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Small Business Advocacy Review Panels
The Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) requires that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) receive input from affected small businesses before proposed rules are published. This requirement is in addition to the other mandates of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
When an EPA or OSHA proposal is expected to have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities, the agency must notify the Office of Advocacy. Advocacy then recommends small-entity representatives to be consulted on the rule and its effects.
The agency then convenes a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel, consisting of officials from the agency, the Small Business Administration's(SBA) chief counsel for advocacy, and the Office of Management and Budget's(OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The interagency panel reviews the draft proposed rule and the related analysis prepared by the agency. In addition, the panel collects advice from identified small business representatives and submits a report to the agency within 60 days.
Panel reports often include comments on the agency's preliminary analysis of the impact of the rule on small businesses, and recommendation for regulatory alternatives. The agency reviews the report, makes any appropriate revisions to the rule, and publishes the proposed rule with the panel report as part of the record.
The panel process takes place in the early stages of the rule making. It does not replace, but enhances, the important step of the publishing the proposed rule and accompanying economic analysis for public comment.


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Muse; a woman or a force personified as a woman, who is the source of inspiration for the creative artist.
We have some really lovely guests here at The Rose. As we get to know each better, we keep everyone in our thoughts as we shop. We like to review our requests and what direction we are taking before we hit the road.
On this particular trip, we invited two of our muses to come along. Taylor of the Little Deer Vintage and Roxanne of Tender Turning Quietly. Both of these girls have quite the following on their blogs as well as their stores.
Instead of making them get up for the usual 3 a.m. takeoff when we visit the Rose Bowl, we decided to go to the Melrose Flea Market instead since it has a lot of vintage clothing and accessories (plus a late opening time).
We left at 6 a.m. and made our first (and most important) stop at 6:10 a.m. Yep, they are coffee lovers too! Personally I think it's a prequisite to successful junking. We may have also stopped at one of our favorite spots in Montecito to get a bit of fuel--we indulged in peach french toast and an omelet with goat cheese, asparagus and spinach. This is definitely not normal, but one must show a good time.
Fairfax High also has a flea market every sunday. I find this flea very different from the others we go to. When we need vintage clothing items or boots or accessories, it will usually supply us...although we have been there and we've left empty handed.
Roxanne and Taylor were both excited to find their loot. We seperated off and they worked like pros. They each navigated really fun buys. Since this market is in Hollywood, we all knew a star spotting was very likely. I spied a group of seven girls hustling around this gal, a model maybe? Each of them with cameras and duffle bags--fussing and working quickly to get their shots. It was fun to watch (although I think that 3 or 4 could have handled it).
We shared notes once we found each other and talked about what we saw (cutoffs...too many) and didnt see (affordable art). After one round, we were all way too hot to go another round so we shipped off. After another glass of iced coffee, we made a plan to check out another market on the way home. It's a fairly new one that is in a parking lot off the Topanga Mall and held on the 4th Sunday of the month. I didn't know what to expect. It was really hard to judge this market due to the heat...I seemed to only go into the booths with shade. We thought it was hot in Hollywood, but it was SUPER hot in Topanga! The girls liked this market better--they both found art AND clothes!
It was so fun getting to know these two better! Make sure to check out their blogs (Taylor, Roxanne) and vintage items in their shops (Taylor, Roxanne).
After looking back at the photos, I am so bummed that I forgot to pick up some of the painted tiles (above). They were all so brilliant and this one in particular summarizes what I think of many times. Be nice or leave! Right?

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Perhaps only famous in local knowledge and folklore, but I think rates worth a mention. This is an excerpt from the document "DAVIES HILL E.L. 28/95 FINAL YEAR REPORT R. H. Wray-McCann June 2001"
"My intention, in applying for the Davies Hill exploration license, was to follow up a little known Western Tasmania prospecting observation that was made by the well known Queenstown area, hermit gold prospector, the late Jack Stephens 1920-1993.
Jack had worked the nearby Diamond Hill/Diamond Creek alluvial gold patches as far back as the early 1930's with his father and other West Coast prospectors.
Jack enlisted in the A.I.F. at the outbreak of the Second World War and returned to Queenstown, shell-shocked.
Around 1947 he went bush.
He never came in until 1992.
He lasted a year in the 'city', Queenstown and died.
Throughout the forty years or more that he lived bush, Jack never collected a military, or any pension.
He wanted nothing to do with the 'real world'.
He lived entirely on the gold he recovered in his pan, which, over the decades, he would regularly barter for supplies, from trusted Queenstown shopkeepers.
Jack always had gold and had panned nearly every creek on the western flanks of the West Coast Range, from Mt Darwin to Lake Margaret.
Soon after Jack had finally been persuaded to move, in the late 1980's, from his Diamond Hill corrugated tin shanty, to a small garden shed, not more than 150 metres north of my own back door, thieves from Gormanstown raided his old Diamond Hill shanty and stole a vegemite jar, over half full of fine, alluvial gold.
In terms of longevity and earnestly paying your own way, I realise now that Jack Stephens is undoubtedly the most successful gold prospector, who ever panned a creek in Tasmania.
Although Jack never did find the elusive big one, he did hold his own rock solid views, on the origin of the alluvial gold that he had followed up the courses of the Pearl and Diamond creek systems, north of Queenstown, till the day he died.
Jack was of the firm opinion that the fine alluvial gold that he had long panned from both these creeks, had its source origins near the foot of Davies Hill, where both of these creeks commence.
I first heard of Jack's observations around 1994 and on the strength of them I later applied for the Davies Hill exploration license, was granted it, then set to the task of following up Jack's problematic hidden lode."
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While skimming around through some tea Web pages not so long ago - as I so often do - I came across an interesting article at the Tea Treasures site. It's a nicely illustrated and informative piece about tea drinking in Morocco. Tea there, as the article notes, "consists of Chinese green gunpowder tea, fresh mint leaves, usually spearmint, I believe, and many cubes of sugar." Worth a look.
More on Moroccan mint tea here and here.
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- BobaTea said...
can we found the morocan mint tea ingredients any where in the world. as we can find Bubble tea now every where, but some time before it was only in China.
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Hi Like to congratulate you on a great blog.
I would also like to personaly invite you to www.gomorocco.com
This is a truly useful site to anyone interested in Morocco, and as a lively Moroccan related forum, without doubt the best on the internet.
Hope to see you there I feel with your knowledge you could be a great asset in the promotion of Morocco.
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The SKY78011-21 SkyOne™ is a hybrid, multimode, multiband Front-End Module (FEM) that supports 2.5G and 3G / 4G handsets and operates efficiently in GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA, and LTE modes. The FEM consists of a GSM800/EGSM900 PA block, a DCS1800/PCS1900 PA block, separate WCDMA blocks operating in the low and high bands, a logic control block for multiple power control levels, and band enable functions in both cellular and UMTS. RF I/O ports are internally matched to 50 to minimize the number of external components. Extremely low leakage current maximizes handset standby time. The InGaP/GaAs die and passive components are mounted on a multi-layer laminate substrate and the assembly encapsulated in plastic overmold.
