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Artists looking for acrylic colors with guaranteed quality and lightfastness will find what they're looking for in Brera Acrylics. These are colors for professionals that respond to the artist's skill and dexterity by returning fantastic colors.
Color Swatches created using heavy application/medium application/50% tint and were applied on acrylic primed canvas (7 oz) material.
iron oxides with manganese silicates or dioxide
Fe2O3,MnO2 or Fe2O3 + MnO2 + nH2O + Si + Al2O3
Burnt Umber is a more intense reddish brown pigment that results from heating the clay pigment Raw Umber. It has medium to excellent tinting strength and high opacity, and it is quick drying in oil form. Burnt Umber is somewhat more transparent than Raw Umber. It has excellent color properties and can create a variety of subtle, clear tints when mixed with white. It can tend towards chalkiness in dark mixes in oil form, but overall it mixes well with other colors. To create a black color in oil form, mix Burnt Umber with Phthalo Blue or Ultramarine. To achieve a similar color in watercolor form, mix it with Ultramarine or Payne's Gray.
Burnt Umber has good permanence.
Burnt Umber itself is considered non-toxic. If contaminated by manganese compounds, it may be highly toxic if inhaled and moderately toxic if ingested.
This pigment gets its name from the Latin word umbra, meaning shadow or shade. Its full name is listed as terra di ombra, meaning earth of shadow/shade, due to its original extraction from the area of Umbria, Italy. It has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times. Currently, the finest umber comes from Cyprus.
Chestnut Brown, Euchrome, Jacaranda Brown, Mars Brown, Mineral Brown, Raw Brown, Spanish Brown, Van Dyke Umber. Cyprus Umber, Turkey Brown, and Turkey Umber are the best quality umbers.
Lamp black is a very opaque, heavily staining black pigment that does not have much covering or tinting power. It is typically the most opaque black in watercolor form. Though a very pure black, it tends to muddy slightly in mixtures. Natural sources may be brownish or bluish in tone because of impurities. When used in oil paints, it is one of the slowest drying pigments, and should not be used in underpainting or applied in layers underneath other colors.
Lamp Black is very lightfast and absolutely permanent. It is used in all techniques in permanent painting.
Carbon itself is not considered hazardous, however other combustion products that are hazardous are often present as impurities when Lamp Black is produced from natural materials. For this reason, commercial preparations of the pigment should be considered slightly toxic. Avoid skin contact and inhalation. Where such impurities are present, Lamp Black is a possible human carcinogen.
Lamp Black is a carbon based black traditionally produced by collecting soot (known as lampblack) from oil lamps. It has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times. It is the black found in Egyptian murals and tomb decorations and was the most popular black for fresco painting until the development of Mars Black.
Carbon Black, Channel Black, Furnace Black, Oil Black, Vegetable Black. Flame Black is an impure version of Lamp Black. An alternate spelling is Lampblack, in which the first syllable is stressed and the two words are elided to form a closed compound.
organic synthetic, quinacridone
Quinacridone Red is a high performance, transparent pigment with an average drying time and uneven dispersal. It is another name for Quinacridone Violet (PV19) and Quinacridone Red (PR192). Quinacridone pigments have relatively low tinting strength in general. For this reason, quinacridone colors are often expensive, because more pigment is required in the formulation.
Quinacridone Violet has excellent lightfastness and is considered the most lightfast organic pigment in this shade range.
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Grant for Marae Arts Festival
Environment Waikato is to grant almost $5000 towards a three-day arts festival in October based around water to be held at Turangawaewae Marae.
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This archive does not include the recent media releases.
Environment Waikato is to grant almost $5000 towards a three-day arts festival in October based around water to be held at Turangawaewae Marae.
Environment Waikato has granted Waiterimu School $5000 towards its Trees For Survival programme, which will grow trees for local farmers fencing off their streams.
Environment Waikato has granted $20,000 towards the Te Waihou Blue Springs Walkway to expand educational opportunities from the project.
Environment Waikato has granted $3000 towards Forest Lake School's boardwalk through the school's bush.
Environment Waikato has awarded $6885 to the Pirongia Restoration Society to print a booklet about the ecology and history of Mt Pirongia.
Environment Waikato has granted $5000 towards a sewage disposal system at the Kinloch Marina.
Environment Waikato wants a thorough definition of Maori customary rights to the foreshore and seabed.
Environment Waikato is to lobby Transit to move more quickly on some of the Region's roading projects which are ready to go.
Environment Waikato wants to see alternatives, such as barging, used for heavy transport around the Waikato.
Environment Waikato is taking over moorings in Lake Taupo.
Environment Waikato is to appeal the resource consents granted to Mighty River Power for operating the Waikato hydro system.
Environment Waikato and DoC are working with landowners around Mt Karioi to control possums in this ecologically important area.
A change from paying petrol tax to paying for distance travelled has been welcomed by Environment Waikato Regional Land Transport Committee Chairman David Peart.
Remanufacturing 50 tonnes of soap flakes into detergent, finding 200 pairs of gumboots for the Red Cross and re-using 50,000 plastic bags was all in a day's work for the Waste Exchange last year.
Three young Waikato students head for Wellington next week to attend a National Environmental Youth Forum.
Ratepayers have already paid more than $9 million in rates to Environment Waikato, with the deadline for early payment discounts still more than a week away.
Public access to the Waikato's shallow lakes should be improved, according to Environment Waikato's Environment Committee.
Environment Waikato will look into its policies on rate remission for community groups – but no changes can be made for this year.
A nation-wide pest plant awareness programme called Weedbusters begins in the Waikato next month.
Environment Waikato has analysed how long it takes for substances to travel down the Region's major rivers.

