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This section explains these aspects of managing an existing replication topology:
You can edit a replication agreement to change the replication manager identity that is used to bind to the consumer server. To avoid any interruption of the replication, you should define the new replication manager entry or certificate entry on the consumer before modifying the replication agreement. However, if replication is interrupted due to a bind failure, the replication mechanism will automatically send all the necessary updates when you correct the error, within the limits of the replication recovery settings. For the procedure, see Using a Non-Default Replication Manager.
You can disable, enable, or delete a replication agreement.
When a replication agreement is disabled, the master stops sending updates to the designated consumer. Replication to that server is stopped, but all settings in the agreement are preserved. You may resume replication by re-enabling the agreement at a later time. See Enabling a Replication Agreement for information about resuming the replication mechanism after an interruption.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Disable a replication agreement.
$ dsconf disable-repl-agmt -h host -p port suffix-DN consumer-host:consumer-port
For example:
$ dsconf disable-repl-agmt -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com host1:1389
Enabling a replication agreement resumes replication with the designated consumer. However, if replication has been interrupted longer than the replication recovery settings allow and the consumer was not updated by another supplier, you must reinitialize the consumer. The replication recovery settings are the maximum size and age of this supplier's change log and the purge delay of the consumer (see To Perform Advanced Consumer Configuration).
When the interruption is short and replication can recover, the master will update the consumer automatically when the agreement is re-enabled.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Enable a replication agreement.
$ dsconf enable-repl-agmt -h host -p port suffix-DN consumer-host:consumer-port
For example:
$ dsconf enable-repl-agmt -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com host1:1389
Deleting a replication agreement stops the replication to the corresponding consumer and removes all configuration information about the agreement. If you want to resume replication at a later date, disable the agreement instead, as described in Disabling a Replication Agreement.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Delete a replication agreement.
$ dsconf delete-repl-agmt -h host -p port suffix-DN consumer-host:consumer-port
For example:
$ dsconf delete-repl-agmt -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com host1:1389
Promoting or demoting a replica changes its role in the replication topology. Dedicated consumers can be promoted to hubs, and hubs can be promoted to masters. Masters can be demoted to hubs, and hubs can also be demoted to dedicated consumers. However, masters cannot be demoted directly to consumers, just as consumers cannot be promoted directly to masters.
The allowed promotions and demotions within the multimaster replication mechanism make the topology very flexible. A site that was formerly served by a consumer replica might grow and require a hub with several replicas to handle the load. If the load includes many modifications to the replica contents, the hub can become a master to allow faster local changes that can then be replicated to other masters at other sites.
When promoting or demoting replicas, be aware of the following:
If you promote a consumer, it becomes a hub. If you promote a hub, it becomes a master. You cannot promote a server directly from consumer to master. You must first promote the consumer to a hub, then promote the hub to a master. Likewise, when demoting a master to a consumer, you must demote the master to a hub before demoting from a hub to a consumer.
When demoting a master to a hub, the replica will become read-only and be configured for sending referrals to the remaining masters. The new hub will retain all of its consumers, whether hubs or dedicated consumers.
Demoting a single master to a hub will create a topology without a master replica. Directory Server will allow you to do this under the assumption that you will define a new master. However, it is better to add a new master as a multimaster and allow it to be initialized before demoting the other master.
Before demoting a hub to a consumer, you must disable or delete all replication agreements to and from the hub. If you do not do this, the demote operation will fail with this error: LDAP_OPERATIONS_ERROR "Unable to demote a hub to a read-only replica if some agreements are enabled".
If the hub's consumers were not updated by other hubs or masters, they will no longer be updated. You should create new agreements on the remaining hubs or masters to update these consumers.
When promoting a consumer to a hub, its change log is enabled, and you may define new agreements with consumers.
When promoting a hub to a master, the replica will accept modification requests, and you may define new agreements with other masters, hubs, or dedicated consumers.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Promote or demote a replica by using one of the commands:
dsconf promote-repl [-d REPL_ID] SUFFIX_DN [SUFFIX_DN...]
$ dsconf promote-repl -h host -p port [-d REPL_ID] SUFFIX_DN [SUFFIX_DN...]
$ dsconf demote-repl -h host -p port SUFFIX_DN [SUFFIX_DN...]
Disabling a replicated suffix removes it from the replication topology. It will no longer be updated or send updates, depending on its role as a master, hub, or consumer. Disabling a suffix on a supplier server deletes all replication agreements, and they will have to be recreated if the replica is enabled again.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Disable a replicated suffix.
$ dsconf disable-repl -h host -p port suffix-DN
For example:
$ dsconf disable-repl -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com
After you stop a Directory Server involved in replication for regular maintenance, when it comes back online, you need to ensure that it gets updated through replication immediately. In the case of a master in a multimaster environment, the directory information needs to be updated by another master in the multimaster set. In other cases, after a hub server or a dedicated consumer server is taken offline for maintenance, when they come back online, they need to be updated by the master server.
This section describes the replication retry algorithm and explains how to force replication updates to occur without waiting for the next retry.
The procedures described in this section can be used only when replication is already set up and consumers have been initialized.
When a source replica is unsuccessful in replicating to a destination, it retries periodically in incremental time intervals. The retry intervals depend on the error type.
Note that even if you have configured replication agreements to always keep the source replica and the destination replica synchronized, this is not sufficient to immediately update a replica that has been offline for over five minutes.
If replication has stopped, you can force replication updates to the destination suffixes.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
On the source server, restart replication updates to the destination server.
$ dsconf update-repl-dest-now -h host -p port suffix-DN destination-host:destination-port
For example:
$ dsconf update-repl-dest-now -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com host1:1389
In some situations, it might be necessary to move a master replica to a different machine. If you do not need to use the same host name and port number, use dsconf change-repl-dest to change the host name and port number of the remote replica. For more information, see To Change the Destination of a Replication Agreement.
If you need to retain the same host name and port number, you must remove the master from the existing topology, and then re-add the master to the topology.
It is much easier to use DSCC to perform these tasks, because DSCC takes care of any impacted replication agreements. If you use DSCC, however, you cannot specify the same replica ID that the master originally had in the topology. To use the same replica ID, you must use the command line to perform these tasks, as follows.
Make sure that all changes from the master have already been replicated.
If you can, back up the master using binary copy so that you do not lose any changes.
Demote the master replica to a hub replica.
Wait for the hub to start replicating to other servers.
When the hub opens a replication session to the other servers in the topology, it remains in the RUV but is no longer used in referrals.
Stop the hub.
See Starting, Stopping, and Restarting a Directory Server Instance.
Remove the hub from the topology.
Add the master replica, using the same replica ID.
Recreate the replication agreements from that master to the other replicas in the topology.
Initialize the new master.


