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By Laman Ismayilova
"From regions to regions" art festival, promoting the cultural heritage of Azerbaijani people, moved to Ismayilli on July 28.
The art festival, timed to the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, is implemented under the slogan "Our 100-year history" at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture.
Member of the organizing committee of the festival, public relations coordinator Rovshan Najafov said that organization of the event in summer is a great opportunity for tourists to get acquainted with Azerbaijan's rich and diverse cultural life.
The event was solemnly attended by the heads of the region's administrations, the public as well as guests. Initially, participants got acquainted with the exhibitions organized by 15 regional offices of the Ministry of Culture at the Children's Entertainment Center.
Samples of folk art, reflecting the cultural heritage of cities and regions, works of art, souvenirs, and handicrafts aroused great interest among participants.
The gala concert, which is part of the second part of the creative festival, was remembered by folklore groups, local arts and artistic collectives of each regional administration.
The performance of the soloist of the Kurdamir Regional Cultural Office Khagani Shahbazov; representative of Lahij Cultural Center, folk ensemble "Slavyanochka", the soloist of the State Radio and Television of Azerbaijan, laureate of the Mugam Contest in 2015 Elgiz Aliyev were welcomed with great interest.
Civil servant veteran Valeh Salehov spoke about this event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic of Azerbaijan: "Today, such initiatives give us a chance to demonstrate and promote our historical and cultural heritage."
Ismayilli region is home to the sites of special natural interest and highly picturesque valleys.
Located north of the country, Ismayilli was once part of Caucasian Albania – the 4th century B.C. Here, on top of the highest mountain lay the ruins of a medieval fortress.
Maiden Tower is the most famous and significant historical monument of the area. The tower is located on the top of a steep mountain in the territory of the State Ismailli Reserve.
There was an underground tunnel in the tower which led to the Javanshir Fortress.
Many different nations and ethnic groups live in Ismayilli. Among them are Lezgins, Russians (malakans), Jews, lahy?ch and hapyts, the descendants of ancient Albans.
One of the biggest Molokans villages in Azerbaijan called Ivanovka, founded in 1847 was established by the "Molokan" Russians who sought refuge in Azerbaijan after being ousted from Czarist Russia in the mid-19th century due to protesting Orthodox traditions. They have since lived in peace side by side with Azerbaijanis ever since. The village is famous for its fresh dairy products, tasty fruits and vegetables.
The Basgal village of Ismayilli was widely known here as a center of handicrafts and sericulture in the middle ages. To this day, the traditional female headscarf - Kelagayi, which is included in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity has been manufactured in this village.
Ismayilli has a very rich wildlife, hunting tourism has also prospered here. Forests in the area are inhabited by dears, mountain goats, wild boars, bears, wolves, foxes, hares and other animals.


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Since the MVP Summit was this past week, I decided to head out to the West Coast a little earlier and attended SQLSat#65.
I did not submit to speak at the conference, but I did help out some by introducing speakers in one of the rooms and a few other places where I could. I started out in a session by Scott Klein about SQLAzure. BTW, Microsoft now has a 30-day offer for SQL Azure where you do not need to provide Credit Card info. I then sat in for a while on Alan Hirt's Session on building a Cluster on your laptop. I then snuck in to the Contentious DB Design Issues by Karen Lopez. Lunch featured Lasagna which wasn't bad. I jumped into Randy Knight's session on being a Bilingual DBA (Oracle/SQL Server focus). The last session that I sat in on was one by Aaron Bertran on New stuff in Denali.
That was a pretty good list. Here are the speakers that I missed - Brent Ozar, Kendra Little, Jeremiah Peschka, Gail Shaw, Simon Sabin, Willam Pearson, Greg Larson, Argenis Fernandez, Bill Ramos, Tim Costello, John Welch, Donabel Santos, Todd McDermid, John Huang, Richard Baumet, and some guy named Denny Cherry. :-) There were LOTS of tough choices at this event. There were approximately 300 Attendees; all were excited and pumped.
Michael Lato and Scott Stauffer were the main architects of this event. I thought it went very well. I look forward to another Vancouver SQL Saturday soon!
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Posted on: Fri 11 Aug 2017
Movie reviewer Blake Smart joins Breakfast presenter Tom Mann to chat about this week's latest releases. Blake talks about comedy release The Big Sick and how it challenges the stereotype of modern relationships and explores the issue of sickness at an early age.
Blake also talked about Wind River, a new thriller which follows the lives of an FBI agent and a tracker who must solve a gruesome murder in rural America.
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Lunch Program CHANGES: Dine-in lunches temporarily suspended effective Monday, March 16, 2020 due to the Coronavirus.
Effective Monday, March 30, we will begin distributing meals 3-times a week to reduce the number of times lunch participants come out into the community. A hot meal plus a boxed lunch will be distributed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, ensuring that our lunch participants receive 6 meals weekly.
At this time we are only accepting new applications for those county residents age 60 and over and who can pick up a meal at either the Seymour Center or Passmore Center.
Those in group quarters will only be considered if they can identify someone to come and pickup their meal.
For questions, please contact the Aging Helpline at 919-968-2070.
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Both Senior Centers serve up great food in a welcoming atmosphere and good company. Come and join us!
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Serious damage is caused to the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa heavy rains that hit the Central American country. The city marked by floods, at least one building destroyed by flood waters.
Rescuers managed to rescue 27 people who were blocked by water in the bus on one of the Central streets of the city.
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SK Sturm Graz
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S.K. Sturm Graz is a football club which plays in Austria. He was founded in 1909 and the coulors ar black and white. Therefore they are nicknamed the "Blackies".
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The club was founded on 1 May 1909. It was founded by pupils between 16 and 18. The official foundation of the club was in 1912. From 1921 to 1949 Sturm won the styrian championship 11 times. During German occupation the club played his first season in the highest division, the Gauliga Ostmark, but was relegated the same year. 1949 Sturm entered the national league as first team which came not from Vienna. In 1981 the team had the first success, it finished second in the league and reached the quarterfinals of tne UEFA Cup.
With the new president Hannes Kartnig a new successful era started. In 1994 Ivica Osim became coach of the team. 1995 they finished second in the league and 1996 they reached their first title, the Austrian Cup beating Admira Wacker. In 1998 they reached the first title. In 1999 they also won the league.
The first time they played for the Champions League, only reached one point against Spartak Moscow. The second time they played there they reached the 3rd place in the group. In the 199/2000 season of the Champions League they won the Group D versus Galatasaray Istanbul, Glasgow Rangers and AS Monaco FC.
