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July 2005
Rebecca Graber
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lieutenant-General Roméo DallaireLieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire is a national hero in Canada. Since the August 2004 publication of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, the Montrealer's reserved expression, his eyes swathed in shadows, has been peering out from bookshelves across the country. Nearly a year later, Shake Hands with the Devil still tops the nonfiction paperback list at Toronto's The Globe and Mail.
Dallaire was the Force Commander, or military head, of the United Nations Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), established in 1993 to facilitate the peace process following the Arusha Accords. This fragile peace disintegrated into genocide in 1994, when between 800,000 and one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by their neighbours, as instructed and encouraged by central and local governments and a powerful radio media.
Dallaire is careful to describe the political background to the conflict; decades of minority Tutsi power ended when Rwanda achieved independence in 1962 and a majority Hutu-dominated government was installed. A large expatriate Tutsi population settled in Uganda, Burundi, and Zaire, and would later prove vital in driving the genocide forward. In 1972 President Juvénal Habyarimana, a moderate Hutu, assumed power and held it until his still unresolved assassination in April 1994. The military conflict was largely between the Rwandese Government Forces (RGF) and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), with the extremist-Hutu Interahamwe youth militias playing a deadly supporting role.
Although Dallaire was an accomplished and skillful military man, Rwanda was his first experience at peacekeeping. He would later chastise the hubris of himself and others who believed that a rookie could lead one of the most complex peacekeeping operations in modern history. Dallaire was not only faced with a dramatically underfunded and understaffed military operation, but often supplemented the routinely absent and usually incompetent political head of UNAMIR.
As he navigated the political intriguing of Rwandan, European, UN, and American actors, Dallaire commanded daring rescue missions and peace enforcement projects which saved an untold number of Rwandan lives, even as so many perished. With his few but dedicated troops, notably contingents from Ghana and Tunisia, UNAMIR secured delivery of humanitarian supplies, established and protected refugee camps, rescued Rwandans and expatriates trapped in the melee, and monitored ceasefires and borders, to list but a few tasks. Troops risked their lives as they were threatened over Rwandan radio, suffered malnutrition and disease, and snapped from repeated exposure to the gruesome minutiae of life in 1994 Rwanda.
While Shake Hands tells the story of an embattled and underfunded UNAMIR, it is fundamentally an attempt to understand, not why the genocide occurred (as Dallaire notes, there have been many detailed explorations of that question), but how the world allowed it to occur. And as the book makes clear, the world did undoubtedly allow the genocide to happen.
As Dallaire chronicles in a narrative voice that varies between the dispassion of a man shocked by the unfolding of events and the overwhelmed frustration of one who has reached his breaking point, UNAMIR was consistently undermined and obstructed. Nations, including the United States, promised troops and equipment that never arrived or was not up to task. Political alliances blinded world powers to the extent of the violence. Administrators scrounged for pencils and everyone ate the diarrhoea-inducing expired rations. Rampant miscommunication had deadly consequences. The mission was given a mandate that prevented it from protecting those who most needed protection; troops watched helplessly as children were dismembered before their parents with a slow and calculated brutality. And even as Dallaire appointed a media liaison in hopes that the media could bear the force that the international community seemed reluctant to commit, the slaughter of an entire people competed for coverage against Tonya Harding's knee-bashing escapades.
Dallaire's regret for all he tried yet could not do is palpable throughout. It is this sentiment that makes Shake Hands with the Devil an essential read. For here is a sophisticated analysis of a disintegration into violence, told without prejudice and with damning clarity. Dallaire makes abundantly clear that the decision to commit such brutal acts is a choice; discerning how and why these choices come to be made is essential to both honor the victims, and prevent such acts from occurring again.
Yet more potently, here is a story eloquently told by one who bore witness, who considered it of the utmost moral imperative to be there even as the world failed humanity and turned its back.
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire
Carroll & Graf
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So it's Thursday, August 14 in my world (have you figured out yet that I write this stuff at home and post it later at the library or other secret site?).
Ah, the first day of public school across the street from my house. I love getting up early and leaving my kids sound asleep so I can watch all the neighborhood kids walk to school while I drink my coffee. It makes me all emotional.
When Joel was just a baby, Mom told me that on his first day of kindergarten, she'd take me out to take my mind off of him starting school. Well, Mom, little did you know you planted the seeds of homeschooling in my little brain on that day.
I come from a family of teachers, and I was afraid everyone would FREAK OUT when I mumbled our intention to homeschool, but everyone has been so cool, at least to my face! I kind of worry when I see the principal looking at my house from across the street. But I know what I'm doing is not only legal, but that I'm actually giving my kids a darn good education.
A very cool woman we met in Phoenix couldn't believe homeschooling was even legal. Oh, it's legal, friends! Where I live you only have to be "competent" – quite the relative term – and do school for 187 days starting when the kid turns 7. You register with the state and they generally never contact you again.
In Arizona, a kid only has to be in school from ages 6 to 16, and actual instruction may be deferred till age 8, according to The Unofficial Guide to Homeschooling. It goes on to say that "there are no required teacher qualifications, testing or record keeping." Check out this site to see the laws in your state.
Anyway, we don't homeschool because we HATE public school or private school. It is true that all schools have their problems (including mine!). There are safety issues, that pesky No Child Left Behind debacle, apathetic teachers. And private schools cost a few thousand bucks per year.
