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"The news came like a clap of thunder, reverberating around the world," read the caption that accompanied this picture in the Nov. 29, 1963, issue of LIFE magazine. "In New York, at the moment she heard it, a woman recoils with universal dismay and disbelief."
Dismay. Disbelief. Two small words. Four short syllables. And yet what galaxies of emotion they encompass. All these years after President Kennedy's assassination, it's difficult for anyone who was not alive on that Friday afternoon to grasp what it felt like, what emotions were unleashed, upon first hearing news of the shooting. "The nation really did get turned inside out when Kennedy was killed," Adam Gopnik recently wrote in the New Yorker, and that deceptively simple image is as close to the reality of what happened — to men, women, kids, communities — as any that anyone is ever likely to craft. The world was not merely upended when JFK was shot; it was gutted. Transformed. Unhinged.
Pearl Harbor. The Challenger explosion. 9/11. Some moments stop time. There is before, and there is after, and the instant in between seems to last forever — because, in a very real sense, it does. The instant is relived again and again by those who witnessed it, or those who survived it. It is commemorated by subsequent generations who were not there. It is a touchstone that changes everything, and everyone.
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Craven County�s best bet to successfully grow jobs and its economy appears to be recruiting businesses of 100 employees or less and having shell buildings ready for them to quickly modify and move in, a consultant said last Thursday.
Craven County�s best bet to successfully grow jobs and its economy appears to be recruiting businesses of 100 employees or less and having shell buildings ready for them to quickly modify and move in, a consultant said last Thursday.
Kyle S. Talente, vice president of the economic planning and real estate consulting firm RKG Associates Inc., made that recommendation to about 50 other area leaders at a presentation at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center.
Havelock Commissioner Danny Walsh suggested that having shell buildings ready was a step that had been debunked in economic development philosophy not that long ago.
But Talente said his analyses of the times and place show the theory of being ready for occupants has come full circle.
The county hired RKG in January to help chart an economic development course for best short-term results. The move to hire a consultant came after the Craven County Board of Commissioners decided in 2012 to end its Economic Development Commission, which was run with Craven County Committee of 100.
Instead, commissioners put economic development under the auspices of county government, operating with a staff member reporting to the county manager and commissioners.
A steering committee of area government and business leaders led by Commissioner Jeff Taylor was selected to help guide the new process, which included putting out a request for proposals to consulting firms like RKG.
The 11-person firm, which was established in 1981, focuses on helping counties like Craven whose economy is dominantly tied to a military base and related civilian employment.
Last Thursday�s meeting gave Talente and Taylor Yewell an opportunity to update the steering committee on RKG�s work thus far. It includes analyses of the county�s economic base; non-residential real estate supply and demand; strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats faced; and of target industries.
Talente said the analyses point to various goals, including: protecting military operations; diversifying civilian employment; targeting industries matching the labor pool; enhancing workforce readiness; supporting expansion and creation of local business; improving the regulatory and financial environment; developing a common economic development vision; collaborating on implementing the plan; building the capacity to implement the plan; capturing added agriculture opportunities; and marketing the county�s story.
Among the challenges are conflicting pros and cons about economic development from some residents who like things as they are, as well as fractured coordination between local governments, he said.
Steering committee members had stressed to Talente -- as he did to area business and municipal leaders during Thursday�s evening session -- that the end result is intended as a countywide plan with all areas as equal partners.
�It is wonderful that everybody recognizes that this is a strategy to help everybody,� Talente said, adding that including representatives from all areas of the county was �a great first step.�
Other challenges he cited included the impact of federal budget cuts and sequestration on the military presence, improving primary and secondary education, preparing and retaining a highly skilled workforce and keeping those people here, and a lack of information of business incubation efforts.
Land challenges include the geographical challenges to expanding the airport�s runway, Talente said, and undefined land use in the county, although there are 46,350 acres of undeveloped land and as many as 8,350 acres that could be developed for business and industry.
The analyses found opportunities for Craven�s economic development growth come in the county�s willingness to focus on prospects.
�It�s very hard to get a prospect and very easy to lose one,� Talente said. �It is important that everyone think in lock step�and take advantage of opportunities.�
He said other opportunities come with the roadway transportation improvements, the Craven Thirty development, projected arrival of the F-35 aircraft to Cherry Point, ongoing discussions about business-friendly fee structures in New Bern, a career academy by the Board of Education and the reorganization of county economic development.
Talente said the next step would be to come back in July with a draft of implementation strategy, or what he termed �a very picturesque community� with �qualities and atmosphere that is very saleable� despite the fact that there are �big city problems in a small town.�
Dover Mayor John Percy Wetherington agreed that even his town was in that fix.
Among the questions that followed Talente�s presentation included one from Trent Woods Mayor Chuck Tyson: �Who will build the buildings�who pays?�
Talente said there are multiple answers to that, but often consortiums including power companies will invest in structures and repay themselves by selling power over time to the users.
He said, �You all have to work together; otherwise creates competition� that could produce a surplus of shell buildings.
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Many of those charged with watching other people's money saw their prestige crumble after the economic crisis of 2007-2009.
From bankers to insurance brokers to mutual fund and wealth managers, public confidence in their investing know-how nearly collapsed—leaving consumers wondering if their money was safe and secure enough to be there when they wanted it.
Some of those investing stewards are still trying to recover, including one of the more visible professions—financial planners—who, analysts say, are trying to win back the trust of investors, while fighting an already sketchy reputation.
"There's no question there's been a crisis of confidence for us since 2008," says Paul Auslander, president of the Financial Planning Association, a membership organization for financial planning experts in the United States. (More:Special Report on the first anniversary of the financial crisis.)
"With 401(k)s falling, plus the Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford scandals, clients are worried. But there's a feeling now that if we don't have consumer confidence, we have nothing," Auslander says. "We're doing a lot of watching ourselves to ensure we have a good reputation." (More: Bernie Madoffand Allen Stanford)
However, some analysts say even before the Great Recession, many financial planners and advisers—and those associated with them—were anything but reputable.
"They took a hit from the recession and I wouldn't indict an entire industry, but they don't deserve a good reputation now or before," says Jill Gross, a professor of law at Pace University and a director of the Investor Rights Clinic.
"I don't believe many financial planners provide the level of services to customers that they (customers) thought or think they should get," Gross argues. "There's a lot of dubious practices and far too much misunderstanding of what they do."
Trying to figure out what a financial planner does may be like trying to understand a stock derivative—leaving heads spinning over the many levels of service, pay and products.
For starters, almost anyone can call themselves a financial adviser and offer investment advice. There's no training or government registration required if someone simply puts out a shingle or creates a website with the words "Financial Planner" on it.
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Republicans are in full panic mode about being the party of old, white, straight, conservative men for years to come — and struggling big time with how to change things.
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Under pressure from party leaders, most Republicans have chucked the anti-gay marriage, anti-illegal immigrant hostility — at least in public — that defined the party the past three elections. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans are privately warning conservatives to put a sock in it when it comes to arguments that turn off large swaths of voters, sources tell us. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is doing the same on the House side.
But when it comes to the GOP putting people in positions of power to actually change things, it's still raining men — the same older, white, straight ones that got the party into this jam in the first place.
The returning Republican National Committee chairman is Reince Priebus, a 40-year-old white man. Former Rep. J.C. Watts, one of only 25 African-Americans in history to serve in the House as a Republican, was floated as an alternative. That is going nowhere. The two people responsible for recruiting the next crop of congressional candidates for the party are — you guessed it — middle-aged white men: Sen. Jerry Moran, 58, of Kansas and Rep. Greg Walden, 55, of Oregon.
Every House chairman elected by peers is a middle-aged or older white man. The only chairwoman, Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan, was appointed to the Administration Committee, the panel responsible for keeping the House in order. It's like a "Saturday Night Live" parody.