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Fan interest and commercial investments in women's football, or soccer, are growing leading into the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. According to Nielsen Sports, 40% of the people in countries with a team competing in this year's tournament are interested in women's football.
In this webinar, we explore the regions where consumers have experienced the biggest improvement in their financial situations since 2016. We also discuss consumers' changing spending behavior on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories over the past five years.
China Consumer Trend Index, released by Nielsen, saw steady growth in the fourth quarter last year - the figure reached 113 points, up one point from the previous quarter.
There's been a lot of buzz around small brands right now. Smaller brands want to be the next best thing and big brands want the growth of small brands.
The rate of change in women's sports is one of the most exciting trends in the sports industry right now. For rights holders, brands and the media, this represents a chance to develop a new commercial proposition and engage fans in a different way.
The marketing and advertising landscape in Latin America is becoming more fast paced and complex. To grow in this environment, companies must meet consumer demand for convenience and personalization and leverage digital strategies and innovation.
A slight drop in consumer sentiment in the second quarter was reflected in a slight pullback in spending in certain markets, as skepticism about the future had some consumers feeling as though their free cash would be better served in savings rather than on discretionary purchases.
Aligning your organization toward common goals is challenging, especially when the goals change. That's because it's common for marketing teams to operate in silos. Most marketing organizations are split between marketing and media, and the split is compounded by multiple layers up and down the org chart.
For the last decade or so, Millennials have been the generation that every brand has sought to engage as their spending power has grown. With this generation now past teenage years, however, digital advertisers are shifting their focus to the succeeding generation, Generation Z or Gen Z.
Five years ago, mainstream alcohol segments drove the majority of the alcohol sales growth in New Zealand. More recently, niche products have emerged, and Kiwis are increasingly opting for more premium and unique beverage offerings.
In the face of rapidly evolving business and economic landscapes around the world, the importance of organizational intelligence and foresight thinking as a tool to unearth early indicators of change and unlock growth has never been greater.
Beyond in-store clinics and the traditional health care aisle of the store, a handful of departments should be top of mind for drug store retailers where more multicultural dollars are spent in comparison to non-Hispanic whites.
Mobile devices may not be critical to survival, but a majority of consumers around the world can't imagine life without them. And now, they're transforming the world of commerce.
Almost anyone you ask will tell you that eating a healthful diet is important—a sentiment that isn't new. So why is there a seemingly heightened focus on clean eating?
As the world collaborates on the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, good data are critical to the world's ability to set goals, generate plans and measure our collective progress.
Modern retail has long been guided by a powerful premise: the bigger, the better. But the retail landscape is shifting, and this mantra no longer holds true in all cases. This report explores the pain and pleasure points in global consumers' shopping experiences.
More than half (55%) of respondents around the world believed they were in recession in the fourth quarter of 2015, a modest increase from the start of that year (53%)—and a level that often exceeds official economic definitions.
To find out how much attitudes about finances differ by age, we asked Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X, Baby Boomer and Silent Generation respondents about their saving strategies and debt decisions. It turns out that no matter the age, most of us need sound financial advice.
We asked Millennials, Generation Xers and Baby Boomers around the world to tell us how satisfied they are with everything about their jobs. Across a sample of respondents from 60 countries who said they are currently employed, satisfaction levels highlight workplace trends worth paying attention to.
Our outlook on life is often shared with others who have similar traits—and age is no exception. But many of today's consumers are bucking yesterday's preconceived generational notions. In fact, many older people are embracing a more technology-driven world, and sizeable numbers of younger people are turning to more traditional values.
Depending on our age, our approach to something as simple as getting up-to-date news or eating out can be drastically different. But today's consumers are bucking yesterday's preconceived generational notions.
In 1990, 57% of Southeast Asia was in poverty and access to daily necessities one could afford was not to be taken for granted. Today, so much has changed that a new niche at the high end of the affordability spectrum has emerged to fan the aspirations of consumers – premiumization.
Reaching your audience is an important component of any ad campaign, but what good is ad reach if it doesn't resonate with the audience? Effective campaigns require more than identifying the right channel for reaching consumers. It's also about delivering the right message.
Whether watching TV, checking emails, or flipping through a magazine, it seems like everywhere we look there's an opportunity for advertisers to connect with us, earn our trust and deliver their message. So has all this media proliferation watered down the resonance of their messages?
The slowing pace of China's investment- and export-led growth underscores an opportunity for the country's 1.4 billion consumers to play a bigger role in the economy going forward. Louise Keely, President, The Demand Institute offers insight into recent research on the topic and the four roles businesses can play as China transitions to consumer-led growth.
In about four months, we'll have officially made it to "the future"—at least according to the time-stamp on Doc Brown's DeLorean in the "Back to the Future" movie series. So now that we're there, what will 2020 look like?
As China began its meteoric rise, multinational companies from Europe and America established beachheads in the country, and did very well bringing Western products to the East.
Successful companies in the private sector have gained deep insight into consumer psychology and individual and collective decision-making. Public policy leaders and program managers can make use of these insights to improve significantly the likelihood of success in achieving their policy goals.


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Press Release
Oklahoma's Veterinary Board Opens 24/7 Online Store
OKLAHOMA CITY – October 5, 2010 – The Oklahoma Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners (OBVME) announced today that the public and veterinary professionals can now purchase items or pay for application fees online through a new online store at http://www.okvetboard.com/. Items for sale through the store include:
• Applications for licensure/registration
"We had many requests from veterinary professionals and the public to pay for items by credit cards," said Cathy Kirkpatrick, executive director of OBVME. "This online store not only facilitates that demand, but also adds to our suite of online services that provide convenience for our constituents."
OBVME also provides an Online License Search and Online Renewal Service for the public and veterinary professionals. Visitors can visit http://www.okvetboard.com/, click on the Oklahoma Veterinary Board Online Store banner, and view the items for sale through a safe and secure online environment. Visitors to the site have the option of paying for items with Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and EFT payments. The payments are processed through a secure payment engine that abides by rigorous policies and procedures to ensure that their payments are safe, private, and secure.
The OBVME Online Store is a product of a partnership between the Oklahoma Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and OK.gov, Oklahoma's Official Website.
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REAL ESTATE- GIMME SHELTER- Drill n' Fill: Retrofit insulation for that old house
Q: We own a city home built in the mid-1960s that has little or no insulation. We'd like to make the house more energy efficient, but don't know what the options are. Isn't the some kind of new insulation you can inject into the walls?
A: Yes, there are several blown-in and sprayed-in products available, the most common being fiberglass, cellulose, and foam. And they can save you alot. Considering the fact that around 50 percent of the money you spend operating your home is for heating and cooling, the 30 percent or more you can save by retrofitting insulation into your existing walls is nothing to scoff at.
Known as "drill and fill" insulation in the construction biz, the process involves injecting fiberglass, cellulose, or foam insulation directly into your walls or attic through a tube, either by drilling holes in your siding or walls, or by removing sections of each. Attics are a little easier– insulation can simply be blown through the attic door or crawl space opening. While blowing fiberglass or cellulose into an attic can be a job for do-it-yourselfers– you can get bails of cellulose at Lowe's and rent a blower– it's probably best to consult a pro for retrofitting walls, especially if you decide to use foam.
While fiberglass and cellulose (cellulose is made up mostly of recycled newspapers and treated with chemicals to be fire-resident and deter pests ) will definitely improve energy efficiency, foam products tend to work better. There are a variety of foam products on the market, but one called Aircrete, a cement magnesium oxide foam, has proved to be the best we've seen.
Aircrete has the consistency of shaving cream when it's applied, and works its way around obstacles to fill every small hole or crevice. Basically, it fills the wall space the way water would fill a fish tank. Fiberglass or cellulose work the same way, but they can leave voids and gaps around things like pipes and wiring. The foam then begins to set in about an hour and eventually becomes as hard as a very light-weight concrete, creating an impermeable air barrier which has a higher energy-saving "R" value than fiberglass or cellulose, in addition to being non-toxic and fire, mold, and pest-resistant.
Of course, having aircrete installed is more expensive than fiberglass or cellulose (It's also hard to find someone to install it. Anchor Insulation, located in Charlottesville, is the only company offering it right now), and that's not including drilling holes, removing wall sections and siding, and repairing them afterwards. But the energy saving rewards are considerable. Basically, when you retrofit your old home with Aircrete, your walls become as airtight as any new green home you're likely to find.
Of course, before you commit to this, it's a good idea to do a little energy auditing of your own. Simply blocking drafts around doors, windows, and electrical outlets, something you can do yourself with caulking, tape, or wallboard, can make a big difference. One simple way to check for drafts is to wait for a particularly windy or breezy day and walk around your house with a stick of incense, holding it near windows, electrical outlets, doors, etc. How sharply the smoke drifts will tell you how bad the drafts are.
You might also consider having a professional energy auditor test your home, as they can tell you the most cost effective way to improve your energy efficiency. You may find that the money you were thinking of spending on retrofitting your insulation could be better spent replacing an old furnace or single-pane windows.


