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Am I a "sensitive"?
Posted 27 August 2008 - 02:49 PM
Posted 28 August 2008 - 09:47 AM
well you sound like a normal sensitive and Farly regular sense. your a sensitive but be carfull being a sensitive makes you vulnerable to many things. don't willingly try to get a spirit to talk that is very dangers. I tried that and had a women fallow me for about a week. this was when i first got my powers. yes powers they are not found in all humans and most people make up that
that they have powers. i got mine when i was 12 and have had them ever sense but i am lucky that my mom has dealt with this sense she was little.
First thing first there are no such this as orbs thats a lie i have never seen a spirit in a orb. evp is true ghosts are a very large energy mass (i think) and that messes with the energy in a sensitives body. that is what you fell. i am 15 now you may think i'm lying you may reply however you want to i don't care. you may think i'm inexperienced but i have very high senses and have seen very very scary things. if you want to know reply. ghosts are full i have never seen a ghost with parts missing. example bullet holes ,stabs ,cuts so on so forth and they are transparent for the most part
if you think i lie i don't care i want to help any one confused or needs to know somthing about there powers. i am Farly good with mien and i am not telekinetic. that sucks but being a sensitive makes up for it.
for things you don't know having this gives you a better insight on things and can always grow very different ways. you may be like me i can manipulate small amounts of energy in my body which can make me hit harder or run faster for a very short time a second or two, or you may be like my mom and see things that !!!may!!! it wont always be right but always close. there may be more than just these i don't know but as i sead before don't mess to much with ghost most are ruthless and will try to make you miserable. try different things with your powers but nothing that will heart you plz.
ive seen very scary things to. i think the one thing that haunts me, is these pericing eyes. it was this ghost, in my school's auditorium, u see its set on the village of letchworth, and it used to be a physco ward (go figure) so i believe that when the place was renivated it awoken the spirits. so i found this spirit, and he was very mean, he told me to leave, but i didnt, i remeber seeing his peircing eyes, which scared teh crap outa me, then he hit me in the head, and later that week i let him into the light. and the orbs i believe that, i have a picute in that auditorium and there are orbs, i belive it was him. and that hole energy thing, i know what you mean, i have it to, and im phsycic also
Posted 03 October 2008 - 09:34 AM
I must respectfully disagree with you. There are such a thing as orbs. That's how i see the spirits. They start off as quick flahes of light zipping around. I have seen them in three different colors so far. But they are orb form. I will agree that most orbs in pictures are just dust and stuff but there really are spirit orbs.
Posted 03 November 2008 - 04:39 PM
hi 'm not very strong with my sensitivity , but when i have a ghost around, i can feel the chill or it touchs me (hair on my head) or if they really want me to sence them they will let me get a glimps of them.
just keep up what your doing, maybe its just the first step for you. :):)
Posted 01 February 2009 - 10:37 PM
The most profound experience I had was a few years back, a few months after I got married. I had the most horrible dream that I was vacationing with my family somewhere tropical. I had the sense that a devastating storm was coming, and was desperately trying to find my family to 'head for the hills'. I found some of my family, and we got onto a cruise ship thinking it would be safe. The ship capsized, and we were stuck in the ship with water rising around us. The area was completely destroyed.
I woke up so disturbed, and shook my husband awake to tell him what happened. He grabbed his cell phone like he normally does to check the time and read any texts/emails he's gotten. He looked back at me white faced, and told me to turn on the tv. All of the news channels were reporting that a tsunami had hit Thailand. The footage was eerily similar to my dream.
I don't feel it as strongly as I used to as a child, and it's kind of random when it does happen. I'd like to develop the skill and am open to any books, etc. you guys might recommend.
Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:02 PM
Posted 23 May 2009 - 05:05 AM
I'm also an empath, though not as developed as some of you.
Generally, I can feel a spirit, the same way as the OP. Usually from a feeling in my chest. Or sometimes depending on where the spirit is, I feel it on that part of my body (like my back, or my arm). It's not the skin-tingly feeling, it's more of an ache.
I've never full on seen a spirit (I catch things out of the corners of my eyes occasionally, but often I think it's just light refraction on the edge of my glasses!), and I can't hear them either. But when I've attempted communication with my guardian spirit, I can generally feel her messages. Not so much like a word for word thought in my head. Sometimes, I can guess what her answer is, and feel affirmative or negetive, sometimes it's like a full on thought just pops up in my head, and then I process through what just got sent to me.
A lot of people who are empaths tend to be good at picking up histories through objects. I'm not sure if that's where my abilities lead me, but when I was younger, I would often run my hand along walls, tables, objects (not touching them, but feeling the air above them) and I could pick up an emotion from it.
I'm really interested on how to develop this further. Any ideas?
Posted 23 May 2009 - 02:49 PM
Posted 01 July 2009 - 10:35 PM
Sorry for not posting for a fwe days. I didn't have internet access. Anyway, here is what I am able to do:
I cannot sense ghost with the five ordinary senses. I can somehow tell they are there. I get an odd sort of feeling in my chest. The feeling is different for each ghost, and it changes spots depending on which direction the ghost is from me. I can sense them through solid objects (such as walls) and from a certain amount of distance away (I can be inside and tell when there are ones outside).
Even though I cannot physically see them, I can somehow tell their age group, male or female, species (me and my fiancee sensed a dog one night), kind of how they generally look, roughly how there personality is (I get to know there personality better as I have more contact with them, like with physical people), and what mood they are in.
I can also talk to them. I ask a question or say something out loud (I don't know if I could just think it and they'd hear, I haven't tried that yet) and I don't physically hear the response. I kind of get there response in my head, but its not like hearing things in my head. I'm not sure how to describe it. Its like trying to describe sound to a person whose been deaf since birth. This is something fairly new, that I didn't know that I could do. My fiancee, Melissa, who can do everything I can, knew how to do it and she showed me.
What does everyone think? Is there anyone here that can do the same thing? What sort of sensitive am I? Is there anything else I might be able to do that I am not aware of?
This kinda scares me, I'm EXACTLY like you JD. I don't know much about being a sensitive, I only heard what those were last year, however, I've been doing this for as long as I could remember. I'm 18, and I wanna learn more about this 'sensitive' stuff. The only thing I differ from, is I don't say or try to interact with them, because, I've heard stuff about how you can become a 'haunted person' and they can follow you. I don't know if it's true or not, but I would HATE to find out the hard way. They talk sometimes, but it's hard to explain, ya just KNOW what they are saying, kinda like the one here in my house. My family and I JOKE about him being named Bob, but I haven't told mom the way he walks around the room at night, and watches everyone from the staircase. I doubt she'd believe me anyways. I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm really glad you posted this.
Posted 23 August 2009 - 11:33 AM
Posted 27 December 2009 - 08:31 PM
So like most of the people on here I can sense them. The first time I saw a spirit I was six. It was in the middle of the night when I woke up to use the restroom and as I sat up I saw a glowing white long haired woman watching me. It scared the cr*p out of me and I needless to say I didnt have to pee anymore lol
So lately, within the last year I've noticed in increase in my abilities. I can see them (full figured), feel them, hear them and talk back, see them in my mind, tell whether they're male or female (although I really only get male spirits for some reason, only seldomly females), tell whether they're good or bad, see them walking into the room in my mind, etc. I'm also very sensitive to peoples moods. If someones sad I get really sad as well. And when they're nervous or angry I get infuriated. I can't stand crowds of people it puts me in a really bad mood.
