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Journal Article - Axess
After the 9/11 Disaster: Washington's Struggle to Improve Homeland Security
Published in Swedish translation under the title "Bush Klarer Inte av att Forsvara USA."
After September 11, a horrified and frightened American public wanted something more to be done to protect the United States from terrorist attack. Responding to this overpowering public sentiment, and to the enormous sense of vulnerability revealed by the successful Al Qaeda strike against the United States, the Bush Administration scrambled to put in place a set of measures that would answer public concerns and improve the nation's ability to cope with terrorism. The agenda of steps and measures that followed were regarded as a program for "Homeland Security" – a program that was regarded, at least initially, as a major national priority.
On October 8, 2001, the President ordered the creation on the White House Staff of an "Office for Homeland Security," headed by a Director for Homeland Security. The first director was the President's good friend, Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, who was given full public backing by President Bush to take whatever steps necessary to protect the United States from the threat of terrorism. The President also created a "Homeland Security Council," the anti-terrorism counterpart to the National Security Council. To go along with these new institutional arrangements, there was a new homeland security budget, amounting to several tens of billions of dollars. By July of 2002, the White House had issued a formal document outlining "National Strategy for Homeland Security," that describes in some detail the objectives and aspirations of this new national initiative.[i]
Meanwhile, Congress was considering homeland security legislation. And indeed, by the end of 2002, the President had proposed and the Congress had approved a new cabinet-level department, the Department of Homeland Security, headed by a new Secretary for Homeland Security. The first occupant of this post is Tom Ridge, who commands a staff of 170,000 (making it the second largest department in the federal government, second only to the Defense Department) and budget of nearly $40 billion. The creation of this department represents the largest reorganization of the US federal government in more than half a century. In Washington, homeland security was now the main game in town.
The impulse to respond to 9/11 by enhancing efforts to protect the United States is perfectly natural and understandable. Further, it is both sensible and responsible to explore what steps can be prudently and feasibly taken to reduce the exposure of American society to terrorism. It is also appropriate to invest organizational and financial resources in such an endeavor. But what exactly is homeland security? The concept does not have inherent precise meaning. And how much can be accomplished by pursuing a program of homeland security? American domestic politics since 9/11 demand a program of homeland security and the deep passions associated with that tragedy compel rapid action of some sort to provide reassurance to a troubled population. But an honest and dispassionate assessment must evaluate both the opportunities for improving protection against terrorism and the limits on the ability of this – or any – administration to guarantee homeland security.
Efforts to Enhance Homeland Security
The essence of homeland security can be captured in three words: prevent, protect, and respond. The ideal objective is to prevent terrorist attacks. It is also desirable that potential targets of terrorism are not left completely vulnerable to attack, that protection is increased to the extent possible. And if prevention fails, it will be important to be able to respond effectively to terrorist attacks. It is now well understood that that so-called consequence management in the aftermath of an attack can minimize adverse effects in many conceivable scenarios. Broadly speaking, in other words, the homeland security initiatives of the Bush Administration seek to reduce the likelihood of terrorist attacks and to limit the impact of any attacks that occur. From these broad objectives flow a plethora of specific policy initiatives.
In the area of prevention, the imperative is to identify and thwart potential attackers and to deny them the means of attack. How can this be accomplished? A number of specific steps are being contemplated, attempted, or undertaken.
Improve anti-terrorism intelligence. Preventing terrorist attacks depends almost entirely on intelligence. Obviously, if the terrorists can keep themselves and their intentions hidden, it is impossible to stop them. The nightmare for the United States or any other state threatened by terrorism is a series of unpleasant terrorist surprises (of which 9/11 was a particularly vivid example). Accordingly, the challenge of improving counter-terrorism intelligence is one of the core concerns of homeland security.
This challenge, however, is daunting. Enormous amounts of raw intelligence were already being collected. Presumably this has only increased after 9/11. But collection is only one step in the process. Intelligence data must be analyzed, integrated with other intelligence and assessments, and – very importantly – communicated to those in a position to make effective use of it. Because the United States has multiple (often competing but always independent) agencies engaged in various forms of intelligence activities, problems of coordination, integration, and communication abound. Because some of these agencies – the FBI and the CIA, for example – are themselves large bureaucracies, such problems arise within as well as between intelligence agencies. Beyond this, there has long been a strict and legally mandated separation between external intelligence operations (undertaken by the CIA and various Defense Department intelligence services) and internal investigative efforts (which are the domain of the FBI). This – and the habit of poor cooperation between the CIA and the FBI – has made it difficult for external intelligence to feed into domestic investigations. The FBI, the most important domestic investigative agency in the US federal government, is broadly oriented around solving crimes in the United States and hunting down criminals; it is neither organized nor optimized for the anti-terrorism mission. And once potential threats have been identified, this information needs to get into the hands of the Immigration and Customs Service, the relevant police departments, and so on, if it is to be truly useful in leading to the apprehension of potential terrorists.
The Bush Administration has identified intelligence and warning as an integral cornerstone of its efforts to protect the United States from terrorism. It has launched initiatives to improve analytic capabilities and to facilitate coordination of intelligence and intelligence agencies. It has given explicit thought to the problem of converting intelligence into warning, and warning into effective action. It has tried to map out a sensible and explicit allocation of responsibilities among agencies.[ii] In the latest development, President Bush ordered the creation of a Terrorist Threat Integration Center that would involve the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General.[iii]
More extensive surveillance of suspicious groups or individuals: The individuals who carried out the 9/11 attack had lived, traveled, and trained in the United States. Some of them had even been identified as suspicious figures. This reality has made the American body politic more tolerant of empowering the government to engage in more aggressive and more intrusive surveillance of potentially threatening parties. There is a desire to keep closer tabs on visitors to the United States, to monitor foreign students more closely, to infiltrate groups that may be capable of or intent on violence. Modern information technology may be exploited to detect, collect, and assess relevant information about individuals with suspicious associations or activities. The ideal is to identify and thwart terrorists before they can strike.
Improve monitoring of points of entry. Vast numbers of people and vast quantities of material pour into the United States on a daily basis. There is every prospect that, as in the past, terrorists could enter the United States in an open and completely legal way. But since 9/11, the process for obtaining US visas has tightened (producing long delays that have been experienced by many foreigners). There is greater scrutiny of foreign visitors at passport control. There is much greater suspicion of incoming visitors who match certain worrying profiles. The nineteen perpetrators of the 9/11 attack had all passed routinely into the United States. Perhaps a more effective and more vigilant control of passage into the United States can stop terrorists at the border. Similarly, there is every reason to fear that terrorists could ship implements of violence by normal commercial means. There is a particular fear that weapons of mass destruction might enter the United States in this fashion. Before 9/11, only a tiny percentage of goods and containers entering US territory were ever inspected, and there was little focus on finding weapons of mass destruction. The volume of trade flows makes this an enormous, perhaps intractable challenge. But there is now great interest in improving port security, in imposing more serious monitoring and verification of goods being shipped, of using modern technology (bar coding and other tracking technologies) to follow shipments from source to recipient, and of providing at least some technical and organizational means for detecting WMD or other weapons that might be used in terrorist attacks. Analogous concerns arise, of course, with land ports of entry. It is not physically or economically feasible to inspect carefully every large truck that enters the United States. But there is more extensive checking of vehicles that pass through border crossings (again, with the cost of considerable delay) and exploration of technologies that might improve the ability to monitor this traffic. The ideal is to prevent terrorists and their weapons from getting into the United States.