After this success some key players left the club and also coach Ivica Osim. Since 2005 Sturm had financial problems. Therefore Sturm was forced to play with young players. Under Franco Foda this way was successful, Sturm is one of the top four teams in the league. In 2010 they reached the third title and played in the qualification for the Champions League but lost in the play off round against BATE Borrisow and play this season in the UEFA Euro League.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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- Champions (3): 1998,1999, 2011
- Winners (4): 1996, 1997, 1999, 2010
- Austrian Supercup
- Winners (3): 1996, 1998, 1999
- Austrian Amateur Champions (1): 1934
- Styrian Regional Champions (11)
- Styrian Cup Winners (9)
- UEFA Champions League (3)
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JavaScript Programming Tutorial - Full JavaScript Course for Beginners. Learn JavaScript from basic to advanced. JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.
Watch this JavaScript tutorial for beginners to learn JavaScript programming from scratch. 👍
⭐Course Contents⭐
01 | Introduction
Get an introduction from Bob, as he kicks off the course, sets expectations, and gives you a little guidance for the road ahead.
02 | Setting Up the Development Environment
See how to install Node and Visual Studio Code, and learn why you need each. Watch as Bob writes a first tiny line of code to make sure that the installation is ready.
03 | Basic JavaScript Syntax
Hear about the basics of the JavaScript syntax, including how JavaScript is executed, how to create a properly formed statement, and more.
04 | Variables
Learn what variables are and how to declare, initialize, set, and get values from them.
05 | Data Types
JavaScript works with data types differently than other programming languages do. Learn from Bob as he explains some of the most basic data types and how to determine the type held by a variable.
06 | Type Coercion and Conversion
Sometimes you need to explicitly convert the data type of a value into a different data type. Sometimes JavaScript will do this automatically for you. Bob explains how and why this happens.
07 | Expressions and Operators
Learn how to spot a well-formed expression and how to compose expressions through the combination of operators and operands.
08 | Arrays
Watch as Bob demonstrates how to use arrays, how to add/remove elements of an array, how to access elements of an array using the index, how to get the number of elements in an array, and more.
09 | Function Declaration
Get an introduction to functions, as Bob shows you one way to define a function, how to call the function, how to pass parameters into a function, how to return values from a function, and more.
10 | Function Expressions
Sometimes a function declaration is more than you need. Get details in this lesson, as Bob demonstrates how to use a function expression and how to create an immediately invoked function expression.
11 | Decision Statements
Learn how to add logic to your applications by testing conditions using if / else statements, switch / case statements, and the ternary operator.
12 | Iteration Statements
Watch as Bob introduces the For and While statements, which enable you to loop through lists of values and perform operations on them.
13 | Basics of Scope
Hear an explanation of the notion of the lifetime of variables and their reach into other code blocks, in this discussion of scope.
14 | Returning Functions from Functions
As a building block toward a more sophisticated approach to building JavaScript applications, see how you can return functions from functions.
15 | Object Literals
Objects contain properties and functions that describe attributes of the object and its behavior, respectively. Watch as Bob demonstrates how to create object literals.
16 | Module Pattern and Revealing Module Pattern
Learn how to introduce variables and functions without leaving an unnecessarily large footprint on the global scope.
17 | Closures
Closures allow developers to bind functions to their execution context, including variables, so you can build specialized versions of functions. Learn how closures work and how to create them.
18 | this Keyword
Get the details on the "this" keyword, which causes a lot of confusion for JavaScript developers. Listen as Bob explains what this mysterious object is and how to bend it to your will.
19 | Destructuring
See how to use destructuring, a new feature in JavaScript that allows you to unpack array elements or object properties in a concise syntax.
20 | String Template Literals
Learn about the new string template literal syntax to enable string interpolation, multi-line string formatting, and more.
21 | Regular Expressions
Working with string data, Bob explains how use regular expressions to determine such things as whether a string matches a specific pattern or whether an instance of the pattern exists in a string.
22 | Built-In Natives
Join Bob as he examines native, built-in JavaScript functions that return objects that box the primitive types in order to provide additional helper methods on your values.
23 | Constructor Function Calls with the new Keyword
Learn how constructor functions work, see how to make key distinctions in what they are, and find out why they're helpful.
24 | Objects and the Prototype Chain
Moving past the absolute beginner matter, listen in as Bob explains how objects work in JavaScript and how you can create an object that is linked to another object.
25 | JavaScript Classes
Bob demonstrates how "syntactic sugar" works on top of the existing functions and prototype chaining to help JavaScript resemble more traditional object-oriented programming languages.
26 | Arrow Functions
The latest version of JavaScript added arrow functions, a shorthand syntax for creating functions. Watch as Bob demonstrates how to create them and shows where they're useful.
27 | Truthy and Falsy Values
Listen is as Bob circles back to topics that are important (but didn't easily fit into earlier topics) and looks at the odd way in which JavaScript evaluates certain expressions as truthy and falsy.
28 | null Type
Similar to the undefined primitive type, the null type represents a variable that has no reference to an object when one was expected. Hear an explanation of how and why we should think about nulls.
29 | Date Objects
No discussion of JavaScript would be complete without understanding the Date built-in native function which provides properties and methods for working with dates and times.
30 | String Methods
The built-in native String function provides several very useful methods for manipulating and evaluating strings. Watch Bob demonstrate how to use a few of the most useful ones.
31 | Array Methods
We've worked with arrays throughout this course. Now Bob takes a few minutes to show you some of the most useful methods provided by the Array built-in native function.
32 | Error Handling with Try Catch
See how to wrap a try/catch/finally statement around potentially problematic code to anticipate everything that could go wrong with it, and learn other error-handling tips.
33 | Understanding the Document Object Model
Watch Bob examine the web browser environment and how it creates an object graph of nodes that represent elements, their attributes, and text, plus how to properly attach your code to an HTML page.
34 | Working with DOM Nodes
Continuing from the previous video, Bob demonstrates a slightly more compelling example that helps us understand how to manipulate, create, and delete element nodes and attribute nodes.
35 | Course Conclusion
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Colleges for a 1100 SAT
One of the most prominent standardized tests in the country, the SAT is utilized by many colleges to compare academic performance in reading, writing, and math. The SAT is scored on a scale of 400 to 1600 and a 1600 is the best possible result. A score of 1100 indicates that you answered a slightly above average number of questions correctly on the exam.
Is a Score of 1100 Good?
