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The owner of a yoga studio in Forty Fort said a hacker infiltrated her website Thursday.
Jennifer Ciarimboli, the owner of Balance Yoga & Wellness, 900 Rutter Ave., said she was on her way to Boston for the weekend when her studio manager told her the company site had been hacked.
Ciarimboli said the site's hosting provider took down the site after a hacker calling himself "comodo" or "comodohacker" had redirected users to a site filled with anti-American and anti-Israeli rants. She said the hacker also posted pictures of a lion and Skeletor, a villain from the cartoon series "He-Man."
"It was very unsettling and not something we could be associated with," Ciarimboli said. "It certainly is not what a yoga studio would stand for or represent."
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How to Use Vellum
Vellum used to refer only to a type of paper made from calfskin, but modern vellum is made from cotton and wood pulp. Bristol vellum is used for printing and other heavy media, while drafting or design vellum, which is a translucent paper, is popular for using in arts and crafts projects, including for making greeting cards or scrapbooking, as well as for tracing designs.
Vellum can be used in a variety of ways to add interest to your work, and some of the options are explored in this article.
1Print on vellum. A laserjet printer is best for printing on vellum, but you can use an inkjet printer if you're able to let the vellum sheet sit for several hours afterward while the ink dries. You can also use a printing pouch that adds a binding agent to the vellum or lightly sand the paper before printing.
- Try printing a photograph on vellum for a soft, translucent effect. Or, lay a sheet of vellum over a photo and cut out a piece to highlight part of a photo.
2Write a letter on vellum. Lay the vellum on top of a sheet of lined paper to help you keep your lines straight. Use a pen specifically designed to write on vellum or experiment with the pens you have to find one that won't smear or bleed through the paper and that dries quickly.
3Make an envelope with vellum so that decorative paper inside shows through. Take apart a regular envelope and use it as a template to create the vellum envelope. When assembling the envelope, be sure to use vellum glue because regular glue often doesn't work well on the nonporous vellum paper.
4Overlay a scrapbook page, invitation or greeting card with a sheet of vellum. Vellum comes in several colors and may even be pre-printed with a design, giving you a lot of options.
- If you're printing your own greeting cards or invitations and you're having trouble feeding thick cardstock into the printer, consider printing onto the vellum and overlaying it onto the cardstock instead. Attach the vellum with vellum glue along the top, or punch holes through the vellum and cardstock and use a ribbon to tie them together.
5Create a pouch for a scrapbook page. Fold a sheet in half and attach it to the page. Insert a dried flower or other small item, which you can then view through the vellum without disturbing it.
6Trace a design onto vellum. You can then cut it out and attach it to a card or scrapbook page. Instead of glue, which may mar the design, attach the vellum with brads or use a needle and thread to sew the vellum to the page.
- Many scrapbookers print quotes onto vellum or buy a collection of quotes on vellum to cut out and add to their pages.
7Mat a photo onto a larger sheet of plain, colored or printed vellum. You can then lay the printed photo on colored cardstock. Create a border by choosing a sheet of cardstock larger than the vellum or with an overmat. Add a mounting board, glass and a frame if you wish.
8Wrap a small gift box in vellum. Add a silk or satin ribbon to finish the package.
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- Bristol vellum, or vellum surface bristol, is commonly used in artist's sketch pads. It has a smooth, velvety surface which gives it more "tooth" than smooth bristol, meaning that it's better suited to drawing with soft pencils or chalk.
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This paper examines the embedding of ICT (information and communication technologies) tools in everyday practices among underserved populations in urban India. Using ethnographic investigations of PC-aided Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in a low-income slum neighborhood in Mumbai, it pursued three broad research goals: first, to etch-out organic ICT immersions in technology-stressed environments; second, to articulate a new and evolving socio-technical system in an urban slum ecology; third, to seek a fit between goals of ICT for Development (ICTD) and impacts of PC-aided enterprise on ICT access and adoption. Based on the ICT4D2.0 approach interrogating the technology-for-development discourse, the paper substantiates the need for a 'new view of the world's poor: one that views the poor not as passive consumers but agile agents and innovative producers of ICT products and services.
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how can i move records from 1 family tree to another?
FTM 2010 does not have the provision for automatic assignment of personal ID numbers. By someone in your customer service area, I was offered the option to manually enter one, but it is not a good solution since you cannot sort by the number. How about a patch? We who are unemployed cannot drop more money for 2011 when we just bought 2010 a few months ago. I'm dissatisfied so far mostly because of that missing feature. I would appreciate a reply
Please explain to me how they cannot have live customer support of any type! I'm locked out of the system — they say I'm logged on elsewhere – which I'm not. And I can't reset it online or reach anyone to take care of this. Very very very poor service!
It's necessary to clean up "hints" about my Danish family every week. The hints are so far off base and completely useless…how many Lars Larsens have lived in Denmark over the generations? Sometimes a few Norwegians and Swedes are included.
I'd like to be able to turn off "hints" for this family.
I do research in the Danish archives on line. It is tedious but so satisfying to gather reliable
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Irene Farmer
My daughter and I have researched in Salt Lake City and on line for over 20 years and are amazed at the errors that are posted on line. We've had our family information inserted in other lines when there is no connection at all. When the error is pointed out (Politely) there are no corrections made. Then another researcher picks it up and the error is multiplied. It seems as if the number of people in a tree is more important than accuracy.
We belive this is a huge problem! Any idea for a solution?
Does this bother other researchers?
Thank you
Irene Farmer
You have a whole host of hundreds to thousands of highly experienced Genealogists who are current customers who have no intent of going to the National Genealogy Conference in Charleston. In addition you have hundreds of suggestions already in past postings that tell you what needs to be fixed or improved. And you have ignored 95% of them because in your judgment they fix problems seen by experienced Genealogists rather than provide what appear to be "sexy" inhancements that mgiht suck in Newbies!
For just a few:
Go back to exporting Genealogy Reports that are 100% Editable in .rft Format without built in Headers and Footers that screw up editing. No Experienced Genealogist anywhere who has any brain wants built in Headers and Footers. They want to add their name as Author, Date of Creation, Introductory Notes that set the stage for why the Report was created, maybe even Copyright it, etc. Only a utter Newbie wants what FTM currently gives! I will never buy FTM until this is fixed. Newbies don't care! They do not have a need to generate Genealogy Reports to communicate real Genealogy info.
I use FTM 2006 Ver 16 and have since it came out. I used other versions for 5 years before that. I own 2008 and 2009, but use only 2009 for Place search since that is the only thing it does better than 2006! The only reason I have 2009 is it was free to those of us stupid enough to buy 2008 which is the "worse computer progran ever sold publically for any audience!. The later versions are bloated, slow, full of errors and junk. But they encourage Newbies to link Ancestry Images and Pictures and think that is what Genealogy is all about!
Just go back and read through all the Blogs that have anything to do with FTM and you will find Hundreds and Hundreds of suggestions for what you need to change.
Per #5 poster, you desperately need to allow Public Trees without allowing anyone to change anything it them but the originator!
These are just 3 short things and I frankly do not understand why Project Managers at ancestry know so little about doing real Genealogy that they cannot relate to it and actually do something about instead of doing ignorant things like creating Focus Groups then taking away only those things that will generate new customers instead of fixing major problems!
I have been using FTM for many years. 2011 is very slow with importing records from Ancestry on line. 2011 is unable to generate book reports that I want.
Regarding post #5. There is certainly a mass of duff information posted in Ancestry member trees, generally unsourced as well. It doesn't bother me in itself as if people want to do duff research that is their look out. It is just frustrating when you look at a member tree in the hope of gaining new leads only to find it is yet another one that has facts copied from other trees with absolutely no sourcing and really basic errors in it.
However what does bother me is that Ancestry seem increasingly obsessed with drawing information in member trees to my attention, increasingly giving it greater prominence than the records in their geneaological databases. They seem obsessed with promoting social networking aspects of the Ancestry website above all others. It is useful to be able to view other members trees and to contact them easily, but it is not a priority and not something I want rammed down my throat.
I dont understand your search engine. I put in someone's name and state in which they lived and you give me dozens, if not hundreds of people all over the country. If I am searching Texas I dont want 49 other states to wade through. If I say John Doe was born in Illinois I dont want 49 other states to scroll through. If I want Texas, give me Texas and nothing else.
I've always found FTM & Ancestry.com very useful and for the most part I recheck many of my sources by going to the Mormon Family History Center on the Internet. There is one feature that craves to be on FTM, the ability to locate data within the area of search. The Utah based library provides quick and easy searches that are right on the mark! Is there any way you could incorporate that type of searching somehow.
Second, why are you making so may changes to your on-line family trees. I love the built-in command that you have in the past year placed on your site. Why can't you incorporate that interesting model into FTM as well!?
Third, when I think of maps, why put a map module into FTM if you cannot manipulate the data well. It primarily gives you basic feedback on where your ancestors resided. How about providing real data graphing abilities in which we can present in our own way?
As others have posted of late, the trends that Ancestry.com are pursuing tend more to the social aspect of genealogy. While find in its approach, others are more wanting of FTM software considerations, instead. Perhaps you can contact all of us about where your company is headed in the future.
Thank you.
Regarding #9. I agree. I put in a state or country and get umpteen states and countries. It is frustrating. As to FTM I bought it and I'm sure if a book came with it I would use it. I tried to use it, even printed out what was available for use but have gone back to ancester because I can correct errors and see who is where. I also agree that there are glaring errors on member trees, and I am a beginner.
I am upset that I have put in so much time inputting data and can not run different ancestry tree reports. I wish I had just kept "Family Tree". If I am doing something wrong please let me know….A dissatified customer.
I just bought FTM 2011 and I'm not sure I like it. Too much stuff. I have been an FTM user for years. The first version I had was a DOS version, and then I bought the first Windows version when it came out. I was using 2005 version before I bought the 2011 and was happy with that. I have just signed up for Ancestry and so far I've found lot of good and bad info. I actually found a 2nd cousin didn't know I had! I agree with all the critisms of the posters above. The website is good but needs some tweaking.
Regarding #9 & #11. I also agree fully. Since I'm new to Ancestry.com, I thought I was doing something wrong but now I know others and maybe everyone has the same problem. It's very, very frustrating receiving results I didn't ask for. I try to refine the search and still get names and locations that don't come close to matching.
Please, please fix it.
Since Ancestry owns both the website and Family Tree Maker there should be an easy way to switch information back and forth from one to another. If there is, I haven't found it yet.
FamilyTreeMaker can be only as good as Ancestry search…so let's fix the latter first, then offer updates and fixes for FTM 2011. There are way too many problems, one being getting different results when searching for the same information in different databases. Why can't all the databases return the information being searched for instead of showing information that isn't even close to being right?
Second, why can't the databases with the same name and contents be combined? Or is this a way to show Ancestry has "X" number more just to make a point?
Let's go back to KEEP IT SIMPLY SMART.


