing. The Islamic party barred from participating in the 1994 elections. On suspicion of vote-rigging and with blatant intimidation, Ben Ali won the 1999 and 2004 elections as well.
Wildlife of TunisiaTunisia's wildlife certainly does not disappoint the mythical African standard. On the more dangerous side, wild boars, jackals, and hyenas roam the countryside. On the more tranquil side, gazelles and hares also call the country home. Some poisonous snakes also inhabit Tunisia, including the horned viper and cobra. Travelers should also look to the skies to catch a glimpse of some of the majestic raptors that dominate Tunisia's skies.
A Tunisian adventure cruise may present the opportunity to view some of these animals up close!


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Just take a look at that weekend box office. Sure, the critically panned Couples Retreat came in at #1, earning over $32 million on 3000 screens. But scan down the list and look at #4, which was Paranormal Activity. It earned $7.9 million on 160 screens. That's not a typo. One hundred and sixty screens. If we take the average, Paranormal Activity earned $49,375 per screen, and Couples Retreat took in a paltry $10,666 per screen. That's five times as many butts in the seats for the horror film than for the unfunny comedy (which means that there must have been a lot of empty seats at the latter). There's a simple reason for this: Paranormal Activity is a genuinely scary movie.
The same goes for any of the "body genres," i.e. comedies, steamy films, weepies, etc. If they genuinely work, and genuinely elicit the response that they promise, they will be a hit every time. Horror buffs -- myself included -- probably see more than a dozen new "scary" movies in the theater each year, but it's only once every few years that we actually get scared at one of them. Paranormal Activity achieves this by doing something very simple and not at all new: it doesn't show anything (or, rather, it shows very little). It knows that nothing that can be shown onscreen can equal the fears and nightmares of the people in the audience, and that the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all. a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507932/">Val Lewton was one of the finest practitioners of this theory with his series of nine great films made for RKO between 1942 and 1946. In Cat People (1942), a woman takes a night swim in an indoor pool; the ripples of the water are reflected on the walls all around. We hear growling from offscreen, but we can't see it; the woman can't get out of the pool because the sound seems to be coming from all over. That's much better than getting to see an actual killer cat. Other famous films that managed minimalist scares include The Haunting (1963) and -- like it or not -- The Blair Witch Project (1999). (I have to admit to being scared out of my wits at certain David Lynch movies as well.)
The recent Sorority Row (347 screens) had one such good scene, after someone dumps some bubble bath into the sorority house's outdoor hot tub. Over the course of a big party, the suds slowly seep out of the tub, grow and tumble across the entire yard. In one tense scene, a girl goes poking around for the killer in the waist-deep suds, and he could be anywhere. The scene ends, of course, with a visual of death by flare gun, but it's one inspired moment in an otherwise uninspired film. The Final Destination (365 screens), while kind of fun, is the exact opposite of something scary; absolutely everything is shown in this film, and the only suspense lies in watching the various intricate deathtraps unfold.
It almost makes you want to define a new subcategory of horror films, something special for the really, truly scary ones, although like the word H.P. Lovecraft frequently used, perhaps it's best just to call them "unnamable."
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This is the first installment of my feature of beautiful writers who have lovely talent here on DeviantArt but are not as well known as some of the other established artists here on dA. This is going to be a daily (or every other day) feature where we are going to showcase three males and three females with their beautiful art.
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A very talented writer who can take on any perspective given to her and write beautiful pieces. She has deviations in her gallery that someone of any age can enjoy!
A very talented writer who can take on any perspective given to her and write beautiful pieces. She has deviations in her gallery that someone of any age can enjoy!
The Clock's Imprisonment.This fear is beyond what
Human hearts can stand.
The clock's holding a dagger
In his little curved hand.
'Cause we sealed his face behind glass,
His words trapped and alone
Save the tick, tick, tick
Of his heart in his throat.
The second hand races around that gentile face,
Minute hand moves with a calculated grace,
But the hour hand holds the greatest wisdom of all:
He says
the most
important part
with movements
s l o w
Lullaby for A Sailor's SonLet the coldest winds kiss you,
The darkest sands keep you.
The arms of Weeping Willow
Cradle you to sleep.
Let a star sit on your shoulder,
Like a sea rover's parrot,
Glowing brightly, nearly burning
Through your soggy shirt.
The one that never dried
After the day your mother cried,
'Cause the ocean stole
Your father's watery soul.
He sunk staight to the bottom,
And they found him in late autumn,
Many months after the water took his breath,
And left his lungs cold.
