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Archive for May, 2014
Soraya Azzawi, Fulbright, Jordan: Entry #1
Even as the sun sinks behind the buildings, life flourishes in the streets of the Hashemi district of Amman. Crowds churn as families return from Sunday mass or head off to Maghrib prayer; local eateries ready their stoves for rounds of dinner.
We watch the bustle from our place on the porch of Collateral Repair Project (CRP), an organization that aids impoverished urban refugees in Amman. In addition to my Fulbright project, I have had the opportunity to volunteer with several refugee service organizations. At CRP, Sunday is typically dedicated to administrative work and we've just finished outlining prospective program ideas, stepping out to catch the fading rays of sunset.
Suddenly a man approaches us, trailed by a little girl. He shuffles up the steps in a dusty coat that hangs loosely off his frame. It is clearly not tailored for him, two sizes too large. His fingertips just barely escape the sleeves as he warmly gestures hello.
They are new refugees, he says. Syrian, and he heard this place can help.
Syria. Once it used to refer to a rich cultural heritage and a host of ancient civilizations. To finely crafted armoires inlaid with seashells, to Damascus' world-famous delicacy of Booza ice cream. Lately, it seems the only headlines mentioning 'Syria' are those followed by the word 'crisis'.
It defies reason that the man is still smiling, having just fled a war-ravaged country, but somehow he is—a battered building that refuses to crumble in the storm.
My supervisor, Rami*, has the difficult task of explaining that registration for new beneficiaries isn't until tomorrow. A closer look at the pair before him changes his mind. The man is clinging to Rami's every word as though the sounds themselves will provide relief. His daughter's eyes never leave him.
Going hungry is one thing. Watching your own child go hungry—while powerless to ease their suffering—is something else entirely. I cannot possibly imagine what this man feels when he looks at the family he must support.
"Why don't I take your information?" Rami offers instead.
I turn my attention to the little girl, hoping to occupy her as they work through the details. A chance to practice colloquial Arabic, I figure. In a very businesslike manner, she informs me that her name is Huda and that she is six years old. Huda has large, inquisitive eyes, the color of freshly brewed coffee.
I resort to the nifty toolkit of conversational phrases we've practiced over and over and over again in class. I'm pretty sure I've started hearing them in my sleep.
"How are you?" I ask.
"Fine, thanks to God," she replies, smiling.
I can barely contain my complaints (and they are loud) in a Los Angeles traffic jam and this girl, who has just left behind her only home, is fine and thankful.
She turns to face me fully, eyes wide like she's about to reveal the wonders of the universe. In the most eloquent classical Arabic I've ever heard, she proclaims, "It is an honor to make your acquaintance."
And I am floored. With a rich, literary tradition, Arabic is regarded as one of the most challenging languages to learn in the world—particularly Classical Arabic. And this six-year-old refugee girl speaks it perfectly.
Working with underserved refugees for the past few months has proven a challenging exercise in emotional resilience—but also, and more importantly, in humility. Even for those with the best of intentions, it is easy to forget that many of the individuals you serve are highly educated, versatile people who have simply found themselves in unfortunate circumstances. The relationship between the aider and the aidee risks giving way to paternalism, relegating the aidee to little more than an object of pity. It's interactions like these, the words I exchanged with Huda, that lend perspective, that lead me to marvel at the extent of human perseverance in the face of hardship.
Watching news segments about world events like the refugee crisis is informative. Studying international affairs in the classroom is useful. Completely immersing yourself in the situation, in the context and in the language is indescribable. In addition to the chance to study the impact of war trauma on psychosocial health, the Fulbright Program has given me the unparalleled opportunity to experience history in the making, to not merely learn about other peoples and cultures but to live them. It is a dynamic, once-in-a-lifetime experience that enriches your worldview like no mere course, textbook or news soundbyte can.
"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
— Senator J. William Fulbright
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Armaan A. Rowther, Fulbright, Jordan: Engaging Contradictions – My Fulbright Experience
Heart-warming stories, awe-inspiring photographs, cute yet meaningful trinkets… these are the souvenirs that friends and family expect me to return home with after my Fulbright fellowship year in Jordan. Their expectation, however, is mistaken on two fronts. Firstly, through eight months of living and studying in Amman with my wife, this has in many ways been my home, the home I will be leaving when I depart three months from now. Secondly, no number of stories or photographs could represent my year abroad as truthfully as the questions and contradictions I will take with me, which have come to define my Fulbright experience and that I hope to share in what I expect to be my final blog entry.
Cultural Exchange, or Human Connection?
To explain these contradictions, I must start by relating my own path to the Fulbright program, which I believe began with the following words: "And do good to others, as God has done good to you." Originally from a verse of the Holy Qur'an in Surah Al-Qasas (The Stories), I found this quote on the final page of my late grandfather's journal, which he kept during his 23-year diplomatic career in the Pakistani Foreign Service and eventually in the Pakistan Mission to the United Nations. My grandfather Ataullah Khwaja, whose name in Arabic means "gift of God," chronicled a life committed to the idea of serving others with every opportunity that his education had afforded him, privileges that he understood as unearned and as blessings. Having lived through violence in Indian-occupied Ladakh and exile from his home in Chinese-occupied Tibet, he sought to empower communities that, like his own, had been uprooted and marginalized by conflict. As a young boy, I internalized the ethic of service inherited from his final journal entry, and it has since guided me toward a life dedicated to this same conception of service. A decade later, it would form the basis of my project proposal to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Jordan. My motivation was simple: to use my education in public health to promote health among families that, like my own, had been displaced by conflict and military occupation.
