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Agency Information
Welcome! The School of Social Work values its relationships with organizations and agencies throughout the DFW area and beyond.
Thank you for considering a partnership with the Office of Field Education. We value the support you provide your clients and the community, and we appreciate this additional contribution to the profession.
By joining us, you will be in the good company of more than 500 agencies and organizations that offer field experience to our students. Many of our students have a history of volunteerism and an understanding of how agencies serve clients. Other students are less familiar with social work settings and populations.
In all cases, we are proud to offer our students the opportunity to work with veteran social workers in a variety of settings serving diverse populations. We look forward to getting to know you and to matching you with students who will discover the richness of all you do while growing into your expectations for professional social workers.
To work with our students, you must be able to provide supervision with a BSW-level social worker or an MSW-level social worker with two years of post-graduation, professional experience. These supervisors, or Field Instructors, must hold social work degrees from universities accredited through the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
Our Students
The UT Arlington School of Social Work graduates BSWs, MSW's, and Ph.D.'s. BSW and MSW students are required to complete a specified number of hours in field education.
- BSW students must complete 480 hours of field education in two consecutive semesters of at least 240 hours each in the same agency.
- First-year MSW (Foundation MSW) students (those who enter the MSW program without a BSW) must complete 480 hours of field education in one semester (split placement) or two semesters (block placements).
- Second-year MSW (Advanced MSW) students must complete 480 hours of field education. These students have the choice of completing at least 240 hours in two consecutive semesters (called a "split placement") or completing all 480 hours in one semester (called a "block placement") in the same agency.
Our BSW program graduates "generalist" social workers, so these students need an array of experiences in direct practice with individuals as well as with groups, organizations, and communities. These students must work under the supervision of a social worker who has a BSW or an MSW.
Our first-year graduate students also need a "generalist" experience that allows them to work with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. They must work under the supervision of a social worker who has an MSW.
Our second-year graduate students focus their area of practice in one of two concentrations: Direct Practice (DP) or Community and Administrative Practice (CAP). DP students typically focus on clinical assessment and intervention with individuals and groups. CAP students focus on organizational tasks such as planning, fund-raising, grant-writing, advocacy, etc. Second-year students must also work under the supervision of a social worker who has an MSW.
How to Apply
Please make application the semester before you hope to have students in your agency.
To apply to become a field-affiliated agency, please designate a "main contact." This person will be our point of contact for all information, announcements, and policy changes. In addition, the main contact will appoint and approve the Field Instructor(s) for your agency.
- Step 1. Log-on to e-intern.com. E-intern a robust online data system that includes agency and field instructor applications, student applications, and online evaluation forms for students, field instructors, and field liaisons. https://www.uta.edu/ssw/eintern
- Step 2. Enter your user name, designate yourself as a new user, and create your password. This will lead you to a menu where you can select that you want to make application as an agency.
- Step 3. Complete the application.
- Step 4. Be sure to include the name of the person(s) who will serve as the Field Instructor(s) for your student interns.
- Step 5. Save and submit your application.
- Step 6. We will review the application and make an appointment to speak with you about what type of students can work best in your agency.
- Step 7. Once we approve your application, we will send you the UTA "Affiliation Agreement." Most agencies find this agreement to be acceptable while others want to add or change some wording. The UTA administrative office that oversees contracts will review and sign the affiliation agreement once your agency has done the same.
Once the above steps are complete, your agency is listed in e-intern as an affiliated agency. Each semester, you will receive an email from our office notifying you that it is time to request students for the upcoming semester. We need to know how many and what classification of students you want (BSW, First-year MSW students, Second-year MSW students, split/block, DP/CAP).
Do not respond to this notice via email. Once you receive this notice, please go to e-intern to make your official request for the upcoming semester. If you are able to project the number and classification of students you need for an entire year, please do so.
We look forward to working with you!


