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Three things are what are needed: Boards, glue and a package tape dispenser!
For each speaker we made the hardware shop cut two broad boards which then were processed with a buzz saw to have 30° angles. Another board that was resting on two supporting sawhorses was used as a table on which i placed the parts flushly next to each other in the right order. The remaining sawdust was removed with a moist tissue.
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ActionCare Pediatric Therapy offers fun and effective therapy for children in El Paso, TX, and its neighboring counties. This facility offers various services for treating children with special needs, such as speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social services, as well as counseling. The team of qualified and attentive therapists working at ActionCare Pediatric Therapy is passionate in facilitating the progress of each child so that they can have the opportunity to be the best they can be.
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Early Bird Pediatric Therapy is a speech therapy and occupational therapy clinic providing treatments for children ages 0 to 20 in communities in and around the El Paso, TX. The speech therapy services offered by this facility are designed to treat children with Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADD/ADHD, stuttering, cleft palate, and developmental delays, among others. Early Bird Pediatric Therapy takes pride in their quality services where families with disabled children are educated to enhance the full potential of their children.
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El Paso Pediatric Therapy Services, LLC is a physical therapy and occupational therapy facility serving El Paso TX, and its neighboring counties. This clinic offers specially designed therapy services for children aged 0-20 diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down's Syndrome, ADD/ADHD, cerebral palsy, developmental delays and disorders of voice and fluency, among others. The caring, compassionate and well-trained professionals at El Paso Pediatric Services, LLC take pride in their commitment to helping children with special needs grow and reach their full potential.
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Esperanza Children's Therapy is a speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy practice catering to the special needs of children in Anthony, TX and its surrounding counties. The qualified and well-trained professionals at Esperanza Children's Therapy render therapies with sensory-based activities to help their pediatric patients improve their motor development, learning, and behavior. This premier company partners with families so that children will be able to achieve their highest potential.
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New Beginnings is a full-service pediatric speech-language therapy practice serving the El Paso, TX area and its outlying counties. New Beginnings' team of professionals provide services to children from 0-20 years old, and they incorporate family-based intervention on a 24/7 schedule. New Beginnings professionals are available for at home, in office or daycare service, guaranteeing their clients receive the best treatment and care to ensure new beginnings and a bright future.
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Australia: second tanker due at GLNG this week
A second liquefied natural gas carrier is expected to dock at the GLNG jetty on Curtis island off Gladstone this week.
LNG tanker Cool Voyager, with a capacity of 160,000 cbm, is due to arrive at the Santos-operated US$18.5 billion LNG plant around October 21, according to Gladstone port shipping data.
The final destination of the Thenamaris-operated LNG vessel is currently unknown.
Gladstone port data also reveals that the 155,000 cbm Yenisei River is scheduled at the GLNG plant on October 28 to pick up the third cargo of the chilled gas produced from the venture.
Santos did not respond to an e-mail by LNG World News seeking comment regarding the matter by the time this article was published.
First GLNG cargo
The first GLNG cargo left the liquefaction plant on Friday on board the MISC-operated Seri Bakti and it is on its way to Kogas' LNG terminal in Incheon, South Korea.
"The first cargo from GLNG strengthens our position as a major and competitive LNG supplier to Asia," Santos CEO David Knox said on Friday.
The 7.8 mtpa GLNG plant started producing liquefied natural gas from Train 1 in September this year.
Work on the second train is continuing to progress well, and it is expected to be ready for start-up by the end of the year with first LNG in the second quarter 2016, Knox added.
Once fully operational, the LNG plant will be able to load about two LNG ships per week, or more than 100 per year.
Australia's Santos has a 30% interest in GLNG. Other co-venturers include Petronas (27.5%), Total (27.5%) and Kogas (15%).
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The Cinema Audio Society was formed in 1964 for the purpose of sharing information with Sound Professionals in the Motion Picture and Television Industry. We have seven (7) categories of membership: Active (Full), Associate, Career Achievement, Honorary, Student, Retired and Corporate Members.
Active Members are Mixers (Production and Post Production, Film and Video) who work on Feature Films, Television, and Commercials, as well as Mixers who specialize in Music Scoring, Video Post Sweetening, A.D.R. and Foley.
Associate Members are Sound Specialists, such as Sound Editors, Technicians, Recordists, and Microphone Boom Operators. Corporate Membership is open to companies in the Audio and Video Fields.
The CAS holds educational meetings throughout the year on topics of interest to those in our industry. Our meetings in the past have included Dialogue: from the Microphone to the Screen, and Wireless Microphone Symposiums, The Dialogue Pre-Dub Forum, a demonstration of Digital Post Production and Digital Sound Effects Editing, and a symposium on Digital Multi-Track Formats – Their Uses and Abuses. CAS members and their guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.
In addition, each year the CAS hosts its Awards to bestow the CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for both Feature Films and Television, as well as to honor Academy Award Nominees and Emmy Award Winners for Best Sound. This is also the occasion on which the CAS presents its Career Achievement Award. Past honorees include Ray Dolby, Robert Altman, Jack Solomon, John Bonner, Bill Varney, Don Rogers, Walter Murch, Jim Webb, Richard Portman and Tomlinson Holman.
The CAS is a philanthropic, non-profit organization. We currently contribute to the House Ear Institute. We also publish the CAS Quarterly, and The CAS Membership and Industry Directory.
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Nigel Henriques emigrated from Jamaica in 1979 to attend the University of Waterloo, where he graduated with a degree in Honours Computer Science and Masters in Management Science. Nigel has lived in Waterloo since that time and has a long career of over 30 years in the Information Technology field in a number of industry portfolios, including; automotive, inventory management, finance, agriculture and higher education. He has worked on a variety of projects across Canada and Internationally throughout his career. He currently holds a senior role at the University of Waterloo as an Associate Director.
Nigel joined the CCAWR Scholarship Committee back in 2010 when it was first initiated because he strongly believes that every child deserves an opportunity to develop and grow through a solid post-secondary education. He has volunteered as a soccer coach in the community for over 17 years and constantly preaches the value and importance of a good education.
Place of birth: London, England
1970-1978: Campion College, Kingston, Jamaica
1979-1983: University of Waterloo, Honours. Computer Science
1983-1986: University of Waterloo, Masters in Management Science
As a boy growing up in the lush farming community of Chapelton, in the hills of Clarendon, Jamaica I quickly learnt three things: the meaning of family, the love of community and the importance of God in my existence.
At age 11, I attended Clarendon College after receiving a special Government Scholarship. There I became an active member of a number of clubs and represented my school in National Debating Championships, Parish Spelling B Competition, French Club Expose and the national televised School Challenge Quiz for high schools
After leaving high school, I worked as a teller at Bank of Nova Scotia for one year and saved enough money to venture into post secondary studies at the University of the West Indies where I pursued a degree in Management. As the first person in my entire family to attend university this was a big deal, as my parents were not financial able to assist me as they had six other kids to support. My money management skills were put to the test immediately as I worked consistently while studying and graduated three years later with honours and more importantly without any student loans.
