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So I'm a producer on a reality show and last night I was reading the website. It had a blurb about the upcoming show that I thought was awful. Like, really fucking bad. So today I'm in a screening with my executive producer and at the end we were talking about all the horrible shit people are saying about the show, blah blah. And so big mouthed me brings up the website and here's our convo:
Me: OMG, last night I saw a blurb about the show on VH1 and can I just say it was the sh-ttiest thing I've ever read in my life. Like, who writes that crap?
Boss: (long pause) I do.
Me: (silence) Oh. (silence) I'm just kidding...so that flashback you were talking about, where in the scene did you want it?
I started to sweat, and even though I'm black, the editor there said I turned a plum color. NOT a good look.
Question is, what do I do? My exec takes his writing very seriously. And I also know he's ultra-f-cking-sensitive in general, but especially about his work. And by the way, the blurb WAS the sh-ttiest thing I've ever read, but I realize I'm an idiot for saying it. Do I apologize and make it a "thing," or do I let it go? I mean, the conversation recovered, and I'm good enough at my job to where I won't get fired. I just feel so bad. B.
Basketball Wives? Better yet, Mob Wives? Tell ME! I'm dying to know what this sh-t reality show you work on is because as you all know I have some really low class TV taste. Okay, but back to the problem at hand. B, 100% let it go.
I get that everyone is protective over their work, and coming from someone who also works in entertainment television, we all have to take a piss out of it sometimes. There's no way you can write something about Michael Lohan - wait, do you work for Celebrity Rehab? Jeez-us, tell me! - and not feel like a bit of an asshole for giving that douche air-time. I know you know this, but I have to assume your boss knows this too.
I'm not saying you didn't jam your foot in your mouth, you totally did, but f-ck, everyone does it. And I know, it's the worst feeling; all you want to do is crawl into a sh-t infested hole and never come out again. But B, unless you called his mom a low down dirty whore, I think you can stop stressing.
If you bring it up again it's just going to make things wayyyy more uncomfortable. And in all honesty how can you give a genuine apology if what came out of your mouth was the truth? To go to all the trouble to re-tell the story and explain what you were thinking at the time, and how you didn't mean to offend him even though you meant it...blah blah blah…will only make it a thousand times worse.
B, you need to forgive yourself for the blunder because if you don't, you're going to continue to have really awkward exchanges with him, and that won't do anything good for your cause at work. Look, I can't let you start acting like one of the sketch balls on your show. Okay? So stop thinking about it and move on. But just to play it safe I'd cover your ass a bit by casually dropping some positive things about his work every couple of months. Do it on the sly and you'll be back in his good books.
I have a childhood friend, M*. She often referred to me as big sister and I looked upon her like a little sister. There's a few years age difference.
In 2005 M* started dating a guy and shut me out of her life, she stopped calling and didn't return my calls. It hurt and I was angry but I moved on. In 2008 she broke up with him and called me up. She told me she missed our friendship. I told her that I was upset she ditched our friendship for this guy. She came up with some lame excuse as to holding our friendship to high standards and that she didn't think her boyfriend would've met those standards. Whatever. I let it go. We rekindle our friendship and all is good. I tell her that I'm looking into moving into a condo, and I ask her to join me. She gets excited but then bails because her mother wouldn't agree to it - that's another issue, her mother controls her life and is obsessed with marrying M* off. Every decision she makes has to be with mom in mind – always sacrificing her happiness for what her mom wants.
Fast forward to May 2010 - I don't hear from M* for a while, so I suspect she has a boyfriend. Sure enough, she takes me out for my birthday and confirms my suspicion. I tell her "I guess this is where you ditch me again". She says no, tells me she really likes this guy and wants me to meet him. I meet him, he's nice. I tell her to make sure her mom doesn't control the relationship. She agrees but I don't hear from her again that summer. In November I call her; her mom answers and reveals to me excitedly that M* got engaged and goes into great detail on how the proposal happened. I'm happy for M* so I call her at work to congratulate her, she's not nearly as excited as her mom. I tell her that I want to go out to celebrate the occasion - she can't because she has plans but she'll call me. I don't hear from her. I send her a text a month later to remind her but still don't hear back.
Present day - I still haven't spoken to her. She's getting married this year but I want nothing to do with the wedding. I can't fake happiness and I'm so hurt that she completely shut me out of this milestone in her life, while also feeling like I've been used throughout our "friendship" I've dated a few guys throughout our friendship and not once did I shut her out of my life and so this bothers me a great deal. Help. Should I bite the bullet and go to the wedding? Or should I give her a gift, ditch the wedding and move on with my life?Thanks for your help. H
What I find most interesting about a lot of the letters I receive is that if you were to REALLY read them before pressing send, you'd know the answer just as well as I would.
Obviously, I want you to continue sending your problems or I'll be hooped but H, my first piece of advice to you is to go back and read your letter to me. Then ask yourself – why in the muther f-ck do you want to ever be friends with this girl ever again? Your entire letter is riddled with hurt feelings, and all signs point in her direction for making you feel that way.
Maintaining friendships isn't easy but they shouldn't be this hard. And what's interesting to me is it always seems like the ones that aren't worth the trouble cause the most trouble. That's when it's time to cut it out (yes, I just quoted Uncle Joey). So H, it's time to reevaluate what value this chick really adds to your life. I don't want to totally sh-t on her, but you're not even getting the bare minimum here, like, you don't even get the perk of seeing her here and there. So really, what's the point?
You've all heard it a million times: Hurt me once, shame on you, hurt me twice, shame on me. You can't deny the truth in this saying and H, you can't keep complaining about the same old thing if you're not going to take action. You know? So yes, H, send her a really nice wedding gift, dust off any sad feelings and move on.
So I'm in a bit of a pickle. About two years ago I met this guy in London at a club when I was there travelling for a week. I ended up going home with him, while both of us were explaining profusely that this doesn't happen ever (I didn't believe him, of course), and the next morning we exchanged Facebook details and that was that. I went home a few days later and other than a random Facebook comment here and there over the past couple years we haven't stayed in too much contact. However, I've held a bit of a flame for him since. Even though we barely know each other I feel like we had some sort of connection.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago, he was in the city I live in for a conference. We met up for drinks when he arrived and during the course of the afternoon he mentioned his current girlfriend and I mentioned my current boyfriend and I figured that this would be it for whatever we had. However, when I left him around 6 pm he said to let me know what I get up to that evening and maybe he and his friends would join in.
So, I call him when I'm out with my best friend, and he shows up, even ditching his friends to hang out with us. We hang out until 3 am somehow and he says that he'll call the next evening to see if my friends and I want to hang out. We end up hanging out with him and his friends for the next five nights. I gave him an out early on in the week by saying I didn't want us to impose on his time with his friends that he never sees but he insisted that we continue to join them.
Over the course of the week he tells me some interesting things. He tells me that I made a huge impact on his life when he met because he realized he could feel and be happy again (I met him several months after a difficult break up). He told me he fantasized about me and that he thinks back on our time together and it makes him smile. At the end of the week he told me that he hoped that he had made a good impression on me that week because he had really hoped that he did. When I asked him if I had made a good impression he said "A very very good impression." During the conference he was also offered a job in a company in the city I live and he said he was really happy about it.
Now, I know I'm being horrible to my current boyfriend with this emotional-cheating but since this guy has left he's all I can think of. However, almost the moment he arrives back on his home soil he declares his relationship on Facebook (he was listed as single before, but he told me that he's been dating his girlfriend for about four months). What do you think is going on? Thanks! S
Well, that's an easy one. Buddy obviously felt major guilt when he got back home, and what better way to proclaim to the world you're a good devoted boyfriend that didn't emotionally cheat on your girl? Facebook update. Ugh. I'm now starting to think we should all be bit more suspicious of this kind of activity...so ladies, if your man after months and months of dating all of a sudden wants to change his relationship status to acknowledge your existence - start sniffing out for cheating clues. Just saying...
S, I think instead of worrying about what this guy is doing, you should start worrying about what YOU'RE doing. I gotta say, it sounds like you're going down a really sketchy path and if you don't put on the breaks, sh-t's about to blow up. Can you imagine if this is what your man was thinking about while he was with you? Wouldn't you freak the f-ck out? I know I would. And trust me, your boyfriend doesn't need to know the nitty gritty details for the negative stuff to come spilling on in to your relationship. Also p.s. where the freak was he the entire week you were out partying your face off with London boy?
Listen, you're at a very critical time right now – you can either save your relationship or not. What do you want to do? Is some day-dreaming about another boy worth throwing it all away?
The way I see it, you have two options:
1) Call up London Boy and put it all on the line. Tell him you've been thinking about him non-stop and are willing to break things off with your boyfriend to be with him. If he says he's in...may you both live happily ever after. If he says no....well, tough luck at least you tried.
2) Get a grip and figure out what's really going on in your current relationship? Is your boyfriend worth the effort? Do you even want to be in a relationship at all?
I obviously can't give you the answers, but what's important is that you need to start searching for them NOW. I hope this helps and of course keep me posted! xx