Make US borders less porous. Illegal entry into the United States of people and goods is possibly even more worrying. With its long, remote borders and lengthy coastlines, the United States faces a massive challenge in trying to prevent illicit border crossings. Serious efforts have been made over many years, in connection with drug trafficking and illegal immigration, to strengthen border patrols, to make it more difficult and risky to enter the United States in this way. While some progress seems to have been made along the US-Mexico border, no one seems to think that protection of borders is anywhere near good enough when evaluated in the context of the terrorism threat.
Enhance transportation security. The character of the 9/11 attacks – essentially the use of commercial airliners as large cruise missiles and their fuel tanks as high explosives – made it clear that the various modes of mechanized transportation on which modern society ubiquitously depends could with some imagination be transformed into weapons in the hands of terrorists. This was most clearly true of aircraft, of course, but it is not at all difficult to conceive of attacks that utilize boats or trains or large trucks. Here are means that give terrorists the potential for further spectacular attacks. Another basic preventive measure is therefore to deny these means to terrorists, and transportation security is accordingly another basic element in the Bush Administration homeland security strategy. Anyone who has been inconvenienced by new security measures in an airport has felt the effect of this concern.
This collection of priorities and initiatives is derived from the desire to prevent terrorist attacks. Alongside prevention is a parallel concern with protection – to reduce America's vulnerability to terrorist attack. A profound dilemma immediately arises: any building or facility anywhere in the United States could become a target of terrorist attack. Before 9/11, the largest terrorist attack in American history was the destruction of a federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There is no obvious reason why that building should have stood out as a target. But it is perfectly clear that in a world of finite resources and potentially infinite threats and targets, it is impossible to protect everything.
Over the long run, if sensitivity to terrorism remains high, concern about reducing vulnerability to terrorism could have some remarkably wide and socially significant effects. It could influence the way buildings are designed and constructed. Buildings with positive pressure air handling systems and good air filtration will be significantly less vulnerable to chemical and biological attacks, for example. The 9/11 attacks have dampened the enthusiasm of many people for living and working in skyscrapers (and the newspapers regularly report on the relocation of businesses from Manhattan to New Jersey, or North Carolina, or New Hampshire). And concerns about vulnerability to terrorism could have major consequences for the way in which cities are developed in the future – for better or ill in terms of the vitality and livability of cities.[iv] (Simply put, densely populated urban areas – represented in the extreme by New York's World Trade Center – are good terrorist targets.)
But whatever the long term impact of the threat of terrorism, the immediate issue is what to try to protect now, given that it is impossible to protect everything. This has involved identifying potential terrorist targets of particular importance to the functioning of American society and the American economy and of potential attacks whose impact can be minimized by advance preparations.
Protecting Critical Infrastructure. The strategy chosen by the Bush Administration focuses on the protection of critical infrastructure. Though this is an approach meant to limit protective efforts to a manageable and especially important subset of potential targets, in fact the areas identified in the National Strategy for Homeland Defense encompass 13 large sectors of the economy, including agriculture, water, energy, transportation, banking and finance, the chemical industry, information and telecommunications, and so on. No doubt these are all important areas, but defining critical infrastructure so broadly and so diversely – from protecting crops to protecting electronic data – means that the problem of protection remains vast and not obviously tractable – at least not on any short time horizon.
Some elements on the roster of critical infrastructure have attracted particular attention for one reason or another – threats to public water supplies and to electricity grids, for example – probably because any terrorist attack that denied such essentials to large numbers of people would cause huge dislocations. Special fascination and concern appears to attach to scenarios involving what has been dubbed "cyberterrorism," that is, electronic attacks on computer networks and communications. Protecting the "electronic infrastructure" (or "securing cyberspace,") is assigned particular priority in the Bush strategy, on the grounds that a successful cyberattack could "cascade across sectors." There are without question some serious concerns here, but the public debate does not yield clear conclusions about how vulnerable the internet is (being both decentralized and redundant) nor how large or lasting the effects of an attack would be. Responsible parties in the US government have voiced serious worries.[v] There is some small blessing in the fact that cyberattack will be disruptive rather than destructive.
But this is only one of a diverse panoply of areas that have been designated for special attention under the rubric of protecting critical infrastructure. Efforts to ensure cybersecurity will take place alongside efforts of the Department of Agriculture to protect American crops and food supply. As this brief discussion suggests, even just trying to protect critical infrastructure involves large, diverse, and complicated activity.
Protecting against chemical or biological attack. Just as some potential targets are singled out for special protective measures, so some potential terrorist attacks can be minimized by taking protective measures in advance. Among the nightmare scenarios that deprive homeland security officials of sleep are attacks that involve the use of chemical or biological weapons (CBW). Unlike nuclear weapons, CBW are more accessible, cheaper, and extremely difficult to detect or find. Among the world's terrorists, there seems to be growing interest in such weapons. Fortunately, CBW are not inherently weapons of mass destruction (a decisive difference from nuclear weapons) and they can be neutralized with appropriate defensive steps. A major emphasis of the Bush administration has been a program to innoculate key health and decisionmaking personnel, to stockpile vaccines, to heighten the awareness and capacity of the US public health system, and other measure to provide some protection against this particularly frightening form of attack.
Beyond prevention and protection lies consequence management. If a terrorist attack occurs on American soil, the goal must be to respond effectively and to minimize adverse consequences. This will likely be a complex operation involving multiple levels of government, multiple chains of authority and command, and a number of different functional specialists. Major homeland security initiatives in this area include:
Preparing first responders. The Bush strategy will invest considerable financial resources in the preparation of local emergency personnel – the so-called first responders – to cope with catastrophic terrorism. Some of this involves training and education; but it can also involve the provision of specialized equipment as well.
Enhancing public health. It is the American public heath system that is key to detecting and containing the effects of chemical or biological attacks. The Bush Administration has placed great emphasis on making the public health community more aware of the terrorist threat, improving its ability to respond to CBW attacks, and making advance preparations for providing emergency care in the event of catastrophic terrorism.
This has been a quick overview of the agenda of initiatives and aspirations that fall under the heading of homeland security. But having a strategy or a plan is only the first step in making the United States more secure against the threat of terrorism.
Limits and Constraints on the Enhancement of Homeland Security
This is a large and ambitious homeland security agenda that derives from the urge to minimize the vulnerability of the United States to terrorist attack. Even if it were possible to achieve all the desired innovations and improvements, some vulnerability to terrorists would almost certainly remain. But a more fundamental question is how much of this agenda is likely to be accomplished. In truth, the drive for homeland security collides both with some deeply rooted and potentially insurmountable obstacles and with some difficult and potentially constraining trade-offs. How feasible is the desirable? And how effectively will the feasible steps be implemented? A number of considerations suggest that major progress in homeland security will be difficult to achieve.
Globalization versus controlled borders. In the modern age, technology and politics combine to permit enormous international flows of people, ideas, and products. It is almost surely impossible to develop filters at the border that will reliably and comprehensively detect potential terrorists out of the flood of visitors and vacationers. The US government reports that 500 million people cross into the United States on an annual basis. Finding the one, or the ten, or even a few dozen, threatening individuals out of 500 million is equivalent to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. The only exception might be cases in which known terrorists traveled undisguised – but that is not likely to be common. And no system of screening or computerized databases will be helpful in the case of unknown terrorists so long as they have the wit to avoid drawing attention to themselves. While there is no reason to give terrorists a free ride into the US, there should not be high expectations about eliminating the terrorist threat by catching them at the airport. Globalization has made this too difficult.