The Sky's Just As Beautiful for Peasants.It came to me then,
In a moment of bliss
The sky's just as beautiful for peasants
As it is for the prince.
And love evades the royalty
Who married for privilege.
He weeps for the woman
He watched on the dusty streets
Her golden eyes contrasting
With her worn and tired feet.
And all the riches in the world
Cannot buy a good friend,
Or true happiness,
Or a fairytale end.
So I'm inclined to believe
That it's a beautiful thing
That the true riches of the world
Rest an arm's length out of reach.
So the dainty fingers of a pauper
Or a bohemian's gloved hand,
Can each reach out
To close around
Destinies they couldn't ever have planned.
Forever ParallelI sit on solid ground,
A strip of earth between two rivers.
Both gurgling, conversing with their creatures.
Very different shades of blue.
Little fish hop up in the waves of one,
Fireflies dance above the other.
Both are beautiful.
Playing little songs against the stones.
But the ground is not so solid,
And it weakens every day.
It's becoming evident now
I can only go one way.
I know they won't converge again.
It has to be goodbye.
They never really did converge,
Simply ran on either side.
Either way, I'm hurting,
No real happy end.
Both rivers lead to pain, for me,
There's no need to pretend.
Reality hurts,
It draws deep blood.
I'm guaranteed some tears.
Heartache that drops me like a shock.
It'll be a full goodbye.
I know, ringing permanence in my tired ears.
It's the hurting of a gentile river
That's the source of all the fear.
I know which one I have to choose,
No way around that.
I dip my hand into the crystal blue,
Turn my back on it to a cornflower hue.
Hope there's understandin
A beautiful nineteen year old college student, Caroline expresses her heart and soul in her writings--which is a very admirable trait. It is obvious to tell that she values all of her deviations and that she puts all of her fantastic talent in each piece!
A beautiful nineteen year old college student, Caroline expresses her heart and soul in her writings--which is a very admirable trait. It is obvious to tell that she values all of her deviations and that she puts all of her fantastic talent in each piece!
chimesI'm looking up at sand-paper skin and muddy glass eyes and listening to a voice so melancholy it hurts to hear. A voice that rambles like some fairytale forest brook but isn't telling anything mythical or picturesque but definitely a tragic story you'll want to hear again. It's like wind chimes shattering wishes and chirping birds announcing black widow funerals.
Beauty shouldn't kill--shouldn't mask rotting truths, but standing here with bleeding ears, I know it does.
fathomYou are the sun and the moon and every other fucking thing in the world that is magnificent. And god, I love you- The way you burn and burn and burn without falter in your steps. You smile as though you don't even know who you are or that you've got nothing left to lose. I can't fathom what to say to that because you are all I have to lose.
You have to understand that no matter what happens in the future
No hell-fire or Armageddon could keep me from being at your side,
Destroying your hungry demons, and smoothing your harsh edges.
Every moment you're devouring my organs; chipping my bones.
So dig your fingers into my skin and scream into me.
Crush me and fill me with everything you've got.
igniteYour skin is hot enough to i g n i t e this entire world and yet you sleep curled against my f r o s t b i t t e n shoulder blades. You burn in your slumber and I spend my nights beating the sparking, s m o l d e r i n g edges of our cotton sheets. Myths written on linen and stone describe you as golden with tan-skin and muddy-eyes, but lover, I know you for the t r u t h. You are the c h a r c o a l of where the sun has pressed too close. You are the olive branches of peace and the violence of the c h a r r e d leaves. You are staining my forearms with the feral licks of your ebony-hair and are painting my sides with the s o o t of your fingertips. You are a single match b u r n i n g a globe.
If you wanted to know what elegance was, the only thing I could lead you to was this beautiful girl's page! With such beautiful, sweet, and delicate deviations, she is the epitome of classic femininity and all of her beautiful pieces of art reflect that.
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If you wanted to know what elegance was, the only thing I could lead you to was this beautiful girl's page! With such beautiful, sweet, and delicate deviations, she is the epitome of classic femininity and all of her beautiful pieces of art reflect that.
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A wonderful writer who is currently experimenting in many different poetry forms at the moment. Each piece, however, is enjoyable and will always stir an emotion within you, as soon as you read the first line!
A wonderful writer who is currently experimenting in many different poetry forms at the moment. Each piece, however, is enjoyable and will always stir an emotion within you, as soon as you read the first line!
GautamaSiddhartha spoke;
Govinda, to his teachings, held.
Siddhartha spoke,
The spirits stirred; Atman, revoked--
Desire deterred, and self dispelled.
Beneath the oak where wisdom dwelled,
Siddhartha spoke.