But my concern is lately these feelings have gotten TOO strong. Like they're interacting with me way too much, and I get alot of bad ones too. It's affecting my behavior as well. I've always been a really layed back calm person, but lately Im angry everyday for no reason.
It started about 9 months ago. I started to get sick (migraines everyday, nose bleeds, nausea, blackout, twitching, random pains, trouble breathing, etc). And around the time I first got sick, I was jogging on the backtop of my old elementary school. I looked over at the field and I see this massive man, all black, kind of a foggy mist, but still in the shape of a man. He was in the middle of the field just watching me. I've seen him a few times since then. But he's not much of a big concern of mine.
Also, I've seen shadows in my living room of a man. They go across the wall. My mother saw it with me once too, but I've seen it more than her. Also when I'm alone in the house, I always hear someone walking upstairs in my parents bedroom. Like a man with boots on, kind of a muscular build, just stomping in their room upstairs. I get really angry whenever I hear him.
Also since, I saw the shadow of a little boy in my nephews room, he saw it with me and could describe him more in depth than I could. I guess he wanted to play with him but ran out of his room when I saw him and ran into mine. I went in my room and the boy transformed into these lights that were moving in the middle of my room. I've also seen my moms dead brother like 3 months ago walk thru a table in our living room when I was making brownies. And when in the orange grove by my house getting down from climbing a tree I saw a young man, although all i saw was the back of his head and from his waist up. I also hear a woman and her child when i go hiking in the mountains. And have heard a woman in my car, garage, and room as well. Although I never see women except for the glowing white lady.
But here's what's concerning me. About two months ago, I was watching tv and started to doze off on my couch. I abruptly woke up when my body felt very stiff and got goosebumps. It felt like someone was pinning me down on top of me and I got the feeling of a very bad man. Automatically, right when it happened before I even knew what was going on I started to pray in my head. And after about 10 seconds it stopped. I didnt know what had happened, I thought maybe my body was just being weird since I am sick and that it was a one time thing. But a few minutes after that it happened again, and again I prayed and it stoppped. I started to realize that something bad was going on. I thought I would be safer upstairs in my bedroom. So I went there and I layed down. Every time when I was in the middle of being awake, and starting to fall asleep it would happen. I couldn't move my body, only my head. I tried to scream for my mother, my mouth was open but nothing came out. The only thing I could do was violently shake my head every time it happened to try to wake myself up more. It happened about 12 times that night. And it wasn't until about 7am that I finally got to sleep.
Two days later, it happened again. But with a different spirit. As I started to doze off I felt the numbing, cold, goosebump feeling on my body and the inability to move. All of a sudden I heard a little girl about 2, laughing hysterically. This time I wasn't afraid, I got a good feeling from her. Then I pictured myself sleeping in my bed the way I was, and there was a man in a top hat, facial hair, a coat and white button up with slacks. Like he was from the 1800's. He was watching me sleep behind me. I wasn't afraid of him either.
Then the day before Halloween, I was in my garage working out and I heard a girl talking to me through the wall. Every time I hear a female spirit I hear them talking but I can never make out what theyre saying. I paused for a moment after hearing her, then said "what?" and she talked again. I still couldn't understand her and I let her know. I said "I can't understand you" and she said one more thing then it was silent.
about a month ago, I was sleeping and I heard this growling voice from behind the top of my head saying "Daaaannni" but I was too tired to wake up.
Now, about 2 days ago, I had just gotten into bed, when immediately I felt this numbing cold feeling from my waste down and got goosebumps. I prayed because I knew what was happening again and it stopped. It happened about 2 more times after that when finally I started to ask my "spirit guide" for help. I had just learned about these spirit guides like the night before. And read that if you ever encounter a spirit that you dont like you should ask your spirit guide for help and invision a white light around you. So I did just that. And I heard him (again a man, and a bad vibe) whisper "BAD_WORD!" right behind my head and it stopped. I think he got mad because I wouldn't let him get inside my head or have me. Idk
But I'm really concerned about these bad spirits that bother me at night. I've even started sleeping with a nightlight (not that it even helps when it happens, but it just makes me feel safer) and I'm afraid to sleep at night now. I never know when it's going to happen, or if it will be a good spirit or bad one.
After that last occurence of being attacked at night I wanted to check the history of my city. And i found out that in 1848, on "red hill" where I live, there had been a massacre. Miners digging in mercury mines went crazy and thought everyone in the town were monsters and they pick axed them to death. About 500 people died. So that might explain some of the spirits I've seen. But I wanted to know why all of a sudden, in the last 3 months had the attacks at night started. And that's around the time I started to date my gf. When I told her of everything that I had been seeing and experiencing, she told me she had experienced spirits in her house too. And mentioned seeing a man in a top hat all the time. So Im not sure, but I was thinking maybe they followed me from her house. If that's possible idk answers would be nice. And if anyone knows what my attacks at night are exactly or if they know of any way for me to protect myself that would be great.
I know this was really long and I apologize and am thankful to anyone who take the time to read it and help me out
thanks again,
Posted 27 December 2009 - 08:43 PM
Dani is my nickname, not my full name. Her whole family calls me Dani, but no one in my house does. My family calls me by my real name. So for the spirit to call me Dani, it just makes me think it came from her house even more :/
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Inductee Doc Pomus said that rock and roll wouldn't have happened without Big Joe Turner.
Indeed, Turner's mastery of every genre including blues, jazz, R&B and swing gave way to his uptempo party hits. But make no mistake—the timeless Big Joe Turner is bigger than any one genre, era or song.
Big Joe Turner was the brawny-voiced "Boss of the Blues."
He was among the first to mix R&B with boogie-woogie, resulting in jump blues—a style that presaged the birth of rock and roll. Indeed, Turner's original recording of "Shake, Rattle and Roll," cut for Atlantic Records in 1954, remains one of the cornerstones numbers of the rock and roll revolution. Turner's lengthy career touched on most every significant development in popular music during this century, taking him from the big bands of the Swing Era to boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues and rock and roll. James Austin of Rhino Records noted that "[Turner's] raucous style first blended R&B with boogie-woogie. The result was jump blues, and Joe was its foremost practitioner."
How important was he to the development of rock and roll? "Rock and roll would have never happened without him," opined legendary songwriter Doc Pomus.
Turner was a huge man with a husky, booming voice who could out-shout a big band without amplification while projecting clarity and control. He was born in Kansas City, and it was in that freewheeling city's jumping nightspots that he began his career as a bartender and singer. Kansas City was, in those days, a hotbed of jazz and blues whose many clubs rocked around the proverbial clock. As a young man, Turner worked at various joints—including the Backbiter's Club and the Sunset Café—as a bouncer, bartender and singer. It was here that he hooked up with pianist Pete Johnson (nominally referred to in the songs "Roll 'Em Pete" and "Johnson & Turner Blues"). Turner also sang with the big bands of Count Basie and Benny Moten when they came through town.