For the next 9 years I worked at National Commercial Bank (formerly Barclays Bank) in various management positions before emigrating to Canada in 1990.
I worked with Royal Bank from 1990 – 2003 in various jobs including Supervisor, Personal Banker, Account Manager, Investment Manager and Financial Planner. In 1989 I successfully passed the Chartered Financial Planning exams and was given the CFP designation. Having won various sales and performance awards my biggest achievement was being awarded a Caribbean Cruise along with my wife for one of the Top Sales person in Ontario in 2000.
I became a member of the CCAWR in 2001 and assumed the position of Chair of the Scholarship Committee in 2003.
Throughout the years, I have worked with various community groups including, Optimist Club, Kiwanis Club, United Way, Fergus Simpson Foundation (Jamaica), Grand River Cancer Centre and Uptown Waterloo Business Investment Association.
My proudest accomplishments today are:
- First person in my family to attend University;
- Participated in first televised game show "The Bigger Boss";
- First black male to be hired by Royal Bank in Cambridge;
- First batch of Royal Bank Financial Planners in Canada;
- Completed my first book on my life's journey, soon to be published;
- Recognized by Province on Ontario for community service.
I am happily married to Hilary Richards, a Bank Auditor at Manulife, who is my soul mate and best friend for the past 30 years.
My hobbies are travelling, research and reading. I enjoy helping people especially those you are neglected and disenfranchised.
My personal mantra is Conceive, Believe, Achieve
If your mind can Conceive it;
And you can Believe it;
Then you can Achieve it!
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
Place of Birth: Jamaica
High School: Kingston College 1950 -1955
Post Secondary: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
BA(Hons) Economics, 1962; MA Economics, 1964.
McGill University, Phd, Economics, 1973.
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Academic Positions
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1963 to 1964.
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, 1966 to 2003. Department Chair 1981 to 1987.
Visiting Professor, Consortium Graduate school, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica !992
Other Employment and Service Activities
Government of Canada, Treasury Board, Summer 1971 and 1872.
United Nations, Caribbean Regional Integration Advisory Team based in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago 1975.
Government of Ontario: Premier's Council on Economic Renewal 1991- 1995.
I have devoted my teaching and research to investigating issues in the area of international trade and finance with a special emphasis on the manner in which they relate to developing countries, particularly those in the English speaking Caribbean. My publications on these issues can be found in the academic journal , Social and Economic Studies, published by the University of the West Indies, starting in the decades of the eighties through the first decade of the current century. In addition to the Journal articles, I have also publishes pamphlets and chapters in books and have made several presentations at academic conferences on these topics.
1961-67: St. George's College, Kingston, Jamaica
1971-73: Mohawk College, Hamilton ON (Business Administration)
1984-91: Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON (Communication Studies)
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Driving Instructor (Young Drivers of Canada, K-W, ON)
Supervisor Guelph/Kitchener Drivetest Centres (ON)
Officer Manager (King's Jewellers, Kitchener ON)
Data Processing Supervisor (Murphy's Potato Chips, Kitchener ON)
Computer Operator/Programmer (Raytheon Canada, Waterloo ON)
Computer Operator/Programmer (Square D Canada, Waterloo ON)
Computer Operator/Programmer (Dresser Industries, Cambridge ON)
Bank Teller (Bank of Nova Scotia, Kingston, Jamaica)
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Ron Ball is a long-standing resident of Waterloo, having spent nearly forty years in the region. He is married with a son, and has two beautiful granddaughters. Ron has been an active contributor to the community for many years, as a member of the Westvale-Waterloo Optimist Club and the Westvale Community Association. He has been a member of the CCAWR since 2005. When he is not working with the CCAWR or spending time with his family, he can be found playing racquet sports, hiking, reading, or playing a wide variety of board games.
Olive J Coke is a CPA who emigrated from Jamaica and settled in Kitchener in 1999. She is a graduate of the Conestoga College, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). She became a member of The Certified General Accountants Association in 2012.
Olive enjoys giving back to the community and has worked with the CCAWR Scholarship Committee since 2010. She is currently a member of the Events Committee. Olive is involved in her Church and has chaired the Women's Retreat Committee for over 6 years as well as being part of the summer ministry where she teaches women at Manitoulin Island. Her passion is to empower women to fulfil their potential to be their best and to believe that they can rise up from any adversity they face.
When she is not busy volunteering or giving a helping hand, Olive enjoys painting, gardening reading, and travelling.
Lannois Carroll-Woolery has resided in Waterloo Region since 1991. He is excited about the educational possibilities the Region offers its residents at our world-class Universities and Colleges. A graduate of the University of Waterloo, working in the field of Information Technology, he believes that the demand for workers in high-tech fields will continue to grow nationally. He encourages families to have a sound financial plan and for students to be literate in mathematics and science, whatever their chosen field of study.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Amanda immigrated to Canada with her family in 2008. She was an Educator in T & T for over 21 years and ended her tenure as Head of Department. Starting over in a new country posed its challenges, so Amanda made the decision to pursue a second career. She attended triOS College in Kitchener, and is now an Ontario Licenced Paralegal at TREND Financial Corporation.
Following her desire to give back to her community, Amanda joined the CCAWR as a Board Member in 2016. She is a member of the Scholarship Committee and is hoping to help the CCAWR realize its vision over the next term.
Amanda currently lives in Kitchener with her husband of almost 25 years and her three (3) children. She has a deep interest in education, blog writing, and reading (when she finds the time).
Ed – Educational Administration (Hons)
MSc – Sociology
Paralegal Studies (Hons)


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Platform and the Transport Planning Society jointly turned to UHC when looking to commission an illustrated map that would depict existing global carbon trade routes, fossil fuel production, existing consumption levels, and the ways in which these factors impact on the integrity of the global environmental.
As an alternative to the vector based data-graphic, UHC created a physical map of the world using recycled materials, hand-crafted miniature objects, pyrotechnics, photography, and a touch of CGI.
Large format prints of the finished work are housed at the Transport Planning Society's London headquarters, and at Greenpeace UK's offices in Canonbury Villas.


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To see and feel the spirit of the most important battles of the First World War, crucial for the indipendence of the Republic of Turkey, this two days tour will give you the opportunity to visit two important attractions of the Marmara Region, such as the archaeological site of the legendary Troy, and the Strait of the Dardanelles.
In the early morning we will leave the hotel to arrive Gallipoli in the afternoon for a full day tour. Gallipoli is one the most touching places in Turkey and a hallowed ground for many nations, especially Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. We will visit the main sites of the War World I's epic battle such as the Lone Pine Australian Memorial and Chunuk Bair, New Zesland Memorial, ANZAC Cove, Johnston's Jolly and Kabatepe Gallipoli Museum. Overnight stay in Canakkale.
After breakfast, we will explore the ruins of legendary Homer's Troy with its famous Trojan wooden horse. The ancient city of Troy, was immortalized by Homer in his epic the "Iliad and and Odissey.'' After the morning Troy tour, we will drive back to Istanbul.