State power versus civil liberties. The United States has a strong legal tradition of individual civil liberties and a long history of resistance to the expansion of the power of the state. Consequently, many measures thought desirable to strengthen the counter-terror capacities of the state – more intrusive surveillance, enhanced policing powers, relaxation of restrictions on search and seizure, looser regulation of wiretapping and other invasions of privacy – quickly bump up against this traditional American reticence to further empower the state (and, some would argue, up against constitutional guarantees of individual rights). No doubt, 9/11 created an atmosphere in which moving some distance in these directions became more acceptable for the sake of more effective efforts against terrorists. But once the raw emotion of 9/11 faded, these traditional concerns resurfaced, fuelled by a growing belief, as one account put it, that "the Bush Administration is encroaching upon civil rights with many of its new homeland security initiatives."[vi] The Defense Department, for example, launched an anti-terrorist program called "Total Information Awareness" that aimed at collecting huge amounts of computerized information about US citizens and analyzing it in search of suspicious patterns. This produced a political backlash that soon stopped the program dead in the water. As New York Times columnist William Safire noted approvingly, even a Republican congress would not authorize the Bush Administration to go "snooping into the private lives of innocent Americans" or "to treat all citizens as suspects."[vii] Perhaps future terrorist attacks with further erode the American commitment to civil liberties, but for now there is still a political need to confront the tradeoff between effectiveness against terrorism and the powerful desire of the typical American to enjoy the full protections offered by the American constitution.
Centralized responses versus distributed authority and capabilities. The Bush Administration can reorganize the federal government and muster itself to tackle the homeland security challenge. But a basic reality of the decentralized federal system found in the United States is that much of the authority and capacity cope with the threat of terrorism is found at the state and local levels. This is particularly true in the realm of consequence management. If a terrorist attack occurs, the "first responders" will necessarily be local fire and rescue personnel. In the United States, typically every town and village has its own fire and rescue squads. Depending on where an attack might occur, the first responders may or may not have the expertise and the wherewithal to cope effectively, especially in the event of very large scale attacks or when WMD might be involved. The US Department of Homeland Security can certainly offer programs that help educate and equip first responders to be better able to react effectively to terrorist attack. But in the moment of truth, it will be the first responders (whether trained and equipped or not) who will be on the front lines and the Department of Homeland Security will, at least initially, be irrelevant.
Secret Information, Widely Distributed? It seems to be deeply engrained in the culture of intelligence agencies that secret information must be closely held. Sharing is often done reluctantly; wide distribution is often anathema. There are good reasons for this: not wanting to compromise sources; not wanting to risk leaks; not wanting to reveal partial evidence or conclusions; not wanting to harm an ongoing investigation. But in the counterterrorism game, information closely held does no good. If the customs service or the local police or regional FBI offices are unaware that some individual in their jurisdiction is a suspected terrorist, the fact that a potential threat has been identified and is listed on some roster of suspicious characters does no good. There is wide complaint in the US law enforcement community that federal officials do not share information. This is obviously not an insuperable obstacle, but there may often be a tension between the requirements of counterterrorism and the way that intelligence agencies tend and prefer to operate. This is a crucial concern because intelligence is so essential to effective prevention of terrorist attacks.
Public threat, private assets. The US government has considerable regulatory powers, but nevertheless most of the physical and financial assets in the United States are in private hands. Whatever the preferences of the Department of Homeland Security, it may be real estate development companies that determine the security arrangements at prominent buildings, private utilities that are directly responsible for the security of power plants, private for-profit hospitals that decide how many beds will be available for emergencies. There is no reason to assume that private sector decisionmakers will be indifferent to the need for security, but they will also be seeking profit and in many cases answerable to shareholders. In the example that became highly visible after 9/11, the airlines did provide for security at airports, but with an eye on the bottom line they wanted to do it cheaply. Before 9/11, maximum security was too expensive from the airlines' point of view. The US has responded to this specific dilemma by federalising security at US airports. In other instances it can provide subsidies or tax breaks to induce desired behaviors in private sector actors. But much of the critical infrastructure that the Bush administration rightly worries about protecting will depend heavily on decisions in the private sector for its safety and security.
Bureaucratic realities versus counterterrorist needs. If ever there were a problem that does not respect traditional bureaucratic boundaries, it is homeland security. It cuts across so many domains of public and private life, requires serious efforts in so many different substantive arenas, requires so much cooperation and mutual comprehension from so many dissimilar organizations, that it simply cannot conform to any tidy and traditional bureaucratic structure. The New Department of Homeland Security reflects this reality. It pulls within its organization chart a remarkable hodge-podge of organizations, drawn from all over the US government. It will include the Coast Guard and the Secret Service, the US Customs Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Nuclear Incident Response Team and the Federal Computer Incident Response Team – and many others. The organizations have different histories and traditions, different missions, different languages and organizational cultures, and in most instances very little habit or experience of cooperating with one another. Left our are the absolutely crucial intelligence and investigative agencies – the CIA and the FBI – probably because they were powerful enough to protect their turf. This means, though, that information flow becomes an inter-agency matter. To function moderately, much less to perform at the desirable and necessary high levels, this operation will have to overcome to an exceptional degree the bureaucratic pathologies that normally encumber any large, complex organization.
Conclusion: Still Vulnerable
The attacks of September 11 concentrated the American mind very much on the problem of homeland security. The Bush Administration has responded with a strategy that is impressive, comprehensive, sophisticated, but it has barely made a beginning in addressing the terrorism threat. Every major pronouncement so far – whether from independent commissions or from the CIA – has judged that the United States is more or less as vulnerable today as it was on September 10, 2001. In part this reflects the scale of the homeland security challenge. In part this reflects the difficulty in implementing large reforms. In part it reflects the power of the obstacles to effective homeland defense. Progress has been made, but no one will be surprised when the next large terrorist attack takes place on American soil. It is widely understood that this is still possible, perhaps even likely. It may be that the Bush Administration's understanding of the profound difficulties of fashioning effective homeland security helps to explain the President's preoccupation with offensive action in Afghanistan and Iraq. That old saying that the best defense is a good offense may be particularly apt to the new struggle against terrorism.
[i][i] The full text of the National Strategy for Homeland Security is available on the web site of the Office of Homeland Security.
[ii] See, for example, National Strategy for Homeland Security, p. 16.
[iii] Shane Harris, "Bush Orders FBI, CIA to Build New Terror Intelligence Office," GovExec.com, January 29, 2003.
[iv] See, for example, David Dixon, "Is Density Dangerous? The Architects' Obligations After the Towers Fell," Perspectives on Preparedness, No. 12, October 2002.
[v] See, for example, Judith Miller, "Departing Security Official Issues Warning," New York Times, February 2, 2003.
[vi] Shane Harris, "Senator seeks ban on Defense, Homeland Security Data Mining," GovExec.com, January 16, 2003.
[vii] William Safire, "Privacy Invasion Curtailed," New York Times, Februray 13, 2002.
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Description & goals
The game memorize is about finding matching pairs. A pair can consist of any multimedia object. At the moment these are images, sounds and text but this could be extended to animations or movie snippets as well. Which pairs do match is up to the creator of the game. Memorize is actually more than just a predefined game you can play, it allows you to create new games yourself as well.
- memorization - combine objects in a different context - dealing with multimedia objects - way of exploring the mesh - creating new games - activity that will use captured sounds and images to create new games
Memorize does feature collaborative playing at the moment. Another goal is to add collaboration for editing a game as well.
- At the top of your screen there is a button that should show "4x4". If it shows anything else, click on it and choose "4x4" from the pull-down menu.
- Click on "Load demo games" and select 'addition' from the pull-down menu. You will get a grid of 16 squares. Each square in the top two rows will be marked with the number 1; the squares in the bottom two rows will each have the number 2.