Turner and Johnson helped popularize boogie-woogie and jump blues in the late Thirties and early Forties. "Everybody was singing slow blues when I was young," Turner told Rhino's James Austin, "and I thought I'd put a beat to it and sing it uptempo." Crowds would clamor for Johnson to play some boogie—"Roll 'em, Pete! Make 'em jump!"—and he would oblige. Thus did this duo help ignite a musical trend in the nightclubs of Kansas City and beyond. The songs Turner sang (and sometimes wrote) were often risqué, employing coy slang words and metaphors for sex in ways that would amuse a partying club crowd.
The duo brought their routine to New York in the late Thirties, and their appearance at the "Spirituals to Swing" concert in December 1938 proved to be a major turning point. Turner sang without a microphone, his forceful pipes carrying into the furthest reaches of the sold-out hall with ease. In New York Turner and Johnson became regulars at the Cafe Society nightclub and signed to Vocalion Records, cutting some seminal versions of "Roll 'Em Pete" and "Cherry Red" for the label.
Turner recorded prolifically in the Forties for various labels, including Decca, National and Aladdin. He worked with Johnson as well as a number of other pianists, including such giants as Albert Ammons, Willie "the Lion" Smith and Meade Lux Lewis. In 1946 Turner had his first R&B hit, "My Gal's a Jockey," released on Herb Abramson's National label. Abramson would go on to co-found Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun in 1948. Meanwhile, Turner—who recorded for a bewildering variety of labels during this period—charted again in 1950 with "Still in the Dark," issued on the Houston-based Freedom label.
In 1951 Ertegun brought Turner to Atlantic Records, where he cut a string of rhythm & blues and early rock & roll classics over the next decade. Among them were "Chains of Love," "Sweet Sixteen," "Honey Hush," "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "Flip Flop and Fly" and "Corrine Corinna." "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Honey Hush" were particularly massive hits, topping the R&B charts for three and eight weeks, respectively. Pianist Fats Domino accompanied Turner on the romping "TV Mama." For a spell Turner was a bonafide rock and roll star, cutting such songs as "Teenage Letter" for the burgeoning youth market and appearing in the teen flick Shake, Rattle and Rock (1956). No other figure straddled rock and roll and rhythm & blues with such authority as Turner. Capitalizing on his reputation as a pioneer, Turner shuttled easily between the two worlds, sharing stages with Fats Domino, the Clovers, Bo Diddley and a variety of other acts on Alan Freed's package tours.
But Turner's musical roots were too deep to limit him to the faddish teen market. Turner's definitive work for Atlantic came in 1956, and the title said it all—The Boss of the Blues: Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz. A sequel of sorts, Big Joe Rides Again, appeared in 1960. In the Sixties, after the first wave of rock and roll had died down, Turner returned to blues and boogie-woogie. He moved to Los Angeles, where he recorded with jazz legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Roy Eldridge for some well-received albums on the Pablo label. He also schooled a young backup band that eventually became the Blasters.
The 1983 album Blues Train, on which he was backed by Roomful of Blues and produced by Doc Pomus, was a late-career gem. Having outlasted trends until his sound became timeless, Big Joe Turner continued to record and perform until his death in 1985.
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April Anthropology News Focuses on Family and Kinship
The April issue of Anthropology News is now available. This month's In Focus series is Family and Kinship. As notions of kinship, family and social systems have changed over time, anthropology continues to have much to say about this fundamental area of anthropological research. This month's series begins with looking at kinship through an evolutionary … Continue reading April Anthropology News Focuses on Family and Kinship


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Ruby gives up her Masters Course and goes back home to Wynbridge to help run a Christmas market stall for Jemma and Lizzie from the Cherry Tree Cafe. She will only be there for the Christmas holidays before she embarks on a dream of travelling. The market stall holders are hoping that some new stalls at the Market will increase the number of visitors who are spending money there. Hopefully this will then have a knock on effect for the future of the market, which is under threat. However, Ruby's dad is not happy about her giving up her Masters Course and working in the market. He wants her to look at finding a temporary job working for the council together with him. Another difficult situation that Ruby meets is the fact that the love of her life and her ex Steve also works at the market, he runs a fruit and vegetable store with his parents and she is aware that she still has feelings for him.
This is the third book by Heidi set in and around the town of Wynbridge, but although some characters from the previous books appear it is completely a standalone. It is however lovely to catch up with some of the wonderful people a few years later and to see where life has led them. I love Wynbridge and the mostly friendly atmosphere that is there, with women who each have a refreshing approach to life.
Ruby is a confident young woman who knows what she wants and that is to do the job she's supposed to do, save money and travel. When Wynbridge and the people in it wave their snowy wand she begins to recognise the importance of the market and discovers she wants what is best for the town. She tries to avoid heartbreak again and memories of how she felt when Steve changed their plans after the sudden death of his older brother. She tries hard to be a friend, but nothing more and seems to be able to follow this through after a big fall out. She is there to support her friends and gives a breath of fresh air to the market.
There are a few stories running through the book, which kept me interested and the Christmas aspect is lovely at this time of year especially. I love the idea of warming up with hot chocolates in the Cherry Cafe and could smell the cakes from the descriptions. Although it's cold in the market there is a feeling of warmth that catches the reader in the story. Heidi Swain has written another special book set in Wynbridge.
Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Christmas Market is a heartwarming Christmas story that is great with a minced pie and maybe a piece of mistletoe won't go amiss.


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Radiant heat is one of the biggest renovation options in the new green movement toward more eco-friendly homes. As summer construction projects wind up and clients begin requesting heating options for their new homes, you may want to consider what radiant heat has to offer them. But with several options on the market, certain types might better fit their needs - specifically electric, which is versatile, affordable and energy-efficient.
Radiant heating systems work by spreading warmth over a surface - in this case floors - and then using convection and rising heat to keep the whole room comfortable. Electric radiant heat may seem like a surprising energy-efficient option as it relies exclusively on electricity - unlike hydronic or air-heated radiant floor heating - but used correctly, it can be a significant contributor to shrinking a home's carbon footprint. And as the U.S. Department of Energy points out, it's an especially good choice for home additions, so that current heating systems don't need to be laboriously extended into new rooms.
While heating with electricity can be expensive, used correctly, electric radiant heat can be a cost-saver and drastically reduce on energy consumption. Unlike central heating via air ducts, none of the heat is lost along the way, and there's the comfortable addition of a warm surface under your feet at all times - a big advantage when you're stepping out of the shower on a cold winter morning. By carefully regulating your radiant floor heating temperature, you can keep costs low and enjoy all the benefits of radiant and convection warmth. Electric radiant heat is also an easy way to improve air quality and cut down on allergens in the home. Duct heating pushes in just as much dust as it does heat, which can aggravate or lead to both asthma and allergies.
