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Originally posted by Druid42
Congrats to adjensen on the win! I was very impressed with your stance, which was well thought out, and which led to my demise. On to Part Two.
(Oh, and BTW, there have been a lot of tie-breakers of late. It's good to see so many close matches.)
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I understand the format and its approved in this exceptional case. Enjoy
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Challenge Match: PatrickGarrow17 vs. SonoftheSun: Humanity will survive longer than Earth
A new debate has begun!
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You can tweak the title a little if you want, as the implications of a hoax is a little misleading. It is a "real" manuscript, in that it exists, and has never been deciphered, but was it's purpose to record arcane knowledge, or is it just a clever cipher with fictional material?
I'll be glad to take the con position. I'll be awaiting your opening.


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|2017-07-18, 19:09
|Link #641
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hyrule
Age: 46
|2017-07-19, 15:24
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Tilda Swinton would have been fab, but she's too big a name these days and she'd have to really want to do it.
But that said, it's about time. After all, Sydney Newman, the man who came up with the idea of the series in the first place, said in 1986 that there should be a female Doctor. it's only taken over thirty years. Well overdue.
I might even watch the show once the new series free of Moffat's nonsense starts.
|2017-07-20, 05:49
|Link #643
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Spain
I'm rewatching season 8 with my wife and h%ll it is as bad as it could be... neither clara and the doctor make any sense with their previous behaviours, it seems that Clara has regenerated too since her personality and abilities are all different
|2017-07-23, 03:43
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Join Date: Dec 2005
|2017-07-23, 03:47
|Link #646
The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
They sort of been hinting at the possibility of the Doctor becoming female for the last six years or so (with it having been possible for the 11th and 12th Doctors), and the concept is almost 40 years old, postulated back when the 5th Doctor was known to becoming up, but not who it was yet. Technically even before that when Romana regenerated several times in a row for find a body that both she and the Doctor liked when he objected to her taking the face of someone they had just left behind the previous adventure. She regenerated into a short blue woman, And extravagantly tall woman (towering over the already very tall Tom Baker by several feet), A bearded lady (or perhaps a man in a dress), and then back into the Princess again, but this time wearing clothing similar to the doctor's, with a floppy hat and long scarf. he liked that one because it flattered his ego until he realized she had just returned to the face she had when she started regenerating.
|2017-07-23, 21:49
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Do you care? I do. It will be interesting to see her take on the Doctor. Will it grab more ratings? At first maybe. I'm sure it won't last. But I can think of crazier ratings grabs than this. This....is mild. Especially considering the show has been playing with the idea for a very long time.
A world where gender doesn't matter is a world where they cast the first female as Doctor Who and no one whines about it being a gimmicky ratings grab. If you want people to not care about it, then you have to make it a common sight, so they get used to it. You know, like seeing a white guy from the UK over twelve incarnations.
Change is good.
|2017-07-24, 07:35
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I'm calling it. That Army guy that both Doctors saved is the future Brigadier.
|2017-07-24, 11:18
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Iwakawa base and Chaldea
Age: 38
And creator of the show is telling all those who tried to drum up the outrage for cheap click money to STFU. The same guys who soon forgot Wonder Woman as soon as female Doctor was announced.
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Though the question is...is that really World War One Earth, or is that the planet at War from the War Games, because it had a World War One zone, time travel shenanigans, and the Second Doctor involved.
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Classified
|2017-12-25, 15:24
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Location: Vladimir, Russia
Age: 25
Just came back from the cinema. It was an absolutely amazing experience. Pretty much everything was in point, and Capaldi... Capaldi was simply perfect in the episode. And so was David Bradley.
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|2017-12-25, 17:04
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Age: 32
Really good special. Mostly call backs to Capaldi, but also other Doctors. Not feeling Jodie yet. Her voice felt fake and forced in her scene. Not writing her off yet though, obviously. Just hope she gets her TARDIS Legs fast, because the way the Doctor talks and acts is a big part of his character.
|2017-12-25, 18:53
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Remember the new Doctor has usually been weird at the very start. An, adjustment period.
Spoiler for Well....:
They get weird habits, or say things oddly....get strange cravings, or just sort of nonsensical for at least part of their first full episode. Even the Second Doctor had to quiet the noises and focus to keep his feet the first time. Plus he was rather odd for the first two episodes before he started to become defined as "The Doctor" while dealing with the Daleks.
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|Pferd and Wolle goes camping (repeat of 2332)
|Air date
|August 9, 2009
|Cold Opening
|Ernie thinks it's nice to have a picnic, Bert agrees. Ernie starts to mention what they have in the picnic basket, when he gets to cookies he takes them and then eats them.
|Pferd says good night to Wolle and leaves the barn. Wolle hurries after Pferd and asks him were he are going, Pferd tells Wolle that he has decided to spend the night in a tent. Wolle says he loves going camping, and that he wants to come with him. Pferd then stops at the barn proclaiming they have arrived to the place. Wolle asks were the tent are, and Pferd realizes that he has forgotten it, so it was a good thing they had returned to the barn.
|Pferd have found the tent and are trying to set it up with Wolle.
|They have finally gotten the tent up and are now laying in their sleeping bags. Wolle really enjoys himself, he can't imagine anything better than being out in the wild and enjoying the quietness. Meanwhile Pferd are eating his salat and carrots and because of that the quietness that Wolle likes are not present. Shortly after Pferd says he dose not feel well, it turns out that he are missing a goodnight story. Wolle says he will fetch Pferd's favorite book so that he can feel better. After Wolle has gotten Pferd's book, Pferd are having trouble reading it with out his favorite carrot lamp. Wolle goes to fetch the lamp.
|Wolle tries to move the lamp over to the tent, but it proves a bit difficult.
|Wolle are pleased that he now finally can go to sleep, since Pferd has everything he needs. But then Pferd starts to move around in the tent trying to get comfortable, and pushes Wolle so he can't go to sleep. Pferd says that he needs some hay to lay comfortable, so Wolle fetches some hay for his best friend. Pferd thinks that it really starts to feel like they are home in the barn now, Wolle agrees and says that they could might as well not had put up the tent. Pferd then says that they could just go back home, take the tent down and put everything back.
|A girl and her mother goes camping.
|Drawing a tiger
| Ernie get ready for bed. He puts a cup of water on the table beside his bed, so he won't need to get out of bed to get water. He brings an extra blanket in case he gets cold, and puts a fan by the bed in case he gets hot. He also brings a book to bed in case he wants to read, a flashlight so he won't turn the lights on and disturb Bert, and a pencil and pad of paper in case he wants to draw. He also brings Rubber Duckie to bed with him, in case he wants his Rubber Duckie, he won't have to get out of bed. But then Ernie realizes that he has too many things in his bed, so he knocks Bert out of his.
(EKA: Folge 2432)
|A high-speed film of a day at the beach.
|Reporter Wolle visits a hotel in Hamburg. While trying to find a toilet he gets lost and discovers various things at the hotel.
|Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: While climbing the Alps, Bert and Ernie meet Heidi and her rambunctious goat. When the goat tries to take a bite of Ernie's cuckoo-clock, it is nearly thrown off a cliff and it's up to Bert and Ernie to save it.
| The Count sings "Counting Vacation."
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MTN Issue 9, Spring 1993
Extended Functionality (Maple V Release 2)
Lambert's W Function in Maple
R.M. Corless, G.H. Gonnet, D.E.G. Hare, D.J. Jeffrey
This article presents the mathematics of the
function in Maple, the solution to the equation w*exp(w)=x for w. The article gives several applications and concludes with a set of integral exercies which involve Lambert's W function.
Introduction to Gauss
D. Gruntz and M. Monagan
This article describes a new model for programming mathematical algorithms in Maple based on ideas from the axiom system. The primary idea is "domains and categories". In computer science we don't use this terminology, we use instead "parameterized types and parameterized abstract types" respectively and in the object-oriented programming community we could call them "parameterized classes and parameterized meta classes."
Grobner Bases in Gauss
D. Gruntz
An implementation of Buchbergers algorithm for Grobner bases in
illustrating the flexibility and power of
Harmonic Analysis of Phase Controlled Waveforms
A.D. Rough and J. Richardson
This is an article for engineers and scientists which presents Maple programs to investigate the harmonic structure of single-phase and 3-phase waveforms of thyristor circuits.
Engineering Applications of Maple V Release 2: Analysis and Design of Machines
J. Argent and T. Lee
An application of Maple in mechanical engineering. Two design problems for a machine element to solve equilibrium equations to obtain general solutions for shear and normal stresses.
Using Computer Algebra to Help Understand the Nature of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
M. Monagan
This worksheet shows a worked example of how symbolic computation can be used in linear algebra to analyse the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix containing a parameter, in particular to study what happens to the eigenvectors when the eigenvalues coincide.
Solving the Congruence x^2 == a mod n
M.O. Vahle
Presents a complete description of the mathematics and algorithms needed to solve this well known problem in number theory. The article is intended for use in education.
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I've had a nice little break from Macro Monday, but I think it's time for me to begin teasing you again, don't you?
I took this photo quite late last night, and there was a horrible orange cast on it (mainly because I didn't bother to drag out the little studio lights) and I couldn't get the colour balance right, so I made it black and white. Nice, huh? Nostalgic. Do you remember the days when it was all we had? Yeah, me too.
We had these things back then. They've been around for a very long time – as long as I can remember. This one is photographed from an unusual angle, but if you've ever handled or used one, you should recognise it, given enough time to think. As far as I know, they are exactly the same all over the world – the design hardly varies, although other factors like colour can change.
Is it useful? Or decorative? Well … it can be both. Does everyone have them? No, but I'd be surprised if those of you who don't use them have never even seen one! They seem to be everywhere, and at the moment are enjoying a revival of interest.
Since it's probably going to turn out to be difficult to guess (despite being SO obvious to me, tee hee!), I'll give you one more clue: it's no use just as it is. You need what might loosely be called 'accessories'. Also, if you like to use them, having just one isn't going to do you a lot of good, you'll need more.
Oh, alright, that was two clues. What is this – the Spanish inquisition?
No, it isn't going to be three clues. Off you go and scratch those heads until the answer falls out, why don't you? Post your answer in the comments, and I'll pop back tomorrow evening and add the answer to the bottom of this post in the form of a picture link.
The winner gets … a link back to their blog along with the answer!
See you all tomorrow! Meanwhile, check out more Macro Monday contributions at Lisa's Chaos.
And the time has come to divulge the answer! Go here to see what the mystery object was.
Jeni of JenisDollz was the first to guess correctly again this week – well done, Jeni! Shooting Parrots also got it, and Kala and Carol Lanctot jumped on the bandwagon and agreed with our winners! Well done, all of you – I'm very impressed.
Thanks for playing – and do pop back and join me again next week for another puzzle, won't you? It'll be fun!


