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Master of Social Work (MSW)
The School of Social Work offers a program of classroom study and fieldwork that leads to the master of social work (MSW) degree. The program is based on a relational perspective for advanced professional practice, leadership, and innovation in service delivery. A single concentration, Clinical Community Social Work, is offered which is augmented and focused through elective courses selected by the student in consultation with his or her faculty advisor. Paramount to this perspective is a commitment to economic and social justice. The curriculum leading to the MSW degree is built on a liberal arts perspective. The MSW program at East Carolina University has been developed in accordance with the policies and guidelines provided by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
The School of Social Work offers two curriculum options: regular track and advanced standing. The regular track program is designed as a two year course of study that requires the completion of a minimum of 60 semester hours. The initial year, referred to as the foundation year, is comprised of 30 semester hours focusing on developing the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to become professional social workers. This foundation is applicable across different practice settings, problem areas, and population groups. The foundation curriculum includes material on populations-at-risk, human diversity, and social and economic justice, and is provided in courses addressing the areas of human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and services, social work practice, and social work research. In addition, a foundation practicum provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and values taught in the first year in a supervised practice setting.
The second year of the regular track program, generally referred to as the advanced year, builds upon the foundation year and provides more thorough knowledge of complex policies, practice skills, evaluation skills, human behavior and the social environment, and field education. While the foundation curriculum introduces Clinical-Community Social Work, the advanced curriculum enhances the students' understanding of the perspective and further develops their skills for practice. In addition to 9 semester hours of electives, regular track students will complete the following courses: SOCW 5001, 5900, 5910, 6110, 6111, 6140, 6141, 6550, 6701, 6702, 6711, 6940, 6950, 6960.
Students who have graduated from a CSWE accredited bachelor of social work (BSW) program may apply for admission to the advanced standing MSW program of study. Those accepted into this program attain the MSW degree after the completion of a minimum of forty-two semester hours over the course of one calendar year. Full time advanced students enroll in the summer, completing 12 semester hours (SOCW 6110, 6111, 6701, 6711). The remaining 30 semester hours are completed within the context of the advanced year curriculum. A field practicum is required for both semesters of the advanced year. In addition to 9 semester hours of electives, the advanced standing students will complete the following courses: SOCW 6110, 6111, 6140, 6141, 6550, 6701, 6711, 6950, 6960.
Students are expected to demonstrate proficiency in foundation and advanced content through the successful completion of a comprehensive assessment. For the MSW degree, the successful completion of SOCW 6550 serves as the comprehensive assessment.
Academic Certifications and Licensures
Students pursuing the MSW may complete a certificate program in one of the following areas: child welfare studies, gerontology, or substance abuse. Certification may be secured by a combination of required and elective courses. Students may also complete a licensure in school social work. In addition, the school participates in the North Carolina Child Welfare Collaborative, a grant program.
Child Welfare Studies Certificate Program
The certificate in child welfare studies provides special skills and knowledge of child welfare practice. Goals of the certificate include enhancing the knowledge, skills, and understanding of child welfare practice for persons involved in the prevention, assessment, or treatment of children and families experiencing, or at-risk of, child abuse, neglect, or dependency. The certificate is housed in the College of Human Ecology, School of Social Work. Courses taken to fulfill the 15 s.h. certificate requirements may be taken as electives in the MSW curriculum.
Graduate students or professionals working in the fields of social work and other child-family focused areas may apply to the certificate program.
Required courses (15 s.h.): SOCW 6006, 6007; CDFR 6406. SOCW 6422 and 6426 may substitute for the required social work courses for this certification. 6 s.h. of related electives must be approved by the program coordinator.
Substance Abuse Certificate Program
The certificate in substance abuse will equip social work graduate students with specific skills and knowledge in the area of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The goal of the certificate program is to increase the number of social work graduate students with the required knowledge and skills to work with clients who are drug users and/or abusers or who are charged with drug-related offenses. In addition, this certificate will allow graduate students an opportunity to become more sensitive to the laws governing drug abuse and drug-related offenses. Students will also learn efficient methods to design and implement effective substance abuse intervention strategies for this population.
Applicants seeking admission can be graduate students or professionals holding a masters degree working in the social work
and other related fields
. Admission is based on completion of the certification application and approval by the
program coordinator. Students enrolled in the certificate program must adhere to the program standards of the School of Social Work and the Department of Criminal Justice. Certificate recipients will receive 180 contact hours (12 s.h.) of substance abuse specific credit approved by the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Certification Board.
Required courses (12 s.h.):
Applicants for admission as degree candidates in social work must fulfill the general admission requirements of the Graduate School of the university and of the School of Social Work.
Admission Requirements
Admission to the MSW program is selective, and is determined by academic preparation and individual qualifications of the applicant. Persons seeking admission must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited undergraduate institution, a minimum GPA of 2.75 (4.0 scale) on all undergraduate work with a minimum GPA of 3.0 for their senior year.
All applicants to the MSW program must have completed
undergraduate course work in each of the following areas: natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and mathematics
with a minimum grade of C
as preparation for graduate study in social work:
In the Natural Sciences, completion of a minimum of 3 credit hours of coursework in
Human Biology
. Courses that meet the Human Biology requirement include General Biology (with a health emphasis), Anatomy, Physiology, Reproduction, Biology of Aging, etc.
Humanities requirement
is documented by completion of a minimum of 6 semester credit hours in English, a foreign language, philosophy, religion, music, art, communication, theatre, government, etc.
The applicant should have completed a minimum of 6 semester credit hours in the
Social Sciences
; e.g., Psychology, Economics, Political Science, Sociology
To meet the
requirement, a student must have taken at least 3 credit hours minimum in a basic college mathematics, college algebra, or statistics course.
The applicant must also have completed 3 semester hours in a social science research course with a significant statistics component, or 3 semester hours of statistics.
The capacity to work with people is essential to successful social work practice. Strengths or weaknesses in this capacity are relevant for admission to the program. Prior work experience in social work settings is highly valued.
In addition to the ECU Graduate School application, all applications must contain the following:
School of Social Work MSW Application;
three completed references in sealed envelopes;
official copies of transcripts from all undergraduate institutions attended;
official copy of transcript from institution noting the conferral of undergraduate degree;
personal response to essay question presented on the MSW application;
a complete resume; and
GRE or MAT test scores.
Transfer Students
It is possible to be accepted as a transfer student from another graduate social work program under the following conditions: social work transfer credit must be graduate-level course work taken after earning a baccalaureate degree; course work must have been completed at a graduate school of social work accredited by the CSWE within five years prior to the application; and the student must have received a minimum grade of B on transferred course work. Transfer students must meet any foundation requirements they have not already completed by taking the required courses or by passing proficiency examinations. They must also complete the required practice courses. Courses applied toward another degree cannot be used for credit toward the MSW; likewise, previous experience working in the field of social work or a related field or life experience cannot be used as course credit toward the MSW. Transfer students must take a minimum of 80 percent of the required semester hours in residence at East Carolina University.
Program Standards
Students enrolled in the MSW program are expected to adhere to the following program standards.