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At George Fox, we know an important factor in choosing a school can be cost. That is why we strive to make school as affordable as possible. Virtually every George Fox student who can demonstrate financial need is awarded funds to assist in meeting the cost of attendance.
When students explore what it will cost to attend George Fox, there is a real difference between the total cost of their education (tuition, living expenses, books, fees, etc.) and the amount they're expected to pay. Financial aid is meant to reduce the gap between the two.
There are many steps involved in the financial aid process. Although not every step is required for all students, it is important to complete those required for your situation. To make sure you stay on top of the process, here are some important steps to follow.
- Complete the FAFSA
- The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is available Oct. 1 for the following academic year. You must submit the FAFSA annually in order to apply for federal, state, and some institutional financial aid.
- Our Title IV Federal School Code is 003194.
- Become Fully Admitted
- The university will not receive your FAFSA information or be able to process your award package until after you have been fully admitted. Contact the Admissions Office for help completing this.
- Accept/Decline Your Awards
- Award letters will be available usually between one to two weeks from the time you are fully admitted and have submitted your FAFSA. Once you've reviewed your award package, you will need to accept or decline your awards. This can be done through your MyGeorgeFox account on the "accept/decline awards" screen. Grad students must be enrolled in a minimum of 4 credits per semester for federal loans to disburse.
- Check Your To-Do List
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- Report External Scholarships
- It is important to report any outside scholarships you have been awarded through your MyGeorgeFox under "Report Other Financial Aid."
- Apply for Grad Plus Loans (if necessary)
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Interview: MarkMail Indexes KDE Mailinglist Archives
Several weeks ago MarkMail, a project sponsored and run by Mark Logic, started indexing the KDE mailinglist archives. After about a week of hard work, the KDE archives are now directly searchable from MarkMail. Besides interesting analytics, this brings some powerful search capabilities to the table. Read on for a short interview with Jason Hunter who was responsible for engineering on the project.
Hi Jason! Could you give a little introduction of yourself and Mark Logic?
Hi, KDE! I'm a Silicon Valley hacker. I've been working at Mark Logic for about 5 years now, since the days it was an early startup. We sell MarkLogic Server, a special-purpose database built for content (where "content" is the stuff that's textual, hierarchical, irregular, and not often regularly repeating - like books, articles, and presentations). We use XML as our native data type instead of tables, and pride ourselves on performing very well at high scale.
Until about a year ago I worked with our customers to help them write content apps. I had the idea that we could use the core server to build a public email archive repository, using some of the product features to push the envelope of what people had done before with email archives. That's where MarkMail came from. We started with 4,000,000 emails from the Apache Software Foundation mailing lists.
I've been involved with open source for a long time, leading JDOM and participating as a member of the Apache Software Foundation, so it felt natural to put MarkMail to work initially on the problem of getting more value from open source mailing lists.
Why did you decide to grab the KDE mailinglists?
Cornelius Schumacher started the ball rolling when he asked if we could load the KDE lists. OK, that's not quite true. We have a long list of communities whose lists we hope to load, and KDE was actually on that list since the very beginning. It's just that one day in April we heard from Cornelius, and the next day received a separate request from Adriaan de Groot. That popped KDE to the top of the priority list.
The KDE mailinglists aren't the largest you have at MarkMail, but they sure aren't small. Did that pose any problems?
Yes, KDE is Big. At current count there's 2.7 million KDE emails. Hosting those emails isn't an issue (we're designed to scale to hundreds of millions) but we had to work hard to gather clean historical archives. We have one person on the MarkMail team dedicated only to this (we like to call him an email archaeologist. I'm not sure he's happy about that nickname).
Why the challenge? Well the most authoritative archives for KDE were the web-based Pipermail archives (I'm using past tense because I'd like to think that today the most authoritative archives are in MarkMail). Pipermail exposes a set of "mbox" files for each archived list. Very handy. The mbox file format is a classic storage format for email and a format from which we can readily load. But as we found out, the mbox files aren't really mbox and there was a lot of post-processing we had to do. Some examples:
There are more examples, but I don't need to bore you. I should make clear it's nothing special with KDE or even with Pipermail. Turns out if you load a couple million emails you'll see at least one example of almost every problem that's ever existed. It's the same for every community, just with different challenges.
You mentioned pushing the envelope. Can you give an example of that?
Sure, here's a good example: When you do a search, besides getting the top 10 most relevant emails, you see lots of analytics. You see a histogram chart showing the number of messages matching your query each month across time. With it you can watch trends for lists, people, ideas, or any combination. Every query also shows the top senders, lists, attachment types, and message types for the messages matching the query. You can learn who's an expert on a topic, on what lists something is being discussed, which people are most involved on lists, and so on. By dragging across bars on the graph you can limit the view to just a particular time period. You can also click on any person's name or list name to limit the search. It's convenient to start with a simple query and refine interactively.
We've also strived to make the site easy to navigate. You can hit "n" and "p" to go to the next and previous search results. To move up and down the thread view you hit "j" and "k" (a homage to vim users). If you find an attachment (search for ext:pdf) you can view it inline in your browser.
Oh, and here's a little-known tip. If your screen is sufficiently wide, we give you all three panes (analytics, results, messages) at once. If not, you get the "slide".
Do you have any tips for the KDE community to take advantage of the available capabilities in MarkMail?
The first thing to remember is that you can limit your view to KDE-related mails by going to kde.markmail.org. The use of a subdomain adds an implicit constraint to all your queries.
Another is that you can do negations. For example, KDE has a huge number of automated emails generated by bug reports and code check-ins. You can search without those by adding -type:bugs -type:checkins. For example: http://kde.markmail.org/search/?q=-type%3Abugs+-type%3Acheckins
Lastly, if there's any other lists people want to see, let us know at our feedback page. You can track what we're up to at our blog.
Thank you very much, Jason, both for the work Mark Logic and you've been doing, and of course for granting this interview!
Great! :)
I've played a few minutes with the service and it rocks!
By Lucianolev at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Are there also services like these for non-public mailing lists or means to stop at least google indexing?
The reason I detest public archives is that it gets indexed by google and may also pose legal liabilities under German law (Abmahnungen) you can hardly manage if enforced in a ruthless manner. It further invades privacy.
I always had a problem with attachments to mailing list archives under mailman.
By velocifer at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Privacy issue
This is a nice idea, but I think there is a big privacy issue. First a lot of bug reports get automaticly forwarded to mailinglists, exposing the email address of the reporter to the public and search engines. I know, this has happend with the old archives, but not it is even easier. I guess most of the bug reporters are not aware oft this fact. A similar problem arises through some support-email addresses of some KDE-programs, which are in fact mailing lists. Here also the emailaddresses of people asking for support are exposed into the public through the archives being scanned by search engines. It would be great, if there was a solution for this.
By Mark at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: Privacy issue
Yes, this is why I always refrain from sending the crash reports, e.g. of Amarok.
