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The other day I glanced out my window and felt a twinge of revulsion delicately seasoned with indignation. Pecking at my bird feeder were two brown-headed cowbirds, one male and one female, and I knew what that meant. Pretty soon the fattened, fertilized female would be slipping her eggs into some other birds' nest, with the expectation that the naïve hosts would brood, feed and rear her squawking, ravenous young at the neglect and even death of their own.
Hey, you parasites, get your beaks off my seed, I thought angrily. That feeder is for the good birds, the birds that I like — the cardinals, the nuthatches, the black-capped chickadees, the tufted titmice, the woodpeckers, the goldfinches. It's for the hard-working birds with enough moral fiber to rear their own families and look photogenic besides. It's not meant for sneaky freeloaders like you. I rapped on the window sharply but the birds didn't budge, and as I stood there wondering whether I should run out and scare them away, their beaks seemed to thicken, their eyes blacken, and I could swear they were cackling, "Tippi Hedren must go."
In sum, I was suffering from a severe case of biobigotry: the persistent and often irrational desire to be surrounded only by those species of which one approves, and to exclude any animals, plants and other life forms that one finds offensive.
It was not my first episode of the disorder, and evidently I don't suffer alone. "Throughout history there have been vilified animals and totemic animals," said John Fraser, a conservation psychologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. "There are the animals you don't like and that you dismiss as small brown vermin, and the animals whose attributes you absolutely want to own," to be a tiger, a bear, lupine leader of the pack.
Biobigotry is different from the impulse to avoid organisms that can hurt or sicken us, like yellow jackets, mosquitoes or poison ivy, or to fend off traditional household pests like mice and roaches. Rather, it is the dislike we direct toward creatures that live outdoors and generally mind their own business, but that behave in ways we find rude, irritating, selfish or contemptible. The squirrels are gluttons, the crows are schoolyard bullies, the house sparrows are boring and look like mice when they skitter along the ground. How we love those noble falcons and eagles that lately have blessed us by nesting on our skyscrapers and bridges. How we beg them to feast freely on the pigeons and starlings that curse us by nesting on our skyscrapers and bridges.Continue reading the main story
Sometimes our biobigotry is merely attitudinal. In the course of an interview about spotted hyenas, for example, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, scornfully referred to the wildebeest that the hyenas frequently prey on as "wildeburgers." Why? Because once a wildebeest has been caught, said the scientist, it just stands there with cowlike passivity and allows itself to be torn apart. Compare that with a zebra, the researcher said, which will go down fighting and kicking and cracking the predator's jaw if it can.
"Oh, we're all of us prone to a massive over-interpretation of the things that we see," said Marc D. Hauser, professor of psychology and evolutionary biology at Harvard University and author of "Moral Minds." "I distinctly remember, when I first went to Amboseli National Park to study vervet monkeys, how quickly I developed strong feelings about the personalities of the monkeys — here were the great and brave ones, there were the lame ones that hid in the bushes and acted pathetic."
At other times, we take steps to favor our local heroes or thwart our chosen goats, whose greatest sin, as a rule, is being exceptionally good at their game. We try to squirrel-proof our bird feeders, yank weeds from our flower beds, call Animal Control, and when all else fails, reach for our guns. Stephen C. Sautner of the Wildlife Conservation Society cited the case of a friend and avid birder who has a colony of purple martins on his property. "He spends much of his time shooting and trapping starlings and English sparrows," said Mr. Sautner, "both of which he describes as 'evil.' "
We always have a story to justify our most aggressive attempts at unwanted-animal control. The animal is an invasive species like the European starling, and it doesn't belong here. Or it's a native species like the cowbird but its range has been unnaturally extended through deforestation. Or it likes our garbage and our raggedy parks and thus has an unfair advantage over fussier creatures. Whatever the self-exculpatory particulars, said Marc Bekoff, author of "The Emotional Lives of Animals" and emeritus professor of biology at the University of Colorado, "I see it as a double cross that we create a situation where cowbirds spread, or red foxes eat endangered birds, and then we decide, well, now we've got to go out and kill the cowbirds and the foxes."
Our proneness to biobigotry, experts said, arises from several salient human traits. For one, we are equipped with an often overactive theory of mind — the conviction that those around you have their own minds, goals and desires, and that it might behoove you to anticipate what they'll do next. We spin elaborate narratives out of the slenderest of observational threads: Look, the blue jay is trying to dislodge the cowbird from the feeder. Could the jay know the cowbird is a nest parasite and be trying to drum it out of town? "We interpret animal behaviors through a human lens and human morality," said Mr. Fraser, the conservation psychologist.
Related to the human impulse to see ourselves in nature is the persistent sense that nature belongs to us, and that we have the right and the means to control it. "In the past, when we talked about exploiting nature, that was seen as a good thing," Mr. Fraser said. "Now we realize that that attitude is counterproductive to human success."
Nowhere is our sense of droit du roi over nature more manifest than in our paradoxical attitudes toward farm animals. On the one hand, they're the beloved figures of our earliest childhood. On the other hand, many of our most pejorative comparisons were born in the barnyard — you lazy pig, you ugly cow, you chicken, what a bunch of sheep.
Conservation groups, which keep track of public attitudes toward animals, acknowledge that they are ever on the lookout for the next Animal Idol — an ecologically important creature that also happens to be large, showy, charismatic and likable. If you have two important birds from the same region of Latin America, said Mr. Fraser, one a hyacinth macaw that looks like flying jewelry and can vocalize like a human, the other a storm petrel that is brown, squawky and cakes the coastline with guano, guess which face ends up on the next fund-raising calendar.
Not that public attitudes can't be changed. Bats, for example, were long considered vermin, but nowadays, in the wake of the wildly popular children's book "Stella Luna," they've taken on a magical air, as the mosquito-eating Tinkerbells that if you're lucky will soon take up residence near you. Until then, step away from that bat house, sparrow. Don't make me shoot.Continue reading the main story


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Yellow Coneflower or Bush's Coneflower
This is the odd one in the group, while the rest have purple-pink flowers with white forms, this one has yellow flowers, or more accurately yellow disk rays. An interesting addition to the prairie planting or back of the boarder. Plants start off slowly, with the first year spent growing a tap root with only a few low growing, rough leaves produced.
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LCCC planning green roof program
GODFREY — A planned program at a local community college would teach students how to develop green roofs, which are becoming increasingly common in urban areas, the curriculum's developers say.
The Green Roof Specialist certificate program at Lewis and Clark Community College would teach students how to build and maintain green roofs, which are essentially plant communities on top of buildings or even on walls.
Green roofs are designed to better insulate the spaces below them and also to utilize rainwater instead of draining it directly into sewer systems. The certificate would fall under the Associate of Applied Science degree in Restoration Ecology, if approved. Students in that program learn how to restore natural areas, wetlands and urban environments that may have been damaged.
