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Some people debate over the correlation between Social Media and Search Engine Optimization, is social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter help a website become highly searchable or successfully optimized?
According to website owners, social media definitely help boost traffic on their sites and makes ranking on search engine high. Obviously, more people are into social media that is why it is the easiest way to reach your target market without exerting too much effort.
Contrary to the popular belief that the only purpose of social media for websites is to establish the business or blog to specific group of people for the sake of traffic increase, social media is absolutely related to rankings and link building.
In most social networks, you are allowed to post links of blog posts or articles, as many as you can. Internal and external links can make a page or the entire site go on top of the list in search engines since these posts will not be labeled as spam unlike in websites.
Internet marketers and web handlers understand the importance of hashtags in SEO while people with no idea about it thinks it is just an ordinary trend. These tags are keywords used to make a post accessible to all internet users. It is not a secret to anybody that proper usage of keywords makes the page or website search engine optimized.
Business owners would not hire social media marketers if they will not benefit from it. They are willing to pay for these experts just to be on top of the rank and become popular among the businesses with the same nature. It is totally believable that Social Media and Search Engine Optimization are connected as long as the appropriate methods are applied and understood.


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Casting about for everyday examples to drive home a thermodynamics principle, University of Louisville mechanical engineering Prof. Ellen Brehob looked no further than the drinking fountain outside her classroom. Short of lugging a refrigerator to class, she figured a water cooler would best illustrate the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle. "If you leave the water running, you can feel the cool air coming out," she explains. Maintenance people forbade her from removing the front panel, but she got her pick of campus drinking fountains in various stages of disrepair. For her students, the demonstration proved more effective than equations and lectures, Brehob says. "This gave them a better visual idea of what these parts in the schematic could actually look like."
Far from a gimmick, Brehob's MacGyver-like move reflects an evidence-based approach now gaining traction among engineering educators — and support from the National Science Foundation. Studies show that using familiar examples, as opposed to theoretical or abstract ones, increases the likelihood that students will retain the lesson and ultimately persist in engineering majors. The power of commonplace connections to lift learning seems so promising that NSF sponsors a program to encourage the practice. Modeled after the Cooperative Extension Service in state land-grant institutions, Engaging Students in Engineering — or ENGAGE – aims to help engineering schools improve retention, particularly among underrepresented students, by applying proven strategies in several targeted courses, including physics, fluids, and introduction to engineering. "Essentially, it's getting research on retention off the shelves and into the undergraduate experience," says Susan Metz, the program's principal investigator and director of special projects in engineering education at Stevens Institute of Technology. "We bridge research and practice."
Launched last year, ENGAGE works with teams of engineering faculty to implement three classroom strategies known to boost learning. The first involves incorporating "everyday examples" into lectures, so that students see how complex concepts apply to skateboards, appliances, or Silly Putty. The other two techniques help forge engineering knowledge and identity by improving students' spatial visualization skills and increasing interactions with faculty. The effort, advanced through seminars and webinars by top researchers in each strategy, is meant to enhance rather than overhaul the curriculum, says Metz. "We provide resources and technical assistance to help schools jump-start the initiatives at their own institutions," she explains, noting that the research and webinars are available to any school seeking to launch its own initiative.
So far, 10 engineering schools have signed on, with another 10 participants to be announced next year. Most are big universities, allowing ENGAGE to reach the greatest number of students. Each school fields a four-person team to spearhead the effort; a $12,000 grant provides seed money to kick off activities, most of which are sustainable at little or no cost. Louisville Prof. Brehob, for instance, won a $500 stipend to embed real-life examples into her lessons, but resourcefulness netted the drinking fountain for free.
What distinguishes ENGAGE from similar initiatives is its reliance on proven research. Consider the everyday-examples component. It does not require faculty to change the way they teach, only that they include illustrations from daily life, notes Metz. "Instead of using weaponry and pipes, use musical instruments or skateboards," she explains. "In a way, it's so simple, but complexity comes in getting people to use them and adapt them."
Michigan State University mechanical engineering Prof. Eann Patterson, who consults on the real-life-examples initiative, understands that complexity. He initially developed the strategy as part of an NSF project examining how the engineering curriculum is constructed and its effect on underrepresented minorities. His team found that most students were turned off by the examples typically used to illustrate principles. "If you open an undergrad textbook in any subfield, it is filled with hundreds of examples that all look the same," says Patterson. "If you go into a dynamics textbook, there are lots of bouncing balls and things on springs. It's not very imaginative." Real components or real devices rarely get mentioned, so students without some engineering experience can be left in the dark. "People think if you make the project simple, it will be easier, but our research shows that you don't have to do that," concludes Patterson. "Students will work on something quite hard if it really engages their attention." To help faculty find that "wow" factor, Patterson's team published a series of booklets with lesson plans and solutions using real-life examples. Among them: frying up a pan of sausages in class until their casings burst, memorably illustrating Mohr's circle for stress.
ENGAGE participants can draw from these materials or, like Brehob, dream up their own examples. Another University of Louisville mini-grant recipient, chemical engineering Prof. Gerold Willing, is using Silly Putty and rubber balls to help explain the concepts of molecular weight and material properties. "It's not something that a lot of people pick up on easily," he says. "This way they've got something to picture in their head." At Purdue University, mechanical engineering Prof. Eric Nauman has used everything from amusement park rides to moving sidewalks in teaching his students about friction. "In reviews for the class, students were more interested in the material and said they were able to apply it better," he says. "From my perspective, it's a success, because if nothing else, I'm teaching them how to look at the world around them in a different way." (ASEE's deputy executive director, Robert Black, is an ENGAGE advisory board member, as is incoming Executive Director Norman Fortenberry. Society staff assisted in preparing early publicity materials for the project.)
So far, ENGAGE's most measurable component involves improving student spatial visualization skills. In her work at Michigan Tech, ENGAGE consultant and mechanical engineering Prof. Sheryl Sorby, director of the department's engineering education and innovation research group, found that visual/spatial skills are crucial to success in undergraduate engineering coursework. In one study, students who scored poorly (18 or below) on an initial spatial skills assessment test and took a one-credit course to improve their skills averaged a 3.04 GPA in their first semester of engineering. That compares with a 2.6 average for peers who skipped the course. Using Sorby's ENGAGE materials, Virginia Tech engineering education Prof. Richard Goff invited low scorers on the spatial skills test administered during summer orientation to enroll in a 10-week booster course. Participants raised their post-course score to an average of 21.4, up from 16.3.
The research is compelling about the gender divide, too. On average, says Sorby, 10 percent of men who take the test score an 18 or less, compared with one third of women. The spatial skill that has the strongest gender difference is the ability to mentally rotate something, she says, "and that's the one most closely linked to success in engineering." The extra course, however, can narrow that gap. At Michigan Tech, the retention rate for women in engineering who take the extra course is 77 percent, versus 48 percent for those who do not. At the University of Texas-Austin, an optional class based on the first five modules of Sorby's one-credit course was administered within the Women in Engineering program last fall. Despite the shorter version, scores on the spatial visualization test climbed by three points on average, with one student's score zooming from 13 to 21.
Less quantifiable, though no less significant in retaining engineering undergraduates, is student-faculty interaction. While such strategies as learning students' names and saying hello outside of class may seem basic, they've been shown to positively influence retention rates, notes Carol Muller, Stanford University's electrical engineering department manager and founder and former CEO of the nonprofit MentorNet, a national electronic mentoring network for women in engineering and science. Muller, whose research underlies ENGAGE's third strategy, explains that encouraging more short-term interaction between faculty and students can have some of the same effects as mentoring without the large, often impractical, investment. "Small pieces of encouragement, and conveying that students can succeed in this field even if they have to work really hard," she says, "can really help" increase engagement and enthusiasm for engineering. Based on her own studies and other research, Muller developed guidelines to help ENGAGE participants foster such daily exchanges. "These are classes where people learn a lot, fast, and often with a lot of peers," observes Muller. "A lot of times, your energy is focused on 'how can I convey all this information in 45 minutes?' without thinking about things like interaction."
Beyond content, such informal exchanges can communicate a sense of engineering as a discipline and profession. UT-Austin ENGAGE leader Tricia Berry, for instance, is adding an occasional 15-minute cookie break in first- and second-year engineering classes for professors to talk about themselves and their work. "We hope that the students can feel more comfortable with the faculty and see them more as a real person than someone who's just standing up there lecturing," she says. Robert Gustafson, director of Ohio State University's Engineering Education Innovation Center and leader of the school's faculty-student interaction effort, asked his graduate teaching fellows to review the ENGAGE guidelines with other faculty. The exercise raised awareness of the approach's merits while sparking conversation around teaching and learning. "A simple cue like putting some positive feedback on a paper may be obvious, but you may not think about it in the heat of grading papers," says Gustafson. "The things we're talking about are not rocket science, but they are good things to talk about." Some, especially cookie breaks and sizzling sausages, also make good eating.
Margaret Loftus is a freelance writer based in Boston.