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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Events Updated: ME Bazaar
Filed Under Bazaar, Events Updates
There is a bazaar coming up this weekend (1-2 Aug 2009), called ME.BAZAAR sale at 3K Inn Subang Jaya . It will be a gathering of vendors, blogger and anyone who loves fashion and looking for trendy stuff.
Below is the particular about the event:
Date: 1/8/09 and 2/8/09
Venue: 3K Inn Subang Jaya
Time: 11 am to 6.30 pm
For further information, pls visit http://www.mebazaar.110mb.com
Fieyka Collection will be one of the booth there! Stall number 22
Events updated by Siti Zulaikhah, Fieyka Collection
Friday, July 24, 2009
Fashions & Mis. updated 24/7/09 *Newbie*
Filed Under Bracelets, Dress, Fashions Boutique, Handmade Designers/Crafters, Maxi, Moms/Children/Babies, Muslim Chic Fashion, Products Updates, Tubes, Tunics, Vintage Clothes
Hijabi BoutiqueLike the batik design and the colour. Deep blue sea coloured maxi and the colour is just so striking!
This design was bag in bag. Isnt it adorable? Gogo Trendy ~>.<~
infinityfashion Victorian style lacey long blouse! *kinda china collar is because of the neckline design, similar with cheongsam's style* but the ruffles and the white lacey material definitely also shine with the olden British day ^^
Oops TreatWhat a combo!as white and black always the perfect match! The design blend so well, with the colour and the design. Black and white, plain and checkers.
Tripple chiffon layered with different colour tone, tone your skin too.^^
Unique tri-colour, strong and striking! and the tunic design is special too, as the shoulder cutting is sexy and revealling *whistle*
Classical vest that can be wear anywhere! Specialized in formal dress in my view~
Sweet little dress for sweet little girls *hugs*
Tissue bag made from unwanted denim jeans! Go trendy even with your tissue paper ^^
Go wild with leather's heel!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Events Updated: Me Want Pretty Contest by Twinkle Collection
Filed Under Events Updates
Grand Prize: Benetint worth RM143
1st Runner-up: BADgal blue mascara worth RM95
2nd Runner-up: Color Plump worth RM73
How to Win?
Step 1
Purchase anything from our store. And we mean really anything. No minimum purchase required.
Step 2
Complete a slogan: "I love Twinkle Collection because..." in no more than 30 words (excluding words given) and mail your entry to email@example.com
Terms and Conditions
1) Each person can only send in one (1) entry.
2) All entries must be in by 11.59 p.m, 25th August 2009.
3) Late entries will be disqualified.
4) The list of winners will be published on Twinkle Collection.
5) We reserve the right to publish your name and slogan on the blog.
6) Prize(s) not collected within the redemption period will be forfeited.
7) Contest results will be announced within one (1) week after the closing date.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Fashions & Mis. updated 14/7/09 *Newbie*
Filed Under Bracelets, Cardis, Dress, Evening Dress, Fashions Boutique, Handmade Designers/Crafters, Maxi, One-Piece, Products Updates, Shoes, T-Shirt, Tubes, Tunics
Pure white with double-layered lace at the side, just feminine~
Varieties Shops
The Clothing Lines
Nymphs and Pixies Boutique
Sweetiee Piee Bouquet of lovely pink roses, with a 3D touch! Unique!
Miss Bear Bear
Fruity Sensation
frostong diamonds
Short knited black cardi, match it with sleevless tops to add the style on!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Fashions & Shoes & Mis. updated 5/7/09 *Newbie*
Filed Under Bags/Wallets, Beauty Products, Dress, Evening Dress, Fashions Boutique, Kimono, One-Piece, Products Updates, Second Hand, Shoes, Shorts, Skirts, T-Shirt
Like the colour shade of this kimono, the colour do blend together to have a soothing view.
Poupee Collection
Project Trippy Plain but sweet. The pink colour of the lower part of the skirt just make the dress look much brighter and sweet...
your shopping affair HOT item!! pearls aka cherry blossoms at the front and the milky white shoes just make your leg looks fairer and long~
Pyng Kitsch Instead of high waist line, you gotta high chest line *giggles*, is something special~
Kaken Design
This T is cute... no more icecream T.T *chuckles*
Cloth Buffet
Wadrobe 69 SixtyNine
Isn't this leg just so sexy? with the skin colour of heels and straps around it.
Summercool Fashion
Straight simple cut till the end! Match with a white clincher to make it a high waist dress too.
sassy moda fashion
Go wild with the country girl!
go thrift!
White dress with sharp colour, will glow your day~
Dolce Bella Boutique
Go for an evening dinner with tender touch of frills~


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Pragmatic analysis of students' performance at the Polytechnic of Namibia. Krishnamurthy, Sarala; Ithindi, Elina; Brewis, Alexander; Eiseb, Juliet (Polytechnic of Namibia, Department of English Communication., 2009)Pragmatics has been described as the analysis of language taking into account the socio-cultural context in which it is used. In other words, it is the study of language of a particular region which reveals the influence ...


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Daniel Radcliffe's (Fully Clothed) Broadway Singing and Dancing
The last time we saw Harry Potter on the White Way, he was stark naked (talk about white!), running around and jumping up and down. Yup. This time, in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he's wearing suits and... running around and jumping up and down! In dance form. If you're curious about what this curious sight looks like, but can't shell out the approximately $3,000,000 that a ticket costs these days, here is some b-roll video of the Boy Who Lived in action. He's cute! Not great, but cute. [via Popeater]


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WiFi Is Better Than Chocolate?
Light Reading
If you're a small business owner, you're better off skipping the mints and offering free WiFi instead.
According to a new Comcast Business survey of entrepreneurs and small business IT decision makers, WiFi is a much better tool than free candy, water, community bulletin boards, or magazines when it comes to keeping customers happy. More than 85% of respondents agreed that WiFi trumps all these other perks. (See Comcast Whips Up More WiFi.)
That said, not every business is jumping on the WiFi train. Some -- predominantly those that have been in business 20 years or more -- told Comcast Business that they had concerns over tech support, employee distraction, and costs associated with managing a WiFi network.
For the rest of the pro-WiFi folks, check out the infographic below about the perks of WiFi for small business owners. (Or click here to see a larger version of the image.)


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WASHINGTON, DC — Fast-food restaurants are concentrated within a short walking distance of schools, exposing children to "poor quality food environments" on a daily basis, according to new research published in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
After studying fast-food restaurants in the Chicago area, researchers found the median distance of any school from a fast-food restaurant to be about a third of a mile, a distance an adult can walk easily in five minutes. Researchers also found that almost 80 percent of schools had at least one fast-food restaurant within less than a half mile.
Fast-food restaurants were statistically significantly clustered in areas within a short walking distance from schools. An estimated three to four times as many fast-food restaurants were located within less than a mile of schools than would be expected if the restaurants were distributed throughout the city in a way unrelated to school locations.
Last year, the Institute of Medicine called upon the food industry to voluntarily restrict advertising of unhealthy food to children. The study's authors also suggest implementing school policies prohibiting off-campus fast food from being brought to school and zoning requirements to limit restaurants' proximity to schools as ways to combat rising childhood obesity rates.


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|Join hundreds of InfoSec professionals at our upcoming
[Global AppSec DC, September 9-13] and [Global AppSec Amsterdam, September 23-27]
2011 OWASP International Board of Directors Election
The OWASP Foundation was established in 2001 as an open community and software security resource. Since then, OWASP has grown to be globally recognized as a credible source for application security standards (see industry citations). Individuals typically find OWASP when searching the internet for information about software security - and they are happy to find a reliable source of knowledge built by an extremely open and passionate community. OWASP is open to anyone. Anyone can attend OWASP's vendor agnostic local chapter meetings, participate in regional and global conferences, and contribute to the many OWASP projects. And anyone can start a new project, form a new chapter, or lend their expertise to help an OWASP Global Committee.
The OWASP Foundation Board of Directors consists of six elected volunteers. These unpaid volunteers dedicate themselves to the organizational mission, supporting the OWASP Global Committees and playing a pivotal role in the software security community. OWASP conducts democratic elections of its Board Members and Committee Chairs to enable bottom-up advancement of its mission.
Each year, half of the Board seats, and all of the Committee Chair seats, are up for election by the then-current registered members.
**NEW** Candidate Interviews
Click here to listen to the OWASP Foundation Board Candidate Interviews
Candidates / Contributions and Accomplishments
* Christian Heinrich - BIO & why vote for me? - NEW Candidate
* Dave Wichers - BIO & why vote for me? - Re-Election / Vote of Confidence
* Michael Coates - BIO - Why Vote For Me? - NEW Candidate
* Sebastien Deleersnyder - BIO & why vote for me? - Re-Election / Vote of Confidence
OWASP Foundation Bylaws
OWASP is a non-profit governed according to its mission, ethics, core purpose, and bylaws.
Who Can Vote?
OWASP Individual Members and Supporters registered as of 30-June-2011 have one (1) vote per seat (there are 3 seats up for election and 4 candidates).
- Note - this will includes all chapter leaders and project leaders on file effective 11-July-2011, you can check the current OWASP Membership List here. If you are not a member yet you are encouraged to do so and you will be able to vote in the next election.
The election is scheduled via electronic ballot to be sent out to the membership on 8-August-2011.
Have additional questions about OWASP Membership? Read the FAQ CLICK HERE
Learn about OWASP
Watch a current video about OWASP:
- Click here to watch an interview with Jeff Williams, OWASP Board Member & Chair 2004-Current
- Click here to watch an interview with Tom Brennan, OWASP Board Member 2007-Current
Or to see OWASP from the beginning, visit the WayBack Machine.
International Board of Directors Primary Responsibilities
Seated members of the Board of Directors attend and contribute to monthly meetings. See Archive. Additionally, they:
- Create and review a statement of mission and purpose that articulates the organization's goals, means, and primary constituents served globally. They then support that mission and purpose.
- Select the Director(s) and employees. The Board must reach consensus on the Director responsibilities and undertake a careful search to find the most qualified individual for the position.
- Support and evaluate all employees. The Board should ensure that the employees have the moral and professional support needed to further the goals of the organization.
- Ensure effective planning. The Board must actively participate in the overall planning process for the organization and assist in implementing and monitoring the organization's goals.
- Monitor and strengthen programs and services. The Board's responsibility is to determine which programs are consistent with the organization's mission and monitor their effectiveness.
- Ensure adequate financial resources. One of the Board's foremost responsibilities is to secure adequate resources for the organization to fulfill its mission.
- Protect assets and provide proper financial oversight. The Board must assist in developing the annual budget and ensuring that proper financial controls are in place.
- Build a competent Board. The Board has a responsibility to articulate prerequisites for candidates, orient new members, and periodically and comprehensively evaluate their own performance.
- Ensure legal and ethical integrity. The Board is ultimately responsible for adherence to legal standards and ethical norms.
- Enhance the organization's public standing. The Board should clearly articulate the organization's mission, accomplishments, and goals to the public and garner support from the community.
2009 Election Results (how this process worked last time)
Click here for 2009 Board member election information and results
If you have a question about the current election please click here. To help with future elections, please contact the OWASP Global Membership Committee.


