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MACABRE MASTERS: What's been around for eight decades and is known around the planet for not moving a muscle or budging an inch? It's the Pageant of the Masters, of course, Laguna Beach's summertime "real people pose inside well-known paintings" extravaganza. We're generally careful about trucking out the word "beloved," but the July- and August-nighttime pageant is firmly ensconced in beloved territory, judging by its always healthy word-of-mouth, robust ticket sales, and appearances in popular culture. (Hello, "Arrested Development.") But, as you may know, July and August comprise only a sixth of the year, meaning that hardcore Pageant buffs are left of out in the cold -- or left out of the (Irvine) Bowl, rather -- for a good chunk of time. There is an exception, though, it is seasonal, it is kid-sweet, it is a little macabre, and it only runs a few nights ahead of Halloween: It's Pageant of the Monsters.
ART WITH A SIDE OF EEK: Nope, the Pageant of the Monsters isn't staged like its lavish summertime cousin, but it does have an offbeat twist, as all good Halloween events should. You get to head backstage, which has been "transformed into a haunted house full of eerie vignettes and spooktacular surprises." That's pretty nifty. Fortune tellers, an alien autopsy, tunes, and "art activities" will round out your visit, a visit that is indeed a-ok for the tots. (So this isn't a grown-up, thrill-laden, scare-tastic haunted house, note.) Call it a gentler, artsier way to approach the hauntiest Halloween with smaller culture fans in tow. Your smaller culture fans should be 5 and over, note.
And the dreadful dates? Friday, Oct. 25 through Sunday, Oct. 27 and Halloween night itself. See you in Laguna Beach, Pageant-loving ghouls.


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The objective of the ECAP (Early College Acceptance Program) is to ease the transition from high school to college by guiding incoming freshmen through the matriculation process. The first step of this program is to aid students complete their online Glendale College application.
Once the students have applied to the college and have received their GCC ID number, they will be able to come to the campus as a group with other seniors in their school to complete the English assessment test.
Furthermore, the program allows students to participate in academic counseling and introduces them to services, staff members and programs on campus, which helps them, develop as well-rounded college students.
The program has helped numerous high schools in the Los Angeles, Hollywood, Sun Valley, Burbank and Glendale areas. Spring of 2015, the program aided over 550 students enroll and familiarize themselves with the college and the different programs that are offered.
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The Online Course Readiness Assessment is designed to help you see whether or not an online course is a good idea for you. The Assessment has three separate parts, covering Time Management, Technology, and Class Preferences. If you score less than 70 on any part of the Assessment, you should definitely spend some time learning more about what you will be doing when you take an online course in order to make sure that this is the right choice for you.
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Union Pacific Railroad Earns Nissan Motor Company's 2012 Logistics Carrier Conference Logistics Success Story Award
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Union Pacific Railroad earned Nissan Motor Company's 2012 Logistics Carrier Conference Logistics Success Story Award, which identifies carriers and providers that went above and beyond normal expectations in the past year.
Union Pacific was among 15 carriers and providers recognized during the conference. Union Pacific created an optimized shipping schedule at the Los Angeles port facility that outlined the best days to move Nissan's product, reducing overall transit time.
"Being recognized by Nissan is an honor," said Linda Brandl, Union Pacific vice president and general manager - Automotive. "Our focus on delivering value through customer service made this award possible. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with Nissan by providing safe and reliable service while developing innovative transportation solutions."
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP). One of America's most recognized companies, Union Pacific Railroad links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. From 2007-2012, Union Pacific invested $18 billion in its network and operations to support America's transportation infrastructure, including a record $3.7 billion in 2012. The railroad's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Coal, Industrial Products and Intermodal. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways. Union Pacific provides value to its roughly 10,000 customers by delivering products in a safe, reliable, fuel-efficient and environmentally responsible manner.
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Hiring SEO services for web marketing is a huge decision that needs to be made responsibly and sensibly, as hiring a service has its pros and cons. It can save your time and give a positive and credible boost to your site. However, if not supervised properly a SEO service can potentially damage not only your site but also your reputation in the market of professional businessmen. People who wish to improve and enhance their websites should be aware of the fact that improper web marketing can lead to disastrous consequences.
Internet is the biggest market on the block right now and broadcasting your company online can be a huge challenge. The fact that internet is home to millions of websites and companies makes it difficult for newer companies and website owners to rank high during searches via various search engines. Web marketing is the best way to be successful in the popularity online war between different websites. SEO services play a vital role in establishing the reputation and popularity of a website. It is important that you form a checklist before hiring a SEO service for your company's website. A few useful pointers are:
1. Your own requirements
Before going out into the market for hiring, it is essential that you be aware of the exact services that you require. This would help you in forming a strict outline of required work and cross-checking selected SEO services once you start the hiring process.
2. Budget
Form a proper budget for your web marketing. By doing so, you will be able to keep an easy track of the investment made in a service provider, the consequent ranking hike and the revenue generated because of that hike.
3. Hiring and Experience
The next step is hiring a SEO services provider. Make a list of providers that suit your requirements and budget. When you have a final list, review it for the provider with the highest experience in the field. By determining the time they have spent in the field you would be able to assess their professional services as well as how well they do in the business.
4. Background check
Running a background check is very important. Most providers give out a list of companies and sites they have worked for to potential customers. It is advisable that the prospective customer search and review the websites that the provider has serviced. Customers should not only rely on the feedback of those websites but also search for reviews on the actual SEO service provider to be absolutely sure of their credibility.
5. Spamming
Receiving emails in spam of search engine optimizing services should be as quickly ignored as they are received. These are usually con artists trying to pull of one or another of web marketing related scams.
6. Ranking
Anyone who claims to drag your ranking to a higher scale should have a higher ranking themselves. Always go for the SEO services company ranking high among the search engine results after making certain of its credibility.
7. Approach and Method
You should check the SEO consultant for the approach that they take and the methods that they use for web marketing. If the providers are not willing to disclose their technique then it is the red signal to cross that provider off your list and move on to the next one. You do not want a technique that would destroy the ranking of your company instead of upgrading it.


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What are bladder stones?
Bladder stones (uroliths or cystic calculi) are rock-like formations of minerals that develop in the urinary bladder. There may be a large, single stone or a collection of stones that range in size from sand-like grains to gravel. It is common for a mixture of both small and large stones to be present.
What other kinds of stones are there?
Gall stones form in the gall bladder and contain bile salts. Kidney stones are mineralized formations that develop in the kidney. Neither of these are directly related to bladder stones. Even though the kidneys and urinary bladder are both part of the urinary system, the development of kidney stones is not usually linked to the development of bladder stones. All stones form as a result of disease or inflammation in the affected structure.
What are the clinical signs of bladder stones?
The most common signs that a dog has bladder stones are hematuria (blood in the urine) and dysuria(straining to urinate). Hematuria occurs because the stones rub against the bladder wall, irritating and damaging the tissue and causing bleeding. Dysuria may result from inflammation and swelling of the bladder walls or the urethra, from muscle spasms, or due to a physical obstruction to urine flow caused by the presence of the stones. Veterinarians assume that the condition is painful, because people with bladder stones experience pain, and because many clients remark about how much better and more active their dog becomes following surgical removal of bladder stones.
"If the obstruction is not relieved, the bladder may rupture"
Large stones may act almost like a valve or stopcock, causing an intermittent or partial obstruction at the neck of the bladder, the point where the bladder attaches to the urethra. Small stones may flow with the urine into the urethra where they can become lodged and cause an obstruction. If an obstruction occurs, the bladder cannot be emptied fully; if the obstruction is complete, the dog will not be able to urinate at all. If the obstruction is not relieved, the bladder may rupture. A complete obstruction is potentially life threatening and requires immediate emergency treatment. A urinary obstruction will usually be recognized in a dog that is straining to urinate without producing any urine, or is only producing small squirts of urine.
How did my dog get bladder stones?
