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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Preventing the One Person Parrot
There was a recent discussion on my yahoo group about innate vs. learned behaviors. It seems the two are not so mutually exclusive. There are many behaviors we tend to chalk up to genetics and assume we can never change. But the good news is even these so called hard wired behaviors are often heavily influenced by experience. This is especially important as we work to shape the behavior of our parrots.
Beni the blue throated macaw is a great example. As his photos show, he can be a love……once he gets to know you. Guess who he knows best now? Me. I spend more time with him than anyone. And all those wonderful head scratching sessions, treat fueled training times and fun play encounters make me a special person to Beni. Although I certainly enjoy this, Beni has more important things to do in his future than just be my buddy. Soon he will be teaching others about responsible pet ownership and parrot conservation. This means Beni needs to play nice with others too.
Even though parrots may have a tendency to choose one person as their preferred companion, I know that I can use positive reinforcement training to teach Beni that it is fun to interact with other people as well.
Recently one of the staff members of the Kaytee Learning Center came to visit the baby parrots. This was the perfect opportunity to help both Beni and Wrigley learn that other people are also great fun. John will be the baby parrots primary trainer at Kaytee. I was very pleased to see Wrigley warm up to John right away. Within the first hour he was rolling over onto his back for play sessions and flying to John on cue.
Beni on the other hand was not so sure. He did fly to John that first session, but showed body language that indicated he was not so sure about the situation. One thing that was not helping is if I was in close proximity to Beni. Because Beni can fly, if he saw me, he would often choose to come to me instead of John. While I am flattered all that great training has worked to build a strong relationship with Beni, I really want Beni to respond positively to other people. To help Beni and John succeed, I decided it would be better if I did not interact with Beni for the rest of the visit. Instead John would let Beni out of his cage, and also deliver all treats and toys. And it worked!
Eventually we were able to work up to a session in which Beni enjoyed lots of head scratches from John. The goal was to reduce my value to Beni and increase John's. It did mean I had to temporarily reduce my interactions with Beni a bit, and let John do more fun things with him.
The good news is even though Beni may want to choose one person as his favorite, we can teach him he doesn't have too. Everyone is a blast.
Barbara Heidenreich
Copyright Good Bird Inc 2009
8 comments:
- peachypaige said...
My parrot is still very young, and is always around my parents and I. I'm having a problem training her not to bite and to have fun with my parents as well while I'm not home. What can I do?
- January 22, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- Barbara Heidenreich said...
Hi there,
Good for you for wanting to be proactive with your parrot and get a handle on problems early! I am going to refer you to my FAQ page on behavior problems. It has tons of resources to help you with aggressive behavior and also to help you get started training your bird to be interactive with your parents. Here is the link! http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-behavior-problems.html
- January 23, 2012 at 6:35 PM
- dta51 said...
I have a 2 yr old orange winged Amazon who is truly the love of my life! I'm 62 & wanted to purchase him because he was sitting alone in a pet store & seemed desperate for attention! Because of my age, I knew he could be very alone or even homeless before he even reached middle age so I brought my 24 yr old son back to the store with me so he could meet him & agree that he would always have a home with him should something happen to me. So, together we took him home! At first he wouldn't go to anybody but me but with a lot of encouragement during the past year my son & Myakka are the best of friends. I feel so content knowing he'll always have a wonderful home within his own family with someone he knows is crazy about him! I just want to thank you for all the free info you made available for me to make an educated decision about bringing him into our family & how to get him to love my son as much as me! I'm forever grateful!!
- September 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM
- Barbara Heidenreich said...
I am so glad you and your son are both able to enjoy this bird. And I love how thoughtful you were before taking the leap. Sounds like you all will add and do add so much to each other lives. Congrats!
- September 22, 2013 at 10:32 PM
I have a 20 yr old greenwing. Three yrs ago she started plucking really bad and then started pulling out blood feathers. We did everything we could and our vet finally suggested that we place her in a free flight sanctuary in Fl. She was there for 3 yrs and stopped plucking but never bonded with anyone. I visited her several times and decided to build a aviary myself and bring her home. Because I was worried about her future and my son will take care of her when I am gone. I brought another Blue & Gold with her the same age , my flight is going to be 18x36. When I first came home with them I put them in a 10x10 and they did great, all of a sudden my greenwing wants to kill him. We had to separate them while our flight is being built. I realize my greenwing is doing this because of me, I have trying to work with them and its gotten a little better. I try not to give the B&G attention in front of her. I hope I will be able to put them together after my flight is built, the B&G is a great flyer and my greenwing not so much. someone told me I might have to bring another macaw in the flight and I do have a woman who has one the same age of mine that she is begging me to take. Would love to get some feedback on this problem if anyone could help. Thanks
- November 19, 2013 at 10:04 AM
- Barbara Heidenreich said...
In general macaws dont live in a groups of 3 unless they are a family group. So a third bird may not help the situation. Two of the three will likely buddy up and one will be the odd man out. Being that there is alot of factors to consider you might want a private consult with Pamela Clark to develop a detailed plan. Her website is www.pamelaclarkonline.com
Best to you and your birds.
- November 30, 2013 at 12:48 PM
- Michael Summers said...
I just got a hand raised baby hahns macaw a month ago and she is wonderful. I paln on getting some of your books but for now I would like a few tips on a couple of things. I saw how you took the time to answer all these questions. Ive been watching uoir videos for the past 3 hours. Lol. I think you are an awesome hearted person and probably love the lord also. You already have answered so many questions through your videos. I want my macaw to roll on her back, I feel tho I have already messed up bad. I got her used to being held like a drinking glass with two hands and I very gently turned her over and she did not like it. But I was thinking, I am the boss and she has to do it. I gave her some time and tried it a couple more times. I started looking up what I was doing wrong due to my fingers being sore and her now not trusting me like shee used to. I feel horihorrible and I hope I havent ruined our relationship. How do I get her to want to roll over. She is playful in her cage but while im holding her, we only spend our time with me rubbing her and stepping up and flying to me on command. I feel I am now truly understanding the the positive reinforcement only. Ive used scary objects to keep her from flying at me when I didnt tell her too. You have helped me see that I was being kinda mean and if I dont change now, she might stop being so darn sweet and patient with me. Thank you very much.
- January 20, 2014 at 4:28 AM
- Barbara Heidenreich said...
Lots more resources for various behavior problems here http://www.goodbirdinc.com/goodbirdinc.com/parrot-behavior-problems.html and also check out the recordings of webinars on a number of popular topics.http://www.goodbirdinc.com/goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store-digital.html
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"I went along with her, and wandered around the park, trying out all the rides which were free to me. But each day I would go to the woman in charge and ask, "Mrs. Stevens, can I work today?" She pointed out that there was a law that I had to be 16 to work, and I would need working papers. I never gave up, and finally she relented and said I could be a check girl in the bath house on the beach."At the end of the season, Mrs. J.C. Stevens wrote in my mother's autograph book:
May success be yours, it should.