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The England cricket mafia
Wednesday, June 20th Once upon a time there was a boy with beautiful hair who was very popular in his village. Despite his somewhat disappointing career batting average, everybody loved him. But the boy had a troublesome habit: he liked to play practical jokes.
His favourite joke was to call all of the villagers to the square and announce that he would no longer be watching the sheep because he just wasn't enjoying it any more, he wasn't getting enough support from the other shepherds or he wanted to try his hand at being a cattle herder instead.
The villagers would shrug and say how much they would miss his exuberant sheep-watching style and the way that he would sometimes entertain the flocks by clapping loudly or pretending to eat a cricket ball. But just as they were starting to talk about his replacement, the boy with the lovely hair would call them back to the square and announce that he wasn't retiring after all and that it had all been a joke.
Yes, if ever there's a slow news day, you can always count on an Afridi retirement to fill the pages. By my reckoning, this would be Shahid's fourth retirement, although it isn't yet official, it is merely under consideration, and there are certain caveats.
"I must first check if anybody is ready to take my place in the team, so that my retirement won't be unfair to the team."
So even on the brink of leaving, he's helping out the selectors. Still, three-and-a-half retirements is pretty good for a 32-year-old. There's no way he could have notched up such an impressive score had he been English. If an English player so much as hints at wanting to spend more time with his Playstation/family/azaleas, he finds himself hauled before the Godfather to have part of his livelihood removed.
Last year, Paul Collingwood suggested that he wanted to ditch the five-day stuff. Twenty-four hours later his career was swimming with the fishes. Earlier this summer, KP asked to be excused from 50-over cricket and bada bing, he's unceremoniously dumped out of the Twenty20 team too. When you're part of the England family, you're part of the family. You don't decide when its time to leave.
But even though they do things differently in Pakistan, Shahid should be careful. Next time he announces his unretirement, they might just decide they've had enough of the boy with the twinkle in his eye, the flowing locks and the overactive jaw.
Friday, June 22nd Sir Freddie of Lager has had some unparliamentary things to say about Michael Atherton. We need not linger on the detail of the unpleasantries but suffice it to say that Freddie's career as a cricket wit peaked with the Tino Best windows thing and most of his verbal output since then has been something of a disappointment.
This latest tirade of ripe Anglo-Saxon was prompted by Atherton's criticism last year of Alastair Cook's one-day performances. Freddie didn't suggest that Athers had got it wrong; what was beyond the pale, in Freddie's bleary eyes, was that a former batsman had criticised someone with a higher batting average.
But this is rather silly. Follow the logic to its conclusion and Sunil Gavaskar (average 51.12) would not be qualified to discuss the technique of Jonathan Trott (average 51.22) whilst Dennis Lillee ought not even consider criticising Stuart Clark, Ryan Harris or Andrew Hall. Atherton is entitled to his opinion and unlike some, has the good grace to admit when he gets it wrong, as he did with Cook.
And for what it's worth, I reckon 37.69 in old money, earned against McGrath, Donald, Pollock, Ambrose, Walsh, Waqar and Wasim, stands up rather well against 48.54 plundered from Messrs Johnson, Siddle, Watson and Sreesanth.
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Using "critical friends" to review the state of a project is an inexpensive way of avoiding major problems. Project reviews and their documentation is a useful part of the project management process that starts with the Project Proposal and its formal approval.
When and Where Should a Project be Reviewed?
All projects have a lifecycle for example an IT project may go through initiate, design, build, test and implement stages. There should be a formal decision to move to the next stage and release the finance. As part of that decision it may be useful to have a health check performed to validate the scope and plans are still valid and the project is on a sound footing.
There is a clear need for a project health check if there are known problems or the project sponsor feels exposed and uncertain about the viability or status of the project.
A change of project sponsor or manager would also be a good time to trigger a health check. In any case a new project manager, coming in with fresh eyes, should conduct her own project review modelled along these lines.
How to Health Check a Project
The coverage and contents of a project review or health check should examine in particular the following key areas:
- Project Business Case and Approval – Has it been formally approved by senior management and key stakeholders? Does it represent the business need and is it aligned with corporate strategy? Is the scope under proper change control to stop creep?
- Business Sponsorship – Is there a clear business sponsor who champions the project and is responsible for achievement of the business benefits? Does the sponsor challenge the project team assumptions and plans?
- Governance – Are formal processes in place to manage the project in line with corporate standards in place and used effectively? These should include processes to manage quality, risk, change, dependencies, suppliers and escalation of issues.
- Project Plans and Milestones – Should be realistic with appropriate contingency identified with a baseline plan subject to change control to maintain project management discipline. Have basic quantitative checks of project viability been made and documented?
- Resources and Functional Capability – A key test is whether the project have the resources it needs. This should include consideration of both management and technical capability, staffing numbers and skills, infrastructure and budget.
- Stakeholders and Users – Stakeholders should be properly engaged and managed. Their roles should be clearly defined especially with regard to decision making or advice. Is appropriate information being made available to those stakeholders who need to be kept informed; is there a communication plan being operated?
- External Factors – Finally the health check should consider the impact and the project team's awareness of external factors. This might include, amongst others, regulatory changes, competition, social, political, economic and environmental matters.
Value of a Critical Friend
"Critical friends" should be experienced project managers and may have a specialist background to enable them to quickly evaluate the project. It helps if "critical friends" are aware of the business context but they should be independent of the project being reviewed.
Such reviewers will provide an alternative view of all aspects of the project, scope and processes that will allow them to provide a supportive challenge to the project manager, business sponsor and other key project management staff.
A key test should be how well the project sponsor and manager understand the challenge they face. Are they on top of the task and have the skills and capability to deliver the project objectives.
Recommendations and Action Plan
The final documentation may be a formal report but the most important element is the recommendation section. From that the project manager and business sponsor should agree an action plan to address the recommendations and when and how that action plan should be monitored. The recommendations will be used in any subsequent health checks or aa part of the governance process.
Even on a very large project a small team should be able to undertake a project review in a day or three. It is time well spent as it provides fresh insight and also cause the project management to stand back and reassess the state of the project.