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Rights and Resilience
Nobel Peace Laureate and Barnard Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice Leymah Gbowee promised attendees a "naughty day." And the March academic symposium was indeed filled with frank, enlightening dialogue: panelists didn't hold back in expressing frustrations and concerns on subjects related to African Women's Rights and Resilience, the title of the all-day event.
Held just days after International Women's Day and coinciding with the meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the symposium featured distinguished scholars and activists who addressed issues facing feminists and activists throughout Africa. The Gbowee Peace Foundation USA, Barnard's Africana studies department, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), the consortium for interdisciplinary studies, and Barnard's president's office sponsored the event.
"The women's movement in Africa is very vibrant," said Gbowee. "We have successful women there who fight for social change and a really active community at the global and national level. The media seek out stories of suffering, but ignore realities of strength." She added, "It is important to attempt to correct some of the myths and misconceptions about the strength of the African woman."
All three panels—Women's Rights and Transnational Feminisms; African Men and Feminisms; and Intergenerational Organizing—addressed issues of collaboration and working collectively toward the future.
"They were all really great panels. I especially liked the first one because these are professors and documentary filmmakers that we've gotten the opportunity to read and watch," said Thando Mlambo '17, a student in Gbowee and Professor Tina Campt's feminist colloquium.
Campt, director of the Africana studies department, moderated the first panel, which included Professor Amina Mama, Nigerian British feminist activist, researcher, and scholar; Abigail Disney, filmmaker and philanthropist; Professor Sylvia Tamale, Ugandan feminist lawyer and academic; and Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder of the African Women's Leadership Institute and the African Women's Development Fund. Mama is the founding editor of Feminist Africa, a journal of gender studies. She said that 20 years ago when she began doing this work, African feminists met one-on-one to develop a forum to share their voices.
One point that resonated throughout the day is that North American feminists often feel they need to export Western feminism to Africa. Disney called that the primary obstacle to the West's success in promoting feminism on an international level. "We need to give our resources and let them do with it as they see fit, whether or not that matches our predetermined definition of what it is a feminist should be," she said.
Tamale said that because patriarchy and the backlash against women's gains are global, feminism is always global. Adeleye-Fayemi expressed a similar position, noting there is a global citizenship as women. There is also a lot of unfinished business in the quest for equality; to achieve that, effective alliances among equals need to be built.
"It's very important to be humble enough to accept the fact that there are women and men from the African continent who know what they're doing, who know what they're talking about, who have solutions," said Adeleye-Fayemi.
The second panel, moderated by Professor Abena Busia, chair of the department of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, included three men who are not specifically involved in feminist work, but who embrace feminist ideology and try to lead others by example to end gender discrimination.
Busia asked panelists Samuel Doe, Mohamed Yahya, and Kennedy Odede how their feminist perspectives were shaped personally and professionally.
"In a sense, society has let inequality and submission be accepted as the norm," said Yahya, who works for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in crisis prevention and recovery. He emphasized the economic upside of equality might be transformative, noting you cannot marginalize 50 percent of the population and compete globally.
"A challenge to men—step out of your comfort zone to break the shackles of inequalities," said Doe, a senior policy advisor at the UNDP bureau for crisis prevention and recovery. "There is nothing that has value more than humanity."
Odede said he took risks in his own community by initiating discussions in villages, even among men who have never heard the word feminism.
Journalist, human rights activist, and founder of the Man Up campaign to promote gender equality Jimmie Briggs moderated the final panel, which addressed the issues and conflicts among different generations of African feminists. "The histories of our liberation struggles, the histories of Africa are certainly imbued in everything that we're doing, but we have to think of our future imaginative[ly] and something we can forge forward," said Hakima Abbas, director of programs at the Association for Women's Rights and Development.
Gbowee said to engage in intergenerational organizing, different generations have to want to engage. She has witnessed frustrations and antagonisms from older and younger feminists. She's even heard young feminists suggest the older generation "retire."
At the same time there is, at times, a feeling among younger feminists that older feminists expect them to ask for permission to be engaged in activism. "Younger women are not asking for permission to organize or to be African feminists—they are doing it," said Abbas.
There is also a need for older feminists to open their minds to LGBT issues. Spectra, an award-winning Nigerian writer, gender-justice advocate, and new-media evangelist, said young African feminists are also engaging in activism beyond the traditional models of policy, protesting, and writing. Not only are they building community through social media, they're engaging in creative activism through music, art, and theatre. "There are avenues that are creating many powerful conversations, raising consciousness," Spectra said, noting that these venues are making LGBT people more visible. "I'd like to see more of that recognized and affirmed, especially by older feminists."
"It's a two-way learning street," said Gbowee. "If you people make us understand how important this is in your space, we will be able to be advocates for some of these things.
"This is not competition," she continued, "it's cooperation. We're all fighting to get to the same place."
Even with all the serious subject matter covered, there was never a shortage of humor.
"Remember the saying, 'I don't want to be part of the revolution if I can't dance,'" said Adeleye-Fayemi of the African Women's Leadership Institute.


