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The Reverend Billy Graham died just before 8am this morning. He was 99 years old.
Born on November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, William F. Graham was of Scottish descent, the son of William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham. The Grahams were dairy farmers, and young Billy was reared on their farm approximately four miles from the current location of the Graham Library. The Grahams attended the local Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
In 1933, when Prohibition ended, Graham's father forced him and his sister Katherine to drink beer until they became sick…both avoided alcohol and drugs for the rest of their lives, according to his autobiography. Because he was "too worldly," Graham was declined membership in a local youth group and was persuaded to visit Mordecai Ham, an evangelist. During Ham's revival meetings in Charlotte, Graham was converted in 1934 at age 16.
Graduating from Sharon High School in 1936, Graham then attended Bob Jones College, located then in Cleveland, Tennessee, but he found it too legalistic in both coursework and rules. So he transferred to the Florida Bible Institute (now Trinity College) where he graduated in 1940. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 1943, the same year he married the former Ruth McCue Bell.
Born from Presbyterian parents, Ruth's missionary childhood in China ended when she went with her parents on furlough to Montreat, North Carolina, a quiet scenic village near Asheville. She finished high school there and then enrolled in Wheaton College where she met, "The Preacher," a nickname given her future husband by their classmates.
Reverend Graham was ordained to the ministry in the Southern Baptist Convention in 1939, became pastor of two churches in Illinois, and then served as President of the three Northwestern Schools, also in Illinois. Now heard on more than 700 stations around the world, the weekly "Hour of Decision" radio program was launched in 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when he also founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Through these media, nearly 215 million people around the world have heard Reverend Graham preach the message of Jesus Christ.
A prolific speaker, broadcaster, and writer, Reverend Graham also authored a syndicated newspaper column, "My Answer," with a combined circulation of 5,000,000 readers. His book Peace With God sold over 2 million copies in 38 languages, and World Aflame enjoyed many weeks on both The New York Times and Time magazine Best-Seller Lists. On the Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Best-Seller Lists were Angels: God's Secret Agents, which won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Platinum Book and Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse which also won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Book Award. His book Facing Death and the Life After was on the Christian Booksellers Association Best-Seller List for 21 weeks and his 2005 book, Living in God's Love: The New York Crusade chronicles one of his best-attended crusades. His final book, Where I am, published in 2015, explored the age-old question of eternity.
For his work on behalf of children, he was presented the Horatio Alger Award from The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, an organization dedicated to dispel the mounting belief among the nation's youth that the American Dream is no longer attainable. Also for his contribution to the welfare of children, he was named Big Brother of the Year.
From the White House, Billy Graham was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. In 1996 Mrs. Graham's significant role in Billy Graham's ministry was recognized when they were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor Congress can bestow on a private citizen, in a special ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Reverend Graham was also awarded the Presidential Foundation Freedom Award for monumental and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom by President Ronald Reagan.
Many have recognized his unique and prolific contributions to peace, including the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, who bestowed upon him both The Torch of Liberty Plaque and the George Washington Honor Medal. The George Washington Carver Memorial Institute awarded him their Gold Award for his contributions to race relations.
Interestingly, many awards have been bestowed by non-Christian organizations: the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the National Conference of Christians and Jews; he was awarded the First National Interreligious Award from the American Jewish Committee.
Successfully influencing the scientific world, Dr. Graham won the Gold Medal Award from the National Institute of Social Science in New York and the Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion from Sir John Templeton.
For five consecutive years Reverend Graham was number one in Good Housekeeping's Most Admired Men Poll, and was in their top ten for 16 years. He has been listed in Who's Who in America annually since 1954.
A partial list of numerous awards bestowed upon him also includes the Wisdom Award of Honor, the Freedoms Foundation Distinguished Persons Award (numerous years), the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, Clergyman of the Year from the National Pilgrim Society, and the Distinguished Service Medal of the Salvation Army.
Military institutions recognize Reverend Graham's contributions to American's men and women and their families serving their country. The United States Military Academy Association of Graduates at West Point awarded him the Sylvanus Thayer Award, which is the most prestigious award the United States Military Academy gives to a U.S. citizen. He also won the National Citizenship Award by the Military Chaplains Association of the U.S.A.
Recognizing his expertise as a prolific and effective communicator, Reverend Graham has received numerous accolades from the media including Morality in Media, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, the Annual Gutenberg Award of the Chicago Bible Society, the Distinguished Communications Medal by the Southern Baptist Radio, and Salesman of the Decade award from the Direct Selling Association, the National Religious Broadcasters Award of Merit.
He is a member of the Religious Broadcasting Hall of Fame and of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the first non-musician to be inducted. Additionally, he has many honorary degrees from universities.
A legend across the globe, Dr. Graham's international awards are also too numerous to list completely. For his international contribution to civic and religious life for over 60 years, he is a member of the Honorary Knight Commander of the order of the British Empire (KBE) and was bestowed an award by the Franciscans International, part of the United Nations. He was presented the Jabotinsky Centennial Medal by The Jabotinsky Foundation in Israel.
Indeed, Billy Graham's impact on his home state of North Carolina, our nation, and across the globe is monumental. "My Hope" with Billy Graham, is a large-scale evangelistic outreach for America that unites the importance of a personal relationship with the power of modern media. The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is a nationwide network of hundreds of chaplains who are uniquely prepared and trained to meet the emotional and spiritual needs of victims of natural and man-made disasters. Since 2002, the Rapid Response Team has deployed to more than 140 natural and man-made disaster sites.
The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte opened in June 2007 and chronicles the life of Dr. Billy Graham. More than 550,000 people from all over the world have visited the Library as well as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters, also in Charlotte.
Billy and Ruth Graham had a dream of providing a place where people could leave the demands of daily life, come to study God's Word, and be trained to reach out to those lost. That dream resulted in the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, near Asheville, where programs are offered year-round and feature leading Bible teachers from around the world.
Continuing his emphasis on youth, Dr. Graham broadcast the message of hope in Christ across the country through various media broadcasts in November 2013 through his "My Hope" program. Launched in 2002 with the goal of reaching every country in the world, "My Hope" has been implemented in 57 countries to date, reaching more than 10 million people. His son, Franklin, and grandson, Will, continue that legacy by sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with hundreds of thousands every year.
On April 10, 2013, the North Carolina House of Representatives unanimously passed House Joint Resolution 190 honoring the memory of both Ruth Bell Graham (who died in 2007) and naming the Reverend Billy Graham "North Carolina's Favorite Son." The resolution cites the couple's long history in North Carolina as well as their legacy of philanthropy and leadership affecting millions of people world-wide.
Today we join people all over the world in mourning the loss of the Reverend Billy Graham.


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Cécile Basquin
Action Against Hunger Nutrition Advisor, Cécile Basquin, is an experienced humanitarian professional and a highly trained academic specialized in molecular and cell biology.
As Nutrition Advisor, Dr. Basquin provides technical oversight for ACF's on-the-ground nutrition programs in Pakistan and Nigeria, manages external collaborations with universities and technical institutes, and contributes to new directions for ACF's nutrition work around the world. Prior to joining ACF's New York headquarters, Cécile helped ACF implement Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tackle the root causes of malnutrition in Uganda through integrated programming—with activities in nutrition, food security, and water, sanitation & hygiene—and manage surveillance activities tracking the nutritional status of children between the ages of six and 59 months.
Prior to joining Action Against Hunger, Dr. Basquin worked as a research associate at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the department of molecular pharmacology. Her research focused on the transport of nutrients and ions across cell membranes with an emphasis on the study of the Sodium/Iodide Symporter (NIS), a key membrane transport protein that catalyzes the active translocation of iodide in the thyroid. In 2008, Dr. Basquin was the recipient of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked on applying radioiodide in the treatment of breast cancer. While conducting research on the molecular mechanisms of nutrient and ion transport, Dr. Basquin co-authored publications in renowned, peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Physiology and the 2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She received her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in molecular and cell biology in 2001 and 2005, respectively, from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, in France.
Recent Publications
- Nicola JP, Basquin C, Portulano C, Reyna-Neyra A, Paroder M, Carrasco N., The Na+/I- symporter mediates active iodide uptake in the intestine. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol., April 2009
- Dohán O, Portulano C, Basquin C, Reyna-Neyra A, Amzel LM, Carrasco N, The Na+/I symporter (NIS) mediates electroneutral active transport of the environmental pollutant perchlorate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S
- Abdel-Dayem M, Basquin C, Pourcher T, Cordat E, Leblanc G., Cytoplasmic loop connecting helices IV and V of the melibiose permease from Escherichia coli is involved in the process of Na+-coupled sugar translocation. J Biol Chem., Jan 2003
- Towards Improved Food and Nutrition Security in Sindh Province, Pakistan