Through this story, I hope to share the layers that exist beneath and beyond my own identity as an American: I am an American, and I am also a Muslim; my project and studies are motivated by a verse from the Holy Qur'an; my family traces its roots to Muslim communities here in the post-colonial Third World. The collective result of these layers was that, after travelling thousands of miles away from the place where I was born and raised to arrive in Jordan—where I hear the Qur'an being recited in taxis and grocery stores, where halal meat is available everywhere, where I can hear the call to prayer and walk to the mosque from my home—I felt a connection rather than distance. I felt a shared heritage, a belonging.
I am led to ask, in the words of Walt Whitman, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." The express purpose of the Fulbright program is mutual understanding, and I thus believe that my personal experience poses a larger question that pertains to all Fulbright scholars, which is: is our goal of mutual understanding really about cultural exchange, as though we have crossed the boundaries of two mutually exclusive worlds? My own story would suggest otherwise and leads me to further questions: when my Fulbright peers interact with their students, their research subjects, their neighbors in Jordan or other respective host countries, do they view them as the Other, or do they also see in them a heritage that is shared by people like myself, who are their compatriots and neighbors back in the place they call home? Is our experience solely about cultural exchange, or is it truly about making this human connection?
Objective Observer, or Active Participant?
Moving on from how we as Fulbright scholars perceive the people around us, I also question how we perceive ourselves and our own role in their context. For those who are student researchers like myself, we are conventionally taught that the scientific ideal demands detached objectivity in our observations and investigations. The question I faced early on was, assuming that such detached objectivity—in spite of context, positionality, or even power relations—was even possible, would it be ethical? This was a dilemma I faced early on in my project proposal, which began as an observational study of the barriers to care that exist for diabetes patients among refugee populations.
The question I faced was: what were the ethical implications of examining a life-threatening problem facing a vulnerable population, publishing my findings for academic advancement, and then wrapping up and going home? The result of my reflections on this problem was a major shift in my project proposal, which was modified to become an interventional program incorporating public health education for diabetes prevention in addition to observational analysis. I believe that the ethical and methodological question I faced is relevant beyond my field, as the critiques of passive objectivity are well known within the social sciences. French psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon once said, "For the native, objectivity is always directed against him," pointing to uses of the notion of objectivity to actually conceal and defend specific power relations and structural inequities. Even after modification of my research design, the ethical implications of my position and project continue to represent a question with which I struggle to this day.
Privileged Teacher, or Humble Student?
The final question that I have confronted through my Fulbright experience thus far is, do I conceive of myself as a privileged teacher in a foreign land, or as a humble and sincere student? Once I had modified my project to revolve around a public health education program, this question became extremely relevant. As a Fulbright scholar from the United States to Jordan, it can easily be assumed that the direction of learning and benefit flows primarily from my First World knowledge and advantages to this Third World, "developing nation" context. In the case of diabetes, however, the United States is among the worst examples to follow, with a public health crisis stemming from rising rates of obesity and diabetes despite exorbitant healthcare expenditures. If anything, among the primary factors suggested to be contributing to Jordan's rising burden of diabetes is adoption of Western or American diet and lifestyle. In this way, traditional notions of First World progress and Third World development come into question, and I have had to examine what role I play in the assumptions that underpin such notions.
I conclude by reiterating that, rather than providing answers, my intent is merely to offer questions that I feel my Fulbright experience have warranted, and I hope to continue engaging with them through the duration of my Fulbright fellowship as well as long after I return to the United States. The collective sum of these questions and contradictions for me has been to realize that, however service- or education-oriented as my project may be, this experience has been above all a privilege and a blessing—one that, in the spirit of my grandfather's memory, I hope will contribute to my efforts to continue serving in the future.
This post is based on my presentation at the Fulbright Near Eastern Affairs Regional Enrichment Seminar in Amman, Jordan, on February 24, 2014.
This is not an official Department of State website or blog, and the views and information presented are my own and do not represent the Fulbright Program of the U.S. Department of State.

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text: Willer Custom Instruments A Legacy of Craftsmanship Gluing Tops And Backs With two of the side assemblies complete. It is time to focus attention on gluing the tops and backs. I use a 20 inch hand jointer (handplane) to make the joint fit nicely and "'candle " the mating pieces, holding them to the light until I can not see light through them. I use 120 self adhesive sand paper stuck to the 20 inch hand plane to fine tune the fit, always working in pairs. I plan to build four instruments this time around and have joined the back and tops for all these instruments. Here is an example of a top and a back pair. This pair will become a grand concert cutaway with ebony binding and abalone purfling. This is a picture of all the tops and backs I have recently completed. The first pair in the picture are the same mahogany, Sitka pair pictured previously. The remaining pairs from left to right are curly maple and Sitka spruce (mandocello), Amazon rosewood and red spruce (grand concert guitar), and another curly maple this time paired with red spruce to make a grand auditorium guitar. The next step is to inlay the abalone rosette. Thickness Planning Backs, Sides, And Tops I have a number instrument in process. I am building a guitar and a mandocello using Sitka spruce from the Sitka Sonic project as well as closely matching instruments with red spruce. I use the a Wagner safe-t-plane to reduce the top, back and sides to appropriate thickness. I'm planning red spruce in this picture. One of my favorite tools is an antique Stanley No. 80 cabinet scraper that was my