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Vision of the Seas - Alaskaby Kuki,
My previous cruise to Alaska was in 1998, coincidentally on RCI's Rhapsody of the Seas. I've definitely noticed a change in the demographic of the passengers from then to now. The average age today is much younger, with many families onboard. The Vision of the Seas has 300 kids, 18 and under onboard. Obviously the cruise line marketing is working. Alaska is no longer a destination for "blue hairs" only.
Last night, after dinner, we convinced our dinner mates to join us for the game of Novel Quest. For those new to RCI, it's sort of a scavenger hunt with a major twist. I don't want to give away the dynamics of the entire game, so suffice to say it's a game played in teams, and a cruise ship is the only place I've come across where particants willingly take out their false teeth, or men willingly wear their wives underwear in public. Our dinner mates joined the game with "Kuki" vigor. I sat back, advised, and watched, while laughing myself silly. I thought I was going to wet my pants when one of our team members attempted to remove a bar waiter's false teeth to use in the game.
There were quite a number of whales visible from the ship last night. From the bridge, Captain Bang kept passengers well informed on where to look to spot the whales.
Friday Aug. 4 - Ketchikan
Today was an amazing day! It was a Caribbean day in Alaska. Temperatures soared into the 80s, and when people returned to the ship from their excursions the pool deck looked like a typical sea day in the Caribbean. Waiters were serving trays full of umbrella drinks with snow capped mountains for a background. A cruise line couldn't ask for a better visual image of an Alaska cruise
Unfortunately Mrs. Kuki and I got shut out of the bear watching excursion today. It has apparently been sold out a month in advance, and our trip wasn't planned in time for me to pre-order our cruise line excursions.
This situation is more likely to occur in Alaska than on Caribbean itineraries, because many of the most popular excursions here have flights involved. The shortages come about mostly due to lack of equipment (either float-planes or helicopters). The lesson learned is if coming to Alaska, book your shore excursions early.
As a replacement Mrs. Kuki and I chose to stroll around Ketchikan and take in the Alaska Lumberjack Show, which is right in town. While the show is a bit "kitch", it was a lot of fun. The lumberjacks had competitions which included springboard chopping, bucksawing, axe throwing, log rolling, and tree climbing. The dialogue amongst competitors between competitions was cute and entertaining. While not a wilderness adventure one might look for in Alaska, it's an enjoyable way for the lazy people, like myself, to spend a couple of fun hours.
Tonight we cruise the surrealistic beauty of Misty Fjords
The adventure continues.....Next Installment Go to the Beginning of Kuki's Adventure

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About the Author
Jürgen Buchenau is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in History in 1993 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are the international history of Mexico, immigration, and the Mexican Revolution. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy (Tuscaloosa, 1996), Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City (Albuquerque, 2004), Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (Albuquerque, 2005), and Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (Lanham, MD, 2007). Buchenau has received fellowships from the national Endowment of the Humanities and the German Academic Exchange Service as well as grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Tinker Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Southern Regional Education Board.


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The Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology was called first the Saint-Petersburg Practical Institute of Technology and was founded in 1828 during the first years of the reign of Emperor Nicholas I, and later in 1896, the Institute was named after him.
The Institute was a boarding school that only had 132 government issue educatees and it was allowed to accept the boarders on a paying basis. Students to become specialists for "manufactures management or its different parts" were studying for free. The education was on:
1. Theology
2. higher mathematics
3. perspective geometry
4. theory of mechanics
5. physics
6. chemistry
7. anatomy and phytophysiology
8. mineralogy and geognosy
9. architecture and civil engineering
10. practical mechanics
11. mechanical technology
12. chemical technology
13. metallurgy
14. political economics and statistics
15. accounting
16. foreign languages
17. painting
18. drawing
19. designing
Moreover, the program included practical lessons too, particularly training on steam engines and locomotives.
There were two kinds of higher technical education available then: the mechanical education and the chemical one. There was a reorganization of higher school in 1930 when the Institute combined many chemical faculties and departments of other higher educational institutions and became Leningrad Red Banner Institute of Chemical Technology.
There were unique departments created in the Institute of Technology: first department in the country of Plastics Technology (1929), Glass Processing (1930), Artificial Rubber (1931).
There were unique developments of art glass, spaceship observation windows coatings. The first Soviet aluminum technology was created (1929) and the first lab and commercial rubber blocks were produced here. This is the place where different anticancer and immune system medicines were made, such as: Dibazol, Vitamedin, Polyrem, Novoembikhin, Dopan.
Eminent scientists that have worked in the Institute's are the subject for its pride. They are the creators of the oldest Russian school of chemical engineering: the author of periodic law and periodic table of elements Mendeleev D.M., the world-famous Handbook on Organic Chemistry author Beilstein F.F., the Russian cement industry founder Shuliachenko A.R., the author of automatic control theory Vyshnegradsky I.A., the author of hydrodynamic theory of lubrication Petrov N.P., the author of processes and apparatuses in the chemical engineering doctrine Krupsky A.K., the organic chemistry national school founder Favorsky A.E., the artificial rubber industrial engineering and production creators Lebedev S.V. and Byzov B.V., the Russian electrochemistry and electrometallurgy school founder Fedotiev P.P., the electronic television originator Rosing B.L., the acetylene chemistry school founder Petrov A.A, the Russian electrothermics school founder Maximenko M.S.
Many famous scientists have graduated from Institute: the aeromobile and aerosleigh creators Maxarev Y. and Kuznetsov B., one of the American Television founders Zvorykin V.K., a herald of the new metallurgy and metallography school Tchernov D.K., the first laureate of the Russian Ludwig Nobel prize Stepanov A.I., the Soviet dye-making and dye-using industries founder Porai-Koshitz A.E., the physics national school creator Yoffe A.F., the high-frequency industrial electronics creator Vologdin V.P.
During World War II the scientists and the staff continued their heroic work in the Institute's workshops creating needful products for war and city (more than 100 items): antipersonnel mines, powder for phone's diaphragm, smolder matches, anesthetic ether, powdered iron, etc. Graduate of the Institute, double hero of socialist labor Muzrukov B.G became a tank plant's head in Chelyabinsk. The well-known processes and apparatuses expert Romankov developed a soymilk production technology what saved many children lives during the blockade. The Institute's teacher Silnitsky A.K. developed industrial methods of the local fuel combustion what made bread-making plants to work in the besieged Leningrad.
Considerable contribution to strengthen our country's defence might was made by scientists and graduates of the Technological Institute. The heroes of socialist labor Shpak V.S. and Sivolodsky E.A. had been developing and creating rocket propellents and engines. The laureates of National prize Golubkov S.V. and Gidaspov B.V. designed the technology of new class energy-stored nonorganic and organic compounds.
There was an extensive preparation of specialists during the post-war period for the most promising directions of development. Kurchatov's pupil, professor Petrzhak K.A. organized a department of the nuclear physics (now it's a department of radiotechnology).