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Since classical times, Sappho has been a source of fascination and romantic construction. The ancients, who had nine books of her poems at their disposal, were unstinting in their admiration. Some called her a tenth Muse. Strabo, writing in the time of Augustus, calls her a wonder, "for in this whole span of recorded time we know of no woman to challenge her as a poet even in the slightest degree". In modern times, with only fragments of her poetry remaining, she has remained one of the most famous and evocative names from antiquity, a figure viewed by some with narrowed, by others with widened eyes; a socio-historical enigma, a littérateurs' Lorelei, a feminist icon, a scholars' maypole. It is difficult to judge her for ourselves when so little of her work remains. What we have consists on the one hand of quotations and more general references in ancient authors, and on the other hand of torn scraps from ancient papyrus and parchment copies, mostly from the Roman period and, more often than not, so tattered that they yield only a few words or letters from any given line of verse. In modern editions the fragments are numbered up to 264. But many of these do not contain a single original word. Only sixty-three contain any complete lines; only twenty-one contain any complete stanzas; and only three – till now – gave us poems near enough complete to appreciate as literary structures. A recent find enables us to raise this number to four. In 2004, Michael Gronewald and Robert Daniel announced the identification of a papyrus in the University of Cologne as part of a roll containing poems of Sappho. This text, recovered from Egyptian mummy cartonnage, is the earliest manuscript of her work so far known. It was copied early in the third century bc, not much more than 300 years after she wrote. Parts of three of her poems are represented. As usual, all are in a fragmentary state. But the second one, it turned out, had been partially known since 1922 from an Oxyrhynchus papyrus of the third century ad, and by combining the two texts we now obtain an almost complete poem. When we had only the Oxyrhynchus portion, we had only line-ends, preceded and followed by line-ends of other poems, and it was not clear where one poem ended and the next began; the left-hand margin, where this would have been signalled, was missing. That question is now settled. We have a poem of twelve lines, made up of six two-line stanzas. The last eight lines are virtually complete. The first four are still lacking two or three words each at their beginnings. But we can make out the sentence structure and restore the sense of what is lost, if not the exact words. Here is the poem in my own restoration and translation. The words in square brackets are supplied by conjecture. "[You for] the fragrant-blossomed Muses' lovely gifts [be zealous,] girls, [and the] clear melodious lyre: [but my once tender] body old age now [has seized;] my hair's turned [white] instead of dark; my heart's grown heavy, my knees will not support me, that once on a time were fleet for the dance as fawns. This state I oft bemoan; but what's to do? Not to grow old, being human, there's no way. Tithonus once, the tale was, rose-armed Dawn, love-smitten, carried off to the world's end, handsome and young then, yet in time grey age o'ertook him, husband of immortal wife."
We know of several poems in which Sappho spoke of herself as getting on in years. Here she addresses a group of younger women or girls, whom she calls (to translate literally) "children", contrasting their blithe singing and dancing with her own heaviness of heart and limb. It is clear from other evidence that she composed her poetry, or most of it, within an intimate circle of women whom she calls her "companions". Her house is a house of moisopoloi, "servants of the Muses". Later writers saw her as a chorus-leader or teacher, to whom people of class in several cities sent their daughters for a musical education. We cannot tell how accurate a construction this is, but it must have been based on the impression given by the poems, and it is consistent with what we know. In the new poem, however, the focus is on Sappho herself. She recites the symptoms of her ageing, as in another famous poem she recites the physical symptoms of jealous love. Then comes philosophical reflection. In the love poem she tells herself that everything is endurable, because fortunes can be transformed at God's pleasure. In the new poem she tells herself that growing old is part of the human condition and there is nothing to be done about it. This truth is illustrated, as typically in Greek lyric, by a mythical example. It is a tale that was popular at the time, the story of Tithonus, whom the Dawn-goddess took as her husband. At her request, Zeus granted him immortality, but she neglected to ask that he should also have eternal youth, so he just grew ever older and feebler. Finally she shut him up in his room, where he chatters away endlessly but barely has the strength to move. Sappho is very economical with the myth, giving it just four lines and ending the poem with it. At first sight it might seem a lame ending. But the final phrase gives a poignant edge to the whole. Tithonus lived on, growing ever more grey and frail, while his consort remained young and beautiful – just as Sappho grows old before a cohort of protégées who, like undergraduates, are always young. The poem is a small masterpiece: simple, concise, perfectly formed, an honest, unpretentious expression of human feeling, dignified in its restraint. It moves both by what it says and by what it leaves unspoken. It gives us no ground for thinking that Sappho's poetic reputation was undeserved.


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Despite the currently cautious mood in most global property investment markets, a stronger second half of the year is expected with a potential 20 percent hike in activity levels forecast, driven by increased confidence and a release of pent-up investor and tenant demand.' according to Cushman & Wakefield's latest research, the International Investment Atlas 2012, released today.
Cushman & Wakefield anticipate volumes for the year to be little changed overall on 2011, at US$710-720bn, (US$805-815bn including multifamily) but within this total, a potential 20 percent. increase between the first and second halves of the year is expected, with activity picking up due to stronger demand as well as increased investment supply resulting from bank loan sales and recapitalizations.
"A return of better economic growth is key to the strength of the recovery but the most crucial point for the timing of that recovery will be the confidence in growth rather than the growth itself" commented Greg Vorwaller, head of global Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield. "Sustained job growth will be a vital boost to absorption but ahead of that, a rally in sentiment should be enough to trigger a steady release of pent up occupier demand for effective, modern space as stalled business plans are put back into action, helping investment, banking and development markets. However even if confidence stays low or a new crisis emerges, property is still going to remain high on the agenda even as tenant demand falls– for investors as they look for secure incomes and for occupiers as they look to cut costs and utilize their asset base to its fullest extent."
Potential growth and changes in occupier demand are a particularly dynamic area of the market, with tenants seeking space to better meet their business objectives not just to house more staff. Demand is emerging to tackle new markets and to cut occupational costs but also to address changing structural issues such as energy costs, sustainability, technological change, demographic and working practice changes and of course e-commerce
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With investors seeking security and liquidity, gateway cities will be in strong demand in all areas of the globe according to the report.
David Hutchings, Head of European Research, Cushman & Wakefield, said, "London will continue to stand out due to the sheer depth of its market as well as the long term growth it offers but despite it being an Olympic year, it may have to put up with a silver medal for investment, with New York likely to again take gold, benefitting as it does from not just scale but also pent up recovery potential which will be released at some point."
Investors are also set to look more widely for opportunities this year, some taking on more risk, other re-evaluating what risks they are ready to face. In fact a new hierarchy of targets is starting to emerge as investors look beyond the region or country that a market lies in to better understand its true risks and growth potential.
AsiaPacific – strong interest to continue with renewed activity in emerging markets in H2.
Last year Asia saw a 42 percent increase in industrial investment and a 26 percent rise for retail, with no significant change for offices or hotels. These trends will continue in 2012 with a focus on Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore for industrial, mainly in logistics. In retail, Cushman & Wakefield expect to see continuing interest throughout China as well as the gateway capitals of Singapore and Hong Kong but capital will also take advantage of the growth in Seoul of sophisticated modern retail centres which have been in very short supply.
John Stinson, Head of Asia Pacific Capital Markets, Cushman & Wakefield, said, "While we expect the first half of 2012 to continue last year's trend of a move back to core product in gateway markets, from mid year on we anticipate an increase in activity in the emerging markets. Strong local conditions, unprecedented numbers of opportunities and favourable investor sentiment will see more international capital deployed in India for example, initially in residential and then in office products in Bangalore and around NCR.
In China, the global investor community is now differentiating and seeing markets within markets, with the key cities of Shanghai and Beijing being the pick for office exposure. Strong turnover will continue to drive excellent fundamentals for investment in mid to high end retail malls in either high street Tier 1 locations or strong Tier 2 cities such as Chengdu."
The America's set to lead the recovery
Commenting on the America's, Greg Vorwaller, Global Head, Capital Markets, Cushman & Wakefield, said "The Americas look likely to see the fastest growth in investment activity again this year, focussed on the US. However for those willing to look behind the headlines, Mexico presents some compelling opportunities in prime retail, office and industrial for premium risk adjusted yields. The industrial sector in particular should benefit from the on-shoring and near-shoring of manufacturing. Brazil remains a place where truly global investors must take a position given the relative growth of the economy and absolute growth of its middle class. Industrial and retail continue to offer attractive opportunities for those seeking stable growth with capital appreciation in mind, providing tax and currency risks are accounted for.
In the US, beyond prime assets in prime markets, investors should begin to focus on prime assets in secondary cities that have historically performed well on a supply/demand basis through economic cycles. Also, they will continue to pursue well located industrial and retail properties, extending the rally that began in these sectors in 2011. Lastly, in view of the growing book for loan maturities, recapitalizations of well positioned but over-levered properties could provide investors with solid current returns, plus upside."
EMEA – choice of markets widens for low risk investors in 2012
Michael Rhydderch, Head of EMEA Capital Markets, Cushman & Wakefield, said, "In Europe, low risk investors will continue to have a wider choice of markets than they realise with the focus on Germany and the Nordics, particularly for retail. France and the UK are perhaps a little riskier now – with slower economic growth and more recent property price appreciation – but they offer good medium term growth and higher return potential in development and refurbishment in London and Paris."
He continued: "Elsewhere, Poland is an easy pick to make but a crowded market to buy in and one that really has to be seen as more core than value-add these days. Indeed, for those seeking higher returns, they will need to look towards the fringe – with Russia a very exciting market at present and Turkey set to perform well – or towards what are currently less favoured segments of the market. In particular investors need to look at where distress is likely to emerge but can be married with attractive long term fundamentals – be that from repositioning retail space in a range of markets, from an undersupply of modern retail or offices in some Italian cities or a shortage of modern logistics to rent in Spain and Portugal."
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By Kiki Keane
I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve and I wish you all the best for 2013!
I know it's customary to make New Year's resolutions. I only have a few:
1) Redo the 50/50 challenge and actually finish! (I'll be keeping track in the "Kiki's 50/50" tab and on Goodreads)
2) Blog more often
3) Write!
4) Get a paying job
5) Try, try, try to get that paying job in journalism
6) Do my own NANOWRIMO
Ok. That's it for today. I've got some stuff to do, but I'll be back in a day or two with a decent post. Promise.


