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Bird Watching in Costa Rica
A bird watching costa rica vacation is a truly satisfying experience. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or an expert: the variety and quantity of Costa Rica birds you can observe in this country is amazing. With 874 species divided into 64 families, there is plenty to look for. Many species are endemic either to Costa Rica or Central America. There are many reasons why this nation is preferred by birders: it's a small country with varied habitats and an astounding biodiversity, with a strong infrastructure that supports visitors, so bird watchers can stay in a forest lodge take bird watching hikes with an experienced and knowledgeable bilingual guide, or use a great bird watching list or cheat sheet available for use. Think about it: there are more species in Costa Rica than in all of North America, in an area roughly the size of West Virginia. We can assist you by arranging a bird watching Costa Rica trip, where you'll be able to stay surrounded by nature in comfortable forest lodges, go on hikes or tours to national parks or reserves with knowledgeable bilingual guides, and get the chance to see and hear multiple species of birds and other animals. We arrange all details so you can concentrate on enjoying your holidays.
Costa Rica's claim to fame is certainly the Resplendent Quetzal. For those seeking the Quetzal, the best areas to head to are the Monteverde Cloud Forest, Barva volcano area and the mountains of Dota and Cerro de la Muerte, south of San José. The male quetzal is covered with emerald green iridescent feathers, sports an attractive mohawk, and has a bright red lower breast and belly. The most striking feature of this beautiful bird is its extremely long tail feathers which double the bird's length. When the male quetzal sings its liquid trills while perched on a branch, these feathers will hang down pointing to the ground, and when it flies through the forest under story, they stream behind the bird, like banners announcing its arrival. It feeds off the "aguacatillo" fruit, a relative to the avocado. It swallows the whole fruit including the large pit, which it later regurgitates: vital to the conservation of this species is the safeguarding of this tree, its main source of sustenance. To spot a Quetzal, learn to recognize the tree, and sooner or later the birds shall come.
When birding, Costa Rica's many wonderful wonders will take your breath away. Due to the dense foliage, the only warnings you'll have of the incredible birds in the vicinity are their songs and calls. The Kiskadee sings to an unknown Victor Diaz throughout Costa Rica, the Long Tailed Manakin with its red crest and bright blue back you'll see in abundance in the humid forests and Santa Rosa, calling out "Toledo". Another striking bird is the Blue Crowned Motmot: bright turquoise with a long tail feather with a knob at the end. It's an interesting with peculiar behavior: its namesake song sounds like a dog playfully barking and when it perches it "wags" its tail. The Keel-Billed Toucan croaks its song from high up the treetops, a sound many mistake for a frog: it certainly makes up for its lack of singing skills with the beauty of its rainbow colored bill. How about the Laughing Falcon? Locals call it "Guaco", and you can locate this by the repetitive, boisterous, mocking call in the humid forests. The Scarlet Macaw you can see in Palo Verde or in Carara reserve. This beautiful animal is being forced into extinction by the razing of its nesting trees, and now survives in protected areas. Another favorite is the Three Wattled Bellbird: its distinctive song is composed by what sounds like a squeaky gate creaking open 3 times and a final BONK. They are found in the Monteverde Cloud Forest area. Also keep your ears open for the Montezuma Oropendola: its bright yellow and black plumage, hanging basket nests and liquid song make this a great bird to spot whenever you are near humid forests. Thrushes, hummingbirds and migratory birds are also popular to sight. We can assist you in arranging a birding vacation tour: stay at the best locations to spot wonderful birds. Birding in the Caribbean, Pacific coasts or the rainforests and enjoy the beauty of these flying wonders.


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1. "Africa: A Biography of the Continent," by John
Reader. A wide-reaching and sweeping look at trends and broader
explanations for the way things are, covering history, geography,
anthropology, biology and politics. While it is a thick tome (some 700
pages) it manages to be engaging, interesting and easy to read. This
would be a good place to start for the interested newcomer to African
2. "Africa Works: Disorder as a Political Instrument," by Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal Daloz. A lucid and theoretically-rich exposition of African politics. Describing how systems of patronage operate within the context of modern states, Chabal and Daloz provide powerful explanations for conflict, corruption and poor economic development. It also introduces English-speakers to the rich seam of francophone research and literature about Africa.

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Apple's online store was replaced with the familiar "We'll be back soon" message Wednesday morning ahead of the company's 10AM pacific time media event. The company is expected to unveil the third generation iPad this morning, and may show off an updated Apple TV, too.
Rumors claim the new iPad will include a higher resolution display, a faster processor and better graphics performance, a better camera, and longer battery life. The Apple TV is rumored to be adding 1080p video support and better performance.
Be sure to check in with The Mac Observer for our on-location live coverage of Apple's special media event.


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A famous name and brand that will make your bridal experience unforgettable- the Cocoe Voci touch for the wedding dress
Brides seek refinement, brides want elegance, femininity to explore and all together to be the dazzling look they've never had and won't have as counting the event meaning the bride is of an unequalled presence. Your answer can be defined perfectly by all the creations that wear the name Cocoe Voci.
The collection for the 20123 spring is an explosion of beauty and diaphanous looks. But take a look on your own to see the entire collection is beyond words to describe it:
- Cocoe Voci bridal dress with sheath cut line. It's a sweetheart neckline with no sleeves, all pleated bodice and in combination with all folded skirt. Asymmetric line at the waist and a seductive look at the back, all lace and buttons as closure but they make part of the design too.
- Cocoe Voci bridal dress with detachable dress, convertible style. First it is asymmetric on top, one side shoulder with lace and a ruffled flower. Then it impresses with its lace bodice, a flower at the waist and a floor length simple skirt that transforms into an above the knee length one. The detachable part is simple silk, transparent and with train.
- Cocoe Voci bridal dress empire waist. It is a contrast and at the same time a combination of style. Top part is sweetheart neckline strapless, a champagne touch color and pleated. The skirt is floor length, all adorned with petals and beads as for the selvage line to be the richness of this design. Plus it is white.
The bride empowered in beauty by the petals design on the Grecian cut inspired dress is another style that shows the uniqueness of the pattern in this collection.