So, we homeschool because I am cheap, because I love being around my kids, because I know I can do a better job with my kid than someone teaching 20-30 kids, because they enjoy it, because one of my kids is a conceptual-specific learner and one is an actual-routine learner, because we have family time at night instead of hours spent doing homework, because my husband travels and we like to see him occasionally, plus many other reasons.
I know you want to ask about the Social Issue, and it's really a non-issue. My kids are practically over-socialized. They have friends from the public school, the Catholic school, the neighborhood, the several homeschool groups we are in. They are friends with the kids of my friends. They have cousins and second cousins their age they play with. We even babysit some older kids sometimes.
This morning I heard a mother excitedly tell the crossing guard, "The first day of school! It's like Christmas Day for parents!" I respectfully disagree.


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Why I thought I would make a good scientist
Three high school teachers I admired contributed to the idea I could be a scientist: my biology teacher, who devised experiments designed to appeal to teenagers (making our own soap or peanut brittle), his student teacher (who had served in Vietnam and tossed out the curriculum in favor of us holding hands in a circle in a darkened room while talking about our feelings), and my honors chemistry teacher (who did things like light his shirt on fire to prove ... something).
Reality meets fantasy, reality wins
Cut to fall term, freshman year of college. Based on my A in honors chemistry in high school (totally undeserved - the teacher dropped hints every time I started to give a wrong answer), I was enrolled Biochem 204H. I was under the erroneous impression that class wasn't being held the first day, so I didn't show up until late in the class period. By that time they had already checked out equipment, been assigned a lab partner, watched a safety video, and performed an experiment.
I dropped the class a week later.
My secret dream
But I had never met an author. I figured they were from big cities, went to boarding school, spoke French, and probably owned a beautiful horse they showed while wearing jodhpurs (a garment I had never seen, but which seemed to feature prominently in books).
Writers were most certainly not girls who had grown up in a little logging town in Oregon. Girls who never wrote for the school paper, who weren't in advanced English, who weren't anything special at all.
Dream becomes reality
Now, 15 years later, my 15th book, The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die, has just come out.
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die
She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that two men are arguing over whether or not to kill her.
And that she must run.
Booklist says: "If you liked Girl, Stolen, you'll love Henry's latest tale of abduction, escape, and paranoia. ... Henry is a dependable best-selling force in both adult and YA worlds, and this book is tailor-made to please her fan base." And Kirkus calls it "an adrenaline rush" and says the "direct, first-person narration make the Hollywood-blockbuster–like story pulsate."


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Barbara Wuest holds an MFA from University of California, Irvine. Her poems have been published in Wisconsin Academy Review, The Paris Review, The Cape Rock, Dogwood, Western Ohio Journal, CrossCurrents, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Laurel Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Oberon and others. She has a chapbook, Among Others, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Selected Poems
Natural Formation
As a child I watched with all our neighbors as
a warehouse burned large one evening in fall.
Flames climbed up to the sky as if they would
singe the stars and blacken the big round moon.
Fear came alive in my knees, my shoulders, my
hands, and it set up shop in my unshaped mind.
I have it now to use as I might when someone
strikes at an over-burdened nerve, laying me out
so I can't stand up for the fight or the awful fire.
Cool sunny fall is everywhere I look and the last
days of green turn me toward the lost who have
led me back home where ending solemnly begins.
I come to the ghostly door, stop on the bottom
step and gather my past like the long lacy train
of a dress the wearer I serve parades through
the halls of the palace where excess is supreme.
Weakening with each step up to the royal chair
I lose control and tumble like a red-nosed clown.
Rubber Capitol of the World
I was nearly through being seven.
A new playground and more kids than
I had ever stood among.
Something burned all the time.
And the foul smell meant money
was being made by their dads.
My own newly dead, I thought
only of the space on the ground,
the room I had between my feet
and theirs. Often they would
step into the area I'd reserved.
I was not sad. I was not,
not then. Not for anyone.
Akron had a man's sound,
citied and strange. I came
from a town. A soft say
on your lips, someone's name.


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Picture this: you're in a busy restaurant having a quiet meal with a friend. Suddenly, one of the patrons, obviously drunk, starts getting loud and obnoxious, going from table to table insulting the other diners. Within a minute or two, all of the other customers are very uncomfortable and wishing the management would throw the bum out. That'd be the sensible thing to do, wouldn't it? But the management is actually powerless to do that. Instead they ask everyone to leave. Then they shut down the restaurant until they can figure out a way to prevent other random loudmouth drunks from ruining their business.
Well, Microsoft just had a similar experience on Twitter. In 2014, the company launched a learning "chatbot" driven by artificial intelligence on two popular social media platforms in China. The chatbot, named Xiaoice, has been a huge success; tens of millions of users enjoy interacting with "her."
But recently, when Microsoft launched on Twitter the same kind of chatbot, this one named Tay, things went disastrously off the rails within a matter of hours. As you probably know, there are certain Twitter users whose favorite activity is sowing chaos and disruption on the platform. When word quickly spread through their grapevine that Tay was programmed to learn through its interactions, they bombarded its account with sexist, racist and anti-semitic tweets. The result? Very quickly, Tay itself started tweeting highly offensive hate speech. Helpless to "throw the bums out,"Microsoft quickly issued an apology and took Tay offline while their engineers figure out how to prevent a recurrence.