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A New Leader - Trail HeadPosted in News on June 5, 2014
I got my first Jeep in the late summer of 1994. By the time it was legal for me to drive it, I'd crashed it into the garage door (released the clutch too fast). I'd figured out how to put the top up and down in a garage that I'd heated with a kerosene heater over the winter in preparation for spring. I'd already replaced the stereo, the horrible 4x6 speakers, and discovered vinyl seats and 0 degrees plus a soft top are less than ideal. I put 56,000 miles on that four-cylinder 1990 Jeep Wrangler that winter, but by the time spring of 1995 rolled around, it was time for a six-cylinder. It came in the form of a hardtop-equipped Islander edition with no A/C (just in time for the warm weather), and just like that, I was back in the top removal business.
At first I'd just have a friend help me take the top off and then I'd turtle it into the side or backyard. If you've never heard of top-turtling, here's how it works: once the top is off the Jeep Wrangler, put it on the ground. Then, tip up the front edge, scoot under it, put your back flat against the ceiling and lift with your legs. Voila! An easy way to move hardtops! But living in the northeast meant frequent storms so I spent a lot of time running home, sitting under overpasses, or just getting wet. That got old so I figured out a pulley system, and with a pulley from the hardware store and climbing rope, I was able to hoist my top off the Jeep on my own up to the ceiling of the garage.
Fast forward to spring of 1996. Gas was $0.89/gallon, the Twin Towers were still standing, and if you wanted to speak with someone, you either called their house or you went to find them. Do you remember what you were doing that spring? I do. I was modifying that second Jeep Wrangler. It had a 258ci inline-six with a Carter carb that still worked, a five-speed manual transmission that I hadn't yet broken, and all the rest of the normal Jeep Wrangler stuff. The warmer it got, the more and more I wanted to put a soft top on it; I wasn't playing those hardtop-swapping games again. There was a Jeep-specific junkyard in town, and by this time I knew all the guys at that particular 'yard on a first name basis because I'd been breaking this Jeep Wrangler off-road for over a year now.
This was before internet searches yielded eleventy million hits on any subject you care to ask, and while I asked the guys at the 'yard, in the end I just wandered around the Jeeps looking for the best looking soft top I could find. I ended up with a used Bestop Supertop that would work with my hard doors. I pulled it myself, wrestled it out from between all the Jeeps, and installed it on my Jeep in the parking lot. That was fine for a while, but I set the tension too tight and ended up bending the tabs. So, I started through-bolting it to get the tension right but I never did get the adjustment at the doors dialed-in so it leaked, and I didn't like having to pull the full steel doors all the time. Back to the 'yard for a factory steel half-door style top. After getting the new top all fit up, and stripped the doors for paint. While the doors were out for paint I stopped by a local Cumberland Farms on my way to work and saw this first issue of Jp.
I bought the magazine immediately, subscribed to it even quicker, and I've been reading it ever since. I have read the magazine through the stewardship of Rob Reaser, Rick Péwé, and John Cappa. Cappa eventually hired me on, and I've been lucky enough to work at Jp for the last nine years for both Cappa and Hazel. I am happy to be the fifth guy at the helm and plan on delivering the same great stuff y'all are used to seeing. In addition, you can look forward to more fun web-based stuff coming down the 'pike too.
As for me, I've owned more Jeeps than I can count over the years from flatfenders to CJ-5s and CJ-7s to YJs and TJs. I've even finally acquired a CJ-8 after so many years of longing for one ("Cross-Country Scrambler Recovery," Sept. '06). I'm the same guy that took his M-715 to Moab with no top or heat, only to have the transmission come apart after a week of wheeling ("2,000 Miles in a M-715," Sept. '12), and you can expect to see more of those kinds of antics. I respect the heritage so I'm not going to be getting old and rare Jeeps to cut the top off of them and then bend them in half trying to launch 'em at the moon. If I could, I'd collect them all like baseball cards.


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Hudson's 2008 Fall Gamer Day was held tonight at a club called Etiquette, which was already a bad sign for me as I can't spell that word to save my life. Luckily Google Maps features that "Did you mean [word you should have spelled correctly]?" feature so I was able to locate the lounge after only twenty minutes of poking manfriend's iPhone. Hit the jump for the full swag report…In order of coolness: Three Bomberman stickers (I heart stickers) Three mini bottles of liquor I don't drink A Fishing Master World Tour sweatband A drinking flask with the Hudson logo on it (this would have been at the top, if their logo weren't a giant bee) A cardboard advertisement for Fishing Master World Tour To me, this sends mixed messages because on the one hand, you have the games:
And on the other, you have the tools you need to enjoy the games…?
At least my cat seemed interested (if you look closely at the first pic). Check back for more on the actual games tomorrow!


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Yoko Ono has had every reason to lament gun violence since Dec. 8, 1980.
"The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him. Yoko Ono Lennon," John Lennon's widow tweeted yesterday, on what would have been their 44th wedding anniversary, along with the photo of the blood-spattered glasses Lennon was wearing when he was shot by Mark David Chapman.
Yoko Ono explains the Beatles' breakup
Ono used the famous image on the cover of her 1981 album, Season of Glass, but this time the photo was stamped with the message: "Over 1,057,000 have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980."
Several other tweets also had the photo attached.
"31,537 people are killed by guns in the USA every year. We are turning this beautiful country into war zone," Ono wrote. Also: "Together, let's bring back America, the green land of peace."
"There is a transparent peace tower in New York City which casts no shadow and is, therefore, very rarely recognized," she continued. "We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace. http://imaginepeace.com/archives/1073 20 March 1969."
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Just 15 minutes from Ludington, off US-31, Safe Harbor Inn is located in the Village of Pentwater, Michigan. A short walk from Main Street, with its wonderful gifts, art and antique shops, great places to eat and enjoy the breeze from Lake Michigan and Pentwater Lake. Just down the street is the wonderful sandy beach of Lake Michigan and Mears State Park. You can even enjoy a charter fishing experience from one of the charter fishing boats on Pentwater Lake. Come relax, enjoy your stay with us.
The Safe Harbor beacon is watching for you with a warm welcome from innkeepers Richard and Suzanne Hutchings.
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David List McDonald, age 65, entered the Church Triumphant on Saturday, January 25, 2014, as a result of a Primary Brain Injury sustained in a January 16 traffic accident. David was born on January 4, 1949, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Wallace Irwin McDonald and Martha Louise Clinehens McDonald. He was a 1966 graduate of Twin Lakes High School, Monticello, IN, and a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, where he was a member of Lamba Chi Alpha Fraternity. While a student at Wabash, he studied at both the American University of Beruit, Lebanon, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School in 1973, and a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1995 from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL.
On May 27, 1972, he married Carol Helen McCormick who survives. They celebrated nearly 42 years of wonderful life together.
In September, 1973, David was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament (Teaching Elder) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) by the Presbytery of Wabash Valley. He served as Pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Union Mills, IN, from 1973-78, as Associate Pastor of Orchard Park Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, from 1978-81, and as Pastor of The Presbyterian Church, Wabash,, IN, from 1981-86. Between 1986 and 2004, he served the Presbyterian Church (USA) as a leader in stewardship education and consultation – first as consultant, then Director, of Church Financial Campaign Service of the PC(USA) and then as co-founder of Advent: Developing Generosity Across Generations. During this phase of his ministry, he assisted hundreds of congregations across the country as they planned and implemented capital campaigns. During these years, he was also an active participant in the life of Northminster Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN. In 2004, he became Director of Development for Jameson Camp, a camp for at-risk children in Indianapolis, IN. And in 2007, he became Pastor of the Clayton Presbyterian Church, Clayton, IN – a call he considered a priceless gift.
An active member of The Presbytery of Whitewater Valley of the PC(USA), David served on the Presbytery Coordinating Council and as member of the Long-Range Planning and Vision Task Force. He served twice as a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and had been elected to serve at the 2014 General Assembly.
Those who will miss him deeply are his wife Carol McCormick McDonald, his sister Martha Carolyn McDonald, his niece Anne Elizabeth McDonald Frangos (David Charles Frangos) and his two great-nieces Kaitlin Elizabeth McDonald and Kimberly Anne Lacava – the lights of his life. Throughout his 65 years, David radiated and encouraged a love of learning – especially during his 40 years of ordained ministry.
A service of Celebration will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 15, 2014, at Northminster Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN, with calling beginning at 10:00 a.m. The choir of the Clayton Presbyterian Church will sing and a reception will follow the service. Teaching Elders/Ministers of Word and Sacrament and Commissioned Ruling Elders are invited to wear stoles. All are invited to wear colors of celebration.
Memorial gifts may be directed to Clayton Presbyterian Church, 4887 Pennsylvania Street, Clayton, IN 46118 or to of Northminster Presbyterian Church, 1660 Kessler Blvd., East Drive, Indianapolis, IN, for The Columbarium Project.


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After the prostate is removed, pathologists look at the edges (margins) of the tissue to see if there are cancer cells there. If there is cancer in these margins (positive margins), it may mean that not all of the cancer was removed during surgery.