The college's board approved the certificate's curriculum at its meeting last week. The Illinois Community College Board will have to approve the college's application for the certificate before it can be put into place. Scott Moss, coordinator and instructor of restoration ecology and storm water management, said he hopes the certificate will be approved this summer so it can be offered in the fall.
Growing plants on top of buildings is not new technology, Moss said, but they are quickly becoming more popular.
"Sod roofs have been around for hundreds of years. But green roofs are really making a comeback because places like Chicago and St. Louis are investing tremendous amounts of money as their sewer systems expand and grow," Moss said. "These old systems are already overwhelmed, so green roofs are designed to mitigate (stormwater)."
Moss said the demand for individuals trained in restoration ecology and green roof installation is growing. His program produces about six or seven students each year, but he says there are "more people looking for my students than I've had students to send out into the job market."
One of his students, Nicole Gray, 33, said she already has a job at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, a division of the college. The center, naturally, sports a green roof. She works there while she finishes the two-year restoration ecology program at the end of the summer semester.
The Bethalto native said she worked in retail for several years, but wasn't satisfied. In her new career, she will work for the Habitat Strike Team. The team helps land owners bring parts of their property "up to spec" with the government so they are eligible for tax breaks for land that isn't functioning or "very diverse," Gray said.
Though Gray hasn't done the green roof certification, she says she will go back for it once she gets settled in at her new job.
"It will just make me more competitive in the job market," Gray said. "You hear about it (green roofs) more and more now because everybody's becoming more aware. I think there'll be more of a need for it once people become comfortable with it."
But green roofs aren't quite economically driven yet, Gray added. Most businesses and individuals interested in installing green roofs are motivated to clean up the environment, she noted, but as the technology becomes more available and affordable, green roofs may become more popular.
"It's a new idea. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done to figure out how everyone can get involved in," Gray said.
For now, the green roof certificate will give restoration ecology students another tool on their belt.
"We're putting it in place keeping in mind that it could be or will be demand for people who know how to maintain and install green roofs," Moss said. "It's a new extension off of a program already designed with new green economy in mind."
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Whether you're a self-proclaimed lazy girl who likes to look fabulous but doesn't want to spend too much time on your beauty routine, or you have a jam packed schedule and can't find the time for a full beauty routine, you've likely found yourself looking up beauty hacks of all sorts. The problem with looking up beauty hacks without actually looking into them is that you may be wasting your time; there are many blogs out there today that offer readers false information in order to be rewarded with some sort of compensation. Like it or not, we live in a time when you really cannot believe each and everything that you read on the internet. Having come across one to many unsuccessful beauty hacks, the Lionesse team knew what had to be done.
The team went to work and looked into the most popular beauty hacks and the science behind each one. After some careful research, we have found the beauty hacks that actually work. Since we know you don't have time to waste on hacks that don't get the job done, we've also tested each and every one of the hacks being investigated. The ones that were effective made it to the list below, check it out!
Detox Water
There's no denying that there are hundreds – if not thousands – of weight loss and detox scams on the market today. Instead of putting a packet of chemicals into your water bottle every morning, switch to some natural additives. Of all the detox water hacks out there, we found that adding lemons, apples, cucumbers, and mint leaves into an ice cold glass of water works the same, maybe even better, than a lot of other concoctions on the internet today. The reason this works is because the four ingredients are major metabolism boosters. Also, the lemon and cold water work as diuretics. Drinking a cold glass of this detox water every morning is the only hack you need to lose any extra belly bloat you may have.
Lip Plumper
Have you ever noticed how drying lip plumper can be? As if that wasn't bad enough, many of them provide the tingle but mix the plump. To our surprise, the most talked about lip plumping hack on the web was biting. Yes, women are actually biting their lips, causing them the swell, thus appear more plump. Ladies, please do not bite your own lip, instead add a few drops of peppermint oil to your favorite lip gloss. This hack works because of the basic properties of peppermint oil; the tingling you feel is the oil stimulating your lips, which will cause painless swelling.
Rinse Free Cleansing
Makeup wipes are a girl's best friend, but they should not be the only method used to remove makeup on a regular basis. Often times the wipe spreads the makeup around after wiping up trace amounts of it. Additionally, the wipes can be harsh and even cause irritation. Put the makeup removing wipe hack to rest and make room for the best facial cleansing hack yet: micellar water. This no rinse liquid cleanser is gaining an unexpectedly large following, and after looking into the product, we have nothing bad to say about it. It might seem strange to wash your face without water, but here's why it makes total sense: micellar water is composed of teeny tiny oil cleansing molecules, called micelles, which are housed in softened water. The micelles actually absorb dirt, grime, and makeup. After wiping your entire face with a few cotton pads, you'll notice there is no makeup on one if the pads, this means that you've wiped everything off.


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Minna Parikka 'Elizabeth' red satin bunny pumps
While my shoe closet expands into the oblivious (I'm working on turning this around) I want to make a conscious effort to introduce a larger variety of designers in my SOTM features. So on that note, I've chosen to praise Finnish designer Minna Parikka's newest design in my monthly review. You might know her from the 'bunny sneakers' that rose to fame a few years ago and has hence become available everywhere from Selfridges to Farfetch (This style also comes in an adorable baby version so unless you have a matching pair with your toddler, please buy them now and send me pictures).
The iconic bunny ears have got a sophisticated update and by the time they were presented in satin, on a mule stiletto and with a pointy toe - I immediately booked them in for this feature. Longtime readers know I've been a fan of Minna Parikka for a while, but this shoe is without a doubt her best creation. A shoe so good, they come in three colours and four different styles, plus the family is set to expand for pre-fall. If you ask me, these satin bunnies are destined for greatness!
Comfort: 5/5
My gosh, this is a shoe that feels just as comfortable as it looks! Sturdy on the foot but perfectly arched for a comfortable balance. So far I've found Minna's heels more comfortable than the flats, but I will be trialling the different styles of these satin bow bunnies throughout the summer.
Quality: 4.5/5
A stunning shoe in scrumptious satin has it looking like it belongs in the Miuccia family. The choice of the fabric is spot on - delicate but durable enough to work on a shoe, the heel, however, could have used a bit more definition or shape to it.
Purchase price: Gifted in April, but retails for €395 on minnaparikka.com. The satin 'bunny ears' comes in a variety of colours and materials, with the flat slides set to be a winner for the summer to come.
Conclusion: This is a shoe that is set to be an Instagram hit for the summer to come. Cute and comfortable and at a price that will not completely blow your budget. Unless you have too many soft pink coloured shoes, go for the stunning 'rose' version to give the idea of a nude shoe a whole new meaning. The style comes in strappy sandals, sneakers, flats and of course the mule. The two latter ones are my prediction for the world domination 2018. Pick your pair.