- Move the cursor over the top two rows. Notice that each square is highlighted as the cursor passes it.
- Now move the cursor over the bottom two rows. Notice that it has no effect whatever. YOU HAVE TO START THE GAME IN THE TOP TWO ROWS.
- Each square in the top row hides a simple addition problem which you can view by clicking on it. (So click, already!)
- The answer to the addition problem is hidden under one of the squares in the bottom two rows. There is no way to know under which square, you must simply guess. Move the cursor down to your selected guess, and notice that the bottom two rows are now 'live'--each square is highlighted as you cross it.
- Click on your chosen guess. You will probably be wrong. In this case, the game will 'freeze' for a short period and your entries will then disappear. But if you guessed correctly, the two squares you chose will change color and remain on the screen.
- Go back to the top two rows and repeat the process. The object is to match each square on top with its corresponding square on the bottom.
- So where does memory come into this? Well you need to remember all those wrong answers you hit on the bottom two rows, and where they were. Each of them will be a right answer to one of the problems. NO FAIR WRITING THEM DOWN WITH PAPER AND PENCIL!
- To make a harder game go back to the pull-down menu at the top of the screen and choose "5x5" instead of "4x4". Reload the demo games and notice that you don't really have a five by five grid--there are only 24 squares, and the the problem squares don't line up neatly over the answer squares. Each group is still marked by '1' or '2', however, and the play is otherwise the same.
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To create an audio spelling word list
(NOTE: This list of instructions is under development KayTi 16:27, 3 February 2008 (EST))
- Launch Memorize
- Launch Record
- Choose the Audio tab of Record
- Make sure Duration (upper right corner of the Record interface) is set to 15 seconds. #These will be short clips.
- Click the Record button (bottom left of the video feed - a white dot with a circle around it.)
- Say the first word of your spelling list
- Click the Record button again (it goes red while recording)
- Wait while the Record activity saves your clip
- Click the Record button
- Say the next word on your list
- Click the Record button to save your clip
- Record and save the rest of the spelling words on your list
- Go to Memorize (choose "home" by clicking the black circle with white dot 5th from the left on the top row of the US English keyboard, then choose the Memorize Activity from the wheel and hover on it, click Resume)
- Click the Create tab at the top of the screen
How to create your own memory game
- Select the Memorize Activity icon among the activities at the bottom of the screen
- Click on "Create" and give a name to your game in the window at the top of the screen.
- Organization of the game:
- You have several options:
- You want identical pairs like in the classical memory: Tick Equal pair (the word, picture or sound you will include will be automatically repeated twice)
- You want to make pairs matching 2 different items but in a special order (for example pictures in a row and the corresponding word in another row): click on the icon "Grouped game".
- You want to make pairs matching 2 different items but distributed at random: just don't click on the previous icon.
- You have several options:
- Items displayed on the cards :
- You also have several options:
- You can enter a text : Type the text in the field
- You can insert a picture: Click on the eye icon and select a picture from the journal
- You can insert a sound : Click on the mouth icon and select a sound that you have recorded in the journal
- You can insert a picture and a text: insert the picture first then type the text in the text field.
- NB: if you want to include pictures from an USB memory stick, save them first to the journal. Make sure that the pictures are not bigger than 100kb otherwise it will take too long to load the game.
- You also have several options:
- When you have prepared your first pair, click on "Add as new pair". Your pair will be displayed on the right part of the screen. Proceed the same way for the following pairs. You can add a maximum of 18 many pairs.
- If you are not satisfied with the pair you have created, click on it, it will be highlighted, and displayed in the original boxes on the left. You can delete it by clicking on the X on the right part of your screen or if you want to do some modification click on "update selected pair", the content of your pair will disappear from the left boxes and you can now choose a new content
- When you are done, be sure that you have given a name to your game then save it by clicking on the "save game" icon.
- You can now play your game.
How to play a memory game you created?
- Select the Memorize Activity icon among the activities at the bottom of the screen
- Click on "Load game" at the top of your screen
- Select your game in the journal
- You can play
How to modify a memory game you created?
- Select the Memorize Activity icon among the activities at the bottom of the screen
- Click on "Create"
- Click on "Load game" at the top of your screen
- Proceed like in 6) above
- Save your game
How to share your game with others (see sharing)
- Switch on the XOs which should be connected together
- Open the memorize activity and load the game you want to share on the main XO .
- Click on "Activity" then in the share window choose "Share with my neighborhood"
- All the other XOs will see the memorize activity icon close to your XO symbol on their neighborhood view
- Those who want to play should move their mouse on the game icon and click on "join"
- All the names of the players will be then displayed on the left of the game on each XO.
- Now the first player can start playing by clicking on 2 pictures. If the match is correct, he is allowed to play another time. If the match is wrong the pictures are turned back and the next player (whose name is highlighted) is on. The number of good matches is displayed under each player's name.
- When the game is over you can play it again by selecting on the main XO "Play" then move your mouse on the upper left Memory Icon, you'll see "restart the game". Click on the icon and the game will be loaded again.
How to save the game on other XOs
As soon as the game as been shared with other players, it is saved automatically on their own XO. They can therefore repeat it at home later on.
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Battlefield Tour by Jon Cooper
As we prepare for Liberation'70, the anniversary of end of Japanese Occupation of Singapore, join Jon Cooper, historian and archaeologist on the Adam Road Project for :
The Battlefield tour
Sunday 19 July '15, 9.30am - 12.00pm
Meeting point is at the pedestrian bridge on Sime Road entering Bukit Brown, opposite the SICC traffic light. Tour ends at 12 pm in the grounds of Bukit Brown.
Please bring umbrella or poncho / sun block / mosquito repellent.
Please wear covered footwear.
REGISTRATION: You may register for up to 2 pax. Please note as spaces are limited to 20, please make sure you and your companions can attend and inform us early for cancellations as this tour is highly popular. It is suitable for children from 4 years upwards.
The size is kept small for safety reasons and for ideal interaction as Jon shares the maps, photos and stories of the battles. All things Bukit Brown is only the organizer as we support the work that Jon and his team are doing out of respect for our common heritage.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward). The route is not difficult, still good hardy footwear is highly recommended and depending on the weather it can be hot, so please wear sunscreen, a hat is advisable and plenty of drinking water. Be prepared as well for rain, bring umbrella and ponchos and Jon will assess whether the tour will continue should it get too heavy and there is lightning.
About WW 2 at Bukit Brown
On Feb 15, 1942, Singapore fell just one week after Japanese forces landed. As they headed down south, fierce battles were fought in the Adam Park area and the fighting extended to Bukit Brown, then known as Cemetery Hill.
"On the evening of 14th February 1942, the rolling hills of the Bukit Brown Cemetery were suddenly engulfed in a barrage of flame and fire. It appeared like scene from Dante's 'Inferno'. "
Jon Cooper, the battlefield archaeologist behind The Adam Park Project, wrote this gripping account as he retraced the battle ground route with all things Bukit Brown.
This is your chance to brush up on your history. Jon Cooper will take you through the paces. Don't miss his energetic retracing of the movements on both sides, as we commemorate the fallen. You will be expected to do some walking in the sun, so wear good walking shoes and bring snacks and water. The tour ends at the Bukit Brown Cemetery, where you will see the graves among which the soldiers sheltered and fought.
Jon's post on his interest in Bukit Brown and the missing soldiers is here.
For a visual guide to your route, cartographer Mok Ly Ying has done this wonderful guide map for you.