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Protests are growing against the Swaziland
Government's order that Christianity
is to be the only religion taught in schools.
The decision was imposed by the Swazi Cabinet which is
handpicked by King Mswati III, the autocratic monarch in Swaziland. The move
came into force on 24 January 2017 at the start of the school year after only a
few days' notice.
AFP international news agency reported, 'Officials
said that old text books were being replaced with new ones that mention only
the Bible, and that schools were required to submit a list of qualified
religious studies teachers ahead of the start of term.'
It added, '"Other religions will not be offered at primary and high
school level," said Pat Muir, a top education ministry official, adding that
the policy sought to avoid confusing pupils.'
News in South Africa reported, 'Schools are obliged to submit
their religious studies syllabi at the start of each term to show they contain
no Islamic or Jewish references.'
The move could be against the spirit, if not the
letter, of the Swazi
Constitution. When the 2005 Constitution was being
drafted, it was decided not to insist that Swaziland was a Christian country.
This was to encourage freedom of religion.
According to the CIA
World factbook religion in Swaziland is broken down as
Zionist (a blend of Christianity and indigenous ancestral worship) 40 percent,
Roman Catholic 20 percent, Muslim 10 percent, other (includes Anglican, Bahai,
Methodist, Mormon, Jewish) 30 percent.
Lucky Lukhele, the spokesperson of the Swaziland
Solidarity Network (SSN), an organisation banned in Swaziland because it campaigns
for democracy in the kingdom, said, 'This pits the authorities on a clash with
the national Constitution adopted in 2005 which guarantees freedom of religion
and declares Swaziland a multi-faith based society, thus barring anyone from
imposing their own religious beliefs on others. The constitution and laws
prohibit religious discrimination and provide for freedom of religion,
including the right to worship and to change religion.'
The African Independent reported
him saying, 'We will be engaging all the democratic forces in
Swaziland to challenge this unilateral and short-sighted decision by government
whose effect will be to arrest the thought process, flourishing of ideas and
intellectual growth of Swazi children.
'For a long time the Swazi state has been abusing religion as a tool to
exercise a firm grip on people's freedoms and their right to demand respect for
their rights. This is unacceptable and we will challenge it in the courts, in
regional bodies, the African Union and even the United Nations. Not only is
this decision unconstitutional, but also it is barbaric and contrary to world
trends and advancement.'
AFP said, 'The US
State Department's International Religious Freedom Report said some schools
have long sought to prevent Muslim pupils from leaving early for Friday
'It also said some Christian groups "discriminated against non-Christian
religious groups, especially in rural areas where people generally held
negative views on Islam"'
Lawyers for Human Rights spokesperson Sabelo Masuku said although
Swaziland was predominantly Christian, the Government had to consider the Swazi
Constitution which made it clear there was freedom of religious choice.
The Swazi Observer newspaper
reported that Masuku said, 'what government has done was very risky and some
people might not take kindly to other religions being banned'.
Nkosingiphile Myeni, Communications Officer of The Coordinating Assembly
of Non-Governmental Organisations (CANGO) in Swaziland, a network of NGOs,
ecumenical bodies and other faith-based organisations, said, 'Firstly,
government must not forget that in 2005, Swaziland entered a new era of
constitutionalism. In Section 23 of the Constitution,
liberties including human rights, freedom of conscience and religion are
entrenched. The inclusion of all other religions must be in line with this
constitutional provision to cater for all sectors of society.'
Myeni said Swaziland had to adhere to international standards such as
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and
People's Rights. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration stated, 'Everyone has
the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes
freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in
community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or
belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.'
The Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) criticised the
move saying the Swazi Government had made a decision based on ideology.
SNAT Secretary General Zwelithini Mndzebele in a statement said learning
was about being exposed to diverse experiences that gave the young person the
opportunity to use judgment and apply the learned skills.
Mndzebele said, 'Learning about other religions helps everyone to better
accommodate and understand others' aspirations and ways of life. It is one of
the best catalysts for the achievement of world peace.'
School principals said they feared other religions might take the
Government to court over the ban because it might infringe the Swazi
Constitution on freedom of religion.
The Swazi Observer reported,
'The principals said the schools that would be teaching Christianity only were
government owned and such entities were governed by the constitution.'
The newspaper said. 'Schools Manager Macanjana Motsa assured the
principals that what was being introduced in the schools had been approved by
government. Motsa said the constitution talked about freedom of religion and this
was practised in churches, which are structures outside the schools.
'She added that there was nowhere where they banned other religions such
as Islam from being practised in the country. Motsa said the different
religions could be practised outside school boundaries as nothing has changed
on that.
'She said the syllabus taught in public schools was regulated by
government and she believes they have not strayed from that.'
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Exclusive track test of the new Z at Barber Motorsports Park, as it goes head-to-head with Brian Finch's corner carving masterpiece
The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is peerless in the realm of American muscle. The 505hp beast took down the Shelby GT500 and the Boss 302 Laguna Seca by a considerable margin during testing on GM's "Lutz-ring," and its Nürburgring times are the stuff of lore – leaving Porsches and Lamborghinis in its dust. But the question that befell our friends at Super Chevy was how the Z/28 faired against one of the finest examples of pro touring Chevys – built versus bought.
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On the surface it is a battle between a team of OE engineers with unlimited resources, and an IT professional that is handy with a wrench. But, of course, Finch doesn't have to worry about emissions, safety, or any other constraints that an OEM might. In the end what you have is a modern Camaro with larger brakes, R-compound tires, more downforce, more weight, and independent rear suspension. And in the other corner you have a vintage Camaro with more power, street tires, less weight, and a 4-link solid axle setup.
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When the Son is Not Told
The recent disclosure of the findings of an international survey of the educational abilities of pupils in 64 countries caused ruffles in the education circles in Israel. The relatively poor showing of Israeli youngsters raised doubts about the effectiveness of government schools. It also caused many people to wonder why the Education Ministry is making such a major effort to force religious schools to introduce secular subjects into their curriculum rather than solve the problems of student violence and poor academic achievement in government schools.
"And you shall tell your son on that day" is what we read in this week's Torah portion as the command to relate to our offspring the tale of the Exodus. For education to be successful it has to be built on tradition. When Jewish history begins only with the establishment of the State, it is inevitable that the lack of respect for what went before leads to failure in developing educational skills and absorbing the values of respecting teachers and parents.


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May I know how to restrict other user from accessing a particular web-based InfoPath form in a document library which was open by a user?
(Suppose that the InfoPath form need to be amend from time to time by a group of personnel)
User A open a web-based InfoPath form and make some modification. While User A is still editing the InfoPath form, User B came along and wanted to edit the form. So, is there any way to stop User B from opening the InfoPath form and inform him/her that the form is open by another user? (It would be nice if the message can tell User B that the document is currently open by User A)


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Forgive Me текст песни
Proof ft. 50 Cent
Barely raised by my dysfunctional fam
Here I stand as a dysfunctional man
Quick-tempered, short-fused, and pissed at God
Demons pullin at my soul 'til it's ripped apart
Secret's out momma that fire I started it
Fuck the fireman logic of the closet by the wire shit
What's positive about a father that bust nuts then wussed up
And a momma that don't show her son enough love
Shit, that's why I run from my first son
And force these chickenhead bitches to get abortions
I'm married to game, my mistress is fame
My girl Paq the closest, she know I ain't gon' change
Go insane in a world evil as ours
I done shot at houses, people and cars
The deeper the scars, the worst is the history
God you ain't gotta forgive me, just don't forget me, you hear me?
[Chorus: 50 Cent]
Lord forgive me, for I've sinned
Over and over again just to stay, on top
I recall memories, filled, with sin
Over and over again.. and again
And most importantly I'm tryin to support my seeds
Can't seem to get away from them courtin fees
Embroidery, on my hood across my heart disorderly
Breakin in houses of people who ain't got more than me
Accordingly, I move in error
Gotta face the fact though I can't fool this mirror
Neglected my daughter and tryin to blame on how I was brought up
like I'm a product of this environment, why ain't I shot up?
Got up today like "Why you let me breathe again?"
And with each breath I feel death is creepin in
Thinkin sinners are winners and I'ma finish last
My pen and pad record my life as each minute pass
Passin minutes, I shook sin and shook drugs
I did right by you but still you took Bugz
Then caught me in adultery, fought me
for not knowin through the dark streets you walked me, talked to me
It's the bliss that's a rush so rush my wrists in the cuffs
It's like a fight for yo' attention and love
Speakin of Bugz, give me a hint from above
If he not you know I wanna be sent when I'm done
Kid outta wedlock so my lady's frontin
I love Em, cause he gave me somethin
A positive anything is better than a negative nothin
I was on the edge of death ready to jump in
It's hard when you can't find love anywhere
And just because the reverend listen, don't mean he care
Pops on crack with a sufferin past
I dream in black and white, the world color me bad
Other than sad, painful and stress
Life is good with the webs that, tangle with death
Control the border, control the school
I have sinned amongst men and my soul is yours, yours
[Chorus - 2X]