A score of 1100 places you just over the 50th percentile of all students in the country. After earning an 1100, you'll be able to apply to most colleges and universities as a decent candidate. More selective and elite institutions require higher scores for competitive consideration, but outside of those a score of 1100 meets expectations.
I Want to Go to College, What Do I Do?
Review your colleges and universities list and see what scores they accept most frequently. They often are provided in a 25th and 75th percentile. If the majority of the institutions on your list have an 1100 or near there as their 75th percentile, it means that you're likely a good candidate for acceptance. If your SAT score is closer to their 25th percentile or below, it would be worthwhile to retake the exam, especially if you're still in your junior year.
The College Board recommends six to eight weeks to prepare for taking the exam again. In that time, complete a few practice tests by obtaining a book of sample SATs or by visiting the free SAT practice website. If there's enough time, sign up for a test prep class offered by your high school or hire a tutoring service specializing in SAT preparation. Improving your score by even 100 points can increase your competitiveness as an applicant exponentially.
As for seniors, now is the time to ensure that the rest of your application is as marketable as it can be. Because a score of 1100 provides many college options to choose from, a great personal essay or list of after school activities can be immensely helpful in getting accepted to your first choice. Set aside time to compose a persuasive essay and have your college counselor read it over to offer a critique. Also, reach out to the teachers who made an impact on your high school career and ask them to compose a letter of recommendation.
What Colleges Can I Apply to With a Score of 1100?
There are a sizable number of colleges and universities where an SAT score of 1100 is competitive and we've assembled a list of them below. Remember no SAT score by itself guarantees admission, but all of these institutions have established a precedent of accepting students with scores of 1100.


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Knight Frank LLP is a residential and commercial property consultancy founded in London in 1896. The company relies on SharePoint as its company-wide collaboration and communication solution. When it was determined that it was time to migrate from its current SharePoint platform to improve user productivity, their internal team faced the challenge of upgrading from SharePoint 2007 and ClearPeople was selected to make the process as easy as possible.
With over 700GB on a single content database the project seemed daunting, but by harnessing Metalogix's suite of solutions for SharePoint migration the upgrade was extremely efficient. For Knight Frank's SharePoint content database, Metalogix StoragePoint externalizes SharePoint content Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), so that they may be stored on less expensive or more appropriate storage systems. This means their SQL clusters can be right-sized for optimal performance and the size of the SharePoint content database can be dramatically reduced while still maintaining critical metadata in the SQL Server SharePoint to ensure content is easily discovered and retrieved for ease of management within SharePoint.
After implementation of one of Metalogix's tools, StoragePoint, Knight Frank LLP's database has been reduced from 700GB to 48GB. Knight Frank are able to use Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint to simplify the process of restoring items, all without having to rebuild the entire product database or deploy a temporary SharePoint recovery farm. Now Knight Frank is able to connect directly to its native SQL Server backup files, and navigate them as though they were live SharePoint sites.
"Metalogix offered a comprehensive suite of solutions to help us reduce our database size and migrate our content to the new SharePoint version while also enabling us to restore individual files and documents for seamless data protection."
Laing O'Rourke needed a single, all-in-one robust digital platform to avoid costly mistakes.
The Crown Estate required an integration of SharePoint with a scalable cloud solution to share big data.
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Chemistry graduate programs seek meaning in long-awaited assessment
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October 25, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 43
Chemistry graduate programs seek meaning in long-awaited assessment(pp. 12-17)
Drug companies' reliance on outside firms to run complex R&D programs so far seems to work (pp. 20-24)
Government & Policy
Chemical industry hopes Congressional Election will spur more bipartisan collaboration (pp. 38-41)
Cover Story: The Un-Rankings
News of the Week
Moon Crater's Icy Character
Astrochemistry: Lunar impactor may have struck a site of previous comet impacts(p.7)
Pfizer Targets Generic Markets
Pharmaceuticals: Drug giant makes Indian supply deal and Brazilian investment(p.8)
White House Hosts A Science Fair
Winners: Exhibit of student projects emphasizes importance of science education(p.8)
Nanodiamond Catalyst Drives Reaction
Industrial Chemistry: Hybrid material mediates steam-free dehydrogenation(p.9)
President Honors Scientists And Engineers
Awards: Winners of the National Medals of Science and of Technology & Innovation are chosen(p.10)
Removing Bisphenol A
Canned Foods: Many companies plan to phase out use of chemical in product containers, survey finds(p.10)
A Slowdown For Start-Ups
Venture Capital: Biotech and cleantech fundraising declined in the third quarter(p.11)
Sensing Peroxide Explosives
Antiterrorism: Sensor array detects triacetone triperoxide at part-per-billion levels(p.11)
Drug companies' reliance on outside firms to run complex R&D programs so far seems to work(pp. 20-24)
After a tough 2009, attendees at CPhI were looking for growth in biotech and nonpharmaceutical markets(pp. 26-28)
Chemical executives place hope in some government programs but lament others(pp. 29-31)
Concentrates(pp. 18-19)
- GSK Outlines Rare-Diseases Strategy
- Evonik Will Build New Methionine Plant
- Eastman Revamps Board Of Directors
- French Strike Hits Chemicals
- Cintas Debuts Washable Tuxedos
- Clariant To Cut 100 More Jobs
- Petrobras, Ineos Move On Biofuels
- Bayer Develops LED Materials
- Sanofi-Aventis Teams With Harvard
- Caltech And CEA Unite In Nanotech Program
- Asahi To Build Rubber Plants
- Siluria Gets Venture Funding
- Business Roundup
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ACS Scholarship helped this driven chemist blaze her own trail(p.54)
Government & Policy
Efforts are under way to mitigate the risk that good life sciences research could be put to bad use(pp. 35-37)
Chemical industry hopes Congressional Election will spur more bipartisan collaboration(pp. 38-41)
Federal Trade Commission proposes to tighten eco-marketing guidelines(p.42)
Chemistry graduate programs seek meaning in long-awaited assessment(pp. 12-17)
Science & Technology
Advances in biocatalysis, taming hazardous reactions help improve pharmaceutical and fine chemicals production(pp. 45-47)
Microfluidic device reveals link between glucose and patient outcome in brain injury(pp. 48-49)
Researchers seek ways to recycle the alumina refining waste that caused catastrophe in Hungary(pp. 50-51)
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This coming Sunday begins, of course, that Holy Week that leads us to Easter and the center of the Christian faith. In a sermon, the theologian James Alison once said of this week, "If Lent is like a long drawn out visit to the dentist, Holy Week is open heart surgery" (given on April 10, 2006, at All Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA). That is, Holy Week is filled with intensity – and it should be, for it swirls around toward a momentous event: the murder of Jesus.
