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It's been a horrendous season for the Texans already. Losing to the Raiders and falling to 2-8 just adds more frustration.
Quarterback Case Keenum—who replaced Matt Schaub in Week 7—was benched for Schaub in the third quarter of Houston's 28-23 loss. Before the game ended, Andre Johnson left the field, but not before exchanging some words with Schaub. They still have to play six more games.

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Thank you for celebrating American Education Week with us. We want to extend an enthusiastic "THANK YOU" to our community, staff, administrators and neighborhoods. Thank you for the support and for contributing to the success of our students, every child, every day.
Throughout the week there was opportunities family and cultural events, musical performances, and more.
Team Up with a Teacher
In celebration of American Education Week, we invited members of the community to "Team Up with a Teacher" and engage with our students in their classrooms.
This year we decided to focus on our Fine Arts classes, so community members could see the arts in action in our schools.
It's easy to be enthusiastic and proud when you are in the public education environment every day. Take a look at the comments below from community members on their experiences in our "Team Up with a Teacher" exercise.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time attending a metal working class at Appleton North High School. What amazed me were how many of the skills the students were learning were also necessary for successful careers in industry and manufacturing!"
-- Senator Roger Roth
Senator Roth Tries Out Metal Working during American Education Week
"Thank you so much for this opportunity – it was awesome!"
-- Kathryn Pfeifer, Education and Events Coordinator, FOX CITIES BUILDING for the ARTS | The Trout Museum of Art
"I had my visit with Houdini today and it was amazing! The kids were awesome and so welcoming to me. Thanks so much for the opportunity."
-- Kristin Schroeder, Creative Services Manager, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center


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The Process of Evolution
Have you ever heard someone tell you that wisdom is equal to time? Maybe you've met someone who is "wise beyond their years", or someone who has knowledge you wish you could acquire if only time allowed. It's easy to relate time and knowledge because of the obvious correlation. More time to learn should equal more learned. However, I believe that even the wisest are only as good as the knowledge that they put into action. Keeping with the colloquialisms, this is why the phrase "actions speak louder than words" is used so often.
Celebrating 40 years in business could mean to many people that we've become wise in our industry, in manufacturing and harvesting Aloe Vera and even in developing a strong, time tested marketing plan. Sure, these are all things we've grown more knowledgeable about year after year, but hanging our hats on that wisdom would be a waste of those precious years.
One of the things that I am the most "Forever Proud" of is that, as a company, we have never rested solely on the success of our past. Every bit of wisdom we gain, we put back to work. Every lesson we learn, we use to make ourselves stronger. Every success we are thankful for, frames our next steps forward.
Our manufacturing and production facilities strive to stay forward thinking. They not only learn from past experiences, but know that continued knowledge in their fields will only strengthen us as we move forward. Our executives and business development teams continue to make progress on the marketing plan to ensure we are staying modern in our compensation structure and adding benefits that will help benefit our Forever Business Owners the most.
Creating change and moving forward can only happen if you take the time to look back and really reflect on what you've learned, good or bad. This is not only true for Forever, but also for each of you. Can you remember your first Chairman's Bonus check? Do you remember what it felt like to achieve Global Rally or Eagle Manager's Retreat? Think to yourself how hard you worked to achieve that Manager pin and the proud moment when you were recognized for it.
Bookmarked by those moments are the ones where you failed, where you questioned yourself, where you were molded by difficult times. These are moments that made you wise and taught you lessons about yourself that you otherwise would have never learned. There are two paths you can take with the wisdom you gain: the path to complacency or to evolution.
As we've come to find out, we can't rest on 40 years in business alone. That could be a dangerous path to stagnating in our business and risking our ability to help people all over the world look better and feel better. Sure, there have been fantastic times, advancements and successes in our past, but we won't stop there. Instead, we will use what we've learned to inspire the next 40 years of Forever. I encourage each one of you to do the same!
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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Condensed matter theoreist Xiao-Gang Wen will be joining Perimeter Institute as the BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics.
Partnership in Science Communication to Advance Ideas Throughout Ontario and Beyond.
Perimeter faculty member Cachazo, wins the 2011 Rutherford Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada.
Senegal is the new home of the next centre of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
"Not only does God play dice with the universe, his dice are fair." Nature Communications has just published a paper by PI postdoc Roger Colbeck, proving that no extension of quantum mechanics can improve predictive power.
Associate Faculty member wins Early Researcher Award from the Ontario MInistry of Research and Innovation.
Independent Audit for Industry Canada confirms top performance by Perimeter Institute.
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, founded by Perimeter Director Neil Turok, was one of the proven initiatives highlighted in the respected magazine.
Perimeter Institute's growing research faculty will welcome another member, Bianca Dittrich, in 2012.
Perimeter Institute has appointed eight more outstanding international scientists as Distinguished Research Chairs.
Lee, a theoretical condensed matter physicist, becomes the latest Associate Faculty member at Perimeter Institute, jointly appointed with McMaster University.
Perimeter Institute and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics have signed a memorandum of understanding to join the LSC.
The federal 2011 Budget Plan, tabled in Ottawa on June 6 by the Government of Canada, proposes a renewed investment in Perimeter Institute.
Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Associate Faculty members, theoretical astrophysicist Avery Broderick and particle phyicist Itay Yavin.
The Government of Ghana has commited US$1.5 million to help launch the third independent centre of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the centrepiece of PI's global outreach effort.
Perimeter Institute and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote academic ties and collaboration on outreach programs between the institutes.
PI Associate Faculty Member Michele Mosca has been named among the country's Top 40 Under 40 by The Globe and Mail.
Perimeter Institute is the North American coordinating partner for the Next Einstein Initiative and the One for Many scholarship campaign, and has so far partnered with five universities in Canada to help support African students.
Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member Niayesh Afshordi has won the Professor M.K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).
PI Associate Faculty Member Luis Lehner has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Perimeter members and colleagues from around the world ocme together at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Qatar.
The 2011 Provincial Budget renewed funding to accelerate Perimeter's scientific research, training and educational outreach activities.
PI Outreach's latest video resource, Everday Einstein: GPS & Relativity, tied for second place in the Non-interactive Media category of the prestigious International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
The official launch of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute will take place over three exciting days, from September 16 to 18, 2011.
From June 5 - 9, Waterloo Global Science Initiative, a partnership between Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, will host a gobal conversation on how science and technology can help solve our current energy crisis.