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depiction of the matrix product AB of two matrices A and B.
Multiplication of two matrices is defined
only if the number of columns of the left matrix is the same as the number of
rows of the right matrix. If A is an m-by-n matrix and B is an n-by-p matrix, then their matrix product AB is the m-by-p matrix whose entries are
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In mathematics, an elementary matrix is a simple matrix which differs from the identity matrix by one single elementary row
operation. The elementary matrices generate the general linear group of invertible matrices. Left
multiplication (pre-multiplication) by an elementary matrix represents elementary row operations, while right multiplication
(post-multiplication) represents elementary column operations.
Elementary row operations do not change the
solution set of the system of linear equations represented by a matrix, and
are used in Gaussian elimination (respectively, Gauss-Jordan elimination) to
reduce a matrix to row echelon form (respectively, reduced row echelon form).
There are three types of elementary matrices, which correspond to
three types of row operations (respectively, column operations):
A row
within the matrix can be switched with another row.
element in a row can be multiplied by a non-zero constant.
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can be replaced by the sum of that row and a multiple of another row.
This transformation, Ti(m),
multiplies all elements on row i by m where m is non zero. The matrix resulting in
this transformation is obtained by multiplying all elements of row i of the identity matrix by m.
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inverse of this matrix is: Ti(m)−1 = Ti(1/m).
The matrix and its inverse are diagonal
det [Ti(m)] = m.Therefore for a conformable square matrix A: det[Ti(m)A] = m det[A].
This transformation, Tij(m),
adds row j multiplied by m to row i. The matrix resulting in this
transformation is obtained by taking row j of the identity matrix, and adding it m times to row i.
These are also called shear
mappings or transvections
Tij(m)−1 = Tij(−m) (inverse matrix).
The matrix and its inverse are triangular
= 1. Therefore, for a conformable square matrix A: det[Tij(1)A]
= det[A].
In linear algebra an n-by-n (square) matrix A is called invertible or nonsingular or non degenerate, if there exists an n-by-n matrix B such that
where In denotes the n-by-n identity matrix and the multiplication used
is ordinary matrix multiplication. If this is the case, then the matrix B is uniquely determined by A and is called the inverse of A, denoted by A−1. (Our solved example in mathguru.com uses this concept)
It follows
from the theory of matrices that if
for finite square matrices A and B,
then also
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The East Coast city of Philadelphia is set to welcome sports fans from around the world this spring, with an exciting schedule of annual sporting events taking place.
Starting in late March 2019, visitors can participate in 'America's favourite pastime', with the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team competing in their first home game of the season on 28th March 2019. The Philadelphia region will also play host to some of America's most prestigious annual sporting events, and this April the city will celebrate the 125th running of the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the US. In May, Philadelphia will host the annual 10-mile Broad Street Run and also the Devon Horse Show, which is the largest and oldest outdoor multi-breed competition in the United States.
Further information on spring sporting events in Philadelphia is below:
Return of the Major League Baseball Season in March 2019
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the US and Canada and the 2019 season will begin on 20th March 2019. The Philadelphia Phillies' first home game will take place at the city's Citizens Bank Park on 28th March against the Atlanta Braves, who are well-known rivals of the Phillies. Citizen Bank Park will also host themed nights throughout the season, including a Star Wars™ charity night on 17th July 2019, when fans can dress up as their favourite Star Wars™ character and pose for photographs with characters from the movies at the game. Visitors to Philadelphia have plenty of opportunities to enjoy the iconic baseball experience since the MLB regular season is scheduled to end on 29th September 2019. For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.mlb.com/phillies.
125th Running of the Penn Relays: 25th – 27th April 2019
The Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the US, with the inaugural event taking place on 21st April 1895! In 1914 the Relays became an international event when Oxford University crossed the Atlantic to compete and since then, famous figures who have competed in the prestigious relays include former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and politician Bernie Sanders. This year will celebrate the 125th running of the Penn Relays and will see American and international athletes take place in events such as hurdle races, racewalks and 100m sprints. The Penn Relays will take place at the University of Philadelphia's Franklin Field and tickets to attend are available to purchase online. For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.pennrelays.com.
Broad Street Run: 5th May 2019
Taking place on Sunday 5th May 2019, the 40th Blue Cross Broad Street Run will mark Philadelphia's official start to the running season. Starting at Broad Street and West Fisher Avenue, around 40,000 runners participate in the 10-mile race, which has been named as one of the fastest 10-mile courses in the US by Runner's World. The Broad Street Run will pass by several of Philadelphia's neighbourhoods and landmarks, including Philadelphia City Hall and the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, before finishing at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Dedicated cheer areas will be set up along the entire street, allowing travellers to cheer on the runners and enjoy the city views and various entertainment performances along the course. For more information, visit www.broadstreetrun.com.
Devon Horse Show & Country Fair: 23rd May – 2nd June 2019
Devon Horse Show is the largest and oldest outdoor multi-breed competition in the United States, drawing competitors and spectators from around the world. Taking place for 10 days from 24th May – 3rd June 2019, this horse and carriage show provides visitors with a country fair atmosphere and continues a tradition going back more than 110 years. Along with events such as a Shetland Pony Steeplechase and dressage performances, the fairground at the show will also be filled with boutique shopping stands, unique food stalls, an art gallery and a fun fair with a Ferris wheel. General admission tickets to the Devon Horse Show cost from £38 ($50). To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.devonhorseshow.net.
For more information on Philadelphia, visit the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau's website,
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Image 1: Citizens Bank Park is the Phillies' home stadium. Image courtesy of Miles Kennedy for PHLCVB.
Image 2: The Devon Horse Show & Country Fair will take place from 23rd May – 2nd June 2019. Image courtesy of Leslie Parker.
Image 3: The Broad Street Run will take place in Philadelphia on 5th May 2019. Image courtesy of Independence Blue Cross.
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Deported veterans and those living in the U.S. under fear of deportation will soon have their concerns raised as a political issue by a retired Army Reserve officer, immigration lawyer and MacArthur fellow who announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Margaret Stock this week said she will run as an independent for the Senate seat currently held by Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska. Stock has been a vocal critic of a Clinton-era crime bill that included stripping "green card" holders of their legal residency and deporting them if convicted of crimes that could carry at least a year in jail. Under the law, thousands of veterans, including those who had come to the U.S. legally as children and served in the military, have been deported, sometimes to countries whose language they do not speak. "If elected, that's an issue I would work on immediately," Stock told Military.com on Wednesday. She will be running against a candidate who kept her Senate seat in 2010 through a successful write-in campaign after first losing the GOP nomination to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller. Stock is a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, Army Reserve. Her last assignment before retiring was as an associate professor in the Social Studies Department at West Point, where she taught constitutional and military law from 2001 to 2006. She was also course director and professor of national security law. During her military career, Stock was assigned to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness; the U.S. Army Accessions Command, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs; and as a special advisor to Adm. Eric Olson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, from May 2008 to September 2009. In 2013, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, an honor that comes with a grant of more than $600,000 to allow a recipient to continue work in their specialized area. Craig Shagin, an attorney in Pennsylvania who has been heavily involved in veteran deportation cases, said he "can't think of a more qualified person" than Stock to be a senator. "She has knowledge in military [issues], she's knowledge in national security, and she's an exceptionally competent lawyer," he said. "And not just in the abstract, but as a practitioner. And she genuinely loves Alaska, so maybe she's a perfect candidate." Shagin believes Stock is running for "all the right reasons. She's quite patriotic, and concerned about people getting it right."
