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Welcome to our Sunshine Coast Grammar School website. I have been honoured to be Head of Secondary at Grammar since October 2006. My career in education began as a teacher of Mathematics in New South Wales before moving to Queensland in the mid 1980's. Prior to joining Grammar, I gained considerable knowledge through my experiences as a Head of House, Head of Department and Director of Curriculum in the independent sector.
Throughout my career in education I have maintained my passion as a classroom practitioner and continue to teach mathematics to students in their senior years. At Grammar, I have developed a detailed understanding of the benefits of taking advantage of the numerous opportunities that are on offer. In so doing, Grammar students will come to the end of Year 12 with many options available to them – options for life!
Secondary School at Grammar builds upon the knowledge, understandings and skills that are cohesively and sequentially developed in our Primary School. In Secondary School we further develop and integrate the total learning process at home, at school and in the community. The student remains the focal point in all that we do and our aim is to provide each student with many options to meet their individual education goals.
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Speed limit change on Forest Reefs Road
28 January 2014
Speed limit change on Forest Reefs Road at Millthorpe and Forest Reefs
Motorists are encouraged to slow down on Forest Reefs Road at Millthorpe and Forest Reefs with speed limit changes due to be implemented on 31 January, weather permitting.
Member for Bathurst Paul Toole MP said Roads and Maritime Services has carried out a review of the road at the request of Blayney Shire Council in response to concerns raised by the community.
"The review assessed a number of factors along the road including pedestrian activity, road environment, traffic characteristics and crash data," Mr Toole said.
The existing speed limit will be reduced to 80 km/h on Forest Reefs Road from west of Millthorpe to Forest Reefs and north from Forest Reefs to Orchard Road.
Warning signs will be in place to advise motorists of the changes and will remain for at least a week after the new speed limit signs have been installed.
Members of the community can sign up at the Safer Roads NSW website to receive updates about changes to permanent speed limits in their nominated area and have their say on speed limits.
For more information visit www.rms.nsw.gov.au
Ends. Paul Toole MP 0407 962 357
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|My floss stash - so many memories! (It is in a pipette tip container that I saved from the trash at work, talk about upcycling!)
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Datsyuk Demands Too High
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"He's priced himself right off of our team," Holland said. "I don't see any way he's on the team; the numbers don't add up." "I upped my offer significantly," Holland said. "It got to the point where you can't go any higher. "We have no choice, we got to get on with it." If Datsyuk's contract contains an out clause, he would need to sign with the Red Wings by Oct. 5 (the start of the regular season) to be eligible to play in the NHL this season (restricted free agents who don't sign with a European team have until Dec. 1 to sign with an NHL club). But, there's no reason to believe the sides will suddenly bridge the enormous gap in contract talks.from the Detroit News,
"Obviously it's a disappointing loss," Holland said. "We were really counting on him." "We'll be a difficult team to play against," Holland said.from the Detroit Free Press,
It was four o'clock in the morning in Moscow when Ken Holland finally got through to Pavel Datsyuk's agent. Their conversation lasted 30 seconds and left more questions unanswered than answered. Yes, Datsyuk had signed a contract with wealthy Russian Super League team Avangard Omsk. But as of late Monday afternoon, Holland, the Red Wings' general manager, was still waiting to find out one very crucial little fact. "Everything," Holland said, "depends on the out clause." A Reuters report said Datsyuk does have an out clause, but Holland said he didn't want to comment until "I know it's based on fact."
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As the climate changes, emperor penguins are becoming more adaptive at adjusting for breeding in different areas. As a result of global warming and an increase in temperature, the penguin is evolving to warmer weather conditions. New research shows that the penguin is no longer restricting itself to one breeding ground. Considering that change in environment is one of the factors that contribute to a species' extinction, this is great news for all penguin lovers.
According to a recent study by scientists of University of Minnesota, the emperor penguin has been behaving in ways that help them adapt to the change in climate. The penguin is no longer returning to the same location to breed. Migrating to different locations over the span of three years, penguins are becoming more aware of their environmental changes. This behavior is unusual for the species, but shows that the bird recognizes that the previous geographical breeding area is no longer safe for mating.