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The Coromandel Peninsula is a bird-watchers paradise with many species inhabiting the vast bush clad mountain ranges and extensive coastline.
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The Coromandel Peninsula is a bird-watchers paradise with many species inhabiting the vast bush clad mountain ranges and extensive coastline.
Until the arrival of man there were no rats, possums, cats or dogs so the primary predators were eagles, harriers and falcons. These hunters relied on swift flight and sharp eyes to locate their prey, so many native birds nested and fed close to the ground.
With so much danger from above, it was much safer to walk so many birds became flightless or nearly so. Drab colour or green plumage also meant birds wouldn't be as noticeable to eagle-eyed hunters.
The native bush surrounding Ferry Landing, near Hot water beach and Hahei is home to many beautiful bush and seabirds.
Thrush and Starlings build their nests every year in the Bougainvillea and Jasmine vines adorning the pergola. This offers a unique opportunity to follow the progress from newly laid eggs to young birds.
Usually 3 eggs are laid but its unusual if all 3 survive. The usual struggle for food sees the strongest fledgling win the day.
These same nests are used by the Shining Cuckoo who kicks out the Thrushes eggs, leaving their own eggs for the Thrush to incubate and rear.
Regular visitors to this bird-lovers paradise include the Tui, Keruru (Wood pigeon), Fantail, Gull, Pied Shag, Oyster Catcher, Kingfisher, Blue Heron, Wild duck, Parakeet, Gannet, Shining Cuckoo, Blackbird, Silvereye, Yellowhammer, Sparrow, Grey Warbler, Black-Backed Gull, Dotterrel, Californian Quail, Morepork, Pukeko and the occasional pheasant.
Many birds are attracted to our fruit trees, other seabirds have literally 'wandered' inside appearing completely relaxed. Some fly into the glass doors and survive, providing yet another opportunity to take photographs while they recover. With no cats or dogs close by, they seem to have no fear of us. A collection of photos is on our website.


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The Commerce Department's David Kappos, Under Secretary for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), stressed intellectual property's vital role in the innovation economy and its importance to increasing America's global competitiveness today at a Patents, Innovation and Job Creation conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Patent-related industries make up the most dynamic parts of our economy, he said, and as a share of gross economic value, the United States invests more in intangible assets than any of its major trading partners.
As our country seeks to regain the jobs lost during the recession, inventions that could spark new businesses and jobs are waiting in the USPTO's backlog. The Harvard Business Review recently described the USPTO as "the biggest job creator you never heard of." Reducing the time it takes to examine those applications is one of the highest priorities for Director Kappos and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.
Kappos and the USPTO have launched several initiatives to shorten patent pendency and improve patent quality, and the agency will soon outline yet another plan that would give applicants the option to accelerate examination of a patent application. In his remarks today, Kappos also applauded the efforts of Congress to continue pushing for bipartisan legislation that would help the USPTO improve the patent system, expressing the agency's strong support for patent reform. | Director's remarks
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By Jeff Greenfield
So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States.
Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
But the job comes with some baggage, and one of the heaviest of steamer trunks is what to do about a political ally—make that three or four of them—who hands you a stinging defeat on a key, emotionally laden issue.
After the Newtown massacre, you put gun control—sorry, you call it "gun safety" now to avoid ruffling red state sensibilities—back on the table. You give powerful speeches surrounded by the grieving families of the kids who were killed at Sandy Hook. You see a gun rights Democrat, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, and a gun rights Republican, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey draft a bill that provides a kind of, sort of, sprinkled-with-exceptions background check.
And then you see four Democratic senators vote "no." Three of them—Mark Begich of Alaska, Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas—were up for re-election next year (Begich and Pryor still are, but since the vote Baucus has decided not to run) in states where gun rights sentiment runs strong, and where Obama lost last year by wide margins.
What do you do now? For some on your side of this fight the answer is easy. William Daley, your former chief of staff and a member of the Chicago political family that has always played politics as a contact sport, says he'll tell the apostates to look elsewhere for campaign contributions.
Some of your own supporters make a different point. They say you're too soft, unwilling to back a senator up against the wall, stick your face in his (or hers), and get the vote you want—the way Lyndon Johnson used to do.
But you've got other considerations to think about. Next years' midterms are going to be dicey under any circumstances, at least if history is a guide. Presidents in their sixth year almost always find their party losing seats in the Congress. With the retirement of Democrats in tough states such as South Dakota, West Virginia and Montana (Obama performed dismally in all three last year), your party's hold on the Senate is in jeopardy. Cutting two incumbent Democrats loose significantly raises the chances that your party will lose the Senate. And if that happens, you can say goodbye to your domestic agenda, not to mention your federal judgeship nominations.
What you're facing, it turns out, is the same dilemma that any president, any major officeholder faces: How much are you willing to live with in order to pursue a broader agenda?
FDR had to deal with Southern segregationists—and outright racists—who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed. As the Digital History website tells it: "Most New Deal programs discriminated against blacks. The NRA, for example, not only offered whites the first crack at jobs, but authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks. The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) refused to guarantee mortgages for blacks who tried to buy in white neighborhoods, and the CCC maintained segregated camps. Furthermore, the Social Security Act excluded those job categories blacks traditionally filled."
JFK faced the same ugly reality: In order to get a black candidate approved for a federal judgeship, he had to name an ally of Mississippi Sen. James Eastland to the federal bench. That judge delighted in calling black civil rights demonstrators "chimpanzees"—and worse—but Kennedy paid that price.
So what do you do, Mr. (or Madame) President? Do you offer an object lesson to other members of your party by telling the trio of defecting senators to take a hike as a way of saying, "If you desert me on a big issue, you will pay the price?"
Or do you decide to swallow your anger and cheerfully hit the campaign trail next year to save this trio, because the price of losing the Senate is just too high?
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Student pharmacists earn national award for Pacific Islander Mobile Screening Clinic
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Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
A team of student pharmacists from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo attained the top spot in a national pharmacy organization's student community service awards.
The American Association of College of Pharmacy (AACP) named Shanele Shimabuku (Class of 2013), Jed Sana, Tracy Nakama, Ann Txakeeyang, Brianne Gustillo, Amanda Wendel and Naoto Oki (Class of 2014) and Davis Hanai (Class of 2015) as the top team to have earned The Student Community Engaged Service Award.
The award, sponsored by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is "intended to encourage students and faculty to design and build programs of community-engaged service learning, deliver consumer education about medication use, expand access to affordable medications, and improve the public's health."
The award-winning project is called the Pacific Islander Mobile Screening Clinic (PIMSC), which seeks to improve public health and access to people largely from the Marshall Islands through the use of health fairs and wellness clinics. Students conducted diabetes, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, as well as provided wellness and lifestyle counseling and referrals to accessible health care services offered at reasonable costs.