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Roswell, Georgia -
Duluth, Georgia based One Law AI is proud to share their creation, Amelia, the artificial intelligence assistant designed specifically for law firms. The company was founded with the intention of bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to personal injury law firms, and they are proud to provide their clients with the means to achieve their goals and become a successful AI Law Firm.
Jack Derrickson of One Law AI says, "With the amount of competition that is present in today's personal injury market, every law firm needs to do everything they can to maintain their edge. That is the problem, and Amelia is our solution. Amelia is designed with the ability to take care of a number of things that would usually cost you a great deal of money. Amelia can carry out AI lead generation and she can greet every visitor to your website and every caller reaching out via telephone. She can do so much more than your usual chat bots and IVR phone systems."
One Law AI is proud to state that Amelia is revolutionary. Unlike the traditional AI methods of connecting with clients, the company has trained Amelia to actually comprehend and react accordingly. Due to this, Amelia is able to discuss a potential case with a visitor and determine the firm's ability to represent them or not. If Amelia is properly implemented, law firms can stop worrying about their advertising funds being wasted or losing potential clients because there is some misunderstanding about their needs.
One Law AI has spent years perfecting Amelia's abilities. She is an artificial intelligence virtual legal assistant especially designed for law firms. Her capabilities as a highly cognitive and conversational AI allows her to outperform every other similar creation currently in existence. As an AI software for lawyers, Amelia seeks human levels of efficiency, profit and loss impact — and impressive levels of customer service without human limitations of capacity. Within the industry, an AI of her kind is referred to as multi-channel, meaning she can speak, text, email and chat. One Law AI states that her scalability is currently limitless.
While it may seem a difficult task, integrating Amelia with a law firm's existing infrastructure is a relatively easy process. As One Law AI designed the artificial intelligence from the ground up, everything about Amelia is based on modern software architecture that allows her to easily integrate with existing software programs and platforms. One Law AI assures that their goal is not to replace the human workforce, but rather complement it and streamline law firms' infrastructures and help them increase their workplace efficiency.
In fact, Amelia can be customized extensively to represent the law firm in a manner they desire. Not only can the way she responds and behaves be tuned, One Law AI can also provide law firms with their very own avatar that promotes a friendly face for their homepage and personalizes interaction with their clients. With a friendly face and her highly responsive design, Amelia can take customer service to the next level.
Derrickson says, "The future is going to be heavily computerized, and I believe that conversational artificial intelligence is going to play a big part in everything. Getting a headstart on that now and harnessing the power of computers to make our lives easier is something that is only going to make us future-proof. Considering all the hard work we have put into Amelia to make her what she is, we are proud to say that she surpasses all expectations. I genuinely believe that Amelia's capacities can fundamentally change how law firms operate today. Amelia is the next step of your law firm's evolution; she is the secret ingredient that you are missing. Get in touch with us and see how we can help you take that step towards the future."
One Law AI's website hosts a demo of Amelia that users can interact with to learn more about the scope of the artificial intelligence used by One Law AI. The website also provides detailed information about the range of services provided by the company. Interested parties can directly get in touch with Jack Derrickson directly via email or phone to discuss their requirements further. One Law AI maintains a presence on LinkedIn where they frequently post updates, share media and communicate with their customers.
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Chuck Close
NEW YORK — At the Institute of International Education's awards gala in New York City on September 21, more than 450 business, education, government, foundation and policy leaders will celebrate the award winners' commitment to international education and the empowerment of women through education. For information on the honorees and how to attend the event, visit www.iie.org/gala2010.
IIE will present Microsoft with the Opening Minds Corporate Leadership Award in recognition of the company's global philanthropy and outstanding commitment to corporate social responsibility and education in communities around the world. The event will highlight Microsoft's support for the Women in Technology (WIT) Program, a partnership among Microsoft, IIE and the U.S. Department of State to provide women throughout the Middle East and North Africa with vital business and technology skills. Pamela Passman, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Global Corporate Affairs, will accept the award on Microsoft's behalf. Outstanding women participants from Lebanon, Morocco and Iraq will attend.
Chuck Close will receive IIE's Fritz Redlich Alumni Award in recognition of his distinguished career as a world-renowned artist whose life and works have increased mutual understanding, and his status as an alumnus of the Fulbright program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Special guest Ann Stock, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, will present the award. After receiving his MFA from Yale, Close had a Fulbright fellowship to Austria in 1964-65, which enabled him to study art and visit artists who were working in Europe, gaining valuable international insight at the outset of his career. His highly innovative and creative works have made him one of the most important artists of our time, and his remarkable career is the subject of this year's acclaimed biography, "Chuck Close: Life."
The Institute is also honoring outstanding individuals who further the goals of IIE's work in international educational exchange. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development in India, will receive IIE's Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding, named for the Institute's founder. Minister Sibal's vision of global education and commitment to internationalizing Indian higher education, especially through partnerships with U.S. institutions, promises to provide greater higher education access across India and open India's doors to increased global collaboration. IIE's Center for International Partnerships is working to help colleges and universities in the United States and India form strategic partnerships. Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, will join IIE in presenting the award.
Denise Benmosche and Amy C. Brandt will receive IIE's Women's Global Leadership Award in recognition of their exceptional commitment to advancing IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF). Both women have played a seminal role in enabling SRF to rescue persecuted scholars from around the globe and advance academic freedom worldwide. Special guest HRH Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan will join IIE in presenting this award. IIE created the Women's Global Leadership Award to mark the 90th anniversary of its founding in 2009 and presented the inaugural award to the three women founders of the Iran Opportunities Fund, a unique public-private partnership dedicated to fostering mutual understanding between the U.S. and Iran through international exchange.
According to IIE President and CEO Allan E. Goodman, "The individuals and organizations that the Institute is honoring realize the potential impact of education on people's lives across the world and represent the diversity of the community that champions international education. They are leaders in business, government, philanthropy and the arts, and they embody IIE's mission. They are a reminder of what is possible when people exchange ideas across cultures, learn from one another and cooperate globally. IIE is proud to celebrate their many achievements."
News anchor and Fulbright alumna Linda Vester will be the Mistress of Ceremonies for the event, which has been generously underwritten by the Angelson Family Foundation. Funds raised at the event will be used for IIE's emergency assistance for students and scholars.
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Andy Stern, the president of the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is embroiled in the politics of accepting sweetheart union contract deals and, ironically is being condemned by the Wall Street Journal. What gives here?
It seems that Stern wants to put heat on the private equity funds that have bought hospitals, nursing home chains and other firms whose employees he wants to organize. He lost a clumsy attempt to get a bill through the California legislature to restrict state pension funds from investing in private equity firms. The bill was backed by some foreign countries' sovereign investment funds.
The state pension funds—CalSTRS and CalPERS—defeated the bill and received the approval of the Wall St. Journal's right wing editorial writers—a rare plaudit indeed. The Journal even praised the California Nurses Association for obtaining a restraining order from a California court against SEIU harassing, assaulting and stalking members of this union, which is embroiled in disputes with SEIU for what the nurses' union says are blatant sweetheart contracts that SEIU dangles before large employers.
Are you confused?
The California Nurses Association (CNA) is a fast growing union that fights for patient rights, for adequate nurse-patient ratios and bargains for strong contracts with hospital chains. SEIU, by contrast wants membership growth even if the cost is a weaker contract for the newly organized workers.
In Ohio, the CNA exposed a SEIU deal with nine hospitals owned by Catholic Healthcare Partners. SEIU let the employer pick SEIU as its chosen union without a single signed union card. The company-union collaboration scheduled elections.
CNA sent representatives to Ohio and sounded the alarm about a top-down agreement sealed by a mutually imposed code of silence.
SEIU and the hospital chain owner postponed the election after the employees became aware of this sweetheart deal.
CNA's actions threw SEIU into a rage. Buses of SEIU people from Ohio were sent by Mr. Stern to break up an annual meeting of 1000 labor activists sponsored by the magazine, Labor Notes, in Dearborn, Michigan. CNA's Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro was scheduled to speak to the assemblage.
Shouting, scuffling, overturned chairs and the arrival of the Dearborn Police to impose order led A.F.L.-C.I.O. president John J. Sweeney, to denounce what he called "a violent attack" orchestrated by SEIU.
SEIU split from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 2005. SEIU aggressively raids other unions, such as the Allied International Union (AIU).
AIU fled a RICO law suit in New York against Stern's alleged racketeering behavior and tactics to replace AIU leadership and take control of its members.
In addition, the Department of Labor is investigating a Las Vegas local of SEIU regarding possible misuse of employer funds to advance certain candidates in a local election.
All these struggles and outside charges against Andy Stern are not keeping him from moving to remove rebellious leaders of locals and consolidate power at the top. The biggest battle is in San Francisco. Dissident, Sal Rosselli, head of SEIU-United Health Care Workers West, will propose democratic changes to the autocratic way Stern runs the union at their national convention in June.
Rosselli is pushing to give local unions of SEIU more authority in contract bargaining and more voice in proposed union mergers.
Some labor observers believe Andy Stern is biting off more than he can chew. His assurance to the Democratic Party of over $50 million for the upcoming election exposes him to critics who believe he should be spending the money on and pay far more attention to getting more for his members from the large corporations he massages.
RALPH NADER is running for president as an independent.