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Updates/Special Projects
- Landscaping design for water basin and bioswale
- Rain Barrel Project
- Vernal Pond Installation
- Tree Planting
- Plugs Planted in Drainage Channel
Landscaping design for water basin and bioswale
This represents the preliminary design for landscaping at Durbin. The plan created will emphasize water filtration and absorption as well as habitat creation and low maintenance. The stream bed and basin area will feature a rush and sedge mix that is evergreen and more rigid, to slow water flow and encourage filtration. The bio-filtration basin will be planted in bald cypress, selected because each tree absorbs hundreds of gallons of water per day, and they grow well both in standing water and are drought tolerant; also, their leaves do not create a lot of biomass. Tree plantings in other areas were selected to build habitat, including oaks and persimmons–which also can withstand standing water. White pines will be planted along the stream bed and back property trail, as a screen and to provide food for wildlife. Rain garden areas that feature a wetland/wildflower mix will be planted around the injection wells and on the slopes near to housing areas. A tall prairie mix is recommended for areas away from the detention basin and houses; a benefit is the sound absorption capabilities of tall grasses. An area will be reserved for eventual planting of an orchard, after people have moved to the site and there is a maintenance plan. No shrubs are included due to having no added benefit and their high maintenance. The property will be seeded initially with oats to stabilize the soil and planting will occur in early spring. Invasive plants will be cleared and prohibited from being planted on the property in the future.
Rain Barrel Project (more information)
The Center for Environmental Education & Sustainability and Bowling Green Independent Schools are partnering to facilitate rain barrel construction workshops with families living in the Dishman-McGinnis school district. The purpose of this workshop is to send participating families home with a rain barrel that can be installed at their home. Center staff, along with other partners from the Bowling Green community, guide the families through the process of making their own rain barrel during the workshop.
A workshop was held in March, 2012 for twenty families living in the Dishman-McGinnis school district. The students who attend will be among the first ones to attend the new Dishman-McGinnis school when construction is complete in the fall of 2014. The site of the new school building is just across Glen Lily from the Durbin Estates property, so some of the families in the current school district will potentially be future Durbin Estates residents.
Vernal Pond Installation (more information)
After more than a year of planning, on Aug.3, 2011, ground was broken at Durbin Estates with the installation of a vernal pond. Tom Biebighauser, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Forest Service and an expert on wetlands and stream restoration, led a very skilled track hoe operator from Scott and Ritter, Inc., and a team of volunteers through the process of installing a vernal pond on a section of the Durbin property.
The vernal pond at Durbin will be an interesting feature for community residents that adds habitat for plants and animals. It will also serve as a natural habitat learning facility for area schools, and in particular, for the new Dishman-McGinnis school being built at the former LC Curry school site.
Vernal ponds are seasonal wetlands that are covered by shallow water during the wetter part of the year. Climatic changes associated with the seasons cause changes in the appearance of and the flora and fauna associated with vernal ponds throughout the year. A variety of bird life are attracted to the pools which are used as a seasonal source of food and water.
For more information about the vernal pond installation and photos see the press release here.
Pictures where taken by Patricia Sowell. She composed a presentation using ProShow Gold. For a five minute presentation of the installation of the vernal pond click here.
Tree Planting Project (more information)
On Friday, November 30, 2012 twenty-three people showed up to roll up their sleeves and voluntarily get dirty in order to plant ninety (90) trees at the WKU-Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Durbin Project. The trees included forty (40) Bald Cypress, planted in the bio-infiltration basin, and fifty (50) White Pines, to serve as a green "fence" for one of the community walking trails. The Bald Cypress trees were selected for their ability to absorb 100 gallons of water per day per tree and to filter out pollutants; the White Pines were selected as a visual screen and to add habitat for birds and wildlife.
The volunteers included friends and staff of WKU and HFH, and community members who wanted to help. The day before, the tree holes were pre-drilled, which made it possible to plant and mulch all ninety trees in record time. Within two hours we were celebrating our accomplishment and packing up. Thanks to all who came for their involvement and helping to make the day a great success!! For photos, click here or go to our WKU-HFH 319(H) Durbin Project Facebook Page.
Plugs Planted in Drainage Channel (more information) [BROKEN LINK]
On Monday, June 3 the Durbin site team was finally able to hold a Plugs Planting Day. These are small settings of sedges and rushes that were planted along the major Durbin site drainage channel to stabilize the banks and slow flow in rain events. The event was originally planned for mid-May but the cool spring resulted in the plugs not growing to size; it was then scheduled for Saturday, June 1 but was rained out as the first picture shows. On Monday, June 3, two employees from Roundstone Native Seed joined five others adults and three youths to plant 7,500 plugs. It was a Herculean effort!! Thanks to all involved.
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Travel Guides in Real Time: Mobile Apps on Vacation
Planning a vacation can seem like more work than it's worth. Triposo, a relative newcomer in the competitive world of travel guides is looking to change all that. Triposo founder and chief operating officer Richard Ozinga joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Triposo.
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Mr. S. George Hay, manager of our
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UConn men, women come together for First Night
STORRS -- Team Geno might have trumped Team Kevin in a friendly exhibition 51-49 on First Night, but there's no division when it comes to UConn basketball.
Women's coach Geno Auriemma summed it up best in front of a capacity crowd Friday night at Gampel Pavilion when discussing the Huskies moving from the Big East to the American Athletic Conference and what to tell people about the new league.
"We are in a league of our own," Auriemma said, firing up the crowd of blue-and-white-clad Huskies fans. "We're UConn!"
And at UConn, women's basketball plays on equal footing with the men's team. That was evident as the Huskies threw a new twist in their unofficial tip-off to the season with a co-ed exhibition game to close out an hour-long-plus celebration. Also on the card were player introductions and a trivia contest between the two co-ed squads.
"It's no rivalry -- we are UConn!" men's coach Kevin Ollie said. "When they win a championship, we are just as happy that they are winning.
"I think Geno is the same way."
The basketball bond between the programs is more than a mutual admiration between the coaching staffs. It extends off the court with the players, including a group that regularly gets together Tuesday nights to watch film, and it's not the kind the coaches might show during a practice.
"We go to the movies on $5 Tuesdays, there's about seven of us," sophomore Phil Nolan said. "Anyone can go, whoever wants to go can go, but there's a regular group that goes."
Among the regular members of the movie club are Nolan along with freshmen Terrance Samuel, Amida Brimah and Kentan Facey on the men's team, while Morgan Tuck, Breanna Stewart and Bria Hartley are among the women's participants.
"Two of my best friends are on their team, Bria and Morgan," added Nolan, who had the chance to play on the same side as Hartley and Stewart for Team Geno in the exhibition.
"All of the players enjoyed it," he said of the exhibition. "In my opinion, I think it was better than last year."
For sophomore Rodney Purvis, this was his first experience with the UConn community coming out for opening night as one. Last season, Purvis was a freshman at North Carolina State, and things were not quite the same when it came to the basketball teams coexisting, even though the school nickname is the Wolfpack.
"I really didn't know too many of the girls on the basketball team there," he said. "We would see them and say `what's up,' but as far as interacting and things like that, this is the best."
About the only thing better than a joint celebration welcoming the start of a college basketball season would be hosting another one in April like the school did in 2004, when they both won national titles.
"It's no rivalry, but we also want to push each other to new heights," Ollie said. "Geno is always pushing me. I want to be there one day cutting down those nets.
"I always look at him as somebody I can emulate myself after in running a program like him."
