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The California initiative process remains one of the best marketing deals anywhere. For $200, you can file an initiative with the attorney general's office -- and get a bunch of publicity if it involves an idea that the media are interested in.
But that doesn't mean your initiative is going anywhere.
Such is the case with the much-publicized new initiative filed by a Tea Party activist in Belmont. This initiative proposes to enact an Arizona-style immigration law (giving the cops broad discretion to investigate the immigration status of people they question) while also making it a state crime to hire an undocumented immigrant or to seek a job if you're an undocumented immigrant.
What are its chances? Not good. It's unlikely to qualify for the ballot. The proponent tells the Sacramento Bee that he's planning to rely on volunteer networks of Tea Party types to gather signatures. That almost certainly won't work. No measure has qualified for the ballot on the basis of an all-volunteer gathering campaign in the past three decades. Why? Because California's tight, 150-day limit for signature gathering makes qualification even more costly for volunteer groups than for those who pay-per signature. (The professional, paid gatherers are far more efficient, and it costs millions to field a volunteer effort that can gather the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to qualify).
Why can't this group raise the money for paid gatherers? Maybe they can. But many of the big donors on the right who might be sympathetic to this initiative are also Republicans. And such an initiative is not in the best interests of Republicans, who need to reach out to immigrants if they are to rebuild their party. Such an initiative also could hurt Republicans by drawing to the polls younger, diverse voters who would want to kill the initiative (and would vote Democratic in the process).
But perhaps there's one out-of-state billionaire who won't care and will provide the money for a paid campaign. So what happens if this measure makes the ballot? It's hard to see how an initiative like this, which would face opposition from across the political spectrum, would have any chance of passing. But that's not really the point of filing this initiative. Getting attention is. And that mission has already been accomplished.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some answers to common questions. This page is here to try to keep e-mail load to a minimum by answering some of the most frequent questions. Before sending your email you might ask the question: is this question so important that I would go to a staff or faculty member and ask them?
A caveat: The opinions expressed below may not be appropriate for your particular situation. Thanks for reading this page before considering writing with an important question.
Are you an "impacted" major?
Yes, Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies is an "impacted" major. Although many find this word distasteful, since it transforms what used to be a noun into a verb and has the status of jargon (or a medical condition), today it is embraced by the California State University bureacracy as a term that means a program has been officially determined to not have enough resources to meet student demand and must therefore restrict the number of students who can major in it. In the CSU today this is a fact of life for many majors. In CCJS this means that the Department relies upon a grade point average requirement in order to gain entry into the major.
Do you have to have a certain grade point average to get into the major?
Yes. A 3.0 cumulative GPA will be required as of January 31, 2014.
Are you applying different rules to first time freshman and community college transfer students than you are to students who have been at SSU for a while?
I am interested in applying to Sonoma as a transfer student, and want to major in criminology and criminal justice studies (CCJS). Why aren't the transfer requirements for CCJS on assist.org? If you could explain to me what lower division classes I need to take in order to transfer, that would be great.
Assist.org is useful for ascertaining what community college classes meet SSU's general education requirements. No particular lower division general education courses from community colleges are required for the CCJS major at SSU. All the core courses for the B.A. degree in CCJS need to be taken at SSU.
I'm currently an SSU student and want to change my major/minor to CCJS. How do I do that?
To change your major, you must fill out the top portion of the Change of Major form that is readily available in the department office at Stevenson Hall 2084 or elsewhere on campus. We will go over your Academic Requirements Report (ARR) to make sure you have met the 3.0 GPA requirement for our major/minor.
Do you have a graduate program in criminal justice at SSU?
No, we do not have a graduate program at this time. The question is increasingly being asked by students and alumni. At SSU there are graduate programs in Counseling, Public Administration, Psychology, and other fields. There are graduate programs in Criminal Justice at other nearby California State University campuses, including San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and Fresno, and maybe others. These frequently have an exclusive vocational or law enforcement emphasis. UC Berkeley's School of Criminology closed down decades ago, but Boalt Hall has a well regarded School of Jurisprudence and Public Policy. Criminologists in sociology departments offering Ph.D.s and M.A., historically the most common training places for criminology students, can be found scattered throughout the University of California system as well as at USC and elsewhere. See a partial list at Theory, Method, Teaching, Writing and Research: Sources and Related Help.
Who is my advisor? or I need advising. Who do I see?
See assigned advisor and advising information on the Academic Advising page.
When can I start my internship? Where do I find one? How do I add it to my schedule? Where can I find needed internship forms?
To answer most questions about internships please see Internships.
I'm a CCJS major and not getting e-mails from the department listserv. Everyone else is. What goes?
If your major or minor recently changed (in the last three weeks or so) then you're not in PeopleSoft as a CCJS major/minor yet. That will change after your form is posted. We do not know for sure when that will happen. You will have to ask the Office of Admissions and Records.
All CCJS majors and minors receive e-mail from the Department's mailing listserv, CCJS-Announce. In order to receive this you must check your SSU e-mail, which ends in @sonoma.edu. The e-mail address you used to send your question is not an SSU e-mail address, but you are a CCJS major in PeopleSoft. The Department strongly encourages all students to check and use their SSU e-mail address. If you don't your (personal, non-SSU) e-mail may be felled by university spam filters--programs designed to prevent faculty and staff from receiving spam. Also, your intended e-mail recipients may have junk mail filters on their e-mail clients that will not accept your e-mail unless it is from the SSU domain--an e-mail address ending in seawolf.sonoma.edu. Even if you have been successful in the past in sending faculty and staff e-mail using your personal (non-SSU) e-mail address you are strongly encouraged to use your SSU e-mail address in all e-mail communication with the University.
Can I apply to SSU online? How do I apply to SSU?
To apply to Sonoma State University go to CSU Mentor to apply online; go to future at Sonoma if you want to do it by postal mail. After you've been accepted you come to someone in our department and we will be happy to advise you. Distance learning possibilities in California through the California Virtual University were at last rumor dead. See for yourself.
I'm a freshman and wondering how much math is required?
That depends. How did you do on your ELM (the math placement test)? If your score is high enough you only have to take one math class. If your score is not high enough you have to take a remedial math class.
Assuming your ELM score is high enough you can take any course listed in category B4 of the 51 unit GE pattern. We advise that you take Math 165 because it is a helpful (but again not required) background for our class in research methods (CCJS 370).
What is an elective chosen under advisement?
Go to the advisement page. Figure out whether the old (entered the major prior to Fall 2011) or new rules (entry into the CCJS major on or after Fall 2011) apply to you.
Where can I learn about available jobs, or how to prepare a resume, or how to interview, or how to get a job?
At SSU there are various resources. See the CCJS resources on jobs at Redwood Highway under "Local Web Links". There are links there about local, state and national jobs, how to prepare resumes, how to post them on the world wide web, and links to other job-getting strategies. In the department, students frequently take CCJS 399, the Lecture Series, to learn about jobs from people in the field. The core requirement, CCJS 499, Internship, is a bridge to the world of work that also allows you to see if a particular job is for you. CCJS 490, Senior Seminar, also gives some preparation for the world of work.
Where can I get a degree in forensics? or, I really want a degree in forensics or, Do you offer a degree in forensics?
These have to be among the most frequently asked questions. The publicity of the older, high profile O.J. Simpson and other trials, along with recent so-called "reality" police shows, as well as shows with a forensic theme, like C.S.I. whatever, coincide with interest. Popular interest is so great today that if you look around you'll find degree programs now offering or wanting to offer minors, certificates or some other "forensics" related degree or program. See our "Forensics" links.
If you look at people who practice "forensics" today, you'll find that they have degrees and/or training in a wide variety of areas. Some have obtained their training through a law enforcement academy or training program while others have gone to a professional school, medical school, a clinical program, to name a few. Although to many forensics means crime scene investigation, in the public mind "forensics" often means many things, among them the broader idea that a professional gives advice or expert opinion at court or the science of determining understanding evidence and developing opinions about what might be provided there; a more general usage is to speak in front of a public group. Typically a "forensics expert" establishes a reputation in their given field and somehow finds a niche at court--whether it involves doing DNA workups for criminal trials, analyzing pretrial publicity data on potential jurors to help a court decide whether or not a capital case should be moved to another jurisdiction, interviewing defendants or offenders and rendering opinions as to an individual's sanity or fitness, or what have you. As you can see, "forensics" in many cases isn't a "degree," it is a relationship one has with a court.
There are departments that offer degrees in "forensics," mostly very recent, including John Jay College of Justice (a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. emphasis in Forensics) and Northeastern College in Boston, as noted elsewhere in our "Forensics" links. The largest official list of programs in forensics we've seen is the American Academy of Forensic Scientist's list on the Redwood Highway. You should take note that these are very recent changes, which suggests that you should be on the lookout for attempts to build on popular cultural definitions of student interest. The California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno, now called Alliant, just created a new psychology Ph.D. degree program in forensics.
Check out these or other programs very carefully, particularly the price tag and what you are actually learning or getting (certificates in this or that, mostly). Many of these programs use popular "hooks" to grab students to get into their program, promising future careers in criminal justice even though they may have limited to no experience in criminal justice as such. Make sure you know that you are getting what you want and that the faculty have something special to offer beyond some experience at court or a capacity to train individuals for this purpose. It would be especially important to know what job placement success the program has had if forensics is their main selling point, e.g., what "forensics" jobs have they placed their students in? (It is likely these jobs are not going to be the ones that are glamorized on television--many will not be in criminal justice.) If you're very serious about a particular program try to find an older graduate student to talk to if the program has been in existance long enough--try to get them to talk about forensics. Talk to active professionals in the field (e.g., those who have the job you think you want) to see what they think you should do, including the young and old, from cop to coroner, and judge to prosecutor. Some students have done work with local crime scene investigation unit, asour Alumni Aaron Damm did at the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department recently; others have interned at the coroner's office to see if that line of work is for them; others got jobs in a lab that did DNA testing. Some students have continued in these areas while others have not.
In our humble opinion, we suggest that you ask yourself, "Why do I want to pursue such a degree or job?" If you want to do forensics work in law enforcement complete an undergraduate degree that can give you a good broad education and communication and writing skills; then go to the academy and get specialized training in forensics there. As an alternative, seek out work that requires a B.A. or B.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., J.D. or other relevant degree from a reputable undergraduate or graduate school. If you're in California, try hard to get into a UC, if for no other reason than that the schools are generally of excellent quality, they are relatively cheap, and they can give you some of the legitimacy you need to practice "forensics." In California, the criminalistics masters degree program at CSU Los Angeles is an important place to check out. The criminal justice program is on the first floor of the building, and the remaining floors house the crime labs for both Los Angeles Police Department and the L. A. County Sheriffs Department. Imagine that! In addition, these degrees will hopefully provide skills or a foundation for skills that can support you if you can't find such work or develop other interests.
I noticed that you wrote an article/book on arson (or gangs or parole or jails or...) ...How can I get a job in arson investigation? Policing? Probation? Parole? etc.
Talk to your instructors or people who work in these occupations to find out the local educational requirements, employment prospects, the mobility of workers in each occupation (e.g., whether you can only get in through lateral transfers or only through entry level hires), pay, work location (a key consideration for money), working conditions, etc. If, at the point of looking for a job, you have done all that (or more), try posting a resume on the web (see a list of places to do this at Redwood Highway page under Jobs).
Can you help me with my paper? The topic is ...... (fill in the blank)
If you're a student our classes we will. You should know that we are inundated with requests for information on a wide variety of topics from students around the world, and we are not able to respond to them.
Can you suggest another criminologist who I can turn to to get help in writing my paper on the topic of .... (fill in blank) for my class?
No. Criminologists are very busy people, including those who do research. If they are teachers they may carry a heavy teaching load as it is and/or have heavy pressures to publish and to serve their universities in a myriad of other ways. Imagine how much their workloads would increase if thousands or millions of web surfers in this huge and growing field started showing up in their e-mail with questions?
I am interested in getting a BA in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies. Would you please send more information on Sonoma, including a catalog, financial aid information, and other points of interest in your region.
If you wish to look at the Department course requirements then go to the department homepage. If you need a catalog, financial aid information, etc., try contacting Admissions and Records, which you can find via the SSU homepage.
Do you offer paralegal training?
No, but you may be able to receive training through Extended Education at SSU. There are many such programs available. Note: Paralegal courses at SSU do not count toward unit, course or elective requirements in CCJS.
I am a junior in high school and I would like some information on what classes to take in order to become a detective or a police officer. I also would like to know what classes I should take while I'm still in high school.
There is no one right answer to your question. Here are some ideas. Seek out the advice of others. Try doing very well in your required courses, learn how to write very clearly and develop a good vocabulary. Try to learn math and algebra well--one of the best measures of success is performing well in mathematics. However, do not despair if you're not great at math. Learn how to type; this skill will pay for itself many times over. A broad knowledge of government, conflict resolution skills, driving ability and common sense will take you a long way. We leave it to you to take the particular classes that will bring you these life skills. Before you go into your field, try out a summer internship or placement in law enforcement, such as an Explorers program, to see if you are sure about your choice. Go to the SSU Local link to see if there's anything there for your situation (I haven't looked). The glamorization of policing on television is one of the greatest sources of misinformation about this line of work and a constant source of complaints by recruiters.
Where can I get training to take the law school admission test?
Here is the link to the Law School Admissions Test via the Law School Admission Council. Speak to Professor Eric Williams, CCJS Department, who is the University's pre-law advisor.
I need to speak to. . . (faculty), I'd like to make an appointment, etc.
Faculty are available during office hours. Office hours are available online, posted on their office door, at the front door to the office, on the department bulletin boards inside the office, and on course syllabi. If you cannot make their office hours, give them a call or e-mail and they will schedule an appointment with you. The Department Office Coordinators do not make appointments for them.