grandfather's. It makes quick work of removing tool marks from the safe-t-plane. I often use a belt sander in conjunction with the cabinet scraper. Side Assemblies In The Molds Once the sides are bent, they are placed in an external mold (or cooling frame) and the neck and tail joints are cut and fit together. With these joints fit nicely, the tail and neck block are glued in place. I build my tops with a 30 foot radius top and a 15 foot radius back. The top of the sides are scribed to the 30 foot radius sanding dish, I like to use No 10 block plane to rough the topside profile and when the gap is less than 1/16 inch, the sides (and end blocks) are sanded to the 30 foot dish. Tops and Backs Cut to Shape I used a grand auditorium template to mark and cut the tops and backs. These Sitka spruce tops are from the Sitka Sonic sampling project. These instruments will end up as cutaway bodies. The cutaways will be profiled later. Here are the backs profiled to the same grand auditorium template. Back Assembly After the backs are joined together and trimmed to the profile of the instrument, the back graft is glued in place. Here a maple back is shown on the go-bar fixture with the back graft (light color), and the clamping caul (masonite). Here, the back is shown with the go-bar clamps. After the glue is dry, the graft is shaped. I tape off each side of the back graft for protection and use a block plane and a bull nose plane to rough shape the graft and sanding to final shape. Next the graft is cut out for the back bracing, and the back braces are glued in the go-bar fixture. Rosette Inlay The design of my soundhole rosette is very simple , but I believe it is elegant. The funny thing is that it came about by mistake. A few years ago I was laying out a very traditional rosette of inner and outer purfling with an abalone middle. Mistakenly, I left out the inner black white black (BWB). I liked it so much that it is now my standard rosette. This is the rosette on a completed guitar. I use 1/16″ BWB purfling and Abalam, a type of abalone product. I have used both straight pieces and curved pieces at different times and I prefer the curved Abalam for time savings. Abalone naturally has discontinuities, therefore, fracturing the Abalam during installation is un-noticable. The BWB purfling is bent using the hot pipe bending tool shown here. This hot pipe was inspired by some concepts in the Guild of American Luthiers "Lutherie Tools" book and is powered by a 300 watt incandescent light bulb. A 32″ strip will go around the hot pipe 2 and a half times making two complete rings per strip. It takes three strips to make one rosette. I use the Stewart MacDonald rosette cutter with a Dremel tool to cut the .050″ channels for the rosette. The inner cut is for the sound hole. For the sound hole, I cut .050 from each side, leaving about .010″ in the center to be cut with a razor knife after bracing is complete. After cutting all the channels, the bent purfing is weasled into the groove. It takes some coaxing. A strip of nylon is glued between the BWB to displace glue and later it is removed and replaced with Abalone. Here is the rosette before gluing and sanding. After gluing and sanding the nylon is peeled out, leaving a channel for the abalone. The top of the rosette is covered by the finger board on a steel string guitar. Here are the family of four with their shiny new rosettes installed.


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The Fort Worth Star was founded in 1906 by a group of newsmen including Col. Louis J. Wortham (as publisher), Amon G. Carter, Sr. (as advertising manager), and D. C. McCaleb and A. G. Dawson; they also had the help of wholesale grocer and major investor Col. Paul Waples. The Star was first published in sixteen pages for a 4,500-copy free delivery. By 1908 the Star was in financial difficulty, and Carter and Wortham decided to buy out their rival, the Telegram, an evening newspaper that dated back to the Fort Worth Evening Mail and the Fort Worth Mail Telegram and other papers beginning around 1879. The new paper, known as the Star-Telegram, began publication in 1909, and was later identified in the 1920s by a phrase on its masthead reading "Where the West Begins." Carter and the paper stressed local news and served eighty-four counties, with some papers delivered in the Panhandle by stagecoach. The Star-Telegram had a preelectronic distribution area of 350,000 square miles, and daily home delivery as far as 700 miles west of Fort Worth. Carter and the paper successfully resisted takeover attempts by William Randolph Hearst, who sold the Fort Worth Record to the Star-Telegram in 1925. In 1922 the paper began the first Fort Worth radio station, WBAP, "We Bring A Program." The Star-Telegram established the first television station in the southern half of the United States in the early fall of 1948 and did a remote broadcast of President Harry Truman's whistle-stop campaign visit to Fort Worth. In 1954, WBAP-TV also did the first colorcast in Texas, at a time when there were no more than 100 color television sets in Fort Worth and Dallas. Carter was majority owner and publisher of the paper until his death in 1955, when he was succeeded by his son, Amon G. Carter, Jr., who died in 1982. The paper, an active participant in the Fort Worth community, supported numerous local causes as well as efforts to create Big Bend National Park in far west Texas and to establish Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech University. The paper was sold in 1974 to Capital Cities Communications, Incorporated. The circulation at that time was 235,000 daily papers and 224,000 on Sundays.
Under Capital Cities, which later became Capital Cities/ABC, Incorporated, when it purchased the ABC television network in 1986, the Star-Telegram won two Pulitzer Prizes. The first was in 1981 for photographer Larry Price's photos of Liberian officials being slain by a firing squad. The second (1985) was the coveted gold-medal Pulitzer for meritorious public service; it was awarded for a news series that exposed a flaw in Bell helicopters that was a factor in numerous crashes over a seventeen-year period. In the 1980s the Star-Telegram pioneered the establishment of an electronic information service and built one of the most modern newspaper printing and distribution plants in the nation. StarText, an "electronic newspaper" begun in 1982, complemented the printed newspaper with updated news and information; it was available on computer via a local telephone call in the Fort Worth and Dallas area. In 1986 the newspaper opened a new state-of-the-art printing facility that enabled it to produce one of the most colorful and visually attractive newspapers anywhere. In the early 1990s, under publisher Richard L. Connor, circulation climbed above 290,000 daily and more than 350,000 on Sundays.


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During the Golden Globes last Sunday night, actor Christian Bale was awarded Best Actor in a musical or comedy motion picture for his role in Vice, the movie about former VP Dick Cheney which National Review calls an "anti-Bush" "anti-Conservative vitriol".