The School of Social Work fully subscribes to and is guided by the NASW Code of Ethics (
). Social work program applicants and students are expected to demonstrate professional behavior which reflects a commitment to the ethics of the social work profession as exemplified in the Code of Ethics. Behavior and statements contrary to these ethics may be cause for denial of the student's admission to or continuance in the School of Social Work's programs. Examples of behavior which would warrant a review include, but are not limited to, derogatory oral and written statements towards students, staff, faculty, agency representatives or clients. Derogatory statements concerning racial, ethnic or cultural background, handicap status, religion, socio-economic background, gender, sexual orientation or other status may also warrant review.
The role of social worker involves working with people from a variety of backgrounds and with a wide range of issues and concerns. It is important that the social work student not permit personal issues and/or conditions to interfere with this role.
All students are expected to complete their degree requirements within a four-year period from the date of first admission. When a student withdraws from the School of Social Work, they must reapply to the Graduate School and to the School of Social Work. As long as a student maintains continuous enrollment, regulations applicable during his or her term of admission apply. When degree requirements change during a student's enrollment, the student may be extended the opportunity to choose the new requirements. A student who interrupts enrollment for one year or longer and is readmitted is subject to regulations in effect at the time of readmission. Even if readmitted, all required coursework should be completed within the four-year matriculation period.
Prior Felony Convictions
The School does not require that applicants submit to a background check for possible criminal offenses. Applicants should realize, however, that practicum agencies may require such a check. Applicants should be aware that having a prior felony conviction or prior sanctions for unprofessional conduct may impact future potential for obtaining field placements, and social work employment and licensure. In addition, the School, as part of its process of practicum assignments, asks students whether they have a felony conviction (or non-contested felony) in their background. Students may be automatically denied admission, or if enrolled, terminated from the program, if they have not been truthful or have provided inaccurate information in the application concerning felony convictions.
A student whose grade point average falls below 3.0 will be placed on academic probation, and will be allowed to continue his/her enrollment only with the written recommendation of the academic advisor and approval from the graduate program coordinator. Removal from academic probation is granted when the grade point average is raised to 3.0 or above. Students who receive a grade of C in six semester hours of graduate credit, are ineligible to continue in the MSW program.
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THE musical Chess has a performance history more like checkers. It did well on the West End only to flop on Broadway. Commercial Australian productions haven't been wildly successful, either. Still, the soundtrack spawned two hit singles.
Composed by the talents behind Abba, the show's music roves far and wide - synth pop, orchestral chorus numbers, soaring love duets. Despite the absurdities of its plot, the musical is regularly revived in both concert and full dress productions.
This entertaining version from The Production Company boasts brilliant singing from some of our best musical theatre performers, slick choreography and a large onstage orchestra.
Gale Edwards' elegant direction moves all the pieces around the board with the assurance and taste for display of a Romantic-era chess game.
Simon Gleeson, fresh from playing Raoul in Love Never Dies, thrills as the tortured Russian grandmaster. It's an effortlessly charismatic performance and his singing is strong, pure and impressive in the difficult to master Anthem, the song of loyalty and defection that closes out the first act.
Silvie Paladino as Florence delights with her presence, releasing the full force of her voice in emotive solo numbers; modestly tailoring it to the demands of the show's duets and quartets (I Know Him So Well, opposite Alinta Chidzey, is a highlight).
I was less struck by Martin Crewes in the ''Bobby Fischer'' part. Supporting roles include Michael Falzon's Arbiter; Bert LaBonte and Mark Dickinson as CIA and KGB agents.
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Low Elo Podcast EP. 46 - Welcome to Preseason
In episode 46 of Low Elo, we talk about upcoming changes to Season 3's items and jungle, the need for a unified tournament format and a few things you can do to occupy yourself during the preseason.
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Brendon S necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We're looking for an elegant Home Page site design for Paradise Point Bowling Club (outdoor bowling on grass). The site will be developed in WordPress - we need just the psd file.
The site is to provide information for members and their guests - with the main focus being bowling info, entertainment info and a calendar of events.
Paradise Point Bowls Club
Paradise Point Bowling Club is a bowling club that hosts bowling matches between its members and members of other clubs. Local residents can also join the club for a nominal fee and enjoy the facilities including:
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- Gaming -poker machines
- Bistro - good quality meals at a great price
- Entertainment - bingo, trivia nights, singers, etc
The site will provide information for bowlers (including results, upcoming events and more) and members (what's on, courtesy bus info, etc) as well as general information:- Membership applications
- Job applications
We require the logo on the home page please, along with the tag line: The Friendliest Club In Paradise.
There is an image/pattern/colour (WallPattern.jpg) that we require onthe home page as it is a cornerstone of their branding efforts in theoffline advertising they do to stand out
We'll need a block available for a video on the home page, we'll use aWordPress plugin for the calendar on the side.
Flickr will be used togenerate in 4 photos into the sidebar.
We'd also like a 'Featured' block available for a graphic announcing special upcoming events such as a Trivia Night, etc.
The Home Page will probably be used to add blog posts.
Logos, colour pattern and images are all available here (16 images).
Top level menu:
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We'll use drop down menus for subsequent navigation levels.
Colours: based on the logo and the featured graphic (WallPattern.jpg) that is a cornerstone of their branding.
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Rhodes Studios necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Rhodes Studios, http://www.rhodesstudios.com,
Rhodes Studios is a photography and videography company in central Florida. We do travel nationally and abroad to other country from time to time.
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Vacaville police on Friday arrested two Vallejo residents, including one who led police on a high-speed chase with his daughter in his car, on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs for sale, among other charges.
At about 3 p.m., the Vacaville Police Department Narcotics Enforcement Team and Crime Suppression Team, along with Vallejo officers, served two narcotics-related warrants at two residences in Vallejo.
Before serving the warrants, the CST tried to carry out a traffic stop on Lino Jimenez, 33, who immediately led officers on a pursuit onto westbound Interstate 80. During the pursuit, which reached speeds of 75 to 80 mph, Jimenez threw out his window what is believed to be methamphetamine, Vacaville police Sgt. Rick Elm said in a press release.
After discarding the evidence, Jimenez slowed and stopped his vehicle near the Potrero Avenue exit in El Cerrito and was taken into custody without incident. Police said Jimenez had his 5-year-old daughter in the vehicle at the time of his arrest.
There was evidence that Jimenez exposed his daughter to the suspected methamphetamine while discarding it from his vehicle during the pursuit, Elm said, adding that some of the suspected methamphetamine was later recovered from the freeway.
In a separate traffic stop near her residence, officers arrested Kristen Melgarejo, 30. She was taken into custody without incident, and some two ounces of suspected methamphetamine, with a street value of $1,200 an ounce, and approximately $17,000 in cash was seized from her vehicle. While serving the two search warrants, investigators found more evidence of drug sales, Elm said.
Jimenez was booked into Solano County Jail for child cruelty, failure to yield to a police officer, destruction of evidence, transporting of methamphetamine and possession of a controlled substance for sale.
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Linux Top 3: Red Hat Gets Certified, Wayland Hits 1.0 and Linux 3.7 Ramps Up
1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Now EAL 4+
The Common Criteria Certification process is a long and arduous one. Common Criteria provides Evaluation Assurance Level that is the standard that U.S. Government and other large enterprises use as the basis of software qualification for production usage.