There are several theories of how bladder stones form. The most commonly accepted theory is called the Precipitation-Crystallization Theory. This theory states that one or more stone-forming crystalline compounds is present in elevated levels in the urine. This may be due to dietary factors or due to some previous disease in the bladder, especially a bacterial infection. Sometimes the condition may be due to a problem with the body's metabolism. When the amount of this compound exceeds a threshold level, the urine becomes saturated and cannot hold any more of the compound. The saturation level depends on the specific minerals that are present and the pH of the urine. The excess precipitates out of solution and forms tiny crystals. The sharp crystals irritate the bladder lining, causing a production of mucus. The crystals and mucus stick together, forming clusters that gradually enlarge and harden into stones. This is similar to the way "rock candy" is formed.
How quickly can bladder stones form?
Bladder stones can develop within a few weeks or they may take months to form. Speed of growth will usually depend on the quantity of crystalline material present and the degree of infection present. Although it may take months for a large stone to grow, some sizeable stones have been documented to form in as little as two weeks.
How are bladder stones diagnosed?
The symptoms of bladder stones are similar to those of an uncomplicated bladder infection or cystitis. Most dogs that have a bladder infection do not have bladder stones. Therefore, we do not conclude that a dog has bladder stones based only on these common clinical signs.
Some bladder stones can be palpated (felt with the fingers) through the abdominal wall. However, failure to palpate them does not rule them out. Some stones are too small to be felt in this manner, or the bladder may be too inflamed and painful to allow palpation.
"Most bladder stones are visible on radiographs (x-rays) or an ultrasonic bladder examination."
Most bladder stones are visible on radiographs (x-rays) or an ultrasonic bladder examination. Some bladder stones are radiolucent, or are not visible on radiographs because their mineral composition does not reflect x-ray beams. They can be detected by an ultrasound examination or with aradiographic contrast study, a special x-ray technique that uses dye or contrast material to outline the stones within the bladder. Therefore, one or more of these diagnostic imaging techniques should be performed on dogs that show signs of abdominal pain or have recurrent episodes of cystitis.
How are bladder stones treated?
In general, there are three main treatment options for bladder stones: 1) surgical removal; 2) non-surgical removal by urohydropropulsion, and 3) dietary dissolution. The specific treatment that is recommended for your dog will depend on the type of stone that is present. Your veterinarian will discuss the pros and cons of each treatment option with you in more detail, based on your dog's individual circumstances.
Option 1: Surgical removal of bladder stones. This is often the quickest way of treating bladder stones; however, it may not be the best option for patients that have other health concerns, or in whom general anesthesia could be risky. With this option, the stones are removed via a cystotomy, which means that the bladder is surgically exposed and opened so that the stones can be removed. This surgery is routinely performed by many veterinarians and dogs usually make a rapid post-operative recovery. If the stones have obstructed the urethra, so that the dog is unable to urinate, an emergency procedure must be performed IMMEDIATELY to save the dog's life.
Option 2: Non-surgical removal. If the bladder stones are very small it may be possible to pass a special catheter into the bladder and then flush the stones out, using a technique called urohydropropulsion. In some cases, this procedure may be performed with the dog under heavy sedation, although general anesthesia is often necessary. If your veterinarian has a cystoscope, small stones in the bladder can sometimes be removed with this instrument, thus avoiding the need to cut the abdomen and bladder open. Either of these procedures may be used to obtain a sample stone for analysis so that your veterinarian can determine if dietary dissolution is feasible.
Option 3: Dietary dissolution. In some cases, bladder stones can be dissolved by feeding the dog a special diet that is formulated to dissolve bladder stone(s). This diet will be tailored to the specific type of stone that is present. The advantage of this option is that it avoids surgery. It can be a very good choice for some dogs. However, it has three disadvantages:
- It is not successful for all types of stones. Stone analysis is necessary to determine if it is the type of stone that can be successfully dissolved. This may not be possible in all cases. Sometimes, your veterinarian will make an educated guess on the type of stone, based on the radiographic appearance and the results of a urinalysis.
- It is slow. It may take several weeks or a few months to dissolve a large stone so the dog may continue to have hematuria, dysuria, and recurrent infections during that time. The risk of urethral obstruction remains high during this period.
- Not all dogs will eat the special diet. These diets will not work unless they are fed exclusively. This means that NO TREATS or supplements can be given to your dog while it is on the special diet.
Are there any other treatment options?
In some selected referral centers, a fourth option may be available to treat bladder stones. This option is ultrasonic dissolution, a technique in which high frequency ultrasound waves are used to disrupt or break the stones into tiny particles that can then be flushed out of the bladder. It has the advantage of immediate removal of the offending stones without the need for surgery. Your veterinarian will discuss this treatment option with you if it is available in your area.
Can bladder stones be prevented?
Prevention is possible in some cases, depending on the chemical composition of the stones. There are at least four types of bladder stones common in dogs (see our handouts on struvite, urate, cystine and calcium oxalate bladder stones for more specific and detailed information).
"bladder stones should be analyzed for their chemical composition"
Whenever possible, bladder stones (either those that are removed surgically or those small ones that have been passed in the urine), should be analyzed for their chemical composition. This will permit your veterinarian to determine if a special diet will be helpful in preventing recurrence. If the stones formed because of a bacterial infection, it is recommended that periodic urinalyses and urine cultures be performed to detect sub-clinical recurrences and determine if antibiotics should be prescribed. Periodic bladder x-rays or ultrasounds may be helpful in some cases to determine if bladder stones are recurring.
Early recognition may allow your veterinarian to adjust your dog's diet or medications before your pet requires surgery.


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This is the announcement post for 21-Day Positivity Challenge (21DPC) for Mar 2012. View all posts made during the challenge: 21DPC Overview.
Update (Feb 28, 10pm GMT +8): Instructions are now up! Read on in this post for full details of the challenge and what to expect.
By the way, it's been less than 2 days since the challenge announcement was posted, and we have over 200 official participants now!! Thanks to everyone for helping share 21DPC with your social networks! If you have not sign up, read the post and do so now!
Are you a positive person? Do you like being positive? What do you think about the idea of having even more positivity into your life?
If so, then this challenge is for you! Come the month of March, we're going to be engulfing ourselves with oceans of love, warmth, and positivity!! :heart:
Introducing: 21-Day Positivity Challenge (21DPC)!
Starting March 1st, this Thursday, I will be kicking off 21-Day Positivity Challenge (21DPC), where we work on being a more positive person for 21 days!
Why 21 days? Because 21 days is the optimal period to cultivate new habits (Read: 21 Days To Cultivate Life Transforming Habits and 21 Day Lifestyle Revamp Program). Those who took part in the past 21-day challenges would know that. We recently had the 21-Day Fitness Challenge which I actively participated in, and I've been exercising on a near-daily basis ever since. When you take part in the challenges at PE, and you commit to it, your life changes, literally. I'm living proof of that.
21DPC is meant as the platform for you to cultivate positivity on a daily basis, so being positive becomes second-nature after the challenge is over. Even if you're already a positive person, there is always room for more positivity. After all, abundance has no limits. 😀
What's Going To Happen?
- Starting March 1st (which is this Thursday), we are going to celebrate positivity for 21 days straight. :heart:
- Your task for each day comprises of 3 segments:
- Positivity Question.
- I will pose a question or a series of questions for you to reflect over. Please answer all questions, and not just the first or second question.
- The question may be simple, like asking "What is your favorite movie?" to something deeper, like "What is 1 positive thing you can share about your least favorite person?"
- The idea is to cultivate positivity in your life, via working on the root of it all – our thoughts. Asking ourselves the right questions will help us think in the right manner. And from there, the right actions, habits, and behavior will follow suit.
- Positivity Task.
- Most of the days will have a positivity task assigned. This task is linked to the day's question, and usually comprises of a simple action that can be done on the day itself. Do complete the task as part of your 21DPC participation.
- Positive Thing For the Day.
- Last but not least, you are to identify and note down at least 1 good thing that you got out of the day, for every day of the challenge. If you can identify more than 1, that's even better! The more the better! 😀
- Positivity Question.
- Once you are done, share your answers in the comments section of the day's post.