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If you're building a list manager, how much work would you need to do to get a private delivery system that's as well tuned and efficient as sendmail already is? ditto all of the other MTAs. I've built some prototype systems to test this. Even though (in theory) you're adding a layer of delivery and other overhead, it's very difficult to come even close to the performance a tuned MTA can give you -- and you're writing a lot of code to do it. One of the systems I've been investigating, for instance, would do 100% customized mail driven by a template document and pulling data out of a database -- with a design parameter of up to 10 million deliveries. the goal is at least 500K deliveries an hour, preferably double that. Right now, on a system with a sendmail 8.9 base and a non-optimized delivery tool, I'm doing 400-450K/hour. I expect to see a nice addition when I move to sendmail 8.10.x in a week or so. this is on a Sun E250, FWIW, with the sendmail queues living in a ram disk. Good sized hardware, but not particularly big or fast hardware. Instead of reinventing the MTA wheel, I think we're much better off coming up with an MTA -> MLM interface that's very flexible and highly configurable (most especially in how to deliver and how much to parallelize the infeed to the MLM), and then focus on how to tune the MTA and MLM through documentation. Splitting the inbound and outbound queue would be my first thing here, and probably split bounces into a third queue. That's a pretty quick, easy optimization that makes sure the end user sees fast response without being bogged down by deliveries, and that's a huge perception issue. Then focus on parallelizing the delivery from mailman into the MTA, and make that configurable so each admin can tune it to their system and needs. >As discussed previously amongst Chuq, Nigel and I, the needs of >large list server systems are rather different from the normal home >hobbyest requirements, but are not compleatly alien. However, the >needs of very large list installations (cf ListServ, Egroups, or >SourceForge) are rather different yet again. This is a basic reality -- things don't scale. Or worse, they scale for a while, and then you need to switch paradigms. I found that one out the hard way. If someone wants a rhetoric on how to scale mail list servers infinitely, I'd be happy to explain how, since I've had to develop an architecture to do so. the nice thing is, it can be done without exceptional engineering hassles -- but it's not just adding another daemon or a faster CPU (although those are solutions for parts of it, just not ALKWAYs the solutions) > I'm not convinced of >the value in beating on Mailman to support the (comparitively rare >if high profile) very large installations when the current (much >larger and more common Mailman-wise) mid-size realm still needs >attention. Certainly, such changes should not detract from >Mailman's current level of suitability for smaller installations. I think we can build a Mailman that does this, at least for, oh, 95% of the universe out there, and the other 5% are going to have custom solutions anyway (or should!). What we don't want to do is screw up Mailman for the "typical" user to make it work for the big site; but we also don't want Mailman to get a reputation as a "small server only" system, because it'll cause people to reject it in implementations. Fortunately, I don't think you need to do that. It just needs some tweaking. >support for intermittently connected nodes. Say something like: > > Cron launches the bulkmailer. > The bulkmailer forks N children processing the queue. > The bulkmailer exits upon an empty queue. > Should cron launch a new bulkmailer when the prevvious incarnation > hasn't exited yet, the new instance merely exits immediately. > >Locking for the above is fairly simple. Standard IPCs can be used >for the instance collision checks. Locking on the hash queues could >be a bit intereting from a portability and performance vantage given >the fact that the list side will be attemptiong to deliver into the >same tree at the same time that deliveries are happening (no more >lock collisions please) -- which pretty much requires that locking >be on the queue-entry level rather than the hash bucket level. Not >rocket science, just a bit finnicky. > >Will this handle SourceForge? Probably. On reasonable hardware, definitely. That's basically how my current custom system works. right now, the number of parallel infeeds from mailman is 1. I'm willing to bet the delivery MTA is basically idle and bored. By moving to parallel infeeds, you can stoke the MTA up to speed, and the trick is for each site to figure out what number of parallel infeeds will work keeping the queues full for the MTA to stay busy without overloading them and causing the MTA to thrash. That's simply a case of tuning and modelling. And simply allowing "N" infeed threads to the MLM will solve Sourceforge's problem and pretty much everyone else's, without having to get into the MTA business, where the best we can really hope is to be "as good" as the real MTA. so my recommendation is: 1) split the current qfiles into three queues: inbound, outbound and bounce 2) parallelize the outbound queue into "N" configurable delivery threads. 3) work on documentation on how to tune this for maximum perforamnce with major MTAs, and how to tune MTAs for maxiumum performance. That's a set of pretty easy updates, no technological miracles or black boxes, and solves all but the worst problems someone running Mailman is likely to see. And for sites this *doesn't* solve, it's either because they're doing the 5 pounds in a 1 pound bag thing, or they probably need to start hiring people like us to custom build someething. -- Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui at plaidworks.com) Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq at apple.com) Be just, and fear not.


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Synthesis and Assembly of DNA Block-copolymers
So-Jung Park
Goals and Approach:
The high density conjugation of DNA on nanoparticle surfaces can bring about unusual biological properties (i.e., sharp melting transition and high thermal stability of DNA duplex), that are very useful in DNA detection applications. We aim to utilize DNA block-copolymers to generate multifunctional nanoparticles densely functionalized with DNA (right).
- We successfully synthesized DNA block-copolymers in high yields (> 30%)
- We confirmed that DNA maintains its recognition properties on DNA block-copolymer micelles (bottom).


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LSC Updates - November 02, 2005
Congressman John N. Erlenborn, who was President of LSC from June 2001 to January 2004 and Vice Chairman of the LSC Board from 1989-1990 and 1996-2003, passed away on Sunday, October 30, at the age of 78.
Congressman Erlenborn served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965-1985, representing a suburban Chicago district. He is best known for being a primary author of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal law that governs employee benefits to this day. He was also one of the original co-sponsors of the Legal Services Corporation Act, which became law in 1974.
Congressman Erlenborn was appointed to the LSC Board on two occasions: by President Bush in 1989 and by President Clinton in 1996. On both occasions, he was elected Vice Chairman by the LSC Board. In 2001, the Board selected him as President of LSC, a position he held until President Helaine M. Barnett took office in January of 2004.
"John Erlenborn was one of the driving forces in creating and sustaining the Legal Services Corporation over the last thirty years," according to President Barnett. "Speaking for the entire legal services community, we will miss him."
There will be an announcement at a later date about a memorial service.
(For a more detailed obituary that appeared in the Chicago Tribune, go to:
$411 million approved to help close the "Justice Gap" and serve those impacted by natural disasters
At its October 29th meeting in Boise, Idaho, the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors approved its Fiscal Year 2007 budget request to Congress in the amount of $411,800,000. By comparison, the Board requested $363.8 million in FY06.
The FY07 request seeks to provide funding to begin to close the justice gap in America. Earlier this month, LSC released "Documenting the Justice Gap in America: The Current Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low-Income Americans." The report concluded that at least 80 percent of the civil legal needs of low-income Americans are not being met. The report was a culmination of a year-long study by LSC to document the extent to which current civil legal needs of low-income Americans are not being met.