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Key findings
- Public health partners have increased engagement and participation in the licensing process in Scotland
- Scottish Statements of Licensing Policy show an increased use of health evidence in comparison to 2010
- In 2013, ten licensing boards in Scotland have declared overprovision compared to seven in 2010, with five over a large geographical area.
- Almost three quarters of licensing policy statements do not declare overprovision in any areas
- Increased engagement with public health has raised confidence among some licensing officers in using overprovision to tackle harm
- However, more support is needed for health teams in gathering, analysing and interpreting health evidence to inform regulation
Research team
Dr Evelyn Gillan, Laura Mahon, Petrina MacNaughton, Linda Bowie, James Nicholls,
International evidence clearly indicates that increasing the price and reducing the availability of alcohol are amongst the most effective policy measures to reduce alcohol consumption and harm in a population. Licensing is the mechanism by which the availability of alcohol is regulated in the UK, controlling numbers and types of alcohol outlets, opening hours and conditions of sale. In recent years there has been policy divergence between Scotland and England with implications for licensing legislation. Scotland is working towards a population-based approach to alcohol policy development which provides the impetus and context for the use of licensing legislation as a contributory measure to manage the availability of alcohol. Policy making in England and Wales on the other hand, continues to emphasise market autonomy and voluntary partnership with industry. In licensing legislation, two of the main differences between Scotland and England are the inclusion of a fifth licensing objective in Scottish legislation – to protect and improve public health – and the requirement for licensing boards to assess overprovision of licenced premises in the board's area and include a statement on overprovision in the statement of licensing policy. A legal opinion commissioned by Alcohol Focus Scotland identified overprovision policies as the most obvious control for protecting and improving public health within the legislation.
The public health and overprovision elements of Scottish licensing legislation would appear to position Scotland favourably with regards to addressing changing drinking behaviours, in particular the increasingly dominant role of off-sales in shaping consumption patterns. However, the use of these legislative levers in practice face a number of challenges. Licensing has historically tended to focus on the prevention of antisocial behaviour rather than the protection of health therefore its key instruments were developed to regulate public drinking in pubs, clubs and bars rather than address the challenges of a market in which the off-trade is a significant factor. There is also a significant challenge in effectively merging the perspectives and practices of licensing and public health: public health considerations tend to concern population-level indicators and long-term trends, whereas licensing operates in an environment characterised by case-by-case decision-making, negotiated settlements and complex legal argument. Furthermore, licensing board members in Scotland often appear to struggle to apply scientific evidence to policy and decision-making.
The legislation provides for the practical implementation of the objective to protect and improve public health but arguably, effective implementation requires licensing boards to take a new or updated approach to gathering, analysing and interpreting evidence to inform their licensing policy. This has implications for licensing personnel with regards to knowledge and understanding, but also for public health practitioners in the presentation of evidence and arguments to inform licensing decision-making. Gaps in knowledge and understanding among the key stakeholders, as well as differences of practice and perspective, can act as barriers to the full realisation of the potential of the licensing system to reduce alcohol-related harm.
The objectives of this study were:
- To build capacity within licensing boards in Scotland to enable them to give meaningful effect to the licensing objective "to protect and improve public health" (which is unique to Scotland);
- To foster closer working relationships and greater understanding between licensing personnel and public health practitioners; to increase awareness of the evidence linking alcohol availability and harm; and help them understand one another's role in the licensing process;
- To share knowledge and learning with key licensing stakeholders across the UK on the potential of licensing to contribute to the reduction of alcohol harms.
There were three core elements to the work involved in the study:
- Increased dialogue and understanding between licensing personnel and public health practitioners in Scotland by holding a series of regional licensing events.
- Development and dissemination of a resource toolkit for licensing personnel in Scotland.
- Knowledge transfer with licensing and public health personnel in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland through dialogue sessions for a range of licensing and public health stakeholders.
The regional licensing events were held in six locations across Scotland and brought licensing officials and public health representatives together to explore and discuss the potential of the licensing system to promote and improve public health. Information on participants' responses to proposed approaches to shaping licensing policy and decision-making was gathered at the events and used to inform subsequent work.
A resource toolkit on licensing policy development was produced and disseminated to over 700 licensing and public health contacts across Scotland to assist with the process of gathering evidence and developing statements of licensing policy in 2013.
A dialogue group was established comprising representatives from public health organisations from Scotland and England. During a series of meetings between 2012 and 2013 the group considered lessons that could be learned from Scotland in the context of public health becoming a 'responsible authority' for licensing under the 2011 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act in England. The group provided a platform for sharing information and ideas on public health and licensing which were communicated to over 800 stakeholders across Scotland and England via a series of conference and events that group members contributed to.
- The regional events held in Scotland in early 2012 achieved high levels of attendance and provided an opportunity for collective consideration of licensing policy and decision-making in the context of evidence of health harms associated with the availability of alcohol.
- Participants at the events recorded high levels of understanding of the shift in alcohol purchase patterns to a predominance of off-sales and the need for licensing to regulate off-sales as well as on-sales.
- However, confidence in the ability to gather, analyse and interpret the necessary information, including health data to inform effective regulation, was relatively low, suggesting the need for support.
- The licensing resource toolkit produced following the regional events provided a reference point and guide for licensing officials in the preparation of statements of licensing policy in 2013. It was also used by public health representatives to guide evidence-gathering for licensing boards.
- The UK dialogue group enabled the dissemination of information about the Scottish experience of public health engagement in licensing across England, helping to clarify a number of challenges for both health and licensing teams in establishing closer working relationships. This work is continuing as part of the Public Health England Licensing and Public Health Network.
- Evidence gathered during the project suggests that public health partners have increased engagement and participation in the licensing process in Scotland.
- With regards to the impact of this increased engagement, Scottish statements of licensing policy in 2013 show an increased use of health evidence in comparison to the previous statements published in 2010. Nine percent of policies in 2010 cited the use of health evidence in comparison with thirty-six percent in 2013.
- Ten licensing boards in Scotland have declared overprovision in 2013 in comparison with seven in 2010. Five have declared overprovision across a wide geographical area in 2013 in comparison with just one in 2010, better equipping them to address control the overall availability of alcohol in the board area.
- The progress suggests that increased engagement with public health has increased awareness among some licensing officials of the relationships between alcohol availability, consumption and harm, and increased their confidence to use overprovision policies as a mechanism to regulate alcohol availability.
- In the two case study areas, increased awareness of health evidence is attributed to the involvement of public health partners. However, interviewees in only one of the two case study areas were unanimously satisfied with the resulting licensing policy.
- Some licensing stakeholders in the second case study area expressed frustration that the licensing board had not acted upon the information received. This was with particular reference to the evidence provided by police and health representatives.
- In the same case study area, interviewees reported that the concept of overprovision was still contested and often misunderstood by licensing officials.
- While progress with regards to promoting the public health objective has been made in some licensing board areas, the majority of licensing policy statements from across Scotland do not demonstrate the general evidence base for the policy approach. Less than half of the policy statements produced in 2013 demonstrate or reference the health evidence that has been used to reach the policy position.
- Only just over one quarter of licensing policy statements include a policy on overprovision in any part of the licensing board area.
While impact has been demonstrated with regards to increased engagement of public health in the licensing process, the evaluation has shown that overall, the extent to which health data is used in practice continues to be subject to varying interpretations of the evidence by licensing board members and officials. The licensing policy outcome therefore does not always reflect the health evidence presented.
But whilst the licensing policy outcome does not always reflect the health evidence presented, progress has been made with regards to strengthening the working relationships between public health and licensing stakeholders in Scotland. Signs of increased capacity in licensing boards to give more meaningful effect to the licensing objective 'to protect and improve public health' are evidenced by the increased use of health evidence in licensing policy development and in some published positions on the overprovision of licensed premises. However, when considering the published statements of licensing policy in 2013 as a whole, progress has been relatively limited. Further work is needed to scrutinise licensing decisions in the context of the 2013 statements of policy in order to assess the impact of policy positions. Public health partners should continue to promote the use of health evidence to support licensing decision-making.
The project has involved significant regional work to further understanding and increase dialogue between licensing and public health personnel across the UK. The establishment of the UK dialogue group has enabled the sharing of information, learning and experience providing partners with support and a reference point for their efforts.
In England, the Westminster Government, while acknowledging the international evidence showing that controls on outlet density reduced a range of alcohol-related problems including health harm, concluded that there was not sufficient local data gathering or processes in place to support the implementation of a licensing objective on health. Instead, the government has opted to support the development of local work to improve local evidence which may support the creation of health as a licensing objective in the future.
In Scotland, where protecting and improving public health is a licensing objective enshrined in legislation, there are still obstacles and barriers to this objective being promoted effectively. The work of the project in Scotland has contributed to overcoming some of these barriers by facilitating better relationships and increasing understanding between public health and licensing stakeholders. However, it is clear that more work is needed to make a real and significant impact on alcohol availability and levels of harm.
Given the continued divergence of licensing policy between Scotland and England, it will be important to continue dialogue in order to build capacity to promote and support using licensing to protect public health.
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This I Believe
Camp Cayuga: Memories that last a lifetime. I'm not sure whether or not they last that long, since I am only sixteen years old, but I am sure that my seven summers there provided me with some of the best times that I will ever have. When I was eight years old, I did not understand why my parents were sending me to Honesdale, Pennsylvania for the summer, but within five minutes, I never wanted to leave. I was living any child's dream: a two month sleepover with your eight closest friends, a daily trip to the candy store, a various array of over fifty activities offered every day, and best of all- no parents!
Sleep away camp improved my independence but more importantly allowed me to be myself. I think it's essential for people to be able to let go sometimes and take a break from their life's norms. I always looked forward to those two months of care free, good times in which I could run, play, dance, and sing, knowing that I wouldn't be judged and that nothing I did would end up on any sort of "permanent record."
My first year living on the camp's side for the teenagers, my friends and I all thought that we were superior to others because of all of the new freedoms we were given. We could choose our own schedules, stay out later, win daily trips into the nearby town. Before the parents came to visit each month, everyone had to do a major clean-up in which everything was taken out of the cabin and then put back in an organized manner. The first cabin to do this and pass inspection won a trip into town. Of course, my friends and I worked extremely hard all day in order to win this privilege.
The day after the parents came, we got to leave camp for the day and go to the mall. At the mall, we decided that we should do a raid on the boy's cabin that all of our friends were in. We didn't want to do the usual toilet paper, shaving cream, and silly string raid. We wanted this raid to go down in Cayuga history. This was when we decided to do a "Christmas Raid." We went to the dollar store and bought Christmas decorations and small gifts for each boy in the cabin.
That night when we returned to camp, we set our alarms and dressed in black. We woke up at 3:00 AM to do the raid. We snuck out without making a sound and our counselors didn't even wake up. We returned to our cabin afterwards and went to sleep. In the morning, the boys were surprised to find their cabin decorated. The camp's staff thought that our idea was so creative that they didn't even make us clean it up! This didn't make the boys too happy.
While I spent my summers at camp having fun, I never stopped to think of how this time away from home would prepare me for the future. As some of my friends began to leave for college this past summer, they expressed how they were worried about being homesick. I don't think that I will have that problem because from a young age, I have spent time away from my home and friends and parents for an extended amount of time. I've spent my last two summers away from camp and neither of those summers were better than any summer spent there. I believe that everyone should enjoy a summer at sleep away camp.
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2013 Shea Vineyard Magnum
Pinot Noir
In the Vineyard
One of the first three brands to vineyard-designate Shea, we started sourcing fruit from this vineyard in 1996 from the original plantings of Block 1. Since those original vines succumbed to phyloxera, we have moved to a 3-acre segment on Block 11, contracted only to Raptor Ridge. (More technical information about this vineyard.)
In 2013, this vineyard was harvested on September 29. Harvest chemistry was 21 Brix, 3.51 pH and 4.5 TA.
At the Winery
The grapes were 100 percent destemmed and cold soaked for seven days. Vats were inoculated with commercial yeast strains from 71-B, and fermented for 19 days before pressing and settling in tank. After two days, the wine was racked into 100 percent French oak, by Atelier, Remond and Meyrieux, giving the wine a 31 percent new oak intensity and aged for nine months.
At the Table
In the glass, this elegant beauty is ruby in color. The nose is sweet with early picked blueberries, red currants, pomegranate and violets. Shea's palate is soft on the entry, then builds with ripe cherry and cola. We love the length of finish on this wine, with dynamic notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and bright acidity. Pair with classic Pinot-friendly dishes like Pacific Northwest salmon, or wild foraged chanterelle risotto.