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Medical School, Cancer Center co-host health fair
Free community wellness event Saturday, January 4 in Kaka`akoUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
MD Class of 2017, John A. Burns School of Medicine
Most people's top New Year's resolution is to start living healthy and the University of Hawai`i's John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and UH Cancer Center are ringing in 2014 with the 9th Annual Community Health Fair. The event, on Saturday, January 4, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Kaka`ako campus at 651 Ilalo Street, marks the first time the medical school and the newly-built Cancer Center have co-sponsored the fair to celebrate health and promote wellness. Admission is free.
The theme for the upcoming health fair is "I Ola No Ke Kino", or "may your body thrive." The MD student-organized event has drawn hundreds of visitors to the medical school in the past and even more are expected because this is the first time the fair will be held on a Saturday.
Two JABSOM medical students originally envisioned the event in 2004 to interact with the communities they intended to serve as physicians. Since then, the fair has become a reliable provider of information about various health resources available to Hawai`i residents.
Nearly 50 different groups will be participating in the upcoming health fair, from State of Hawai`i experts in insurance assistance, securities and health careers, to vendors including food trucks and producers of fresh vegetables. There also will be activities you can take part in, including zumba and tai chi demonstrations, a hula performance by JABSOM students and music by Simply Sedd.
Those looking for free health screenings are in luck. Retina and eye exams, blood pressure and glucose checks will be offered along with booth after booth featuring health and wellness information. Are you in the mood for a lecture? "How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Need for Medications," is a talk scheduled by Dr. Terry Shintani, author of "The Hawai`i Diet." Dr. Shintani is a Professor in the JABSOM Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Visitors can also sign up for the Hawai`i Bone Marrow Donor Registry or donate the gift of life at the bloodmobile, operated by the Blood Bank of Hawai`i, which will be parked at the curb. Blood donors will receive a coupon for free cookies from the Cookie Corner and be entered to win a trip for two to Las Vegas.
"We look forward to celebrating a new year of healthy living with you," said Kate Rastaad and Christine Lee, first-year MD students and fair publicity co-chairs. The students also offered a "mahalo" to health fair sponsors Blood Bank of Hawai`i and Islands Hospice.
For more information about the fair, see: www.facebook.com/UHHealthWellbeing
For additional information about the John A. Burns School of Medicine, contact: Communications Director Tina Shelton email@example.com
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Game 26 – Bleh
I looooove East games. It's seriously wonderful when the game ends and I can even listen to the entire post-game show before I have to go work–instead of being super early, super late, and/or rushing off during halftime.
Prior to the game, #224 was revealed to be Maurice Cheeks, and #225 to be Reggie Theus.
This turned out to be another one of those bleh games. Close enough to make you hope, not close enough to pull out a win.
In the opening minutes of the second half, Paul Pierce lost his shoe and the Jazz had a 5-on-4 situation. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how the sequence unfolded. CJ puts up a 3 and misses, Rondo picks up the board, and KG gets a dunk on the other end. Then CJ turns it over and Ray-Ray hits a 3. It was pretty much how the night went.
Pierce doing his best "dead cockroach" impression
Career night for Sap–32 and 10 with 2 each of assists, steals, and blocks. But given the final result ("L"), I can't find it in my heart to give Sap the hyping he deserves (12th straight double double). And once again, oh-so-sadly, I didn't want to see DWill taking shots and especially not 3s.
During the post-game show, someone called in to basically say that we don't need Boozer when we have Sap (those calls come in every day, don't they?) Locke responded, unbelievably, by saying that Boozer has the best hands of any player in the NBA.
Is he completely insane? Whether it's because he's a blind Boozer fan or that he's employed by the LHM Group, Locke has always been a big Boozer homer (i.e. refusing to let anti-Boozer callers talk and yelling at them) and ignores his flaws. Yes, Boozer has a great touch around the basket on offense some of the time, but the rest of the time AND on defense, he is fumbly and prone to being stripped. Ironically or perhaps expectedly, his feet are like that too. On offense, he is nimble and quick; on defense, his feet are cemented to the ground. Given that at least 50% of the time Boozer's hands are not a plus, I'm in disbelief that Locke would proclaim such a thing.


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Last month, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly stepped into instant Internet infamy when, in a debate with American Atheists president David Silverman, O'Reilly attempted to prove the existence of God by citing the mystery of the tides: "I'll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in." Only one problem: There's this thing called the Moon which might have a little to do with tides.
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Jagermeister goes in, vomit comes out.
You can't explain that!!
I've conducted several clinical trials concerning excessive alcohol consumption and religious belief. Interestingly, it turns out there is a correlation between the two at sufficiently high doses, but it involves the worship of deity known as "The Porcelain God". Even people pre-disposed to other religions tend to worship this false idol when they consume mass quantities of alcohol.
I've also heard that Salvia and LSD cause people to have religious experiences, but I have not conducted any trials in this area.
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The sister of Pedro Hernandez, the self-confessed killer of 6-year-old Etan Patz, says she heard her brother admit to a prayer group in the early 1980s that he had killed a child.
Will that confession stand up in court if the case ever goes to trial? Or, will the confession be considered "privileged" information the same as if it was told to a priest in a confessional?
The issue is important because so little evidence exists for a crime that was committed in 1979. According to news reports, the police are now trying to learn more about the garbage collections 33 years ago, since Mr. Hernandez claims to have stuffed the little boy's body in a bag or box and put it out with the trash a few blocks from the site of the alleged crime. But finding any corroborating evidence such as the body or someone who saw Etan talking to Hernandez is still a long shot.
"In general, statements that are closer to the event seem more credible, more persuasive," says Julie Seaman, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. "If it [the confession] was done in a therapeutic context it is somewhat more credible," she says. "But, in this case, I still don't think it adds up to very much."
The problem for the district attorney, defense lawyers point out, is the issue of whether or not Hernandez is mentally competent. Hernandez is expected to undergo extensive psychological examination to make that determination. "It is important not to rush to judgment about whoever did this," says Annemarie McAvoy, a former federal prosecutor and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School in New York. "Maybe in his twisted mind he has convinced himself he is responsible, or it could be some kind of dream world he is in – he may not have even seen him that morning."
If the district attorney does decide to find people who were part of the prayer group, it is likely they would have to testify and could not claim his statement was made in confidentiality. "A prayer service is not a confession," says Ms. McAvoy, who also has her own legal consulting business.
The distinction is important because most states have laws giving priests and penitents confidentiality privileges. "Priests do not have to go to court or testify about confessions," she says. "Most priests are hesitant about talking about anything said in a confessional."
In fact, many ministers say that confessions put them in a difficult position. For example, some church insurance policies require ministers to report certain crimes. Hardly any state exempts clergy from reporting a confession about child abuse.
"When someone comes and says they want to confess, I tell them right upfront, I am mandated to turn in crimes," says the Rev. Jim Barnes, national minister of the Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches in St. Louis.
Even if it's not mandated by law, some clergy say they feel a sense of duty to report confessed crimes to law enforcement. "I would tell a person upfront, you have told me something I cannot hold in confidence," says Rev. Bob Crilley of the First Presbyterian Church in Grapevine, Texas. "I want to be as transparent as possible."
In Hernandez's case, it appears that about 50 people who were in the prayer group did not report his confession to the police. (His sister has told reporters she did tell the Camden police, but the police say they have no record of the conversation.) While there may be a moral obligation to report a crime, there is no obligation to do so, says McAvoy, pointing out that the person hearing such a statement may not even believe the person saying it.
"You will not be prosecuted for not going," she says. "But, if you are helping someone evade the police you can be prosecuted."


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What waveform does the light coming off different types of artificial light sources have and (of course) what are the underlying physical reason for them?
I was inspired to ask this question because of several things I have been hearing lately.
Firstly, there was a recent TED talk about how LED bulbs can be used to transmit data. Researchers have been working on the problem for a little while now and they've made a fairly impressive product, but it was only recently made possible by the LED technology, which has such a fast response that it can easily compare to the transfer rates of electric information condiuits that we normally use.
My understanding is that incandescent bulbs flicker because they have 60 Hz AC power being pulsed through them. In fact, I think 60 Hz was chosen in the first place because it was a threshold that was unnoticeable to humans. Looking at a high speed youtube video of such a bulb demonstrates that it has a very significant lag time responding to both the normal electrical phasor and being turned off. In other words, it flickers but it doesn't go dark at any point in the AC waveform.
Looking for more information, however, I was a little disappointed, since nothing seemed to give a graph of lumens emitted over time for all different kinds of bulbs. Of course, there isn't just one relevant time scale. A light could flicker with 60 Hz and also flicker with 2000 Hz (I just made that up). I'm interested in the complete picture of what lights exhibit what patterns.