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We only have a dictator who is almond shaped- moustache Recep T. Erdogan. But Recep T. Erdogan's one of supporter in the American Media, the Foreign Policy (FP) blames Ataturk on its website that our great leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a "moustached dictator" along with Stalin, Hitler and the other dictators. This is unacceptable by Turkish People because our leader was one of great statesman of the history, also he did not have moustache after the foundation of the Republic.
There is a question in my mind, which is why the western media and politicians love our "almond shaped moustached" elected dictator so much, whereas they describe our REAL leader as a dictator?
Actually, i know it reasons very well too.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was saviour of Turkey and Turkish People but Erdogan is soldier of those people who hate Ataturk and Turks in the West.
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If Arrested Development glassware and Lego dioramas weren't nerdy enough for you, the discriminating Arrested Development nerd, why not give these a shot: Arrested Development Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges, featuring in-jokey titles like Mr. Bananagrabber, Stair Kart, D℞. Fünke's, and Chicken Dance Revolution. Buy all six individually or grouped at a discount at 72pins. Caution: game on label is not actual game on cartridge, as Steve Holt does not yet have his own shouted video game series. Power Hook sold separately.
Carts for Shaun of the Dead, Game of Thrones, and other nerdy things also available and pictured below.


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Extract form Life at a glance
We have a far journey to cover in anything we set our heart to do. In whatever chosen field of endeavour, we journey into far away land. These Journeys may be spiritual, physical, or marital. The journey is often commenced with hope and lots of excitements that we often try to convince, "Mr. Obstinate" and Mr. Pliable" if they would join us for the crown we seek. To some, it is an achievement, for not every one is qualified to begin this journey. However, some may not appreciate it, but it is certainly an achievement.
There are many paths in the journey, these paths are usually rough. Roads to success are usually not pleasant to attempt, you only become successful after overcoming many difficulties: slough of despond, despair and wilderness of wants. We are ignorant of so many necessities in the journey; the logics and procedures. Along the road are so many stinking corpses; these are faithless stories. Many are books written to express the authors' experiences in these journeys. For every endeavour in life, there are procedures processes and standards. There are needs for road maps, various text, journals and counsellors; for we need to make a long completely strange journey like "Christian" in the pilgrim progress. He was with his Bible, contacted many instructors and sought for counsel, he was not very ignorant of his journey, and some one must have tipped him of the next expectation. Although to Mr. Obstinate he looked like a "craze-headed coxcomb" but he did made it through.
While some have visions and are convinced of the purpose, some are forced, so they copy others. Along the journey many unrealistic goals drop. There are many goals and visions hunter along the way; such as comparison of worth, indiscipline, laziness, love of pleasure, ignorance, pride and envy. With these virtues, you can never be sincere and with wrong motives you cannot force God to give you what He is against.
You cannot force his treasures house open with evil virtues. Your forceful attempt makes you an armed robber in life. Predecessor "Someone said "He who drives last in the row gets all the dust in his eye" life has been polluted by some who had earlier passed the road. Life is like walking in rough roads. Some are in the forefront while some are in rear back in a dusty road, and are affected by the activities of those in forefront. Many will be affected by the lives of others.
Children problems may be function of their parents. However, the world is an open field of exploit! A society or group where these seven abominations are in prevalence: pride, greed, false hood, injustice, idol worshipping shedding of innocent blood and setting up strife cannot but have God's wrath. Apart from suffering from this alone, they inherit curses and sorrows for the subsequent generation. It is a crime in life to create problems while you are created to solve problems.
Your life cannot but affect others: your foolishness is a channel of misery for others while your wisdom will harvest many blessedness. Your careless ness will affect so many citizens of earth dwellers while your wisdom and carefulness will give perfect security to generation. see to your action in the ship you find your self