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(SPRINGVILLE) - Tens of thousands of motorcyclists are expected to converge on the 400-acre recreational park north of Springville starting today.
For the next several days the Indiana ABATE Motorcycle club will hold their annual Boogie celebration in Lawrence County.
Activities are planned through Sunday including local and regional bands. Rick Derringer heads the list of entertainers. Others include Quiet Riot, Head East, April Wine and Ricochet.
ABATE is an acronym for American Bikers Aimed Toward Education. This is the sixth year the Indiana ABATE Boogie has held their event in Lawrence County.
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UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — A recent discovery may place silicon carbide—a semiconductor commonly used by the electronics industry—at the center of quantum technologies designed for tasks such as ultrafast computing.
The research team from the University of California, Santa Barbara, discovered that silicon carbide contains crystal imperfections that can be controlled at a quantum mechanical level. The finding is reported in the journal Nature.
In conventional semiconductor-based electronic devices, crystal defects are often deemed undesirable because of their tendency to immobilize electrons by "trapping" them at a particular crystal location. However, the UC Santa Barbara team discovered that electrons that become trapped by certain imperfections in silicon carbide do so in a way that allows their quantum states to be initialized, precisely manipulated, and measured using a combination of light and microwave radiation.
This means that each of these defects meets the requirements for use as a quantum bit, or "qubit," which is often described as the quantum mechanical analog of a transistor, since it is the basic unit of a quantum computer.
"We are looking for the beauty and utility in imperfection, rather than struggling to bring about perfect order," says senior author David Awschalom, professor of physics, electrical and computer engineering, "and to use these defects as the basis for a future quantum technology."
Most crystal imperfections do not possess these properties, which are intimately tied to the atomic structure of a defect and the electronic characteristics of its semiconductor host, explains Awschalom. In fact, before this research, the only system known to possess these same characteristics was a flaw in diamond known as the nitrogen-vacancy center.
The diamond nitrogen-vacancy center is renowned for its ability to function as a qubit at room temperature, while many other quantum states of matter require an extremely cold temperature, near absolute zero. However, this center exists in a material that is difficult to grow and challenging to manufacture into integrated circuits.
In contrast, high-quality crystals of silicon carbide, multiple inches in diameter, are commonly produced for commercial purposes. They can be readily fashioned into a multitude of intricate electronic, optoelectronic, and electromechanical devices. In addition, the defects studied by Awschalom and his group are addressed using infrared light that is close in energy to the light used widely throughout modern telecommunications networks.
While several distinct defect types were studied at a range of temperatures, two of them were capable of room temperature operation, just like the diamond nitrogen-vacancy center.
The combination of these features makes silicon carbide, with its defects, an attractive candidate for future work seeking to integrate quantum mechanical objects with sophisticated electronic and optical circuitry, according to the researchers.
While defects in silicon carbide may offer many technologically attractive qualities, an immense number of defects in other semiconductors are still left to be explored.
"Our dream is to make quantum mechanics fully engineerable," says William Koehl, lead author and a graduate student in the Awschalom lab. "Much like a civil engineer is able to design a bridge based on factors such as load capacity and length span, we'd like to see a day when there are quantum engineers who can design a quantum electronic device based on specifications such as degree of quantum entanglement and quality of interaction with the surrounding environment."
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Good work. Fine model, the good moment and mood. Work of the author is felt. Success.
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A few years ago I wrote this piece for another blog and I thought I'd re-post it. Why? Simply because I want to...celebrate the brilliance of Light Years. Written by Kylie, Biff and Julian Gallagher over eight years ago the song still sounds as fresh as it did then. In many ways its the starter track. The one that kicked it all off the haze of brilliant female pop musicians delving into the electro synth pop-pools of disco exuberance. For me, Light Years is the song that suggested you gotta look back to move forward. In many ways, it planted the seed for likes of Madonna's Hung Up and its entire parent album, Robyn and With Every Heartbeat, Little Boots and La Roux. As such, it needs celebrating...
Kylie's comeback album 2000 contained many potential singles. Murray Chalmers at Parlophone once said that Light Years sounded like a greatest hits of pop music of the last 30 years. Its no surprise then the LP was voted above the likes of similarly iconic albums by Madonna, Donna Summer, Pet Shop Boys and Grace Jones by Attitude (2006).
Its title track that is symbolic as to how great the album is. Bouncing between Kraftwerk, Star Trek and Moroder, Light Years included its own countdown and spacecraft special effects. It was ground-breaking. Kylie was your purser. Your very own cosmic space queen. You, the listeners were the travellers, fastened in and buckled up. Your eyes? On the planets that whizzed by.
The chorus was simple and minimalist yet all over the place. You heard stardust dazzle past, rocket fuel burn up and planets fall away as you entered warp speed. Sometimes Kylie sung in the upper echelons of falsetto and then would just hum along. She also did a spoken introduction mid-song just to make sure her passengers were dancing comfortably and safely. Kylie just stops short at offering you refreshments and an opportunity to join the mile-high club.
Chronologically speaking Light Years is perfect as a single. It would have been the perfect prologue to the CyberKylie. The Kylie that gave us Can't Get You Of My Head, Come Into My World and Slow. I Believe In You is, as Jake Shears has said so himself, a dedication to Light Years. It even mimics the high notes and the baseline.
When compared to its rivals on the album its absolutely shocking why it was overlooked. Some Kylie fans desperately wanted Your Disco Needed You to come out of its closet and strut its stuff on the charts. Parlophone commissioned an Almighty mix, a limited edition release, a video or two and most were happy with that. Then came the demands for Disco Down, So Now Goodbye and Butterfly. The latter had already been released so it was bets off for its eventual mainstream appearance.
Then came Light Years. The British newspaper, The Sun, started a mini-campaign to get the title track released as a single. Whispers that Light Years and Butterfly would be released as a double a-side started to spread. Out of nowhere a semi-official mix of Light Years by D-Bop suddenly appeared. It looked to be a cert. If the forum rumours were to believed.
However when bite came to crunch Please Stay piped all the others and left newspapers and fans alike speechless. Please Stay was the blip on the album. Not an entirely bad song in itself but it was about as advanced as a Geri b-side. It flopped. Tellingly, it didn't appear in the set-list in the tour that was supposed to actually promote the album it was from. Only once has it made a full appearance in Kylie's concerts and then only with Steve Anderson's absolutely glorious re-arrangement.
Light Years, however, has not gone quietly. It often takes pride of place in her shows. William Baker has always given the song huge special effects, lasers and stage designs that befit the brilliance of the song. While Mr.Baker makes it look good Kylie and Steve Anderson, her musical director, makes sure the song sounds its worth & adapts it every time its performed. The song has been mashed with I Feel Love and Turn It Into Love. Its like all involved seem understand its immense pop sensibilities.
Some six years later Madonna did her take on Light Years. It too has a spoken section where the icon addresses her passengers. It too has sweeping electro sounds. It too has that Moroder baseline. It too has an important place at her concerts. Madonna too, like Kylie, has sung the words to Donna Summer's I Feel Love when performed on tour. It too hasn't been released.
So raise a glass to Light Years. The best Kylie single that never was. Kylie once joked that the song was written when the she was tired and "a bit of pot was likely involved in its conception". For this alone it demands bowing down to.