In his acceptance speech, Bale, who sported a goatee like a caricature of Mephistopheles, thanked Satan.
He said (o:30 mark): "Thank you, Satan, for giving me inspiration on how to play this role."
Gateway Pundit reminds us of this video of Bale raging, thrashing, and abusing the director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation in July 2008.
Comments on YouTube say the video is a re-enactment of an actual Bale audio, which is why in the video re-enactment, the face of the actor playing Bale is blurred.
After the audio of Bale's foul-mouthed tirade at Terminator Salvation director of photography Shane Hurlbut was released onto the internet, Bale spoke to Los Angeles radio station KROQ. He apologized for his rant, calling it "inexcusable" and said he had "acted like a punk": "I was out of order beyond belief. I make no excuses for it." (The Guardian)
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When I was a child, I lived with my parents and two older brothers in a very rural area. To put this in perspective to your own timeline, this was the 1980s, in which many homes were wired with cable television, a dedicated phone line, and even such modern amenities as consistent electrical power, which were all things that were absent where I grew up. My parents were both strong believers in self-reliance, and this belief floated through every aspect of our lives. Here are a few brief tales from those days and the lessons I learned from them.
Three Important Things I Learned from My Childhood
1. The more you rely on things, the more helpless you are when they go away
Companies are therefore able to get away with charging you more for the things you depend on. A regular part of our life was dealing with an absence of electricity, particularly in my early childhood. The power would go out and the electric company could take days to fix it. I remember more than once when I slept in the living room for warmth with my brothers and the electricity just suddenly coming on at seven in the morning, all the lights in the house flashing on and the radio coming on very loudly all of a sudden, waking us all up.
Once, we visited my mother's grandparents, who were still living and lived in a large city. While we were there, the electricity turned off, and so we calmly did the things we usually do when this occurs: get out flashights and candles, warn everyone to not open the fridge for twelve hours, do a brief inventory of the pantry, and so forth. Meanwhile, my great-grandmother (who actually lived her childhood in a pre-electrical grid era) was completely panicked and almost hysterical over this.
To this day, whenever I rely on a service, I make it a point to occasionally reflect on how I would survive without it, and if life without that service doesn't seem to be much of a loss, I seriously look at removing it. The lesson here is to consider what you really need and what you really don't, and live life accordingly.
2. Want free food? Grow and catch your own
My family was able to survive over long periods of neither parent having employment because we all knew how to grow food in our enormous garden (multiple acres, literally), catch fish in abundance, hunt, do small-scale farming, and even more importantly, how to prepare the food and store it long-term even without the use of electricity. I know how to can vegetables and meats without much effort, I can hunt for various types of wild game, I can skin and prepare for eating pretty much any type of wild game and fish, I can quickly prepare a trot line for catching a lot of fish at once, and I can forage in any local wooded area for all sorts of things that are edible (I'm even going to do a photo diary of this in the somewhat near future). This is what I did growing up.
These skills might seem trivial to you, but it's easy for me to envision scenarios where all of these skills could be huge money savers and even life savers. If someone set off a low-grade nuclear weapon over the area where you live, killing the electrical grid in a two hundred mile radius and rendering your automobiles unable to run, what would you do? To me, knowing what to do then is a personal finance skill.
Let's get more realistic – what do you do if you have no money and need to put food on the table? Many people would seek out a charity or maybe even steal? Me? I'd head to the vegetable garden or, lacking that, head to the woods or to a pond. The lesson here is to practice basic skills when you have the chance, because they come in handy when you need them most.
3. You really don't need much for entertainment
When I think back to those days, almost all of the fun things we did cost nothing at all. My most enjoyable childhood memories were all free things: building complex irrigation systems in the mud in the garden, jumping off the garage roof and learning how to roll when I hit the ground, sitting on the porch and
talking to my grandfather about
his bootlegging days, reading books from the nearest library (my mother used to drop me off there during her shopping runs), and so on.
This was true for the adults as well. My father spent his time mostly discovering ways to fish creatively with almost no equipment (homemade trot lines, using garbage as bait (which worked surprisingly well), and so forth) and making his garden the envy of everyone around. My mother absolutely loved to prepare and store foods that we grew, caught, and found; now that it's just my mother and father living at home alone, she cans more food each year than they could ever possibly eat (and I catch some of the overflow, actually).
In my early adult life, I got caught up in some very expensive entertainment, simply because I had more money than I had ever even comprehended in my life to that point. Now that I'm older, I realize that most of the things I really truly enjoy have very little cost – reading, preparing food, and so on. I guess the lesson here is to appreciate hobbies and entertainment that have little expense.


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Alien abduction and the lore around UFO sightings has become so prevalent in society that you can ask someone what it would like to be abducted and they would concoct a scenario that's nearly identical to the most famous of UFO and alien sightings. We're not saying that it's impossible for aliens to exist, but it's hard to believe stories of alien sightings that seem lazy. Are aliens real? It's hard to say, but some of the most recent offbeat alien sightings all seem to have a lack of credibility about them. That's why we've put together this list of the least likely alien sightings for your skeptical pleasure.
If you keep your eyes on the grocery store tabloids like we do, you'll notice that UFO conspiracies have taken the backseat to celebrity sex changes and beach body nightmares. But if you start to look around, you'll realize that visitors from other planets have never stopped popping in to say hello. Whether they're buzzing airplanes in Spain, or getting their freak on with Chinese lumberjacks, aliens are here to stay. Maybe? The stories on this list aren't really the easiest to believe, and we want to believe. We just wish there a little more evidence. Is that too much to ask? Take a look at the alien abduction stories on this list and let us know what you think.