Previous tour reports here:
July 22 2012 tour here and here
June 17 2012 Father's Day Special
To help you plan your Sunday morning and enjoy the tour, you can follow this map of a previous one: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208524362450694978161.0004cc9d065f2a171893d&msa=0&ll=1.336901,103.817351&spn=0.003566,0.005681
Jon conducts the Battlefield Tour when time permits. For other war-related stories, you can join tours by All Things Bukit Brown on the heritage tours.
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This year's Farnborough International Airshow could potentially be one of the quietest for military rotorcraft sales given the hugely uncertain economic situation in Europe. The civil market too is under pressure with corporate profits down, pressure on governments to cut back across all departments (including parapublic) and less liquidity in the private sector. Perhaps oil and gas and other energy sectors (windfarms—both on and offshore) may still offer the best potential, although at time of writing the oil price was comparatively low compared to recent months. For exhibitors, the success or failure of participating may still rest on how many far-flung international visitors the event can attract.
The 2010 event's official figures included 70 delegations from 44 countries and around 120,000 trade visitors, who mainly attend during the working week leaving the weekend free for the enthusiasts and general public.
This biennial event, which alternates with Le Bourget in Paris, France, is being staged from Monday, July 9th through Sunday the 15th.
One sector that does keep Europe at the forefront of technology is innovation. The private sector will be the one to watch, as government investment in R&D falls and those large companies who rely on government grants slow their spending. If the economic situation worsens to the point where there is a "brain drain" from western countries to those in Asia, then the pulling power of large European events such as Farnborough could be seriously damaged.
On a lighter and more optimistic note, one organization that has committed to the Farnborough Airshow is Italy's Finmeccanica. The aerospace, defense and security player confirmed in March its participation in the Airshow until 2014, with an option to extend to 2016 after the gates have closed for the final time this year. It has secured its regular spot, "Finmeccanica Corner" near to the site's main entrance. This followed an earlier agreement from European giant EADS to participate in the next three Airshows up to 2016.
Marco Conte, senior vice president of communications and image for Finmeccanica, said of the decision: "FIA continues to be one of the leading aerospace events with the sheer number of companies and countries involved, civil and military authorities, visitor numbers and above all the number and range of transactions concluded."
While many manufacturers are turning their eyes toward the markets in the Middle East, Far East and perhaps South America, it would perhaps be a good time for those exhibitors who view Farnborough as a mainstay of their marketing strategy to negotiate, or renegotiate, their participation in a long-term deal. All European-based aerospace and defense events will be looking to secure participation over the next few years and could well be open to deals for commitment.
While at time of writing most helicopter OEM exhibitors were still to declare their final line-up of aircraft that would be taken to the airshow, the Bell/Boeing partnership was promising to bring a number of U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tiltrotors for display on the ground and going through their paces in the air, both at Farnborough itself and the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at Fairdford, Gloucestershire, which takes place the preceding weekend (July 6-8, 2012).
Although the Osprey has flown before at the Farnborough, this is one rotorcraft that Bell/Boeing are still working hard to sell to international operators. Interest is thought to be high in some Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia. The aircraft may also have an outside chance of at least being looked at by the British Ministry of Defence for service in the logistical support aircraft to the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.
The V-22s could operate in the role usually provided to the U.S. Navy by the Grumman C-2 Greyhound, but could augment that with additional capabilities from anti-submarine warfare, to cross-decking supplies, and even as a littoral combat maneuver asset. As a vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft it would have no problem operating from the UK's carriers, which will not operate the "cat and trap" system due to their fleet of Joint Strike Fighter F-35Bs.
Farnborough has announced a series of themed mini-conferences to run over the business days of the airshow. The conferences addressing themes across the aerospace sector will draw together informed views on the factors affecting key markets and sustainability issues. These are:
• Tuesday, July 10: AEROSPACE, Enabling Growth—the Role for Aerospace;
• Tuesday, July 10: Space Conference;
• Wednesday, July 11: DEFENSE, Future Defense Technologies; and
• Wednesday, July 11: SECURITY, Aviation Security.
GKN Aerospace has announced that it will be giving six individual lectures on different aspects of its research and development activities during Farnborough. Space is limited and anyone interested should contact the company quickly to reserve a seat. The lectures will be on the following:
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The Prairie City-Monroe girls basketball team picked up two victories between Friday and Saturday, while the boys earned a close on Friday in conference action.
The Mustang girls (9-6, 8-5 Heart of Iowa Conference), extended their win streak to five games with a 53-36 Friday victory over Roland-Story and a 56-43 nonconference win over Pella on Saturday. With the Friday win, the Mustangs moved up to fourth in the conference standings and are just one game behind third.
PCM's boys (14-1, 11-1) also extended their win streak to five games with a 44-40 nailbiter over Roland-Story Friday night. The Mustangs trailed 26-23 at haltime, then held the Norsemen to just four points in the third quarter and eeked out the victory in the fourth.
Senior Ethan Kain led PCM with 11 points, while fellow senior Nate Vande Wall and junior Dillon Bruxvoort each finished with nine. Senior Michael Neff added six, freshman Logan Gilman had five and senior Alex DeWitte finished with four on top of a team-high six rebounds.
Both PCM teams will host Colfax-Mingo in Monroe on Tuesday.
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"I thought we did a lot of nice things offensively tonight," Hawks Coach Nick Harthoorn remarked. "We ran the floor hard, moved the ball sharply and crashed the offensive boards. Our defense was pretty solid as well."
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The Lynville-Sully Hawks (10-6) fell to the Warriors of HLV (3-12) in a shocker Friday night, losing the road game 34-32. The Hawks led 17-9 at half, but the Warriors came out on a tear in the thrid quarter, scoring 16 points to Lynnville-Sully's eight. HLV proceeded to win the fourth quarter and steal the win from the much more highly touted Hawks.
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If the quote is in fact misrepresented / manufactured, that is heinous. I
should say for the record that while I appreciate some of Focus' parenting
materials, I'm no fan of that organization or its methods when it comes to
politics. Did Cizik really endorse that book?
On 3/5/07, Rich Blinne <email@example.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/07, David Opderbeck <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
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> > Well, it was pretty stupid of Cizik to mention population control. That
> > feeds the worst fears of folks like Dobson. Frankly, it scares me as well,
> > and I think Dobson's comment about forced abortion and infanticide in China
> > is right on point. Christian environmentalists need to acknowledge that the
> > environmental movement was dead wrong about the "population explosion" and
> > must distance Christian responses to problems like gobal warming from the
> > "secular" environmental movement's untoward emphasis on population control.
> I've tried to run down this quote and its provenance is dodgy. It comes
> from an e-mail from an AEI member. I could find no transcripts or evidence
> that this meeting ever happened. The Christian blog, Bene Diction Blogs On,
> ran into similar problems:
> > *As far as I can tell the Cizik quote from the World Bank Sustainable
> > Development Forum was first trotted out at the Focus on the Family Value
> > Voters 2006 Summit by Oklahoma Senator **James Inhofe*<http://18.104.22.168/search?q=cache:KTWu6sQPfoQJ:www.talk2action.org/story/2006/9/25/12463/2968+Rev.+Richard+Cizik+Word+Bank&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=ca>
> > *. I cannot find a transcript of the World Bank Forum (May 2006) online
> > to put Rev. Cizik's quote in context.*
> >
> Bene Diction and Christianity Today may have found the real reason for the
> hostility:
> > *Christianity Today has noted Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family
> > wants Rev. Richard Cizik fired for endorsing **this book*<http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR022707.html>
> > *.* [THE JESUS MACHINE How James Dobson, Focus on the Family,* *and
> > Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War]
> What made Dobson so mad?
> >
> > "Gilgoff is a writer and journalist of the first rank... This is a book
> > that evangelicals, as well as the critics of our movement, should surely
> > read."