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Brockway wrote:Pratchet easily. Douglas Adam's was great at funny dialogue, but nothing in the Hitchiker series had anywhere near the kick that the climax of Men at Arms had. Never read the Color of Magic or the Light Fantastic, but I have it from a good source that they weren't very good compared to the rest of them.
[AlmightyPyro] wrote:So I just finished The Life the Universe and Everything, and I got to tell you, I personally think Adams makes Pratchett look campy. So I just had to know from those of you who have maybe read more Pratchett than I, am I wrong or am I right?
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I came across this odd photo of a school bus in Google Images and felt like it was fairly representative of life during these past months . . . completely impossible to figure out which end should be up.
Actually Poor Richard was very surprised to see that some random readers still encounter this blog from time to time. I began this effort years ago with the intent of providing humor and occasional entertaining messages of relevance to Poor Richard's business, an A__ha_ra_hi_s franchise. (I still can't post the name in the blog, in abject fear of provoking the ire of Saruman in his minions, who reside in Orthanc, the ivory tower located in Utah or thereabouts. But wait, that's another story altogether, isn't it?)
For the past few months, I've been following my mother's admonition: if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything at all. To assert that the printing business has changed is not just an understatement, it's an offense against the obvious. It would be lovely to offer that we've charted a new course and are off to grand adventures with a revitalized business. Alas, that is not reality. We have tried about everything with our little business in our little town, and very little has worked. Today, we are struggling with a very small staff, battling deteriorating volumes and prices, losing lots of money, and praying for miracles.
The topsy-turvy bus is actually a good image for this post and these times. The idealism of past years could be represented by the upside-down wheels on top. We're still driving the bottom half, which is anchored to the ground by gravity; but I'm wondering how long the tires and the engine will hold out.


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ESSAY- Unrivalled: Why we're all Hokies now
Before an apparently isolated, mentally ill gunman slaughtered 32 students and professors on April 16, the big Hokie-'Hoo issue was barely worth crowing about. In late March, a fiberglass Tech rooster mascot was allegedly stolen from downtown Blacksburg by eight to 10 UVA fraternity pledges as part of the famous rivalry between the two schools.
That "Farmer Hokie" statue recalls a UVA bumper sticker from the 1980s that read, "All dirt roads lead to Virginia Tech"– a reference to Tech's origin as a Land Grant University, established by the government in 1872 to provide affordable higher education for the masses. Land grant schools had their roots in agriculture and the "mechanical arts"– Tech was originally called the "Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College"– hence the dirt-road dig. These days, however, only high-tech highways lead to the school.
Indeed, recent stories about the victims of last week's rampage paint a picture of a university that now attracts some of the best and brightest faculty and students from around the world for top programs not only in engineering but in a wide array of liberal arts courses.
In addition to the heralded sports rivalry, the connections between UVA and Virginia Tech are numerous, as UVA president John Casteen pointed out the evening after the tragedy. "Many of us have parents, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, and friends who study, teach, or work in Blacksburg," he said. "Many of us are Tech alumni."
But even those who had no previous connection to anyone at the school may feel like they knew Ryan "Stack" Clark, an affable leader in the Marching Virginians, Tech's marching band. His triple major in psychology, biology, and English made Clark something of a Renaissance man; his rush to aid a fellow student in the West Ambler Johnston residence hall made him something of a hero.
The death of Liviu Librescu seems especially poignant. The 76-year-old professor survived the Holocaust in his native Romania, and then, in the last moments of his life, saved the lives of many of his students by holding his second-floor classroom door shut against the killer so they could escape.
But if one stops to consider any one of the victims– whose sheer diversity reveals the school's world-wide appeal– the magnitude of the loss is hard to comprehend. The dead include Juan Ramón Ortiz-Ortiz, a civil engineering grad student from Puerto Rico; postgrad Waleed Mohamed Shaalan of Egypt; Henry Lee, who emigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1994, and Peruvian Daniel Alejandro Pérez Cueva. The list goes on and, heartbreakingly, on.
For many in Charlottesville, however, one name stands out as a personal loss: Kevin Granata, a 46-year-old biomechanical researcher who, from 1997-2002 worked at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center and lived on Tilman Road in Ivy.
Granata was regarded by his peers as one of the top-five biomechanical researchers in the nation, a man who had impressed colleagues, students, and friends with his work ethic, athleticism, and kindness.
"One of the smartest people you'd ever meet," says Margaret Gorman, who knew Granata before he left Charlottesville for Blacksburg to continue his research on cerebral palsy. She first met Granata's wife, Linda, through Cub Scouts when both had children at Meriwether Lewis elementary school. It wasn't long before Gorman got to know the whole family– including the couple's three children, Alex, 13, Eric, 12, and Ellen, 11.
The families socialized frequently, and Gorman says the Granatas were devoted parents who were a regular presence at their children's school and extracurricular events. In addition to keeping the kids busy, they taught them responsibility and kept a neat house and yard, Gorman says, with one notable exception: a rusted pick-up sitting out front.
Gorman asked Linda why they kept it. Again, the children were their driving force– this time literally.
"That's Kevin's," Linda explained. "He's going to fix it up for Alex when he learns to drive."
UVA women's rowing coach Kevin Sauer reconnected with Granata more than 15 years after he'd coached him on the Purdue club rowing team when they both moved to Charlottesville.
"He saw my name somewhere, called me, we went to lunch a couple of times," Sauer recalls. "It was good to rekindle the days from 15 or 16 years earlier." Sauer says Granata was interested in the relationship between fatigue and back pain. Since rowing works– and tires– the back, Sauer and Granata discussed collaborating on research. "I'd fatigue the backs," Sauer says, "and he'd do the research." They never began the project, and now, Sauer sadly says, "we won't."
When Sauer heard that Granata was one of Monday's victims, he was shocked, he says– but not by the story of how Granata died. Having harbored students in his locked third-floor office in Norris Hall, he went downstairs to help out.
"If he'd stayed in his office, he would have been fine," says Sauer. But racing to the aid of others came naturally to Granata. "That's exactly the type of guy he was."
Gorman says she and her children had visited the Granatas several times since their move to Blacksburg. Last summer, Gorman's son Patrick attended Camp Powhatan, a Boy Scout camp, with Alex Granata. On Friday, April 20, she and Patrick returned to Blacksburg– only this time for Granata's memorial service. "It was standing room only," she says.
As family, friends, and students shared memories of Granata as a college football player, a triathlete, and a devoted dad, Gorman says, she was particularly touched just to hear the greeting Granata spoke to anyone who entered his office: "How can I help you?" She admits it was a straightforward question. "But that's what he was about," she says.
Professor Granata
"Hoos for Hokies" has been the message of Beta Bridge since the day of the disaster.