( Also on POLITICO: With Candice Miller appointment, woman will lead House committee after all)
The top three elected House leaders, the only ones with real juice and substantial staff, are white men, too.
Senate Republicans were doing slightly better even before Scott's appointment. The top Republicans on all but two Senate committees are white men — Lisa Murkowski on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Susan Collins on the Special Committee on Aging are the outliers. But Democrats have 16 incoming female senators — four times as many. The elected Republican Senate leadership is all male, all white.
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The party saw one of its most prominent African-American voices elevated Monday, with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's historic decision to appoint Rep. Tim Scott to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, making Scott the first African-American Republican in the Senate in three decades.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the new chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is the son of Indian immigrants. But in crude political terms, winning over Indian-Americans hardly goes to the heart of the demographic dilemma facing the GOP. That challenge centers on women, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and gays. Republicans are wanting for voters and elected officials in all five categories — and very clear-eyed about how bad things are getting.


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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., says he believes open purchase orders from the Department of Homeland Security to buy over 1 billion rounds of ammunition are part of an "intentional" effort by the Obama administration to "dry up the market" for gun-owning citizens.
"We have in this country the Second Amendment that preserves the right to keep and bear arms," Inhofe told radio host Aaron Klein, "and the president doesn't believe in that."
Inhofe was a guest on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York City's WABC station, talking about his Ammunition Management for More Obtainability – or AMMO – bill, which is designed to limit non-defense, armed federal agencies to pre-Obama levels of ammunition. The bill, S.843, has been referred to Senate committee, while a similar bill sponsored by Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., has been referred to House committee.
"President Obama has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America," Inhofe asserted. "Yet he's been voted down in a big way by a large majority, and so my feeling is that he's doing this to buy up [ammunition] so honest, law-abiding citizens here in the United States, like my son, can't even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much."
The DHS has claimed it's simply creating bulk purchase orders to save money and that 80 percent of the ammunition is used for training purposes, but Inhofe isn't buying the explanation.
"We had someone testify the other day the DHS has the 'right' – this is a bureaucrat who said this – they have the 'right' to buy as much as they want, and they're planning to buy 750 million rounds," Inhofe said. "That is more than three times the amount our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation."
"I believe it's intentional," Inhofe said of the ammunition shortages many private and local law enforcement purchasers are experiencing. "It's just another effort to restrict gun activity and ownership."
He added later, "This has never happened in this country before. We've never had government trying to take that much control at the expense of law-abiding citizens. And we're not going to let it happen."
To that end, Inhofe has proposed his AMMO bill, still without co-sponsors, in the U.S. Senate.
"It's designed to have the Government Accounting Office inventory not the Defense Department but all other departments that use weaponry," Inhofe said, "as to what they're doing in terms of the amount of ammunition they have bought to dry up the market for honest, law-abiding citizens."
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Amina Mazid is 24 when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, N.Y., for love. She has wooed — and been wooed by — George Stillman online. For Amina, George offers a chance at a new life for her and her parents, as well as a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn't play games. But each of them is hiding something — someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when Amina returns to Bangladesh that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.
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She hadn't heard the mailman, but Amina decided to go out and check. Just in case. If anyone saw her, they would know that there was someone in the house now during the day while George was at work. They would watch Amina hurrying coatless to the mailbox, still wearing her bedroom slippers, and would conclude that this was her home. She had come to stay.
The mailbox was new. She had ordered it herself with George's credit card, from mailboxes.com, and she had not chosen the cheapest one. George had said that they needed something sturdy, and so Amina had turned off the Deshi part of her brain and ordered the heavy-duty rural model, in glossy black, for $90. She had not done the conversion into taka, and when it arrived, wrapped in plastic, surrounded by Styrofoam chips, and carefully tucked into its corrugated cardboard box — a box that most Americans would simply throw away but that Amina could not help storing in the basement, in a growing pile behind George's Bowflex — she had taken pleasure in its size and solidity. She showed George the detachable red flag that you could move up or down to indicate whether you had letters for collection.
"That wasn't even in the picture," she told him. "It just came with it, free."
The old mailbox had been bashed in by thugs. The first time had been right after Amina arrived from Bangladesh, one Thursday night in March. George had left for work on Friday morning, but he hadn't gotten even as far as his car when he came back through the kitchen door, uncharacteristically furious.
"Goddamn thugs. Potheads. Smoking weed and destroying private property. And the police don't do a fucking thing."
"Thugs are here? In Pittsford?" She couldn't understand it, and that made him angrier.
"Thugs! Vandals. Hooligans — whatever you want to call them. Uneducated pieces of human garbage." Then he went down to the basement to get his tools, because you had to take the mailbox off its post and repair the damage right away. If the thugs saw that you hadn't fixed it, that was an invitation.
The flag was still raised, and when she double-checked, sticking her hand all the way into its black depths, there was only the stack of bills George had left on his way to work. The thugs did not actually steal the mail, and so her green card, which was supposed to arrive this month, would have been safe even if she could have forgotten to check. "Thugs" had a different meaning in America, and that was why she'd been confused. George had been talking about kids, troublemakers from East Rochester High, while Amina had been thinking of dacoits: bandits who haunted the highways and made it unsafe to take the bus. She had lived in Rochester six months now — long enough to know that there were no bandits on Pittsford roads at night.
American English was different from the language she'd learned at Maple Leaf International in Dhaka, but she was lucky because George corrected her and kept her from making embarrassing mistakes. Americans always went to the bathroom, never the loo. They did not live in flats or stow anything in the boot of the car, and under no circumstances did they ever pop outside to smoke a fag.
Maple Leaf was where she first learned to use the computer, and the computer was how she met George, a thirty-four-year-old SWM who was looking for a wife. George had explained to her that he had always wanted to get married. He had dated women in Rochester, but often found them silly, and had such a strong aversion to perfume that he couldn't sit across the table from a woman who was wearing it. George's cousin Kim had called him "picky," and had suggested that he might have better luck on the Internet, where he could clarify his requirements from the beginning.
George told Amina that he had been waiting for a special connection. He was a romantic, and he didn't want to compromise on just anyone. It wasn't until his colleague Ed told him that he'd met his wife, Min, on AsianEuro.com that he had thought of trying that particular site. When he had received the first e-mail from Amina, he said that he'd "had a feeling." When Amina asked what had given him the feeling, he said that she was "straightforward" and that she did not play games, unlike some women he knew. Which women were those, she had asked, but George said he was talking about women he'd known a long time ago, when he was in college.
She hadn't been testing him: she had really wanted to know, only because her own experience had been so different. She had been contacted by several men before George, and each time she'd wondered if this was the person she would marry. Once she and George had started e-mailing each other exclusively, she had wondered the same thing about him, and she'd continued wondering even after he booked the flight to Dhaka in order to meet her. She had wondered that first night when he ate with her parents at the wobbly table covered by the plasticized map of the world — which her father discreetly steadied by placing his elbow somewhere in the neighborhood of Sudan — and during the agonizing hours they had spent in the homes of their Dhaka friends and relatives, talking to each other in English while everyone sat around them and watched. It wasn't until she was actually on the plane to Washington, D.C., wearing the University of Rochester sweatshirt he'd given her, that she had finally become convinced it was going to happen.
It was the first week of September, but the leaves were already starting to turn yellow. George said that the fall was coming early, making up for the fact that last spring had been unusually warm: a gift to Amina from the year 2005 — her first in America. By the time she arrived in March most of the snow was gone, and so she had not yet experienced a real Rochester winter.