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One Stop Crochet is doing an adoption fundraiser! 100% of profit from any sale from her stores goes to bring their son home!
AND she is offering FREE SHIPPING to all of you for the month of September!!! Just enter in coupon code:FREESHIP at checkout.
Let's discover Elena's creative story...
|Girls Hand Crocheted Sun Hat
Painting on the wallpaper in my nursery..my mom was NOT happy about it :)
How did you come up with your shop name?
- pretty simple - OneStopCrochet - I sell only crocheted items in this store :)
Describe what creations you have in your shop
Currently I have Crocheted hats, diaper covers, toys, headbands and crowns. Hoping to add paci clips in early Sept.
What insprires you?
What do you listen to or watch while creating?
I watch TV when I crochet (usually some comedy or classic black & white movie)
|Hand Crocheted Lacy Princess Crown
Belgian Waffles:
2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, separated
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2 cups milk
In a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a second bowl use the wooden spoon to beat together the egg yolks and sugar until sugar is completely dissolved and eggs have turned a pale yellow. Add the vanilla extract, melted butter, and milk to the eggs and whisk to combine. Combine the egg-milk mixture with the flour mixture and whisk just until blended. Do not over mix. In third bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until soft peaks form, about 1 minute.Gently fold the egg whites into the waffle batter. Do not overmix! Coat the waffle iron with non-stick cooking spray and pour enough batter in iron to just cover waffle grid. Close and cook as per manufacturer's instructions until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes. Serve immediately.
Where else can we find you?
I have another store www.BubbleWabble.etsy.com and facebook: www.facebook.com/onestopcrochet
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Time for another double feature, this time with bigger mountains! Cranmore and Attitash back to back!
Mt. Washington from Cranmore
Mt. Washington from Attitash
With the season pressing on, and a lack of snow keeping me from exploring the real large mountains, I figured it would be a good time to hit up the white mountains. In an effort to not run out of time, I thought it would be best to pull another double feature. I got up early in an effort to make first chair at Cranmore, which I almost accomplished. I have never been much of a morning person. By 8:45 I was at the summit.
Cranmore Mtn. Summit
Between Cranmores fairly small size (I would guess it is about the same size as my home mountain, Gunstock, maybe a bit smaller) and extremely fast summit lift, lapping the mountain was a breeze. By 9:30 I had gotten almost half a dozen runs in. I like Cranmore. Their trails are extremely narrow and winding for the most part, which I enjoy greatly. I also find it quite cool that you can ski straight off the back as well and around the side, although doing so results in a very slow ride back up the Schneider Triple lift that is agonizingly slow when compared to the main lift. Conditions were cold and extremely windy, with fairly sticky snow, not a great combination, but at least it was bright and sunny. At one point I met an older Newschooler on the lift, and we chatted for awhile before parting ways as I headed to the park, having had my fill of the groomers. Unfortunately no glade reports, as all were closed due to lack of snow. They looked like pretty good glades for someone who has never been tree-skiing before though.
Summit lodge at Cranmore
As far as parks are concerned, Cranmores is pretty decent. Although they could stand to be a bit more beginner/progression friendly. Two were open, plus a short boarder cross trail, if you want to count that as a park. Both seemed to be fairly equal in required skill in my opinion. The first park I visited was 'Lower Double Feature', although it was clear the park was not finished for the season, as the entrance was a few hundred yards up the trail complete with Cranmore Parks banners and music blasting all day. I do not understand why more mountains don't play music in their parks.
Cranmores main park entrance
Again, it was brutally cold and windy, so no videos yet again, just pictures, top to bottom of what was featured. Again this is the 'Lower Double Feature' park. I was quite happy to clear the A-frame rail, as learning kinked rails was giving me some issues, but I finally got it this trip out.
From lower double feature, I headed over to 'The Reel Terrain Park', which was a good bit smaller. Here it is, top to bottom.
Again, not too much there. It is clear that the lack of snow is probably hindering their setup. When I left at 10:30, I had not seen a single park rider other than myself. The cold really seems to keep people away which I have never understood with skiing. It is a winter sport! Dress accordingly! I felt I had my fill after a couple hours, and was very glad I chose to do a double feature. I will however return to Cranmore next season for sure, for what its worth.
I made the quick 15 minute drive to Attitash from Cranmore. It is amazing how much of a hub North Conway is for the outdoor enthusiast. You realize what a nexus of activity it is when you look out from the summit of any of the local mountains and realize just how far from civilization you are. Upon arrival at Attitash, I booted up at the car like I always do and quickly realized that was a mistake. The walk from my car to the lodge had to be 200 yards at least. The only close parking to the mountain was reserved for those who wanted to pay 10 dollars to park there. Not cool. I worry about my boots on walks that long.
Anyway, after getting my ticket and adding even more layers on, I jumped on the Summit Triple and headed up. It is not a detachable, so be prepared for a long, slow ride. I did however find this extremely both interesting and disconcerting.
The Summit triple, and the High speed quad cross over each other mid way up the mountain. I really have no logical reason for feeling unsettled here, but when I was underneath another lift with people on it, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Upon reaching the summit, I was happy to find a tower built specifically for you to take in the massive view of the Presidential mountain range. I was unhappy with the frigid blasting cold wind that made me think I had gotten frostbite while trying to take photos. Anyway, enjoy the views! Ill take snow capped mountains over a view of the beach and ocean any day!
After regaining the feeling in my fingers from taking pictures, I headed down the mountain off 'Upper Saco'. Mid way down I found a black diamond trail named 'Idiot's Option'. It didn't look too bad. Half way down I remembered that I am on a wind-blasted chunk of ice on park skis with no edges, and questioned my intelligence for choosing a trail called Idiot's option. With that behind me, I jumped on the high-speed quad and headed for Bear peak.
Bear Peak from Attitash
I made my way over to the Bear Peak base area. It was a nice little cruiser till I passed the Abenaki Quad as I followed the signs for the Bear Peak base area. What they neglect to tell you is that the trail 'Bearback', is flat and like 400 yards long. Trails like that need warnings on the way in, as I passed a handful of snowboarders trudging along looking quite sad. After getting across the cross country tail, I popped out at the base of Bear Peak, there was a near empty parking lot adjacent to the slopes. Do yourselves a favor and park over there. It will save you a lot of walking. I headed up the quad and snapped some shots from the summit.
I took a few runs around Bear before heading to the park. I will say, most of the blue trails at Attitash would be considered black diamonds at other mountains around here. Its odd to find a mountain that skews their ratings on the hard side instead of the easy side. Conditions were aggravated by the blasting wind exposing the slope to ice, but still, there were some pretty steep sections on a lot of the intermediate trails.
There were two parks open as of my visit, and one that looks like it will be open shortly as it was shaped, but lacked kickers(Myth Maker). The park I spent most of my time in was the 'Lower Kachina Park' It was a nicely shaped park, with a good mix of progression type features, and more advanced rails and jumps. Again no video, as it was still blisteringly cold. Lower Kachina Park, Top to bottom.
I lapped that park 6 or 7 times, enjoying the mid-unload point off the Abenaki Quad that gave direct access to the top of the park. After having had my fill (and a particularly good run through the park) I headed over to check out the other park I spotted earlier that was located on the bottom of 'Avenger'. With the green trail that cut into it from the Kachina Triple closed for snow-making, the only way in other than hiking up it was to do summit laps. The trail in was steep and icy, leaving ones legs burning by the time you arrived at the top of the park. Not a combination you particularly want entering the park. I did a total of 2 laps on it, as the sun was beginning to set and my legs were burning. Skiing 5 days a week is hard work! It was a nice little park, great for progression.
I headed back to the Attitash base area from the summit. Attitash is the mountain of traversing. Going either direction you are faced with long, slow traversals requiring a large amount of leg work, something I am not a particular fan of. As I trudged back out to the car, I was accosted by some guy from a timeshare, who insisted on not leaving me alone trying to sell me on the merits of owning property at the mountain. Not a particularly great parting memory. If I had to give one piece of advice to the people running the mountain, it would be to not let that guy stand there and bother people.
Overall I liked Attitash too, although I probably will not return for some time. Its a nice place with a hell of a view, but there are mountains closer to me with faster lifts and bigger parks. Prices at both mountains however are fairly reasonable, and neither have that 'resort destination' feel that places like Loon or Killington have. To me that is a good thing, I like the more hometown feel with smaller crowds and non-existent lift lines.
Coming up on Wednesday(1/29/14), unless something changes with the snow (or lack there-of) forecast, I think I will be going to Cannon. If anyone is going to be there let me know!
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Northumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird is launching a task force to help crack down on anti-social behaviour across the region.
It follows a pledge she made when she first came to office to tackle the public's concerns around anti-social behaviour and ensure victims had appropriate support networks in place.
Ms Baird will now launch an anti-social behaviour task force which will implement training for all call handlers, supervision and resource controllers to make reporting anti-social behaviour as easy as possible for victims.
It will ensure those dealing with complaints will consider threat, harm, risk, investigation opportunities, the vulnerability of the victim and how to engage with the victim to resolve the issue.
Over the coming weeks leaflets will be distributed across the force area inviting residents to speak to the Commissioner about concerns they have that are affecting their communities.
She said: "Tackling anti-social behaviour in the Northumbria Police area and protecting the most vulnerable people in our communities is something that remains high on my agenda.
"We have ensured all vulnerable victims of anti-social behaviour have, when deemed necessary, been provided with a harm reduction plan that meets their specific needs and makes their experience as stress-free as possible.
"We have also developed a community remedy that provides a menu of local resolution that victims of anti-social behaviour could request as a way of seeking justice outside the formal criminal justice route.
"This work has already been recognised by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs who have rated the force as 'outstanding' when it comes to tackling issues of anti-social behaviour.
"I have listened to the public's concerns and I am determined to keep up the momentum in these areas to try and reduce these types of incidents and make Northumbria a better place to live."