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U. WARWICK / UCL (UK) — Millions of Google searches from 2012 reveal that Germany looked to the future online more than any other country, say researchers.
The UK, which held the number one spot in 2011, has been knocked off its perch as the most forward-looking country and is ranked fourth in 2012.
The Future-Orientation Index is the work of Tobias Preis of the University of Warwick Business School and Helen Susannah Moat of University College London. Preis, Moat, and colleagues began the annual rankings in 2012 in Scientific Reports.
They analyzed millions of Google logs from 2012 from 45 different countries to calculate the ratio of the volume of searches for "2013" to the volume of searches for "2011."
Previous research using this search data has shown that countries with internet users who search for more information about the future tend to have a higher per-capita GDP.
The Future-Orientation Index for 2012 shows Germany as the nation most focused on the future, with Japan second, Switzerland third, and the UK fourth. At the bottom of the rankings are Pakistan, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan.
In 2011 the UK was the nation most focused on 2012 in comparison to 2010, as the country prepared for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Poland and Ukraine also ranked higher in 2011, in the lead up to their joint hosting of the European Football Championships in 2012, but fell 11 and 13 places each in 2012.
A focus on upcoming general elections, scheduled for this year, may drive Germany's rise up the charts in 2012.
Nigeria was the biggest climber in 2012, moving up 15 places and despite its economy entering its fifth recession in 15 years, Japan also made a big leap up the Future-Orientation Index, rising from ninth to third.
"In general we find a strong tendency for countries in which Google users enquire more about the future to exhibit a larger per capita GDP," says Preis, associate professor of behavioral science and finance at Warwick Business School.
"There seems to be a relationship with the economic success of a country and the information seeking behavior of its citizens online."
"We see two leading explanations for this relationship between search activity and GDP," adds Moat, of the department of civil, environmental, and geomatic engineering.
"Firstly, these findings may reflect international differences in attention to the future and the past, where a focus on the future supports economic success.
"Secondly, these findings may reflect international differences in the type of information sought online, perhaps due to economic influences on available Internet infrastructure."
Source: University of Warwick


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Nothing to hide.
Porn star Mia Khalifa, a Nationals fan, offered to streak the field if she got 50,000 retweets. Alas she came up just short. Wonder how many players offered to help her out next time.
Worst thing about #Casilla's recent meltdowns for #SFGiants fans? He comes in in the 9th and they stop serving beer after 7.
Two losses in his last three appearances and a near-blown save in the third. If Bruce Bochy brings Casilla in again this weekend at AT&T Park the loudest cheers will be from Dodgers fans.
Will the last #NBA player to leave Olympic #TeamUSA basketball please turn out the lights?
When asked if Kevin Love will play in game 4, Lebron James deferred "I have an opinion on who's our general, and that's Coach Lue. Interesting choice of words, since generals answer to Kings.
Of course, given Love's performance, some might say he didn't play after all.
#Eagles WR #NelsonAgholor being questioned about an alleged sexual assault at 3pm at strip club he & teammates visited after practice ended at 1pm. #stayclassy
Regarding that Austin valedictorian who tweeted out that she was undocumented, a FOX Sports Florida reporter, Emily Austin, commented on air "I didn't even know Mexicans were that smart." #Cantfixstupid
So while we're in the realm of un-PC, yes, Austen is blond.
So was that really an earthquake in California? Or Bernie fans throwing one last primary tantrum? #joke #holdthehatetweetsplease
That moment when you get the notice from #UnitedAirlines that your flight is delayed and will leave at 130p. At 145pm
Airlines are one of the few industries in the US that make politicians look honest by comparison. #lyingUnited
Bob Dole, "I have an obligation to the party. I mean, what am I going to do? I can't vote for George Washington. So I'm supporting Donald Trump," Uh, what's wrong with George other than him being long dead?
Georgia Sen David Perdue at the "Faith and Freedom" coalition suggested his audience pray for Pres Obama. With Psalm 109:8 starting "Let his days be few." He didn't finish the psalm "Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow."
And this is one of those guys who wants to defend " Christian family values."
Mitt Romney on Trump "I don't want to see trickle down racism." Never a Mitt fan as far as him being president. but guessing a lot of people, especially Republicans, wonder where this man was in 2012.
Ann Coulter has written an editorial saying Donald Trump is not a racist. Hmm, is she angling to get on the Donald's V.P short list?
A serious thought going forward for all the Sanders supporters who got into politics for the first time this year. If you REALLY want to change the system, stay involved, and start getting ready for future elections. #changetakestime #changetakescommitment
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June 11, 2016 at 6:16 am
Regarding that Austin valedictorian who tweeted out that she was undocumented, a FOX Sports Florida reporter, Emily Austin, commented on air "I didn't even know Mexicans were that smart." #Cantfixstupid
So while we're in the realm of un-PC, yes, Austen is blond.
Still a long way to go.
June 11, 2016 at 1:23 pm
LBJ addressing the people of Cleveland today: "How many times are we going to lose to The Warriors? Not 1, not 2, not 3….."


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Well, if you haven't been around in the blogosphere to meet Elana Johnson, you have been missing out. Today, I'm joining her blogfest to celebrate the release of her new book, SURRENDER. So, today, I'm sharing a time in my life where someone refused to give up. This story is only mine by default, because I wasn't the one to not give up, but you'll see why it's important in a minute.
I was a senior in high school when I first met Greg, my husband. We were both singing in the All-State choir and met at a rehearsal. He thought I was pretty cute and wanted to introduce himself. I, on the other hand, was very busy talking to a different boy who I had known for a while. I didn't even know that Greg was around. I don't know exactly how it happened, but out of nowhere, and in the middle of my conversation with this other boy, Greg came up behind me and scooped me up into his arms. He ran off with me down the hall, saying something cheesy about "sweeping me off my feet." I was surprised, but he was cute. He put me down and we talked for a little while. It came out in the conversation that he was a junior. This was the death knell for any possible budding romance. You just don't date older girls in high school. So, we parted as friends and I didn't see him again for a long time.
Nearly two years went by and I was at an activity at SUU where I was starting my sophomore year. I saw a guy who looked familiar, but I couldn't place him. He recognized me, too, and eventually we pieced it together. It was Greg! And he was still cute, but still younger than me. We saw each other frequently at different activities on campus, but I was dating someone else and he dated someone else. We just figured we would be good friends.
Time went by. I broke up with the boyfriend. I went on a mission for the LDS church. I came home and went back to SUU. And met Greg again. He had broken up with his girlfriend, moved to Ogden, come back to Cedar and was going to SUU again. And he thought I was pretty amazing. He wanted to date me. And I was pretty sure he wasn't the right guy for me. I said, "Let's be friends." So we were. I saw him every once in a while. He invited me to over to his house a few times. I met his friends. They were all weird. And nerds. (I was a closet nerd, but unwilling to admit it.)
And through it all, he kept asking me out. I had an excuse for him every single time. "You are too young." "I'm way too busy with school and choir and work." "You haven't been a missionary." And every time I brushed him off, he came back again. I went out on lots of dates, but never really found a guy I wanted to date seriously. He dated other girls, but would always come back to me again. Finally, after two years, we started to spend more time together. He decided to go on a mission. And I said, "Oh, maybe we should date." So, two months before he was supposed to leave for Taiwan for two years, we started dating.
Right before he left, we decided that our relationship had real potential and I was going to wait for him to come home. I wrote to him for about 18 months and then, started to worry about if it really was going to work out. I even thought about dating other guys. It never really worked out, but I stopped writing. What did Greg do? He just kept right on writing as if I had never stopped.
When he finally got home, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to see him, but he just kept acting like nothing had changed. He got home in March. We got married in July. Greg knew what he wanted and never gave up on it. And I am so glad that he did.
If you want to read other stories of people who never surrendered, you can find the link list on Elana's blog by going here. And don't forget to never surrender!