The Institute of Technology had been creating and keeps the best traditions of Leningrad/St.Petersburg higher educational institutions. Technolog is a large-circulation newspaper that has been published since 1926. The Institute's museum has been working for over 50 years, and the number of exhibits and items there exceeds 15 000. Academic choir was created in 1951 and later was named after its founder Krylov A.I..
Despite of all difficulties in 90-s the Institute of Technology kept and developed its facilities, student dormitories, and traditional scientific schools.
Six-storey building of the Fundamental Library was built to keep more than 1 000 000 items which are now electronically organized.
A dormitory for married students and postgraduates and new educational buildings were built. Classrooms and laboratories were reconstructed and equipped according to new requirements, and the process of alignment to a new level of education and scientific work continues. All buildings are equipped with fast Internet connection.
New faculties, departments, and specialties come to life for those who are eager for study.
Three Education&Science centers were created for public usage and have up-to-date equipment: Nanomaterials Chemical Assembly, Energy-Stored Materials High Technologies, and High-Temperature Materials, Technique, Technology. There were created three Education&Laboratory centers for plastics production and processing in cooperation with German companies Demag, Werner Koch, Cloeckner-Pentaplast, with modern equipment for €1 000 000 of total value.
International relations of the Institute develop allowing more of academic exchange to happen and providing new ground for business, partner relationship and conferences. Many scientists from Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, USA, China, Korea were given by a rank of honorable professor or doctor of SPSIT. Having a considerable scientific level and technological tools basis the Institute of Technology strives to participate in many international programs and projects and strengthens its presence on the international market of education.
The Institute of Technology registered as the object of historical and cultural heritage of Federal (all-Russia) significance. It was rewarded by orders of Labor Red Banner (1928) and October Revolution (1978).The Institute's alumnus sign of 1870 was reestablished in 1998 and added to the National Heraldic Register under clause 237.


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Hamilton backs Wilson's sharp outing vs. White Sox
ANAHEIM -- Josh Hamilton got hurt too soon. It was early April, barely a week into the season and nowhere near enough time to gauge whether he was really back to being the prominent hitter of his Texas days or if this was just some random, eight-game sample size before it all went south again.
Now he's back, six games into his return from an eight-week rehab over a surgically repaired left thumb, and he's still in a groove.View Full Game Coverage
ANAHEIM -- Josh Hamilton got hurt too soon. It was early April, barely a week into the season and nowhere near enough time to gauge whether he was really back to being the prominent hitter of his Texas days or if this was just some random, eight-game sample size before it all went south again.
Now he's back, six games into his return from an eight-week rehab over a surgically repaired left thumb, and he's still in a groove.View Full Game Coverage
And it means everything.
"He's getting hits off lefties, he's getting hits to the opposite field, he's drawing walks -- he's doing everything right," Hamilton's teammate, C.J. Wilson, said after the Angels' 4-2 win over the White Sox on Sunday. "I've always said he's a tremendous player, one of the best offensive players in baseball. And now he's going to hopefully put together a really good last three-quarters of the season."
Hamilton drove in three runs in the finale, backing Wilson's 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball and pushing the Angels to a three-game sweep -- an important one, given the looming three-game series against a first-place A's team that has beaten them five times in six games so far.
"We're going to beat 'em," confident closer Ernesto Frieri said, his team trailing Oakland by 4 1/2 games in the American League West. "I hate to say this, but they've had a little bit of extra luck. If you pay attention to every play, it's stupid how the games go their way. But it's going to turn."
At the very least, Hamilton's career is turning again.
He batted .250/.307/.432 in the first year of a five-year, $125 million contract last season, but showed signs of turning it around down the stretch -- posting an .892 OPS in his last 36 games -- and has carried that over into a successful start to 2014, despite a prolonged intermission.
Hamilton notched five hits over the last two games, including two apiece against two premier lefties -- Chris Sale on Saturday, Jose Quintana on Sunday.
"That just helps the confidence," said Hamilton, who batted only .201 against lefties last year. "With Oakland coming in, we'll face two more lefties there [Drew Pomeranz on Tuesday and Tommy Milone on Wednesday]. These were two good ones, and they have a couple good ones there. I'll just continue to try to do the same thing and put the ball in play and have a good at-bat."
Hamilton's fifth-inning single on Saturday broke up Sale's no-hitter and was the first hit the White Sox ace had allowed to a lefty in 33 at-bats. Hamilton notched two more singles -- one to left field, one to right field -- in the seventh and eighth, then came through when the Angels needed him most the following afternoon.
With two outs in the third, he smacked a two-out double to score Mike Trout and put the Angels (34-28) on the board. With one out and the bases loaded in the fifth, he lined a two-run single to right, giving his team a 3-0 lead that proved to be enough after Frieri skated around some trouble in the ninth.
"We couldn't get that guy out," White Sox center fielder Adam Eaton said of Hamilton, who went 7-for-12 with two doubles and four RBIs in the three-game set.
"He was definitely a headache."
Hamilton is now 8-for-23 since getting activated off the disabled list, and his slash line is at .400/.474/.660 through the first 14 games of the season.
Those stats may not continue, but the Angels are confident his approach will remain unchanged.
"When he's getting a pitch in the zone, he's putting a great swing on it," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "When it's out of the zone, he's taking it. That's the Josh that we remember."
Hamilton was at least lucky that it was his left thumb that he banged against first base at Safeco Field on April 8, allowing him to at least do hitting drills with his bottom hand as he waited to heal. He felt "really, really good" as he started taking two-handed swings again, and figured it could carry over.
So, when asked about picking up where he left off, Hamilton said, "Not surprised. Excited."
Hamilton has a history of bouncing back from prolonged DL stints, none more prominent than in September 2010, when he broke two ribs, missed four weeks, came back for the final three games of the regular season, won the American League's Most Valuable Player Award and was later named MVP of the AL Championship Series.
The 33-year-old learned something then.
"I think the biggest thing is you can't do anything to make up for the games you've lost," Hamilton said. "That's a big deal. And I've done that before -- tried to come back and do too much, and ended up spiraling the other way. Just come in, do your work, and when the time's right, it'll work itself out."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez.


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My Hero Card Purple Heart Card
Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade Hero cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.
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1 Make card from cardstock.
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Taste of the Triangle
Mardi Gras ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
Tuesday, March 8, marks the day when everyone celebrates rich food, wine, spirits, friends and fellowship before they bid the Mardi Gras festivities farewell. For those who follow the Catholic rituals of the Lenten season, this is also a chance to feast freely before the 40-day fast leading up to Easter. It's Fat Tuesday, folks.
But cooking time cuts into eating time, and guilt tends to follow a feast devoured in one sitting. Why not try a little bit of everything, in the company of friends, for a good cause?
When you purchase a $20 ticket to the Taste of the Triangle ($15 in advance) you enjoy the generous samples of nearly 50 businesses that participate in the annual event. Food tastings, wine tastings and beer tastings for two hours—you're gonna to leave full.
"And happy," added Melody Celli, public relations coordinator for the Taste. "You can sample all there is to sample, and it's a really happy event."