UConn's men open the season on Nov. 8 against Maryland at the Barclays Center. The UConn women open Nov. 9 against Vermont at Gampel.
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So Rafa has made good on his promise during Wimbledon to join the awesome heaven and hell that is THE TWITTERVERSE. Good news? Bad news? I genuinely don't know. Twitter has been a boon for fans, players, and organizations who choose to use it as a medium to show off their personalities. In some cases, if they have awesome personalities, it's the best thing in the world. In other cases, if they have crap personalities (or no personality) it's complete boresville. And in other cases (HOW MANY CASES ARE ON THIS DOCKET???) it's a complete waste because the Twitter accounts are completely corporate and agent run. Oh, you just posted 15 new pictures on your Facebook page, JJ? Thanks for the breaking news.
So basically I'm a little scared for Rafa. This is a 90% you lose, 10% you win situation. He's such a huge public figure with an established persona. His Twitter account already has a lot to live up to, whereas most of the players who have greatly benefitted from Twitter (Petko for example) were virtual unknowns when they started. They had the freedom to brand themselves as they saw fit. Not everyone can pull off a Novak Djokovic.
And so, as a public service to one Mr. Rafael Nadal, here is a list of tweeters to emulate, and a list of tweeters to...not.
Twitter Idols:
- Dinara Safina (@Dinarik27) - With a few tweets, Dinara was able to shuck her unearned reputation of being a morose, unfun, stereotypical Russian (DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SMILE????), to show the world the "real Dinara". The one who live-tweets her baking adventures, regularly has dinner with her family, and knows how to operate her phone's camera with, as Serena would say, aplomb. TWITPICS ARE YOUR FRIEND, RAFA. That said, whatever you do, DO NOT JOIN FOURSQUARE. Bad idea pantalones.
- Juan Monaco (@picomonaco) - Why should you emulate Pico? Because his tweets are just pure joy. He happily gets into Twitter convos with other players, he celebrates his favorite sports teams, and he just seems like a happy guy. I don't want to tune in and hear how emo you are all the time (*cough*Feli*cough). It bums me out. Twitter is happy times. Let's all be happy like Pico!
- Novak Djokovic (@djokernole) - We can't all be Nole. Hell...right now I'm sure you kinda wish you could be like Nole, Rafa. Not only is his game off the chain right now, he's also got personality in spades, which clearly spills over into his tweeting. His tweets are irreverent, funny, and self-aware. Let's face it, given his stature, he's the best tennis tweeter in the game. It ain't easy to be entertaining when you're a top player. It would be so much easier to play it safe and keep it corporate. But Novak's the king. Much like his tennis game, don't let his Twitter game get into your head, Rafa.
- Laura Robson (@laurarobson5) - Taking advice from a 17 year-old? A dicey proposition, I'm sure. But you could learn a lot from Robbo, Rafa. This is a kid who doesn't tweet a whole lot, but when she does they are well-crafted tweets, infused with personality and self-deprecating humor. You can do it, Rafa! I know you can!
- Andy Roddick (@andyroddick) - Funny, snarky, and informative, A-Rod has no problem letting his opinions fly. Those opinions and the way he presents (usually in a funny way) give us insight into his personality. That's all we want, Rafa. Some insight into your personality. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
- Rebecca Marino (@rebecca_marino) - I don't know why exactly, but I kind of love Rebecca Marino's twitter. It's just so...normal. Like, oh yeah, you're a totally normal person who happens to travel the world playing tennis. It's refreshing in that way.
Twitter Jersey Shore:
- Gael Monfils - Hey, Rafa? Please don't use your Twitter to tell the world you're going to sleep EVERY NIGHT. I love you but even I don't care about that information.
- Jelena Jankovic - Here's a woman who CLEARLY has personality and completely locks it up on Twitter. SNOOOOOOOZER. Please don't let Benito run your account. Thanks.
- Ivo Karlovic - Apparently some people like Ivo's Twitter. Judy Murray thinks he's HILARIOUS. I do not. His tweets are sexist, raunchy but not funny, and he pops off about topics he has no business popping off about. He basically comes off as an undersexed, ignorant, misoginist. No bueno.
- Fernando Verdasco (deleted) - Twitter is not your own personal livejournal, Rafa. It is not a place to go to vent about shit thinking that no one will read it. It's public, it's out there, and if you act a fool and then delete your account, we're going to laugh at you. Just like we laughed at Sam Querrey.
- John Isner - Lord help me if you start incessantly tweeting about WWE RAW, Rafa....
- Caroline Wozniacki - Humblebragging. Look it up up. And then don't do it, Rafa. If I see a "Oh noes! I'm getting horribly sunburned on my stomach. I guess that's what happens when you sunbathe naked on a private beach in Mallorca with Beyonce, Jose Mourinho, and Ryan Gosling! #fml" tweet I will punch you in the knee.
So here's the basic upshot: Let your twitter show off *your* personality, Rafa. Don't *try* to be anything. Just be Rafa. If you're not funny, that's ok! You know what you are? YOU ARE ADORABLE AND NICE. So be adorable and nice. My guess is that your Twitter will be a cross between Sunshine Sabine's always happy and informative tweets (that include a lot of pics), and Andy Murray's semi-boring-but-they're-not-really boring-if-you-love-him tweets about sports. Or maybe you can shoot for a Mardy Fish-style (I know, it's weird for me to say that). But his Twitter has been great. Informative, classy, and occasionally funny.
But, like, no planking, dude. Also, don't "vamos" in every tweet. That would be the Caro equivalent of winking.
All I'm saying is vamos responsibly. Our eyes are on you.
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It won't end, will it? Sara Ganim has the details, and she has two sources who told her police have been informed of the new allegations, which would be the first from before the 1990s. Basically, this still isn't close to being finished:
The grand jury investigation that led to his arrest is still meeting and could be hearing from more potential victims, but the attorney general's office has not said if more charges will be filed.
Former FBI director Louis Freeh confirmed at a press conference last week that his Penn State investigation looked into whether there were additional victims. He did not elaborate. I'm sure we can count on the Paterno family's newly planned investigation to help shed some light.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly 150 aging, dead or diseased Monterey pine, cypress and eucalyptus trees in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park are being taken down in the next few months.
Park officials tell the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/11Yhi4i ) the trees are a danger to the 13 million people who visit the 1,017-acre park each year. The trees are 80 to 100 years old.
A woman was killed in 2008 when a branch fell on her car, crushing her as she loaded her dog into her Subaru.
Three people were hurt when a branch fell on them last year.
Park officials say falling trees or branches have damaged 61 cars since 2008.
Some 3,000 park trees have been examined since 2011 and nearly 360 were deemed unsafe.
More than 200 have already come down.


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A New York City man is accused of smuggling nearly 40,000 piranhas into the U.S. by having them mislabeled as harmless aquarium fish, prosecutors said.
Joel Rakower and his fish distribution company pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to pay more than $70,000 in fines and restitution.