In those first weeks she had been pleased to notice that her husband had a large collection of books: biographies (Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank, Cary Grant, Mary Queen of Scots, John Lennon, and Napoleon) as well as classic novels by Charles Dickens, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen. George told Amina that he was a reader but that he couldn't understand people who waded through all of the garbage they published these days, when it was possible to spend your whole life reading books the greatness of which had already been established.
George did have some books from his childhood, when he'd been interested in fantasy novels, especially retellings of the Arthurian legend and anything to do with dragons. There was also a book his mother had given him, 1001 Facts for Kids, which he claimed had "basically got him through the stupidity of elementary school." In high school he had put away the 1001 Facts in favor of a game called Dungeons & Dragons, but there were now websites that served the same purpose, and George retained a storehouse of interesting tidbits that he periodically related to Amina.
"Did you know that there is an actual society made up of people who believe the earth is flat?"
"Did you know that one out of twenty people has an extra rib?"
"Did you know that most lipstick contains fish scales?"
For several weeks Amina had answered "No" to each of these questions, until she gradually understood that this was another colloquialism — perhaps more typical of her new husband than of the English language — simply a way of introducing a new subject that did not demand an actual response.
"Did you know that seventy percent of men and sixty percent of women admit to having been unfaithful to their spouse, but that eighty percent of men say they would marry the same woman if they had the chance to live their lives over again?"
"What do the women say?" Amina had asked, but George's website hadn't cited that statistic.
George had said that they could use the money he'd been "saving for a rainy day" for her to begin studying at Monroe Community College next year, and as soon as her green card arrived, Amina planned to start looking for a job. She wanted to contribute to the cost of her education, even if it was just a small amount. George supported the idea of her continuing her studies, but only once she had a specific goal in mind. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper. And so Amina told him that she'd always dreamed of becoming a real teacher. This was not untrue, in the sense that she had hoped her tutoring jobs at home might one day lead to a more sustained and distinguished kind of work. What she didn't mention to George was how important the U.S. college degree would be to everyone she knew at home — a tangible symbol of what she had accomplished halfway across the world.
She was standing at the sink, chopping eggplant for dinner, when she saw their neighbor Annie Snyder coming up Skytop Lane, pushing an infant in a stroller and talking to her little boy, Lawson, who was pedaling a low plastic bike. The garish colors and balloon-like shapes of that toy reminded Amina of a commercial she had seen on TV soon after she'd arrived in Rochester, in which real people were eating breakfast in a cartoon house. Annie had introduced herself when Amina had moved in and invited her out for coffee. Then she'd asked if Amina had any babysitting experience, because she was always looking for someone to watch the kids for an hour or two while she did the shopping or went to the gym.
She asks that because you're from someplace else, George had said. She sees brown skin and all she can think of is housecleaning or babysitting. He told her she was welcome to go to Starbucks with Annie, but under no circumstances was she to take care of Annie's children, even for an hour. Amina was desperate to find a job, but secretly she was glad of George's prohibition. American babies made her nervous, the way they traveled in their padded strollers, wrapped up in blankets like precious goods from UPS.
She had never worried about motherhood before, since she'd always known she would have her own mother to help her. When she and George had become serious, Amina and her parents had decided that she would do everything she could to bring them to America with her. Only once they'd arrived did she want to have her first child. They'd talked their plan through again and again at home, researching the green card and citizenship requirements — determining that if all went well, it would be three years from the time she arrived before her parents could hope to join her. Just before she left, her cousin Ghaniyah had shown her an article in Femina called "After the Honeymoon," which said that a couple remained newlyweds for a year and a day after marriage. In her case, Amina thought, the newlywed period would last three times that long, because she wouldn't feel truly settled until her parents had arrived.
In spite of all the preparation, there was something surprising about actually finding herself in Rochester, waiting for a green card in the mail. The sight of Annie squatting down and retrieving something from the netting underneath the stroller reminded her that she had been here six months already and had not yet found an opportunity to discuss her thoughts about children or her parents' emigration with George.
From The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger. Copyright 2012 by Nell Freudenberger. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.


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Part A: Observe, See the Standard in Action
The first part of the session, Observe, is designed to let you observe the process standard in action. In this part you will view examples of student work, observe classrooms through streaming video, and record your own work in a journal. The material in this part is generally based on one aspect of a subject area and a related age-range-appropriate mathematics problem.
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Student Work and Discussion
In this feature you will be able to observe hypothetical examples of student work for your grade band. You will be presented with a problem, shown how students worked on the problem, and asked to consider questions the teacher may ask students and ways they might answer.
For example, in Session 4, Reasoning and Proof, you will be introduced to students and teachers working with a number problem. In particular, they are finding patterns that occur when numbers are added to themselves or multiplied by themselves. They are writing and talking about their results. Here is a sample illustration.
Observe Classroom
Another feature of this part is the Observe a Classroom interactive activity. This is a viewer that allows you to focus on specific aspects of a featured video depicting students and a teacher working on the problem in a regular classroom setting. There are annotations that help focus attention on the process standard under consideration. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the sample screen below for this activity; it is a tool that will be used in each session. Note that these activities will require the Flash Player plug-in, version 5 or later, as noted earlier in this session.
Streaming Video
Another feature of the Observe part is streaming video. In conjunction with student work and the Observe a Classroom interactive activity, you will view streaming video and reflect on questions related to the material. All of the videos require the Windows Media Player plug-in, as noted earlier in this session. The videos will play in a popup window like the one below.
At the end of each part of the course, you will have an opportunity to think about and record your observations and thoughts. Completing the journal is an important part of your learning, because it will allow you to reflect on what you've just observed and relate it to your own practice. The journal will accumulate as you work through each course session and will be useful for self-evaluation. Please note that students taking this course for credit in conjunction with Colorado State University must be prepared to present the journals as well as a term paper for evaluation.
There are several different ways you may complete the journal: using pen and paper, using a word-processing program, such as Microsoft Word, or by using the Web-based form we provide and printing your entries. Whichever format you choose, keep track of your entries and organize them into a notebook or computer folder for reference. After you have completed the course, we hope you will find these materials of use for continuing review and professional development.
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James Cameron dives 7 miles into Mariana Trench
(AP) HONOLULU - Hollywood director James Cameron dove to the Earth's deepest point in a specially designed submarine, the National Geographic Society said, making him the first man to travel alone on the near 7-mile journey to the depths of the Mariana Trench.
The director of "Titanic," "Avatar" and other films touched down in the western Pacific Ocean's low point shortly before 8 a.m. local time Monday (Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast), the Geographic said.
He reached a depth of 35,756 feet and stayed on the bottom for about three hours before he began his return to the surface, according to information provided by the expedition team. He had planned to spend up to six hours on the sea floor.
"Cameron collected samples for research in marine biology, microbiology, astrobiology, marine geology and geophysics," the Geographic said.
He also spent time filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.
James Cameron reaches record 7-mile ocean depth
James Cameron to dive to ocean's deepest point
Deepsea Challenge (Official project website)
The trip to the deepest point took two hours and 36 minutes. But Cameron's return aboard his 12-ton, lime-green sub called Deepsea Challenger was a "faster-than-expected 70-minute ascent," according to National Geographic. A helicopter spotted the submersible bobbing in the water and it was brought aboard the ship by a crane.
There were no immediate reports regarding Cameron's well-being. A medical team was present when Cameron, 57, emerged from the sub, according to the expedition.
Expedition physician Joe MacInnis told National Geographic News before the journey that recent test dives, including one that went more than five miles deep, had gone well and that he expected Cameron would be fine.
"Jim is going to be a little bit stiff and sore from the cramped position, but he's in really good shape for his age, so I don't expect any problems at all," said MacInnis, a long-time friend of Cameron's, according to National Geographic.