However I don't really understand why its necessary that your email gets revealed.
By velocifer at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: Privacy issue
Geez, being concerned about exposing your email address is so 90s.
My address is all over the web (you can google it in 10 seconds), and still Gmail deals fine with the spam. Absolutely manageable.
By Mark Kretschmann at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Can I get free advertising for my proprietary privacy invading web20 web site just cause I'm barely helping a FOSS project so I can get free advertising for my proprietary privacy invading web20 web site?
By BiddyBoo at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
Have you ever heard about lists.kde.org ? It already have everything to invade your privacy, this site adds nothing new with it. There is also gmane.org - here you even have search interface (for example: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core ). The problem with privacy is more general - all data is available regardless of MarkMail.
What MarkMail adds is really good interface for browsing the archieves (which is really important for people who have not subscribed for that archieves for ages and thus don't have local copy of the history). For example one can use it to check whether given topic was already discussed before asking it themself. Yes, of course its not free, and it sucks. But hey, the google is also not free, but you don't blame it when it sponsors FOSS projects, do you ?
And about free advertising - well, its actually not free. The company does something for project and as reward gets advertasement. It's quite common in free software world, and it's good for both the company and the project and is very natural way of working together.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
There are plenty of websites who offer nice interfaces for searching mailing list, source code, coders etc... Are we going to advertise each and every one of them that helps FOSS a little more than other especially if they are not FOSS themself? (not to mention this one is full of flash nasty stuff).
> But hey, the google is also not free, but you don't blame it when it sponsors FOSS projects, do you ?
What does it have to do with it? I've never seen an announcement on the dot about how google products should be used to help KDE developers. The only google announcements here are about Google SoC which are not about how people should use google products. And for what I know, markmails is not sending any checks to young kde hackers.
By BiddyBoo at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
"Are we going to advertise each and every one of them that helps FOSS a little more than other especially if they are not FOSS themself?"
Probably not. And why should they?
"not to mention this one is full of flash nasty stuff)."
Then don't use it. Sheesh. "we should not talk about this web-service because it uses Flash!"...
And if you consider this service to be "invasion of privacy".... Well, how on earth can you expect one shred of privacy on a PUBLIC mailinglist? All the data they display and use is 100% public by default.
By Janne at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
Well, the search is for the "better tool". In the recent years the concern for privacy is getting higher as no data is lost anymore and governments apply anti-terror madness. People are not sensitive enough and reveal everything about themselves they can over myspace and the like.
On the other hand mail encryption is still immature and poses an usability burden. Who uses gmail makes the decision to go public. Fine.
Paranoid mode: when I reveal what software version I am using I consider this a personal security problem for a targeted attack.
Read this:
Two-thirds of respondents throughout the EU (65%) indicated that their
Among companies that transferred personal data to non-EU countries,
By velocifer at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
"Paranoid mode: when I reveal what software version I am using I consider this a personal security problem for a targeted attack."
So you are all for security by obscurity?
By Vide at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
You mix a matter of principle, it is a matter of nondisclosure.
You don't document your infrastructure for an attacker.
"Security by obscurity" relates to non-transparency of the tools as such.
If someone has the ability to find out that I am using a service x he can target me specifically. E.g. I get a lot of phising messages for financial institutions I am not a client with. But if an attacker has access to my customer data or knows that I contacted the bank and who the person at the bank is he might succeed as he can customize the attack in a more intelligent way. Don't reveal what you don't have to reveal.
Even the fact that you use Linux may be an issue you have no desire and no reason to disclose to the public at large. It is as private as which books you have in your room. I don't want "my room" to communicate to the rest of the world which books I store.
For submitting a defect report an association with my real name is factually irrelevant.
By velocifer at Fri, 2008/08/08 - 5:00am
Re: awsome!
Oh, yes, if you help us, we help you.
That's normal in FOSS - if someone does something for the project, we try to thank them. MarkMail didn't ask for this interview, you know... WE asked them to index our stuff, they did, we decided it would be cool to let the world know about it.
By Jos Poortvliet at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
There's a CAPTCHA to protect email addresses
All email addresses shown by MarkMail are obfuscated. Only by clicking on an address and solving a CAPTCHA will you be able to see what the true address is. This is true for any emails mentioned in the body of a message also.
The goal is to make the site useless to address harvesters but useful to people who want to communicate with each other. We think this strikes a nice balance.
By Jason Hunter at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: There's a CAPTCHA to protect email addresses
Hi Jason,
indeed! I like that feature very much. Thanks for that.
By Marcel at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
Threaded browsing
Thanks for the great work. It would be also very cool to have threaded browsing available.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: Threaded browsing
Just click on an email and it opens up the thread.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Re: Threaded browsing
No, if I click on a message, I get a *list* of messages in a conversation, not a tree-like view that gives me an idea of which message is a reply to which other message (the different threads in the conversation). Or is there something I am overlooking here?
By Andre at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
Wrong URL linked
By axel at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
By christoph at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
Your internets are broken.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
I guess your rules are broken then. Using per-site rules with Firefox (sorry, I am at windows at this machine) just works.
By Andre at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
I needed to whitelist both markmail.org and kde.markmail.org, sorry for the bogus alert, maybe a Konqueror bug.
By christoph at Fri, 2008/08/08 - 5:00am
Jason fan
I was a big fan of JDOM back when I was a Java programmer, it really did make XML processing in Java tolerable. Nice to see Jason's name pop up again, this time in relation to KDE!
By taj at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
I like the kind of statistics you can easily get out of it. (Like with any search engine, the first thing I do is search myself :D). And the UI is really well done. Good stuff.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
it's good times if people provide free services like this one.
I personally don't like that it wants to use flash for the graph. The layout (results in a scollbar container) seems broken, but that could be my outdated KHTLM (3.5.9), overall, when searching for myself, I found a pretty nice set of results, and good way to view it.
I would say this site is very useful. Only a pity that its software is not Free, is it?
By Debian User at Wed, 2008/08/06 - 5:00am
What I'm missing
markmail is excellent if you are searching for specific topics or just want some statistics, but it is very bad for just browsing the mailing lists.
i.e. select a specific list and get an overview of alle threads
lists.kde.org does a better job here.. would be nice to see an improvement there
By Robin at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
Re: What I'm missing
oh, just found the browsing mode:
however, it's very basic...
By Robin at Thu, 2008/08/07 - 5:00am
Re: What I'm missing
sounds like something for a feature request ;-)
By Jos Poortvliet at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: What I'm missing
I really wish markmail provided an nntp interface. I far prefer using a good nntp client with threading to any online forum/list archive. I find discussions a whole lot easier to follow. I also prefer it to mailing lists since i don't have to worry about my mail account filling up with lots and lots of messages.
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Grateful Dead musician Bob Weir fell onstage while strumming his guitar at a concert in Port Chester, N.Y.