- Feel free to do the first part of the task in the beginning of the day, post your comment, then return in the later half of the day to post a follow-up reply (click "reply" to your comment, not via posting a new reply, so others can follow your progress easily).
- The challenge will end after 21 days, which is 21 March. I will post a round-up and feedback post on 22 March. All comments will be closed on 25 March.
How to Sign Up
As with the challenges at PE, 21DPC is 100% FREE! 😉 All you need to do is complete all 3 steps below:
- Spread the word about the challenge on your Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, your blog, and/or Email (whichever way you want). Convenient share buttons can be found below this post!*
- Sign up for the newsletter and RSS feed so you get all challenge updates, as well as new articles at Personal Excellence.
- Post a comment in the comments section and confirm that you've completed steps #1 and #2.
Once you do the all 3 steps above, I'll update the participants list with your name within 36 hours!
Tips to Rock 21DPC!
Firstly, bookmark Personal Excellence Challenges page. You're going to check by this site very regularly from now on, at least for the month of March when 21DPC is underway.
Next, schedule a daily recurring item in your calendar now (spanning from 1st March, to 22 March) to check by PE Challenges for the daily 21DPC post and to participate in the discussion. I often get comments from past challenge participants about how they totally forgot they had signed up for the challenge just 1-2 days after they had signed up, which is frankly very unfortunate.
If you schedule this into your calendar (one you check every day, not one which you never look at), you will not have to rely on memory – which can be very unreliable. To quote Woody Allen, "80 percent of success is just showing up". If you don't even show up here at the site, how can you benefit from what 21DPC has to offer?
Thirdly, do, share, participate. Do the daily tasks. Share your results. Participate in the discussion. The more you do these 3 actions, the more you gain from the challenge. The more you stick to passive reading, the less you get to benefit from it.
Last but not least, consider getting a positivity journal for this challenge, to write down your answers, reflections, and journey in the 21 days of the challenge. It can be any unused book lying in your house. It can be a new notebook you just bought from the bookstore. It can be a digital Microsoft Word / Libre Office document. Whatever works for you. My preference is towards a digital one, because (a) it's environmentally friendly (b) you can easily copy/paste your answers in the daily 21DPC posts, instead of typing what you have written.
Stay Connected!
This is not compulsory, but staying connected with the community will enhance your experience of the challenge. Many readers are on my social media pages, where I post latest updates on my life, including real time updates about challenges and more.
- If you have Facebook: Join my Facebook page (over 5,000 readers to date!!)
- If you have Twitter: Follow me on Twitter @celestinechua. Use #21DPC in your tweets so other participants who look up the hashtag can see your tweets too.
- Site comments: This is where all discussion on the challenge will take place. Bookmark Personal Excellence and check by daily posts. Read participants' responses, post your responses, and join in the discussion!
Spread the Word!
The best way to make this challenge a real success is to get as many people on board as possible. Those of you who have been in previous challenges would have experienced this – When we have more people doing the tasks with us, we generate more positive energy, we gain momentum, and all of us benefit together. We get more people sharing their results, their insights, and we learn so much more in the process.
Hence, I need your help to share this to as many people as you can. Share it on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Email, etc (all share buttons can be found at the end of the article, if you're reading this at the blog and not your email reader). Get all your friends, family and acquaintances to join. The more people who sign up, the more powerful this experience is going to be!
Get Ready for Positivity on March 1st!
Get ready, for we're going to rock the month of March with endless bouts of positivity! 😀 Stay tuned for the first question this Thursday on March 1st.
In the meantime, share 21DPC with all your friends and family and get them all onboard! The more people we have, the more positive energy we generate! 😀
Update Mar 1: Day 1's task is up. Start right here! Read: 21DPC Day 1 – On a Scale of 1-10, How Happy Are You? And Why?
Update March 21: The challenge is now officially over, but you are more than welcome to do it in your personal space. Check out all posts made during the challenge: 21DPC Overview.


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Each class is entrusted to one teacher who is freely accessible to all the students from the class for general guidance and for directing them to the specific Cell or programme relevant to him/her. In addition, the College provides an individual teacher guardian to each student. The students and parents will approach the teacher guardian regularly. This interaction helps the overall growth and development of students. The college faculty attempts to diagnose different types of learners viz; (1) Dependent learners who need direction, expertise and authority from the teacher. (2) Collaborative learners who interact with the teachers, collaborate and create a good learning environment and (3) Independent learners who need facilitation, expertise and delegation from the part of the teachers. The remedial and enrichment classes are also arranged based on these types of learners.
• Submission of Cell Plans: The Cell Coordinators, at the beginning of the academic year, submit a plan of the activities to be conducted by their respective cells. Accordingly a calendar of events for each month is prepared.
• Submission of Teaching Plans and Completion Report : The lecturers submit lecture plans year-wise and/or semester-wise giving due consideration to the syllabi, length of the chapters and number of teaching days available. At the end of the semester, a completion report is submitted.
• Morning Reflection: To invoke the blessings of the Almighty, each daybegins with a morning reflection/prayer over the public address system. The prayers are conducted by, both, faculty as well as students.
• Computer-Aided Education: All computers in the College are on LAN which makes it easier to transfer as well as access information. The students and staff are provided with free internet facilities to enhance knowledge in their respective subjects. The Centre for Research and Computer- Assisted Library also aids the teachers in their research and teaching activities.
• Modern Teaching Aids: The faculty makes use of OHP's, LCD Projectors, films, etc. to make the learning process more interesting, vibrant and meaningful.
• Assessment of Teachers/Administrative Staff/Facilities by Students: In a prescribed form the students express their opinion of the faculty, office staff, library and other infrastructural facilities.


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May 6, 2013 Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force effort to curb sexual assault in the military was arrested over the weekend for allegedly grabbing a woman by the breasts and buttocks in a parking lot not far from the Pentagon, officials said on Monday.
Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, was arrested on Sunday and charged with sexual battery after the alleged incident in the Crystal City area of suburban Arlington, Virginia, officials said.
An Arlington County Police spokesman said the woman fended off Krusinski, who was under the influence of alcohol, and when he attempted to grab her a second time she was able to call the police, who arrived a short time later and detained him.
Krusinski initially was held on a $5,000 unsecured bond. He has since posted bond and been released from the Arlington County Detention Facility, said the spokesman, who confirmed Krusinski's name and arrest but did not have his rank or title with the Air Force.
The Air Force said that Krusinski, whom it identified as a lieutenant colonel, had been removed from his job as chief of the service's sexual assault prevention and response branch after his arrest. The branch is responsible for overseeing the Air Force's sexual assault prevention effort.
News of the arrest came as the Pentagon is preparing to release its annual report on the problem of sexual assault in the military.
A total of 3,192 cases were reported in the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2011, a 1 percent increase in reporting from the previous fiscal year, according to last year's report.
Pentagon officials have said the actual number of sexual assaults, including those that go unreported, is much higher, possibly as many as 19,000 a year.
The Air Force has faced a series of embarrassing sexual assault scandals over the past year. An investigation at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, that began in 2011 has so far turned up 59 cases of sexual assault of military recruits by drill instructors.
General Mark Welsh, the top Air Force officer, called the scope of the case "stunning" during a congressional hearing earlier this year.
In another case, the top general in charge of an Air Force court martial at Aviano Air Base in Italy overturned the sexual assault conviction of a lieutenant colonel, threw out his one-year prison sentence and reinstated him to duty.
That case has prompted U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to recommend that Congress alter the military justice system to limit the ability of a military commander to throw out court-martial verdicts.


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When Ecuadorian flower farmer Esteban Chiriboga made the decision in 1997 to adopt environmentally friendly practices, there was no playbook to tell him what to do. If he stopped using fungicides, what would prevent unsightly mold from forming on the petals? Without insecticides, how would he keep aphids from swarming in the hoophouse? And if he had to give up chemical fertilizers, could he guarantee that his roses would be ready to ship by Valentine's Day? Answers to these questions were hard to find. At the time, the USDA's National Organic Program was still under development. Chiriboga thought his roses might need a minimal dose of chemicals to pass agricultural inspections in the United States and Europe, but he wasn't sure. Just one bug or one spot of disease could get his entire shipment rejected. And when a grower makes just a few cents of profit per rose, there's not much room for risk.