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With a City Park bench serving as a makeshift locker room, the 16 players pulled on their black pants, shoulder pads and borrowed Bonnabel High School shirts before running out to practice on a field clothed in foot-tall sunflowers.
Four dads, a couple of moms and some siblings made up the crowd watching the first-year New Orleans Home-School Saints go through the opening practice in the shadows of Tad Gormley Stadium, the traditional home of high school football in New Orleans.
Head coach John Burke and assistant coach Mark Russell worked the players, imploring them to "grab a jersey" and put the player with the ball down on the ground.
"This is their 13th practice, " Burke said. "You can see the progress every time out."
The Saints are part of a national trend of home-schooled students coming together to form sports teams. The members of the Saints in theory could have played for the high schools in their attendance zones, but their parents said that's easier said than done.
Whole leagues of home-school teams have been created across the nation. Atlanta, for example, has four home-school teams that play in a league. Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Richmond, Va. and Raleigh/Greensboro, N.C., have teams.
The creation of the teams and leagues has mirrored the growth in home-schooled students. Recently, the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Institute of Education Sciences under the U.S. Department of Education, released a 2007 survey that estimated there are 1.5 million home-schooled children in the United States, representing 2.9 percent of the school-age population, up from 1.1 million in 2003, which represented 2.2 percent of the school-age population.
The Saints will be playing -- on Thursday nights mostly -- against Louisiana Christian Athletic Association teams: Acadiana Homeschool, Breaux Bridge Christian Academy, Harvest Time Christian, Highland Baptist and Natchitoches Christian. Home games will be at Pan American Stadium.
And while the results on the field haven't been sparkling so far -- the team has lost two games and a jamboree by an aggregate 173-6 -- players and parents are happy for the chance to play football.
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"We've had a great opportunity to play on this team, " running back Aaron McCloud said. "We're having a great time. We lost that first scrimmage, but we learned a lot."
The team came about after a conversation between Burke, a youth league coach for years in the Lakeview area, and his son John.
Burke asked his son if he wanted to go to a private school so he could play high school football. John replied that he didn't think that was a good reason to stop home-schooling. So, they looked for an outlet and discovered the LCAA, a small-school league that allows home-schoolers to compete.
But Burke said establishing a team is a chore. For example, there must be a concentration of home-schoolers and willing parents to make the program work. It also helps to have community facilities that can accommodate home-schoolers. Burke said the costs have been high.
"The toughest challenge has been there is not a real platform for reaching home-schooled kids so we don't know that the word has gotten out there for everyone, " Burke said. "Most of my efforts have been in simply finding the kids.
"We've written a grant to the NFL, but it's been turned down so far. They see home-schooling as different from youth sports. We made the cost to the parents ($325 a player) very low, purposefully. We were hoping the NFL would help, and we still are. But it's tremendously costly to travel like this."
The team has three seventh-graders, one eighth-grader, four freshmen, four sophomores and four juniors. Sam Mauras is the quarterback in Burke's version of the spread offense, and he is a freshman who had previously played only a little flag football.
Seventh-grader Niles Moffat, not much bigger than the sunflowers on the field of play, played for Burke last year in youth football and wanted to continue to play.
McCloud, a freshman who has been home-schooled his entire life, said he hadn't played tackle football before but was adept at flag football.
"I think overall both home school and some high schools have their benefit, " he said. "But home-schooling has been good for me. To be able to play sports and be home-schooled is wonderful."
"Home-schooling is sort of a situation where kids develop individually, " said James Lapeyre, father of Timothy. "So to get them together in a team setting, where they're getting some challenges they wouldn't ordinarily have and overcoming those challenges builds them up as men."
"When I talked to the kids, we kept talking about 'Friday Night Lights, ' the television show, and how much football meant to that community, " Burke said. "It can mean that to these kids."
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'Tis the season…
When we start going down month-to-month, we as a nation in the marketplace start talking about how the year ended versus the previous year.
"In December, the 10-City Composite remained relatively unchanged while the 20-City Composite showed its second consecutive monthly decline of 0.1%. Year-over-year, the 10-City and 20-City Composites posted gains of 13.6% and 13.4%, approximately 30 basis points lower than their November rates," the report stated.
"The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index ended its best year since 2005," said David Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices… Recent economic reports suggest a bleaker picture for housing. Existing home sales fell 5.1% in January from December to the slowest pace in over a year. Permits for new residential construction and housing starts were both down and below expectations. Some of the weakness reflects the cold weather in much of the country. However, higher home prices and mortgage rates are taking a toll on affordability…but bank lending standards remain strict."
For the composites nationally, the report states that prices are back to Spring 2004 levels but Portland is fairing much better in the report where prices are closer to levels in the fall of 2005.
Another high point in the report for Portland, Oregon is the seasonally adjusted averages where they are negative for the last two reports for month-to-month numbers (-0.1 and -0.3), but when seasonally adjusted they post positive numbers of 0.7% for both reports.
All in all Portland is still much better off going back to its old self of gradually climbing up in prices and not rapidly fluctuating up and down. I expect the "season" to sway prices up once again as we move toward spring 2014.
At least our season is shut down like the Great Lakes states too. They pretty much have to wait for late spring to buy and sell houses!
The Full Report Here: The February 25 CS Report
Dustin Miller
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Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera semua,
Hidangan minum petang. Kali ini mencuba resepi yang lain pula. Saya buatkan dalam saiz comel supaya mudah untuk dinikmati.
Recipe adapted from : Kitchen Guardian
250g butter
250g caster sugar
5 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2-3 tbsp milk
280g self-raising flour
Preheat oven at 170C.
Cream butter and sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
Add eggs in three additions!
Lastly add self raising flour in 3 additions, fold in milk until incorporated.
used 3, 7 inches round cake tins...
Bake for about 30 minutes until golden in colour.
Let cool and sandwich with Raspberry jem, and layered whipping cream n put rasberry n strawberry, sprinkle sugar on top!!
Swiss Meringue ButtercreamRecipe Source: Tartelette
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60gm egg white (about 2 large whites)
100gm sugar
170gm unsalted butter (taken out from fridge and cut into 10-12 small pieces just before you start to heat the egg whites)
Method: (instructions are adapted to tropical weather and hand held mixer)
1. Put the sugar and egg whites in a large heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk constantly, keeping the mixture over the heat, until it feels hot to the touch, about 3 minutes. The sugar should be dissolved, and the mixture will look like marshmallow cream.
(egg whites in buttercreams are safe for consumption once it reaches 65C, to know how much is 65C w/o a thermometer, just mix 250gm ice with 500ml boiling water. Stir the water gently and wait until all ice has melted, then feel the water. It is approximately there)
2. Pour the mixture into a bowl. Put the bowl into a basin of water. The water should feel cool, like tap water on a rainy day. Do not use very cold water, not icy water. Beat the meringue on medium speed until it cools and forms a thick shiny meringue, about 5 minutes.
3. Now add in add the butter, one tablespoon at a time, beating until smooth. Once all the butter is in, beat in the buttercream on medium-high speed until it is thick and very smooth, 6-10 minutes.
It also holds up well in our room temperature. If you want it to hold up longer, don't beat it too much at step (3), 5-6 minutes will be good. 8-10 minutes you will have a very fluffy icing, but one with less capacity to hold at +30C for long periods of time.
Temperature: If you have a room temperature and humidity like mine, try to add 3-4 pices of ice cubes into the water in step (3) when you add in the butter to prevent the whole mixture's temperature from going too high. The movement of the mixer will heat up the buttercream. Temperature plays an important role whether cream or soup will form. Too cold and the butter can't get fluffy, too hot and you'll get runny soupy cream.
Butter: It must be at 19-23C. Most recipes call for butter to be at room temperature. Yes. But that is non tropical room temperature. Our room temperature can be somewhere 28-37C. So, if you leave your butter to come to our room temperature, failure is not far from grasp. The butter should not be shiny. It should be matte in colour, and you will be able to hold it firmly with your fingers like what you see in the picture and soft enough to be dented thoughout with some pressure.
updated 12/12/14: If you want a whiter outcome, use French butter (Lescure is my fav) or Danish butter (Emborg, Lurpak)
Eggs: Do not use pastuerized eggs. The egg whites won't melt the sugar. I saw this in one blog.. I forgot where.
**Additional notes on eggs : I have tried beating pastuerized egg whites for meringues before. It works. But I haven't tried making buttercream with it yet, as I prefer to go through the heating steps. You have to use 1/4 tsp cream of tartar with each egg white to ensure it whips up beautifully. Pastuerized egg whites are rather 'tightly' bound, so you must use lots of cream of tartar to 'loosen' it. It won't whip to the volume as regular egg whites, which is another reason for me not to use it. The brand I used is SafeEgg, different brands may differ.
Common types of buttercream
1. Simple buttercream -icing sugar and buter. Less stable in tropical weather.
2. Italian buttercream -sugar and water cooked to soft ball stage, poured over beaten egg whites and then beaten with butter. Very stable
3. Swiss meringue buttercream -egg whites and sugar heated together, then beaten like a meringue and beaten with butter. Stable.
4. French buttercream -method similar to italian buttercream, but yolks are used in place of whites. Less stable