Authorities said Rakower admitted buying the aggressive fish from a Hong Kong supplier that he instructed to falsely label the shipments as silver tetras, a more common household fish.
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He began importing the mislabeled fish in 2011, shortly after New York City prohibited possession of piranhas, and continued through 2012, prosecutors said.
In all, he smuggled 39,548 piranhas, worth $37,376, that were then sold to fish retailers throughout the U.S.
Twenty-five states either ban or regulate piranhas, which could pose a serious risk to ecosystems if they got into native waters.


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Luis Alberto Urrea discusses "The House of Broken Angels" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Luis Alberto Urrea is a best-selling author of poetry, fiction and essays. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Urrea is also a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. His published works include "The Devil's Highway: A True Story," "Tijuana Book of the Dead," "Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life," "Queen of America," "The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "The Fever of Being." His most recent book, is "The House of Broken Angels" (Little, Brown).


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Wolf Pack to host New Mexico
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Malik Story cannot think of a better farewell gift to the Nevada Wolf Pack basketball fans than a victory over the New Mexico Lobos on Wednesday night at Lawlor Events Center.
"That would be the best thing," said Story, who will be honored along with fellow senior Keith Fuetsch during the Wolf Pack's Senior Night festivities on Wednesday (7 p.m.). "It will be great knowing we went out with a big win, especially on my last night here."
The Wolf Pack, losers of five in a row, eight of their last nine and 12 of their last 15, will host the No. 12 ranked Lobos in their final home game of the season. The Pack is currently last in the Mountain West at 12-15 overall and 3-11 in conference and is just 2-5 at home since Dec. 28. New Mexico has already clinched the Mountain West regular season championship at 25-4, 12-2.
"They are very balanced," Pack coach David Carter said. "They can play big or small and play different styles. And they know how to win."
The Wolf Pack lost to the Lobos, 75-62, in Albuquerque on Feb. 2 in the first-ever meeting between the two history-filled basketball programs. Nevada is in its 100th year and New Mexico is in year No. 110.
"It's going to be exciting to play a Top 25 team on my Senior Night," said Fuetsch, who will get the first start of his career on Wednesday. "Hopefully we can knock them off."
The Wolf Pack has lost its last three games by 13 (88-75 to San Diego State), 26 (73-47 to Boise State) and 17 points (80-63 to UNLV). Of their 11 Mountain West losses, nine have come by 10 points or more. New Mexico, which has now won the Mountain West regular season title in four of the last five seasons, has only lost to South Dakota State (70-65), St. Louis (60-46), UNLV (64-55) and San Diego State (52-34) this season.
The Lobos are arguably the deepest team in the Mountain West.
They are led by Kendall Williams (13.9 points, 4.6 assists), Alex Kirk (12.0 points, 8.0 rebounds) and Tony Snell (11.4 points). But they also have productive role players in Cameron Bairstow (8.9 points, 5.4 rebounds), Hugh Greenwood (7.4 points, 5.1 rebounds), Demetrius Walker (5.0 points), Chad Adams (4.7 points, 3.3 rebounds) and Jamal Fenton (3.8 points).
"We got to play a perfect game," Carter said.
The Wolf Pack played about as well as it can in the 13-point loss to the Lobos in early February. Story led the Pack with 20 points and he was joined in double figures by teammates Deonte Burton and Jordan Burris. The Pack was 10-of-26 on 3-pointers and out-rebounded the Lobos 33-29.
"After that game I thought we were headed in the right direction," Carter said. "That was one of our better games of the season, especially on the road in a tough environment."
Carter is now just looking for any sort of momentum heading into the Mountain West tournament which opens March 12 in Las Vegas. The Pack will close out the regular season at Colorado State on Saturday.
"It is very important to play well these last two games," he said.
Carter said he will start normal starters Story, Burton, Jerry Evans and Kevin Panzer along with Fuetsch against the Lobos. Fuetsch, a Bishop Manogue High graduate, has only played in 11 games this year for a total of 64 minutes and is averaging just under a point (0.9) a game.
"It's going to be a little sad but it's also going to be exciting," the 6-foot Fuetsch said. "It seems like yesterday I was just starting out here as a freshman. The time has flown by."
Story is the Wolf Pack's all-time leading 3-point shooter with more 3-pointers (241) and 3-point attempts (626) than anyone in school history. He is also 10th on the Pack's career scoring list with 1,417 points.
"It means a lot to me to have been able to put my stamp on the program," Story said. "It's an amazing feeling knowing that no matter where I go from here, I can always call Nevada home."


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-- Text by Patricia Jacobberger
Over the last 4,000 years, cats have shared our hearths and homes, our food and beds and have been the objects of glorification as well as the recipients of ill-will. Kept about farms and hamlets and respected for their practical contributions to rodent control, cats were rarely regarded as companions or pets. Most certainly, no one kept records of their breeding habits or the colors, patterns and unique oddities that resulted from those breedings. No one that is, until the "fancy cat" admirers of the latter 1800's.
By the Victorian Era, we humans were learning about our own evolution. We had entered the industrial revolution and were becoming more affluent as the "great middle class" began to arise. In the late 1800's, competitive cat shows came into vogue. As a result, people became interested in the various colors and peculiar characteristics of the cats that they saw and began to oversee, record and regulate the breeding of cats.
The idea of the pedigree, used to trace and confirm the lineage of an animal, became popular as people began to take pride in their unusual or particularly unique cats. Many years before the unusual variations in cats were studied by the scientific community, pedigrees were found to be valuable in providing insights into the predictability of matings. It was not long before the term "pedigreed" became the equivalent of the phrase "pure bred."
Here we are today, with a wealth of "pure breeds" of cats. Many breeds are the result of the cross breeding of known breeds to create another - usually a breed that combines the best characteristics of the parent breeds into one. Some breeds are the result of interest around a unique attribute such as tailessness (the Manx) or folded ears (the Scottish Fold).
Assuming that you have first answered a number of questions related to whether and if you should acquire a kitten or cat, the next step comes in deciding if you want a pedigreed cat. Pure bred kittens have been bred from known pedigreed parentage in order to conform to a written standard that describes what the ideal example of that breed should look like. Appearance and temperament are typically predictable. Pure bred kittens grow up to be representative of their breed both in looks and in personality. This makes pure bred cats attractive because when someone wants a particular breed, it is often for a particular reason.
Do you want a kitten or an adult cat? Kittens are a permanently cute, playful and fun, fun, fun. But, they require care and monitoring as they grow, they are full of energy and mischievousness and they make mistakes - like getting up on the dining room table during your dinner party; like climbing up the draperies; like climbing up your pants leg to get your attention. And, a kitten will require a fair amount of attention and training.
On the other hand, an adult cat has been through all of that - at someone ELSE'S house! Adult cats generally adjust to a new home without difficulty and they bond just as easily with humans as kittens do. On the other hand, an adult may come with habits that you may not appreciate. But, adult cats can also learn to change their behavior when you take the time to work with them.