Mrs. Stevens - "Can I work today"
Mrs. J.C. Stevens
My mother got autographs from lots of the park workers, most of whom noted what their job was or what ride they worked at. Many of the autographs included little verses, but this one had heartfelt sentiment:
August 26, 1936Mom's sister Bonnie, who was almost 17, wrote a short verse containing a grammatical error which belied her later command of the English language. She became an eloquent poet.
Dear Mary,
I will always remember you - the little girl whose many acts of kindness I will appreciate always after we are separated here at Jefferson Beach. May we meet again. Loads of health, luck & happiness in the future.
Mary Louise
Mrs. Carl Schulte also signed my mother's book. Some time ago the names of Carl and Blanche Schulte had come to my attention in another venue, and I had asked my cousin Cheryl Schulte whether she knew how they were related to our family. I was going to look up her old email for the explanation, but Cheryl refreshed my memory this morning before I got around to it:
Now I can tell you quickly how Blanche & Carl (Chuck) Schulte are related to you or to your Mom and you won't even have to look up the old e-mail. In essence, in the land of DNA and blood and all that true genie stuff, they are NOT related at all to your Mom or to you. In a nutshell, this is how it goes (and I am mighty proud that I can rattle this off without looking anything up):Carl or Chuck is the son of Elizabeth Feucht (my Julie's oldest sister) and Elizabeth's second husband Louis Pospishl. When Louis died and then my Julie died, Elizabeth persuaded Julie's husband, Rudolph Schulte, to marry her which Rudolph did 9 days after Julie died. Elizabeth came to the marriage with her son, Carl (Chuck) Pospishl, and her other 4 children from marriage #1 to her Storkel husband. Rudolph, of course, only had my grandpa, Elmer, to bring to the marriage. I even have the birth record for Carl Pospishl from South Dakota I believe.For some reason that nobody could ever tell me, down the road, during the marriage of Elizabeth and Rudolph, Carl Pospishl 'took' the surname of Schulte. He was never legally adopted or anything like that. He just called himself Carl or Chuck Schulte and from then on, when he married, when he and Blanche had children, grandchildren, etc, it is Schulte.Carl is, of course, related to me through the Feucht family. His mother and my great-grandmother were sisters. But he is not a true Schulte so he would not be related to your Evelyn, etc. But they were all good friends and partied together.
A name index appears below. Click on the album cover to see the pages of the book.
|Mary Kerr's 1936 Autographs
Index to Mary Kerr's 1936 Autographs
- Jimmy Rodda, Mary Kerr
- Betty Jane S., 14969 Coram Ave., Detroit, Mich.
- Wm Kureimi, Elsie Daniels, Meryle Downy, Lilla Hallison, Leone Hunt, Henry "Heinie" Walleman
- Doris Olsen, Mrs. C. [Carl] Schulte (Blanche)
- R. Patten (Ballroom), Bonnie [Kerr, Mary's sister]
- Mrs. Roy Patten (ballroom), Vivian Olsen
- Doris King (ballroom fountain), "Pickles"
- Al Sova ("Just a hashslinger), Lucille Goss (relief)
- Phyllys K., Joe Mazzella (plaster doll store)
- Red Alexander (bath house), Joe Fresard & Bernice MacMillan
- Helen Barkoot, Howard Carrier
- Richard Travis, Bob Steveling (candy kid)
- Donna Lordy (the root beer girl?)
- A. Beard, Norma
- Rose E. Dodd (courtesy)
- Artemis Kevas (beer garden), June (relief)
- Tommy (Dungeon Dipper)
- Maxine
- Irene (Sportland), Joseph Batty
- Mrs. J.C. "Marge" Stevens, "Beans" Callas (R.D. #7, Butler, Pa.)
- Mary Louise (Coaster)
- Geo Meldrum (Swooper), William Bartley (Aeroplane)
- G. Arnott, 21936 Rosedale, St. Clair Shores, Mich.
- Harry D. Perry, 21707 Ten Mile, St. Clair Shores
- Douglas Dickerson, Thomas Taubitz (bath house)
- Marion Gough, Stanley T. Dunk
- Stan
- Honey (dance hall), Shorty (Skooter)
- Clark K*t (High Striker), Rita (restaurant)
- Harry Millette (Speed Boats)
- Stubby, M. Shintel (dog stand)
- Edith Rodda
- Florance Urquhart, Walter James Urquhart, Bob Grossman
- J.F. Jones, Braham Barkoot (blanket store)
- Frank Daniels, 737 Briar Pl., Chicago, Ill. (cigarette store)
- B. Almany, Arthur Boyden (assistant doorman?)
- Alita Sayers, George Beyer
- Harry Bigres?, Roy Gayle?
- Bob Hoadley (Skee Ball), Dot Lucas ("I guess weights")

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read more:http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/ar...4-b720f88a5f25Cameron Wake came to the Dolphins in 2009 as a pass-rushing specialist but has developed into an all-around force at defensive end.
He not only can rush the passer, he's become very good against the run and he also can make plays in pass coverage when called upon.
And there's still another way Wake has and continues to contribute to the success of the Dolphins _ as a mentor to the young defensive ends on the roster.
"Cameron is outstanding because, one, he's a guy that doesn't say a lot all the time and when he says something they really listen," defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers said. "But they can just watch him by example. This guy comes to work every day; this is a blue-collar worker. This is not a prima donna player you're talking about. He's a self-made man, too, and he only got to where he is because of work. So they watch his work ethic, they've got a chance to be OK."
At 31 years old and with four years of NFL experience on his resume, Wake is practically ancient when compared to his defensive end teammates. Along with Wake, the defensive ends on the roster are second-year players Olivier Vernon and Derrick Shelby, and rookies Dion Jordan, Tristan Okpalaugo and Emeka Onyenekwu.
It's quite the contrast from when Wake first joined the Dolphins as a 27-year-old in 2009 as a 3-4 outside linebacker and his position cohorts included veterans like Jason Taylor and Joey Porter.
With two Pro Bowl selections and 43 sacks in his first four seasons, which ranks fourth in the league during that span, Wake has developed into one of the best defensive ends in the NFL despite being undersized at 6-3, 250 pounds.
He has compensated with a tremendous work ethic and good technical work, making him an ideal teacher for his younger teammates. And Wake has been more than happy to help, even if he can't help but smile when he thinks of himself as a mentor.
"Already, huh? We're passing the torch?" Wake said. "You know what? It's something that I knew was coming. It had already started previously when O.V. came in and we had three rookies in the D-line room and being a veteran, it's crazy how quick it happens.


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My little sister has been playing a few Mega Drive games, and I'm glad she can't play most of them because she doesn't know the "Nintendo Logicness" of those old titles. Nintendo Logic becomes pathetically obvious when you're watching someone who hasn't been poisoned by it playing old games. Newer, 3D games have their own fake logic, but they resemble more closely reality. And I'm glad score-based gameplay is dead.