Microsoft's experience with Tay shows, once again, that technology can be too easily co-opted to serve as a force multiplier for the offensive views of a small handful of idiots. And as a recent NPR story pointed out, some of Google's algorithms have learned socially discredited biases, even without a concerted effort to corrupt them.
Should we just learn to expect these kinds of incidents and just chalk it up to "algorithms being algorithms?" Why is this a big deal?
I could argue that allowing algorithms to reflect and especially to magnify intolerant biases runs counter to our values. And while I believe that, I don't even think I have to go there to argue that this is a problem worth trying to solve. From a strictly pragmatic point of view, biased algorithms are bad for business. Who wants to risk offending and alienating large segments of their market? Sure, Google and Microsoft are big enough to survive embarrassing incidents like these, but many businesses probably aren't.
Algorithms can't just be programmed to learn from data. They must be programmed to discern which data is worth learning from and which data should be discounted.
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Ok, so I've been doing this diet and walking everyday at lunch and I've been doing just fine. Well let me tell you, yesterday was NOT a pretty site. First of all I couldn't walk because it was raining so I stayed inside to do my 1st Yoga class with another lady I work with. Well I found out that Yoga is not going to work for me. All I could think was, "just let me lay on this mat and take a nap". I don't know if it was because it was too quiet or because I just didn't have the fresh air in my face but Yoga & I = Not gonna happen.
Then if that wasn't bad enough I ate just about everything I had on hand yesterday at work. I know I went way over my 1200 calories and I don't know why but this is what I felt like yesterday.
Luckily I was able to get back on track today and I'm doing OK but yesterday was just really weird. I hope you are all doing well. Have a great day!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Fell Off The Wagon Yesterday
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Singin' the Blues
By Lisa Fabrizio
Ah, nostalgia! Merriam-Webster online defines it as, "pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again." And so it was that I experienced an acute pang of pleasant wistfulness as I watched Hillary Clinton's hair-tossing attempts at school-girlery when trying to explain her way out of her claim that she and her husband were "dead broke" when they left the White House. Oh the memories conjured up watching a fawning press, with their puerile devotion to Barack Obama fading fast, returning to their first love; the smartest woman in the world.
How I've missed the former First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sure, we've seen her as a senator and as Secretary of State, but in these roles she has been a mere shadow of her former glorious self. Occasionally the rigid feminist, but mostly the southern coquette, who can forget her eight years as devoted wife and mother? Those were the days. I even miss the cookies she never baked for Bill. Yes, it's been a long while since we've had the Clintons on our plate. I almost empathize with C.S. Lewis' Screwtape—a demonic feaster on the souls of sinners—lamenting the modern lack of tasty fare:
With Barack Obama and his team of teenaged apologists dishing out the dreck, one almost feels a sense of loss for accomplished professionals like the Clintons. But not to worry; with her new book auguring her resurgence, you can be sure that when she slips into her Mrs. Clinton role, she has her sights set on returning to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And, speaking as a connoisseur of political intrigue, I welcome the coming banquet.
And so with a touch of nostalgia tinged with a bit of shadenfreude, I offer the former First Lady's musical explanation of her latest remarks; courtesy of Elvis. (You younger folks may have to Google some of the references.)
As the snow flew,
And my Bubba cried;
People need to understand;
Then the worm turned;
And this girl learned;
And then one day in Escalante
But our spin was gold;
And as my fortunes rise;
Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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For years, I would spend hours trying to get the right subject matter and then writing and sending them to be printed and mailed out only to get so many of our newsletters back because so many in our patient base would move and not forward their mail.
The great news is that by putting these online, not only do we save time and paper, but these newsletters can be viewed over and over again for a long time to come and it even makes it easy for me if I ever want to go back and find an article or refer to an article from past newsletters...
Enjoy the process and here is our first online edition:


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At first, you need to open your browser which is in your PC and you have to open google or any other search engine which you feel easy to search in it. Google is one of the most popular search engines which we have all the idea about Google and for opening the google you need to type or write in URL of browser as https://www.google.com
You can take the help of google to search for SBCglobal mail or Att.net mail where you will get so many links that are related with your search and then you can choose any one of it as per your choice.
Or simply you can use this http://tinyurl.com/sbcglobal11046 link for opening the SBCGlobal email login page directly.
In the login page where you will be able to see a picture and a tab as well as you will get two blank spaces of the email address or ID and password. In two blank spaces, you need to write your email address or ID and password in the first blank text box and in the second blank text box respectively.
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In the above login button, you can see an option which is texted as Keep me signed in and if you tick in the check-box of keep me signed in then it will make you sign in always even if you forgot to sign out.
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This lavish, state-of-the-art catamaran configures easily to meet any expectation and will provide an original and enjoyable way to celebrate with friends or colleagues. Designed for luxurious cruises and special events, the Jewel Yacht is second to none in service and accommodation. Allowing those who partake in one of our luxury excursions, the Jewel Yacht offers an ambiance of tremendous comfort and enjoyment for all those who come aboard.
The entire New York City skyline is lit up and there for your viewing pleasure as you spend a night on the water with friends and loved ones. This crown jewel is surely a gem when it comes to thoroughly enjoying a night out in New York City, and provides all the quality services necessary to ensure everyone aboard has a fantastic time, and the Jewel Yacht offers the perfect setting for anything from a corporate event to a fun-filled family and friend party extravaganza!