text: Crystal Morey Talks to Dan Sinnes About His Genital Genius By Crystal Morey I just got back from the Montreal Tattoo Arts Show and it was such a great event. The Tattoo Mania crew really knows how to put on a great convention and the Gomineko crew can't wait for next year. While I was there I got a chance to hang out with one of my favorite convention buddies Dan Sinnes and pick his twisted brain a little… Crystal Morey: I want to jump right in and ask you about the dick and pussy tattoos but we should do this properly... So Dan, how long have you been tattooing? Did you do a formal apprenticeship? Dan Sinnes: 12 years. I started collecting tattoos when I was 16. I got a job in a tattoo shop in Luxembourg after doing a lot of drawings on my own, studying from tattoo magazines. It wasn't exactly an apprenticeship but I did everything in the shop: cleaned, prepared stencils, set up stations... but they didn't teach me. They gave me a machine, showed me how to build it up with a tube and a needle and said, "Hey you have to run the machine if you go in the skin" and that was all they told me. They didn't answer my questions they were winking with their shoulders. They didn't really understand my questions or care, they were like, "Ah, whatever. He's making money." I did a lot of walk-ins then, I did a fucking lot of tribal, which was popular then, that and lower back tattoos. Every woman wanted one and I made a lot of them! CM: Are there a lot of tattoo shops in Luxembourg? Are tattoos popular? DS: There are probably six shops for a half a million people. Tattoos here are regarded like they are everywhere – the youths have tattoos but the old people still think it's from prison. CM: You do a lot of Japanese imagery. What drew you to it initially? What do you like about it? DS: I was amazed when I saw that book The Japan Tattoo, really the only book out on Japanese tattoos at the time, and then around 2004 when I met Mick from Zürich and saw how beautiful the Japanese tattoo is –and I saw also the shunga, Mick introduced me to the stuff I am doing now. He showed me entire books on Japanese shunga and I'd never seen it before and I was just blasted away from it... CM: And who influences you now? Who do you reference? DS: Definitely my friends. I feel inspired by my friends. People like Luke Atkinson, Mick from Zürich, Trevor McStay... because those were the tattoos you saw in the magazines at the time! There are many good artists but you would see one or two tattoos that were good in a magazine, so what I did; I cut them out and collected them in a book! CM: Ha-ha, you made a tattoo scrapbook! Do you still have it? DS: Yeeeaaah! I still have it yeeeeaaah! Ha-ha. Today there is so much good stuff in magazines but 10 years ago there was not really a lot of good magazines… CM: True. So now we can talk about the pussy and dick tattoos… Do you think you could only tattoo shunga for the rest of your life and be happy? DS: Oh yes! I love them. I want to do a whole bodysuit of pussy monsters! Ha-ha-ha, no... To be honest I like doing filler tattoos around other stuff the best unless I am working in Luxembourg. I like doing conventions and guest spots and doing one shot tattoos I can finish that day so I can always travel to new destinations and don't have to return anywhere to finish tattoos. The people here I think lack discipline to finish pieces, they don't have the discipline to finish backpieces, they get tired of the pain, maybe they don't have the money anymore, maybe they don't give a fuck anymore and it's no longer important but they start them and they don't finish. I like one shots cause they get finished. I am still doing a lot of sleeves too, actually. Going back to the question about what I would like to do the rest of my life, I'd be happy doing small Japanese pieces, small traditional and scripts. Small scripts, big scripts, I love scripts! I'll even do a tribal if the customer really wants it because at the end of the day I'm a tattooer, I'm not a little artist who runs around doing only custom, I'm a tattooer. Not a custom tattooer, I love to tattoo! I don't really like to do portraits though because I think there are other people who do it amazingly. CM: You travel a lot –do you have a schedule you follow or do you just follow your nose? Are there places you like going back to? DS: I follow my nose. I am always trying to go to new destinations and want to travel to all the continents. I just went to Hong Kong recently and would love to go back there. I go to Zürich every two months or so, whenever Mick needs me, I like going to Canada… I have good friends all over. CM: Yes you do! Do you want to talk about the Tigers? DS: The Tigers is a group of very special people who like to travel and collect tattoos and make tattoos. It's a special secret weapon of the secret tattoo world… ha-ha... Shit, I'm stoned. It is a group of amazing people. CM: Very true! Tell me about the most shocking tattoo you've ever done. DS: I tattooed a tengu mouth around this guy's asshole. At a convention! Ha-ha Nobody else wanted to do it! Ha-ha-ha... and for only 50 Euros! Oh you have to see it, you are gonna see it and think…"Dan Sinnes, there is something wrong with you!" CM: I already think that… DS: He is a major collector, and kind of a freak, his name is Moby Dick but he was really proper, it was really okay. When you see the photo it's gonna be hilarious, because the tengu has a very special nose…. don't add the photo cause the tattoo isn't finished yet, it's just outlines. Ha-ha… CM: Oh dear… I don't know where to go from there! (In the photo the guy is bent forward spread-eagle and has tengu eyes tattooed above his asshole, his dangling penis forming the long tengu nose.) You definitely made use of all his um, features! I think this tattoo illustrates the fact that you are truly the dick and pussy master! Ha-ha-ha, yerp. (Dan is on the road a lot, you can keep up with him here - http://www.dansinnestattoo.com/ and on Facebook: Dan Sinnes Facebook Page.) Dan Sinnes is featured in Tattoo Artist Magazine #24: (Crystal Morey works for Gomineko Books and is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. For more info on Gomineko Books please visit their website: www.gominekobooks.com.)


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Hello. My name is Kristen Silverberg and I lead the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. I will be in New York for the next two weeks to support the President and the Secretary of State as they participate in the opening of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly. I will be posting updates each day on the events here in New York.
We arrived from Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Secretary Rice went immediately to a high-level meeting on Iraq, co-chaired by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and Secretary General Ban. Participants discussed the UN role in Iraq and our desire to see the UN increase its political and reconstruction support for Iraq.
On Sunday, September 23, the Secretary attended a meeting on Afghanistan. Secretary Rice reaffirmed U.S. commitment to Afghanistan and noted the progress the government has made, while encouraging it to continue to work with the UN and other donors.
On Sunday afternoon, the Quartet principals and Quartet Representative Tony Blair met to discuss progress on bilateral talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the way forward on a two-state solution with Israel and Palestine living side-by-side in peace and prosperity.
On Monday afternoon, September 24, the Secretary spoke at an event on climate change hosted by Secretary General Ban. Secretary Rice discussed our approach, including our interest in developing a post-Kyoto energy security and climate change framework by the end of 2008. She will also address this issue on Thursday at the Major Economies Meeting in Washington. more on climate change...
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Usually we wouldn't want to cruise around on a Vespa, but we are all about riding Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez. We meant riding with them.
While filming their new movie 'Spring Breakers,' the former Disney stars turned green bananas (not ripe just yet) were spotted riding around the set in nothing but bikinis and short-shorts. Not exactly our ride of choice, but with these two looking so good, we would give it a go. We'd probably fall off after a block but we'd try and try again.
According to movie insiders, the two are in bikinis for most of the film (genius!) and are apparently "bad girls" too. The premise is that they rob a bank to fund their Spring Break trip and then all hell breaks loose. If they are Bonnies, we would love to be their Clydes, now scoot over ladies and let us take the handles for a bit.
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Surprise for the Police
Responsibility for communal funds was always a prime concern of the late mashgiach of Yeshivat Slobodka in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Moshe Tokatsinsky. During a fundraising visit to London on behalf of the yeshiva, he was the victim of a robbery while traveling in the "Underground". He reported the incident to the local police and provided them with precise descriptions of the robbers who were soon apprehended along with the cash they had stolen.
Here came the catch that stood in the way of a happy ending. The police asked the rabbi to prove that the money found on the robbers really was stolen from him.
To their surprise the rabbi pulled out a piece of paper on which were listed the serial numbers of all the bills which people had given him for the support of the yeshiva. He had foresightedly anticipated the possibility of such a scenario and had taken the precaution which probably no one else would have thought of.


