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Has Apple finally gotten their match in the wearable market? Has the competition finally arrived for Apple?
As promised, CES2016 is meeting up to expectation, as new products are being unveiled at the show. Among those to unveil their product is Fitbit, the San-Francisco based health and fitness company, which specializes in activity trackers, wireless-enabled wearable technologies devices.
The company unveiled the Fitbit Blaze, "a smart fitness watch that empowers consumers to get fit in style". The Blaze may just be the product to rival the Apple watch and it goes at a lower cost compared to the Apple watch, making it a deliberate attempt by Fitbit to rival Apple in the wearable market.
To really justify its intention to rival the Apple watch, the Fitbit Blaze is equipped with features similar to the Apple watch, but at a lower price of just $199 compared to Apple's $549 The watch features a sleek design, having interchangeable accessories similar to Apple watch. It also comes with enhanced fitness experience with advanced coaching that keeps one connected at all times, according to a press release.
From the press release also, Fitbit describes the Blaze as its smartest, most stylish, most motivating fitness tracker yet. The watch goes on presale today, with global retail availability starting in March 2016.
Let me give you a little brief on some of the Fitbit's Blaze features;
Enhanced fitness features like FitStar by Fitbit on-screen workouts, connected GPS, PurePulse heart rate tracking introduced last year and SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition, which will help to motivate users and push their fitness further.
The watch this time focus on styles as it features interchangeable bands and frames, along with color touchscreen with a variety of clock faces to suite the style of user. So whether it office or play, Fitbit Blaze got you covered.
It also features smart notifications, to notify users of text, calls, and calendar alerts through on-screen messages and a vibrating alert.
The watch equally claims a long battery life of up to 5days with a single charge.
The FitBit Blaze is compatible with over 200 Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices, making its data and statistics readily accessible and available over a wide range of platforms. A feature that may want to form an edge over Apple watch.
In the words of James Park, CEO and Co-founder of Fitbit, the Blaze is a "combination of innovative features that were carefully selected with intention and purpose, designed to motivate and offer a fitness experience that is more effortless and more useful with advanced guidance and coaching".
If all goes well, which I hope, then the Fitbit Blaze may just be the long awaited rival to the Apple watch. But I got skeptical after the shares of Fitbit plummets hours after the launch. With a whopping 18% drop in shares following the announcement, Fitbit may not be quick to celebrate their entrance in the market yet. Could this be an indication of the Fitbit Blaze unacceptance to the wearable market? I hope not. Come March 2016, we shall find out!


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We Are All Mad Here
Hi! *squeaked mouse*
Let me show you around.
This entire place?
It is one big stage now.
What is it about?
Anything you want it to be.
There are no rules,
We will talk about whatever feels right
which you also feel like you want to.
Join in and write in past chapters.
Or start another new one,
and maybe bring an act with you?
Or, if so you prefer,
you can sneak through the back door and take a seat...
but the point is to call readers to us with what we write here
instead of what we coldly ask for.
because "What you write also writes you back", as dear goblin likes to say.
Metaphor, idioms and dialogues.
Prose or rhyme or monologues,
persona and analogy,
reference or sharing any art,
quotes and music and stories too.
Poetry or talk of any knowledge,
it is all, only up to you.
All these things are encouraged.
What you need is but a bit of courage.
So come in and don't be shy!
All are welcomed by these open paws.
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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My friend Mark had been talking about the walks he'd been going on, and I asked if I could join him sometime. Last Sunday we went to investigate The Chanctonbury Ring. I have documented the ordeal below.
"How the fuck do you get out of Brighton then?"
More to the point, why would you want to?
(That's not the reason, btw, just pointing it out).
Mark helpfully points out the clocktower of Steyning. "It's there."
Dog Lane. Thankfully dog-free.
Mark told me about a thing we spotted in a field called a trig point, which wasn't a memorial to Only Fools and Horses' Trigger as I'd hazarded a guess at. It's the pleasingly rhyming 'triangulation station' used in geodetic surveying. I'd usually still be in bed at the time of the day that snap was taken, but I was out in the wilderness, learning things!
First glimpse of the ring (hurrrr)
Bye ring. On the way up it I used my mobile telephone to scan a QR thingamy that was on a gate (being the only person in the world that uses QR codes, and Google Plus). It told me interesting facts about the Chanctonbury Ring and the surrounding area. Originally an iron age hill fort, then a religious site, then a ring of trees for horses to poop on. Many of the trees were pwned (technical term) in the storm of '87, so they planted some new ones. Which again horses and dogs shat upon. I sat on bunny rabbit poop. There was a lot of poop. A better name for it could've been The Brown Ring. Folklore suggested the devil could be summoned by running round the ring seven times, but I had a ham sandwich and a fag instead.
I couldn't take pictures of it because there were children frollicking in it and Mark said they might think I was a pedophile.
Who's that I spot there? Oh yes, absolutely no-one. What bliss.
Mark got in a fight with a fun guy.
Spooky barn! "Let's go in," I said. But the entrances were blocked with stuff. Probably poop that'd trickled down from The Ring. Mark stuck my camera over the door because I am a midget and managed to get these following shots of what was inside the spooky barn.
It was that.
MUDSLIDE. We hadn't been prepared for this.
Valiantly searching for a way out of the mud using my trusty stick, 'Sticky Mike'.
Mark's on telly!
Why hello...hey what are you taking pictures of?"
"We survived the Chanctonbury Mudslide!"
Amusing reference to the area as being a 'rat-infested ditch'. We certainly saw both sides of it that day. The ten mile walk was rounded off with a pint in The Star Inn followed by another in The Chequer Inn. I think my legs have just about recovered now.


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Recommendations: National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education.
Recommendations: National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education. - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
In February 1999, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission initiated the National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education, which investigated the provision of education for children in rural and remote Australia. The inquiry took evidence at formal public hearings in every state and territory and at less formal meetings with parents, students, educators, and community members in rural and remote areas of every state and the Northern Territory. The inquiry received 287 written and e-mailed submissions. The inquiry also commissioned a survey from Melbourne University to which 3,128 individuals responded. This report presents the inquiry findings related to rural education outcomes, responsibility for education, the policy context, and the human rights context. It offers 73 recommendations organized by five necessary features of school education: availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and adaptability. The report makes the adoption of these five features by all education policy makers and providers in Australia its first recommendation. A separate chapter describes necessary policy parameters for the implementation of all inquiry recommendations, including the need for cross-sectoral and interagency collaborations, a new funding framework for rural and remote education, and other strategies. Appendices contain 26 references, extracts from international treaties, and lists of hearings and submitters. (TD)
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Access to Education, Change Strategies, Culturally Relevant Education, Disabilities, Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Human Services, Policy Formation, Professional Development, Relevance (Education), Rural Education
Full text at Web site: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/rural/education/index.html.
Autor: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney Australia.
Fuente: https://eric.ed.gov/?q=a&ft=on&ff1=dtySince_1992&pg=8187&id=ED448952


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Have you noticed how much our current culture spends an inordinate amount of time and energy on "blame-gaming?" Everywhere we look someone is blaming someone or something for what they don't like or don't want in their lives. This blame-gaming has reached epidemic proportions.
Blame-gaming is firmly rooted in and perpetuates the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT). It goes something like this: the Blamer takes on the role of Victim who then blames the person(s), condition or circumstance they appoint as the cause of what it is that they don't want or like as the Persecutor. The Blamer/Victim then reacts by either turning to or calling for a Rescuer. They also may react (i.e. fight, flight, or freeze) in a way that they think or hope will relieve (rescue) them from the presence of the Persecutor.
One of the most recent examples revolves around President Barack Obama – specifically on health care reform; the disrespectful shouting as he addressed Congress on the issue; and charges that the shouter did so because of racism.
ANY form of "ism" fuels blame-gaming: racism; sexism; classism; ageism; political partyism; altermative lifestyleism; you-name-it-ism. The form that any "ism" takes is to blame "them" (whoever is seen as the cause – as the Persecutor) and to call for action (sometimes quite violent and vitriolic action) to get rid of the cause. The assumption is that if we can just get rid of; or neutralize; or contain "them," then all would be right with the world.