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This week�s games: Crest at Shelby; R-S Central at Burns; Kings Mountain at East Burke; Chase at East Rutherford; Highland Tech at Thomas Jefferson
Lance Ware, Shelby
�We were able to execute (in 49-14 win at Draughn). We picked up some third downs.
�Crest, they�re a power football team, and they�re really good at what they do. They want to line up and run over you. They�ve got some good backs in (Jalin) Moore and (Tre) Harbison and (P.J.) Brooks.
�They do a good job of blocking for those guys. They�re very multiple. They make you get ready for a lot of formations and a lot of sets.
�Defensively I see tons of speed. The (Omar) Brooks kid is very good. Their two inside linebackers do a good job making plays, and their secondary has a lot of speed.
�It�s a chance for a conference championship, to share it. It�s a great rivalry. When you put it at the end of the year and everything riding on it, it should make for a great high school football game.
�We�re still improving each week. We want to be playing our best ball now. We were able to run the ball a little better last week. (Quarterback) R.J. George had another big game. We�re ready to make a run. All our goals are still in front of us.�
Mark Barnes, Crest
�It was a big win (21-17 vs. Burns) for us. The most important part is it�s a county rivalry game. You add on that you get at least a share of a conference championship and a No. 1 playoff seed, it�s a big win. I�m proud of our players, how they fought the whole game, especially our defensive guys who have been pretty maligned all year, haven�t gotten a lot of credit. For them to hold them to three points in the second half was a big accomplishment.
�Shelby is more of a system passing game and vertical passing game. They�re going to hold it longer and try to create mismatches.
�Shelby�s going to run the ball. They�ve got quality running backs. Their offensive line does a good job. We need to make sure we control that first.
�If you throw it 30 times, we feel like we�re going to get a couple.
�They�re easily the fastest team we�ve played this year as far as overall team speed.
�I said when I got here, being county champions is the most important thing. Then if you can do that, you have a good chance at a state championship.�
Matt Beam, Burns
�We were disappointed that we got beat (21-17 at Crest), but I�m interested to see how my kids responded to it. I think they�ll respond very well.
�We talk about sometimes you have to deal with adversity to get where you want to be. Our guys are ready to get back on the field.
�We have to take care of Burns and make sure that we go out here and don�t have a letdown because R-S Central is playing really well. If you go out there and you play poorly, they can certainly beat you.
�After this game Friday night, you�re not guaranteed anything else. We know we�re going to the playoffs. We want to be playing well and playing the best that we can possibly play going into the playoffs.
�I was impressed with R-S and the quarterback play. They give you a lot of different. formations. They�ll run the wing-T stuff, then spread it out and throw it a little bit. On defense, it was a good-size front.
�We need to get Tylan (Ruff) rolling this week. We weren�t able to get him running room last week, and that�s a credit to Crest.�
Greg Lloyd, Kings Mountain
�We�re working on trying to find 11 guys to play on offense and 11 guys to play on defense. We brought up a couple junior varsity guys and are giving them a little bit of varsity experience as we look to next year.
�We played better the last time out against Chase (40-28 loss Oct. 25). We played much better offensively, and we played better in the first half defensively. Brandon Bell played well (at) quarterback. We�re trying to build on that and finish off strong.
�They (East Burke) can run and pass. They�re pretty versatile offensively. They tackle (well) on defense. They�re not giving you anything. You have to earn it. They�re wanting to finish their year on a win too.
�We have played 18 guys that (are) either freshmen or sophomores on the varsity and a lot of juniors. We know we�ve got a lot of guys back. That�s encouraging. They�ve played well, but they�re young.
"Winning the last game would be a big deal. You�d have a good feeling leaving the field the last time with a win. We�re stressing all that in practice. The guys are looking good.�


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Discussion in 'Android General Discussions' started by plongson, Apr 6, 2010.
Ya, I searched...no luck.
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I have Drocap2 but it only works with rooted phones.
I searched "screen shoots" and found this (http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/34602-need-help-screen-capturing.html)
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Carrie Underwood Glows in Yellow Dress on 2014 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet [PHOTOS]
Carrie Underwood is a familiar fixture on the red carpet best-dressed lists -- and the 2014 Billboard Music Awards were no exception!
The sweet singer looked radiant in a neon yellow and brocade gown. Yellow is a very tricky color to for blondes to pull off. Luckily, with the right shade and Carrie's golden tan, she managed to be both elegant and edgy.
The gown's gray brocade popped against the yellow hue, but also lent a sophistication that kept the neon tone from looking too overwhelming. Carrie's hair was teased back in a chic bun with a sassy pompadour, which matched the playfulness of the dress.
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Here we are. Its Friday again and that means its time for me to make my nails look pur-dy. I really look forward to this post because prior to ever joining this link-up I was feeling pretty blah. As a Mama, I need to feel good about myself and if that means putting some polish on or getting out for an hour to go to the nail salon then so be it. It really is a nice little pick me up to give me a little boost of Mama confidence. So what if I was in black leggings and a hoodie all day? My nails look FANCY! Come check out my nail board over on Pinterest!
I gave myself a quick little mani and then polished them up myself. I got a great tip from one of my readers that I'd like to share. Since I'm all clackidy clack on the keyboard all the time she said its smart to paint the tips of my nails as well to prevent chips. Smart gal! Also, I paint my nails AFTER G goes to bed for the night otherwise forgetaboutit!
Come link up with me over at Fabulous but Evil and show us your nail polish purchases or recommendations, pictures of your manicured nails (whether done at home or at the salon), your nail polish tips and trends, etc.
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Gorgeous color! Aww don't feel bad being a momma. Maybe try the nail stickers? That's what I recommended to my sis who has 2 little kids and has no time to wait for her nails to dry 🙂
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Super pretty! The kind of color that makes you smile.
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I happen to think black leggings and a hoodie is VERY stylish! I rock it all the time! ha ha!
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The first statutory requirement of California Proposition 65 prohibits businesses from knowingly discharging listed substances into drinking water sources, or onto land where the substances can pass into drinking water sources. The second prohibits businesses from knowingly exposing individuals to listed substances without providing a clear and reasonable warning.
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One of the most important aspects of applying makeup starts and ends with foundation. This means that you need to know how to apply foundation in a way that it will hide any blemishes, but it will not appear to cakey or be distracting in any way from your natural beauty. This means that you need to know how to accentuate the best features when applying foundation. All the techniques that you need to know can be taught at a makeup course in Belfast. This will help you to fast track your skills and make your clients look like they have flawless skin.
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The first thing that you will learn on a belfast makeup course is that you need to do to hide all the blemishes on your face is to make sure that you always begin your foundation routine by applying primer. This is essential to make sure that the foundation that you apply does not settle into all of your fine lines and wrinkles. It is best to choose a foundation that contains silica, because it offers a filling effect that will ensure that nothing can settle into your fine lines and wrinkles. The primer should always be applied after your moisturiser and before your foundation.
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Having flawless looking skin also comes down to picking just the right shade when you are choosing a foundation. If you choose a shade that does not match your natural tone it will be noticeable and it will not look appealing. It is always a good idea to test foundations out on your neck to find the match that is perfect for you. You need to be sure that you pick a type of foundation that offers a lot of shade variations so that you can be sure you can find just the right match for your unique skin tone. Makeup courses in Belfast will educate you on a variety of different shades.


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My coffee mug is my most used item in my house hands down – and if you are a parent, I can bet yours is too!
So why not order a custom painted one with your favorite saying on it? Or your favorite bible verse?
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Welcome to our family-run, multi award winning businesses Askham Hall and the George and Dragon Clifton in Cumbria.
Both located in a secluded part of the Lake District – the newest World Heritage Site. We can offer an intimate, luxurious place to relax and stay with a restaurant, party spaces, beautiful gardens and a spa or a country inn with a restaurant, bar and bedrooms.
We grow and rear much of our own produce in our gardens and fields at Askham Hall itself and on our family estate – the Lowther Estate in Cumbria.
A luxurious, intimate, unpretentious home from home awaits.
Restaurant with rooms
The cycle of life in the gardens and fields at Askham Hall dictate our menus – we work with the seasons and grow, source and preserve the produce from our gardens and surrounding farms and woodland. The cycles have always been there and each part of the year is anticipated keenly for the new ingredients it brings.
Weddings at Askham Hall
"We just want to say a huge thank you to all of the Askham Hall staff for making our wedding so wonderful! We wish we could do it all again! Keep doing an amazing job."Claire & Joe
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A country estate inn with a restaurant, bar and bedrooms.
What makes the George and Dragon so special is that its source of inspiration, history, passion and produce comes from the owners family Estates, right on its doorstep, where food has been produced for more than 800 years. We grow and rear as much of our own produce as possible at our own gardens and surrounding fields at Askham Hall (where the owner Charles Lowther grew up) and is just a couple of miles from the George and Dragon. Our philosophy is that of sustainability, simplicity and taste and whatever we don't grow or rear ourselves at Askham Hall, we ensure, when possible, that the rest of the fresh, seasonal produce we use is sourced from local suppliers and farmers within about 20 miles of the pub.