RHEL 5 received its EAL 4+ certification back in June of 2007, nearly 18 months after the initial release of RHEL 5 in March of 2006.
"This is marks our 15th completed Common Criteria certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, earning Red Hat a place at the top of the list of the industry's most certified operating systems," Paul Smith, vice president and general manager, Public Sector operations at Red Hat, said in a statement. "We've been deeply committed to security certifications so that customers can confidently turn to Red Hat for the expertise to deploy open source solutions at maximum security levels, and our work with Dell, HP, IBM and SGI on this certification reinforces that government customers can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux with confidence on a wide variety of hardware from many of the industry's top providers."
2) Wayland 1.0
The move to a new alternative to X11 is now going to start getting real with the release of the Wayland 1.0 protocol this past week.
"As I've said before, 1.0 doesn't mean we're done or that the protocol can't move forward," Wayland developer Kristian Høgsberg wrote. "What it means, is that we're confident that the protocol we have now covers the basic features and that we can build whatever new functionality we need with and on top of 1.0."
3) Linux 3.7 Moving Forward
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pushed out the third release candidate in the Linux 3.7 release cycle, on Sunday. The third release candidate is following the normal cadence of approximately one release candidate per week following the code merge.
The biggest item for Linux 3.7 remains the unified approach to ARM. Instead of multiple ARM branches, Linux 3.7 will have one, making it easier to maintain and deploy.
Torvalds also used the rc3 release to let loose on light hearted rant about naming and in particular the name Linus.
"Christ people, some of you need to change your names," Torvalds wrote. "I'm used to there being multiple "David"s and "Peter"s etc, but there are three different Linus's in just this rc. People, people, I want to feel like the unique snowflake I am, not like just another anonymous guy in a crowd. I'm getting myself a broadsword."
Linus "there can be only one" Torvalds
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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Nov. 3, 2006
LOS ANGELES - UC Santa Barbara freshman Philip Therp upset top-seeded Adam Holmstrom of Denver, to lead a trio of Gauchos into the quarterfinals of the 50th Annual Southern California Intercollegiate Championships at the Los Angeles Tennis Club on Thursday.
Therp posted an impressive 6-1, 6-3 victory over Holmstrom, who was not only seeded No. 1 in the tournament but has already defeated the seventh and eighth ranked players in the nation this fall and qualified for the NCAA Tournament as a freshman. A native of Birkeroed, Denmark, Therp also swept past UC San Diego's Kazumi Negishi in the first round of the tournament.
"This was a great win for Philip," said UCSB head coach Marty Davis. "Holmstrom couildn't keep up with his pace from the baseline."
Therp is joined in the quarterfinals by a pair of UCSB teammates, sophomore Bijan Hejazi and junior Jack Hui.
Hejazi, the fourth seed in the tournament, recorded a 6-4, 6-3 first round victory over Denver's Ravjot Dhatt and a 7-6, 4-6, 7-5 second round win over David Goodman of Azusa Pacific. Hui, the fifth seed, eased past Pepperdine's Troy Aiken in the first round, 6-2, 6-0, and then swept Loyola Marymount's Reyniere Roxas in the second round, 6-4, 6-4.
The quarterfinal round of the tournament is comprised of three players from UCSB, three from UCLA, one from Pepperdine and one from UC Riverside. Past tournament winners include legends Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith.
"Hopefully," Davis said, "we'll be adding the name of a UCSB player to that list."
Therp will play UCLA's Mike Look on Friday, Hejazi will play UCLA's Jeremy Drean and Hui will take-on Pepperdine's Richard Johnson.


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Bringing Shadow to Light: Gifts from a Manitoba Collection
Private collectors have historically played an invaluable role helping build and shape art holdings in public museums and galleries across Canada. The Winnipeg Art Gallery is no exception. Throughout its more than one hundred years of existence, the WAG has benefitted enormously from countless generous and discriminating individuals, families and foundations who have donated their prized objects and contributed to the Gallery's permanent collection.
This exhibition of approximately 40 paintings, drawings, and prints pays tribute to Robert and Margaret Hucal, Manitoba art collectors who, since 1990, have quietly gifted almost 350 works of mostly Canadian historical painting, sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings to the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The primary focus of their generosity has been works by artists with a connection to this province. Thus, you will find exquisite examples of works by William Kurelek, William Winter, Philip Surrey, and Charles Comfort in this exhibition. Equally, the Gallery's collection of Canadian prints has expanded significantly and deepened as a result of their kindness and discernment. Examples range from the spectacularly displayed craftsmanship of Edwin Holgate's wood engraving, to the futuristic linocuts of Sybil Andrews, to rare early intaglios by Ivan Eyre and Esther Warkov. In certain cases, the WAG has been fortunate to acquire original preparatory sketches that correspond to finished prints, a happy discovery important to art historical study as well as aesthetic appreciation.
One particularly unique aspect of the Hucal's collecting spirit must be emphasized. As the exhibition's title is meant to suggest, they have contributed to building-up important areas of the Gallery's collection that has sometimes been overlooked. Small and quickly executed preparatory sketches and studies—objects that play an indelible role in an artist`s creative process—earn equal attention to finished canvases, final proofs and end products, contributing enormously to the WAG's capacity to facilitate important primary research. A second way the Hucals have, as it were, brought shadow into light has been by gifting works of art by significant but hitherto underrepresented (and in some cases forgotten) Winnipeg artists of the early twentieth century, such as Alexander Musgrove, Alison Newton and Caven Atkins. Finally, in addition to defining examples, the Hucals have donated uncharacteristic works by nationally significant artists like William Kurelek, Bertram Brooker, and Fritz Brandtner, providing the WAG with the means to deepen scholarly and public appreciation of these artists.
The Hucal collection not only reflects personal taste and commitment but, perhaps above all, offers moving personal reflections about the world in which the works on display were created. Many of the pieces reveal painters and printmakers who were oriented, in the words of one anonymous artist quoted by the influential Winnipeg-born art critic Robert Ayre in 1949, "to the joys and despairs of our people" so as to "make art the concern of everyone."
Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Members' Event: Seeing Rights and Liberties & Bringing Shadow into Light
Members, join us for a look at two new thought-provoking exhibitions.
Thursday, August 21, 2014 from 2pm to 7pm
Tour: Bringing Shadow to Light: Gifts from a Manitoba Collection
Join Andrew Kear, curator of Historical Canadian Art for a fascinating look at this exhibition.
Wednesday September 10, 2014 at 12pm
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday


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The Internet Tough Guy is a feature in all Internet social forums. These are people who poison discussions with anger, hatred, and threats. Some are malicious. Some are crazy. Some are just afflicted with a rotten sense of humor. Whatever their motives, they're a scourge.
It takes precious little trolling to sour a message-board. A "troll" -- someone who comes onto an online community looking to pick fights -- has two victory conditions: Either everyone ends up talking about him, or no one talks at all. And where two or more trolls gather, they'll egg each other on, seeing who can anger and disrupt the regular message-board posters the most.
It can be distressing. If you're part of a nice little community of hamster-fanciers, Trekkers, or Volkswagen enthusiasts, it's easy to slip into a kind of camaraderie, a social setting in which everyone talks about life, aspirations, family problems, personal triumphs. In some ways, it doesn't matter what brought you together -- the fact that you're together is what matters.