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Intercollegiate transfers
A change of college affiliation to LAS can be made roughly during the same time periods as curriculum and major changes within LAS. These ICT/curriculum change periods have been expanded in LAS to several weeks at midterm and at the beginning of each academic year. See the specific dates posted below.
Please be advised that some variations in policy and procedures exist in other colleges on campus. Always consult directly with the intended receiving college for information and approval. Several LAS majors have special grade-point average or other criteria that must be met. Before changing colleges, students will be required to have completed at least one year (one semester for transfer students) in their present college.
Students intending to transfer into LAS from another college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign must attend an Information Session before applying online. We update these dates as they become available, so please check back.
Upcoming information sessions are:
- 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Oct. 2, in 1090 Lincoln Hall
- 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 in 1060 Lincoln Hall
- 1-2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, in 1092 Lincoln Hall
- 11 a.m. to noon. Thursday, Oct. 11, in 1090 Lincoln Hall
- 5-6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, in 1090 Lincoln Hall
- 3-4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in 1027 Lincoln Hall
- 9-10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in 1060 Lincoln Hall
Policies and procedures for intercollegiate transfer
General guidelines for students
- No student may initiate more than one intercollegiate transfer change within each course registration period.
- Students who wish to be "undeclared" in the Division of General Studies (formerly LAS General Curriculum) are encouraged to make an appointment with an academic advisor in the Division of General Studies to personally review requirements for the transfer.
- Intercollegiate transfer applicants must meet both the general criteria for admission to LAS and all curricular declaration requirements in their major of choice at the time of the intercollegiate transfer application. Students must begin to pursue coursework immediately in their declared major, and will be audited for academic progress according to their declared major.
- International students must consult with the Office of International Student Affairs before initiating any intercollegiate transfer or curricular change.
- NCAA athletes should consult with DIA and departmental advisors prior to initiating an intercollegiate transfer within LAS.
- Students interested in the LAS/Combined Engineering Program or a second degree in LAS must petition the college for approval. Apply for admission to second degree candidacy.
Intercollegiate transfer academic guidelines
Students who entered U of I as freshmen:
- must remain in the college to which they were admitted for one academic year (The earliest opportunity to apply is the midterm intercollegiate transfer period during their second term of enrollment.);
- must have maintained a U of I cumulative GPA of 2.00 and have achieved an academic record that places them in good standing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (calculated at LAS offices during application process); and
- must meet the curricular declaration criteria for the respective LAS major at time of intercollegiate transfer application.
Students who were initially admitted to other U of I colleges as transfer students:
- may not initiate an intercollegiate transfer application to LAS during their first semester of enrollment at U of I (One semester of full-time enrollment at Uof I must be completed in order to apply for intercollegiate transfer to LAS.);
- must have earned a transfer GPA (based on all courses taken off the U of I Urbana campus) of 2.70 or higher, a cumulative GPA of 2.00 at U of I at Urbana-Champaign, and an academic record that places them in good standing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (calculated at LAS offices during application process); and
- must meet the curricular declaration criteria for the respective LAS major at time of intercollegiate transfer application.
Application periods for changes effective Spring 2019
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Nov 12 (Reuters) - Shenzhen Capstone Industrial Co Ltd
* Says share trade to resume on Nov 13
Source text in Chinese: bit.ly/2yt5GbR
Further company coverage: (Reporting by Hong Kong newsroom)
All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays.
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In 2010 the North Walsham Christmas Lights & the North Walsham & District Lions Club got together to create the NORTH WALSHAM FUNDAY and it's still going!
Neil Storey will be supporting our efforts through out the year, keep your eyes peeled and watch this spot.
With one Funday done and dusted, we are already planning the next one. We can't tell you too much about the future event, that would ruin the surprise.
Don't forget on Saturday 25th November the North Walsham Funday will have a stall at the North Walsham Lights Switch On.
Date for your Diary:
23rd & 24th June 2018!