Through collaboration with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) and networking with other community organizations island-wide, the PIMSC has screened more than 350 participants so far this year through mobile screening clinics. PIMSC participants are invited back for follow-up, and Hawaiʻi County residents are welcome to take advantage of regularly scheduled clinic office hours at the free ADRC Wellness and Safe Medication Use Clinic run by Dr. Katherine Anderson and second-year pharmacy students.
"Part of the beauty is that students and our community partners serve when they are able and so there is a fluid combination of different members volunteering at different times," said Anderson, who is the faculty adviser for the project. "In this way, in addition to providing an important service for our patients, the overall educational experience of our student pharmacists is enriched."
The students were awarded plaques and a cash team prize to be used for enhancing or sustaining PIMSC, or for travel support for them to attend and present their projects at a professional meeting.
The College also received a cash award to be used exclusively to support program expansion of recognized or new community engaged service projects, as well as a Tiffany & Co. Shooting Star. One designated student and faculty advisor will receive funding to attend the national awards ceremony at AACP's 2013 annual meeting that will be held in Chicago this July.
Txakeeyang, who is the lead author on a poster that will be presented at a conference for the American Pharmacists Association (AphA) March 1-4 in Los Angeles, said PIMSC has come a long way since beginning in 2010. She said being a part of the mobile clinic has helped her and her fellow students become better future pharmacists.
"By reaching out to disenfranchised Pacific Islanders and giving us hands-on, real professional pharmacy experience working with people, we as student pharmacists have the ability to increase our cultural awareness," Txakeeyang said. "One of our greatest accomplishments this year was establishing relationships with some of the Marshallese leaders. This allowed us to build bridges with a group of individuals who typically do not seek health care due to barriers such as language and health care access."
The Marshallese Mobile Screening Clinic got its start with funding from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy's Student Leadership Enrichment fund. In March 2012, it was named one of 17 Healthy Eating and Active Living projects to receive funding from the Hawaiʻi Island Beacon Community.
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Pronunciation: re-trê-nim
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A phrase created to distinguish a term that was once used alone but now must be distinguished from a phrase based on the term that indicates a new development.
Notes: As modern technology makes finer and finer distinctions among the products we use in our lives, the words referring to those products must make finer and finer categorical distinctions. What was simply a book in my youth, today is a hardback book to distinguish it from a paperback book. Hardback book, then, is a retronym. Others include dead tree book (formerly book) vs. e-book, ice skates (formerly skates) vs. roller skates, whole milk (formerly just milk) vs. skim(med) milk.
In Play: This good word is a 'neologism', a new term that has not been accepted by all English dictionaries. Since there is no compelling reason we can see to talk about retronyms (they are just there), we are also not sanguine about its chances of survival. Retronyms themselves are not new, just the term is. Expressions like sighted person vs. blind person, a hearing person vs. a deaf person have been around for ages
Word History: Today's word was coined recently from the Latin adverb retro "backward" attached to our old friend, Greek onyma "name". Of course, combining a Latin with a Greek word to form a compound is not grammatically kosher. Using a 'nym to refer to a phrase rather than a word is roller skating on thin grammatical ice, too. These weaknesses only reinforce our doubts about the stick-to-it-iveness of today's word. But, then, odder words than this have made it through. (Our chief web administrator, Andrew Shaffer, was disappointed that we omitted this 'nym in our recent series on this category. We hope this discussion raises his spirits—and yours.)
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Was it gailr who found that site about the grammar police?
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I don't think I can take credit for those sites, but I enjoyed perusing them today, Apo. I eagerly await the day when one of our own is inducted into the "Deputies' Hall of Fame". Such an Agoran will deserve our obeisance.
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President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
For far too long America has used positional leadership practices, ie dictating from a position of power, in its dealings around the world. This leadership style is known to be poor at developing commitment, can cause hard feelings, resentment and can even result in an atmosphere of fear and mistrust. President Obama approached the Muslim audience from the perspective of meeting upper level human needs, a leadership style that builds commitment and forms trust. This leadership style, especially coming from the leader of the free world, should be a door opener for starting dialogue towards peace and conflict resolution.
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In this published Letter to the Editor (Raleigh N&O), powerful members of the North Carolina legislature have demonstrated little understanding of the importance of customer retention in building the business base of the state.
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The GOP's decision to reinstate tax cut policy in 2001 exposed their hand. It was not about deficit reduction, growing the economy, or job creation. It was about ideology and, no doubt, special interests. It was a backdoor approach where government revenue was cut in an attempt to curtail spending on popular programs they otherwise could not take head-on. This while obstructing the work of Congress, spinning a web of deceit about the benefits of their policy, and weakening our country's financial standing. It's time to play hardball during 'fiscal cliff' negotiations and force them to be specific about what spending cuts they are talking about to offset the tax benefits they wish to preserve for the wealthiest. They wouldn't have the nerve.


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Elephant population dwindles as demand for ivory grows; how to foster a baby elephant
On Wednesday "Nightly News" aired a report from special correspondent Chelsea Clinton featuring naturalist Daphne Sheldrick (above), who has been working for decades to preserve Kenya's wildlife. The final piece in Clinton's two-part series (below) aired Thursday, and it explains how baby elephants orphaned by poachers are being rescued and raised.
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I saw it on NBC. It was horrific to see a baby elephant refusing to leave its dying mother's side.
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Catholic Church enables elephant poaching, especially in the Phillipines. Monsignor Cristobal Garcia is one of the best known ivory collectors in the Philippines. Some highly organized military scale poachers are Muslim.
Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years.
Many believe that what you invest in devotion to your own icon determines what blessings you will receive in return. For some, then, a fiberglass or wooden icon is not enough. For them, the material of choice is elephant ivory.
Oh I didn't know that the ivory was fueled by the Catholic Church and its religious icons. Thank you Ruth for the knowledge you bring to me.
Blood Ivory fuels conflict.
New players have entered the bloody business of African ivory, and they are even more brutal than average poachers. These are militia members and rebels who mow down the animals with heavy arms to finance their wars. Groups such as the militant Islamist al-Shabab in Somalia, the Janjaweed of Sudan and the notorious Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda are turning the savannahs of central Africa into a Killing Fields for elephants.
As diamonds once did in Sierra Leone, ivory is now "fueling conflicts across the continent," The New York Times wrote earlier this month. At a US Senate hearing this May, expert on illegal trade Tom Cardamone testified: "In recent years, organized crime syndicates, militias, and even terrorist elements have taken notice of the profits that can be made in the illegal trafficking of wildlife, generating an alarming up-tick in the scale of the industry and posing serious national security concerns for the United States and our partners." Experts in Africa are already talking of "blood ivory," an allusion to the "blood diamonds" that warlords in Sierra Leone once used to pay for their ammunition. [emphasis mine]
Brutal Elephant Slaughter Funds African Conflicts
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
Africa is in the midst of an epic elephant slaughter. Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.