Then, almost without warning, your community goes toxic. Someone in your group undergoes a radical personality shift and begins picking fights, or someone new comes to the party with an agenda. Or, worst of all: Your little clubhouse achieves some small measure of fame and is overrun by newcomers who don't know that Liza is a little bit touchy on the subject of hamster balls, or that old Fred gets into a froth anytime someone asks about retrofitting a bud vase into a vintage Beetle, or that everyone here actually kind of knows Wil Wheaton from reading his blog and he's a total mensch, so jokes about shoving Wesley out the airlock are frowned upon.
Sometimes, you rebound. More often, you tumble. Things get worse. The crowds get bigger, the fights get hotter. Pathologically angry (but often funny) people show up and challenge each other to new levels of vitriol.
In extreme cases, you end up with the kind of notorious mess that Kathy Sierra found herself in, in which trolls directed such bilious, threatening noise towards a harmless advocate for "passionate users" in web-applications that she withdrew from speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference.
You can deal with trolls in many ways. Many trolls are perfectly nice in real life -- sometimes, just calling them on the phone and confronting them with the human being at the other end of their attacks is enough to sober them up. But it doesn't always work: I remember one time I challenged someone who'd been sending me hate mail to call me up and say the words aloud: the phone rang a moment later and the first words out of my troll's mouth were, "You f*cking hypocrite!" The conversation declined from there.
Trolls can infect a small group, but they really shine in big forums.


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Lisa O'Donnell needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Design a logo for a new life coaching business thats a little different from all the rest. Take a trip down memory lane....... The idea behind the name is the story of 'the little engine that could' its a childrens book with a great mesage that says you can do anything that you put your mind to.
little engine consulting
I would like a logo design for my new business. I have just qualified as a life coach and am ready to hit the ground running. This will be the image of my business and represent me as a coach. I wanted something a little different from all the other coaching business names and something that made people stop and think. The name comes from a childrens book that has a beautiful message that you can do anything that you put your mind to and there are no limitations. This is the message that I want to get accross to my clients.
I am originally from NZ and am now living in Australia where I plan to be for a wee while. Growing up I had this story read to me and so did most people I know, so hopefully it will strike a chord with everyone.
I want the design to be simple with all lower case lettersI want the colours to be red and white (may have to have a red background for the white to show up?) Possibly a bit of black?I would like the tagline of 'know you can'
Guys, originally I wanted to stay away from trains, engines etc but am now thinking about the possibility of having some train tracks, or something that represents that, something that represents moving along on the journey (if that makes sense)
Im happy for people to try different things with the name also for example leave out the consulting part or make that on a different line?
Just some thoughts. - Thanks!
- I dont want any pictures of engines as I am concerned about it being too adolescent and pigeon holing my market.
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It's confusing to know where to start with Jean Paul Gaultier's show for S/S 2011, but for argument's sake let's start at the very beginning. The Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto opened his show - there was a vague precedent for this, his invitation featured two three-dimensional prints: a full-figured nude on one side, compressed down to a skinnier counterpart on the other. Pop on your 3-D specs, and the nudes popped off the page. Clever - a witty play on fashion's current fixation with voluptuous versus emaciated.
Exactly how either of the above related to Gaultier's collection - in any manner - is unknown. In fact, how anything related to anything else in Gaultier's collection is an absolute mystery to all present, including, one suspects, the man himself. We opened with anaglyphic prints - odd cosmic variations of stars and moons simply printed on denim. These have been done before, most recently by Marios Schwab over in London. What's more, they've been done better. It seemed the garments made a half-hearted attempt to pick up on the three-dimensional aspect of the print, popping sleeve-heads out into that tired, wire-coathanger shoulder shape, and jutting out pockets. These were tricked out in denim, before a barrage of pleats took over - engulfing everything from underwear (as outerwear, big surprise) to a classic trenchcoat (in pleated silk, it looked more like a dressing-gown). This was taken over by a brief rehash of punk styling - much beloved by Gaultier since the eighties, but never before presented so generically. Somehow, this segued into tropical foliage prints, replete with three dimensional flowers, and then finally, finally, into a bit of ruffled chantilly-lace bondage. The Divine Ms. Ditto teetered out dressed as a French maid in ruffled tulle and belted out a hit, and was then chased off the catwalk by Gaultier in a band t-shirt with a bouquet.
One hoped in, writing out the sequence of events, to discover some reason behind them. Alas, there was nothing. Abandoning logic and all pretense at a cohesive link from piece to piece, did the collection work as an array of Gaultier greatest hits, a sort of dressing-up box of his three decades of design? No. It looked messy, in a way we simply do not anticipate from a name like Gaultier. He's less established, more an establishment in himself. The truly sad aspect to this collection was that it felt like there was literally nothing anyone would want to wear. Ms. Ditto did her best to wow the crowd, but for all the power of her pitch-perfect performance there was no shaking the fact that M. Gaultier himself struck a bum note.


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kasha needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 94 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
to design a great logo for a new nanny agency. something that will grab peoples attention and make them remember my agency.
i'm looking for a bright colourful fun design for a nanny agency logo. i like the idea of using fun characters, building blocks or other child friendly things in the logo. i want it to be something that people will remember. i want the logo to say " TIP TOP NANNIES ". this logo is for a new nanny agency that i am starting, im 27 and have been a nanny for 8 years and i'm now ready to start my own agency.
- bright colours
- fun design
- child friendly
- using things like fun characters, building blocks or other child friendly things.
- a boring design
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Christopher Brian Bridges, or Ludacris, launched his music career as a DJ on one of the radiostations of Atlanta. His talent and enthusiasm captured the attention of the producer Timbaland, who saw a radio worker as a future rap-star. He offered to Christopher to work with him.Ludacris accepted the proposal and became a sound participant of Timbaland's track record entitled Phat Rabbit in 1998. And soon after, he recorded his solo album Incognegro, consisting of 16 songs. He listed in the American Billboard 200 and peaked at number 68 in Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums of the same magazine Billboard.
In total, the album sold about 50 000 copies that was not bad for the work of the little-known singer. However, Ludacris kept on working and signed a contract with Def Jam in 2000. He re-released his first work under the symbolic title Back for the First Time. Apart from old songs, it included four new tracks. Despite law sales of the album, it brought Ludacris his first fans.
The musician's third album was much more successful. In 2001, after the rapper's debut in acting, Ludacris recorded a single featuring Nate Dogg that became a soundtrack to the part two of the famous film Rush Hour, and released his third album Word of Mouf. He made several videoclips, including the video to the track "Rollout (My Business)" and it was nominated for MTV Video Music Awards. Ludacris tried to earn a Grammy but he was left behind by no other than Eminem.
Then, Ludacris focused on acting for a couple of years, starring in various films (including the well-known movie 2 Fast 2 Furious) with other rappers and alone. But in 2003, he returned to the music and his (already numerous) fans could enjoy the musician's new album Chicken & Beer. Although this album was not very popular, the singer's career continued. After releasing a single "Stand Up", it went up in the world as namely this song became Ludacris' first superhit and peaked at number one in Billboard 100. A year later, in 2004, he finally received his first long-expected Grammy.