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Over the past week we have been looking at the various generations of educational websites produced by CHNM. The first of these comprehensive sites, History Matters, hit the web in 1998, and obviously there have been major technical improvements in content management and design since then. Rather than talk about these developments, I want to discuss the way that the focus of the educational websites has evolved.
The first CHNM educational site, History Matters, was an extremely ambitious project. Billed as the comprehensive US history survey site on the web, History Matters was meant as a resource for teachers and students. The site includes a collection of primary documents, games for students, lesson plans, syllabi, and interviews with exceptional teachers.
Who is the target audience of HM? I see at least 3 or 4 potential groups – students browsing for sources, students following a teacher-directed lesson, teachers looking for online lesson plans, and new/pre-service teachers learning to incorporate technology into their classroom. That is quite a crowd to satisfy in one hand-written website.
The newer incarnation of HM, Teaching History, represents a much narrower focus. Unlike HM, Teaching History is designed specifically for teachers, with a combination of resources, plans, and advice. The main page's left sidebar features quick links for teachers of varying age groups, and the helpful 'site at a glance' pop-up shows a complete site map.
Teaching History improves upon History Matters by streamlining the site and narrowing the focus to teaching-only. As a consequence of this narrowing, the site does not include resources for students, but in any case it has proven difficult to encourage student web-research outside of google or wikipedia.
Another CHNM site with a targeted focus is Historical Thinking Matters. Unlike History Matters and Teaching History, which host a large number of documents and resources, Historical Thinking Matters features a small amount of content designed to teach a particular skill set. Through a set of four modules (all of which fall within common curricula) the site leads students through activities that identify and exercise historical skills.
Historical thinking matters is appealing to students for several reasons – it features multimedia, it is light on text, and its modules can be completed fairly quickly. As a resource for teachers, it works well to supplement existing textbooks rather than supplant them. And while the historical scope of the site is narrow, the pedagogical aims (teaching historical meta-cognition) are ambitious and important.
An educational site, like any other, needs to target its audience. To avoid navigation problems and improve usability, this may well mean limiting that target audience. In other words, focus goals and informational architecture need to be well-defined. Teaching History and, especially, Historical Thinking Matters are good examples of this focusing.


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Northern Outreach and New Church Development
in Northern Ghana
About Our Partner
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana
The Outreach Foundation has had a long history of supporting church building and evangelistic outreach in Ghana. Our commitment to northern Ghana extends this partnership geographically. We work with the Northern and Upper Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and the Tamale Lay Training Institute that serves both presbyteries. We have been invited to join these Presbyteries and the Tamale Institute in support of evangelism and church planting, church construction, training for evangelists in Bible and vocational skills, and motorcycles for their mobility on the field.
The Impact
These funds will train evangelists who plant churches. Funds will also help in the construction of sanctuaries for those new churches and for other churches as well. The northern part of Ghana is less Christian then the south, so investment here is a key evangelistic frontier in Ghana.
The Need
The Outreach Foundation seeks $100,000 in support of low-cost church construction ($80,000), scholarships for evangelist training ($10,000), and motorbikes for the evangelists to reach their congregations or start new churches ($10,000).