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By Andrew Liszewski
The WMF1 is another one of those compact coffee machines that uses "coffee pads" to brew a single cup at a time, pretty much anywhere you're willing to take it. But it manages to stand out from the crowd by oozing with style. While the machine itself is made of plastic, the included mug is made of porcelain and from what I can tell, given the shape of the cutout, that's the only mug you'll be able to use it with.
The water reservoir only holds enough H2O for a single cup of joe, which is a good thing since it means you'll have to use fresh water each time, and the machine is only heating as much water as it needs to. Now I'm not entirely sure of the pricing details, but the WMF1 comes in a variety of different color schemes including the Kiwi model pictured above.
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TNRIS, a division of the Texas Water Development Board, has two Application Developers positions open. The right individuals will enhance our website, improve our online data distribution functionality, and play a key role in developing online location intelligence mapping applications. Visit the TWDB Jobs Page for full information and how to apply.
Job Description Summary
Performs advanced and/or supervisory (senior-level) computer systems analysis work. This software developer will play a fundamental role in helping Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) manage and publish geospatial information for the state of Texas. Working in an agile environment, the developer will be part of a small core team of developers working on projects under the guidance of the TNRIS Director. Projects are typically oriented around public-facing web sites, services, and mapping applications or internal-facing tools for collaborating and managing TNRIS' vast archive of geospatial data. Existing applications are primarily written in JavaScript (with node.js) or python, and run in a cloud-based environment. Works under minimal supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Reports to the Director of Texas Natural Resource Information System.
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The Texas Water Development Board is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability in employment or the provision of services. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), TWDB will provide reasonable accommodation during the hiring and selection process for qualified individuals with a disability. If you require special accommodations during the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Division for assistance at (512) 475-2142. If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodation to participate in the interview process, please notify the person scheduling the interview.
Let our hands-on team of data specialists assist you with physical map products and other datasets, many unavailable online.Learn More about Research & Distribution
TNRIS hosts the State of Texas's Geographic Information Office (GIO), an inter-agency initiative to collaborate and facilitate the effective use of G.I.S. in state and local government.Learn More about the Geographic Information Office
Our annual gathering of the Texas GIS community, showcasing the latest innovations and talent in the field.Learn More about the Texas GIS Forum


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epaathsala: Aims To Reach 10K Colleges in India and Abroad in Next 3 Years
epaathsala was started in 2014 in Bangalore with a vision to improve the quality of education in India and it was formed out of this desire to make a difference in your own country.
Incepted in 2014, based out of Bangalore, epaathsala is cloud based software for accreditation, campus and compliance management for scaling up and improving operational efficiency of higher educational institutions around the world. Suman Nandy is the Founder & Director of epaathsala, based out of Bangalore.
BWDisrupt interacted with Suman Nandy, Founder & Director of epaathsala to know about his entrepreneurial journey:
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What led the inception of epaathsala?
Suman and Prabol were working for Ernst and Young in the USA but always wanted to do something locally in India. Moreover, they were committed in helping improve the quality of education in India. epaathsala was started in 2014 in Bangalore with a vision to improve the quality of education in India and it was formed out of this desire to make a difference in your own country. It is a cloud based software for accreditation, campus and compliance management for scaling up and improving operational efficiency of higher educational institutions around the world.
Please elaborate key features/services offered by epaathsala?
Epaathsala provides ERP solutions to the colleges and universities. These institutions are charged a fee to use the ERP as per the modules they use. epaathsala's key highlight is to help higher educational institutions to save time and put their effort in management and compliance so that they can focus on what's truly important i.e. better education of students. For example, features to address mandatory accreditations such as NAAC and NBA are already included in the ERP which saves thousands of hours in manual labour. Educational Institutions find it extremely valuable to have an integrated end to end solution as it enables them to make real time data driven business decisions. Below are the major features:
epaathsala provides end to end ERP solution to manage colleges and universities with accreditation management for standards such as NAAC and NBA. Some of the major modules included in the ERP are:
a. Admission Management
b. Accounting and Fees Management
c. Student Management
d. Learning Management System
e. Library Management
f. Hostel and Class Management
g. Placement Management
h. Alumini Management
Once the institutions use the ERP, they automatically get an accreditation report with gaps and recommendations on how to improve and get better grades for the accreditations. epaathsala also provides consulting services to the institutions to improve their overall college management with an emphasis on how to improve the compliance with the accreditation standards.
Who are your competitors and how do you stand out among them?
ERP providers such as TCS, ION, Academia etc. but none of them have accreditation modules built on top of a robust ERP like epaathsala. Management and the accreditation compliance are the most expensive propositions to the institutions therefore, epaathsala believes that ERP integrated with accreditation is the differentiator in the market place.
What is current funding status of your venture?
The company has raised two rounds of investment from Times Group and Hyderabad Angels.
What is the Monetization model of epaathsala?
Help education institutes improve quality by assisting them in getting and maintaining accreditation. The colleges can use the ERP module that is built on top of accreditation. This also means that if colleges use epaathsala's ERP solution, they are already following the processes to get and maintain accreditation.
Please let us know the traction details?