In 2005, the rapper continued his acting career and starred in such famous film as Crash and increased the number of his fans. Then, he returned to music again and released his fifth album Release Therapy, which was destined to be successful. The album topped Billboard 200, became platinum, and received a Grammy for The Best Rap Album. Ludacris, with his persistence and outrageous image, became, eventually, one of the most known rappers in the US as well as throughout the world.
Ludacris still carries on the active creative work, releasing new albums and singles. The release of his last full-featured studio album, entitled Ludaversal, is slated for 2011.


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Even with today's inflated used car prices, $7000 can buy a discerning enthusiast an incredibly wide variety of options. Just consider the answers we got in a recent Thread of the Day asking readers what they would buy with seven grand. Everything from a smart fortwo to an early 1970s Datsun 240Z and a 1986 Chevy Corvette was mentioned.We've captured…Read More


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Failla Financial needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 180 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
This is my own firm and I would like to have more of the emphasis be on the logo rather than my name. I chose my name because my clients encouraged it but I would like to play it down a bit and have the logo be more of my brand...
Failla Financial Management
I was thinking something along the lines of using the two first initials FF. I am open but I thought design wise that might make for a good logo that could potentially stand alone.
I am not keen on red (bad market implications) I like blues and I think depending on the green it is over used in my industry.
Something that can go nicely on a golf shirt, envelope or hat. I am very open.
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2012-09-13 / Features
Celebrates First
Bailey Renoull celebrated her first birthday recently. She is the daughter of Chris and Nicole (Stephan) Renoull of Westminster, Md.
Attending her birthday party, along with her parents, were grandparents and great-grandparents: Larry and Denise ( Garland) Stephan of Westminister, Md., Wade and Shirley (Wible) Garland of Finksburg, Md., and their two daughters, Cathy Baker and her husband, Dale, and Penny Williams. Many other friends and family also attended. Wade is originally from the McConnellsburg area. His wife, Shirley, is originally from the Three Springs area. They observed their 50th wedding anniversary in October 2011 and were married in Hustontown.


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Wins at this point of the year don't mean much for the Cubs, sure they might be able to avoid 100 losses, but that's about it. Across the field in the other dugout these wins mean everything, which renders this weekend as a complete disaster for the Pirates as they walk away from this series without a single win. Today it was a combination of solid starting pitching from Chris Rusin, and the long ball as the Cubs blasted three home runs in the 4-2 victory. Rusin was solid on the mound for the Cubs as he tossed five strong innings giving up one run on five hits while walking three and striking out three. Unfortunately the Cubs bullpen couldn't hang on to a one run lead late so Rusin had to settle for a no decision. After the Pirates tied the game in the seventh on a James Russell balk, Alfonso Soriano continued is ridiculous 2012 by blasting his 28th home run of the season in the eighth to put the Cubs up for good 4-2. Soriano finished the day 1-for-4 with a home run, and two RBI's, he's now has 94 RBI's on the season to go with his 28 home runs. Josh Vitters and Anthony Recker had the other two home runs for the Cubs today, it was Recker's first major league home run. Carlos Marmol had an uneasy ninth inning but was able to nail down his 18th save of the season and lowered his ERA to under four, which was something that no one thought he would do this year back in May.
Game Highlights:
Soriano's Game Winning Home Run
Marmol Escapes with the Save
Sappelt's Nice Grab
Recker's First Career Homer
Josh Vittes Goes Deep
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2004 André-Michel Brégeon Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie Reserve
This wine was aged for 89 months on it's lees, and bottled in February 2012. Brégeon's vines for this bottle are 40 years average age, and the soil contains gabbro, a dark alkaline volcanic rock similar to basalt (per David Lillie's article in AoE Number85). Rumors that André-Michel Brégeon may retire soon make me sad. I think he is one of the best winemakers in the Pays Nantais.
Delicious wine, but seems very young. The color is pale yellow, and the initial pour has a tingle of dissolved CO2. The nose is great, complex and expressive with a typical mix of Muscadet saline mineral and some lemon citrus and lees/yeast flavors. As it opens an anise seed note shows up on the back end. The texture is initially a little rough and prickly. This smooths out with air. The finish is persistent.
The prolonged lees contact adds a lot of richness which marries with the natural acidity of the melon grape very well. Given the acidity and balance I believe this should age effortlessly. I would even decant this for an hour or so if opening now.
This wine was purchased recently for about $27 which is on the high side for Muscadet, but this is one of the top bottles IMO and I think is still a great value for the quality.
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By Quentin Fottrell
Thieves are using Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare as tip sheets.
Thanks to careless postings on social-networking sites, burglars can find out when homeowners are out of town and whether or not they own a menacing dog, experts say. According to a new report, nearly 80% of former burglars said they believed thieves use these resources to target homes. That could be a polite way of saying they are speaking from personal experience.
Social networking also allows burglars to "case the joint" without leaving home. What's more, 74% of ex-burglars say they believe location services like Google Street View is helpful to burglars planning raids. (Twitter and Facebook did not respond to requests for comment.)
It means burglars can hang up their black cat suits and stop prowling in neighborhoods in the dark. The average value of goods stolen during the day is $2,158 versus $1,868 at night, according to the survey by CreditSesame.com, a website with credit scoring and personal finance tools.
More people are happy to have their location tracked. A recent poll by MetLife Auto & Homes showed that 15% of Americans use social media to say that they left their home, while 35% of Americans between 18-24 years of age "check in" our Tweet about their location.
A spokesman for Google says the imagery available on Street View is no different from what people can see when walking down the street themselves or when viewing images which are already widely available on a number of real estate and directory sites: "Saying that Street View is enabling crime is similar to blaming the motor industry for a crime because criminals also use getaway cars."
Facebook and Twitter are also rich resources for the insurance industry. As Pay Dirt reported, there have been several cases involving child custody and employees claiming disability benefit. In one case, a judge awarded custody to a father after a Facebook photograph showed the mother drinking alcohol.
The lesson? Don't be a Twittiot. Be careful what you share with the worldwide web. As Lori Johnson, a California-based licensed investigator, warned: "It's an avenue that most wise investigators would exploit. We go over, shake the tree and see what kind of monkey falls out."


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About Maison Chapoutier
About Maison Chapoutier
Maison Chapoutier Facts
Maison Chapoutier, the family-owned, Hermitage based merchant firm, has returned to prominence since the late 1980s. Since taking over from his father, Max, Michel Chapoutier has dramatically increased quality with a hands-off approach to winemaking based on biodynamic farming. The reasoning? To allow terroir to fully express itself. This same philosophy also underpins the aversion to manipulation in the cellar.
Varietals Produced at Maison Chapoutier
The tradition of winemaking at Maison Chapoutier has been carried out for over 100 years. Michel's distant relative, Polydor Chapoutier, first purchased vineyards in the Rhone in 1879. Since then, the family has continued to acquire vineyard land and has expanded as far as Australia.
Syrah, Grenache, Marsanne, and Viognier are harvested from several appellations throughout the northern and southern Rhone, but Chapoutier's top class of wines come exclusively from Cote-Rotie, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Cornas, and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. The Hermitage Syrahs and Marsannes, all single site bottlings, are widely recognized as Maison Chapoutier's top wines.