Also, while revisiting old Mega Drive games I discovered most of them didn't age as well as I'd expect. I can still play Sonic, and even Castle of Illusion, but most platform games are absurdly boring. Puzzle games like Columns have aged well, but that was expected (witness the Tetris DX re-release for the Game Boy Color, for example). Sports games are dull. RPGs are usually, but not always, ok. Landstalker is still playable and all, but I'd take Shenmue any day of the week.
I don't think there are many old games that can appeal newer gamers that didn't play them "back in the days". I play River Raid for the Atari 2600 every once in a while, but I doubt I'd play it if I didn't own an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. Our memories are always much better than the reality. New games suck, but so did old games.
Now, are these musings interesting enough to deserve a place in an Advogato diary? Of course not.
Been to Florianopolis this past week. Very nice and beautiful city. As beautiful as Rio de Janeiro, but with educated people instead - except for the argentinians, but it's a local joke that they don't count as "people". At least I won't count as "people" the person who parked in a position that blocked my car and cursed when I kindly asked him to find a better place for it.
Bought two Moby singles in loco. Not bad, I actually enjoyed them. The first remix of "Porcelain" in the Porcelain single is excelent, and so are "Sunspot" and in particular "Arp" in the Bodyrock single.
The Next Big Thing On The Internet
I believe I've invented the Next Big Thing on the Internet. It's dull, mostly useless and won't make me rich, though, but it's the kind of thing people would drool over. I will write it down later. I'm still waiting for the Next Internet Revolution, however. The two killer apps of the Internet, email and the WWW, are knee-deep in the junk. Email is now a method for delivering unsolicited bulk email, and the WWW is all about bloated pages with that distinctively ugly Front Page style and lots of popups. Even Google is bloated nowadays. I don't want no transparent 1x1 gifs when I'm using lynx, goddamit.
I played the winning game today (All Roads). While it was fun, and it actually did hold my attention until the end (no small feat), well, it was a very poor comp this year, yes it was. Furthermore, non-Z machine games are a pita. I don't want to download 19 interpreters for playing all comp games. I won't even download a TADS interpreter.
You know Slashdot is doomed...
... when it carries only VA ads.
Idle. Trip. Island. Strange people. Some talking to trees (not me).
More layoffs at Conectiva yesterday (third major chainsaw party already). I was fired. Of course, from now on Conectiva-related problems are no longer of my concern, so this is probably the last time you'll hear from me about them in this diary.
Nothing useful.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


text: A diagnosis of diabetes is always stressful. People are suddenly faced with having to manage a complex treatment regimen, including amended diet, regular monitoring and pharmacological therapies, often leading to a variety of new fears and responsibilities about their health. Problems with emotional adjustment to the condition can have negative effects on diabetes self-management – which in turn can impact on emotional wellbeing, in a classical vicious cycle. Here, the authors report on the relationships between diabetes and depression, and suggest a model of collaborative care for people with diabetes and mental health problems.


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As the episode starts, we see Salman Khan taking a stand for Tanisha.
In a heated discussion with Kushal and Gauhar over the fight with Tanisha, Salman Khan says this might be the last season of the show for him. Khan says the reason would be the incident of Tanisha and Kushal's fight.
Salman Khan starts with Kushal's behaviour with Tanisha. He slams Kushal for talking indecently about a woman.
Recently, Tanisha and Kushal got into a fight over a task. Kushal poured various things like detergent and dirt inside the box where Tanisha was sitting during a task. When she comes out of the box, Tanisha gets angry and pushes Kushal twice. The inmates, however, do not see it as a reaction. They say that as a woman, it was a 'cheap' step on her part.
It might be interesting to recall here that Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn (Tanisha's brother-in-law) share a very good friendship bond. Viewers may also see Salman's support for Tanisha as something pushed by Devgn or his family!
Salman reacts ferociously to this and blasts everyone from Gauhar to Kamya to Kushal.
However, the Dabangg-actor soon changes gears and gets back to his jovial self. He then chats with Heaven, the dog with Andy's help.
Later, Salman introduces the viewers to wild card entries Candy Brar and Aijaz Khan. Aijaz and Candy are currently living in the Caravan, a recently introduced feature in the show.


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Middle States Holds USNA Town Hall
POSTED ON: Friday, April 11, 2014 8:00 AM by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan L. Correa
Middle States Holds USNA Town Hall
By: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan L. Correa
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The U.S. Naval Academy will hold a town hall meeting April 30 hosted by Dr. Christy Faison, Vice President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).
The meeting will take place in Sampson G14 at 1 p.m. and is open to anyone from the academy who would like to attend.
This meeting will allow Faison to give Naval Academy staff and faculty information about the Middle States accreditation process and answer questions. It is one of several meetings that she will be holding throughout the day.
"Dr. Faison is not here to evaluate us," said Vice Academic Dean Boyd Waite, who is serving as one of the co-chairs of the preparation effort. "She is here to help us better understand the process we are about to begin."
Waite has been in contact with Dr. Faison for the past few months, helping her get familiar with the academy in preparation for her visit.
"This visit is Dr. Faison's chance to meet many of the members of the USNA team," said Waite. "This is her chance to get a feel of what the Naval Academy is all about."
"The preparation for re-accreditation is a two and a half year process, which for the Naval Academy started in the fall of 2013 and will end in the summer of 2016," said Assistant Dean for Planning and Assessment Katherine Cermak, the other co-chair of the preparation effort.
"This re-accreditation review of the academy will take place after we conduct an intensive self-study over the next 18 months," said Cermak. "This allows us to look at our programs and our mission."
More than 80 members of the USNA team from all parts of the Yard – including faculty, administrators, and staff – are helping develop this self-study.
Middle States will not only look at the academic part of USNA's mission.
"Their main interest is how we accomplish our full mission as an institution," said Cermak. "Our mission is not to just give students degrees. It includes the moral, mental and physical aspects, and how we prepare midshipmen for naval service, so we need everyone at the academy to be a part of this."
Though the academy is not legally required to be accredited, there are clearly many important benefits.
"Without institutional accreditation, it would be very difficult for midshipmen to go to graduate school," said Cermak. "Our engineering, computer science, and chemistry programs could not be accredited by their respective accrediting organizations. Being accredited tells the world that you're willing to participate in processes of self-improvement and external review."
Middle States is a voluntary, non-governmental membership association serving the Mid-Atlantic region that is dedicated to quality assurance and improvement of institutions of higher learning, and it instills public confidence in an institution's mission, goals, performance, and resources through its rigorous accreditation standards and their enforcement.
For more news from U.S. Naval Academy, visit www.navy.mil/local/usna/.
Category: General Interest, Press Releases


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Roasted green chilies add spice to this do-ahead dish, which happens to be a great way to use up leftover chicken.
