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Even though Mr. Mubarak has balked, so far, at leaving now, officials from both governments are continuing talks about a plan in which Mr. Suleiman, backed by Lt. Gen. Sami Enan, chief of the Egyptian armed forces, and Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the defense minister, would immediately begin a process of constitutional reform.
The proposal also calls for the transitional government to invite members from a broad range of opposition groups, including the banned
Senior administration officials said that the proposal was one of several options under discussion with high-level Egyptian officials around Mr. Mubarak in an effort to persuade the president to step down now.
They cautioned that the outcome depended on several factors, not least
Some officials said there was not yet any indication that either Mr. Suleiman or the Egyptian military was willing to abandon Mr. Mubarak.
Even as the Obama administration is coalescing around a Mubarak-must-go-now posture in private conversations with Egyptian officials, Mr. Mubarak himself remains determined to stay until the election in September, American and Egyptian officials said. His backers forcibly pushed back on Thursday against what they viewed as American interference in Egypt's internal affairs.
"What they're asking cannot be done," one senior Egyptian official said, citing clauses in the Egyptian Constitution that bar the vice president from assuming power. Under the Constitution, the speaker of Parliament would succeed the president. "That's my technical answer," the official added. "My political answer is they should mind their own business."
Mr. Mubarak's insistence on staying will again be tested by large street protests on Friday, which the demonstrators are calling his "day of departure," when they plan to march on the presidential palace. The military's pledge not to fire on the Egyptian people will be tested as well.
The discussions about finding a way out of the crisis in Cairo take place as new questions are being raised about whether American intelligence agencies, after the collapse of the Tunisian government, adequately warned the White House and top lawmakers about the prospects of an uprising in Egypt.
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"At some point it had to have been obvious that there was going to be a huge demonstration," said Senator
She said that intelligence agencies never sent a notice to her committee about the growing uprising in Egypt, as is customary in the case of significant global events.
Stephanie O'Sullivan, the C.I.A. official, responded that the agency had been tracking instability in Egypt for some time and had concluded that the government in Cairo was in an "untenable" situation. But, Ms. O'Sullivan said, "we didn't know what the triggering mechanism would be."
Because of the fervor now unleashed in Egypt, one Obama administration official said, Mr. Mubarak's close aides expressed concern that they were not convinced that Mr. Mubarak's resignation would satisfy the protesters.
In an interview with
"The worry on Mubarak's part is that if he says yes to this, there will be more demands," said Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the
A number of high-level American officials have reached out to the Egyptians in recent days. While administration officials would not offer details of the alternatives that were being discussed, they made it clear that their preferred outcome would be for Mr. Suleiman to take power as a transitional figure.
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Mr. Biden's phone call came after a mission by Mr. Obama's private emissary,
Defense Secretary
Pentagon officials declined on Thursday to describe the specifics of the calls but indicated that Mr. Gates's messages were focused on more than urging the Egyptian military to exercise restraint.
Officials familiar with the dialogue between the Obama administration and Cairo say that American officials have told their Egyptian counterparts that if they support another strongman to replace Mr. Mubarak — but without a specific plan and timetable for moving toward democratic elections — Congress might react by freezing military aid to Egypt.
On Thursday, the Senate passed a resolution calling on Mr. Mubarak to begin the transfer of power to an "inclusive, interim caretaker government."
Anthony H. Cordesman, an expert on the Egyptian military at the
"Everybody working this issue knows that this is a military extremely sensitive to outside pressure," Mr. Cordesman said.
Even as the Obama administration has ratcheted up the pressure on Egypt, it has reaffirmed its support for other Arab allies facing popular unrest.
The White House released a statement saying that Mr. Obama called President
And on Thursday, Secretary of State
Philip J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman, declined to say whether Mrs. Clinton had enlisted King Abdullah in an effort to ease out Mr. Mubarak. But Mr. Crowley praised the king for responding to the unrest in Jordan.
"He's doing his best to respond to this growing aspiration," Mr. Crowley said. "And we appreciate the leadership he's shown."Continue reading the main story


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Who isn't aware of the legendary "Ghostbusters movie" in 1984; and an even legendary release of its characters in the form of toys that you can play with and pretend to be in the movie? Gotten all nostalgic?
The same legacy has been followed after the release of the new Ghostbusters movie this year. All new characters, Jillian Holtzmann, Erin Gilbert, Abby Yates, and Patty Tolan, are molded into toys to release the new line of Funko POP Movies: Ghostbusters 2016 Action Figures.
All the characters can be bought individually ranging from $6.71 to $25.00 (depending on size). You can also get them in a set of three, which will help you, collect more characters at one go, and you also save some pennies! To boast to your friends of owning all the characters of the new Ghostbusters, you can, without a doubt, buy the set of 7 characters, here for about $61.00 (instead of the retail price of $79.25). You can get them in sets of 3. 4, 7 or 8.
People from the 80's and 90's are less than amused by the idea of replacing the old and legendary characters from the 1984 Ghostbusters with the new ones in 2016. They might look forward to something fresh and hot off the press with these new characters but children of this generation have the reappearance of the marvelous Ghostbusters, with new heroes to look up to.
The portrayal of the epic Ghostbusters into individual toys is in itself a big mark in favor. The fact that the legacy is continued in the similar manner (just with new characters) is remarkable too, with the exact design and concept of the toy characters. These 6 inches toy characters are the exact prototypes of the new cast, just that they are a bit cuter.
The resemblance and the details are exactly impounded in the respective toys, including minute details such as the blasters on the back packs and the logo near their shoulders, or details such as sculpting Patty's hair and her golden earrings. They have a 360 degree twisting movement, which is fun to play with.
You can proudly put these new characters on your toy shelf right next to the old ones, Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon, forming a stouthearted team.
Surely the new toy characters are intimidating but there are some dislikes with this new line of products too. The only thing which is not liked is the disintegration between the old and new characters. We would like some kind of link between both the lines (regarding the characters).
They surely are! The legendary Ghostbusters characters being molded into tiny cute vinyl toys are worth the price. The presence of these make you feel the aura tried to create the movie, and there is no doubt about them being famous for the past 30 years!
With the release of these new characters with a line of Funko POP toys, another leaf is embarked in the history of Ghostbusters. This sci-fi flick has done justice to the older one and so have the new toy characters.
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- The first thing to do is log into your account.
- Now that you are logged in, click 'Messages' from your navigation bar.
- On the messages screen, click 'New Message' on the right of the screen.
- You'll be taken to a template selection screen. You can choose the folder from the top left, and then hover over the template you would like to work with and click the 'Select' button.
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A quick note before you start your email design - Check out our default fonts feature. This feature allows you to quickly and easily edit the text of your email.
- The first thing I did was inserted my logo. Hover over the placeholder logo, and click the 'Swap Image' icon that shows up.
- If you haven't already uploaded your logo, click 'Upload Files' from the bottom left corner of the file selection screen.
If your logo is already uploaded, hover over it and click the 'Use' button.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
When the hippies and the rednecks met in Austin
This review ran a week or so ago in the San Antonio Express-News, but never showed up on their web site, so I'm posting it here for folks to read.--JO
Comic Cowboys and New Hicks
By Travis Stimeling
Oxford University Press, $35
Who has the right to wear the cowboy hat?