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November 10, 2001
Twenty years ago, someone might have opened up a journal of "peace studies" with some hope of finding useful analysis or information. At worst, he might confront some well-meaning Norwegian or Swede going on about imperialism, oppression, inequalities in the international state system, and the like. Even so, there was some chance of learning something worthwhile, even if theoretical flaws marred the treatment.
Now, however, one is as likely to run into calls for humanitarian intervention by Good States to unseat and sideline the Bad; that is, one is likely to find the ghost of Woodrow Wilson stalking the pages of the putative peace journal. A case in point is the July 1993 issue of Peace & Change. There we find Thomas R. Gillespie sketching out a program of general armed intervention in the name of peace.
He seeks to prove that "the more influential states" have claimed a right to intervene to rescue oppressed minorities for several hundred years. True enough. They have doubtless said that. He goes on to argue that a concert of today's nicer states should develop a body of doctrine and rules under which they may intervene at will, whenever they espy an emergency. This comes down to a concert of Good States empowering themselves to run the world the Wilsonian project all over again.
He does not flinch from what this means: "This view of humanitarian intervention includes traditional U.N. peacekeeping endeavors but further encompasses the possibility of combat operations to suppress internal warfare."1 What this might mean aside from the John Birchers having had a point is rather interesting. The bad old South Africa is mentioned, along with Chile under Pinochet, as possible candidates for intervention. One might think that is it regimes seen as right-wing which are to be targeted.
When the Kurds, Palestinians (in 1982), and Kuwaitis turn up as further examples, one begins to suspect that all outstanding cases of human rights violation requiring international intervention are an exact mathematical function of US foreign policy interests based on rather different considerations. It would be cynical to think that. Eppur si muove ("and yet it moves").
Mr. Gillespie has mentioned the Gulf War. That calls to mind a peculiar ideological deformation of the early 1990s, which I call "liberventionism," or libertarian interventionism. The occasion was the debate in Liberty about the merits of the Gulf War. This featured several liberventionists lined up against a rather outnumbered Sheldon Richman, with the magazine's editor straddling the fence.
Liberventionists sought a rationale for intervention (only once in a while of course) compatible with libertarianism. This amounted to Goldwaterism with a human face, or a right-wing Wilsonianism. I shall only discuss one of these writers, James Robbins, who made perhaps the best showing.
In one essay, published after the fracas in Liberty,2 Robbins managed to endorse the whole Cold War, blame "isolationists" for the outbreak of World War II, and downplay the standard as yet unrefuted claim of anti-interventionists that all wars strengthen our state vis-à-vis us and that this outcome might be undesirable. I don't agree Robbins's analysis, but those things are beside the present point. What is striking is Robbins's underlying premise that "if the United States can promote political and economic freedom" that is, through overseas intervention "doing so may well serve the cause of peace, which is indisputably a state purpose."3 Intervene militarily to achieve peace! Something strange happens to the meaning of "peace" in meditations of this kind. One might as well say, kill now and avoid the rush.
One would like some evidence that US intervention actually promotes "political and economic freedom" evidence better than State Department White Papers. I realize, of course, that self-named classical liberals have had decades of practice at resolving the wage-war-for-peace paradox, and I leave that to one side. I suppose they mean we should fight small wars now, which presumably prevent the bigger one down the road. I do not see how this can be said to be even an inexact science.
More insidious, is the phrase about peace once it is preserved, institutionalized, restored, or whatever being "indisputably a state purpose." Surely this is not so ironclad. Textbook states may have purposes; real ones permanent bureaucratic apparatuses claiming a monopoly of security provision within given territories mostly have interests. One would think that sometimes states find peace to be in their interest and that, at other times, they find war to be in their interest. A libertarian would like to know how often the state's interest will coincide, even by the happiest of accidents, with people's interests. I wouldn't think that would be very often.
I suppose when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, it will be different.
Robbins can now be found at National Review Online, reassuring us as to how precise the precision bombing is. He is now in league with the plain brown wrapper imperialists Hanson, Derbyshire, Lowry, and the gang and why not? New defectors and born-again warriors have lately broadened the ranks of liberventionism.
Almost unseen, the "peace and freedom" cards begin to dovetail with the "humanitarian" card. Across the spectrum of respectable opinion, all God's children can espouse permanent, endless US intervention. The "Right" can do it for managed, neo-mercantilist "free trade"; the Center-Left there being not much of a real Left, anymore can throw in a few social programs. They can all agree on Global Democracy.
Global Democracy, when exported early, often, and with overwhelming firepower, will guarantee eternal peace in some foggily distant post-millennialist Radiant Future. We can't just sit there, when there's so much imperfection in the world. And when we do experience "blowback" from these exercises, why that is nothing but a good reason to do even more of the same. For these reasons, we can and must make present war for future peace, pending the secular Second Coming.
Whether we shall be free, prosperous, or happy, as we go further down this road, seems a bit doubtful. It seems that in the present situation, the ideological realm has risen up in might to overwhelm mere political power and mere economics. Or it might be as seems likely that the wielders of state power and their state-connected business friends have simply retreaded the reigning ideology of the Empire to make it more palatable. For many people Randians, fair-weather libertarians, and others the new ideological brew is 90 proof.
The brew is appealing on some levels, but in the end it is quite deceptive. Some of its makers stress how seldom we would actually intervene under their doctrine. Others allow that we shall necessarily do it all the time until the world is remade in the fullness of time. I think we should take the latter at their word and reject their program. On the record, liberventionism the understated, modest form of interventionism is a mere fig-leaf for the more robust strain of the disease.
Meanwhile, George is in the basement mixing up our medicine, and I'm on the pavement, thinkin' 'bout the government.
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Accused roadway shooter waives preliminary exam
Raulie Casteel bound over for trial Monday in Michigan attorney general's case
The man accused in a series of shootings on and off Interstate 96 in southeast Michigan has waived his right to a preliminary exam.
Raulie Casteel was bound over for trial on Monday.
The Michigan attorney general's office is prosecuting Casteel on terrorism, attempted murder and other charges in Livingston County.
Casteel lived with his wife, daughter and in-laws in Wixom, 40 miles northwest of Detroit.
Two dozen random shootings occurred last fall in a four-county area. One man was injured.
Oakland County is also charging Casteel with 60 separate charges for incidents alleged to have occurred in that county.
About Casteel:
On professional websites, the 43-year-old Casteel described himself as a geologist and soil scientist with experience in environmental cleanup. He's a Michigan native who lived in Taylorsville, Ky., before returning to his home state last year.
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text: Jack Artrup of Rogers was transported to East Liverpool City Hospital by North Star Critical Care with injuries sustained in a fiery crash on state Route 7 near Lowes Road Wednesday night. According to the investigating state Trooper Vic Wolfe, Artrup was driving his silver Dodge pick-up northbound on state Route 7 behind a red Dodge Durango. The driver of the red Durango was slowing to turn left onto Lowes Road and Artrup tried to pass him striking the drivers side of the Durango. The driver of the Durango was also taken by a family member in a private vehicle to East Liverpool Hospital. West Point Firefighters extinguished Artrup's pick-up and provided traffic control at the accident. Charges are pending against Artrup who was out of the vehicle when firefighters arrived at the accident. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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Three amazing stories, one "CNN Presents" at 8 p.m. ET Sunday- Amber Lyons looks at the growing trend of newborns addicted to prescription painkillers. Plus, we take a look at Warren Jeffs' polygamy battle and the U.S. Navy's use of dolphins and sea lions.
(CNN) -- According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription drug overdose deaths in Florida are up a staggering 265% since 2003. But it's not just the deaths that have Florida officials worried; it's the births.
"We saw the number of crack babies that died, and this is just another version of that," Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti said. "We all need to be concerned."
According to state health records, nearly 1,400 Florida babies were born suffering from drug withdrawal syndrome in 2010, a fourfold increase since 2003. The state does not track the specific drug the babies are hooked on, but south Florida doctors and neonatal nurses believe the increase is due to a sharp increase in pregnant women addicted to prescription drugs.
"They go through withdrawal symptoms," said Mary Osuch, the head nurse at Broward General Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit. "They're crampy, miserable. They sweat. They can have rapid breathing. Sometimes, they can even have seizures."
According to the White House Office on Drug Control Policy, prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest-growing drug problem.
Marsha Currant, who runs the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center near Fort Lauderdale, says prescription drug addiction overtook crack in 2009 as the main problem afflicting the pregnant women who are treated there.
"In the very beginning, it was really 100% crack cocaine," said Currant, who started keeping track of drug trends in 1995. "We see a lot more prescription drugs now."
Currant says new mothers who are hooked on prescription drugs are often reluctant to seek help for fear the authorities will take their babies from them.
"We wanted to have a place where women didn't have to chose between getting treatment and having their children go into foster care," she said.
Compounding the problem, women who are addicted to prescription drugs and find themselves pregnant cannot safely go off the drugs without medical supervision. They need to be weaned off slowly, or the baby will go into withdrawal in the womb.
At the Susan B. Anthony Center, one mother who became hooked on prescription drugs after her husband died says she felt her baby suffering while she was getting clean.
"I know that I'm going through stuff getting off the pills. So what's she going through? She can't talk. She's just a baby," Jessica said.
Thanks to the center, Jessica was weaned off oxycodone before her baby, Casey, was born. But she fears the long-term effects of her drug abuse on her daughter, who has been suffering from respiratory problems.
"I want to make sure that she doesn't hurt anymore," Jessica said. "She doesn't deserve that, because she's a princess."
Jessica graduated from the center's recovery program last week.