We don't tend to use this language. We talk about passion, crucifixion, sacrifice – words that have become a part of our sacred vocabulary over the many centuries separating us from the events that Holy Week remembers. Sacred language is important, and it can bring us into relationship with God, with ourselves, with one another in important ways. But sacred language can also insulate us, put some distance between us and that which the sacred language seeks to describe. To speak of the death of Jesus in terms of passion, crucifixion, and sacrifice is certainly powerful. But in some important ways, it somewhat disguises what is really going on: a murder has been organized, arranged, and carried out. A man who did nothing to deserve death is made to die because the people around him are terrified and angry. When we look at this murder in the rearview mirror, we see it as holy and sacrificial. When we look at it head on, we see it as the murder that it was.
To speak of the murder of Jesus using the sacred vocabulary to which we have become accustomed, we often drift into strange theological territory. The sacrifice of Jesus becomes a singular event, unique and unrepeatable, somehow required by God in order to reconcile humanity with our creator. This, in turn, leads us to strange notions about God and about the relationship between God and human beings.
But to speak of the murder of Jesus as exactly that, a murder, forces us to ask questions not about the nature of God but about the nature of our own humanity. To see the murder of Jesus as what it was places responsibility for the crime squarely on the shoulders of those who carried it out.* And it also helps us to see that the murder of an innocent man at the hands of frenzied crowds and terrified authority figures is not, sadly, a singular event, but one which has been repeated in human history over and over again – and is repeated in our own day, at the hands of people living today. And while most of us are not murderers, contemplating the murder of Jesus and the behavior of the crowds should lead us to ask ourselves how much we are like those crowds, and the degree to which we become complicit, by action or inaction, by speaking or by our silence, in the violence of our own time.
There is a reason why Good Friday is not the central, most important day in the Christian tradition: it is because the murder of Jesus is an example of the many times human beings have put innocent people to death in the belief that they are serving some higher purpose. It is a powerful icon of the injustices that have claimed the lives of countless victims over human history and continue to do so today. It is not, in that sense, unique. The uniqueness of Good Friday lies not in the murder of Jesus, but in the truth that we proclaim about who Jesus was: Emmanuel, "God with us." In Jesus, we believe that God entered into this messy human process of victimization, becoming a victim of injustice in Christ. And that leads us to the singular event that truly does lie at the center of our tradition: the first day after Holy Week: Easter, the Resurrection of Christ.
In the Resurrection, the victim Jesus returns not breathing vengeance and malice, but breathing forgiveness and life. In doing so, God declares in the Risen Christ that the divine power of love is able to transcend the machinations of human injustice. The victim becomes the victor, not in a militaristic sense, but because as victor, he is able to invite us into a new dynamic of human existence, a new life that transcends the dysfunctional human dynamic that led to the murder of Jesus and leads to every murder.
James Alison is quite right: Holy Week is like open heart surgery. When we see it for what it is, our hearts are opened in a new way, capable of welcoming the new life that Easter celebrates, enabling us to live in a profoundly new dynamic centered in forgiveness, compassion, and justice.
*I want to be clear that when I speak of the responsibility of the murder of Jesus being squarely placed on the shoulders of those who carried it out, I am NOT speaking of the Jewish people. There is a long and terrible history in Christianity of casting the Jewish people as the murderers of Jesus, and this should not and cannot be perpetuated. The truth is that the Romans carried out the murder of Jesus, and they did so as the climax to a complicated series of events in which many different kinds of people were involved.


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by Linda Friedel | Reprinted courtesy of KC Nursing News
Komla Badjalimbe never intended to become a nurse.
He left his home country of Togo to study business at Wichita State University, but a part-time job opened his eyes.
"It really changed my life truly," said Badjalimbe, RN, BSN, critical care float nurse at Overland Park Regional Medical Center (OPRMC).
Badjalimbe left a factory assembly line to work in a nursing care facility during college. One of his patients, a physician, saw something in Badjalimbe he did not see in himself. Badjalimbe said he loved caring for patients in the skilled nursing center. He found it to be more rewarding than a job.
"He spent so much time talking to me about caring about people," he said. "I thought about it. He was my patient. We just became friends. That's when I started looking into it."
Badjalimbe transferred from Wichita State to MidAmerica Nazarene University to pursue a degree in nursing. While earning his BSN, Badjalimbe worked as a patient technician at OPRMC, where he bonded with the staff and patients, he said. Badjalimbe liked the family atmosphere and saw potential for his future.
"I loved the manager I worked with," he said. "It's like a family."
Badjalimbe stayed on at OPRMC after earning his BSN in 2010, where he floats in critical care. Patients face a vulnerable time in critical care, and do not know what to expect, he said. Badjalimbe builds trust with the patients and their families, reassuring them of his ability to care for them, he said.
"No matter what patient walks through the door, I can take care of them," he said. "The satisfaction comes when they are in improving. That's a good moment. You make a difference in their lives."
Badjalimbe said the world is very selfish, but nursing offers him a way to make a positive impact. He says though he is getting paid for what he does, nursing is not about the money.
"You are making them smile," Badjalimbe said. "Somewhere people still care. I love it. I love every minute of it. I look forward to going to work."
Badjalimbe recently became a U.S. citizen. He applied to graduate school to study as a nurse anesthetist and will know by the end of the month. Badjalimbe said he is fascinated with the field of anesthesiology.
"You are keeping them alive," he said. "The whole physiology behind it— the whole challenge, that's just mind-blowing."
Badjalimbe said he is so enthusiastic about nursing, he convinced a friend to pursue the field. He highly recommends nursing for men, he said.
"Doctors run in and run out," he said. "They are always in a hurry to go. They have so many patients to see. I feel like I have more time to really connect with my patients."
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- Address: 413 Jangjeongyango-gil, Songhae-meon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon
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- Operation: Dec – Feb 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Mar – Nov 9 a.am. -6 p.m.
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Children - Individuals 500 won / Groups 400 won
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Joined: 29 Jul 2008
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Sat Aug 16 08 10:48 am
Post subject: New smoker build thoughts?