Following emperor penguins over the years, scientists have used satellite images to track the breeding patterns of the cold-weathered avian. Scientists have noticed that the penguin has relocated over six times in the span of the three years. This type of migration from breeding ground to the next, changes the historical research of many previous watchers of the species. The penguin is still noticeably moving within colonies, but is not returning to the same breeding grounds as before.
This new research also dispels the ideology that the emperor penguin species is declining in number. In the past, researchers that followed the penguins would notice a decline in numbers as they returned to their respective breeding grounds. Well known for their selective breeding and pattern of moving in colonies, the emperor penguin is known to many researchers as a creature of habit. It never accrued to scientists that the emperor penguin could adjust to new climate changes. Now that scientists from the University of Minnesota have delved deeper into the mating patterns of the penguin species, they noticed that the previous research was only a myth.
Assuming that the birds return to the same location every year, the fluctuations in colony size and recorded number of the species is bias. As more research was conducted, the fear that climate change was negatively affecting the survival of the species was debunked. Fortunately as more research proved, the penguin is able to realize that the previous breeding grounds in the Antarctic seacoast are not the same. This new discovery also causes scientists to form a new procedure and hypothesis as to why the penguin colonies vary in structure and size.
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I have been positive for less than a year I was negative in june of 2011 and february 2012 I tested positive. My initial viral load was 20,000 and cd4 was 390. Second Test 4 months later my viral load is 77,000 with a cd4 count of 300. How fast does your cd4 count drop I am afraid I am going to drop to AIDS before I can get on meds. Im currently not on medication and my genotype is resistant to atripla - was planning on getting this medication in a clinical trial but due to me being resistant I no longer qualify. I dont anticipate meds until nov, dec sometime. My question is should I be worried, are there any other options for me? thanks
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"The Girls"
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Me too. *sigh*ReplyDelete
I used to work in an office like that -- we were all "the girls". I was floored that this still could happen in the 2000's in the USA, but apparently it's very common.ReplyDelete
I am glad that I now work in an office where I'm not dismissed as one of "the girls". Light and day, I swear.
Interesting! I'm sorry that your work culture has been like that :( I've been in the workforce for four years now, and sexism is certainly alive and well at my company. However, I've seen it mostly go the other way. The company is anxious to promote diversity, so usually if a woman and man with similar experience are both eligible for a promotion, the woman gets the nod. Of the 5 people in upper management in my department, 4 are women. My boss has far more respect for a successful girl than a successful guy. It's great for me- a young successful woman doesn't have to do much to be her favorite- but definitely not fair. Whenever a male team member has a problem with her, she blames it on the fact that they "just can't tolerate having a woman in charge." We(I'm ashamed to admit I'm guilty of this as well) make "dumb guy" jokes all the time (e.g: He's being irresponsible- it's a boy thing. He has horrible written communication skills. Guys have such awful grammar and spelling skills). If the men talked about the women the way the women demean the guys, they'd be called into HR in a heartbeat. The guys in my department are pretty easy going, so they take the "good natured" abuse and laugh. Every company has a different culture and atmosphere, and I certainly have seen some sexism in favor of men in my company. But (at least in my department) it has been MUCH easier to be a woman than a man.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think a lot of it has to do with education as well. From what i have seen, highly educated women are more readily respected in business. Men have no choice but to respect a woman who makes the rules and takes home a bigger paycheck than them. But when it comes to bachelors and associates level or lower, all that respect tapers off. Men are considered "ambitious" or "rising in the ranks" and women are tolerated at best.Delete
I think people ignore sexism when it's between superiors and their subordinates. Rank and education are used to excuse it. I'm happy for you that your current work environment is so female-affirming. But i think i have a lot of school and a lot of fighting to do before i ever reach that level of respect.
I think people ignore sexism when it's between superiors and thier subordinates. Rank and education are used to excuse it. I'm happy for you that your current work environment is so female-affirming. But i think i have alot of school and a lot of fighting to do before i ever reach that level of respect.