UK Mystery Orbs
The Phoenix Lights
There's Definitely (Not) a Castle on Mars
The Portsmouth UFO
Belgium UFO Wave
Atacama Humanoid
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 Incident
Comet 67P Is an Alien Warship
The Broad Haven Triangle
UFOs Hit The Slopes!
The Meng Zhaoguo Incident
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The Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Tribe has celebrated its 35th Annual Honor The Earth Traditional Powwow. Located in Northern Wisconsin, the Honor The Earth Powwow is considered one of largest traditional events of its kind in the region and has many additional events focused on recognition of veterans, runs and fry bread contest as an offering.
This years Honor The Earth was no exception, with several thousand people coming through the gates for the four day event.
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Smokeytown - Double Beat
Raining Thunder - Grass/Chicken Dance
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Chapter 10 Closing Thoughts 225
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Ongoing Learning 229
Teach Yourself: External Resources 229
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Output pieces of FILE separated by PATTERN(s) to files `xx00', `xx01', ..., and output byte counts of each piece to standard output.
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I hate forking dishes...
Back in 1982, an article was written by social scientists about what they called the Broken Windows Theory. It was written by James Wilson and George Kelling and was a theory of criminology and vandalism in urban settings. Basically, the theory starts with the example of a building with a few broken windows. People walk by this building every day, and if someone doesn't fix the windows, vandals will come by and break a few more windows. This act builds upon itself until most of the windows are broken. This further leads to vandals even entering into the building and even destroying the items inside. Maybe some squatters will even enter the house, will light fires, etc. Thus, it all started with just a broken window, but quickly escalated to further destruction.
This theory made me think about a messy kitchen and where the mess begins, and I strongly believe that it all starts with a few dirty dishes. First, just one dish is left in the sink. Or it could be a whole meal's worth of dishes. But even a single spoon called ignite the mess. The next person comes along and sees the dish or dishes in the sink and thinks, "I'll leave it here because someone else did. I'll just clean it later". When later comes, the dishes are left to pile up. Before you know it, they stack higher and higher and become so overwhelming that you can't even grab water from the tap because the dishes are so high up. And as the dishes pile up, the rest of the kitchen starts to get messier and messier because, well, if the dishes are piling, a small smudge on the counter isn't going to hurt anyone. Before you know it, the kitchen is a disastrous mess and you don't even know where to begin cleaning because it seems so overwhelming. So you leave it there, hoping that the magic cleaning fairy will somehow appear and clean up everything for you as the mess continues to the point where your dishes start to grow so much mold that they can actually start walking around.
Okay, maybe your kitchen mess isn't so bad. But you get the idea. My suggestion for this problem is to nip in the bud and don't let any dishes sit in the sink! An empty sink sets precedence for the rest of the kitchen, and a clean sink means a clean kitchen. If you fix the window, the building stays intact. But if you let the window remain broken, the building will only become more dilapidated. Thus, I suggest you fix that window, or clean those dishes before things get worse. And that's the broken dish theory. So now is your chance to decide where to go from here. Keep that messy kitchen, or clean up the mess before it even happens? The choice is yours. But it should not be a very difficult decision.
Qualify Them
Qualifying someone is a subtle psychological tactic that subconsciously puts you in a position of power or authority. It is essentially sub-communicating to a person that they need to prove themselves to you. Some examples of qualifying someone would be asking them to describe themselves with only 3 words, playfully teasing the other person (i.e. "you're a player"), or simply asking them if they are fun to be around.
The reason qualifying is so effective is that it indirectly makes the other person want to prove themselves or 'work for it'. Use this tactic sparingly as it appeals to people's insecurities of not being good enough.


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Bob Dylan may be knocking at heaven's door, but if Pope Benedict XVI has anything to say about it, Dylan won't get in.
According to a story in the Guardian Unlimited, (hat tip to ArtsJournal), Benedict wrote in his new book, "My Beloved Predecessor," that Pope John Paul wanted (and got) Dylan to perform a concert for Catholics in Bologna in 1997.
The present pope was dead set against letting "this so-called prophet take the stage." Dylan need not feel singled out. Notes the Guardian: "Not just distrustful of Dylan, Pope Benedict has claimed that all rock music is the work of Satan and has called off the Christmas pop concerts at the Vatican introduced by John Paul. He also opposes the use of guitars in Mass."
Who doesn't oppose the use of guitars in Mass, especially as played by youths applying "Louie Louie" chops to a sacred context? The rest of these ideas are frozen in bile, or as Cole Porter might put it, they make a "second edition of the Spanish Inquisition" sound as if it's pending.
Back in the day when popes controlled the purse strings of an ambitious art program, painters were respectful in their portraits. As a poet, Dante had less to lose. He envisioned more than a few popes in hell.
Aside from Francis Bacon, few visual artists consider the subject of popes at all. Contemporary poets who note them have been kinder.
A.E. Housman: "It is a fearful thing to be The Pope. That cross will not be laid on me, I hope."
Here's Randall Jarrell, who made art out of being a jaunty man.
The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.
The week is dealt out like a hand
That children pick up card by card.
One keeps getting the same hand.
One keeps getting the same card.
But twice a day — except on Saturday —
The wheel stops, there is a crack in Time:
With a hiss of soles, a rattle of tin,
My own gray Daemon pauses on the stair,
My own bald Fortune lifts me by the hair.
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A Mailman unawares —
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.
Feminist Catholic novelist Mary Gordon recently told the New York Times that "I'm somebody who isn't obsessed with the punitive policies of the Vatican; the social justice mandate is more important than being a gatekeeper against abortion and homosexuality. The church is in a backward moment."