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Every athlete goes through slumps. How they deal with it changes.
Some guys need a slump buster. Some guys talk to confidants. A lot of just simply try to practice their way out of it and get their confidence back — they take more shooting reps after practice.
Or, some guys lose it, like Andris Biedrins of Golden State. Sports Illustrated's Chris Ballard did a fantastic profile of Biedrins last week talking about the downward spiral of his confidence at the free throw line and eventually in his entire game.
How do you bust out of that. Steve Kerr once tried facial hair. That's what he told David Aldridge at NBA.com (in his must-read Monday Morning Tips column).
"I remember growing a goatee one time," Kerr said. "It sounds crazy, but I grew a goatee. I wrote the letters F.I. on my shoes, for [bleep] it. I went out there and said I'm going to shoot every time. I probably wasn't as confident as other guys. A guy like Jordan, I don't think he ever had a problem with something like that. Most mortals, you've got to train your mind just like you train your body."
I bet Tim Duncan didn't call Kerr on it. I bet Michael Jordan would have.


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New research led by UC Health cardiologists shows that while short-term worsening kidney function is frequent among patients with heart failure, these patients also have better outcomes than those who have persistent kidney failure.
These findings, published in the July 2010 edition of the Journal of Cardiac Failure, could lead to more effective interventions and treatments for patients with heart failure that develop kidney problems or failure as well.
"Worsening renal function is a warning complication in patients with acute heart failure syndrome," says Andrew Burger, MD, UC Health cardiologist and co-investigator in the study. "Between 30 and 50 percent of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure have further worsening of renal function during hospitalization, but there is very little data available about the clinical implication of transient versus persistent worsening of renal function in this setting.
"This study is the first of its kind to look at this relationship to help physicians assess outcomes and possibly determine the most efficient way to treat heart patients who develop kidney failure at any degree."
Researchers studied 467 patients with acute heart failure syndrome and their creatinine measurements on days 2, 5, 14 and 30 of the study.
Creatinine is a product of creatine phosphate, or energy phosphate, in the muscle and brain. It is filtered out of the blood by the kidneys. If the filtering of the kidney is deficient, blood levels rise, and creatinine levels in blood and urine are used to calculate the kidney's function.
In this study, worsening renal function was defined as persistent when serum creatinine remained greater than 0.5 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter) above baseline throughout to day 30 and transient when the elevated creatinine levels decreased to less than 0.5 mg/dL above baseline within the 30-day period.
"Worsening renal function occurred in 115 patients -- 39 of those cases were considered transient," says Burger.
He adds that researchers saw death in 17.3 percent of patients without worsening renal function, 20.5 percent of patients with transient worsening dysfunction and 46.1 percent of patients with persistent renal dysfunction.
"The patients with no change in renal function and transient dysfunction have the same outcome, while patients with persistent renal dysfunction are more like to die," Burger says. "Chronic heart failure encompasses an important interaction between the heart and the kidneys, and renal dysfunction often accompanies heart failure.
"These findings give cardiologists some insight into the degree of renal dysfunction and its association with mortality in both stable and acute heart failure syndrome. Hopefully, these results will lead to further studies that may help in determining better interventions and outcomes for patients with acute heart failure."
Scios Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, sponsored the study.Burger cites no conflict of interest.
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A few days ago I posted the following on HubSpot's internal wiki. I'm reposting it here for three reasons: (a) to share a few of the reasons I love working at HubSpot, (b) to add a bit to the excellent conversation Umair started and (c) to point out some of the things I think a growing company needs to do to be successful today.
Umair Haque, one of my favorite bloggers, has a great post this weekend about Leaders and Builders . I highly recommend it to all HubSpotters, and wanted to share some of the things it got me thinking about:
At HubSpot we talk a lot about changing the way companies do marketing -- and we're in the process doing exactly that.
As we grow, I think we should also realize and focus on the fact that we're helping to change the way companies are built.
Think about the difference between HubSpot and companies that were built in the 20th Century. The GM's, Microsofts & P&Gs of the world are factories. They're rigid command and control hierarchies that don't encourage experimenting or innovating. HubSpot and other companies that are now changing the world (Google, Acmen Fund, Etsy, Amazon) are fields. Instead of enforcing a rigid hierarchy, we cultivate great people and empower them to do innovative, world-class work.
Why is the field better than the factory? Umair Haque's article and blog archive spells that out. But here's what I think: Fields are more efficient for the shareholders, more rewarding for employees and better for the world.
Some examples of how we're a field:
- Tremendous transparency. This wiki is wide open and it contains tons of real discussion, data and documentation. As a result, anybody in the company is able to participate in any conversation they choose.
- A flat organization. Everybody at HubSpot does stuff. Very few people just manage. Look at the engineering team and the marketing teams -- engineering is all engineers, regardless of experience; marketing is all inbound marketing managers, regardless of experience. That's awesome.
- Agile Methodology. It's an example of the transparency and enables flatness. It also empowers us as individuals by giving us the chance to pick and define our own projects.
- Data-driven culture. In god we trust, all others bring data. This kind of culture reduces political crap by 110%.
- Access to data across the organization. Anybody can collect any piece of HubSpot data they want. This data is our Twitter API. By opening up and publishing it internally, it enables individuals to do all sorts of creative stuff that benefits the company, but that nobody would have expected.
- We're building a cathedral. We're focused on building something that lasts and has a positive impact, not hitting some revenue threshold, then trying to flip the company.
All this is great, but it hasn't happened by accident, and it will be increasingly difficult to maintain. As we grow we need to be very focused on building a different kind of company.
Specifically, I think we need to focus on:
- Flatness. As we build out teams we need to work to retain flatness.
- Avoiding fiefdoms and turf battles. Instead we need to focus on getting shit done.
- Education & Training. We need to empower people with learning; sounds like training is AWESOME for new employees. How can we build the skills of existing employees?
- Open data. We need to give people within the company more access to company data.
- Staying focused on the Cathedral. Each group is focused like a laser on our monthly numbers. But we need to make sure we pick up our heads and look around on a regular basis.
- Hiring more rockstars. (All levels of experience.)
What do you guys think?
PS, if this kind of environment excites you, you should work at HubSpot.