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From May through October, Pioneer Airport gives visitors a unique "living history" re-creation of what airports were like during the early days of air travel. It brings back a time when the magic of flying astounded and charmed the whole world.
Enjoy discounted group rates for adults, seniors, and children. Group tour pricing can be extended to groups of 10 or more. For student groups, 1 chaperone/teacher for every 8 children/students is free.
The Eagle Hangar is a hall of honor dedicated to the memory of those who served during World War II. The airplanes include examples of Allied fighters, bombers, liaison aircraft, trainers, Army and Navy aircraft, plus examples from Germany and Japan.
Aviation is a fun, exciting, and stimulating subject, making the EAA AirVenture Museum an ideal environment for learning! Our school programs are each intended for a range of student ages and group sizes.
With more than 1,600 acres and 26 venues to choose from, we are sure to show you a space that will make your vision come to life. Our unique atmosphere is sure to offer a one-of-a-kind experience for your guests.
Ever wondered what your neighborhood looks like from the sky? If you're nodding your head "Yes" and are between the ages of 8 and 17, you're ready to take a free Young Eagles flight from EAA's Pioneer Airport and see what real pilots do on the ground and in the air.
In many ways, the Curtiss Jenny could be considered the Model T of the skies. Roughly a contemporary of Ford's famous auto, the Jenny would eventually help to establish the practical reality of American aviation.
Climb into the airplanes in our museum virtually to see what it is like to be in the pilot's seat!
The EAA library's photographic collection has something for everyone. Beginning with the Wright Brothers and continuing into the space age, the photo archives are an invaluable resource. The photo archive has more than 100,000 images of aircraft and the people that made them famous.
Established to preserve EAA's history and culture, the Founders Wing showcases Paul and Audrey Poberezny's personal collection of letters, pictures, artifacts, media clippings, and so much more.
Aviation's history is made up of many remarkable people, from the best-known aviation personalities to those who contributed to the development of aviation in their communities. Search database for hundreds of aviators sharing their personal stories.
Add to EAA's diverse aircraft collection for aviation enthusiasts to enjoy! EAA AirVenture Museum follows a set of procedures to assess airplanes that are offered as donations to our collection.
More than 30 pieces of nose art from actual WWII combat aircraft are making their first-ever trip outside their home museum to EAA.
The North American P-51 Mustang was the most successful, most versatile fighter of World War II (1939-1945). Designed in 1940 for Britain, the first prototype XP-51 was finished in just 117 days. The Allison-powered P-51A was dubbed "Mustang, Mk. 1" by the British and first deployed in tactical reconnaissance in the spring of 1942.
The full-size replica of the Wright brothers' historic 1903 "Flyer" - the first true airplane - is a centerpiece in the EAA AirVenture Museum's collection. It stands as a tribute to the birth of aviation and to the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their mechanic, Charlie Taylor.
Steve Wittman designed and built Buttercup in 1938 and, over the years, it has featured a variety of innovations including - tapered rod landing gear, variable camber wings with full span leading edge and slotted trailing edge flaps.
Paul Poberezny first penciled a sketch of the Pober Sport during the summer of 1956. With a little help from his wife and brother, Paul began building the Sport with a Baby Ace fuselage and J-3 landing gear. Other EAA members pitched in to help Paul build his latest aircraft.
The exhibit uses dramatic sound and lighting effects, as well as rare video footage - some never seen in public - to tell the story of a mission into space aboard SpaceShipOne. During this journey, SpaceShipOne demonstrates a key technological breakthrough conceived by spacecraft designer Burt Rutan, a longtime EAA member.
EAA's rebuilt prototype of the classic Aerocar represents a revolutionary concept. Not only can it be readily converted from an airplane to a roadable car, but also its wings can be folded back along the sides of the detached fuselage and towed behind the automobile like a trailer.
EAA has constructed two Spirit of St. Louis replica aircraft to honor Charles Lindbergh and his aviation achievements. This replica was built in 1977 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Between 1977 and 1988, that aircraft accumulated more than 1,300 hours of flight time.
The Christen Eagle was designed by Frank Christensen, founder of Christen Industries. Frank was an aerobatic pilot and manager of the U.S. Aerobatic Team that won the 1972 World Aerobatic Championship. The Christen Eagle II combined professional design with factory quality parts. The resulting kit raised the bar for aircraft kit manufacturers.
The centerpiece of KidVenture is the Raptor Gallery, which contains 16 interactive exhibits focusing on the world's most advanced airplane, the F-22 Raptor. It includes a half-scale model of the F-22 where young people can climb into the cockpit.
Come one, come all to the EAA Skyscape Theatre Royale for an old-time aviation movie series on one Tuesday of each month. Travel back in time and experience the golden age of cinema.
Commemorate the anniversary of the first powered flight with a very special keynote speaker at the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet in December. Honoring the spirit and achievements of the Wright Brothers is a tradition at EAA.
Spend an evening sampling more than 250 extraordinary beverages from around the world at Hops & Props, a fine food and beverage-tasting event held annually in March. Micro-breweries and distributors are on hand to teach you about the brewing process and history, and help you become a discerning beverage taster.
Discover the exciting world of aviation with an interactive, educational experience at Family Flight Fest held during a weekend in the spring. The museum's younger visitors enjoy a variety of aviation-related activities that educate and spark their curiosity in flight.
EAA Ultralight Chapters 1, 75, and 1331 fly their ultralights and light-planes to Pioneer Airport to showcase what fun flying is all about. Get up close and learn more about this fun, affordable segment of aviation.
Relive the excitement and glamour of the 1940s at September Swing! Learn to swing dance (or practice your skills) and then dance the night away amid the Eagle Hangar's authentic collection of World War II planes, vehicles, and artifacts. Great music, delicious hors d'oeuvres, and 1940s fun make up this exciting event.
Join us as we honor our newest inductees into our Sport Aviation Halls of Fame. Inductees represent ultralights, the International Aerobatic Club, Vintage Aircraft Association, Warbirds of America, and homebuilding.
Get into the holiday spirit at Christmas in the Air, a free community event for all ages held in December. This widely popular event features holiday performances by local more than 20 musical, choral, and dance groups on four stages. Don't miss the arrival of Santa Claus by helicopter, after which he will visit with children!
See dozens of skiplanes fly in to the snow-covered runway of Pioneer Airport at February's Skiplane Fly-In, which showcases this unique segment of flight that is quite popular throughout many parts of North America. The Skiplane Fly-In is free of charge to the public.
The full-size replica of the Wright brothers' historic 1903 Flyer — the first true airplane — is a centerpiece in the EAA AirVenture Museum's collection. It is one of the first aircraft a visitor sees upon entering the main gallery. It stands as a tribute to the birth of aviation and to the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their mechanic, Charlie Taylor.
This replica was built jointly by EAA and Blackhawk Technical Institute of Janesville, Wisconsin, over a period of 10 years. Various components were built at Blackhawk, in the EAA shops, and by EAA volunteers around the United States. Final assembly and much of the detail work were carried out at Blackhawk by students in the aviation mechanics program. The replica was completed in 1978 — the 75th anniversary of the Wrights' first flight — and was placed on permanent exhibit in EAA's museum.
How Accurate Is the EAA's Replica Flyer?
The simple answer is, "as accurate as it could be at the time." The Wrights never drew complete plans of their 1903 Flyer and kept many of its details secret to protect their patents. The original Flyer was wrecked on the ground by a gust of wind on December 17, 1903, soon after four successful flights. The wreckage was packed up and taken back to the Wright Bicycle Shop in Dayton, Ohio. There, it remained in storage until 1928, when Orville rebuilt it for display in the Science Museum of London, England. The aircraft was returned to the United States in 1948 and put on display in the Smithsonian Institution. Today it is in the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
It is not clear how accurately Orville restored the Flyer in 1928. Parts of the 1903 Flyer, including the engine, were used on other Wright aircraft. And there are features of the Smithsonian's Flyer that historians and aeronautical engineers have doubts about. Were they original or were they repairs made in 1928 to an aircraft that was not intended to fly again?
EAA's replica was built from plans drawn from the Smithsonian's Flyer. The true degree of accuracy of those plans may never be known. Several teams attempted to "reverse-engineer" the 1903 Flyer for the 100th anniversary of powered flight in 2003. They encountered similar gaps in our knowledge about the original Flyer. The EAA museum's replica, the Wright Experience reproduction and the other 100th-anniversary replicas are accurate in all of their most important features. Above all, they highlight the scientific and technological challenges and achievements that led to the first true airplane.
The First Homebuilt Aircraft
Wilbur and Orville Wright were bicycle manufacturers and mechanics by trade. Their quest to be the first to fly began in 1899, when Orville wrote to the Smithsonian, asking for information about aviation. Just four and a half years later, they found success on the wind-swept dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They achieved their goal without corporate or government subsidies. They were the first homebuilders and their 1903 Flyer was the first truly successful heavier-than-air experimental aircraft, and their spirit lives on in EAA to this day.
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Wingspan: 40 feet, 4 inches (note that the right wing is four inches longer than the left wing, to compensate for the weight of the engine, which was mounted off center to the left of the pilot.)
Height: 9 feet, 3 inches
Empty Weight: 605 pounds
Gross Weight: 750 pounds
Crew: 1
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Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, a writer.[1] Her paternal grandfather was writer Ernest Hemingway and her sister was Margaux Hemingway; she never met her grandfather, as he committed suicide several months before she was born. She was named after the Cuban port of Mariela village that her father and grandfather visited regularly as sportsmen to fish. Her middle name was after her paternal grandmother, Ernest's first wife Hadley Richardson. Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent part of her adolescence growing up in New York and Los Angeles.
In the 1982 movie Personal Best, she played a bisexual athlete in a movie noted for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes. In connection with Personal Best she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of Playboy, including the cover. In 1983, she starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80, a film about the Playboy model's life and murder. Reports circulated for years that Hemingway had her breasts enlarged to play the role of Stratten, but during a 2007 appearance on Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had the surgery before Star 80 came up. Her implants were removed years later after they had ruptured. Hemingway was also featured in the Golan-Globus' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Lacy Warfield. Her role was expanded upon in newly discovered deleted footage, which was shown in a very rough edit with unfinished visual effects and was released on DVD in November 2006 as a Deluxe Edition and as part of The Ultimate Superman Collection.
Hemingway has played a lesbian or bisexual woman in several films and television shows, including Personal Best, "In Her Line Of Fire" (2005), "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (2002), an episode of the sitcom Roseanne in which she kissed Roseanne Barr (a role she reprised in the episode "December Bride") , an episode of Crossing Jordan, and The Sex Monster, but the actress is not gay. Hemingway has said she formed a "big connection with the gay and lesbian community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge" productions.[2] Hemingway made fun of her reputation for lesbian roles during a 1995 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she kissed visibly discomfited new female cast members during her opening monologue as host.[3]
She has a perfume, "Mariel", by H2O+.
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Former Massachusetts Governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney told leaders of the ski resort industry gathered in Orlando for the National Ski Areas Association conference that operating successfully in business is far more difficult than operating in government.
"Business is very unforgiving," Romney said. "Government just bonds it to cover over its sins. Every dollar spent in government only has value if it represents goods or services in the private sector.
"You understand where jobs come from and that profits provide the working capital that builds businesses and create jobs."
Gov. Romney drew heavily on his experiences as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics In Utah. "I discovered that America is the only nation in the world where medalists put their hand over their heart on the podium."
He noted that the key elements leading to America's economic leadership are in serious decline. He cited eduation, family life, work ethic, and how successful businesses reflect the values and spirit of their founders. "Washington is smothering that spirit."
Romney responded to a question on how the ski industry can overcome the perception it doesn't have a future by pointing out the U.S. population will continue to grow.
"Keep the 'try it you'll like it' concept to attract newcomers of all ages," he said. "Hold on to the baby boomers. Golf has found a way to keep people way beyond their ability. Age shouldn't end skiing."
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Fort de Romainville, (in English, Fort Romainville) was built in France in the 1830s[1] and was used as a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.
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Fort de Romainville was a Nazi prison and transit camp, located in the outskirts of Paris. The Fort was taken in 1940 by the German military and transformed into a prison. From there, resistants and hostages were directed to the Nazi concentration camps. People interned before deportation to were interned before being deported to Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps comprised 3,900 women and 3,100 men.
In the Fort itself, 152 persons were executed by firing-squad. A few escaped, such as Pierre Georges, alias "Colonel Fabien." From her cell, Danielle Casanova motivated and encouraged her comrades to confront their torturers.[2] From February 1944, the Fort held primarily female prisoners (resistants and hostages), who were jailed, executed or redirected to the camps. At liberation in August 1944, many abandoned corpses were found in the Fort's yard.
- ^ MacIntyre, Ben (September 4, 2007). Agent Zigzag: a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal. Harmony. pp. 29–50. ISBN 0-307-35340-0.
- ^ site de Mémoire et espoir de la Résistance Archived 2005-10-27 at the Wayback Machine.
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- Vichy France
- Military history of France during World War II
- World War II
- Jews outside Europe under Nazi occupation
- Eddie Chapman aka Agent Zigzag
- Anthony Faramus
- Liberation of Paris
- Concentration camps in France
- Italian concentration camps
- Nazi concentration camps
- Nazi concentration camp list
- Concentration and internment camps list
- The Holocaust
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Last month, we reported on a casting call being held to procure a female lead for James Cameron's first big-budget picture since Titanic.
FEMALE LEAD: 16-mid 20s. Any ethnicity, including Caucasian. She moves and behaves with confidence and a sense of nobility. Lithe as a cat. Athletic and agile. She is a warrior. Graceful movement and an ear for languages and dialects are essential.
At the time, it was thought that Cameron was assembling the cast for Battle Angel, an adaptation of a Japanese android-themed manga series set in the 26th century. But according to a big scoop at JoBlo.com, it appears that Cameron is instead gearing up for his mysterious Project 880. What's more, they seem to think that Project 880 is the same film as Avatar, a film that Cameron has been trying to get made for years.
According to script treatments that have been floating around on the Internet, Avatar is about an interplanetary war and strange aliens who manifest themselves by possessing human bodies – their avatars in our world. Set against this background is a love story and a man trying to make his way as a miner by melding with an alien. Copies of the treatment can still be found with a little digging.
One of the leads is a woman named Zuleika, who is described thusly: A NA'VI WOMAN. She is young, and lithe as a cat, with a long, slender neck, muscular shoulders, and nubile breasts... a statuesque vision. Let's not mince words here... she is devastatingly beautiful. For a girl with a tail. In human age she would be in her late teens.
According to JoBlo's source, Avatar will be made this spring at Fox Studios Baja. If that's the case, official announcements cannot be far off.