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SWIX needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Mothers For (4) Mother Earth, Inc. is a non-profit 501©(3) organization that provides an opportunity for women around the world to unify and mobilize to help 4 categories of Mothers:
1.) Impoverished Mothers who currently receive disrespecting wages for the goods or service they produce/provide;
2.) Stay at home Mothers who would like to generate extra income for their families and fundraise simultaneously;
3.) Mothers who would like to donate their time to a cause; and,
4.) Mother Earth, for without her we could not survive.
Using the support of micro-financing partners and corporate sponsorships, M4ME would supply funding in the forms of grants and loans to bring women owned trade industries from around the world into higher fair trade salary and help raise them out of poverty.
Products from these impoverished mothers would then be sold through an online marketing system as well as by printed catalog by mothers interested in starting an "In Home Direct Sales Business". A percentage of the profits from the sale of those products along with the additional support of corporate sponsorships would then go to environmental programs implemented and developed by mothers looking for volunteer opportunities that help protect the final beneficiary, the Mother of all Mothers …… Planet Earth.
Mothers For Mother Earth, Inc.
Need to have a logo designed that brands the concept of Mothers For Mother Earth, Inc. similar to the Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer.
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Local playing fields are places where the whole community can come together to enjoy sport and exercise. Unfortunately they can also be difficult to maintain as they are heavily used and subject to assault by the UK's unpredictable weather! That's why the National Lottery is helping community playing fields to keep fighting fit through Sport England's Protecting Playing Fields fund.
The fund is aiming to help hundreds of groups to improve their playing fields now and keep them well maintained over the next 25 years – so both this generation and the next can continue to enjoy football, rugby, tennis, cricket, hockey and many more sports on good quality public playing fields for generations to come.
Since the scheme began sites across England have benefitted from improvements including resurfacing, installation of drainage, new marking and regular grounds keeping. Some organisations have even been able to buy disused land to create brand new playing fields! Perhaps most importantly though, many playing fields have been made more accessible to people of all abilities so that everyone in the community can enjoy them.
For more information about Sport England and their Protecting Playing Fields programme visit www.sportengland.org.uk/protectingplayingfields
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advanced economies are cutting fiscal deficits at the fastest pace since 2011 and are on track to have debt stabilize in the next year, though at a very high level, the IMF said on Wednesday.
Serious deficit-cutting efforts in most advanced economies, with the exception of Japan, means debt is set to stabilize at an average of just below 110 percent of GDP, the International Monetary Fund said in its twice-yearly Fiscal Monitor.
But that level still leaves countries vulnerable to market shocks and could crimp growth, and the Fund urged governments to cut their debt in a way that does not hurt long-term growth.
Japan, given its huge debt burden of over 243 percent of GDP this year, will face the hardest task in cutting its debt among advanced economies, though Ireland and Spain will also have trouble, the IMF said.
It predicted Ireland's government debt should be nearly 176 percent of GDP this year before falling slightly next year, while Spain's should rise to 99 percent of GDP in 2014.
The IMF reserved its sharpest words for Japan, which has still not started on any serious austerity, and plans a stimulus to offset the impact of a sales tax hike to go into effect next year. The IMF said the country must quickly develop a debt-cutting plan if it hopes to achieve its goals of halving its deficit after interest payments by 2015, and achieving a surplus by 2020.
At the same time, the IMF suggested some European countries might consider slowing down their austerity drive due to lagging growth. An IMF official said that included Spain and France.
"They can certainly now slow down the pace, that doesn't mean stop the pace," said Martine Guerguil, deputy director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department.
The IMF also highlighted growing fiscal problems in the developing world, especially in countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Egypt, Jordan and Morocco that have deteriorating fiscal situations, as well as Pakistan.
"There is an increasing sense that the fiscal positions of a growing number of emerging market economies are more vulnerable than was earlier thought," the IMF said. The IMF on Tuesday estimated gloomier growth for most emerging economies, which would make it more difficult for them to get their finances in order.
The Fund also urged India and Brazil to focus more on fiscal consolidation. Both countries' debt-to-GDP ratios are creeping up to the level of advanced economies, at around 68 percent of output.
The IMF also looked at tax reform proposals as a way of bridging fiscal gaps. While tax rates are already high in most advanced economies it said some countries like the United States and Japan still have room to raise revenue while eliminating exemptions and distortions. Higher taxes on property and on the rich may be good options for some countries, it said.
It also called on countries to reform the international tax system, which relies on rules developed before the advent of multinational corporations, remote service delivery, free capital movement and complex financial stratagems.
Changing laws to reduce tax avoidance by multinational corporations could earn the United States $60 billion a year under some estimates, or a fourth of all the revenue it gets from taxes on corporate income, the IMF said.
Finance officials from the Group of 20 top economies, who will meet in Washington later this week, have already signed off on an action plan to tackle corporate tax avoidance. But the plan, developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), largely excludes developing countries.
"The chance to review international tax architecture seems to come about once a century; the fundamental issues should not be ducked," the IMF said.
Reporting by Anna Yukhananov; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama


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First it was the official Marco Rubio water bottle, which you can get if you contribute to Rubio's Reclaim America PAC. Thousands have been given away:
Now Marco is in Israel, his visit a pointed contrast with the lengths Barack Obama and John Kerry have gone to in order to avoid visiting that country. Today his office circulated this photo of Rubio and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doing a water bottle toast:
They both are obviously enjoying the moment. So far, the water bottle thing hasn't exactly ended Rubio's career, as CNN speculated.


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Phil Spencer Takes Over Xbox Creative Teams
Phil Spencer, Microsoft Studios' VP, now has the future of the Xbox in his hands.
In an official posting on the Xbox Wire, Phil Spencer, Vice President of Microsoft Studios, has come forward saying that he is now in charge of the Xbox and Xbox Live creative teams. This means that Spencer will be also in charge of Xbox Music, Xbox Video and Microsoft Studios, which have all merged together with the Xbox's creative teams.
Earlier today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced these changes to the Microsoft staff, to which Spencer immediately took public, showing his take-charge yet honest attitude. Spencer has been very fan-oriented throughout his stay at Microsoft and regularly responds to fans' inquiries and opinions about Microsoft products on his Twitter. Spencer has stated that the company's goal is staying committed to the need of the gaming community with innovative technology, including developers of all types with the ID@Xbox program in order to present a more diverse library of titles and that Xbox will proceed to meet the high expectations of its fanbase.
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by Brett Harrison
Sometime after my 12th birthday, my parents asked me what I planned to do for my Bar Mitzvah. I answered that I would probably recite the "Haftorah" (a section of the Old Testament in Hebrew) at the shul (synagogue) and then have a party that night at the Sheraton Hotel.
They replied that although dancing the bunny hop with relatives I was just meeting was a nice idea, it would be so much nicer to go to Israel.
After all, not only would I be celebrating such a momentous occasion in The Holy Land, but I was giving my family a chance to see something they had never seen before.
Guess who won?