But Chiriboga was determined. "My decision was to work toward a sustainable production system, both environmentally as well as socially," he says. Chiriboga established a 37-acre farm just south of Ecuador's capital, Quito, called Ecoroses SA. Within nine months of planting, he was harvesting his first crop of roses. Chiriboga also tried to do right by his workers by offering them free meals and transportation, extra medical care, and donating computers to their children's schools. But it would be five years before he received any kind of environmental certification for his practices — and he's still waiting for the market to reward him for having a conscience.
A hundred years ago, most flowers were grown within a few miles of the flower shop where they would be sold. During the 20th century, flower farming moved west as growers realized they could ship their products by refrigerated truck and rail car. Denver was known for its carnation farms, and California dominated the rose market. But in the 1960s, flower farming began to move to Latin American countries like Colombia and Ecuador. The region offered several competitive advantages that American growers couldn't beat: low wages, cheap land, less regulatory scrutiny, and a perfect year-round climate for growing staples like roses, carnations, and chrysanthemums. Ten years ago, when Chiriboga founded Ecoroses, Americans were importing 60 percent of their flowers. That figure has since risen to 78 percent.
With the rise in imports came heightened attention and criticism from journalists and advocacy groups. Unlike produce, flowers are not tested for illegal-pesticide residues when they come into the country. The logic behind this decision — people don't eat flowers, so who cares how they're grown? — didn't satisfy groups like the International Labor Rights Forum. In 2003, they launched the Fairness in Flowers campaign to bring attention to a host of problems on flower farms: pesticide exposure, sexual harassment, child labor, and the inability of workers to organize. "There have been tangible results in other sectors, with other green or Fair Trade products like coffee and chocolate," the project director, Nora Ferm, says. "We can hope for similar positive impacts [for flowers]."
From the beginning, however, the goal has not been to shut the flower farms down. Rather, activists have sought means by which farmers could improve their practices. One strategy is to create a certification program that audits environmental and labor standards. "Workers are often found in rural areas where there are few employment alternatives," says Ferm. Instead of calling for boycotts, the goal is to use market pressure to encourage "safe, stable, and fair working conditions."
A similar discussion had been taking place in Europe since the mid-1990s in response to conditions on flower farms in Africa. As a result, several European countries developed their own eco-label programs for flowers. Those independent efforts produced a patchwork terrain of eco-labeling programs, some with stricter standards than others. Germany's Flower Label Program (FLP) is one of the best. That's how, in 2003, Chiriboga's farm came to be certified, even though only 10 percent of his roses are sold to Western Europe.
The dilemma that Chiriboga and growers like him face is that they are sincere about their desire to transition to more sustainable practices —some of them live on their farms and watch their grandchildren play in the greenhouses — but they're not sure how to get the message out to consumers in the faraway countries that import their products. If a farmer ships flowers to several different countries, participating in the eco-label programs of each can mean complying with different standards, paying multiple fees, and participating in several independent audits every year.
Germany's FLP might have been the best of several less-than-ideal choices for Ecoroses, but Chiriboga was still glad to get the label. It turns out the Germans are surprisingly environmentally aware and enthusiastic consumers of flowers. The FLP program helped Chiriboga bring his farm up to speed by requiring health care for workers, reforestation efforts, and other improvements. "I have to admit," he says, the certification process "forced us to be better organized."
Today a farm in Latin America might participate in Germany's FLP, along with Florverde, a green label founded by Asocolflores, the Colombian flower growers association, or its Ecuadorian counterpart, FlorEcuador. It might also be certified through Switzerland's Max Havelaar program, a Dutch program called MPS, or the international Fair Trade label, among others. Each program has different specifications, from requiring minimal compliance with local laws to forbidding the use of any pesticides deemed hazardous by the World Health Organization to requiring farms adhere to an international code of conduct for their workers.
"One big step," Chiriboga says, "would be to try to standardize the certifications into one or two that can be well promoted to consumers." He added that coming up with a single worldwide certification would save him money, too. "My flowers do cost more to produce," he says, "and we do not get a higher price for that. We hope at some point in the future that we will." In 2006, Ecoroses received certification from VeriFlora, the first eco-flower label in the United States. The label is managed by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), which certifies a number of products, including lumber through the Forest Stewardship Council and fish through the Marine Stewardship Council. VeriFlora's standards include a quality component to ensure the flowers won't wilt after a couple of days in the vase. They also submitted their standard to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). With ANSI approval, VeriFlora's definition of sustainable flower production may become the gold standard in the US and possibly around the world. So far, SCS has certified more than 40 farms internationally, representing more than 750 million stems per year.
VeriFlora is also set apart from other eco labels because it requires growers to either be organic, or to develop a plan to transition to organic production. But Alexander Winslow, SCS's communications director, doesn't think organic is enough. "Why be satisfied with organic?" he says. "The reality is that organic only goes so far. It doesn't address energy efficiency. It doesn't address worker health or community benefits. We are absolutely convinced that sustainability is a stronger vehicle for achieving environmental and social good. The ultimate goal is to move toward organic farming practices, but that only goes so far in addressing the environmental impact of the product from a life cycle perspective."
VeriFlora is also making an effort to certify farms of all sizes throughout North America. That goal is particularly important to Tom Leckman, president and CEO of Canada's largest floral distributor, Sierra Flower Trading. "We wanted to have a label that involved the local growers," he says. "We felt there was a little too much finger-pointing at Latin America. It's not just the Colombians who sometimes have an issue with labor laws." Now, about 30 percent of the flowers Sierra sells are certified through VeriFlora. But before VeriFlora came on the scene, Sierra also had to wade through an alphabet soup of floral certifications. The company initially only bought flowers certified through Germany's FLP or Colombia's Florverde. "There are too many labels," Leckman says. "We can't go to the consumer and keep introducing a new name every two or three years. So we created our Sierra Eco seal, and no matter where [our flowers] come from, that's how we market them."
As the flower industry continues to grapple with what a sustainable future might look like, florists and grocery stores are wondering how their customers will respond. VeriFlora-certified bouquets have started showing up at supermarket chains, where about half of cut flowers are purchased. Karen Christensen, global produce coordinator for Whole Foods Market, reports that the company buys VeriFlora-certified tulips and lilies from Sun Valley Floral Farms, a large California grower, and organic roses from a farm in Ecuador. "Right now we're buying pretty much everything [the Ecuadorian farm] can produce," she says. Christensen reports that Whole Foods is also partnering with TransFair USA to sell Fair Trade–certified flowers under the Whole Trade Guarantee program. But she's not sure yet what consumers will prefer. "It's going to be an incremental process to turn this industry green," she says.
Some individual florists have made a conscious decision to go green. Christine Saunders, owner of the Spiraled Stem Floral Design in Southern California, offers a full sustainability package for her eco-conscious wedding and event clients that includes not just the flowers but also non-petroleum candles, a container rebate program, recycling, and reduction of waste.
Saunders says there is a growing interest in green weddings and events, particularly within Los Angeles' celebrity community, but that her colleagues are still figuring it out. "I know a florist who just does flowers for celebrities' homes," she says. "He told me that they are all asking him to go green. He didn't know how. He thought it would mean that he would have to stop using flowers and only use potted plants," Saunders says. "I gave him all my sources and even walked him around the wholesale market and pointed out the eco labels. Those flowers are out there, but a lot of people just don't know where to start."
This article originally appeared in Plenty in February 2008.


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@Body copy rag:Channel 2 morning anchor Jodi Johnston will be signing off television to accept an executive position with First Niagara Financial Group, it was announced Friday.
Johnston, who is 38 and the mother of an 8-year-old son, cited family concerns as a factor in her decision.
"My alarm won't be going off at 3 a.m. anymore," Johnston said. "I've been doing this schedule for a little more than 12 years, and from time to time I thought a lot about my career as my son gets older, trying to find that life/work balance. This will allow me some more normalcy. It will allow me to be there in the evening for some important activities he is doing."