"We are asking Congress to help us close the justice gap in America. Our findings show that for every client who receives service from an LSC-funded program, at least one applicant was turned away, indicating that 50 percent of the potential clients requesting assistance from an LSC grantee were turned away for lack of resources on the part of the program," said LSC President Helaine M. Barnett. "We are seeking to close the gap in measured steps over the next five years," added Barnett.
LSC is also requesting $5 million in Technology Initiative Grant (TIG) funding. The TIG program provides critical seed money for projects that improve access to justice through the innovative use of technology. One million is being requested to continue LSC's pilot Loan Repayment Assistance Program, and one million is also being requested for an Emergency Relief Fund to ensure that LSC will be able to fund emergency civil legal aid services in the event of a natural disaster.
At its October 29th meeting in Boise, Idaho, the LSC Board of Directors agreed to initiate rulemaking proceedings on three LSC regulations. LSC will issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to repeal 45 CFR Part 1631, a regulation which requires that pre-FY 1982 funds be spent in accordance with the restrictions contained in the FY 1986 Appropriations Act governing LSC. Inasmuch as the FY 1986 restrictions are no longer in effect and LSC believes there are no pre-1982 funds in the system, LSC will recommend that the rule is obsolete and be repealed.
LSC plans to review the rules on client grievance procedures (45 CFR Part 1621) and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of handicap or disability (45 CFR Part 1624). The two regulations were written in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and may require updating. LSC will begin by convening a workshop for each regulation, the purpose of which will be to have open discussions to elicit information about problems and concerns with each rule and provide an opportunity to share ideas on how to address those issues. LSC will invite grantees and other interested parties to participate in the workshops, and the meetings will be open to the public. After each workshop, LSC management will report to the Board on the issues discussed and seek guidance on how to proceed with respect to a rulemaking. Additional information on the workshops will be sent to grantees and be published in the Federal Register next week.
On October 28, the LSC Board spent a half day at Idaho Legal Aid Services (ILAS) receiving a comprehensive briefing on the program's operations throughout Idaho. The briefing was led by ILAS Executive Director Ernie Sanchez who was assisted by his excellent staff. Briefing topics included ILAS's Indian and migrant farmworker law units, the senior and domestic legal advice hotlines, the Pro Se Technology Project being undertaken in partnership with the Idaho Supreme Court (and which is partly funded by LSC), and ILAS's extensive development activities. The LSC Board thought the presentations were excellent and helpful to the Board, and expressed their appreciation for the high quality work undertaken by ILAS.
LSC has chosen ten mentors and ten protgs to participate in its previously announced Leadership Mentoring Pilot Program, an initiative aimed at developing a new generation of leaders in the legal services community. Participants in the program will benefit from collaborative learning through several mentoring activities, including group training events, brainstorming sessions, and one-on-one conversations. The first meetings of mentors and protgs will be held in about two weeks.
On October 15, the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland honored three members of the LSC community for committing themselves to pro bono work throughout their careers, and for truly embodying the spirit of pro bono service.
John C. Eidleman, LSC's Senior Program Counsel, was recognized for his thirty-six year career working to increase access to justice for those too poor to afford legal representation. For twenty five years he provided distinguished service to Maryland's Legal Aid Bureau. In his current position, John advises LSC-funded programs on how they can best provide high-quality services to their clients. He has also consistently provided pro bono representation throughout his career. He co-founded the Homeless Person's Representation Project, which helps thousands of homeless and near-homeless persons each year, and established the 60 Plus Legal Program, which provides reduced-rate representation to low-income seniors.
Herbert S. Garten, LSC Board Member and Senior Partner at Fedder and Garten Professional Association, was honored for his energetic and determined effort to invigorate the voluntary pro bono effort in Maryland during his term as President of the Maryland State Bar Association. Garten launched the People's Pro Bono Campaign which infused the pro bono delivery system with thousands of potential volunteers, and set in motion the development of a diverse and sophisticated structure for pro bono involvement.
Wilhelm Joseph, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Bureau, was recognized for his commitment to engaging the private bar in the mission of ensuring equal access to justice. His vision and leadership have inspired several new partnerships with bar members, including a pilot mediation project and a children's education program. Joseph also serves on a number of local and national boards of directors, including the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and Maryland's Commission on Public Trust and Confidence in the Judicial System.
LSC in the News
Travis Tritten, The Olympian (WA) - October 24, 2004
A flood of legal battles is set to be unleashed Tuesday [October 25] in New Orleans when Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco lifts a post-Hurricane Katrina ban on evictions and 8,000 to 10,000 absentee tenants face the losses of their homes and possessions.
Landlords are expected to begin filing eviction requests with the courts immediately. If they're successful, they can clear out abandoned apartments and move tons of molding, waterlogged belongings to the streets within five to 10 days. In some cases, the landlords alone can make the decision to evict.
Attorneys and volunteers who represent low-income Louisiana residents are expected to gather Tuesday in Lafayette for briefings on eviction law and to rally in defense of a possible cascade of tenant grievances.
"That is somebody's life in there: pictures of their babies and school photos ... you would want a chance to save it," said Laura Tuttle, a lawyer with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services.
Many residents fled Katrina hurriedly, leaving even their most valuable possessions behind. Some of those people remain scattered throughout the United States nearly two months later.
Now, with city officials eager to begin rebuilding, those tenants' belongings are keeping precious apartment space out of the market, landlords said. That's space where imported workers could live.
Landlords "have residents who have not returned, not called or checked in, and their wet, mildewing units are causing havoc for the owners," said Tammy Esponge, associate executive of the Apartment Association of Greater New Orleans Inc., who estimated the number of abandoned units in and around the city at 10,000 to 20,000.
Landlords want to help in the rebuilding process but "we can't do that if we can't bring in the people," Esponge said.
David Abbenante, the president of the management group for HRI Properties, said it was a "lose-lose" situation because both landlords and tenants had major property damage. Landlords are "trying to do the right thing" but must get back to business, he said.
The property group gets about 30 calls a day asking for housing - sometimes from contractors who are looking for up to 1,000 units for workers - but the company is stymied. Tenants who lived in about 100 of its Orleans Parish units are unreachable, and HRI Properties can't rent them to someone else, Abbenante said.
But he said he'd work with the tenants. "The last thing I am going to do is file an eviction on someone," he said.
The hurricane damage caused major hurdles for residents who want to return to their apartments. And evictions could eliminate any chance of recovering what's left of their belongings, Tuttle said.
Communications systems were down in the city for weeks and mail service still hasn't been completely restored, she said. Since the storm, phone numbers have changed and addresses are gone.
"You would be surprised at the number of tenants who don't know how to get in touch with their landlord in normal times," Tuttle said.
She said the law was weighted in landlords' favor but that evictions in New Orleans might lead to changes that gave tenants more power.
Louisiana law requires landlords to file with the courts and receive judges' rulings before evicting tenants for not paying rent, but if the owner thinks the property was abandoned, the unit can be cleared out without a court order.
Blanco reinstated the law by executive order last week and released a statement that said it was an important step in returning commerce and a "state of normalcy" to the New Orleans area. Her office didn't return repeated calls asking for comment.