... it is not just outlaws cashing in. Members of some of the African armies that the American government trains and supports with millions of taxpayer dollars — like the Ugandan military, the Congolese Army and newly independent South Sudan's military — have been implicated in poaching elephants and dealing in ivory.
The vast majority of the illegal ivory — experts say as much as 70 percent — is flowing to China, and though the Chinese have coveted ivory for centuries, never before have so many of them been able to afford it. China's economic boom has created a vast middle class, pushing the price of ivory to a stratospheric $1,000 per pound on the streets of Beijing.
The demand for ivory has surged to the point that the tusks of a single adult elephant can be worth more than 10 times the average annual income in many African countries. In Tanzania, impoverished villagers are poisoning pumpkins and rolling them into the road for elephants to eat.
... only a well-oiled criminal machine — with the help of corrupt officials — could move hundreds of pounds of tusks thousands of miles across the globe, often using specially made shipping containers with secret compartments. The smugglers are "Africa-based, Asian-run crime syndicates,"...
Some experts say the survival of the species is at stake, especially when many members of the African security services entrusted with protecting the animals are currently killing them. [emphasis mine]
Elephant Guards Murdered in Chad
Rangers protecting the last elephant herds are being murdered.
Now the hunted are the guards who protect elephants. With the price of ivory gone vertical, and an almost limitless demand, it would seem that the intent of those doing the killing is to kill until the elephants are gone. These guards are in the way.
If history is any indicator, the poachers will not stop when the elephants are gone. Just as these men turned their focus to elephants once the black rhinos were gone, they will turn to every other species, including humans, as sources of revenuethrough banditry, armed hold-ups, and worse. [emphasis mine]
The difficulty of halting this slaughter is highlighted by the numbers driving the illegal market.
Some would argue that we need to kill the demand. Well, a friend of mine has said, "In China if you somehow managed to convince 99.9 percent of the population not to buy ivory, that 0.1 percent who remain unconvinced represents 1.3 million people still wanting to buy ivory." That's three times more people than there are elephants left in Africa.
Elephant slaughter by international organized crime soars.
New Promises Follow Elephant Slaughter in Chad and Cameroon
On March 14-15, at least 86 elephants were killed in Tikem, near Fianga in the Mayo Kebbi East region of southwestern Chad, close to the Cameroon border. Among the victims were more than 30 pregnant females, many of which aborted their calves when they were shot. The calves were left to die, and reportedly some were shot.
... just weeks after the discovery of 28 elephant carcasses, all stripped of their ivory tusks, in Cameroon's Nki and Lobeke National Parks and at least 15 carcasses across four separate locations in Central African Republic.
All these incidents followed numerous reports of columns of Sudanese poachers crossing Central African Republic and heading toward Cameroon and Chad.
Both the Chad and Cameroon governments had responded to this advance notice. In December, the Chad government sent soldiers and military aircraft to patrol the region and Cameroon deployed its Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), a special forces military unit. But neither was able to find the poaching gangs and stop them.
... acknowledged that national initiatives to combat poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking had failed. ... to combat the transnational, organized crime networks that are operating in the region.
Around the world, penalties are notoriously low for wildlife crimes. On March 19 in Ireland, for instance, two rhino horn dealers were fined 500 Euros ($650) each for illegally smuggling eight rhino horns, valued at an estimated 500,000 Euros ($650,000) on the black market.
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Nvidia has finally released an updated 3D Vision driver that has game profiles for some new games that a lot of people waited to be able to properly play in S3D mode, because they were unplayable or did not provide good enough results without profiles. Among the games that now have profiles are the new Call of Juarez, the new NFS even Wolfenstein… and there are also some improvements in some profiles like the one for Batman for better results. So I'll have to try some of these games again, as I already tried some of them, for some I've provided convergence settings that I personally liked etc… Have in mind that the new driver is still not available as a full CD version, meaning that the 1.11 CD version is still with the old driver, so you need to download the standalone 3D Vision driver only to get the 191.03 version!
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Unexpected Ownership, Beyond-Expectations Success
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Window Factory
Larkspur, Calif.
Three years ago when Window Factory owner Leon Blum died suddenly, his two daughters—Jaclyn Blum Guelfi and Rachel Blum—had some big decisions to make. Barely into their early 30s, the sisters found themselves the heirs to a struggling company built on an outdated business model. Still, Window Factory had a good reputation and a great staff. In the midst of a family tragedy, the women had to decide whether to walk away from the business, closing its doors for good, or throw themselves into it 100 percent.
|Sisters Rachel Blum and Jaclyn Blum Guelfi became unexpected owners of Window Factory, and have positioned the company for long-term success.
"We had to put aside a huge part of the personal aspect of it and move quickly," Rachel Blum recalls. "We had to deal with the family death later. My sister and I bounced everything off of each other regarding the company and we moved fast."
Though Window Factory, a specialty window and door retailer serving the San Francisco Bay area, had grown steadily since its founding, the housing downturn hit the company hard starting in 2006. "In the last year of his life, my father shelled his own money into the company to keep it afloat," Blum notes. "He did that because he always thought it would come back. He really put a lot of faith into it. And he had employees he didn't want to let down.
"It was a shocker, even to us," she adds, noting that she and her sister were unaware of the company's financial standing until her father passed away.
Fully Committed
They have spent the last several years modernizing the infrastructure, revamping the marketing strategy and reining in expenses to better align with the company's business volume.
"We had to decide whether to close the doors or almost reinvent Window Factory," Blum says. "We're so excited we made the choice we did, now almost three years later. All we want to do is this—forever. It was all worth the risk. Every day is still a risk for a small business, but you never know what the results will be."
The outcome has been impressive, says John Maloney, president of Anlin Industries, a Window Factory supplier. "I've been greatly impressed with the sisters' resolve and determination to move forward, in spite of some difficult odds," he says. "We were pleased to learn they wanted
Window Factory to continue as a major player in north San Francisco Bay area window sales and installation, but still had some concerns. Well, to their credit, Rachel and Jaclyn have worked through the rough first year [in 2011], and have now brought their monthly sales volume back up to near the prior levels—not an easy task.
"We are pleased to have them as an Anlin dealer and excited to work with them to see what the future holds as they continue to move their business forward," Maloney adds.
At the time of their father's death, Guelfi had been working at the company for more than a decade doing human resources, bookkeeping and placing product orders. "She really had a lot of information and product knowledge," Blum says. "For every job that would come, she'd place the order and do the confirmation."
And while Blum had spent a few summers working for the company through college, she had opted out of the family business in order to build a career in commercial real estate. She had no way of knowing at the time that her experience in evaluating the value of an asset in real estate would translate into her ability to team up with her sister to save the family's company. "We knew right away that we had to do some number crunching," she says. "Although it was our father's business, my sister was just an employee [before his death]. She didn't worry about the things you have to worry about when you own the business. For the first one or two months, there were a lot of cocktail napkins and decisions about who would do what."