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Kiyoderu YuugamiKiyoderu Yuugami works in the Shadow Organization's Prosecution Office on Guillotine Island, and is on its Special Investigations Team. He takes Tokine in for questioning after she destroys the Hidagou land lord, but is bothered by the suspicious nature of her arrest. He ultimately betrays his comrades and helps Tokine escape. Yashiro discovers his scheme and tries to kill him in order to frame Tokine, but he manages to escape and somehow ends up drifting in the lakeshore. He is rescued by Tokine while she tries to leave the island swimming.
Kiyoderu can use his own blood to create many objects.
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- "The Paris Agreement: Lessons for Canada" by Velma McColl, Earnscliffe Strategy Group
- "Is Oil a Dirty Word?" by Chad Park, The Natural Step Canada
- "Energy Transition: Why Prices Matter" by Nancy Olewiler, Simon Fraser University School of Public Policy
- "The Optimistic Environmentalist on the Renewable Energy Revolution" by David R. Boyd, author and environmental lawyer
- "A New How: Shifting Energy Futures Conversations" by Alex Ryan, Alberta CoLab
- "Daring Greatly to Shape our Future Together: An Indigenous Energy Perspective" by Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations
- "Change: Of Course…but Maybe" by Wal van Lierop, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital
Velma McColl is a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group, where she works on a range of economic and social issues and specializes in energy, environment, and green technologies. She has worked collaboratively with businesses, academia, think tanks, non-profit organizations, and the public sector. Velma is a co-founder of both the Canadian Clean Technology Coalition and Women in GR, and she plays a leadership role with several organizations, including Sustainable Prosperity and the Ryanâs Well Foundation.
Chad Park is executive director of The Natural Step Canada and director of the Energy Futures Lab. The Alberta-based Energy Futures Lab is a multi-interest collaboration, bringing leaders together to identify, test, and scale initiatives that tackle climate change, energy security, and sustainable development. Chad has advised dozens of businesses and communities in Canada and internationally, including the Co-operators, Nike, Rio Tinto Alcan, and the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association. In 2012, he received the Clean 50 award, recognizing fifty individuals in Canada who have advanced the cause of sustainability and clean capitalism.
Nancy Olewiler is a professor at Simon Fraser Universityâs  School of Public Policy , where she researches natural-resource and environmental economics. She has published in academic journals, written two widely used textbooks (The Economics of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Economics), and produced reports for Canadian federal and provincial governments. Nancy is a commissioner on Canadaâs Ecofiscal Commission; a former member of the Climate Leadership Team in BC; a past board member of BC Hydro, Powertech, and TransLink; and a member of the National Statistics Council, where she also chairs the Macroeconomic Accounts Advisory Committee.
David R. Boyd is an environmental lawyer and expert on human rights and the environment. With Mayor Gregor Robertson, he co-chairs Vancouverâs drive to become the worldâs greenest city by 2020 and 100 percent renewable by 2050. He was the executive director of Ecojustice, has argued cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, and has worked as a special advisor on sustainability for Prime Minister Paul Martin. David is the award-winning author of over 100 reports and articles on environmental law and policy as well as seven books, most recently The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future.
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Mother attends last rites of killed scribe
Sudha Pathak, mother of Nirupama who was found murdered at her Jharkhand home last month on Sunday attended the last rites of the Delhi journalist after she was released on parole by a court, authorities said.india Updated: May 09, 2010 21:01 IST
Sudha Pathak, mother of Nirupama who was found murdered at her Jharkhand home last month on Sunday attended the last rites of the Delhi journalist after she was released on parole by a court, authorities said.
"Sudha Pathak was sent to her home to attend the last rites of her daughter. The chief judicial magistrate granted her permission. She will attend the last rituals for three days from Sunday," Koderma Jail Superintendent Martin Sao told IANS.
He said Sudha will go to her home in the morning and be brought back to the jail by the evening.
She was arrested May 3 on the basis of circumstantial evidences and charged with killing Nirupama.
According to family members, the last rituals of Nirupama will take place as per Hindu traditions over the next three days.
On Saturday, police filed a case of cheating, rape and abetment to suicide against Nirupama's boyfriend Priyabhanshu Ranjan. Also, their friends and colleagues were interrogated in New Delhi.
According to police, Nirupama sent 33 SMSes to Ranjan between April 19 and 28.
He has allegedly deleted all SMSes. During interrogation he denied receiving any SMS except one. He also allegedly took away the laptop and diaries from Nirupama's Delhi house when she went to Koderma.
Jharkhand Director General of Police Neyaz Ahmad has sought the investigation report from Koderma police in the next two to three days.
A police officer said the date of the suicide note has been tampered with. The actual date mentioned on the suicide note, found from Nirupama's Koderma home, was April 27 but it was changed to April 29. Police are trying to find out who did the overwriting on the suicide note.
Nirupama was found dead in her home in Jharkhand's Koderma district April 29. The postmortem report says that Nirupama was smothered to death.
According to police, three doctors who conducted the postmortem examination on Nirupama would be interrogated. Koderma police Sunday summoned the medical board members who conducted autopsy for interrogation.
"The autopsy report has confused police whether it was murder or suicide. Questions are being raised over the postmortem report as it has several loopholes," a police officer said.
According to police, the doctors did not mention the time of death. Also, they did not preserve the viscera and foetus of Nirupama. Also, the report has not mentioned about the injury marks on Nirupama's body.
Medical experts say that if someone is sought to be killed by smothering then the person would fight back and there should be injury marks on the body of the dead person.
K.P. Singh, one of the three doctors who conducted autopsy, Thursday said he did not have requisite qualification to conduct a postmortem examination and he conducted it for the first time in his life.
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Over seven years ago, CDT filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the people-search company Spokeo, alleging that the company and other data brokers were not protecting consumers as required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). A class action lawsuit filed against Spokeo in 2011, led by lead plaintiff Thomas Robins, raised a host of new issues about the nature of privacy harms, the actual protections provided by federal privacy laws, and the use of litigation as a vehicle for protecting consumers' privacy. According to this week's ruling by the Ninth Circuit, the accuracy of this type of information is "directly and substantially related" to the goals of the FCRA.Read More


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The vaccine court can be a hostile place not only for petitioners but for their expert witnesses too.
Take the case of Dr. Derek Smith. A neurologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Smith had been retained to testify for people with transverse myelitis, a potentially paralyzing neurological disorder.
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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters by Foster + Partners
August 11th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Foster + Partners
Conceived during a sensitive period in the former colony's history, the brief for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters was a statement of confidence: to create 'the best bank building in the world'. Through a process of questioning and challenging − including the involvement of a feng shui geomancer − the project addressed the nature of banking in Hong Kong and how it should be expressed in built form. In doing so it virtually reinvented the office tower.
The requirement to build in excess of one million square feet in a short timescale suggested a high degree of prefabrication, including factory-finished modules, while the need to build downwards and upwards simultaneously led to the adoption of a suspension structure, with pairs of steel masts arranged in three bays. As a result, the building form is articulated in a stepped profile of three individual towers, respectively twenty-nine, thirty-six and forty-four storeys high, which create floors of varying width and depth and allow for garden terraces. The mast structure allowed another radical move, pushing the service cores to the perimeter so as to create deep-plan floors around a ten-storey atrium. A mirrored 'sunscoop' reflects sunlight down through the atrium to the floor of a public plaza below – a sheltered space that at weekends has become a lively picnic spot. From the plaza, escalators rise up to the main banking hall, which with its glass underbelly was conceived as a 'shop window for banking'.
The 'bridges' that span between the masts define double-height reception areas that break down the scale of the building both visually and socially. A unique system of movement through the building combines high-speed lifts to the reception spaces with escalators beyond, reflecting village-like clusters of office floors. From the outset, the Bank placed a high priority on flexibility. Interestingly, over the years, it has been able to reconfigure office layouts with ease, even incorporating a large dealers' room into one floor − a move that could not have been anticipated when the building was designed.
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A friend of mine was substituting in a classroom yesterday with students taking a practice NJASK test. The students were writing in response to an article about changing Pluto's status from a planet to a dwarf planet. She was left speechless after reading the students' responses. They wrote things that were totally off the topic, drew ridiculous conclusions, and most did not answer the question, etc. She noticed that the students were using an acronym to help them with the mechanics of writing. The mechanics did not seem to be the problem. She was really shocked at the student's inability to come up with reasonable content in their writing.
Community Reading Assignments
In discussing this with a colleague, it was mentioned that a neighboring school starts each week with an article that every student, teacher and administrator reads. This seems like a pretty powerful practice to me, especially if teachers and students were using a critical thinking process that gave them a common vocabulary to discuss it. What a great way to get kids reading, give adults connections, start conversations, develop critical thinking (and of course, raise those test scores)!
SCANning Complex Situations
Having a set of common questions for all complex situations is a great way to get students in the habit of thinking and helping them develop content for their writing. Who might have a point of view or opinion on the topic? Who are the stakeholders? What are some of the issues? Which issues are most important? What do you think should be done? These higher order thinking questions are the basis for SCAN, the critical thinking strategy from TregoED. (See the issues, Clarify the issues, Ask what's important, and Now, what should be done?) Getting kids reading informational text and SCANning is an excellent way to give kids practice for high stakes testing. Giving them articles with relevance and of high interest is part of the equation. Many of our students know how to write, they get the mechanics, but how do they learn "what to write?" That takes some critical and creative thinking.
Technology Makes it Easy
How can teachers fit one more thing in the day? Why not use social media and discussion platforms to deliver the articles and start the discussions? Leveraging student enthusiasm for writing in social media platforms, complete with the ability to share and respond to others' writing is a great way to get students enthusiastically contributing. The benefits are many – students are more engaged, writing for an audience of their peers is incentive for more careful writing, reading other students work gives them models to work from and it is great way to practice reading and writing short constructed responses
The SCAN Tool
Of course, using the SCAN tool at TregoED is the perfect way to get students practicing the steps of SCAN as the questions are built right into the discussion platform. You just select a scenario (or attach an article), students pick a point of view and they enter the discussion with screen names and avatars. Using a couple of SCAN sessions within your content area can give students a better understanding of the content area and familiarize them with the questions. Each one of the steps progresses up the scale of higher order thinking and with student's playing different roles they support their points of view with gusto! SCAN has a library of lessons dealing with current events, social issues, history, and science. These problem-based topics are perfect for getting students to look at other perspectives on hot issues while teaching them a critical thinking strategy.
Collaborize Classroom
Collaborize Classroom also offers a discussion platform where it is easy to link and article and use the SCAN questions to start the conversation. Bottom line, kids like to write in this kind of platform, share what they wrote and comment on each others' writing. Practicing critical thinking with relevant informational text is a great way to get students prepared for those dreadful questions asked on high stakes testing without making them "practice taking the test!" Technology can make it relatively painless! A win-win!