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Long Travel
The Instron model XL (long travel) extensometer is a precise device for measuring strain in highly extensible materials such as elastomers, semi-rigid plastics and films.
Designed for use with electromechanical testing instruments, Instron XL units can be used to measure specimens elongation's up to 10 in or 250 mm. An optional of 15 in or 375 mm travel is also available.
Principle Of Operation
The high elongation extensometer is designed to clamp directly onto to a specimen quickly and easily. It will adjust to incremental gauge lengths ranging from 0.5 in to 5 in or 10 mm to 200 mm.
The XL will accommodates up to 10 in of clamp displacement and is specifically designed to permit testing the sample through rupture without damaging the extensometer or otherwise disrupting the test routine.
The XL extensometer is based on a pair of carefully counterbalanced clamp assemblies which drive a potentiometer through connecting cables. Both clamps move freely but any increase in the separation or differential motion will advance the transducer.
The upper and lower specimen clamps are separately counterbalanced and guided on a polished and ground shaft with linear bearings so that none of the extensometer's weight is applied to the specimen.
Application Range
- Elastomeric testing
- Plastics testing
- Testing of materials having high elongation properties
- Cellular materials


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial, often matted, dioecious; staminate plants generally present
Leaves alternate, entire, generally ± tomentose
Inflorescence: heads discoid or disciform, 1 or in cyme-like clusters; phyllaries many in several series, papery or membranous (staminate wider, more conspicuous); receptacle naked
Staminate flowers 25 mm; corollas white, yellow, or red; pappus bristle tips generally enlarged
Pistillate flowers 210 mm; corollas barely lobed, white, yellow or red
Fruit 0.53.5 mm, ± elliptic; pappus bristles many, soft, weakly barbed
Species in genus: ± 40 species: Am, n Eurasia
Etymology: (Latin: antenna)
Reference: [Bayer 1990 Can J Bot 68:13891397 and Madroño 37:171183]
Many races reproduce by asexual seeds, their populations entirely pistillate plants.
Stems 725 cm, from partly woody caudex; stolons 0
Leaves: basal 1845 mm, linear to spoon-shaped, 13-veined, ± gray-tomentose; cauline 1245 mm
Inflorescence: heads 830; involucres 45 mm, narrow, glabrous; phyllaries narrow, acute, pale brown to whitish
Staminate flowers: corollas 23.5 mm
Pistillate flowers: corollas 2.54 mm
Fruit 12 mm, papillate; pappus 2.54 mm
Chromosomes: 2n=28
Ecology: Dry, open slopes, sagebrush scrub
Elevation: 13001900 m.
Bioregional distribution: n High Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau
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What can the Galileo do? it can be used for……
- Video calls and conferencing – stay connected as you follow the action
- Baby monitoring – see what you want to see, not just what the babysitter shows you
- Remote learning – follow professors around the classroom; see who is asking questions
- Time-lapse photography – create dynamic time-lapse videos that encompass movement along with passage of time
- Cinematography – Shoot interesting transition shots, panning down, panning across and up, etc. Mount the Galileo on rails and create a mini-rig for your iPhone camera!
- Real estate photography – build 360° spherical virtual home tours with ease
Features –
- Infinite 360° panning and tilting rotation. 200° per second pan-and-tilt speeds.
- Remotely controlled from your iPad, iPhone, or web browser. Swipe your finger across the screen or move your mouse to control the movement of the Galileo and your device.
- SDK (software developers kit) for app development. Freedom to integrate Galileo functionality into existing apps or to create entirely new apps built around the movement capabilities of Galileo. Or build software to integrate the Galileo with other hardware (e.g. camera rails).
- Outfitted with a standard tripod screw, the Galileo can be mounted on any tripod.
- Fabulous charging station for your iPhone or iPod. Charges your device while plugged in (USB cable included).
- Rechargeable Lithium polymer battery lets you use your Galileo anywhere.
The Galileo's initial pledge of US$100,000 has long already been met, with 13 days left, the pledge total now stands at US$444,633 and growing fast. For US$85, this gadget is a sure steal. Check out more details and pledging information at their Kickstarter page here, Kickstarter Galileo Page
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If you have a buck or two to spare please consider donating to his GoFundMe page to help a good guy out, as he has done so in many ways for others.