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My nine year old niece has had type 1 for nine months. It seems to us she has to eat an incredible amount of food. The snacks don't seem to be the problem, it's the amount at meal time. She even complains when she has to eat this much food. She has to eat more food than the normal adult would be able to eat. She has gained at least 20 pounds since she was diagnosed. Is it normal for all children with diabetes to have to eat a lot?
It is time to visit with the diabetes dietitian to get her meal plan adjusted to a more fitting amount of food. It is common, right after diagnosis, for children to need more food than is customary because the body is trying to regain weight it lost before diagnosis, but it is important to adjust the meal plan to avoid unwanted weight gain and to make sure she is comfortable with it.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Tonight, Caroline Merrey plans to put on her academic gown - gingerly, because she is still sore - place the black cap on her blond hair and join her classmates for the evening commencement ceremony in Lane Stadium at Virginia Tech.
As she graduates, she will think about her loved ones sitting in the audience - her parents who drove down from their Parkville home, her boyfriend who flew in from Chicago.
But, she says, she will also think about those not in the stands, the professors and classmates who died on a Monday morning not quite four weeks ago. On that day, a student killed two people in a dorm, then burst into the building where Merrey was attending class and shot and killed 30 others before taking his own life. Merrey jumped out a window soon after the shots began.


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- Cook Time: 45 min
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- Serving: 8
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- 2 pounds chicken wings, rinsed and dried
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- Preheat oven to 435 degrees F. Line baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Combine butter, cayenne sauce and celery seed in shallow microwave-safe dish. Cook sauce on HIGH 45 to 60 seconds or until butter is melted. Blend ingredients well with a fork. Reserve 1/2 cup sauce.
- Place potato flakes in another shallow bowl. Dip chicken into cayenne sauce; roll in potato flakes. Gently pat potato flakes onto chicken.
- Place wings on prepared sheet pan. Just before baking, drizzle wings evenly with remaining cayenne sauce. Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until juices run clear when meat is pierced with a fork.
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Lebanon force should end, UN chief says; US is firm
The US has pledged to stand firm and continue exercising what it calls its right of self-defense in Lebanon while UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has called for an end to all use of force there.
Secretary of State George Shultz told a news conference Monday the US did not want to get involved in the conflict in Lebanon, but he added: ''We will defend ourselves.''
He said the Syrians knew they were firing on US reconnaissance planes Saturday. The raid, in which two US planes were shot down, one pilot reported killed, and another captured, was termed a success by the Pentagon.
Meanwhile in Beirut, US marines destroyed a position east of their posts at Beirut airport Tuesday after they took sustained machine gun fire from it. The Marines suffered no casualties.
Syria said it shot down two pilotless Israeli drones flying over Syrian positions in eastern Lebanon and southern Syria Tuesday.
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Gas Prices Down Prior to July 4 Holiday
In a remarkable departure from the precedent set by significant increases shortly before Labor Day, gas prices around the nation are dropping in the run up to Independence Day. It appears the reason for price trends relates directly to the elimination of the factors that pushed it higher one short month ago – as opposed to a simple supply/demand calculation. According to Fox Business:
"AAA spokesman Michael Green said Monday the national average has been on the decline for nearly three weeks running. Gas prices had previously been on the rise as a result of regional supply disruptions in May and early June, first in the Northwest and then the Midwest.
Despite the recent reprieve, prices traditionally rise as summer demand heats up. The national average climbed 17 cents a gallon in July 2011 and 16 cents in July 2012, Green noted."
This difference is particularly apparent in Michigan, which was among the Midwest states hardest hit by the sharp increase in prices in late May. The Mining Gazette reports:
Michigan gasoline prices have dropped 80 cents per gallon in less than a month, just in time for the Fourth of July travel season.
According to AAA's daily fuel gauge report, today's state-average price of $3.43 per gallon is the lowest in a steady stream of price declines from $4.23 on June 6.
"The last couple months there have been major issues at two of the bigger refineries," said Nancy Cain, spokesperson for AAA Michigan. "They've been back online, and we started seeing prices dropping. There's no issues right now at any of the refineries."
If nothing else, the current decrease in prices illustrates clearly just how significant price shocks are in determining the prices at the pump for millions of Americans. Consumers and small business owners alike would be wise to keep this lesson in mind in the future.