Sorry Ms. Gordon, but the Vatican's "punitive policies" are social justice issues. Raised Catholic, I understand the spiritual pull of that community. But Benedict keeps me strong. I'd rather drift in the wider world of reason than sink into the familiar embrace of a Church that has had 2,000 years to learn how to serve its faithful with more compassion and less prejudice. This is not just a backward moment, Ms. Gordon.
My review of Dylan the last time he came to town here.


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Pfau Starr ResidenceMay 17, 2014
The existing building footprint and slab are reused in part of the house, while a new wing is added for an additional two bedrooms and an updated kitchen/family room. The system of existing masonry walls is carefully kept and complimented by new masonry elements that visually anchor the new wing. The new kitchen acts as the fulcrum for the house being open to both the family room and the dining living area in the old footprint. Relying on the simple clarity of its design, all of the structure is exposed, including painted steel beams, gluluam beams and vertical grain Douglas Fir panels. New floor to ceiling insulated glass provides unobstructed views between the masonry elements and the home's resulting transparency creates the illusion of boundless space where the outdoors are an extension of the indoor experience.
The massing is carefully integrated into the varied levels of the ridge top topography and incorporates extensive native and low water landscaping. Numerous sustainable design elements are incorporated such as; photo-voltaic panels, solar domestic/ hydronic heating, solar pool heating, gray water system, insulation using recycled blue jeans. low-E insulated glazing, low albido roof membrane, post-consumer products, high fly ash concrete, and FSC-certified wood.
Location / Year
San Anselmo, CA / 2010
Principals in Charge
Peter Pfau, FAIA, LEED AP
Peter Pfau, FAIA, LEED AP
Project Scope
Renovation or Expansion
Project Managers
Adriana Daringa, LEED AP
Team Members
Melanie Turner
Sean Bailey
Square Footage
Photographic Credits
Bruce Damonte


text: This is the call from civil rights organisation AfriForum who has asked the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, to recall and dismiss the South African ambassador to Denmark, Zindzi Mandela (photographed opposite Barack Obama). It follows after the Ambassador sent a series of extremely divisive, racist Twitter messages on 14 June using the hashtag \u201c#OurLand\u201d. According to Alana Bailey, Deputy CEO of AfriForum responsible for international liaison, the duty of an ambassador is to act for all residents of the country he or she represents, while promoting their interests without favour or prejudice. In addition, he or she should convey the image of a healthy and united country to gain the confidence of political partners and investors. Mandela, the daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, caused outrage with her tweets last week. It began with: \u201cDear Apartheid Apologists, your time is over. You will not rule again. We do not fear you. Finally #TheLandIsOurs\u201c. The tweet led to criticism from some white South Africans on Twitter. She responded with a series of increasingly strongly-worded tweets, using the hashtag #OurLand, which have inspired growing outrage. These included a tweet about \u201ctrembling white cowards\u201d who are the \u201cthieving rapist descendants of Van Riebeck \u201d and one saying that she was \u201cwondering how the world of shivering land thieves is doing\u201d while out \u201cwining and dining\u201d at a restaurant. Rancorous attitude towards white residents Bailey says \u201cWith her Twitter messages, Mandela displayed a rancorous attitude towards white residents in the country and in a very public arena, contributed to the division of local communities. With false allegations and demeaning terms such as \u2018cowards\u2019 and \u2018land thieves\u2019, she is contributing to a dangerous discourse of scapegoating. Her defence that she is entitled to a personal opinion, shows a complete lack of insight into her responsibility in her position as ambassador. It is also inconsistent with the South African Constitution, which clearly states that the country belongs to everyone. The question therefore is whose interests she represents and how much work will be required to manage the relationship and reputation damage that she has now caused by these tweets.\u201d Bailey mentions that South Africa\u2019s international reputation has suffered major damage in recent years due to the actions of diplomats abroad and the country\u2019s official stance on various human rights issues locally and abroad. The appointment of Dr Pandor revived hopes in the international community that the Department of International Relations and Cooperation has turned over a new leaf and will try to reverse this reputation damage. \u201cThe manner in which the Minister handles Ambassador Mandela will indicate whether this hope is justified,\u201d says Bailey.


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AfriSam Children's Tour
As part of Zeitz MOCAA's Centre for Art Education, children of all age groups will encounter unprecedented experiences of contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora through supporting education and enrichment programmes. To complement the Centre for Art Education, the AfriSam Children's Tour has been designed for children aged between 6 and 18, as well as their families. Similar to the art tour, the educational tour will take a close look at the museum's seminal artworks and installations to ensure that children get a true understanding of the Zeitz MOCAA collection, the various aspects that go into art making, and the conceptualisation that informs the art process. In line with the museum's objectives, this tour will enrich, inspire and bring art and culture to school children, broadening their perspectives on contemporary art from Africa.
AfriSam Chikdren's Audio Tours to launch soon.


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Visible varicose veins can cause many patients to feel insecure about their appearance and can be accompanied by symptoms, like cramping, swelling, or throbbing, that can be a source of discomfort. RejuVeination offers several treatments, including radiofrequency (RF) ablation and phlebectomy procedures, to reduce the appearance of varicose veins and treat the symptoms associated with them.
Are you interested in finding out how you can reduce or eliminate the appearance of varicose veins with the treatments offered at RejuVeination? Contact our office in Cincinnati today for more information or to schedule a consultation with a member of our elite team!
What are varicose veins?
Varicose veins are abnormally large superficial veins that are commonly found in the leg or thigh areas. They are often enlarged due to poor blood flow, which causes pooling of blood creating the visible, bulging veins. These veins are often found deeper in the leg and may not always be visible on the skin, which can be the case when a patient is experiencing symptomatic discomfort but has no visible varicose veins. Varicose veins are usually found in elderly females and can be a source of cosmetic concern. Varicose veins can be accompanied by symptoms like aching, fatigue, cramping, aching, and/or restlessness of the legs.