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In the last few weeks we have been having problems with account moves
getting partially processed by GW, but then getting caught in a
continuous loop in the IDM queue. Sometimes I can get the transaction
to clear out of the queue by stopping both the driver and remote loader
and then restarting both again (as in the example logs below). Other
times, the only way to get it out of the queue is to remove the
transaction from the queue via dxcmd.
The move transactions were flowing fine (although the PO changes didn't
always work as they were supposed to with the driver) up until a few
weeks ago.
We are noticing that the IDM Connected Systems attributes are not being
updated when an account changes PO, and that if we deleted the attribute
and re-migrate the account, it will take the value of the nGWGroupWiseID
(if the attribute is there on accounts that existed prior to the GW2014
upgrade) rather than the correct PO. I don't think that this has any
bearing on this example as the IDM link is for the correct PO and
The IDM driver and RL are running on SLES 11 SP3
We are running IDM 4.2
Our GroupWise 2014 R2
Nothing was changed to the IDM or GW environment.
Has anyone run into anything like this before?
In the logs below, the Department (OU) attribute was changed prior to
the account being moved. There were other transactions that were
processed between the attribute change and the move in the tree.
Driver log capturing the attribute change:
Remote loader log capturing the attribute change:
Driver log capturing two of the loops (gw124 and gw125):
Driver log capturing the move:
Remote loader log capturing the move:
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Deeply rooted culture can be a bit difficult to locate in San Francisco; a city on the brink of major gentrification due an explosive tech industry and the people who employ it. Which is great and all, but often, everything feels new; expanding, evolving. (With the exclusion of all those pretty Victorians we always forget to gawk at.) This divide sets the contemporary artifact sometimes against cherished heritage, but keeps local institutions–like the Castro Theatre–highly revered by a niche audience, and for that reason, in business. After all, no matter who you are, or what hub you belong to, we all love a good movie.
I recently saw Mystery Train, a Jim Jarmusch film from the last year of the 80s. And it blew my mind. The dialogue is incredible, and still relatable as a young person 20+ years later. I fell in love with the strange, changing characters, all searching for something infinite. The clothes are amazing, specifically the wardrobes of the train-traveling Japanese couple touring the US. Platform shoes, band tees, purple lipstick, leather jackets, and shrunken blazers are just a few of the covetable pieces these two wear throughout the film. Check out these stills for inspiration, and try and make it to a film at the Castro this month! Check their calendar for details.


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The Jump's Sinitta and Amy Childs clash over ski suit
- Bang Showbiz
- 22 January 2014
'The Jump' contestants Sinitta and Amy Childs clashed over a 'vajazzled' ski suit. It appears Amy won the argument to wear the jewel-encrusted outfit
'The Jump' contestants Sinitta and Amy Childs have clashed over a 'vajazzled' ski suit.
The reality TV stalwarts are among the celebrities competing on Channel 4's new Winter Olympics-themed competition and the pair recently butted heads over the jewel-encrusted costume.
'The Only Way is Essex' star Amy apparently won the battle as 'X Factor' star Sinitta has now opted for a tiger-print outfit.
She told The Sun newspaper: "I've got a new nickname - I'm now Tiger, which is hilarious because I'm more mouse on the slopes. But hopefully by the time the show goes live I'll be a tiger.
"Also the Tigers are my favourite football team so it all ties in."
'The Jump' - hosted by Davina McCall - will see a slew of stars, also including Melinda Messenger and Sir Steve Redgrave, attempt various Winter Olympic sports such as bobsleighing, slalom skiing and skeleton.
Each live show will conclude with the two worst contestants performing a massive ski jump in order to continue on in the competition.
Other contenders include former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, TV presenter Anthea Turner, 5ive singer Ritchie Neville, cricketer Darren Gough and comic Marcus Brigstocke.
'The Jump' begins on Channel 4 on Sunday (26.01.14).


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Girl Scouts make precious cookie commercial set to 'Blank Space' (VIDEO)
Kaylee and Lexi are two young enterprising Girl Scouts with cookies to sell.
So they decided — along with one very talented adult — to make their own cookie commercial set to Taylor Swift's "Blank Space," and the result is so incredibly charming you'll have to watch it again. These girls got moves!
Even their parody lyrics are funny.
"I thought, oh my gosh, look at that face! You look like you hate to bake. Here is a better waaaaaaay, eh."
The girls even pretend to hit a dented car at the end like Taylor Swift does in the original "Blank Space" video. Brilliant.
But what makes this particular cookie advertisement so great is how much fun these girls are obviously having making it.
Along with the video was this cute disclaimer: "This video was made for fun to sell to our friends and family. Girl Scouts have no problem with potential customers saying 'no.' Enjoy!"
Although we don't know who they are or much about them aside from their devotion to Taylor Swift, there's no doubt these two little talented beauties are going places. But for now, they're focused on selling cookies.
"Got a long list of my buyers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I've got a blank space, lady, and I'll write your name."
Go, girls.
More Girl Scout cookie fun
Girl Scout Cookies and wine are a match made in heaven (INFOGRAPHIC)
New Girl Scout Cookie Oven makes Thin Mints possible year-round
10 Girl Scout cookie binge excuses you're already making


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Johannesburg, South Africa – Conversations, Colors, and Culture
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
"First and foremost, my seestah, welcome home." A black South African greets me with this as he learns I'm from the U.S.
I feel this familial aura in the air. This overwhelming sense of comfort. Of pride. Of belonging.
Everywhere I go, the people look like me. They walk like me.…