In addition to co-anchoring "Daybreak" weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m., Johnston also anchored the 5 p.m. newscast. She will remain on the air at WGRZ-TV through the ratings period in November. In December, she will start at First Niagara as its director of corporate media relations and first vice president.
"I am thrilled to have someone of Jodi's caliber join our talented team," said David Lanzillo, senior vice president, corporate communications. "She brings a strong journalism background as well as energy, intelligence and creativity to a position that is vital to First Niagara's success."
Johnston started at Channel 2 in May 2000. She made her on-air debut the next month as "Daybreak" anchor, temporarily replacing Maryalice Demler, who was filling in for evening anchor Victoria Hong. During 12 years at the station, "Daybreak" rose in the ratings to become the top morning program in the Buffalo-Niagara market, according to station reports.
"Twelve years is a long time to wake up at 3 a.m., and to be on the air delivering the news as professionally and gracefully as Jodi has," said Jeff Woodard, WGRZ news director. "Her ability to connect with viewers, her genuine presence and demeanor, and her commitment to her community will be dearly missed."
Johnston worked briefly at WIVB-TV Channel 4 as an associate producer and news update anchor, a job in which she worked the overnight shift. She also worked for a time at Adelphia Cable. Since 1999, Johnston served as an adjunct instructor in the communication studies department at Canisius College.
Johnston gave up a modeling job at IMG in New York to attend Canisius College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies and master's degree in education. She was the subject of a Buffalo News profile in October 2008, written by Charity Vogel.
Johnston lives in Hamburg with her husband, Tom Quatroche, and their son, Max.
"My life has changed a lot in the last few years," Johnston said. "I have a son who is growing older, and I have wonderful roots in Western New York that I have established over the years. I'm from Buffalo. I love Buffalo. I've made the decision that I will raise my family here."
This year, according to Johnston, has been a "big year" for her son, who is in the third grade.
"He's much busier at night," she said. "When he was a baby, I would put him to bed, and then I'd go to bed. Now he's doing more sports. He's at that age."
Channel 2, meanwhile, will launch a search process to find a new co-anchor to join John Beard and Andy Parker on "Daybreak," according to Woodard.
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Personally, Im not one to talk negatively about a product, If I think somethings bad I simply won't give it the coverage on my blog rather than trash an item completely. Then again I do think there are those times when a product disappoints you so much you just have to say something about it because it was just that bad. So hey! Here goes… the Rimmel Waterproof Gel eyeliner is possibly the worst gel liner I've ever used.
Its greasy, slick and takes what feels like forever to dry down. To me a good gel eyeliner should be a true black, good staying power, pigmented and quick drying with either a shiney or a matte finish. At first the application was so patchy I didnt actually think I'd be able to get a constant line along my upper lashes. I ended up having to dot it on rather than a swipe. Once applied the Rimmel Gel liner felt tacky so I left it for a few seconds to dry down before opening my eye. As soon as I opened my eye it transferred onto my lid and it looked terrible and ruined my eye makeup. To test it I decided to wait to see how long it would take to actually dry and I was looking at 10+ minutes and it was still a touch too wet. It came straight off and I used a different liner while the product headed straight for the bin. Considering I do my makeup in about 10 minutes normally waiting that long for my liner was a complete no-no.
The thing is the gel liner itself looks like it would be lovely pigmented black colour, In the pot and swatched it looks like it will be a shiny true black with a slightly shiny finish. But this isn't how it is, There is something about the formula that just isn't right. The product feels like a gel, where as I think most "gel liners" have a more creamy constancy than a gel one. Paired with the brush that is concealed in the lid of the product, I feel like it just sticks to the end of the brush rather than actually apply to the skin. I had a inkling the brush is applying way too much product hence why it's taking forever to dry, but then I tried using a normal liner brush (Sigma E05) but it still didn't apply as I expected it to. The brush that comes with the product is really stiff and pointy, and I also thing little to short to actually use comfortably. I personally think if Rimmel want to include a brush with their gel liner that it should apply the product well.
Overall I just think its a naff product and to be honest if I'd bought this product I'd have been highly disappointed. I can't believe they actually released something like this as its by far the worst drugstore eyeliner I've ever tried. I have no idea if it is actually waterproof as I couldn't even wear it long enough to test it out! As far as drugstore gel eyeliners I'd highly reccomend the Fashionista Gel Eyeliner which is actually one of my favourite liners I've ever tried.
I don't normally leave open ended questions on my blog posts but has anyone actually tried this? I'd love to know other peoples thoughts on it!


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It's official!
Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas have tied the knot!
The two Once Upon a Time costars were married today at sunset in an intimate ceremony in front of about 30 close friends and family in the Los Angeles area.
An eyewitness tells E! News exclusively that guests arrived in formal attire between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. on Saturday.
By 7 p.m., everyone enjoyed a cocktail reception with a Spanish guitar player in a courtyard with cactuses and stone pathways.
"Ginnifer and Josh seemed very relaxed and happy," our source says. "They were surrounded by their nearest and dearest friends and kept it very intimate and simple."
The bride wore a custom-designed Monique Lhuillier gown.


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First-person shooter, set on the oceanliner SS Hyperion, a luxury ship from the 'Belle Epoque' of ocean cruising that was mysteriously lost above the arctic circle, during her maiden voyage, some twenty years ago. Since then the ill-fated vessel has passed into maritime legend. Speculation as to the cause and precise whereabouts of her demise was rife. No trace was ever found... until now! Dan McCormick, a worker being shipped to an offshore oilrig, fights for his life in the rolling blackness of the ocean. Washed overboard as his vessel is sunk on a storm-racked night, he had all but given up hope when a dark, looming shape emerges from the mist. Climbing onboard the sinister hulk, McCormick finds the great liner deserted. Why were there not survivors amongst the crew and passenger compliment? What hidden menace lies onboard, brooding in the perpetual darkness of the North Sea?
This project was cancelled when the development team closed down in March of 2005.
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Berbers and the Nation-State in North Africa
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Throughout history, North Africa's native Berber-speaking populations have been central to the mix of political, social, cultural, and linguistic attributes that rendered the region distinct. At the dawn of the 20th century, Berbers still constituted a substantial majority of sharifian Morocco's population, and a significant minority of French Algeria's Muslim populace; their numbers were smaller in Ottoman Libya and smaller still in France's Tunisian protectorate.
Nationalism began to spread in North Africa during the first decades of the 20th century. Each nationalist movement was shaped by a particular combination of factors; all of them, however, foregrounded the Arab and Islamic components of their collective identities, downplaying or ignoring the Berber ones.
Berbers actively participated in the struggles for independence in both Algeria and Morocco, often in leadership roles. This pattern would continue during the decades after independence, even as both the Algerian and Moroccan states placed supreme value on the Arabization of the educational system, and of public life in general. The state's overall view of Berber identity was that it should be consigned to the realm of folklore.
However, even as the number of Berber speakers continued to decline, there arose a modern Berber (Amazigh) identity movement that demanded a reexamination of the underlying premises of their countries' collective identities, one that would bring the Berber language and culture to center stage. It also demanded genuine amelioration of the dire conditions of poverty that characterized much of the rural Berber world. As ruling regimes struggled to maintain their legitimacy after a half century of independence, the Berber "question" now took on a new salience in North Africa's increasingly contested political space.
Historiography in the Maghrib in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Sahar Bazzaz
The Maghrebi tradition of historical literary production extends back to the early centuries of Islamic expansion and conquest in North Africa and comprises a rich corpus including dynastic chronicles (tarikh), biographies (tarajim), and hagiographies (manaqib/rijjal), and, since the 20th century, positivist national histories as well. While this tradition had evolved since its inception, 19th- and 20th-century Maghrebi historical production both influenced and was influenced by the extension of European military, economic, and political power into the Maghreb. Grappling with the legacies of colonialism, nationalism, and pan-Arabism, among others, Maghrebi historians continue to sow the rich terrain of historical literary production in the postcolonial period by absorbing, reacting to, and building upon new trends in the historical profession.