More than 1000+ colleges
What are your future plans with your venture?
Reach 10,000 colleges in India and globally in the next three years.
What is your marketing plans?
• Conferences
Epaathsala's primary service is to help institutes get and maintain accreditations. The institutes can significantly improve their financial situation and improve the quality of the education simultaneously. Our services is a no brainer for the institutes. We organize conferences in each of the major cities in India and invite the decision makers. We believe that if we can get decision makers in the same room and we educate them on our services, our sales will explode.
• Digital marketing
We use the power of internet network with massive digital marketing. Use of social networks along with search optimization is our big priority. We believe that with digital marketing, our more technically able customers will be able to find us more easily in the internet and find value in our services.
• Door to Door sales
Of course, we will not completely stop door to door sales marketing efforts however we will use these efforts to convert the institutes as our customers in some cases while in in the other cases, we will invite the colleges to our conferences which we hope will help with our overall sales strategy.
What is the market size and opportunities for companies operating in education industry?
More than $200 million
How technology is changing the education system in an organised way?
Technology is changing everything that we do in our daily lives. Education industry is no different. From attending classes, grading, learning assistance, student and faculty interaction, class planning, syllabus planning and so many other things are now being done with technology. While technology is making things easier and faster, it is also important to be careful to not automate everything as that may take away the core of education experience which we believe is the faculty and student interaction on campus.
How epaathsala's solution reaching out to colleges and universities to improve the quality and get higher student enrolment ratio?
epaathsala helps colleges get, maintain, or improve their grades on accreditation such as NAAC, NBA, ABET, and so on with the help of an end to end ERP. In other words, epaathsala helps colleges with the following:
a. Improve quality of education at an institute
b. Help colleges get funding which will ultimately translate to better education experience for students
c. Use ERP technology to improve learning experience
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China eyes big cuts in use of low-grade coal|
South Korea's new prez shutters coal plants|
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"We should reduce consumption of fossil fuels, coal in particular. Coal-fired power plants are accused of air pollution and fine-dust emissions."
– Moon Jae-In, South Korea's leading presidential candidate, regarding his pledge to reduce coal-fired power plants and phase out nuclear reactors as it strives to be more environment-friendly and low-carbon oriented. South Korea has more than 50 coal-fired power plants that supply about 40 percent of its electricity.
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– Florida Power & Light President and CEO Eric Silagy, on the utility's announcement that it will shut down its 292-megawatt, coal-fired Cedar Bay Generating Plant – only 22 years old – on New Years Eve, cutting 1 million tons of carbon pollution and saving customers $70 million.
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Day 2 of our Borderlands Bash week, and it's with our all-new awesome microphone! FEEL the quality of audio. Meanwhile we'll continue clearing out this cave of electric shrimp and rabid dogs and flaming men, while discussing what we're expecting in Borderlands 2, the Breakfast Club, and ¡Three Amigos!


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The beautiful Milne Bay is teaming with life with its diving being rated as some of the BEST in the world. With never ending visibility and the greatest range of marine bio-diversity recorded you can see from the smallest, most unique critters to being outnumbered by some of the larger schooling pelagic. Whilst Tawali Resort is ideally located in the middle of this wondrous location, aboard the Spirit of Niugini we try and explore every corner of Milne Bay.
The province consists of a large cluster of islands on the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The islands that we venture out to explore are made up of the Conflict Group, Samarai and the D'Entrecasteaux Group. consist of the large islands of Normanby, Fergusson, and Goodenough and some of the much smaller islands of Sanaroa, Watoa, Nuakata and Duchess. These islands are known for their pristine reefs, coral pinnacles and elaborate soft corals. The fish life is abundant and varied from schools of fish in shallow waters complimented by the marauding pelagics.
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Archive for July, 2010
Online Respect – Be There For ThemPosted by: | Comments
Twenty years ago, I was sitting in a seminar… with the intent of "getting my head on straight." You know… one of those "fix you up" seminars that was so popular in the 80's and 90's. (If you don't remember them… be grateful… you're a "young pup.")
One of the most profound lessons I learned didn't have anything to do with the agenda of the seminar. But, it was one of those "ah ha" moments that has stayed with me, and I think about often.
"Can You "Be There" For Them?"
One of the rules of the seminar was: No side talking. When the instructor was working with an individual in front of the whole group, there was to be no side talking or whispering.
Opps… some one forgot and began whispering to her neighbor. The facilitator stopped, turned to the offending party and said, "Can you be there for……..?"
It was an interesting way to say, "Can get over yourself and respect and support this person by paying attention and caring about what's going on?"
Online respect can take on many faces…. but one face is… "Be There For Them." Read More→What about you? What do you think?
Business Plan For Making Money Online – Stay On TargetPosted by: | Comments
Once you make your online business plan… stay on target. There are numerous strategies for making money online. Find one what resonates with you and stick with it.
It's so easy to chase every shiny new idea or concept and end up with a slow business or no concrete business at all.
Getting Off Course
In 1979, a passenger jet with 257 people aboard, left New Zealand for the Antarctica. Unbeknown to the pilots, someone had altered the flight coordinates 2 degrees. It eventually took the plane off 28 miles from their final destination.
The pilots had no idea that the 2 degree error placed them in the direct path of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano. When approaching the white capped volcano, the white clouds blended in and the plane crashed killing all on board.