Stock was singled out by the MacArthur Foundation for her work emphasizing the impact of immigration law on service members and their families and in developing programs that adapt existing laws to better the lives of both immigrants and native-born military personnel. In Washington, she worked with lawmakers to develop the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program, or MAVNI, which allows legal non-citizens with in-demand skills to join the Army in exchange for expedited U.S. citizenship. She also worked on the military portion of what's now known as the DREAM Act. She says that as a Senator she could do even more. "People traditionally think senators just pass laws, but they don't. They also work with the federal agencies to try to get reforms in place, they hold hearings, they investigate things," she said. "They bring to the attention of the executive branch things that are not right, that the President hasn't noticed. Over the years, Stock has been in the forefront of efforts to end the deportation of veterans who, though legal residents who had served in the military, suddenly found themselves without green cards and deported to places that many never knew as a home. No one knows for certain how many veterans have been deported but it's believed they are in the thousands. But Stock said the country's immigration laws are not only hurting veterans and their families, they're hurting the military readiness. "The dysfunction of the immigration system has dried up the recruiting pool for the Pentagon," she said. "Less than 20 percent of Americans of military age can even meet military enlistment standards? And the military is still having a hard time finding military recruits even with downsizing." One reason for that is because it's taking so few immigrants, Stock said. "In past wars they recruited large numbers of immigrants. They no longer do that," she said. "We have the lowest participation rate of immigrants in the military in history -- the lowest ever." At the time the U.S. entered World War I, immigrants made up about 20 percent of the Army, Stock said, and even during the Vietnam War "they drafted immigrants like crazy." "Everybody agrees the immigration system is broken but it's having really bad societal impacts all over the place," she said. "It's costing the government huge amounts of money, it's a security problem and it hurts the military." --Bryant Jordan can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @bryantjordan.


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The Alumni Unit
The objectives of the alumni unit are to:
- Serve as a platform for linking between alumni of (Faculty of Engineering and Life Science, UNISEL) and the Faculty of Engineering and Life Sciences.
- Establishing cooperation between alumni and faculty through programs that involve the role of alumni.
The alumni mechanism
The faculty communicate with student through various communication method such as;
- Direct 2-way communications either through telephone, letter and peers.
- The use of social media, the preferred social media platform is by using Linkedin groups.
"Komited dan bersatu sebagai nadi aspirasi Universiti Selangor ke arah globalisasi."
Dr. Shahiron Shahidan
Presiden Persatuan Alumni Universiti Selangor, Pensyarah Kanan Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia


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I've been curating my wardrobe for the past three years. My closet was full of experiments; sequins, gigantic heels, crazy cuts, and odd stitching. All of these have their time and place, but smashed together, they no longer fit the style I was going for (professional/chic – is she going to work, is she going to happy hour? Who knows!)
Ideally, I would start from scratch, donate everything, and go on an 80s music montage shopping spree. But that's not how budgets work, so I had to phase things in and out slowly.
The biggest challenge was teaching myself new ways to wear what I already own. I started with pairing tops and bottoms that I'd never combined before, then got into the fun of layering dresses. That's how I realized how flexible this floral shift is. The key to a flexible dress is:
Minimal Skirt Swing
Some of these options involve tucking, so you want a compact skirt to avoid bunching.
High Neckline
This is optional, depending on what you want to wear under. Most shapes will work for button-ups and turtlenecks, but for crew or v-neck sweaters, you'll want something that goes right over it.
Higher Hemline
I recommend a dress slightly above the knee. This is helpful for easy tucking and also makes the dress more like a tunic when you layer bottoms under.
No Waistline
By definition, shift dresses are essentially pillowcases with holes for your arms and head. A dress with stitching along the waist can limit your options.Do any of your dresses come to mind? If they do, scroll on down! If you're missing this essential, don't worry – I've picked out some great ones for you:[show_shopthepost_widget id="1906983″]
Here's how to wear it:
When warm weather is around the corner, I get too excited and always end up chilly. For this look, I played it safe and layered a comfortable pair of drawstring pants over. Extra tip: I like to roll up the cuffs, but if you already have a pair of cropped pants, go for it. This will balance the look by not making your bottom half one continuous visual block.
Shifts work well with both heels and sandals, so you can wear them to any event depending on your accessories. It should also be lightweight for comfort in the heat and easy layering – a dress with too much of its own weight will not play well with other pieces.
One of my favorite accessories are funky stockings. Not only do they look cool, they're a great disguise for my unshaven fall legs ;). I top it off with a light neutral jacket and ground the look with solid ankle booties.
Like I said in my earlier post, I am not a fan of bulking up. The key to cold weather is layering under. I like to wear a neutral sweater, knitted tights, and (at least) knee-high boots. If you have a hot pair of over-the-knee boots like my friend Liz, break them out. (If you don't, check out her awesome post for some inspiration).
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Kia ora koutou, welcome to the van Asch Deaf Education Centre website. Our website is packed with a wide range of information for students, families/whanau,
professionals, staff, Deaf Community and other allied providers of services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. Take some time to
explore our educational resources in the Shop, Turi TV and within the Library catalogue. Deaf Education has changed enormously since
its inception in 1880. Programmes and services are now provided in a wide range of ways to students enrolled in their local school
and for others attending short term and long term residential school programmes. All our services are described to you on the website.
We welcome inquiries from you and feedback on further information that would be helpful.
Ngā mihi nui
Bernie Mulcahy-Bouwman
Some of the many resources that van Asch Deaf Education Centre provide are:
The shop is full of specialised teaching resources for students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Turi TV is a sign language teaching resource.
Oliver is the joint library catalogue of van Asch and Kelston Deaf Education Centres.


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12+ years have passed since motherhood hit me between the eyes like a rocket wrapped in pink cashmere. Back then I frequented real-life social chat rooms (cafes), visited real-life shops and hung out with real-life people; I could touch, taste, hear and feel all of my social experiences. Of course I still can and do this now, but as a busy working mum I have far less time available than I did when I was a member of various mum and baby groups back in the day.
So this got me thinking.