Newcomers to the Taste will certainly enjoy rounding the circuit of tamales, ribs, chicken tenders, seafood, bread-pudding—but don't let "tasting" fool you. Jay Jenkinson of Cheddar's will be armed with 500 racks of ribs, 650 chicken tenders and 250 pounds of broiled shrimp, and he's only got two booths. But you won't want to get full off the first few tastes.
Especially when you've yet to hit Richard Courville's booth. In his 27th year participating in the Taste of the Triangle, "Big Rich" is the Tasting's man of the hour — this year's event is dedicated to the beloved owner of Courville's Catering and Special Events, who plans to bring a special signature dish of his own for the evening — his rotisserie Shiner Bock beer-glazed pork loin.
"We take a center-cut pork loin that we marinate for 24 hours in a Montreal Canadian steak seasoning and Cajun-power garlic sauce," Courville revealed. "Then we rotisserie grill it, smoke it, slice it, then we glaze it with a Shiner Bock beer glaze, brown sugar and honey."
And he'll be bringing plenty to go around — 250 pounds of pork, enough for 3,000 tastes, he said.
"There's nowhere else you can go and pay that kinda money to walk into a party with great food, great fun, great music and literally tastes from all over the Triangle. You're getting a taste of everything, and there's great food in Southeast Texas."
While all the participating restaurants enjoy the pleasure of your company (and compete for bragging rights) all ticket sales will be donated to the Sabine Area Restaurant Association.
"The money that SARA raises goes to many different things," said Courville, adding that SARA purchases livestock from young local farmers every year in order to donate the meat to local charities including Some Other Place, Girls' Haven, Boys' Haven and the Hospitality Center in Port Arthur.Yes, it's a guilt-free food spree at the Taste of the Triangle. If you don't leave full, well, you didn't try very hard.Ford Park is at 5115 I-10 S. in Beaumont. For more information about the event, call (409) 892-2752.


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Technology is leading us to the mindset that our smart phones can do anything. "There's an app for that," right?
Wrong, according to the Vatican. A recently released app that allows Catholics to confess their sins via iPhone is invalid, a Vatican spokesperson said Wednesday.
Confession: A Roman Catholic App was created to be "perfect aid for every penitent," according to its producers. The app guides believers through the Catholic sacrament of confession and even offers "a personalized examination of conscious for every user."
But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told AFP "It is essential to understand that the rites of penance require a personal dialogue between penitents and their confessor… Under no circumstance is it possible to 'confess by iPhone.'"
With that in mind, it's hardly appropriate that Confession's Web site proclaims in large, bold letters that the app is "Catholic Church approved."
Of course, Catholic authority hasn't exactly been clear: a spokesperson from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales told BBC that the app was a useful tool and the church supports new technology.
But the Vatican has the final word, and it says no to digital confession if it's used as anything more than an aid to Catholics before they confess. Perhaps an e-reader Bible will be enough to satisfy believers' technological cravings.


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49ers acquire Boldin; trade Alex Smith
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12 (UPI) -- The San Francisco 49ers finalized two deals Tuesday, acquiring wide receiver Anquan Boldin from Baltimore and trading quarterback Alex Smith to Kansas City.
San Francisco picked up Boldin from the Ravens for a sixth-round choice in the updating NFL draft, and sent Smith to the Chiefs and new Coach Andy Reid in return for an undisclosed 2013 draft choice -- but apparently not the overall No. 1 pick owned by the Chiefs -- and a conditional pick in 2014.
Boldin had 22 catches for 380 yards and four touchdowns in the last post-season. That includes six receptions for 104 yards and the first touchdown in Super Bowl XLVII, where the Ravens beat the 49ers 34-31.
Boldin was with Baltimore for three seasons after playing in Arizona for seven. He has 772 receptions for 10,165 yards and 58 touchdowns in 140 NFL games.
Smith had been the 49ers' starting quarterback until he was hurt last season and lost the position to Colin Kaepernick. With Kaepernick at quarterback, the 49ers advanced to the Super Bowl.
Smith, 28, was the first overall pick in the 2005 draft and passed for 14,280 yards and 81 touchdowns in eight seasons in San Francisco.
Buffalo Bills release QB Fitzpatrick
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y., March 12 (UPI) -- The Buffalo Bills said Tuesday they have released quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, following a report he declined the team's offer of a restructured contract.
The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported the 30-year-old quarterback was contracted to get a $3 million dollar bonus Wednesday but the team did not want to pay it, and offered a restructured deal instead.
"In the end, we had to do what we feel is best for our football team and it was a very difficult decision," said Bills General Manager Buddy Nix. "Ryan did some great things as our starting quarterback. He is a class act, a terrific guy with a great family and has been involved in many charitable endeavors in our community. But difficult decisions often have to be made and so we are moving forward."
Nix said the team will focus on "adding another quarterback to our roster and we will continue to explore every option available to us."
The release of Fitzpatrick leaves the Bills with Tarvaris Jackson, who was third string last season, as the team's only experienced quarterback, the newspaper said.
WR Percy Harvin traded to Seattle
RENTON, Wash., March 12 (UPI) -- Wide receiver Percy Harvin was officially traded to the Seattle Seahawks Tuesday, with the Minnesota Vikings receiving a series of draft choices.
The deal was reported Monday but couldn't be completed until the new NFL year became Tuesday.
Despite being limited to nine games last season, Harvin caught 62 passes for 677 yards. He was leading the NFL in kick return average (35.9 yards) before an ankle injury in a Week 9 game against Seattle.
The Vikings will have Seattle's first-round pick and a seventh-round choice this year along with a third-round pick in 2014 in exchange for Harvin, who reportedly was having issues with Vikings management.
Over a four-year NFL career, Harvin has 280 catches for 3,302 yard and 20 touchdowns. He's also returned five kickoffs for touchdowns.
Bears ink tight end Bennett to 4-year deal
CHICAGO, March 12 (UPI) -- Free-agent, tight end Martellus Bennett has signed a four-year contract with the Chicago Bears, the team announced Tuesday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Bennett was paid $2.5 million last season while playing for the New York Giants one-year contract when he racked up career highs of 55 receptions, 626 yards and five touchdowns.
Considered one of the top tight ends on the free agent market, he spent his first four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, compiling 85 receptions for 846 yards and four TDs in 60 games.


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Will Alaska pay price for ousting Stevens?
What happens to Alaska's notorious dependence on federal spending now that Ted Stevens' 40-year Senate career has come to a end? Without an "Uncle Ted" to redistribute America's wealth north and with an "Aunt Lisa" or "Uncle Mark" lacking his longevity and clout, will the state's economy come crashing down?
No, say some of the academic experts and critics who have studied the Alaska-federal relationship, though there's liable to be some hurt spread around. In interviews over the last week, representatives from a sample of agencies and nonprofits that have benefited from Stevens' earmarks and legislation expressed a mixture of hope, caution and concern.
Adding to some of the insecurity over Stevens' departure is the condition of the overall economy and how that might affect grants from corporations and foundations.