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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. Flying Tomato reigns supreme — again
Shaun White executes a combination of tricks he had never landed until he did it with the halfpipe title on the line to capture his third Olympic gold medal.
2. Shaun White refers to sexual misconduct lawsuit as 'gossip'
The American gold medalist snowboarder dismisses allegations made against him in 2016 and hurries away from reporters trying to ask more questions about them.
3. What has prominent Republican women frustrated
The White House's handling of abuse charges against two senior presidential aides raises new concerns in the struggle to attract female voters.
4. 'It's like you're in a war zone'
A company tied to Trump's two grown sons owns a 171-acre preserve in upstate New York that they and others use as a private shooting range, AP learns.
5. New fronts emerge in Syria as war winds down
Chaos persists as al-Qaida-affiliated rebels shot down a Russian jet, Kurdish fighters downed a Turkish helicopter, Israel downed an Iranian drone and the Syrian army shot down an Israeli F-16.
6. Who called for Netanyahu to step down
Israeli opposition leaders call on the embattled prime minister to resign following police recommendations that he be charged with bribery and breach of trust in two corruption cases.
7. Police raid business family liked to Zuma; resignation ultimatum looms
The Guptas are suspected of using their connections to influence the South African president's Cabinet appointments and win state contracts, fueling corruption allegations.
8. Offshore drilling public hearings not so public
Opponents of Trump's plan to open most of the nation's coastline to oil and natural gas drilling are prohibited from speaking at public meetings held by the government on the topic.
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Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen says he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to the porn actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006.
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Have you ever wished that you could be part of one of those sleep studies? The ones where they put you in a windowless room, which I imagine is buried deep near the earth's core, and then see what happens to your sleep schedule? Because if we can manipulate our sleep cycles, then isn't this as close to manipulating time as we will ever get?
So, for the sake of science, as well as the betterment of all humankind, I've been engaged in a sleep study of my own.
For the past couple of weeks now, I've gone to bed and woken up when I felt like it. As a result, I sleep with the rising sun and have my first cup of coffee at noon the next day. Of course, this whole thing really started because of one fateful night when I happened to catch "Dirty Dancing" on TV at 3 am. It totally screwed me over. Though I must have seen that movie at least a dozen times, I was compelled to watch it one more time just to see Patrick Swayze's jazzy dance moves in the final scene. Man, he really knows how to bring it home. Who knew men's hips were designed to swivel like that? It didn't help that my ex-boyfriend is the spitting image of Patrick Swayze, a fact that to his embarrassment was realized on an overnight ferry bound to Tientsin watching "City of
So back to the sleeping thing. My ultimate quest in this experiment is this. Is it possible that if we listen to our bodies, we don't need as much sleep as we think we need? All of us are bound by the strictures of certain commonly accepted ideas, such as the food pyramid, not swimming after you eat, pumping the brakes on a wet road, yada yada yada. But just as we know that the food pyramid is full of shit, it is very possible that the accepted wisdom that guides our daily lives have been built on ephemera, concocted from some stuffy white guy's impaired brain.
I've already managed to dismantle the notion that we need regular meals at regular intervals throughout the day. My snake-eating thing is still working like a charm. So I have a good feeling about this. I'm thinking that I may be able to shave a good 10 hours a week of sleep time off my normal schedule. Sleep and food, two things that I think the modern person overdoses on through over-rationalization, these are the two obstacles preventing the everyman from fulfilling their greatest destiny. If we unchain ourselves from the enslavement of time, what will we not be capable of?
Previously unbeknownst to me, it just so happens that it is National Sleep Awareness Week. I suggest that in celebration of this happy coincidence, we all lie down for a nap…


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From one pop star to another, Lady Gaga has big plans for her hoard of Michael Jackson memorabilia. The ARTPOP diva has been buying up Jackson's stuff over the past few years, and she hopes to display her collection, worth over $2 million, in a museum dedicated to the late singer.
When it comes to MJ souvenirs, Gaga's got the good stuff. Purchasing items under a false name so not to be overcharged, Gaga has acquired the famous jacket from "Thriller" as well as the King of Pop's iconic crystal-studded white glove.
"I will put together a museum and put the money to a foundation he cares about," Gaga said of her plan. "The reason I bought Michael's clothes was because my tour clothes mean more to me than anything, my awards, records. I believe they carry the energy and memories of the night. With Michael's clothes being sold when he was not here made me feel really uncomfortable, upset, and I don't why. I take care of them—they are in the right temperature and are preserved. I have spent millions."
Lady Gaga is looking for support from Jackson's children to create the museum.
RELATED: Lady Gaga's Top Art Moments
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Most of us believe that Software Requirement Specification documents handed over to project teams enable them in designing, coding, testing and delivering the end product. We trust, in every project we get into, that the business analysts and user representatives collaborated well in order to create such documents. We must be positive and think optimistically. We must trust. We must believe. However, our positive thinking, trust and belief can take us only so far unless we do our homework right.
Yesterday, I was reading a paper titled, 'What's Wrong with Requirements Specification? An Analysis of the Fundamental Failings of Conventional Thinking about Software Requirements, and Some Suggestions for Getting it Right' written by Tom Gilb. Tom is the author of nine books, and hundreds of papers on topics related to Software Engineering. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of international conferences. He has delivered guest lecturers in universities all over the world.
In this paper, Tom has outlined ten key principles for creating successful requirements specification documents. He has provided very good examples to illustrate these principles. I found it very interesting as it helped me realize several weak links in the way we gather and specify requirements. Let me share a set of takeaways from Tom's paper in this blog post. I encourage readers to download this paper (It is free! No registration required) and read it.
1) Check if requirements specification helps you understand the top level project objectives. Make sure that these objectives are not verbose and qualitative. They need to be detailed enough but fit into a single page. Tom says that a good first draft of the top ten critical objectives can be made in a day's work assuming that the key management personnel are available for discussions.
The top level project objectives remain weak links if you are not able to translate these top level objectives into success criteria that can help you measure the success of your project.
2) Understand the value delivered to stakeholders by means of satisfying the specified requirements. More than the defined functionality or user stories, the value delivered is what counts. Traditionally, we are not used to considering value when we think about requirements specifications. The ability to prioritize requirements based on value delivery is critical. Product Owner (Scrum), Business Analysts, Marketing Managers, and Product Managers need to focus on this function. When you implement a requirement (or satisfy a requirement) validate if you are delivering value to stakeholders.
3) Quantify requirements. Qualitative descriptions or textual representation of requirements do not help. Quantification enables measurement. Measurement is necessary if you want to improve.
4) Specify the value you want to deliver to stakeholders clearly. Do not mix this up with how you want to achieve the value (the 'design').When you are able to specify your needs clearly, the solutions to your requirements will naturally follow. Do not let the solutions change your real needs.
5) Instead of focusing on each functionality, focus on system quality. Great products go to market because of this focus.
6) Make the specifications rich with several elements such as historical data, test data, scenarios, etc.
7) Inspections can help you improve the quality of requirements. So, consider Specification Quality Control (SQC).
Finally, requirements do change or evolve. If you spend lot of efforts in hardening all requirements in advance, it is probably a waste of energy. Embrace change!
When you read, Tom's paper you will realize the weak links in the current state of creating Requirements Specifications. Also, you will get an opportunity to learn from his experience and thoughts!