Times have moved on and I am writing a blog to connect with the world, share my experiences and enjoy new social opportunities, and if I want this to work I need to embrace the need to 'tag' myself, my life, my husband, my children, and even my dog!
I started thinking about what kind of tags a mum should really have, and indeed what kind of tags would sum me up. Here's the result:
I could have labelled myself with many mum-tags over the years…NCT-mum, stay-at-home-mum, full time-study-mum, domestic-goddess-mum, stressed-out-tired-mum, wine-o'clock-mum, party-planner-mum, PTA-mum.…you get the picture.
However, life has really evolved since my girls were babies and if I'm honest all I have wanted to be all along is a good-mum, you know, a mum that has all the right answers, cupboards full of nutritious and wholesome food and an ironing pile smaller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. What can I say, I'm a work in progress!
Today I think I would have the following mum-tags… full-time-working-mum, mum-in-high-heels, too-busy-to-cook-as-well-as-I'd-like-mum, high-school-homework-mum, sports-field-supporter-mum, heart-to-heart-mum, mopping-up-the-tears-mum, make-up-guardian-mum, 6am-gym-mum, embarrassing-dancing-mum, burning-the-midnight-oil-mum…you get the picture.
Quite a change. But during all this time, there are two mum-tags that have never left me (you might recognise them)… am-I-doing-the-right-thing-by-the-kids-mum, and, proud-as-punch-and-heart-fit-to-burst-mum.
(ok, ok…wine-o'clock-mum pops back in for a glass of something fairly regularly too…but it was having babies that taught me 7pm is wine-o'clock, who am I to break the rules of motherhood!)
It turns out my daughters have the answer to my 'what's my mum-tag' dilemma. Whilst I'm busy analysing the good, the bad and the ugly of my mum-qualities (or lack of them), I ask them how they's describe me and they simply say that I am "just-mum"…well them just-mum it is! And if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
So as much as it's tempting to compare qualities and 'tags' to other mum's, as far as our kids are concerned, just being their mum is the best tag in the world.
Ps. Just for fun I'd love to know what your mum-tags would be? Have they changed over time like mine or have you stuck to your mum-guns and mastered a tag that is right for you?


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Manteca, CA
May 16, 1923 - May 21, 2007
Annabel M. Huarte, a resident of Manteca for 60 years, passed away at the age of 84 years. She was born May 16, 1923 in Ripon, CA. Annabel was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church and YLI (Young Ladies Institute) of Manteca. She loved gardening, Sewing and doll making; she was a member of Doll Addicts of Manteca. She enjoyed meeting with her graduating Ripon High School class mates once as month for lunch. Annabel also enjoyed traveling and RV'ing with her late husband, Pedro. Her children and grandchildren were very important to her; she cherished every moment she had with each of them She will be most remembered for her kind heart, her generosity and especially for her loving patience with her grandchildren.
Annabel was preceded in death by her husband, Pedro Huarte in 2005; son, Raymond Huarte and siblings, Mary Costa, Jess Esteves and Manuel Esteves, Jr. She is survived by her children, Patricia and Dave Pechan of Linden, Steven and Susan Huarte of Manteca, Cynthia and Kenny Richichi of Manteca; siblings, Frank Esteves of Ripon, Dolores Esteves of Manteca, Rita Baldwin of Ripon, Dorothy Littlefield of Modesto, Josephine Schneider of Tracy; 7 granddaughters; 2 grandsons, 5 step grandchildren; — great-grandchild and 10 step great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be on Thursday, May 24, 2007 from 100 p.m. to 700 p.m. followed by Vigil at 700 p.m. all at P.L. Fry Son Funeral Home 290 N. Union Rd., Manteca. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, May 25, at 1030 a.m. at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 505 E. North St., Manteca. Burial will be at St. John's Catholic Cemetery, 17871 S. Carrolton Rd., Escalon.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to YLI, St. Anthony's, 505 E. North St., Manteca, CA 95336 of Alexander Cohen Community Hospice House, 2201 Euclid Ave., Hughson, CA 95326.
Annabel M. Huarte
Manteca, CA


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A peek into the creation and execution of mantras as pretexts for War of 'Imperial Mobilization' – and the basis for its legal containment.
Zahir Ebrahim
April 12, 2008.
© Project HumanbeingsfirstTM. Permission granted to use freely as per copyright notice.
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It is beyond any reasonable comprehension how blatantly obvious the grotesquely unfolding reality in Pakistan is ("Profound Clairvoyance or Blatant Obviousness?"), and yet the Pakistani rulers and the majority of Pakistani ruling elite and its newsmedia still manifestly react as if they are all sitting at the 'unbirthday' tea-party with the 'Mad Hatter' boisterously chanting the imperial 'war on terror' song as they deliberately suicide the nation into oblivion. There isn't much time.
This ominous report "2 die in Pakistan nuclear plant accident" (AP April 08, 2008) will shortly be blamed by the West upon the ubiquitous 'al qaeeda' as having attempted, and perhaps even succeeded in, getting their hands on the Pakistani 'loose nukes'. Unlike the Benazir Bhutto assassination that the Government of Pakistan had immediately blamed upon the 'al qaeeda' ("Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her own words!") with copious help from the Pakistani newsmedia ("Letters to Editors"), this time around, both will surely deny it (irrespective of the facts of the matter which will remain top-secret and continually lied about, subjecting the peoples and the environment in its vicinity to possible radioactive harm; even widespread harm).
If (rather when) this diabolical 'Al-Qaeeda' spin ever materializes in the Western press, be forewarned that the crossing of the nuclear Rubicon which already appears imminent ("Nuclear Attack on Iran appears imminent!") despite what President George Bush might state publicly, is very close at hand!
For, of course, the immense premeditated build-up for invasion and subsequent "'defensive' US military action" (Brzezinski), must all be made to look un-premeditated. This will of course get little assistance from the ever fertile Straussian minds of the editorial writers who get no free hand in the American press and the newsmedia (sic!), all of which follow the New York Times construction of "all the news that's fit to print".
And just as abhorrently, this would surely indicate that the new '911', which according to President Bush, "will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison" (NYT Feb. 14, 2008) and that "it would be the work of militants hiding inside Pakistan" (The News April 12, 2008), is also imminent.
But multiple diabolical catalyst provocations such as the loss of the 5th fleet in the Persian Gulf, justifying full spectrum "'defensive' US military action against Iran" and Pakistan as forewarned by Project HumanbeingsfirstTM in its wakeup call of December 21, 2007 ("Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the Grand Chessboard'") aren't precluded in this calculus of the Fourth Reich for "imperial mobilization".
And unfortunately, today, there is no Justice Robert H. Jackson to re-assert the definition of "aggressor" to the apathetically spectating world:
'An "aggressor," Jackson proposed to the [Nuremberg] tribunal, is a state that is the first to commit such actions as "invasion of its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another State. ...