"So what happens now? It's a real timely question," said George Cannelos, federal co-chair of the Denali Commission, an agency that has parceled out about a billion dollars for infrastructure projects in Alaska's rural areas since its creation by Stevens a decade ago.
"If this were five years ago and Sen. Stevens left the stage, I think the commission would've been in great jeopardy," said Cannelos, one of the hopeful.
Federal spending has enormous impact in Alaska, and Stevens had an enormous impact on federal spending, according to Scott Goldsmith, an economist with the Institute of Social and Economic Research of the University of Alaska Anchorage.
"About one-third of the jobs and household income can be ultimately traced back to federal dollars that come into the economy each year," Goldsmith said.
Goldsmith was able to correlate Stevens' rise to the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1998 with an increase in the shipment of money to Alaska.
"It's a pretty dramatic jump," he said.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Alaska generally got 30 to 40 percent more money per capita than the nation as a whole.
"Then we pretty quickly jumped up to 70 percent above the U.S. average," Goldsmith said, a leap of about $2 billion in real terms.
When term limits forced Stevens out of the appropriations chairmanship in 2004, he held on to the defense appropriations subcommittee and took over as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee. Appropriations to Alaska remained high, Goldsmith said.
Now, if Alaska must return to 40 percent above average, about $900 million would be lost to the economy, Goldsmith said.
"That would be a significant drop -- that would be like losing 10 percent of our federal dollars." Most at risk, Goldsmith said, would be grants to state and local governments and to nonprofits, including Native nonprofits that provide health, social services and housing.
"If I were someone depending on earmarks year after year, I'd be nervous about it too," said Diane Kaplan, president and chief executive of the Rasmusen Foundation in Anchorage. She said the situation in Alaska is reminiscent of Oregon when Sen. Mark Hatfield left office in 1997 after 30 years, including two stints as appropriations chair.
"Oregon really got whacked," she said.
If Alaska nonprofits hope to make up any shortfalls by applying to foundations or big corporations, they might be disappointed, Kaplan said. With oil prices in steep decline, the producers are unlikely to be feeling generous, while her foundation and others have been hurt by falling stock prices and are scaling back. Individuals seeing their retirement funds evaporate are also less likely to make charitable donations, she said.
Dennis McMillan of the Foraker Group, which provides support services to nonprofit organizations, said he's been warning charitable groups about the future. In Alaska, they tend to be much more dependent on state and federal money than the rest of the country -- 57 percent versus 35 percent.
While federal grants to Native health corporations are likely to continue unabated, others are less safe, he said.
"We've been trying to help people be aware this was inevitable and the consequences would be fairly significant," McMillan said.
On the plus side, Alaska has an old friend taking over the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Dan Inouye, D-Hawaii. Inouye was Stevens' best friend in the Senate and is a frequent visitor to Alaska.
"He really understands Alaska issues," Kaplan said. "He's been everywhere in Alaska, he's been in the small villages, and he has a particular affinity for Native issues."
Much of the military infrastructure in Alaska will continue to receive federal money simply because it exists and is necessary, said Keith Ashdown of the Washington budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
But that doesn't mean all Alaska's defense-related earmarks will continue, he said, pointing in particular to a $20 million earmark Stevens placed in a defense spending bill to help pay for an experimental, U.S. Navy-designed vessel that will serve as a ferry from Anchorage to Point MacKenzie.
"Maybe something like the high-speed ferry gets hit, but things that are related to major infrastructure, or things relative to those bases ... or to the operations of the teams based up there ... I don't see that going away," Ashdown said.
Ashdown said the state also will have a "soft landing" because of Inouye. But he suggested that Barack Obama's election is a greater threat to Alaska's pork prospects than Stevens' departure. Obama promised during his campaign to slash earmarked spending, and with uncertain economic prospects ahead, there's a belt-tightening climate in Washington that promises scrutiny of money earmarked toward projects of questionable value.
Cannelos, of the Denali Commission, has a different view. Obama is proposing an economic recovery plan that would pump billions of dollars into the economy through infrastructure projects -- the soul of the commission's activities. And Obama's ideas of investing in renewable energy and conservation also fit in with the priorities of the commission, which has been supporting wind farms, in-river hydropower and conversion of old diesel generators to more efficient ones, Cannelos said.
On defense, some experts like Winslow Wheeler, a former Republican Senate budget staffer, argue that a possible drop in federal spending in Alaska might be good for fiscal responsibility.
Wheeler, who now serves as a senior fellow and director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, said Stevens choked up defense bills with fisheries earmarks and other pet projects unrelated to the military.
Such earmarks "displaced good spending" on legitimate national defense needs, Wheeler said.
Likewise, Lois Epstein, director of the nonprofit advocacy group Alaska Transportation Priorities Project in Anchorage, would welcome a decline in Congressional earmarks, though not necessarily federal spending. Earmarks are "top-down" decisions about how to spend money, bypassing local decisions made through public process, she said.
The infamous "bridges to nowhere" earmarked for Ketchikan and Anchorage were expensive projects that preempted other, more pressing transportation needs, Epstein said. Earmarks are often generated by people with special access to power, she said. Other projects that are wasteful and not needed, she said, include the Anchorage port expansion, the railroad terminal at the airport, and abandoned efforts to expand the airport runways.
The executives who run two of Stevens' projects that have struggled economically -- the state-owned Kodiak rocket launch facility and the nonprofit Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward -- say they anticipated the day Stevens would leave the scene and are prepared.
Dale Nash, the new chief executive of the Alaska Aerospace Development Corp., said the Kodiak launch facility has some special advantages that make it competitive: it's the only new launch facility in the United States, and it has a wide downrange area with a good shot for polar orbits.
"Sen. Stevens has always been a friend and we wouldn't be what we are without him," Nash said. But Nash said he deliberately avoided using Stevens' office to press for military contracts with the missile defense program, the Kodiak facility's bread and butter. He wanted to prove the facility can stand on its own.
"We have continued to win contracts based on lower cost, lower risk to come here," Nash said.
In Seward, Ned Smith, interim chief executive of the SeaLife Center, said the research and visitor center conducted a search for a new top official with the idea that it would have to do without Stevens' subsidies.
"I don't want to say that we can foretell the future, but it did occur to us over the past few years that we might face a situation where Ted Stevens was no longer going to be able to funnel some research money to the SeaLife Center, and research is a very big part of our operating plan. Our strategy is to diversify our research interests and therefore diversify our funding sources for research," Smith said.
Their new Australian-born chief executive, Ian Dutton, starts work this week. Smith said Dutton "comes to us from the Nature Conservancy and with a great track record of fundraising and lots of good connections."
Stevens' support for water, sewer, energy and health projects in the Alaska' rural bush areas, and his assistance to Native corporations, usually assured him bipartisan support among voters in villages and the off-road regional centers.
Not this time. Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich did well among Bush voters in his victory over Stevens.
That's not surprising, said Albert Kookesh, chairman of the Sealaska Native Corp., co-chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives and a Democratic state senator from Angoon. Kookesh was one of a number of Native leaders who supported Begich.