Video posted online shows the 65-year-old musician collapsing Thursday night during a performance with Furthur.
He was quickly helped off the floor as the crowd cheered him on. He didn't leave the stage after falling and instead started playing again after crew members helped him into a chair.
Lesh told the crowd later in the set that Weir had been suffering from a strained shoulder.
Weir is on tour with Furthur, the band he formed with fellow Grateful Dead member Phil Lesh.
A representative for Furthur didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The band's next show is scheduled for Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J.
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On June 16, 2014, the LCC Board of Trustees approved a facility fee of $10 per billable hour to be assessed beginning Fall Semester 2014.
The revenue generated will be used primarily to fund facilities maintenance, renovations and operations, such as the following:
- Maintaining chillers, plumbing and roofing
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The Board of Trustees is responsible for approving these and other high priority projects.
This facility fee is necessary due to the increasing cost of College operations and declining property tax and state appropriation revenue over the last few years. The revenue generated will help the College address critical needs of the College now and in the near future.
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Audio clip of Joni performing Chelsea Morning live at The White Swan in Leicester, England. An appearance sponsored by The Couriers Folk Club.
In the Song Lyrics section, under Footnotes, it is noted that 'Joni paired this song with Come To The Sunshine. In her introduction to Chelsea Morning she says "This is my Chelsea Song. It's also full of morning and rainbows and much the same things because it was inspired by the same set of stained glass windows only I moved them into a New York apartment. But it could be Chelsea in London. After I moved to New York, I spent a lot of time on a street called Bleecker Street, and on Bleecker Street is a theatre called the Garrick Theatre, and in the Garrick theatre are the Mothers of Invention. And, uh, they're coming over pretty soon. So this is Chelsea Morning, rainbow sunshine song influenced slightly by the Mothers of Invention."'
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The writing Jobs Online program provides many pages of job resources including tips, tricks and steps on how to become a successful content writer.
There are many additional earning avenues to this type of job where one can add multiple types of income and the great thing about it is you don't have to rack your brain coming up with an internet business idea to sell and create on your own. You can completely benefit off of someone else's home business creation simply by writing about it.
How Much Will I Make With This Job?
The amount of income one makes it completely dependent upon the amount of time and effort one puts into their work. Writing Jobs Online will help you set up your business profile and help you market yourself in order to land the best jobs available.
What If I Don't Make Any Money With Writing Jobs Online?
As with any business you always run the risk of not making anything. However, I thought the same way when I first started and had the very same fears. But when I went ahead and registered with the program I was pleasantly surprised of how easy the program was and I made money fairly quickly just by following their program guidance and help emails. So what I will say to anyone wanting to get involved in a home based job is first of all, you cannot think like that. Starting out with negativity is not going to end in success and is not the right attitude for any business. Do you think when people go into real estate they say what if I don't sell a house? Or do you think before subway became a franchise they said what if no ones buys our sandwiches? It's just not something one should think when trying to succeed in any business. The fact is, MANY people are very successful with this type of work, reason being is they stuck it out – period. The one reason I see people fail online is solely because they quit before they ever got to see any real results. Then they end up going on forums and telling everyone it doesn't work and ruin a lot of peoples mindset for starting their own online business endeavors. Think about that. I am your average 50 year young women with 2 daughters and an average person and I am doing extremely well doing this type of work.
Although there are direct paying jobs for content writing, I chose to write for commissions and have been making a great income ever since. Below is a screenshot of what my income looks like now after only a couple of years…
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This site is a definite shortcut to making a living from home and possibly creating your own website down the line if wanted. Some people on the other hand have no interest in ever having or running a website but this program gives you those options which is great. They provide the tools for anyone to excel and get far past the newbie stage. It's an excellent earning opportunity especially for single or stay at home moms, dads, Students, The Disabled, the unemployed or just for someone who wants to make extra money part time.


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Lifetime Movie Films in Macon Next Week | News
A TV movie will film scenes at Macon's Terminal Station next week, a city spokesman says.
The Lifetime movie 'The Trip to Bountiful' will film scenes at the historic rail depot on Monday and Tuesday, according to city spokesman Chris Floore.
He said the production company would start moving equipment into the area at Seventh and Cherry streets Friday night.
Floore said the filming would not require street closings, but there may be some brief delays over the next few days while equipment is moved.
Published reports say "'The Trip to Bountiful" stars Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams and is based on the Broadway play they starred in.
It is reportedly filming in the Atlanta area through Nov. 30.
Last year, the Terminal was also used for scenes in the Jackie Robinson film, "42," which was released this spring.


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Leaders invest in Africa's future through renewed focus on child survival
ADDIS ABABA/WASHINGTON D.C., 16 January 2013 – Today, the Government of Ethiopia convened a meeting of African Ministers of Health and global experts aimed at accelerating reductions in preventable child deaths through sharper national plans and improved monitoring and evaluation.
The African Leadership for Child Survival – A Promise Renewed conference, follows last year's Child Survival Call to Action, which was co-convened by the Governments of Ethiopia, India and the United States with UNICEF and launched a global roadmap to end preventable deaths of children under five.
The Call to Action challenged countries to lower their national rates of child mortality to 20 or fewer deaths per 1,000 live births by 2035. Under the banner of Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed over 165 countries have since pledged to scale up efforts to end preventable child deaths.
The African continent shares a significant global burden of newborn, child and maternal deaths. Of the 3.5 million such deaths per year in Africa, more than 1 million are newborns. But some African countries such as Libya, Mauritius and Tunisia have already reduced their under-5 mortality rates to below 20 per 1,000 live births.
Setting the stage for the meeting, Ethiopia's Minister of Health Kesetebirhan Admasu said: "We are at a crucial juncture in our final sprint towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goals and the 2035 vision of ending preventable child deaths. Much will depend on country-level leadership and action on child survival. I strongly believe we can only accelerate our progress if we renew our commitments and live up to providing increased, sustained and more harmonized leadership and support."
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah provided a clear message to participants: "Your leadership and dedicated focus is an essential part of this unified effort. It is wonderful to see so many countries gathered together to focus on how to sharpen national plans and develop scorecards to strengthen monitoring and evaluation. The work you are doing will continue when you return to your capital cities—and USAID stands ready to support you."
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in another message: "In the past two decades, we've seen huge reductions in under-five mortality. But we must do better. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, over 9,000 children under five die daily, mainly from causes we can prevent. If we can prevent children dying, we must. And with all of your skills and political leadership, we will."
Leaders will seek to give the global movement, Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, greater momentum and hope in Africa. Together with non-governmental organizations, the private sector and faith groups, countries are united around a simple premise: that every child everywhere deserves to reach their full potential.
The three-day meeting in Addis Ababa is ahead of the African Union summit 21 to 28 January.
Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed is the response and action that emerged from the global Call to Action for Child Survival forum in Washington D.C in June 2012. Since then more than 165 governments and hundreds of civil society organization, private sector companies and faith based leader have pledged to redouble efforts to combat child survival and improve maternal health (MDGs 4 and 5) and to focus greater effort on reaching the most disadvantaged and hardest to reach children in every country. A Promise Renewed is one of the central pillars supporting the implementation of the United Nations Secretary-General's 2010 global strategy to improve women's and children's health called Every Women Every Child. http://apromiserenewed.org/
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To day the topic that I wanted to discuss is the importance of reading quran before making any decision or judgment about Islam People should not get influenced by public opinion rooming around them about any particular religion book person or and thing because many time it is can be the opposite of what reality is. Same holds true for people's perception of Islam and Muslims, considering being a religion of terror or teaching and encouraging nothing, but ignorance and terrorism, which is definitely not the case.
Instead of taking opinion from any Muslim, for there are chances that he might favor his religion, one can find the truth about Islam by going through the document of Islam, i.e. the Holy Quran, which Allah claims strictly to be His Words?
"Indeed it is we who have sent down the Quran, and indeed it is us who shall preserve it." (Al Quran Surah 15:9)
Therefore the best way to develop a judgment about the lord (Allah) and Islam is to learn quran and go through the verses of Quran for your self and evaluate it and get to know what its teachings of Islam and Koran. You would come to know that Islam is a religion of peace that promotes education and learning more than anything else.
Just have a look at a couple of verses from Holy Quran to see what it preaches
And He has subjected to you, as from Him, all that is in the heavens and on earth: behold in that are Signs indeed for those who reflect. (Quran 45: 13)
And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned. (30:22)
Important note to learn and Read Quran online
The Holy Quran is the word of Allah; it has been sent down to guide us and the guidance can online be gained through reading quran online. No other book can be like holy quran. As you come to the learn tajweed quran, Allah speaks to you and reading Arabic Quran is to hear Him, even to converse with Him, and to walk in His ways. So it is must for us as a Muslim to learn and do quran memorization by heart and the Quran tutor should teach the kids from quran qaida and then teaching quran online along with the quran tafseer and let the kids memorize quran so that we as Muslim could learn quran tajweed rules and then understand the quran tafseer It is the encounter of life with the Life-giver. 'God - there is no god but He, the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting (by whom all subsist) He has sent down upon you the Book with the Truth ... as a guidance unto mankind ...' (Al 'Imran 3: 2-3 learn quran recitation). So we should always remember the guidance of Allah and we should be listening to quran online along with obeying the commandments of Allah so let us join hands to lean the Koran and let our kids do quran memorization and learn the teaching of quran education online and apply them in there life there is kids quran lesson available online as well


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The Friday Party Report
Cartier celebrated its 100th anniversary in New York last night with a big bash inside its Fifth Avenue store. The celeb-heavy crowd included Elton John, Kate Hudson, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake, Anne Hathaway, Rachel Weisz, Demi Moore, Eva Mendez, Ashley Olsen, Zac Posen, Martha Stewart, Graydon Carter, Jeff Zucker, Robbie Myers, Patti Smith, Russell Simmons and Julie Henderson, Tory Burch, Thakoon Panichgul, Erin Fetherston, Nanette Lepore, Phillip Lim, Coco Rocha, Hilary Rhoda, Daniel Boulud, Eli Weisel, Bruce Weber, Henrik Lundqvist, Ingrid Sischy, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Cornelia Guest, Susan Fales-Hill, Marjorie Gubelmann, Thora Birch, Chiara Clemente, Alexis Bryan, Dylan Lauren, Kelly Klein, and Cartier chief Frederic De Narp. [PMc, Wireimage, WWD]
• Amy Sacco, Ivan Bart, Julia Restoin Roitfeld and Sophia Hesketh hosted the grand opening of the Griffin on Gansevoort Street last night. They were joined by the likes of Nas, Kate Hudson, Rachel Zoe, Sting, Simon Hammerstein, Andres and Lauren Santo Domingo, Euan Rellie, Salman Rushdie, Hilary Rhoda, Jennifer Creel, Alexandra Richards, Lindsay Price, Bettina Zilkha, Kate Schelter, Adam Lippes, Lisa Airan, Byrdie Bell, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Yvonne Force Villareal, Douglas Hannant, Kai Kuhne, Nur Khan, Rory Guinness, Vanessa von Bismarck, Bronson Van Wyck, Carlos Mota, Adam Hock, Nadine Johnson, Rob Wiesenthal, Elise Overland, Jackie Astier, Khajak Keledjian, Lola and Vito Schnabel, Lyle Maltz, Eugenia Silva, Janna Bullock, Danny Baker, and Derek Blasberg. [PMc, GoaG]
• Parsons honored Calvin Klein's Tom Murry and Francisco Costa at benefit at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday night. The duo were joined by attendees like Anna Wintour, André Leon Talley, Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone, Eva Mendes, Rachel Zoe, Donna Karan, Russell Simmons and Julie Henderson, Helena Christensen, Peter Som, Cathy Horyn, Hal Rubenstein, Stefano Tonchi, Linda Fargo, Anne Slowey, Mary Alice Stephenson, Julie Gilhart, Candy Pratts Price, Terry Lundgren, Olivia Palermo, Phillip Lim, Peter Som, Molly Sims, Amanda Cutter Brooks, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Dree Hemingway, Tracy Reese, and Bob Kerrey. [PMc, Wireimage, Style.com, VF, FWD]
• H&M celebrated Matthew Williamson's new line aboard the Cornucopia Majesty on Tuesday night. Some of the people who joined Williamson for the special occasion: Mary-Kate Olsen, Helena Christensen, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Adrien Brody, , Lucy Liu, Bar Refaeli, David Schwimmer, Pat Field, Andres and Lauren Santo Domingo, Richie Rich, Chanel Iman, Erin Fetherston, Lily Donaldson, Selita Ebanks, Yigal Azrouël, Susanne Bartsch, Kenny Kenny, Patrick McDonald, Kate Schelter, Marjorie Gubelmann, Magnus Berger, Lisa Anastos, Luigi Tadini, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Alexis Bledel, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Zani Gugelmann, Amanda Setton, Anja Rubik, Daria Werbowy, Lisa Salzer, Charlotte Sarkozy, Todd Eberle, Waris Ahluwalia, and Cecilia Dean. [PMc, Wireimage, VF, FWD, Style.com]


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This Pearl Blue '64 C10 is Still "Old Green" at Heart
We'd be exaggerating to say that Wylie Clough spent his whole life with this truck. After all, he was 5 years old when his dad, Joe, bought the 1964 C10 Fleetside. As he grew up, Wylie's appreciation of the truck grew, as it also did of the automotive hobby, by watching car movies with his dad and cruising up and down Main Street in his hometown of Winters, Texas. He learned to drive in the truck—his dad teaching him how to shift the Muncie four-speed. When he was 16, the truck became his. It still wore the original green paint, and there were some rust spots in the sheetmetal and some rotting sections in the bed wood, but none of that prevented Old Green from creating some great memories for Wylie.