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Timmy Jugadai Tjungurrayi
WARNING: Visitors should be aware that this website includes images and names of deceased people that may cause sadness or distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Luritja and Kukatja people, about 1920–89
Timmy Jugadai was actively involved in the Haasts Bluff community and was head stockman at the cattle station there from the 1950s. He was a friend and associate of many members of the original group of Papunya Tula painters. He painted occasionally for Papunya Tula Artists in the mid-1970s.
Travels of the Mala 1976
On its travels in the Dreaming, the Mala (Hare Wallaby) ancestor passed through a wide area of Central Australia. The painting shows the tracks of this fast-moving wallaby, indicating where it browsed (represented by a dragging tail mark) or made speedy progress. The circles are the spinifex grass tussocks under which it lives, and the arc-shaped protrusions are the Mala's whiskers.
Travels of the Mala 1976, Timmy Jugadai Tjungurrayi
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Battling Nature on the River
The past week's raging waters along the Mississippi are hardly unprecedented. The great flood of 1927 was far worse—and we still haven't applied its lessons.
If recent events in Japan were not enough, the news of the past week has reminded us that nature can make our efforts to control it seem like nothing more than hubris. A historic swath of tornadoes has ripped across the South, and now a potentially major Mississippi River flood is gathering. The tornadoes have done their damage already. The rising waters of the Mississippi are about to test human judgment and engineering anew.
As of Friday, Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was deciding whether or not to blow up a levee in Birds Point, Mo., and deliberately flood 200 square miles of fertile farm land in order to protect other property. It is a choice between having a controlled flood on a battlefield of his choosing or having the river breach the levee at some as yet unknown weak spot where the flood would be uncontrolled and could wreak havoc.
Blowing the levee is not some wild idea drawn up on a napkin; it is one small piece of a carefully thought-out and engineered plan to control the immense forces of the Mississippi. The river drains 31 states and stretches from Olean, N.Y., to the Rockies, from North Carolina to Taos, N.M.
On the lower Mississippi—from Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet, to the Gulf of Mexico—the floodplain, at its widest, stretches nearly 100 miles across. A great flood can easily fill the entire 35,000-square-mile area with water. The last time the Mississippi did so was in 1927, and the decision that Gen. Walsh now faces results directly from the plans developed to prevent such floods—and from our failures and oversights in implementing them.
The 1927 flood came as a surprise to no one. Precipitation over the entire river basin started in August 1926 and continued through the end of the year. In the last three months of 1926, all the gauges on the entire river system—on the Ohio, the Missouri, the Arkansas and the Mississippi itself—had the highest average readings ever recorded. On Christmas Day 1926, both Nashville and Knoxville—which sit on different rivers—flooded. On New Year's Day 1927, the Mississippi broke flood stage at Cairo, Ill. It remained above that level for 153 consecutive days.
Precipitation continued all spring, and the Mississippi and all its tributaries rose up in full rage. Ten discrete flood crests went down the river as different tributaries peaked, receded, then rose again. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville flooded. Omaha and Oklahoma City flooded. So did virtually every city and town in between. From West Virginia to Oklahoma, people drowned.
But the greatest devastation visited the lower Mississippi, in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. A single levee break in Mississippi put water over the rooftops of Yazoo City, 50 miles to the east. Another break on the west bank allowed one to travel by boat over normally dry land from Vicksburg, Miss., 75 miles to the west to Monroe, La. As one eyewitness wrote, "For thirty-six hours the Delta was in turmoil, in movement, in terror. Then the waters covered everything, the turmoil ceased, and a great quiet settled down…. Over everything was silence, deadlier because of the strange cold sounds of the currents gnawing at foundations, hissing against walls, creaming and clawing over obstacles."
' Nature is perfect; engineers are not. If humans make a mistake against nature, nature will find and exploit it. '
In total, the river flooded the homes of nearly 1% of the entire population of the U.S. No remotely accurate death toll exists; the weather bureau officially said 313, but a professional in disaster management estimated at least 1,000 dead in Mississippi alone.
More significant than the devastation was the flood's aftermath. It sent Herbert Hoover—who was portrayed heroically in print, on newsreels and on radio for leading the rescue and rehabilitation efforts—to the White House. It severed the emotional bond between African-American leaders and the Republican Party and spurred enormous numbers of African-Americans to leave the South. Most importantly, it changed the way that people viewed government's role: Hundreds of thousands of people had lost everything through no fault of their own, and, for the first time, the nation as a whole seemed to decide that the federal government had a responsibility to help individual citizens in distress.
The 1927 flood had riveted the nation's attention, and popular concern about a recurrence of the tragedy drove Congress to give more money to the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project than to any single national effort up to that time, except World War I. The flood also taught engineers a great deal about controlling rivers. In 1928 the Army Corps of Engineers applied those lessons as it developed a comprehensive plan to handle floods on the lower Mississippi.
The project resulted in levees that are by far the strongest in the country, along with other flood-control devices such as floodways, which are essentially parallel rivers that, by giving the river room to expand, lower the flood height in the main channel and thus ease pressure on levees. Birds Point, where Gen. Walsh must make his decision, is at the top of one such floodway; it has been used only once, in 1937.
Unfortunately, the lessons of 1927 were not applied with similar energy along the upper Mississippi, where the flooding of the past week has been the most severe, or elsewhere in the country.
The problem of protecting against river floods is complex. It requires a broad view of the river system as a whole, a narrow focus on local protection, and constant maintenance and monitoring down to almost infinitesimal detail. Nature is perfect; engineers are not. As recent experience in Japan demonstrates, if humans make a mistake against nature, nature will find and exploit it.
In the U.S., nearly all of the focus has been on local efforts at flood control, without considering the impact on entire river basins. The most glaring examples are the six great dams built on the Missouri River in Montana and North and South Dakota. Completed in 1963, they have provided billions of dollars in benefits to the High Plains in flood protection, hydroelectric power and irrigation.
But these dams have greatly increased the flood danger to Louisiana. They retain 150 million tons of sediment a year, which once poured down the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico—more than the entire rest of the system sends to the Gulf. The loss of this sediment has been a major factor in the disappearance of 2,300 square miles of coastal Louisiana, land which provided a buffer protecting populated areas from a hurricane storm surge. As this buffer has melted away, New Orleans and the rest of coastal Louisiana have become far more vulnerable to hurricanes than nature made them.
There have been local problems, too. Levees are usually properly designed and constructed, but then slippage occurs. Several years ago the Corps of Engineers described the levee in Poplar Bluff, Mo.—which breached in many spots this week—as "unacceptable" because of poor maintenance. Nationally, the Corps has evaluated 237 levees and deemed 58 "unacceptable" because of similar failures.
An even greater problem has been that, even in cities, the federal government builds levees to protect only against a "100-year flood," meaning a flood with a 1% chance of striking in any given year. This sounds like a high standard, but it is, in fact, the lowest in the developed world. Japan and the Netherlands, for example, protect against river floods to a 2,000-year standard for densely populated areas and a 200-year standard for rural zones.
The U.S. standard evolved as a political compromise when the National Flood Insurance Program was established in 1968. That program requires flood insurance for any homeowner with a federally backed mortgage whose home lies in a flood plain—but it waives the requirement if the home is protected by a levee that can hold a 100-year flood.
The Corps of Engineers wanted a minimum 500-year standard of protection for densely populated areas. But because of the high cost of building to this standard, the Office of Management and Budget opposed it. Developers lobbied for a 50-year standard. The resulting 100-year protection level was a classic Washington compromise.
But this standard exposes Americans to a much higher risk to life and property than they would accept in a retirement investment. The reality is that, over the 30-year life of a typical home mortgage, there is a 26% chance of a flood that exceeds the 100-year standard. Over the course of a century, there is a 63% chance that a flood greater than the 100-year standard will strike, a 26% chance of two such floods, and an 8% chance of three such floods. So it is hardly a statistical surprise that the upper Midwest suffered 100-year floods in 1993 and 2008.
In some cases the standard has actually increased flood risk. Developers push for levee construction, a levee gets built, homeowners move in thinking they're safe and don't buy flood insurance, since it's not required. Then a flood wipes them out.
And all of this assumes that the estimates for a 100-year flood are accurate. In many instances they are not. As Gerry Galloway, a retired Corps of Engineers general and flood expert, says, "It's a game of rolling dice. On the Nile you have thousands of years of data, but here we just don't have enough data. We really don't know what a 100-year flood is."
The difference between 100-year protection and a higher standard can be seen every year, when one compares floods on the lower Mississippi to floods everywhere else in the country. Levees along the lower river are strong enough to protect against waters generated by, approximately, a once-in-750-years storm. This area has not seen a levee breach since 1927.
By contrast, the 100-year (or less) protection for the rest of the country routinely generates disaster headlines. Fargo, N.D., has an almost annual wrestling match with the Red River. Two 100-year floods on the upper Mississippi ravaged the Midwest in 1993 and 2008. And last year in Rhode Island the Pawtuxet River devastated cities whose residents barely knew the river existed—much less that it was a threat—until it inundated their homes.
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the difference as well. All the old levees held; the newest ones, poorly designed structures that were supposed to contain that storm and were completed just six years before the storm, were the ones that collapsed.
We have the resources and technical knowledge to look at river basins in a comprehensive way and to construct far more effective flood control measures. But real protection costs money, which is in short supply in Washington these days. Even California, however, a state with one of the most desperate fiscal situations, has recognized the importance of better flood protection and now mandates that no new development can occur without protection against a 200-year storm. And it passed a $4.9 billion bond issue to help meet that standard.
No matter the standard, sooner or later a flood will come that exceeds it. But the system survives and continues to function even if water pours over the top. That's the difference between water just sloshing over the lip of a bathtub and the wall of the bathtub collapsing entirely, spilling out all the water within—which would be a catastrophe.
If we want to avoid a repeat of the upsetting scenes of the past week, we must start thinking about building our bathtub walls higher and sturdier.
—Mr. Barry is the author of "Rising Tide: The Great 1927 Mississippi Flood and How It Changed America" and vice president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East, which oversees levee districts in metropolitan New Orleans.