I was never a huge fan of family trips. Even when they were fun, too much went wrong. I grew up with a severe stutter, but with the help of three summers of speech camp, I had gotten to where I could speak with just a mild stammer. The only times I had difficulty were when I was tired or stressed out.
The next year I worked my tail off with both the rabbi and my Uncle Jack to make sure that when the big day came, I would not only speak fluently; I would absolutely shine. As with most family trips, there were problems. I was bitten on the big toe by what was probably a horseshoe crab in the Mediterranean. And a rabbinical convention in Jerusalem meant we had to double up in our hotel rooms. But somehow I made it to the big day.
Although many Jewish boys in my situation ended up at the Wailing Wall, the travel agent knew a small orthodox synagogue that would provide a more intimate setting.
So here I was, wearing a suit bought in New York just for this occasion with my family watching me in separate sections for men and women. I was nervous as heck, but surely God would smile on me as I was sure he smiled on all Bar Mitzvah boys on their big day.
If he smiled on me at all that day, it quickly turned into a chuckle. I was sitting in my designated seat waiting for the rabbi to commence the service when a very nice, very old man picked that exact moment to start a conversation.
"Where are you from?" asked my new best friend in heavily accented English.
I would have rather not answered him, but that was hardly an option. It would have been rude. "W-W-W-Williamsport, P-P-P-Pennsylvania" I responded in a stutter. I was nervous, after all.
He meditated on my answer the way a scholar meditates on a new piece of information. Then he responded, "Ah, Montreal. I been there many times. It is quite a beautiful city." I thought either he was hard of hearing or he was confused by my stutter. But the "why" paled in comparison to the "what." Quick thinking was in order.
"Yes it is," I said, hoping that was the end of it. I figured there was no point in correcting him. At least then, I managed not to stutter.
He smiled in satisfaction and let me get back to my anxiety attack. Despite my anxiety, I totally aced the Haftorah.
If you've ever witnessed a Bar Mitzvah, you know there are usually speeches at the end of the service congratulating the young man for a job well done. Since the rabbi spoke little or no English, however, this job was left to a Mr. Bamberger, the synagogue's president.
"Brett," Mr. Bamberger began, "We would like to thank you and your family for sharing this blessed occasion with our small but fiercely proud congregation. We hope that you take this memory back with you to your friends and other family members in the United States as you begin an important new chapter in your life as a Jew and as a young…"
A little boy who couldn't have been more than 7 scrambled up to Mr. Bamberger with a sense of urgency on his face usually reserved for impending catastrophes. Mr. Bamberger handled the interruption with uncommon grace as he let the boy whisper into his ear, raised his eyebrows just a little bit and sent the boy back to his seat.
Naturally, the boy had to be sent by my new buddy, the historian. Thinking I was from Montreal, he didn't want me to be embarrassed. A little late for that, but he meant well.
"I am so sorry. What I meant to say, Brett, was that we hope you take this memory back to your friends and family back in Montreal, Canada"
As before, there was not a lot I could do but roll with the punches. In the eyes of my religion, the synagogue and my family, I was now a man. So I chose to act like one and let it roll off my back and not correct the gentleman. And since my family was just happy I was celebrating my Bar Mitzvah in Israel, Mr. Bamberger could have said I was from Bulgaria, and no one would have cared.
Brett Harrison is a freelance writer who has lived in Philly for more than 30 years. At various times he has written film reviews, humorous pieces and light journalism. He is currently working on a loosely autobiographical play. He was a finalist in Philly Pitch in 2006, where he got to pitch his screenplay, "Mark of the Loser," to a panel of industry pros.


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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:57 pm
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today. Some people learned to spell in school. Some people actually went to school and paid attention. And some people could see Bard's posting as a propaganda piece. Lost on the nit wit. Along with facts, reasoning, spelling.
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Well it's a good thing that you didn't see what I wore today, it was mismatching socks, you would have probably sent me home from school.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:50 am
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Well it's a good thing that you didn't see what I wore today, it was mismatching socks, you would have probably sent me home from school.
That's OK, N
You got another pair just like 'em at home.
You can wear that pair tomorrow.
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:11 pm
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The polar bears are starving again. Seems there's
for the seals to surface onto the polar bears' dinner plates.
Let's see if we have this straight: because the effects of AGW include everything from cooling to mudslides to drought to hungry polar bears, ANY event proves the existence of AGW.
How convenient.
FOR SALE: One bridge. Used only on Sundays by a little old lady driving to church. It connects Manhattan to Brooklyn over the East River. It's old, so the price is only $10T ... about the same as the cures for AGW ... (or best offer). Send a certified check to the U.N. and meteorologists ... hell,
... will become obsolete.
Brilliant. Juuuuuust brilliant.
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You mean the eagerly awaited (by me) Russian prediction of a Northern Hemisphere extended cooling cycle (mini-ice age), in contradiction to the accepted Global Warming concensus (and ridiculed by it), is showing signs of becoming apparent?
Wow!! Didn't know you were a secret supporter of them thar god-damn Ruskies, though in this case, you could just be right.
But have the all American, god fearing, intelligence agencies put you under surveilance? Is that your reason for all this gun packing training?
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:48 am
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Mr. Fick-shun wrote:
The polar bears are starving again. Seems there's
for the seals to surface onto the polar bears' dinner plates.
Let's see if we have this straight: because the effects of AGW include everything from cooling to mudslides to drought to hungry polar bears, ANY event proves the existence of AGW.
How convenient.
Brilliant. Juuuuuust brilliant.
C'mon, Mikey. You're slippin' ----- It's all Obama's fault.
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It just amazes me that people who sail in the oceans and bays could blind themselves to the changes going on:
SEATTLE (AP) It didn't take long for researchers examining the tiny sea snails to see something amiss.
The surface of some of their thin outer shells looked as if they had been etched by a solvent. Others were deeply pitted and pocked.
These translucent sea butterflies known as pteropods, which provide food for salmon, herring and other fish, hadn't been burned in some horrific lab accident.
They were being eaten away by the Pacific Ocean.
For the first time, scientists have documented that souring seas caused by carbon-dioxide emissions are dissolving pteropods in the wild right now along the U.S. West Coast. That is damaging a potentially important link in the marine food web far sooner than expected.
"What we found was just amazing to us," said Richard Feely, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, who helped collect the live samples. "We did the most thorough analysis that's ever been done and found extensive impacts on marine life in the field from ocean acidification."
This is the broadest and most detailed indication ever that acidification is already damaging native creatures in the wild. It raises many new questions about whether other sea life, too, might already be harmed directly by acidifying seas, or by subtle shifts in parts of the food chain.
"These changes are happening years earlier than we had projected," said Nina Bednarsek, a research fellow with NOAA who inspected the pteropods to identify shell scarring. "It is really a first indication of what is going on in our ecosystem."
Feely and others already had documented that sea chemistry in many areas off the West Coast, particularly in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, was changing far faster than initially expected as oceans absorb ever more CO2 from fossil fuels. They also had shown that this chemical change already has killed nonnative Northwest oyster larvae.
Now, they've found severe shell damage on more than half of the pteropods they collected from waters near shore between Central California and the Canadian border. The findings were published today in the British Journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society B."