But that very reaction and way of thinking only perpetuates the game. Why? Because the reaction that is taken will only engage "them" as the new Victim who then reacts to the Blamer as a Persecutor. And the drama continues… In the long run, blame-gaming is futile because the reacting that takes place can only perpetuate the cycle.
Like the computer (Joshua) in the 1983 movie "War Games" concludes after running all the scenarios in the a "game" of thermo nuclear war, "strange game, the only way to win is not to play."
(OK… It is fair to point out that this entry blames the Blamer for initiating and perpetuating the cycle. A future post will focus on an alternative "game" that we can play that initiates and perpetuates TED* [*The Empowerment Dynamic]. What would you call such an alternative "game?")


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We are proud to launch the Dr. Willie Parker Fund for Abortion Access in the South! This new fund will provide financial assistance to help patients from Mississippi and Alabama access abortion care.
Donate to the Dr. Willie Parker Fund today!
As one of the only abortion providers in these regions, Dr. Parker sees the deep burden of restrictive laws that chip away at reproductive freedom reflected in his work every day. He was moved to launch the Dr. Willie Parker Fund to ensure that Southerners are not turned away from providers due to lack of ability to pay, get to clinic and navigate the web of TRAP laws. We spoke with Dr. Parker about his patients, his motivation and his support for the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Tell us about yourself and your work.
I'm a Southern born African American man who's a physician trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Board Certified, with a sub specialty training in family planning and contraception. I am a women's health provider, reproductive justice advocate, and an abortion provider. I've been providing abortions since 2003 and I've been an OB/GYN for 25 years. The first 12 years of my practice I did not provide abortion care, but I became convinced in the deepest places of my being that reproductive justice and reproductive rights demand that women have full control of their reproductive lives and that means access to all of the reproductive possibilities, including abortion. So I've been an abortion provider for about 13 years. That work to me is human rights and social justice work.
What are some of the barriers that your patients in the South experience?
In addition to disproportionately high rates of poverty, there are racial and ethnic tensions, as well as very parochial notions about sexuality. [In the South] unplanned pregnancies represent a moral failure with regards to a lack of sexual discipline and a lack of religious values, and as such, there is a very punitive nature to the policies that govern reproduction. There are very few states – I think there are no states in the South – that use Medicaid funds for abortion. Then there's the targeted regulations aimed at restricting access to abortion. They're often known as TRAP laws and they result in medically unnecessary rules that are arbitrary and burdensome and cumbersome, both on women and the clinics and providers. Some of those barriers include waiting periods as long as 72 hours in Mississippi; no funding for abortion services; parental notification laws; facility standards that require outpatient facilities to meet ambulatory care surgery status. So it's a perfect storm. Every particular way in which a barrier can be created, that seems to happen in the South and it seems to happen under the guise that it's an effort to make abortion safer for women when it's already extremely safe.
What moved you to raise money for abortion funding in Mississippi and Alabama?
As a provider in both states since 2012, I know firsthand what some of the barriers are. I made the effort to relocate to the South and make myself more available to provide services in this region of the country. Even after many women come and get their counseling, and they get their assessment of the gestational age, I've seen women not come back because they could not clear the financial hurdle of paying for the service. People who oppose abortion have not been able to stop women who have means from getting abortion because of the [Hyde Amendment]. But they have been able to block women who have limited financial means from getting an abortion by blocking the usual source of coverage for medical care. In substance, they've created a system that says, "Although we don't agree with abortion, you can have an abortion if you can pay for it," which is unethical and, in my opinion, immoral.
So, it made sense to me that we need to come up with modes of assistance that stand outside of the regulatory authority. And that would be private donations to create a fund that would be targeted towards states that are challenged by poverty and restrictive laws. It just didn't make sense to me to be in Mississippi and Alabama and not try and address the issues that are major barriers.
Why do you support the National Network of Abortion Funds?
As I've travelled the country and in some other parts of the world when people hear about the plights of people in the South, specifically Alabama and Mississippi, they're moved by compassion to want to do something.
I really appreciate that NNAF makes a sustained effort to reduce the financial barriers for women all across the country and try and organize and fill the gap where that kind of assistance doesn't exist. They have been able to standardize the process of local abortion funds being created and coming up to speed, being efficient at both generating funds and distributing funds to where the need is.
They are able to help funds to distribute monies more equitably; they are able to support local abortion funds, strengthening and collaborating with them, as well as being a repository for people from outside of the region who may not know how to get monies to local abortion funds. NNAF has played a clearinghouse role for those local abortion funds.
That was attractive to me and that's why I approached them about creating a funding opportunity in the South.
I'm a fan of NNAF and I was humbled and flattered that they were willing to host and develop a fund in my name. It gives me the opportunity to champion the cause of women in the South and distribute funds in way that will be most helpful in Alabama and Mississippi. It's just one more piece of the many pieces that have to fall into place for women to be empowered to exercise their full rights, to control their reproductive lives and thereby their whole lives.
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The EACH Woman Act, introduced by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), over seventy Congressional Co-Sponsors and with the support of thirty-six women's health, rights, and justice advocacy organizations, ensures coverage for abortion for everyone, however much they earns or however they are insured. We […]
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September 2016 marked 40 years since the Hyde Amendment passed. Abortion funds all over the U.S. didn't let it go by without a fight, joining other All* Above All partners to hold a week of action for abortion coverage. Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund held FIVE banner drops throughout their state. Lilith Fund held a similar visibility […]
Support Your Local Abortion Fund
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
From the Studio
Just wanted to take a moment from eating Christmas cookies and turkey to post some new work. I've been having some success and some "dogs" but mostly having fun in the studio. It's great to have my whole family around even if they are going in ten directions. Anyway here's some new "stuff". These pieces will travel to California next month for my show at Galerie Gabrie.
5 comments:
- Carol Schiff Studio said...
They are all stunning!
- December 31, 2009 at 5:39 AM
- Marla Baggetta said...
Thanks Carol. Happy New Year!!
- December 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Marla Baggetta said...
Thanks Carol. Happy New Year!!
- December 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Deb Stewart said...
Beautiful landscapes. I really enjoy your work very much. And I also enjoyed reading about your day to day life and frustrations. I have a full time job and do my art and find it really hard to balance - but I do manage to get things done because I'm selfish with my time and just keep "keepin on". It would be fun to take a workshop from you I think.
- January 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- Anita Stoll said...
These paintings are soooo beautiful.Takes my breath away. I love your blog and your work. You inspired me to offer my students the option of doing the same our version of the "100". To date I can say there have been many breakthroughs for all of us. Thank you for inspiring us.
- February 9, 2010 at 8:18 AM
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WVU Position Glance: Defensive Line
By Greg Hunter
Heading into the 2017 football season, West Virginia's defensive line is about as predictable as a spring day in the Mountain State – sunny one moment, cloudy the next.
There's no doubt that WVU's third-year defensive line coach Bruce Tall has some big holes to fill, as he has to replace all three of his starters from last season – defensive ends Noble Nwachukwu and Christian Brown, as well as nose guard Darrien Howard. Between them, the trio started 78 games in their Mountaineer careers, while playing in a total of 138. All three are now in NFL camps, so the pros thought enough of their skill levels to give them a closer look.
Not only did Nwachukwu, Brown and Howard get all but one start last year (Nwachukwu was hurt against Texas, and redshirt freshman Adam Shuler got the first snaps in his place), but they also were ironmen on the field. Schuler and true freshman Reese Donahue developed into trust-worthy backups, and then-junior Jon Lewis also provided some rest for the starters at times. But other than Alec Shriner, who has since been moved over to offense, there wasn't another defensive lineman who got any playing time for the Mountaineers in 2016. Typically it was a five-man rotation, as Donahue and Shuler rotated in at the defensive end spots, and Brown slid inside to the nose to give Howard a break every once in a while.
West Virginia's combined game experience of defensive linemen available for 2017 (56) barely equals that Brown had himself at the end of his career (53). but the good news for WVU is that what it lacks in experience, it appears to make up in depth. A rotation that was just five or six deep last year could go eight or nine deep this coming season.
Certainly Shuler and Donahue will be counted on greatly to step up their level of play. Odds are the two sophomores will replace Nwachukwu and Brown as West Virginia's starting defensive ends.