"This truck spent more time on dirt roads and trails than on pavement. It spent a lot of years as the everyday driver and work truck for our family. During the week it was used for everything from hauling wood to helping friends move. On the weekends it was transportation to the local lake or party. The truck also served as the jukebox for the party. It had a cheap tape deck with a booster and a pair of 6×9 speakers in the doors, but it blasted out plenty of classic rock.
"I loved Old Green and was proud to have it. If it broke down, I had to fix it. If I didn't fix it, I didn't have transportation. Its history is filled with plenty of mudding and donuts in farm fields, and I have many high school memories with friends racing Camaros and Mustangs. It looked like a farm truck, but ran fairly strong and would surprise people. I always dreamed of rebuilding it and building new memories to go with all the memories I already had."
The rebuild was delayed for a few years. Wylie's mom stored the truck for him as life (including an Army career) rolled along. When he got started a few years ago, his mom's husband, Steve, became his invaluable co-builder and Wylie's wife Dominique became his patient supporter.
With the truck torn down to the bare frame, the 'rails were powdercoated. Wylie rebuilt the chassis with new tubular parts from Classic Performance Products, including front upper and lower control arms and 2½-inch drop spindles. Tubular trailing arms were added in the rear, where the original rearend still packs 3.73:1 gears. CPP shocks, airbags, and antisway bars at both ends sweeten the ride and improve handling. Airbags lower the truck 3 inches in the front, 4 inches at the rear.
The brakes were upgraded to keep up with the rest of the truck—and to stop it with no problem. CPP came through with front discs, master cylinder, power brake booster, and proportioning valve. The rear drums were rebuilt, and new lines were added throughout the system.
As the chassis was being redone, the body was stripped to bare metal and all emblems and mirrors were eliminated—and the fuel filler door, antenna hole, and stake holes were filled in. At House of Hotrods & Classics in Mansfield, Texas, sheetmetal wrinkles were removed, and painter Randy Mason replaced Old Green's old green with new Dodge pearl blue paint covered with enough coats of clear to create a deep, reflective finish.
All glass and weatherstripping was replaced. Halogen headlights and blue dot taillights take care of forward and rearward illumination. Dickie Clough, Wylie's uncle, built the bed floor, with new oak and stainless steel strips and hardware from Classic Parts of America. A CPP stainless fuel tank is located underneath.
The exterior makeover called for wheels and tires that looked just as good. It took Wylie a long time to find the right combination. The 18-inch six-lug Lakester wheels, custom built by Circle Racing Wheels, look just right on the '64, especially when rolling on wide high-performance tires, like these Z-rated 275/40R18 and 245/45R18 Falken FK452 radials.
With the truck back in one piece, it was time to replace the faithful 350 with a fresh version. Phoenix Racing Engines had the perfect replacement. This 350 was built with a Speed-Pro cam and makes a little more than 1 horsepower per cubic inch—with enough chromed and polished parts to be visible from outer space. Aluminum valve covers top a pair of first-generation Vortec heads. The chrome air cleaner covers a 750-cfm Edelbrock carburetor on a Power Plus polished high-rise manifold. The visual impression is continued with a March Performance serpentine pulley system. A Champion aluminum radiator and an electric fan keep the small-block running cool. Exhaust is carried through a pair of shorty headers and 2½-inch pipes to Flowmaster mufflers.
The rebuilt four-speed Muncie was assembled by Wylie and uses a Centerforce clutch and Hurst shifter. It's familiar territory for Wylie, who learned to drive the truck with a Muncie almost 30 years ago.
The interior is as impressive as the exterior—no surprise, since it also was finished at House of Hotrods. Two-tone tan leather was used to upholster the original bench seat and door panels. Large loop carpet was laid on the floor. Instead of modifying the stock dash for a tachometer, Wylie monitors rpms from a below-dash Auto Meter tach. The Vintage Air A/C system keeps the cab cool even on the hottest Texas days. A polished ididit tilt column connects a three-spoke Grant steering wheel to the Saginaw box keeping the truck on course. The soundtrack is provided by a Kenwood BT652 head unit and JL Audio amp with speakers, installed at Hot of Hotrods.
It took Wylie four years to finish the rebuild (delayed by two tours in Afghanistan). Now that the work is done, the C10 that used to fly along dirt roads and do donuts in farm fields is just as likely to be rolling into a winners' circle at a show. But it's driven there and it's driven home. "It's no trailer queen," Wylie promises. And despite the blue pearl paint, we suspect that Wylie's C10 is still Old Green at heart. "Every time I drive her I feel like I'm traveling back to my earlier days. There are times when I'm still 8 years old, riding in the bed with my dog as we head to the lake. Other times, I'm 17 again, getting ready to make a pass down the quarter-mile at Wall Dragway near San Angelo."
Wylie's got a lot of memories like that, and with his '64 C10 back on the road, he's got a lot of memories still waiting to be made.


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Not shovel-ready
In regards to the July 3 HDN article on the Rural Housing Incentive District policy revisions, it is good to see the expanded input by some of the more focused interest groups, again to be voted on July 11. Perhaps the local interest of builders will be spurred into action as this issue has gotten greater exposure.
Expectations are ever-increasing for government help at all levels, be it federal, state or local. Government at all those levels as a whole are financially in the hole. The challenge is setting priorities for funding to satisfy all the competing interests that come to the feeding table. Everyone has a passion, self-interest or appeal in requesting a piece of the pie.
All might agree that a low-income waiting list is not the same as homeless. Everyone would like to upgrade their own living habitat, but at whose expense? Commissioner Kent Steward is right to be concerned that the costs to other people would go up.
It is a belief of mine to protect the elderly on a fixed income and with no Social Security income increases that keep pace with inflation and the projected unsustainable Social Security benefits in 2030, could lead those persons closer to joining the waiting list of those in need.
My opposition stems from wanting to guard against profiteers who after exhausting the abatement time frame are at free will to raise the rents of the very people these advocates want to help.
This is why I suggested the policy looked at July 2 should say or welcome only the nonprofit applications for serious consideration. The Hays Housing Authority is already in place or should be in a position to perhaps be a more appropriate avenue to address this concern from the quoted parties mentioned in the story and then only after the next housing study is completed.
While it is not the responsibility of government to insure the adequate living conditions of the populace, grant writers can dust off their keyboards knowing that the feds are always looking to increase the deficit and no legislator would want to miss an opportunity, for publicity, to show they are bringing home some bacon to the district.