The shell damage corresponds so precisely to where chemical changes have hit the marine world hardest specific coastal hot spots in Washington and Oregon, where water wells up from the deep on windy days that NOAA scientists said they could clearly pinpoint the cause: atmospheric CO2.
Of course, if you google ocean acidification you get a long list of areas where the impacts of climate change have already been identified. Unless your head is in the sand, or some other dark place.
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Opinion: Is America Ready to Listen?
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists should make their consensus about climate change known to all who care to listen.
By Ashley A. Anderson, Edward W. Maibach, and Anthony Leiserowitz | December 12, 2012
When scientists communicate with the public, they can make a difference. This is particularly true for scientific issues that have significant societal implications and which have become polarizedsuch as climate change.
Despite the near-consensus among scientists that the climate is rapidly changing, and that human-generated carbon dioxide is a major cause, a majority of the American public remains largely disengaged. Moreover, among the minority who are actively engaged in the issuei.e. those people who consider and discuss the problemapproximately half have reached conclusions consistent with climate science, while the other half have reached the opposite conclusion, choosing to believe that climate change is not occurring. Given the importance of managing the risks associated with climate change, there is an urgent need for heightened public engagement so that collectively our communities, states and nation can determine how to respond.
Fundamentally, the American public trusts scientists, with nearly three-quarters of adults in the U.S. reporting that they would take the word of climate scientists more than any other source for information on this issue. However, most cant name a single living scientist, much less a climate scientist. Without that name recognition and exposure, these researchers are not achieving their potential as public educators. Americans want to be informed by experts about the risks and realities of global warming, so they can make up their own minds about the proper course of action, consistent with their values.
One a major roadblock is that the public remains unconvinced that researchers agree about climate change, which impedes any sense of urgency about the issue. Social science research has shown that four key facts influence Americans sense that as individuals, and as a nation, we should be doing more. The first is that climate change is happening; second, that is its mostly human-caused; third, that it is harmful to humans as well as nature; and fourth, that the problem is solvable.
However, our research has shown that Americans are more likely to accept these facts when they realize that the large majority of scientists also subscribe to them. (Other groups have shown this to be true among Australians as well.) Alternatively, people who incorrectly believe there is considerable disagreement among scientists are much less likely to accept these four key facts. Furthermore, nearly half of all Americans said they would be more concerned about global warming if 90 percent of climate scientists were to agree and state publicly that global warming is happening. Moreover, a recent paper in Nature Climate Change reveals that, when presented with information about the widespread scientific consensus about climate change, people become more likely to accept the facts about human-induced climate change.
Yet, as of May 2011, only 13 percent of Americans correctly understood that the vast majority of climate scientists have no doubt that global warming is occurring and is caused by human actions. A number of studies have shown the rate of consensus among climate scientists about human-caused climate to be 95 percent or higher. The conclusion is also endorsed by virtually every relevant scientific society in the United States, including the National Academies, the US Global Change Research Program, and the National Climate Assessment.
So, if nearly half of Americans said they would believe in climate change if they thought that 90 percent of researchers agreed it was happening, and we know that nearly 95 percent actually do agree, why are so many Americans still skeptical? The implications of this disconnect are clear: the single most important fact that Americas climate scientists can share with the American people is that they have reached near-unanimous agreement
the climate is changing and human activity is the main cause.
News events including extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, create an opportunity for every climate scientist to make this important point during news media interviews, letters to the editor of their local newspaper, and calls to local TV and radio news and talk shows.
We encourage you, your professional societies, and your funding agencies to prioritize the debunking of this myth by creating simple clear messages about the scientific consensus, that get repeated often, by a variety of trusted voices including those of individual climate scientists in communities across America. This is a time-tested method of enhancing public engagement in important societal issues. Debunking the myth that there is a lot of disagreement about climate change among climate scientists can promote greater public engagement in climate science and solutions.
Ashley Anderson and Edward Maibach are at the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication; Anthony Leiserowitz is at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
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UN Report Highlights Impacts of Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes latest document discusses the dangers of a warming world, but also indicates opportunities for adaptation to the sweeping changes to come.
By Bob Grant | April 1, 2014
Climate change is already reducing crop yields and disrupting ocean fisheries, and the continued perturbations will hit poor populations hardest, according to a report released yesterday (March 31) from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is the latest from the IPCC, which last released such a document in 2007.
We live in an era of man-made climate change, said Vicente Barros, co-chair of the IPCC working group II that authored the report, in a statement. In many cases, we are not prepared for the climate-related risks that we already face. Investments in better preparation can pay dividends both for the present and for the future.
The report highlighted current impacts of climate change, assembled with help from hundreds of scientists from all over the globe, including reduced food production, more frequent wildfires, coastal erosion, and droughts.
Future perturbations could include even more drastic reductions in food productionhalf of the thousands of studies drawn upon to compile the report a 10 percent or more drop in crop yields by the end of this centurymore extreme weather events, ocean acidification, economic losses, and humanitarian crises resulting from wars and mass migrations, the IPCC group said.
The word risk appears in the technical summary of the 2,600-page report more than 230 times.
Impoverished communitiessubsisting on foods gathered or fished from the wild and on crops grown using conventional farming methodsare and will be hardest hit by climate change, with greater warming meaning more severe impacts, the report said. In a world where a billion people are already going hungry, this makes it harder for more people to feed their families, Tim Gore of Oxfam International told The Washington Post.
But the report also mentioned opportunities for human communities to adapt to some of the challenges being presented as the climate changes. Beyond limiting the warming by reducing greenhouse gasses, initiating public health measures and making water supplies more flexible are a couple of the ways that humans can lessen the impacts of climate change, according to the report. Thirty years ago, the previous generation maybe was damaging our atmosphere, [and] the Earth, out of ignorance. Now, ignorance is no longer a good excuse, said Michel Jarraud, the head of the World Meteorological Organization, at a press conference announcing the release of the report. We knowtherefore, we have the information to make decisions and to act upon this information.
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Todays paper Pueno. (Daily Mail - The Deadly Diesel Deception.)
For the last 10 years the government has encouraged the switch to diesel power by tax breaks. This was on the basis that atmospheric CO2 build up (diesels produce less CO2 than petrol engines they claimed, was the prime concern. Their simple minded object to cut CO2 pollution and control global warming at all costs has been hard hit by an outbreak of unintended consequences.
Professor Frank Kelly (Chairman Dept. of Health Committee on air pollution) claims the unprecedented switch to diesel power could now be responsible for more than 7.000 deaths per year (Britain) because of the pollutants (particulates in particular) which they emit.
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Yesterday we mentioned that T-Mobile had announced that the Nokia Lumia 521 would be available through HSN.com on April 27th as a part of HSN's Innovation Weekend.
Well... apparently someone over at HSN.com started the weekend a little early. The T-Mobile Lumia 521 is now available over at HSN.com for $149.95 with free shipping and bundled with a car charger and screen protector. Flex payments of $37.49 are also available.
You can find the HSN.com listing for the Nokia Lumia 521 here.
We had received reports that the Lumia 521 had already sold out but we were able to add the Windows Phone to the cart and proceed to check out with no problem. Let us know below in the comments if you are finding the Lumia 521 out of stock over at HSN.com.
Thanks, Pushkar and Adrian, for the tips!