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Bachelor Pad 2 preview: The finale
If you've got three hours to spare, check out ABC's Bachelor Pad 2 finale tonight (Sept. 12). You know you want to see Jake Pavelka one more time at the reunion.
Tears, hookups and $250,0000 -- Bachelor Pad 2 is coming to a close.
Vienna Girardi nagged Kasey Kahl, Vienna ousted Jake Pavelka and Vienna manipulated her way through the competition -- is it just us, or has Vienna been splashed all over this season of Bachelor Pad?
With the finale here, we'll be rid of her sudden outbursts, and we're hoping some of the spoilers (which we won't ruin for you) will make our dreams come true for who walks away the winners.
The finale of Bachelor Pad 2 is three-hours long -- yikes! You know you have the time to watch the last competition, a reunion (where we know Jake is going to push Vienna's buttons) and to see who walks away with $250,000.
The couples left in the game are Vienna and Kasey, Ella and Kirk, Michelle and Graham and Michael and Holly. Last week Holly voted against new love Blake, sending him packing.
The buzz is that the leaked information regarding Holly and Blake's engagement will play out on the reunion portion of the finale. If you've been under a rock, click here to read about the engagement chatter.
There's also talk that a brawl will go down between one eliminated contestant and player still in the game. Could it be Graham and Justin "Rated R" Rego?
Either way, it's almost over. Vienna and Kasey, Ella and Kirk, Michelle and Graham and Michael and Holly -- who do you think is walking away a whole lot richer?
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Last week the BBC reported that PowerPoint is now 25 years old. So I was just 9 years old when PowerPoint first appeared on the scene, yet I didn't see my first PowerPoint presentation until I was 20 and in my final year at University when 1 lecturer used it, and at the time we didn't know what it was – but was impressed by the way that slides could merge into one another (rather than the clunk, clunk of the old slide projectors) – Oh how my expectations have changed.
The shame is that 25 years on, we still have too many utterly ineffective presentations (otherwise known as Death By PowerPoint) and what makes it worse is that many people know that their presentations aren't good yet still keep creating them, and still keep using them (and many of them give keynote presentations at e-learning or teaching related conferences – now that really annoys me!)
Someone asked me once what the secret is to avoiding 'Death By PowerPoint' and I replied that early in my teaching career I made a decision that was fundamentally brilliant – I made the decision to never produce a bad presentation again – If I cannot do something well with PowerPoint then I won't use PowerPoint at all, and although this may sound overly simple, it is the solution to the problem. The trouble is that many lecturers at FE and HE in particular now feel obliged to produce a presentation for every session that they deliver – and for them to deliver without a presentation would be like turning up without any clothes on – the presentation has become a kind of security blanket that draws the audiences eyes away from them and onto the screen.
And to make the problem worse, because learning technologies are advancing so rapidly people aren't offering PowerPoint training as much now (as it is seen as old hat) – but there is clearly a need for the training, and when I say training I don't mean instruction in how to add slides, choose designer backgrounds, and how to make text smaller to get more on the screen, I mean training in what makes a good presentation, how to make the presentation complement the skill of the trainer not overtake it, and how to use PowerPoint as a tool that engages the learners not sends them to sleep.
I have tried to help the education community by making some PowerPoint resources available that only require an ability to copy and paste – these can be found on my website at http://www.a6training.co.uk/resources_powerpoint.php These include a 9 page good practice guide, some countdown timers for timed activities, score ladders for competitive activities and templates for text boxes that can be edited whilst in presentation mode – all good ways of engaging the learners.
My real hope is that institutions invest time in their staff training, and don't let PowerPoint slip off the agenda – but recognise the need (and it will be a continuing need) to upskill their staff.
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Emma Watson: Elle Style Awards 2011
Emma Watson rocks a Hakaan dress with cutout detailing as she arrives at the Elle Style Awards, held at the Grand Connaught Rooms on Monday (February 14) in London, England.
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Sara Becker's research interests lie in the areas of outdoor classical theatre, supporting poetic texts, and the role of vocal training/coaching in the Professional Repertory Theatre environment. She is the Director of Voice and Text at American Players Theatre. National Vocal Coaching credits include: ten seasons with American Players Theatre, five seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; credits with Playmaker's Rep, the Guthrie Theatre, the Acting Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Madison Repertory Theatre, Door Shakespeare Festival, Clarence Brown Theatre, and Renaissance Theatreworks. Her work has traveled to BAM: The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the New Victory Theatre (NYC).
Teaching credits include: the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and workshops for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre and Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
She has performed as an actor for theatres such as Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Madison Repertory Theatre, Chamber Theatre, Everyman Theatre, the Public Theatre of Maine, Theatre at Monmouth, and others. Her voiceover work includes clients such as National Public Radio, National Credit Union Association, and MCI. She is a proud member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
She holds a BA from Fordham University, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she trained extensively with mentor Susan Sweeney. Further training also includes: the Shakespeare Theatre DC; Centre Artistique International Roy Hart in Malerargues, France; and ongoing mentorship with Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Scott Kaiser. Mrs. Becker is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainer's Association (VASTA), has spoken at the 2013 VASTA Conference and published in the VSR: the Voice and Speech Review. Updated Fall 2019


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There is a need to increase the number of software users within companies today. Increasingly, advantages are being conveyed by the programs organizations choose to use, and the better their access to these solutions, the more effective these businesses will be. This doesn't means spending a fortune on IT training, however. Instead, it is possible to bring the software to the users and enable self-service functionality. Business intelligence is one of the areas primed to become a hotbed of expanded use, largely because just about any employee, regardless of department, can think of a way he or she could improve daily operations through an infusion of data.
The musts of self-service computing
Supply & Demand Chain Executive contributor Gary Meyers recently outlined the process of making sure programs are accessible to many members of the team rather than just a highly trained inner circle. He stated that when properly implemented, these strategies allow end users to work without being interrupted by IT, which is both a functional relief and a time-saver. He noted that for programs to truly be considered self-service BI, they should enable employees to dig into their data, getting beyond superficial analysis and tracking results across departments, truly letting professionals tackle complex questions their own way.
Visual tools may be the key to extracting helpful information from the torrent that goes into a BI system. This means customized representations of the current situation according to the software, in a form that the target user can not only understand but grasp quickly and apply immediately. Meyers stated plainly that processes should enable the immediate creation of customized visual toolkits by line of business professionals. Preparations are solely accomplished by those individuals, no more calling in an expert for the setup phase. Take out that step of requesting collaboration and the entire process becomes more streamlined, offering the ability to provide answers promptly.
Future solutions today
When it comes to outfitting a workforce, business leaders can ill afford to wait. That means if they want self-service BI, they should approach it today, rather than in the future. Products available now, such as Necto 14, can convey the custom functionality needed to give every employee a view that suits his or her daily requirements. This means everyone from the CEO down to the frontline marketing force will be able to answer their most pressing questions immediately. Such functionality was not a feature of older BI, but is now in demand. The future involves improved self-service reporting.