Blum also applied her experience from her former career into evaluating the potential of the business. "I came from a background of crunching numbers and taking an asset and looking at where the income was and what the expenses were," she says. "The truth was we had to cut expenses first thing. There were things my father had never pulled back on when the market went down."
The dealer's building was a significant driver of overhead cost, especially because most of the 4,000-square-foot building was used for office space rather than for showroom displays. With the lease on the former building drawing to a close, the sisters looked for a facility that could house the company's offices, showroom and warehouse space all together, and somewhere close to the 101 freeway in Marin County, California. "It was almost a fantasy," Blum recalls. "I don't know how we found it."
But they did find it, and by September 2011, just nine months after their father had passed away, Window Factory was transitioning to its new space. "In property management, where I nickeled and dimed everything, it was all about the performance of the asset I had in my hands," Blum says. "We couldn't look at 2004 and say, "That was a good goal for sales.' We had to start from scratch and determine what our sales would need to be to stay afloat. If we wanted to make sure the installers had full-time work and everyone got paid, we had to figure out that breakeven number."
Getting into a lower-cost facility was the first step of the turn-around process. "I think 2011 was our transition year," Blum says. "We wanted to break even, pay the bills and pay off the debt. By the end of 2011, we had almost accomplished that. We basically started 2012 with a clean slate."
|With a fresh approach to marketing, Window Factory continues to build on the name the company has come to represent.
In its new facility, Window Factory boasted a contemporary new showroom and the sisters were ready to tackle the marketing challenges the business faced. "We needed to modernize," Blum says. "My father was still using AOL and he didn't even have company email addresses. I had helped my dad do the website 10 years before and it hadn't changed since then."
Luckily, the company had a strong referral base to keep it going during the transition years. "We have a good name and we're always going to have our referral business," Blum says. "The people who know us from word-of-mouth and from being local in the Marin County market are guaranteed marketing for us. We have that part down."
From there, the sisters updated the website, ventured into social media and starting making appearances at local home shows. "That's something we had never done before," Blum notes. "I guess we felt we needed to put
a face on the business to go with the name we inherited."
Window Factory was in a phase of reinventing itself to the public, Blum says. "The business was built off of telemarketing," she says. "That's how my father built it. He had a room with 15 people at a time cold calling homeowners. That was a dying breed by the time we took over. Most people don't even have home phone numbers anymore."
The sisters redirected the money that was being spent to pay the few remaining telemarketing employees into updating the company's website and internet advertising presence. The company's salespeople each drive a Prius wrapped with Window Factory branding and the sisters have made the decision to reach for younger homeowners in addition to its standard customer base. "I'm 33 years old and she's 36," Blum says of herself and her sister. "We're in that younger generation and we're different than dad. Our friends are the people who are buying homes now. We're the next wave of people who need windows. It's an adjustment to our old way of doing things."
Telling Their Story
Two sisters running a window and door company is not exactly a common occurrence in the industry. At first, the sisters were hesitant to share their story publicly. "We were resisting putting our story out there early on. We wanted to make sure this would work and we want to make women in business look good."
Now, the ownership situation is a part of the company's story and Blum says that customers respond well to dealing with women for a home improvement project. "Our sales people love talking about us in the home," she notes. "The truth is that women are making a lot of the home improvement-related decisions out there."
In fact, Blum says there's room for plenty more women to succeed in this type of business. "I think more and more women should be doing this, to be honest," she says. "We shouldn't be scared of the construction industry. Most of the time, it's women calling and making appointments with us, starting the process, and even making the final decisions. There's a trust factor in home improvement and everybody's had a bad experience with a contractor. This [trust with women] is part of what sets us apart."
Being female business owners also results in a customer-focused mindset at the company, Blum adds. "Women are a little more sensitive and it comes across in our customer service," she explains. "When a customer calls
with a problem, no matter how small it may seem, we take it so personally that we treat them very well. It's almost emotional. The last thing I want to hear is that a customer isn't happy. It's personal."
This sensitivity to customer satisfaction is one thing the sisters often joke that their dad would be surprised to see at Window Factory. "He'd probably want to ring out necks about the stuff we do—the lengths we go to—for customer service," Blum laughs. "But my sister and I have a conversation about anything and everything the customers might be concerned about, and then we do something about it."
Family Traditions
|The Window Factory team functions like a family, working together to build long-term success.
Blum says that working at a family business is the last place she expected to be just a few short years ago, but she wouldn't trade it for anything. "My father would have taken me in at any time with any salary I wanted, but I wouldn't have done it," she recalls. "I guess it's interesting how it all turned out."
Working together might put a strain on some family relationships, but Blum and Guelfi have quickly figured out the formula that works for them. "My sister and I have learned not to hold onto anything," Blum says. "We may have a rough day and get at each other a little bit, but when we make up the next day, it's a clean slate.
"Because we are sisters, there's a sense that we're in this for the long haul and we can't let it ruin our relationship," she adds.
Window Factory is now well positioned for future growth. Being as young as they are, the sisters know they can guarantee their work for a long, long time. With slow, controlled growth in mind, Blum says Window Factory is ready to bring on more teammates to supplement the bedrock of long-term employees. "What we have now works," she says, "and it's a little frightening because you don't want to mess up what's working. But clearly, things are getting better out there and I feel good about it. Now it's just about finding the right people to join us. We need people with experience, but at the same time, they have to know our way. As a small business, I find that to be the hardest part."
Serving everything from entry level all the way to high-end homes with a broad product offering, Window Factory may grow geographically over time with some additional showrooms throughout the Bay area.
"Window Factory is an excellent example of family teamwork. Rachel and Jaclyn were faced with a huge task when their father suddenly died, but in his absence their spirit, enthusiasm and business sense grew because they
knew that he would want the family legacy to continue," says Cynthia Holt, Northern California Territory Manager for Weather Shield Windows. "Together they created a new business plan and model to build an even stronger business for the future."
With a solid foundation and plans for future growth, Blum and Guelfi overcame a tragic situation to solidify Window Factory's position as a long-term company in the industry. And what would their dad think if he were alive today?
"I can't tell you how many times we say, "Oh if dad were here, he would have gone crazy,'" Blum says. "I'm sure he's looking down and he's really proud of us, but he's probably a bit shocked. We're his daughters and he always sheltered us from this a bit. But I think he'd be proud of us working together. That his death didn't tear us apart."


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Last February saw Local Natives emerge from SXSW as the toast of the festival and thus one of the hottest new acts around, while the three tracks on offer on their myspace had the blogs abuzz and A&Rs on both sides of the pond scrambling for their checkbooks. Things have settled down a bit in recent months as fans eagerly await more material from the band, but having wrangled ourselves a copy of the already completed debut record Local Natives are shopping to labels we can assure you the wait is worth it. Proof arrives in "Sun Hands", which will be finding it's way onto the shelves of all good record stores next month when our top bros at Chess Club make it the latest in their long line of phenomenal releases. A longtime live favorite, "Sun Hands" finds the Silverlake outfit at their most primal, all Yeasayer shouts and immense, visceral instrumentation as the track erupts in an explosive middle 8 before returning to the ethereal harmonies the band have made their calling card and easing to a peaceful conclusion.