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Last week we successfully completed our first focus group for our project looking at how Library and Learning Services communicates with PhD researchers.
We have some great data to look at, including the pictured PhD timeline, which was jointly created by the participants in the group.
Although it was clear from the feedback from a single group that the PhD experience diverged quite significantly according to factors such as discipline and supervisor, we're keen to run a second group. This would allow us to establish to what extent our local processes give students a particular character of experience, and hopefully extend our participant pool to all four of the facilities.
We're also planning to include those who were unable to make face to face groups (including distance and international students) with a questionnaire based on the outcomes from the groups.
The approaching Easter holidays mark a good point to start analysis and plan next stages, so I'll report further then.


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Despite a lack of evidence, the establishment media claims white supremacists, skinheads and neo-Nazis are joining to U.S. military and preparing for a "racial holy war."
Reuters reports that racist groups are actively encouraging members to enlist and receive military training to overthrow the "Zionist Occupation Government," a term invented by the Order, a racist organization created by the National Alliance, a group controlled by the FBI.
The latest effort by the Pentagon to ferret out violent racists follows the shooting of Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin, allegedly by Wade Michael Page, who served in the psychological operations unit at Fort Bragg.
The Southern Poverty Law Center characterized Page as a white supremacist who fronted a "hate rock band." The SPLC also connected the former soldier to the National Alliance. The leader of that group, former Green Beret David Kellerman, admitted he worked for the FBI.
The effort by the Pentagon – enthusiastically praised and encouraged by the SPLC and the ADL – follows a script produced in 2009 by the Department of Homeland Security that characterizes military veterans as a domestic terror threat.
"Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists," the DHS report on "rightwing extremism" leaked in 2009 claimed. The report said the government is "concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities."
An earlier report commissioned by the Justice Department "found half of all right-wing extremists in the United States had military experience," according to Reuters.
A colonel interviewed by Reuters, however, said he did not consider the prospect of white supremacists in the military a serious problem. "In my 26 years in the Army, I've never seen it," the former company commander said.
CNN report claims white supremacists are a problem in the military.
As exhaustively reported by Infowars.com, the FBI has controlled violent white supremacist groups since the 1960s. Under COINTELPRO, the government "subsidized, armed, directed and protected the Ku Klux Klan and other right-wing groups," Brian Glick writes. Racist groups were used to create a strategy of tension by attacking groups on the so-called left, including anti-war, Chicano and Puerto Rican activists and nationalists.
More recently, the specter of armed and violent racists has been used to exaggerate the prospect of domestic terrorism and expand the national security state, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and myriad other federal agencies.
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What Is Ergonomic Office Furniture?
Ergonomics is the science of designing specific items, such as furniture, to comfortably conform to the body and reduce the risk of injury from stress and strain. If you spend long hours at the computer and use ergonomic furniture in your office, you will find that it will provide a greater amount of comfort than traditional office furniture and will enable you to accomplish more throughout your workday. More offices are being equipped with ergonomic furniture to enable employees to work comfortably and effectively, with less risk of injury to the body.
How does ergonomic office furniture benefit your body and health?
Since ergonomic furniture can be adjusted in numerous ways, it will greatly reduce the amount of strain on the body. Repetitive motions can create medical conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Knees, shoulders and backs can be greatly fatigued throughout the day due to office furniture that does not adequately accommodate the body. With ergonomic office furniture, there is less risk of injury due to more conformity to the body.
Ergonomic chairs and desks can be adjusted in a number of ways, with different models available for use in a variety of fields.
Ergonomic Chairs
Chairs that consist of an ergonomic design come in a variety of types to fit a variety of needs. One thing you will want to look for in a comfortable chair is the ability to adjust the height. Seat height may range from 16 to 24 inches from the floor. The majority of workers will be able to do their jobs comfortably in this range. To avoid stress on the legs, especially the knees, your feet should be able to rest completely on the floor.
Width and Depth
The width of the chair should be enough to provide a comfortable seat, which usually falls anywhere from 17 to 20 inches. The depth of your chair is also important. From the front of the seat to the back, there should be enough room for you to position your back against the chair back. There should be from 2 to 4 inches between the backs of your knees and the front of the seat.
A quality ergonomic chair will always have adjustable armrests. You should be able to sit at your desk with arms resting comfortably on the armrests of the chair. Your shoulders should also be comfortable, otherwise, neck strain may be the result.
Back of Chair
The back of your chair should have adequate width to offer complete support to your back, usually from 12 to 19 inches. A backrest that is not connected to the seat should be adjustable in tilt and height. If the backrest and the seat are one continuous piece, the backrest should be adjustable in tilt, either forward or backward to a certain degree in order to provide maximum comfort.
Lumbar Support
Lumbar support in an ergonomic chair can lessen the amount of strain that will be felt on your lower back. You will definitely appreciate this option at the end of a long, busy day. A lumbar support feature that is adjustable is important for providing the maximum amount of comfort to your back. The lower back has a natural curvature, and a chair that can be adjusted to best fit this curvature will provide the most comfort for long periods of sitting.
Ergonomic Desks
Sit and Stand Desk
A desk that is adjustable in height is crucial in certain jobs, especially if sitting and standing will be involved. Certain models may have two separate components, one higher and the other lower. Each separate piece can be adjusted individually so that work may be accomplished in a sitting or standing position. An adjustable workstation may be the best choice for you if you work at the computer extensively or have employment in the medical field.
Portable Desk
Offices can benefit from a desk that not only adjusts but can also be closed up and moved to another location. If you have a small home office, you may want a desk that can be opened for use and closed for storage when your work for the day is finished, providing additional space. This type of desk is portable and can be taken from one location to another, which is an asset if you work out of more than one office.
Medical Workstations
If you work in the medical field and handle imaging equipment, you will reap many benefits from an imaging workstation that is designed for comfort with adjustable tilt and height features. Desks come in a variety of sizes so that a compact unit can even be found for smaller work areas.
How does ergonomic furniture increase productivity in the office?
This type of furniture increases productivity greatly by decreasing the amount of stress the body experiences. When you feel comfortable and can work with less strain on your body, you will do a better and more productive job. The designing of ergonomic furniture incorporates technology that cuts down on body strain and provides comfort during those times when hours are spent sitting at a computer or standing at a desk.
Ergonomic furniture is a step up from ordinary office furniture. Whether your office is in a business complex or in the home, ergonomic furniture may be the answer to the aches and pains that result from using traditional furniture.