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I'm always amazed at how long it takes to pull all the numbers together after a fiscal year. At the same time, it's exciting to see in black and white all that we have accomplished at the Travis Roy Foundation. I often say that when my family and I decided to start the Travis Roy Foundation, we didn't have a clue as to what we were doing. Fortunately, we have been guided by a generous law firm, amazing volunteers, and extraordinary donors.
I would like to thank Marge and Jeff Oppold, Pat and Beth O'Connor, Art Page, Andrea Richmond, our WIFFLE Ball Tournament players and volunteers (both in Boston and Vermont), our Team TRF runners, our Beanpot hockey players, and our Spring Flingers. I also want to thank our incredible team that keeps our website, social media, finances, communications, and everything else they do, looking so professional. You make the TRF and me look good! It amazes me how many people we have involved that help make the TRF run. At the same time, none of it can happen without our loyal donors and supporters. As you will see on the following pages, we have changed the lives of hundreds of people, and their families as well. 2015 was a record year, and helped lead us into an even stronger future.
In the end, for me, this is all about providing hope and independence. While hope is merely a four-letter word, it means everything to me and to my fellow SCI survivors. Someday, somehow, there will be a breakthrough. In the meantime, there are SCI survivors who just want to be a little more independent.
The Travis Roy Foundation is doing good work in a very efficient manner. I am proud of our work, and can only hope that you are proud to be a part of it.
On to a new year as we strive to break new fundraising records, help more.
Sincerely, Travis
Donors give generously all year round, enabling us to continue to grow and help others move forward. It's difficult to demonstrate our profound gratitude for their support. Each and every dollar donated directly impacts people who have spinal cord injuries. We sincerely appreciate and rely on the generosity of these individuals, foundations, and businesses-thank you to all of our donors!
Our amazing group of volunteers is heavily involved in making the Travis Roy Foundation what it is today. The amount of work required to run a successful foundation would be impossible to accomplish without this team. We are eternally grateful for all they do.
Third-party fundraisers are activities that are designed and run by individuals with minimal support from the Foundation. We are so fortunate that the members of the community choose to use their time and energy to help raise money for TRF. In the past year, #TeamTRF has been the recipient of many third-party fundraising activities to help support those with spinal cord injuries-corporate jeans days, ice-skating night, hockey pool, bake sales, and more-raising more than $100,000!
Each year, the needs of spinal cord injury survivors grow, and we are lucky to be able to count on that same growth for TRF events. With your help and participation, the capital from these events makes up a portion of our fundraising goals, and the events themselves bring our TRF community together for support and encouragement, to help find a cure.
The 15th year of our beloved tournament grossed more than $567,000 and delighted both new and returning members of Team TRF with a full weekend of good-spirited competition and community.
Since 1997, 1,052 grants have been awarded in our Adaptive Equipment Program, totaling $3.5 million.
Our research grants have awarded $2.1 million to scientists working tirelessly to find a breakthrough in the world of spinal cord injuries.
We believe that Dr. Barres' labs work at the cellular level, the combined brain and electrical stimulation being carried out in Dr. Carmels lab, and the intensive physical rehabilitation alongside electrical stimulation happening with participants in The Big Idea, will together produce outstanding functional improvements for people who have suffered spinal cord injuries. We are honored and inspired to have a hand in helping to bring this scientific research to light.


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The Last Exorcism had quite a few commendable qualities that helped it standout. It did a super job of creating an interesting cast and provided a slow buildup that worked well with the found footage style. But the sequel, which hits today? It doesn't really have any of that. Instead -- for some reason that's beyond me -- it loses the found footage approach and offers a totally formulaic horror flick packed with mostly predictable jump scares. If you loved the first film because you thought it put a new twist on the genre, you're better off pretending this movie doesn't exist.
Picking up after the first film's crazy ending, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) ends up in New Orleans. With a fuzzy memory of what previously happened, the tormented girl attempts to start a new and hopefully regular life in The Big Easy. She winds up in a foster home for girls and, as expected, things once again begin to unravel and make Nell question her sanity. Is she simply loco or is there really a demon trying to get her? I'm honestly not sure why'd they keep at this question since the last film's ending made that answer abundantly clear. (And just in case you haven't seen the first one, this film opens with a quick recap.)
The biggest problem here is the movie's honestly boring -- and that's saying a lot considering the fairly short runtime. The impact of the jump scares are counteracted by the moments that'll have you wanting to check your phone for something more amusing. For example, we get a ridiculously in-depth look at her job cleaning rooms at a local motel. Your interest is piqued now, isn't it? Seriously, we see her wander the halls, change bed sheets, etc… it's time that could have been cut or applied towards far more interesting matters.
There's a clear attempt at making us connect with her friends and potential boyfriend, but it just doesn't deliver and isn't compelling at all. It's not that any of the performances are bad. In fact, everyone does a fine job with their roles; it's just the writing makes the characters uninteresting and there's never a real attempt to develop them.
The story is unfortunately really bland, too. Not only will you find yourself not invested in the characters, but you'll hit a point where the movie abruptly changes gears. The focus on the foster home crew feels more like a drama and, seeing as this is a horror movie and all that, more characters will later be thrown into the mix in an attempt to loop back to that whole "exorcism" thing in the title. This change of pace is needed but at the same time feels so random. One of these people thinks the fate of the world depends on Nell and she's just been sitting back and watching her for days?! If there's anything like this actually going on in our world, I seriously hope the people trying to save the day are way more motivated.
That said, I will confess the ending was pretty fun in a totally ridiculous way. There's potential there, but based on this experience I hope they let it be and avoid dragging out this franchise any further. It's sure to be one of those endings you'll either love or hate.
There's some really face-palm worthy stuff here as well. A dude starts dying in the street (spazzing out and all) and onlookers only begin to react when Nell screams about it? They try to creep us out with a street performer… and it's bound to make you laugh instead of jolt. A YouTube video called "Crazy Possessed Girl" includes lots of character driven footage (from the first movie) instead of just the contortion stuff? And speaking of contortions, yeah, there's pretty much none of that in here except for one small bit. Furthermore, Nell's roommate can apparently sleep through anything except for a light being turned on. Touch her face? She continues to sleep like a baby. Flip a switch? "TURN OFF THE LIGHT!"
If plot or developed characters don't matter and you just want some cheap jump scares, then have at it. The flick is boring at times but it does absolutely fill the cheap scare quota. However, you're sure to be disappointed if you're looking for something similar to the first film.
Chat with Gregg Katzman on Twitter at @GreggKatzman and on IGN at greggkatzman.


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While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country. As of September 7, frequent Nation contributor and award-winning journalist Allan Nairn was believed to be the only US reporter still there. Nairn left the besieged UN compound and walked the streets of Dili, where he hid in abandoned houses as he observed troops and militia burning and looting. Nairn has been writing about the troubles there for years. In 1991, after being badly beaten by Indonesian troops while witnessing the massacre of several hundred East Timorese, he was declared a "threat to national security" and banned from the country. He has entered several times illegally since then. In his Nation dispatch from East Timor on March 30, 1998, Nairn disclosed the continuing US military training of Indonesian troops implicated in the torture and killing of civilians. He filed this report by satellite telephone to The Nation through Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!
–The Editors
Dili, East Timor
It is by now clear to most East Timorese and a few Westerners still left here that the militias are a wing of the TNI/ABRI, the Indonesian armed forces. Recently, for example, I was picked up by militiamen who turned out to be working for a uniformed colonel of the National Police. [Editors' note: The Indonesian government has denied any connection between the militias and either the police or the military.] But there is another important political fact that is not known here or in the international community. Although the US government has publicly reprimanded the Indonesian Army for the militias, the US military has, behind the scenes and contrary to Congressional intent, been backing the TNI.
US officials say that this past April, as militia terror escalated, a top US officer was dispatched to give a message to Jakarta. Adm. Dennis Blair, the US Commander in Chief of the Pacific, leader of all US military forces in the Pacific region, was sent to meet with General Wiranto, the Indonesian armed forces commander, on April 8. Blair's mission, as one senior US official told me, was to tell Wiranto that the time had come to shut the militia operation down. The gravity of the meeting was heightened by the fact that two days before, the militias had committed a horrific machete massacre at the Catholic church in Liquiça, Timor. YAYASAN HAK, a Timorese human rights group, estimated that many dozens of civilians were murdered. Some of the victims' flesh was reportedly stuck to the walls of the church and a pastor's house. But Admiral Blair, fully briefed on Liquiça, quickly made clear at the meeting with Wiranto that he was there to reassure the TNI chief. According to a classified cable on the meeting, circulating at Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii, Blair, rather than telling Wiranto to shut the militias down, instead offered him a series of promises of new US assistance.
According to the cable, which was drafted by Col. Joseph Daves, US military attaché in Jakarta, Admiral Blair "told the armed forces chief that he looks forward to the time when [the army will] resume its proper role as a leader in the region. He invited General Wiranto to come to Hawaii as his guest in conjunction with the next round of bilateral defense discussions in the July-August '99 time frame. He said Pacific command is prepared to support a subject matter expert exchange for doctrinal development. He expects that approval will be granted to send a small team to provide technical assistance to police and…selected TNI personnel on crowd control measures."