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Gabriella was born in 1967 at Mt Allan, Northern Territory. She is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the most famous of our Australian Artists (deceased 2002). She began painting at an early age, under the tuition of her famous father and often collaborated with him, producing important works.
The content of Gabriella's paintings is the Dreaming stories handed down to her from her paternal grandmother, Long Rose Nungala and the other senior women who taught her in her formative years – these include Grandmother's Dreaming, Seven Sisters Dreaming (Milky Way), Goanna, Bush Tucker and Serpent Dreamings of her Anmatyerre heritage.
She was the youngest artist to be awarded the prestigious Alice Springs Art Prize whilst still studying at Yirara College at age 16. Her natural talent and knowledge of the women's dreaming stories was enhanced technically by her association with the grass roots painters of Papunya Tula – her father's brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Long Jack Phillipus, Johnny Warrankgula Tjupurula, and many others.
Gabriella resides in Melbourne with her family and travels extensively in her profession, as did her late father. Her Prizes, Collections and Exhibitions both within Australia and Internationally reflect the high standing in which the artist is held and the undeniable investment potential of her very beautiful artworks.
Selected Exhibitions
– Brisbane in conjunction with her father Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
– Aboriginal Dot Painting, Melbourne
– Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
– Washington DC, U.S.A.
– Berne, Switzerland
– London, U.K.
– Art of the Aborigines, Warsaw, Poland
– Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
– Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
– United Nations Building, New York
– Mia Mia Gallery, Melbourne
– Canterbury Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Selected Collections
– National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
– Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
– Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
– Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
– Richard Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA
– Galeria R. Poznan, Poland
– Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
– Winterthur Collection, Switzerland
– Professional Development Grant, from the Aboriginal Arts Unit of the Australia Council for the Arts
– Alice Springs Art Prize, Record Cover for Coloured Stone


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans held onto their slim Senate majority, a stinging blow to Democrats in a night full of them. Democrats had been nearly certain of retaking control but saw their hopes fizzle as endangered GOP incumbents won in Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and even Democrat-friendly Wisconsin.
GOP-held New Hampshire remained too close to call in the early morning hours Wednesday, but even if Democrats eked out a win there it would not make a difference.
Republicans started the night with a 54-46 majority in the Senate and were on track to end up with at least 52 seats, presuming they win a December runoff in Louisiana, as expected.
The outcome added to a debacle of a night for Democrats, who lost the presidency and faced being consigned to minority status on Capitol Hill for years to come.
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Republicans celebrated their wins, already looking ahead to midterms in 2018 when Democrats could see their numbers reduced even further with a group of red-state Senate Democrats on the ballot.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who will serve in that role next year under a President Trump, issued a statement congratulating the president-elect.
"After eight years of the Obama administration, the American people have chosen a new direction for our nation. President-elect Trump has a significant opportunity to bring our nation together," McConnell said. "It is my hope and intent that we succeed in the years ahead by working together with our colleagues across the aisle to strengthen our national and economic security."
As the night wore on, Democratic operatives struggled to explain why their optimistic assessments of retaking Senate control were so mistaken. Some blamed unexpected turnout by certain segments of white voters, or FBI Director James Comey's bombshell announcement that he was reviewing a new batch of emails connected with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In Pennsylvania, GOP Sen. Pat Toomey won a narrow victory for his second term over Democratic challenger Katie McGinty. It was a race Democrats expected to win going into the night — and one that many Republicans felt nearly as sure they'd lose.
The story was the same in Wisconsin, where GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, written off for months by his own party, won re-election against former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in a rematch.
In Missouri and North Carolina, where entrenched GOP incumbents Roy Blunt and Richard Burr faced unexpectedly strong challenges from Democrats, both prevailed in the end.
Democrats did grab a Republican-held seat in Illinois, where GOP Sen. Mark Kirk lost to Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a double-amputee Iraq war vet. That stood as the one Democratic pickup as the early morning hours ticked toward Wednesday.
The other bright spot for Democrats was in Nevada, where Minority Leader Harry Reid's retirement after five terms created a vacancy and the one Democratic-held seat that was closely contested. Reid maneuvered to fill it with his hand-picked successor, Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada's former attorney general who spoke often of her family's immigrant roots in a state with heavy Latino turnout.
Cortez Masto will become the first Latina U.S. senator. She beat Republican Rep. Joe Heck, who struggled with sharing the ticket with Donald Trump, first endorsing and then un-endorsing Trump to the disgust of some GOP voters.
Indeed the Senate races were shadowed every step of the way by the polarizing presidential race between Clinton and Trump. Yet in the end, Trump was apparently not the drag on GOP candidates widely anticipated. Republicans like Johnson who endorsed him and stuck with it won re-election, as did others like Pennsylvania's Toomey who never backed Trump until the very end. And so did a few like GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona who un-endorsed Trump after audio emerged of him boasting of groping women.
McCain, at age 80, won his sixth term in quite possibly his final campaign. The 2008 GOP presidential nominee was re-elected without much difficulty despite early predictions of a competitive race, and struck a reflective note ahead of the outcome.
"While as Yogi Berra said, 'I hate to make predictions, especially about the future,' I'm not sure how many more I have in me," McCain said.
In Indiana, GOP Rep. Todd Young beat former Democratic senator and governor Evan Bayh, who mounted a much-ballyhooed comeback bid, but wilted under scrutiny. And in Florida, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio beat Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, giving Rubio a platform from which he could mount another bid for president in 2020.
In New York, Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democrats' leader-in-waiting for a new Congress, easily won re-election. But the results elsewhere meant he would be leading a Senate minority when he replaces Reid in the leader's role.
Even though the GOP's renewed control of the Senate will be narrow, the advantages of being in the majority are significant. The controlling party holds the committee chairmanships, sets the legislative agenda and runs investigations. First up is likely to be a nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
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Guides - a list of informative guides. Make something useful.
Projects - a list of community projects. Help others out.
Tasks - for advanced users to collaborate on software tasks.
Datasheets - a frambozenier.org documentation project.
Education - a place to share your group's project and find useful learning sites.
Community - links to the community elsewhere on the web.
Games - all kinds of computer games.
This is a list of the proposed datasheet numbers for Rpi categories:
Created by turbo at frambozenbier.org for the community documentation project
As discussed on the main raspberrypi.org forums, this documenation will be:
1) Born on the wiki
2) Peer reviewed on the wiki and approved by community members
3) Then translated by community members
4) Then published as a full article or PDF by the frambozenier.org documentation team
001-100 Raspberry Pi Foundation product literature
101-200 Raspberry Pi Foundation announcements
201-300 Raspberry Pi Computing devices
301-400 Raspberry Pi Computing accessories
401-500 Raspberry Pi Getting started guides
501-600 Raspberry Pi Operating system guides
601-700 Raspberry Pi Development tools and libraries
701-800 Raspberry Pi Utilities and Code Examples
801-900 Raspberry Pi Hardware compatibility
901-999 Raspberry Pi Software compatibility
NOTE: some of this information may initially duplicate other content on this and other Raspberry Pi sites.
The purpose of this project is to collate all relevant community documentation into simple 2-page datasheets.


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Phil Gould, who worked in the flavor and fragrance industry for about 43 years and helped to pioneer a flavor and fragrance business in the Middle East, died in Dubai on June 14 following a year-long battle with cancer. He was 60 years old.
Gould started his work in the industry at Bush Boake Allen in London at the age of 17 working his way through the departments while learning the principles of the industry and becoming highly skilled and knowledgeable in BBA's export markets. He was instrumental in establishing BBA as a major player in the Middle East and Africa and later became director of export sales Asia, Middle East and Africa. Gould had for many years recommended that BBA set up its own facility in the Middle East to fully capitalize on the growing opportunities in the region and BBA Middle East was established in Dubai in 1990.
Eventually, Gould, together with his friend and colleague, Majid, started a new company called Gulf Flavours and Fragrances, which was based in Dubai. The company prospered and GFF established itself as an important producer of flavors and fragrances serving the Middle East and Africa. Working ahead of the curve, Gould was known in the industry as a visionary as he recognized opportunity in the lucrative Middle Eastern market 23 years ago.


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Last month, we showed you that amazing video of Blaise Aguera y Arcas showing off some new and upcoming features of Bing Maps. One of those was the integration of Worldwide Telescope, which is now available.
- Go to: www.bing.com/maps/explore
- Click on Map Apps (bottom of the left-hand rail, below the explore section)
- Select the WorldWide Telescope App
It's nothing groundbreaking (we've seen both products before), but it's solid and logical integration that helps make both of them more useful.