I have a old propane tank that I have been contemplating building a reverse flow smoker. Its approx. 10' Long and about 36" in Diameter. I have been reading the smoke ring for a while now and have the bug to build my own. I am planning of putting the fire box on the end. What size fire box would a smoker this size need? Would 24"x24"x24" be big enough??? I see were everyone uses this size alot but the smoker dont seem to be as big as the tank I have. What kind of pipe do you smokers use for the exhaust pipe? How high above the smoker does it need to stick up? I know it has reach down to the cooking surface inside to retain heat. Keep up the good work guys, all your smokers look great. I will post pics of mine when I get going.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16 08 12:21 pm
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10'X36", that's a biggun man! Others may disagree, but I have heard, on the Smokering of all places, that the firebox should be about 1/3 the volume of the cooking chamber. That would mean that your firebox should be about 36X36X36 or so, or another option would be to cut about 2 1/2 feet off the end of the tank, making your cooking chamber 7.5' long and use the cutoff as your firebox. I'm not real fond of that option though, purely preference though, I don't care much for round fireboxes, but lots of people do great things with them.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16 08 3:50 pm
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This site is down now when I am posting it, but it should be back up soon I would think. It will help with smokestacks etc.
Also, there is another build your size somewhere on here, not sure what size firebox they used.
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Posts: 37
Location: Michigan
Posted: Tue Aug 19 08 9:23 am
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Yea its a big one, got her for the right price though
. Hope somebody else chimes in on there opinion. I didnt think that 24x24x24 would be big enough. 36x36x36 is a monster in itself.
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Posts: 50
Location: Owasso, OK
Posted: Tue Aug 19 08 9:46 am
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I just started a smoker build 36x73 and I am setting the width of the fire boxes by the width of the smoker 8.5 inches up (that should give me the area needed based on Alien's pit ratios) the height well be set by the pit once installed on the trailer (I want to be able to stand on the ground) and the depth is adjustable. For me it was easy to get to 33% of the cooking chamber with 30x25x24 so now it just to make it fit correctly.
Good luck with the build
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Tue Aug 19 08 11:22 am
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Thats a tad shorter than the one I'm contemplating. But the 36" wide sounds like a good idea, just have to figure out the length and height now. Took a look at your smoker start, lookin good
, what size pipe are you using for the smoke stacks on yours?
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Location: Owasso, OK
Posted: Tue Aug 19 08 3:50 pm
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I had a 4 inch piece of Schedule 40 pipe, 4.5 inch OD. Using Aliens pit Ratio it calculates total volume need for the stack(s) which would make it 6 foot long thus the reason for two stacks (and I like how two looks vrs one). If you have not read about Alien's Pit Ratio's here is the link
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Wed Aug 20 08 10:39 am
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My math is not that great, so the air in must equal the air out? Then you would have to know what size fire box your going to use before you figure out the smoke stack size and length? Guess I have to recuit my brother for that one. I figure I should at least go 36" wide by maybe 30" deep and 30" high for the 36"x10' long smoker unit? Does this sound like I'm in the ballpark?
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 08 9:32 pm
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Without seeing the tank shape (mainly the curved ends) I would estimate
Smoker volume = 105,000 cubic in
using the 33% rule for fire box size 34,650 cubic in
36x30x30 = 32,400 cubic in works
Stack size = Length
4 in = 129 in
5 in = 82.5 in
6 in = 57.32 in
7 in = 42.12 in
8 in = 32.25 in
uising 3/4 the length of smoker for stack length = 108 in
You well have to pick stack size, note multiple stacks length can be added togeather for total length.
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 6:42 am
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I have a dilema, Is it possible to put your firebox to far into the cooking chamber? " I am using a 500 gal. propane tank with the rounded ends. I was thinking of running it in to the seam ( were the rounded ends start from) which is about 18" in from the end, but will this alter the cooking chamber with radiant heat with the fire box that far into the cooking chamber?
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Location: Southeast Texas.
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 7:14 am
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HeavyD, you can take a look at unclebeefs build his firebox is under cut the way you are describing not sure if he went 18''. I don't think going to the weldment on a 500 gal. tank is to far on a reverse flow as the opening is covered with your reverse flow plate. Why are you going so far in if you don't mind me asking?
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 8:31 am
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Was just trying to figure out how to shorten the unit some, as the tank itself is 10' long, then if I use a 36x30x30 fire box with the 36" adding to the length, now I'm looking at close to 13'. Thats why I was wondering if pushing the fire box that far inside the cooking chamber, would it effect the heat at that end just from the radiant heat from the fire box itself. Thanks for your input.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 8:55 am
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HeavyD, I could be wrong but I think the difference across the board wouldn't be that bad.
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Location: Danville, Il
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 9:27 am
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Just a thought, but if you were trying to shorten the length why not put the firebox on the backside of the smoker? It would in essence make it wider but it would maintain the 10' length.
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 10:12 am
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I had thought about that 82 BBQ, but that wouldnt allow me to do the reverse flow system that I want to go with. I have seen numerous like that in operation, but still want to stick with the reverse flow system. Thanks for your input and thoughts.
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Posts: 917
Location: WV
Posted: Wed Sep 10 08 11:08 am
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You could do a 50/50 reverse flow, if you put you firebox in the middle on the backside, have the inlet enter the cook chamber in the middle and put your heat deflector plate in the bottom where the heat/smoke goes to each end of the cooker and back to the middle where you smoke stack or stacks are, you can even run the pipe down into the cooker to grate level and hide the pipe between the two doors. just some thoughts for yah.
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Location: Michigan
Posted: Thu Sep 11 08 2:40 am
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Never thought of that way H.B.Smoker, in all reality sounds like it would work. I have never seen or heard of that done before, but I guess anything is possible.
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Location: Granite Falls, Wa.
Posted: Thu Sep 11 08 8:31 pm
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Good Idea hillbilly, I wonder if you will always have one side that is going to pull more. The heat is going to want to go the way of lease resistance. Less meat on one side the way the wind blows who knows. so you would need a way to tune the flow of the draft.
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 08 11:01 pm
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If your only cooking on one side you can install dampers on top of your stacks and just shut the side off you not using, i have a picture of this style of smoker except the firebox is on the bottom and not the back, its one we use at work for our christmas party
Youll notice in this picture where the builder put an adjustable door on the end to either close it completely off or have it open at certing settings by the chain to tune it.
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Hello, I'm Luna, and I'd like to welcome you to "Kisses from Kairo,"* my blog about living and working as an American belly dancer in Cairo.
Life in Cairo isn't easy for dancers, foreigners, women, or even Egyptians. It is, however, always exciting. That's why after living here for seven years, I've decided to share my experiences with the world. From being contracted at the Semiramis Hotel to almost being deported, not a day has gone by without something odd or magical happening. I will therefore fill these pages with bits of my history in Cairo—my experiences, successes, mistakes, and observations. Admittedly, my time here has been rather unique, so I want to stress that while everything I write is true, my experiences do not necessarily reflect the lives of other dancers.