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LISBON - The decision to seek new proposals to run the Columbiana County Jail while in the middle of an existing operating agreement may end up saving money for county commissioners.
LISBON - The decision to seek new proposals to run the Columbiana County Jail while in the middle of an existing operating agreement may end up saving money for county commissioners.
Commissioners on Wednesday opened proposals received from two private companies - Sheffield Arger LLC and the Community Education Centers (CEC) Inc., the latter of which currently has the jail contract. A special meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. today to make a decision on the proposals.
CEC currently charges commissioners per day for every inmate incarcerated at the jail under the current six-year contract entered into in 2009. The contract expires Dec. 31, 2015, but allows it to be renewed by commissioners every two years in between under the same terms. The deadline for doing so is Nov. 1.
A cursory inspection of the proposals indicates CEC was the apparent low bidder at $70 per inmate day when the population is 120 or less, which is $7 less than Sheffield Arger. CEC's fee is even slightly lower than what the company currently charges under the existing contract.
A private company has operated the county jail since 1998 under multi-year contracts and this is the first time commissioners ever sought proposals before the contract was to expire. Commission Chairman Mike Halleck said they took the unusual step because Sheffield Arger asked if it could compete for the contract by submitting a proposal, and commissioners agreed, although the decision to do so was never made public until Wednesday.
After the meeting, Commissioner Jim Hoppel said Peter Argeropulos, an official once affiliated with CEC, quit the firm several years ago and started his own private jail/prison operating company, Sheffield Arger. Commissioners had dealt with Argeropulos in the past when he worked with CEC and Civigenics, the company before CEC that operated the jail, and agreed to let him submit a proposal.
"We've never done it before because we've never been asked before. We're not dissatisfied with the company we have. We just wanted to make sure we're getting the best deal we can get," Hoppel said.
Sheffield Arger's proposed fee was lower than CEC's when inmate population exceeds 120 at the 200-bed facility, but Hoppel said that rarely occurs anymore since Cuyahoga County quit incarcerating some its non-violent offenders at the jail five years ago after building a new facility of its own.


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(Editor's note: Jennifer Collins is the president and owner of The Event Planning Group, one of the Washington Business Journal's top 25 meeting and event planning agencies in the Washington, D.C. region. A frequent speaker herself, she's organized every kind of event, from intimate to large-scale. She's also extraordinarily committed to mentoring women, serving as an advisory board member of Enterprising Women Magazine, and volunteering with public service organizations Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and Girls, Inc. of Washington, DC – an organization providing educational programs to young girls in high risk, underserved areas. I asked Jennifer to share her insights for speakers--perhaps the most practical advice you'll ever get--from her vantage point as a meeting planner. And she delivered.)
Being a public speaker is more than just hanging out your 'shingle' and advertising that you're now available for gigs. As a meeting planner, I've worked with a wide assortment of speakers. And I always appreciate those who go the extra mile in researching the exact scope, environment, audience and other details to help them best deliver their message. You might think that's pretty standard – and it probably should be – but unfortunately that's not always the case.
Before making the next commitment, here are the top 5 things speakers should know from a meeting planner:
- Identify room setup. You should ask questions about the room setup, for instance, will you will be behind a podium, or on a panel? If on a panel, will there be seating behind a table or in separate chairs? If chairs, what kind? This may sound rather anal; however, I've seen many presenters on panels who did not know they would be sitting in director's chairs. If you're a female in a skirt that happens to be too short or doesn't easily move when you sit down, this could be rather uncomfortable and potentially give the audience a bit too much to see. Or if your preference is to appear behind a podium and organizers expect you to roam the stage in delivering your remarks, it's probably best to know that before you arrive.
- To allow AV or No AV…that's an important question. Have you ever showed up with PowerPoint in hand only to learn that there's no equipment for such use? It may happen more often than you think. Finding out the overall format of the presentation is critical as well as allowances for audio visual equipment, including internet access. Sometimes lack of AV could be a budgetary consideration. At other times, it simply may not suit the program. Make sure to ask about it.
- Timing is everything. There's one timeframe I least enjoy speaking within at select events. It's immediately after lunch. It seems that pesky little onset of drowsiness seems to take hold of many in the audience. Therefore, find out when you're on…and if it's right after lunch, know that this probably is not the time to deliver an overall dissertation. But it also could prompt you to be more creative with your presentation. I found the following tips to be good points on livening up the presentation.
- Know your audience. I realize this sounds so generic, but I remain amazed at how many speakers simply have "canned" presentations they unleash on any audience. Remember, the point is for the audience to take something away, whether it's learning something new, gaining a fresh perspective or encouraging a behavioral change. Whatever the case, make it relevant.
- A little background knowledge is key. And I'm not referring to knowing your audience as previously discussed, rather what will the stage backdrop look like? Some might consider this to be rather vain; however, this makes a difference for such activities as video recording. For instance, white is not a great color for videotaping or photography – on camera it presents a washed-out look. So it would be a good idea not to wear white or appear in front of a white backdrop. Another item I notice quite frequently is the use of black drape behind the podium. First, there's nothing wrong with black drape. We certainly use it for many of our meetings and conferences at The Event Planning Group, LLC. However, if you happen to wear black, and your hair color is a dark color or potentially black as well, then you'll blend in with the drape. I've seen this many times where the outline image of the person's face is the only aspect coming through because of the blending effect. So consider asking about the backdrop color so that you're not only heard, but seen as well.
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What lessons have we learned in the twenty years since the Loma Prieta earthquake? Other than the fact we're not very good at building bridges quickly.
Quite a bit, according to Jack Boatwright, a scientist with the United States Geological Survey. "It's quite remarkable," he told an auditorium full of colleagues at the USGS headquarters in Menlo Park Thursday.
Boatwright was doing a run through of a lecture, "Meeting the Challenge of the Loma Prieta Earthquake," he will also deliver to the general public. His message to them, distilled to one sentence: earthquakes are inevitable, destruction is not.
Boatwright says technological advancements in his field since Loma Prieta have been remarkable. Shake maps, Boatwright's particular area of expertise, are just one example. A shake map is a graphic display of the intensity and scope of an earthquake created in almost real time. "We were waiting days, even weeks, after Loma Prieta for the type of information we now have at our fingertips in a matter of seconds," Boatwright said.
Advances have also been made in the field of earthquake prediction. While short-term earthquake prediction, meaning a time-frame of hours or days, or even months, still remains elusive, Boatwright says long-term predictions are improving and could actually prove more valuable.
"If I had an hour's notice that an earthquake was coming, what would I do? Go down to (San Francisco's) warehouse district and yell at the buildings, warning them not to fall down," Boatwright said.
Boatwright believes probability forecasts are much more useful. The latest probability forecast, updated in 2008, reports a 63-percent chance of a 6.7 or greater magnitude earthquake in the Bay Area sometime in the next thirty years. "With that information, a person is much more likely to take the steps to properly prepare their homes and their businesses for an earthquake."
Even so, earthquake preparedness in the Bay Area is a mixed bag. According to one study, less than twenty percent of the homes in Santa Clara are properly retrofitted for an earthquake. By comparison, more than eighty percent of the homes in Berkeley are ready.
Jack Boatwright delivers his lecture Thursday night at 7pm at the USGS headquarters at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park.