Do you want a male or a female? Altered males and females make equally good pets in the long run. Most pet owners find that there is very little difference in personality and that neither gender is more affectionate or more playful than the other. However, if you are more strongly drawn to one gender over the other, then by all means, that is what you should have.
Do you want a longhaired cat or a shorthaired cat? Longhaired cats are lovely but require daily combing or brushing. This is not a difficult task particularly if you begin grooming your pet as a kitten. If you decide that a longhaired cat is what you must have, promise yourself and her/him to daily grooming. All cats shed, but longhaired cats shed a longer hair that accumulates more apparently than a shorthaired cat's.
What characteristics are you most interested in? There are numerous physical characteristics that people find interesting and appealing. The pure bred breeds have a wealth of such characteristics that you may have a special desire for. Are you attracted to the idea of a curly coated cat? Then, the Cornish or Devon Rex may be what you wish. Do you think that a cat with curled back ears fits your tastes? Then take a look at the American Curl. Whatever you may be interested in, there is most likely a breed of pedigreed cat that will catch your fancy. Even a hairless cat - the Sphynx! (Refer to the Breed Characteristics and Personalities table for further information.)
What kind of personality do you want or are you willing to put up with? There is a vast range of personality traits associated with the various pedigreed breeds of cats. The shy and retiring Russian Blue; the bouncy, busy Abyssinian and Somali; the large, gentle Maine Coon Cat; etc. Each breed is unique in personality and this bears some serious thought and consideration. A trip to the library and some studying of the various pedigreed cats will serve you well as you try to match your personality to that of your future companion. (Refer to the Breed Characteristics and Personalities table for further information.)
How much are you willing to spend? Pure bred kittens and cats are often expensive. They are uncommon and comprise approximately 3-5% of the cat population on this continent. The cost of a pedigreed kitten relies on a number of things such as availability, uniqueness and the quality of the kitten in terms of pet, breeder or show.
There are a variety of places to go to acquire your pedigreed kitten or cat. The "Want Ads" of your local newspaper is one place to look. If you are purchasing a kitten via the want ads, make certain that you are acquiring a clean, healthy, well socialized kitten. The kitten should look well fed, be active and free from tearing of the eyes. Steer away from kittens that are younger than 8 weeks of age - they need a little more time to properly socialize. Your kitten should have had a least the first set of inoculations before you take him/her home.
Pet Stores are another place where you can acquire a pure bred kitten. Be aware, if you are considering purchasing from a pet store, that reputable breeders of pure bred breed cats do not sell their kittens through this channel. Sometimes, kittens for pet store sale are obtained from "kitten mills" where breeding practices may be less than optimum. Frequently, pure bred kittens sell for considerably more at a pet store than from a pure bred breeder. The same rules apply if you cannot resist, however. Make certain that there are no runny noses or eyes, that the kitten is at least 8 weeks old and is active and curious. Insist on reviewing the management's policy for any health guarantee explained, preferably in writing.
Pedigreed or Pure Bred Breeders are the ideal people from whom to obtain your pure bred kitten or cat. A good place to meet breeders is at a cat show. You can also find listing of breeders in magazines such as Cat Fancy. The best place to meet a pure bred breeder is at a cat show in your area. Going to a cat show allows the opportunity to see a large number of breeds at one time and to get a lot of questions answered. Seek out more than one breeder and ask questions related to how their cats are bred and raised (refer to the side bar "Ten Questions to Ask the Breeder"). Be prepared for the breeder to ask you questions about things like your home environment, your attitude about declawing and keeping kitty indoors and about other cats you may have had in your life.
In CFA, kittens available for placement at the show will be at least 4 months old. If you want a younger kitten, you will need to visit the breeder's home. There, you can evaluate the breeder's environment and see one or both parents. Nearly every pure bred breeder will require you to sign a purchase agreement that addresses neutering and spaying. Most breeders will provide you with detailed information about care for your new kitten or cat.
Recently, a number of "pure breed rescue groups" have developed as pedigreed breeders work to keep unwanted pure bred cats out of shelters. Many of these cats are older neuters and spays that have been abandoned or relinquished because of a change in someone's life. These groups generally work out of people's homes and utilize a number of grass roots methods for placement of pure bred cats. If you have a computer and access to the Internet, it is relatively easy to contact pure breed rescue workers.
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Investigators said no one will be charged after a 12-year-old black girl suffered rope burns to her neck during a school field trip to a ranch in Texas.
The Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Blanco County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Ablon said Monday that there's no evidence to support allegations that the injuries were intentional or racially motived.
The family has already filed a negligence lawsuit alleging the girl was racially targeted by three white boys while they played with a rope swing attached to a tree during the field trip in April. The lawsuit seeks $3 million from the Live Oak Classical School in Waco and the ranch owner.
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Dahi vada (Dumplings in spicy yogurt)
Dahi vada is a perfect summer snack. It can be made ahead of time and should be served cold, so makes it a great party dish. It is also a kid's friendly snack.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
For Dahi vada (4 servings)
Urad dal (white) – 1cups
Moong dal (yellow) – 1/2cup
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Asafoetida powder- 2 pinches
Freshly grounded black pepper – 1 tsp
Green chilies – 2
Cooking oil to fry
Salt as per taste
For Yogurt:
Yogurt – 2 cups
Whole milk – 1/2 cup
Chaat masala – 1 tsp
Black salt – 1 tsp
Sugar – 1/2 tbsp
For Garnish:
Red chili powder – 1 tsp
Roasted cumin powder- 1 tbsp (grounded)
Tamarind Chutney – 1/2 cup
- Wash Urad dal and moong dal thoroughly and soak it in water for 6-7 hours.
- Grind soaked dal with green chilies in fine paste using very little water. Add asafoetida powder, cumin seeds, black pepper and salt to the paste. Mix the batter for few minutes. It will incorporate some air to the batter and make it light.
- Heat cooking oil for frying the vadas.
- Take small lemon size batter and fry it in the oil. Repeat till all the vadas are done. It should be golden and crispy.
- Keep some room temperature water in a big bowl. Put the fried vadas into the water submerged. After 5 minutes, take the vadas out of water and press each vada with your palm to take the water out.
- To prepare yoghurt, take yogurt in a bowl and add ½ cup whole milk and whisk evenly. Add salt, sugar and chaat masala and keep aside.
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To serve, place 2-3 vadas in a shallow plate. Add yogurt on the top evenly. Garnish it with red chili powder, roasted cumin seeds, salt as per taste and tamarind chutney. Serve at room temperature or chilled.


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Finishing a marathon is an amazing accomplishment. It is also, as that David Fleming story reminded us, a rather dehumanizing and soul-crushing endeavor. As far as we know, the New York City Marathon was poop-free this year, but wobble-free? Not at all.
Congratulations to all the people who finished, even those who are in far too good of shape to bother being woozy on camera after running 26 miles and change. Jerks.
Footage shot by Emma Carmichael and edited by David Matthews.
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Some South Florida cities were born beaches -- others just kind of decided to become beaches.