Cameron also captured still photographs and video, but there was no immediate word on when the images will be released. The Geographic said the expedition is being chronicled for a 3-D feature film for theatrical release and subsequent TV broadcast.
"There is scientific value in getting stereo images because ... you can determine the scale and distance of objects from stereo pairs that you can't from 2-D images," Cameron told the Geographic before the dive.
The scale of the trench is hard to grasp it's 120 times larger than the Grand Canyon and more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
"It's really the first time that human eyes have had an opportunity to gaze upon what is a very alien landscape," said Terry Garcia, the National Geographic Society's executive VP for mission programs, via phone from Scotland.
Among the 2.5-story-tall sub's tools were a sediment sampler, a robotic claw, a "slurp gun" for sucking up small seacreatures for study at the surface, and temperature, salinity, and pressure gauges.
Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, a U.S. Navy captain, are the only others to reach the spot. They spent about 20 minutes there during their 1960 dive but couldn't see much after their sub kicked up sand from the sea floor.
One of the risks of a dive so deep was extreme water pressure. At 6.8 miles below the surface, the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.
Cameron told The Associated Press in an interview after a 5.1 mile-deep practice run near Papua New Guinea earlier this month that the pressure "is in the back of your mind." The submarine would implode in an instant if it leaked, he said.
But while he was a little apprehensive beforehand, he wasn't scared or nervous while underwater.
"When you are actually on the dive you have to trust the engineering was done right," he said.
The film director has been an oceanography enthusiast since childhood and has made 72 deep-sea submersible dives. Thirty-three of those dives have been to the wreckage of the Titanic, the subject of his 1997 hit film, which is being released in a 3-D version next month.


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Kurama is in Kyoto prefecture, Japan.
The small, quiet village of Kurama lies a short distance north from Kyoto. Tourists come to Kurama mostly because of the onsen (Japanese natural hot spring), which is the closest one from the popular tourist destination of Kyoto. The buddhist temple of Kurama-dera will also draw some attention from the visitors. Kurama will make a good daytrip destination from Kyoto - you will have time to visit both the onsen and the temple easily during one day.
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Kurama is connected to Kyoto with Eizan Railway. Trip from Kyoto's Demachi-Yanagi station costs ¥410 and takes a little more than half an hour. Some like to stop one station earlier at Kibune and walk to Kurama along a beautiful hiking trail, which passes the buddhist temple of Kurama. The train will pass some quite beautiful scenery before arriving at Kurama, so get a window seat and keep your eyes open in the train.
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Kurama is a rather small rural village, you can reach most of the interesting sights by foot.
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Justin Bieber Donates $545,000 to AIDS Charity
After a string of bad publicity stories, Justin Bieber was once again making headlines for shocking behavior Thursday night. This time, however, it was because of his extremely generous act of goodwill that has people buzzing. TMZ reports that the teen heartthrob donated $545,000 for AIDS research at amfAR's 21st Cinema Against AIDS Gala.
The event, which was hosted by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, took place during the Cannes Film Festival in France and attracted Hollywood's elite, such as Sharon Stone, John Travolta, Leonardo DiCaprio and Heidi Klum.
A wealthy patron donated $545,000 to the foundation at the event and TMZ has learned that Bieber quietly offered to match that. This reportedly stunned the crowd and when Bieber was asked if he was sure, he said yes! At the end of the evening, $51 million dollars was raised in total towards funding AIDS research.
It's great to see Bieber making headlines for something other than getting in trouble. The 20-year-old pop star has been making waves for a wide range of incidents, including being accused of stealing a cell phone, fighting with the drummer of The Black Keys and getting written up for vandalizing a neighbor's house.


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ELVAM aims to propose a package allowing amateur artists to practice video mapping.
The video mapping has been around for 7 years, however, existing solutions are exclusively reserved for graphics professionals and 3D animation because they are relatively expensive.
The mapping consists of projecting video, and 3D surfaces using a video projector, light rays, synchronized with music. Our pack is composed of a video projector, an external controller, a sound card and our software HeavyM. This software manages the audio analysis and extract the main components of music. These components are then sent to the "video renderer" that can associate them with different effects such as segmentation of faces, color change, rotation opposite edges of ignition. The artist can interact in real time and at any time during the delivery, with the software to change the effects.
We decided to develop our project as open source to give users the possibility to improve HeavyM adding effects for example. In addition, we stand out from existing video mapping by providing a cheap solution.


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Medicine & Healthcare in China by Elizabeth Huang
I used to live in Shanghai when I was in school and it has been at least a decade since I've been back home (if I can even call it home anymore). I knew that Shanghai would be more developed now than when I had left it years ago and I really wanted to experience a different Shanghai to what I remembered, especially at my placement.
My Medical Placement in Shanghai
Since I am a pre-med student, I decided to choose a placement in a hospital and I was happy that I was placed in one of Shanghai's top teaching hospitals, Renji. I chose to stay in Shanghai for two months because I wanted to fully experience living in Shanghai and not just have a short holiday (which I had during the break).
Although the work day started early, it was really worthwhile to wake up each morning and follow the doctors for morning rounds. I then participated in the outpatient hours with them and for some departments, watching operations in the surgical rooms. I interned in four hospital departments: thoracic, orthopaedics, gastro-enterology and emergency medicine. They were all memorable and if one of these departments is one you'd like to go into, you definitely won't be disappointed with your experience in Shanghai.
For me, the language was not a problem and I had no problem with communication during my stay. All of the hospital staff are welcoming and pleasant, and they are willing to spend time discussing patients' conditions and medical histories. Learning about a patient's condition and medical history is hugely beneficial though, as I learned how he or she was treated and what course of treatment was given.
During my gastro-enterology rotation, I got to help fill in paperwork for the residents, which was exciting. It was wonderful to meet and become friends with so many people there and fortunately, I am still able to keep in contact with them through WeChat.
Accommodation and Staff Support
I was excited about the accommodation when I first signed up for this project. I have never lived on my own and I was looking forward to experiencing life like other Shanghainese citizens, so living in an average apartment in Shanghai was like a dream come true. The apartment (located in Pudong) was comfortable and lovely, and accommodated five volunteers.
It was close to my placement so I could walk to work every morning (this was a great workout – you will certainly be leaving Shanghai with strengthened calf muscles!). In most bathrooms in China, you are not allowed to flush toilet paper, and even though I found this tedious to do sometimes, I liked knowing that I was not staying in a five-star hotel. I was also pleasantly surprised when the flat was equipped with its own drinking water.
There is normally a weekly social for all the volunteers and we got to go try out Chinese restaurants as a group, which was fun. There is nothing to be afraid of when living in Shanghai as a volunteer because the Projects Abroad coordinators were always there to help out whenever we called or messaged them – especially when the flat had no hot water or the door knob of the main door fell off!
Exploring Shanghai
Being someone who's partially Shanghainese and has lived in Shanghai for 5 years, I didn't really think I'd take the time to go and explore Shanghai because, honestly, I've been to a lot of the places. However, Shanghai is always changing and growing constantly because it is already incredibly different from 10 years ago. It may even be different from what it was last year.
On the weekends, myself and the other volunteers staying at the apartment often went out to eat (Sichuan, authentic Shanghainese, and a Japanese all-you-can-eat buffet), got massages from a famous blind foot massage parlour, sang at karaoke, or visited museums and scenic places. For the last few days of my stay, I also went with several other volunteers to "cheap market" street where they sell low-priced items. This is an iconic place to go, especially for bargaining, and it's a lot of fun.
I also managed to make local friends in Shanghai and I hung out with them a couple of times on my days off. They are so welcoming and I really felt like I was experiencing daily Shanghainese life. Regrettably, I didn't travel to cities outside of Shanghai but I think I can leave that for the next time I go back!