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John Fay had a discussion with Walt Jocketty about the pitching coach vacancy and here is what he had to say:
Walt Jocketty said there's a chance the Reds could name a pitching coach before the postseason ends.
"To be honest, I'd like to have done before that," he said. "But we haven't finalized the list yet."
My guess is the Reds wait until the St. Louis Cardinals are elimianted. Dave Duncan, the St. Louis pitching coach, is involved in the postseason. Duncan has expressed his unhappiness with his situation with the Cardinals. He and Jocketty worked together during Jocketty's time in St. Louis.
The hiring process will pick up when the Reds brass meets in Goodyear next week.
"We've talk to a few people," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "I'll meet with Dusty (Baker) and the coaches next week."
Ted Power, the pitching coach for Triple-A Louisville, has expressed his interest in the job. Special assistant Mario Soto has not.
"I haven't talked to Mario," Jocketty said. "I'll see him in Arizona."
Jocketty said the list of candidates will be in the four-to-five range.
The buzz was and continues to be that Jocketty is going to bring in his former employee Dave Duncan. Honestly, I have mixed feelings about it. I can certainly see the appeal of Duncan, but I also wonder if he's a good fit for our young pitchers.
During his time with the Cardinals, Duncan continually locked horns with young pitcher Anthony Reyes. Duncan wanted him to become a groundball style pitcher, while Reyes preferred to stick to the 4-seamer and working up in the zone, which is the style that brought him so much success in the minors. Ultimately, Reyes needed a change of scenery to get a legitimate shot in the starting rotation at the MLB level.
This incident is of note because the Reds don't have a single starting pitcher who gets more groundballs than flyballs. Not one. Not Bailey, Cueto, Harang, Arroyo, or Edinson. Obviously, Great American Ballpark is ideally suited for ground ball pitching, but I have to wonder if Duncan would try to transform our young pitchers into something they aren't.
If Duncan is willing to work with what he has to maximize their performance, then we would be fine. If, however, he tries to force ground ball tendencies on young pitchers who don't utilize that approach, then it could be problematic. Whoever will be hired will have to adapt to the talent on the roster, not force the talent to adapt to him.
Ultimately, Dave Duncan has the talent and wisdom to make it work wherever he goes, but I just hope he would be willing to be flexible with his ground ball philosophy until he has pitchers who can actually implement and execute that approach.


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Help your lesson come alive with Bible story visuals and Bible memory fun The CD includes skits, songs, printable activities, and teacher helps. Order 1 per class.
HeartShaper(R) Children's Curriculum elementary and preteen Sunday school lessons guide kids to explore the Bible and develop solid Bible skills. The engaging lesson plans show kids how they fit into God's plan. Lots of activity options in each lesson provide the flexibility to customize the lesson and make it easy to do what works best for the teacher and students.
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You will notice that I stopped posting about Augustine in September last year- I got so absorbed in him that I think I lost the thread of my thought and was concerned I would write the same article too many times. I've decided to resume posting thoughts though- we left Augustine in Book V so we shall resume our account in Book VI.
Augustine used humour to undermine pagan beliefs, take this passage from Book VI of the City of God, when he addresses those who believe that the pagan gods can offer eternal life:
will these authors assure any man who supplicates the immortal gods that, when he asks the Lymphs for wine, and they reply, 'We have water, ask Liber for wine', he may then rightly say 'If you have no wine at least give me eternal life?' What absurdity could be more monstrous? If they do not try to deceive him will not these Lymphs laugh at him?... Will they not answer the supplicant: 'O man do you suppose that we have power over life [vitam] when you have heard that we do not have even power over water [vitem]. (VI 1)
Augustine uses humour in this passage for two reasons. Firstly he is pointing out the absurdity of polytheism: these are not powerful Gods, they have 'minute portions', 'little offices' within heaven. Compared to the all powerful monotheistic God of Abraham and Isaac they seem puny indeed. The temporal limits to their power suggest they cannot offer eternal life in the same way as the powerful Christian God: Juventas as he argues cannot make a man's beard grow so surely cannot give him eternal life. That is the substance of the argument of the chapter- but the humour is performing two functions, and its first alone is to support the argument.
Consider the passage above. The Lymphs, Augustine imagines, are laughing at the man concerned. Augustine believed that the pagan gods existed as demons rather than Gods: it is important to realise this because it reinforces why his humour is so powerful. In this passage as in others, what he is saying is that the belief system of paganism is absurd- but moreover it is created by demons. Part of their demonic design is to fool humans and Augustine is convinced and wants us to be convinced that they are enjoying the deception. The point here is that the deception is funny: the human is like the gulled victim in a comedy act, and that the believer in paganism as opposed to the Christian is the butt of the joke. Ultimately his Gods are vindictive and cruel. Laughter echoes through Augustine's text and its often the spiteful laughter of demons, we are invited to laugh in order to persuade us both to see the stupidity of pagans and to understand the evil of their gods.


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paper plate ghosts!
Now are you ready for a super old photo? I made a huge Frankenstein monster with my very first Pre-K class. I hung it up so it looked like it was walking out of our wall, stepping over the gravestone of Dr. Frankenstein. Here is my scanned-in photo. Yes, scanned.
I had the kids pose with a frightened face. It was so cute! I never planned on it getting this big. It all started with just the monster's head, made from newspaper, stuffed, and painted green. (I got the idea from some website, but it was many, many years ago and I can't find it now.) The kids all helped with the face.
(Oh, how I wish I had a digital camera all those years ago!) After we made the head I thought we just had to give him a body. So using the same technique as the head, I stapled more newspapers together into the shape of a jacket and pant leg, stuffed them with more newspaper, and let the kids paint them. They even splattered red paint on the jacket so it looked like blood! I only made one leg because the other would be covered up by the gravestone. The shoe is made out of a box. And everything is held up with string hanging from the ceiling! Man, what a lot of work that was!
But it gave me some great memories!


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Will be exhibiting products at the Hitachi Automotive Systems booth in the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition
Clarion Co., Ltd. (President: Hidetoshi Kawamoto) will exhibit its products including car navigation systems, in-vehicle cameras and full digital speakers at the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China 2014) to be held from April 21 to 29 in Beijing, China, within the booth set up by Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. and Hitachi Automotive Systems (China) Ltd.
Under the theme of ""experience" and "feel" the next generation mobility technology to drive the future", the Hitachi Automotive Systems booth (Booth No. W1-W03 in the China International Exhibition Center New Venue) will be exhibiting a wide range of products and technologies designed to support the global evolution of the automobile through system innovation and synergy solutions in the areas of the environment, safety, and information.
As to the information field which Clarion will be in charge, IT will be used to link automobiles and society, which will improve comfort and convenience as well as add values to automobiles. Next-generation mobility, in the form of linked, integrated electronic control and electric drive technologies, will be leveraged to make automobiles smarter and make automated driving a reality.