What causes varicose veins?
Family history is a leading factor in the development of varicose veins. Pregnancy, obesity, and occupations that require long periods of standing or sitting are other common risk factors. These external factors can increase the pressure placed on veins with damaged or defective valves, which prevents the normal flow of blood and causes the veins to swell.
What is radiofrequency (RF) ablation?
Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is a minimally-invasive vascular treatment that uses radiofrequency energy to heat and damage the interior walls of the targeted veins, causing the veins to close and turn into scar tissue. The body absorbs this tissue and the body naturally reroutes the blood through the vascular system. This procedure can be performed under a local anesthetic and has minimal downtime associated with it. Most patients walk out of the clinic and are back to work the next day. You can expect this procedure to take between 30 and 45 minutes. We recommend patients wear compression stocking for at least one week following an RF ablation treatment to aid in the healing process.
What is a phlebectomy?
This minimally-invasive vascular treatment removes small portions of superficial varicose veins through small incisions in the skin. A phlebectomy can be performed in combination with other vascular treatments, like sclerotherapy, in order to enhance the results of both procedures. Phlebectomy procedures are typically performed under a local anesthetic and can last between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the number of veins being treated and the designated treatment area.
Do you want to find out if you are a candidate for the varicose vein treatments offered at RejuVeination? Contact our office in Cincinnati today for further information or to schedule a consultation with a member of our expert team. Prior to your consultation, we recommend you complete our free, three-minute online vein screening. We look forward to assisting you!


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AS 9100 Certification
AS 9100 is the aviation, space and defence industry standard for quality and risk management
Certification with this standard ensures you put health & safety first whilst navigating the many regulations of the aerospace industry to achieve full compliance with AS9100 (BS EN 9100).
Whether you're new to AS9100, or looking to take your expertise further, we can guide you through the process of gaining certification and get you started with quality management – cutting the cost of services you don't need. We can customise an AS9100 package to your needs.
Developed by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) the Aerospace Standards are a series of standards based on ISO 9001. They provide international consistency and address the specific regulatory, safety and reliability requirements demanded by the aerospace sector.
The series of standards cover the complete range of organisations within the aerospace sector, from design and manufacture to maintenance organisations and stockist distributors. And with AS 9100, being the single common quality management standard for the aerospace industry, it is used and supported by the leading aerospace companies and throughout their supply chains around the world.
In order to navigate the many regulations of the aerospace industry, full compliance with AS9100 (BS EN 9100) must be achieved. This is the industry-recognized standard of quality and risk management and can be an essential part of achieving a trading licence is this sector.
What are the benefits of AS 9100?
- Reduce the risk of product or service mistakes and fatal failures
- Demonstrate effective quality management to achieve a licence to trade
- Get a listing in the Online Supplier Information System (OASIS) database
- Become a preferred supplier whilst gaining customer and stakeholder credibility and trust
- Continually improve and secure international growth opportunities


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Razer's second attempt at a gaming laptop is just as sleek as its first try, and even more powerful. The second-generation Razer Blade -- Razer Blade 2.0, we're calling it -- packs some serious hardware: an unannounced Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M graphics (a big step up from last year's GT 555M inclusion), 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM, a 500GB 7200RPM hard drive, and 64GB of solid state storage. All that hardware is stuffed in a nigh identical aluminum chassis to the first edition, with a 17.3-inch high def screen and the infamous multitouch LCD Switchblade interface (read: that bizarre little touch screen built into the keyboard). And all this for the low, low price of ... nearly $2,500. Yikes.
For the savvy, independently wealthy gamer on the go, however, little else on the market compares to Razer's Blade laptop. The second generation focuses on beefing up the tech specs from last year, and that's immediately apparent with the inclusion of the Kepler-grade GTX 660M. Not much else is changed in the hardware department otherwise, with the exception of the USB slots all being upgraded to 3.0 -- the same LCD touch panel display sits on the right side of the keyboard, and its been bolstered with a new software suite.


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July 16 Brampton ON
NavCanada Class C and E airspace seminar for pilots using airspace within 50 nm of YYZ. Class E airspace surrounds Toronto, and all VFR is a "see and be seen" situation. Flight paths of medium and heavy aircraft, wake turbulence, radio etiquette, altitudes, transponder use are discussed. This seminar is of particular importance to VFR pilots, especially those flying without transponders. Ultralight pilots are especially encouraged to attend. Seminar begins at 10:00am in the Brampton Flying Club. Registration is required. Contact the Front Desk at 905-838-1400 Ext.0. Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
July 16 Oshawa ON
NavCanada Class C and Class E airspace seminar, as at Brampton airport above. For late rising pilots, this seminar will begin at 2:00pm at the Durham Flight Centre at Oshawa Airport.
July 17 Brampton ON
Every Monday evening from June 12th through Labour Day starting around 7 PM, earlier if the traffic isn't too bad. Burgers, beverages and whatever else seems like a good idea.Tall tales courtesy of the Bald Eagles. In the RAA-TR hangar at the north end of Brampton Airport No e-mail, no phone, we'll be there and we'll save you a burger.
July 22 Arthur ON (rain date July 23)
Kitchener Waterloo RAA chapter fly-in and barbecue at the farm of Mac and Pat McCulloch. Meal served at 1:00 pm. Phone 519 848 3392 or cell 519 831 0967. Strip Coordinates North 43 48 50 West 80 26 29. The strip goes North / South. Length 2000ft Elevation 1550ft.Radio frequency 123-4 . All circuits at 1000 ft agl . For more information go to the events section at www.kwraa.net


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Mobile World Congress 2016
NETSCOUT to Showcase its portfolio for mobile network operators at Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC).