Just keep hanging in there, girl. You're doing all the right things to better your career :) You should be proud of yourself.Delete
Yes I hate how where I work, women are cashiers and men are on the floor. And they make a big deal about every woman on the floor. Like "Oh wow, can you believe we have a WOMAN in lumber?" and "Well, they are trying to force us to put more women out on the floor so that we are more diverse".ReplyDelete
Yes I hate how where I work, women are cashiers and men are on the floor. And they make a big deal about every woman on the floor. Like "Oh wow, can you believe we have a WOMAN in lumber?" and "Well, they are trying to force us to put more women out on the floor so that we are more diverse".ReplyDeleteReplies
ugh. YES! that is SOOO annoying. I also get the younger guys who think they have to flirt or flatter me in order to get me to help them with projects. I find that so offensive. I am here to do my job and nothing they say or do will change that. I am not a dog that needs treates in order to perform. arghh..Delete
That's really too bad! Our front office staff is absolutely indispensable. I work in a physical therapy clinic, and believe me, it's much easier to have a therapist call in than it is to have one of them call in. I know they couldn't do it without you; I hope they figure that out soon!ReplyDelete
I can't think of anything nice to say about your boss, so I won't say anything at all.....ReplyDelete
I love to see your aha moments! This was one thing I hadn't realized, too. I grew up thinking feminists were child-hating bra-burning selfish career women who rejected the idea of a family. To be honest, I think part of it is I didn't realize that so much sexism - I call it structural sexism, since it's no longer technically legal - still existed. Sure, I believed in male headship and all, but I assumed all that was voluntary and general society offered men and women completely equal chances. I've since realized why we still have feminism - because we still need feminism. And you and I, Sarah, can be part of the next generation of feminists working to make things better.ReplyDelete
You say you can't think of what you can do to fix this situation. Neither can I. Your boss isn't doing anything illegal. He's just being a sexist ass. And there are no laws against being a sexist ass. I have to say, if I were in your situation, I think that would all make me explode. It's MADDENING. I am SO GLAD I work somewhere where I can truly say I have never received unequal treatment (so yes, such places DO exist). Best of luck with everything!
What disturbs me more than men calling women "girls" is the women themselves being okay with that. Are they feeling flattered, as though they look younger than their age, or what? (I'm 42, so I can say that!) I'm staying home with my kids right now, but worked in a professional setting with men and women supervisors for 11 years. There are definitely jerky bosses of both genders, so I guess that's an equal opportunity trait.ReplyDelete


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Elizabeth was in bed. The dog had its front paws between her breasts, and, its tongue out, it stared at her as she spoke to it.
Charles, the husband, undressed and hung his clothes askew on the silent butler. When he took off his underpants, he held them in his hands a moment, expecting his wife to look towards him naked. She didn't. About to throw his underpants on the floor, where his socks were, he noted, on the inside of the crotch, a yellow stain.
He thought: Oh, Christ.
He reached down for his socks and bunched them up with his underpants, then walked across the bedroom to the bathroom. He seemed to walk a long distance, and was just about to step into the bathroom when Elizabeth asked: 'Where are you going?'
'Where does it look like I'm going?'
'I thought you'd already done everything you had to do.'
He raised his bunched-up underpants and socks. 'I thought I'd throw these into the hamper.'
'You always throw them on the floor.'
'I've decided to be more neat. Every night before going to bed, from now on, I'll throw my dirty things into the hamper. Why're you frowning?' he asked. 'I'm doing it for you, so you won't have to do it in the morning. I thought you'd be pleased.'
'I'm wondering why you should all at once be doing something to please me.'
'Because it just occurred to me, all at once.'
She made a face at the dog, stuck out her tongue like it and panted.
What he wanted to do was to shut the bathroom door and carefully examine the stain, but if he stayed in there longer than it took to throw the things into the hamper she would ask him what was taking him so long. Quickly, in the dim light above the wash-basin, he turned his underpants inside out, so his socks dropped to the floor, and saw, in the soft indentation made by his sensitive genitals, the stain. In the middle of the yellow was a pubic hair.
Maybe it was nothing but a pee stain. Maybe something he'd eaten or drunk had caused the pee, when dry, to go stiff.
Elizabeth said, 'Charles.'