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From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics
Senior George Qian (Bettendorf, Iowa/Montverde Academy) of the Carnegie Mellon University men's golf team has been named by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) as a semifinalist for the NCAA Division III Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award presented by Barbasol. The Nicklaus Award recognizes the top players at the Division I, II, III, NAIA and NJCAA levels.
Qian, who has played a vital role in helping the 20th-ranked Tartans to their highest national ranking, is one of 30 Division III golfers who will be considered for the Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award.
Qian finished the season with a team-best average round of 74.0 through 21 rounds with a tournament win, three top-three finishes and five top-ten finishes. The senior opened spring play claiming University Athletic Association (UAA) Most Valuable Player honors at the 2017 UAA Match-Play Championships after winning both of his matches.
At the Wynlakes Intercollegiate in late March, Qian tied the single-round school record with his opening-round score of five-under par 67. He finished the Wynlakes with a two-round score of seven-under par 137, which broke the school record for the lowest 36-hole event. His play helped the Tartans to a third-place team finish in a field of 13 teams, five of which were ranked in the top seven nationally.
In the month of March, the senior carded a scoring average of 73.1 in nine rounds on his way to being named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Men's Golfer of the Month.
The finalists will be announced at the GCAA Division III National Awards Banquet in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida on May 16. The event will serve as part of the festivities surrounding the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship which will be played May 16-19. Nicklaus Award recipients will be announced June 1 with the honor presented by Jack Nicklaus at a ceremony during the final round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
The five recipients will compete in the Barbasol Shootout for an exemption into the PGA TOUR's Barbasol Championship, held July 20-23, at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National in Opelika, Ala. The Barbasol Shootout will be held Saturday, June 3 at the storied Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio - the same club where Jack Nicklaus first learned the game of golf as a young boy.


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Bloody Mary's Revenge Haunted House
Experience the Official Bloody Mary Haunted House. Spooky Ranch is proud to obtain the only license in the United States for the exclusive Bloody Mary Haunted House, previously licensed to Universal Studios Orlando. This is Cleveland Ohio's Premiere Haunted Event, being the biggest, best and scariest haunted attraction. "Bloody Mary's Revenge." opened last fall at Spooky Ranch. The new haunted house is jammed pack with detail and filled with the latest in special effects, Custom CGI, and custom built one of a kind actor-operated hybrid multi-motion animatronics. Folklore has it that the fear of Bloody Mary runs deep. I Dare You. Experience the New Bloody Mary's Revenge Haunted House.
Spooky Ranch at the Rockin'-R-Ranch, now its 25th year, hosts 5 dynamic attractions that you will find anywhere else in the world. Not your ordinary boring hayride or haunted houses. New Bloody Mary's Revenge Haunted House, Crazy Clowns in 3D, The Famous Haunted Hayride, The Haunted Barn and the new Blood Slingers Haunted House. We are committed to deliver screams to all people of all generations. Best Haunted hayride in the state of Ohio, hands down! Experience in -your -face style acting, thrills and suspense at Spooky Ranch, Cleveland's Premiere Haunted Event.
Derek Vitas at Spooky Ranch was blown away with the response, the exposure and increased attendance in 2014 after obtaining the license for the name Bloody Mary and adding the new Bloody Mary's Revenge Haunted House. The press and news stories were incredible. Derek says "much local press was easy to obtain after hearing about the iconic name Bloody Mary, not only the legend, but the many tie- ins associated with the name such as; the Bloody Mary Comic Book series, the Bloody Mary Make-up Line, and the award winning make-up artist herself, Bobbie Weiner. Bobbie was great to work with. She even flew out for the opening weekend of the opening for the Premiere of the new Bloody Mary Haunted House to sign autographs and do make-up demos. Derek's said, "the customer response was the best part." Everyone knew the legend and they had come to experience it for themselves. Some Customer quotes were, "Best new haunted house ever, "so scary," "Loved the mirror tie in with the Legend," "The Bloody Mary Creatures were incredible" and Bloody Mary's Revenge Haunted House rocked." Derek said "obtaining Bloody Mary's name was the best marketing decision for the 2014 haunt season."
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March 2011 no. 329
News from the Editor's Desk
Chong's covers
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The poetry of Dorothy Hewett
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Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
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Tony Judt: Ill Fares the Land; and Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet
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Ill Fares the Land
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I thought I'd share some photos of what our summer has looked like so far!
Many fun filled hours spent at the beach
Playing in the little wading pool and with water on the back deck
Swimming in the middle of the lake off of Grandpa's boat
Incredible sunsets off the back deck
Playing dress up
More beach time
Enjoying the hammock
Hangin' out, enjoying the lazy, dog days of summer! I hope you're having a great summer too!


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Sunny Radio... Where it's ALWAYS in the 80s!
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A Natural Beauty
An abundance of natural textures give this dining room a warm and inviting look. The light wood dining table adds contrast to the darker wood wicker chairs and flooring. Botanical-inspired wallpaper along the back wall of the space serves to define the dining area in the open floor plan.