In addition to my life as a belly dancer, I will write about developments in costuming, performances, festivals, and, of course, the dance itself. I will also make frequent references to Egyptian culture. I should note that I have a love/hate relationship with Egypt. If I make any criticisms about the country, please keep in mind that I do so with the utmost love, respect, and most of all, honesty. Egypt has become my home, so I want to avoid romanticizing and apologizing for social maladies, as most foreigners tend to do. Nothing could be more misguided, patronizing, or insulting.
I hope you find this blog informative, insightful and entertaining, and that we can make this as interactive as possible. That means I'd love to hear from you. Send me your comments, questions, complaints, suggestions, pics, doctoral dissertations, money, etc., and I will get back to you. Promise. :)~
Sunday, March 27, 2011
My Story...
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- AnonymousAugust 15, 2011 at 10:16 PM
Awesome! I wish I knew that I loved this dance in time for me to actually put in the kind of scholarly resilience you have put in!ReplyDelete
Enjoyed meeting you and talking with you this weekend, Luna! Really enjoying your blog, too. I hope you will keep your safety #1, ok? If you ever need someone to talk to you can write me via Facebook or contact me via www.carriemullins.comReplyDeleteReplies
It was really nice meeting you too! I'll definitely keep in touch, and I actually think I want to order a photo, so I'll email you about that. Lots of love. <3Delete


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Unleashing the Power of Connected Systems
The big data that devices collect and share on the industrial internet of things (IIoT) have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing. To develop models for greater productivity through IIoT technologies, UWM has launched its Connected Systems Institute (CSI), a multidisciplinary, statewide collaboration between academia and industry. Together, we can optimize Industry 4.0.


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About Hypnosis
People are curious about clinical hypnosis. Many think it is a strange state completely alien to anything they have ever experienced.
But did you know we experience hypnosis at least once a day. 90% can easily enter a light hypnotic state and between 70-90% can experience a medium depth of hypnosis or hypnotic trance.
Most of us can relate to the pleasant state of limbo, that occurs spontaneously whilst driving down a familiar route. Almost everyone has experienced an interesting daydream. And everyone reading this can think back to a time in the past and remember some of the details of that time.
Well, if you can relate to these experiences then you have experienced the naturally occurring state of consciousness called hypnosis.
Hypnosis is often described by athletes, as "being in the zone"; by artists as a creative streak; by business executives when they are absorbed and focused on a project; and even by surgeons who become so immersed in the operation that they do not notice theatre staff changes.
It is therefore a naturally occurring altered state of consciousness, characterised by both profound relaxation and intense concentration. Since hypnosis is natural, it is also safe, inexpensive and drug free, leading one well-known medical expert (Dr David Spiegel M.D., Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University) to remark, "If this were a drug, everyone would be using it.".
Discovering Hypnosis
Today clinical hypnosis is increasingly evidenced to have wide-ranging medical and psychological benefits. It is also an effective antidote for modern stress and emotional disconnection.
There are very few words that can do justice to the profound and personal experience of clinical hypnosis. Of course, this only adds to the mystery surrounding hypnosis.
LCCH Asia invites you to explore these pages and perhaps treat yourself to the experience that may just change your life.


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text: What Have Holden and Opel Told us About the 2018 Buick Regal? by Michael Accardi October 27, 2016October 27, 2016 Share Comments Yesterday was a big day for GM's regional brands of Holden and Opel, both previewing new flagship siblings, the Commodore and Insignia Grand Sport respectively. Between Opel, Holden and Buick, extensive work has gone into GM's global E2 platform in order to satisfy three distinct markets–four if you include the Vauxhall rebadge– but curiously, Buick stayed home from the party. We asked Buick why it didn't preview the upcoming Regal with its kin, we were told the timing simply didn't make sense for the U.S market. Fair enough, that leaves us to do some informed assuming. Opel announced the Insignia will shed a significant amount of weight, 385 lbs to be exact, which joins a three-inch longer wheelbase, a two-inch-plus growth in overall length, an inch lower roofline and almost another inch of girth. Expect the Regal to sport similar, if not identical growth in exterior metrics, but Buick's extensive use of sound deadening may reduce weight savings. Holden confirmed yesterday the soon-to-be imported Commodore will initially be offered with a choice of three engines: a 3.6-liter V6, a 2.0T and a 2.0 diesel. The V6 will be hooked to GM's new 9-speed automatic gearbox and a twin-clutch AWD system, while the pair of two-liter four-cylinders will be FWD exclusive. This revelation squares with information provided by an internal Buick source earlier this month. The well-placed source claimed the Regal would add V6 power this time around in response to rivals, in addition, he claimed Buick is considering adding a diesel choice three to five years down the road. As for the twin-clutch AWD system, Buick already sources such a system from GKN Driveline for use in the new LaCrosse and Envision models. The transmission question is a bit more difficult, no Buick model currently uses the 9-speed gearbox making it impossible to guarantee the Regal will offer the jointly-developed transmission. What can be guaranteed however is the addition of a wagon variant, Buick confirmed such a model to its dealers in May of this year, before the source confirmed Buick would add a crossover-style wagon next year called the TourX. Yesterday Holden announced it would also receive liftback and wagon derivatives. On the technology front expect Buick to offer an 8-inch configurable display, featuring Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, along with 4G LTE Wi-Fi and potentially GM's next-generation head-up display. This will join an elevated suite of safety features the Buick brand has become known for, like Surround Vision, automatic front braking, rear park aids, forward crash avoidance, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, blind zone alert, cross traffic alert, and vibrating safety seats. How Buick decides to package this content will not be clear until later in 2017. Unfortunately Opel's cutting edge IntelliLux Matrix LED headlamps will not cross the Atlantic as they remain illegal under U.S regulations. The Regal should make its global debut at the 2017 New York Auto Show in April of next year, before arriving on dealer lots toward the end of 2017 as a 2018 model.


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Rick Steves, Blog Gone Europe, March 06, 2012
When I put my luggage into a taxi at the start of my first-ever cruise trip, it was a shock. I'd never packed so much before: deck wear, nicer evening wear, and rugged travel clothing to use on land. I'd even brought four pairs of shoes ... if you count my flip-flops.
But compared to my fellow passengers, I was still packing light. Pulling my wheeled carry-on bag to my stateroom, I had to dodge huge bags that jammed the hallways like a chorus line of beached whales.