Elizabeth Huang
Ce témoignage est basé sur l'expérience unique d'un volontaire à un certain moment donné. Nos projets s'adaptent constamment aux besoins locaux, ils évoluent au fur et à mesure que des volontaires s'impliquent et s'adaptent aux saisons, ainsi votre expérience sur place pourra être différente de celle décrite ici. Pour en savoir plus sur cette mission, vous pouvez consulter la page de ce projet ou bien contacter l'un de nos conseillers de volontaires.


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Tabor Hills Independent Living Community
|Our Independent Living Community offers 104 homes for active adults 55 and over. The homes are set into six cul-de-sacs creating a warm and friendly neighborhood. Our two or four-plex units offer a variety of sizes and styles.
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Weather permitting, the society meets at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family -- and they are now due for 2013 as well!
For those who believe they have early La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!), July 31, 2013 is the deadline to apply for one or more residency certificates. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/categories.htm has information . There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.


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Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship for Teacher-Training
Japanese Government Scholarship – Teacher Training has opened for application. To date, some 92,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship program established in 1954. As of May 1, 2011, there were 9,396 foreign students studying in Japan as Japanese government scholarship students.
(A) Application Period: January ~ February every year
(B) Application Due Date for Academic Year 2013: 12 March 2013
(C) Overview: ( English / Chinese )
(D) Press Release: ( English / Bahasa Malaysia / Chinese )
(E) Application Guidelines & Forms / Course Guidebook: Guidelines & Forms / Course Guidebook
** Please visit Public Service Department of Malaysia website for full set of application forms and requirements in details.
(F) Application Process:
|January ~ February
|Submit application form to the Public Service Department of Malaysia by due date.
|Interview. Only successful candidates will be notified to attend the interview.
|Notification of final result.
|Depart to Japan.
|Late submissions will not be entertained no matter what reasons are given.
|Applications without sufficient documents (stated in the guidelines) will not be considered.
|Submitted application forms and documents will not be returned, whatever reasons given.
|The decision on successful candidates made by the Embassy of Japan is final. Any queries on the final decision will not be entertained.
Malaysia Scholarship Tips
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To most Beijingers, the receipt the attendant gives them for the six cents paid to use the public toilets in the subway is a worthless piece of scrap, quickly crumpled up and thrown away.
To Hao Jinsong, that piece of paper is a seed of Chinese democracy.
It took the 35-year-old law scholar a court battle to force the subway authorities to issue the legally required receipt, and he still treasures the one he sued for. But the chit itself, he says, is not important.
"Behind this receipt is a law that gives people the right to ask for one," he explains. "If nobody respects the dignity of the law, everybody loses his own dignity. If today you lose your right to a receipt, tomorrow you may lose your right to your land, your house, your freedom, and even your life."
Hyperbole? In a country where the rule of law is very much a work in progress, and where the ruling Communist Party routinely dictates judges' verdicts in sensitive cases, Mr. Hao's passionate faith in the law might seem naive.
But it is the very weakness of the rule of law in China that inspires his crusade, he says. If "people don't use legal recourse to defend themselves because they think it's useless ... the law grows even weaker," he argues.
"When ... people use the law as naturally as they use chopsticks, China will be close to democracy," he adds.
Hao is a pioneer of public interest lawsuits, a growing trend in a country where they were unknown, or dismissed by judges out of hand, only a few years ago.
He and a swelling band of lawyers like him have attracted less international attention than legal activists whose efforts to defend human rights have earned them beatings, house arrest or jail terms.
But they are achieving prominence in China, and winning plaudits from their peers. "We need someone to stand up and challenge shortcomings of institutions," says Wu Ge, a law professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
Hao is best known for lawsuits he has brought against the powerful Ministry of Railroads, challenging its refusal to give tax receipts for goods bought on trains, and its ticket pricing policy.
He won the receipt case, on his third attempt, earning the government $2.7 million a year in tax revenue from the railroads. And though he lost two court battles to stop the railroad management raising ticket prices during the Spring Festival, when 150 million Chinese go home for the holidays, his campaign attracted wide public support. Management bowed to the pressure, and has left holiday ticket prices untouched for the past two years.
That, says Yiyi Lu, a researcher at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London who has written a study of public interest lawsuits in China, is an example of how "you don't need to win the case to win the cause."
Key to such victories has been media coverage and the public debate it provokes. Though Chinese newspapers don't dare report court cases involving political dissidents, many of them – including the Communist Party's mouthpiece the People's Daily – have written approvingly about Hao's cases.
This would not happen if Hao confronted the government head on over issues such as free speech. Instead, he deliberately restricts himself to less political cases, holding the government's feet to the fire on a goal it has publicly set itself – the rule of law.
"I would like to say the government and I are going forward together," he explains. "I don't want to strip the government of its power, but to curb it."
Achieving that goal starts with citizens knowing their rights and defending them in court if need be, Hao says. "Ordinary people have to change into independent- minded citizens before China will be strong," he argues.
Even independent-minded citizens, however, could be forgiven for steering clear of political action when they see what happens to the few who publicly demand an end to one-party rule in China.
A proponent of gradual change, Hao insists that democracy can only be won "at the right pace.
"It's like a running track," he says. "A few of the elite are leading the pack, but if ordinary people see that the track leads to jail they won't dare to get on it. My way is a way ordinary people can imitate" by going to court to defend their rights as consumers.
"When they realize they have rights," Hao hopes, "they will call for other rights, like freedom of speech or publication, later."
Fewer than 20 percent of Chinese public-interest lawsuits end in even partial success for the plaintiffs, according to a 2006 study by legal scholar Huang Jinrong. But that does not daunt Hao.
The public attention that such cases attract raises public awareness of the uses of the law, he says, and with each case "we change officials' attitudes."
Li Heping, a lawyer whose human rights work has earned him a round-the-clock police shadow and who was kidnapped and beaten up last year, also believes the sort of work Hao and his colleagues do is helping to change China.
"Each bit of progress has to be made step by step," he says. "It takes a lot of people working from different perspectives."
Hao is currently engaged in a suit against the National Forestry Agency, which he accuses of refusing to investigate a false claim by the Shaanxi provincial authorities that a South China tiger, thought to be extinct, had been photographed. The incident drew massive interest on the Chinese Internet, and widespread criticism of the authorities for trying to create a lucrative tourist attraction out of a faked photograph.
The lawsuit, Hao says, is designed "to show people that the government does not have the right to say whatever it likes. The government cannot lie, and ordinary people have the right to unmask the government's lies."
Such cases may not shake the world, but "they have a cumulative effect," says Dr. Lu. "When lots of people bring them, they contribute to positive change."
"Today I am just a butterfly flapping my wings in the Beijing sky," says Hao. "But in 20 years there will be a storm in the whole country."


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In light of the recent election of Pope Francis, a native Spanish speaker and the first of his position to hail from the Americas, we thought an excerpt on Catholicism among those in the United States with origins in Latin America would pique your interest.
FACT: "Catholics comprise the largest religious group in the United States, encompassing nearly a fourth of all U.S. residents. Hispanics constitute more than a third of U.S. Catholics. They are the reason why Catholicism is holding its own relative to other religions in the United States. According to researchers of the American Religious Identification Survey, without the ever-growing number of Latinos in this country, the U.S. Catholic population would be declining at a rate similar to mainline Protestant groups. And given the relative youthfulness of the Latino community, Hispanic Catholics will continue to represent an increasing percentage of U.S. Catholics over time. They already comprise more than half of U.S. Catholics under the age of twenty-five and more than three-fourths of Catholics under eighteen in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Robert Putnam and David Campbell succinctly sum up these demographics in their much-discussed 2010 study about the state of American religion, avowing that the Catholic Church in the United States 'is on its way to becoming a majority-Latino institution.'"