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Radio Collective at Practice, 2018
Radio Collective was formed in Chicago's south suburbs in the fall of 2017. Tom and Phil, former neighbors, had been playing guitar under the same teacher for years. Tom introduced family friend Matt, and the three of them first played together at Tom's block party. The guys met Bob through friends, and first played with him at an open mic - instant chemistry was formed.
Four unique dudes that bring together an eclectic love of different music styles, and a desire to keep audiences entertained. They also kind of like beer – don't worry, in the good way.
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Every year, for every sport my kids play, I always manage to score the job of team photographer. (It's waaaaaay more fun than Team Mom in my book, so I'm not complaining.) Photographing kids sports may not sound glamorous, but I'm here to tell you that it pays off in spades. You get to know all the kids, you have a great view of the game, and you get to make great photography business connections. I've been hired several times for head shots or family portraits because of the pictures I did for a team. I even taught a camera basics class to an entire group of people I met solely through kids sports. Once people realize the extent of your talent, they never hesitate to recommend you for other things.
Kids sporting events are also the perfect place to practice your skills. Need practice in low light situations? Basketball gyms are perfect for that.
You want to exercise your manual focus abilities? Try shooting through the backstop.
Do you need to work on freezing motion? Try to photograph a swimmer in mid-stroke in the pool with water suspended in air.
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Photographing sports is all about anticipating what's about to happen. When you practice that enough, those skills transfer perfectly to every type of photography.
Opening Day for major league baseball is just days away, but for us, the softball and baseball seasons have already begun. The biggest challenge I have with kids sports is breaking up the monotony. There's only so many ways you can photograph the same situations. At the beginning of the baseball/ softball season, I start out capturing the routine moments, at the plate, running the bases, standing in their positions, etc. But after the basics are out of the way, I start to play and it gets a lot more fun. Sometimes I'll bring a lens I haven't used in awhile, like a wide-angle. Sometimes I play with taking the aperture way up. Sometimes I do both.
Other times I focus on the in-between moments like the changing of innings or the downtime waiting in the dugout before their at-bat. I've even been known to turn the camera to the stands occasionally to snap a few shots of the fans. But in the end, it's the emotion that wins out in pictures for me and makes me appreciate the games even more.
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My RL home has become a bit crowded lately and am increasingly missing the days of solitude I used to enjoy. I know it's only temporary, a year and a half or so at best, but still it takes some adjusting. I miss being able to slip on my favorite comfy shirt and lounge around enjoying my peace and quiet. I don't know about you all but having people constantly in motion around me makes it difficult for me to focus, difficult to breathe…
Above you can see I'm lounging around on a cozy rug that's a part of Prism Furniture's Immerse Yourself Set for the Four Walls Hunt.
Today I stole a little time inworld to relax and center myself. I hope you all find time to do the same.
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Furniture: Prism | Immerse Yourself Set | Four Walls Hunt
What I'm Wearing
Skin: Belleza | Melissa
Hair: Truth | Havanna
Shirt & Lingerie: Somina | Pinned Courtesan
Hands: SLink | Mesh Hands
Feet: Skifija | BareFeet v7.0
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Direct Worker Info needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Logo for social networking website, http://www.directworker.com. This site allows you to find someone in your local area for jobs around your home or business
I want a logo and an image with the words Direct Worker. This will be placed on the top of the website and on the top of headed paper. Needs to have something to do with workers, their skills. The website will be created so that you can hire someone in your area for any job you want like, plumbers, car repair, gardeners or anything really. Maybe with the Direct Worker text we can have little people cleaning, climbing, sweeping. etc... around the letters
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
--William Penn
There is much vitriol being dished out as various legislative issues work their way through the halls of power in Washington.
I fear that participants in these battles oft times lose sight of what is really important—which is serving the best interests of the people who sent them there to represent them.
Neither party is guiltless in this:
Each side is trying to gain a pointless advantage over the other, and clawing away at one another in the process. What's left is a gaggle of bruised and bloodied reputations, and laws imposed which have neither teeth or benefit for the public.
The more I see about what goes on in our nation's leadership, the more convinced I become that a reasonable limit on the terms of service is needed to replenish the political gene pool with fresh talent, while flushing out those who would become career politicians, more concerned with winning the next campaign than being champions for causes important to their constituents' well-being.
Case in point: Remember the huffing and puffing in Congress last year over the heads of the Big Three automakers' use of private jets, and their audacity in flying to Washington in Gulfstreams to ask lawmakers for bailout money? When asked which of the CEO's would be willing to give up their private jets in return for financial support to keep their companies afloat, none of the exec's raised their hand.
"It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in a high hat and tuxedo," said New York Democrat Rep. Gary Ackerman. "Couldn't you have downgraded to first class or something, or jet-pooled or something to get here?"
Fast forward to August 2009…
The House of Representatives has approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. The Air Force had asked for only one Gulfstream 550 jet (MRSP = $65 million).
According to RollCall.com, the House Appropriations Committee, "at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes, and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials."
How did this happen? Because, in the infallible opinion of the Committee, the extra planes are deemed an "expansion of an existing Defense Department program," which magically transforms the money from an earmark to someother vaguely-classified appropriation, effectively closing down the rules on disclosure and transparency about who authorized the spending.
If you're needing further jusitifcation/rationale (and Congress apparently does), please note the cost of the plane is chump-change compared to "the cost to the nation if a top official were taken hostage or harmed taking a commercial flight to a dangerous region of the world." Or travelling back to a hostile home district.
John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org explains this logic "applies to the top members of the executive branch more than it applies to the Member from the 13th district of Illinois." Military officials "need a long-range airplane — and [it's] better to fly them on a small one than a big one."
Pike says it's not reasonable to expect a three-star general and a staff of five people to attend meetings around the world with several stops in far-flung locales while traveling on commercial airlines. Apparently, the rationale extends to the ruling class in Congress, too.


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Forum : Movies : 2016: Obama's America
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Let me be clear ... the recent ban I enacted on all anti-government media was not something that I wanted to do, but it was something that I had to do, in order to guarantee the kind of broad-based Hope and Change that I promised all Americans. And that UN Treaty I signed which pretty much hands over U.S. sovereignty to the UN -- you know, the one that Dick Morris has been railing about since June of 2012? -- well, I just had to do that, too. It wasn't me. Uh, it's not all about me, you know. It was for the good of the country. Oh, er, and that ...uh ... and that suspension of all further elections ... er ... let me be clear ... that was something that I did not want to do, either.