Electric floor heating is simple to install, affordable and has no cost of maintenance. Controls and thermostats and intuitive and easy to use, offering a variety of styles with useful options like programmable timers. If your client is building a new home, creating an addition or remodeling their flooring, this could be the perfect time to make the switch to electric radiant floor heating. As far as cost-effective and eco-friendly heating methods go, there aren't any options better suited to the modern home.
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Wood hopes to headline Glastonbury
Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood has revealed he is planning to persuade the rest of the band to headline Glastonbury this year.
The rockers - Ronnie, 65, Sir Mick Jagger, 69, Keith Richards, 69, and drummer Charlie Watts, 71, - performed a series of live concerts last year to mark their 50th anniversary, and Ronnie is keen to continue the celebrations.
He admitted he is keen to play at the music festival, and is determined to get the other Stones on board.
Asked about Glastonbury he said: "Wouldn't it be nice? We've got a meeting next month and that's going to be my first question to them.
"It's something I've always been interested in. I'm going to twist their arms."
And he is also hopeful they will extend their tour, after playing a few dates in London, New Jersey and Paris last year.
Ronnie said: "I've got lots of high hopes this year, now that were all rehearsed - let's get it cracking this summer!"
The 65-year-old rocker was partying at the Elle Style Awards at London's Savoy Hotel, where guests including Bradley Cooper and Kate Hudson enjoyed a night of high fashion and Cointreau cocktails.
He had just returned from his honeymoon after getting married for the third time, to 34-year-old theatre producer Sally Humphreys. He joked: "I've just come back from my perma-moon haven't I?
"We got to be nice and peaceful on Mustique, we had a house, empty, beautiful beach, fantastic."
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Standalone Euronext Would Be Healthy, Attractive – Amsterdam Chief
A senior executive of NYSE Euronext Friday struck an upbeat tone on the future of the firm's European stock exchange business, which would be spun off or sold following the proposed takeover by IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
NYSE Euronext and ICE plan to spin off or sell four European stock exchanges as part of their agreed merger, a business that analysts have valued at around $1.4 billion.
The business slated for disposal includes stock markets in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon.
Cees Vermaas, the head of NYSE Euronext Amsterdam, said that an independent Euronext would be a healthy and attractive company. While emphasizing that European regulators first have to approve the merger between ICE and NYSE Euronext, he signaled his support for an initial public offering of a continental European stock market.


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It's a strategic fantasy simulation game. In this game you are the architect in design your kingdom. You have to make sure that you have enough Food, Water, Iron for weapon, Gold for Money. You have to set up which area will be for your farmer, fisher man, game hunter, army, fortress, house etc.
I think the game is very cool. But, there is a problem that I found and no answer until now. I can not save the game and sometimes it suddenly close down (which I don't like it most). Even it may suddenly make your computer hangs (Mentioned in a Forum).
So, If you want to try and find the solution for this game, please share it.
From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install widelands
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mythtv-frontend pwgen liblzo1 mythtv-common mysql-client
mythtv-transcode-utils libnet-daemon-perl libqt3-mt-mysql libfame-0.9 fftw3
mythtv-database libdbi-perl libpvm3 libdbd-mysql-perl mysql-server-5.0
mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common libmyth-0.21-0 mythtv-backend libplrpc-perl
libmysqlclient15off mysql-server transcode ntp libmyth-perl libnet-upnp-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
widelands widelands-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 74.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe widelands-data build10-1 [28.7MB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe widelands build10-1 [1923kB]
Fetched 30.6MB in 5m14s (97.3kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package widelands-data.
(Reading database … 132087 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking widelands-data (from …/widelands-data_build10-1_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package widelands.
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How to play?
Open Applications > Games > Widelands
You can play as single or multi player. For this sample, let's try with Single Player.
Click New Game
Choose the map. Just choose the default, Check mate.
Just click Start the game.
This your basic area. You only have a small kingdom. You have enlarge your area, build big army to prepare any attacks from the Barbarians.
Click Build Help to display the help area setup.
Green Rock-Build a massive project.
Red House– Build a medium project.
Blue Flag – For street
Yellow Flag – temporary Street option. You have to click it to change the color from yellow to blue, then can build the street. I will show you how to do it after.
For this sample, I click a green rock. An option screen will be displayed. So, I choose Farm, because when want to build a big nation, food is top priority.
Then I continue the same method to setup the area. When you mark the area, I suggest to put Fisher man near the sea, Game hunter near the Woods, Water supplies near the kingdom and the army, one near the kingdom and the other one put near the border.
Nothing will happen until you click on the first Blue Flag in front of your Head quarters to build the streets.
When you click, there will be some options, try to direct the street to the Farm first. You have to build your food supplies first.
Then go to the left and direct it to build the other projects. You have to make sure that all projects are connected. Otherwise the workers can not bring the materials, mean they can not build the projects.
If you see below, the Fisher Hunt area has supplied the fishes already.
Your area will be bigger and bigger. Some projects are 100% complete. If you see below (on the top left), there are 2 soldiers on the way to their Sentry area at the borders (represent by 2 cards).
In the next short time, you will have a new empty area. Mean that your kingdom is getting bigger. Now is your time to build your army. Don't forget to build a fortress in this time.
Well, that's all that I can share, because like I said, the game is suddenly down.
So, let's share for the solutions for this problem.


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Do your lips pucker up at the mention of a kiwi? Maybe it's just me… All too often I've eaten sour kiwis, especially in the winter, no matter how long I let them ripen on the counter. Luckily in the summer, sour kiwis aren't a problem, and in fact I ended up with a surplus of ripe kiwis recently. So I'm excited to be sharing with you some refreshing kiwi vanilla cupcakes with kiwi buttercream frosting that taste just like eating a ripe kiwi, and hopefully you'll have a chance to try it out before the summer is over!
When my box of kiwis from the wholesale club decided to all ripen at the same time, my gut instinct was to make kiwi cupcakes. But having never done it before, and given that kiwis have quite a bit of moisture to them, I looked to the internet for guidance. As it turns out, not too many people have done straight up kiwi cupcakes with kiwi frosting. Almost all the posts I saw were strawberry kiwi cupcakes, which sounded great, but I didn't have any strawberry. I ultimately ended up combining two recipes: a strawberry cupcake base that substitutes kiwi for the strawberry, and a delicious-looking kiwi buttercream recipe that uses the surprising ingredient salt for a great kiwi flavor. It was important to me that the kiwi flavor would come through in both the cupcake base and the frosting, and I loved the idea of having flecks of the jewel green kiwi fruit and black seeds throughout.
I also recently purchased a set of fluted silicone cupcake liners, in the hopes that I would be to save money on cupcake liners when I'm baking for myself or small parties, since I never seem to have cupcake liners on hand when I want to use them. The interesting part was being able to pop out the finished cupcakes from the silicone cups without needing to grease them, they came out like magic! I also liked the smooth fluted sides of the cupcakes that looked so neat and clean compared to the crumbs and mess that comes with peeling back a paper liner.