A 6-foot-4, 275-pound native of Longwood, Fla., Shuler registered 33 tackles and one sack as a redshirt freshman last year. Long and athletic, he showed the ability to pressure the passer but also was stout enough to play the run. The same could be said for Donahue, who became the rare true freshman d-lineman to see game action for WVU. The 6-foot-4, 264-pound native of Ona, W.Va., enrolled at West Virginia in January of 2016 and that jumpstart on his college career and allowed him to contribute right away. He got better and better as the 2016 season went along, and ultimately recorded 12 tackles.
Beyond Shuler and Donahue, things start getting a little dicey. Former walk-on Jon Lewis is a fifth-year senior who is versatile enough to play any of the three defensive line position. The 6-foot-3, 275-pound product of University High in Morgantown has played in 27 games in his career, but has just 12 tackles in that time. Jon, whose father Junius Lewis was a Mountaineer basketball player from 1976-79, must prove now that he can go from a six- to eight-play a game defensive lineman to one capable of handling 30 or more snaps a contest.
After Lewis, Shuler and Donahue, the experience drops off a cliff. Jaleel Fields, a 6-foot-1, 304-pound junior from Aliquippa, Pa., is the only other current West Virginia defensive lineman who has played a game at the major college level. Redshirted as a true freshman in 2014, Fields played in four games and had eight tackles in backup duty in 2015. He was in contention for a second-team spot at noseguard entering last season, but a knee injury in the summer sidelined him for all 13 games. He's healthy again and battling for a spot on the depth chart at the nose, though he can also play some defensive end if necessary as well.
Fields' biggest challenger for the starting noseguard job is another player who missed all of last season with an injury. Xavier Pegues came to WVU from Itawamba (Miss.) Community College a couple of years ago with a great deal of hype. But he just missed qualifying academically in 2015 and had to take a redshirt. Then last summer he suffered a shoulder injury and missed another entire season. Now a fifth-year senior who is entering his third year with the Mountaineers, he has yet to see a snap of game action at WVU. As long as he's healthy, though, that figures to change this fall, as the 6-foot-2, 289-pound native of Oxford, Miss., came out of the spring as West Virginia's starting nose guard. While he has the raw strength to hold down the down the middle, he's also athletic enough to slide out to defensive end at times as well, so Pegues could give the Mountaineers a multi-positional player, much like Brown last year.
Fields and Pegues can play either inside or outside. One newcomer who figures to see action this year is a pure run-stuffing noseguard. Jalen Harvey is a 6-foot-2, 340-pounder who arrived at WVU this past January by way of Northwest Mississippi Community College. A second-team all-conference performer at NMCC last year, Harvey gives West Virginia some depth options in the middle it hasn't had in a number of seasons.
The Mountaineers also have another junior college transfer who could add depth at the defensive end position. Like Harvey, Ezekiel Rose arrived at WVU this past January, giving him an opportunity to learn the system in spring practice. A high-motor product of juco power East Mississippi C.C., the 6-foot-3, 270-pound Harvey helped the Lions to a 19-2 record over the past two seasons.
That gives Tall seven defensive linemen he feels are capable of playing efficient football against Big 12 competition. But he hopes to find one or two more, giving him an eight- or nine-man rotation. Stone Wolfley could be one of those. The 6-foot-4, 246-pound third-year sophomore from Morgantown High spent his first two seasons at WVU working at tight end, but he moved over to defensive end this spring.
In addition, the Mountaineers have two young defensive linemen with excellent DNA who will get a look at helping immediately. Lamonte McDougle and Darius Stills are true freshmen who just enrolled at WVU on June 5. But both come with impressive pedigrees.
A 6-foot, 303-pound native of Pompano Beach, Fla., McDougle's father Stockar was an All-American at Oklahoma and a first-round draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2000, where he started an eight-year NFL career.
A native of Fairmont, W.Va., Stills is the son of former Mountaineer rush linebacker Gary Stills (1996-98). Gary had 26 sacks at WVU, which is still second on the school's career list, and then went on to a 10-year NFL career with Kansas City, Baltimore and St. Louis.
Now the younger generation of McDougle and Stills will try to follow in their father's footsteps. Whether that path leads them to game action or redshirts in 2017 remains to be seen.
Returning walk-ons Jonathan Szymczek, a 6-foot-1, 246-pound redshirt freshman from Erie, Pa., and D.J. Carozza, a 5-foot-10, 304-pound fifth-year senior from Parkersburg, will add depth to WVU's defensive line.
West Virginia recently brought in another walk-on d-linemen who is intriguing. Daniel Buchanan recently enrolled at WVU. The 6-foot-4, 276-pound product of Gilbert, W.Va., passed up scholarship offers from the likes of Toledo and UCF to live his dream and play for the Mountaineers. An excellent tight end and defensive end in high school, he helped lead Mingo Central to the Class AA state championship this past year, defeating Darius Stills' Fairmont Senior Polar Bears in the title game. Buchanan could potentially wind up on offense in college, but most expect his future lies in the defensive line.
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Dr. Nathan Oates knows more than a little about short stories. As a creative writing professor at Seton Hall, he teaches his students the work of the masters while helping them hone their craft. As a writer, he's had numerous pieces published in prestigious literary magazines. Now, his expertise has taken his literary career to a whole new level.
Oates' first collection of short stories, "The Empty House," was just published after it won the Spokane Prize, which honors the best short fiction. Though he is no stranger to seeing his work in print, Oates said having a book to his name is especially meaningful.
"Like any debut writer, seeing my stories in book form is incredibly exciting," he said. "Each (magazine) publication is a thrill, but to have about 200 pages of my stories gathered together between covers is different, even more thrilling."
The 12 stories included in "The Empty House" are independent of each other, yet they all share one common theme – travel. The tales take readers all over the world as they follow a man searching for his missing brother in Guatemala, a broken family trying to reconnect while visiting Ireland, a father and son caught up in a Haitian civil war and many other American characters experiencing life in foreign lands.
Oates, who named the title story and "The Highline Highway" as his favorites from the book, said the reason travel is often featured in his work stems from his own love of it. He said he also finds it fascinating how travel impacts one's sense of self.
"While we travel we often become uncomfortable, uncertain and afraid, and we reveal ourselves to be people we might not have imagined, or wanted to be," Oates said. "Essentially, we reveal our fundamental, most basic selves, which we tend to cover up with routine in our everyday experiences… I wanted to explore (that) in these stories."
Most of the pieces, Oates said, were written between 2008 and 2012, which corresponds with his first four years of teaching at Seton Hall. While it would seem working full-time would interfere with one's writing, he said his years at the university have been beneficial to his creative process.
"The years I've been teaching at Seton Hall have been the most artistically productive of my life," Oates said. "During this time I've discovered what I think of as my style and have learned a great deal about how to write stories."
As a result, Oates said, he's currently writing a novel and is finishing up a second story collection. In the meantime, "The Empty House" can be purchased online from Willow Springs Editions and Amazon. It will also soon be found in bookstores, including Seton Hall's.