When the black box was recovered, the pilots had indicated that by the time the instruments sounded a warning… it was too late.
In the beginning… the error was only a matter of 2 degrees… but staying on the wrong path took them 28 miles off course in the end.
Three Ways To Stay On Course
Three Reasons Why You Should Write Articles For An Article DirectoryPosted by: | Comments
I'm sure there are many good reasons to write articles and submit them to a article directory, but I'm going to focus on just three.
Get Backlinks:
When you write an article and place it in an article directory, such as Ezine Articles, you have an opportunity to promote yourself in the resource box at the end of your article.
If you place your blog url in the resource box… folks, who what to know more about you, can click on the link… which will take them to your blog.
Backlinks from Ezine Articles (who have outstanding ratings) gives you quality backlinks from a powerful authority site. Google notices and it helps to increases your blog ratings.
List Building:
In the resource box, you also have the opportunity to promote your opt-in box and there by increasing your list. Simply put the url to your Opt-in page in the resource area. (I like to disguise my url by using anchor text. It just looks better.)
It may look like a fine time to send your reader to a sales page… but resist doing it. You are much better off capturing their name and e-mail address first. You then have the opportunity to contact them over and over again to build a relationship. It makes for a much better atmosphere for offering them products.
Online Promotion:
Ezine articles are free to anyone who wants to use them on their web sites, magazines, etc. However, Ezine's terms of use state: Anyone using the article must leave the title, content, and resource area (including links,) and article source in tack. I like that idea!
It's an excellent opportunity for your name and article content to get out on the web. A bit of free promotion is always welcome.
Don't shy away from writing articles and submitting them to an article directory. In fact, if you haven't tried it… don't waste anymore time… get over to Ezine articles and sign up and submit your first article.
Til Later,
Kathryn Griffiths
P.S. One blogging benefit is… you can re-purpose your blog content for your articles. Now, you don't have a reason for not writing articles for a article directory.So, what do you think?
Give Yourself Some Quiet SpacePosted by: | Comments
A few weeks ago, it was necessary for me to go out to our retreat in the Uintah mountains. I was lining up workers to make a few repairs and preparing for our family reunion.
It was so nice to be out away from the hustle and bustle of the city and my closed in office space.
I took my computer along so I could get a little work done in between moving the hose around to water… taking brief trips to the "mall" (our name for the Hanna Country Store,) and visiting with a cousin.
The view from our trailer over looks one of the most beautiful valleys in the world. Farm houses, lush green alfalfa fields with magnificent mountains on the other side of the valley. (A distance of about 10 miles.)
So… where am I going with this?
Space…. I was amazed at what quiet solitude and looking out over the valley did for my head. I found that the "fog" lifted from my thinking. I was surprise to find how clear my mind was. I was able to get a few blog posts and numerous articles written in a short amount of time.
I understand that runners will often get the same "fog" lifting results when they are out on their morning runs. Quite solitude… and looking out and about clears their head.
A lot can be said for quiet meditation time. But, getting out, taking a break, looking far out and about, and giving yourself some quiet space may just be the thing to clear the "fog." Especially when you've been at the computer all day. It just may increase your productivity too.
At least… it worked for me.
Til Later,
Kathryn Griffiths
P.S. In fact… I'm going out again to our mountain retreat in about a week… for a little more quiet time and space. Heavens knows what I may end up getting accomplished.
Let us know what you do to clear the cobwebs from your mind. Love to hear from you!Ideas anyone?
Make Twitter Retweets Easy For Your Twitter FollowersPosted by: | Comments
I love it when my Twitter followers Retweet my Tweets. Boy… is that a mouthful. None the less Twitter has become a necessary strategy for promoting my online business.
I allow myself at least 20 minutes a day to Retweet my followers and business friends. I try and make it as convenient as possible for my followers to Retweet me.
Here are a few simple Twitter tips that will make it easier for your followers to Retweet your Tweets. I use them and I thought I'd pass them on to you.
Front Page Blog Layout Above The FoldPosted by: | Comments
Strong front page blog layout above the fold was one of the first blog principles I learned from my first online mentor. First impressions do count and… you don't want to scare your readers away before they get a chance to read your great content.
Header Titles and Sub Headlines Are The Key
Whether it's your header title, or your sub header title, it should state exactly what your blog is all about. State your general blog theme. This is not the time to use "catchy or cute phrases." You only have 3 to 5 seconds for your reader to make a decision to stay or not stay.
Header Titles and Sub Headlines are the key for getting your readers curious enough to want to see what you have to say on your general subject.
The Title Of Your Blog Post Can Cause Readers To Want More And Bring You Future Readers


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BALTIMORE — Prosecutors won't pursue charges against a divorced police couple in Baltimore after an investigation into possible misuse of charity funds and a burglary allegation.
The Baltimore Sun quotes state's attorney spokeswoman Melba Saunders as saying neither case against Maj. Kimberly Burrus or Capt. Torran Burrus offered compelling evidence.
Kimberly Burrus founded a non-profit to improve police-community relations after the highly publicized death of a black man in police custody in 2015. The Sun quotes the Burruses as saying during a custody hearing that she was being investigated for spending funds on vacation tickets.