Unfortunately, the lesson learned is that silicone is neither good for heat retention nor heat conduction, so my cupcakes took WAY longer to bake than they should and ended up getting very browned on the tops and bottoms before the inside was even cooked through. When they were finally done, the taste was still wonderful, just the tops were a bit over-done with all that extra time. The silicone was a huge disappointment, so I think I will go back to using regular paper liners. Alas, we were not meant to be. I suppose I'll hide the silicone liners away until I find another use for them that doesn't involve heat and baking. I bet they'll be good as molds for things like gelatins, mousses, and no-bake cheesecakes.
Kiwi Vanilla Cupcakes with Kiwi Buttercream Frosting (makes 1 dozen)
Cupcake base recipe adapted from Trilogy Edibles
Frosting recipe adapted from Sideways Sweet
Cupcake base:
- 1-2 whole fresh kiwis (enough to make 1/3 cup of mashed kiwi)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- slightly over 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 egg whites
- 1 whole fresh kiwi, mashed
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- slightly over 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- a pinch or two of sea salt
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners (I do NOT recommend using silicone liners).
2. Peel the 3 kiwis you will need for the cupcakes and frosting, and mash them well using a fork, trying to break up large chunks. See the consistency of the mashed kiwi below for reference. If your kiwi is not soft enough to mash with a fork, puree it in a food processor or blender. You will use 1/3 cup of the mashed kiwi for the cupcakes, and the remainder can be set aside for the frosting.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt for the cupcake base. In another small bowl, mix together the milk, vanilla, and the 1/3 cup mashed kiwi.
4. In a large bowl, cream the 1 stick of butter with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, then add sugar and continue beating until fluffy. Turn down the speed to medium and blend in egg and egg whites until just blended.
5. Turn mixer to low speed and add half the flour mixer, mixing briefly until just blended. Then add the milk and kiwi mixture, blend briefly until just combined. Finally add remaining half of the flour mixture, scrape down sides of bowl, and finish mixing just until blended.
6. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, and bake for 22-25 minutes until tops are golden and just dry to the touch, and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. (If you so happen to be using silicone muffin cup liners, you may need to add an extra 10-15 minutes of bake time on top of this.) Remove from oven and cool thoroughly before frosting. If using silicone liners, remove them as soon as the cupcakes have cooled just enough to handle.
7. Make the frosting: Cream butter until light and fluffy. Add approx 3-5 tbsp of mashed kiwi to the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, and blend well. You can always add more kiwi but you can't take it back once it's in there. Just make sure the mixture is still light and fluffy and doesn't become watery. Now add vanilla and confectioner's sugar, and blend thoroughly. Stop to taste the frosting, making note of the degree of sour versus sweet. The final step is to add the salt and mix well, and taste again.
The frosting flavor should really round out and come together at the end, without being too sweet or too sour. You won't taste the salt, but it will balance out the kiwi and the sugar so that the uniqueness of the kiwi flavor shines through. I swear the frosting tastes so addictive and refreshing, like a perfectly ripe kiwi, mmm!
These cupcakes are best the day of, and look beautifully summery when garnished with slices of kiwi. The frosting comes out a very pale pastel green, with flecks of the black kiwi seeds throughout. You'll find the kiwi pairs surprisingly well with the buttery vanilla in the cupcake, brightened up by the bold kiwi flavor in the frosting. I couldn't believe how fresh of a taste it was, considering how rare it is to hear about kiwi cupcakes as a concept. Everyone who had one of these asked for a second, which must be a good sign right? ;) I know I'll be making these again and again when I have all those extra kiwis in the summertime!


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The graduate program in applied history is a flexible program designed to provide educators, public historians, and individuals wishing to pursue advanced graduate work with practical professional training. Our faculty work one-on-one with students to design a program of study to meet their personal and professional needs.
For those seeking careers in the field of public history, the program offers coursework in archives, museum studies, museum education, oral history, local history, and historic preservation, as well as professional internships to prepare students for employment in museums, historical institutions, and at historic sites.
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Educators will find a diverse array of courses in United States history, world history, and historical methods that will deepen their historical knowledge and provide new resources for classroom use. Each summer the department also offers a K-12 Educator Institute specifically designed to provide educators with an opportunity to network with other educators while deepening their own understanding of history.
The History Department also has a cooperative degree program with Clarion University allowing students to earn a cooperative degree, a Master's of Applied History and a Master's of Information and Library Science.
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In addition to earning the Master's Degree in Applied History, students may also consider the following options:
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E-MAIL ARCHIVING, a sizzling hot segment of the storage market, is winning converts every day. But many Exchange admins are finding one of the most touted benefits of these products--slimmed down Exchange mail stores--somewhat elusive.
The e-mail archiving vendors aren't overstating the prowess of their applications, but they often fail to mention a big step in the process of regaining disk space from bloated Exchange databases. "Every single one of them is promising a smaller, faster, leaner, meaner database that you back up faster and restore faster--if you need to do it-- and it's just not true," says Troy Werelius, CEO of Lucid8, a provider of Exchange utilities. "They do the prep work for it."
Tim Tiches, director of product management for CA's Message Manager (formerly iLumin Assentor), concurs. "We will stub messages to reduce the footprint, in theory, on the Exchange server," says Tiches, "but the actual space isn't recovered until it's compacted."
After an archiver moves messages and attachments from the database to the archive destination, the Exchange database doesn't actually shrink. The items that were removed no longer show up in mailboxes or on calendars, but the disk space they formerly occupied is still part of the Exchange database. Those newly vacated areas of the database are referred to as "white space" and may be filled with new messages. "It can get overwritten if everything's lined up perfectly," says Werelius, "but if you talk to companies that really run Exchange--whether it's 5.5 or 2003--they'll tell you, 'No, my database still grows.'"
To actually reclaim the space, an admin has to run a utility like Microsoft's Eseutil or Lucid8's GOexchange to defrag and compact the database. But even using a product like GOexchange, which simplifies the process, involves taking the database offline (and e-mail out of service) for hours at a time.
"One of the reasons I purchased GOexchange was to facilitate that issue," says Bob DuBois, director of IT at Devine, Millimet & Branch, a Manchester, NH, law firm, who also uses Zantaz Enterprise Archive Solution to archive the firm's e-mail. "I wanted some automated tool so that I didn't have to go command line all the time."
Besides shutting down mail service, bringing down Exchange to compact the database is an uncertain proposition because an admin won't know exactly how long it will take. "You can't really predict," says Devine, Millimet & Branch's DuBois. "You can only guess-timate."
There seems to be at least a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel as Microsoft is reportedly working on a solution to the problem. "I had a few discussions with the Microsoft folks," says CA's Tiches. "[They say] they're going to solve that in [Exchange] 2007." Lucid8's Werelius isn't as optimistic about Microsoft's efforts because he thinks those improvements are linked to Microsoft replacing the Jet database at the heart of Exchange's mail store. "Microsoft's most recent statement is that their goal is to be off of it by 2012," notes Werelius.
The Jet database engine was introduced by Microsoft in 1992, and it's the underlying database manager for such popular apps as Microsoft Access and Excel. The technology is somewhat long in the tooth, and is considered the root of some of the problems associated with Exchange data stores. Werelius says one such issue is the inadequacy of Microsoft's online compaction, which makes regaining disk space an awkward process.