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I had to make some changes cuz the fam has issues with heat. I like heat, but not to the point where the dish is so hot that you can't taste anything else but the heat. So, I reduced the chili powder down to 2 tsps. and just used a few shakes of hot pepper flakes. Reduced cummin to 2 tsps. Used about 3 red lipstick peppers, 1 red poblano and half of a green poblano - brushed them with olive oil first, seeded and cut in half forcing them to lie flat on a foil lined cookie sheet before roasting them. Roasting took maybe 7 min. in a low broiler temp. oven. Once removed, I piled them on top of each other, and folded the foil over them, letting them rest for 10 min. The red ones are very easy to skin but if I was using green, I would purchase them in a can or jar rather than go through the hastle. Green ones are very difficult to skin for some reason. Reduced the half & half to 2 cups, and the cheese to maybe a cup skipping the sour cream altogether. Also reduced the flour to 1/4 cup slightly mounded and the broth to 3 cups. Used 2 cups cooked navy beans and left over roasted chicken from the market and 3 mounded tsps. of tomato paste, 1 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1 tsp. 21 no salt herb seasoning from Costco. Also used 1 leek and shallots instead of onions to equal the 2 onions in the recipe. Topped with sliced grean onions. This is a very rich & thick chili, but one of the best I've ever tasted even with all the changes I made. I did not chill before adding the jack but I can see where an overnight chill might deepen the flavors more.
Delicious !!!
My hubby is heat averse, so I used only 4 Anaheim chilies and omitted hot sauce (added Tabasco to my bowl as needed). Also cooked the beans in the crock pot ahead. Love it!
My family really enjoyed recipe. I subbed water for chicken stock and only used about 3 cups bc I added 2 large tomatoes. Then used Jalapeños instead of the other chilies and it had a strong kick of spice. Everything else was the same. I had no problems with consistency. My chili turned out nice and thick. Maybe people just didn't give it enough time to thicken. It's a great base to play around with different ingredients too.
Excellent, but seriously rich. Didn't bother with the sour cream, used a sprinkling of cheese and fresh cilantro as garnish. Used 1 can mild fire-roasted chilis (4 oz) , one of hot. Beautiful balance. Cornbread ( not the sweet kind, the stone ground kind) would be great wth this.
Turkey leftovers! Been making this chili for years and just made it for the first time using thanksgiving turkey leftovers. Amazing!!! One thing I have learned over the years is the hardest part of this recipe is roasting, peeling, seeding and chopping the chili's so I now susstitue with a 4 oz can of fire roasted mild green chili's (You can use the hot if you like). Same result without the work. And last, I skip the cilantro and tomateo salsa and serve with good old fashion cornbread. The best! This is by far my #1 winter recipe. Kinda made me famous for it in my family. :)
Don't be fooled by the photo! This chili does not have black beans or tomatoes. However, it was a good and tasty white chili. White being the operative word! There is virtually no color in this dish, base is white, beans are white, chicken is white. The roasted chilis and hot sauce (I used a blazing chipotle hot sauce rather than a cayenne version) gave it a nice kick and the tiniest hint of color. The chili, like all chills, aged well., even with so much milk. Great starting point for some riffs: less milk, different beans, different chilies and spice/hot sauce combos. Great and quick meal with poached chicken and canned beans.
I'm giving this 4forks for the great inspiration. I did not use any dairy in mine so dbled the chicken broth and it did not come out as I'd hoped. That said it made a bloody great thick soup. Pureed half and bob's your uncle. It was fab!
This is a family favorite for white chili, I even entered this in a chili contest and won first prize!
We just won our second chili cookoff with this crowd pleaser. We tend to cut liquids in half and will use poblano as well as anaheim peppers. A truly excellent chili!


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|Ursala Hegi
|The Disability Studies Reader
|Lennard J. Davis
|Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine
|The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
|On Doctoring (3)
|Richard Reynolds, M.D., John Stone, M.D.
|Being a Doctor: The Art of Medicine
|Joel H. Goldstein
|Big Doctoring in America
|Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
|Education of Health Professionals in Commentary/Alternative medicine
|Alfred P. Fishman, M.D.
|M.D. One Doctor's Adventures Among the Famous and Infamous from the Jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue Practice
|B.H. Kean, M.D.
|The Medical Interview
|John L. Coulehan, Marian R. Block
|Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
|Robert M. Sapolsky
|Wrong Medicine
|Lawrence J. Scheiderman, M.D., Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D.
|Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine
|Linda H. Pololi
|How Remarkable Woman Lead (2)
|Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston
|Leading From The Front
|Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
|One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
|Jim Fergus, J. Will Dodd (Introduction)
|She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
|Jennifer Finney Boylan
|The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson)
|Robinson, Garrow
|The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
|Ellen Kuhlmann (Editor), Ellen Annandale (Editor)
|The Power of Focus for Woman
|Fran Hewitt, Les Hewitt
|The Science Glass Ceiling: Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed
|Sue V. Rosser
|To Recruit and Advance, Woman Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering (2)
|National Research Council
|What's Holding You Back? (2)
|Linda Austin. M.D.
|Women and Medicine
|Catherine D. DeAngelis
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|Linda Babock, Sara Laschever
|The Woman Scientist: Meeting the Challenges for a Successful Career
|Clarice M. Yentsch, Carl J. Sindermann
|Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work
|Daryl G. Smith
|Faculty Diversity: Removing the Barriers
|JoAnn Moody
|In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce
|Committee on Institutional and Policy
|Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance
|Howard J. Ross, Foreword by Julianne Malveaux
|The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul
|Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Tracey A. Laszloffy
|Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace
|Adalberto Aquirre, Jr.
|Intimate Relationships in Medical School: How to Make them Work
|Michael F. Myers
|Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change (6)
|W.K. Kellogg Foundation
|Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
|Daniel Coleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
|To Your Health: Achieving Well-Being During Medical School
|Thomas M. Wolf
|The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career
|Goldsmith, Komlos, Gold
|The Department Chair's Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars
|Estela Mara Bensimon, Kelly Ward, Karla Sanders
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Psittacosis is an infection caused by Chlamydophila psittaci, a type of bacteria found in the droppings of birds. Birds spread the infection to humans.
Ornithosis; Chlamydia psittaci
Psittacosis is a rare disease. Only 100 to 200 cases are reported each year in the United States.
Bird owners, pet shop employees, persons who work in poultry processing plants, and veterinarians are at increased risk for this infection. Typical birds involved are parrots, parakeets, and budgerigars, although other birds have also caused the disease.
The health care provider will hear abnormal lung sounds such as crackles and decreased breath sounds when listening to the chest with a stethoscope.
Tests include:
The infection is treated with antibiotics. Doxycycline is used first. Other antibiotics that may be prescribed include:
Note: Tetracycline and doxycycline by mouth are usually not prescribed for children until after all their permanent teeth have started to grow in, because they can permanently discolor teeth that are still forming. These medicines are also not prescribed to pregnant women. Other antibiotics are used in these situations.
A full recovery is expected if you do not have any other conditions that affect your health.
Antibiotics are needed to treat this infection. If you develop symptoms of psittacosis, call your health care provider.
Avoid exposure to birds that may carry these bacteria, such as imported parakeets. Medical problems that lead to a weak immune system increase your risk for this disease and should be treated appropriately.
Limper AH. Overview of pneumonia. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 97.