MP3: "Sun Hands" - Local Natives
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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PORTER TOWNSHIP -- A young hunter is recovering from injuries after she was attacked by a bear in Clinton County.
Kyle Courter said Monday afternoon started off as a normal hunting day for his family. He, his dad, stepsister Camille and a friend hunted for deer at their family farm near Lock Haven. When the group saw three bear cubs run by, Courter said things got scary.
"I heard sister screaming and I went running. By time I got there I heard a couple of gunshots," Courter said.
The black bear charged at Camille and attacked her.
"Pretty good gash on her forehead from what I saw. Under her coat she had some pretty good bite wounds on her arms and chest," Courter said.
Courter says his dad fired a shot into the air, which seemed to scare the bear off. He believes the bear weighed between 200 and 300 pounds.
Camille's family says this is where the bear attack happened. Her brother believes she accidentally got in between the cubs and the momma bear, and that's when the bear attacked.
"The bear just, motherly instinct. It's always a chance when you walk out there," Colton Rager said.
Colton Rager is one of several neighbors who came to help after the bear attack.
"My buddy called me and he said that he needed help, his sister got attacked by a bear. We grabbed our guns and we went up after it," Rager said.
The group did not find the black bear and the Pennsylvania Game Commission called off the group's search. Courter credits his father with saving his stepsister's life.
"Yeah if he wouldn't have been there she wouldn't be with us," Courter said.
According to the state game commission, while this was a rare attack, this was normal behavior for a black bear if someone gets in between her and her cubs.
Tuesday afternoon, the game commission set up a bear trap at the family's farm. The family says the incident will not stop them from hunting.
Camille Bomboy is healing and listed in fair condition.


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I'm gradually converting a back-log of existing tests to Spock ... and some of them convert so beautifully, it hurts. Here's an example:
Before (Java and TestNG)
After (Spock)
What a difference; the data-driven power of the where: block makes this stuff a bit of a snap, and you can see in once place, at a glance, what's going on. IDEA even lines up all the pipe characters automatically (wow!). It's obvious how the tests execute, and easy to see how to add new tests for new cases. By comparison, the TestNG version looks like a blob of code ... it takes a bit more scrutiny to see exactly what it is testing and how.
In addition, the propertyMissing() trick means that any property (including public static fields) of Calendar is accessible without qualification, making things look even nicer. This is what they mean by writing an "executable specification", rather than just writing code.
I can't say this enough: using any other framework for testing Java or Groovy code would simply not be logical.


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Gardner Business Media, Inc.
View on Floor Plan:North Building, Level 3 - Emerging Technology Center - 236600
6915 Valley Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45244
United States of America
My Notes
About Gardner Business Media, Inc.
Gardner Business Media is the premier publisher for the heart of manufacturing in North America – providing unique, one-of-a-kind, relevant information of keen interest to the people who power plants, shops, and factories. Gardner Business Media was founded in 1928 (as Gardner Publications, Inc.) in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the introduction of Modern Machine Shop magazine. To this day, Modern Machine Shop is recognized around the world as the premier metalworking and machine tool publication in North America. Since then, Gardner has built a niche with eight titles focused on one area: manufacturing. We bring industrial buyers and sellers together through our integrated approach to media. All of our brands strive to use media - be it print publications, websites, electronic devices, newsletters, webinars, research or in person events - to show best practices and practical, how-to information to explain technology and help our customers be competitive in today's challenging environment. Gardner started a new venture in 2005, Map Your Show (MYS). Originally offering an interactive floor plan for trade shows and conferences, MYS has grown to offer an entire suite of show management software solutions. The company is wholly owned by founder Don Gardner's descendants. His grandson Richard Kline Sr., and five of Gardner's great grandchildren manage operations. In 2009, Gardner Business Media was named Family Business of the Decade by the University of Cincinnati's Goering Center for Family Business.


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Standing On the Side of Love – Free Chelsea!.
"STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE" – Free Chelsea Manning! BERKELEY CALLING BLOG AT BLOGSPOT – Stand on the side of love, truth, justice, and peace!
COURAGE TO RESIST.ORG Plans a Speaking Tour for CHELSEA MANNING Attorney DAVID COOMBS, including an Oakland event at Humanist Hall, 390 – 27th Street, Oakland CA 94612 on Monday, Dec 9 at 6:30 pm! Activists call for unity on principles behind a heroic war-crimes whistle-blower like Bradley/Chelsea Manning, including Manning's right to her identity.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker, released a statement denouncing the 35 year sentence and praising Chelsea Manning's humanism.
Singer-songwriter Vic Sadot updated his song titled "Courage To Resist" to refer to Manning in the feminine as requested. The song has been recorded and posted on SoundCloud as a full length listen and download with share options at the link that is provided in this BERKELEY CALLING Blog.
Berkeley Fellowship of UU's SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE issued The "STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE" Resolution calling for resolute support for Chelsea Manning for her identity rights in addition to a reinvigorated defense of her public service in upholding the laws of the land by her commendable effort to expose war crimes and cover-ups. The chat room logs that led to Manning's arrest show that Private Manning was motivated to uphold the law by exposing war crimes and cover-ups because he/she feared that an uninformed citizenry would be ill-fit to govern a democracy. After years of extraordinarily cruel techniques on Manning, including sensory deprivations such as sleep or light, and being exposed to extremes in temperatures in a cell with no blankets or clothing, as well as long stretches in solitary confinement, the military tribunal gave the patriotic whistle-blower a 35 year prison sentence. Meanwhile, all the war criminals all go free!


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East Asia Delegation
NCLB Update
TUDA 2005: Science
Helpful Hints
Ballot Issues
Promises Not Kept
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
East Asia Delegation
Since last Friday (November 10), coinciding with International Education Week, Secretary Spellings and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Dina Habib Powell have been leading a high-profile delegation of 12 U.S. college and university presidents across Japan, Korea, and China. Meeting with various student, university, government, and business leaders, the delegation is carrying the message that the U.S. welcomes and values international students who want to study in the U.S. "We can learn a lot from each other to better prepare our students," Secretary Spellings told the audience at Waseda University in Tokyo. "For example, Japan has strong math and science programs, and America is known for its emphasis on critical thinking and creativity. Working together, we can give all our students a better education." Despite the challenges of 9/11, foreign student enrollment in the U.S. has rebounded (see below); in the last year, the number of student and exchange visas hit an all-time high of more than 590,000. Also, in the past 10 years, the number of Americans studying overseas has increased 10 percent. "Companies today want graduates skilled in the fields of math, science, and foreign languages, the new currencies of our global economy," the Secretary noted. "These days, companies are following talent, whether that talent is in Texas or Tokyo. Since our universities are at the heart of recruiting and nurturing talent, they must adapt to make sure a college education equips students to be competitive with the new international workforce." The trip concludes tomorrow (November 18). For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/internationaled/asia-tour/.