"If you push [Microsoft] to that point, they tell you that's true," says Werelius. "That's one of the reasons they're going to try to move off the Jet database."
Tiches thinks they could address the problem, but it would require loading his firm's software on the Exchange server--something they're loathe to do because their customers don't want to complicate their Exchange environments. "I think we could solve that problem, but I think it would create other problems," says Tiches. "Our expectation and hope is that Microsoft will find a way to solve it themselves with some of their 2007 technology."
With doubts that a fix from Microsoft is forthcoming, Lucid8 is working on a version of GOexchange that compacts the database without having to take it offline. "We're working on an online version; we have it working in our lab," says Werelius. "But you probably won't see it out in the world until late this year or early next year."
Letting e-mail users continue to work with Exchange while its database undergoes maintenance would be a boon to Exchange admins and e-mail archiver vendors, too. "If they do that, I'd be loving life," says DuBois.
--Rich Castagna
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WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- President Obama suggested Tuesday he is considering New York's police commissioner for homeland security secretary.
The president told Spanish-language broadcaster Univision's New York affiliate he wants to know if Ray Kelly is interested in the job.
"Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is, but if he's not I'd want to know about it, because obviously he'd be very well qualified for the job," Obama said.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday after Janet Napolitano announced her departure that he recommended Kelly for the post, The Hill reported. Napolitano is leaving to head the University of California.
Obama apparently agrees with Schumer that Kelly is well-qualified for the post. The president called Kelly "one of the best there is."
"Ray Kelly's obviously done an extraordinary job in New York and the federal government partners a lot with New York," Obama said.
The choice could evoke echoes of President George W. Bush's choice in 2004 of former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik to head DHS. Kerik withdrew his name amid revelations he had hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny and later pleaded guilty to ethics violations.


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Washington (Reuters) - Tanning beds and sunlamps will be required to carry stronger warning labels under new regulations proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is also recommending the machines not be used by people under the age of 18.
The FDA said on Monday that it plans to reclassify sunbeds from low-risk to moderate-risk products, meaning they will need to be cleared by the agency before being allowed onto the market.
Faulty equipment has led to patients being burned or exposed to too much radiation, Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's center for devices and radiological health, said in an interview.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Basal cell and squamous cell cancer, the two most common forms, are generally curable; but melanoma, the third most common type, is deadly.
In 2009, the most recent year numbers are available, 61,646 people in the United States were diagnosed with melanoma and 9,199 people died, according to the CDC.
The FDA's proposed regulations stop short of recommendations made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, which in 2009 concluded that commercial tanning devices were more dangerous than previously thought and recommended people under 18 be banned from using them.
The FDA's regulations also stop short of new rules being developed by some U.S. states.
More than 30 states regulate the use of tanning facilities to differing degrees. Delaware, New Hampshire and North Dakota, for example, ban the use of indoor tanning by anyone under age 14 unless medically necessary and they require parental consent for those between the ages of 14 and 18.
Some states, including Georgia, Illinois and Maine, ban tanning beds for children under the age of 14, and eighteen states require tanning bed operators to limit exposure time to a manufacturers' recommendations and provide eye protection.
In January 2012, California became the first state to ban tanning beds for all people under 18.
The Indoor Tanning Association argues vigorously that the decision on whether a teen is allowed to suntan is one for parents, not government, and it supports parental consent. But it is fighting the growing number of states issuing bans.
"Is the next step to ban teens from sun bathing at public beaches and pools?" the association asked in a statement last year in opposition to New Jersey's proposal to ban tanning bed use for those under 17.
"You also have to consider the health risks associated with banning teenagers from using tanning salons," it said. "They will just go outside with no adult supervision and no trained staff where they are much more likely to get sunburned."
The FDA's actions follow a 2010 meeting of a federal advisory panel which unanimously recommended that the agency reclassify tanning devices. Panelists had mixed views on whether to implement a ban on minors.
An estimated 5.6 percent of U.S. adults reported indoor tanning at least once in 2010, with the highest rates among white, female 18 to 25-year-olds, according to the CDC, which notes that frequent exposure to UV rays for people under the age of 35 increases the risk of developing melanoma by 75 percent.
"For right now our proposal tries to focus on providing better information for consumers," Shuren said, "including a warning on the tanning beds themselves that they shouldn't be used in people under 18," he said.
Depending on the feedback the agency receives to its proposal, it may make changes to the final order, he said.
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Shock of all shocks: the State Budget is out of whack to the tune of $6 billion for the rest of this fiscal year ending June 30th and almost another $20 billion for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Hold on, wasn't it only a few weeks ago that the legislature and governor hammered out a "balanced" budget?
Only if you believe in fairy tales.
Anyone familiar with the workings of Sacramento knew that the budget was anything but balanced when leaders cobbled it together in October, only weeks before the Nov. 2 election. Democrats refused to make further cuts in public education and social services for the poor, aged and ill. For their part, Republicans were unwilling to raise revenues to bridge what was then a $5 billion gap.
The answer: creativity.
Legislators and the governors changed assumptions to make the numbers work. They projected $5.3 billion more from the federal government when no such promises had been made. They also predicted an additional $1.4 billion in taxes in an economy still in the doldrums.
The result: unrealistic projections lead to a predictable deficit.
This is hardly a surprise.
The real question is what will be done? Some people are operating under the misperception that the passage of Proposition 25 will make it easier to pass a budget at a special session of the legislature scheduled by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in December. You may remember that Proposition 25 changed the required vote for a budget from two-thirds to a majority. But a majority vote to pass a budget will be meaningless inasmuch as it still takes a two-thirds vote to raise taxes.
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The packers will be back for one final day tomorrow. And everything that isn't boxed, will get boxed. They have far surpassed my expectations for movers. Everything that they did, it seemed to me, that they did with care. And the boxes are well packed, and all of my items were not just thrown around. High fives to them, it's certainly appreciated.
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Final Report of the National Summit on Rural and Small Libraries
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship – Clarion University of Pennsylvania – Department of Library Science – July 17-18, 2008
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Future Agenda for Rural and Small Libraries in the US
The purpose of this paper is to briefly comment on the status of librarianship in small and rural libraries, to note recent developments, and to provide a framework for the implementation of a systematic vision for the future.
The backbone of public librarianship in the United States can be found in the 7,000 or so small libraries that populate rural/urban American. These consist of industrial, ranch, resort, bedroom, seat of government, agricultural, and extractive communities. Despite the preponderance of small towns and their libraries, these have often been dwarfed in the public's view by more glamorous depictions associated with institutions in metropolitan America. In the public and library press, notice of a donation of Kerouac manuscripts to the New York Public Library typically received greater attention than the sleep over party of teens at the Bullard Sanford Memorial Library in Vassar, Michigan.
Contributing to the above has also been a scene of decades of neglect in Schools of Library and Information Science that have found more favorite topics to be pursued by instructors and faculty than the rigors of working with library boards and the budgeting process in small public libraries. As a further matter of perspective, thirty years ago for a researcher studying rural libraries, it would have been easier to locate information of the same about life in Ghana rather than something pertaining to the United States.