—Timothy Matovina in Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church
Read chapter one here: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9545.pdf
Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on such concerns as church reform, social issues, and sexual ethics have dominated public debates. Latino Catholicism provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the important ways the U.S. Catholic Church, its evolving Latino majority, and American culture are mutually transforming one another.
Timothy Matovina assesses how Latinos' attempts to celebrate their faith and bring it to bear on the everyday realities of their lives have shaped parishes, apostolic movements, leadership, ministries, worship, voting patterns, social activism, and much more. At the same time, the lives and faith of Latino Catholics are being dramatically refashioned through the multiple pressures of assimilation, the upsurge of Pentecostal and evangelical religion, other types of religious pluralism, growing secularization, and ongoing controversies over immigration and clergy sexual abuse. Going beyond the widely noted divide between progressive and conservative Catholics, Matovina shows how U.S. Catholicism is being shaped by the rise of a largely working-class Latino population in a church whose leadership at all levels is still predominantly Euro-American and middle class.
Latino Catholicism highlights the vital contributions of Latinos to American religious and social life, demonstrating in particular how their engagement with the U.S. cultural milieu is the most significant factor behind their ecclesial and societal impact.


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Inspired by Bit by Bit from designer Laurie Simpson of Minick and Simpson
Wrap a tape measure around your handle to determine its circumference. If your handle is bigger than 1-3⁄4", add the difference to the top straight portion of the Bag Body Pattern (leave the Bag Lining Pattern as is). Depending on how much you add to the pattern top, you may need more fabric for the bag body.
2—18x22" pieces (fat quarters) multicolor stripe (bag body)
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2⁄3 yard muslin
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'Today Show' host Savannah Guthrie gives birth to baby girl
Congrats are in order for Savannah Guthrie! The 'Today Show' co-host gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Aug. 13! Savannah Guthrie, 42, is officially a mom! Savannah and husband Michael Feldman welcomed daughter,Vale Guthrie Feldman, on Aug. 13. We're so happy for the couple and their new bundle of joy! Savannah's little one is already just like mom! Vale Guthrie Feldman was born early on Aug. 13, according to Savannah's Twitter. The 'Today Show' co-host tweeted, "My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter..."
Vale weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz., and measured 19.5 inches long. Savannah's bundle of joy "has blue eyes, a little bit of blondish hair and the chubbiest cheeks you've ever seen," the 'Today Show' co-host said, according to TODAY.com. "I think we found heaven in this little hospital room in New York City."
Savannah's co-anchor, Matt Lauer,revealed how he found out about the birth on the Aug. 14 show. The two were texting throughout the day on Aug. 13 and then she went silent for a few hours. When Matt texted her back, Savannah sent him a picture of the Vale's tiny foot. So cute!
Once the news broke, the 'Today Show' family and fans began using the #CongratsSavannah hashtag to congratulate the co-host. Savannah first announced her pregnancy on March 17 at her surprise nuptials in Tucson, Arizona. Savannah proudly displayed her 5-month baby bump while on her "honeybabymoon." We are so happy for Savannah and Michael! Vale is simply beautiful!
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Man Doesn't Notice He Shot a Nail Into His Skull
We've all left a bathroom without realizing we have a piece of toilet paper stuck to our shoe. Dante Autullo of Orland Park, Illinois took that type of embarrassing lack of recognition to an absurd extreme when he left a project he was working on in his garage without realizing he had a nail stuck in his skull.
Autullo was working on ladder when he slipped and his nail gun bumped against his head. He didn't think much of it — even texting his fiance a picture of a small scratch on his scalp, which he believed came from the force of the gun hitting his head. He went about his business for about a day, before waking up nauseous from a nap and deciding he needed to go to the hospital.
It was there that this gem of an x-ray was taken. It's really not as bad is it looks — the nail lodged into Autullo's skull is just under the skin, and didn't penetrate toward the middle of brain as it appears in the image.
Surgeons were able to remove the nail by drilling two small holes in his skull. Autollo is expected to make a full recovery with no long-term ill-effects.
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AT&T Inc.'s Board of Directors today authorized the repurchase of up to 300 million additional shares, representing approximately 5 percent of AT&T shares outstanding, with no expiration date. This authorization is in addition to the 300 million share repurchase authorization approved by the Board of Directors in December 2010.
"This action allows us to continue returning cash to our shareholders through dividends and buybacks while maintaining a strong balance sheet and investing in the future of our business," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and chief executive officer.
Under the December 2010 authorization, AT&T had repurchased 143.5 million of its shares for about $4.6 billion through June 30, 2012. Including dividends, the company returned nearly $10 billion to shareholders in the first half of 2012.


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Anquet maps have been around for a good long while and version 6 of their software is more robust and fully featured than other, earlier incarnations that we've tried. Interaction with a Windows-based smartphone or PDA is simple and the prices are getting more appealing too. The interface can still be a bit slow and clunky at times though.
I had the South West disc to test which comes with a big swathe of mapping and costs just £12.68 - all of Anquet's prices have fallen in the last few months, partly I'm guessing in response to the Ordnance Survey making mapping usage free in many circumstances. You can also buy maps on demand by creating an account at the Anquet website, but unlike the Memory Maps service where you can buy a certain amount of mapping and download bits you need until you're out of credit, the Anquet service is a single-transaction affair with a miniumum charge of £10 and it's much less versatile. Having said that, you can get 20,000 square kilometres of Landranger mapping for your tenner, which is a big old chunk.
The desktop application is PC-only and runs on Microsoft's .NET framework. There's all the functionality you've come to expect, with the option to create routes (you can keep multiple databases of them if being tidy is your thing) and you can even add photos or documents to your waypoints. There's a 3D flythrough option, elevation profiles, route cards (although as usual these aren't much use in real life) and route stats.
You can print your mapping to take with you, but most people will be wanting to upload maps and routes to a PDA or smartphone. I got into a pickle for a while here because Anquet's idea of what constitutes a 'PDA' and what a 'smartphone' is differs wildly from my own, but we got there in the end with a bit of help from tech support. Setting up the GPS in the two phones I tried the software on (a Samsung i900 and an old Mio A701) was the usual ordeal, but in the end everything worked fine. Scrolling I found to be a little slow on both phones but the app is pretty stable and allows you to track routes and fire them back to the desktop app.
So with so many free mapping solutions available, why would you pay for one? Well, mostly because it gives you a fully-featured solution with less faffing than is necessary to set up a free service, and also the maps are stored locally so you're not dependent on a phone signal; all the free apps I've tried download the map tiles when they're needed. Also, twelve quid is peanuts. If you give it a go and you don't like it, you're not going to starve. The main competition here is Memory Map, and although I'd have to say I think the Memory map interface is a bit better and the mobile application faster, it's a lot more expensive to buy the maps and their license management system is a bit of a pain. Who wins? I'm not sure there is a winner, but the Anquet system is certainly worth a punt if mobile mapping is something you want to get into.
Not without its flaws, but a fully featured and cheap way of getting maps on the go
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Anquet Maps v06 Software and OS mapping (South West)
Size tested: n/a
Did you enjoy using the product? Other mapping softward is easier to use but Anquet is good value
Would you consider buying the product? For twelve quid you're not risking much
Would you recommend the product to a friend? yes
About the tester
Age: 37 Height: 190cm Weight: 96kg
I usually ride: whatever I\\\'m testing... My best bike is: Genesis Equilibrium with Ultegra 6700
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling, track
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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Yesterday, Governor Pat McCrory's DHHS Secretary, Aldona Wos, unveiled the administration's long-awaited reform plan for Medicaid. One of McCrory's favorite talking points on Medicaid has been how "broken" the system is and how he's going to "fix" it. Setting aside the past year of missteps in which McCrory and Wos did more than any Governor and Secretary in history to discredit and cause problems for NC's award-winning Medicaid program, what does the administration's plan yesterday tell us about the future prospects of Medicaid and health care for the poor in NC? Here's my take:
1. Surrender: The Governor completely surrendered by backing down from his former big plans to sell off substantial parts of the Medicaid program to private, out-of-state insurance companies. The proposal yesterday to use "Accountable Care Organizations" or ACOs is simply, at its core, a new way to pay existing or new networks of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. Paying health providers as a group for each illness a patient gets rather than piecemeal for every test and procedure is supposed to get providers focused on quality and efficiency, especially when payments go up if patients are healthier. ACOs represent gradual evolution in health care and not "major reform."