> >
> You have this quote being passed only by two hostile witnesses so I looked
> to see if Cizik talked about this topic at some other time and I did find
> something here. Cizik has talked on the record about this and here is what
> he told the New York Times magazine:
> *
> >
> > ""Creation care'' sounds like a division of Medicare."
> > It's still better than environmentalism.
> >
> > "What is wrong with that term?"
> > "It's not the term. It's the environmentalists themselves. I was
> > recently speaking with the leadership of the Sierra Club and the National
> > Wildlife Federation, and I told them, 'Gentlemen, I respect you, but at this
> > point don't plan on any formal collaborations.'"
> >
> > "Why? Because they lean to the left?"
> > "Environmentalists have a bad reputation among evangelical Christians
> > for four reasons. One, they rely on big-government solutions. Two, their
> > alliance with population-control movements. Three, they keep kooky religious
> > company."
> >
> > "What is your idea of a kooky religion?"
> > "Some environmentalists are pantheists who believe creation itself is
> > holy, not the Creator."
> >
> > "And what's No. 4?"
> > "There's a certain gloom and doom about environmentalists. They tend to
> > prophecies of doom that don't happen. Look at the movie 'The Day After
> > Tomorrow,' in which New York City freezes
> >
> *over."
> That doesn't sound like someone who is pro-population control to me and he
> did what you asked Christian environmentalists to do in that interview.
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Starting in 1990, Congress acted to ensure that colleges have strategies to prevent and respond to sexual assault on campus and to give students and their parents accurate information about campus crime.
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Colleges and universities vary widely in how well they comply with Clery Act mandates and respond to sexual victimization.
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THE H1N1 vaccine isn't for everyone.
Since the mass immunization began in Winnipeg Monday, two people have had rare allergic reactions to it, according to the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
"We have had two incidents involving some allergic-type symptoms," said Dr. Sande Harlos, a WRHA medical officer of health. "This is what we're prepared to deal with."
The maker of the H1N1 vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline, warns that up to one in 1,000 doses may result in an allergic reaction leading to a "dangerous decrease of blood pressure."
"That's why you're asked to wait 15 minutes afterwards," Harlos said. A severe reaction will happen within minutes of getting the shot.
By 3 p.m. Tuesday, 15,695 Winnipeggers had been immunized without incident. When someone reacts badly to the vaccine, there are medical staff on hand to help, Harlos said.
The vaccine recipient is taken to hospital to be kept under observation. Harlos said the two people who reacted badly to the vaccine — one on Monday and one on Tuesday — are OK. "They left in good condition."
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"I know if it is in eye drops or contact lens preserver, it will make my the skin around my eyes puff up and swell in a really ugly way," she said. "I am not sure what thimerosal will do in my veins."
Harlos said unless someone has a severe egg or thimerosal allergy, they shouldn't have a severe reaction to the vaccine.
"Some people have a mild reaction when it's used topically. That isn't the same as a systemic whole-body reaction," Harlos said.
A severe allergic reaction is an anaphylactic response — the throat closes, blood pressure plunges and airways tighten, said Dr. Joel Kettner, Manitoba's chief medical officer of health.
Dehod said she has had an adverse reaction to a flu vaccine in the past, but doesn't know if it contained thimerosal. She wishes Manitoba would obtain vaccine without thimerosal.
"I don't want to be one of those people that falls through the cracks and gets H1N1 because Manitoba Health did a pretty good job for most people and gambled with the health of those that are a little more sensitive to preservative."
Mercury downplayed
Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative. In large concentrations, or over extended periods of exposure, mercury can cause damage to the brain and kidneys. However, the Public Health Agency of Canada says the amount of mercury in the H1N1 flu vaccine is significantly less than in a can of tuna.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has recommended a long-term goal of removing thimerosal from vaccines, provided that safe alternatives to this preservative can be found. "This will help to reduce unnecessary environmental exposure to mercury."


text: Former U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932 - Aug. 25, 2009) served 37 years as senator for the state of Massachusetts before dying of brain cancer. At the time of his death, he was the third-longest serving senator in U.S. history and was the second-longest active senator in Congress, having held the position since 1962. Kennedy was the youngest of nine children and brother of former President John F. Kennedy and former New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy was known as a "liberal lion" for his strong stance and liberal ideology while in politics. In 1980, he ran an unsuccessful bid for the presidency. He left behind a wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and three children, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Kara Anne Kennedy and Patrick Kennedy.


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MACON, Ga. (April 10, 2013) – The Atlantic Sun Conference office announced Wednesday that ETSU senior Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) has earned her first-ever A-Sun Women's Golfer of the Week award.
Last week, Garner fired a career-best round of 5-under-par 67 in the first round of the Rebel Intercollegiate, and later carded two more solid rounds to finish with a team-best showing of fifth on the leaderboard.
Those individual efforts also helped power her Buccaneer teammates to a fourth-place finish in the 18-team tournament. In fact, the field included tradition-rich and No. 29-ranked LSU, as well as No. 34 Kentucky – and both were teams ETSU finished ahead of in the event. The Bucs also bested Southeastern Conference teams such as Mississippi State, Mississippi and Missouri, as well as Big 10 Conference foe Minnesota.
Garner and her teammates will return to action in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships April 15 in Jekyll Island, S.C. For more on ETSU women's golf throughout the spring season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's golf link.


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An El Niño currently developing in the tropical Pacific could mean an improved agricultural outlook for all of Texas, according to Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, state climatologist and regents professor at Texas A&M University.
"An El Niño refers to unusually high tropical temperatures which shift the pattern of tropical convection, and usually leads to a cool and wet winter for Texas," Nielsen-Gammon said.
Though an El Niño's effects are usually stronger in southern parts of the state along the Gulf Coast, it generally causes shifts in weather patterns for the entire state, he said.
"It's a nice switch from the last couple of years, which were La Niña events, which generally favor dry conditions," he said.
La Niña episodes are when the tropical Pacific temperatures are lower than average, he said.
Unfortunately for the Midwest and Mississippi Valley, an El Niño generally "signals" a drier-than-normal winter, according to Nielsen-Gammon.
Currently, tropical Pacific temperatures are about 0.5 to 1.0 degree Celsius (0.9 to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, Nielsen-Gammon said.
"Right now, it looks like a weak to moderate one," he said. "It would have to be 1.5 to 2 degrees (2.7 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal to get a strong one."
But even a weak-to-moderate El Niño should have a pronounced effect on this year's winter weather, he said.
"I just want to emphasize that wet conditions from an El Niño are not a sure thing, just like dry conditions with La Niña are not a sure thing," he said. "Last year, we saw La Niña conditions, but we ended up having above-normal rainfall across the state.
"For the sake of West Texas, I hope this El Niño comes through for us and gives us wet weather, but there's no guarantee of that."
North Atlantic temperatures are still running high, which is "a strike against us, especially for summer or fall," Nielsen-Gammon said. "But sometime around November, statistically the Pacific starts to take over, having a bigger effect on our weather."
More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website at http://agrilife.tamu.edu/drought/.


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Why do you worship Mary?
Veneration of the saints, including Mary, is not worship.Catholics worship God alone.
Do Catholics worship the saints? To worship someone is to acknowledge that the one who is worshiped is divine, is God. Sometimes we can confuse cultural gestures of reverence for gestures of worship. In doing so, we often judge not as God does, by what is in the heart, but rather by appearances Jn 8:15, Is 11:3
Catholics hold saints in esteem because they are such wonderful images or mirrors of Christ. Paul several times exhorts his readers to be imitators of him: Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. 1 Cor 11:1, also Phil 3:17, 1 Cor 4:16
Mary is the first saint, and holds high honor today, as she did in the early Church. Over the course of history, devotion to Mary has taken many forms, and even has been confused with worship. Church teaching has consistently placed Mary in the company of the saints, however.