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I notice we rarely see any stories about his out actor brother, except in stories like these where Chris shows up, or says something in an article about his brother. I guess homophobic Hollywood strikes again.
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: The brother is best known for a semi recurring role on a daytime soap. not exactly the stuff TMZ articles are made of.
true on the TMZ. Scott was on OLTL as Oliver Fish the cop whom happened to be gay.
Kyle Lewis played by Brent C is the boyfriend on the soap. love their love scene they got
It's probably true, but still the National Inquirer as a source though…yeah
as sexy as chris is, i firmly believe his brother scott is by far the sexier of the two
I seriously just want a series of origin movies so I can leer creepily at scrawny, awkward men before they turn into hulking slabs of icky meat.
I wouldn't kick Scott out of bed for eating biscuits, but Chris, though.
Did someone say eating their biscuits in bed? I love eating biscuits in bed, especially big firm piping hot ones. Butter, Jam or both? Your on! :-)
Mayber I am reaching a bit far on this, but it seems celebs like Chris, who are single and have no SO are 'protected' with these raving beauties whenever there is a hint of 'gayness' around them! Of course, he couldn't be shown in a gay bar without such 'adornment' and a little PDA to boot!But, hey! image is everything in la la land and that image must be protected at all costs! (Just say'en).
@pscheck2: As a part time neighbor of his here in Boston, I can assure you he's not trying to protect anything. Imagine being him and having to always be cautious of whom he lets into his life, SO or not. He's a great guy and is in no way shape or form playing for our team.
@jayfranko: If you read my comment, closely, you will note I am speculating, a speculation that is legitiment. I follow the gossip columns and other 'posers' who were suspected of being gay, eventually come out of their closet and fess up to the fact that they are gay! More recently Anderson Cooper and a A li)st actor (after denying, vehemently, he was gay!) now considers himself a proud gay person!Also, the closets, in Holl.ywood, are bursting at the seams, with many of the twinks, in these franchise movies, are being held back by their management teams, from coming 'out!' All I got to say: time will tell. lol.
Having Chris Evans as a brother would be birthday present enough.
@Kathukid: Well, that's just sick. Your suggesting you'd be boning your own brother.[[f9.curllip]]
My brother was special forces military stud and he always came to help me bashing anti-gay bashers…
Chris Evans is a stand up guy. That he is so supportive of his brother is totally cool and helpful to many of us in the GLBT community. Here is a cool page on Chris Evans that explores his background and kind of puts to rest some of the gay rumors that were spreading about him.


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Will reconstruct whole homepage!
new info, anime & manga recs, reviews lists and how i rate my animes!
Since 2008 I have watched about 200 animes... allright!
4,908 total episodes
Good day!
My name is Kari, and I run The Anime-Planet Contributors Organization (TACO for short) on the forums. I'm contacting everyone who has had interest in joining us in the past; as a reminder we are still active and we're still working hard for our goal of contributing as much as we can to this site! If you'd like to help out Anime Planet by contributing in a variety of ways (including recommendations, donations, reviews, and more), and get rewards for doing so, please drop by our sub-forum and join us!
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Thanks for the comment. I have now been exposed to so many genres and realized what good anime is all about. I haven't really been exposed to any anime (other than card captor, dbz, yuyu hakusho ...) when I watched lucky star. I guess I entered the world of anime with an open mind and allowed myself to enjoy Lucky Star despite its lack of plot and thrill.Anywho, I will try my best to update my profile/animelist/etc. on AP as frequent as i do for MAL.
- BlitzRyke/Junpaku
hah, and there I go with the long comments. :p
Woah! xD Haha, You really reminded me of how quickly time passes! :p Yeah, I remember talking with you, and even if I didn't it's easy enough to scroll down a little bit and see my ridiculously long comments :p (I usually use irc to have longer, more interactive discussions, these days). I still pretty much think the same of High School of the Dead; it's a solid comedy horror/zombie flick that I think some people are just too sensitive about, because of the ecchi. "Over the top" should be one of its tags, and proudly. ;)
As to City Hunter...hmmm. :)
Well. I really enjoyed it for the first...hmmm...30 episodes or so. After that, I became very frustrated with the repetitive nature of the show. In general, I've found as I"ve watched more anime these last two years, that the shows I enjoy most are those that get me thinking, provide some sort of an intellectual challenge, or an "ah ha!" moment, or gets me into a contemplative mood. While I do love the characters of City Hunter, the laughs alone weren't doing it for me; the main "story" or relationship, whichever you'd like to consider it, was progressing ridiculously slowly, and the standalone episodes became somewhat predictable, because you could usually count on saeba being badass and winning the day. By far, my favorite episodes were the ones that showed character development, but it honestly became a struggle for me to finish the show. I took watching it pretty slowly, and usually only watched some of it after I'd finished a heavy show, and just wanted something to really relax with. Season 4 ('91) I thought was particularly strong, especially with the "cinderella" episode, and the episode after that about saeko.
In the end, I'm glad that I got through the 4 seasons, because it enabled me to watch Angel Heart. Angel Heart was a much more enjoyable show for me, one of the best I've seen recently, in fact. I think it took the best of City Hunter and focused it, while finally giving us the answers to some things we've always wanted to know. I loved the more plot and character oriented aspect of Angel Heart. I thought that they seamlessly developed the characters, allowing for serious moments as necessary, while adding in humor AS APPROPRIATE. One thing that I didn't like about City Hunter was that, too many times, it broke up some serious moments with really awkward humor that I thought just ruined the atmosphere . I think they attained a much better balance in Angel Heart. And even the "standalone" episodes were very enjoyable. Whereas a lot of City Hunter standalone episodes came across as cliched "save the mistress" sorts of scenarios, they did a good job of making some truly sincere and heartwarming episodes that had some thought put into them.
haha thankyou for commenting! and yea i love those animes :D