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The gender binary, also referred to as gender binarism (sometimes shortened to just binarism),[1][2][3] is the classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. Gender binary is one general type of a gender system. Sometimes in this binary model, "sex", "gender" and "sexuality" are assumed by default to align. For example, when a male is born, gender binarism assumes the male will be masculine in appearance, character traits, and behavior, including having a heterosexual attraction to females.[4]
The term gender binary describes the system in which a society splits its members into one of two sets of gender roles, gender identities and attributes based on the type of genitalia.[5] In the case of people born with organs that fall outside this classification system (intersex people), enforcement of the binary often includes coercive surgical gender reassignment.[6][7] Gender roles are a major aspect of the gender binary. Gender roles shape and constrain people's life experiences, impacting aspects of self-expression ranging from clothing choices to occupation.[8][9] Traditional gender roles continue to be enforced by the media, religion, mainstream education, political and other cultural and social systems.[10] Major religions such as Islam and Catholicism, in particular, act as authorities for gender roles. Islam, for example, teaches that mothers are the primary care givers to their children and Catholics only allow cisgender men to serve as priests.
Worldwide, there are many individuals and even several subcultures that can be considered exceptions to the gender binary or specific transgender identities. In addition to individuals whose bodies are naturally intersex, there are also specific social roles that involve aspects of both or neither of the binary genders. These include the Two-Spirited Native Americans and hijra of India. In the contemporary West, genderqueer people break the gender binary by refusing terms like "male" and "female". Transgender people have a unique place in relation to the gender binary. In some cases, their gender expression aligns with their sex. Attempting to conform to societal expectations for their gender, transsexual individuals may opt for surgery, hormones, or both, which can be difficult if the individual does not "pass" as cisgender.[11]
According to Thomas Keith in Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture, the longstanding cultural assumption that male–female dualities are "natural and immutable" partly explains the persistence of systems of patriarchy and male privilege in modern society.[12]
Some feminist scholars have contested the existence of a clear gender binary. Judith Lorber explains the problem of failing to question dividing people into these two groups "even though they often find more significant within-group differences than between-group differences."[13] Lorber argues that this corroborates the fact that the gender binary is arbitrary and leads to false expectations of both men and women. Instead, there is growing support for the possibility of utilizing additional categories that compare people without "prior assumptions about who is like whom".[13] By allowing for a more fluid approach to gender, people will be able to better identify themselves however they choose and scholarly research will find different similarities and differences.[ambiguous]
Anne Fausto-Sterling suggests a classification of 23 sexes and a move away from the socially constructed gender binary classification of male and female. In her paper "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough", she discusses the existence of intersex people, individuals possessing a combination of male and female sexual characteristics, who are seen as deviations from the norm and who frequently undergo coercive surgery at a very young age in order to maintain the two-gender system. The existence of these individuals challenges the standards of gender binaries and puts into question society's role in constructing gender.[14] Fausto-Sterling indicates that modern practitioners encourage the idea that gender is a cultural construct and concludes that, "we are moving from an era of sexual dimorphism to one of variety beyond the number 2."[15]
See also[edit]
- Androgyny
- Anti-Oedipus
- Butch and femme
- Coloniality of gender
- Dioecy
- Eleno de Céspedes
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender in Bugis society
- Gender polarization
- Gender policing
- Non-binary discrimination
- Postgenderism
- Sexual dimorphism
- Social construction of gender difference
- List of transgender-related topics
- Transphobia
- XY sex-determination system
- ^ Marjorie Garber (25 November 1997). Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Psychology Press. pp. 2, 10, 14–16, 47. ISBN 978-0-415-91951-7. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Claudia Card (1994). Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Indiana University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-253-20899-6. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Rosenblum, Darren (2000). "'Trapped' in Sing-Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught in the Gender Binarism". Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. 6. SSRN 897562.
- ^ Keating, Anne. "glbtq >> literature >> Gender". www.glbtq.com. glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Judith., Lorber, (2007). Gendered bodies : feminist perspectives. Moore, Lisa Jean, 1967-. Los Angeles, Calif.: Roxbury Pub. Co. p. 2. ISBN 1933220414. OCLC 64453299.
- ^ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2000). "The Five Sexes, Revisited". The Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences. 40 (4): 18–23. doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.2000.tb03504.x. PMID 12569934.
- ^ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2000). Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (1st ed.). New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465077144. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ^ D'Innocenzio, Anne. "Breaking down the gender stereotypes in kids clothing". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ Bank., World (2011-01-01). World development report 2012 : Gender equality and development. World Bank. ISBN 9780821388129. OCLC 799022013.
- ^ Johnson, Joy; Repta, Robin (2002). "Sex and Gender: Beyond the Binaries" (PDF). Designing and conducting gender, sex, & health research: 17–39. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Cromwell, Jason (1999). Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities. Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois. p. 511. ISBN 978-0252068256.
- ^ Keith, Thomas (2017). Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity. Routledge. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-31-759534-2.
- ^ a b Lorber, Judith. "Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology." In The Gendered Society Reader, edited by Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson, and Amy Kaler, 11-18. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- ^ Morgan Holmes (2008). Intersex: A Perilous Difference. Associated University Presse. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-575-91117-5. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (March–April 1993). The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough. The Sciences. pp. 20–24.
Further reading[edit]
- binaohan, b. decolonizing trans/gender 101. biyuti publishing, 2014. ISBN 9780993793516
- GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Alyson), (Joan Nestle, Clair Howell Co-Editors) 2002 ISBN 1-55583-730-1
- "Pregnant males and pseudopenises: complex sex in the animal kingdom". Ars Technica.


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Bounce! is a first-person puzzle-platform game. The game uses simple mechanics to give a fun easy to play game. Explore over 25+ levels over 130+ tasks. The game finally brings back the use of Colour!!.
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The Eiffel Tower includes quite a number of exposed triangular trusses. The properties of triangles are used to explore and explain the frequent use of triangular trusses in many building. In particular, isosceles and equilateral triangular trusses are explored. In addition triangle postulates and similarity are explored and analyzed.
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Raptor Watch is all about the forest, raptors, sea, mangroves and the ecosystem. Every year, be assured of the hot sun, the lush green scenery of the forest, the vast blue sea and the fine white sand.
If you miss the event last year, fret not! Block your calendars for Raptor Watch 2018 which will be held on 10 -11 March 2018 (Saturday & Sunday). We would like to share with you some common activities of Raptor Watch to prepare you way in advance! See you in March!
1) Spot our stars of the event – the raptors! All you got to do is look up the sky once in a while and learn how to identify them. Do enjoy their stunning aerial display on a sunny day!
2) Take a walk with our knowledgeable nature guides to learn and discover the beautiful Tanjung Tuan rainforest and why MNS has been at the forefront to protect this last remaining coastal rainforest in West of Peninsular Malaysia.
3) Feeling adventurous? If yes, then you are up for some fun games! Bring out the kid in you, or better still, get your kids involved and win some cool prizes in the process!
4) And if you are not running, take a slow and relaxing walk while you enjoy the greenery around you. And how about taking loads of selfie shots in the midst of lush greenery? Post them up on OR and do tag us at @malaysiannaturesociety!
5) Fancy getting your face painted like a raptor? Do some fun art activities at our Arts and Craft booth, and that includes painting parts of yourself, all in the fun of celebrating nature!
6) Learn how you can be a part of our conservation efforts by speaking to any one of our dedicated volunteers on that day. Get on the green bandwagon and come fly with us!