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TakingITGlobal | by Jennifer Corriero
"Ten years ago TakingITGlobal led a movement as a social network for social change. Today, through programs like Sprout, TakingITGlobal is cultivating a new generation of changemaker as a catalyst for social innovation."—Kristle Calisto-Tavares, Sprout Program Manager
Meet Valens, a young visionary who is creating hope and opportunity for Rwandan women. Valens was born in Rwanda. Currently a medical student at National University of Rwanda, Valens has been strongly involved in initiatives and projects related to HIV/AIDS and youth empowerment. Fortunately, his peers and colleagues have encouraged his interest in these areas and that encouragement has driven him to excel.
In Fall 2009, through the Sprout E-course, Valens created Let Us Stay Alive – a project designed to to address the vicious cycle of poverty, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in Nyaruguru, Rwanda since genocide in 1994. Sprout aims to equip a diverse generation of young people aged 16-30 with essential project management skills to develop effective social innovation projects.
Sprout's E-course (you've got to see this video!) offers young leaders worldwide access to training in essential skills, including team building, communications, evaluation and leveraging technology as they imagine, plan and develop social change initiatives. Through a 9-week program combining lessons, assignments and professional development webinars, youth connect to facilitators and to one another, acquiring the skills to convert their change-making ideas into actionable project plans ready to be implemented in their local communities.
Since 2008, over 300 emerging social innovators from 40 countries have participated in the Sprout E-course and online community to facilitate greater global citizenship and transform their world-changing idea into a viable initiative.
Valens' project focuses on women as the main benefactors and involves 1) education and awareness raising on HIV, health and women's rights and 2) sustainable agriculture via three community garden cooperatives as a tool to meet basic income needs. Valens is a proud member of Global Youth Coalition on Aids (GYCA). All who know him speak highly of his leadership skills and character. He was recently awarded a Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation toward the implementation of Let Us Stay Alive.
We showcase Sprout participants' final projects and offer the opportunity to grow or launch their initiatives with added support through the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation.
Pankaj is one of the inaugural Pearson Fellows changing his corner of the world and acting as an inspiration to others. Pankaj is a motivated young man living in the heart of urban India. He is a compassionate advocate for social equity and accessible health care. Medical schooling at a large Government hospital has washed away whatever misconceptions he had about the Indian version of 'Health for All' and he became motivated to do more than sit and watch.
In Spring 2010, Pankaj enrolled in Sprout and inspired change in his community by creating Maid in India – a project aimed at organizing domestic housekeepers into a formal labor force. Since designing this project, Maid in India has really taken off and now boasts the successful results of two pilots. Pankaj was recently awarded a Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation toward the implementation and growth of Maid in India. He and his project are also being profiled in an upcoming documentary.
In partnership, TakingITGlobal and the Pearson Foundation have created the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation to recognize and support youth-developed projects created as a component of TakingITGlobal's innovative Sprout E-course curriculum. The Fellowship combines seed grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, one-one mentoring, specialized training and strategic resources to help Fellows take their projects from the planning stage to launch.
"Pearson believes that young people, with their energy, passion, ingenuity and willingness to dream, are an enormous force for good in the world," says Mark Nieker, President of the Pearson Foundation. "Through programs like the Fellowship for Social Innovation and our support for TakingITGlobal and the Sprout e-course, we are doing our part to nurture and encourage these imaginative and inspiring young leaders," he says.
The Fellowship provides a critical link between the training TakingITGlobal offers through the Sprout e-course and the real-world implementation of the plans our participants develop.
As these dreams of Valens, Pankaj and others like them become a reality, they will serve as an inspiration to other young people who are seeking ways to better their communities, their countries and our world.
For more information, visit: www.sproutecourse.org. Join us on Facebook for e-course updates or follow us on Twitter.
Jennifer Corriero is the co-founder and executive director of TakingITGlobal, an online learning community for youth interested in global issues and creating positive change. Her extensive experience includes developing and driving youth programs related to technology, collaboration and entrepreneurship, and designing and delivering interactive learning experiences to empower youth and community leaders. She has been a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society; she's presented and supported civil society engagement at events including the World Urban Forum, World Summit on Sustainable Development and other global forums. Corriero has been a youth engagement strategy consultant for Microsoft, TD Bank, Ontario Science Centre and the Canadian Government. She earned her BA in Business, Communications, Technology and a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. An innovator, leader and engaging public speaker, she has been widely recognized by various conferences, organizations, universities and mainstream magazines for her tireless efforts in motivating the youth of the world. Contact her through TakingITGlobal.


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Chapter 1
Nahum speaks of the burning of the earth at the Second Coming and of the mercy and power of the Lord.
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The Lord is aslow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the bwicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills amelt, and the earth is bburned at his cpresence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his aindignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The Lord is agood, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that btrust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as astubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the Lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his ayoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14 And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the afeet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.


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Another year is coming to an end, and I want to thank all of you for following me and encouraging me to keep up my blog. When I started it almost two years ago, I never imagined I would still be crocheting and writing new patterns today. I wish you all a very happy and successful 2012.
I know there are already lots of owl amigurumi patterns available, but I like to think that this one is a little different. Its oval bottom gives it a nice cushiony shape, great for cuddling. And the crocheted eyes cannot be pulled off. It's made from the bottom up and the wings are crocheted in as you go. I tried several yarns for this pattern, but the best result by far comes by using a 4mm hook and aran yarn (the owl on the right). I particularly love the Debbie Bliss eco aran yarn and will be buying some more of it to make lots more owls that I hope to sell at our local organic market
Organic yarn and the fact that this pattern does not use any buttons or beads makes this a suitable toy for babies and young children. I always line my amigurmis to stop any stuffing from escaping, and the organic owls have a lining made from a recycled cotton sheet.
-- Note added on 10th July when I found someone had copied this pattern and said she had written it herself:
Please do not sell this pattern. Do not post this pattern to any website, but link directly to my blog. No file sharing of this pattern.
Are you ready? Here's the pattern:
Stitches used:
sc single crochet
ss slip stitch
dc double crochet
I recommend Debbie Bliss 100% organic cotton eco aran fair trade yarn and I used a 4 mm crochet hook for the main body. For the eyes and beak I used Debbie Bliss ecobaby 100% cotton fairtrade yarn and a 3mm hook.
You can can use one, two, three or several colours for your owl. Just remember to make the wings before starting on the rows in the body of the owl using the same colour so that you don't need to cut off and start over again! I'd even suggest you make the wings first, so that's what I'll begin this pattern with.
Wings (make 2) (using aran yarn)
Rnd 1 - ch 14, join to first ch with a ss to make a ring.
Rnd 2 - 2ch, 1 dc in each chain to end , join to the top of 2 ch (14 dc)
Rnd 3 - 1 sc in each st (14 sc)
Rnd 4 - [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 5 st] twice (12 sc)
Rnd 5 - [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 4 st] twice (10 sc)
Rnd 6 - sc around
Rnd 7 - sc2tog 5 times.
Finish off leaving a tail of yarn, weave the yarn through the last 5 sts, pull tight to close. Weave in ends.
Eyes (make 2) (using baby yarn)
Rnd 1 - With dark colour, sc 6 into a magic circle, don't join with a slipstitch
Rnd 2 - Join light colour and slst into first sc of the magic circle, then work 2 sc into each st (12 sc)
Rnd 3 - *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next st, rep from * to end. Fasten off, leaving a long tail of yarn to sew the eyes on to the owl's face.
Pull the ends tight so that the "pupil" looks OK.
Beak (using baby yarn)
Rnd 1 - make a magic circle, ch 3 and then work 5 dc into the magic circle, join with a slst to the top of the 3 ch
Rnd 2 - * 1 dc in next st, 2 dc in next st, rep from * to end (9 sts)
Rnd 3 - 1 sc in each st around (9 sc)
Fasten off, leaving a long tail of yarn to sew the beak on to the owl's face.
Body (worked from the bottom up)
Rnd 1 - ch 10. 1 sc in 3rd chain from hook (and mark this st), 1 sc in each of next 6 ch. 3sc in next ch, then work down the other side of the length of ch, with 1sc in each of the next 7 ch and 3 sc in the space made by the 2 missed ch you started with. (20 sts)
Rnd 2 - * 1 sc in each of next 7 sts, 2sc in each of next 3 sts, rep from * once again (26 sts)
Rnd 3 - * 1 sc in each of next 7 sts, [2sc in next st, 1 sc in next st] 3 times, rep from * once again (32 sts)
Rnd 4 - * 1 sc in each of next 7 sts, [1 sc in each of next 2sts, 2sc in next st] 3 times, rep from * once again (38 sts)
Rnd 5-16 - sc around, changing colours at rnd 14 and 16 (optional)
Rnd 17 - sc 14, join the first wing with 7sc, working through the two layers of the wing and the layer of the body, sc 12, join the second wing with 7sc (the 5th , 6th and 7th sc are the first three sts of the next rnd). Make sure the 1st st of the rnd is still marked.
Flatten the body to make sure that the wings are symmetrical (there are more stitches at the front, for the owl's tummy, than at the back, this is normal). If it's not symmetrical you might have to add or remove a sc before of after starting the 2nd wing.
Rnd 18-22 - sc around
Rnd 23 - * 1 sc in each of next 5 sts, sc2tog, continue from * to end
Rnd 24 - sc around
Sew on the eyes and the beak now.
Flatten your owl to make sure that when you join it at the top it will look right. If necessary, sc 1 or 2 extra stitches.
Line (optional) and stuff your owl.
Rnd 25 - (working through both layers of the top of the owl) ch 2, 1 dc in next 2 sts, sc to last 3 sts, 1 dc in each of last 3 sts, fasten off and weave in ends.
Please let me know if you have any questions or if I have made any mistakes. I always read all comments so don't hesitate!
And I would very much like to see photos of your owls!
Here are some more of mine:


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Elsie age 15 in 1913 on her way to Canada |
Elsie Phyllis Markham was my great-grandmother. She was born in London England in 1898 to parents Albert Markham and Edith Finch. At the age of 9 months Elsie was orphaned when her parents died within a month of each other.
Elsie's mother Edith was an illegitimate child born in the St. Pancras Workhouse. There does not seem to have been much contact with Edith's mother Martha Finch who had a total of 3 illegitimate children born to her while she was in the Workhouse.
Elsie and my Grandpa Bert 1918 |
Baby Elsie and her two year old brother Frederick Markham were lucky enough to be taken in by an Aunt and Uncle but her 8 year old brother Albert Finch was sent to an orphanage. Several months after being taken in, the uncle refused to pay for the children's upkeep any longer. Little Frederick was sent to a different orphanage than Albert, and Elsie was adopted by an older couple.
Albert, who himself was an illegitimate child born in the St. Pancras Workhouse to his mother Edith Finch, was 8 year old when he entered Barnardo's Homes and at the age of 11 was sent as a Home Child to Canada. Letters exchanged between Albert and Barnardo's reveal that he was not treated well and ran away several times from his life of servitude and beatings. Eventually Albert was placed in the home of Roy and Mary Skinner of St. Mary's Ontario and there he found a happy life where he was treated as a son.
Frederick Markham |
Albert was determined to reunite the family and began saving his money as a young teen so that he could bring Frederick and Elsie to Canada to join him. In September 1913, 23 year old Albert sent for 15 year old Elsie and she joined him in St. Mary's Ontario.
His younger brother Frederick was an inmate of Miller's Orphan House in London until March 1914. He was18 when his older brother Albert paid for his passage to Canada. Sadly Frederick enlisted in the CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) during WW1 and was killed overseas.
Elsie, poor Elsie, got pregnant in August 1917. She was just 19 years old and alone in the world except for her brother Albert. One month later she married Bristol Holden but recent DNA tests have revealed that Bristol was not the baby's father.
Elsie and brother Albert |
We do not know whether she told Bristol the truth before marrying him or whether she kept her secret and let him think he was Bert's father. It really doesn't matter because by all accounts they had a happy marriage.


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(I think it goes without saying that this is another one of those visual rhetoric posts.)
As this is to be the first of many posts breaking down the visual rhetoric of Game of Thrones, I want to tell you either "You're welcome!" or "I'm sorry!" I need to write them for my class this quarter so they will written. Regular blogging will continue as usual. (See?) Now on to "Winter Is Coming."
For those of you who haven't read George R.R. Martin's Games of Thrones, it's important to note that there are twenty-four characters through whose perspective the narrative is occasionally focalized, meaning that the writers and directors of the television series needed to go full-Rashomon or find another way to imbue each episode with the feel of perspectival diversity. Which makes the decision to open "Winter Is Coming" with the Prologue odd but instructive. On the one hand, beginning where the novel begins is a simple decision: Martin placed the Prologue where he did because he wanted to set the mood for the scenes to come and director Tim Van Patten followed suit. On the other hand, in an episode that can only be 52 minutes long and in which numerous perspectives must be introduced, devoting 11 minutes to the quick end of the short life of Will, the Prologue's narrator, seems excessive. I'm going to argue otherwise: what the material contained in the Prologue provides the audience is a means of sympathizing with the different perspectives on Will's life and death, and in so doing begins to recreate the structure of the novel. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. First we need to be introduced to Will:
He's one of those little black dots on horseback in this extreme long or establishing shot, the purpose of which is establish the scale of the wall by providing us with an identifiable reference and the state of the environment by showing us an unimaginably large wall made of ice and a cover of snow that follows the wall to the vanishing point. Before we even meet Will, then, Van Patten informs us that he is a small man beholden to powers great enough to build and maintain that wall, and that he is likely in peril, because no one who isn't builds and lives behind a wall like that. Moreover, the contrast between the blue-white snow and the black riders suggests that not only is Will in peril, he's conspicuously so, which means he's all the more likely to meet a sad end. And Van Patten's communicated all of this in a single shot.
He cuts to another establishing shot that works much like the first: in what we'll call a very long shot, the world is still white and empty of all but some men and trees. This is the classic Russian technique of turning a forest into the cinematic equivalent of a barren desert: the only life visible is either human or snow-coated evergreen. These riders aren't as tiny as they were in the opening shot, but the scale still makes them appear vulnerable because they're still dominated by the other elements of the frame. The deep focus suggests that all of the elements in the scene may be of equal importance, which is strange because the only visible elements are the people and the trees. Combined with the relatively high-key lighting, which should allow us to see everything in the scene, the deep focus creates the conflicting impression that we can see everything in the scene, but that there's something in it that we're still not seeing. But if it's there why can't we see it?
It could be because we are the something we can't see and we're watching the riders approach from our point-of-view. Intimating that camera's perspective belongs to something monstrous is quite common in horror films and series. For example, the first episode of The Walking Dead, "Days Gone By," fiddled with this suggested perspective for nearly five minutes before dispensing with the conceit. Van Patten only plays with it momentarily, but the effect is unsettling enough because as the riders move closer to the camera, their faces become more distinct, and the more we can distinguish about them from their faces, the more likely we are sympathize with them. In the long shot above, the rider's face betrays a wariness about what's behind the trees, and well he should, because it might be us and we might be a monster. We're not. However!
Over there! What's over there? The medium long shot allows us not only to see his face, but to see it clearly enough for Van Patten to create an eyeline match between what Will and what he sees:
What is that? Another long shot of trees in deep focus. It should be disconcerting for the same reason the previous long shot of trees in deep focus was: we should be able to see everything in the shot, but there's nothing that demands our attention except maybe a little mist. The shot is highly structured: on the vertical axis, two trees occupy the central area and two more flank the left and right sides of the frame. A single line of dark something bisects the frame horizontally. When a shot is this structured it suggests either literal or figurative confinement. Encountering the symmetry of entrapment in the middle of a vast wood compounds the earlier disquieting suggestions and doesn't Will know it:
Or maybe he doesn't. The medium close-up alone just indicates that we're looking at him looking at those eerily symmetrical trees. But wait!
Van Patten begins zooming in from the medium close-up into a genuine close-up. We may have the beginning of what I refer to as a "thinking zoom," in which a director zooms in on a character's face in order to indicate that that character has had a thought. Did Will?
Will most certainly did. Note that when Van Patten zoomed into the extreme close-up he also elevates the level of framing slightly in order to emphasize Will's widening eyes. Will's not just thinking that there's something's odd about those trees, he believes he's seen something that verifies his thoughts. He's not sure he's seen what he thinks he's seen but he's not about to take a chance:
He climbs a drift to take a closer look at the trees and examine what he thinks he might have seen. He looks to his left and Van Patten employs another eyeline match to show us what Will sees near that mist:
The long shot of the mist clears up one thing: it's smoke not mist. But the long shot doesn't provide enough visual information for us to make any sense of it. There's smoke and some other things there but it's difficult to discern what those other things are. But there are some disturbing inferences for Will to draw from what he can see: the first is that these riders aren't alone, someone else set and abandoned that fire; the second is that something bad may have happened to that someone else because people don't abandon fires in this environment unless they have good reason to. Why am I discussing this long shot as if it's a point-of-view shot from Will's perspective? Because I think it is. Van Patten's bridging these shots together via eyeline matches:
When he cuts back to Will behind the drift, Will looks to his right instead of his left this time and sees:
An extreme close-up of a head upon a stake. The zoom from the long shot of the smoke to the close-up of the head is the point-of-view equivalent of the thinking zoom. Instead of zooming into the mind of the character thinking, this zoom approximates what happens when a perspectival character paying more attention to an object in the mise-en-scene. Van Patten provides further evidence that Will's been thinking when he cuts back to him:
Moving in to a close-up on the reverse is something like an implied thinking zoom. It also provides us with a better opportunity to read Will's face and sympathize with the horror written upon it. There's an intimacy to a close-up that naturally engenders sympathy in audience members who capable of it. It can also be quite creepy, as demonstrated by the image from Eyes Wide Shut that the Yale Film Analysis site uses an example. Where exactly are we, the audience, in relation to Cruise and Kidman in that shot? That's right: we're standing three inches from their noses while they're making out. Point being: we can more clearly read Will's face now and that allows us to better sympathize with the dismay he feels at what he's seeing. Which is:
He looked to his left and his right before looking straight ahead and taking in the whole scene. Remember earlier when I mentioned that the high-key lighting and deep focus suggested that we should've been able to see something that wasn't there? This may be that something. Even the way Van Patten edited this sequence suggests that this is something Will didn't want to be seeing: he looked left and couldn't make it out, looked right and noticed the head on the stake, and only then did he confront what he didn't want to see. But there the ghastly scene is and he has no choice but to survey it. Then of course run. Running is a bad thing for a member of the Night's Watch to do: the penalty for running is death. His companions think him a coward and ask him if he wants to run. He declines and decides to return to the scene of the massacre. But when he returns with his fellow riders there's nothing there. No mutilated corpses. No heads on spikes. Just trees and snows and the remains of that fire and what's this?
Let's have a closer look at that:
It's a red something.
A red what?
A red something that's not as important as what's behind you.
He doesn't mean the trees and snow. Note the difference in the depth of field in this series of reverse shots. The rider with the red something is shot in deep focus, whereas his companion is shot in shallow. The shallow focus allows the white walker to enter the frame without being immediately intelligible. It's a tall something with blue eyes whose creepiness is partly a function of our inability to see exactly who or what it is. Like the earlier shots of the forest, this use of shallow focus is another means of showing the audience what's there without exactly showing us what's there. The horror, in short, is a function of what we imagine we see when it's not there and can't quite focus on when it is. The least horrifying shot in the sequence is the one immediately above because we can so clearly see what's in it. But that's only because I captured one of the two or three frames in which the white walker's visible. If you watch the episode, that frame occupies the screen for a split-second before Van Patten cuts to poor Will:
Poor Will who was right about everything but not believed. Van Patten continues using shallow focus here because he's already established that terrible things can appear in it. As it happens what's frightening Will now is directly in front of him: it's the white walker about to behead his only remaining companion. Will now has no choice but to run, and run with the knowledge that he's running from one certain death to another. Which is exactly what happens:
The transition from the snow-covered forest to the green field full of knights straddles the opening credit sequence, but the contrast makes it point nonetheless: not only has poor Will run, he's run quite far and possibly for quite some time, but he hasn't outrun the horrors he saw or the death he sentenced himself to. He could've chosen to die at the hands of the white walker beyond the wall, but instead he ran until reached Winterfell, where at least he'll die at the hands of human being.
All of which is very sad.
Which was my point: Van Patten creates a very sympathetic portrayal of Will in order to use that sympathy to distinguish the perspectives of the characters in Winterfell by virtue of how they react to him. He can't replicate the structure of the book, but as I'll discuss tomorrow, he can create situations in which the content of those individual chapters is efficiently communicated.