That symbol of all that is Texas is at the core of Travis Stimeling's Cosmic Cowboys and News Hicks, which examines the Progressive Country music phenomena that first put on its Stetson in 1970s Austin.
Stimeling focuses on that moment when old-school country butted heads and commingled with long-haired rock 'n' roll via a convergence that was all about being at the right place at the right time: The drinking age was lowered to 18, marijuana possession became a misdemeanor instead of a felony, the University of Texas student population was growing and the ragtag Armadillo World Headquarters opened in an old armory near downtown.
But, perhaps most important, musicians like Willie Nelson, Michael Murphey and B.W. Stephenson, had burned out on the music industries in Los Angeles and Nashville and hightailed it to Texas.
"Many of the people I spoke with made a point of telling me that rent in Austin was so cheap that it made perfect sense to move there," said Stimeling, a West Virginia-born professor of music at Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois, who grew up listening to Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker.
The book covers ground well trod already in Jan Reid's 1974 The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (a new version came out in 2004), but Stimeling takes a different, more academic approach in his book that began as a dissertation in musicology.
"My book has the benefit of nearly four decades of hindsight, so I could be more objective in my approach to the scene," Stimeling said.
The book's strength is in its examination of the push and pull of the cosmic cowboys and a musical culture they rejected, embraced and transformed.
Stimeling goes in depth into how Alvin Crow and the band Asleep and the Wheel reached back to honor and revive Texas swing music that once had been a staple in dance halls across the state. And he gives props to Joe Gracey, who took over KOKE-FM and turned it into a progressive country haven. The station's goat roper bumpersticker quickly became every bit as iconic then as a Lone Star longneck beer bottle.
Stimeling also shines when exploring how individual songs like Murphey's "Cosmic Cowboy" cemented this new cultural identity. The song was born from Murphey's playful nickname "Cosmic Bob" for Lost Gonzo Band member Bob Livingston, but resonated at a larger scale with fans.
"The cosmic cowboy sprang forth, therefore, from a bundle of cultural conflicts, including not only those resulting from the merger of the drug culture and the cowboy symbolism but also from the intersection of communal music making and the national music industry, the ongoing debate about civil rights and the invocation of rural romanticism in an American metropolis," Stimeling writes.
If that sounds a bit highfaluting for a discussion of music, it perhaps is. And Austin wasn't really the first locale for this musical debate. Country rock had already been cooking in Los Angeles and Capricorn Records was promoting acts like The Marshall Tucker Band in the true South.
But Austin seemingly produced a musical movement from the ground up without a corporate control that left it often messy, but ever interesting. Its mystique led us to the city's modern-day, perhaps over-the-top slogan "Live Music Capital of the World."
"What's really striking to me about Austin during the progressive country era is that the musicians who were involved in the scene explored so many different musical approaches, yet they all seemed to be genuinely concerned about how music might be used as a tool to understand the roots of Texan culture," Stimeling said.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Remember the Alamo (is on fire)!
Yes, as I type this there are reports that the set of the movie The Alamo near Dripping Springs, Texas (on the outskirts of Austin) is engulfed by a major brush fire is super dry Central Texas. This report says six structures have burned to the ground. In my memory there aren't more than six. Frankly it's a surprise that the buildings still exist this many years since the 2003 shoot. There was talk at one point of making it a tourist attraction. I know the set has been used for television commercials since.
Here's my report from the set during filming.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Note Bob Stoops' Brother Should Have Sent, but Didn't Dare*
My latest Austin Chronicle sports blog begins thus:
Dear Bob,
I love you like a brother, man. In fact we are brothers, aren't we? That's why it pains me to write this note. I'm proud of you, Bob. You do our Stoops family name proud. Your Oklahoma Sooners are No. 1 and we're not, dammit.
Just kidding, bro, but I harbor no ill will for your 23-13 win over my boys at Florida State this past Saturday. You did it with pounding defense, the kind Dad taught us in his 30 years at Cardinal Moody High back in dear old Youngstown, Ohio (round on the ends and high in the middle!). Dad was all about the D. You're all about the D. Heck, after growing up sharing a bedroom with you as an older brother, I had to be all about the D. Same with Mike. You two were terrors and taught me a lot. I was proud to bear the bruises of brotherhood. I'm proud to be the Seminoles' defensive coordinator. I'm proud to be a Stoops.
That's why it pains me to say this, Bob. My team would have taken the lead in the first half if Kenny Shaw could have held onto that ball. Heck, at this point I'm glad he can hold onto anything. Your boys Javon Harris and Tom Wort rammed their helmets into Shaw's helmet and soon Kenny was looking like roadkill shaking on his back there in the end zone with his paws curled toward the heavens. He was back on the sidelines by the third quarter, thank the Lord above.
Read the rest here.
Oh,and it's worth noting that Stoops at his weekly post-game press conference honored Harris and Wort for their play against FSU. Nuf said.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Friday Night Lights: Book, movie, TV series, movie based on TV series?
Yes, there is still serious talk about a movie based on the Austin-shot TV series Friday Night Lights, which is based on the big-screen Friday Night Lights, which is based on the book Friday Night Lights, which is based on a real-life high school football team.
Read more about this latest development here, with details on the cast's reunion at the Emmy's after party celebrating the series' writing Emmy and Kyle Chandler's nod--held at a place fittingly called Dillon's.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
The coach wins an Emmy!
Big congrats to Kyle Chandler for his upset win of an Emmy for his role as Coach Eric Taylor on television's Friday Night Lights. The show also got yet another writing Emmy. Alas, Connie Britton did not win best actress (but you can read more about her here). All the same, a fitting end for the beloved Austin-shot series.
What Chandler said:
"Let me thank the people of Austin, Texas, who welcomed us into their homes ... and brought the show to life."
I first met him on the set the first FNL season. You can read that piece from The Dallas Morning News here.
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Our trip to Walton's Mountain aka Schuyler, VA
I wrote this travel piece after our trip this past summer to Schuyler, Virginia, to celebrate my wife's birthday. It ran Sunday in The Dallas Morning News. It's behind a pay wall, so here it is in full. The DMN web site also has about 15 of my photos; see them here. Enjoy.
By JOE O'CONNELL Special Contributor
Published: 16 September 2011 06:32 PM
SCHUYLER, Va. — Fiction collides with fact for fans of television's The Waltons amid a gentle feud in this tiny community deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills.
An escaped sheep bleats from the middle of rural Rockfish River Road as we pull up to the Walton's Mountain Country Store in search of the holy grail: series creator Earl Hamner's childhood home, a two-story restored testament to the enduring power of John-Boy, Mary Ellen, Mama and Daddy, Grandpa and Grandma and all the kids.
The show is a nostalgic touchstone of an iconic and dirt-poor Depression-era Southern family of fantasy that was very much based on the true-life Hamner clan.
For $10 cash a person or $8 each for two or more, store owner Dave Pounds hands over a key so we can tour the boyhood home next door, which a local owner refurbished and opened to the public in 2010. Six steps lead up to the white wooden home, which is smaller than in the show but of the same austere style. The long kitchen table topped with a fake Bundt cake awaits a family supper, while upstairs in Hamner's/John-Boy's room a pair of spectacles rests next to a quill pen on a desk by the window.
Hamner's novel Spencer's Mountain was published in 1961 and spawned a film of the same name. The Homecoming, his 1970 novel also loosely based on Hamner's family, was made into a television movie and spawned The Waltons, which ran on television from 1972-81.