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By Shilpa Chopra
Volvo XC60 launched at Rs 34.4 lakh, new smaller diesel engine in place
The Swedish car maker Volvo has launched the Volvo XC60 Crossover SUV fitted with a new diesel engine. And what more, the Volvo XC60 Crossover SUV now comes at a reduced price. The Volvo XC60 Crossover SUV price starts at Rs 34.4 lakh and it is Rs 37.4 lakh for the high end variant. In India, the diesel only variants are in place and these started at Rs 40 lakh prior to the launch. Now with the new diesel engine and reduced price, Volvo is assumed to give a straight fight to its rivals such as BMW X3, Audi Q5 and Land Rover Freelander.
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The new diesel engine designed for the Volvo XC60 is also called as D3 diesel engine similar to its earlier versions but the new engine is smaller than the existing ones. As per the reports, Volvo XC60 diesel new avatar has been launched sensing the high price of petrol and increased inclination of the car buyers towards the diesel powered cars. Currently the Volvo lineup has Volvo S60 sedan starting at Rs 34.4 lakh, the Rs 49.14 lakh priced Volvo S80 luxury sedan and Volvo XC90 SUV priced at Rs 55 lakh. With the addition of Volvo XC 60 at Rs 34 lakh will be a big plus for the car maker.
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The new diesel engine in the new Volvo XC60 is a turbo powered three pot diesel engine. The new small but powerful engine can produce a maximum power of 163 Bhp. The engine is mated to a six speed automatic transmission with all time all wheel drive in place ensuring that the power from the engine reaches the wheels in toto. The new D3 engine powered Volvo XC 60 will give an edge to the car maker as it has reduced the price of the car despite being brought to India under the completely built unit route. However, limited number of sales outlets and service stations in India mar the overall Volvo car sales in the country.


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|The apple cake (Repeat of 2226)
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|May 23, 2010
|Cold opening
| Wolle is eating spaghetti, when the boss asks him to start Sesamstrasse. Wolle replies that he doesn't have time for it now, then the boss mentions that theres 7 seconds until the show has to air. Wolle quickly clears the control panel and pushes the red button.
(First: Folge 2517)
|As Pferd comes walking down the street, he can smell a new baked apple cake at Ella's. As he are about to eat the cake Ella quickly stops him, and tells him that she and Finchen have baked the cake for the visitor Ella are expecting later and that Pferd can get a piece of the cake then. Pferd are not sure that he can wait for that. Ella suggest that they play the alphabet game while they wait. Ella shows Finchen and Pferd a card with a letter on and they have to come up with a word that start with that letter and every letter Pferd sees reminds him of something you can eat.
|Ella shows Pferd the letter "K" and Pferd quickly says Kuchen (cake), and shortly after he changes it to apple cake and starts to look at the cake. Ella quickly says that they need to come up with a different game.
|Ella and Finchen suggest that Pferd should pretend to a different animal and that they are gonna guess what animal he is. Pferd starts to make various animal sounds and Ella and Finchen takes turns guessing.
|Ella thinks Pferd are very good to pretend to be other animals. The last animal he pretends to be are a pig and he asks them what a horse and pig has in common, they both like to eat...apple cake.
|Finchen suggest that they sing a song. Pferd and Finchen starts to sing a song about what they like to do. While they sing the phone rings and Ella goes to answer it. After the song she returns and thanks them for the song and then tells them that her visitor has cancelled so they can eat the cake now and she will bake another one tomorrow.
| A story with only "K" words.
(EKA: Folge 2496)
|Ernie und Bert Go Music: Bert are talking about a triangle, when Ernie comes by with a fishing rod (angel) looking for his hook for his rod (angel-hagen). Bert don't know why Ernie would think there's a hook in a concert hall, and he was just talking about the triangle. Ernie did not realize that Bert also likes to fish, Bert then tells Ernie that a triangle can't be used to catch fish. Ernie takes the triangle and puts it on his rod then says he needs his fish attractor. Bert tries to explain to Ernie about the triangle he snatches the metal rod Bert are holding and start to hit the triangle to attract the fishes and then throw out the line. Bert are sure that when the NDR philharmonic orchestra triangle players arrive they will convince Ernie that a triangle are a musical instrument, Ernie then asks if it's the three guys that are fishing over there.
| As the boss asks Wolle to start the next segment, Wolle is nowhere to be seen in the control room. Wolle then yells that the boss has to find him first, the boss then says that Wolle is hiding under the control table and Wolle pops up from under the table. Wolle asks the boss how he knew it, and the boss replies that it's the only place to hide.
(First: Folge 2517)
| Three kids are putting together a remote controled car.
(EKA: Folge 2426)
| Count von Count sings "The Batty Bat".
(EKA: Folge 2264)
| Les devinettes de Reinette: the answer to Reinette's riddle are a bee.
(First: Folge 2471)
| Grover works at a bakery. Mr. Johnson gets a slip and is customer 40. Grover tells him to wait until he calls his number, which frustrates Mr. Johnson because there is nobody else in the bakery--except for a Green Anything Muppet woman who has a 39 slip.
(EKA: Folge 2460)
| Wolle hangs upside down in the control room. His boss asks Wolle what he's doing; Wolle replies that he is fixing the lamp. The boss asks him who's gonna close down the control room then, to which Wolle replies that that's not a problem, he falls down and pushes the black button before he hits the floor and the control room goes black.
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Honest Tea Looks to Make a Splash With New Kids Line
Extending its reach in the kids' beverage category, Honest Tea has introduced Honest Splash, a new line of 70-calorie juice drinks. In a statement, Honest Tea called the products an "evolution of the Honest Kids brand" that is designed for older children. Honest Splash will be sold exclusively at Target from mid-March until the end of June, when the drinks will roll out to other retailers.
Packaged in 12 oz. resealable plastic bottles, Honest Splash contains 30-31 percent juice and, like Honest Kids, is sweetened with organic fruit juice as opposed to added sugar. Honest Splash comes in three varieties – Berry Good Lemonade, Goodness Grapeness and Super Fruit Punch – and sold as individual single serve bottles and 6-packs, which have a suggested retail price of $5.49.
With the addition of a second line of kids' drinks, Honest Tea is undoubtedly aiming to build upon the windfall success of Honest Kids, which with the company launched in 2007 and now accounts for over one-third of its total business. Honest Tea noted that Honest Splash meets the American Beverage Association's School Beverage Guidelines for High Schools, a significant point of marketing amid growing concerns about highly sweetened drinks linked to rising rates of obesity among children.
"Honest Splash is a great fit for older kids, or kids on the go, who need the convenience of a larger, re-closable container," Honest Tea co-founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman said in the statement. "It still meets the needs of parents who want to provide lower-sugar beverages."
While the new line will make an appearance at the upcoming Natural Products Expo West show, Honest Tea will instead focus on its Honest Fizz line of zero-calorie sodas. Although Honest Fizz launched last month in an exclusive with Whole Foods, Expo West will mark the official debut of the soda line, according to a company spokesman.