Torres A. Pyogenic bacterial pneumonia and lung abscess. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus CV, Martin TR, et al. Murray & Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 32.
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Fight Code Teams Up With W5 For Rhinos Final 8 on Saturday
- Written by Rian Scalia
Fight Code is again co-promoting with another kickboxing organization this weekend on October 22nd. Last week saw them in Marseilles, France co-promoting with TK2 for their Dragons Final 8. This weekend will be the Rhinos Final 8 featuring heavyweights.
Some respectable talent has been brought in for single fights with Sergio Wielzen, Maxim Smirnov, Keiji Ozaki and Aziz Kallah among names. They've reached from all different regions to grab up talent for the card. Hopefully it's something we'll see more of in the future.
The Rhinos Final 8 tournament features eight heavyweight fighters that have advanced to the Final 8 from previous Fight Code Rhinos qualification fights. Vitali Akhramenko and Freddy Kemayo have had strong performances so far in Fight Code and will probably continue that on Saturday. The rest of the tournament doesn't quite stack up to those two.
Sergio Wielzen returns for a W5 title fight at 60kg against Russian fighter Ruslan Tozliyan. It's Wielzen's first real fight since March when he lost his It's Showtime 61MAX title to Karim Bennoui. He was scheduled to fight at an It's Showtime Japan event last month but the bout was turned into an exhibition match because one fighter missed weight. It should be a good fight as Russia is producing some very good kickboxers these days like Maxim Smirnov who will fight against fellow Russian Maxim Shalnev on the card. Smirnov, after this fight is scheduled to fight Dzhabar Askerov at the Tatneft Cup 2011 Finals. Keiji Ozaki has been brought in to face Roman Mailov on the Fight Code portion of the card. Ozaki recently lost to Thomas Adamandopoulos at Krush.12 and will look to get back on track. It won't be an easy fight at all, as Mailov has been running through competition lately in Russia and is another one of the up and coming fighters coming out of the region.
If last weekend's Fight Code event is any indication, then the W5 portion of the card probably won't be shown on Fight Code's stream. Videos of W5 events seem to get out pretty quickly though, so we'll keep our readers posted on those. You can catch the stream on Saturday at www.livefightcode.tv. All you have to do is register and the stream is free to watch. Here's the full fight card below:
Fight Code Superfights:
Roman Mailov (Ukraine) - Keiji Ozaki (Japan), 65 kg
Edgar Arutyunyan (Ukraine) - Imro Main (Holland), 75 kg
Rhinos Final 8 Fight Code 3x3 105 kg:
Freddy Kemayo (France) - Mladen Kujundzic (Croatia)
Vitali Akhramenko (Belarus) - Zamig Atakishiyev (Azerbaijan)
Yüksel Ayadin (Turkey) - Thomas Kohut (Slovakia)
Pacome Assi (France) - Peter Vondracek (Czech Republic)
W5 60kg World Title Fight 5x3:
Ruslan Tozliyan (Russia) - Sergio Wielzen (The Netherlands)
W5 Super Fights 3x3:
Maxim Smirnov (Russia) - Max Shalnev (Russia), 71 kg
Yuri Zhukovski (Belarus) - Valdrin Vatnikaj (Albania), 65 kg
Goran Radonjic (Montenegro) - Nadir Hajiyev (Russia), 96
Alim Nabiev (Ukraine) - Aziz Callah (The Netherlands), 71 kg
Evgeny Khil (Russia) - Vitali Lisnyak (Ukraine), 60 kg


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Kelly named CASE Professional of Year
Thomas F. Kelly, vice president for external affairs at Binghamton University, has been named Professional of the Year for Region II of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for 2002.
Kelly was recognized in part for his leadership in concluding the Believe in Binghamton campaign 21 percent over goal and a year ahead of schedule. The University raised $43.7 million in the campaign.
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I completely agree with Evan and say this is a good thing that the dog wants to get to the pile. However, I believe it is showing a little too much "self employment." One thing that I have done in this situation is the use of indirect pressure to reinforce the idea to the pup that they need to work with me not independently. For example, the dog is in the remote sit position and looking over their right shoulder towards the pile. I would raise my right hand and send then on back. Now the dog will go ahead and continue to turn over their right shoulder (the wrong way), I leave my hand up and will then give them a NO HERE and an appropriate nick. You then re-sit and repeat... Make sure to mix it up so sometimes the dog turns the correct way even without looking at you. I found that it is important to leave your arm up so the dog can see it either after the correction or getting the bumper to make the connection. Soon the dog will start to realize that if it works with you it can get the bumper without having to be stopped.
Now this cannot be done without your dog understanding three handed casting or being properly conditioned. YOU must be able to read your dog to know if this is an appropriate technique.


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Outdoor Action to showcase best of Banff Mountain Film Festival, March 13
Posted March 11, 2002; 04:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action and Blue Ridge Mountain Sports will present the winning films from the 2001-02 Banff Mountain Film Festival at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 in McCosh 10.
For 26 years, the film festival has celebrated the spirit of adventure and the mountain environment. Each November, the world's best films on mountain themes draw an international audience to the town of Banff, Canada. The festival showcases more than 250 films submitted from 27 countries. The best films each year are selected to go on a world tour in the spring.
Advance tickets are $10 for students and University staff and are available at the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office . Tickets at the door are $10 for students and $12 for faculty and staff, and are available starting at 6 p.m.
There will be prize giveaways during the intermission. More information and video trailers are available at the Outdoor Action Web site.
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Biggest boys' toys are rolled out for Fathers' Day! - Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Image: Sexton – Second World War self-propelled gun: © Board of Trustees of Armouries 2010 – Click to download.
Make Fathers' Day go with a bang – and witness the power and might of the Royal Armouries' biggest guns – by enjoying a free day out at Fort Nelson, on Sunday (June 20).
Museum staff are set to roll out the "biggest boys' toys" to mark the special day, including the Sexton – a Second World War self-propelled gun. Belching smoke and with an impressive roar, the tank-like vehicle will go through its paces throughout the day – driving and firing. There's a chance as well for dads to climb into the wartime giant and pose for photos, at the controls, with their children.
A detachment of uniformed, Victorian-style gunners will also fire the museum's biggest weapon stationed there during the 19th Century – a 110-pounder, 7-inch, Armstrong breech-loading gun. The gunners will be made up of members of the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers, the uniformed section of the Palmerston Forts Society.
Fort operations manager Mark Selwood said, "This is a great chance to bring your fathers along to witness the power and might of some of the biggest guns in the national collection, which is housed here at Fort Nelson. The Sexton is always a great spectacle, roaring and clanking around the arena, and the Armstrong gun will be fired just as it was 150 years ago. Admission is absolutely free and it's a fantastic day out for all the family".
Other Fathers' Day events include performances by uniformed actors and special guided museum tours throughout the day, all with a Victorian theme.