"The average Waltons fan walking through the door has a very personal relationship to either the program or a cast member," Pounds says.
Entering the door are Junior and Suzi Wiant of West Virginia. She's a homemaker, and he's a coal miner. A coal mine depicted in the television show was inspired by the Alberene soapstone quarry that was once the heart of Schuyler. The Wiants count the cantankerous grandmother as their favorite Walton.
"I just love that old woman," Suzi Wiant says with a wide grin. "She's so outspoken."
The Wiants have already been down the road to the Walton's Mountain Museum, which was once the town's school. Hamner graduated from high school there in 1940. It was later an elementary and opened as a museum and community center in 1992 with the full support of Hamner.
Inside is a more elaborate re-creation of John-Boy's room, the family kitchen, Ike Godsey's store and the still used to make the Baldwin sisters' "recipe" (moonshine). The Baldwins were inspired by real-life mother-and-daughter moonshiners in a nearby town.
"You're a little bit late for the free samples," museum director Leona Roberts jokes in a deep Virginia drawl. "You believed that story, didn't you?"
The $7 admission fee buys access to a brief video about the making of the show, a look at town photos and Waltons collectibles, including miniature reproductions of the Waltons home and fan-painted pictures of the cast.
But Hamner's early support for the museum has waned. In his 2006 memoir Generous Women, Hamner writes, "Unfortunately, because of an injury done to a member of my family, I no longer support the museum and am in no way associated with it."
When actress Mary McDonough — Erin Walton on the show — tub-thumped her memoir Lessons From the Mountain in May, she did it at the store, which also sells signed copies of Hamner's books.
Pounds five years ago took over operation of the store in what was once a shed where a teenage Hamner wrote. But he says of the museum, "They hate me. They absolutely hate me."
Roberts puts the museum's attitude toward the store bluntly: "We were here first. They were supposed to be a bed-and-breakfast, and they're not from here."
Indeed, the Walton's Mountain Country Store lists itself as a bed-and-breakfast perfect for the ultimate Waltons fan, but my repeated calls and emails seeking a reservation for my wife's birthday were unanswered.
Instead, we stayed two miles away at the White Pig, a B&B and animal sanctuary that takes its name from the first of the owner's assortment of rescued potbellied pigs, which join a former racehorse and a gentle pony on a beautiful 170-acre spread. The breakfast is vegan, and guests are asked not to eat meat on the premises during their stays.
Confession: We drove into Schuyler from Richmond without having eaten dinner, and our only option was Ike's, a combo convenience store and fast-food joint on the spot that once housed the inspiration for the television show's Ike Godsey's General Store. The grill was closed, but they gifted me with a few delicious last pieces of fried chicken. I guiltily stowed the bones in our rental car's trunk rather than sully the White Pig with my carnivorous ways.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
SHOT IN TEXAS: Texan Nick Krause gets breakout role in film with Oscar buzz
Special to The Dallas Morning News
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It was a surreal moment for young Texan Nick Krause as he stepped on the red carpet for The Descendants during the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
Krause, 19, portrays Sid, a goofy beach bum friend to George Clooney's on-screen daughter in the film. The Hawaii-set and -filmed tale of a father in crisis, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways), is already getting Oscar buzz.
He was 17 when the film began a four-month Oahu shoot, so he brought along his agent, Denton native and University of North Texas grad Liz Lyons Atherton. She also happens to be his mother.
Atherton woke him at 5 a.m. to make an audition tape that led to a meeting with Payne. Krause figured the laid-back character Sid would be a Cheetos fan and gifted Payne with a small bag of them. He got the part.
"The audition process had taken months, and we weren't sure if Nick was still even in the running," Atherton said. "We set up a Hawaiian shrine by the phones, hoping the call would come. When it did, not only did we celebrate, I'm sure the neighbors are still talking about the screams."
He's not the only actor in the family. His sister, Kate Krause, played Tabby Garrity for three seasons on Austin-shot Friday Night Lights, and two older brothers dabbled in acting when they were young.
It marks a major leap for Nick Krause from small roles in films such as How to Eat Fried Worms. Atherton believes it was his involvement in Richard Linklater's ongoing 12-year independent project, Boyhood, that piqued Payne's interest.
On the set of The Descendants, Krause said, Clooney lived up to his jokester reputation, amusing film extras by using his cellphone to play the sound of gas being passed.
"He's a very cool guy," Krause said. "He's super professional but down-to-earth. One minute he's joking around with extras and hanging out with crew. Five minutes later, he's in character and on time."
Krause also scored a role in the Dallas-shot Good Christian Belles television pilot but was written out of the series when it moved to Los Angeles, where he is now living and riding this wave wherever it takes him.
"It's really about sticking with it," he said. "When you get turned down at your first audition, you just have to forget it and keep going."
Atherton, who 15 years ago bought an existing Central Texas talent agency that counted her other sons as clients, worries that Krause will have a hard time furthering his career in Texas.
"I think we are at risk of losing film and TV as an integral part of our economic fabric: Plain and simple, our incentive program is not competitive enough," she said. "I recently spoke at length with a high-profile producer friend of mine who is presently packaging his next film — a film centered on a Texas theme — and he will likely film in Louisiana. Why? Because it just makes more business sense."
Film studios get haunted
Filming wrapped this month in North Texas on The Ghost of Goodnight Lane . The horror tale starring Billy Zane (Titanic) claims to be based on reality, in the tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The kicker is this new film is about ghosts purported to haunt Alin Bijan's Media World Studios; most of the film was shot in the studios themselves. The studio's ghosts have been said to move heavy equipment and once slapped someone's face. Also in the cast are Lacey Chabert ( Mean Girls), Danielle Harris (Halloween), Matt Dallas (Kyle XY) and Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down). J.D. Sanders' FTG Media Group served as executive producer on the film. Check out a production blog at ghostofgoodnightlane.com.
Joe O'Connell is an Austin-based freelance writer.
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A look at recent tech-industry earnings
Yahoo turned in another lackluster performance in the second quarter, while Intel says the weak global economy is slowing its growth. Earlier, Microsoft warned of a non-cash charge because of disappointing performance in its online ad business. AMD lowered its revenue forecast.
Technology companies are starting to issue their quarterly earnings reports.
Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:
July 2: Microsoft Corp. says it is absorbing a $6.2 billion charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history, for online ad company aQuantive, turned out to be a dud. The non-cash charge could saddle Microsoft with a loss for the latest quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had predicted Microsoft would earn about $5.3 billion for the period. The company hasn't suffered a quarterly loss during the past 20 years.
July 6: Samsung Electronics Co. estimates its second-quarter operating profit at 6.5 trillion won to 6.9 trillion won ($5.7 billion to $6.1 billion), a 79 percent jump from a year earlier based on the midpoint of that range. Analysts say the sharp rise in operating profit was driven by the success of its Galaxy line of smartphones. However, Samsung's stock fell as lower-than-expected overall sales underlined the threat from Europe's economic malaise.
July 9: Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lowers its quarterly forecast, blaming weaker-than-expected sales in China and Europe and lackluster demand overall from consumers. AMD says it expects revenue to fall by 11 percent from the previous quarter, below its earlier forecast of a 3 percent decline.