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Standard Register Expands Six Sigma Effort, Names Six Sigma Directors
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyDAYTON, Ohio--June 19, 2002--Standard Register announces the appointments of William T. McCormick and Victor H. Moses to lead Six Sigma initiatives in two of the company's strategic business units. McCormick has joined Standard Register as director, Six Sigma, for the Document Management strategic business unit, while Moses has joined the company as director, Six Sigma, for the Label Solutions strategic business unit. Six Sigma is a process-improvement methodology used by world-class companies as they drive to reduce costs, improve service and increase customer loyalty. Standard Register launched its Six Sigma initiative in July 2001 with the election of Robert Crescenzi, a former Compaq vice president, as Standard Register's vice president of Six Sigma. Standard Register now has about 300 people (including green belts, brown belts, black belts, master black belts and champions) working on Six Sigma projects ranging from increasing production throughput to digitizing sales processes. "Six Sigma is helping us make dramatic improvements in how we operate -- enhancing our speed, accuracy, efficiency, and service in everything from developing new solutions to interacting with customers," said Peter Dorsman, chief operating officer. "We drive to make operational excellence an additional source of competitive advantage for Standard Register." In their positions, McCormick and Moses are responsible for coordinating Six Sigma initiatives within their respective business units. McCormick was most recently with Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, Texas, where he served as manager of black belts in the Customer Satisfaction and Quality Group for the Enterprise Services and Solutions Group. (Black belts help functional departments and business units identify, plan and implement Six Sigma projects.) He previously served as corporate manager for total quality management with Norand Corporation. McCormick began his career with Texas Instruments where he served as superintendent in Consumer Products Manufacturing and Service before becoming the total quality manager in the Semiconductor Group. McCormick holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and Sociology from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He and his family reside in Springboro, Ohio. Moses joins Standard Register from Compaq Computer Corporation, where he served as corporate Six Sigma black belt/program manager. He also has prior leadership experience with General Electric Company in Six Sigma and operations. Moses started his career in General Electric's Corporate Manufacturing Management Program before becoming a manager of shop operations and a black belt in GE Industrial Systems. He later became a Services P&L business leader within GE Power Systems. Moses holds a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. A native of Dermott, Arkansas, Moses and his family have relocated from Houston, Texas, to Miamisburg, Ohio.
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Controversial Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has declared that "he will be sworn-in as the people's president" on December 12 despite his nemesis, Uhuru Kenyatta, having been officially inaugurated as the president of Kenya on Tuesday, the Daily Nation reports.
Jamhuri Day is a national holiday in Kenya, celebrated on 12 December each year. Jamhuri is the Swahili word for "republic" and the holiday is meant to officially mark the date of Kenya's independence, which happened on 12 December 1963.
Odinga, the leader of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa), lost the rerun October 26 presidential election to Kenyatta as well as the initial August 8 election, which were subsequently annulled on the grounds of electoral irregularities.
The Nasa leader uttered his challenge on Tuesday as police fought running battles with opposition supporters.
"We won in the August 8 elections and we decided we were not going to have anything to do with the October 26 elections. At Jacaranda we said we don't recognise Uhuru as the president," said Odinga.
"On 12th of December I will be sworn in as the people's president," Odinga stated as he upped the ante in the ongoing controversy and political unrest swirling around the East African country's elections.
Nasa supporters attempted early Tuesday morning to attend a prayer service and memorial at the Jacaranda grounds in Embakasi, in the capital Nairobi, for the more than 50 people killed in previous election-related violence.
However, clashes broke out as the police prevented them entering the grounds by firing teargas and beating some of them. Police had earlier warned Odinga's supporters that they had no permission to hold the memorial – a warning subsequently ignored.
In other violence on Kenyatta's inauguration day, which marked his second term as president, police shot dead a seven-year-old boy, Geoffrey Mutinda, in Nairobi's Eastlands. The child was playing on the balcony of his family's first floor apartment when he was shot.
An eye-witnesses said the shooting was carried out by non-uniformed Administration Police officers riding a motorcycle.
The area had experienced protests earlier in the day, but at the time of the shooting calm had returned, the boy's family said.
"There were no demonstrations or political rallies here. We do not know why the police shot. They were riding on a motorcycle and shooting indiscriminately," the boy's father Peter Mutuku said.
Following the fatal shooting, which targeted the child's head, residents used boulders and old tyres to barricade roads into the estate to prevent police from accessing the estate to collect the body.
A neighbour of the Mutuku family, a pregnant woman, was also shot in the leg.
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Oregon's Students With Disabilities Significantly Less Likely To Graduate
Friday, June 05, 2015
According to a study released Thursday by the the Education Week Research Center, "Next Steps: Life After Special Education," only 37 percent of students with disabilities in Oregon graduated with a high school diploma in 2013. This is compared to 69 percent of students across the state - a 32 percent gap between the two groups.
When compared to the rest of the nation, the situation of Oregon's disabled students looks even worse. The national average of students with disabilities graduating in 2013 was 62 percent, only a 19 percent dip from the rate of non-disabled students.
"One of the factors involved in that difference is that part of the eligibility criteria for special education is that the student's disability is impacting their learning, so it's impacting their ability to progress academically," said Chrystal Watros, a Program Administrator for Portland Public Schools. "If they were progressing academically at grade level, then they wouldn't necessarily be requiring special education. The nature of their disability is also a factor."
Even after taking these hurdles into account, however, the graduation rates of Oregon's students with disabilities are still dragging far behind the rest of the country. According to ODE officials, there's more than one factor at play.
Rates Not As Bad As They Seem - But Still Lagging
Administrators are quick to cite how Oregon's diploma system, which differs to that of many other states, has impacted the state's graduation rates statistics.
"One of the factors that is different about Oregon than other states is that we have multiple options for students with disabilities which may not exist in other states," Watros said. "We have the modified diploma option, extended diplomas, and alternative certificates. In the past, students who completed high school with one of those three options were not counted as high school graduates. That has had a significant impact on our graduation rates compared to other states."
That issue was resolved this year after ODE reached out to the federal Department of Education to have those students who received some form of modified diploma recognized in the state's graduation rate data.
This modification produced a significant bump in the state's graduation rates. In 2014, 51 percent of Oregon's students with disabilities graduated from high school, compared to 37 percent in 2013, before the changes were made. That leaves Oregon only 11 percent behind the rest of the nation – a vast improvement from the 25% difference the year before..
"That being said, we're still in the low 50s, so there's clearly a lot left to be done," said Crystal Green, Communications Director for the state Department of Education.
New Practices In Place
ODE has already implemented several new practices in state schools to help close the graduation gap between students with and without special education needs, including early childhood programs and early identification of special needs requirements.
"In special education, our conversations are targeted towards what 'what is their unique situation?'" What are their strengths and challenges? How do we best support them in reaching their full potential?" Greene said. "We really want to make sure that's a conversation."
ODE has also applied for technical assistance from the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT), an organization that trains school systems on how to better assist students with disabilities.
These "predictors of success" include access for students with disabilities to the generalized curriculum, to opportunities for community experiences, and training in skills like self determination and self advocacy, Simich said.
Another major focus is the importance of 9th grade, which ODE says is a crucial factor in determining if a student, with or without disabilities, will complete high school. Administrators have been implementing strategies of tracking and assisting students who end their freshman year behind their peers. If they have not completed enough credits to remain "on track" to graduate, ODE programs intervene.
"School districts are designing different activities like coaching after school, aligning the student with a peer mentor, Saturday instruction – not as punitive, but as a support mechanism," Simich said. "Some of the sports teams and clubs also incorporate a tutor."
Oregon's Rural Landscape Plays a Role
For towns throughout Oregon with only several hundred people or few schools, access to special education assistance can be limited. The state has 197 school districts, 80 percent or more of which are small and in rural areas, Simich said. Disadvantages to living in one of these areas can include less funding, fewer resources, and lower rates of high school completion and postsecondary education, according to Education Week.
Oregon has attempted to remedy this through its Education Service Districts (ESD), a group of 17 collectives throughout the state that helps school districts – especially ones in rural areas – have access to high cost special education resources.
"Each ESD works with their region of the state to help provide things where not many kids per district might need, like a sign language interpreter," said Greene.
Moreover, ODE created a "transition technical assistance network" this year. The network has eight facilitators who help districts identify and connect school districts with the resources they need, Simich said.
Portland Becoming A Model Of Success
In 2011, Portland's rate of graduation for students was disabilities was at a dismal 31 percent. In only five years, however, the city showed a dramatic 19 percent jump, reaching a 50 percent graduation rate in 2013. Students without disabilities saw only an 8 percent increase, rising from 62 to 70 percent between 2011 and 2013, according to city data.
The spike in the numbers can be attributed to the city's transition to a "mainstreaming" model of special education, where students with disabilities spend most of their day in general classrooms and with special education support.
"General classrooms have access to the core curriculum, so when students have access to the core curriculum, we're providing them with an opportunity to learn," said Watros, who has been working for Portland Public Schools for two decades. "When we remove them from the classroom, we're restricting their access to the curriculum and opportunity.."
Access to the core curriculum is crucial for meeting graduation requirements, Watros said.
"If they're not in classes where they're being exposed to the material, how do they have an opportunity to learn it?" she added. "They have to have access. It's all about access and opportunities."