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Explorations into the psychological and physiological impact of aroma
The Aromas and the Mind Certificate program has been designed for massage therapists, estheticians, nurses, healthcare providers and individuals interested in exploring aromatherapy and the benefits of essential oils.
Students interested in exploring the psychological and physiological impact of aromas on the mind will want to take this program to advance their knowledge and application of aromatherapy for emotional health and well being.
This is an advanced level training program and is a module from our Aroma201: Advanced Aromatherapy Certification program. A Foundations level training is required. This class can be taken by graduates of a foundations program or equivalent study.
We have found that students taking the Aromas and the Mind certificate program are primarily interested in:
- Designing aromatherapy products for emotional wellness
- Enhancing an existing health care or esthetic practice
- Integrating essential oils into home care self care
- Advancing their knowledge of aromatherapy for the mind/emotions
How do I become certified with the Aromas and the Mind Certificate Program?
The Aromas and the Mind certification program was established in February of 2000 and has been updated and redesigned in 2009. The course is approved by The National Association For Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA). This course provides 32 CE hours for Registered aromatherapists (RA).
In order to receive the East-West School for Aromatic Studies certification, approved by NAHA, students must:
- Attend 14 hours of live training.
- Complete all modules in the Aromas and the Mind certificate program.
- Complete 5 case studies on family, friends, self, or existing and willing clients.
- Complete final exam (requested when ready to take).
- Send in final exam and 5 case studies.
**NOTE: You can take the Aromas and the Mind program for a Certificate of Attendance only. You would not have to complete the Case studies or Final exam. A Certificate of Attendance would provide 14 CE hours.
This program is approved by the NCBTMB for 32 CE Hours for massage therapists.
Course Overview
Topics Covered
- Exploring our sense of smell
- The Nervous and Endocrine systems
- Essential oil therapeutics for the nervous and endocrine systems
- Understanding how essential oils work on the nervous and endocrine system
- The Immune system
- Stress and immunity including psychoneuroimmunology
- Aromatherapy and the immune system
- Essential oils for immune disorders
- The Anatomy of olfaction
- The Limbic system and potential benefits of olfactory aromatherapy
- Olfaction, perception, and response
- Aromatics, olfaction, and emotion
- Understanding stress
- Stress and health
- The Relaxation response
- Designing an aromatic treatment program for stress
- Morphology blending technique
- Aromas and the Mind case studies
Upon successful completion of Aromas and the Mind you will be able to:
- Explain the general roles/functions of the nervous and endocrine systems.
- Discuss various research on the effects of essential oils on the nervous and endocrine systems.
- Describe how essential oils support and enhance the immune system.
- Describe the autonomic nervous system: its functions and its role in stress.
- Describe the impact of stress on body/mind/spirit wellness.
- Create a wide range of aromatic products for psychological well-being.
- Utilize the Morphology blending technique to blend for emotional purposes.
- Appreciate the power of our sense of smell.
- Enhance ones relationship with the natural world.
Course Enrollment Information
Tuition: $275.**
**Tuition may vary slightly from location to location. See Calendar of Events.
Included Materials:
- 14 hours of live training with East-West School for Aromatic Studies approved Instructor (includes some distance learning time as well)
- The Aromas and the Mind certificate manual designed and written by Jade Shutes, B.A., Dipl. AT
- The use of over 50 organic or wild crafted 'therapeutic grade' essential oils, a variety of base materials (vegetable oils, glycerin, beeswax, exfolliants, etc.)
- An extensive list of resources for quality products
- Information about various Aromatherapy organizations and journals
- Access to network with other graduates online
- Discounts on additional materials/kits from our select suppliers
- Review of case studies and exam
- CE hours for massage therapists. (14 ce hours)
- Certificate for Aromas and the Mind
- Issuance of Certificate
Students will create and take home at least three of the following products:
- Bath salts
- Cream or Lotion
- Massage oil
- Aromatic spritzer
- Salve
- Aromatic synergy
- Aroma inhaler
- Bath blend
- Flower essence/Essential oil combo spritzer
Anyone may register for this class. A Foundations level aromatherapy education is recommended but not required. To find a course in your area please see our: Calendar of Events


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I just uninstalled ver 1.04, and intalled v7. The initial sync seemd to work fine, but after second day, sync is failing and error popup is telling us that the password may have changed (it had not changed initially, but I did reset user's password on the server thinking that would help.)
I think there must be some remnant(s) of old desktop that has me messed up.
Please advise me as to completely stripping all remnants of all zimbra desktop so I can start this user all over?


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Salvation by Trust? Reading the Bible Faithfully
Hays, Richard B., The Christian Century
THE PROTESTANT REFORMERS of the 16th century proclaimed that God's word in scripture must serve as the final judge of all human tradition and experience. Left to our own devices we are capable of infinite self-deception, confusion and evil. We therefore must turn to scripture and submit ourselves to it, the Reformers insisted, in order to find our disorders rightly diagnosed and healed. Only through the biblical writers' testimony do we encounter the message of God's grace; only the revelation of Jesus Christ, disclosed uniquely and irreplaceably through the testimony of the evangelists and apostles, tells us the truth about the merciful God and our relationship to that God. Without this word which comes to us from outside ourselves, we are lost.
Clearly, the climate in which we read the Bible has changed drastically since Luther and Calvin put pen to paper. Living as we do on this side of the Enlightenment, we cannot escape the intellectual impact of the great "masters of suspicion": Nietzsche, Freud, Marx and more recently Foucault, along with other purveyors of "critical theory." These thinkers have sought to demystify language and to expose the ways in which our linguistic and cultural systems are constructed by ideologies that further the interests of those who hold power.
The Bible has not been exempt from such suspicious scrutiny. One need only consider the book display at the annual American Academy of Religion convention. Anyone who spends time browsing there will find the stalls flooded with books that apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to biblical texts. Some portray the apostolic witnesses less as revelatory witnesses to God's mercy than as oppressive promulgators of abusive images of God. Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, for example, writes that "a feminist critical hermeneutics of suspicion places a warning label on all biblical texts: Caution! Could be dangerous to your health and survival" (in Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Letty Russell).
I'm not suggesting that suspicious interpreters categorically reject the Bible; most of them believe it can contain both liberating and oppressive messages. They insist, nonetheless, that the Bible be subjected to ideological critique. Elsewhere, Schussler Fiorenza explains:
No biblical patriarchal text that perpetuates violence
against women, children, or "slaves" should be accorded
the status of divine revelation if we do not want to turn
the God of the Bible into a God of violence. That does
not mean that we cannot preach . . . on the household
code texts of the New Testament. It only means that we
must preach them critically in order to unmask them as
texts promoting patriarchal violence (Bread Not Stone:
The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation).
I welcome the moral passion of statements like Schussler Fiorenza's. Sadly, our common history is marked by epidemic violence, including violence against women, children and the powerless. Certainly this violence is to be condemned, and interpreters of the Bible have good grounds for proclaiming such condemnation. The difficulty in which we find ourselves, however, is this: If the Bible itself, the revelatory, identity-defining text of the Christian community, is portrayed as oppressive, on what basis do we know God or relate to God? A corollary question has crucial implications for biblical interpretation: If the Bible is dangerous, on what ground do we stand in conducting a critique of scripture that will render it less harmful?
For Schussler Fiorenza the answer to the latter question is clear a feminist critical hermeneutic "does not appeal to the Bible as its primary source but begins with women's own experience and vision of liberation." Experience (of a certain sort) is treated as unambiguously revelatory, and the Bible is critically scrutinized in its light. …