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." '
Indeed, it is further pertinent to refresh one's imperial memory that the United States Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg Tribunals had gone on to establish that the overt-acts of aggression, and not the tortuous justifications behind these acts, is what hung the Nazis:
"The intellectual bankruptcy and moral perversion of the Nazi regime might have been no concern of international law had it not been utilized to goosestep the Herrenvolk across international frontiers. It is not their thoughts, it is their overt acts which we charge to be crimes."
And that these overt-acts of aggression, as argued by Justice Jackson, contained within them the accumulation of "all the evil that follows". That, the first primal aggression was:
"the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".
Thusly, all of the murderous turmoil unleashed in Pakistan since the macho 'commando' President General Musharraf committed the client-state to America's "goosestep[ping] the Herrenvolk across international frontiers", and the concomitant apportioning of commensurate "supreme" blame for the horrendous toll upon its 'wretched' society, as elsewhere, including Afghanistan and Iraq, Lebanon, and soon in Iran, accordingly, accrues to the account of the sole superpower.
It manifestly constructed its own synthetic 'operation canned goods' as its "new pearl harbor" for the premeditated "supreme international crime" of "imperial mobilization".
And it will so construct another more devastating "new pearl harbor" once again as the grotesque re-charging of the worn-out "catalyst" for continuing on with its premeditated nuclear plan to "Birth pang" the "Project for a New Middle East".
This time around, it's destination Tehran via Islamabad. And quite un-cleverly disguised as "'defensive US military action". But at the 'unbirthday' party, everything absurd becomes reality!
The Pakistani 'loose nukes' hijacked by the cave-dwelling, stick-wielding, suicide-bombing, 'Al-Qaeeda' mantra is among the multiple facile absurdities being deftly primed (and black-ops synthesized) as already outlined in the afore-stated wakeup call. It is one thing for the press and politicians in the pockets of the 'Hectoring Hegemons' (PNAC) to be rehearsing this silly as part of their "intellectual commitment" to seeding "doctrinal motivation" for the 'retaliatory' "patriotic gratification" (Brzezinski). It is quite another for the victims themselves to be bizarrely echoing it. This is yet to be observed in primal nature: lambs arguing for their own slaughter.
Those who naively think that these complicated matters can't be pre-meditated or pre-planned precisely because of the insanity of it, or the incomprehensibility of it in being pulled off in any kind of military precision that's needed, delude themselves for their prized mental acuity, for the hectoring hegemons' is exponentially greater.
This 'ubermensch' breed clearly perceives that "what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times". It is only in the pain of "Birth-Pangs", as for any new birth in nature, that the 'New World Order' can be born. The Third Reich wanted it – and failed. The Fourth Reich wants it just as bad, and are indeed playing their game well.
The "Mission Accomplished" sign actually meant what it stated. While most in the mainstream, as well as in the so called 'dissent-stream', derided it in the aftermath of Iraq, little do these gentle-minds perceive the diabolical agenda that was accomplished quite successfully indeed – to set the "Birth-pangs" and labor pains in motion by raping the fertile womb.
That was surely successfully accomplished! One might even wager that it was William Kristol who likely came up with that sign – he seems to be just the type to relish in such devilish play on words (judging from his previous forays into Presidential speech-writing). It can be quite educational to back-read all the Presidential speeches since 2000 and study up on their craftsmen. The Goebbelian craftsmanship creates a Kafkaesque hypnotism over the American masses and its newsmedia.
It is precisely that 'ubermenschen' power that eludes normal peoples who simply can't perceive the depth of evil incarnate which once again besieges mankind. This is why, Leo Strauss, the legatee of the Austrio-Hungarian empire that had seeded Hitler, also only seeded the new 'ubermenschen' into the privileged Nietzscheian class of being 'beyond good and evil' after assurance of their higher intelligence and superiority. As per Plato's philosophy of the philosopher-king wisely shepherding the flock, Straussians merely drop the 'wisely' part. They, in effect, replace it with 'predatorily'. Thus the self-ascribed appellation 'Hectoring Hegemons'.
Such tortuous minds only make tortuous plans that just the sheer boldness of which boggles some moral mind.
It certainly boggles Noam Chomsky's mind – supposedly, the "arguably most important intellectual alive" in all of Western Hemisphere according to the New York Times – that to this day he cannot believe the evidence of his own eyes that the '911' was controlled demolition, and hence by corollary, must have been self-inflicted. He continues to accept the Pentagon's narrative that a guy in the Hindu Kush mountains with cell-phones and box-cutters took down the entire trillion dollar defense system of the world's sole superpower. A fabricated war that is no more abstruse than the Star Wars Hollywood movie episode "Revenge of the Sith", eludes him as he continually expands on the 'Al qaeeda' and 'OBL' merely seeking revenge for all the horrible crimes of the 'empire'. And he does so after writing almost a million words in a zillion books over half a century about the ex post facto secretive crimes of 'empire', the various magical incantations of its power, and the unraveling of its deception games. It was in the greatest honor of my esteemed professor that I wrote "Responsibility of Intellectuals – Redux" on the 40th anniversary last year of the original's seminal publication. I wonder that if Noam Chomsky had been a non-Jewish German Professor of linguistics living in the Third Reich, would he also have accepted the Reich's explanation of its self-inflicted Operation Canned Goods and the Reichstag fire?
Indeed, if the U.S. Chief Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson were alive today, and he hadn't merely been handing out a 'victor's justice' to the despicable harbingers of the Third Reich when he stated the blatant obviousness of their premeditated intent to commit "supreme international crime" of aggression:
"The plans of Adolf Hitler for aggression were just as secret as Mein Kampf, of which over six million copies were published in Germany",
he would blanketly also re-assert to the equally despicable harbingers of the Fourth Reich the equally blatant obviousness of their premeditated intent to re-commit the same "supreme international crime" of aggression:
The plans of the aggressor for aggression were just as secret as the 'PNAC' and the 'NPR' on the 'Grand Chessboard' that were freely available for download on the Internet, and in major bookstores.
The only difference between the two, as far as anyone can un-emotionally ascertain, and which is amply documented by this scribe, is that the Nazis didn't get the opportunity to re-write history as the present day 'ubermenschen' are busily engaged in doing, with willing connivance of their intellectuals, newspaper editorial writers, various and sundry lower order newsmedia 'circus clowns', even expert 'native informants'.
Furthermore, most obviously, this time around, the vast majority of the Jews and the handful of mastermind Judeofascists among them, are the Reich's best friends, aiders, supporters, sympathizers, and even its overarching master strategists, instead of the object of its wrath! The handful of courageous and inspiring exceptions, gadflies, and men and women of uncommon chutzpah, duly noted.