Portland Public Schools also launched a new focus program in high schools this year called the Communication Behavior Classrooms, which assists students with significant social, behavioral, and developmental needs.
According to the Portland Public School district's website, the high school students in the program are integrated in general education classes, but with added intensive supports of a team that includes a special education teacher, a speech-language pathologist, and para-educators with expertise in the student's specific needs. This is meant to provide "mainstreamed" special education students with a better chance of graduating within four years.
"My goal working with high school special education students is to close the gap between graduation rates for general education and grow another 20 percent in the next few years," Watros, who works on the program, said. "That's the next target. We're above the state average but that's not good enough."
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Aiming to lower expulsion rates, especially for students of color, and raising high school graduation rates are among Portland Public Schools' top priorities. See what other challenges the schools are facing here.
Raising Graduation Rates
In 2012-2013, about 75 percent of students graduated with their cohort, while another 7 percent of their cohort completed some form of high school requirements during a fifth year, finishing in 2013-2014.
Sascha Perrins, senior director of PK-12 Programs, said Portland Public School District has raised rates by doing more career technical education alongside regular curriculum, giving students deeper offerings all the way back to middle school, as well as by identifying students sooner who have fallen behind.
Graduation rates got a little boost from another data change in 2013-2014 that could be a little deceiving. In 2013-2014, the state began counting students who received a modified diploma in the four-year cohort rate, reasoning that a modified diploma is enough to qualify for college financial aid.
Reducing Expulsions
The district also has a strategy to address an issue that goes hand in hand with graduation rates: exclusionary discipline of students. "We're seeing a really high link with kids who are excluded (via expulsion) and kids who don't graduate on time," said Perrins. "I'm not saying if you miss… suddenly you can't graduate, but it's more symptomatic of your experience in school."
Additionally, students of color are far more likely to experience expulsion than white students—a national trend that doesn't miss Portland. In 2013-2014, 10.5 percent of African American students were expelled at least once, while 7.4 percent of Native Americans, 4.4 percent of Pacific Islanders, 3.9 percent of Hispanics, 3.8 of percent mixed race, 2.3 percent of whites and 1 percent of Asians were expelled.
In the last few years, the number of students being expelled has decreasd, but the rate of expulsion for African American students has not changed much. In 2013-2014, they were about 4.6 times as likely to be expelled than a white student.
Improving Leadership
Portland Association of Teachers President Gwen Sullivan said that the district has huge leadership issues starting with principals but also at the central office.
"People are just being mean. In some cases it feels like they are being encouraged to be," said Sullivan. "I don't know when (the district) will actually fire a principal. They tend to go on leave and disappear."
Recently, the district has had a number of principals abruptly go on leave—one after being accused and arrested for domestic abuse and the other after teachers complained about the hostile environment, reported Willamette Week.
Sullivan said that the central office must have good leadership, too, in order to address these issues.
"We know that in a school where you have a supportive principal, the teacher feels supported, the parents feel supported, the kids feel supportive and the environment is good to teach in," Sullivan said.
Improving Parent and Community Engagement
"(Parent involvement) is one of the things that everyone talks about and everyone tries to figure out how to approach," said Otto Schell, long time parent advocate and PTA volunteer. "Some communities have done really well at engaging parents at the school level and others not so much."
"The PTA model works very effectively in some schools and in other schools we don't reach all the parents," said Schell, who is currently a Grant PTA member and the legislative director for the Oregon PTA.
Schell gave the example of watching the Caeser Chavez community come out and presented during the budget meeting at Roosevelt High School, which included a Spanish translation services. "It's a great example of how you can do it if both the school staff and parent community coalesce and work together," he said.
Redrawing Boundaries
Due to anticipated growing enrollment, PPS began a boundary review process this year that would address balancing the district population in the available space in school buildings.
Some sticky areas include achieving diversity of racial and ethnic groups and addressing space needs in some schools.
Additionally, the district has a mix of K-5 and K-8 schools, about which parents have had mixed opinions. Some feel that middle school students get stronger offerings in a 6-8 school as classes like band or choir are difficult to offer middle school students in a K-5 school lacking a larger population.
"Middle schools should have shop, art, band… a variety of different things," said Sullivan.
A district-wide committee is rethinking boundary changes for the fall 2016 school year.
Completing Building Upgrades and Rebuilds Using 2012 Bond Money
Hand-in-hand with rebalancing school populations, the district is planning and currently undergoing building changes for Portland's growing student body. While some plans are already underway, the district will still consider whether building spaces already in the works will be enough to house enrollment projections 15 years from now.
"We'd hate to overbuild or underbuild," said Miles.
The district has released its list of 27 summer projects in elementary schools, which includes seismic upgrades as well as science classrooms and ADA (American with Disabilities Act) work. It is also beginning work at Franklin High School with a groundbreaking at noon on Saturday, May 16, and at Roosevelt High School. Work at Faubion PK-8, which will create a shared space with Concordia University, begins in the fall. Planning for modernization at Grant High School is currently underway with construction planned for 2017.
There are a few more years of the bond after that during which the district could consider how to adapt other smaller buildings.
Ensuring Third Graders Can Read to Learn
Before third grade, teaching is more directed at helping teach students how to read, but in third grade, the curriculum shifts to reading in order to learn more. "You have to read to access more information," said Perrins. "We want every child to access all that learning to come up after third grade."
Reading to learn by third grade is a priority of the Oregon Department of Education, which administers state testing in third grade. But that will only tell you what a student has learned in the past, said Perrins, which is why the district administers smaller "formative assessments" to understand what struggling students are learning. These could be done every two to three weeks.
To support reading in elementary schools, the district hires instructional specialists especially at schools with higher poverty, divides students into smaller groups, provide mentorship for younger teachers and professional development options to strengthen teaching.
Sullivan added that in the case of reading the district is doing a good job by adding 25 more librarians next year.
Improving funding
The district isn't the only player to consider in the game of funding schools. But certainly many challenges would be easier to face with more funding.
This year, the Oregon Legislature increased funding from the last biennium to $7.255 billion spread across the state. However, most local school districts had supported a $7.5 billion budget for K-12. The reduced number isn't really anything new for public schools, which have for years been asking for more than the legislature gives it.
Providing More Wrap Around Services
Sullivan said teachers could benefit from better connections with other services available to their students from impoverished families. They need things like counselors, mental health providers and food assistance—some of which can come from other sources like the county.
But, sometimes the extra support could come from special education services, which requires the district to be supportive of teachers making referrals.
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If I want to attend an event which is publicised on Facebook, I sometimes mark myself "Interested" so that I get a reminder notification on the day of the event. At least that's what I like to think, though the conversation below illustrates that I'm perhaps sensitive to the accusation that I do it partly to show off.
A conversation I had with Aditi this week:
|I saw you posted on Facebook that you're going to a talk about death.
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Facebook sometimes sends me "positive" messages like Thanks for being here, or Enjoy Facebook today! I wonder if someday I might get a notification saying, Remember: our time here is limited. Given that the first reaction of most users, on seeing such a message, will be to log the hell out of Facebook, I think the likelihood is remote.


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And those within whose wealth is a known right, for the petitioner and the poor. – The Holy Qur'an 70: 24-25
Shaukat Khanum Hospital (SKMCH) cares for thousands of patients who rely on your support. Last year we were able to provide free cancer treatment to 75% of our patients through Zakat funds. We covered all diagnostic and therapeutic hospital fees, which would have racked up bills that Pakistan's poor couldn't dream of settling.
Tabeel was one of many children diagnosed with cancer at Shaukat Khanum Hospital last Ramadan. With the grace of Allah (swt), and your Zakat, we were able to give her a fighting chance. We gave her parents hope and consolation in the knowledge that their child was receiving the best treatment available, without the burden of its unaffordable cost.
It was only through the Zakat of Muslim donors worldwide, that Imran Khan was able to realise his dream of free cancer care for Pakistan's poorest, two decades ago. It's only with your Zakat that we are able to continue this work every year. Without it, we'd be forced to turn away thousands patients who have no chance of recovery in a country with no free national health service.Support a Patient with your Zakat Calculate your Zakat
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Every year, our patients at SKMCH Lahore and Peshawar depend on your ongoing support. Will you donate your Zakat towards the full or partial treatment of a patient like Tabeel?