It wasn't that people disliked Stevens, Kookesh said -- "this guy was a god to us" -- but Natives took a very pragmatic approach, risking short-term losses for long-term gains.
"I think most of the people that I've talked to, especially those in rural Alaska, or Natives, were looking at Sen. Stevens' age, and not so much worried about what we were going to lose," Kookesh said. "Those of us who supported Mr. Begich were looking at his age, at 45. In 20 years he'll be 65 and he'll have developed his seniority."
Stevens, at 85, was not going to last forever, Kookesh said.
"Senator-elect Begich was available, people trusted him, people saw the work he did in Anchorage. We had somebody young and articulate, and it was maybe a good time to make the change," Kookesh said. Besides, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young are also friends of the Native community and not without clout of their own, he said.
University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Stephen Haycox, who has written extensively about the relationship of Alaska to the rest of the country and the federal government, said he doesn't see any precipitous decline in federal spending here.
"The federal commitment to Alaska is long and rich," Haycox said. "It goes back to 1867. There never was a period when the federal government was not putting very significant resources into Alaska to nurture settlement and economic development, and to provide basic services for Native Americans."
Under a Democratic administration, spending for land and environmental management may increase, he said. If a contraction takes place, it's probably in areas like ports and airports, which are often funded based on congressional seniority.
And what does Begich himself say?
As the first Democrat elected to Congress from Alaska in a generation, he believes the Senate leadership will go out of its way to help him move more rapidly than a freshman otherwise might into important posts. When he gave the Democrats a 58-42 majority, that also turned additional committee seats over to Democrats. He hopes to follow Stevens to the Commerce Committee and to an open seat on Appropriations, though he acknowledged the latter would be a long shot, at least in this Congress.
"For me not to ask would be a mistake," Begich said. "Without me, they wouldn't have had that open seat, and I reminded them of that fact."
Begich could be helped by some unusual connections for a brand-new freshman. Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., the chairman of the pork-distributing House Transportation Committee, was a staffer to his father, Rep. Nick Begich, when he represented Alaska, and Mark Begich has been talking to Oberstar about the state.
Begich said he understands that "earmarks are going to be difficult for everybody" in the current climate. In his favor, he added, "stimulus bills, capital investment, that's right up my alley."
For more coverage on Sen. Stevens, at adn.com


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Streamside Day Follies, New Film Project by Artist Pierre Huyghe on View at Dia:Chelsea
On view from October 31, 2003-January 11, 2004
Beginning Friday, October 31, 2003, Dia presents Streamside Day Follies, a new project by French artist Pierre Huyghe. Incorporating a short fiction film into a specially designed pavilion occupying the fourth-floor gallery at Dia:Chelsea, in this exhibition Huyghe continues to explore the role of ideological and semiotic systems in the formation of social conventions and traditions.
For Streamside Day Follies, Huyghe has designed an architectural folly, which becomes the setting for the viewing of his new film. The film projection begins after five supplementary walls have slowly moved across the gallery space to configure a jewel-like structure. When the film ends, the pavilion disassembles itself and the walls retract to their original positions along the perimeter of the space. When stationary, each conceals a small mural painting applied directly to the institutional fabric, which variously maps the locale of a new residential settlement, where the film is set.
Opening with a bucolic idyll in an Edenic landscape -- an evocation of historical representations of the Hudson Valley, Huyghe's film traces the formation of a burgeoning community hypothetically located in the valley today. A young family is seen relocating from their suburban home to the new housing development. For Huyghe, these two components limn a mythic kernel that is then instantiated in events that comprise a typical inaugural celebration, devised to forge a communal identity. Analogous to the way a musical score is brought to life in a concert performance, the third part of the film reprises the mythic template laid out in the first two sections.
Huyghe's multifaceted project employs a diverse range of cultural representations, garnered from nineteenth-century utopian social projects and Hollywood films, Disney animation and contemporary fiction writing, and romantic landscape painting, which fuse with an actual event: The celebration, which became part of the film, boasted a parade, costumes, fireworks, all recently organized by the artist in the nascent residential development that served as the prototype for his fictional construct, "Streamside Day Follies."
Exhibition Support
This exhibition is sponsored by Dior Homme.
Additional support is provided by Étant donnés and Marian Goodman Gallery, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, October 31, from 6 to 8 pm at Dia:Chelsea, 548 West 22nd Street, New York City. The exhibition is on view through January 11, 2004. Hours for the 2003-04 season are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm.
Pierre Huyghe
Since graduation from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1985, Huyghe has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002); Neu Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2002); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2001); the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam (2001); Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (2000-2001); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (2000); Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (1999); and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998). Huyghe's work has been represented in group exhibitions, including "Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003); "No Ghost Just a Shell," at Kunsthalle Zürich (2002); "Animations," at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001); "Regarding Beauty," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (1999); "Premises," Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (1998); and at Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); the Istanbul Biennial in 1999; the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1999); Venice Biennale (1999); and the second Johannesburg Biennial (1997). In 2001 Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennale, and in 2002 he received the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He lives and works in Paris.
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation was founded in 1974. A nonprofit institution, Dia plays a vital role among visual arts organizations nationally and internationally by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects, and by serving as a locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. Dia presents its permanent collection at Dia:Beacon, in Beacon, New York; exhibitions and public programming at Dia:Chelsea, in New York City; and long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and on Long Island.


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How to Shape Your Outer Thighs with an Exercise Band
To shape your outer thighs, add the Standing Hip Abduction with Band maneuver to your workout routine. This exercise strengthens and tones the hip abductors — the outer thigh muscles that pull your leg away from your body:
For this exercise you need an exercise band that is between 1-1/2 to 2 feet circular. Bands can be found at any sporting goods store.
Start by slipping your feet within the circle of the exercise band. Secure the band around your ankles. Holding your hands on your waist, balance your weight on one foot while keeping the band taut.Work the outer thighs with this exercise.
Many people find it necessary to hold onto a chair when completing this move. That is perfectly fine as long as it is used strictly for balance.
Because balance is of the utmost importance to complete this move, it is best to start out the exercise with proper posture and maintain it throughout. Stand tall, stretching from your head to your toes, as if the top of your head is being pulled by a string.
Slowly lift and stretch your raised leg out to the side as high as is comfortable. Remain standing tall and upright as you do a series of small side kicks.Do five to ten repetitions on each side. As you progress, work up to 10 to 20 repetitions.
Do not try to raise your leg beyond a couple of feet. Hold your abs in tight.
Employ these variations to adapt this exercise to your fitness level:
Hold on for support: If you find it hard to balance on one leg, hold onto a cane or a broomstick placed directly in front of you or a fixed object such as the wall or a table at your side. Use that object only for balance; keep your spine upright and don't lean over from your waist into the object.
Add ankle weights: You can increase the difficulty of this move by wearing ankle weights at the same time you are wearing the exercise band.