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The country�s first merit scholarship program has accepted an Arendell Parrott Academy senior who looks to be first in her class.
The country�s first merit scholarship program has accepted an Arendell Parrott Academy senior who looks to be first in her class.
Logan Beyer recently won the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to UNC. She is also a finalist for the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship of Duke University and the Trustee Scholarship of the University of Southern California � so the 18-year-old may face some additional options in the near future.
Beyer, a straight-A student at APA, has balanced her academic career with extracurricular involvement to supplement her course load, such as sports and mission trips. She�s taken the school�s 12 Advanced Placement classes to help prepare for her post-secondary educational future.
�I always thought school was fun,� said Beyer, who commutes an hour to Parrott from her hometown of New Bern. �As I�ve gotten older, it�s kind of been fun and then there�s a purpose to it too, because it can get you where you want to go.�
Her career goals include majoring in chemistry or physics, eventually leading her into medical school. Beyer will likely choose to minor in English, as she equally enjoys chemistry and writing.
While she is vice president of the senior class and president of Beta Club, she�s recognized around campus for more than her leadership roles at Parrott.
�She�s so engaging, it�s hard to believe she�s like that all the time,� said Mitzi Moye, student advisor. �She has an enthusiasm that is really contagious when she�s in a group. �When she�s in a work group, everybody works harder. It�s really fascinating to watch.�
Moye has travelled with Beyer overseas to Ecuador, which was one of Beyer�s most unforgettable moments in her community service track � a component notably evaluated for the Morehead-Cain program.
�It was so much fun,� Beyer said of the Ecuadoran trip. �I was running up and down the side of the mountain because I�d never seen a real mountain before. It was just an incredible experience to be there and realize you�re in that place so far from home and doing good for people you�ve never met.�
When she returned home from her first trip abroad last summer, she convinced her parents to let her make service trip. She wound up volunteering at a hospital in Guatemala for a week with a peer.
Beyer has also previously volunteered at a hospital in New Bern.
�She is truly a unique young woman, and we are all incredibly proud of her and her accomplishments,� said Terah Archie, Parrott�s public information and alumni affairs director.�I think she�s set an example for her peers to take advantage of everything Parrott Academy has to offer, whether its in the classroom (or) athletics.�
Beyer plays basketball and cross county, and she has been attending the school since second grade. She has a younger brother � a Parrott freshman � who commutes with her to school, which is often a chance for the siblings to �reflect� outside of Beyer�s busy schedule.
�I think the thing that is unique about Logan is her tremendous level of focus,� said Parrott English teacher Vicki Kennedy, who taught Beyer�s AP English class. �She is able to sustain her focus at all times. She also will really delve into a subject and just bulldog it until she finds out as much as she needs to know about it.
�I sometimes wonder when she sleeps, seriously.�
Beyer has transferred her seemingly non-stop academic and extracurricular activities into college preparation.
�I think getting ready for college is making the most of the time I have left here while also being ready for the new opportunities that are coming,� she said.
Her teachers and counselors said she makes can easily adapt to her surroundings, so they said she will excel at whichever campus she chooses. In fact, Moye said while Beyer has won a prestigious scholarship, it�s the colleges who will benefit from her presence on campus.
�I always think that things are going to work out,� Beyer said. �Sometimes you just have to have a little faith and trust that if you go to some place for the right reasons, things will happen the way they�re supposed to.�
Jessika Morgan can be reached at 252-559-1078 or at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @JessikaMorgan.
Logan Beyer, 18, has won the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship to UNC
Parents: James Beyer, Duke University graduate; Kristin Beyer, Wake Forest graduate
Brother: Jackson Beyer, Arendell Parrott Academy freshman


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I have no idea what exact color values used by USPCC, which is OK, since I'm not trying to exactly match their color anyway.Bill Mullins wrote: ↑2 years agoIt would be interesting to know what the Pantone values of Bicycle Blue and Red are.
Inkscape doesn't (by default) use pantone values/names, so for the vector backs, I've basically scanned/sampled (or eyeballed) colors from real cards, basically looking for values that look (and likely print) nicely.
I've seen cards printed before (from my vectors) using these values (specifically blue and red) and it looks great. Since the vector backs are not meant to be mixed into any other kind of commercial deck, I'm not trying to matching anything exactly here. The red/blue mix on commercial decks seems to vary, sometimes widely, so it's kind of a fools errand to attempt matching something that not even the big boys can match consistently.
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love the fact that RIM has made the device almost the same size as the 8900 and has the battery of the 9000 because now i can use my 8900 pocket and have an extra battery because of the 9000 .
my only gripe is i wish the 9700 had the speakers like the 9000 . don't get me wrong i love the 9700 and won't trade it for anything .


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RS SVD AEG - Coming Soon! (2008-10-23)
Since the last time we visited the Real Sword offices we were left with a lasting impression of a company with quality and attention to detail in mind. They are people with a real passion for guns and are in touch with the needs of the avid airsofter. If you had the chance to talk to them at IWA 2008, then you will probably have an idea of the dedication that goes into making their products and even the packaging that it comes in. Also, if you were at IWA this year, you will be aware of their soon to be released product. For those who didn't attend and aren't already aware, their next big product will be an AEG SVD.
|SVD Silhouettes - hint of what we will be expecting from Real Sword
The Type 56 and Type 97 exhibited the company's potential, showcasing the possibilities in AEG manufacturing. They always wanted to make the Type 97 and Type 56 so that it shared exactly the same dimensions as the real thing. That meant that the internal design had to meet the dimensions of all the external parts to ensure that it keeps with the 1:1 rule. Currently, the Type 97 and Type 56 are the only AEG counterparts that boast the same dimensions as the real steel equivalent. Great attention has been paid to the material used also, and the overall aesthetic of their products to accurately mimic the original.
|Full Steel muzzle and outer barrel
|The handguard is made using the original technique of hot-bending the plywood
It is good to see that their passion hasn't waned with their up-and-coming SVD AEG. A lot of time has been spent in R&D into producing this SVD with the same dimensions as the real thing. As the SVD has a narrow, slender and lengthy body, the internal design was a somewhat challenging aspect. RS had to overcome a lot of technical difficulties in this respect, in making the inside fit the out. But they have done it, and here it is.
|Steel rear sight
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The Real Sword SVD AEG is not just a pretty face too, as RS wanted to make it a highly effective gun to use also. RS confided in Airsoft players to get an idea of what they look for in a gun, performance-wise. The Real Sword SVD benefits from incredible shooting accuracy and range, thanks to their R&D and precise manufacturing techniques. Another interesting aspect is that the SVD has been designed to adapt to a whole array of different weather conditions around the world, despite being an electric-powered gun.
|Battery is stored in the handguard
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Film Noir File: Sit back and enjoy a night with Bogie & Bacall
By Mr E Man and Mark Harrington
The Film Noir File is FNB's guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classi c Movies (TCM). The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard). All films without a new review have been covered previously in Mr E Man and can be searched in the FNB archives (at right).
Pick of the Week: Bogie and Bacall night is Tuesday, April 7
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall – the King and Queen of film noir – make for a royally cool evening. First: A documentary-memoir by Bacall, followed by two of the nonpareil pair's top shows, adapted from books by Ernest Hemingway and David Goodis. Sit back, pour yourself a cold one, and enjoy. And remember: Another vintage Bogart, "Casablanca," plays (again Sam), Tuesday morning on TCM. (See below.)
2 a.m. (11 p.m.): "Bacall on Bogart" (David Heeley, 1988). A bio-pic gem. Baby on Bogie – and who knew him better?
3:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m.): "To Have and Have Not" (Howard Hawks, 1944).
5:15 a.m. (2:15 a.m.): "Dark Passage" (Delmer Daves, 1947).
Saturday, April 4
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "Witness for the Prosecution" (Billy Wilder, 1957). "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial-drama/murder mysteries – with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair-bound barrister, his real-life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long-suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple-reverse surprise ending.
10:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m.): "Laura" (Otto Preminger, 1944).
12 a.m. (9 p.m.): "Klute" (Alan Pakula, 1971). Jane Fonda as a brainy hooker (her first Oscar-winning performance) being pursued by a psycho killer. Donald Sutherland plays Klute, the cop who tries to help and save her. A classy, first-class neo-noir.
Monday, April 6
1:45 a.m. (10:45 p.m.): "Macao" (Josef von Sternberg, 1952). Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell strike sultry sparks in this exotic thriller from Howard Hughes' RKO.
Directed by Josef Von Sternberg, with uncredited reshooting by Nick Ray. Co-starring Gloria Grahame, William Bendix and Thomas Gomez.
3:15 a.m. (12:15 a.m.): "His Kind of Woman" (John Farrow, 1951). Down Mexico way, in a Hollywood-style resort, Jane Russell is his kind of woman. And Robert Mitchum is her kind of man.
Gangster Raymond Burr and overripe actor Vincent Price are our kind of heavies in this breezy, funny tongue-in-cheek noir.
Tuesday, April 7
11:45 a.m. (8:45 a.m.): "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz, 1942).
4 p.m. (1 p.m.): "Passage to Marseille" (Michael Curtiz, 1944).
6 p.m. (3 p.m.): "Mildred Pierce" (Michael Curtiz, 1945).
See Pick of the Week above.
Wed., April 8
2 p.m. (11 a.m.): "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (Otto Preminger, 1965). Bunny Lake is an American child kidnapped in London, Carol Lynley her terrified mother, Keir Dullea her concerned uncle, Anna Massey her harassed teacher, Noel Coward her sleazy landlord, and Laurence Olivier the shrewd police detective trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The most important of those pieces: Was Bunny ever really there at all? A neglected gem; based on Evelyn Piper's novel.
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "La Strada" (Federico Fellini, 1954).
2 a.m. (11 p.m.): "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (Ralph Nelson, 1962).