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Forever Fit Meeting Sunday 3/2/14
The third gathering of the Asheville Forever Fit is happening this Sunday, March 2nd at CrossFit Asheville.
This meetings discussion topic includes: "What does it mean when I'm sore/hurt? Should I come to the gym & workout?"
There is also a fun WOD planned. Bring your thoughts and smiling faces. Any other ideas welcomed!
See you at 2pm Sunday!
Please send any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Comic writer Alan Moore has been a vocal critic of Hollywood. He's hated all of the movies based on his books, including "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "V for Vendetta." Moore hasn't even allowed them to credit him as the works' original author in those movies.
In his defense, "League" offered a lot to hate. There aren't any Americans in this movie? Hey, let's add Tom Sawyer as a detective! Now Moore's going to make his own movies. He's announced a short film series tentatively tited "Show Pieces." He'll work with commercial photographer turned Mitch Jenkins.
There aren't a lot of details yet. A press release describes the series as occult and noir-flecked. They've already shot the first episode, "Act of Faith." The second, "Jimmy's End," is scheduled to shoot later in the summer. Moore and Jenkins plan to debut them at an event for The Creator's Project in October. Can Moore succeed where he believes so many others have failed? If he doesn't, he'll probably never hear the end of it.
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IDF says ultra-Orthodox 'zealots' planned to demonstrate during ceremony originally scheduled to take place at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem; event moved to army base. Soldiers: Disappointing decision
Kobi Nachshoni
Published: 05.23.13, 11:56 / Israel News
Kobi Nachshoni
The Netzah Yehuda Battalion,
which consists of combat ultra-Orthodox soldiers, cancelled a swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Thursday for fear that extremist haredim from "zealous" groups would protest during the event against the recruitment of yeshiva students to the army and civil service, Ynet has learned.
The ceremony was set to take place at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem.
The new recruits will be sworn in at their base without the presence of family and friends, some of whom arrived from abroad to attend the ceremony.
Related stories:
At around 2 am Thursday, after the soldiers completed a march marking the end of their basic training, a commander at the Kfir Brigade base in the Jordan Valley
informed them that the swearing-in ceremony had been cancelled.
Haredi riots in Jerusalem (Photo: Aharon Rahav - News 24)
"We can call the police, and of course we can disperse them, but we do not want to cause a war and hatred between brothers because of a swearing-in ceremony," the commander explained. "We are here for them as well, even if they do not realize it, and it is our duty to prevent unnecessary clashes."


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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Senior Dom Silvestri, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, returned home and gave a solid start on the mound to give the Butler baseball team a 7-5 win over Youngstown State on Friday. Silvestri threw 6.0 innings for the win and improved to 3-0 on the year.
Silvestri, a fifth-year senior, scattered five hits and walked two. He struck out two and really only got into trouble in the 5th inning. He allowed four runs, three of which were earned.
Senior Mike Hoscheit homered and drove in two runs for the Bulldogs, who moved to 4-3 in league play. Freshman Michael Fries had two hits and scored twice and another freshman, Austin Miller, totaled two hits and a sac bunt.
Fries doubled and scored in the top of the 1st to give BU an early lead. Marcus Heath hit a two-run homer in the bottom half to put YSU ahead 2-1. In the top of the 4th, Hoscheit led off with a solo home run to left to key a three-run Butler inning. Miller had an RBI in the inning as BU claimed a 4-2 lead.
With the game tied 4-4, the Bulldogs took the lead for good in the top of the 6th. Singles by Miller and Fries got the inning started and senior Griffin Richeson doubled and scored. An RBI groundout and a sac fly out of the middle of the order put Butler ahead 7-4. Youngstown State got a run back in the bottom of the 8th but was shut down by Chase Byerly and didn't get any closer. Byerly got the final four outs for his league-leading seventh save.
Butler (14-13) tagged Penguin starter Blake Aquadro for seven runs over 5.0 innings. Aquadro struck out seven. Two YSU relievers pitched four shutout innings, but the damage by Butler had already been done.
Butler will play Saturday, March 31 at Youngstown State at 1 p.m. Junior Joel Leichty will get the start.


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The decision to move to a Network-Based Firewall Service is certainly a multi-faceted one. But making an honest assessment of your organization's security skills and resources is a great place to start. The next step is to choose whether you can handle the task in-house or not. Network-based firewall services (NBFWS) are gaining momentum. By their location in the cloud, NBFWS offer advantages related to effectiveness, scalability, availability, and extensibility. Also on the list of potential benefits are compelling cost advantages.
Yet, the decision to move to NBFWS is, ultimately, a risk decision. For some organizations, the risk is too high, regardless of the cost savings. For others, NBFWS can meet the corporate risk profile. Read the Nemertes paper on this topic and the critical steps in the decision making process.
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Security-as-a-Service adoption is on the rise as organizations recognize it can be more effective and less costly than in-house Do-it-Yourself (DIY) solutions. Security-as-a-Service is cloud-based security services delivered via the Internet or a public switched network such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), on a subscription or pay-as-you-go basis. A consideration for many security organizations is firewall Security-as-a-Service: a Network-Based-Firewall Service (NBFWS) also known as a cloud-based firewall. Firewalls have been a mainstay of IT security for more than 20 years and their primary function, making inbound/outbound decisions on user and application data, is still the same. Of course, firewalls now offer packet inspection that supports the full protocol, whether in-house or in the cloud. This gives IT security management a fundamental choice: DIY or NBFWS. How does one choose which option is best for their business? It turns out there are three key factors to address when making the choice: trust, effectiveness, and cost.


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This is a pretty good map megahunter, you certainly have nothing to be ashamed of! It looks like you are using CC3?
The borders are a bit too much I think. There's a tutorial on this site how to do political maps. Maybe you can use it?
Also you might want to give the labels a bit more bang. Maybe add a glow or something.
And lastly, maybe put the mountains a bit closer together and vary in their size.
Have some reputation as I think it's a cool map and you are definitely on the right track.


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Mince alors!
Genre: Comedy, Foreign
Nina is young, pretty and voluptuous. Unfortunately, her husband hates thin women. Still--before she goes to Paris to launch her line of specialty bathing suits she decides to enroll in a weight loss camp. There she meets a lawyer from Marseille who is a complete control freak, and Emilie a mother who claims to be convinced of the motto "Big is beautiful" although her love life is at a standstill and her weight puts her in danger.


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My Speed Pro TT has a internal gear hub, the SRAM Dualdrive, that is messed up. It slips and loses its gear when too much force is applied. Currently, it will only run on the highest gear reliably, although with a grinding noise.
It irks me to ride a bike that is somewhat broken.
The bike has the Dualdrive 30 set up, so it has a SRAM Force 10-speed cassette. I'm wondering what you people think is the best way forward to fixing this bike? Looking for something cost efficient.
In my mind, I'm thinking of just buying a new wheel that will accommodate a 10-speed cassette and just ride it as a ten speed. Thoughts on where to buy these parts?