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Feb. 10 — A federal district court properly dismissed a fired circuitry worker's claim that the New York City Commission on Human Rights' procedures for investigating and resolving discrimination complaints violated his constitutional due process rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Feb. 7 (Rosu v. City of New York,2014 BL 34583, 2d Cir., No. 13-243, 2/7/14).
The court rejected Mircea Rosu's argument that the city commission failed to provide sufficient process under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by not holding a hearing before deciding whether his religious, national origin and disability bias complaint had probable cause.
The court explained that the lack of a hearing before the deprivation of a protected interest will not violate due process "if there is sufficient process after the deprivation." Here, it said, the commission allows claimants to appeal probable cause determinations to both the commission itself and to New York state courts.
In addition, the appeals court held that requiring an extra hearing for a complainant such as Rosu to present his case prior to an initial probable cause ruling would not necessarily decrease the risk of an erroneous deprivation, and would "undoubtedly" tax the commission's resources.
Judges Rosemary S. Pooler, Barrington Daniels Parker and Richard C. Wesley joined in the per curiam decision.
Under its administrative complaint procedures, the city human rights commission may choose to mediate an employee's discrimination claim, the court said.
Where mediation is unsuccessful, the commission assigns the case to investigators who determine whether the employee's complaint has probable cause. The investigators may interview witnesses and review documents before reaching a conclusion.
The commission will dismiss a complaint absent a finding of probable cause. However, an employee may appeal that decision to the commission itself and later seek judicial review by New York state trial courts.
In April 2005, Rosu filed an administrative complaint with the commission, alleging that Scientific Components Corp. violated the New York City Human Rights Law by permitting Jewish workers and employees from former Soviet Union countries to harass him based on his Romanian and Christian background.
He also claimed that a manager told him that "Jews were superior to Romanians," the court said. In addition, Rosu alleged he was fired after he provided Scientific Components with a physician's note indicating that he had experienced a stroke.
The commission assigned Rosu's case to two different sets of investigators, who ultimately concluded that the complaint lacked probable cause. The commission affirmed that determination.
Although Rosu seemingly sought review of the commission's decision in state court, that action was discontinued because of a "technical defect," the court said.
He eventually sued under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (42 U.S.C. § 1983) against the city in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Rosu argued that the commission's procedures—which permit it to dismiss a complaint for lack of probable cause in the absence of a hearing that would allow a complainant to cross-examine witnesses or access the agency's investigative file—violate the 14th Amendment's due process requirements.
The district court dismissed Rosu's complaint for failure to state a claim on which relief may be granted, under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and Rosu appealed.
Affirming, the Second Circuit ruled that the human rights commission's procedures provide sufficient process under the 14th Amendment.
The absence of a hearing before the deprivation of that protected interest—that is, dismissal for lack of probable cause—does not violate due process "if there is sufficient process after the deprivation," the Second Circuit said.
The court acknowledged that Rosu's discrimination claim constituted a protected property interest.
However, the absence of a hearing before the deprivation of that protected interest—that is, dismissal for lack of probable cause—does not violate due process "if there is sufficient process after the deprivation," the court said, relying on Spinelli v. City of New York, 579 F.3d 160 (2d Cir. 2009).
Here, the commission allows administrative and judicial review of its probable cause determinations, thus satisfying constitutional due process requirements, the court said.
In addition, the appeals court measured the risk of an erroneous deprivation under the commission's procedures against the value of adding an extra hearing prior to an initial probable cause ruling.
"Though any additional step in the procedures might theoretically make a mistake less … likely, it is not clear that new procedures, as suggested by Rosu, would necessarily make this less likely," the court said.
The Second Circuit also assessed the government's interest, observing that "common sense dictates that the addition of an extra hearing … prior to an initial probable cause assessment would undoubtedly tax" the commission's resources.
"Additional personnel would be needed to conduct the hearing and new procedures for reviewing the record presented," the court said. "This would not only be costly, it would slow the processing of complaints in the [c]ommission, perhaps depriving others of their timely process."
Derek T. Smith of Akin & Smith in New York represented Rosu. Ellen S. Ravitch of the New York City Law Department represented the city.
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Raymond Carver
Library of America: 1,020 pp., $40
When does an act of reclamation cease to be about restoration and become about something else? That's the question raised by "Collected Stories," the Library of America's new collection of the complete short fiction of Raymond Carver, who died at 50 in August 1988.
Complete, of course, is a relative concept in regard to Carver, an inveterate rewriter who published many stories in different versions at various points in his career. Not only that, but in 1995, it was revealed that his 1981 breakthrough, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," was extensively reworked by Gordon Lish, who as fiction editor of Esquire helped bring Carver's work to a national audience. Lish moved from Esquire to Alfred A. Knopf in the late 1970s and cut some of the stories in "What We Talk About" by more than three-quarters, paring down the language, even changing endings to highlight what he called "a peculiar bleakness."
He was right; "What We Talk About" is stunningly desolate, a group of stories so laconic they almost perfectly reflect the resignation of characters struggling with alcoholism, infidelity and the desperation of diminished dreams. "Things change," one protagonist notes. "I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to." Despite the book's success, Carver was unhappy at how he was labeled; "There's something about 'minimalist,' " he grumbled in 1983, "that smacks of smallness of vision and execution that I don't like." Two years ago, his widow Tess Gallagher announced plans to release the stories as her husband had conceived them, in a collection called "Beginners": the uncut "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
"Beginners" is published for the first time in "Collected Stories," and although it comes at the end, it can't help but function as a centerpiece. That's either as it should be or a significant problem, depending on your perspective, but regardless, it skews the way the collection showcases Carver's career. The purpose of a retrospective is not so much to highlight individual stories as to trace how a writer's aesthetic has grown. Here, the prominence of "Beginners" adds a subtext that threatens to subvert the larger arc. That's because, in the main, the pared-down versions of the stories are better, which opens the question of where authenticity resides. Are the unedited drafts more essential because they represent the truer Carver? Or is the point the continuum of his writing, developed through the intersection of internal and external influences?
These are key questions when it comes to Carver, for he was not a solitary artist but one who thrived in community. From his days at Chico State in the late 1950s, he sought mentors; first, John Gardner, who "made me see that absolutely everything was important in a story," and later peers Chuck Kinder, Dick Day, Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. In "On Becoming a Novelist" (for which Carver wrote the foreword), Gardner lays out the template: "Once when I was driving through Colorado with a friend, traveling down a mountain pass, we came upon an accident. A pickup truck and a car had collided, and from fifty feet away we could see the blood. We pulled over and ran to help. All the time I was running, all the time I was trying, with my friend's help, to pry open the door of the car in which a nine-months pregnant woman had been impaled through the abdomen, I was thinking: I must remember this! I must remember my feelings! How would I describe this?"
That's a rigorous -- some might say brutal -- standard, but it applies to Carver's work as well. In his late story "Intimacy," he admits as much, describing a writer's visit to his ex-wife, presumably to make amends, when in fact he is after material. "She says, I'm beginning to understand something. . . . ," Carver writes, after they go back and forth. "I think I know why you're here, even if you don't. But you're a slyboots. You know why you're here. You're on a fishing expedition. . . .
"Tell me about the knife, I say."
Here, Carver reveals the ruthlessness of the author appropriating his life. That's not to suggest that his stories are mere autobiography -- although "Intimacy" may be as close as he gets. Like any fiction writer, he draws on his experience for narrative and emotional effect. There's no way to read Carver's early work, collected in "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" (1976) and "Furious Seasons" (1977), without seeing his existence: the teenage marriage, the two kids in quick succession, the crummy jobs and part-time education, the drinking and the bankruptcies. This is what gives the writing such power, the fact that it is so specific, so sharp.
Take "They're Not Your Husband," in which an unemployed salesman, obsessed with his wife's appearance, drops by the coffee shop where she works and comments on her to the other men. Or "Nobody Said Anything," where a boy plays hooky to go fishing, only to come home and confront his parents' crumbling marriage from which hooky offers no escape. Gardner didn't teach him about that; Carver had to live it, had to know the anxiety of that kid, the despair of that husband, the way that, as he writes in "Jerry and Molly and Sam," "life had become a maze, one lie overlaid upon another until he was not sure he could untangle them if he had to." What Gardner did was emphasize the need to pay attention, to know that stories are everywhere and that any life, no matter how seemingly undramatic, might be the substance of literature, if only we look at it with enough depth.
This is the revolutionary thing about Carver's writing, although over the years it's also been the most misunderstood. In 1983, Granta famously labeled him, along with contemporaries such as Ford and Wolff, "dirty realists"; six years later, Tom Wolfe derided them as "K-Mart realists" in Harper's. The idea is that there's something less than artful about their fiction, that their stories are unformed, anecdotal slices-of-life. But that's not true, any more than it's true that in editing "What We Talk About," Lish eclipsed its authenticity, effacing Carver's voice while recasting the book, somehow, as his own.
Indeed, "Collected Stories" makes a compelling case for the opposite, for Carver's interaction with Lish, like his interaction with Gardner, as a stop upon a longer path. "What We Talk About" came at a particularly vulnerable moment: Carver was newly sober, divorcing his first wife, Maryann, and exploring the beginnings of his relationship with Gallagher. It makes sense, then, that his work on the book would be marked by a give-and-take, a feeling out of what he had to do. Some of the most unexpectedly moving writing in "Collected Stories" comes in letters Carver sent Lish arguing against the edits; "I'm mortally afraid of taking out too much from the stories," he wrote on July 10, 1980, "of making them too thin, not enough connecting tissue to them."
For detractors of "What We Talk About," that's a central criticism, but if Lish went too far in certain instances -- he eviscerated "A Small, Good Thing," cutting it by nearly 80% and renaming it "The Bath" -- it's impossible to imagine Carver arriving at the expansiveness of his 1983 masterpiece "Cathedral" without going through the edits Lish imposed. If nothing else, he had to learn to stand up for his work, to recognize his authority. In February 1983, he wrote Lish, "I don't need to tell you that it's critical for me that there not be any messing around with titles or text." It's no coincidence that among the 12 pieces in "Cathedral" is a restored version of "A Small, Good Thing," one of Carver's greatest stories in its final form.
"Beginners" also features a fuller take of "A Small, Good Thing," but its inclusion here seems unnecessary. It's not that these drafts aren't worth attention, but they are not essential in the manner "Collected Stories" requires. That becomes especially glaring when you consider what's missing: Carver's poems, which are a corollary to his narrative work. In them, he covers much of the same material (hunting, fishing, domestic drama) with a similarly unsentimental eye. His poetry and fiction speak to each other stylistically, the staccato "She says" of "Intimacy" echoed in the structure ("He said it doesn't look good / he said it looks bad in fact real bad / he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before / I quit counting them") of "What the Doctor Said."
Carver left some evidence that, at the end of his life, he was looking to blur the genres; his late poem "Lemonade" is actually a little story about a man who's lost his son. There are any number of ways to read this, not least as a lament by a man who was himself dying of lung cancer as he wrote. But most of all, it suggests a larger process, an integration that "Collected Stories" does not entirely reflect.
Ulin is books editor of The Times.