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about chris rowbury
Chris has 30 years' experience as a patient, charismatic teacher
with a relaxed style laced with plenty of humour. He will get you singing
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He is based in the UK where he leads community choirs and regular singing workshops. He teaches harmony songs (without instruments or backing tracks) from a wide range of singing traditions (e.g. gospel, Eastern European, African).
Find out more about Chris:
- Visit his website at chrisrowbury.com
- See Chris in action with his Singing Safari workshop and performance at the Pink Singers' 30th Anniversary event
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- Read an interview with Chris on LeisureCourses.net: Course Talk – meet singing tutor Chris Rowbury
- Watch an interview with Elene Marsden in one of her weekly Google hangouts
Chris is a member of the
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Chris has worked all over the world as a teacher, director and performer. He has taught at the Royal Festival Hall in London, at several well-known UK drama schools, at music festivals and for major corporations. He runs regular world music singing groups and community choirs as well as working as a freelance workshop leader and performer.


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Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Papillary thyroid is a form of differentiated thyroid cancer. It is the most common type of thyroid cancer accounting for 80% of cases. The rate of papillary thyroid cancer is increasing, and about 20,000 new cases are expected in the United States this year alone.
The prognosis for patients with papillary thyroid cancer is excellent. When the disease is identified early and treated appropriately, the majority of patients are cured. The disease is more common among women and generally affects younger people (age less than 45). The disease can spread to regional lymph nodes, but unlike many other cancers, lymph node involvement does not decrease survival.
Signs and Symptoms
Today, in the era of easy access to high quality imaging, most papillary thyroid cancers are identified long before they become symptomatic. In fact, many of these cancers are identified on imaging studies that are done for another indication. Other patients will present with an asymptomatic nodule palpated within the thyroid on physical exam performed by the patient's primary care physician or gynecologist. Occasionally, a papillary thyroid cancer will be large enough to cause compressive symptoms such as difficulty breathing or swallowing. Even a small papillary cancer can invade the nerve to the voice box (recurrent laryngeal nerve) and cause hoarseness.
Papillary thyroid cancers generally do not over produce thyroid hormones, so patients are typically euthyroid (normal thyroid function). Some patients will present initially with an enlarged lymph node in the neck which ultimately turns out to be a site of regional spread from a papillary thyroid cancer.
The diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer is determined using the algorithm outlined above for the work up of a thyroid nodule. On physical exam, these tumors tend to be hard and sometimes fixed or immobile. There may be palpable lymph nodes within the side of the neck along the jugular vein. Ultrasound will allow your physician to accurately measure and locate the tumor. There are also several characteristics on ultrasound that, when present, are worrisome for malignancy. These include calcifications, irregular borders, and hypervascularity (increased number of blood vessels). The ultrasound is also used to map the lymph node basins that drain the thyroid to identify possible spread of the disease which will also need to be addressed at the time of surgery.
Once a nodule greater than 1 cm or with worrisome ultrasound characteristics is identified, the next step is a fine needle aspiration biopsy. This procedure can be performed by an endocrinologist, and endocrine surgeon or a radiologist. Under ultrasound guidance, a 21 to 25 gauge needle is advanced into the nodule which is aspirated to obtain cellular material. The obtained material is place on glass slides and then put into fixative for review by the cytopathologist. The needle used for the biopsy is a little smaller than the one typically used to draw blood. Sometimes the nodule needs to be aspirated more than once to obtain adequate material.
The cytopathologist will review the slides and score the biopsy using the Bethesda classification system. If nuclear changes (pallor, inclusions, grooves) and papillary formations are detected on the slides, this will yield a diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer (Bethesda VI). If some, but not all of these features are seen, then the impression will be suspicious for thyroid cancer (Bethesda V).
The successful management of papillary thyroid cancer requires surgery, thyroid hormone suppression and sometimes radioactive iodine ablation.
Surgery for Papillary Thyroid Cancer
For several reasons, the treatment for papillary thyroid cancer at most centers is total thyroidectomy (removal of the entire thyroid). First, although the nodule that has been diagnosed as papillary thyroid cancer can be removed by taking out just half of the thyroid, up to 30 percent of patients will have another focus of cancer within the other lobe that was not recognized before the surgery. Second, if radioactive iodine ablation is necessary, it is only effective if the entire gland has been removed. This is because normal thyroid tissue absorbs radioiodine much more efficiently than papillary thyroid cancer cells. So, to effectively deliver the radioiodine to the cancer cells, the entire normal thyroid needs to be absent. Third, removing the entire thyroid makes the identification of recurrent tumor much easier to detect. Patients with papillary thyroid cancer are followed lifelong with a blood test for a tumor marker called thyroglobulin (Tg). Tg is made by both normal thyroid cells and by papillary thyroid cancer cells. If the entire thyroid has been removed, then the Tg level in the blood should be undetectable. If however, part of the thyroid remains, the Tg will be elevated and it will be more difficult to determine that the cancer has not recurred. Also, a radioiodine body scan will not be able to identify recurrent disease if part of the normal thyroid is left behind, because all of the dye will be absorbed by the thyroid remnant. Fourth, it is well known that the risk of recurrence is higher among patients who only have part of the thyroid removed. Finally, there is really no advantage to keeping half of the thyroid when papillary thyroid cancer has been diagnosed. The complication rates of the two operations (removing the entire thyroid or just half) are essentially the same. And all patients with papillary thyroid cancer are treated with thyroid hormone suppression.