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Whether in Graz, Innsbruck or Vienna, you encounter the legacy of Austria's imperial past wherever you go in this country - but nowhere, of course, in such concentration as in the country's capital, where you can sense this grand imperial atmosphere even when visiting one of the city's many historic coffee houses. The entire city centre is filled with traces of the imperial dynasty. The Augustinian Church on Josefsplatz was the venue for numerous Habsburg weddings, while the Imperial Crypt, beneath the Capuchin Church, served as the final resting place for the members of the House of Habsburg. Most visitors, however, are foremost attracted to the many magnificent palaces, such as the Baroque Schönbrunn Palace, which contains no fewer than 1,441 rooms. Some 1.5 million visitors are drawn to the splendid salons and living quarters of the imperial family each year, but the elaborately laid-out grounds alone would be worth a visit. And the park attracts not only holiday guests. Many Viennese also enjoy strolling through the gardens up to the elegant colonnade known as the Gloriette, where a coffee house offers stupendous views across the city, or spending a few hours at the world's oldest zoo. The palace grounds are also where the annual summer concert of the Wiener Philharmoniker is held - an experience made unforgettable by the superb music and the sublime backdrop provided by the illuminated palace. And admission is free!
Imperial apartments can also be visited at the primary residence of the Habsburgs, Vienna's Hofburg Palace. Particularly interesting insights into day-to-day imperial life are offered by the palace silver collection. The Habsburgs' lavish dining culture alone illustrates what enormous expense was involved in running an imperial household of up to 5,000 people. The Sisi Museum, on the other hand, gives visitors a glimpse into the private life of the famous Empress Elisabeth. In addition to her dressing and exercise room, visitors can also view a reconstruction of the dress she wore on the eve of her wedding, her dressing gown and her death mask. These are all silent witnesses to a life that was ended tragically and violently with her assassination in 1898 - circumstances that undoubtedly contributed considerably to the "Sisi Myth".
Considerably livelier is the ambience on the terraces of the former festival palace Schloss Hof, near the Danube River, when the Baroque festivals held there transport the extravagant joie de vivre of that epoch to the present day. The opulent palace was originally built by the Habsburgs as a "princely reward" for Prince Eugene of Savoy to show their appreciation for his victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Zenta in 1697. After years of decay and ruin, the palace was renovated at the turn of the millennium and restored to its original splendour.
Equally well preserved is the Imperial Villa in Bad Ischl, where the nobility spent their summers. As soon as the weather grew warm in Vienna, the Habsburgs escaped to the Salzkammergut - and everyone who could afford it followed their example. It all began in 1828 when the physician of the royal but childless couple Archduke Francis Charles and Princess Sophie of Bavaria advised them to visit the spa at the resort town to "take the waters". The princess subsequently succeeded in bearing a child, who – as Emperor Francis Joseph – was himself to spend many summers at the Imperial Villa in Bad Ischl with his wife, Elisabeth. Today the Villa is open to the public and still retains the nineteenth-century ambience that was enjoyed by the emperor and his family. Even back in those days the Zauner bakery, an "Imperial and Royal Purveyor to the Court", was pampering noble palates with its delectable cakes, and still today a visit to Bad Ischl would be unthinkable without a stopover at "Zauner".
The Habsburgs established themselves in Tirol as well, but rather for political reasons than for relaxation and recreation. Emperor Maximilian I chose Innsbruck, the "Capital of the Alps", as his residence because it was the ideal base for expanding his empire into what is now Western Europe. Today the legendary "Golden Roof" serves as a reminder of his reign. This loggia-like projection on the building's second floor afforded a perfect view of the city's main square and quickly became the symbol of Innsbruck. Maximilian's Mausoleum, in the Hofkirche, is still considered one of the most important pieces of Renaissance in Central Europe. More of an insider's tip is the Herzogshof in Graz, where the Habsburgs conducted their official business as sovereign princes of Styria. The building's entire façade - over 220 square metres - was covered with murals on Greek-Roman mythological themes by the Baroque painter Johann Mayer. Whatever one might think of the Habsburgs, they certainly had exquisite taste, and one does not have to be a fan of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to take pleasure in their many cultural treasures.


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As farming booms, some Minnesota prairie songbirds fall silent
Northern prairies saw some songbirds return in the 1990s as farmers shifted cropland into grasses. Crop prices were poor then, so idling land benefited farmers and birds.
Helping songbirds, however, is harder when wheat's topping $7 a bushel.
The rebounding grain market the past few years has led farmers to withdraw land from the federal Conservation Reserve Program and plow it back into crops — slashing the birds' habitat. Now, the birds that returned two decades ago are leaving again, raising concerns about the prairie's long term health.
The western meadowlark, the grasshopper sparrow and the savannah sparrow, "seem to be declining" said Larry Igl, a biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota.
"We see that in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota that those species are starting to decline," he added. "We have landowners in our western Minnesota counties asking us, 'What happened to all the bobolinks?'"
Grassland songbirds might not have the political clout of ducks, pheasants or other game birds, but people who live on the prairie are seeing a change. Landowners are "starting to notice some of these grassland species are disappearing," said Igl, who's been watching grasslands and birds in western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and Montana since 1990, the longest such research in the country.
Grassland songbird populations are shrinking generally, but there's no doubt Conservation Reserve Program land has been an important habitat for some species and reserve land has fallen dramatically.
In Minnesota, CRP acreage fell to 1.4 million acres in 2013, down nearly 25 percent from 2006, according to the USDA. It's fallen nearly 50 percent in North Dakota — from 3.4 million acres in 2006 to 1.8 million last year.
That's likely to continue — the 2014 farm bill will cut 8 million acres from the reserve in the next four years.
A combination of habitat being turned into farmland and trees taking over some grassland might account for the songbirds' population decline, Igl said, adding it may take several years to see the full effect of habitat loss.
The CRP's "definitely been beneficial" for some bird species and "as we lose it I'm sure it will have an impact," said Marissa Ahlering, a prairie ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, as she conducted a recent survey in a field just east of Moorhead, part of a multi-year study across several states looking at public land, conservation land and private land used for grazing.
Ahlering identified 18 species in the grassland, including meadowlark and grasshopper sparrow, which sounds a bit like its namesake insect.
Some birds, she said, prefer tall dense grasses, other birds like shorter grasses. "That's the challenge with grassland birds. You need a mosaic of that in order to support all species."
She said she hopes her bird surveys will help change how land is managed. Right now, public lands, private lands and tracts owned by conservation groups like the Nature Conservancy are often managed as individual plots.
"We're going to start to need to think more about coordination of landscape management," she added, "to think about how to create that mosaic of structure across ownerships...not just the land you own."