No one is insensitive to a perceived need here, but there should be hope the commission will give an extension of time for deliberate thought as we are not at the 11th hour. Projects and ideas hatched one day follow with the expectation that the shovel has to break ground the following day.
"We are not so shovel-ready."
Guy Windholz


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A phone scam related to a new Virginia tax refund debit card has surfaced.
The Virginia Department of Taxation has received reports of telephone calls being made to people telling them their "Way2Go prepaid MasterCard is locked for security reasons."
The automated caller then tries to get the listener to divulge personal information.
"This is a scam," the agency said in a statement.
The Department of Taxation never makes automated calls and never solicits personal information in this manner. People who receive such calls should hang up immediately. If the call is recorded as a voice mail, delete it.
Beginning this year, taxpayers will be able to get state tax refunds in only two ways: by direct deposit or a debit card. Paper check refunds will no longer be available.
The debit card is new this year. It can be used the same way as a prepaid debit card for shopping, ordering online or paying bills online.
The agency said in a statement that taxpayers can be assured that the scam is not related to the security of the new tax refund debit card or any information taxpayers submit to the department.
"We are not sure how widespread the phone scam is," said Joel Davison, spokesman for the department. "We are working with the telephone companies involved, as well as the attorney general's office, to get to the bottom of this issue and stop the scam."
Davison said the department goes to great lengths to protect the confidentiality and privacy of taxpayer information. "Consumers should never give personal information to anyone calling unless they can verify the source," he said.
A division of Xerox Corp. administers the new Virginia tax refund debit card and refers to it as the "Way2Go" card.
For more information, call the agency at (804) 367-8031.


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Getting Boys to Read, Story of Food
Great Resources for Teaching
from the December 2010 YES! Education Connection Newsletter
Read the newsletter: Getting Boys to Read, What Makes Students Successful?
Resources from these two organizations are bursting with stories: stories that will get your "guy" students to read, and where your food comes from.
Guys Read
VISIT WEBSITE: Guys Read
Jon Scieszka is perhaps known best as author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Time Warp Trio. He also is the founder of Guys Read. After 10 years teaching elementary students and 15 years as an author, Jon noticed boys aren't too crazy about reading. This observation is substantiated by U.S. Department of Education reading test scores that show for the last 30 years, boys score worse than girls in every age group, every year.
Guys Read is a positive force in getting boys to read. Its main strategy? Finding text guys want to read and letting them choose what they want to read. In addition to an incredible reading list recommended by guys, Guys Read offers other resources, practical information, and humorous inspiration to help …. guys read.
Guys and Reading
About Guys and Reading explores the landscape of boys and literacy and why boys may have trouble with reading.
EXPLORE: About Guys Read
Books That Guys Read
Books for Guys is the place to visit for finding a book for guys. Teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents, and guys have contributed to this collection, and it keeps growing. You can find books by the usual
method – title, author, and subject. What's most appealing are the categories outside the usual sports, adventure, and war. Try: "At Least One Explosion," "Outer Space, but with Aliens," and "People Being Transformed Into Animals!".
EXPLORE: Guys Read Virtual Vault of Good Books
Guys Listen
Guys Listen acknowledges that for some boys - reluctant or voracious readers—, tuning into an audiobooks is more appealing than sitting down and flipping through print pages. Guys Listen expands the reach of Guys Read by recommending great nonfiction and fictional story audiobooks . It is a collaboration of National Ambassador of Literature for Young People Jon Scieszka and middle school media library specialist Rose Brock, and Listening Library.
EXPLORE: Guys Listen
VISIT the Guys Read website for more resources and inspiration to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
Guys Read began when author and former elementary school teacher Jon Scieszka noticed a lot of boys aren't too crazy about reading. Jon, who grew up in a family of six boys, wants to motivate boys to read by connecting them with material they'll want to read and in ways they like to read. Guys Read offers many resources to get boys to read, including a long and luscious list of books that guys like, recommended by librarians, teachers, parents, and …. guys.
VISIT WEBSITE: Nourish: Food + Community
Food isn't just about what we eat. Food touches on a myriad of contemporary issues and fires up essential questions, such as Where does my food come from? What are the benefits of eating with family? How do ads affect the food choices we make?
Nourish, an education initiative from WorldLink, provides a PBS special, short films, and other learning tools to spark conversations about our food system, particularly among young people and families.
Here's a taste of what Nourish has to offer:
The Nourish School Curriculum Guide is a colorful collection of six lessons with accompanying activities, actions projects, and more to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. Themes include: The Story of Food; Seasonal, Local Food; Food Traditions; Food and Ecosystems; Analyzing Food Ads; and School Lunch Survey.
Please note that lessons may be used with or without the Nourish DVD and are adaptable to both elementary and high school grades.
Of particular interest:
Lesson Two: Seasonal, Local Food
For our health and the planet, there are many benefits to eating local and seasonal foods. What happens when eating local isn't practical? In this lesson, students also will research and create a "seasonal circle" on what produce is available in their area. (see p. 26 of guide)
Lesson 3: Food Traditions
Throughout the world, food is the heart of holidays, rituals, and family gatherings. It also connects us to our history, local environment, and communities. What can your students learn about cultures and each other through the food we eat? (see p. 35 of guide)
Lesson 5: Analyzing Food Ads
Most food advertising is for highly processed or fast foods – have you ever seen a TV ad promoting quinoa? In this lesson, your students will become privy to the marketing techniques food companies use to get them to eat more and buy more. With this insight, your students will be able to look at these promotions with critical eyes and make more informed and healthy food choices. (see p. 48 of guide)
DOWNLOAD: Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide (pdf)
Short Videos:
This collection of short films introduce a range of topics and perspectives on food that will nudge students to think more deeply about what they eat. Here are three to wet your appetite.
Jamie Oliver: Try Something New
When it comes to music and shoes, your students know what's the latest and
greatest. Boring is not cool. It's the same with food! Jamie Oliver
encourages your students to keep an open mind and try something different.
Fancy purple mashed potatoes?
Michael Pollan: Supermarket Secrets
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Quote from: Dice on September 20, 2012, 10:55:38 AMFuckign hell, that could have gone 10,000 times worse.
Fuckign hell, that could have gone 10,000 times worse.
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My experience:"Dice, you look tired""Naw, naw, I just don't have any make up on!""Yeah... no, no you just look tired!""Umm... =( I've been up late?"
People constantly tell me i look tired. like people i don't even know. I prefer girls that don't wear makeup or if they do it's just like basic shit. makeup sucks.
i'm on board for a bit of eye shadow. (the most homosexual thing i've ever said)


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Supercooling makes livers for transplants last longer
Chilling to subzero temperatures greatly increased survival time of rats' organs outside the body
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"Supercold but unfrozen" is the idea behind a new procedure that tripled the time a rat liver can survive outside the body. If the procedure works similarly well for humans, the method may grant life-saving transplants a passport for traveling across the world, scientist report June 29 in Nature Medicine.