Cancer treatment is costly. This table provides some idea of the approximate cost of treatment for different types of cancer. Without your Zakat, poor patients in Pakistan simply couldn't afford cancer care.
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Qumran Archaeology Abstract
The site of Khirbet Qumran, the ruins located near to the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, has for the last half-century been the source of much debate and disagreement between scholars. In this paper, the main theory regarding Khirbet Qumran shall be considered -- that which interprets the ruins as the site of a sectarian community. It shall be seen that there is a variety of evidence from the ruins to support this theory, which was first proposed by R. de Vaux when he led a series of excavations in the 1950s, and the connections between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ruins shall also be considered. Among those who support the sectarian theory, it is often suggested that it was in fact a group of Essenes, and the reasons for this connection shall also be discussed. However, it is important to remember that not everyone agrees with these suggestions, and therefore the paper shall turn to the idea of the ruins as being the site of a villa, to see what grounds there are for taking this view. Finally, the cemetery located near the ruins shall be looked at, as the evidence found here can provide important information regarding whichever theory one chooses to support.
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text: Spy Vibers lost a hero today. Robert Culp starred in I Spy (1965-1968) with Bill Cosby. In the program, which broke ground culturally in the US by portraying a multi-racial duo, Culp played Kelly Robinson- a spy posing as a tennis pro. Alexander Scott, played by Cosby, posed as Robinson's trainer. The sports-pro cover allowed the team to travel the globe incognito while fighting the Cold War. I Spy was was a rare program that actually filmed on-location in international settings. This coupled with Culp and Cosby's natural banter gave the show a sense of realism and relevance to 60s viewers. These were hip (and patriotic) young spies whose on-screen camaraderie made them come across as old high school buddies that you would enjoy hanging out with. Culp worked behind the scenes on the show as well, taking on writing duties and directing an episode. The opening credits to I Spy were quite stylish. Contrasting color blocks with font overlays, silhouette action, and split-screen B&W film clips come together like a live version of the 1960s TV tie-in comics from Gold Key and Dell. You can see I Spy steaming on-line at Netflix and Hulu.


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Turnitin does not check to see if a piece of work is plagiarized or not. We will check a student's work against our database and if there are instances where a student's writing is similar to, or matches against, one of our sources, we will flag this for you to review.
It is perfectly natural for an assignment to match against some of our database. If your student has used quotes and has referenced correctly, there will be instances where we will find a match. The Similarity Score Index (SSI) simply makes you aware of any problem areas in a student's paper; you can then use this as a tool as a part of a larger process, in order to determine if the match was acceptable.
For example, your student may have submitted a paper to Turnitin previously in the past - if they had their name on that submission, it is entirely possible that, if you are not excluding small matches, you might see this on their Similarity Report.
Another example may concern a student copying and pasting a chunk of text into their paper due to a lack of knowledge on the topic they are covering, their Similarity Index is 10%. This is compared to another student who may have a firm basis of knowledge for the paper and knows enough to gather information from several sources to quote, their Similarity Index is 12%.
Both students will be shown to have matches against our database. However one of these students copied directly from a website where as the other properly sourced their quotes. We suggest using the similarity report as an indication that plagiarism may have occurred and then use it as a part of a larger process to determine if these matches are acceptable or not.


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All four work so perfectly with each other and I can imagine them plied together for a lovely tweedy looking cardigan for the summer. Or adjacent pairs too for a lacy crochet shawl - Crystal and Wish for a cool combo or Rusty Nail and Silence for something a little warmer looking. I'm still on the hunt for the perfect yarn for an Aroha shawl and one of these might just be the one I'm looking for? Which one would you choose out of these lovelies?
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Best of all, 10% of all holiday merchandise will benefit our 38th annual Caring for Kids Campaign!
With colder weather right around the corner, our Christmas Star Ceramic Mugs are perfect for warming up with a hot cup of hot chocolate, plus they're only $6.99! They make great stocking stuffers and are available at all locations while supplies last!
And at the following locations, you'll also find long-sleeved adult Christmas Star t-shirts for $15.99. Better hurry though - these items are sure to sell out fast.
Locations carrying Christmas Star long-sleeved t-shirts:
- Airport – Moon Twp.
- Avalon*
- Banksville Rd.
- Belle Vernon
- Butler – Clearview Mall
- Center Twp. (Monaca)
- Cranberry Twp.
- Dubois
- Franklin Park
- Greensburg
- Grove City
- Hermitage
- North Huntingdon
- Indiana
- Latrobe
- Library Road
- McKnight Road at Ross Park Mall
- Monongahela
- Monroeville
- Peters Twp.
- Robinson
- Sewickley
- Shaler
- South Hills Village
- Uniontown
- Waterfront (Homestead)
- Washington
- Whitehall
- Waterworks
- Austintown
- Chapel Hill
- Clarksburg
- St. Clairsville
- Warren
*Merchandise will also be available at our new Avalon restaurant when it reopens in mid-November.
In addition to our Christmas Star merchandise, we are also offering children's Snowman Smiley long-sleeved t-shirts at select locations! They're Olaf approved and will guarantee lots of warm hugs!
Snowman Smiley Shirts are available at the following locations:
- Airport – Moon Twp
- Bethel Park
- Cranberry Twp.
- McKnight Road at Ross Park Mall
- Monroeville
- Robinson
- Somerset
- South Hills Village
- Uniontown
- Whitehall


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GLOBAL excitement was triggered this week by the revelation a Chichester author may have located a missing warship of Henry V.
Historian Ian Friel, of Westhampnett Road, has just released his book Henry V's Navy.
In it, the former Littlehampton and Chichester museum curator says the warship Holigost, which took part in the Battle of Agincourt, may be beneath the River Hamble at Bursledon, in Hampshire.
"I'm amazed," he said when asked what he made of the national coverage this week.
"I thought that there would be mild interest but the story apparently has been picked up all over the world.
"There are articles in the Times, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail and the Telegraph. It's been on BBC radio and ITV Meridian."
In addition, he said companies in Australia, the USA and beyond had also used it.
"We've yet to get confirmation that this is the Holigost but I think there's a real possibility it is," he said.
Henry V had four great warships: Holigost, Trinity Royal, Jesus and Grace Dieu.
"Certainly, Holigost and Trinity Royal took part in two major battles that really broke French naval opposition," said Ian.
He spoke of his excitement that Historic England is due to carry out a sonar study of the stretch of river next year.
Ian carried out a lot of the research at the National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, and the National Archives at Kew. He was principal curator at Chichester District Museum from 2002-2007.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton will tell Senate members Tuesday that her goals as secretary of state, if she is confirmed, will include a renewal of American leadership, a official with President-elect Obama's transition team said.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify Tuesday during a hearing on her nomination for secretary of state.
Clinton also will say she'll aim for a revitalization of diplomacy as a means of promoting the nation's security interests and advancing its values, the transition official told CNN Monday.
Clinton is due to testify during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
"We expect that she will reiterate that she and the president-elect believe that America must be smarter to be stronger," the official said. "Sen. Clinton believes in 'smart power' -- using all the tools of foreign policy that are at our disposal.
"She also believes, as does the president-elect, that diplomacy must be at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy, and that it must be balanced with military power in ways that work for the 21st century."
Clinton agrees with President-elect Barack Obama, according to the official, "that our country must be strong at home in order to be strong abroad -- that our own progress depends on repairing our economy and working for shared economic growth and prosperity globally."
Clinton "will stress the importance of bipartisanship, and of decision-making that is based on a marriage of principle and pragmatism, not ideology," the official said.
The committee's chairman, Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, will open the hearing, followed by remarks by Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Indiana, according to committee spokesman Frederick Jones.
Democrat Chuck Schumer, New York's senior U.S. senator, will introduce Clinton, who will then make her opening statement.
Kerry anticipates a smooth confirmation process that would likely be completed in a day, Jones said.
But he predicted that committee members would have "plenty of questions" about donors to former President Bill Clinton's foundation and his international activities.
Meanwhile, senior State Department officials told CNN that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley were hosting a dinner Monday for Hillary Clinton and retired Marine Gen. James Jones.