text: I cook this colorful, simple recipe at least every few weeks. Give it a try and let me know what you think: Pesto Pasta with Prosciutto & Rocket Ingredients (Serves 4) Couple of handfuls of washed baby rocket (or baby spinach) 6 slices of prosciutto, roughly torn into matchbox size pieces 300g of fusilli pasta (or any other short pasta) 1 punnet of cherry tomatoes halved 3 tbsp of store bought pesto sauce 2 tbsp of pine nuts Parmesan cheese to serve Instructions Cook pasta according to the directions. Meanwhile, spray a large saucepan with oil spray and cook the pine nuts on medium heat, stirring often until they are lightly browned (about 5 minutes). Set aside and cook the prosciutto in the same pan with some more olive oil spray for 2-3 minutes until crisp. Drain the pasta when cooked and add to the pan with the prosciutto then stir in the pesto sauce, rocket/spinach, pine nuts, cherry tomatoes and pine nuts until well combined. Serve with shaved parmesan cheese and season with salt to taste. Cooking tips Prepare ahead tasks: Chop the prosciutto and cherry tomatoes in advance plus toast the pine nuts and keep in an air tight container Ask the delicatessen at your local supermarket to shred a piece of parmesan cheese for you. I find I use much less parmesan when it's shredded which is much better on my wallet and on my waistline! I usually buy a few extra slices of prosciutto as it is scrumptious added to many of your family meals. For example lightly fried then stirred through a side salad or we love to eat it fresh on its own (rolled up) as an appetizer for a pre-dinner treat Last time I made this dish I didn't have spinach on hand so I chopped 2 handfuls of snow peas (sugar snap peas) in half and added it to boiling pasta water for the last 2 minutes of pasta cooking. I stirred it through in replacement of the spinach and it was delicious. It gave a nice soft crunch and lots of color to the dish. I personally prefer spinach or rocket however my husband loved the snow pea version … Guess we will have to take turns from now on : )


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As I said in my previous post, it has been a rough week. Every day last week was spent working, either at my new job, selling wine on the street, to restaurants, wine stores, grocery stores, you name it, or at my old job, selling wine in the beloved retail store. Every day was busy in its own way. And today, Monday, I start again.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Yes, yes, there is the light that I will learn the new job better and everything will flow easier and smoother, but an even brighter light, from a future not so far away is that I'll be in Vegas this coming weekend. Yes! Leaving Thursday evening at 9:30 pm, after I do a wine dinner at Long Beach's premier Vietnamese fusion restaurant, Benley, I will be whisked away by my hubby and his friend and we will make the 5 hour drive through the dark valley and into the dessert of many sins.
And in this dessert sits a cult restaurant whose name is so known among the wine-loving and foodie world, that it is abbreviated to simply LOS. Lotus of Siam - a bastian of authentic, mouth-searing, flavor-exploding Thai cuisine paired with fine wines, many of them German Rieslings.
I first heard about this restaurant when I was working and hosting my first wine dinner more than 2 years ago at a great Long Beach sushi restaurant called Yen. A few customers walked in and started telling me about Lotus of Siam and even gave me a business card for the place. Raved about how great it was, and since I didn't know of it, I didn't think much of it - after all, the name is much like any other Thai restaurant - sounds just like King of Siam, The Lotus Restaurant, etc. The customers did regail me of stories of how the walls of the restaurant were adorned with the sommelier's pictures that he had taken with various famous German winemakers.
Later, Rudi Wiest, who was at this wine dinner, saw the card on my table and asked me if I had been there - I told him no - and he said this was a must-go-to place. Later, more evidence - some archived newsletters from The Wine Country told the story of a former employee who had gone to Germany with Lotus of Siam's sommelier, Bank. The story grew in my head.
Slowly, more evidence of this LOS' special aura - talks of it on many of bulletin board, with members talking about making special trips there. A coworker even attended a huge dinner there with fellow parker board members, and posted a video of it on You-Tube.
I met Bank this year, in Vienna of all places. He was quiet, humble. I expected him to be extroverted, exuberant, jubilant. His reputation preceded him, and was bigger than him. To be so famous and yet in real life so quiet. Wow! We exchanged a few words and he was very kind. But after the short conversation, I didn't see him again. Many wine folks on the trip I was on knew him, and commented also that they saw Bank once and not again. He was certainly a celebrity who eluded us.
Who knows if when I am there this Friday if he will remember me. He probably will, since he seems a smart guy. I look forward to tasting his restaurant's fine dishes and pairing them with some great stuff off his wine list. Hopefully, I'll have enough to tell that I can write a decent post about that here.
The moral of this story is that when a restaurant does really well with wines of some obscurity, and by that I mean wines not sold by Southern Wine and Spirits or Youngs Market, the tales of this restaurant travel far and wide. Another one that comes to mind is The Slanted Door in San Francisco. Another restaurant with an Asian focus, tons of great wines (German Rieslings, Austrian Gruner Veltliner, French wines from the Loire) and another restaurant I have yet to visit, but have heard so many great things about.
May Benley of Long Beach become a restaurant like that, that will plough through palettes of German Riesling, Austrian Gruner Veltliner, and Loire whites. And become a destination for wine geeks and foodies alike.


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I grew in Texas. I'm Texan grown.
I am programmed to recite isms such as "The stars at night are big and bright
Texas enthusiasts (aka teachers) are good at their jobs.
Texas was life as a kid. It was my everything. I remember the day I learned Texas wasn't our country. You read that correctly. As a child, I literally thought we lived in the country of Texas. California was on the west side of Texas... you get the drift.
I always chalked up my crazy Texan thoughts to Texan influence, but then I watched the below interview with the beloved Zadie Smith and now I'm thinking it's not so much a Texas thing. (Although they still could make a case.)
I love the idea of children centering...creating the boundaries of their worlds...creating geographic cushions of comfort. Thought I'd share the warm and fuzzies. I'm on the wait list at my library to read NW so I'm in Zadie mode right now.


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Hobbes Vs. Locke
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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were English philosophers who attended Oxford University. Hobbes was born in Westport, England and Locke was born in Wrington. These two philosophers became famous because of their ideas about politics and the understanding of human nature.
Thomas Hobbes had a very negative view on human nature. He describes human nature as being constantly at war with one another. According to Hobbes, all people were made equal in body and mind by nature. Somebody could be smarter or stronger than someone else but when looking at man as a whole, we are equal in both body and mind. "For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves...everyman is contented with his share." Hobbes states that there are three natural causes of constant war.
The first being competition, which is for gain. The second is diffidence, which is for safety and the third is glory, which is for reputation. He believes that people naturally want to harm each other and that that is the reason laws had to be made. Hobbes thinks that man is greedy and envious and that the reason we are at war with one another is because we were created equal but we are now being pushed to become unequal by possessions and money.
John Locke, on the other hand, had a very different view on human nature. Locke believes that man is constantly at war with nature. He believes that man protects himself, by human nature, and while doing this men protect one another. He thinks that people get all of their ideas from experience. In other words, he...


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Good Evening fell LJ's, Here's a slightly delayed project that I was able to complete using all of my previous projects at their capacity. :) I made 3 before Christmas and was hampered with clamping the work down and drill press to an extent, so the new toys I built were put to good use. These keepsake boxes are based upon The Woodwhisperer's box. They have a keyed corner to keep the lid in place and 4 of them are done very well to the point that I have a hard time finding which one it is; the 5th is somewhat loose, but still hidden well enough. The only difference is the base and the lid are different species, along with the tabs from that of Marc's. Here are the lumber combinations I used. Thanks for looking.
1) Walnut Base, Tzalam Lid, Purpleheart tabs
2) Flame Birch Base, Stinky lid (can't remember name), Unknown scrap tabs.
3) Cherry Base, Tzalam Lid, Redheart tabs
4) Maple Base, Tzalam Lid, tabs unknown; not maple, but similar color.
5) Purpleheart Base and Lid, Redheart tabs
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#1 posted 03-09-2015 02:27 PM
These will make nice gifts whether later or not.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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#2 posted 03-10-2015 12:01 PM
Very well done. I like these. The little puzzle to unlock them makes them very interesting.
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#3 posted 03-11-2015 03:11 AM
Thanks everyone. :) So far the first set of recipients absolutely love it. They had a hard time finding the key, so that told me I did a good job hiding it. lol. The second set is about to leave tomorrow, so hopefully it'll be the same, although one key is slightly looser than the rest and another has a corner that looks like it should be a key but isn't. Completely unintentional, but it fooled me every time. lol. I might make 2 more; one for myself to experiment with on my bandsaw and another for one more recipient.
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