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How low? Discount house-traders opens
Last year, a new firm jolted the local real estate scene by promising to sell a house for a flat fee of $2,995. Now comes another shock to the system of six percent commissions: HomeSell Realty, which is offering to do the job for $1,500.
"We think that's fair whether it's a $200,000 or $300,000 house," says the man behind HomeSell. "It costs the same to market that home."
He is local entrepreneur Shane Bradley, and he senses a groundswell moving through real estate sales in Charlottesville.
"You drive through every neighborhood, and you see more for-sale-by-owner signs," he says.
Bradley promises that HomeSell's service to customers is the same as at traditional real estate firms. What's definitely different is how the realtors are paid and how much the customer pays.
When Bradley's wife worked as a realtor for another firm, it seemed to him as though agents, who were independent contractors, were taking all the risk in selling property only to have the company "whack 50 percent off the top" when they sold something. "I don't think that's right," he says.
The real estate agents at HomeSell are on salary, with benefits and paid vacations. Bradley declines to say how much they're making, but he describes all the agents there as "experienced real estate professionals."
Current real estate commissions in Charlottesville are six percent. When a house is sold, three percent goes to the listing firm. If the buyer also has an agent, he or she typically receives three percent.
Bradley believes that real estate can be profitably sold for a flat fee of $1,500 plus a three percent commission to the buyer's agent.
That's what they do for sellers. For buyers, HomeSell offers a sweet little rebate: They'll hand back one percent of the three percent commission a buyer's agent typically receives.
"What we're doing isn't new," says Bradley, "just new to this area.
Since the firm opened in April, he says, the response has been so overwhelming that he's hired another agent.
The last time a challenge to the standard six percent commission structure came was last fall with the opening of the local office of Assist-2-Sell. Assist-2-Sell's Anthony McGhee doesn't think HomeSell will be a major threat to his business, which, he says, has been taking an average of one listing a day. For one, Assist-2-Sell is a franchise that's been around for 10 years, while HomeSell is "charting new waters," he says.
And since the other discount firm opened, "We've noticed no change in our productivity," McGhee says. "It's gone up every month."
He also describes HomeSell's buyer's discount as a complicated formula. "Generally, a confused mind says no," warns McGhee.
Carolyn Shears, president of the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors, doesn't think the latest discount brokerage is going to rock the traditional firms' world. She calls HomeSell a "niche" business model but concedes that some customers may prefer it. "I think consumers want choices," she says.
She notes that a number of traditional firms offer fees for services as opposed to a strict six percent commission.
And as for putting realtors on salary, "It doesn't work for me," she says. "The vast majority who are good realtors prefer to be in charge of their destinies. The better they do, the more they make."
Realtor Roger Voisinet has no plans to cut his commission in the face of the discount brokerages. "I learned decades ago, you should buy the best quality tools around, not the cheapest ones. That's the strategy a homeowner should take," he says.
Because real estate is a service profession, "If you really want good service or marketing," he says, "I don't think you can get it from a discount firm."
Shane Bradley remains convinced the future is in discount real estate brokerages. "I would rather be me than them," he says.


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Pretty in Pink
The flamingo is the hippest bird of the year. The iconic gardengnome substitute now also features on shirts, hats, shoes and champagne bottles. This is possibly why Nakuru National Park in Kenya is so popular: Depending on the season, up to two million of the lanky pink birds can be spotted here.


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Democrats who side with corporate interests to block President Obama's agenda will suffer for it at the ballot box. But even as we're celebrating, it's time to double down. Because Sen. Lincoln is a favorite of big corporations, she still has millions in the bank—and she'll spend all of it smearing Bill Halter.Meanwhile in Kentucky, Tea Partier and Ron Paul's son, Rand, beat out GOP-fave Trey Grayson. Saying that his candidacy was about taking the government back for the people, Rand, whom Gawker aptly describes as "the Justin Bieber of the Atlas Shrugged crowd," certainly looked handsome and boyish like Bieber, if slightly more insipid. The message: We're tired, we're cranky, we don't like the government. Or as the clever group of activists, artists and academics, Feel Tank, puts it:
Depressed? It might be political.According to Feel Tank, it's easy to be depressed in a system that doesn't really give us any say in how our tax dollars are spent, that leaves us increasingly vulnerable- economically but also in terms of health insurance, the environment, even our food and drug safety. What are we supposed to do? Their answer? We should organize as the politically depressed, marching in our pajamas and slippers, with signs saying "Don't Just Medicate, Agitate." And so some Americans shuffled to the polls and agitated for change. Sadly, because we are unable to see our common interests across the ideological divides represented by the Tea Party and Move On, we cannot actually make change happen. For change to happen, we would have to stop being politically depressed and realize that our MATERIAL interests are the same for all working Americans: stop giving corporations and the military industrial complex handouts, stop telling us how to organize our lives, create a safe environment for all of us. But because the Neocons have so effectively redefined "class interests" as "lifestyle," we cannot really join together to effectively throw the bums out. Instead, we will continue to be divided on whether or not we drink beer or wine, Dunkin Donuts' coffee or Starbuck's lattes, listen to country music or hip hop, get married or don't, Rand Paul or Joe Sestak. Which is just depressing.


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Does the new millennium actually begin on January 1, 2000, or onJanuary 1, 2001?
The new millennium officially begins on January 1, 2001. But, this won't stop people from having their big parties on New Year's Eve, 1999. The Gregorian calendar, which many people use, measures time from a starting point which was arbitrarily set as the birth of Christ. His birth is set as year 1, not year 0. So the first millennium begins with year 1 and ends with year 1000. The second millennium will last from the beginning of year 1001 to the end of year 2000. This means that the new millennium won't start until the beginning of year 2001. As a side note, year 2000 is a leap year. An extra day is added every four years, except for each century. For each century, the year has to be divisible by 400 instead of just 4. That means that 2000 will be a leap year but that 1900 wasn't.
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Malinga's hat-trick
Sri Lanka's king of sling claimed a second World Cup hat-trick in a six-wicket haul against hapless Kenya in Colombo. Malinga sent back Tanmay Mishra, Peter Ongondo and Shem Ngoche in successive balls. In 2007, he had taken four wickets in four balls against South Africa... Read More Click Here


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SATURDAY, Oct. 27, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking takes at least 10 years off women's lives but they can significantly reduce that risk if they quit smoking early enough, a new study suggests.
Researchers looked at more than 1 million women in the United Kingdom who were recruited when they were aged 50 to 65 and followed for 12 years. Initially, 20 percent of the women were smokers, 28 percent ex-smokers, and 52 percent had never smoked.
Women who still smoked three years into the study were nearly three times more likely to die in the following nine years than nonsmokers. This threefold increased risk of death means that two-thirds of all deaths of female smokers in their 50s, 60s and 70s are caused by smoking, the researchers said.
The death risk among smokers increased sharply with the amount smoked, but even those who were light smokers (1 to 9 cigarettes a day) at the start of the study were twice as likely to die as nonsmokers, according to the report published online Oct. 27 in The Lancet.
The investigators also found that women who had stopped smoking before the age of 40 avoided more than 90 percent of the increased risk of dying associated with continuing to smoke, while those who quit before 30 avoided more than 97 percent of that increased risk.
"If women smoke like men, they die like men -- but, whether they are men or women, smokers who stop before reaching middle age will on average gain about an extra 10 years of life," study co-author Sir Richard Peto, of the University of Oxford in England, said in a journal news release.
The authors of a commentary accompanying the study agreed that the findings are "simple and unequivocal."
"That we had to wait until the 21st century to observe the full consequences in women of a habit that was already widespread in the mid-20th century, when tobacco smoking pervaded much of the developed world, might seem paradoxical," wrote Rachel Huxley, of the University of Minnesota, and her co-author.
"But this is because, in most of Europe and the U.S.A., the popularity of smoking among young women reached its peak in the 1960s, decades later than for men," the editorialists explained. "Hence, previous studies have underestimated the full eventual impact of smoking on mortality in women, simply because of the lengthy time lag between smoking uptake by young women and disease onset in middle and old age."
More information
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about women and smoking.