July 10: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. asks disgruntled investors at a shareholders meeting for patience as it develops new devices to rival the iPhone and Android smartphones. The company reiterates a warning that the next several quarters will be challenging. It also expects to book another operating loss in the current quarter as the company cuts prices to sell its older BlackBerry models.
Tuesday: Yahoo Inc. reports another lackluster quarter on CEO Marissa Mayer's first day on the job. It continues years of financial lethargy that has plagued the one-time Internet pioneer as Google and Facebook have prospered. Net income fell 4 percent from a year ago, and adjusted earnings were short of expectations.
Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, says revenue for the current quarter is likely to come in below Wall Street forecasts as it blames "a more challenging macroeconomic environment."
Coming up:
Wednesday: IBM Corp., eBay Inc.
Thursday: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.
July 24: Apple Inc., AT&T Inc., Netflix Inc.
July 25: Zynga Inc.
July 26: Facebook Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Amazon.com Inc.
July 27: Samsung Electronics Co.
Aug. 1: Comcast Corp.
Aug. 2: Sony Corp., LinkedIn Corp.
Aug. 15: Cisco Systems Inc.
Aug. 21: Dell Inc.
Aug. 22: Hewlett-Packard Co.
Sept. 27: Research in Motion Ltd.
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LAX officials are soliciting public comment on a voluminous environmental review of the massive $5 billion modernization project intended to reduce congestion, redistribute traffic and improve access to what is the world's seventh busiest airport.
The highly technical, 1,628-page document provides the highest level of detail yet released about the sprawling Landside Access Modernization Program that covers 794 acres in and around Los Angeles International Airport.
When completed in 2024, what is the largest civic project in the history of Los Angeles will change the face of LAX and how most of the 80 million passengers a year get in and out of the airport.
"The release of the draft environmental impact report is an important milestone for LAX and the entire region," said Deborah Flint, chief executive officer of Los Angeles World Airports. "We want to hear from the community, airport users and area stakeholders about how L.A. can improve ground transportation at LAX, reduce traffic congestion and directly connect to the metro regional transit system."
Where to find the EIR
The document is available at www.connectingLAX and at the main public libraries in El Segundo, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Westchester-Loyola Village, Culver City and at the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Branch Library in the Exposition Park area of South Los Angeles.
Two community workshops during which people can comment in person also are scheduled in Westchester: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Senior Center at the Westchester Recreation Center, 7000 W. Manchester Ave., and 6-8:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Flight Path Learning Center and Museum, 6661 W. Imperial Highway.
The deadline for public comment is Oct. 31.
Program benefits
The modernization program includes four major components: two off-site intermodal transfer facilities to the east and west of the airport for trains, buses and vehicles, a consolidated rental car facility, and a 2.25-mile elevated automated people mover.
The people mover will connect the three facilities with another three stations at the airport, whisking passengers to terminals in a matter of minutes and dramatically reducing the almost constant traffic jams that "severely compromise" LAX and surrounding streets, airport officials said.
Capable of moving as many as 5,800 airline passengers an hour, nine free automated trains up to 185 feet long will run every two to three minutes 24 hours a day, all but eliminating the 1.1 million annual rental car shuttle trips on the loop road connecting terminals.
The people mover is designed to greatly reduce the 6,000 vehicles that enter LAX at peak periods. Because transit connections are so poor at LAX, almost two-thirds of departing air passengers currently rely on private vehicles and taxis to reach the terminals.
In theory, that will make dropping off or picking up passengers at the airport easier than it is today. But LAX officials hope many will choose to use the convenience of the two intermodal transfer facilities instead, further reducing traffic headed into the airport itself.
Key parts of project
The main features of the modernization program include:
• The 2.1-million-square-foot rental car facility on 69 acres, which will consolidate the more than 20 scattered lots that currently exist in a single 278,000-square-foot customer service building. It will have parking for about 8,000 vehicles.
• The 33-acre Intermodal Transfer Facility West, which is designed to intercept traffic that uses Sepulveda Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue.
It will have two parking structures with room for about 8,000 vehicles and a 13,000-square-foot, two-story people-mover station.
• The 22-acre Intermodal Transfer Facility East adjacent to Aviation Boulevard, which is aimed at vehicles that today primarily use the 405 and 105 freeways as well as Century Boulevard to reach LAX. It will have a parking structure that can accommodate about 8,000 vehicles.
Metro also is planning a separate transit station immediately to the west of the Intermodal Transfer Facility East that will connect the people mover with the regional light-rail trains and bus system.
Each of the intermodal transfer facilities will be a few hundred feet from busy Century Boulevard, which is full of hotels and offices, allowing more travelers easy pedestrian access to the people mover and LAX.
As part of the project, LAWA also will improve 6.5 miles of roads in and around the airport.
The program also calls for the destruction and reconstruction of three parking garages near terminals.
Moreover, to make room for the people mover and other new transportation hubs, officials plan to demolish assorted structures on and off the airport. Those include the current administration offices, a fast-food restaurant, the current 84,000-square-foot LAX bus center, the 66,000-square-foot Travelodge on Century Boulevard and an urgent care center.
Many of the properties sit on land owned by LAX.
The plan is expected to open up hundreds of thousands of square feet of additional land for redevelopment, too, in and around each of the intermodal transfer facilities and car rental facility.
Even if that occurs as expected, traffic studies conducted as part of the analysis show the modernization program would not significantly worsen traffic on roads and most intersections surrounding LAX.
Construction on the phased project could begin as soon as next year.


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We spent 30 days in South Korea eating delicious food, drinking beer (in various degrees of deliciousness), enjoying sights and visiting markets. And at the end of that month, we visited two beer festivals in Seoul, because one is apparently not enough. Not when you're a Korean, because they tend to go all out. Why half ass everything when you can make it intense? Spicy food? Let's make it so spicy you'll sweat bullets. Cherry blossom viewing? Let's make a huge riverside party out of that! Same with beer festivals – why have one when you can have two happening at the same time (and drink beer for a week)?
We're talking about The Great Korean Beer Festival and The Beer Week Seoul, two major beer fests that ran for several days in two different locations in Seoul. At first glance, they both seem similar – free entrance, local and imported beer, food, live music. But they were more different than one'd expect.
Festival for the city people
The Great Korean Beer Festival (or GKBF for short) took place in Gangnam, near Coex shopping mall. It ran for 10 days straight with changing line-ups. As we mentioned, there was no entrance fee, which helped attract those who were just merely passing by after a workday. Besides, all the booths only accepted cards, which made our lives infinitely easier – no carrying around wads of cash, no counting out coupons. You could, however, buy some coupon sets, but those included some breweries that we were not interested in, so we went straight to beer tasting. Oh, and they served beer in approx. 300 ml glasses. Why bother with small samplers, right?
We soon understood that the GKBF was an event for city people. It was fun, engaging, completely unpretentious – a great gateway for those who are new to beer. But beer geeks could also find something interesting, since many brewers had special beers prepared for the festival. We loved the atmosphere and the venue. Doing an open air festival might seem tricky, but it worked out well – it wasn't too crowded, but it wasn't empty, too.