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Phone number located in London, United Kingdom.
they are debt collectors for vodafone
I rang them back after many calls to my mobile and asked who they were they said business matters so I said nothing to do with me please remove me from your calling list. She said done I said thank you so I hope it now stops.
Sending text messages with FRE or FRD.. As if it is not enough phoning as well.
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Take the letter and get an advice from a solicitor (Advice is free, any action or writing or representation become chargable.)
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Talk to the company you had problems with and learn what have they done.
Talk to a solicitor.
This number has rung my home phone and my mobile at least 100 times. I have never answered it and never will.
I don't know the company
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If sliced bread were at all important to the medical marijuana industry, this would be the best thing since that. But bread is peanuts compared to the breakthrough that 420 Web Pros has developed to forever change the Medical Marijuana Delivery Service.
In some counties, particularly Los Angeles, it has become increasingly more difficult to operate a medical marijuana collective or delivery service as a result of ever stricter local laws. In an explosion that could be compared to the California's big gold rushes of old, the city of Los Angles quickly grew to include a record number of collectives upon the newly elected President Obama's public decision to reign in the D.E.A. and allow state and local governments a great deal more say when it comes to the legal status and enforcement of drugs and medical marijuana. The explosion of new collectives in Los Angeles led to the eventual tightening of the belt in an effort to crackdown on individuals and groups that were taking advantage of California's thoughtful and generous medical marijuana laws. As a result, it is now very difficult to open a new dispensary (storefront collective) in Los Angeles and the vast majority of those who had in the past 2-5 years have been shut down. Collectives are no longer allowed to open a dispensary in close proximity to residential areas or school zones and the limit on the number of dispensaries allowed to operate in Los Angeles has been set at a level that, while still allowing for reasonable availability of medicine, has reversed the recently booming trend of a dispensary on every corner. Dispensaries, the patients they service and the people they employ have been hit hard in recent months and barring the passing of Prop-19 (which is a horrible piece of legislation, Vote "NO") it doesn't look like there are any changes coming in the near future. The days are dark for dispensaries but that's okay, opening a delivery service is easier, safer, cheaper and more convenient for both collective members and employees.
Delivery collectives, often referred to as delivery services, are no different from a dispensary in that they are owned and operated by a collective and the financial donations of the members that make up that collective. In order to join, a member must have a legally obtained and valid recommendation from a properly licensed doctor, and must be confirmed and approved by the managers of that collective just like with a dispensary collective. The obvious benefits of a delivery service over a dispensary are:
- Convenience - Members of your collective will no longer have to make trips out to the dispensary to pick up medicine. During the heyday of Los Angeles' dispensary boom, there were literally HUNDREDS of locations around LA where you could join a collective and simply walk down the block to pick up your medicine. Those days are over, but even then it was inconvenient for some patients. You and I may think walking three blocks down the street is no big thing, but to a cancer patient or someone with severe arthritis a three block trek is a deal-breaker! Today the number of neighborhood dispensaries has dwindled considerably, and the option of traveling to a collective has been removed for many seriously ill patients.
- Discretion – It is believed by many that one of the reasons the crackdown on LA's dispensaries came about it such a harsh manner is that the medical marijuana dispensary explosion happened in a very loud and flagrant way, that seemed indignant and in contrast with the spirit of medical marijuana laws. Giant neon pot leaves in windows, big bold signs outside high security storefronts with barred windows exhibiting cannabis plants and medical symbols all drew massive amounts of unfavorable attention to medical marijuana and the pervasiveness it had achieved in Southern California society. With a delivery service, your collective operates discreetly and remotely. There is no need for a brick-and-mortar storefront and loud signage to call attention, and the huge expenses that come along with setting up shop in a desirable, populated area. With a delivery service you can operate a small location for managing the medicine and do so in a discreet, remote area that allows your collective to conform with strict local laws and avoid calling attention to a physical location. Your overhead costs are significantly lower and due to the convenient nature of a delivery service, collective members are usually willing to donate a bit more to offset any costs uncured by the delivery drivers.
The Medical Marijuana Deliver Service is a method that has been used by many collectives in California and across the United States for years. It's popularity has grown in recent months as many collectives, having had their dispensary shut down, are searching for a way to continue providing medical marijuana to their members. As a result, 420 Web Pros has put a lot of thought into the question "How does a medical marijuana delivery service best leverage the power of the internet to the advantage of it's collective members?", and we've come up with an amazing answer!
The Virtual Online Collective is an all-in-one solution that allows a delivery service to both communicate with it's members and also grants members a portal that they can log in to in order to view and place orders on medicine and merchandise. It is a password protected, encrypted website that your members can use as their completely discreet and secure online gateway to the collective's delivery service. We can even set you up with merchant accounts to make things that much simpler!
420 Web Pros is the leader in medical marijuana web design, medical marijuana print and branding, medical marijuana SEO and marketing and have recently started offering photography, videography and video editing services, 420 Web Pros is officially the premiere 420 Media Group in the country. Now, 420 Web Pros is ready to elevate an already impressive array of services and offerings again by revealing the Virtual Online Collective, a web solution allowing members of a collective to login to the delivery service's website and place their medical marijuana orders online, in a respectful and discreet manner. This is an absolute revolution in medical marijuana delivery as it allows a collectives to receive and now process medical marijuana transactions in a discreet, closed-loop systems that both maximizes convenience for collective members and minimizes the risk of collective operators and drivers.
The Virtual Online Collective for Medical Marijuana Delivery Services allows collectives to process transactions or donations using a credit or debit card, something that is unheard of until now. The response from collectives who have implemented the Virtual Online Collective has been overwhelming! Imagine members being able to login, see a record of their past orders, view all the available medicines currently in stock, place an order for medication and delivery time and have their medication discreetly delivered to them in the privacy and comfort of their own home, and then making their donation using their debit card. What could be better for a collective? But it doesn't stop at medicine. A Virtual Online Collective is a a full featured online store, allowing collectives to supply to their members a whole array of products. Anything that a brick-and-mortar dispensary could sell in it's shop (t-shirts, stickers, papers, glassware, ect.) can be posted to the site and placed in an order along with medicine and delivered discreetly to the member's home. This is an excellent way for collectives to supplement their working budget by offering peripheral items to member's as opposed to just relying on donations for medicine. Many collectives using the Virtual Online Collective solution to operate a medical marijuana delivery service have been able to generate a sizable amount of extra revenue for the collective by making available additional items for their members. This extra revenue has allowed these collectives to expand their delivery area, improve the infrastructure of the collective (office, delivery vehicles, ect.) and hold events where collective members get together and socialize. Plus, the money that collective's save not having to rent an expensive residential area storefront and pay to have it fully staffed ensure that suggested donations can be as competitive as anyone else.
In the world of Medical Marijuana delivery, the biggest selling points for collectives looking to expand their membership is convenience and discretion. Prospective members want the fastest, most considerate and discreet service they can find in order to maximize ease of use and minimize any inconvenience acquiring medicine might incur. The delivery service that can best provide those things is the one that will be making the most deliveries, period. If you are a medical marijuana collective looking to start operating a medical marijuana delivery service for your members, or if you are a pre-existing medical cannabis delivery, now is the time to start evaluating if your web strategy. The Virtual Online Collective is the groundbreaking new online tool that will become the standard of the medical marijuana delivery industry in the near future. 420 Web Pros is a forward thinking media group that is committed to bringing the most innovate ideas and solutions to the medical marijuana industry, and the creation of the Virtual Online Collective solidifies their lead as the nations premiere 420 Media Group. Medical marijuana collectives are now faced with a tough choice, they must either drastically change the practices (and perhaps locations) of their dispensaries or seek an alternative solution to ensure they are allowed to continue operating safely and in compliance with local regulations. As the medical marijuana delivery service establishes itself as the clear alternative to a brick-and-mortar dispensary, collectives who enlist the help of 420 Web Pros and the Virtual Online Collective are sure to lead the way!