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Edgecast video: Geoffrey Young and the art of the galleryMore Info
Great Barrington – Twenty-four years ago, Geoff Young opened his first art gallery. The artist Morgan Bulkeley had told Young that he had a 24 by 48 foot storage area. "Why don't you open an gallery," Bulkeley had suggested.
He did. Since then, Young has exhibited some of the most cutting edge artists of our time.
This Saturday (June 14), Young hosts the opening of "Casheesh," an exhibit of 37 artists that includes, among others, the work of his friend Morgan Bulkeley, at his gallery, 40 Railroad St., in Great Barrington.
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Ask food company executives about what keeps them up at night, and high on the list would be drawing the attention of activist groups.
That's a nightmare in anyone's book.
A new industry effort aims to battle "fringe" activist groups opposed to use of technology in food production. This would include groups campaigning against GMOs and irradiation, for example.
This effort has taken the form of a sophisticated position paper advocating technology's role in food in the 21st century. Called "Making Safe, Affordable and Abundant Food a Global Reality," it's worth exploring because it has the potential to change minds. Here's a link: http://plentytothinkabout.org/threerights/
First, some background on the author. The paper was written by Jeff Simmons, president of Elanco, a unit of Eli Lilly and Co. that focuses on animal health and protein production worldwide. This paper's research will get wider exposure during a session at next month's GMA Executive Conference in Colorado Springs, which will include Simmons' participation.
Research conducted for this paper found consumers overwhelmingly favor unrestricted choices in food, and are "either neutral or fully supportive of using technology to produce their food." Meanwhile, the paper asserts, a "fringe" group of food activists attempts to restrict choices, and this group comprises less than 2% of U.S. consumers.
The paper's main contentions are as follows: "Highly efficient food production can help end world hunger, lower food costs, protect consumer rights and safeguard our natural resources. Achieving this requires protecting the rights of the entire food chain to use new and existing technologies while sustaining consumer choice."
This statement, however, doesn't fully relay the paper's tone, which at times reads like the Declaration of Independence in its emphasis on rights.
Consider this point: Access to safe, proven technology will help insure three rights: "Food, a basic human right, choice, a consumer right, and sustainability, environmentally right."
This paper effectively ties all these things into the technology argument. It builds the case without getting lost in specific battles.
My one concern is this approach could create a backlash against activists that has the impact of limiting their rights too. The paper argues as follows: If 'fringe' groups "have credible scientific data that prove their claims, they should choose to share that information not with the media and online, but with the appropriate regulatory bodies authorized to examine and act upon that data."
While I agree these groups need to share relevant information with regulatory bodies, I wouldn't want to bar them from also reaching out to other parties because that would limit their freedom of expression.
That said, the danger here is very low. The more likely outcome of all this is that industry leaders will begin to feel more empowered about bringing compelling cases for food technology to government, media and consumers without fear of being targeted. If that happens, this initiative will have done its job.


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There was something about the turnip in my crisper drawer that spoke to me one day. It somehow begged to be roasted and stuffed into little dough pockets. And of course some diced ham seemed like a nice match too. Feeling like I needed something green to tuck in there too, frozen peas seemed easy. (Like "Samosas" according to my husband.)
So that is how these empanadas were created…
Surprisingly easy, I prefer to roast rather than steam/boil my turnip. And yes that is some sweet potatoes on the pan too. I figure if I am roasting anyway why not throw some other stuff on there too. And I often roast the a day or two ahead when I have the time so these can come together quicker. Saute the onion and ham first to get a little more flavor and color on them. Be sure to let the filling cool before you stuff the dough rounds.
I usually use the larger "disco" dough rounds from brands like Goya or LeFey. These are found in the freezer section, perhaps in an ethnic foods part of the freezer. If you can't find these you could definitely use some refrigerated dough product or if you are really ambitious maybe make your own. They are essentially just thin dough rounds that get stuffed, sealed and baked. Or Fried. Have I mentioned that these really are delicious deep-fried. Sadly (Insert sad sigh here) I never fry anything at home. I reserve fried treats to occasional indulges when out at restaurants. It's the same with ice cream. (Another sad sigh here.)
These are great to make ahead and have around for parties, lunch/dinner on the go, or an office pot-luck. The only advantage to the non-fried version like these, is they are good room temperature or warm and will re-heat easily and beautifully.
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dough rounds (10-15 of the larger 6″ +/-size or 20 of the smaller 4″+/- size) and it also depends on how full you fill each one…but the dough rounds can be frozen/re-frozen.
1 med turnip (couple pounds??) peeled, cut, roasted on a sheet pan with a little oil oil, S&P at 400 degrees till tender and yummy. Mashed and cooled.
1/2 large sweet onion diced ( I used "Maui")
1-2 cloves of garlic minced fine – more if you like
3/4 lb +/- diced cooked ham
2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp chili flakes
3/4-1 cup of frozen peas
Salt and pepper to taste and a couple of tablespoons of olive oil to saute
Saute the onion garlic and ham in the Olive oil. Add the dry spices and stir for a minute or two. Add the frozen peas and stir a few more minutes. Take off heat and combine with the mashed turnip. Taste for seasoning. After the filling has cooled, spoon a few table spoons onto a dough round. Flap over the dough and use a little water on your finger on the outer edge to seal them shut. Now either use a fork along the edge or roll the edges onto themselves. Brush with melted butter or spray with butter spray and bake at 375 degrees on a parchment/silpat lined sheet in the preheated oven for 20-30 mins till puffed, golden brown and delicious. These freeze beautifully either stuffed and not baked off or baked and cooled.
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I just had a reader of Six-Figure Freelancing contact me last week, asking if I still thought that freelancers could make a six-figure living writing articles. Five or six years ago, I would have said "of course."
Today, I still think it's possible to make a six-figure living (or close) writing articles for print and online publications. But it's definitely harder to do than before, for a variety of reasons. Print magazines are assigning shorter articles than they did before, yet per-word rates are pretty close to what they were in the 1960s. And as ad revenue has dropped, magazines are smaller, which means they're assigning fewer articles overall. Add in the fact that competition for high-paying features is fierce. Unless you've already established yourself with a number of magazines as one of their "go-to" writers, I think it's tough to make six figures from articles alone.
However, let's remember that there are countless other ways to make money from your words. There are more online publications and blogs that pay for content than ever before, so if you're not writing for online markets, you should be. There's copywriting. There's writing for corporate clients. There's ghostwriting. There's editing. There's writing books for traditional publishers. And what about publishing your own ebooks on a particular subject and making money from that? Or investing in a POD book to produce another source of income?
My point is this--what worked for me (and many other freelancers) ten years, five years, even two years ago doesn't work as well anymore. I've found that diversifying my business has helped me survive in a tough economy. Yes, I still write articles, but I also write books and ghostwrite books and other projects for clients. I do some public speaking, edit occasionally, and do some consulting work with freelancers and budding authors. And I'm in the middle of a big new project I'll announce soon.
But other successful freelancers have taken a different approach. Instead of diversifying, they choose to focus on specific lucrative areas like corporate writing, copywriting, or medical writing. Right now, I'm not interested in doing that--I like a variety of work. But in the future, who knows?
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WILLIAM FRED SCOTT, Chanticleer's fifth Music Director, was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Atlanta Opera from 1985 to 2005, and the Associate Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1988–a post offered him by legendary conductor, chorus director, and arranger Robert Shaw. After Shaw's passing, Scott presided for six years over Christmas with the Atlanta Symphony, carrying on the tradition of Robert Shaw's beloved Christmas concerts.
As Associate Conductor and Artistic Administrator of the Opera Company of Boston, he worked alongside that company's pioneering founder Sarah Caldwell from 1975 to 1981 and conducted over 200 performances. He comes to Chanticleer after a five-year tenure as Director of Choral Music at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Scott is also well known in Atlanta as an organist.
William Fred Scott is a native of Thomasville, Georgia and a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He has received considerable recognition in Atlanta for his deep personal commitment to the arts, the community and education, including awards from the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Public Broadcasting Atlanta.
Scott has conducted with opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the country including the Opera Company of Boston, the Hawaii Opera Theater, Wolf Trap, the New York City Opera, and the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Alabama, Colorado, and Greenville, as well as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He conducted for the Kennedy Center Honors in 1991, and the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. With the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus he led the American premiere of Philip Glass' The Canyon. He made his European debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro at Prague's Theater of the Estates in the Czech Republic.
Scott's first encounter with Chanticleer was in 1994, when he conducted Chanticleer and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program of music of the Mexican Baroque.