The people working at the beer booths were amazing. After spending some time in Korea you come to expect that, but they were super amped up and it made the experience even better. You can chat them up, joke around, come back for a second round – everything's easy breezy and fun. Sure, it was more on the pop side of the beer world, but we had some truly great brews, especially from Hop Mori Brewing. They brought very special beers, which we loved. And the one that was the most disappointing was Jejusien Brewery. Jeju, a semi tropical island of Korea, you see, is famous for their oranges. And the beer promised oranges. Don't get us wrong – we got the oranges. Literally, a piece of orange in the beer. Unfortunately, the fruit did almost nothing to improve the brew, which was murky and pasty. We couldn't figure out why people would queue for that beer – for oranges alone? Anyway, despite that we had a great time in GKBF. We loved the welcoming feeling to it, the sincerity and unpretentiousness…
Festival for the geeks
…speaking of which, the atmosphere in The Beer Week Seoul (TBWS), hosted by The Booth, was less 'everyone's invited' and more 'if you're hip, you're in'. We're exaggerating, of course, but the festival, which took place in Common Ground, a trendy container district, attracted very different people, including a lot more foreigners. The inner yard felt a bit crowded, especially as the evening went on and more people came in, but that didn't detract from overall fun.
In TBWS the entrance was free, too, but the beer went by tokens which cost 5500-6500 won (approx. 5–6 euros). Korean beer cost less, while imported was more expensive. But it was definitely worth the extra won, since they brought in some very nice brews, including some from one of our favorites, To Øl.
What we loved in TBWS were these little cards presenting each beer — name, brewery, style, ABV, key flavor notes. Even those who are new to the beer game could easily find something to choose based on their preferences. People working the taps were friendly and nice (which is the norm in Korea, we were really spoiled), but since they were not from breweries themselves, we kinda missed the zeal, the efforts to get as many people as possible to try their beer. Overall TBWS felt a lot more hipstery and geeky, which is nice, but still had the vibe of a small city festival. The music was much more indie and low-key than in Gangnam and it was easy to forget it's even there.
We're glad we had the chance to visit both festivals – one was more open, the other more intimate – and that created a nice balance. It's nice to see Korean craft beer scene growing and booming, especially among the ladies. Yup, wherever we went in Korea, pubs were always full of women. Maybe they're more susceptible to new trends, maybe they're more willing to try out new flavors, instead of just downing one soju bottle after another… Whatever the reason, it's very nice!


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What are the Job Responsibilities?
Sonographers use special equipment to produce and record images showing the shape, motion, and composition of a patient's internal anatomy, which can include organs and other bodily tissues, blood, abnormal masses, and fluid accumulations. They generally have responsibilities such as:
Before the Exam
- Preparing and maintaining imaging equipment
- Accurately recording a patient's medical history
- Explaining procedures to a patient and answering any questions
- Transferring a patient to an appropriate exam table and positioning him or her properly for the procedure
- Scrubbing a patient's skin in the area to be examined
- Applying gel that aids the ability of sound waves to show the inside of a patient's body
During the Exam
- Making necessary adjustments to equipment during an exam in order to produce the best images for a doctor's use in diagnosis
- Altering the position of a patient to get the best angle
- Analyzing images for quality
- Identifying any differences between normal and abnormal areas
- Deciding whether or not to extend the scope of an exam based on initial findings
After the Exam
- Detailing preliminary findings for a patient's doctor
- Maintaining detailed patient records
The specific areas of patient anatomy that sonographers examine depend on their chosen sub-specialties, which can include:
- Abdominal – anything in the belly area, including nearby organs
- Breast – breast tissue and tumors
- Neurologic – the brain and nervous system
- Obstetric/gynecologic – the female reproductive system and pregnancies
- Musculoskeletal – muscles, ligaments, joints, and tendons
- Cardiac – the heart
- Vascular – blood vessels
Are There Different Types of Medical Sonographers?
Because sonography is used on so many different areas of the body, most sonographers choose to specialize in one or more areas. These include: obstetric/gynecologic sonographers, who study the female reproductive system; abdominal sonographers, who inspect organs such as the gallbladder, bile ducts, kidneys, liver, pancreas, spleen and the male reproductive system; neurosonographers, who study the nervous system and the brain; breast sonographers who aid in mammography in order to detect breast cancer, track tumors, monitor blood supply conditions, and assist in biopsy of breast tissue; and vascular and cardiac sonographers, who study the heart and blood vessels.
Education Requirements to become Ultrasound Technician in Watkinsville
Sonography students need to complete an associate's degree or postgraduate certificate program from an accredited program in Watkinsville in order to be eligible to take the qualifying exams. Bachelor's and master's degrees are also available. People who are already in a related allied health profession may be candidates for one-year certificate programs.
It is crucially important to make sure that the school you attend is accredited. Ultrasound schools in Watkinsville are poorly regulated compared to X-ray and other medical professions, so do your research. To find out if a school is accredited, check with the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. Some (but not all) hospitals, community colleges, universities, vocational schools, and the Armed Forces provide accredited sonographer training programs.
High school students interested in applying to an ultrasound technologist training program in Watkinsville, 30677 should pursue a curriculum rich in science, computer, and math courses. Familiarity with computers is important, since most ultrasound equipment is computer-based. Physics courses are helpful as well, since you will be required to learn and master ultrasound-based physics courses and exams.
Online ultrasound training programs do exist, but it is important to verify that these programs are accredited and that they will provide you with clinical hours. While the classroom work can be done online, the extensive clinical time that will be required cannot.
Ultrasound Technician Career Overview in Watkinsville
|Associate's degree is most common; certificate and bachelor's degree programs also available
|Professional certification may be required or preferred by some employers
|Projected Job Growth (2014-2021) in Watkinsville
|Median Salary (2015)* (Watkinsville)
Ultrasound Technician Schools in Watkinsville
Ultrasound technician schools are located throughout the Watkinsville, but how do you know if the one you choose will give you the education you need? Consider some of the following criteria when comparing colleges:
Accreditation: Look for ultrasound technician schools in Watkinsville that are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRC-DMS) or regional accrediting agencies. Without accreditation, students are unable to apply for federal financial aid or earn professional certification.
High-tech facilities: As an ultrasound technician, you'll work with technology and state-of-the-art equipment every day. This is why it's important to find a school that offers instruction in high-tech facilities. Once you've gained knowledge in the classroom, you'll want to put your skills to the test with hands-on training. Be sure to tour a school's facility and learn what type of access you'll have to the labs on campus.
Externship opportunities: One of the best ways to understand a day-in-the-life of an ultrasound technician is to get out in the field. Look for a school that partners with local medical facilities or labs for externships. Real-life experience is invaluable; you'll be able to shadow a sonographer, ask questions and learn about the challenges and rewards of the job. No textbook can offer that type of experience.
What is the Job Outlook in Watkinsville?
The job outlook is bright. In fact, employment of sonographers in Watkinsville is expected to increase by 39 percent between 2015 and 2022, which is much faster than the average for all occupations.
Much of the growth is due to the fact that ultrasound technology is increasingly being seen as a good alternative to more costly and invasive diagnostic procedures. It is also being used in more and more doctors' offices, diagnostic labs, and outpatient care settings.
Experienced professionals who maintain certification in multiple sub-specialties will continue to have the best job prospects.
Salary for this occupation depends a lot on geographic location, type of employer, part-time or full-time status, and level of experience. In general, though, the typical sonography salary provides a good living. In fact, ultrasound technicians have one of America's highest paying jobs without a degree requiring more than about two years of school.
Based on national estimates from May 2015, typical annual wages break down this way:
- Median wages were $65,5691.