Many cruisers eventually learn to keep their luggage to a minimum. Cruise-ship cabins are cramped, and large suitcases consume precious living space. Plus, you'll still need to get to the airport, on and off the plane, and between the airport and the cruise port. The lighter your luggage is, the easier your transitions will be.
Consider packing just one carry-on-size bag (9-by-22-by-14 inches) and sharing an extra bag with your travel partner. I know - realistically, you'll be tempted to bring more. But cruising with limited luggage can be done without adversely impacting your trip; I've done it, and was happy I did. Pack one bag each, as if traveling alone, then share the third bag for bulky cruise extras (such as formal wear). If traveling before or after the cruise, you can store that third, nonessential bag at a friendly hotel or in a train-station luggage locker.
Here's another reason to favor carry-on bags: If the airline loses your checked luggage and doesn't get it to your embarkation port by the time your ship sets sail, the checked bags are unlikely to catch up to you. If you booked air travel through the cruise line, the company will do what it can. But if you arranged your own flights, the airline decides whether and how to help you - and rarely will it fly your bags to your next port of call. If you only checked the third, shared bag, no matter what gets lost, you'll still have your essentials.
Baggage restrictions provide a built-in incentive for packing light. Some cruise lines limit you to two bags up to 50 pounds apiece; others don't enforce limits (or request only that you bring "a reasonable amount" of luggage). But all airlines have restrictions on the number, size, and weight of both checked and carry-on bags. These days, you'll most likely pay for each piece of luggage you check - and if your bag is overweight, you'll pay even more.
You don't need to pack for the worst-case situation. Pack for the best weather and simply buy yourself out of any cold snaps. Risk shivering for a day (or layer a sweater under your rain jacket) rather than pack a heavy coat. Think in terms of what you can do without - not what will be handy on your trip. When in doubt, leave it out. The shops on your cruise ship (or on shore) are sure to have any personal items you forgot.
Most cruisers will want two to three changes of clothes each day: comfortable, casual clothes for sightseeing in port; more formal evening wear for dinners on the ship; and sportswear, whether it's a swimsuit for basking by the pool or athletic gear for hitting the gym or running track. But that doesn't mean you have to bring along 21 separate outfits for a seven-day cruise. Think versatile. Some port wear can double as evening wear. Two pairs of slacks can be worn on alternating nights, indefinitely. As you choose clothes for your trip, a good rule of thumb is: If you're not going to wear an item more than three times, don't pack it.
During the day, the dress code is casual. People wear shorts, T-shirts, swimsuits with cover-ups, flip-flops, or whatever they're most comfortable in. But in the evenings, a stricter dress code emerges. On most nights, dinner is usually "smart casual" in the main dining room and at some (or all) specialty restaurants. For men, slacks and a button-down or polo shirt is the norm; most women wear dresses, or pants or skirts with a nice top. Lightweight accessories like a tie or scarf add class to an outfit.
First-time cruisers may worry about "formal nights." While most cruises do have a few formal nights with a dress code, they're optional. You can always eat somewhere other than the fancy dining room.
Remember, packing light isn't just about the trip over and back - it's about your traveling lifestyle. You're not on a Vogue photo shoot. With only one bag, you're ready for any travel adventure.
(Rick Steves ( www.ricksteves.com ) writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. Email him at [email protected] and follow his blog on Facebook.)


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After my work conference in San Francisco, I decided to rent a car and drive to the California coast. One of my first stops once I left the city (Crazy traffic!) was at John Muir National Historic Monument.
This park has one of the last remaining Redwood Tree groves along the Central California coast. . I strolled along many redwood trees along the main trail from the visitor's center. The trees were quite beautiful and the walk was very quiet. I completed the walk up to bridge#4, then tracked back to the car via the hill trail.
I wished I had more time to explore the other portions of the park, but I only had today to see the sights of California. I will come back to this park again on my next visit to San Francisco!


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By providing these services through researched based activities of strong evidence through nationally recognized partners, the following outcomes will be achieved:
1) By August, of 2017, 100% of participating schools will develop, modify or expand their K-12 Literacy plan based up on research based strategies from the WWC to meet the needs of all students based upon their needs from an RTI technology screener; 2) In each year of the grant a 10% increase over baseline data will occur in; preschoolers who show improvement in the Early Learning and Developmental Outcomes on the Brigance and in the number of 4th and 8th grade students scoring proficient on the K-PREP state test; 3) By August in each year of the grant, 100% of students will obtain access to online books and receive personal books to assist in becoming college and career ready; 4) By August, of 2017, a minimum of 85% of librarians will attend 75% of literacy trainings pertaining to pedagogy in the field of differentiation, universal design for learning (UDL), technology, and other educational literacy strategies.


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I am writing a book and need your help.
Last week, I was telling a small group of guys some of my recent highs and lows. I told the guys that one of my highs was the progress I was making on this book. One of the guys asked, "What's the title?"
"Does God Care Who Wins?" I responded.
Another of the guys in the group said, "I am thinking 'No' in answer to the question of the title." Another guy in the group immediately rebutted, "I am thinking 'Yes'."
I have found this divergence of responses to be very common among the people I talk with about this question. I am writing this book is to try to bring some clarity to this question.
To bring the issue closer to home, let me ask you, "How would you answer the question?"
Honesty, I don't like either answer—no or yes—because of the reasons commonly given for either answer. Let me ask you another question, "Why do you think it is yes or no?"
If you say, "No," why no? Are our games not important enough in the light of other world issues? This is the common reason given. It trivializes sports and leaves us wondering what else isn't important enough in our lives to garner God's concern.
If you say "yes", why yes? Does God favor a particular team over another and if so why? This answer tends to trivialize God and leaves us encouraging different values than those God declares matter to him in the gospel.
I am writing the book to challenge both of these common answers and discuss the implications of either, while encouraging more dialogue on the question. I am also writing the book to give what I see as the answer that not only honors God but also brings meaning and passion to my sports.
It is an answer that has been in the development for over 30 years. It began with my journey into professional golf and came to a head in the midst of my first PGA Tour School, where I was trying to qualify to play on the PGA Tour. It has been formed along the way by discussions with athletes and coaches and parents who wrestle with the question. While this book is more about God than sports, it is not a theoretical approach to the question. Rather, the book comes from a very practical perspective, one that honestly addresses athletes and coaches and parents and the real questions we all ask around this question.
This is where you come in. I have a small team of people who are already helping me with editing, marketing, and graphics. I still need some help with some administrative aspects of the book.
The place I need the most help is in spreading the word.