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Note: The library has a 50MB Ethernet connection. Connection speeds are dependent upon the number of concurrent users and the current tasks being performed. Outages are rare, but they do happen.
You can access the library's free wireless Internet (wi-fi) from most places within the building. You are welcome to connect your laptop, smartphone or tablet to our network anytime during open hours.
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You can access the internet from any public computer within the building.
If you have a Westerville library card, you can log into a computer in the Technology Center or other library computer labs.
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The chassis of the Euro 6 LF has been fully redesigned for maximum stiffness and excellent driving characteristics, a low kerb weight and ample room for positioning components. The chassis is completely flat and the completely new electrical installation ensures maximum bodybuilder friendliness. In order to provide vehicles tailored to every application, the new LF Series features a large number of variants in terms of payload and wheelbase.
Light and strong
The most significant innovation is that the chassis is a single-wall construction, which keeps kerb weight as low as possible — high-quality steel is used for maximum strength.
For extra load capability, the 18 and 19-tonne models can be fitted with a new 13-tonne rear axle, which is important in countries where loads exceeding 11.5 tonnes are permitted on the driven axle.
Practically positioned components
Components such as air tanks and the electronic brake control are practically positioned on the inside of the chassis, creating a lot of free space to mount toolboxes, support legs and spare wheel.
Compact designed EAS-installation (Engine After Treatment System) with integrated SCR-unit and soot filter.
Easy to build on
Important for a truck in the segment of the DAF LF is the bodybuilder friendliness. The chassis of the LF is for that reasoncompletely flat. Practical mounting brackets are available as an option.
The perfect base for any superstructure
Wide variety of chassis configurations
DAF offers the new LF Euro 6 in various weight classes. The rigids with 17.5 inch wheels offer GVWs of 7.5 to 12 tonnes with net load capacities ranging from 4,180 to 8,300 kilograms.
When equipped with 19.5 inch wheels, the 14 and 16-tonne rigids offer net payloads from 9.570 to 11.570 kilograms. In addition, DAF also offers 14 and 16-ton tractors of the new LF with 19.5 inch wheels for maximum gross combination weights of 24 to 28 ton.
At the top of the LF program are the 18 and 19-ton rigid models with 22.5 inch wheels and a gross combination weight of 26 to 32 ton.
In order to provide a DAF LF tailored to any application, you can choose from a wide range of wheelbases. The versions with GVWs between 7.5 and 12 tonnes are available with eight wheelbases ranging from 3.00 to 5.40 meters. For the class of 14 to 16 tonnes nine wheelbase variants are available, ranging from 3.25 to 6.30 meters. For the 18 and 19 ton models, eight different wheelbases between 3.45 and 6.25 meters can be chosen. The tractor version of heaviest LF has a wheelbase of 3.13 meters or 3.50 meters.


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KirstyUQP brauchte ein neues Print oder Verpackung Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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UQ ePress (an imprint of UQP: http://www.uqp.com.au)
UQ ePress is an academic publishing imprint of UQP (http://www.uqp.com.au). We publish academic books (not textbooks) in the Pacific Studies area. UQ ePress is a new imprint and the Pacific Studies Series is a new series.
Our objective is to combine the best of print publishing traditions with the rich promises of online and digital offerings for scholarly communication. To support the local and international academic community around us, and to help stimulate the free flow and development of new knowledge, the UQ ePress is an online open access publisher. We also utilise print-on-demand facilities to distribute our works in print formats.
UQP has been publishing books for over 60 years and is known for the high quality books we produce.
Readers of academic books and specialised non-fiction. We also want to capture the interest of academics within the Pacific Studies field. These books will not be targeting schools market. The books will be primarily available as ebooks (with a print book also available), so cover need to read well on screen. Cover needs to communicate that this is a new series academic books series.
Full book cover template for first book in Pacific Studies series.
• Not textbooks. We want non-fiction book style (see UQP Academic Books http://www.uqp.com.au for examples)
• Design: classic, simple, clear, serious. Strong and interesting typographical elements (no italics). Not gimmicky. Attached are sample designs that we like.
• Cover shouldn't be a literal interpretation of the title, as the design will be applied to other books. Require a general template that reflects the Pacific Studies category.
• Needs to be able to be easily manipulated (by us) to suit new books in the series. Elements that will change: title, author, & back cover blurb. Also like to be able to change a subtle design element e.g. colour, icon, image etc., but this is not essential.
• Don't want images as primary design element, but can be used. Please stick to cheap or free images (we will purchase).
• Allow for long & short titles & author names. Subtitles don't need to be as prominent as the title.
C format cover: front /back cover each 227x152mm
Spine width: 23.75mm (this book only)
Title: The Samoan Tangle: A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations 1878–1900
Author: Paul M. Kennedy
Series name: UQ ePress Pacific Studies Series
Front cover: book title, author name, series name
Spine: book title, author, UQ ePress logo (supplied)
Back cover: series name, dummy text for blurb (approx 200 words)


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Welcome to the Lesbian Herstory Archives
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest
collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.
Please read our History
as well as our Mission
and Statement of Purpose to learn more.
We are located at 484 14th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, between
8th Avenue and Prospect Park West. You can visit
the Archives anytime
we're open, to browse through photographs or files,
read a book, watch a video, listen to a CD or LP, do research
or to volunteer.
We also arrange group
Megan Rossman recently did a wonderful short film about the Archives called Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Brief History.
Just click on the image to watch it on Vimeo.
How to Use this Website
Take the Virtual Tour
While there is nothing like visiting the Archives in
person, through our virtual
tour you can get an introduction to the Archives,
as well as an overview of our building and collections
floor by floor.
The collections
section of the virtual tour will provide you with information
and photos from the varied parts of the Archives as
well as information on how you can start creating your
own special
Sample our Exhibits and Newsletters
We have created several exhibits
that travel around the world. One of the most popular
is "Queer
Covers," from our collection of lesbian pulp
Since 1975, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has sent
out nearly 20 newsletters
to members of our community. This section of this website
includes a digital copy of each
and every newsletter.
It is a wonderful snapshot of how the Archives, and
the lesbian community, have changed over the years.
Check out our Digital Collections
Our latest video is from the LHA Daughters of Bilitis collection in which Edith Eyde talks about her life growing up in rural southern California, moving to Los Angeles and discovering the lesbian culture there. She discusses publishing Vice Versa, one of the first lesbian magazines, and her music career. Our digital collections also include wonderful photographs and audio tapes.
Since 1975, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has sent
out nearly 20 newsletters to members of our community. This section of this website
includes a digital copy of each
and every newsletter.
It is a wonderful snapshot of how the Archives, and
the lesbian community, have changed over the years.
The archives is a non-profit, volunteer run organization.
We rely on contributions from the lesbian communities
and our allies. Learn about how you can contribute to
the Archives, whether through financial
donations, donations
of your materials and/or donating your time by becoming
a volunteer.
We also welcome students seeking internships.
Our website was created by the efforts of so many.
The content was first discussed and then written and
edited by the coordinating committee, with inspiration
and pointers from many other women. Saskia searched
the Archives collection to find the photographs used
on the site. All the photographs came from the Archives
collection. We can give credit to some photographers
but others are not known... help if you can! Heather
Stewart, our fabulous webmistress, pulled the presentation
together in the format you are viewing now, and Carrie
Moyer created our beautiful logo. Our thanks go out
to so many of you who have been involved with the Archives
in so many different ways - previous coordinators, interns,
volunteers, staffers, researchers, visitors, friends,
lesbians in the community and lesbians around the world.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The current Archives coordinators (in no particular order): Joan Nestle, Deb Edel, Teddy Minucci, Maxine Wolfe, Amy Beth, Saskia Scheffer, Paula Grant, Desiree Yael Vester, Shawnta Smith, Colette Montoya, Leni Goodman, Rachel Corbman, Flavia Rando, Stevie Jones, Red Washburn, Ashley Santangelo, Morgan Gwenwald , Elvis Bakaitis and Marguerite Campbell.