For details of all the Royal Armouries' Dangerously Entertaining programme of exciting events, visit www.royalarmouries.org
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by Anne Lynam Goddard, ChildFund President and CEO
This trip to Kenya has been emotional for me in many ways. Seeing children suffering from hunger and disease is something that remains with a person for a long time. Kenya also holds a special place in my heart. I was married here 30 years ago and my son was born here a few years later. Kenya is part of my family's story; and when a member of your family hurts, you hurt.
This morning we hit the road to Kalemunyang. On the way, we drive through barren landscapes. All around are dirt fields and no signs of water. We cross large river beds that are totally dry. Herds of goats and camels, tired and emaciated, walk through parched lands in search of food and water.
Hearing that the president of ChildFund is coming, the women of Kalemunyang have gathered to welcome our arrival. As we pull in, they are surprised to see a woman president. They had been expecting a man. They are excited, and to my surprise, they pick me up and carry me on their shoulders around the community!
After things settle down, community members fill me in on ChildFund's Food for Assets program, funded by the United Nations' World Food Program. I'm shown to the irrigation system on the bank of the Turkwel River.
After spending all of yesterday seeing barren earth and tasting dust, it's amazing to see how smart farming practices have transformed this community. You wouldn't realize you were in an arid area with all the plants that are growing. It's green everywhere!
In the "shambas," or vegetable gardens, women tend spinach, tomatoes, green peppers, okra, watermelons, kale, maize and cowpeas. In the midst of drought, we've discovered the Garden of Eden!
Through the Food for Assets program, ChildFund initially provides families with food and goods in exchange for their work to build irrigation systems and community gardens. Because of climate change, ChildFund is teaching pastoralist communities techniques for irrigation and how to grow gardens. We're providing improved access to water for both humans and livestock, thereby increasing crop production, reducing environmental degradation and improving pasture for livestock. More than 20,000 people benefit from this program.
I speak to Anna, a cheery 38-year-old woman and mother of three. She is tilling the soil and watering her crops in the "shamba." She tells me that her situation was desperate before ChildFund offered assistance, providing gardening tools, seeds and training in crop cultivation.
"My family can eat nutritious food. Malnourishment in children is not an issue here, despite the drought in Turkana. I'm happy, very happy," she says. She smiles and wishes me well as I depart.
Food for Assets is not an emergency relief effort. It is a long-term development intervention that strengthens local communities, helping reduce their vulnerability to future droughts. In other areas of Turkana, which lack access to permanent rivers, we teach people to use special pans to catch water that is used to grow crops like maize and sorghum.
In the afternoon, we visit Kalemunyang's local school. ChildFund helped pipe water from the community borehole to the school and has built new latrines. When students, especially girls, have adequate toilet facilities, school attendance goes up. Many of these students also have sponsors through ChildFund. But there are still challenges ahead, given that there only five teachers for 350 students.
I'm told a child wants to meet me. As I turn, a teenager confidently walks up to me and shakes my hand with a firm grip. Lomoru, 14, is the area children's representative with the local government. As we talk, I learn that he wants to be a judge. Mature beyond his years, this is a confident child if ever I saw one! His colorful t-shirt reads in Swahili: "Activist for Truth." I have no doubt that he will be a leader of tomorrow.
I end the afternoon by visiting Iria's home. Iria is a 12-year-old boy benefiting from ChildFund sponsorship. His family lives simply, though I notice their house is in better shape than others around it. The house has permanent mud walls, a mosquito net to help prevent malaria, running water and an outside toilet. As I talk with Iria and his family, I am struck by the complexity of poverty. Iria and his family are doing relatively well, but times are tough. The elder brother is educated but there are no jobs. Education can only get you so far. You then need opportunity.
As we depart the village on yet another stifling hot day, I reflect on my trip to northern Kenya. Seeing the impact of drought firsthand has been a humbling experience. So many people in Kenya and across the Horn are in urgent and desperate need of food and water.
In many ways, Turkana life has changed little since I served in the Peace Corps here more than 30 years ago. It remains traditional, remote and susceptible to severe hardship. But then I think of the vegetable gardens in Kalemunyang, the community school with improved sanitation facilities for girls, Lomoru's dream to be a judge and Iria's neat home.
Today has been a day of hope. We must keep working with hope in mind. Your support for children in the Horn of Africa is making a difference.
It is so encouraging for sponsors to see through this writing how ChildFund programs have helped Kenyan citizens to flourish in times of adversity. Thank you so much for taking the time to write about great happenings in Kalemunyang.
This story brought tears to my eyes, not of sorrow but of inspiration and hope. As a former Grants Manager at ChildFund Kenya I know the work of the organization quite well and I know the difference it makes. It is so inspiring to, through this story, connect with children and communities impacted by the programs.
Currently working with Plan International, also a child-centered organization like ChildFund, am convinced that there are endless possibilities of making a positive and long-term impact. Thank you for the inspiring story.


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In the song "It's Oh So Quiet," from her 1995 album Post, Bjkork sang, "It's oh so quiet/ It's oh so still/ You're all alone/ And so peaceful until…" in a hushed tone before the song explodes into a chorus of horns and and rag-timey piano.
There's something of that feel to the market this morning follow yesterday's plunge. The S&P 500 has fallen 0.1% to 1,660.11, the Dow Jones Industrials has dipped 0.-2% to 15,110 and the Nasdaq Composite has ticked up 0.1% to 3,608.61. Check again in a few minutes and it might be a few points in either direction.
But we all know that it's going to move at some point, it's just a question of which direction, even if today's news hasn't been, well, important enough to push investors off the fence. Sure, housing starts were good–and that's helping the housing stocks today–but the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index fell to 80 from 85.1. Let's call it a wash.
But even as the overall market runs in place today, investors won't have a tough time finding big winners or losers. Homebuilders like DR Horton (DRI), which has gained 3% to $19.70, make up thee of the top five stocks in the S&P this morning at 10:10 a.m., while Anadarko Petroleum (APC) has gained 2.6% to $91.49, as Brent crude oil ticks higher.
Nordstrom (JWN), meanwhile, has traded down 2.8% to $57.70, following its disappointing earnings, while materials stocks like Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF), which has fallen 2.7% to $23.10, and Mosaic (MOS), which has dropped 1.9% t0 $43.40, have been weak this morning.


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A charter school is initially approved for four years (subsequently approved for five). In order to ensure each school is living up to its mission and meeting all academic, fiscal and organizational targets mutually agreed upon by the NJDOE and the school, charter schools are required to submit an annual report.
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The bakery located in The Commerce @ Irving was established by Corine, who decided to leave her job as an editor and start baking as her full-time job. The passionate baker creates a variety of cakes using healthier methods and ingredients, such as using Swiss meringue buttercream for frosting and applesauce as a fat substitute, as well as using natural ingredients. As such, Corine & Cake touts itself as a place to find a healthier choice of cakes, tarts, and even giant cupcakes.
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Providence art scene is how the city itself has been such a rich subject. A decade ago, the city became a galvanizing topic as artists fought to protect the old mills that served as their homes and studios from demolition — with mixed success. But lately, the community's industrial architecture itself has attracted artists' attention.