Devotion to the saints comes back to the theology of image: Christ is Gods image, the saints are Christs image. We honor them because we desire to imitate them. We pray to them the same as we call upon earthly friends to do a favor for us. This too, is scriptural. In Acts we read of Peter and John going up to the Temple for prayer and encountering a beggar. Peter says to him, I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise and walk. Acts 3:6 Peter makes it clear that he has the power of Christ in his possession.
To be sure, it is Jesus who heals, but Peter holds the right to extend that power. The same can be said of Paul. In Acts 19:11-12 we read, So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hands of Paul that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. These texts are the basis of the Catholic practice of asking saints to help us, of honoring (not worshiping) the bodies and relics of saints.


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Friday, October 29, 2010
Power of Pink Day 5 & Halloween Fun
18 comments:
Congrats Julie...that is a super fab purse you are getting!!ReplyDelete
And OMG!!!! Those pics are hilarious...funny stuff!!
i love these pics!! So Fun!ReplyDelete
Congrats Julie,great LO!!!ReplyDelete
And about the pics I`m still laughing LOL!!! you girls are the best!!!
Ha this is awesome - what a sweet place to work!! Big congrats to you Julie!! Love your layout.ReplyDelete
Julie congrats!! Well deserved..ReplyDelete
and guys.. I wished I could have been there.. looks super fun!
Julie, I am so happy for you in more ways than one. Oh, your layout is so pretty!ReplyDelete
'Way to go Bo-Bunny! The party looked like a blast!!
looks like fun! great costumes! :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations to Julie. Love the pictures of your Halloween party. Looks like loads of fun to work at BoBunny.ReplyDelete
Congrats Julie...beautiful Layout! The party looked way fun...great costumes. That scary zombie guy was way cool. Love the grannies too. What a fun place to work.ReplyDelete
NICE! How fun!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing all these pink LOs & stories this week. Many amazing women with touching stories to tell.
Congrats Julie! Beautiful LO's. Love the Halloween pictures.ReplyDelete
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Have fun girls. I just Wish we had Halloween in the Netherlands.
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Prior to every series, the manager and his coaches go over the opposition's lineup and pick a player they won't let beat them. He's a player you don't pitch to unless you absolutely need to. Albert Pujols is such a player.
Given that, Jerry Manuel's decision to pitch to Pujols boggles the mind. That he wasn't swinging the bat well doesn't matter. He's Pujols. You walk him.


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Dec. 15, 2007
Lipscomb lost to the Colonels of Nicholls State 72-60 Saturday afternoon in their first of three games in Louisiana. A 23-2 first half run by the Colonels proved to be too much for the Bisons to come back from. Nicholls State improved to 4-7, while the Bisons fell to 4-7.
"When you play the first four minutes of the first half and the last four minutes of the first half and don't play the middle twelve, then your going to get beat by anybody," said head coach Scott Sanderson after the game. "Don't take anything away from them (Nicholls State). They played very well and shot the ball well, but we just didn't come out and play very well at all."
Within the first four minutes of the first half, LaKory Daniels hit a jump shot to give the Bisons a 6-4 lead over Nicholls State. However, it would turn out to be Lipscomb's last lead of the game. A 23-2 run by Nichols State put the Bisons in a 21 point hole. Lipscomb trailed 29-8 with 7:59 left to play in the first half.
However, Lipscomb fought back with a 16-11 run of their own to make the score 40-24 in favor of Nicholls State as the first half came to a close. The Bisons shot 38% from the field in the first half. The Colonels shot 54%. Nicholls State also out-rebounded Lipscomb 19-12 in the first half.
Half time adjustments were made, and the Bisons came into the second half firing on all cylinders. Lipscomb went on an 11-0 run to begin the second half and cut the lead down to five. However, this would prove to be the closest margin in the second half. Michael Czepil hit a three pointer to stop Lipscomb's run at the 14:17 mark of the second half.
"It's difficult when you get yourself in that big of a hole against a team where the best thing they do is half court offense," said Sanderson.
Eddie Ard and Brandon Brown both scored in double figures for the Bisons. Ard had 16 points and 6 rebounds. Brown had 11 points and 4 rebounds. Senior Jason Hopkins had a good game with 9 points and 2 blocks.
The Colonels had five players score in double figures. Gil Verner came off of the bench to lead all scorers with 17 points.
Nicholls State shot 53% from the field and were 8-17 from behind the arc in their 72-60 win over the Bisons. Nicholls State is now 4-7.
Lipscomb shot 42 percent from the field and were 4-19 from behind the three point line. Lipscomb falls to 4-7.
The next action for the Bisons is on Monday night at 7 p.m. CT. They will travel to take on Southeastern Louisiana. Coverage of this game can be heard on 900 AM.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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Wellness Express is a local company that provides vaccination services to corporations, and the local school boards. They also provide a walk in service for flu shots, vaccinations, and B-12 injections.
Their site needs a major makeover! Are you up to the task?
The goal for this site, is to help generate more office clients. The secondary goal is to provide easy access to our website corporate clients.
The age groups for services
B12 - 18 and up. Mostly women 18-80, but some men.
Vaccination services are provided to adults and adolescents (9 and above)
We would like a clean design, with good and relevant color selections. The site should make good use of spacing. It should be clear, when you land on the homepage what the site is about and what the client offers.
Client want to keep the black/red/gray color scheme. I think it's important to have a professional/medical feel to the site, maybe featuring some professional looking nurses?
I had a difficult time finding sites in a similar niche that we liked. I am attaching the logos and a couple of fliers they use in their business.
It is important that if you use any stock photos, that you let me know what i need to purchase upon completion.
We require delivery in a layered .psd file.
We need you to design the home page only. It should look professional, like a medical website. Maybe use pictures of smiling nurses?
We'd like good use of testimonials, with pictures.
Bullet points which tell of the services or vaccinations we offer.
We need a "subscribe to our newsletter" type of email capture system
Telephone number easily found
We couldn't find any good examples of sites we liked, but i'll keep looking.


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We are now officially on the move, and have entered the zone where we are between factories... a bit like being on the dark side of the moon.
Our equipment has been picked up by the amazing folks at Cote Riggers. These guys were a pro act, operating like a precision machine. They came in and picked up our heavy equipment and placed it on their trucks like it was no big deal. Here's a video of their loaded trucks departing:
It turns out that the heavy equipment was the easiest part of this stage of the move. Sorting, packing and cleaning out 16 years worth of accumulated stuff was a far more challenging job. The crew worked non-stop to get it done. Along the way we hosted a "give-away" of excess materials and equipment for our friends in the local frame building community. Marty at Geekhouse did a nice shout out blog post here.
I'm incredibly proud of the team. They worked extremely hard to pull off an epic task, even after the paint and shipping crew had worked for the past 25 days straight, doing their best to complete as many orders as possible before we shut down to move.


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As hearings and discussions resume on crafting the 2012 farm bill, the threat of $30 billion to $35 billion being chopped out of agricultural programs hangs over the negotiations, says Carlisle Clarke, legislative assistant to Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee and a member of the Agriculture Committee.
"Last fall, in the debt ceiling discussions, each congressional committee was charged with offering up a package of cuts for programs under their jurisdiction," he said at the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation's annual commodity conference.