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All bidders must provide name, address, phone number, email address and credit card (MC, Visa, Discover) to register. The credit card will be validated, but is not a recognized form of payment of the deposit or purchase price. A Proof of Funds letter must be submitted for approval before bidding access will be granted. A sample Proof of Funds letter is available for download from the Documents tab for this auction. Should a Winning Bidder fail to complete the contract signing process, the required deposit will be charged to the credit card provided at registration. By registering, all bidders acknowledge having read and agree to be bound by the Auction Terms and Conditions. Bidders may register prior to, or during the bidding period. At registration bidders are given the option of receiving emails confirming their individual bids and/or when they are outbid.
All bidding in this auction is being conducted online. (If you need assistance placing a bid or prefer to submit a bid in person, please call our office for assistance. 816-781-1134) To place a bid, bidders enter their "maximum" bid and click the "Place Bid" button. Each time that bidder is outbid by another bidder, the system will automatically bid on their behalf at the established bid increments up to their maximum. In the case of an auction with a reserve, if the max bid amount entered is less than the reserve, the system will place the bid at the max amount. Once the system displays that the reserve has been met, then it will advance the bid (by the bid increments) only when the bidder is outbid by another bidder, up to the bidders max. The Auctioneer does not know any bidder's maximum bid. The system will not advance a bidder's own bid. Online-only auctions utilize the "Soft Close" feature that automatically extends the bidding time if a bid is received in the last 2 minutes of the published bidding period. The extensions will continue until 2 minutes have lapsed without any bidding activity, at which time the auction is concluded.
A buyer's premium of ten percent (10%) of the high bid shall be added to that bid and included in the total purchase price to be paid by the successful bidder(s).
Sample calculation — High bid = $50,000
Buyer's Premium = $5,000 (10% of 50,000)
Total purchase price = $55,000
Financing is not a contingency of sale in this offering. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that potential bidders ensure in advance that they are able to obtain the necessary financing to close the transaction.
At the conclusion of the auction the Winning Bidder will receive an email and/or phone call confirming his or her winning bid status. In this or a subsequent email the Winning Bidder will receive a link to sign all documents electronically along with wiring instructions for submitting the required earnest money deposit to the named title company. Should the electronic processes described above be unavailable, alternative arrangements will be made. In any event, the contract signing and deposit payment process must be completed by close of business on auction day. A Winning Bidder whose documents and deposit are not received within the required time frame is subject to paying a liquidated damages amount equal to the down payment (charged to the credit card used at registration) and will not be allowed to bid in any future Cates Auction & Realty auction events. Note that property-specific purchase documents are available prior to the auction end date and any professional reviews of such documents should be undertaken PRIOR to bidding. All final bids are subject to Seller's reserve, unless advertised otherwise. Any property with a high bid exceeding the Seller's reserve will be declared "sold" by the Auctioneer. In instances where the seller's reserve was not met in the auction, the signed contract and accompanying deposit will be presented to the Seller for approval, which shall be given or denied in the Seller's sole discretion within 5 business days. If approval is denied, all documents and the deposit will be returned immediately.
The Winning Bidder shall be required to make an earnest money down payment equal to five percent (5%) of the total purchase price. This deposit must be received by wire transfer (or by certified funds), by close of business auction day. Winning Bidders whose documents and deposit are not received within the required timeframe are subject to paying a liquidated damages amount equal to the down payment (charged to the credit card used at registration) and will not be allowed to bid in any future Cates Auction & Realty auction events.
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Sale of said property is subject to any and all easements of record and any and all leases.
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A commission of 3% of the high bid (unless a different percentage is stated in the property's MLS listing) will be paid to any properly licensed Broker who registers a successful buyer according to the appropriate Broker Participation Agreement. This form is available from the Auction Company and must be completed and returned no later than 48 hours prior to the auction end date.
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But imagine if one day, rather than yet another image resembling the above, the Rover sent back something like this:
It would be game over, right? You could pretty much forget about carbon isotopes and gas chromatographs and particle induced X-ray emissions, or the host of other complex experiments that seek out trace signatures of potential life-sustaining processes. Suddenly that would all be rendered meaningless. A minor detail. The big picture would be screaming out at humanity from across the Solar System.
About a year ago, a reader alerted us to this 2009 publicity picture of Bill Shatner (credit: "www.imagemakr.com-copyright-20091"). It was an image that threatened to become a proverbial cactus on Mars. Sub-toupular particles were irrelevant. For this, even a touposcope would temporarily prove unnecessary (unbelievable though it seems - though, of course, still useful for closer examination).
All that was required was to zoom in, and observe with one's own eyes...
Upon examining this image, the William Shatner School of Toupological Studies decided upon an extremely rare step. It convened a full sitting of its Grand Toupular Assembly (GTA), attended by the heads of all 2,143 departments at our research facility.
The major find was announced: what appeared to be an extremely rare malfunction of the usually extremely reliable "Denny Katz" toupee.
After basic examinations were complete, our toupologists finally fired up their touposcopes:
Somehow, the Denny Katz toup had failed. A thinned-out patch had emerged revealing the base netting attached to the head.
The pattern was unmistakable. A classic mesh. Oddly uniform for a toupee that prides itself on looking so natural.
Indeed, the toup also appeared to be moulting profusely.
Was Ed Katz letting standards slip? Or was this a rare defective toup? Or had Bill Shatner simply kept the thing on for too long? Even odder is that this image is from the controlled environment of a publicity shoot - the place where you'd least expect a toup malfunction to find its way out.
But, then again, this isn't the first time that such a lapse has occurred:
Perhaps even more curious is that this publicity image is still being used to this day - for example to publicize the upcoming January 2017 Star Trek Cruise, at which Bill Shatner is the star guest:
Of course, from a distance the picture can actually look quite natural - imperfections such as the visibility of the scalp and lack of follicular uniformity serving to make the toupee look more realistic.
But up close - yikes!!!


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Three letters in one today. This will get long, but bear with us, ok? There is a soundtrack and a lot of talk about crushes and what they mean and what you should do about them.
First, a little song from one of our Awkward Patron Saints to get you in the mood.


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In an article published November 13th entitled "Newmarket School District is wasting millions of dollars," a good deal of misinformation was spread. I need to correct the author's errors.
$53 million for a high school of 220 students? Cost estimates actually range from $44 to $50 million. The facility serves students in grades 6-12, not 9-12, and projected enrollment is approximately 600 students.
Advancing a personal agenda? There is no personal agenda at work in this. The Jr/Sr High is in deplorable condition, as anyone can see. Part of the reason that we are in this situation is because past efforts have been band-aid upon band-aid rather than investing in a good long-term solution. In this case, we are seeking a 50-year solution, 50 years without band-aids and 50 years with a facility that adequately supports the education of our youngest citizens.
Against the desires of the residents? That's true for some residents but certainly not for all. In the end, the residents will surely decide the future of education in this community and make a statement about the kind of community Newmarket is.
Purchasing land and designing construction options costing taxpayers more than $2 million? The citizens voted for all this, didn't they? That's what's great about New Hampshire and local control. We control our destiny at the local level and get to vote for what we choose to pay for.
Misrepresenting Oyster River's willingness to consider accepting all our students? Everything I said was true at the time I spoke. As of the January Public Hearing, Oyster River was in fact only open to receiving 100 of our students and for no more than five years. "In terms of a long-term solution, there is no opportunity." – that surely was the case at the time.
Oyster River changed its thinking last spring when the reality of a serious decline in enrollment was presented to them. They have since conducted a capacity study and are still considering whether there is room for Newmarket's students. I will follow any option to get a long-term solution for the best interest of our students.
Middle School students, too? Oyster River's Superintendent suggested that as a possible option, but only last spring. We are exploring that option with them now.
Tuition costs? The latest cost per pupil data from the Department of Education has Newmarket HS at $15,161.07 and Oyster River HS at $16,084.19. Oyster River already has a tuition agreement with Barrington for their high school students, and the rate is $13,200 per student. Right now it is a "buyer's market" for tuition students. We have not talked with Oyster River yet about a specific tuition agreement and specific tuition rate, but this could be a favorable cost.
Close the school immediately and send students to Oyster River now? What is this, Mr. Clay? Oyster River has something to say about that first. And then our voters will have a say.
Professional incompetence? The only incompetence here is an author whose letter is very misinformed.
Continued delays hampering educational opportunities for students? That's one thing Mr. Clay got right! With hard work and clear thinking, perhaps we will give Newmarket a chance to finally put an end to that.
Dr. Jim Hayes
Superintendent of schools
Newmarket School District
Getting facts right in Newmarket
In an article published November 13th entitled "Newmarket School District is wasting millions of dollars," a good deal of misinformation was spread. I need to correct the author's errors.