- The highest-earning 10 percent made $94,324 or more.
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by Deborah Haley
December 2015
One VCSU staff member in contact with future students is Sarah Larsen. She works as an admissions counselor in Enrollment Services, providing high schools and prospective students with information about VCSU.
Sarah is more than a Valley City State employee; she understands the true VCSU experience—the ins and outs of college and campus life—having graduated from VCSU in 2013 with a degree in music.
Her schedule varies—some days she's in the office and others she spends on the road visiting high schools and presenting VCSU to prospective students. She loves "the change in routine and the opportunity to get out of the office."
While most of her travel takes place in Minnesota, Sarah has also traveled to Winnipeg, Canada, where she presented at the Rotary Career Symposium. Through these trips, Sarah says, "I've met a lot of new people, including admission counselors from other schools," providing her with many new opportunities and learning experiences.
In her free time, Sarah provides piano lesson to kids in Valley City; plays with her puppy, Emma; and does some reading and fishing. She also enjoyed planning her wedding last summer—she and her husband, Justin, make their home in Valley City.
From the beginning at a campus tour or visit day to enrolling for classes, Sarah Larsen is there to help answer questions and provide guidance to students as they begin their careers at VCSU.


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This month marks the 50th anniversary of China's military attack on India, the only foreign war that communist-ruled China has won. Yet that war failed to resolve the disputes between the world's two most populous nations, and its legacy continues to weigh down the bilateral relationship. While their economic heft is drawing increasing international attention, their underlying strategic rivalry over issues ranging from land and water to geopolitical influence in other regions usually attracts less notice.
The international importance of the China-India relationship reflects the fact that together they account for 37 percent of humanity. Although they represent markedly different cultures and competing models of development, they share a historical similarity that helps shape both countries' diplomacy: Each freed itself from colonial powers around the same time.
Throughout their histories, the Indian and Chinese civilizations were separated by the vast Tibetan Plateau, limiting their interaction to sporadic cultural and religious contacts; political relations were absent. It was only after China's annexation of Tibet between 1950 and 1951 that Han Chinese troops appeared for the first time on India's frontiers.
Just over a decade later, China surprised India's ill-prepared army by launching a multi-pronged attack across the Himalayas on Oct. 20, 1962. Then-Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (周恩來) publicly said that the war was intended "to teach India a lesson."
Taking an enemy by surprise confers a significant tactical advantage in war, and the invasion inflicted an immense psychological and political shock on India that greatly magnified the initial military advances that China achieved. China's blitzkrieg created a defeatist mindset in India, forcing its army to retreat to defensive positions. India, fearing unknown consequences, even shied away from employing its air power, although the Chinese military lacked effective air cover.
After more than a month of fighting, China declared a unilateral ceasefire from a position of strength, having seized Indian territory. The Chinese simultaneously announced that they would begin withdrawing their forces on Dec. 1, 1962, vacating their territorial gains in the eastern sector (where the borders of India, Myanmar, Tibet and Bhutan converge), but retaining the areas seized in the western sector (in the original princely state of Jammu and Kashmir). These withdrawal parameters meshed with China's pre-war aims.
Just as Mao Zedong (毛澤東) started his invasion of Tibet while the world was preoccupied with the Korean War, so he chose a perfect time to invade India.
The attack coincided with a major international crisis that brought the US and the Soviet Union within a whisker of nuclear war over the stealthy deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba. China's unilateral ceasefire coincided with the US' formal termination of its naval blockade of Cuba, marking the end of the missile crisis.
Mao's shrewd timing ensured India's isolation from sources of international support. Throughout the invasion, the international spotlight was on the potential US-Soviet nuclear showdown, not on the bloody war raging in the Himalayan foothills.
India's humiliation hastened the death of its then-prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; but also set in motion the country's military modernization and political rise.


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5 independent reviews for Dominica nature holiday
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Stan and Jenny Cobon review 1 Feb 2017
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?There were many highlights on this trip, but perhaps the most memorable was the hike to Boiling Lake, with our fantastic guide Jeffrey Charles. The hike took us around 7 hours, including a lunch stop at the Boiling Lake itself. It was tough, but well worth the effort, walking through rain forest, elfin forest, the Valley of Desolation and then the Boiling Lake.
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?If you are planning to do any reasonable hikes, make sure you have the right footwear. Heavy duty boots, such as you would wear in the UK, will protect your ankles and keep your feet dry, but do not have sufficient grip for these hikes. Far better to use lighter weight boots/shoes with sticky soles!
3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?We feel that our vacation did benefit local people - Dominica relies heavily on tourism. All our hotels were small and locally owned, employing local people. We used local guides etc and bought items made by the Kalinago in the local area. In terms of reducing environmental impact, it is difficult to do this when you take a long haul flight to your destination, but we did take water bottles with us which we refilled and our hotels mostly provided food locally grown/obtained with minimal food miles. We hope that the site passes purchased to enter the National Parks went some way to supporting conservation in Dominica.
4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?This was a fantastic vacation organised by our travel operator. Dominica is an incredible place with extremely friendly, welcoming people. Despite nearly 2 weeks there, we feel we have barely scratched the surface of this beautiful island and would dearly like to return.
Charles Moberly review 14 Feb 2016
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?Mixing with the local people, both through our 11 days of excursions using wonderful Domincan guides, and simply talking to people and drinking with them in a village bar at Carnival time.
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?You hardly ever get a choice of food, so make sure you state your dietary requirements as you arrive at each place. They will accommodate you, and the food is excellent. Also, don't hire a car. You see less, learn less, and are exposed to both stress and some danger.
3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?Yes, because local people are heavily involved, but again especially if you don't hire a car.
4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?Extremely well thought out, to a high standard, very varied, and a way to get to know this magnificent island intimately
Joan Rule review 20 Jan 2015
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?Flying into the dense greenness of the rain forest in Dominica and being confronted by the stunning views from Calibishie Cove.
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?Try to get to know the people who live near your accommodation. Dominicans are very friendly and love to share their lives with you. Monitor the paths you are going to walk on. Frequent rain makes some of the steeper paths very slippery and it is best not to attempt them unless you are very sure-footed. Don't expect that every trip you make will work out as expected. Whales do not show up to order.
3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?Our vacation certainly benefitted local hoteliers, tradesmen and guides. We learned a great deal about handling the environment and reducing detrimental human impacts on it but I don't think we did anything positive in this respect.