In other higher education news:
- The Institute of International Education's "Open Doors 2006" is an annual report on foreign student enrollment in the U.S. (142 institutions hosted at least 1,000 international students) and Americans studying abroad (China hosted 6,389 U.S. students, a 35 percent increase from the previous year). For more information, please go to http://www.opendoors.iienetwork.org/.
- On November 1, the Department's Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) published in the Federal Register final regulations implementing (1) the Academic Competitiveness (AC) and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grant programs (http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/
2006-4/110106a.html) and (2) the provisions of the Higher Education Reconciliation Act relating to Title IV federal student aid programs (http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/
- "Placing College Graduation Rates in Context," a new study by the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), offers a system-wide overview of how graduation rates of comparable four-year institutions vary with selectivity and the size of the low-income population. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007161.
NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
On November 9, Secretary Spellings announced the approval of three additional high-quality growth-based accountability models. Delaware is immediately approved to use the model for the 2006-07 school year. Arkansas and Florida are also approved, provided their assessment systems are fully approved by the Department by the end of the 2006-07 school year. The agency intends to approve no more than 10 models for the pilot program. North Carolina and Tennessee received approval to implement their growth models last school year. Thus, five slots remain. Nine states have applied for those remaining slots. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/growthmodel/
TUDA 2005: Science
On November 15, the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released results from the 2005 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) in science. The TUDA provides comparable data on fourth- and eighth-grade student achievement in 11 of the nation's urban school districts. (Results from the reading and math assessments were released in December.) Ten districts participated in the science assessment. All of the districts have a majority of students who are not white, and nearly all have high proportions of low-income students. Among the findings:
- In seven of the 10 districts, fourth-graders scored as well as or better than students in large central cities (population 250,000 or more) across the U.S. However, compared to public schools nationwide, all but one district had lower average scores.
- Similarly, in six of the 10 districts, eighth-graders scored as well as or better than students in large central cities across the U.S. However, compared to public schools nationwide, all districts had lower average scores.
- In many districts, average scores for white, black, Hispanic, and Asian students were higher than or not significantly different from the national average for their peers.
- For both fourth- and eighth-grade, the gap in average scores between the nation and individual districts for all students ranged from two to 30 points, with the nation's score higher. However, when that comparison is based only on low-income students, the gaps ranged from almost none to 19 points, with, again, the nation's score higher.
This is the third time districts have participated in the TUDA. Six districts took reading assessments in 2002. In 2003, 11 districts took reading and math assessments. For more information, please go to http://nationsreportcard.gov/tuda_science/.
Helpful Hints
In case you missed it, the November 15 emergency planning webcast is archived at http://www.connectlive.com/events/edschoolsafety/. Also, the Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) and the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center has announced a series of publications, called "Helpful Hints," to help school districts improve emergency management practices within their school communities. The first of this series, titled "Emergency Go-Kits," is now available online at http://rems.ed.gov/views/documents/HH_GoKits.pdf. For more information, please go to http://rems.ed.gov/index.cfm?event=hints.
Ballot Issues
While most of the attention during last week's general election was reserved for congressional races, voters in 19 states decided a wide variety of education-related ballot issues. Consider:
- In Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio voters defeated measures that would have provided additional funding for education. But proposals in Maine, Nebraska, and Oregon that had the potential to restrict spending on schoolsthe idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR)were also rejected.
- Arizona and Nebraska voters approved measures to fund early childhood education.
- In Colorado, voters rejected two separate "65 percent solution" measures, which would have required districts to funnel a minimum of 65 percent of their budgets directly into classrooms.
- A proposal to ban affirmative action programs in Michigan passed with 58 percent.
Meanwhile, Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Wyoming reelected their incumbent Chief State School Officers, and Idahoan open seatchose a new chief. The race in South Carolinaanother open positionis undecided. For more information, please go to http://www.iandrinstitute.org/BW%202006-5%20
Promises Not Kept
According to a new report by America's Promisethe alliance of education and business groups founded in 1997 by retired U.S. Army General Colin Powell to promote volunteerism on behalf of youthless than one-third of American children ages 6 to 17 are receiving the critical developmental resources, or "promises," that correlate with success: caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, an effective education, and opportunities to help others. The network calculates that children who enjoy four of the promises are significantly more likely to be successful across various contexts of their lives. Yet, more than 10 million children are experiencing zero or one promise, with 20 percent of children (or 8.5 million) lacking caring adults in their lives. Moreover, African-American and Hispanic children are half as likely as white children to receive four or five promises. Nevertheless, 90 percent of children say they have set goals and are willing to work hard to reach them. For more information, please go to http://www.americaspromise.org/OurWork.aspx?id=208.
Quote to Note
"[The U.S.] government is committed to ensuring that our education system provides students with the resources and instruction they need to be competitive and succeed in the new global economy. For us, the internationalization of education means sharing best practices, fostering innovation, and increasing transparency. Because no matter what nation we call home, all of us share the same commitment to see students succeed. Education opens the doors of opportunity and is the foundation for a better life and a bright future."
|Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (11/13/06),
delivering remarks at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan
Upcoming Events
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Besides being the largest international garden website, they actively seek out bloggers who make a difference to their communities through blogging. And last night Shiela got in touch to say that we'd won the award for this month!!
Previous winners have included the amazing
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Benjamin Franklin
Sterling Silver Flatware, Silverware by Towle Silversmiths
Benjamin Franklin is a very traditional pattern, with the fiddle shape body, thread border, and detailed shell adornment. Custom engraving is fairly common for this pattern, and the surface area is large enough to showcase your initials.
This pattern is now considered "Made To Order". If an item is in stock, we'll ship it right away. If it's not in stock, the item can take up to 18 months to be delivered, and may require a 25% deposit.
4pc Place Setting Includes:
- Salad Fork
- Place Fork
- Place Knife, HH
- Teaspoon
5pc Place Setting Includes:
- Items in 4pc setting
- Oval Soup Spoon or Cream Soup Spoon
20pc Starter Set Includes:
- (4) 4pc Place Settings
- Butter Knife HH
- Cold Meat Fork
- Serving Spoon
- Sugar Spoon
46pc Place Setting Includes:
- (8) 5pc Place Settings
- (1) 6pc Hostess Set
- Flatware Chest
66pc Place Setting Includes:
- (12) 5pc Place Settings
- (1) 6pc Hostess Set
- Flatware Chest
6pc Hostess Set Includes:
- Butter Knife HH
- Cold Meat Fork
- Pie Server HH
- Pierced Serving Spoon
- Serving Spoon
- Sugar Spoon
What chest is included with the 46 and 66-piece sets?
We include the Regency chest by Wallace Silversmiths, but you can also apply that cost to a different chest.
What does "HH" mean?