Interactions between North Africa and Spain: Medieval and Early Modern
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
Arabic-speaking Muslim polities existed in medieval Spain and Portugal where they were superseded by Christian empires that gradually disavowed cultural connections to this past. Hebrew and Arabic were largely expurgated from homes and libraries. Jews and Muslims who refused to convert were expelled. And while an incipient study of that past existed, echoed even in popular literary forms, the need to disavow kinship prevailed, at least publicly and officially. The Maghrib, for its part, separated by a mere fourteen kilometers of sea from the southern tip of Spain, experienced Portuguese and Spanish imperial expansion firsthand, receiving the bulk of the displaced and interacting with fortified settlements and encroachments along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Later European colonization of North Africa completed the galvanization of a Maghribi culture of resistance to and disavowal of European, Latin, and Christian cultural forms and connections. Spain and North Africa came to be conceived as separate worlds; domains of inimical faiths; divided by culture, language, religion, and a history of mutual hostility. This sense of separateness is deceptive, however, as the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa are bound by deep and extensive commercial, material, and cultural contacts. They share inextricable histories in which alternating movements of commerce, conflict, and migration have played fundamental roles in shaping recognizably Western Mediterranean societies. They should be thought of as areas of a unified region with a common culture, or at the very least, as areas sharing a common region, in which they interact regularly, creating extensive ties and parallel forms of cultural and social organization.
Ismaili and Fatimid North Africa
Christine D. Baker
The Fatimid dynasty ruled North Africa from 909 to 1171 CE. The Fatimids identified as Isma'ili Shi'is and they declared a Shi'i countercaliphate in Qayrawan to rival the Sunni 'Abbasids in Baghdad. Their dynasty rose to power from an underground missionary movement, but eventually conquered most of North Africa, the Levant, the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and Yemen. Their first capital was in Qayrawan, but they are best known for founding the city of Cairo as their imperial capital in 969. The Fatimids linked North African and Mediterranean trade with the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea, creating an era of unprecedented economic growth. Further, Fatimid sponsorship of Isma'ili Shi'i ritual and scholarship allowed for the development of several Isma'ili movements that have persisted into the modern era. The Fatimid era ended in the 12th century during the rise of Turkic dynasties and the influx of Crusader forces into the eastern Mediterranean region.
The Making of the Maghrib: 600–1060 CE
Allen Fromherz
The history of North Africa from the coming of Islam to the rise of the Almoravid Empire in the 11th century is a crucial period in the making of the Islamic Maghrib. From 600
Mass Media in North Africa: From Print to Digital
Emilio Spadola
The emergence, spread, and transformation of media technologies in North Africa has attracted much attention over the past decade. Yet the disruptive effects of technological mass media have been a defining feature of North African modernity from the mid-19th century to the present. Classically distinguished from pre-modern oral and scribal transmissions by "technological reproducibility," mass media offer capacities both for simultaneous collective address (i.e., broadcast), and for nearly limitless copying (i.e., reproduction) and re-transmission (i.e., sharing). As such, dramatic expansions in mass media, from print journals, or "the press," to electronic broadcast media of radio and television, small media of audio and video cassettes, and Internet-based and mobile digital media, have sustained modern North African political movements and mass publics, from anticolonial nationalism to postcolonial nation-state building and the 21st-century Arab Spring. Any understanding of contemporary mass media, including digital media, in North Africa must consider how these current media movements reprise and transform earlier forms of political consciousness, community, and protest grounded in a century of new media.
North Africa and France: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Women, 1830–1962
Julia Clancy-Smith
The workings of modern empire can better be viewed through the lens of gender because gendered hierarchies illuminate broad, intersecting aspects of the colonial project.
Community, kinship, household economies, religion, education, sexuality, social engineering, nationalism, and transnational reform movements were all inflected by imperial patriarchy in various guises. This perspective is especially rich for "French" North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco) from 1830 until 1962 since the region and its peoples were subjected to intense forms of "European" settler colonialism. From the start, the "woman question" assumed particularly fraught and contentious dimensions whose repercussions can be detected even today. Nevertheless, colonial North Africa did not represent a self-enclosed container. Transimperial and global processes shaped the sociopolitical terrain, and in turn. Policies, practices, and resistance in the Maghrib exerted a powerful torque far beyond its limits. Key to understanding women, gender, and settler colonialism is the state of the "archive," the sprawling corpus of records, writings, words, things, and images left in an empire's wake. The voices of women, children, and "ordinary" people, those labeled "the colonized," have until recently been missing in conventional narratives. As Antoinette Burton observed, the archives themselves structure "the conceptual frameworks of women's and gender history." In the imperial historical context, the task of recuperating and restoring lost voices is all the more problematic, yet urgent. One might also add that the fundamental question is "whether 'women' is a category at all."
Prisoners, Ransoms, and Slavery in the Maghrib
Russell Hopley
The topic of prisoners, ransoms, and slavery in the Maghrib (that is, the lands of the Islamic west—the area that today encompasses North Africa, and historically, also the regions of Iberia and Sicily that came under Muslim rule) is of considerable chronological and geographical scope extending from the earliest establishment of Islamic rule in the region during the second half of the 7th century, persisting to the final decades of the 20th century, and enslaving or otherwise taking prisoner peoples from areas as geographically diverse as West Africa, the southern coastal regions of Europe, and as far north as Ireland and Iceland. The practice of slavery and the taking of prisoners in the Maghrib are thus of substantial historical significance. Yet, it is only in comparatively recent times that this complex topic has drawn the attention of scholars. Therefore, our understanding of slavery and the taking of prisoners in the Maghrib, especially during the medieval period, remains in its incipience.
The Tangier American Legation Museum
Diana Wylie
The Tangier American Legation Museum reflects the evolution of Moroccan–American relations over two centuries. Morocco, the first country to recognize the independence of the United States (1777), became the site of the first overseas American diplomatic mission in 1821 when the sultan gave the US government title to the museum's current home—8 rue d'Amérique (zankat America)—in the old city of Tangier. The building went on to house the US consulate (1821–1905), legation (1905–1956), a State Department Foreign Service language school (1961–1970), and a Peace Corps training center (1970–1973), before becoming a museum dedicated to displaying art and artifacts about Morocco and Moroccan–American relations (1976). Despite the official story of the origin of the forty-one-room museum, its holdings and activities since the late 20th century derive more from unofficial American relationships with Morocco than from US government policy. The private actions of individual Americans and Moroccans, with some State Department support, led the museum to become in the late 20th century a research and cultural center serving academics and the broad public, including the people in its neighborhood (Beni Ider). In 1981 the US Department of the Interior put the Legation on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1982 it became the only site outside the United States designated as a National Historic Landmark due to its past diplomatic and military significance, as well as to the building's blend of Moroccan and Spanish architectural styles.
Women in Modern Egypt
Hoda Elsadda
Women in Egypt have always played key roles in society in different historical eras. In the modern period, women were at the forefront of the modernization project that gained momentum at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. "The woman question" occupied center stage in debates about the new modern nation in the making and against the background of colonial domination as Egypt became a British protectorate in 1882.
The period from the 1920s to the early 1950s is noted as a period that was particularly vibrant in the history of the women's movement and witnessed rapid developments in women's participation in the public sphere. Women founded magazines, established civil society organizations in all fields, joined the national movement for independence, and contributed to key ongoing debates on the modernization project.
In 1952, the Free Officers Revolution resulted in a radical shift in the political sphere: the end of British colonialism, the transformation of Egypt from a monarchy to a socialist republic, and the start of a new era. The new order promoted women's education and access to the labor market but restricted political rights and freedoms in general, a new reality that inevitably impacted the development of an independent women's movement.
In the 1970s, women's rights assumed center stage in international politics, a development that had an impact on women in general and Egyptian women in particular. Egyptian women entered the diplomatic corps and participated in drafting international conventions, in representing their country in international forums, and in joining international civil society campaigns for women's rights. They also established a new generation of civil society organizations that advocated for women's rights both locally and on the international stage.