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In this month's issue, we share what we call the "Executive Outlook." It is a compilation of what the rotorcraft industry's top executives think the year 2014 will bring to the helicopter world, including the "Rotorcraft Outlook Panel" (see page 18), which is a group of leaders from companies that participate in Rotor & Wing's Annual Reports section starting on page 24. Their observations and predictions were gathered from telephone interviews and written responses, with their exact words being used as often as possible.
After absorbing their comments, I leaned back in my chair and considered how difficult it must be to deal with the uncertainties of the future, especially if the success of your company and the livelihoods of your employees depend on how well you deal with those uncertainties. I liken it to driving along a highway en route to an important appointment. You know how the traffic has been so far, and where the jams were the last time you traveled that road. But that was then, and today is today. Will you run into something you've successfully dealt with in the past, or come upon something you neither expected nor prepared for?
Nobody in the rotorcraft industry saw the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 coming, nor the economic boon that was in full swing a year later as the federal government pumped huge grants into state and local governments for the purposes of boosting homeland security. That money went to new helicopters for many agencies, and state-of-the-art aircraft upgrades for others. It also created a myriad of lucrative contracts for sales, support, research and development in the defense sector as the global war on terror commenced. Business in the rotorcraft world was good.
In 2008, though, an equally unexpected turn of events had the same effect on the helicopter business that an unmarked sinkhole has on a dark interstate highway. The U.S. housing market crashed almost overnight, taking state and local government revenues to an all-time low as a result of plummeting tax revenues. The consequences to the helicopter industry were severe drops in sales to public safety organizations. Even the private aviation sector caught a tremendous amount of fallout from the weakened economy. By 2013, the economy – and the aviation industry – were beginning to show signs of returning to normal. All was not well, but things seemed to be on the mend, particularly in the private and public sectors. For those with military customers, the withdrawal of troops and their aircraft from war zones caused some concern, but there was no reason to lose sleep over it.
And then came something called "sequestration." Sequestration was a nice term for a yet-to-be-invented four-letter curse word for "trouble." It was a sweeping set of budget cuts designed to be so painful that U.S. lawmakers would agree upon more sensible ones. But on March 1, 2013, with no meeting of the minds in place, sequestration was implemented, and funding was brutally slashed to a number of government operations. (Just months before, as CEOs pondered what 2013 would bring, I'll bet none of them really expected that their historically safe government contracts would be hacked or canceled with such little warning.)
So, here we are at the start of a new calendar year, which is, in effect, just another lap around a circular highway. The highs of the early 2000s are fading in the rear view mirror, the lows of the economic crash are a little ways back, and the effects of government budget issues are still stuck to the undercarriage.
Some of the executives I spoke to have made serious adjustments to their routes to compensate for fluctuations in the portion of the highway their market segment is in. Others are betting that if they stay in their lane, they'll do better than trying to maneuver around every bump in the road. All are squinting and looking as far ahead as they can to see if their plan will have to be tweaked.
The best executives surround themselves with smart people who will feed them with dozens of scenarios and ways to deal with them. They'll keep those scenarios coming for the following 365 days, since market catastrophes can't read calendars, or grasp the concept of a "fiscal year." After that, it's all about riding with the top down so they can take full advantage of a sunny season, while keeping that seat belt cinched tightly around their middle, just in case the wheels fall off.
I'm not a CEO, but with the world's economies fluctuating as they are, war footings changing, and all of the other stuff that nobody can see around the bend, I personally think 2014 is going to be a time for traveling in the center lane, staying just a little above the posted speed limit, and keeping both hands on the wheel, just in case. After all, like most helicopter professionals, I subscribe to the notion that if nothing bad is happening, it is surely about to.
On behalf of everyone here at Rotor & Wing, please have a safe, profitable, and Happy New Year!