And finally, the Third Reich never enjoyed the "full spectrum dominance" and un-opposed uni-polar supremacy that enables the present Reich to exert its "Primacy and Geostrategic Imperatives" unfettered and unchallenged as "one centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making, ... one master, one sovereign." (Putin)
With this blatant reality in their faces, the Pakistani rulers can no more claim the 'I didn't know' defense, that, 'oops, we were fooled that this fabricated "war on terror" was real, and we only accidentally wrecked havoc upon our nation – we really only had good intentions as we bombed all those whom we thought were nasty "terrorists" ', any more than the Nazis could for their crimes upon their own disfavored citizenry.
Eichmann in Jerusalem, in his trial, even lent new meaning to the "I was only following orders" mantra, which subsequently became enshrined worldwide as not an excuse to commit crimes against humanity. Most of the former, as well as the newly elected senior Pakistani government leaders and their respective political party senior leadership, not to forget the uniform, will equally hang someday for all the innocent red blood of their own peoples that they have already shed by supporting the American fiction of 'war on terror'.
But they can certainly stop now before more blood apportions to their soul!
Surely in the 'land of the pure' – all believe in a 'soul'? Even Hitler did ("Gott Mit Uns"). And President George Bush surely does too – for by his own admission:
"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East"!
SO WAKE THE HELL UP AND ACT before his god tells him to 'nookular' strike Pakistan and Iran to solve our problems too. His god loves "'defensive' US military action".
And as per the Muslim's God – one may yet have a reprieve of one's soul if one paid 'blood money' and fair compensation for inflicting cataclysmic pain and suffering, to the victims' families. It is most assuredly a win-win situation before the inevitable 'oops, too late!' In fact, not urgently acting in accordance with the grotesque reality that is unfortunately only visible on the 'Grand Chessboard' when 'Alice' is wide awake, is a sure lose-lose proposition.
THE SOLUTION-SPACE: The only mechanism outside of the United States of America to arrest its "supreme international crime" of "imperial mobilization" in its tracks*, is either: the SCO immediately transforms into a NATO-like 'attack on one, attack on all' military alliance that includes Iran and Pakistan – which is of course not in the control of the Pakistanis – to construct a détente on the 'Grand Chessboard'; or, the Pakistani rulers urgently implement the strategy outlined in the afore-stated wakeup call. The latter is eminently under the control of the Pakistani ruling elite – to take back this 'wretched' nation from the blood-soaked hands of the 'hectoring hegemons'. And to do it with such astute political ascendance that it inevitably ends up forcing the much needed stalemate on the 'Grand Chessboard'. A task for which Creation itself bestowed the instincts of collective self-defense.
It is the only effective antidote to Zbigniew Brzezinski's 'ubermensch' truism: "Hegemony is as old as mankind." But the mastermind has certainly also understood that predatory instincts for "primacy" are far older, and so is its full spectrum deterrence, as once again amply reminded by nature itself in this immensely popular 8-minute internet video "Battle at Kruger".
Let history be witness, if there is anyone left to write it (accurately), that none of this was un-obvious at the time.
* For 'checkmate' by a peoples within the United States, see "How to derail 'imperial mobilization'"
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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New Delhi : The holy festival of Eid-ul-Fitr which marks the end of Ramadan will be celebrated on Saturday, the Markazi Hilal Committee declared on Thursday.
A comminique from the office of Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari said Eid will be celebrated on June 16 on the completion of 30 days of Ramadan as the new moon has not been sighted in India.
"New moon not sighted, Eid to be celebrated on Saturday," the Markazi Hilal Committee declared in its meeting.
The day of Eid falls on the first day of the month of Shawwal depending upon the sighting of the moon the previous night.


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Sunfish sailor, skier, fan of Glen Cove's and Dering Harbor's architectural history, John Colby Jr. of Dering Harbor is a one-man-band who serves as editor, publisher, buyer, IT guy and book-stacker of Brick Tower Press, a David that is suing a Goliath called Apple for its use of the "iBook" brand.
Mr. Colby, 54, has been using the brand for some of his books since 2007, when he bought several pieces of the late publisher Byron Preiss's bankrupt businesses as one of its creditors. Preiss had first used the name in 1999, back in e-book pre-history, when he developed interactive titles that relied mostly on CDs.
As Mr. Colby explained it recently, the name originally derived from a 1938 comic book series called "I, Robot," which Preiss invoked for a compilation he published of Isaac Asimov short stories about feeling, thinking robots. The celebrated sci-fi stories were the bases for the 2002 film of the same named starring Will Smith.
Now "iBooks" refers to hundreds of titles Mr. Colby acquired through his Preiss purchase. He's not looking for a billion-dollar settlement. All he wants from Apple is a letter of apology and the chance to sell his titles through Apple's iBook electronic bookstore.
He lost the first round of the suit. It's now on appeal with arguments to be heard in January. "I don't understand her reasoning," he said of the summary judgment against him handed down by Judge Denise L. Cote, the same judge who found Apple guilty of conspiring to fix e-book prices with other publishers. "It just makes no sense to me," said Mr. Colby.
It's good for him that his dispute with Apple isn't likely to come up at a Dering Harbor Village Board meeting in the village, where Mr. Colby serves on the Zoning Board of Appeals, of which he is chairman, and the Planning Board, of which he is a former chairman.
He and his wife Betsy and kids Marnie and John III (known as Cole) moved full-time to the village from Park Avenue three years ago after having been weekenders for about 20 years. Marnie and John both attend the Ross School now.
"When I get angry or upset, I volunteer for something," he explained with a laugh during a talk on the porch of the shingle-style, high-peaked house with pool he designed himself more than 10 years ago.
The goal was to put up something bigger than the three-bedroom house he and his future wife had bought in 1988 in Hay Beach; after they married and their son was born, it suddenly seemed very small. He wanted something that looked as if it had been built at least 100 years before, like the so-called cottages and carriage houses that once dominated Dering Harbor.
He presented the plan himself to the Architectural Review Board. "They were more interested in the photovoltaic panels on the roof than the architecture and its influences," Mr. Cole remembered.
The board approved his design but with a request: Wouldn't he like to serve on the board? He said yes and he's still serving on the ARB.
So it goes in village with something like 24 households.
Mr. Colby grew up in Glen Cove. His late father was a major name in the textile business, creating and selling the jean brands Sasoon and Guess. John went to local schools and had a paper route; the architectural relics around town of grand old country estates, where he delivered the Long Island Press, fascinated him. One of them was a brick tower where the granddaughter of one of the tycoons lived. That tower and the granddaughter would prove important to John, in both his business and family life.
John got to know Shelter Island — as well as the field of publishing — through his mother's sister, May Morse, who with her husband Ed owned a home on Bay Shore Drive for many years. The Colbys, who had built a house in Montauk but eventually sold it, were frequent visitors. May and John's mother Jomarie now live at Peconic Landing; Ed and John's father have passed away.