DFC Reject - Day 3 - This Island We've CreatedShe steps foot onto grainy ocean plain,
And casts her wayward eyes into the sea.
"This island we've created," she complains,
"Has nothing in its sands but shame for me."
The ropes around her naked neck unwind.
She lays by those once-stringent strings of twine,
And waits until climax of the day
To let the boiling waves bore her away.
DFC Day 12 - And to think we're worthyWe are met by scholars, saints, and dignitaries,
Those transient passers-by, soon crossing over,
Visitors with hopes for greater days and brighter dusks.
A higher order walks around and amongst us,
Wistfully setting bars and turning heads upward;
We are met by scholars, saints, and dignitaries.
No regard to those beneath their humbled, holy feet,
They take absent-minded routes to their shelters,
Those transient passers-by, soon crossing over.
Their blood is not yours or mine, but sanctified and just,
They take not thanks nor talk of lower aspirations,
Visitors with hopes for greater days and brighter dusks.
FlightWe came together like strangers boarding a plane,
crammed next to each other, stubbornly unwilling to
take our seats, vehemently demanding to get off the cab,
confused about the flight and nervous about the takeoff,
unsure of everything yet to come, except that soon,
in an instant, before we'd know it, we would be
In the air, locked into place, and sealed in our fates.
We weren't overjoyed in the ascent, as we
nervously gripped the arms of our seats, and stared
down at the ephemeral landscape below us,
wasting away in the arms of a fading twilight.
But as the steel bird roared and evened its wings,
we realized that even as scared as we might have been...
We were flying. And there was no way back to earth.
The flight soon expanded. It wasn't a necessity anymore;
it was an adventure--each dip, a new world to explore;
every dive, another lesson learned. We found out
that our neighbors were more than strangers
with the same obligations as ours, but friends and lovers
and rivals, all travel
Writer to the Raining Blood Saga, he is a wonderful poet whose words should always be heard. He is a very talented individual, whose work is always steadily improving!
Writer to the Raining Blood Saga, he is a wonderful poet whose words should always be heard. He is a very talented individual, whose work is always steadily improving!
Because of you
I have days where I want to hide,
Lock my doors and just stay inside.
Days where I want to fly,
Spread my wings and glide.
Moments when I want to leave,
You'd never believe.
I have nights when I am broken,
silly words from the overly outspoken.
Nights when it's all too much,
My head fills with nonsense and such.
Times when I wanna go,
Get in that car and follow the snow.
I have thoughts that betray my mind,
images of a negative kind.
A youth corrupted by words of hurt,
Ideas that make my flaws alert.
But I have good thoughts too,
Ones that make me think of you.
I have days when I think of you,
My nights are filled with those thoughts too.
Not all of my nights are filled with doubt,
Regardless my mind still shouts.
But when you're around it is silent,
My thoughts are no longer violent.
Because of you, my heart can be pure,
It is of you that I have never been so sure.
ForeverWhen all that's known becomes broken
The things left unspoken
Whisper in the night.
With bitter hearts and clouded judgement
Where is the justice
in being alone?
So I'll stay here and be with you
Until you don't want me to
I'll leave you alone
I've thought this through
I want to be with you
You've made me walk in the screaming night
Through the bitter cold
I've seen the worse of things not right
You've broken my hold
I'll find a way to run away
I'll keep you in my memory
The Golden Door
In my mind, I can see
I am free from misery.
My eyes are open, my path unsure.
What's behind that Golden Door?
They say it's great, they say it's a lie
Wonder has stolen their peace of mind.
I will continue to walk, rest assured
My path of life away from that door.
The paths of life are never ending.
All the way, contradicting.
My path has crossed with the door.
I open it, so unsure
Of what's to see beyond that door.
The door creaks open, my eyes adjust
To a sight I thought would be unjust.
My greatest dreams lie ahead,
better than my first path instead.
I walk the path of the Golden Door.
That of which, I first ignored.
The lesson here is very clear:
Do not run based on what you hear.
This heart
This heart is broken, shattered to pieces.
All hope I had, no longer increases.
Comfort was not your greatest belief
Nor was love your favorite motif.
Our paths were separate, always apart.
But never together, like we were in the start.
With things not done, and words unspoken,
slowly my heart becomes unbroken.
This heart it remains, unaffected.
Although my mind has become defected.
I'll walk alone, I don't need you.
My dream has never really required two.
Company is nice, in fact, it's grand.
But you twisted my words, like you were breaking my hand.
Your words were lies, that I believed.
This heart. It was very naive.