Blanco did, however, extend eviction protection in areas that were affected by Hurricane Rita as well as Katrina, including Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis and Vermilion parishes.
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LocalTechWire.com - October 21, 2005
Georgia Legal Services Program, which is based in Atlanta, is one of the grand prize winners in Cisco's sixth annual "Growing with Technology Awards".
The legal services group was cited as the top Innovator in Non-Profit category. As a result, the firm will receive $25,000 worth of Cisco networking gear.
One grand prize winner and two runners-up were selected in five categories of competition. The contest is focused on small- and medium-sized businesses as well as non-profit and public sector operations.
"Selecting winners for the Cisco Growing with Technology Award was a challenging process for our judging panel since we received so many quality applications from organizations who have dramatically improved their business through the use of technology," said Peter Alexander, Cisco's vice president of commercial marketing. "The winners have proven that there is a direct correlation between a company's network and its ongoing business success."
For more information about the program, see:
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Lisa J. Huriash, South Florida Sun-Sentinel - October 20, 2005
He wants his hopeless-to-happy story to help others.
Ronald Dixon went back to college, received several advanced degrees, graduated from law school, remarried, had a child, and persevered in several different law jobs, most recently at [Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida] in Plantation.
He did all this while blind, unable to see the memos he writes, the clients he helps, or even the judges in Broward's circuit court.
Wednesday [October 19] designated as Florida Disability Mentoring Day, Dixon worked to inspire a blind teenager to overcome her worries and follow him around the Broward courthouse for the day as proof there are no limits.
"You have to conquer your fear," he said. "You have to think through the panic. The fear is what will get you down. If you panic, you're lost."
Dixon, 49, used to be a locomotive engineer. When he was 29 in Chicago, he was a passenger in a Jeep that hit a curb coming off the expressway, slid and flipped over, landing on Dixon's head. Doctors thought he wouldn't live.
He lost his vision immediately, and eventually his wife and his livelihood. He envisioned himself standing on a street corner, begging strangers for money or selling pencils.
"You think you got it bad, Mr. Dixon?" a nurse asked him. A woman had been burned in a fire, lost her sight, and both arms and legs were amputated.
"Don't think you have it bad," she told him.
"Whenever I feel depressed and self-pity I think of that," he said.
Dixon decided to pull himself together. He went to college and was denied entry to only one of the 12 law schools where he applied. He chose the University of California at Berkeley. Now he works for Legal Aid as an attorney for foster children.
On Wednesday, he mentored Sheniqua Miller, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, a junior at South Plantation High School. Partially blind from birth, Sheniqua is considering a career as a social worker or attorney.
Dixon took her as a challenge, eager to inspire her. With his 120-pound guide dog Abe at his side, he showed the teen his technology: the watch with a button that tells him what time it is; the computer that reads him his e-mail; the GPS system that directs him and his assistant to the homes of abused children. And he took Sheniqua to court, too.
"This is a motivator," said Sheniqua, of Fort Lauderdale, between court hearings.
(To read the article online, go to:
Katie Albright, The Chronicle Tribune (IN) - October 18, 2005
The Marion-Grant County Senior Center is hosting attorneys from Indiana Legal Services Inc. on the second Wednesday of every month to provide legal help to people 60 and older.
The first session was held Wednesday [October 12], when attorney Price A. Jackson Jr. traveled from Indianapolis to meet with concerned Grant County senior citizens to discuss health care, housing and consumer issues.
ILS, a nonprofit law firm that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals throughout the state, became associated with the senior center after Center Director Carolyn Williams asked Marion attorney Warren Haas about finding representation for center clients.
"Other than an 800 number, there hasn't really been much of an outreach here," she said. "We would get phone calls periodically with people asking where they can get legal aid. (Hass) put me in touch with this program."
Residents can consult with an experienced lawyer for free from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
"I think this will have a positive impact on Grant County and the problems local seniors are experiencing with their legal matters," Price said.
Jackson said he takes each subject on a case-by-case basis and is available for any sort of legal representation or review of documents.
"I think it's fantastic," Williams said. "I think it will be a relief for people to know that there is a place to come and meet with someone face-to-face, instead of talking over the phone."
Jackson said his trips to Marion could be more frequent depending on the needs of his clients.
"I'll be back up here more than once a month if representation or a meeting is needed," he said. "I'd come up Thursday (after meeting with the client Wednesday) if they needed me."
Robert and Wanda Alter were Jackson's first clients at the center.
"I was sent a letter in the mail about new programs for prescription drugs," Wanda said. "He filled everything out for us, and was really good and informative about everything.
"I even gave him a hug when we were done."
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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services - October 17, 2005
[Southeast Louisiana Legal Services] staff attorney, Laura Tuggle, has been selected by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) for the prestigious 2005 Reginald Heber Smith Award.
NLADA is the nation's leading nonprofit membership association of civil and criminal legal aid attorneys.
The Reginald Heber Smith Award is given at NLADA's national conference. This Award recognizes a civil or criminal legal aid attorney for dedicated service and outstanding achievements. It is one of the highest national awards that a legal aid attorney can receive.
Laura Tuggle has worked as a staff attorney for New Orleans Legal Assistance since 1994. Laura's primary work has been for low-income tenants in New Orleans and Louisiana. She is recognized by NLADA for her outstanding advocacy achievements for tenants.
Since Hurricane Katrina, Laura has been working for [the] Disaster Law Project which is temporarily based in Shreveport.
Rachel Uranga, The LA Daily News (CA) - October 15, 2005
Created at the height of the civil rights era in a shabby storefront in Pacoima, the Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County was a modest place where the poor could get help for their problems - large and small.
In the decades since, the center has become one of the nation's leading advocates for the poor, with a $10 million budget and a small army of attorneys.
"Thirty years ago people used to tell me that if they had money, they would go to a real lawyer. They don't say that anymore," said Yvonne Maria Jimenez, who started as a paralegal and is now an attorney and one of the directors of the nonprofit agency.
Those kinds of stories abound at the center, which is marking its 40th anniversary this month.
Kathi Frazier, another board member, was a client more than a decade ago, fighting with a landlord who was threatening to withdraw from a subsidized housing program and raise rents more than $200 per unit.
After a two-year legal battle, Neighborhood Legal Services won the case for the tenants and set a precedent: Landlords in California who withdraw from federal rent subsidy programs are subject to local rent control rules.
The outcome so inspired Frazier that she returned to school and helped found the West Valley Community Development Corp., a nonprofit company that builds homes for low-income people like herself.
"The rich can afford an attorney when they need it; people in my case can't. It is a service so desperately needed in the poor, working-class communities.
"A lot of people don't know how to access the system, how to do things as simple as suing a landlord for not doing things the proper way," she said.
It's evident outside the Van Nuys Self Help Center, where dozens of people gather nearly every day of the week for the simplest legal advice or at the Pacoima office, where the phones are hardly ever silent.