He placed the pants on the top of the hamper and went to the door, half hiding his naked body behind it. He said, 'I think I'm suffering something I ate.'
Charlie barked.
He shut the door and lit the strong overhead light to again examine the stain. After he dropped the underpants, he thrust out his hips to examine the tip of his penis. He pulled the foreskin back, then, with his thumbs, opened the orifice, opened it and shut it, again and again, like a little talking mouth between whose lips saliva expanded and contracted. The mouth said to him: maybe it's not your fault, maybe Elizabeth made love with someone while you were away and got a disease and gave it to you.
I'd forgive her, he thought. I really would forgive her.
Supposing the stain were the discharge of an infectious disease, if he put his underpants in the hamper, they could infect all the other clothes, including Elizabeth's. But leaving his underpants on the floor would make her wonder, in the morning, why he'd made such a statement about putting them in the hamper. If she opened the medicine cabinet and his pants fell out, how would he be able to explain that? He sat on the toilet, and, after yanking the paper so she would hear the roller clank, wiped the tip of his cock, squeezing it. He studied the paper, but he couldn't make out anything, and he threw the paper into the toilet, then slammed the toilet seat down and flushed. Wincing, he lifted the thick ceramic cover off the cistern behind the bowl and shoved his underpants inside. The cover jarred a little when he replaced it. He washed his hands carefully, and went into the bedroom.
The dog asleep at her feet, Elizabeth, still propped up by her pillow, stared at her husband.
'Are you all right?' she asked.
'Fine,' he said.
As he approached the bed, she smiled. He imagined she was smiling as she looked at his cock and balls swing from one side to the other with each step he took. Maybe she thought they looked funny. He glanced down, and thought: they are funny.
By the side of the bed, he turned partly away from her and stretched. His pretended yawn became a real yawn, and a small relief passed through him. He didn't have to fake the yawn. He stretched more.
She said, 'You're delaying getting into bed.'
He lowered his arms. 'No, I'm not.'
'Don't worry.'
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he said, 'Worry about what?'
'You know very well what I mean.'
The great pleasure of his going away was, for both of them, his returning. For days after, they were often inspired to make love as soon as he got home from work. This excitement had lasted three weeks.
He faked a yawn. He shook his head like a dog shaking water from his hair. 'I guess I am tired.' After shaking his head again, he let it hang heavily.
If he wore pyjamas, they would act as a kind of prophylactic to protect her. He didn't want to get into bed with her, as much from his worry of contaminating her, if he hadn't already, as from the worry of her contaminating him, which he still suspected she might have done.
He wondered whom she might have made love with while he was away.
In Rome, he hadn't made love with a whore, but an American woman, married and with children, who took their love-making to be as momentary as it was to him. No, that wasn't honest. He'd remembered her while he was making love with Elizabeth the first time after he got back, remembered her as a woman he'd been in bed with hardly twenty-four hours before. He'd remembered her face as Elizabeth and he made love, and maybe it was the memory of her that kept him making love with Elizabeth day after day.
His diseased cock jolted a little. He pressed it between his legs.
He should have told Elizabeth when he got back, when telling her would have been in a way innocent: that is, it would have been an honest admission, whereas now it would be an admission forced on him, revealing his dishonesty.
He wasn't at all tired.
She said, 'Get into bed and we'll sleep.'
'Well?' she asked.
He didn't move, except to press his legs together more, which he hoped she didn't notice. She noticed a lot.
Maybe the disease made him want to make love with her.
He couldn't do it.
'I'm thinking,' he said.
Her voice changed, went up in pitch. 'About what?'
Swinging his body more towards her, he said. 'About you.'
Her voice went higher. 'Me?'
He opened his legs and his released erection jumped up. 'Look,' he said.
She laughed. 'Thinking about me made that happen?'
Shaking his legs so his erection wobbled, he laughed too. 'About you and others,' he said. Whenever they started this kind of talk, he thought, both their voices rose in pitch like children's voices. At moments of greatest sexual self-consciousness they would find themselves using baby talk: 'You want to play?' she said.
He said, 'Sometimes, I still think of you having sex with that man the day before we got married.'
'Do you?'