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Developing training course catalog with descriptions by end-user role
Shadowing the roles to be trained if not familiar with departmental role to develop an understanding of end-user job functions/workflows and to create crosswalk documents (illustrating the gap between the current and future states)
Developing role specific lesson plans that include workflow driven teaching scenarios and with sample patient data in the training environment to support the scenario
Developing and implementing an end-user curriculum, including facilitator s guides, playground practice exercises, participants manuals/workbooks, e-learning modules, quick start guides, tip sheets and workflow bulletins, F1 functionality (Epic s context-sensitive help function)
Designing and developing end-user competency exams
Developing and participating in curriculum review process that includes build analysts, SMEs, and Epic AC/AMs for Good Install requirements
Completing the Training Environment build create all users, patients, scenarios (orders, schedules, etc.) for each role trained
Utilizing the following additional tools from Epic for development of the training environment:
o Auto Resulter provide fake results in training patient charts in real time
o Patient Duplicator/Mitosis tools to duplicate master training patients
o Patient Teleporter tool to move patient information from one environment to another
Developing plan to quickly analyze and execute end-user refresher training based upon identified gaps during go-live
2) Train the Trainer Program and Management:
Working with the Training Project Manager to develop the Credentialed Trainer (CT) program
o Supporting schedule development for both application specific sessions and general administration (i.e. LMS, etc.) sessions
o Developing schedule for practice teach backs and paneling presentations
Executing Credentialed Trainer (CT) program:
o Training CTs how to train end-users (Train the Trainer) review all classroom and web-based curriculum
o Facilitating teach back sessions and provide feedback to CTs
o Validating CT competency to train end-users (test and presentation to panel)
Assigning CTs to class schedule
Delivering super user training
3) Training Execution and End-User Support:
Managing and monitoring the execution of end-user training
o Managing CT class assignments daily
o Delivering end-user training (as needed)
o Providing support to CTs during end-user training (i.e. troubleshooting environment issues, etc.)
Designing and developing the methodology for tracking and reporting end-user training statistics (e.g. attendance, competency, success rate, etc.)
In collaboration with Security Analysts and Application Leads, developing process for distribution of Epic User IDs based upon competency exam results
Assisting in the development of an ongoing education program based on regular analysis of data pertaining to end-user competence and confidence in using key and advanced functions of the system
At Go-Live, Principal Trainers will be:
o Providing one-on-one or remedial training for end-users as needed
o Attending go-live triage meetings to solicit and facilitate end-user feedback on system
o Developing just-in-time tip sheets
Being flexible in terms of work schedule management and accessibility during training delivery and Go-Live
Providing go-live support for users on new applications, including functionality
Providing on-call support for application through go-live and post go-live
Preferred: Bachelor s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
Minimum: Associate s degree with three (3) or more years of related work experience
Work Experience:
Preferred: Three (3) years relevant experience in a health care setting
Minimum: One (1) year relevant experience
Preference for knowledge of current revenue cycle management and optimization and hospital billing workflows and processes
Demonstrated interest in supporting the development and build of the application
Licenses and Certifications
Minimum: Obtaining applicable certification will be an expectation of the role
Applicant is expected to maintain certification as current by completing New Version Training (NVT), as applicable
Internal Number: 10023
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CARE's Work in West Bank and Gaza
CARE's Long-term Commitment
CARE works to help Palestinian communities determine their futures, realize their rights and live in peace and dignity.
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Lack of women's participation an obstacle to recovery and peace in Gaza, says CARE
Increased participation by Palestinian women is crucial to creating a process towards peacefully resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bringing sustainable development to the West Bank and Gaza.
Blog: A Bedtime Story For Rafiq
"I wasn't able to evacuate at night because we could have been targeted. Everyone who walks the street, every car here can be a target. I have a three-year old son, Rafiq, and a daughter who is just five months old. Her name is Lana. It was a very hard decision to stay in our house, but what was I supposed to do?"
Crisis in the Gaza Strip
UPDATE - August 5: We've been responding on the ground providing medical services to civilians affected by the crisis. With the 72-hour cease fire announced this morning, we hope to reach more people through mobile health clinics.
Violence Escalates in Gaza
Over the past few weeks, Gaza and southern Israel have seen a severe escalation of violence. On the night of July 7th, the Israeli army launched a military operation in the Gaza strip while rockets continued to be fired at southern Israel from Palestinian territory. As of July 15th, the United Nations has reported 192 casualties, most of whom are civilians, including women and 36 children. More than 1,300 people have been injured in Gaza, of whom 386 are children and 249 women. A number of Israelis have suffered injuries as a result of the rocket fire.
So far, over 1,200 homes have been destroyed, and 24,500 people have been displaced from their homes, taking shelter in UNRWA schools, or with families and neighbours. Unfortunately, this number is expected to rise since the Israeli military has instructed Palestinians living near the Gaza border to evacuate their homes.
CARE West Bank/Gaza has temporarily suspended its regular work in Gaza and is coordinating with its partners on the ground to provide emergency assistance to the affected population when the security situation allows. The most urgent needs in Gaza are medical supplies, relief items such as mattresses and blankets, and safe shelters.
"In front of my kids and family, I act like I am not scared, so they don't feel so stressed and depressed, but of course I am very worried and afraid," says Mostafa Kahlout, CARE Economic Empowerment Program coordinator in Gaza. "I am scared for the life of my kids and wife, relatives, and our home."
This escalation of violence puts a severe burden on children who are in many cases still traumatized from past clashes. "My youngest daughter is nearly eight, she's only small and she just keeps looking at the ceiling and asking 'why are they trying to kill us?'," says Kahlout. "I say to her: 'No one is going to kill us; it will all be over soon,' trying to calm her down. But I don't know when it will be over."
On July 11, CARE joined with 33 other international organizations to call on all parties to immediately stop the violence and agree to a ceasefire. Humanitarian access must be guaranteed by all parties to the conflict in order to prevent further civilian suffering.
CARE International has been operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) since 1948. For the past several decades, we have been working in the oPt to assist the most vulnerable residents in meeting their basic food needs. The majority are women and girls who bear the brunt of conflict and poverty.
CARE's work in the West Bank and Gaza
CARE currently works throughout the Gaza Strip in poor communities affected by conflict whose security, human rights and livelihoods have been undermined by a naval and land blockade that was instituted in June 2007. We pay particular attention to women and girls who bear the brunt of conflict and poverty that affects 1.6 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Land and naval blockade has severely curtailed the ability of Gaza households to generate income, separated families, reduced educational opportunities and limited access to vital medical services. Today, people are still unemployed and underemployed, dependent on humanitarian aid and unable to travel abroad save for a very few pre-approved medical cases. Escalating violence increases peoples' suffering and further jeopardizes their security and ability to rebuild their livelihoods and reclaim their dignity.
Our programming helps the poorest and most vulnerable families meet their basic food needs, by providing fresh foods, health and social services. We also support families dependent on agriculture as their source of income, by introducing new techniques that improve the quantity and quality of their products; strengthening their ability to sell their products for fair prices; and empowering women to earn an income.
CARE also assists in mobilizing community leaders, young adult mentors and parents in an effort to improve the mental health, academic performance and social skills of children between the ages of 9-13 who have been traumatized by war.
In addition, we're helping strengthen the capacity of local organizations to support their neighbors in times of crisis, and to act as hubs of social, cultural and economic support.