Legal assistance is available in nine languages, from Korean to Armenian. Every year, the staff of 40 attorneys and 25 paralegals assists thousands of poor clients in everything from evictions to consumer fraud.
The federally funded center, which has two fully staffed offices and three self-help centers, is expanding this year. It is home to one of the nation's largest health advocacy programs of its kind for the poor.
A Glendale office staffed with 14 attorneys will open next month. And four more self-help centers - where poor clients can find free legal assistance on family law and housing matters - will open in courthouses in San Fernando, Long Beach and Santa Monica.
"There is no other legal service in the Northeast Valley that has done as much in protecting people in the Valley, whether it's consumer protection, health care and renters' right. They do everything they can to protect them from the basic necessities," said Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez, D-San Fernando.
The center also has taken on several high-profile cases, including a challenge to the Los Angeles Unified School District's practice of allocating more money to wealthy schools. The litigation resulted in a 1992 consent decree mandating the most basic educational funds be distributed equally.
In another contentious case, nearly two decades old, it challenged the Los Angeles Police Department's response to domestic violence calls and won a court order ordering the new training procedures for officers.
"If this wasn't here, I don't know what I would do," said Margarita Vazquez, a 66-year-old Pacoima grandmother, who sought help from the Pacoima center earlier this month after her dentist threatened to charge her for a surgery he didn't perform.
"The people that don't have insurance or don't know what to do, they help us."
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The West Virginia Gazette - October 13, 2005
The Charleston law firm of Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler has given $10,000 to Legal Aid of West Virginia to support their legal work for low-income West Virginians.
The check is the second from the firm and was made as part of the Campaign for Legal Aid. The campaign, headed by lawyers Al Emch and Scott Segal, has raised more than $1 million to support legal services statewide. In the last three years, more than 37 firms have given more than $400,000, and more than 338 individuals have given or pledged more than $300,000 to the campaign.
"Without Legal Aid," Harry Deitzler said, "many low-income people would be unable to cope with our complex legal system and their problems would never be solved."
Adrienne Worthy, executive director of Legal Aid, said the donation comes at a time when local charities are focused on helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"The community has done a great job responding to the hurricane disaster, but at the same time has continued to support community needs like Legal Aid," she said.
Legal Aid's staff works to stabilize client incomes, keep people in their homes, combat consumer fraud and prevent family violence. Other agency staff members advocate for the needs of the elderly and disabled who live in long-term care facilities and state mental health facilities.
Last year, Legal Aid closed more than 7,400 cases statewide, helping more than 18,000 people.
For information about Legal Aid of West Virginia's local services and programs, call 343-4481.
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The Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise - October 10, 2005
Children and families in need will receive a financial boost from Oklahoma attorneys. The Oklahoma Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the state bar association, has granted funds totaling $387,750 to statewide programs benefiting children's programs, education, legal aid services, and domestic violence prevention and intervention.
Funds raised through lawyers' private donations as well as the interest on lawyers' trust accounts will go to a variety of programs.
Oklahoma Indian Legal Services will receive $10,000 to go toward work in its domestic violence division, which assists battered women and children with legal service needs. Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma will receive a $200,000 award to help upgrade its compensation plans and to assist in providing legal services to low-income and elderly Oklahomans.
"Legal aid services to Oklahoma's poor and elderly have been continuously funded by OBF since 1986 and remain a priority for the foundation," said OBF President Judy Hamilton Morse.
The new Oklahoma Access to Justice Commission founded in June 2005 received a $50,000 grant. The commission, in collaboration with other legal aid programs, is dedicated to helping those with limited economic resources overcome barriers they often face in resolving legal matters. The foundation will also award law school scholarships totaling $30,250 to Oklahoma students enrolled at each of the three Oklahoma law schools.
The Oklahoma Bar Foundation is a charitable, 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of advancing education, citizenship and justice for all. It gives annual grants for law student scholarships, citizenship rights and responsibilities educational programs for school children, judicial education programs and civil legal services for Oklahoma's poor and elderly.
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Susan West, The Outer Banks Sentinel (NC) - October 8, 2005
Robin Ames was presented the 2005 Gwyneth B. Davis Award by the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (NCAWA) at the association's annual conference in Wrightsville Beach last weekend. NCAWA is a non-profit organization with more than 600 members.
The public service award recognized Ames' outstanding work in promoting the rights of women under the law. The Avon resident is an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina in Ahoskie. Legal Aid of North Carolina provides legal assistance in civil matters to low-income clients. The Ahoskie office serves 11 counties, including Dare.
Ames began her career in 1983 with a small firm in Charlotte, and in 1987 joined the staff of Legal Services of Southern Piedmont. "At that time, legal aid offices didn't routinely handle domestic violence cases," she recalled. "I remember thinking that if legal aid didn't take care of these cases, no one would, so I pushed for legal aid to move in that direction."
Charlotte-Anne Alexander, managing attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina, nominated Ames for the Gwyneth B. Davis Award, and described Ames as a trailblazer in establishing domestic violence advocacy as a part of legal aid in North Carolina. "Robin is among the most knowledgeable and capable attorneys regarding legal representation of domestic violence victims in the state. She is a fearless client advocate and a passionate champion of women's rights," said Alexander.
Ames' next career move took her east in 1992 to Pamlico Sound Legal Services in Greenville. After her marriage, Ames and her husband, Mark O'Neal, maintained homes in Greenville and in Avon to accommodate her career and O'Neal's career with the Ferry Division of N.C. Department of Transportation.
When Ames moved to Hatteras Island full-time in 1996, she handled cases on a pro bono basis for Hotline Crisis Intervention Center, a non-profit organization that assists domestic violence victims.
In 1998, the Ahoskie office of Legal Aid hired Ames to work on domestic violence cases. She works from her home in Avon, handling cases referred from the Hotline Crisis Center.
"The work I do is just one part of the counseling, safe shelter, and other services offered to domestic violence victims through Hotline," Ames said. Her clients have usually filed a civil protection order, and it's Ames' job to investigate the case and prepare for the court hearing.
"I pull together all the information that the district attorney might not have time to gather," she explained. She said that two domestic violence investigators hired by the Dare County Sheriff Department under special grant funding have made an invaluable contribution in the county.
Ames said that there's really no description of a typical client, other than the fact that they've all experienced domestic violence. Some are living in a shelter and others still live at home. She has helped female and male clients, young and old, from varied socio-economic backgrounds. "Some of my clients come from middle-class homes, but have no assess to the family's financial resources," explained Ames.
Ames noted that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Victims of domestic violence can call Hotline Crisis at 252-473-3366. Persons needing help with civil matters, ranging from problems with social security or public assistance benefits to problems with landlords, can contact the Ahoskie Legal Aid office at 800-682-0010.
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Client Success Story
(Legal aid is about helping ordinary people with real-life problems. Client stories from the field illustrate the day-to-day struggles - and victories - of poor Americans seeking justice under law.)
Thomas Adcock, New York Lawyer - October 14, 2005
For the client, a hard-working immigrant supporting her young son and student husband, it was an ordeal in which she nearly lost custody of her child.