May came to the Island because so many others in publishing had places here; she had worked for Doubleday since the 1940s. When John Jr. decided as a student at Syracuse University that he wanted a summer job interning for the company, she helped him land a place in the royalty department in Garden City, where sales and returns were marked on cards by women who had been with the company since the 1930s.
A finance major, he continued with Doubleday full-time after graduation, working in various departments in Garden City and later on Fifth Avenue overseeing the company's transition from manual to computerized record keeping. Sent to a graduate program at CCNY by the company, he became a master of algorhythms used to predict book club sales, which were crucial to profitability.
As chief financial officer and secretary of the bookshops division, he developed the digital "architecture," as he calls it, that connected Doubleday's 50 or so retail stores with headquarters so sales could be tracked in real time. Only Doubleday could do it back then — the only reason why the company knew to buy more copies of an obscure title called "The Hunt for Red October" by an unheard-of fellow named Tom Clancy. Doubleday's buyer had bet the book would be a hit and had bought 1,000 copies from its publisher, the Naval Institute Press. That was half its meager print run.
The buyer was right. Mr. Colby's data proved it so the company knew long before it ran out of inventory it needed to buy more copies.
Doubleday was sold to the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in the late 1980s, and in 1990, the day before he and Betsy Brabb (a fellow skier he'd met on a trip to Killington) were married, Bertelsmann sold Doubleday to Barnes & Noble. They already had a CFO so Mr. Colby got a job with the British Company Dorling Kindersley, helping to create its American imprint.
"In 1991, we did 21 titles and the next year we did 60," he said. "I thought, doing all this work, that I wasn't having as much fun as I'd had at Doubleday. And that I could do it all myself. All I needed was an author and a couple of books. So in 1993, my wife wrote the first title, a cookbook" called "American Chef's Companion."
He knew cookbooks never get stale — they keep selling forever.
Brick Tower Press was born, named after that old brick tower in Glen Cove that was an architectural relic of the old J. R. Maxwell estate. Living in the tower was one of his Long Island Press subscribers, Maxwell's granddaughter Marnie, for whom John had mowed the lawn and done other chores over the years.
His daughter is named for her and there's an urn by his driveway that was one of a group of cement urns that adorned the estate's main gate.
A sense of the past is important to Mr. Colby. "Being a publisher," he said, "you have sense of what came before, how you got to where you are. That's especially important in Dering Harbor," where he designed a house intended to fit in with they way it used to be.


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The wiki has been updated! There are a few remaining problems to fix, but it's mostly ready.
- The COSI logo is slightly too big.
Our wiki is mostly a pretty stock configuration of mediawiki as found in the debian wheezy repos.
As opposed to rebuilding it, the best thing to do is probably just upgrade to the next release of Debian, which is 8/Jessie. Make sure to follow the upgrade instructions for that release instead of blindly upgrading it, and make sure to have thorough backups before that (see below). Seriously, back this up. This wiki has a lot of history and it would be a shame to lose it.
When it finally needs to be rebuilt, you'll need a sql dump, the various config files, the extensions and the images folder. Then just use a stock mediawiki base, follow the instructions on the mediawiki wiki and it will probably work fine. Also set up short URL support as explained on the mediawiki wiki.


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Tales of the past help future pancreatic cancer patients
20 March 2012Author Peter Burke is giving away free, signed copies of his books to raise funds for Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.
Author Peter Burke is giving away free, signed copies of his books 'The Promise' and 'The King's Sword' on Saturday 24th March from 2.00pm at Old Ashmolean Rugby Club, The Bourne, Southgate, N14 6QY. In return, Peter is asking for donations to the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund. Peter's wife Julie has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
'The Promise' and 'The King's Sword' are the first two of an historical adventure trilogy. They combine legends, history and extraordinary events in an intriguing and colourful tale. In addition to the donations raised from the book give-away, the proceeds from future sales of the books will also be donated to PCRF.
To make the books given away on Saturday even more special, actor Burt Kwouk will also be signing them alongside Peter. Burt starred with Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther films and more recently in Last of The Summer Wine, and is a close friend of Peter and his family.


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As a Girl Scout, you'll always be trying new things, and learning there's hundreds of small, powerful ways you can take the lead every single day. You could build a robot, create your own work of art, or climb a wall in the great outdoors. Every time you try something new, you'll discover you can
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With us, the possibilities are endless—Earn your Gold Award, Be a mentor to younger girls or try your hand as a camp counselor, Get together with friends to make the world a better place. Together, you'll find out you're capable of more than you ever imagined.
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With Girl Scouts, she'll get all those things and more. She'll know she's having fun, but you'll know she's gaining:
Important financial literacy skills as she participates in the largest girl-run business in the world--
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Can parents also be volunteers?
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You can commit as much or as little time as your schedule allows. Spending quality time with your daughter and other Girl Scouts is a fulfilling experience for everyone—and any time you spend participating will have a positive effect.
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This rectangular cake pan is ideal for baking cakes, brownies and bar cookies. Its Goldtouch nonstick surface releases the treats with ease and cleans up in a snap.
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East Yorkshire is particularly fortunate that for the last ten years or so borage has been grown by a considerable number of farmers. You may well have seen the fields of blue flowers from late June until early August.
Borage (Borago officianalis) is grown for its small black seeds which are harvested and crushed to make borage oil, or starflower oil, which has similar properties to evening primrose oil. The oil is very valuable and farmers and beekeepers have a mutually beneficial relationship; we get lots of honey and farmers get increased yields as their flowers are pollinated by our bees.
Beekeepers travel with their bees from far afield but we are lucky as the fields are often within flying range of our apiaries or, if not, it's not too far to take them. If the summer is particularly hot, a hive of bees can collect prodigious quantities of honey from the borage. Farmers like one hive for every acre so that there are sufficient bees to pollinate all the flowers. A large number of bees is necessary as each of the flowers opens for just one day. It's a wonderful sight (and sound) with the bees working flat out from dawn till dusk
Borage honey, with its very distinctive clear appearance, has a subtle aromatic aroma and has rapidly become a favourite honey in this area.


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Cow with Succulent Crown Resin Garden Statue
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Is there anything cuter than this farmyard friend adorned with a sweet little succulents? Our mini Holstein is sure to add some charm and unexpected style to your garden.
Display this Cow with Succulent Crown garden accent anywhere...its sweet face and charming pose will always make you smile.
The perfect addition to your flower bed, garden or home decor, this little statuary can be used indoors or out. Adorable, highly detailed calf is made of weather-proof resin with a painted finish.
- Weather-proof resin with a painted finish
- Farmyard charm for your flower bed, garden or home
- Cute calf statue has succulents on its head
- Sweet face and charming pose will make you smile
- Great color, detail and texture!
15"L x 8¾"W x 12"H
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