WESTFORD, Mass., – Feb. 16, 2016 – MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2016 – NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a market leader in service assurance and cybersecurity solutions, today announced it will showcase its portfolio for mobile network operators at Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC).
NETSCOUT provides a top-down, service-centric perspective of networks, services, devices and subscribers into a single-pane-of glass, addressing the requirements of multiple operations groups. NETSCOUT's portfolio of products, leverages its patented Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology, monitors data and control plane traffic and correlates data, signaling and service enabler performance metrics to reveal critical interactions and interdependencies that affect service performance.
WHO: NETSCOUT welcomes Mobile Network Operators to the booth to view our service assurance suite for:
- Radio Access Network service visibility,
- LTE/VoLTE/IMS monitoring,
- Big Data Analytics,
- RF and WiFi Field Tools, and
- Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation.
Our staff of service assurance experts will be available to discuss our unique ability to monitor the performance and user experience of next-generation wireless service.
WHAT: NETSCOUT provides advanced service assurance solutions. Together, TrueCall, Iris Session Analyzer and nGeniusONE are able to completely deconstruct the traffic flow to understand both the signaling as well as the media quality from the radio access network to the core to the cloud.
NETSCOUT is able to provide both end-to-end user experience analytics as well as hop-by-hop analytics. This allows us to support both service triage (top down) as well as user specific (bottom-up) analytics for user experience and performance management.
This level of support allows Network Operation and Engineering teams the ability to view and proactively monitor service-level performance and will allow call center staff the ability to troubleshoot subscriber issues. Additionally, our automated analytics provides early warning of service degradation prior to it becoming a customer issue.
WHEN: February 22-25, 2016
WHERE: Mobile World Congress 2016
NETSCOUT Exhibits in Hall 1, Booth 1C40
Fira Gran Via
Av. Joan Carles I
64 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Barcelona, Spain
IN-BOOTH: Global Telecom Business (GTB) will broadcast daily from the NETSCOUT booth. GTB will interview C-level industry leaders discussing trends in the industry. These videos will be available to view on both the NETSCOUT website as well as the GTB website the following day. Look for an upcoming interview in GTB with Bruce Kelley, chief technology officer at NETSCOUT as well as Richard Kenedi, president of NETSCOUT Service Provider Business Unit.
About NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is a market leader in real-time service assurance and cybersecurity solutions for today's most demanding service provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT's Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience. NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital infrastructure that supports our connected world. To learn more, visit www.netscout.com.
©2016 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. All rights reserved. NETSCOUT, the NETSCOUT logo, Adaptive Service Intelligence, Guardians of the Connected World nGeniusOne and TrueCall are registered trademarks or trademarks of NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
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The Right to Choose
"Big companies like Microsoft should not force computer companies like Dell, IBM, Gateway, etc., to sell only Vista. Consumers should be given the choice of what system they want in a PC."
"Look, I like MS, however why can't they let 'us' the consumer, decide which OS we want to use? Seems as though they want to push something on many of us that we dont want, or believe is better. So if they had us, the consumer in they're best interest, they'd continue selling XP (which has become a very good and reliable system) and while they 'imporve' Vista, then more of us will come around... (if we havent gone to MAC) in time. I like MS and I'll continue using windows 'HOWEVER' if I'm 'forced' to move to something I don't want to, then thats enough for me to put my loyalty toward another product. I dont like to be bullied and simply... I won't."
"With XP, I not only have the choice between the OS's, I also have a choice between IE versions, Media Player versions, etc. With Vista, I am pretty much stuck with what MS wants to integrate into their 'new' OS. I do not like anything higher than Media Player 9 and IE 6, with patches. I hate having to go three layers deep into Vista to find the stuff that used to be 'right there'. If Vista is so great, why have 'classic views'? If Vista is so great, why did I change all my settings back to look like 95/98/ME/XP? If Vista is so great, why aren't all those annoying 'permission to continue' prompts REAL security, rather than just a polite way of saying, "Hey, Stupid, do you really want to try to USE your computer?" If Vista is so great, why does it look so much like a Mac OS? If Vista is so great, why is there already a service pack to fix shyte that five hundred teams of 'whiz (ahem!) programmers left vulnerable to attacks and crashes?"
"I object to being dictated to as to what I buy, when I own the computer. I wouldn't mind so much if expensive upgrades were not necessary, ( if new operating systems could be run on comps. with existing power and RAM.) I think Microsoft likes to kick us all around!!"
"What possible rationale can they have for this, other than selfish ones (such as profit and maintaining image)? Limiting this choice and forcing the adoption of Vista is by no means good for consumers."
"People should always be given a choice. The strategic needs of large corporations must take second precedence to the wishes of the purchasing public. Large corporations run our lives -- and they shouldn't have that much control."


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|Industry: General
|Benefits: Full
|Customers: All
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|Sales Cycle: Short
|Travel: Only in Territory
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Territory Sales Representative
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As a Territory Sales Representative for RTN, you will have the chance to:
• Work full-time, Monday through Friday. Work life balance and home on weekends.
• Present, educate & engage to approximately 3 – 5 customers per day to small business owners located in your protected territory.
• Base salary, weekly pay including bonuses and more incentives. No waiting for annual payouts.
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HMS Repulse
From Conservapedia
HMS Repulse, a British Battlecruiser, was launched in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1916. In late 1941 the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, ordered that Repulse and the Battleship HMS Prince of Wales be sent to Singapore to defend against a Japanese attack. On December 10, 1941, off the coast of Malaya, the two ships were attacked and sunk by Japanese bomber aircraft. 840 sailors from the two ships were lost.