The second component of surgery is assessment and possible removal of lymph nodes that may harbor cancer. Prior to surgery, the lymph nodes are assessed by physical exam and ultrasound. Malignant nodes (those containing cancer) are often larger and more round than normal nodes. In some instances a needle biopsy of a suspicious node will be performed before the operation. If no suspicious nodes are identified preoperatively, then the operation will be limited to the central compartment of the neck which is the area between the trachea and the carotid arteries. The central compartment contains the thyroid and the level VI or central compartment lymph nodes. Currently there is no consensus about whether the central compartment lymph nodes should be routinely removed (prophylactic central lymph node dissection) or only if the nodes are enlarged (therapeutic central lymph node dissection). Proponents of performing a prophylactic dissection argue that disease will be found in some normal appearing nodes. Proponents of performing only therapeutic central compartment lymph node dissections will point out that the recurrence rate and survival are the same without removing the nodes and that the complication rate from the additional surgery is too high to warrant their removal. Prophylactic neck dissections are associated with a 20% risk of temporary and 5% permanent risk of hypoparathyroidism. The risk is less than half that when only therapeutic dissections are performed. Similarly, the risk of an injury to the nerve to the voice box is about three times higher when a prophylactic lymph node dissection is performed.
If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes in the side of the neck (lateral compartment), then these nodes will need to be removed at the time of surgery also. The is called a modified radical lymph node dissection and is designed to remove the lymph nodes around the jugular vein. Sometimes the jugular vein itself needs to be removed, which does not result in any clinical deficit. Multiple vital structures are identified and preserved when performing this operation including the spinal accessory nerve (which allows you to shrug), the vagus nerve (which is partly responsible for the swallowing mechanism and for voice), the phrenic nerve (which enables the diaphragm to move up and down to breath), the hypoglossal nerve (which provides motor function to the tongue), the carotid artery (which supplies blood to your brain), and the thoracic duct (on the left side only). Several small nerves to the skin are severed during this operation which is unavoidable. Because of this, most patients will have some numbness along their jaw following the operation.
Thyroid Hormone Suppression:
One of the mainstays of treatment of papillary thyroid cancer is thyroid hormone suppression therapy. The functional role of the thyroid is to make thyroid hormone. This is regulated by the pituitary gland in the brain. When thyroid hormone levels are low, the pituitary releases thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH stimulates the thyroid to release more thyroid hormone. TSH also can stimulate to growth of the thyroid and it can also stimulate the growth and spread of papillary thyroid cancer cells. For this reason, patients with papillary thyroid cancer are placed on dose of thyroid hormone that is high enough to suppress release of TSH from the brain. The dose of thyroid hormone prescribed is initially based on the weight of the patient and then adjusted based on the results of your blood tests. It typically takes several weeks on a fixed dose of thyroid hormone before reliable changes in the blood work are seen.
Radioactive Iodine (RAI) Ablation
Following a total thyroidectomy for papillary or follicular thyroid cancer, your doctor may recommend radioactive iodine ablation. This, typically fairly low dose of radioiodine, is administered as a single oral pill which usually has limited side effects. Most of the radioiodine passes quickly through the body and is excreted in the urine. The remainder is taken up by any remaining thyroid tissue or papillary thyroid cancer cells in an effort to eradicate them. Although a survival benefit has not been demonstrated, radioiodine dose reduces the risk of recurrence of the disease. Most specialists would agree that patients with large tumors (greater than 4 cm), those with gross positive margins, and those with metastatic disease to the lymph nodes should be given radioactive iodine ablation therapy. Patients with small tumors (less than 1 cm) and negative nodes and clear margins are generally not recommended to have radioiodine ablation.
Patients with papillary thyroid cancer require routine follow up every 6 months to a year. During this visit a physical examination is performed and blood work is sent for a TSH and thyroglobulin level. An ultrasound of the lymph nodes in the neck is also performed. The most common site of tumor recurrence is in the lymph nodes in the neck and is often heralded by a rise in the thyroglobulin level. A radioiodine scan may also be helpful in identifying the site of disease. In this setting, patients are typically referred for a biopsy of the suspicious node and may benefit from further surgery to remove the involved lymph nodes. Other patients may benefit from additional doses of radioactive iodine.


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Radial MILO: A 4D Image Registration Algorithm Based on Filtering Block Match Data via l1-minimization
Vargas, Arturo
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Minimal l1 Perturbation to Block Match Data (MILO) is a spatially accurate image registration algorithm developed for thoracic CT inhale/exhale images. The MILO algorithm consists of three components: (1) creating an initial estimate for voxel displacement via a Mutual Minimizing Block Matching Algorithm (MMBM), (2) a filtering step based on l1 minimization and a uniform B-spline parameterization, and (3) recovering a full displacement field based on the filtered estimates. This thesis presents a variation of MILO for 4DCT images. In practice, the use of uniform B-splines has led to rank deficient linear systems due to the spline's inability to conform to non-structured MMBM estimates. In order to adaptively conform to the data an octree is paired with radial functions. The l1 minimization problem had previously been addressed by employing QR factorization, which required substantial storage. As an alternative a block coordinate descent algorithm is employed, relieving the need for QR factorization. Furthermore, by modeling voxel trajectories as quadratic functions in time, the proposed method is able to register multiple images.
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