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Margaret Atwood Awarded Peace Prize of the German Book Board
Jun 13, 2017
Margaret Atwood has been awarded this year's Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize. The announcement was made by Heinrich Riethmüller, Chairman of the German Publishers and Bookseller Association, at the opening of the 2017 Berlin Book Days.
Prolific writer of more than forty novels, essays and poems, and widely known for her feminist dystopia The Handmaid's Tale, recently produced into a TV series, the Canadian author is already the recipient of endless international prizes such as the Man Booker Prize in 2000 or the Canadian Booksellers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Her substantial body of work has been translated into over forty languages and her latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, was published in September 2015.
In regard to their decision, the Board of Trustees said: "In her wide range of novels, essays and volumes of poetry, Canadian author Margaret Atwood has demonstrated a keen political intuition and a deeply perceptive ability to detect dangerous and underlying developments and tendencies. As one of the most important storytellers of our era, Atwood fearlessly probes shifting patterns of thought and behavior in both her utopian and dystopian works."
Set up in 1949, the motivations underlying the creation of the Peace Prize were to infuse the cultural and literary landscape of Germany with a humanist thought and thereby to propel it out of its isolation provoked by the horrors of WW2. For the Börsenverein of the German Book Trade as its founder, the Peace Prize is a pledge to the worldwide freedom of expression and peace.
The ceremony for €25,000 award will be held on the final day of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 at the Church of St. Paul and will be live streamed on German public television.


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Speedorz are vehicles used in the Land of Chima.
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CHIMA is a very large realm, which takes a long time to cross if your only transportation is by foot (or wings, if you have them). Long ago, the animals collected rocks that had fallen from Mount Cavora and carved them into wheels of extraordinary strength and power. They fitted these to small chariots and called them Speedorz.
The wheels are part of nature, and draw most of their energy from it. The wheels are always strongest in the lush jungles, verdant hills, and moss-covered canyons of CHIMA – wherever there is abundant life and growth. However, they struggle to move in barren landscapes or deserts.
There is an official level of Speedor sports with sanctioned competitions that fill the Grand Arena of CHIMA, although some of CHIMA's younger creatures sneak off to the rugged canyons and jungle backroads of the Shadow Hills for a fun and fast thrill ride. The Grand Arena of CHIMA is located on a massive, flat, moss-covered patch in front of the Lion Temple. When competitions are held, the arena is literally transformed by the power of "Golden Chi Orb" into a variety of intense tracks and competition courses. The rare Golden Chi is powerful enough to change the land itself, dramatically raising or lowering it, as well as building natural obstacles made of vegetation and rocks. Every tribe, no matter how great their differences, always sends a team of riders to compete for the Prize – that single, powerful orb of Golden Chi. Victory is a source of tribal pride for weeks following the contest.
Tribes also occasionally use the tournament to settle minor disputes and diplomatic conflicts. The Grand Arena competitions are officially about sports, but they can also be seen as an alternative to tribal combat. Rather than fight on the battlefields, tribes can settle their difference in the Speedor runs. For many years, the Speedor competitions were an incredibly civilized and efficient means for dispute resolution, but new tensions are escalating conflicts past what can be resolved in the Grand Arena.


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Academic tenure is a status accorded to members of the University faculty who have demonstrated high ability and achievement in their dedication to the growth of human knowledge. Tenure is intended to assure the University that there will be continuity in its experienced faculty and in the functions for which they are responsible. The University encourages independence of mind and freedom of inquiry. Conferral of tenure constitutes recognition by the University that a person so identified is qualified by achievements and contributions to knowledge and dissemination of knowledge as to be ranked among the most worthy in his or her field engaged in scholarly endeavors:
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To the editor:
Duck hunting is sport for a lot of people around here, just as golf is for others.
Yes, hunting is louder then golfing, but using guns is the only way to hunt duck, and most guns are loud.
People have to pay for their duck stamp to hunt duck, so in my opinion, hunters have the right to hunt within the season with their loud guns anywhere hunting is permitted.
Allen Todd
To the editor:
An Army veteran visited the Shallotte Home Depot store recently with his wife, who was wearing an Army sweatshirt.
He was in a wheelchair on a ventilator. She told me he was an Army adviser in El Salvador and had been shot while assigned there. The helicopter that came in to rescue him was also shot down.
I wrote the following poem for him:
So Who Am I Anyway?
All flowers beautifully bloom and then will wilt.
Handsome man had been veteran to the hilt,
To the editor:
The following is in response to a recent letter in a newspaper:
Yes, we all know that smoking, including second-hand smoke, is hazardous to our health. And while I honor all opinions, especially those of our veterans, non-smoking regulations are greatly needed in our communities and in all public businesses.
In numerous surveys and research, more than 75 percent, and according to some sources as much as 81 percent, of Americans do not smoke. This is a huge majority. Isn't our country based upon the premise the majority rules?
To the editor:
I knew a pastor, who when asked the question, "Why are there so many hypocrites in the church?" would reply, "We have room for one more." Isn't this the truth? Who among us can live up to our own standards?
Jesus said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick for all have sinned and fall short of the glory." The only way we can be saved is to realize that without Christ, we are lost.
To the editor:
As a new resident of Ocean Isle Beach, I wrote a letter to the editor a few years ago complaining about the appearance and lack of amenities at Ocean Isle Beach in comparison to those of Sunset Beach.
May I take it back? I deeply apologize.
To the editor:
On Saturday morning, June 4, 2011, the world lost a genuine human being in Christopher Stewart Barbour. He touched many lives in the community through his work with Rent-A-Center and his many fans he thrilled through his time in the wrestling ring.
Better known to his loyal fan base as Chris Craven, he spent many nights and weekends wowing crowds with his ability. Chris also had a burning passion for music and was a member of several bands, including "A Sunset Morning."
To the editor:
It is with disgust I read what Mr. Ole Madsen is doing to his "neighbors" in Oyster Harbor at Holden Beach. I am a former property/homeowner and resident of Oyster Harbor and due to personal situations, we relocated to Fort Myers, Fla., and live in a gated community, which has rules. Everyone must follow them, otherwise, don't move into a community with an HOA.
To the editor:
I found the Jan. 26 Beacon article about dredging the Shallotte River very interesting and informative, even comical at times.
If the owners of The Pointe LLC are so concerned about the condition of the Shallotte River, why would they install the docks/marina before something is done about the sandbar at the mouth of the river?
To the editor:
I neither favor nor disfavor Newt Gingrich's candidacy for president. I do believe, however, given the recent accounts of Gingrich's political relationship with Ronald Reagan, that a fair and balanced understanding of any candidate's history is necessary.
In 1995, at the Goldwater Institute dinner honoring President Ronald Reagan, his wife Nancy said the following:
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We have had a mild winter so far, but do you remember the little cold snap back in October? That was the night I joined a few other Brunswick County citizens to participate in a homeless awareness event organized by Brunswick Family Assistance (BFA) and hosted be Building HOPE Ministries on the grounds of its office site in Supply.
It was cold! The cardboard shelter and borrowed blankets from the BFA Thrift Store offered little help, but I survived that one night, and my compassion for our homeless neighbors was increased.
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