The city is ultimately the subject of paintings by Neal Walsh and photographs by Scott Lapham, two longtime pillars of the AS220 universe, at 186 Carpenter (186 Carpenter St, Providence, through May 10).
The abstract paintings of Walsh's faint murmurs series might not at first glance seem to be about the urban landscape. But most of the paintings are built from recycled scraps of other paintings. And the cracked and peeling and repaired paint, the blue stains, the textures that recall wood paneling or clapboards are inspired by architecture.
"They've got rough edges. They're beaten up. They've been put through the ringer. Some have sat outside for a while. Or been stepped on or stepped over," says Walsh, who is AS220's gallery director (and also a friend). "I'm interested in urban spaces, rust and wear, natural processes and organic processes. But the counterpoint would be memory, too. Stuff that triggers memories, triggers another train of feelings and emotions."
The standout paintings at first appear to simply be white-on-white abstractions. The limited color alerts you to heighten your senses to detect their subtleties — the scuffs and scratches, the way the paint is layered like the walls of a much trafficked old hallway in which so much paint has been built up over the years that the doors no longer close quite right. And then a fog of gold or pink begins to seep through the cool gray whites and seems to glow.
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Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. By making security part of the process from the start, you will learn how to build secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond quickly when attacks occur.
Securing Ajax Applications succinctly explains that the same back-and-forth communications that make Ajax so responsive also gives invaders new opportunities to gather data, make creative new requests of your server, and interfere with the communications between you and your customers. This book presents basic security techniques and examines vulnerabilities with JavaScript, XML, JSON, Flash, and other technologies -- vital information that will ultimately save you time and money.
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Christopher Wells has deployed security solutions for major healthcare, telecommunication, and financial industries, and is currently employed as an Information Security Consultant for a major financial institution. He is an accomplished applications security architect with over 10 years of application security experience. Christopher holds multiple security certifications including a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), and holds a Bachelor degree from the University of Minnesota.
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About the AuthorChristopher Wells has deployed security solutions in the health care, telecommunication, and financial industries, and he is currently employed as an Information Security Consultant for a major financial institution. He is an accomplished applications security architect with more than 10 years of application security experience. Christopher holds multiple security certifications including a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), and he holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.ColophonThe animal on the cover of Securing Ajax Applications is a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). This is also sometimes known as the laughing hyena, due to its distinctive rallying call, which is said to sound similar to a human's laughter. This animal is native to Africa. It lives in a group, or "clan," of about 30 40 hyenas. The hyena is unique to carnivores in that the female is dominant over the male.In addition to having spots, this hyena's fur is varying shades of light brown. Its snout is dark, as is the tip of its tail. I's body slopes downward from the head, and its front legs are longer than the back legs. It has a large, extremely powerful jaw, which it uses as its foremost weapon when hunting prey.The hyena has a reputation as a scavenger, but this is actually incorrect. Although it does steal food from other animals, it is also a skilled hunter, able to target and kill even large animals such as zebras. There is no love lost between lions and hyenas, as they seem to have an inborn hatred of each other. Lions have been known to kill hyenas for sport, while hyenas prey on smaller lion adults and cubs.The cover image is from Wood's Illustrated Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.
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Based on the OWASP top ten guidelines, this book does a great job of covering the major issues surrounding the use of AJAX-type technologies in web applications.Early in chapters 1-3, the author lays the foundation by explaining some of the history of the web and how we arrived at today. In the middle chapters, the author shows how to protect AJAX portions of web applications on the server and with various protocols (JSON, XML, etc.)The advice is geared towards asyncronous (background) calls to web services, but the information could be applied to any web page whether AJAX is used or not.This book is recommended for web developers of all types. The coverage of web security concepts such as separation of duties, least privilege, validation, authorization, authentication, and other topics are fundamental enough to help any developer build more secure applications.
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Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both HLS and HBS. At HLS he teaches courses in negotiations and corporate law. At HBS he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic Negotiations, Changing the Game, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, and the Advanced Management Program. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University and the Vice Chair for Research for the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey & Company.
Professor Subramanian's research explores topics in corporate governance, corporate law, and negotiations. He has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and the Harvard Law Review, among other places. Ten of his articles have been selected as being among the "top ten" articles published in corporate and securities law in their respective years, among the 400+ articles that are published each year, by scholars in the field. The recently-published two-volume treatise Law & Economics of Mergers & Acquisitions, which includes 33 "seminal" articles from the field over the past 45 years, contains four of his articles, more than from any other scholar. His book Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions (W. W. Norton 2011) synthesizes the findings from his research and teaching over the past decade. This book has been translated into Chinese (Mandarin), German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is also a co-author of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization (Aspen 4th ed. 2012), a leading textbook in the field of corporate law.
Professor Subramanian has been involved in major public-company deals such as Oracle's $10 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Cox Enterprises' $9 billion freeze-out of the minority shareholders in Cox Communications, Exelon's $8 billion hostile takeover bid for NRG, BankofAmerica's $4 billion acquisition of Countrywide, and Valeant's $48 billion hostile takeover bid for Allergan. He also advises individuals, boards of directors, and management teams on issues of dealmaking and corporate governance. Over the past 10 years he has been involved as an advisor or expert witness in deals or situations worth over $100 billion in total value. He is a director of LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ: LKQ), a Fortune 500 company in the automotive sector.
Professor Subramanian holds degrees in Law, Economics, and Business from Harvard University.
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The 1940 Census with the Genealogy Society of Bergen County
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On April 2, 2012, the 1940 United States federal census will be released to the public for the first time. Peggy Norris will talk about using census information for genealogical research, and getting the most out of this new census. Peggy Norris is the Local History Librarian at the Ridgewood Library, and the Ridgewood Village Historian.
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
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The first of many Trump likely will award during his service as commander in chief of the U.S. military
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Almost 300 people gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown and marched around Wick Park.
State police say the crash happened at 4 a.m. Saturday in the town of Maryland.
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Anidb wrote:The Amusement Club foursome continue their unusual activities - though still not clearly defined, organised, or explained - in the illegally-occupied-by-the-club room of the former tea ceremony while the student council continues to attempt to shut them down. Meanwhile Akari is no longer a dotted outline in the background. She is loved and adored by her classmates and teachers alike. This marks a new year for the ultra-popular Akari!
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The story follows the everyday life of four fun-loving schoolgirls - at a fictitious junior high school in Takaoka, Toyama - who decide to take over the former room of the now defunct tea ceremony club for their own Amusement Club. All the while the student council does its best to eliminate this unauthorised club.