'I wonder why I still do, and why it gets me –' Running a finger down his cock, he contemplated it.
'That was a long time ago,' she said.
He put his thumb and forefinger about his cock and squeezed it, his little finger held out. 'You haven't made love with anyone since?'
Blankly, she said, 'I'd have told you if I had.'
He could feel the erection in his hand go a little soft. But there was no way out of it now, he had to make love with her or she would think he'd really become kinky for only getting excited at the idea of her having once been unfaithful, if, technically, she'd been unfaithful, as it'd happened before their marriage. He didn't want her to think he was kinky. He wasn't kinky. Moving his hand up and down, he kept his erection. But he couldn't make love with her, not when the very drop that swelled out from the orifice, clear, was swarming with invisible germs. If he had sex with her, it would be like impregnating her with a deformed being.
'And you?' she asked. 'Have you been up to anything while you've been away?'
'No,' he answered.
He was not sure he believed her about not having made love with anyone else since that first and last time.
As if to expose herself, Elizabeth threw the sheet off her; it fell over the dog, who woke up and, yapping, jumped, so the sheet bounced. Elizabeth reached down, uncovered the dog, named Charlie after her husband, and brought it in her arms to her bosom. Pressing her nose against its, she said, 'Give me a kiss, give me a kiss, and another, and another, and another.'
Most likely, he thought, he had already impregnated her with a monstrous being, and she didn't know.
He wondered if he could make himself touch her diseased body, which repelled him enough that he didn't want to sleep with it in the same bed.
And if he hadn't already infected it, if it were pure, he couldn't touch it, not as he was.
Her nose was wet from the saliva of the dog, who, as she held it away from her face, tried to continue to lick her.
She said to Charles, 'So what's up?' She was English. He was American.
Supporting his slack member with one finger, he said, 'Not much any more.'
'You stopped thinking about me?'
He thought, suddenly: I can use Charlie.
'It's not that I stopped thinking about you. You stopped thinking about me.'
'You're jealous of Charlie?'
'Of course I am.'
'Poor Charlie.'
'What's so poor about him?'
'He's got to love me, he doesn't have a choice. Don't you pity him for that?'
'I hate the slavishness of dogs.'
She held the little terrier close.
'I never had a dog when I was growing up in Boston,' he said. 'My parents thought the city was no place for a dog.'
They talked a little about the effect on him of having been brought up without a dog. While they talked, he got into bed and pulled the sheet over them. Charlie fell asleep, and Elizabeth deposited him at her feet. Charles pretended to fall asleep suddenly. Elizabeth shut off the light.
He couldn't sleep, kept awake by the worry that he had infected his wife.
When he felt her hand on his shoulder, he, sighing deeply, turned away from her. She fitted herself against him, her breasts pressing against his back, an arm about his waist. He knew by her breath on his neck when she fell asleep. All night, he kept his body turned away from her body.
He heard Charlie, in low growls, and Elizabeth, in sibilants, talking to one another in the early morning. They did this every morning. He never understood what they were saying. Perhaps they were discussing what they were going to do together during the day, while he was at work. Always, they left the bed together, having agreed that the first thing they would do was go to the kitchen to eat something. Most often, she would return, alone, to the bed for another hour, until her husband had to get up. What Charlie did during this time Charles never knew, but no doubt Charlie, after discussing it with Elizabeth, agreed to go off on his own for a while, wagging his stiff tail, and leave his mistress and her husband to themselves. Sometimes in the morning they made love. This morning, Charles got out of bed before Elizabeth could return alone.
Bending low over the bed, his spectacles on, he studied the sheet on which he'd lain. There were a number of little spots, but they seemed to him too high, around the level of his chest. If he had had breasts and was nursing, he would have taken the spots as drops of milk exuded through his nipples. That would have been a fine explanation for the spots, which were, he thought, too high up for any other explanation, until he lay down on his side briefly, and found the spots occurred just where his glans touched the sheet. Hearing Elizabeth in the passage outside the room, he quickly rose, pulled the top sheet high, so it filled the air as he pulled it down to cover the bed. Elizabeth came in.
'You're up?' she asked.