CARE's response to recent conflicts
Gaza faced a major crisis in 2008. A violent conflict began on December 27, 2008, which caused the humanitarian situation to deteriorate. The three-week conflict resulted in nearly 1,000 civilian deaths and left thousands maimed and injured. CARE responded within hours agter the start of the conflict, distributing urgently-needed food, medicine and emergencies supplies to families, hospitals and orphanages. In early January 2009, we carried out one of the first surveys of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, showing a sobering 89 percent of respondents had not received assistance. We provided basic non-food items such as blankets, personal hygiene kits, and household cleaning supplies to Gazans displaced by the conflict, helping more than 211,894 people.
In November 2012, there was another spike in violence that lasted for eight days and caused civilians in Gaza and Israel to fear another widespread humanitarian disaster. CARE's office was damaged in air strikes. However, we continued our emergency response with 80,000 vulnerable residents of the Gaza Strip, while calling for an end to the violence along with other humanitarian agencies.
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CARE has a long-term commitment to engage Palestinian communities in development processes that enable them to determine their futures, realize their rights and live in peace and dignity. CARE empowers Palestinian local organizations to become more effective advocates of their own interests and rights. CARE also promotes gender equality as a fundamental element of our work to fight poverty and improve standards of living.
For example, "Empowering Women - Transforming Communities, Bena'a" is a 36-month project in Gaza to contribute to poverty eradication and promote gender equality and women's empowerment. The project is carried out by building the capacity of local, grassroots organizations so they can advocate for the interests of, and strengthen the social, political and economic roles of women in their communities.
In addition, CARE advocates for conflict mitigation and work with various audiences to create a network of Palestinian women, men, children, and community-based organizations that are skilled in developing conflict mitigation and resolutions.
How CARE works in emergencies
CARE directly reached 56 million people in 95 countries in 2018. Through advocacy and the replication and scaling of programs and innovations, CARE indirectly reached an additional 340 million.
In emergencies, CARE is among the first to arrive and the last to leave. When it comes to responding to an emergency, timing is crucial.


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President Obama and John McCain were rivals in the 2008 presidential election and still disagree on policy. But that didn't stop the Arizona Republican from offering an olive branch via Twitter.
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More successful than the dinosaurs, and much older than we are, fish are the most diverse group of vertebrate animals on Earth. Here on Sanibel and Captiva, our scaly friends surround us. As we collect and identify the common marine fishes of Southwest Florida, we learn how they breathe, hear, and communicate underwater.
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The Central London section took up the challenge of becoming the Central London DA in 2006.
It has a strong and dedicated organizing committee of enthusiastic cyclists.
Its activities act as a catalyst for cycling, especially cycle touring, in London.
The group markets itself to a wider audience in an attractive and inspiring way via its web-site. Its open approach encourages a wide range of people of both sexes and varied ethnicity to participate with cycle rides graded from gentle (one star) to vigorous (four star), and includes off-road rides.
Its Audax group supports events far and wide, and offers two of its own Audax / DATC events to the wider cycling community.
It distributes by post a handy rides programme to all members, paid for from a small donation collected on each ride.
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Financial Data Analyst - San Jose-Costa Rica - 17196BR
Moody's is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody's Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management. The Corporation, which reported revenue of $4.4 billion in 2018, employs approximately 13,100 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 42 countries. Further information is available at www.moodys.com.
Moody's Investors Service is among the world's most respected and widely utilized sources for credit ratings and research. Our opinions and analysis on a broad range of credit obligors and obligations are valued around the world for their insight and rigor. At MIS, our workplace culture supports our mission to be the Agency of Choice for our customers, employees and future employees. Our Culture focuses on Excellence and embodies behavioral qualities such as Integrity, Responsiveness, Collaboration, Respect and Passion. Our people are our core asset and we look beyond outcomes to ensure that behaviors and interactions matter.
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- The FDA uses accounting and finance knowledge and judgment to perform financial statement analysis, adjust reported data per relevant methodology requirements and review and analyze ratios
- Responsible for reviewing and understanding financial statements, official statements and other documents related to issuers' performance
- Work directly with ratings and support analysts to explain the data, adjustments and other information needed by the rating team for ratings and research
- Frequently liaise with analysts and accounting specialists in order to understand the application of accounting concepts on a particular entity
- Create documentation and provide guidance to support analysts and outsourcers
- Review, adjust and publish data to external market participants
- Regularly interact with Moody's ratings analysts regarding financial and operational data needed for analysis and publications
- In addition to regular daily responsibilities, FDAs will have the opportunity to work on new projects such as technology projects, accounting changes, analytic reviews, methodology updates and implementation of process improvements
- The team is regularly provided with valuable training classes and interaction with Analysts as part of knowledge transfer and career growth
- The FDA position provides a unique opportunity to foster skills that are valuable to any future career in the financial services industry.
- B.A. or B.S. degree required; specializations in Accounting, Finance, or Economics preferred
- 1-3 years of relevant work experience required (can include internship experience)
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products and particularly Excel, such as pivot tables, lookups, etc.
- Knowledge or prior experience in analyzing financial statements is required
- Knowledge or prior experience in accounting is a plus
- Individual must be organized, dependable, able to multi-task and manage priorities, display initiative, and have the ability to work independently in a demanding, fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational, communication (verbal & written), and interpersonal skills are required
- Candidate must have the ability to quickly transition as priorities change to meet demands
Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Kitchens are one of the most important rooms in the house as they are the centre of preparation and cooking as well as social interaction and entertainment. They are vital to the health and nutrition of a family, so it is no wonder that people are keen to make their kitchens as functional, hygienic and as beautiful as possible. There are so many different aspects that can create a better kitchen and this category has some fantastic examples of lots of different styles as well as layouts and creativity. It will showcase some of the most wonderful kitchen designs, each with a different overtone and theme oozing from every inch of the space. There are a wide range of different styles of kitchen design in this category, from the natural and organic look of wood through to the bright and sleek appearance of contemporary materials.
Within this category, you will see some amazingly planned and well-implemented designs for a kitchen space that have functionality and personality intertwined and mixed into every detail of the room. There are lots of different layouts to look at, including ones that make use of every inch of space, and others that utilise the space in order to create a minimalistic feel. There are also lots of ideas for anyone who needs examples of flooring materials, as many of the images use either stone or wooden surfaces to create a more hygienic kitchen with a sophisticated look and feel. Thrown into the mix, you will also be able to see many different kinds of cupboard and work surface materials that work well together, with ideas for colour palettes and textiles.Read more
As is probably evident already, the main focal point of a kitchen is its function and usability. A kitchen needs to work well for the owners as it needs to be big enough to allow people to walk between different areas of the kitchen and also needs to have easy access to the necessary tools. As well as functionality, it also needs to be hygienic, so the use of space and materials is a necessity for making sure that the kitchen can stay clean and fresh when preparing foods. This category will give you some wonderful ideas on how to create the perfect kitchen that not only looks great but performs well in necessary kitchen related tasks. It will also help you to understand the common essentials that are needed for function and purpose, and how you can mix these together with aesthetic to make your kitchen look magnificent.
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