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We are awash in photos, the prevailing currency of our Instagram culture, yet Anton Orlov wonders how many of the pictures will be around in another 100 years — around in the sense that you can touch them, hold them, feel some connection to the person who made them.
If you were in an antique store in the year 2121 and came across a century-old digital camera, would you even be able to find a device that could read the memory card, given how fast technology is changing? Is digital photography really forever? Is it handmade? Is it art?
Orlov, 35, has his doubts, which is why the University City resident is on a mission to keep traditional photography alive in all its pre-computer glory. As such, he's part of an expanding international movement to learn and master techniques that date to the Civil War.
But he may be the only one with a school bus.
It's a yellow 1978 model made by Gillig. It cost $6,000 on eBay. Orlov spent four months turning it into what he calls The Photo Palace, complete with a place to sleep and a shower and a working darkroom. He's already taken it on one cross-country tour and has another planned for this summer.
He'll make stops in different states along the way, doing workshops at colleges, introducing people to the vintage world of daguerreotypes and the less-vintage world of Polaroid, selling some of his own photos to help finance the excursion.
He'll have a chance to visit second hand stores, too, hunting for cameras and other equipment to add to his rolling museum. Something like the Bellieni Jumelle, a late 1800s French camera he bought for $100 a few months back at a shop in Lomita, near Los Angeles.
He cleaned it up then popped open the back and inside found eight small glass slides. He was surprised to see that the slides had images on them, and even more surprised to see that the images apparently were from World War I, circa 1917. A one-legged soldier. A bombed-out building. Two men on horseback next to a downed airplane.
When he posted the shots on his blog, the story got picked up by media outlets around the globe and set off a minor stir among history buffs. "The thought that those images may not have been viewed since WWI sent shivers down the spine," one wrote. People in France eventually identified the probable location of the photos because of a church steeple in the background of one picture.
"What photographer in his right mind develops the negatives and then puts them back inside the camera?" Orlov wondered. (His theory: the photographer was worried about the slides breaking and thought the camera would be a safe place for storage.)
This was Orlov's second rare discovery in recent years. When he went to Northern California in 2011 to buy the school bus, he also came home with a box of slides and an early projector called the Magic Lantern, which was widely used to entertain audiences before movies had been invented. Those slides, too, were shot during World War I, mostly in Russia.
"It's interesting," Orlov said, "that these images keep finding me."
Chasing a dream
He was 17 when his family came to California from Russia in 1994 in search of a better future, and for a while Orlov thought that future would be in biochemistry. That's what he was studying in college.
Then a friend took him to a hippie-fueled communal getaway known as a Rainbow gathering. These are utopian shunnings of all things commercial and mainstream, a place where people share food and play music and get happy, sometimes with the help of substances that also bring the police. When things go well, dreams are launched.
The dream that took hold in Orlov was to follow his passion, which is photography. His grandfather was a photographer in Moscow, and Orlov said he's been taking pictures since he was 12, when he would snap photos of his classmates and then develop the images himself in a darkroom.
He came back from the Rainbow gathering and changed his major to photography, eventually earning a degree at San Jose State. He shot weddings and portraits and did catalogs for local companies like Carvin, the Poway guitar maker. Digital advances made the work easier and more efficient, but not as satisfying.
"I like old manual processes," he said. "It's very gratifying working with my hands and producing something that will outlive me in a physical form. The images I make, you can't view them on an iPhone. It's not something you can push a button and it comes out of an inkjet printer the same way every time. It has a life of its own."
He bought a studio in North Park and started perfecting his own techniques with film and fixer and paper. He taught classes there.
At a different Rainbow gathering he saw a guy who had a glassblowing studio in a school bus, and he started imagining one with a darkroom. That led him to the Gillig, which had been put out to pasture after 33 years of service by a school district near Chico.
He and a friend gutted the bus and put in new benches and cabinets. Under one counter, they put a kitchen sink and a stove. They built a bathroom with a shower. The darkroom, with a sink and space for two enlargers, went in the back.
When Orlov took off from San Diego last June, he didn't have much planned, just a general idea about eventually making it to Maine. He figured there was enough money for diesel fuel — 8 miles per gallon — and some food. He'd park the bus wherever and sleep inside.
On the second day, the engine sputtered. Clogged fuel filter, a $140 repair. He got back on the road and the bus overheated in New Mexico, rolling to a stop next to a small wooden cross, a makeshift roadside memorial for a guy named Larry.
Bad omens, maybe, but Orlov kept going. He made it to Maine, then back to San Diego, returning three months after he started with $37 in his pocket.
Part of a movement
Mark Osterman is the process historian at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y. He was working the day last August when Orlov rolled up in his bus.
"He's young, very enthusiastic, and what he's doing with the mobile darkroom is interesting," said Osterman, who along with his wife France Scully Osterman is considered a pioneer in the revival of wet-plate collodion processing, an 1850s method for making photographs on glass or tin plates.
Osterman said there are people all over the world like Orlov who feel that something is missing from digital photography — too sterile, too perfect — and want a more hands-on approach. He's taught workshops at the museum and in Germany, Japan and England. Famous art photographers like Sally Mann now specialize in historic techniques.
"The photography we all grew up with is unraveling," Osterman said, "going the way of dial telephones." People can still buy film and photographic paper and develop their own pictures, like Orlov does, but for how long?
Another question: How do you make a living chasing a dream?
"That's the big one," Orlov said, admitting that he doesn't yet have an answer. He's moved back in with his parents while he tries to make a go of it. He's been doing Magic Lantern shows to raise money. He's courting sponsors, eager to get back on the road.
"Maybe I'm just stubborn," he said, "but I don't really see another future for myself for a while."
Just a past, a photographic past, on an old yellow school bus.


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Noticed this article earlier.
Speeding up Internet Explorer 8
I have ran it and it seems to allow for things to appear quicker then what it did prior to running the script.
Several users have reported significantly slower performance under Internet Explorer 8, particularly when the browser is first launched or when navigating to new pages. Delays of up to 30 seconds or more have been reported.
The problem, in most cases, is the presence of IE restricted sites and enhanced security configuration zones, which are generally created automatically by spyware removal software, such as Spybot and IESpyAd. Traditionally, the presence of these entries has been hugely beneficial, offering protection against malicious software. However, Internet Explorer 8 includes new security measures that may obviate the need for these entries, and the browser can suffer a tremendous speed hit in their presence.
The fastest and easiest way to remove these entries and dramatically increase Internet Explorer 8s speed is to use the DelDomains package. Right click on this link and save the file to your desktop. Next, right-click on the downloaded file (DelDomains.inf) and select Install. The package will remove all Internet Explorer restricted sites, enhanced security configuration zones and trusted sites.


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BUZZBOX- Taylor made: <i>Idol</i>'s soul man hits the Paramount
Earlier this year, as Taylor Hicks stood in the recording studio at 2107 West Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, he couldn't contain himself.
"I cried," he says. "I was so honored to be in that studio, thinking about how the music that was made there is part of my musical foundation."
The studio belonged to Ray Charles. Hicks was there as an invited guest of Charles' family to record a song, and it was the moment when Hicks realized how far he's come in just two years' time.
It's been nearly a year since the prematurely gray 30-year-old leader of the so-called "Soul Patrol" surprised the world by outlasting his younger counterparts and winning the fifth season of American Idol.
Hicks says he still can't get used to his fame. "I didn't anticipate the magnitude of it," he says. "When people recognize you when you're overseas, that's amazing for a country boy from Alabama."
Fans aren't the only ones taking notice. Since his victory, Hicks has performed with everyone from Willie Nelson to Snoop Dogg, and says he's been writing songs with John Mayer and Robert Randolph for his next album. The respect from already-established musicians is unprecedented for an American Idol victor, and Hicks thinks he knows why.
"I've paid my dues," he says. "They know I've spent a long time in the clubs and working hard at my craft, just like they did."
In addition to respect from his fellow musicians, Hicks recently received the ultimate sign of acceptance: he was parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
"I laughed so hard," says Hicks of "Do I Creep You Out?" Yankovic's take on his hit single, "Do I Make You Proud?"
"When 'Weird Al' comes to you and wants to make fun of you," he says, "you just can't turn him down."
When Hicks takes the stage at the Paramount Theater on Thursday, July 5, he anticipates a fun audience, even though he knows most were rooting for another American Idol contestant: Fluvanna County's Chris Daughtry.
"I'm still a little shocked he didn't win," Hicks says.
Taylor Hicks at the Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall Thursday, July 5. 8pm. $40.50-$50.50. theparamount.net.