Tipping points causing change to the above situation have included a series of national events contributed by the action of the American Library Association and its various committees structured to study small and rural public libraries and the formation of the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. The vital driving force, however, has been the selfless contributions made by librarians, staff, and trustees of local community libraries.
Recent Developments:
The last ten years have been particularly propitious for small and rural libraries correcting the previous historical imbalance. Outstanding credit has to be directed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its enormous contributions spurring the development of both infrastructure and collateral training in information technology at the local level. More recently the Foundation's actions have enabled the development of WebJunction, a marvelous clearinghouse of information, along with projects like MaintainIT, and most significantly Library Journal's award for the Best Small Library in America. The latter has given remarkable identity to our previously invisible institutions. Not to be excluded in the array of contributors has been the Rural Library Project in Georgia, the Rural Library Initiative in California, the action of the Western Council of State Libraries, and the contributions of numerous state bound associations dealing at committee levels with rural libraries. Importantly, in 2002, the establishment of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, and the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services, has given organizational direction for the future.
Over the last twenty years, there were two efforts to extract a "national agenda" for rural library services. The first such entitled "The 21st Century—Rural and Small Libraries, Action Agenda," was compiled during the H. W. Wilson Symposium of the Future of Public Libraries at Omaha, Nebraska, on September 26-29, 1990. A second effort, "Action Agenda for Community and Economic
Final Report of the National Summit on Rural and Small Libraries
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship – Clarion University of Pennsylvania – Department of Library Science – July 17-18, 2008
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Development," was written during a meeting sponsored by the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, the National Agricultural Library, and the Northeast Center for Rural Development, in cooperation with the State Library of Maine, on September 19-21, 1991. This occurred at a conference dealing with "Information and Rural Economic Development." Regretfully, these latter documents became part of good intentions left undone. It took a group of twelve individuals, meeting in the early months of 2008, in Clarion, to consider what were options for the future. Those attending included: Ken Davenport [Iowa], Becky Heil [Iowa], Susan Hill [Ohio], Carla Lehn [California], Rebecca Miller [New York], Jim Malzewski [Washington], Emily Parker [Washington], John Philip [Ohio], Jim Rancilio [Michigan], Don Reynolds [Tennessee], and Bernard Vavrek [Pennsylvania].
Rural Library Summit:
With the above as prelude, one is led to the most recent effort at "building" community libraries at the national level. On July 17, 18, 2008, a "Summit Meeting on Rural and Small Libraries" was hosted by the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship in Clarion. Attending were: Laurie Brooks, Associate Deputy Director, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC; Mary Chute, Deputy Director for Libraries, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC; Blane Dessy, External Advisory Committee, Department of Library Science, Clarion University of Pennsylvania; Theresa Gemmer, President, Association for Bookmobile and Outreach Services [Everett Public Library Outreach Librarian, Everett, WA]; George Needham, Vice-President, Member Services, Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, OH; Satia Orange, Director, Office for Literacy and Outreach Services, American Library Association, Chicago, IL; Don Reynolds, President, Association for Rural and Small Libraries, [Director, Nolichucky Regional Library, Morristown, TN]; Carol Sheffer, President, Public Library Association, American Library Association, Chicago, IL [Deputy Director, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY]; Greta Southard, Executive Director, Public Library Association, American Library Association, Chicago, IL; Bernard Vavrek, Director, Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, Clarion University of Pennsylvania; and, Jan Walsh, President, Western Council of State Libraries [Washington State Librarian, Olympia, WA].
Vision for the Future:
All of librarianship is challenged by an increasing array of opportunities that play on the Internet stage. Actors of all types have come forward to provide their own versions of information packaging and access. Despite the mentality that electronic networks are the core matrix of today's cultural services in the United States, it is the American public library that provides critical multi-point contact at the community level, on a daily basis. New challenges have developed. Arsenals of Democracy was the title of a decades old book about the societal role of the public library. Increasingly, it has been necessary to reassert that role, in an increasingly fractious society.
While Americans have great trust and reliance on their public library infrastructure, these cultural building blocks have not always grabbed the national imagination as one might hope. This paper is about hope and future success created by those individuals who have committed their willingness to do so. This action represents the first step in a national movement to re-invigorate small and rural public libraries.
– Bernard Vavrek, Director
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Final Report of the National Summit on Rural and Small Libraries
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship – Clarion University of Pennsylvania – Department of Library Science – July 17-18, 2008
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Action Items for the Future:
The Summit participants realize that many of these actions are dependent upon the approval of governing bodies. Participants will communicate these items to their respective boards and councils for approval prior to implementation.
Align with other national organizations with common interest in rural issues
• rural compact
• broadband access
• early learning
Encourage, explore and develop models for cooperation between small and rural libraries and with other libraries
webinar then ongoing discussion boards
Encourage small and rural libraries to reassess their services regularly based on changing demographics, in consultation with other community agencies
• early learning
website available
Create a network of mentors
begin now – in place summer 2009
Create a "go to" list of people with interest in small and rural libraries to act as advisors/speakers
begin now – in place summer 2009
Comparative library funding by size
Economies by scale
Funding opportunities for small and rural libraries/directory
B. Vavrek's graduate students – CSRL
Value of a national information policy
* How to fund public libraries
B. Vavrek
Final Report of the National Summit on Rural and Small Libraries
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship – Clarion University of Pennsylvania – Department of Library Science – July 17-18, 2008
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4. TRAINING and EDUCATION
Core competencies for library management
• identify what's available
• promote these resources
• identify and plug holes
Western Council
12/15/2008 IMLS deadline
Complete by Summer 6/30/2011
Core competencies for external relations
• identify what's available
• promote these resources
• identify and plug holes
PLA – Emerging Leaders
7/31/2009 if chosen
Identify and promote LIS programs that encourage public libraries especially small and rural libraries
Design a plan for a national funding mechanism to make training available to all workers in small and rural libraries
Plan A: Don to ask Pat Wagner
Plan B: Grant proposal from ARSL
Plan C: George to offer OCLC staff
No date given
Promote template on what libraries save individuals to small and rural libraries
Underwrite, publish, and promote new studies on economic multiplier effect of small and rural libraries
1st step – ARSL to identify current studies applicable to small and rural libraries
2nd step – identify gaps


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Several miles south of the glitzy downtown boutiques and upscale eateries that serve the Damascus elite, regime troops besieging rebel-held suburbs keep watch from sandbagged balconies and holes in walls over a rubble-choked no-man's land of ruined streets and bombed-out buildings.
Whiffs of sewage and smoke tinge the wintry air. The ground is a carpet of shell casings, glass shards, and concrete chunks. Water-filled trenches show where regime bulldozers have dug for rebel tunnels. In an abandoned apartment, four old television sets glow in the gloom. Rigged to cameras aimed at rebel lines, the crude surveillance system helps limit exposure to snipers.
"Yesterday, I saw three rebels running from the right side," recounted Abu Ali, 47, who mans the post and used an alias, as did other regime militiamen who spoke to a reporter visiting the embattled suburb of Tadamon. "I saw a man carrying a board, and we sniped him. A guy ran to rescue him, and we sniped him. And then we sniped the guy who tried to rescue the rescuer with a rope."