The year 2011 marks an important moment in the history of Egypt. The wave of revolutions that swept the Arab world resulted in the opening of the political sphere in an unprecedented manner. Women's rights activists rose to the challenge, and more and more women were active participants in the movement for change. Women joined new political parties that were established in the aftermath of revolutions; they were active participants in numerous political and social initiatives and movements; and they played a prominent role in marches for political and social freedoms.
In sum, women in modern Egypt have played key roles in the making of modern Egypt. The story of their contributions and achievements is the story of a movement for change toward a better future.


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Indianomix – Heads or Tails?
This is an exclusive excerpt from Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya's book "Indianomix," to be published by Random House India on Dec. 6. This excerpt is adapted from the second section of Chapter 4, "Heads or Tails?"
Sure, India could be a dangerous place for women. Whether it's domestic violence, neglect of the girl child, sex-selective abortion, or the continuing prevalence of dowry, all of which are widely reported almost every day, life in India does seem tough for its women. But is it worse than in other countries we suspect might also be dangerous for women? Can you quantify such things?
In June 2011, newspapers carried the headline that India is, in fact, the 'fourth most dangerous' country in the world for women. It was just ahead of Somalia. Afghanistan was the worst, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan. What was this conclusion based on? Was it an analysis of the relevant statistics that were compiled into an index? No. It was based on a survey of 213 experts conducted by TrustLaw, a service providing information on women's rights that's run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The experts spanned the spectrum from academics, aid professionals, journalists, policymakers, and development specialists. They were asked for their opinion on what they thought the most dangerous places in the world were, with a series of separate follow-up questions on dimensions of women's safety such as health, access to economic resources, cultural or religious discrimination, sexual violence, and the risk of being subjected to human trafficking.
The final number was arrived at by adding together and weighing the responses of all of these experts. So, would it be correct to say that a survey found India to be the fourth most dangerous place in the world for women? No. A more accurate, though less spicy, way of putting it would be that among a survey of experts, India showed up in fourth place when these experts' opinions on how dangerous different countries are for women were added together. It doesn't necessarily mean that, in any statistically meaningful sense, India (or any other country) is actually fourth (or first, or tenth) most dangerous. A survey like this is only as valuable as the level of faith you put in experts and the methodology of adding opinions together into one composite number.
Psychological research tells us that human beings instinctively dislike uncertainty. We want definite answers to questions that are intrinsically difficult to tackle. We like easily digestible and understandable information, such as lists of the 'Top 10': whether it's billionaires or most dangerous countries. Information that helps us understand and analyse our difficult world is particularly sought after, especially if it's cloaked in the garb of expert truth. If you've watched toothpaste ads, you'll recall seeing the virtues of this or the other toothpaste brand being extolled by a serious-looking 'expert' (usually an actor, the fine print tells you) clad in a white lab coat. And don't forget the talking heads on TV, who are almost always well groomed and snazzily dressed, as if that had anything to do with the quality of their information or insight.
And if understanding the present weren't hard enough, we also want to know what's going to happen in the future, whether it's the outcome of an election, the performance of the stock market, or our own personal futures. Often, the real test of expertise is a prediction about the future. Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to look backward and form a judgement, but it's left up to the 'real' experts to be able to look forward into the future and make predictions about it, aspiring to an omniscience once reserved for the gods.
From astrology to tarot, human history is littered with our attempts at better predicting the future. More recently, these include more scientific (or at least apparently so) methods like polls and expert predictions. Philip Tetlock, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is most famous for a 20-year study in which he tracked the predictions of hundreds of experts in many different fields spanning the range from business to international relations and then compared the actual outcomes to the predictions. He published his results in a landmark 2005 book called Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It? How Can We Know. In the study, he found that the predictions of experts were no more accurate than if you'd just tossed a coin instead. In fact, sometimes tossing a coin would give you a better prediction than listening to an expert. As Tetlock colourfully puts it, even a monkey throwing darts at a dartboard would do better than most experts. You could probably do even better than the monkey, but that would be just by mechanically extrapolating a trend from today into the future. (The simplest form of extrapolation is what's known in mathematics as 'linear extrapolation'. Basically, if you have two points, you put a straight line through those points and make a prediction assuming that the next data point will also lie along that same straight line.)
There are innumerable examples of what Tetlock has in mind. Here's one from March 2012. A much publicized paper by economics professor Dan Johnson of Colorado College and Ayfer Ali created a complicated statistical model with many variables to predict how countries would do in the medal tally of the winter and summer Olympic Games. They have a very large data set spanning games from 1952 to the present. The authors find some interesting correlations between variables, such as the intuitive ideas that rich countries win more medals than poor countries and that countries with snowy winters do better in the winter games. Where they falter is when they claim that their statistical model can provide 'surprisingly accurate predictions' of medal tallies in future games. But as Roger Pielke Jr, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, showed, the interesting correlations that Johnson and Ali found didn't translate into good predictive power. In line with Tetlock's research, Pielke showed that the naïve assumption that a country would win as many medals next time as last time performs better than the complicated statistical model.
The news doesn't get any better. If statistical models perform poorly at making predictions, experts do even worse. Tetlock identifies two main types of experts, depending on their personalities, the first being 'hedgehogs', single-minded devotees to a particular big concept or idea, which they stick to through thick or thin. While performing worst of all, they also tend to be the experts with the highest media profile, whether it's conventional media such as newspapers and TV or social media such as Twitter and the blogosphere. Such people exude confidence, don't mince words, and boldly tell you what's going to happen. More often than not, they're wrong. The second type of expert, who does a little better than tossing a coin and that, too, way better than the hedgehogs, are what Tetlock calls the 'foxes'. Foxes are pragmatic and not ideological. They're willing to change their minds, or even discard a cherished theory, if the facts point in a different direction. Foxes are circumspect, cautious, and will make predictions only grudgingly, knowing well that the chances are high that they might be wrong. Not surprisingly these are the folks you don't see as the talking heads on TV. The wisdom of a fox doesn't translate into a good sound bite or a 140-character tweet like the certainty of a hedgehog does.
Despite Tetlock's well-publicized and much discussed research, which has been popularized and extended in Dan Gardner's book, Future Babble, surveys based on expert opinions of dubious value, to say nothing of ubiquitous expert commentary, are still trotted out and garner much media attention. A fiercely competitive media environment, as in India or the US, which places a heavy premium on sounding and looking confident while pontificating, accentuates this tilt towards hedgehogs. In the battle for public attention, the bold, if reckless, predictions of a confident hedgehog are an easier sell than the thoughtful fox who tells you that they don't really know what's going to happen. If the predictions match the ideological persuasion of the TV host or the intended audience, so much the better. Yogendra Yadav, the polling guru, believes this is one reason why the quality of political punditry in India hasn't improved although the quantity has exploded.
The advent of social media in India, especially Twitter, Facebook and blogs, has definitely democratized the channels of communication between those who want to get their views out and those who're looking to be informed and engage in a dialogue. In the old media, an expert commentator will usually have the right institutional connection, the right family background, or be well-networked—often all three.
In the social media, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can proclaim themselves an expert. Ironically, the welter of so many new voices competing for attention has, if anything, increased the premium on being a hedgehog and made the foxes even more invisible than before. If you have to be strong, decisive, and articulate in a two-minute sound bite on television, it's exponentially more important when you have to get your point across in 140 characters. The medium isn't given to nuances. At least in India, if you'd like to have your voice heard on Twitter, turning into a hedgehog is your best bet.
-Adapted from Indianomix by Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya, to be published by Random House India on Dec. 6, 2012. Copyright © by Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya. Printed by arrangement with Random House India.
Ms. Subramanya writes Economics Journal, a regular column for The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time. Mr. Dehejia is an economics professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I'll share one of those with you. They're always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: I have several kids/students who share the same computer. Kids being kids loving moving the icons around on the desktop. Sometimes they create the first letter of their name in icons. It's cute, but makes it difficult for the next student to find the shortcut they need. What's the best way to handle this?