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The line up for 'The Night' includes international female DJs Cherry Ice and Emma Feline from the UK, as well as Kenya's own DJ Joe Mfalme, Chuckie and Mobi.
With precise mixing and intuitive selection DJ Emma Feline plays for the crowd, taking the dance floor on a journey through genres and decades. When booked for a specialist house night she mixes soulful, deep, minimal house, and pays homage to the past with some early classics.
When in party mode, Emma loves to drop an eclectic set filled with 80's and early 90's pop, soul, funk, hip hop, house and garage. Emma Feline isn't just another female DJ with a pretty face. She's a radio presenter for Choice FM and South London Radio, a producer/remixer who regularly tours around the globe from Sri Lanka to Estonia playing for many of the top clubs, promotions and festivals.
On the other hand, DJ Chery Ice has been Dj'ing for about 12 years and is a Rapper and Beat Maker too. She specialises in Hip hop/RnB music as well as a bit of Old school Hip hop/RnB, and Vocal Funky/house. She has played in many Local and International clubs out there proving that females can do it better!!
DJ Chery Ice
You can be sure to hear the hottest tracks on rotation on one of her Mixtapes. The difference with her Mixtapes and others is that she keeps them as live as possible with very little artificial mixes and effects! Various online radio , local as well as internationally stations such as Brazil's Clipfm National Radio, have featured her mixes on Regular Slots.
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Thanks to the Mullaperiyar dam controversy, Tamil Nadus major political parties are speaking in one voice for a change. They banned the screening of the film Dam 999, directed by Sohan Roy and produced in Hollywood, which shows the collapse of a dam in Kerala. Although the director denied it was a political film, the number 999 made Tamil Nadu politicians see red. They found it a motivated title, an apparent reference to the 999-year rights held by Tamil Nadu over the Mullaperiyar dam. Disaster movies are about spectacles and these are images we carry with us. Each time there is an incident, we remember what we saw on the screen. In reality, these horrors do not occur with any great regularity. More people die of road accidents than air crashes. Yet, we fear plane crashes more, although we continue to fly. But our decisions are not based on facts. Emotions take over. So much so that the banning of the film (which reviewers say is tedious) was not criticised by even those who support freedom of expression.
The Mullaperiyar dam crisis is an emotive issue for both Tamil Nadu and Kerala. One fears the death of millions (numbers vastly exaggerated) by the crashing of a 116-year-old dam due to earthquakes. The other fears deprivation of water and livelihood in five districts. The Mullaperiyar dam was constructed by the British during 1887-1895 across the Periyar River in the then Travancore state (now Kerala). The dam, with a full reservoir level of 152 feet, provides for the diversion of water from the reservoir through a tunnel to the Vaigai basin in Tamil Nadu for irrigation. The Travancore state and the Madras presidency signed a 999-year lease, according to which the dam was to be operated by the Tamil Nadu government. The Periyar power station in Tamil Nadu produces hydroelectric power from these waters and distributes that electricity in the state.
Agreements signed during the British rule became invalid after Independence. However, in 1970, the Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments signed a formal agreement to renew the 1886 treaty. The Idukki Hydroelectric project, located 30-km downstream, was completed subsequently, in 1976, by the Kerala government. Over the years, the areas downstream of the Mullaperiyar dam have become heavily inhabited in Kerala. Tamil Nadus requirement for irrigation water has also increased. But safety considerations started haunting the Kerala psyche. A couple of dam collapses in


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The supercharger went bad on the car so I baught a rebuilt one from the dealer. Now the problem I'm having is finding someone that turn car after putting the part in. What are the spec that I need to go by when tuning the engine apon replacement of the part
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Renee Branch
Debbie Holcombe
Clairesse Jackson
Howard Ross
Ronald Meraz
RONALD MERAZ has
been named head of
Merrill Lynch & Co.'s
office of diversity for
global wealth management. Prior to this
appointment, Meraz was
head of the New York
International Complex,
which includes five
offices in New York,
California and Israel. As
the managing director for
this complex, Meraz
oversaw 122 financial
advisers covering more
than 48 countries. He
joined Merrill Lynch in
1991 as a financial
adviser. He was named
sales manager in 1998
and has held a number
of senior-management
positions in the last 10
years. Merrill Lynch is
one of DiversityInc's 25
Noteworthy Companies
in 2007.
ING named DEBBIE
HOLCOMBE head of
U.S. work-force diversity.
Holcombe will be
responsible for advancing
the company's diversity
initiatives, including
talent recruitment,
retention and
development. Holcombe
will also serve as the U.S.
representative on ING's
global-diversity council.
Holcombe previously
served as the company's
business line brand
manager, responsible
for brand standards and
employee engagement.
Other positions she has
held within ING include
chief administrative
officer for retail planning
and finance management,
head of Annuity New
Business, and vice
president of the Annuity
Call Center.
RENEE BRANCH has
joined The Council on
Foundations as director
of diversity and inclusive
practices. Branch will
work with philanthropic
leaders and organizations
to advance diversity
programs and awareness.
She will also address
diversity needs. Branch
brings 15 years of
senior-level experience
in management, public
administration, and
development. Previously,
she worked with The
Council from Washington
State University in
Vancouver, where she
served as the diversity
faculty fellow and as an
adjunct professor. The
Council on Foundations
is a Washington,
D.C.–based nonprofit
membership association
of more than 2,000 grant-making foundations and
HOWARD ROSS has
been named the fourth
professor of Diversity
in Residence at the
Johnnetta B. Cole Global
Diversity & Inclusion
Institute for the 2007–
2008 academic year
at Bennett College for
Women. Ross will present
a seminar, "The Shifting
Paradigm of Diversity,"
to Bennett students
during the fall and spring
semesters. Ross is the
founder and president
of Cook Ross, one of
the nation's leading
diversity-training and
consulting companies.
He is a nationally
recognized expert on
diversity, leadership
and organizational
change. He received his
undergraduate degree
from the University of
Maryland. Luke Visconti,
partner and cofounder
of DiversityInc, is on
the boards of trustees
of Bennett College and
the Johnnetta B. Cole
Global Diversity &
Inclusion Institute.
NCR Corp. recently
announced the
promotion of CLAIRESSE
JACKSON to chief
diversity officer. Jackson's
responsibilities will
include the design and
development of a global
diversity strategy that
aligns and supports NCR's
business strategy. Among
other responsibilities,
Jackson will also
continue to manage
NCR's supplier-diversity
program. Jackson brings
more than 20 years of
NCR experience from a
wide range of disciplines,
including serving as
NCR's expert on supplier
diversity. She holds a
bachelor's degree from
Wright State University
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Video Biography | ESPN.com article
Gray Career Stats
Career Highlight Video
• 2015 AP All-American (3rd Team)
• 2015 WBCA All-Region
• 2015 Pac-12 Player of the Year
• 2015 Wade Trophy Finalist
• 2015 Wooden Award Finalist
• 2015 Naismith Trophy Midseason Candidate
• 2015 All-Pac-12 First Team (Coaches and Media)
• 2015 Preseason All-American (Lindy's, Sporting News, Athlon Sports)
• 2015 Preseason All-Pac-12
• 2014 All-Pac-12 Selection (Coaches & Media)
• 2012 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (Coaches & Media)
• 2012 Full Court Freshman Second Team All-American
As a JUNIOR in 2013-14, selected by the coaches and media as a First Team All-Pac-12 ... scored a career-high 43 points against Washington State (February 27) - four shy of the program record for single-game points ... her 43 points are the most by a player in the Pac-12 this season and second-most by a post player in the country ... ranks fifth in the NCAA with her .604 field goal percentage ... put up 15 double-doubles, including eight straight to end the regular season ... California's leading scorer and rebounder at 17.6 points per game and 9.0 rebounds per game ... became the 26th Golden Bear to pass the 1,000-point threshold with her 24-point outing at Washington State (February 9) ... pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds on two occassions, first against Washington State (February 27) and then again two days later against Washington (March 1) ... named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on February 10 after averaging 22 points and 11 rebounds in wins at Washington and Washington State.
As a SOPHOMORE in 2012-13, averaged 8.3 points and 5.2 rebounds in less than 20 minutes played per game ... in her lone start against Utah, put up 19 points and 8 rebounds before injuring her hamstring, causing her to miss Cal's next three games ... efficient scorer in the post ... scored a season high 22 points against Cal Poly behind a 10-for-14 effort from the free throw line ... opened the season with four consecutive games in double figures scoring (Lehigh, St. Mary's, Cal Poly, Eastenr Washington) ... went scoreless but was noted for her defense on Stanford All-American Chiney Ogwumike in Cal's 67-55 win at No. 5 Stanford on January 13 ... Flirted with double doubles against St. Mary's (11 points, 9 rebounds), Bakersfield (12 points, 8 rebounds), No. 19 Kansas (13 points, 7 rebounds), Stanford (8 points, 8 rebounds), USC (9 points, 9 rebounds) and Georgia (8 points, 11 rebounds) ... 11-rebound effort against Georgia in the NCAA Elite Eight was a season high ... won a gold medal competing for the United States at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia, where she led the USA with a .846 (11-of-13) shooting percentage over 6 games.
As a FRESHMAN in 2011-12, was a member of the Pac-12 All-Freshman team...Pac-12 Media All-Freshman team...Full Court Freshman All-American Second Team...second on the team in scoring , averaging 10.5 ppg...third on the team in rebounding at 6.0 rpg...began her collegiate career with an 11-point performance at Rutgers...scored 11 points in nine minutes against Illinois...scored in double digits each of her first five games...had her first career double double with 13 points and 10 rebounds against CSU Bakersfield...scored 23 points in 17 minutes against UNLV...was named the MVP of the Cal Classic, scoring a combined 36 points with 14 rebounds...scored 10 points in the first half at USC, helping the Bears to erase a 16-point deficit...scored a combined 26 points in the home series against the Oregon schools...was a perfect 3-for-3 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the line against Oregon...scored 11 points, all in the second half, at Utah...scored 16 points, going 6-for-10 from the floor and 4-for-4 from the free throw line, against Washington...in her second career start, got her second career double double with a game-high 22 points and a career-high 13 rebounds...had her second double double in three games with a career-high 14 rebounds and 17 points against UCLA...scored 29 points with 22 rebounds in the Pac-12 Tournament, nearly coming up with a double double (9 pts, 8 rebounds) going up against the Ogwumike sisters in the championship game against Stanford...scored 14 points with six rebounds in the NCAA Tournament first round game against Iowa...scored 15 points in the second round game against Notre Dame.
High School: 2011 McDonald's All-American...2010 Los Angeles City Player of the Year, Los Angeles City-Section Player of the Year, and league MVP after leading Washington Prep to a 22-12 record and a Marine League championship, contributing 19.3 ppg, 14.5 rpg, 2.3 spg and 1.0 rpg during her junior campaign...rated by HoopGurlz as the No. 22 overall prospect and No. 8 forward in the country... played on the Under-18 U.S. National team and helped the squad to a gold medal at the 2010 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, averaging 6.0 ppg and 5.8 rpg while shooting 52.4 percent from the floor for Team USA...also played volleyball and ran track for Washington Prep...was a volleyball MVP.
Personal: Born June 1, 1993 in Los Angeles, Calif...parents are Janice Jones and Richard Gray...has six siblings (three brother, three sisters)...was part of the leadership of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Washington Prep...really likes squirrels..Social Welfare major.