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" i got it for bass , cuz headroom says its the best in bass . now i will compare it to the klipsch s3 . package ;- 4 pair of tips , here i got the cable clip , and manuals too many . cable winder is good , thats it . s3 had a pouch . the cable is too cheap even cheaper then my she 3580 , too filmsy . design is common . a cable slider is loose , the cable clip is..." --suman134
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"I bought these last summer during a visit to Taiwan. I had hoped to buy a replacement Audio-Technica CKM500 (which broke) but they have been replaced with the CKR5 which are a bit of a let-down with its bloated bass and congested soundstage. After trying out various headphones, the salesperson suggested the AH-C560, a mid-range Denon IEM released in 2010. Although they have been considered..." --FYLegend
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But in the end, I'm pretty certain they don't actually slow-smoke the barbecue. I'm quite sure about this with the half-chicken ($14), which is a boned breast with blackened skin but powdery, overcooked white meat; the dark-meat quarter is only a little better. The loss is flavor, both of the meat and of the flame. The gain, more evident on other meats, is tenderness. A brisket sandwich ($11) is wonderfully tender and juicy, with satisfactory hickory smokishness in the sauce. The least smoky meat I sampled on two visits was the mixed sausage platter ($12), which looked and tasted like supermarket kielbasa sliced two ways. Though it's listed as an entrée, this platter is actually more like an appetizer. It comes with some white toasts, deli mustard, pickles, and an excellent mesclun salad.
An actual appetizer, Roadhouse chili ($4/cup; $8/bowl), is decent, despite cooked-in tomatoes and onions (which tend to make it too sweet) and decorative tortilla chips (which are okay in my book as long as they're just decorations). I'd like a bottle of hot sauce handy with this chili, but that's an easy fix.
In fact, the smoking problem isn't an impossible fix either — you just need someone to commit hours and hours to keeping briskets and chickens and ribs going at low temperatures so they stay juicy, concentrate more flavor, and develop that telltale red ring. Then again, you could drop the smoke-cooking entirely if you also drop the pre- or post-cooking; there's a perfectly legitimate North Carolina/Boston black tradition of oven-baked or slow-grilled ribs. Until the restaurant makes a decision, my helpful but unhealthful suggestion is to order the fried baby-back ribs. If it's not about cheap meat and live fire, it should at least be about crunch and grease and salt. The barbecue sauce with these ribs has a little smokage, a bit too much sweetness, and a nice layer of hotness.
All dinners, except for the sausage platter, come with cornbread and one side dish. The cornbread is white and sweet as birthday cake; save it for dessert, of which Roadhouse doesn't have any. The most interesting of the sides was sweet-potato salad ($3), which had enough onions, celery, and fresh herbs to satisfy a cole-slaw jones while simultaneously subbing for potato salad. The French fries ($3), judging by the ones that come with the brisket sandwich, are good but not crisp. That may be because the fried baby-back ribs are wonderfully crisp and breaded, which requires a lower frying temperature than what you need to crisp fried potatoes. It's the old fish-house problem — either the fried fish is great or the French fries are, but seldom both — transposed into the key of pork. So you'd probably be fine with fried chicken ($14).
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When did it become The Government is the the problem?
I just watched the segment with Ken Burns about the National Parks on Morning Joe. (MSNBC 30 September 09) This question and an answer was brought up by Ken Burns.
Knowing the scandals that started in 1980's through today such as Star Wars, Savings and Loan, Guns for Hostages (now called Hold til Inauguration), Sex for Hire/Sex between Flights, Enron, Global Crossing, Halliburton, Blackwater (Xe), AIG, Citi, on and on and on what do you think the problem is?
As I see it, it resides in almost the entire Republican Party since 1980. Mainly the politicians and those voters who choose to keep them in place. The Democrats are not blameless either, there are about 20-30% of the Democratic Politicians who are just as self serving and corrupt. They all pretend to serve their constituents, but funnel our money to the 1/1000% of the Nation they serve and receive an occasional bone for their efforts. God forbid that half deaf, one eyed, one legged grandmother Tilly be given a free crutch from our Government because she receives food stamps and also chews tobacco.
The GOP, with the help of a few Democrats, have turned the Government into a huge CASH COW for the SELECT FEW. Those of us who work to produce all of the goods and services in this Nation should not be held captive by a few who grow Politicians to mine our pockets. Nor should they deny the truly needy among us. And believe me, they should not be laughing on the way to the vault.


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By Tiernan Ray
Wedge Partners's Jun Zhang today reiterates a view that Apple's (AAPL) deal with China Mobile (CHL), announced a week ago, will boost the company's sales in China, in line with Zhang's thoughts on the matter previously.
While there are some puts and takes, with some China Mobile sales perhaps robbing sales from competitors China Telecom (CHA), and China Unicom (CHU), the net results may be a rise in total sales of the iPhone in China from a current rate of 2.7 million to 2.8 million per month, to a range of perhaps 2.8 million to 2.9 million per month:
We have tracked several major sales platforms including Suning, JD, Tmall, as well as some of Apple's regional distributors, and have talked to several China-based operators and we believe that current China Mobile iPhone 5s (with contract) pre-orders in the first two days were roughly 100K units (slightly lower than China Unicom's 120K pre- orders and China Telecom's 150K pre-orders earlier in the year). We also believe that unlocked iPhone 5s pre- orders (for China Mobile) in the first two days from open channels including Suning, Gome, Apple's own authorized stores, JD, Tmall, etc. reached about 150K, compared with 400-500K pre-orders for China Unicom and China Telecom when the iPhone 5s initially launched in China in September. While the initial indications of iPhone 5 demand at China Mobile appear to be lower than the other carrier launches, it is not exactly comparable given the delayed launch at China Mobile (early 2014) from the global launch of the iPhone 5s back in September. However, it is clear that China Mobile's pre-order activities have affected other channels' iPhone 5s/5c sales, as we anticipated. Specifically, we believe iPhone 5s/5c sales dropped about 35% since China Mobile announced its iPhone deal from the week that pre-orders started.We estimate current China iPhone sales are on a 2.7 – 2.8 million per month run-rate, including open market sales. The weekly sales were around 70K units before China Mobile launched the iPhone, but dropped to roughly 45K units per week (excluding China Mobile sales) after China Mobile began accepting pre-orders. We believe that when China Mobile launches the iPhone with a clear subsidy package, non-China Mobile iPhone sales from the open market and other competitors will drop to 35K units per week and 1.4 million units per month.We expect China Mobile's iPhone 5s/5c and TD-LTE versions of unlocked iPhone 5s/5c monthly sales could reach 1.4 – 1.5 million units per month. We believe total iPhone 5s/5c + iPhone 5 sales will reach 2.8 – 2.9 million units per month in Q1, up from a current 2.7 – 2.8 million units per month.
Some readers have pointed out in the comments section that today's report seems contradictory given that Zhang had argued on December 18th, when no deal with China Mobile materialized, that the lack of a deal was no surprise. With a deal having materialized subsequently, one wonders, shouldn't Zhang's thinking have changed?
I reached out to Zhang's office to point this out and was given the reply that in fact Zhang had allowed for a possible deal, just had not expected any "promotion" of a deal:
Nothing has changed, we said China Mobile will deliver iPhone in Q1, but wont be aggressively promoting the iPhone until 2nd half of 2014. The situation is still the same and the logic is still the same, as China Mobile will manage their subsidy pool and their 4G network wont be ready until 2nd half of 2014.
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