For Sally Kim Christie and Virginia H. Johnson, third-year litigation associates at Weil, Gotshal & Manges who took on the woman's case pro bono and won the day five months later, it was a powerful lesson in a lawyer's obligation to sometimes perform above and beyond the neat strictures of the law.
"There are no parts of this story that are not worthy of daytime soap opera," said Steven Bernstein, Brooklyn project director at Legal Services for New York City, where the Weil Gotshal attorneys served as pro bono externs this year.
At issue, he said, was the child's now-estranged father and paternal grandparents attempt in Brooklyn Family Court to steal the boy away by falsely claiming the mother to be a suicidal drug abuser who abandoned her child.
According to court papers, the case began one day in March. A young Egyptian woman in an arranged marriage of Muslim tradition arrived at a Brooklyn hospital to pick up her 3-year-old son following a minor surgical procedure. Hospital officials refused to release the boy to her, informing the mother that, unbeknownst to her, an order from Judge Grosvenor had stripped her of custody rights.
An attorney for the hospital directed the distraught woman to a clerk at Family Court, who in turn referred her to Legal Services.
Ms. Christie and Ms. Johnson assembled an arsenal of documentation, researched applications under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act and interviewed corroborating witnesses in the cause of their petition to Judge Hepner, seeking to vacate Judge Grosvenor's original order.
"What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb," said Mr. Bernstein. "They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously."
Ms. Johnson said the experience with Legal Services - her first social justice work since student days at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she participated in the Innocence Project - was beneficial to both her client and herself.
The two Weil Gotshal associates believe their professional skills were enhanced by the stint at Legal Services.
"It's obvious that this was beyond legal," Ms. Christie said. "It's a whole new dimension that law school doesn't prepare you for. Nothing prepares you for this but life experience."
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he event that set off war in Europe came in late June 1914 at Sarajevo, when a fanatical Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In other times and under different conditions, this act might not have been enough to catapult the world into the most widespread and costly conflict man had yet known, one that would eventually put under arms 65 million men from thirty countries representing every continent. Yet as matters stood that summer of 1914, Europe was a tinderbox awaiting a spark, an armed camp with two rival power blocs. There was at first the Triple Alliance composed of Germany, Austria, and Italy. On the other side, the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France gradually merged with the Dual Alliance of France and Russia to become the Triple Entente. With the defection of Italy, Germany and Austria became the Central Powers, which Bulgaria and Turkey eventually joined. The Triple Entente became, with the addition
of Italy, the nucleus of the Allied Powers.
The maneuver designed to defeat the French was the handiwork of Germany's gifted former Chief of Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, who lent his name to the plan. Deducing that the French would attack in Alsace and Lorraine, Schlieffen proposed to trap them in a massive single envelopment, a great scythe-like movement through the Low Countries and into northern France, then west and south of Paris. Schlieffen was prepared to give ground on his left wing in Alsace- Lorraine to keep the French armies occupied until a powerful right wing—the tip of the scythe—could complete the envelopment. (See Map 1.)
The German staff modified the Schlieffen Plan continually between its creation and the start of the war, but one of the plan's major faults was in the area of logistics. Such a massive movement of troops and horses quickly moved beyond available railroad support and could not be sustained. The troops at the tip of the spearhead would have to slow down due to supply problems before they would be able to encircle Paris. Yet the maneuver achieved such surprise that by late August the French and British armies were in full retreat and the threat to Paris was so real that the French government abandoned the city. Only a hastily arranged French counterattack against an exposed German flank saved Paris. That action afforded time for main British and French forces to turn, halt the Germans at the Marne River east of Paris, and drive them back to the Aisne River, forty miles to the north.
As stalemate developed along the Aisne, each side tried to envelop the northern flank of the other in successive battles that by October had extended the opposing lines all the way to the Belgian coast. Allied and German armies alike went to ground. The landscape from Switzerland to the sea soon was scarred with opposing systems of zigzag, timber- revetted trenches, fronted by tangles of barbed wire sometimes more than 150 feet wide and featured here and there by covered dugouts providing shelter for troops and horses and by observation posts in log bunkers or concrete turrets. Out beyond the trenches and the barbed wire was a muddy desert called No-Man's-Land, where artillery fire had eliminated habitation and vegetation alike, where men in nighttime listening posts strained to hear what the enemy was about, and where rival patrols clashed.
Eventually both sides would realize that they had miscalculated, that the newly developed machine gun and improved indirect-fire artillery had bolstered not the offense but the defense. This development had been presaged—but ignored—in the U.S. Civil War. Principles of war such as maneuver, economy of force, and surprise were seemingly subordinated to the critical principle of mass: masses of men (nearly 2 million Germans and 3 million Allied troops); masses of artillery (barrages lasted days and even weeks before an offensive); and masses of casualties (the British and French in 1915 lost 1.5 million men killed, wounded, and missing). Yet through it all the opposing lines stood much as they had at the start. For more than two years they would vary less than ten miles in either direction.
To meet the high cost of the long, deadly struggle, the opposing powers turned more than ever before in history to the concept of the nation in arms. Even Britain, for so many years operating on the theory of a powerful navy and only a small (though highly professional) army, resorted to conscription and sent massive new armies to the continent
To appease the appetite of the vast armies for munitions, equipment, and supplies, the nations harnessed their mines, factories, and railroads to war production; levied high income taxes; froze wages and prices; and rationed food and other commodities. It was industrialized war on a vast scale never before seen.
Bloody battle followed bloody battle in quick succession in 1915, 1916, and 1917. The names of the battles would echo throughout the ages as symbols of slaughter: Verdun (750,000 casualties), the Somme (1.3 million casualties), Passchendale (350,000 casualties).
By early 1917 bloody stalemate on the Western Front continued and the collapse of the Russians on the Eastern Front threatened to free up millions of Germans for service in the west. In Russia, a spontaneous revolution had erupted in March, prompting the czar to abdicate and initiating a struggle for power between moderate Socialists and the hard-core revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution and immediately sued for peace. Only the slowness of the negotiations prevented the immediate release to the west of huge numbers of German soldiers.
The worst was still to come. In 1917, after yet another failed French offensive, mutiny broke out in one French regiment and spread swiftly through fifty-four divisions. Many of the French soldiers swore that they would continue to defend their homeland, but they would no longer take part in offensive operations.
More disastrous still were the results of an Austrian offensive launched with German assistance in Italy in the fall. In what became known as the Battle of Caporetto, the Italians in one blow lost 305,000 men; 275,000 of them surrendered as the Italian Army fell back a hundred miles in panic. British and French divisions had to be rushed to Italy to keep the Italians in the war. By the time America was forced to enter the war in April 1917, the disasters on all the fronts had brought the Allies close to collapse.
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If you find yourself staring at a screen for hours not knowing where to start, or you feel like you're expected to turn in a term paper every time you sit down to write, this exercise is for you. I swear 98.1% it'll help you feel more confident in your own voice.