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NEW YORK - When humans finally set up residence on the moon, our lives there will look very different.
Since many of the tried and true tools we use on Earth will be impossible to carry along, some scientists are hard at work inventing from scratch the machines we'll need to make life possible on the moon.
One such example is building equipment.
"Bulldozers and excavation systems are pretty bulky and heavy," said Kris Zacny, director of drilling and excavation systems at Honeybee Robotics in New York City. "We came out with a different method of digging that uses gas."
Zacny's invention digs up ground by injecting gas into the dirt, thereby creating a high-pressure situation from which the gas naturally wants to escape. When it does fly upward, the gas' strong momentum ends up taking dirt up with it.
Digging up the moon
In July 2008 Honeybee Robotics was awarded a contract to develop tools that will help astronauts live and work on the moon as part of NASA's Constellation program. Zacny has relied on the wisdom he gained working in diamond, coal and gold mines in South Africa, as well as his doctorate research on extraterrestrial excavation, to devise creative methods for digging up the moon, including the gas-blowing digger. Working with their NASA technical contacts, Rob Mueller and Greg Galloway, Zacny and his team hope to create tools that will one day prove their usefulness on the moon.
In detail, this so-called pneumatic excavation mechanism involves gas pumped into the ground through a thin tube encased by a wider hose. When the gas escapes, carrying along material from the ground, it travels up through the hose to a storage container.
"It's kind of like a vacuum cleaner, but the reverse," Zacny said. Instead of using suction, the machine injects gas down to draw material up.
The contraption weighs a lot less than conventional digging tools, though it begs the question: Where will future moon-dwellers get the gas needed to operate the machine?
One good source could be the carbon dioxide breathed out every day by astronauts, he said. Another option is to burn any leftover fuel in the rocket thrusters on the moon landing vehicle, and collect the exhaust.
"When a spacecraft lands on the moon, it has a little extra fuel left over, just in case you have to fly longer than you planned," Zacny said. "Once you land it's a deadweight."
But burning this fuel to create gas is great way to power the pneumatic excavator, he said.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Once the device has sucked up lunar dirt, or regolith, this material could be conveniently diverted and used as a protective covering over homes (regolith is good for shielding from radiation). The dirt could also be processed to extract the oxygen bound up in its minerals.
In order to free up the oxygen trapped inside, regolith must be heated to high temperatures. Greg Mungas from Firestar Engineering, working with Zacny, proposed passing the material through a heat exchanger after it is extracted. Or, if the source of gas for the excavator is from leftover rocket fuel, then the exhaust will already be hot, and as it passes into the regolith it can heat the dirt up.
Since every bit of material that we carry to the moon adds expensive weight to the spacecraft travelling there, engineers must design as many thrifty ways as possible to get what they need from the moon and reuse resources.
"You're going to be recycling quite a bit," Zacny said. "It's like Lewis and Clark, living off the land."
For example, instead of carting up heavy water, astronauts could travel with hydrogen, and then add oxygen later. Since oxygen is the heavier ingredient in water, and it can be extracted from the surface, this approach saves precious cargo weight.
And once a store of water has been created for the lunar colony, most of it can be recycled without having to create more from scratch.
Lingering issues
Though engineers are well on their way toward preparing us for life on the moon, some major issues have yet to be resolved.
"Something that we'll have to consider is radiation," Zacny said. "We can close ourselves in habitats, but radiation protection requires a lot of shielding. We cannot solve this problem yet. Radiation can kill us."
Moon dwellers will also have to contend with the ubiquitous dust on the surface of the moon, which gets into everything and can wear down joints and connectors and prevent sealing off doors. It also poses a health risk to people, as it can cause breathing problems and is difficult to filter out of habitats.
Other difficulties may lie in the astronauts themselves, as opposed to the environment.
"You can have a lot of psychological issues," Zacny said. "On the International Space Station you can see Earth. If there's an emergency, in an hour and a half you can come home and be in the hospital. On the moon the Earth is farther away and you can feel detached."
Why go to the moon?
While many scientists are busy planning humanity's future on the moon, some people question whether we ought to be even trying to make it back to a place we conquered in 1969.
But Zacny argues the pursuit is worthwhile, not just in itself, but for the opportunity to invent new technologies and prepare for our eventual quest to Mars. Plus, we can't help but want to try living on another world besides Earth.
"We're going to explore. It's human nature," Zacny said. "It's just a matter of time before we establish some kind of base on the moon."
And when we do, Zacny would sign up in a heartbeat.
"I would go right now. I wouldn't even go back home first," he said. "It's the adventure of a lifetime."
- Reclaiming the Moon: Plans for a 21st Century Return
- IMAGES: Future Vision: Lunar Base
- VIDEO: NASA's Next Moon-Bound Spaceships


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Scholarships Available For 2014 Summer Musical Theatre Conservatory at Long Beach Playhouse
2014-07-01 · By Editor
Long Beach Playhouse continues its commitment to the next generation of theatre artists at the 2014 Summer Musical Theatre Conservatory from July 14 through August 3.
This year, thanks to the Miller Foundation, the Playhouse will offer over 50% of the enrollment full scholarships. "It is what we should do," said Andrew Vonderschmitt, executive and producing artistic director, "If we could afford it we would offer 100% scholarships. But thanks to Miller, we will be able to offer more than ever!"
This year we welcome Brian Bozanich as the Director of the program. With four previous years of LBP Conservatory experience Brian is a logical and exciting choice as director. He brings with him a select staff of new to the playhouse and veteran teachers. This year will prove to be one of the most dynamic yet.
The unique three-week day camp invites each young actor, singer and dancer to develop his or her skills in daily classes. Every student will also make the journey through the rehearsal process guided by a team of arts educators. In the end, we add the final theatrical element, the audience, and share our talents through public performances of scenes and songs. The camp balances instruction and performance preparation as we travel from page to stage. These efforts are enriched by the dedicated theatre professionals at The Long Beach Playhouse, the oldest continually operating theatre west of the Mississippi.
Brian Bozanich (MFA, Youth and Family Theatre) steps into the role of camp director in his fifth year with the program. Bozanich brings twenty-five years of theatre education experience, including programs with at-risk youth and K-6 theatre. He currently serves as director of the award-winning Saint Joseph High School theatre program.
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After much discussion we have come to the decision that we will be intensifying our language learning once we move on over into our next learning cycle. Both girls have expressed an interest in learning Polish more in depth, while Phinee has also expressed an interest in learning Latin. So I am off to research what resources we might need to full fill these desires!
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