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VANCEBORO � A 31-year-old Ayden man was killed Saturday evening when his SUV struck a tree about six miles from Vanceboro.
Denolen Marteze Pugh, whose address was Hanrahan Road in Ayden, was reportedly dead before firefighters could remove him from his GMC Yukon.
N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper J.H. Midgette said Pugh was traveling north on River Road a little after 6 p.m. when his vehicle ran off the right side of the road. He apparently tried to steer back on the road and overcorrected, causing his vehicle to drive off the west side of the road, he said.
After crossing the road and a ditch, Pugh�s vehicle turned on its right side and slid into a large pine tree, crushing the roof over his head, Midgette said.
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Intersex activist Angela Moreno talks about how she was subjected to mutilating genital surgery and years of lies. Physicians who claim that intersex activists criticisms apply only to older surgeries take note:
Angela's surgery was performed in 1985, by experienced specialists. The "clitoral reduction" destroyed her clitoral sensation, not to mention her mental health.
Angela is now comfortable with her intersex status, describing herself as "a different kind of woman, born uniquely hermaphroditic" and who wishes from the bottom of her heart that she had been allowed to stay that way.
"House" Gets It Wrong
Last night I was shocked and horrified as I watched the plot of Fox's popular medical drama, "House," unfold. Fans of the show stay tuned each week to see Dr. Gregory House take on medical mysteries with a sarcastic wit and his own special personality. Last night's episode, entitled "Skin Deep," proved that much more is flawed about this show than the protagonist. It was, without a doubt, one of the most offensive and hurtful portrayals of people with intersex conditions that I've ever seen.
For those who didn't see the show, allow me to summarize the painful episode. A 15 year old supermodel presents with mysterious symptoms, such as erratic behavior and uncontrollable twitching. Throughout the show, much is made of her feminine physique, with comments about her beautiful breasts and buttocks playing a lead role in the dialogue—even among the doctors. In the course of searching for a diagnosis, the medical team discovers that the young woman has been using heroin and that her father sexually abused her once while he was intoxicated. After ruling out effects from the heroin and possible post traumatic stress disorder resulting from the sexual abuse, House finally reaches the conclusion that the young supermodel must have cancer and a series of scans reveal internal testes that are malignant.
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My statements and responses to questions about marriage and queer culture centered on the failure of language around so-called "gay marriage" or "same-sex marriage." I talked about how these terms deny my experiences and the experiences of my community, which is made up of many sex and gender variant folks, namely transgender and intersex people. I spoke about attempts to legislate marriage based on current definitions of male and female fall apart when real human beings are put into the equation.
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Thanks to all the hostility to gay marriage, it's looking like judges in the U.S. are about to start on a learning curve now familiar to the International Olympic Committee. That's because, to categorize people strictly into men and women—as both gay marriage prohibitions and sex-segregated sports require—you have to figure out for sure what makes a man and what makes a woman. And that ain't simple.
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Forte exited the game in the third quarter after re-injuring his troublesome right ankle at the end of a run. Forte was taped up and appeared to be fighting to return to the game, but the Bears weren't taking any chances with a 28-6 lead.
Forte walked to the Bears' locker room with trainers. An announcement that he was done for the game soon followed, and Forte wore a walking boot on his right foot after the game.
"It is not the worst that I have ever felt, but it is the third time (I've hurt the ankle)," Forte told Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune. "So, it's just getting a little aggravating."
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The days before the Civil War caused much anxiety and created speculation among Americans about the nation's future. In a letter to his mother, Stephen Higginson describes his opinion on the best course of action for the American government. He sees the "Constitution of '89" as a "bad pro-Slavery" document. Rather than going through the slow process of amending it over time, he thinks "it is high time to have done such a Union." At the end of his letter, Stephen tells his mother "you asked me some time ago to give you a dish of politics" which indicates that although restricted from formal engagement in politics, women often took a keen interest.
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|Overall Goal | Observe | Explore | Define | Apply | Evaluate
Part B: Explore, Reflect on Your Own Thinking
In this part of each session, the focus is changed. Now we'd like you to concentrate on your own approach to learning. This part is designed to prompt self-reflection about your own thought process in relation to the standards.
The underlying premise of this section is that we must understand our own habits and practices in communication, problem solving, reasoning and proof, representation, and connections to understand how to best help students establish skill in these areas. Questions that will be typical of the explore section are
All of the work in the Explore section is done in the context of a problem or series of problems and an interactive activity. The problems and activity are intended for you to solve and they grow out of mathematical content related to material you may teach. In the context of the course, however, these are provided for your use rather than for class assignment.
Being aware of how you understand and integrate the process standards in your own thinking is the key to implementing them effectively.
Here are specific features of Explore:
The Interactive Activity
This Flash activity provides an interactive way to explore your own understanding of a concept in the context of a particular process standard. This is a fun and open-ended activity, and is designed for you, not for use in your classroom (although the activity may be adapted).
Here is an example from Session 2, Communication, in which you explore properties of congruent shapes.
There is one activity like this in each of the sessions.
As mentioned above, the journal appears at the end of each part. In Explore, the journal questions will allow you to reflect on the interactive activity you just completed as well as other points.
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The series will expand to 12 events in nine different U.S. states as well as one event in Canada in 2012.
In early 2011, a group of North American motorsports facility owners, led by Texas Motorplex (Ennis, Texas) owner Billy Meyer, worked to bring back the Fun Ford Weekend series because of popular demand.
"Fans and participants all suffered when Fun Ford Weekend was shut down a few years ago," Meyer said. "Ford vehicle owners are extremely loyal to their brand, and they love big events and racing. Working with Ford Racing, Roush Yates and JE Pistons, we got off to a great start in relaunching this series and are very excited to announce our 2012 event schedule and the dedicated people who will be directing the series this year."
Fun Ford Weekend Series – 2012 Schedule
March 23-24, Royal Purple Raceway (Houston)
April 20-21, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Las Vegas)
May 11-12, Rockingham Dragway (Rockingham, N.C.)
June 9, Spokane County Raceway (Spokane, Wash.)
June 15-17, Virginia Motorsports Park (Petersburg, Va.)
June 22-23, Bandimere Speedway (Denver)
June 29-30, Bristol Dragway (Bristol, Tenn.)
August 17-18, Maple Grove Raceway (Reading, Pa.)
September 2, Castrol Raceway (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
September 7-8, Texas Motorplex (Dallas)
September 14-15, Palm Beach Intl. Raceway (Palm Beach, Fla.)
September 28-29, Memphis Intl. Raceway (Memphis, Tenn.)
Fun Ford Weekend Series President Named
For 2012, the Series will be directed by a group of dedicated and enthusiastic member-track managers, led by Texas Motorplex General Manager, Gabrielle Stevenson, who has been named President of the Fun Ford Weekend Series.
"The Blue Oval brand has a long and storied history in this country and it's time we bring the Fun Ford Weekend series back to a full slate of national events," Stevenson said. "We've had an amazing response from participants, fans and sponsors about bringing this series back. It's truly a celebration of what Ford means to generations of drivers and fans."
Stevenson said the series will be hosted by the most aggressive and dedicated collection of tracks and is looking forward to building off the success of the 2011 Fun Ford Weekend events in 2012 and beyond.
"We are changing the business plan in terms of a national series because Fun Ford Weekend is now owned by the event hosts," Stevenson said. "We want to have some common threads in each of the national events, but will localize each event too because the track owners and operators know how to put on the best Fun Ford Weekend event possible for each market. Now each track has a vested interest in the success of the entire Fun Ford Weekend series and it's exciting to help usher in a new era for this popular series."
Fun Ford Weekend Series Announces Vice Presidents
Working with Stevenson in 2012 are the following track managers who will be serving as Fun Ford Weekend vice presidents: Sporty Bandimere, Bandimere Speeedway; Pam Kendrick, Memphis International Raceway and Bryan Pierce, Virginia Motorsports Park.
The Fun Ford Weekend Series is also represented on the marketing and promotions side by Forward Sports Marketing, which includes Ryan Haas, Series Supervisor; Jeff Lacina, Marketing and Sponsorships and Sara Griewing, Sponsorship Coordinator.
About Fun Ford Weekend
The family-oriented Fun Ford Weekend series is run by each of the tracks that host the events. Each track creates its own event schedule, racing structure, car show, and if adequate space, will also have autocross competition. The goal of the series is to get as many automotive enthusiasts that have a passion for the Ford brand to participate, celebrate and enjoy the events. For more information on Fun Ford Weekend, visit www.funfordweekend.com.
Two long-time Ford racing powerhouses, Roush Yates and JE Pistons served a presenting sponsors during the re-launch of the series in 2011.
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Happy Leap Day!
This morning, I had planned get up and to try cooking something totally new. I mean, isn't this supposed to be the magical day for trying things you normally wouldn't do? (Or maybe, just maybe, I watch too much TV.) I racked my brain. Haggis? Squab? Jello mold? Croquembouche? By the time I had gone through a list of possibilities, it was that iffy time between breakfast and lunch. I was getting hungry, and finally settled on adding a twist to something I make about 10 times a month.
Fried eggs. Or more specifically, fried eggs with oyster sauce. It's pure comfort food, and something I've raved about periodically on this blog but have never formalized into a recipe. I fry up the eggs until the whites are all set but the yolks are still runny, transfer them to a bowl with rice or noodles, add an oyster sauce/soy sauce combo, and mix everything up. It's incredibly addictive, either as a slightly hedonistic weekday breakfast or a super-fast lunch or dinner.
(Necessary disclaimer: I personally prefer my eggs slightly undercooked, and almost always buy free-range eggs. But definitely cook the eggs until the yolks are set if you feel more comfortable, or if you're pregnant.)
Over the hundreds of times I've made fried eggs in my life, I've developed a few tricks for getting them to the perfect crispness without over-browning the bottoms and edges, or having them stick to the pan:
- Crack the eggs into a bowl first. This way, you can pick out any stray pieces of eggshell. Plus, the eggs stay together better when you add them all at once.
- Add the eggs to a hot wok or pan. The oil should be glistening before you add the eggs, so they won't stick and so the edges will begin to crisp almost immediately.
- After about 1 minute, lower the heat to medium. This way, the egg whites have a chance to fully set before the bottoms over-brown.
- The egg whites around the yolks have the hardest time cooking because that part is usually the thickest. Use a fork or edge of a spatula to poke holes around the outside of the yolks so the uncooked egg whites on top can seep through, make contact with the pan, and cook.
The only difference between these eggs and the ones I normally make is that I chopped up some kimchi and spooned it onto the egg whites as they were setting. But since I keep talking about how great and simple these eggs are, and for whatever reason had never posted the recipe, here it is.
Croquembouche may have to wait for another day.
Fried Eggs with Kimchi
Serves 1
- 2 teaspoons oyster sauce*
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped kimchi
- 1 scallion, thinly sliced or shredded
- In a small bowl, combine the oyster sauce and soy sauce and stir until well-mixed. Set aside.
- Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Crack the eggs into a small bowl, then once the oil is hot enough, carefully pour the eggs into the hot oil. Spoon the chopped kimchi over the egg whites as they are setting so they get cooked into the eggs. After 1 minute, lower the heat to medium so the bottoms get crisp without over-browning while the egg yolks are still setting. Cook for another 2 to 3 minutes to your desired level of doneness. (If the egg whites around the yolk are taking a while to set, use a fork to poke holes around the outside of the yolks. This way, the uncooked egg whites on top can seep through, make contact with the pan, and get cooked.)
- With a wide spatula, carefully transfer the eggs to a plate. Spoon the oyster sauce mixture of the eggs and top with scallions. Serve alone or with rice on the side.
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The City of New York is trying to outlaw the word "bitch." Next they're gonna try and outlaw the air you breathe. So a tally: first they take away our cigarettes, then they came for our racial epithets, then they came for our racially-charged sexist epithets, and then our trans-fats and now they're robbing us of the only word in the English language that can describe the act that someone is committing when she uses said word to describe somebody. It's madness, and the New York Times summons rock snobs, fashion twats and sundry other free speech crusaders to, um, bitch about it. Which reminded us of a word we saw on UrbanDictionary once:
cuntificate v. When a chick rambles on and on about bullshit.
Anyway, we hope that's a lesson to the state censors. You try to eradicate something harmful from society, and society thanks you by coming up with the crack rock of offensive slang.
Do us a favor, Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, and try not to do anything drastic next time, like, you know, outlaw actually being a bitch.
(It's not gonna make that name of yours any prettier-sounding"
It's a Female Dog. Or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal? [NY Times]