In recent years, several cities have attempted to raise their profiles and attract tourists by tacking a "Beach" onto the end of their names.
Just last month, Lake Worth Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell proposed changing the city's name to "Lake Worth Beach." He says the new name would make the city stand out from other parts of the county with Lake Worth mailing addresses. More importantly, Maxwell says it would make the city more appealing to tourists.
"For those who say, 'Well, Lake Worth has to have an identity. We need to figure out what our brand is going be.' What better way to start looking at our brand than telling everybody who we really are?" says Maxwell.
But from the start, he said he wasn't married to the idea.
"If this is going to be a divisive issue and this is really going to cause pain in the community," adds Maxwell, "I will pull it in a millisecond."
And during the last city commission meeting, that's exactly what he did. When Maxwell put a motion on the table not to approve the change, Lake Worth commissioners all agreed and the issue was tossed out.
But in recent years, other South Florida cities have seen the marketing value of the "B-word."
Dania Beach commissioner Anne Castro was just a private citizen in 1998 when Dania residents voted to add "Beach" to the city's name.
"When people from Europe or South America or whatever -- when they say 'Dania' it doesn't make a lot of sense to them. When they say 'Dania Beach' they say, "It has a beach. Let's go there.' "
She says the economic impact of the name-change is difficult to measure, but it does help define the city as a tourist destination.
"For our city it was a good thing because we were a city that was very much in need of redevelopment and rejuvenation," says Castro. "And I think that adding that extra asset to our name helps."
One year after Dania's rechristening, the city of Hallandale became "Hallandale Beach."
"We were primarily known as an elderly community," recalls former City Manager Mark Antonio. "And now, with that rebranding of adding that 'Beach' to our name, we also went along and changed some development codes and some building criteria to make it more business-friendly. And also to attract tourism."
Does "Beach" Equal Bucks?
But marketing experts say there's little hard evidence to suggest that simply advertising a city's coastal qualities with a "beachy" name leads to more tourism dollars.
"Fort Lauderdale has done well without having 'Beach' in their name," says Peter Ritchie, Director of Florida Atlantic University's Hospitality Management Program.
He remembers the confusion that often arose among tourists visiting a Deerfield Beach hotel he managed several years ago.
"We did have guests who would say, you know, 'Why do you have Deerfield Beach in your name when you're not on the beach?' And I would tell them the name of the city was Deerfield Beach. And they wouldn't believe it sometimes. They'd say 'Oh! There must be Deerfield Beach and there must be Deerfield.'"
Now that a name-change is no longer in Lake Worth's immediate future, the city is looking for different ways to attract tourists and improve the quality of life for residents. Right now, there's a petition drive to put a building-height restriction on the November ballot. The group leading the drive says a downtown full of tall buildings would spoil Lake Worth's small-town feel.


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The Future Is Savage, at least when it comes to supreme lure actions. For those unfamiliar with the brand, Savage Gear is the brainchild of Mads Grosell, a detail-oriented engineer 100% consumed by fish and fishing. With paper and pencil, Grosell has scribed, then constructed the ultimate baitfish actions in Savage Gear hard and soft 4PLay lures. For pike, musky, halibut, bass and a host of inshore species, Grosell plays with predatory instinct with the full control of a puppet master.
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Please help me with my program...below!
nd tell me what is the correction.. I'm always getting the area as 0 ... so help me!
class heron
public static void main(String args[])
int a=6,b=4,c=10;
int s= (a+b+c) / 2;
double area = Math.sqrt(s*(s-a) * (s-b) * (s-c));
System.out.println("Program to calculate the Area of a Triangle using Heron's Formula");
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("The First side of the Triangle is " +a);
System.out.println("The Second side of the Triangle is "+b);
System.out.println("The Third side of the Triangle is " +c);
System.out.println("The Area of the Triangle is " + area);


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BLOWBACK - Brad Thor
Archaeologists make a stunning discovery in a pass high in the French – Italian Alps, but do not live to tell the tale. A year later, Islamic scientists begin dying in seeming accidents or outright assassinations and kidnappings all around the world. And then a US army unit moves into the peaceful, multi-religion village of Asalaam near Mosul in Iraq. They are checking up on some Christian missionaries who haven't been heard of but are startled to find half the village dead from a horrible, flu like disease with some very nasty symptoms. Scott Harvath is a Navy SEAL turned covert counter-terrorism agent who authorities turn to when the connections between these events start to become clear. Harvath, and through him The President of the US, have other problems as well as Democrat Senator Helen Cunningham is on the trail of both of them, trying to prove that there is something else going on with covert operations.
Harvath must go out alone and try to stop a deadly biological weapon from being distributed in America. He must also stop his arch enemy Khalid Sheik Alomari, a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative and ruthless assassin. Alomari is killing Muslim scientists who may have unlocked the key to a devastating super weapon.
There are two broad classifications into which thrillers that I read seem to fit. The totally over the top, almost cartoon like, take your disbelief and hang it in the wardrobe, wild ride type – along the lines of Austin Powers, Colin Forbes', even James Bond to a certain degree. Then there are the psychological, the creepy, the leave the lights on, fasten your seatbelts, things could get hairy here types – in this category Tom Clancy, Len Deighton, John LeCarre, Robert Ludlum, Scott Turow and Frederick Forsyth and many many others. If you get lucky occasionally some of these books can switch between the two categories seamlessly without affecting your overall enjoyment of any of the book. No matter how much I think about BLOWBACK I simply can't decide which category it was aiming for.
It's a great premise – a biological weapon that once threatened the Roman Empire is back with the potential to wipe out huge parts of the world. Perhaps a bit far-fetched in some people's minds, but the premise of the book really appealed to me. I didn't even mind the movie-script like style and could have forgiven some of the frankly utterly outlandish scenes - a supposedly disgraced and in hiding operative not all that hard to spot and certainly in communication with a lot of people; sensationalist paragliding across borders; suddenly producing large numbers of gliders out of nowhere; European countries that didn't seem to mind a heavily armed one man revenge band charging around over their borders; a seemingly never ending stream of money to bribe everyone and a scientist who just suddenly manages to climb a huge ice-covered mountain, having never even attempted anything remotely like this (not even the climbing of a small rock in the backyard) with just the hero to "carry her through".
Where the book was greatly underwhelming, and I think, the premise poorly served, was that the whole thing was presented in way too black and white a manner with too much predictability and bland characterisation. No doubt about it, many of the the action scenes were exciting and well written, but the existence of the weapon and how it survived was brush stroke and questionable at best, the connection between the weapon and the intra-Muslim faith tensions too self-serving; and the various political conspiracies way too convenient. The whole thing reeked of a one sided partisan cheer squad.
Perhaps your political perspective can affect summation of this book, but I felt that it was a great idea, muddied by a whole lot of convenient nefarious goings on, which contributed little to the thrill and nothing to the action.