While a new member to DeviantArt, this writer is very talented, and is budding and improving with every new deviation.
While a new member to DeviantArt, this writer is very talented, and is budding and improving with every new deviation.
a robin's insight -- haibunI am the robin who protects these woods, ever watching; never sleeping. My daily routine is to stare at the humans who tread along this path. Clumsy beasts that seem to not realize the plants they bump and bugs they stomp. Why must such a being intrude, when it has so much all ready? They can not sing, they can not dance, they can not soar. Trapped on the ground, with no way to leave, perhaps that is why they must have the whole thing.
They pluck our berries
clear cut woods and broken homes
staring as we burn.
Open CageI have locked my mind in an open cage,
I hold the key, but the door can not latch.
it does not see harsh reality,
or simplicity of escape.
Instead it ponders what would be
if the past could be rewritten
I have locked my mind in an open cage,
from where
it can not escape.
PensPoet's pens are scalpels
that gently part skin
to allow knowledge of
reality and its mistresses'
to seep into the blood and
find rest in the heart.
When by chance I glance
upon faded lines inscribed
in my body, I remember,
as if it were my Own.
that must mean
my pen is a dull axe,
which cleaves my side
and cracks my bones
to leak foreign letters
upon an empty page.
I read.
Nothing I ever wanted.
I crumple my flesh
to start over again.
Home, at lastThere was no wind,
the trees were still.
the lake glass
that reflects the horizon.
Birds fly in large lazy loops
in search of the answer
they never can find.
I enter the water,
the cold a lover's embrace
sapping my strength
feeding me ease.
for the first time, I am calm
I plunge into the abyss
to never return.
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Financial First Aid: Revive Your Finances After a Disaster Strikes
Jun 3, 2014, 1:43 PM
A recent survey by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), found that only 34 percent of Americans said they would have access to financial, insurance and other records if they had to evacuate in a disaster. Now that hurricane season has begun, that slim response is pushing FEMA regional directors to promote financial preparedness along with other safety reminders.
"Don't hinder your recovery if disaster strikes. Take the time now to ensure critical documents are safely stored, valuables are adequately insured, and potential spending needs are planned for," said Andrew Velasquez III, regional administrator for the FEMA Midwest region.
Among FEMA's tools and advice:
- FEMA has created an Emergency Financial First Aid Kit which provides reams of information, including documents to store online or on a flash drive, such as household bills, credit card statements and loan information. That information can help stabilize your financial status after a disaster and can be critical for avoiding fines if you are late on bills and for certain loans and grants.
- FEMA also recommends enrolling in online banking, direct deposit for paychecks and Go Direct for online deposits of federal benefits such as social security. This will help people avoid disruptions in income due to a disaster.
- FEMA recommends people keep some cash or traveler's checks in a plastic bag in their Go Kit. After many disasters power outages keep ATMs offline, just when many businesses—also without power to process credit card transactions—were often requiring payment in cash only.
- Take the time now to print out a copy of Recovery after Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit, developed by the University of Minnesota Extension and North Dakota State University Extension Service after disasters in those states. The toolkit is full of critical information such as what information you'll need to show to secure a small business loan if your business is destroyed. The kit also has fill-in logs that help keep track of assistance you've requested and responses.
>>Bonus Link: The 2014 Consumer Action Handbook has information on avoiding financial scams including many that people can fall prey to after a disaster.
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2,968 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
In the Crowdsourcing world, we seem to be pretty good at being meta. So it should be no surprise that supporters of Rep. Patrick McHenry's Crowdfunding bill, H.R. 2930, are putting together a Crowdfunding campaign to try and get their Crowdsourced ad in support of the Crowdfunding bill into an upcoming issue of Politico and in front of the eyes of more members of the political crowd.
According to a post over at Crowdfundinglaw.com, the hope is to get some movement on the bill in the U.S. Senate soon before Washington becomes too pre-occupied with election year politics. The ad will redirect readers to a new website just launched by Sherwood Niess and the Startup Exemption folks at legalizecrowdfunding.org.
The goal is to raise $13,530 to pay for the production of the ad and the space in Politico by next month or sooner. As of today, only $450 had been raised, but there's still 25 days to go on the Loudsauce campaign.
Here's a look at the current rough draft of the ad. Keep an eye on Crowdsourcing.org for developments on the progress of this and the handful of other Crowdfunding bills now on Capitol Hill.
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It's time again for another old school dancehall jam! I need to find a spot around Delaware (Philly, Bmore, DC) that plays this type of music still. Big requirement – place has to be weed free and clean. Not sure a place like this exists!