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Welcome to the Tribe of Healers
So here is the problem Southwestern College solves for you.
Your current direction or trajectory in life either 1) will not lead to a long term, viable career path, or 2) your current life situation lacks deeper meaning; you don't feel like what you do every day makes a difference in, or makes a contribution to, the world.
Being a therapist is a life calling that has enjoyed prestige in all cultures forever. Maybe they were called Medicine Men, or Shamans, or Rabbis, or Ministers, or Zero Chiefs, but whatever the title, people in our profession have always been honored and recognized as being of the Tribe of Healers.
In these chaotic and unpredictable times, the need for therapists is strong, and the opportunities for job seekers or more entrepreneurial private practice creators is limited only by the energy and creativity they are able and willing to bring to the world. Anyone who says otherwise is living with fear and has set a low ceiling for themselves in their lives. Some people will take offense to that statement, but I have been on the planet 60 years, and 31 of those have been in this profession, watching how people make their way as professionals, and I would not back down an inch on any of my statements.
We can help you become a member of that Tribe of Healers. So can other schools, but let me say honestly, other schools tend to be more geared toward downloading content that allows you to become a cog in the mental health industrial complex that exists out there. I have taught for a bunch of them, so my information is first hand.
Here is the final problem we can solve:
Our philosophy is that your own personal growth and level of consciousness are the most important components of becoming an effective healer. The specific Psychology content, the schools of thought, pet theories and so-called evidence tend to change rapidly over time. The quality, discernment, and skill of the indivicual is what matters. Our curriculum is heavily experiential, personally challenging, and built to offer you every opportunity for personal and spiritual and professional growth we can possibly offer. Our goal is to help you bloom into the most spectacular and complete you that is possible.
Believe me, other schools do not view the task of guiding graduate students in this way. We do.
So the problem we solve for you is: "How do I pursue a meaningful career while focusing intently on my own personal growth and spiritual development?"
Answer: You come to Southwestern College, where our mission is "Transforming Consciousness through Education."
Your growth is not put on hold while you get your master's degree. Getting your master's degree at Southwestern College actually REQUIRES that you pursue your personal growth. You won't find that anywhere else the way you find it here.
Check with our students or alumni. Read our web site, our blogs, our Facebook page.
You are looking to change your life and bring more meaning into your work and your career. You want to make a difference. To help people. To be respected.
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Senator Lindsey Graham recently said that without immigration reform the Republican Party would be in a "demographic death spiral." Unfortunately for the Republican Party, even if the House of Representatives manages to pass a similar immigration bill as the Senate did, Republicans are unlikely to win over Hispanics, particularly young Hispanics who make up the future of the Latino vote and are the largest segment of the voter-eligible Latino population.
Although 55% of Latinos report that immigration is the most important issue facing the Hispanic community, once immigration reform is passed, Latino voters will have to choose their candidates based on other issues and given where they fall on the vast array of social and economic policy issues, Latinos are unlikely to vote for the current Republican lineup anytime soon.
Let's look at where Latinos stand on the issues. We'll start with social issues since that is often the place where Republicans claim they will resonate with Latino voters. Indeed, Latinos are more religious than the population at large and are more likely to be members of socially conservative denominations (approximately 68% identify themselves as Roman Catholics and 15% say they are evangelical Protestants). However, even given this fact, the numbers don't look good for Republicans:
- 68% of Latinos ages 18-29 support same-sex marriage. In fact, over 50% of all Latinos favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry and 60% of Latinos say that homosexuality should be accepted and not discouraged.
- Young Latinos are very pro-choice. 53% of those 18-29 say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
However, Latinos overwhelmingly say that it is not these "moral" issues that they care about. In 2011, 75% of Latinos polled said that politicians should be focusing on economic issues such as jobs, taxes, and the minimum wage. So let's look at where they stand on the size of government and economic issues. Again, the picture is not good for Republicans.
- 75% of Latinos say they would rather have a larger government that provides more services than a smaller government with fewer services.
- 82% say they think the government needs to do more to solve problems. Only 18% think that a smaller government is better.
- 60% say that the government should ensure that everyone has access to health care (and 60% say Democrats are closer to their position on health care). More to the point, very few Latinos support repealing Obamacare and 73% oppose reducing spending on Medicare.
- 84% say they want the Environmental Protection Act to do more to limit air pollution and 86% say they support President Obama using executive powers to limit pollution that causes global warming.
- 77% say they support raising taxes on the wealthy as a way to balance the budget (including over 50% of those Latinos who identify as Republican) and only 8% say they would support a spending cuts only approach.
Although 43% of Latinos say they would be more open to voting for a Republican if "they take a leadership role" in passing immigration reform, only 14% of Latinos say they identify with the Republican Party. Given where the Latino electorate appears to fall on other salient issues, this number is unlikely to change anytime soon, even if immigration reform manages to get through the political labyrinth of Congress.