Scot Harvath's counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned -- thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine glacier, an ancient weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has been unearthed -- and a shadowy organization intends to use it for America's downfall. Racing across Europe, Harvath must secure the ultimate instrument of destruction before it brings the United States and the rest of the world to its knees.


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Anthroposophy in the Desert
The employee bus approaches the gates of Sekem, the realm of Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish. The 170-acre biodynamic farm is situated 45 km northeast of Cairo, in the Egyptian desert. After the friendly Egyptian bookkeeper sitting next to me explains that I'm a German journalist and that Yvonne is expecting me, the security forces let us pass.
Yvonne Floride, in her mid-40s, tall, slim and serious-looking, postpones the welcome banter "for a minute," since otherwise we'll miss the School Circle. Just like all the workers in the Sekem factories, the 300 or so schoolchildren from kindergarten to high school age gather every morning with their teachers in the small Sekem schoolyard to say morning prayers and salute the flag.
The pupils come from farming families or are children of the 2000 Sekem employees who live near the farm. We stand in three concentric circles, and some of the pupils and teachers report on what they are learning at the moment. The curriculum prescribed by the Egyptian Ministry of Education is observed to the letter, with subjects such as eurhythmics, fine arts and German added as supplements.
Anthroposophy and Islam
During his graduate studies in pharmacology in Graz, Dr. Abouleish came to appreciate the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, and in 1977 he founded Sekem to bring the principles of anthroposophy, which also include biodynamic agriculture, back to his countrymen. While Yvonne gives me a tour of the production units on the farm, I try to learn something about the (in)compatibility of anthroposophy and Islam. Doesn't an anthroposophic approach meet with vehement resistance on the part of Egyptian Muslims?
Yvonne seems to know this question well. Without answering directly, she explains what is important to Dr. Abouleish and his followers: his wife Gudrun, his son Helmy, Helmy's wife Constanze and the on average 20 European co-workers who live on the farm. They are interested in economic success achieved without detriment to either the environment or the workers. On the contrary, profits are there to be reinvested in the development of human and natural resources.
Yvonne and her husband left Germany and came to the Egyptian desert with their two small children almost 20 years ago, because they found their former life unfulfilling. Upon arriving in Sekem, they immediately had the feeling that fate had brought them here. Yvonne loves the Egyptians' lightness of being and the way they live for the present and "search for closeness to others."
Ever since she arrived here, the trained social educator has been in charge of keeping the business on its feet. Her primary task, among many, is to maintain the farm's excellent image.
Yvonne finds that Sekem proves just how beautiful this country can be. She views this as her mission: to make as many people as possible see the country through her eyes. It's mostly the Europeans who have to become more flexible. One has to work with the existing structures here in order to effect change.
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Sometimes she finds it difficult to remain patient when she sees that, once again, the brightly colored paint has been brushed outside the edge of the window frame and onto the wall. The "Doctor," as his co-workers call Mr. Abouleish, places high value on German thoroughness.
What Sekem has been able to accomplish thus far is very impressive. The business units all bear ancient Egyptian names, as does the entire initiative – Sekem means "vitality from the sun." The equipment and hygiene of the production facilities meet Western standards, with all work processes in the hands of cheerful and highly efficient personnel.
The Hator unit sells fresh fruit and vegetables. Atos manufactures and sells of phytopharmaceuticals. Isis, founded already back in 1984 to market herbal teas, today sells other products as well, such as cooking oils and dried fruits.
"Isis" is also the name of the three shops that sell Sekem products in Cairo. Gradually, demand is on the rise in Egypt for natural foods, although most income still comes from exports. In 2003, the Sekem initiative achieved sales of 55 million Egyptian pounds, around 8 million Euros.
Compulsory workshops
For the most part, the herbs and foodstuffs distributed by Sekem are grown on 400 Egyptian partner farms. These are supervised by the Sekem cooperative known as Libra, which educates interested farmers in the principles of biodynamic agriculture and helps manage their operations once they switch over to the new methods.
Employees receive standard Egyptian wages for their work. During working hours, workers take time out to do eurhythmic gymnastic exercises, while learning to read in special classes as well as participating in cultural events and creative workshops is compulsory. Sekem also makes provisions for the workers' retirement years.
Walking past the amphitheater, which seats 2000 and is used for theater productions and general assemblies, we come to the education center, a project initiated by former chancellor Helmut Kohl and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Young Egyptians receive training here in six fields: trade, textiles, carpentry, agricultural technology, electrical engineering and mechanics.
Yvonne stresses the fact that in Sekem the emphasis is on the "networking" of all activities. We visit the textiles class, which is also responsible for sewing the work clothes for Sekem's staff and is currently busy making raccoon puppets that will be offered as part of the new Conytex collection.
Philosophy and religion
Now, the time has come to meet Sekem's founder. Yvonne waits with me in his large, light-filled study room full of German books. Yvonne explains her boss's conviction that one can only really think clearly in German.
Finally, a diminutive Egyptian man with sparkling eyes enters the room, his sprightliness belying his almost 70 years and the heart attack he has survived. Dr. Abouleish tells me that he became familiar with anthroposophy from reading Rudolf Steiner's book "The Philosophy of Freedom," a difficult work which he rereads frequently, each time gleaning new insights. Anthroposophy is by no means irreconcilable with his faith. After all, one is philosophy and the other, religion.
On the contrary, he only really came to understand Islam after discovering anthroposophy; much of what the Koran contains coincides with Steiner's view of the world. But this alone is not the main thing for Dr. Abouleish: what counts is to take these well-founded ideas and to make something out of them! Whoever thinks that the Muslims in Sekem are being led astray from right belief, is welcome to speak with the workers and see for himself that the opposite is true. With this strategy, the Doctor has never failed to prove his point.
Love for Egypt, admiration for Europe
His love for his Egyptian fatherland on the one hand and his admiration for European efficiency and accuracy on the other – has he always been able to integrate these two sides of himself, or does he sometimes feel torn? Dr. Abouleish smiles knowingly. The Egyptian and European inside him neither battle each other, nor do they shake hands in reconciliation. Out of the two, something new has emerged, as he demonstrates by stretching his arms wide. "Sekem," says Yvonne.
Time is short, so we proceed in a cream-colored Mercedes S-Class to the Thursday general school assembly. It starts off with a beautiful and moving Koran recitation from the Ibrahim Sura, followed by a gypsy dance by Wilhelm Topp, performed by the Sekem strings and flute ensemble – accompanied by the Muslim music teacher on the triangle.
Then questions are asked, for example, on the problem of unemployment or the advantages of ecological farming. Dr. Abouleish chooses a few questions and answers them. At the end, he shakes hands with each one of the pupils, greeting them by name. Ibrahim Abouleish knows the name of each and every pupil and worker at Sekem!
Stefanie Gsell
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Curtains for the Veil on TV
The wearing of the headscarf is not only a controversial issue in the West. A number of women television presenters in Egypt have been banned from the screens of the public broadcaster because of their decision to wear the hijab. Nelly Youssouf reports
First Egyptian Woman to Be Village Mayor
"Weren't There Any Men Left?"