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XFX 650i Ultra Socket 775 Motherboard
The Board - Close up
Published: 5th June 2007 | Source: XFX | Price: |
The first thing you notice is the fact that the XFX 650i Ultra motherboard is on a green PCB. I was hoping for XFX to be using a black PCB as they do on some of their cards, but as this board is a lower end board I assume this must be cost-saving. The next thing you notice is that the cooling is very minimal with no South-Bridge cooling and no PWM IC cooling.
The colour scheme is pretty decent with white and black being used predominantly and the PCI and PCI-e slots being differentiated by these colours.
The NorthBridge heatsink is just a large chunk of aluminium painted black, not the best cooling solution we've ever seen in all honesty.
Not only did I notice this, but I also noticed that the capacitors around the PWM area are very close to the CPU socket. After fitting the Scythe Infinity cooler here it is obvious that these are far too close for comfort and although I fitted the heatsink sideways, it would not fit face-on as it usually does. I believe this would mean many of the larger coolers would have some issues fitting on the board, which is a bit of a shame.
Notice two things in this picture; firstly the PWM has no heatsink on it at all which is pretty strange, secondly notice that the 12v power connector is a 4-pin affair which is contrary to many of the high-end boards out nowadays. Indeed your PSU will need to either have a splitable 8 PIN 12v lead, or have a special adaptor (as mine had).
With a couple of PCI-e X1 slots, 1 PCI-e x16 slot and three PCI slots onboard I think XFX have done well for expansion slot choice with a nice range there for you. Nothing overly unusual in the layout here...
One feature I found pretty cool on the board was the battery that had been made vertical to save space. This means that it's easy access in case of change or if that CMOS really won't clear properly.
All of the connectors are at the edge of the board where they should be and also unusually the front IO panel is very much on the bottom edge of the board which is good. Again notice that the SouthBridge is devoid of cooling, which is slightly unusual.
There's enough room from the CPU area to the RAM slots to be able to add some oversize memory such as the OCZ Reaper modules. The ATX power connector is again at the edge of the board, just as it should be.
Overall the layout is "OK", with some quibbles which would put enthusiasts off altogether, unfortunately.
Overall the layout is "OK", with some quibbles which would put enthusiasts off altogether, unfortunately.
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Thats pretty cool, i went for evga 680i though, by the way your link to the forums on the review is dead.
When you review stuff do you just get given it to test?
Did you get my pm?
When you review stuff do you just get given it to test?
Did you get my pm?
cool review, i didnt expect that board to do so well tbh Quote
Nice review, glad you pointed out the green! My 15quid Epox board is green Quote
Cool review
I find it wierd that people are talking about mobo's (or hardware in general) when they mention 'colour schemes' etc
Reminds me of this thread
Not like the old daysQuote
I find it wierd that people are talking about mobo's (or hardware in general) when they mention 'colour schemes' etc
Reminds me of this thread
Originally Posted by name='XMS'
Agreed! it won't be long before we have colour coded processors, ram and graphics cards that match up with the relevant slots on the motherboard (or are Gigabyte already doing this with their technicoloured mobo's) :P
Originally Posted by name='equk'
Not like the old days


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Centrally located in the city of Ooty, this budget hotel is amid landscaped garden space. Overlooking the scenic view of the sloping hills are its 90 simple rooms. Diners are offered three dinning outlets namely, Shogun - a multi-cuisine restaurant, Amrawathi - South-Indian restaurant and Eat Street - a fast-food joint. There is also a bar-cum-discotheque to chill-out at. The travel desk of this hotel also provides organized sightseeing tours for the guests.
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ERdogan is strengthening Turkey's ties with Iran. (Tehran Times)
CNN Arabic readers picked pro-Hamas Israel-basher Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as their "Man of the Year."
Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad came in second place.
The Jerusalem Post reported, via Free Republic:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was voted "Man of the Year" for 2010 by readers of CNN's Arabic language website on Sunday.
Erdogan won the honor by a large margin, receiving 74% of the vote. His nearest competitor was Syrian President Bashar Assad, who received 20% of the vote.