2. Missing the boat on Medicaid expansion: The Governor also made it clear that he has no intention of solving the coverage gap for the 500,000 poor North Carolina citizens who would be eligible for Medicaid coverage if he led the charge to expand Medicaid using the billions of dollars in federal money available to our state. Conservative governors and legislators around the country – whether in New Hampshire or Utah – are coming up with innovative solutions to cover their citizens with all the new federal money available. By leaving an expansion proposal out of his plans to change Medicaid, our Governor is renouncing any claim to national moderate leadership on this issue, leaving billions of federal tax dollars collected from North Carolinians to go to states that do expand and hurting hundreds of thousands of his own constituents.
3. Taken to the woodshed by the politics and the policy: Ultimately, some items that McCrory and Wos didn't count on in their headlong Medicaid privatization rush to join an ideological gravy train ended up being enough to stop them short. First, and most obviously, with the majority of doctors and hospitals participating (and helping run) our current homegrown Medicaid managed care program, NC Community Care, it's pretty hard to tell all these powerful interests that you are going to dismantle what has been in place for years. This is especially true when huge supporters of NC Community Care include hometown pediatric and family medicine practices and local hospitals, both very politically influential because of their local connections and respect in the community. Second, their privatization ideology blinded McCrory and Wos to a plain fact: Medicaid works, and works well in North Carolina. The General Assembly's own Fiscal Research staff presented information to the DHHS Medicaid commission showing that North Carolina per capita spending on Medicaid has declined 11% since 2008. This is unprecedented and has to be the best record in the country. Over the same period national per capita spending on Medicaid increased by 6%. Providers and patients are also happy with the program. Eventually, facts matter and they mattered here.
4. No son, you've been a little too reckless for me to give you the car keys: Finally, this important point: After a year in which McCrory has had trouble even paying Medicaid providers under the current system, many observers saw it highly unlikely that the General Assembly would give approval to McCrory and Wos for a big Medicaid overhaul. After all, the General Assembly is the one stuck with the bill if things go wrong. Add to this the experience of lawmakers (like the Medicaid reform commission's Rep. Nelson Dollar) who have responsibility for actually balancing the Medicaid budget, who have seen firsthand how much North Carolina Medicaid has saved through its Community Care Program and what has happened in other states that have tried selling off Medicaid to private industry, and the result becomes even less surprising. In the end, these adult voices clearly prevailed, at least on this privatization issue.
The bottom line: Overall, yesterday's announcement of surrender on the privatization issue is good news for low-income people. Unfortunately, for the hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians left out of health coverage because of McCrory's continued refusal to come up with innovative expansion ideas, this surrender is bittersweet. McCrory now has a chance to lead with real innovation around health care for the poor that includes expansion and reform but given the track record above, I'm not holding my breath.


text: Know How to Communicate with All Generations January 31, 2013 02:31 AM Four generations currently make up the agricultural workforce. Know how to communicate with all of them. For the first time ever, four generations are involved in agriculture. You have the matures (ages 62 and over), baby boomers (ages 43 – 61), generation X (ages 31 – 42) and generation Y (ages 13 – 30). Chris Barron, an Iowa farmer and a Top Producer columnist, says you should define all of the people in your operation, in terms of their generational group, and then determine how each individual would like to communicate. Barron says the matures believe that hard work and dedication lead to rewards. They are: Punctual and rarely miss work Committed to organization Respect authority Great interpersonal skills Good worth ethic He says matures tend to struggle with diversity and change, and technology. The baby boomers are considered the "me" generation. They tend to be: Competitive and hard-working Want to get the job done at any cost Seen as sacrificing personal life to achieve personal goals Driven and service-oriented Team players Barron says baby boomers don't deal with conflict or diversity well. Also, they tend to be self-promoting. Generation X are known as the "latchkey kids," meaning that their parents both worked, which caused them to be independent. Their common characteristics are: Digest information rapidly Witnessed the economic challenges of the '80s May not sacrifice personal life for the business or company. Barron says Generation X tends to be open to receiving feedback and are good at networking. Generation Y, is more cooperative and civic-minded, Barron says. This generation tends to: Have mostly no affluence Want to do meaningful work that makes a difference in the world Value information technology Have big goals for the future Typically Generation Y is good at multitasking and appreciates diversity. They also tend to have strong parental attachments and need more recognition. Barron believes a rapid transition will occur in the age of those in charge of farm operations. He says this could be a big opportunity for those who want to expand. "The average age of producers is pushing 60. We all know a cycle is coming, we just don't know when." Back to news


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Hockeynut! wrote:This is awesome - thanks for all of the leads so far! I've been to Livermore and Burkittsville. Lots of the others are new to me though. Did you know that the "Green Man" was a real guy? I found a pic of him online once. He was electrocuted and it burned his face off so they gave him a face mask like Richard in Boardwalk Empire. Everyone said he was a really nice guy.
I've read about a place called the Murder Swamp around New Castle where they found dismembered body parts back in the 30s. Would love to check that out some time.
I've read most of the "Weird" books. Their PA edition focuses heavily on the eastern side of the state, unfortunately. I love reading about stuff like this.
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I did. Took me 2 tries to find it. It's rather unimpressive in real life, haha.
Has anyone ever been to the Jean Bonnet Tavern near Bedford? It's supposedly haunted but I've never seen/experienced anything there. They do make amazing bacon wrapped scallops though.
There's a place called Baughman Rock's in Salisbury PA (near the MD line and Mt. Davis) where a boy was killed by his father and it's said his spirit haunts the woods.
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Pakistan said Saturday it would block NATO's supply route into Afghanistan after an air raid near the Afghan border killed at least 26 Pakistani troops. It is the deadliest incident Islamabad has reported in the decade-long US-led war in Afghanistan.
AFP - Pakistan accused NATO on Saturday of killing 26 soldiers in a lethal air strike, protesting in the strongest terms to the US and sealing its border to NATO supplies bound for Afghanistan.
It was the deadliest NATO strike reported by Pakistan during the 10-year war in Afghanistan and looked set to inflame already extremely difficult US-Pakistani relations still reeling from the May killing of Osama bin Laden.
The US commander in Afghanistan promised a full investigation and sent his condolences over any troops "who may have been killed" on the Afghan border with Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, branded an Al-Qaeda hub by Washington.
Pakistan "strongly condemned" the attack and said "the matter is being taken up by the foreign ministry, in the strongest terms, with NATO and the US".
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani cut short a weekend visit to his home town to return to Islamabad for crisis talks with President Asif Ali Zardari, army chief of staff General Ashfaq Kayani, state TV reported.
He would hold an extraordinary meeting of senior cabinet ministers and the chiefs of Pakistan's army, navy and air force later Saturday, a spokesman said.
The military described the pre-dawn attack from NATO helicopters as "unprovoked" and "indiscriminate" on a sizeable border post in the Baizai area of Mohmand district.
The governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Masood Kausar, said NATO helicopter fire killed 26 soldiers and wounded 14 others. "We salute our martyrs," he told reporters in Islamabad.