4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?On Antigua we stayed at the Catamaran Hotel. It was in a delightful spot, on a beach close to a historic harbour. The room was comfortable, though the equipment in it could benefit from some upgrading (especially the bathroom). The restaurant was fine though we had to argue for our breakfasts. The hotel said that they never book guests in for breakfast but eventually they honoured the voucher we were sent by our agent. Dominica is an astonishingly beautiful country and we were able to see much of it. The hotel was well equipped, stylish accommodation in a stunning spot. The food was particularly notable - Caribbean cuisine of the highest order. The trips went as planned and gave us an insight into the rivers, the flora and the history of that part of the island. No-one can control the weather. The morning of our trip to Chaudiere Pool had been more than usually wet and this meant that we could not reach the walkway by vehicle so we had a long walk along a precipitous and muddy path. Fortunately Spanish visitors with a 4X4 rescued us! The grounds of Papilotte were a pure delight and we were introduced to them by an enthusiastic naturalist. We enjoyed bathing in the hot pools and being massaged by fast-flowing streams. Our visits to sulphur springs and boiling mud pools were as expected - a peek into the frighteningly active heart of the earth. The meals were good and the rooms were well kept. Our only disappointment there was that we were in a very basic room with no windows (necessitating using electric lights whenever we were inside) and no patio or outdoor space. Had we realised this we would have been prepared to spend a little more on an upgrade. We could not fault Beau Rive. It gave us some days of gracious living with a host who could not do enough to entertain us and to share witty tales about life on the island. It gave us an opportunity to discover more of the culture of some of the early inhabitants of the island. Overall we had a memorable vacation in some delightful locations and would certainly return to the Eastern Caribbean if we had the chance. Peter and Joan Rule
Jean Powell review 20 Mar 2014
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?The whole two weeks was both memorable and exciting! The sheer beauty of Dominica with it's rainforests, mountains and rivers; the fantastic array of tropical flowers, the wonderful bird-life, and the feeling of being a traveler, not just a tourist. It felt as if we were in Paradise and somewhere completely different. The food was wonderful and the people friendly. I felt I had never eaten healthier - different freshly squeezed fruit juice everyday and everything freshly picked and straight to table and so tasty! I am a salt addict and I found I didn't need it! Wonderful rum punch on the veranda at Beau Rive made by Mark, the owner - the most helpful, kind and considerate host I have ever met.
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?This is not the usual Caribbean beach vacation. It's not your type of vacation if you just want to lie on the beach all day. Be prepared for a relaxed way of life and don't be afraid to try all sorts of different fruits and veg. Go to the Riverside Cafe at Citrus Creek Plantation on the east coast for the best onion pie in the world! Lots of wonderful walking opportunities so take good walking shoes - also something waterproof as there can be tropical showers.
3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?Yes I think it benefited local people. Most of the food was locally produced and that would help the local farmers and support conservation - everthing organic. We employed local people as guides - who might not have been employed at that time.
4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?Fantastic - I would love to return.
PAT TULLOCH review 29 May 2014
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?Traveling by local buses on the hairpin roads and also whalewatching trip
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?Dominica is wet hence its 365 rivers so be prepared and have some decent footwear for the brilliant walking something with grip that can also get wet-you dont want to miss all those plunges into fabulous waterfall pools-it may be wet but its hot too.
3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?In a way because we ate alot at local places and used local buses-not all our accomadation was owned by locals but people who hadbeen in Dominica a long time so could be classed as locals
4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?Dominica is a real hidden treasure-if the beach rich carribean islands are not for you-and you like to be active try it-you can trek easy or -boiling lake hard- or even the full Waitakubuli trail.Tubing or canyoning or snorkeling.We went whale watching and saw sperm whales and pilot whales too.
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Kinda lost the motivation to blog nowadays, even though I might have the time and lots of thoughts to pen down. Half of it is due to laziness, while the other half is just due to boredom I suppose. We simply have too many mediums of communication to choose from these days!
Well there are several things that I want to talk about in this catchup/summary post.
Firstly, about my new job.
I'm currently working as a full-time financial consultant and my work involves meeting people, working out their financial goals as well as matching their needs with suitable insurance products. When I first started telling people that I was considering the insurance industry, I received many different reactions. Some were extremely surprised as to why a college graduate like myself would consider entering the fearsome sales industry. Others said I would be well-suited for this type of work since I am generally an outgoing person.
I don't really have the time or space to write down all the reasons why I felt the insurance business is the ideal industry for me to be in, but one thing is for sure- with every passing day, I am loving it more and more. I feel almost as if this job was made just for me. Not only does it meet all my requirements for a fulfilling career (opportunity to impact people's lives, proper compensation, flexible hours, opportunity to grow, challenging), it's also opening my eyes to a whole new world that I've never seen. Will elaborate on that last point next time.
Well, as much as I am enjoying my job, I am also beginning to see that it is not an easy one. In many ways, financial consultancy is a lot like farming to me. No matter what the weather is or how tired you are, you just have to be out there in the field working everyday during the sowing seasons. There is no room for excuses and even less for self-pity. The business is your own and you really do reap what you sow. Therefore, no pain no gain.
Next, about my two main hobbies outside of work.
My passion for skating has cooled down quite a bit since last November. I remember how I used to be so excited when Friday nights would roll around. I would enthusiastically organise the skate every week and put in effort to make sure that everyone is able to make it. Nowadays, I don't even bother to check up on who can skate Friday nights or not. Last week, I didn't even show up, well, partly because of the weather and partly because I just wasn't that fired up about it anymore. While I know that my love for skating will probably flare up again someday, I'm quite comfortable leaving my skates in the backseat for now.
As for DDR, I'm trying my best to control my daily addiction to it and so I haven't played for the past 2 days. I think the longest I managed to go without DDR so far, with the exception of my trip to Xiamen last December, is 4 days.
Okay the next bit may not be understood by many, but I want to record it anyway.
This is my progress in DDR since I started on November 9th 2012...
Week 1: Bsp 6, dsp 8, speed 1.5
Week 2: 1st AA on Rainbow Rainbow dsp
Week 3: Esp 11
Week 4: (Went to Xiamen)
Week 5: FC & AA on dsp 10 song, esp 12
Week 6: FC & AA on LoveShine esp 10
Week 7: Esp 13
Week 8: A on a bdp 6 song
Week 9: Esp 12-13 (super tiring week)
Week 10: Got Extra Stage on my own with 3 AAs and a B, also AA'ed Theory of Eternity esp 12
Week 11 (This week): B on esp 14 songs (Fire Fire & Amalgamation), passed csp 13 songs
*****Terms used:
FC: Full combo
BSP- Basic Single Player, meaning Basic level, playing only on one side of the machine
DSP- Difficult Single Player
ESP- Expert Single Player
CSP- Challenge Single Player
BDP- Basic Double Player, meaning Basic level, playing on both sides of the machine
A/AA- These are grades based on your scores. To get a AA, you must be very rhythmically accurate. Highest is a AAA (pros achieve this grade fairly easily)
My goal in DDR for the upcoming month is to be able to score at least an A on an Esp 15 song. Right now it just seems impossible. The arrows don't even make sense to my eyes, but Steven and Raymond say it's possible, so I'm hoping that they're right! Apparently the top female players in Singapore are able to get a PFC (perfect full combo, probably at least a AA) on an Esp 15 song. Man, if I can achieve that standard soon, I will be so happy! (Cue song: "I'm So Happy"... Hahaha....... Nevermind...)
Sigh.. Whoever would have thought that I'd have this strange addiction to an arcade game 2 years ago?
Alright, last but not least, my walk with God.
If I were to be completely honest with myself, I'd say that my spiritual life has more or less taken a backseat. With all the playing, working and skating around Singapore, I've been spending less and less quality time with God. And because of that, I've been finding it more and more difficult to live a pure and blameless life.
Take for example my mouth. I used to be more loving and kind with my words, but recently I've found that old spiteful and irritable speech popping up unconsciously again. The worst part is, I feel my heart growing immune to it! It's not even about using bad words, but more like the attitude behind my every sentence. Instead of lifting people up and encouraging them, I've been focusing more on pleasing myself.
I know that this is displeasing to God, but somehow I just feel my heart getting so cold.