"The leadership of the House and Senate agriculture committees agreed on $23 billion in cuts. Sen. Cochran and other committee members didn't get to offer as much input as they would have liked, and we more or less condensed a normal farm bill process into about six weeks to get these recommendations done.
"The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ultimately didn't ultimately pass anything, but we still ended up with that $23 billion in proposed cuts hanging over our heads for the 2012 farm bill."
Part of the agreement last August, Clarke says, required that if the committee didn't achieve the targeted budget cuts that would then be passed by Congress, budget sequestration would occur in January 2013.
"This means we'd essentially have automatic cuts determined by the Office of Management and Budget, with no input whatever by congressional leaders. That could mean $30 billion to $35 billion could be taken out of agriculture.
"They had already said food stamps would not be included in those cuts, so that $30-$35 billion would have to come from ag programs. And the agriculture spending baseline will be updated in March, which would make commodity spending even smaller than actually proposed.
'To put this in perspective, over the next 10 years the food stamp program is projected to cost upward of $800 billion; under current policy, commodity programs would cost only about $71 billion during the same period."
Anytime there is comprehensive legislation like the farm bill that costs upward of $1 trillion every 10 years, Clarke says, "We're going to hear a lot of reservations from the deficit hawks on one end and from the outright opponents on the other end who don't believe this nation should be investing in farm programs at all.
"It frankly baffles me that there is a disconnect on Capitol Hill between farmers who actually produce food and the persons who consume the food. For whatever reason, people don't seem to make the connection that investing in farm programs is an investment in food security and global food supply. Our job is to sell that message as we enter into the farm bill discussions."
The current farm program expires at the end of September, Clarke notes, and if no new farm bill is passed or the current bill isn't extended, "we would revert to the common statutes of 1949 — and I don't think anyone would realistically consider that an option."
Elections driving Washington
Heading into spring and summer, he says, "The elections will be driving all the decisions that are made in Washington. Agriculture Committee Chairwoman, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, R-Mich., is among those up for re-election this fall.
"Most feedback indicates we'll start hearings on the 2012 farm bill sometime toward the end of February, and reports in the press and elsewhere are that Sen. Stabenow would like to have the legislation marked up by Memorial Day. I don't know how realistic that is, considering all the other issues to be considered, including extension of the payroll tax cut and raising the debt ceiling again."
There are differing opinions and philosophies on what farm policy should look like for the next five years, Clarke says. "There is a large group who are adamant that direct payments, countercyclical payments, and the ACRE program should be eliminated and that we should move to a comprehensive revenue package, while some feel that crop insurance is the answer for everyone.
"Sen. Cochran's position is that we need to insure there is a viable, equitable option for all regions of the country and for all producers of all commodities. That's our challenge going forward — to sell that message and hopefully get enough members on board from those who are not well informed about production agriculture.
"There are great numbers of people in this country who don't know or care much about farming. As an example, I had a top Senate aide tell me that there were children starving in Africa because of the subsidies that American farmers get."
In reality, Clarke says, "Last year, the amount of money spent on actual farm programs was $19 billion, while the amount of money spent on food consumption was upward of $1.3 trillion. It doesn't take an economist to see that $19 billion doesn't have much of an impact on the price of food, but if you take away that safety net, take away that protection for farmers against uncertainty heading into a crop year, it would not only undermine our domestic farm policy and production agriculture nationwide, it would undoubtedly have serious consequences on the price of food."
This year will be a challenging one, Clarke says. "There is a possibility the current farm bill could get extended. There's a good chance Republicans can re-take the Senate in this year's elections — being in the majority would be advantageous in negotiations.
"Hopefully, in the coming weeks Chairwoman Stabenow will establish our calendar, and if we're unable to pass a farm bill this year, we can hope to get an extension of the current farm bill so that next year we can come back and put together the best package possible."
In a question-and-answer session, Clarke said for the 2012 crop year, "It will be business as usual for direct payments."
Asked if the Systemic Risk Reduction Program (SRRP), which has been popular in the Midwest, might work for Mississippi producers, he said, "We do have some concerns with how SRRP is currently written.
"Those who support SRRP argue that having a target price program instead of some sort of price trigger would distort marketing decisions to farmers — that they would plant one commodity over another, based on the type of program instead of the market decision they would naturally make.
"Our farms here are more diversified than those in the Midwest; some things work better for them, some things work better for us. We're going to try for equitable, viable solutions that work for everybody."
There are a lot of factors driving the farm bill discussion, Clarke says, and "with Farm Bureau and other organizations reaching out to us to let us know your needs and concerns, it helps us to insure that a safety net is provided that will help you be successful for the life of the next farm bill."
He noted that Mississippi agriculture had its "best year ever" in 2011, with production value of $7 billion. Nationwide, average farm income nationwide "saw the biggest jump ever from 2009 to 2010, around 28 percent. And we're expanding into new markets overseas after Congress finally passed new free trade agreements."
But offsetting those positive developments, Clarke says, "Farmers are having to spend more per acre than ever before — your expenses are the highest they've ever been.
That's another of the many challenges we face as we look to the writing of the 2012 farm bill."


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News Update: February 4, 2012
Remember those awesome guys in the band OK Go who did that even more awesome music video with the Muppets for their cover of "The Muppet Show Theme Song"? Well, OK Go has gone and produced another amazing video, this time on Sesame Street! There are no Muppets in the video with them, but the guys in the band have basically solidified themselves as honorary Muppets anyway. Plus, this video is too cool not to share! Check it out below:
I'm sure you all heard about FOX News' rant a few months ago about how the Muppets were brandishing a Liberal agenda and brainwashing children against business and the oil industry with Tex Richman (who, you know, they thought was actually a Muppet, not a human character played by Chris Cooper). Well, it took awhile, but Kermit and Miss Piggy (mostly Piggy) finally responded to the outrageous claims in brilliant fashion. Check out the video below and see for yourself (and smirk at the irony of Kermit saying, "That's going to be all over the internet!"):
And if that weren't enough, FOX News had to mention the rebuttal by the frog and the pig on the air. Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor, showed the clip and responded, "Well, we still like the Muppets. But they'd better watch it." I sincerely hope he was doing it with an air of joking about him... but you never know with Papa Bear Bill. Anyway... you can see that video as well and decide for yourself.
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, has launched a brand new website at its same old location: www.SesameWorkshop.org. The website is incredibly informative and gorgeous with loads of pictures, information, and ways that you can get involved with the Workshop's mission. It highlights all of their current (and some of their future) projects as well as showcasing individuals and groups involved with the Workshop. I think my favorite section is the Sesame News section where the website gathers Sesame-related news articles from various places around the web (Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, etc.). Explore the site for yourself and marvel in the greatness that is Sesame Workshop all over again!
In Fraggle Rock news (and I honestly can't remember the last time I said that), shoe company Native Spring are launching a line of advertisements for their children's shoes featuring Red Fraggle and Traveling Matt. The shoes aren't Fraggle themed and it does seem like an odd choice to have Red and Matt promoting shoes... but I'm not complaining, because we were also treated to three brand new pictures featuring new Red Fraggle and Traveling Matt posers! Could this mean that more Fraggle material is coming? Probably not... but who knows. Check out the pictures below:
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, email@example.com
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Coastal zone
From Coastal Wiki
Definition of Coastal zone:
(General, wide planning-oriented characterisation): The interface between land and sea, delineated as the part of the land affected by its proximity to the sea, and the part of the sea affected by its proximity to the land[1].
This is the common definition for Coastal zone, other definitions can be discussed in the article
See also
- ↑ Mangor, Karsten. 2004. "Shoreline Management Guidelines". DHI Water and Environment, 294pp.