HH stands for "Hollow Handle", which means that the item has been made with a hollow sterling silver handle, and a stainless steel utensil has been inserted into it. Generally, the dinner knife handle is used for serving pieces, and a smaller version is used for the Butter Knife and Butter Spreader.


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I think I've finally figured out that – in fact (after hearing it from my father all these years) – our family hails from the Brandenburg area of Germany. I speak ZERO German (except some swear words and "1, 2, 3, drink!") so hopefully, Google Translate will be kind to me in my research!
Fredrick Charles Otto WETZOLD (he went by Otto)
Born: January 22, 1868 in Berlin, Germany
I had his parents listed as:
Edward WETZOLD
Louise WIRKE
Then, I found a potential sister of Otto … I say "potential" because I have no proof, just a search from FamilySearch.org. I don't have my usual access to Ancestry.com to look further.
Selma Louise Hedwig WETZOLD
Born: August 4, 1873 (Christened Aug 31) in Berlin, Brandenberg, Preußen, Germany
Parents of Selma:
Gustav Eduard WETZOLD
Louise WICKE


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Wicket, which offers no advantage to bowlers specially pace bowler, normally known as slow pitch or wicket. Physically that wicket found in this state in which fast bowlers cannot claim wickets easily. Normally in this sort of wickets medium pacers can achieve their goals, bowlers should delivered the ball on the off-side and set the field towards the said side, this is the most safest tactic to seize the batsmen for more runs.
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I bought this table 5 years ago. It has evolved many times... From varnished top with a white painted base, to all over black semi-gloss, to a matte black and the most recent? Naked. You may have noticed this bare wood trend at Restoration Hardware, and other home design stores. I love the bare, aged, reclaimed look this table now has. It is gone from an eye-sore to a character piece for $15 and 1 hour of work.
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It is not only about politics unfortunately because there is an important social part of the story that nobody wants to speak about or even confront it for fear that it would overshadow the revolution and the battle for civilian rule or for fear it it would defame the image of Ultras and the image of Port Said in the Public.
It is so easy to put the blame on SCAF and to use this disaster to force it it leave as it is incompetent ruler for the country , well for sure it proved it is incompetent to rule this country and to solve its problems and crises it resulted in but it is hard to stand in front of a problem called "Sports' violence" or rather to be accurate Hooliganism that the veteran Ultras members warned of months ago.
Just like religious sectarianism problem, we know it is there yet we act like it is not there till a new disaster happens and we act as if we are surprised !!
Yes the police is involved in the massacre and yes they let Al Masry club's Ultras Green Eagles as well thugs to get to Ahly fans especially the Ultras Ahlawawy fans in order to teach them a lesson for their political role but for the Ultras Ahlaway is a long war between them and the Al Masry club's Ultras Green Eagles.
We know who killed our men and we will get them sooner or later as Ultras group , we are not involved in Tahrir square clashes but soon enough we will get our revenge in our own wayIt is true that officially Ultras Ahlaway as Ultras White Knights are not involved in the clashes at the ministry of interior because actually they were involved with their complete powers , things would have been much more worse.
An Ultras Ahlaway "UA" member told me last night after speaking about that long history of fights with the Ultras groups in the Canal city that left me with a mouth hanging opened on how our memory is too damn short and how Mubarak's regime destroyed the minds of the people with football.
Unfortunately the Ultras Ahlaway group has another view at least the hardcore Ultras members , yes they know that the police is involved as accomplice as they let the Al Masry Ultras Green Eagles to enter the stadium fully armed as that UA member told me.
They will not forget how the entrance was free on that day. They will not forget how there were not let out to escape the massacre inside the stadium as two of the three gates in the Stadium "The third gate which was photographed was originally sealed from months ago after another battle by Ultras Ahlaway and Ultras green eagles !!"
I talked to that angry young man who attended on Thursday the funerals of his Ultras friend remembering the fact that he may have been among these boys if he had not decided not to go to that bloody match.
I tried to explain to that him that there are NDP businessmen suspected to be involved in the massacre but he refused to listen saying that all those thousands can't be hired thugs or infiltrators. He explained to me that there was a sign that showed the direct involvement of the Ultras Green Eagles was how the UA t-shirts of the martyrs and injured were stolen as well UA banners were stolen. It seems that in Ultras world these t-shirts and banners are like trophies.
I tried to make him explain me or rather ask him why a winning team's fans do this and he told me that it has nothing to wining or losing.
They are hurt as well furious and unfortunately that political protesting class does not want to understand their mentality well enough outside the fact that they hate the police and they got strong fighting experience when it comes to riots.
Their own Ultras rules that make them a special group in its secrecy that reminds me with the Muslim brotherhood. It has nothing with education or class , on the contrary from what you all saw this group includes AUCians to workers , from A class to working class.
What I am afraid is that they will not kick the ass of the police and SCAF as much they are dying to kick the ass of the Ultras Green Eagles first. They will not announce and have not announced the war on Port Said as a city and its people but they will go after the Green Eagles as simple as this.
Over 73 young men were killed aside from those killed in that useless battle of MOI currently taking place in Cairo and Suez , I am afraid more young men will be harmed, hurt and even get killed in that Ultras retribution.
It is not about the city but about the Ultras Green Eagles group. I think the only ones who understand my fear is Ultras Veterans who are trying to do their best so their friends won't get killed or imprisoned in a very dangerous political climate.
Today some said on twitter that microbuses and buses from Cairo to Port Said services were suspended for fear.
Yes the People of Port Said are trying to defend themselves and they have to because now the city has a lot of blood in its famous stadium which I can't stomach. I swear I feel that that Port Said Stadium has to be demolished because I can't imagine someone else on its field again or even sitting on these seats full of blood or changing his clothes at the changing room where tens died in the arms of Ahly footballers.
Unfortunately people began to act like SCAF and put the blame on the third party in the Port Said stadium whether security infiltrators or agents or NDP hired thugs or military police because we tend to generalize , if the culprits are from Port Said then this does not mean Port Said or its great people are bad. We are afraid to face ourselves with the fact that people can other people because of football , we are afraid to admit that these people are our people.
And for 10000000 times the security is involved and is accomplice of facilitating as well inciting this crime aside from the crimes of neglect yet it is not the true murderer , we can save the lives of many young men for real and save the true peace and stability of this country if we present the true culprits to justice and they have true trials not a Mubarak trial.
We can save the Ultras boys from that blind dangerous justified anger and save their future if we demand justice, real justice from those culprits in Port Said as well the security forces that let happen in the first place.
The respectable members of the parliament as well the famous activists should leave the talk shows and speak with the UA boys , yes I am so serious about that.
The UA boys will not forget their massacre even if there is an elected president , a constitution first and the military are in their right place on the borders but sure of that and we can expect their revenge from now to 5 years. "Ahly club is officially boycotting all sports activity in Port Said for 5 years"
The whole scene reminds me with the Lord of the flies , young boys vs. young boys and innocence that went away in primitive environment.