Last Saturday at fellowship, Eileen was talking about feeling like running away from God even when you know you should run towards God instead. I could totally relate to everything she was saying since I've been feeling that way too.
It's like you know the right thing to do, but somehow you still disobey God and you feel guilty about it. Yet instead of bringing your sins to God and asking Him for forgiveness, you feel overwhelmed by your guilt instead and try to hide from His love and grace.
It's such a struggle, and even now as I'm typing, I still feel torn...
Dear God, You alone know what is going on inside my heart. I don't even know what to say or what to ask for anymore, but whatever it is, I just want to be close to You again. And if it takes a storm to bring me close to You, I ask that You will send the rain. Help me not to take Your love for granted, but also help me to accept Your unconditional love and forgiveness. I pray for healing in my heart, for all the many hurts that only You know I have suffered. Fill me up once again with Your Holy Spirit so that I may rest in Your peace. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.


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FREETOWN, 13 February 2018 --- Senior global officials from the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat, WHO and the United Nations Development Programme have joined Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation in calling for accelerated action to reduce tobacco consumption in the country. The call was made at a major national meeting of stakeholders in the capital, Freetown today.
There are an estimated 640,000 tobacco users in Sierra Leone and smoking prevalence is increasing, particularly among men and youth. Its use is extremely harmful for health and tobacco is one of the world's leading causes of premature death. Tobacco kills half of all long-term smokers from many different noncommunicable diseases, including cancer, lung and heart disease.
Tobacco is also a major barrier to development, bringing vast economic, social and environmental costs to individuals and counties. The World Bank says that tobacco costs the global economy an estimated US $1.4 trillion each year through treatment of sicknesses, and lost productivity.
"Tobacco not only steals lives; it exacerbates poverty, damages the environment, and creates immense burdens on national health systems," said Andrew Black, Development Assistance Team Leader from the FCTC 2030 Secretariat, who is visiting Sierra Leone this week from Geneva. "As we move towards accelerated implementation of the WHO FCTC, we look forward to continuing our work with the Government and partners in tackling the growing prevalence of tobacco use in Sierra Leone."
In March 2017, Sierra Leone became one of just 15 low and middle-income countries to benefit from the FCTC 2030 Project. Led by the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC in collaboration with WHO and UNDP, FCTC 2030 provides intensive support to governments so that they can implement effective, evidence-based tobacco control measures. The project is generously funded by the UK and Australian governments.
Such tobacco control measures include: bans on tobacco advertising and sponsorship; creation of smoke-free public and work places; effective health warnings for all tobacco packaging; restricting sales of tobacco products to minors; public awareness campaigns, and strengthened tobacco taxation.
"Tobacco use is projected to increase in Sierra Leone, and we call for all hands on deck, from government ministries to policy makers, the private sector and civil society to urgently protect our people from this growing threat," said Dr. Alie Wurie, Director of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health in Sierra Leone. "Through the duration of this project and beyond, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation will make tobacco control a national priority, through prevention, legislation and education of the public on tobacco's health dangers and costs."
"The Government of Sierra Leone has just passed a law for a 30 percent excise tax on tobacco products, which is a major win for pubic health," he added. "It has also established a dedicated multi-sectoral tobacco control task force, which will support finalization and implementation of a new national strategy for tobacco control in Sierra Leone."
"While joining the FCTC 2030 is a huge opportunity for Sierra Leone, there is still growing consumption of tobacco in the country which puts the health and wellbeing of users and their families at risk. Without urgent action, tobacco will place an increasingly heavy toll on Sierra Leone's healthcare system," said Alexander Chimbaru, Officer in Charge at WHO Sierra Leone.
Globally, tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year. More than 6 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use, while around 890,000 are attributed to exposure to second-hand smoke.
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About the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an international treaty that is dedicated to ending the global tobacco epidemic, and provides a comprehensive blueprint for governments to stop tobacco use in their countries.
Some 181 countries are Parties to the WHO FCTC, meaning that the treaty covers more than 90% of the world's population. Sierra Leone became a Party to the WHO FCTC in 2009.
The WHO FCTC is a milestone in the promotion of public health. It is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of people to the highest standard of health, provides legal dimensions for international health cooperation and sets high standards for compliance.
About the FCTC 2030 Project
The FCTC 2030 project aims to support Parties to the WHO FCTC that are eligible to receive official development assistance (ODA) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by advancing implementation of the Convention. The project will run from April 2017 until March 2021.
The 15 countries selected to participate in the project are:
Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Egypt, El Savador, Georgia, Jordan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia.
At WHO: Laura Keenan, keenanl [at] who.int, +232 786 33 952
At MoHS: Kadri Koroma, kadriekoroma [at] yahoo.com, +232 76 672 962


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Only a week after Frank Grillo teased that he had met with Marvel, Variety confirms "The Grey" co-star has been cast as the assassin Crossbones in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, the sequel to the hit 2011 film is believed to be based on the acclaimed comic-book storyline of the same name in which writer Ed Brubaker revealed Captain America's World War II sidekick Bucky Barnes didn't die in the 1945 explosion that left the superhero in suspended animation in a block of ice. Instead, an amnesiac Bucky was rescued by the Soviets, fitted with a bionic arm and programmed to serve as an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. The secret is revealed in the present day only after he seemingly killed the Red Skull and launched a terrorist attack on Philadelphia.
Created in 1989 by Mark Gruenwald and Kieron Dwyer, Crossbones -- along with his new lover Synthia Schmidt, daughter of the Red Skull -- plays an important role in the "Winter Soldier" storyline.
Grillo, who'll next be seen in "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Gangster Squad," joins Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson and, according to Variety, Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders in the sequel.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" opens April 4, 2014.


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Moving Image Arts Showcase 2012
It has been an exciting few days for CCEA Moving Image Arts students as a select number have seen their GCSE and A level short films and animations on the big screen for the first time ever.
As an annual part of the Foyle Film Festival CCEA showcased over twenty five student films at the Tower Hotel, Derry/Londonderry. And if that wasn't enough, the next day a follow-up screening of the shortlisted films was hosted by Cinemagic at the Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast.


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We provide dog sitting services for our local community including walks and potty breaks. We also donate our handmade collars and leashes, volunteer our time walking dogs, caring for cats and kittens and occasionally fostering for our local shelters.
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At a very early age I decided that dogs gave me commitment. There was no way I could ever let a dog down. I enjoy reading, learning and writing about dogs.
I received my master's degree in art education and I love to draw and paint dogs. I taught high school students for just shy of twenty years until one day my life happily went back to the dogs. Giving collars to shelter dogs warms my heart.
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Miss Winn-Dixie is a purebred West Highland White Terrier and very conscious of this fact. She is usually found perched near the window (almost catlike!) spotting and grumbling about the tiny chipmunks scurrying under our porch. She enjoys going on walks as long as it's not too hot outdoors.
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My dog Winn-Dixie is the sparkle in my day. She has been my best friend since we brought her home when I was 10 years old. She is sometimes jealous of the dogs we walk, but usually she is just curious about them. Winn-Dixie and I work on agility training together. She is absolutely adorable when she jumps over the hurdles Westie style. I enjoy getting to know each of our dog clients and I certainly have my favorites. Helping rescue dogs receive collars thru our buisness is the sweetest part of being a good dog-sitter.


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