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DR Congo forces advance towards ex-rebel chief holdout
The Congolese army said Thursday it had advanced towards the holdout of renegade general Jean Bosco Ntaganda, who has been blamed for fomenting violence and displacing tens of thousands of people.
Clashes between the regular army and forces loyal to Ntaganda had broken out near Mushaki, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the main regional city of Goma, a Congolese army colonel told AFP.
"Our troops are heading towards Mushaki from Karuba, and it is there that fighting is currently taking place," he said.
The United Nations said Thursday about 20,000 people had fled the fighting since Sunday, with more than 3,500 people crossing the border into neighbouring Rwanda and the rest held up in government-run camps near Goma.
Ntaganda had told AFP on Tuesday that he was at his farm near Mushaki, in Nord-Kivu province, and has denied all responsibility for clashes between forces loyal to him and the army in the east.
But Julien Paluku, governor of Nord-Kivu, on Wednesday said the Congolese government blamed the violence on Ntaganda and that the general would be tried for the clashes.
Ntaganda is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes allegedly committed in 2006 when the general was accused of using child soldiers.
Congolese President Joseph Kabila has come under international pressure to arrest Ntaganda, but his government has insisted in the past that Ntaganda's cooperation was needed to stabilise the war-ravaged east.
Dozens of Congolese and international organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the US to support Kabila's government in arresting Ntaganda.
In the letter sent Thursday, the 142 rights and civil society groups said: "Ntaganda's brutal human rights abuses over many years have affected tens of thousands."
"His position as a high-ranking officer in the Congolese army, together with his ability to continue to perpetrate abuses is the most flagrant case of Congo's destructive culture of impunity," it added.
Also Thursday, the United Nations Security Council called for Ntaganda's immediate arrest, saying it was especially concerned with the numbers of people being displaced in the fighting.
The Ntaganda-led National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebel group was integrated into the Congolese national army in 2009 following a peace deal to end an uprising in eastern DR Congo.
But in April, a group of several hundred CNDP loyalists, including roughly a dozen senior officers, defected from the army and are now fighting national troops in the east.
The rebels said Ntaganda would not be caught easily and that the army would probably give up before reaching the general.
"They say they will arrest Bosco Ntaganda, but he's a general and can't be caught like a man who has no protection," said one of them.
Before it signed the deal, the CNDP fought government forces in the chronically-troubled Nord-Kivu and at one stage threatened to capture the regional capital Goma.


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An Analysis of Repeat Users of Vivisimo.com
Bernard J. Jansen Sherry Koshman Amanda Spink
Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together @ ASIST '05 (ASIS&T 2005)
Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28 - November 2, 2005
We investigated the occurrence of Web searchers returning to the same information source, in this case the Vivisimo Web search engine. We analyze data from a transaction log spanning a roughly 8-day period with approximately 1,200,000 records. During this time 40,227 users made repeated daily visits to the search engine, submitting 648,897 queries. Our findings show that repeat users make up about 21% of the user base. These repeat users account for over 45% of all sessions and nearly 60% of all queries submitted. Most repeat users (46%) visited the search engine on two days during the data collection period, and a sizeable percentage (17%) made 5 or more daily visits to Vivisimo. We discuss the implications for successive searching and future research.
Discuss this on the ASIS&T 2005 Annual Meeting wiki!
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I just purchased campaign carotographer .. I've had a decent amount of experience with Dundjinni and Fractal Mapper, so CC2 is a bit new but familiar.
I'm having trouble using custom symbol sets however... in the sense of "how the heck do you get them to show up in game?"
The instructions, as far as I can tell, have been of little help.
Also, I was wondering if Profantasy has any official forums? I notice the CC2 information is a bit... all over the place.
The website is quite nice, between.
Great feel.