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Security is an Industry Problem
The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid.
—IEBlog Editor, 21 August 2012
I've received enough questions in email from different people about a recent vulnerability in another browser that I wanted to post something here.
I think the best place for the facts is with the people responsible for the browser. I say this based on the number of articles I read that misrepresent issues in Windows and IE.
I also think that security is an industry-wide problem. It's not limited or unique to operating systems or applications, or client or server software. It's not limited or unique to commercial software or open source.
The only us versus them distinction I want to make around security is to put responsible software developers, security researchers, and customers together as "us" and malicious (whether it's intentionally or not) software developers, security researchers, and their customers together as "them."
Today, I see a tremendous amount of talent and intelligence applied to breaking or repurposing software. Some of that is positive and responsible. I've listened to and worked with security researchers I would describe as brilliant with no mitigating clauses. They are also responsible. They've worked with us to point out how we can build better software.
I don't know what to say or do about "them." I think some of what we can do is help legislators and law enforcement understand what's at stake in a constructive way. I want to know what else you think we can do about the malicious behavior we find on the Internet.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown announced Sunday that he has signed a bill that makes California the first in the nation to define when "yes means yes" and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports.
State lawmakers last month approved Senate Bill 967 by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, as states and universities across the U.S. are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations. Campus sexual assault victims and women's advocacy groups delivered petitions to Brown's office on Sept. 16 urging him to sign the bill.
De Leon has said the legislation will begin a paradigm shift in how college campuses in California prevent and investigate sexual assaults. Rather than using the refrain "no means no," the definition of consent under the bill requires "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity."
"Every student deserves a learning environment that is safe and healthy," De Leon said in a statement Sunday night. "The State of California will not allow schools to sweep rape cases under the rug. We've shifted the conversation regarding sexual assault to one of prevention, justice, and healing."
The legislation says silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent. Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep cannot grant consent.
Lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal, and universities with similar policies have outlined examples as a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.
Advocates for victims of sexual assault supported the change as one that will provide consistency across campuses and challenge the notion that victims must have resisted assault to have valid complaints.
"This is amazing," said Savannah Badalich, a student at UCLA, where classes begin this week, and the founder of the group 7000 in Solidarity. "It's going to educate an entire new generation of students on what consent is and what consent is not ... that the absence of a no is not a yes."
The bill requires training for faculty reviewing complaints so that victims are not asked inappropriate questions when filing complaints. The bill also requires access to counseling, health care services and other resources.
When lawmakers were considering the bill, critics said it was overreaching and sends universities into murky legal waters. Some Republicans in the Assembly questioned whether statewide legislation is an appropriate venue to define sexual consent between two people.
There was no opposition from Republicans in the state Senate.
Gordon Finley, an adviser to the National Coalition for Men, wrote an editorial asking Brown not to sign the bill. He argued that "this campus rape crusade bill" presumes the guilt of the accused.
SB 967 applies to all California postsecondary schools, public and private, that receive state money for student financial aid. The California State University and University of California systems are backing the legislation after adopting similar consent standards this year.
UC President Janet Napolitano recently announced that the system will voluntarily establish an independent advocate to support sexual assault victims on every campus. An advocacy office also is a provision of the federal Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act proposed by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Susan Davis of San Diego, both Democrats.
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Read below to see who took home bonuses at UFC Singapore: Saffiedine vs. Lim
Mark Fischer, Managing Director of UFC Asia, presided over the UFC Singapore post-fight press conference and announced the night's $50,000 bonuses:
Russell Doane won for Submission of the Night, while his fellow Hawaiian Max Holloway earned Knockout of the Night. Main eventers Tarec Saffiedine and Hyun Gyu Lim scored Fight of the Night honors for their five-round barnburner, which Saffiedine won by decision
Holloway and Doane attended the press conference alongside Royston Wee, Singapore's first UFC fighter, and Japanese MMA legend Tatsuya Kawajiri, who both picked up wins in their UFC debuts. Lim arrived late, partially carried by his cornermen, while Saffiedine did not finish backstage medicals in time to attend.
Lim admitted that his corner considered throwing in the towel after the fourth round, as the repeated leg kicks left him unable to stand; but he felt that being in the main event was such a good opportunity that he could not quit. In fact, he went on to launch a last-minute flurry that nearly finished Saffiedine.
Doane announced that he plans to buy a dog with his bonus.
Click here to watch the post-fight press conference in its entirety.
UFC Performance Institute
Dana White On The Opening Of UFC PI Mexico


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Institutional Tunnels of Fun Junction set w/Four 4ft Tunnels
from Pacific Play Tents
The Institutional Tunnels of Fun Junction Set with Four 4 ft Tunnels by Pacific Play Tents is a great play area perfect for countless hours of creative fun. It is especially built to take the everyday use of schools, clubs and organizations but is also perfect for home use as well. This tunnel is is made with extra-tough materials that will withstand continued use. The junction is designed with a mesh center for easy viewing and ventilation for comfort and 4 connecting tunnels perfect for exploring. This set will help children develop essential motor skills and cooperative play. The Institutional Tunnels of Fun Junction Set can be set up quickly and easily and folds in only seconds for storage.
- Set includes junction and 4 tunnels
- Durable polyester Dacron 600 x 300 weave with 600mm PU coating.
- Flame retardant, meets CPAI-84 & ASTM F963 safety standards
- Easy to clean and moisture proof polyethylene floor
- Junction roof designed with mesh center for easy viewing and ventilation
- Sturdy spring steel construction
- Interior padding for safety and comfort
- Wipes clean with a damp cloth
- Nylon carry bag
- Tunnels fold flat
- Dimensions: Junction: 3' long X 22.5 in diameter; 4 Tunnels: 4 ft long, 24 in diameter


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