Jones is Obama's pick for national security adviser.
CNN's Jessica Yellin and Elise Labott contributed to this story.
All About Hillary Clinton • Barack Obama • U.S. Senate


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A stunning free-kick from super-sub John Courtney was enough to give Coagh United all three points against fellow strugglers Portstewart.
With his first touch of the ball, Courtney's 68th minute strike nestled in the top corner of Joel Madison's goal and secured a vital victory for Coagh in their bid to avoid relegation from the NIFL Championship 2.
In the end, it was a deserved victory for Ian Todd's side at Hagan Park last Saturday.
But the team that started the day one place above them in the league table created the best chances in a fairly even first half.
Indeed, Coagh had goalkeeper William Hassan to thank for keeping the game scoreless at half time, when, on 44 minutes, he pulled off an incredible double save, first from the head, then the foot, of Portstewart forward Lee Forgrave.
The hosts started the game in nervy fashion and the pace of Forgrave and Christopher Hanson was an early worry for a defence missing Karl Steele.
Hanson was the first to threaten when he latched on to a ball over the top, turned Stephen Glasgow inside out, but shot straight at Hassan.
Aaron Canning was then caught in possession and when the ball was squared to Hanson the Coagh defender must have been glad to see the striker's shot sail over the crossbar.
It took a good twenty minutes for Coagh to settle and their first real effort on goal was a Glasgow volley from a Jonathan Young corner, that went narrowly wide.
Minutes later Terence O'Brien, who had an excellent came for Coagh, had a shot deflected wide after he was set up by Jason Gillespie.
Gillespie himself then registered a header on target before the play swung to the other end and Hassan did well to save Forgrave's goal-bound effort with his feet.
Canning then came to Coagh's rescue in the 35th minute with a goal-saving tackle when Hanson was about to pull the trigger from inside the box.
Gillespie was the first to test Madison with a tame effort that the Portstewart keeper somehow almost fumbled into his own net.
O'Brien then had a long-range effort saved before Daniel McKinless waltzed into the box but could not beat Madison under pressure from defenders.
Todd threw on Eoghan Quigg for Josh Rhodich on 62 minutes, but it was Courtney's arrival five minutes later that changed the game.
Young broke through a couple of tackles and burst forward from midfield but was felled by Portstewart's Mark Mearns. And from 25 yards Courtney buried the resultant free kick.
The same player had a good shout for a penalty turned down two minutes later and again went close on 76 minutes, cutting in from the left and forcing Madison into a good save.
The Portstewart forwards, so dangerous in the first half, were living off scraps and Courtney almost applied the coup de grace with ten minutes to pay. He surged into the box, beat a defender easily and prodded the ball goalwards. Madison could only push it up in the air, but managed to claw it away at the second attempt.
The home side were braced for an onslaught in the last five minutes that never really materialised. Forgrave whizzed a volley narrowly wide but Hassan was untroubled and Quigg and Courtney both passed up chances to wrap the game up before the final whistle sounded.
This Saturday, Coagh have another massive game when they travel to face bottom club Wakehurst. Kick-off is 3pm.
Coagh: W. Hassan, S. McGeown, S. Forrest, J. Ferguson, A. Canning, J. Young, S. Glasgow, T. O'Brien, J. Gillespie, J. Rhodich, D. McKinless. Subs: S. Crooks, J. Courtney, E. Quigg, D. McGuckin, S. Heneghan


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It is most certainly not my job, though, to cheer along anyone, student or otherwise, in their psychological confusion. I am not in graduate school to learn how to encourage poor souls in their sexual experimentation, nor am I receiving generous stipends of taxpayer monies from the good people of the Great State of Wisconsin to play along with fantasies or accommodate public cross-dressing. To all and sundry alike I explicate, as best I can, such things as the clash between the Taira and the Minamoto, the rise of the Kamakura shogunate, and the decline of the imperial house in twelfth-century Japan. Everyone is welcome in my classroom, but, whether directly or indirectly, I will not implicate myself in my students' fetishes [emphasis added], whatever those might be. What they do on their own time is their business; I will not be a party to it. I am exercising my right here to say, "Enough is enough." One grows used to being thought a snarling racist–after all, others' opinions are not my affair–but one draws the line at assisting students in their private proclivities. That is a bridge too far, and one that I, at least, will not cross.
As a white man I sympathize with other white men who have been on the implicit receiving end of ham-handed diversity / anti-racism educational initiatives.
As a gay man I have had ENOUGH of educators in public institutions who call my sexual orientation a "fetish." You are right, Jason, that it's not your job to help your students grow into their sexual identity. You are most assuredly wrong, though, if you think you are serving the public good by denying the existence of transgender people (that is what your letter suggests to me). Do not, I repeat, do not expect me to shed tears if you do not attain a professorship in history at a public institution whose mission it is to prepare young people to navigate a society that is willing to let human beings be human beings, even to the extent of (gasp) choosing their own pronouns.
There are hundreds of conservative religious universities in this country that prepare young people to navigate a more rigid society, and if you really want to devote your life to that task, you should think of seeking employment at one of these institutions.


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Tattoos of celebrities and their influence on society
Tattoos of celebrities and their influence on society – The fans love their stars and starlets, the actors on the red carpet, their sports heroes and of course the musicians that they like to hear. For many an actor or a good athlete is almost already an idol and an idol you would like to emulate, cost what it may.
More and more celebrities show off their tattoos
The stars do not just on fashion and style trends with their new fans who want to be emulated. Meanwhile, you can also every 2nd or 3 Experience with a prominent tattoo that is shown open, because for a long time, tattoos are in society not as frowned upon, such as 20 years ago. That the celebs are at their tattoos, also helps to spread the art of tattooing and tattooed are not shunned, but rather accepted.
Especially the younger fans want to emulate their heroes and can often stand lettering of the most famous films to be even closer to their idols. Something like "Twilight" or "P.Patts" the effect is very popular …
The most famous celebrities and their tattoos
Which celebrities have tattoos? The name them all would take too long to clear. Therefore, we rely on only the most conspicuous tipped. Sarah Connor is very conspicuous tattoos and again we discover a new fact on her body. She is an accomplished singer, wearing her body art proudly displayed. Sido and Bushido, 2 German rappers are also heavily tattooed, and one can speak of works of art here not always. A German woman has created her tattoo recently more calls than she would have liked because they took this clearly in the foreground, where it was to be her husband, the newly appointed President Christian Wulff, one actually, on the one speaks. Shame it does not, however, on the contrary, short sleeves or transparent materials can always looks at the intricate tribal on the arm of Bettina Wulff.
Also, athletes and musicians show what they have to offer
When tattooed athletes you probably think first of David Beckham, Stefan Kretzschmar or Dennis Rodman. Of the friends of the rap and hip-hop scene like Eminem or 50 cent to mention you can also find on Robby Williams more and more tattoos , which he proudly and gladly. That rock bands like "long-haired and tattooed bomber" host, is no longer a secret for decades.


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I updated the reviews page of the website. Talk about ways to make yourself feel good, spend some time reading and compiling quotes from people who like the project you've been working on.
I'm not so awesome at marketing myself, I think this project is really important and am happy to talk to anyone who asks me about it, but I don't often start the conversation. Recently we had a meeting with some middle school teachers and I talked to the middle school curriculum guy running the meeting about Nix afterward. Turns out he doesn't work specifically with the math teachers, but he was still interested. So interested he wrote the title on his hand in sharpie! (On purpose! I tried to stop him by telling him it was a permanent marker but he went ahead and did it anyway.) He also shared that he had asked some kids what division meant the other day and they started showing him how to divide. He stopped them and said, "No, what does it mean?" and they replied, "Hm, no one has ever asked that." I love that our non-math guy is asking students such thought provoking questions!
Finally, there have been some great stories of people nixing tricks lately. I decided to share those stories with everyone by adding another chapter to the book. It's obviously not chapter one but LaTeX auto-numbers and the only way I could get just this chapter into a pdf all on its own was to make a new document. I would really appreciate some feedback! What other questions did you have after reading the book? What would make a more convincing call to action? Are there typos? Equally important questions.