Suheir Ismail is the first woman to hold the office of Sheikh al-Balad, the mayor of an Egyptian village. She helps the villagers solve everyday problems. Nelly Youssef visited the "Sheihka" in the village of al-Barda'a
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More Rights for Women in Egypt and Morocco
Newly instated family courts in Egypt and Morocco are intended to resolve conflicts between married couples, preferably by reaching a mutual agreement between the spouses. Nelly Youssef reports
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The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will look into Brexit and asylum policy on 27 January 2020. A report of the House of Lords' EU Affairs Committee on Brexit, refugee protection and asylum policy will be discussed, as will the issue of post-Brexit family reunification. The Commission will provide explanations to the Committee on a written question regarding the preparedness of a no-deal Brexit concerning family reunification under the Dublin III Regulation.
The Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs and on Employment and Social Affairs will hold an Economic Dialogue on the 2020 European Semester, on 27 January 2020. The meeting will kick off this year's European Semester of coordination of economic and employment policies. Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for An Economy that Works for People, Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy, and Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, will participate.
The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will go over the prospects and challenges for the upcoming 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference with UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu. The debate will take place on 27 January 2020, and will feed into the ongoing consideration of a Parliament Recommendation on the 2020 NPT Review conference, and a report on the future of the multilateral arms control and disarmament regimes.
The negotiating team of the Committee on Budgets will go to Zagreb to hold discussions with the Croatian Presidency on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 and Own Resources (OR), on 27 January 2020. The objective of the meetings with various Croatian Ministers and Members of Parliament are to discuss the state-of-play on the MFF/OR negotiations and the positions of the European Parliament and of the Member States on these files.
Redovni zakonodavni postupak uobičajeni je postupak donošenja zakonodavstva na razini Europske unije.
Ocjenjivanje znanstvenih i tehnoloških odabira za Europski parlament
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In a move designed to internalize upper management, the Recreation Dealers Cooperative Association, or REDEX, today (March 11) announced the naming of John Mancinelli to executive director, replacing Ron Wheeler.
Wheeler, who had headed REDEX for over 10 years, is also president of Wheeler Advertising, based in Arlington, Texas. Paul Skogebo, REDEX founder and chairman, told RVBusiness that Mancinelli's promotion was a natural progression for the national buying cooperative which became member-owned in January 2008.
"Ron's contract was up at the end of February," said Skogebo, owner of Robert Crist & Co. RV, Mesa, Ariz. "He was in charge of an agency and had other accounts. We decided to place one of our own people in the position.
"It was a very amicable parting," he added. "There wasn't any animosity. Ron and John have worked closely together and there will be a seamless transition to the industry and our dealer-owned organization."
"It was not an easy decision to make," said Wheeler in a press release. "It just felt like it was best for everyone. John and I have worked very hard in the last 17 months to get REDEX in a great position. This gives me time to focus more on our core business."
REDEX hired Mancinelli in November 2007 to direct REDEX's day-to-day operations and oversee the development of new programs and memberships. As part of the move, REDEX will be moving its home offices to Bowling Green, Ky., while also hiring Hardee McAlhaney, a former independent contractor for Wheeler Advertising, as financial consultant,
REDEX is a buying cooperative with 52 members, representing more than 100 dealership locations.


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We witness the final day of Bommel, a creature that looks like a fuzzy egg and lives with Kristen Bell in Mar Vista, California.
Yeasayer was previously here with Wait for the Summer. Madder Red is the third single from their album Odd Blood released on February 2010 for Secretly Canadian.
The music video has been produced at Streetgang and directed by Andreas Nilsson, recently here with Röyksopp's Adventures in Barbieland.
Director of photography: Stöps Langensteiner. Editor: Aaron Morris at Rock Paper Scissors. Special effects: Don Lanning and Ryan Thompson.Also tagged Andreas Nilsson, blood, car, clouds, crying, dogs, drink, feet, heart, hospital, morning rituals, Ntropic, phone, Rock Paper Scissors, Streetgang, tears, Yeasayer


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thegreatgwin needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Word Logo needed for Homeolinks Publishers who publish Homeopathic Medical books, based in Holland.
Ideal would be to have a Dutch (nature/windmills) skyline blend into the head.
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The skyline could be a graphic or even a photo.
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The menu is not needed (as will be written in CSS), just the Homelinks Publishers wording and skyline.
Here is an example of the type of skyline: http://www.arhf.nl/homeolinks/panorama2.jpg
One idea is to incorporate a silhouette skyline.
Keen on having an earth globe in there somewhere if possible.
Ideas most appreciated. Flexible on colours although turquoise / blues / greens are one idea.
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I'm not talking here about other tactics like taking a poll of the audience. This is all about using your audience's expert knowledge before you ever get to question and answer time.
You can stack the deck in your favor by doing some audience research: Which organizations and companies will be represented in your audience? What are the specialist roles audience members play? (In a group of communicators, are there PR and marketing and government relations specialists, for example? Among scientists, are they industry, government or academic researchers? and so on.) Then, include some examples from those organizations or specialities in your presentation...and encourage the participants with links to those examples to share more details.
This approach can net you not only instant engagement--who doesn't like to see someone else show off their work?--but extra knowledge. In this post on her keynote at a nonprofit forum on social media, consultant Beth Kanter recalls how she shared this video, a Lady Gaga takeoff promoting the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, during the talk:
She chose to put examples in her keynote from organizations she knew would be in the audience and notes that it made all the difference in engaging them--and in helping the entire group, including herself, learn more than they would otherwise:
....making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. Take for example the SFSPCA Facebook Page, a stellar example of engaging fans that David discovered for me. There was also a wonderful blog, "Litter Did You Know" and the above video about "Lady Meow Meow." But the real story was when the SFSPCA staff shared during the keynote was that these regular videos are produced by volunteers.Beth calls this a "conversational keynote," but I think it's compelling. That's a powerful fact, following a powerful video: I can imagine other audience members thinking, "Wow, they must've had some budget to pull that off," then finding out, straight from the source and not the speaker, that it was a volunteer effort. Surprise, education and engagement, all rolled into one, for the win!
I had a similar experience with a keynote on social media I did for Washington's chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, where I started the keynote with audience questions and included examples from attendees' companies in my presentation. When the talk turned to knowing whether your employees want a social network for internal communications, this Marriott communicator shared important insights, noting it's important to survey first, and thoroughly, before deciding:
That's a piece of inside information that made our discussions all the more pertinent and informed.
This takes some planning. But wouldn't you rather spend your prep time thinking of ways to surprise and delight your audience with examples featuring them, and channeling their expertise, than worrying about who's going to nail you on slide 15? Give this tactic a try and report back on your progress.
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We are looking for sessions that feature high-quality programs of study, with proven track records of success; offer strategies for successful collaboration, implementation and innovation at the classroom, district or system level; and/or provide opportunities for participants to engage in interactive and hands-on learning activities.
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