Finding your voice isn't easy. I've been a professional guidebook author and writer for 15 years, and I feel like I didn't start nailing it until about maybe three or four years ago. And here's the best thing — I can be totally lazier in a lot of ways. Yes, yes, it's more fulfilling and deeply satisfying and I will die feeling like I've shared the deepest expression of myself … blah blah blah. But say I have to write about Italy, calm or benefits communications? Where do I even start? Oh, yes. Irreverent and funny but insightful? Let's start with that and see where I go.
Here's the exercise … Wait, fuck that. There's an even easier way to do this. (Yes, this is about creativity, but remember: this is also about pure and unadulterated laziness and the glorious shortcuts we can take to get to where you want to go faster.)
- Take five minutes to think of words that describe your writing voice, or the writing voice you'd like to have.
- Write down those words.
- Spend the next day to 70 years rewriting that list.
Done? Easy peasy.
Or, if you'd like (and only if you'd like), you can get a bit more involved than that. Here's the full exercise I do with my interns:
- Find a group of people you like and trust (in fact, this is kind of the meaning of life, so do it even if you don't want to do the full exercise).
- The first person (we'll call her the Writer) reads or passes around a writing sample. There is no judgment or critiquing of any kind allowed whatsoever. Critics must sit in the mush pot.
- She then writes down (or has already written down) at least 30 words that describe her voice.
- The other people (the Listeners) jots down the five or six words on that list that most resonate with their interpretation of the sample's writing style.
- The Writer gathers up and reads each of the Listeners' lists.
- Maybe she finds a pattern in the Listeners lists, maybe she doesn't. Maybe she chooses a few words from the Listeners' lists, maybe she doesn't. These lists are purely for feedback, but the Writer gets to choose which five words she'd like to start with.
- Each Listener takes his or her turn as the Writer.
From either version, the Writer starts creating her voice. She writes her five, six, seven words or phrases down in her journal. She writes them down on post-it notes and puts them on her laptop, her bedside table, her bathroom wall.
And then, she will tattoo those words into her forearm like Popeye's anchor, and she will live with them for the rest of her life.
I'm lying.
She will change them, and she should change them. And then she will change them again. And then once they're all done, and she's lived with them for 19 months, she will take a trip to Spain or develop a newfound skill as a baker. She will get in touch with her badass side. She will discover a new part of herself, of her personality, of her very being and soul, and she will change them again, because she has changed.
After these last fifteen years as a writer (twelve of which I've taught and coached writers), I don't think all of my words have stayed the same for more than six months at a time. For now, here is the voice I try to aspire to:
Wry. Funny. Irreverent. Insightful. Unexpected.
One can only hope.
You probably noticed every single one of my words is an adjective, and not one has anything to do with travel. I'm partially inspired to write this blog post after finishing my first favorite Lonely Planet assignment ever, the Intro and six lessons for the book Calm. (My second favorite assignment ever, by the way, was for the book Lonely Planet Happy; are you seeing a theme here?) You can read my Happy Intro on the Writing page, as that is the closest I think I've come to nailing my voice.
Lists often start out as nouns and develop into adjectives. You might start out with adventure, camping, outdoors. Or luxury, hotels, food. Or even travel, writing, photography. But here's the important thing: Start your list. Just start. Within six months, all of your words might have rolled over, but at least you'll have something to roll over.


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IAA Camp Casa Bernabé is a 10-day mission trip to Guatemala to empower at-risk youth in Guatemala City through creative arts and God's greater story of redemption.
10/23/2020 - 11/01/2020
• 2 days of team building in Antigua, Guatemala
• 5 days of teaching workshops at an art camp
• Art Show with the community
• Sightseeing
• Optional 3-day excursion to Lake Atitlan
Casa Bernabé Ministries exists to provide hope for vulnerable children in Guatemala, both within the walls of its campus and also within the surrounding community. The ministry seeks to provide the framework needed for each child to step out from the past trauma of their lives by providing physical needs, medical and psychological care, and spiritual guidance. Children are ministered to in church and youth group and educated in the Christian school on campus. Lives are transformed as the ties of generational poverty and abuse are broken. By working with the Guatemalan court systems and biological families Casa Bernabé Ministries is leading the way in Guatemalan Global Orphan Care.


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You have a particular interest in Roman Vienna, or you want to learn more about life within the medieval city walls or the rapid growth of the city into the fourth largest in the world around 1900? We offer special interest tours covering the various periods from Roman times until the present day.
Tours marked red are Public Tours, tours marked black are only on request.
|Red Vienna: Palaces for the Proletariat
|Visionary Architecture of the 1920s
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|With the help of scores of photos and archive material we want to evoke the atmosphere prevailing in Vienna in the wake of World War Two....


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Leadership in DoD Security ED511.10
Registration in this program is restricted to U.S. Government civilian employees and U.S. military service members only.
Description: This course will provide an educational opportunity for mid-career security specialists to gain in- depth knowledge, skills, and understanding of leadership principles and skills needed to support DoD security programs.
The course will develop each student's ability to use this knowledge to become more effective as security leaders in the Department of Defense (DoD). The course includes instruction and activities in an interactive online collaborative learning environment, and assignments that each student will prepare independently. The course includes case studies and other methods of instruction that facilitate in-depth analysis of complex issues related to leadership to support DoD security programs.
The course addresses principles and how they can be applied in the DoD security environment. The course is designed to help prepare the senior security manager to demonstrate strong leadership in support of DoD security programs.
Course Topics:
- Personal leadership style
- Leadership models
- Leadership styles
- Leadership concepts, principles, and theories
- Leadership in military and civilian environments
- Strategic decision-making
- Team building
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- Negotiation skills
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- Conflict management
- Building coalitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Accountability
- Leadership in multinational or coalition environments
Please keep in mind that the information on this page is subject to change, as the course is developed.
This course will be comparable to a three semester-hour graduate level course.
Textbooks: There is no charge for this course; however, there may be a need to purchase textbook(s) to support some of the reading and research requirements. Approximately 30 days before the semester start date, you will receive a welcome letter from CDSE which will include information on the required textbooks for this specific course.
Delivery Method: Virtual Instructor-led
Length: 16 weeks
Target Audience: Restricted to U.S. military members and civilian government employees.
Clearance Requirement: None
Number of Students per Course: 20
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In this video we take a closer look at the hardware of the HTC Titan, which touts impressive specs for a Windows Phone: it has a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon single-core CPU, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of ROM, UMTS 850/900/2100 (allowing it to get on AT&T 3G in the US) and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. For imaging, it has a 1.3MP camera up front and an 8MP camera on the rear which takes 720p HD video. The display is a 4.7″ WVGA Super LCD panel, which provides a relatively low pixel per inch (ppi) measurement of 198. It weighs 160grams and is just a hair a centimeter thick at 9.9mm.
Overall the device indeed feels large, but marginally compared to 4.3″-screened devices like the Desire HD and Galaxy S II. The Titan is made out of glass on the front, plus metal and plastic for the rest of the casing. It's rare to find a smartphone with metal construction, and we were excited to see it on the Titan. Be sure to check out the unboxing of the HTC Titan!