CNN Arabic, based in Dubai, stated that the results of the poll represent the "general mood of the Arab street," which has seen a rise in Erdogan's popularity since the events surrounding the Israeli raid of the Mavi Marmara and the diplomatic tensions between Turkey and Israel that followed.
The website adds that Erdogan has been hailed in the Arab world for returning Turkey's allegiance to the East after decades of trying to "join the European club."
Erdogan's position as a mediator between Iran and the West was also cited as a key reason for the Turkish prime minister's popularity in the Arab world.
He was also seen as important in combatting Syria's isolation in the region that arose in the aftermath of the Rafik Hariri assassination.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently invited Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah to meetings in Turkey. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may also attend.
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I was in the den whilst the bless-ed little children played so quietly in the playroom. I was reading an article on Home schooling and heard a muffled cry from Ashlyn. I lazily got up and sauntered to the playroom, knowing her cry was short-lived. As I rounded the corner, my brain couldn't register why it was that I couldn't see her clearly. I could see her silouhette and could see Gabe madly shaking something......fog.....mist....smoke.....Then the un-mistakeable scent invaded my nostrils...Baby Powder. My first reaction was to get both children outside...away from the fine dust that had covered EVERYTHING. Just as I had rushed them out the patio door....I couldn't help myself, I HAD to take a picture. I madly dashed to get my camera only to find the batteries were not working, I opened every remote trying to find batteries that worked...and ended up unscrewing the battery pack at the base of Ashlyns new doll house in order to find a working set.
As soon as the pics were done, I scolded Gabe for making such a mess and tried to explain that baby powder is not good for his breathing, it's only for a diaper. Well ,he decided he wanted to clean up....as I was dusting Ashlyn off, he had found my blush brush and was slowly excavating the toy gator from the mountain of powder.
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It is time to develop ways to minimize safety and health hazards in biomass production on the farm, an area in which there has been little research
With increasing numbers of farmers growing biomass for renewable energy uses, new risks of injury and illness materialize. The production, storage, and basic processing of bioenergy crops such as switchgrass, miscanthus, and shrub willow on the farm—especially on marginal land—expose producers to numerous health and safety hazards. Yet there has been very little research into these dangers and how to prevent them in the United States, or in regions such as the European Union, which has long-established biomass industries.
Nearly half of the country's renewable energy came from biomass crops in 2011, an increase of 47 percent over the previous decade. With such rapid growth in the biomass industry, early identification and development of safety protocols to prevent and minimize hazards on the farm is important. To determine the current state of injury and illness prevention in this field, Douglas Schaufler, research associate, and Dennis Murphy, professor, both from Penn State University, and their colleagues identified hazards and recommended that protocols be developed to prevent injuries and reduce safety risks.
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Schaufler and Murphy also looked at existing safety and health regulations and analyzed how they might apply to biomass growers.
In biomass production, large equipment is often used to prepare fields and to establish, maintain, and harvest crops. Heavy machinery may also be used to bale the biomass, or chop and chip it in the field, and then move it into storage. Some of this equipment is also used in forage agriculture, but some is unique to a biomass operation—particularly short-rotation woody crops (such as willow), which are grown much like forestry crops.
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Below are details of all the NRAS Group meetings taking place this week:
East Dorset NRAS Group
This group meets at the Howard Room, Christchurch Hospital, Fairmile Road, Christchurch, BH23 2JX from 5:00pm to 7:00pm unless otherwise stated.
Tuesday 11th June 7:00pm-9:00pm - Lindsey Hawley, Senior Rheumatology Practitioner at Christchurch Hospital will talk about her life in Rheumatology.
Bath & West Wiltshire NRAS Group
2013 meetings are held on a Wednesday from 6:30-8:30pm at The Open House Centre in Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath BA1 1JW, please see scheduled meeting dates below.
Wednesday 12th June - Guest speakers: Julia James & Sue Brown, Specialist Nurses. Topic: Early RA Management and the role of the specialist nurse, followed by a Q&A session
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IDT continues to build on its No. 1 positions in timing, serial switching and memory interfaces to expand its mixed-signal content in Communications, Computing and Consumer applications, driven by three major market drivers including cloud computing, consumer mobility and 4G/LTE. The company's product portfolio has become a fusion of analog and system expertise as well as traditional digital competencies, providing customers with complete application-optimized mixed-signal solutions. The IDT 30+ year heritage and innovation in digital technologies, coupled with its in-house analog talents and capabilities, make IDT the premier analog and digital company.