A: I've tried everything. Refusing to allow them to play doesn't work and asking them to undo their play at the end of their time doesn't either. The best solution is to teach all students how to organize their desktop:
- Right click on the desktop
- Select 'arrange icons'
- If you're in Win &, pick 'sort by' and 'type
This can be part of their start-up maintenance when they sit down to begin their class. They've learned a new skill. They feel empowered to solve their own problems. Life is good.
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Iain Nickalls necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
eDynamix is a start-up that offers SAAS applications and services to, primarily, the automotive industry. We provide powerful applications that are very easy to use and extremely cost effective. The eDynamix site will be used as a gateway to our "Vehicle Portal" where our applications will reside and accessed based on login credentials.
The application in the eDynamix portfolio, and which are accessed in through the Vehicle Portal, include a vehicle Service Plan tool (PlanDynamix), a real time, online booking system which includes courtesy car management (AppointmentDynamix), Reporting suite (ReportDynamix), vehicle auctions (TradeDynamix) and New and Used vehicle tracking and sales (SalesDynamix).
The contest is to design the home page and product/service information page for eDynamix (http://www.eDynamix.co.uk), and also to improve upon or completely redesign the current logo.
Follow on work will be available for design extensions plus a number of other website redesigns, such as http://www.myvolkswagen.co.uk.
eDynamix is the enterprise brand of our company with the primary target audience being Managing, Financial and Sales Directors, together with Sales and After Sales Managers within small, medium and large automotive organisations. The target audience may evolve over time but our primary focus is on these groups.
First and foremost, be creative! The only design stipulations are that it is uncluttered, looks professional and doesn't include pictures of people.
We do require that the home page includes a login area for the Vehicle Portal, an area for "About Us", links to "Our Services" and "Contact Us" and somewhere we can display news stories (fed from Twitter) and customer testimonials… The rest is up to you.
The product information, or "Our Services" page, should be sectioned into the products mentioned in the Design Brief, with scope to add more in the future.
The current logo for eDynamix is attached but, as mentioned previously, this can be modified or replaced as necessary, together with the colours to fit in with the overall site design/look and feel.
There should also be stylised Facebook and Twitter icons (possibly the cartoon bird if it fits with the site design) which will link through to the eDynamix profiles within those applications.
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Love is in the Blog
Singles Awareness Day is a week from now and the Love Is In The Air event is starting up in the game. Are you guys finishing up the stupid candies achievement for your Purple Drake? Thank goodness I got that last candy on the last day! While the event is very cute, I got a lifetime's worth of it last year. I don't expect to be getting my hands dirty again any time soon.
Wait, wait, you say there's some new items this year? Among others, a Toxic Wasteling pet and a Heartbreaker? Ok, I suppose I'll head over to Scarlet Monastery Shadowfang Keep a few times.
But really, I'd rather do a different kind of Love Is In The Air achievements this year. I'd like to take the event to my blog. Love is in the Blog!
With me being Ms Hardened Singleton Extraordinaire, you'd think I'd hate Valentine's/Singles Awareness/Male Judgment Day, however you choose to call it. You'd think. But I don't. It's actually one of my favorite holidays. It's the one time of year where I have an excuse to be a sappy shmoock and drive my friends, my colleagues, my acquaintances, random strangers on the street crazy with displays of affection.
Since this is a WoW blog, I want to use the next week to spread a little WoW love. Or raise WoW singleton awareness. Or get in touch with my sentimental side. I haven't planned it all out yet, but I'm excited to announce that love will be in the blog.
EDIT: Just thought I'd mention, I'm totally not claiming copyrights on the idea (and as far as I know, it could have been done by people in the past). If anyone is at a loss for blog ideas this week and wants to join in on the theme, I'm all for it and will even link back to you.Explore posts in the same categories: Paperwork
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February 7, 2010 at 2:18 pm
As a fellow single person (and someone whose friend base consists mostly of people who are married or otherwise involved), I'm curious as to what you have planned. I look forward to seeing what you've got up your sleeve. 🙂
And if I'm not mistaken, isn't the holiday boss encounter for the Valentine's event in Shadowfang Keep?
February 7, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Valentine's = Male Judgment Day HAHAHA
Oh god, that's too true. But seriously, I'm the same way. I've been a bachelor for so long that I don't really envy couples on Valentine's. I don't have to buy chocolates/flowers/balloons/epics for anyone, don't have to go to no sappy movies or expensive restaurants…
Ah, the freedom of single life.
February 7, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Single and willing! …Er. To blog.
February 8, 2010 at 2:59 pm
"It's the one time of year where I have an excuse to be a sappy shmoock and drive my friends, my colleagues, my acquaintances, random strangers on the street crazy with displays of affection."
Totally random but perhaps somewhat related story…
I am notorious for being somewhat overaffectionate… to a very embarassing degree. I'm not one of those people that shies away from telling others she loves them. I love everyone by default!
So it's always awkward when I say goodbye to acquaintances, and spit out something like "Have a good day! I love you!" to which I always get strange looks. I'm sorry… it's just something I say all the time. People need to stop getting so weirded out by my overabundance of "I love you!"s!


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German car enthusiasts respond to teenage eco-fascistYou likely saw this special needs teenage girl being paraded about recently as a climate expert. Why some girl who should be in school is going around lecturing people in Europe and North America that they will cause mass extinction in a decade is anyone's guess but maybe she should take her message to Chinese or Indian factories.
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Bravo it takes a real man to take a stand against a teenage girl. It's disappointing and embarrassing that this is a Porsche owner... you would expect this from a ignorant Hellcat or even Corvette guy.
Congratulations to Boostaddict for re-posting such non-sense. You may delete my contact info from this sight, I won't be coming back. Classless.
I look at it this way, they could present a well reasoned argument from scientists OR you can have a young mentally abused and depressed kid come scream at people that the world is ending. I find the abuse of this children disheartening and it's not her fault. Let me be clear the world can be ending and there can be nothing to look forward too; you DO not scare and manipulate children with those facts to "make your case".
I'll also laugh at videos mocking her as she chose to make herself a public figure (well, and her parents). Why do you think they chose her? So people wouldn't criticize her. Duh. Just accept the narrative!
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1 pound glutinous rice,soaked overnight
This looks yummy! But the only bowls I have are plastic, and that doesn't seem safe for the steamer--should they be ceramic? Metallic?
Looks so good! This is one of my favourites.
I just want to dig in! Happy CNY!
i LURVE LURVE LURVE loh mai fan! looks so yummy!
This is yummy!! My all time fav!! Gong xi fa cai!
I like this! But I seldom have a chance to eat it cos (1) hard to find good store-bought ones (2) I never prepare them at home.
I love loh mai fan, your version looks good even though you don't have all the ingredients :)
thanks for dropping by:)
well you can use plastic bowl if you want but I afraid some low quality plastic bowl will melt or discolor while steaming at high heat.It's also not healthy to use plastic bowl for hot hot food..
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thank you for your kind words:)Happy New Year to you all too!!
hahaha!! you are funny!
Oh my, 10lbs of glutinous rice! But heh what a great recipe to make use of it. I love this and would make it once in a while for our weekend brunch.


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This WBID was founded 21 years ago, and remains the only BID in Southern Queens outside of Jamaica, which has three. Our thriving shopping strip with mom and pop stores and larger stores contribute to our vibrant Woodhaven Community.
This is the reason that every year the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation sponsors our Annual Spring Anniversary Dinner Dance. At these Dinner Dances we honor our great elected officials, storeowners, business owners and contributors to our community.
This year, the theme of our 35th dinner dance is "Spring is Here." It will take place on Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the beautiful Woodhaven Manor Caterers at 96-01 Jamaica Avenue.
Our 2014 Honorees are Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez as "Woman of the Year 2014" in recognition and sincere appreciation for her concerned efforts in supporting the Woodhaven Business Improvement District's small business and store owners.
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Now make sure we continue to fly our American Flags, especially for Memorial Day, above all others and also wear your lapel pins. You can secure free lapel pins from our office by calling (718) 805-0202. May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces and our disabled veterans, and may God bless our America.