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The Flexi Hollower comes with two links to attach the cutter head to the tool shank. It is shown in the top picture with the straight link being used. In the bottom picture the curved link is being used.
This hollowing tool is designed for small to medium size turnings in endgrain or facegrain. The Flexi Cutter is a smaller version of the Pro-Forme Hooked Cutter with cut limiter that prevents clogs and helps prevents catches. The tool includes two links for the cutterhead, allowing for a maximum versatility. Unhandled
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Just one more day of deer hunting season left, and then there's muzzle-loader season that extends into mid-December. We're not even going to talk about the ruffled grouse, pheasant, bobwhite quail, rabbit, fox, and bobcat, whose demise comes next.
But never mind that. Last week I took a nice long road trip to visit family for the Thanksgiving holiday. It's always good to get away and remind yourself how many people are out there just waiting to be met. Because believe me, there are many.
During my 18 hours on the road, I passed countless people on their way somewhere. Some were alone in their cars and trucks, others had company. I played peekaboo with a dog in the back of a Subaru along the Massachusetts Turnpike, and somewhere near Albany I admired a brave little black cat whose kingdom had been reduced to a pile of clothes in the back window of a Nissan. I sympathized with a hotel desk clerk whose pants were producing a most unflattering static cling, and I held the elevator door open for a distinguished-looking man who was towing his granddaughter's bright purple Power Puff Girls suitcase. I enjoyed peeking into back yards, glancing at porches and balconies, and repeatedly wondering to myself, "What would it be like if my entire life had been spent in that house?"
Behind the wheel, people seemed distracted and stressed, driving aggressively, using the bulk of their giant fenders to bully and intimidate one another. But once stripped of their vehicular shells, people softened back into human beings.
Thanksgiving itself was a gluttonous feast. Trays and platters and heaps of food, succulent turkeys and hams (yes, in the plural), dishes that have long been staples of the gathering. Culinary delights whose recipes inevitably feature a can of something, a can of another thing, a bag of frozen something else, loads of cream and at least one stick of butter. But once a year and for just a few brief bites, oh my goodness do they taste good.
There were babies and newlyweds and wise elders, there was a roaring fire, and there was an abundance of tiny dogs in sparkly dresses providing welcome entertainment when conversation lagged. "So how's life in Maine?" people would ask, or perhaps, "You still doing the knitting thing?" or, for the brave humorists, "So, did you knit that yourself?" pointing to my impossibly fine machine-knit sweater. (That one never gets old.) At the end of the day, we all swore we'd never eat again.
And yet here I am tonight with a chicken roasting in the oven, potatoes and Brussels sprouts on the stove, fire in the fireplace, snoring cat on the couch, and blaze-orange please-don't-shoot-me vest by the front door. Grateful for the recent journey and yet so happy to be home.
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B.E Third Semester Examination, Dec-2010
A Model Question Paper
Network Analysis
(a) Write a mesh equation for the circuit shown in figure-1 and determine mesh currents using mesh analysis.
(b) Obtain expression for a set of equivalent.
i) Y connected impedance to replace a set of delta connected impedance.
ii) Delta connected admittance to replace a set of Y connected admittance.
(c) Distinguish between the Independent and dependent sources with one example. (6+10+4=20 Marks)
2 (a) Explain briefly tree, co-trees, and loops in a graph of network with suitable example.
(b) Under what condition do you consider topology for network analysis? For the graph shown in figure-2, for a co-tree (4, 5, 2, 8), write the tie set and cut-set matrices.
(c) Explain incidence of a graph with a suitable example.
(5+10+5=20 Marks)
3 (a) State and explain i) reciprocity theorem ii) Millman's theorem
(b) State and explain superposition theorem.
(c) Determine the current through 2 Ω resistor of the network shown in figure-3 using superposition theorem. (10+5+5=20 Marks)
4 (a) State and explain Norton's theorem.
(b) Sate and explain maximum power transfer theorem.
(c) In the network shown in figure-4 determine the impedance ZL for which power transfer is maximum. Calculate the maximum power transfer to the load.
(7+5+8=20 Marks)
4 (a) Show that series resonant frequency of series resonance circuit is equal to the geometric mean of two half power frequencies.
(b) What is the difference between selectivity and bandwidth? Explain.
(c) A coil of inductance 31.8mH and resistance 10Ω is connected in parallel with a capacitance across 220V, 50 Hz supply. Determine value of C if non inductive current flows in circuit. (6+4+10=20 Marks)
6 (a) In the circuit shown in figure-5, determine the complete solution for the current when the switch S is closed at t = 0. Applied voltage is v(t) = 400 cos(500+pi/4) resistance R= 15 Ω, inductance L = 0.2 H and capacitor C= 3µF.
(b) Explain A.C excitation of series R-C circuit. (10+10=20 Marks)
7 (a) State and prove i) initial value theorem and (ii) final value theorem as applied to L transform. What are the limitations of each theorem.
(b) Find the Laplace transform of the periodic signal shown in the fig-6
(10+10=20 Marks)
7 (a) Define Y and Z parameters. Derive relationship such that Y-parameters expressed in terms of Z-parameters and Z-parameters in terms of Y-parametrs.
(b) Find the transmission parameters for the network shown in figure-7.
(10+10 =20 Marks)
NOTE: If you are confused about which unit should I select for exam, then I'm going to tell you in next post.


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- 2 bedrooms
- 2 bathrooms
- Minimum stay: 7 nights
- Type: Apartment
- Agent: Ana Monteagudo
Beautiful, renovated loft condo of 1190 sq ft in an antique, classic, French-style building in the heart of Palermo Soho.
Our huge loft features 2 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, each with tubs, and a private office. With a floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, the condo is filled with light overlooking an interior courtyard. Fully furnished with two, 32'' flat screen HDTV;s, DVD's, surround sound audio system, MP3 hook ups, 3 MG WIFI, movie collection, hair dryer, curling iron, coffee maker, imported top-quality linens...all the amenities you need. Most of our furniture is custom made and all of our artwork is custom painted.
This location is close to the subway, which is the fastest and easiest way to get around. We chose to this area because it is also alive during the day and night. There are grocery stores and local shops on one block and upscale boutiques and trendy restaurants on the next block. It is great to have options within your location.
Near Botanical Garden, Zoo, Artisians fairs at Plaza Serrano and Plaza Cortázar on weekends, Convention Center, Japanese Gardens, Rose Garden, paddle boats, rollar blading, jogging, Planetarium, Starbucks, bus and subway.
Around the corner is a national grocery store and a gym. There are also health food stores, farm fresh produce and vegetable shops,home made gelato shops, and local parillas surrounding the home.
The condo is located in the back of the building so even though you are in the middle of it all, the street noise is not an issue!
More Details: Palermo Soho is the most hip, yet laid back area of the city. When you walk out the door, you have every established and up and coming designer shop in town.The stores are incredible in design and the buildings range from very contemporary to old world style. There are cobblestone streets everywhere. Some streets are extremely scenic with large trees and a 'European' feel.
In Palermo, you can find over 700 restaurants and cafes. There is something to do at EVERY hour of the day here. On the weekends, there are artisans fairs just 2 blocks away. The Botanical Garden and Zoo are just 3 blocks away. The huge park, 28 de Febrero, with Planetarium, rose garden, paddle boats, bike and roller blade rentals, and Japanese Garden, are within walking distance.
Around the corner is a national grocery store and a gym. There are also health food stores, farm fresh produce and vegetable shops ,home made gelato shops, and local parillas.
If you wish to travel around the city, the Subway is four blocks. Bus stops are close by. Cabs are abundant.
Our loft is located in the back section of an original, antique, French building. It is located on the second floor and there is no elevator in the building. We provide soap and paper upon arrival. It is the tenants responsibility for the remainder of the rental period.
Rate is for 2 guests additional guest is $10.00 per day.
Maximum occupancy is 4 adults
- Air conditioning
- Furnished
- Balcony
- Full kitchen
- Satellite/Cable TV
- Restaurants
- Shops
- TV(s)
- DVD player
- CD player/Stereo
- Coffee maker
- Microwave
- Cooking utensils
- Maid service
- Wireless internet
- Linen and towels
- Telephone