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Why I'd join the Liberal party
If I were a young person — say 25 or 30 — with political ambitions and ideas about how the country should be run, I'd jump into the Liberal Party with all the energy I could muster. Why? Because a party that's down — or new — is wide open at the top and the bottom. And all it takes to move up the ranks is determination and patience.
This is not a new idea with me. I had these thoughts fifty years ago. I thought there were two things you'd have to do. First, build your own personal constituency through some kind of citizen activism. It could be any kind of a cause. Second, mobilize that constituency to help you get elected and on the ladder to the top rank in your party.
Too many things got in my way of following through on those ideas. (Although I did join the Liberal party, back in 1972.) Now, there's a great opportunity for someone with the commitment and motivation to create a new leadership role in tomorrow's Liberal Party.
It's been done before, in other parties.
Tommy Douglas joined the CCF as a young church minister in its early days in Saskatchewan, rose to be Premier, and later leader of what would become the Official Opposition, the New Democratic party.
Ernest Manning, a youthful Bible student, became enraptured with the idea of Social Credit, joined the new movement in Alberta, and served for years as Premier of that province.
W.A.C. Bennett, a disgruntled B.C. Tory, took hold of Social Credit aspirations in the west coast province and established a political dynasty that ran out only after his son, Bill, has succeeded him in power for several years.
Rene Levesque, unhappy with the reluctance of the Quebec Liberal Party to move from "maitre chez nous" to all-out separatism, built the Parti Quebecois from the ground up, establishing a legacy that endures to this day.
Joey Smallwood, convinced that Newfoundland would be better off in Canada, campaigned for Confederation and became the odds-on choice to head up the Liberal Party when that island became a province. He reigned for years.
Gilles Duceppe, a one-time Maoist and union organizer, became the first elected MP for the Bloc Quebecois in 1990, setting him on a twenty-year trajectory in Parliament.
All of which goes to prove, in my view, that booking into a political party at its nadir, or catching the rising star of a new movement, offers unusual opportunities.
And of course, you need to engage with the community, as Duceppe did as a community organizer (also Barack Obama) and as Gerard Kennedy, the onetime Ontario Education Minister and federal liberal leadership contender, did with the foodbank movement.
In saying this, I'm not advocating self-serving opportunism. You've got to have ideas to go with your ambition. And if your ideas are really important, they probably won't be very popular at first. Witness Tommy Douglas on healthcare, Smallwood on union with Canada, Bennett on B.C. economic self-sufficiency, or even Duceppe on separatism.
What ideas might a future leader of the Liberal party embrace as Canada goes forward from 2011? They shouldn't be ideas based on what the public says it wants, or what might win a few seats at the next election.
Really important ideas need to be fought for, and take a long time to fulfill.
Here's one: family planning, as an element of Canada's foreign policy. The government of the day refuses to fund international aid involving the teaching of family planning or practice of abortion. Canada's policy should be just the opposite. Give foreign aid only to countries that agree to embrace family planning.
Drug addiction. Treat it as a health issue, not a crime. End the insanity of a system that, like the prohibition of alcohol, creates vast cesspools of crime. Do just the opposite of what we're doing.
Immigration. Combined with a global family planning program, Canada could in a clear conscience severely restrict immigration to only those who bring significant new knowledge and cultural compatibility to this country.
Foreign policy: An end to international adventurism, putting a stop to making war on countries like Libya.
This handful of ideas, all in diametric opposition to current policy, would not be an easy sell. But for too long, politics has been based on parties trying to find out what the pubic wants, and then giving it to them. We need a different approach. Come up with good ideas and then sell them to the public.
Michael Ignatieff closed his resignation speech by saying he hoped that someone out there, perhaps a young woman, was listening to his remarks and he hoped they would come into the arena, and perhaps one day lead the Liberal party.
I hope so too, and with ideas that will engage Canadians into thinking about real solutions to real problems in the 21st century.