We will be launching a Kickstarter campaign this spring to help fund the publishing of the book. For those of you who have never been a part of a Kickstarter campaign—Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform. Ideas are presented online in the form of a campaign and rewards are given in exchange for pledges of support. In supporting the project, you help get the book published. I'd love your support but I would also love for you to share the Kickstarter campaign with your spheres of influence. If you'd like to help in this process, please fill out the brief form below and we can give you more details on how you can help:
Also, please pray for the book and for the team. We want God's glory more than ours on our good days but also know something of our brokenness and how easy it is to get this turned around. We need God's help and your prayers to keep it straight.


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Hi, Folks… I just got in from Utah yesterday, and my animals and garden are hollering for attention. (Jim is not hollering, because he went with me.) I'll wait to write about our trip for next week.
Meanwhile, here's something I wrote in advance. It's an update of a piece of the same title that I wrote for Tor.com in 2008.
Over the years I've been writing, I've noticed a funny thing. I've had close on twenty-five novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls, came out. During that time, no one has ever come up to me and heartily thanked me for writing a stand-alone novel.
Seriously. You'd think someone would have done so, given the lack of respect that series, especially fantasy series, get. But no one ever has.
Although people tend to think of me as a "series writer," I've actually written quite a lot of stand-alone fiction, both long and short. There have been plenty of opportunities for people to praise me for writing just that one novel. However, usually the response is the opposite. When I say, "No. I don't have any plans to write a sequel to Child of a Rainless Year" (or whichever book is under discussion), I immediately hear why I need to write more about those people and that place.
By contrast, while I've never been praised for writing a stand-alone, I've had a lot of requests for sequels – and not only to novels, but to short fiction as well. When I finished the Wolf Series (which starts with Through Wolf's Eyes and ends with Wolf's Blood) I had copious e-mails asking if I was really, really done. Now, eight years later, not a month has gone by without a request for more about Firekeeper, Blind Seer, Derian, and all the rest.
Some kind folks even pointed out minor elements I had left open. I felt genuine appreciation that these numerous someones could put that much energy into picking apart something I'd written. However, I also pointed out that, short of blowing up the world and turning out the lights, there is no way to absolutely, categorically end a series.
So it seems that readers like Fantasy and SF series. Yet, apparently, the fastest way to fall from grace is to write one. Reviewers sniff. Books in series seem to have a lower shot at award nominations. Later books in a series seem not to get reviewed as often – although I think this last is changing.
Why, then, are Fantasy and SF series the girl everyone wants to date, but no one wants to take home to mother?
Here a few thoughts on why, followed by my own approach to avoiding these pitfalls.
Fantasy and SF series are too often an excuse for writing one novel that spans several volumes. Unlike Mysteries or Thrillers, which have a set goal, Fantasy and SF series can go on and on without closure.
Why did this become acceptable? Partly because, when more complex Fantasy and SF stories began to be told, the market simply wasn't ready for Fat Books. Lord of the Rings is one story. So are the first five Chronicles of Amber (and the second set, too). But in the age of the skinny paperback these complex stories had to be split up, and readers became conditioned to the "weak middle book," lots of repetition, and all the other things that can make series weak.
Another problem is the time lag between books in a series. I know that I almost didn't read the second Chronicles of Amber because I'd noted a five year lapse between the copyright dates of volume four and five of the first set. When an excited friend called me to tell me that there was more Amber, my reply was "I'll wait." (Then because of a camping trip, I didn't wait, but that's neither here nor there).
Then there are the books that become a series, but were never intended to be such. Some of these work out very well. Others read like what they are – an attempt to capitalize on an unexpected success, but showing that the author really lacks the fire and organization to make subsequent books live up to that first golden one.
I was very aware of these pitfalls when I started the Firekeeper Saga (aka the Wolf Books) – which was my first project I planned as a series.
(Aside: Changer was not planned to have a sequel. I was open to the possibility, even had ideas in mind, but it was not sold as part of a series. By contrast, the Firekeeper Saga was conceived and purchased as a series.)
To deal with the first part of the problem, I decided to take one of my favorite mystery series: Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels as a model. In each of these novels, Peter has a problem to solve: a body in a bathtub or whatever. While he solves that, he also must deal with personal challenges: unresolved romantic attachments, post-traumatic stress disorder, his relationship with his immediate family. By the end of the novel, we know who the body in the bathtub was, but the personal problems may or may not be resolved.
I like this approach. Although my novels aren't murder mysteries, I try to pose myself a question at the start of each one, a problem that will be resolved by the end. This isn't always easy, and I don't think I quite managed with the end of Wolf Hunting but, overall, I'm happy with what I did.
I tried the same tactic with the "Breaking the Wall" series and my new "Artemis Awakening" series. In both cases, I was somewhat handicapped by the fact that Powers Beyond My Control insisted that the novels be shorter than the Firekeeper books. For the "Breaking the Wall" books, I managed by giving the problem a tighter focus. However, for the even shorter "Artemis Awakening" books, I had no choice but to make some serious changes in my previous series format.
One change I made was limiting myself to two point-of-view characters for Artemis Awakening. (By contrast, Through Wolf's Eyes had at least three major and several lesser.) Another change was that I had to leave one major plot element – a certain door – unresolved.
For those of you who have read Artemis Awakening, I promise you'll get the answer to where that door leads in Artemis Invaded.
On the author's side of the equation, the problem of delay between volumes is solved by applying fingers to keyboard and tail bone to chair. And working – hard.
However, the author is not in sole control of when a book will come out. Even if she turns her manuscript in on time, scheduling is in the hands of Someone Else.
As an aside: I've talked to several self-published authors. Although they have somewhat more control over scheduling, wild cards (health problems, complications over some element in producing the book itself) can mess up even the best intentions. In fact, since most self-publishing operations narrow down to one person, a problem with that one person can lead to more, not fewer delays…
Most of my work has been traditionally published. Although release dates have varied, I will say this: I've missed one deadline. That was when my father died. Even then, I was only six weeks late turning in the manuscript. I really try not to disappoint my readers.
So… How do you feel about series? Avoid or anticipate?
Also, any questions about the complexities of writing series? I've had a request from a "ghost" reader of these Wanderings that I talk more about how I approach it… I'd love to include your questions, too.


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Chinese-supplied weapons being used to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
16 June 2007: New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.
U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments in advance were met with stonewalling by Beijing, which insisted it knew nothing about the shipments and asked for additional intelligence on the transfers. The ploy has been used in the past by China to hide its arms-proliferation activities from the United States, according to U.S. officials with access to the intelligence reports.
COMPLETE ARTICLE, The Washington Times