A 15-minute drive away, through a labyrinth of checkpoints, life in President Bashar al-Assad's citadel offers a stunning contrast. Shops are stacked with goods, regular garbage collections and street sweepers keep the downtown free of refuse, and traffic backs up at numerous checkpoints, suggesting that gasoline is now plentiful after several periods of intermittent supplies.
The security belt that separates Tadamon and other battle-weary areas from central Damascus contributes to a veneer of normalcy in the city. That relative calm reassures Assad's loyalists, who point to a recent slackening in car bombings and shelling as evidence that government offensives have succeeded in pushing rebels back in some suburbs.
"As long as Bashar Assad is in power, we don't mind" the war, declared Fahed Nizam, 42, whose family has hawked roasted nuts from a small shop in Damascus' fabled old city for 40 years, the same period in which the Assad family has ruled Syria. "Bashar is our eyes. He keeps us safe."
Many people, however, agree that beneath the veneer are serious problems that will worsen with no apparent progress in diplomatic efforts to mediate an end to the carnage. The relative calm of the capital's center belies the savagery that's laid waste to large parts of the suburbs, and huge swaths of cities and towns in other parts of Syria. Peace talks, brokered by the United States and Russia, next week in Switzerland are unlikely to resolve anything anytime soon.
"You know the novels of Franz Kafka?" asked Mokhtar Lamani, who heads the Damascus office of United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, referring to the German writer famed for his surreal, nightmarish stories. "It's like living in one of his books."
Armed soldiers and plainclothes security men are everywhere. While the daytime is mostly free of the sounds of war, the nights often resound with explosions and gunfire from the fighting on the capital's periphery.
The checkpoint-spawned traffic jams, far-off nighttime explosions and sporadic power cuts are among the few outward signs in Damascus of the war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives since Assad's forces fired on peaceful protests in March 2011. Some 7 million others have been uprooted, thousands of foreign Islamists have poured into Syria and the sectarian strife has bled into Iraq and Lebanon.
Residents complain about the high costs of fuel and food – estimates put inflation at anywhere from 40 percent to nearly 200 percent – and serious crimes, especially kidnappings, are said to be soaring in a city where it was once safe to walk late into the night.
In many rebel-held neighborhoods on the capital's outskirts, the regime has imposed blockades, preventing the transport of food and water and leaving thousands of women and children hungry. In some, the tactic has been successful, forcing insurgents to negotiate truces in return for aid and evacuations.
In others, civilians with little to eat or drink are still trapped – or prevented by rebels from leaving. They shelter in shell-pitted buildings from icy rains and duels between the rebels and locally recruited regime militias, whose formations have allowed Assad's manpower-short army to shift troops to other battlefronts.
"Every day, the rebels try to push forward because they can enter Damascus from here. So we are trying to stop them," explained Abu Aksam, 45, a veteran army officer who supervises the militia in Tadamon. On a recent day, he was accompanied by his 5-year-old son, who wore a child-size camouflage uniform.
Aksam is a Sunni Muslim, yet the morale-boosting posters hung on his command post wall include not only Assad and his father and predecessor, Hafez Assad, but also Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militia from Lebanon that's provided the regime with crucial support against the rebellion, which is dominated by Sunnis like Aksam.
Aksam's commander, Gen. Abu Salim, said that some 500 rebels from three Islamist groups held the southern half of Tadamon, a working class area of narrow streets, small shops and cramped homes whose prewar population of some 87,000 reflected Syria's mix of religious and ethnic groups. Only a few civilians are left on the rebel side, he said, adding that they're mostly the families of rebels or people who are too poor to rent homes elsewhere in Damascus.
The conflict in Tadamon – as in the rest of the country – is a stalemate punctuated by bursts of vicious fighting. The last major clash erupted in November, when rebels penetrated several blocks into the regime side. It took Salim's men two days to drive them back, he said.
The rebels, he said, are led by foreign Sunni extremists backed by Saudi Arabia and the West. They're committed to ousting the secular government dominated by Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite offshoot, and subjugating Syria's Muslims and Christians to harsh, Taliban-style rule that the extremists, if victorious, will fight to extend across the region, he warned.
"The danger of the extremists will not remain inside Syria's borders," Salim, an Alawite, asserted, adding that the rebels in Tadamon are led by Islamists from Jordan and Iraq. "Extreme Islam is . . . a real cancer."
Until last month, civilians were permitted in and out of the rebel-held side to purchase food through three checkpoints. Then the government closed the passages, cut the water supply, and tightened the siege, Salim said.
"We asked the (rebels') families to leave because it's not safe. Nearly 80 to 90 percent left," he said.
The rebels still have food from stocks they seized from warehouses two years ago, but they're restricting the amounts they provide to the remaining civilians, he said.
The devastation of the front lines quickly recedes just a few blocks into the regime-held half of Tadamon. There, at what the locals call "the Line of Life," the streets are shielded by high buildings and huge sheets of plastic that are hung overhead to obscure the views of rebel snipers.
Yelling children scurry after balls or ride bicycles in rutted lanes framed by modest apartment buildings. There's running water, intermittent electricity and small stores stocked with food, clothing and consumer goods.
Banners eulogizing local soldiers killed by the rebels are strung from houses, and an effigy of an Islamist adorned with a head scarf and beard dangles from a noose on a light pole.
"It's just normal life. It's safe in here," said Abdul Majid, 47, who sells cigarettes from a street stand.
But it's downtown Damascus, nestled in the shadow of Assad's massive palace atop Qasiyoun Mountain, that offers the greatest contrast to the death and devastation in the suburbs.
Everything appears to be for sale, from local foods and clothing to imported chocolates, jeans and luxury items that include Swiss watches, Italian designer shoes and Austrian crystal. The streets are clean, and schools and universities are open. In the afternoons and evenings, families and friends converse over succulent traditional dishes in packed restaurants, drink endless cups of Turkish coffee and pull at water pipes in smoke-filled cafes, while the well-heeled hold parties.
Just how Assad pays for the upkeep and keeps the city supplied with power and fuel are matters of quiet gossip, with many residents speculating that he depends on massive aid from Iran and Russia.
The story Iyad Ataya tells reflects the city's feel. The grizzled 52-year-old businessman and his family fled their home in the embattled suburb of Jobbar, but he owns a small shoe store in the Kasaa neighborhood that provides them with income.
Still, it no longer brings in the $5,000 per month that Ataya says it costs to support his wife, their two sons and the families of four of their relatives who also left Jobbar.
"I feel wounded in my heart," he said, sitting in front of shelves stacked with Chinese-produced shoes that he contends are far inferior to domestically made shoes, which are no longer available. "I would even live in a tent if I could go back to Jobbar."
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This highly regarded, thematic reader for freshman composition offers students an introduction to issues in the arts and sciences. It includes a good balance of classic and contemporary selections from mixed genres and provides a wide range of viewpoints and voices. The readings are supported by introductions to each theme and individual headnotes.
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