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These novel heart-shaped Cardinal Red leather dog poo bag holders provide a smart way to keep those unsightly necessities stored in style. Simply clip to one of Hiro and Wolf's leads or add to your keyring to make sure your dog mess bags are always to hand.
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Photo courtesy HorsePhotos.com
Jim Benes of Countryside, Ill., topped a field of 455 to win the $750,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Handicapper of the Year at the 14th annual Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) Presented by Treasure Island and Sovereign Stable Saturday afternoon.
The 50-year-old Benes, a professional horseplayer, amassed a winning score of $268.40 from 28 mythical $2 win-and-place wagers and two mythical $4 win-and-place "Best Bet" wagers over the two-day tournament held at Treasure Island Las Vegas.
Benes, who qualified for the NHC at Hawthorne Race Course, was in second place at the conclusion of Day 1, and stayed at or near the top of the pack throughout Day 2. Going into the NHC's final race—Race 10 at Santa Anita—Benes trailed eventual runner up Roger Cettina by $2.40. His $2 win and place bet in that final race was on favored Hidethegoodstuff, who finished second to Hail Mary and returned $3.60 to place—enough to secure a final winning margin of $1.20 over Cettina, a Rumson, N.J., native, who receives $200,000 for his second place finish.
"My mother passed away a few years ago," said Benes. "Her name was Mary, and when they were coming down the stretch of that last race and I heard a horse named Hail Mary on the lead, I wasn't sure whether it was my mom trying to tell me 'I'm here for you' or 'You should have bet on me!' The only other thing I have been able to think of since then is my 9-year-old daughter. She's going to be really happy and really proud of me when I get home."
Total winnings this weekend for Benes, including a $4,000 Day 1 bonus he received for registering the second-best score on Friday, were $754,000.
Jeff Hartz of Runnells, Ia., finished third at $244.00 to collect $100,000. Richard Grose of Wentzville, Mo., was the Day 1 leader, and faded somewhat to finish fourth with $242.60. He will take home $75,000. Dan Comoro of Tigard, Ore., rounded out the top five at $196.00. That score was good for $50,000.
The NHC 14 finals paid out to the top 40 finishers from a total purse of $1,500,000. Including $295,000 paid out to top finishers in the year-long, $295,000 NHC Tour, the aggregate payouts this weekend to contestants totaled $1,795,000, plus travel and hotel awards.
The highest finish among the eight previous NHC winners at this year's event was recorded by NHC VI champion, Jamie Michelson, who checked in 78th. No one has ever won the NHC more than once in the event's 14-year history.
By virtue of his victory, Benes also automatically earns an exemption into next year's NHC finals.
Full standings and results for this weekend's just completed NHC can be found at www.ntra.com and www.drf.com.
In its 14th year, the Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship is the most important tournament of the year for horseplayers. There are no "buy-in" entries at the NHC. It is the culmination of a year-long series of NTRA-sanctioned local tournaments conducted by racetracks, casino racebooks, off-track betting facilities and horse racing and handicapping Web sites, each of which sends its top qualifiers to the national finals.
More than 4,500 people signed up for the 2012 NHC Tour and participated in these local tournaments, hoping to win a coveted spot in the NHC Finals. Treasure Island will also host the "Wager to Win" tournament tomorrow, offering two berths to the January 2014 NHC.
The NTRA is a broad-based coalition of horse racing interests consisting of leading thoroughbred racetracks, owners, breeders, trainers, horseplayers and affiliated horse racing associations, charged with increasing the popularity of horse racing and improving economic conditions for industry participants. The NTRA has offices in Lexington, Ky., and New York City. NTRA press releases appear on the NTRA web site, NTRA.com.


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February 6, 1861 was a Wednesday. As such, people were busy or at least trying to appear busy. In both Montgomery, Alabama, and Washington, D.C., the delegates at the conventions working respectively toward secession and reconciliation labored on procedural and house-keeping matters. The momentous business for both meetings was yet to come. Yet elsewhere on February 6, other events hearkened back to the past and toward the future.
Pointing to the past was a sermon published that day in Augusta, Georgia, by Joseph R. Wilson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Like the sermon of his fellow Presbyterian, Benjamin Morgan Palmer the previous November in New Orleans, Wilson mounted a religious defense of slavery. Unlike Palmer, who asserted that slaveholders were doing a Christian duty in caring for an inferior race, Joseph R. Wilson in essence argued since slavery was a legitimate institution in biblical times it was legitimate in their day as well. Wilson's sermon was well received in Augusta and still exists today because a local editor was so taken with it, he solicited the clergyman to reprint it in his newspaper. The full text of the sermon can now be found on the Documenting the American South website of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Yet it was one of the last contemporaneous defenses of slavery, hearkening to the past.
Pointing to the future was an event little noticed in 1861. On February 6, 1861, a petition of 126 black men of Boston was presented to the Massachusetts legislature. African Americans in the city were following with great interest the Washington Convention and knew that Massachusetts had sent delegates to this meeting. They also knew that the meeting would likely propose explicit constitutional guarantees in defense of slavery. Yet the ire of these Bostonians was not directed at slavery per se. Instead, they were fearful that the Washington Convention would rob them of something that few black men enjoyed in 1861, the right to vote. Massachusetts, along with Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island (plus New York with property holding requirements) had black suffrage. The petitioners were concerned the Washington Convention would propose a constitutional amendment prohibiting any states from enfranchising black voters since it had appeared in early versions of the Crittenden Compromise. They demanded that Massachusetts legislature instruct the state's delegates at the Willard Hotel gathering to oppose taking away their right to vote.
While the petition died in committee in the Massachusetts legislature, its very existence and further public agitation in Boston's black community in defense or their suffrage rights shows that from its earliest days African Americans would not be passive in the looming conflict. Black Americans, including the slaves, would work toward their goals–most especially emancipation–throughout the Civil War. And their efforts would be an integral to achieving freedom for the slaves.


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Adam Harvey has a (very) quick post with a hint for PEAR users out there - how to get a list of installaed packages on the system you're using.
I've seen three people ask a variation of how can I get a list of installed PEAR packages from within my PHP script in the last few weeks on IRC, and two just in the last day. Because I'm a helpful sort, here's a little morsel of code that will do just that.
The code loads the PEAR Registry package and loops, via a foreach, through the results from a listPackages() call. It should work with just about any PEAR version.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
- Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control over Sensitive Data
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Every year, more than 11 million maritime containers and 11 million commercial trucks arrive to the United States, carrying all types of imported goods. As it would be costly to inspect every container, only a fraction of them are inspected before being allowed to proceed into the United States. This dissertation proposes a decision support system that aims to allocate the scarce inspection resources at a land POE (L-POE), to minimize the different costs associated with the inspection process, including those associated with delaying the entry of legitimate imports. Given the ubiquity of sensors in all aspects of the supply …
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- Xue, Liangjie, Villalobos, Jesus René, Gel, Esma, et al.
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text: Abdominocentesis is the process of inserting a small gauge needle into the abdomen to evaluate if fluid is present and obtain a sample for further testing. This quick procedure can be done on an outpatient basis, will not typically require sedation and may be performed with ultrasound guidance. If excessive abdominal fluid is causing discomfort, abdominocentesis might also be recommended as a palliative treatment.


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Jeff Highsmith, who works for REI, built this wonderful servomechanical arcade game (called Peak 97) as part of "a series of automatons and robotic effigies of my coworkers."
A small humanoid climber (based on the classic bi-core walker BEAM 'bot) is hung on each of two steeply sloped, carpeted inclines. A two-knob controller on each face is used to actuate arm- and leg-servos to twist the figure's body back and forth, making it climb. The game ends when one of the two climbers makes electrical contact with the aluminum "snowcap" at the top of the slope. LCD readouts count down the starting bell and report the winners name and time. And the jaunty 8-bit era gametune played during the race is spot-on.
Jeff has published a build guide to Make: Projects, and some additional pics are available in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Jeff!]