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Pareto's sales recruitment solutions provide a flexibility and security that has become indispensable in the current UK economy.
Wilmslow, Cheshire (PRWEB UK) 16 January 2013
Sales recruitment specialists Pareto Law report the highest ever number of UK businesses utilising the organisation's flexible recruitment solutions packages in the company's 18 year history, as business leaders seek alternatives to traditional recruitment options in order to satisfy spare capacity in the recovering UK market.
Figures released for the final quarter of 2012 combine with preliminary numbers and pipeline for 2013 to indicate a significant rise in uptake of the company's Insourcing and Contracting services, which provide UK business leaders with additional sales people for the forthcoming year without the commitment to hiring long-term staff or adding to company headcount.
"Pareto's sales recruitment solutions provide a flexibility and security that has become indispensable in the current UK economy," comments Pareto Marketing Director Paul Drew.
"By providing clients with sales candidates who are fully assessed and trained in the fundamentals, we empower UK businesses with the capacity for growth and the ability to utilise opportunity and potential for additional sales, whilst we take on the responsibility of salary and HR support. The result is a try-before-you-buy approach to sales recruitment, with the option for companies to take on individuals as permanent staff or to give notice to end the contract at any time, depending on their circumstances. The current state of slow recovery in the economy is making this an increasingly attractive proposition to our clients."
The sales recruitment organisation has extensive experience in the provision of flexible, tailored recruitment solutions in the sales arena, but states this is the highest level of contracts of this nature taken on by Pareto. The news comes as UK inflation figures indicate the UK consumer prices inflation held steady for the third month in a row, while the UK economy continues to struggle. A cautious approach to development plans for 2013 in light of these economic figures may be responsible for the increased uptake identified by Pareto.
"Sales recruitment is seeing a significant boost as business leaders implement growth and development strategy for the forthcoming year." Paul Drew continues.
"This compliments our findings in December, which identified a significant increase in language requirements in the sales arena, suggesting that UK business is striving towards growth, whilst maintaining a degree of caution. We look forward to meeting the challenges set by our clients in 2013."
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Pareto Law is the UK's biggest and most successful sales enhancement company: the authority on sales, no less, since 1995. Pareto brings companies the 20% of the sales team that makes 80% of the difference.
The Pareto Effect can be experienced in many ways and it can have a remarkable, measurable effect on your business. Pareto delivers this effect through four key elements – Sales Recruitment, Sales Training, Executive Recruitment and Accolade Sales Transformation, the assessment and accreditation service that delivers sales excellence.


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ReSharper messes up your Visual Studio shortcuts
Posted by haugern in resharper, tools, visual studio on October 27th, 2008
I must start stating I'm a huge fan of JetBrains' ReSharper for Visual Studio, it certainly makes me more productive in my day-to-day coding tasks.
None the less, today I was just a little bit frustrated when upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1. I have a couple of custom shortcuts which I don't mind retaining. But ReSharper happily overwrites it all with default settings, which was quite annoying. The least I'd expect would be a message telling me it would (or didn't I read the setup correctly?) do it, and I'd happily save my settings and restore them after the upgrade.
I see that others have complained as well, and you will find JetBrains official statement here. MS & JetBrains should really figure this out.
So if you're upgrading ReSharper these days, please back up your VS-settings first!


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Faery Tales & Nightmares is an anthology of short stories by Melissa Marr, many set in the world of her Wicked Lovely series.
Marr revisits favorite fan characters such as faeries Niall and Irial, and introduces fascinating new beings, including a vampire, a pair of selchie brothers, and a goblin. The strange creatures can appear anywhere, coming from the sea, from the woods, from inside storms; they may come seeking to bring destruction or to find a passionate encounter…
Lush, seductive, and chilling, the stories in Melissa Marr's Faery Tales & Nightmares blend fairy tales and folklore, horror and fantasy, and allow us to revel in the unseen magic that infuses the world as we know it.
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Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr. Uncanny and unexpected creatures appear from behind bushes, rise from under the seas, or manifest from seasonal storms to pursue the objects of their attention—with amorous or sinister intent—relentlessly.
From the gentle tones of a story-teller's cadences to the terror of a blood sacrifice, tales of favorite characters from Marr's Wicked Lovely novels mix with accounts of new characters for readers to fall in love with . . . or to fear.
Lush, seductive, and chilling, Melissa Marr's stories revel in the unseen magic that infuses the world as we know it.


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According to Wikipedia, PLN(Personal Learning Networks) consist of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a Personal Learning Environment. An important part of this concept is the theory of connectivism developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. Learners create connections and develop a network that contributes to their professional development and knowledge. The learner does not have to know these people personally or ever meet them in person.
Social networking have created a culture of "connectedness" whose insight, increasing knowledge, and experience has the potential to revolutionize the present education field.
It is Important
To develop a learning network is essential for people who enrolled in continuing education programs. Creating a personal learning environment helps adult learners focus on their education goals, while avoiding time spent on all the distractions the Internet offers. These networks consist of services, communities, and tools that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals.
A learning network is a collection of free, widely distributed, web-based tools, RSS feeds, and typically located within a blog or wiki that is controlled by the adult learner. These are a collection of customizable tools which are personal and independent of school or work. The important aspects of a personal learning environment are its capacity to access, gather, and process information.
Some Important Components
(1) Social Networks:
Some social media such as Facebook, twitter, mySpace, etc., are quite popular now. People use these kinds of social networks to share instant news from one another, and bring people together within the shortest time, and it doesn't cost you one penny. Where you can also find some groups, which has many people having the same interests or expertise as yours; joining the group will be another good way to create your PLN.
(2) Micro-blogging
This is a form of blogging built on brief (140 characters) text updates. Presently, Twitter is the highly dominating micro-blogging tool and it's really easy to use. The stream of user updates creates a stable flow of information. That's why micro-bloggers build a network of individuals whose updates they choose to follow. The keys to success are following people who post interesting and relevant content. You should also be an active participant in the network.
Really Simple Syndication is a system for delivering frequently changing web content. News sites, blogs and other online publishers can syndicate their content via an RSS feed. Google Reader and Bloglines are among the more famed RSS aggregators. Sign up for an account and when you read a blog or other self-motivating and active content provider that you like, simply subscribe to their feed and let the RSS reader convey the web to you.
Now you got the basic idea of what PLN is, and I think it's a good timing to create a PLN for yourself if you don't have one yet.
Referrence site:
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In some highly religious circles, the general opinion is that women should be in the kitchen making sandwiches the majority of the time–and the rest of it, they should just shut the f#$% up.
Of course, the good pastor had his trusty Bible to back up his backwards belief that women are somehow inferior to men. Anderson quoted 1 Timothy 2:11. "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
While most Christians seem to consider this to be an outdated and absurd way of thinking, Pastor Anderson amped it up with more wisdom from a bunch of illiterate sheep herders, asking the congregation to flip to 1 Corinthians 14. "Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience as also sayeth the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is shameful for women to speak in the church," he quoted.
He clarified that it's OK when women chat before church, and it's certainly OK to sing, but "But when it's learning time, it's silence time. See what I mean? So what it's saying is that they are to learn in silence."
In case the ladies didn't quite get it, he added, "When the learning is going on, they aren't permitted to speak. When the learning is happening they are to be in silence. When the preaching–first of all, it's not for a woman to be doing the preaching. Second of all, it's not for women to be speaking. The Bible's really clear on this. Even if they were to have a question, they're not to ask that question in the church."
He added that, "This is why I don't believe that women should be saying "Amen" during the preaching, either." Why? Anderson says that because "Amen" means, "That's true," saying "Amen" constitutes a woman expressing her opinion about the sermon–and we can't have that!
He then told a story of a time a woman had the audacity to tell him, a man, that he was wrong–in church of all places! "I kind of blew up a little bit," he said, being the charmer that he is.
In 2009, Anderson got to meet the Secret Service after spouting off hate speech so extreme, it's a wonder that the church managed to stay tax exempt! In his vitriolic sermon, Anderson expressed his extreme hatred of the President and prayed for his death, using the Bible to justify his twisted stance.