Pakistan swiftly sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supplies – holding up convoys at the Torkham and Chaman crossings – the main overland US supply line into landlocked Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi.
"We have stopped NATO supplies after receiving orders from the federal government," said Mutahir Hussain, a senior local administration official in the tribal district of Khyber.
Pakistani officials at the southwestern crossing in Chaman said NATO convoys were also being prevented from crossing.
General John Allen, the US commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said: "This incident has my highest personal attention and my commitment to thoroughly investigate it to determine the facts."
"My most sincere and personal heartfelt condolences go out to the families and loved ones of any members of Pakistan security forces who may have been killed or injured," he added.
Relations between Pakistan and the United States have been in crisis since an American raid killed Osama bin Laden near the capital without prior warning and after a CIA contractor killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in January.
Pakistani, US and Afghan officials have traded increasing complaints about cross-border attacks from both sides.
In September 2010, Pakistan shut the main land route for NATO supplies at Torkham for 11 days after accusing NATO of killing three Pakistani troops.
The border was reopened after the United States formally apologised.
US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, on Saturday expressed "regret" over any loss of life and pledged the United States would work "closely" with Pakistan to investigate the incident.
Pakistan's Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said Saturday's attack would fan anti-Americanism in the nuclear-armed Muslim country of 167 million.
"NATO attacks breach our sovereignty. Pakistan and its society cannot tolerate this," she told reporters.
US drones carry out routine missile attacks on Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, where American officials say neutralising Islamist militants is vital to winning the war in Afghanistan.
US officials have long accused Pakistan of playing a double game with Afghan Taliban, coming to a head in September when the then top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, accused Pakistan of colluding with the Haqqani faction in a siege on the US embassy in Kabul.
Pakistan this week forced its envoy to the United States, Husain Haqqani, to step down over a scandal in which he was accused of seeking American help in reining in Pakistan's powerful military after the bin Laden raid.
His successor, liberal rights campaigner and ruling-party lawmaker Sherry Rehman has yet to arrive in Washington.
In Islamabad last month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Pakistan to take action within "days and weeks" on dismantling militant havens and encouraging the Taliban into talks to end 10 years of war in Afghanistan.


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birth weight(redirected from Macrosomic pregnancy)
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Related to Macrosomic pregnancy: macrosomia, Macrosomic fetus
birth weight
in humans, the first weight of an infant obtained within less than the first 60 completed minutes after birth; a full-size infant is one weighing 2500 g or more; a low birth weight is less than 2500 g.; very low birth weight is less than 1500 g.; and extremely low birth weight is less than 1000 g.
birth weightor
The weight of an infant at birth.
birth weight
the measured heaviness of a baby when born, usually about 3500 g (7.5 pounds). In the United States, 97% of newborns weigh between 2500 g (5.5 pounds) and 4500 g (10 pounds). Babies weighing less than 2500 g at term are considered small for gestational age. Babies weighing more than 4500 g are considered large for gestational age and are often infants of mothers with diabetes.
birth weightThe weight of a newborn child which, in the US, averages 3.2 kg at 37-week/term
birth weightThe weight of a newborn child which, in the US, averages 3.2 kg at 37-wk/term. See Low-birth weight, Very low-birth weight.
birth weight(bĭrth wāt)
In humans, the first weight of an infant obtained within less than the first 60 completed minutes after birth; a full-size infant weighs 2500 g or more; low birth weight is less than 2500 g.
birth weight(bĭrth wāt)
In humans, the first weight of an infant obtained within less than the first 60 completed minutes after birth; a full-size infant is one weighing 2500 g or more; a low birth weight is less than 2500 g.; very low birth weight is less than 1500 g.; and extremely low birth weight is less than 1000 g.
a coming into being; the act or process of being born. See also parturition.
birth canal
the canal through which the fetus passes in birth; comprising the uterus, cervix, vagina and vulva.
birth cohort
see cohort.
birth control
a term rarely used in dealing with animals. Instead see population control, contraception.
birth defects
see congenital defects.
birth difficulties
birth injury
occurs to the fetus during birth. Includes rib fracture and meningeal hemorrhage.
birth interval
the interval between succeeding parturitions. See also calving interval.
multiple birth
the birth of two or more offspring produced in the same gestation period.
birth order
the chronological order of births in a multiple birth. May have significance in causing stillbirths if the intervals between births are prolonged because of inertia.
premature birth
expulsion of the fetus from the uterus before termination of the normal gestation period, but after independent existence has become a possibility. In humans prematurity is defined as a pregnancy of less than 37 weeks in a pregnancy normally lasting 40 weeks.
birth process
comprises maturation of the fetus, relaxation of the bony pelvis and associated ligaments, softening and relaxation of the cervix, vagina, vulva and perineum, correct disposition of the fetus, contractions of the uterine myometrium and finally the only component under voluntary control, contraction of the abdominal muscles.
birth rate
birth size
stature, including height at withers, crown to tail head length at birth.
birth weight
the weight at birth. A significant determinant of survival in any species and of the occurrence of dystocia. See also prolonged gestation.
heaviness; the degree to which a body is drawn toward the earth by gravity. See also Tables 4.1 and 4.2.
apothecaries' weight
an outmoded system of weight used in compounding prescriptions based on the grain (equivalent 64.8 mg). Its units are the scruple (20 grains), dram (3 scruples), ounce (8 drams) and pound (12 ounces). See also Tables 4.2 and 4.3.
atomic weight
the weight of an atom of a chemical element, compared with the weight of an atom of carbon-12, which is taken as 12.00000.
avoirdupois weight
the system of weight still used for ordinary commodities in some English-speaking countries. Its units are the dram (27.344 grains), ounce (16 drams) and pound (16 ounces).
birth weight
weight of the newborn at the time of birth.
body weight
the animal's weight. In herbivores this is often debatable because of the variation in 'gut-fill' depending on the availability of palatable food. In the absence of scales the weights of large animals are often estimated on the basis of their age and their girth just behind the elbow. Called also liveweight. See also body condition score.
body weight-to-surface area
determination of many drug dosages is physiologically more accurate when based on body surface area rather than body weight; used particularly in cancer chemotherapy. For conversion table for use in dogs see Table 21.
equivalent weight
the weight in grams of a substance that is equivalent in a chemical reaction to 1.008 g of hydrogen. See also chemical equivalent.
weight gain
increase in body weight for specific periods; the principal measure of productivity in meat animals.
weight loss
the loss of body weight from that previously measured. This estimate must take into account the difference in 'gut-fill' and the effects of developing pregnancy and recent parturition.
metric weight
see Tables 4.1 and 4.2.
molecular weight
the weight of a molecule of a chemical compound as compared with the weight of an atom of carbon-12; it is equal to the sum of the weights of its constituent atoms. Abbreviated mol. wt. See also Table 6.
shifting weight limb to limb
sign indicative of lameness especially in horses; while standing the horse is continually shifting its weight from one limb to the opposite one of the pair.
Patient discussion about birth weight
Q. what is the normal weight of a baby? what does it say if one weights less or more than the normal ?
A. Here is a site I use very often, and this is the page concerning infants' growth and development. Because it's a statistical measure changing from different ages and races, you might find an answer there. It's all videos of pediatricians lectures:
Q. what is the right weight for a baby who just has been norn to weight ?
A. The average weight for a newborn is 2.5 - 4 kilos. A baby that weighs less than 2.5 kilos is considered 'small for gestational age' and a baby that is born over 4 kilos is considererd 'large for gestational age'.
Q. How to loss weight like a diet with tea,pills or other kind of healthy thing.
A. drink 8 oz of warm water with 1 tablespoon of lemon... first thing in the morningMore discussions about birth weight