Organs quickly stop working once removed from the body. To stay viable, donated organs are stored inside plastic bags filled with a liquid preservative and kept on ice. But even with this procedure, a human liver lasts only 12 hours, a time frame that instills geographical limits between organ donors and recipients. Patients waiting for a liver in New York are 20 times as likely to receive one as those in Washington state or Kentucky. If the technique works for humans, it could introduce parity, meaning an organ donated in Houston could help a patient in Honolulu or even Hong


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text: 07 Apr 2014 14:00 Etihad Airways and its Abu Dhabi home-base continue to benefit from the airline's strategy of working closely with network partners which, in turn, is supporting economic growth in markets around the world. Details of the successful expansion strategy were shared by James Hogan, Etihad Airways' President and Chief Executive, during his keynote address to delegates at the Global Aerospace Summit being held in Abu Dhabi. Mr Hogan said: "Etihad Airways continues to be our core business and main focus, yet through our network partners, the airline is building a global presence which we wouldn't be able to do alone and helps us all carry greater numbers of air travellers around the world." Mr Hogan spoke about how Etihad Airways and its network partners can now leverage economies of scale through joint procurement and resource sharing, which he said were not available through pure commercial relationships or membership of airline alliances. "The benefits of strategy flow to our partners as they gain access to the Etihad Airways global flight network, improved revenue opportunities and reciprocal cost and efficiency gains. The net result is stronger, more competitive airlines, delivering benefits to consumers, creating employment and contributing to economic growth," said Mr Hogan. In addition Mr Hogan shared details with delegates at the Global Aerospace Summit about the impressive plans for the new Midfield Terminal at Abu Dhabi Airport. With construction well underway, the iconic Midfield Terminal will be open in 2017 with an annual capacity of 30 million passengers. Mr Hogan added that the benefits of working with Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabi were felt by the partner airlines and the markets they operate in: "By expanding our organic operations from Abu Dhabi, and by increasing our connectivity with other destinations through our partnerships, we are not only flying passengers and freight to and from Abu Dhabi, but also acting as a catalyst for additional economic growth, both here and elsewhere." "In Europe, for example, we have acquired minority equity stakes in airberlin, Air Serbia and Aer Lingus and are seeking regulatory approval to invest in the Swiss regional carrier Darwin Airline, which now operates as Etihad Regional – Switzerland. "In doing so, not only do we strengthen our own operations, we strengthen those of our equity partner airlines, increasing competition within Europe, and bolstering European economies as well as our own home base." The Global Aerospace Summit is an invitation only event for C-level executives, senior decision makers and government officials involved with the aerospace, aviation, defence and space industries. It is taking place today, Monday 7 April, and tomorrow at the St. Regis, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. Kontakt Als internationale Fluggesellschaft bieten wir wahre globale Präsenz. Erfahren Sie hier, wie Sie mit dem nächstgelegenen Etihad Büro in Verbindung treten können.Kontaktdaten anzeigen Ihre Meinung Wenn Sie uns einen Kommentar, ein Lob oder eine Beschwerde schicken möchten oder auch nur eine Frage an uns haben, klicken Sie bitte hier Klicken Sie auf "Gefällt mir" Besuchen Sie unsere Facebook-Seite! Folgen Sie uns auf YouTube Besuchen Sie unseren YouTube-Kanal! Folgen Sie uns Etihad Airways | Etihad Deals | Etihad Hilfe | Etihad Prämien


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The Holy Family Parish will have its 11th annual charity auction Sunday at the Pilsen Community Center. In the past decade, the event has grown in size but changed its focus to benefit local people who are in need.
"It started as a bake sale to raise money for overseas missions," event committee member Sam Oborny said. "Over the years, it expanded to a live and silent auction, and now almost all the money raised stays in Marion County."
Oborny helped organize this year's event.
"The committee evolves year to year," she said. "There are about 10 to 12 gals who helped with it this year."
Oborny said committee members raised $1,200 in the first year, while last year they raised 10 times that much, logging approximately $12,000.
Organization that the auction benefits include the Marion County Emergency Food Bank, Community Christmas, Main Street Ministries in Hillsboro, the Ministerial Alliance in Marion, as well as families that are in need who are facing a medical crisis.
Local individuals and businesses donations items for patrons to bid on, Oborny said.
Some of the more notable items up for sale include a KU basketball signed Bill Self and this year's team, a quarter-cow's worth of processed beef, two half-pigs worth of processed pork, quilts, a handmade patio set made from scrap iron, antique religious items, as well as homemade pies and cookies.
Gift certificates to various businesses and restaurants are also generally awarded as door prizes, she said.
"Everyone is welcome to attend," she said. "You don't need to be a member of our church."


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Bonding between a parent and a healthy baby begins right after birth, but there is a fine distinction between a strong, nourishing connection and unhealthy attachment. It's a natural instinct for mom to seek ways of comforting her crying and fussy baby by cuddling, caressing, kissing and rocking. Both parents offer security and warmth to this new, but almost instant closeness; especially true with a mother-infant relationship. That bond will eventually have a profound impact on how this tiny human being functions in the world.
A baby communicates by cooing, smiling, gesturing, crying, and moving his body. When his needs are met by his mother and father, he feels safe, wanted and worthy. A stable parental-child relationship sets the foundation for the establishment of healthy circuitry in his brain which can impact his language skills as well as his emotional and social development as he matures.
Unfortunately, attachments between parents and infants are not all perfect. Some parents are apathetic to their baby's needs to the point where neglect is a very real issue. Whether it's because they've read that newborns must "cry it out," or because other family members warn that holding a newborn too much is "spoiling" the baby, many new parents avoid consistent responses to a newborn's cries. But a lack of nurturing, even in an otherwise stable home environment, will have a negative impact on a baby's healthy maturation. Even parents who respond inconsistently to baby's cries reinforce this behavior, sending signals to the baby to scream harder and louder. Parents worry about over-coddling their little one and sometimes ignore their baby's screaming, but in doing so, fail to understand that babies do not know how to manipulate or test them on purpose.
Many decades of pediatric research have shown that babies develop socially, mentally and emotionally in direct relation to the parents' responsiveness and sensitivity. Oftentimes, parents who failed to provide a comforting and secure base are linked to insecurity and even aggression in young children. Studies suggest that these aggressive tendencies can affect their social interactions with family and friends as well as their academic performance later in life. Babies whose needs were ignored early on habitually experience delays in speech and emotional maturation.
A securely attached child seeks mom's reassurance, receives it, and then calmly returns to their activities even in an unfamiliar setting or in the presence of strangers. Children who spend a good deal of time with non-maternal childcare showed little impact on parental attachment as long as the mother's responsiveness and sensitivity are at a reasonably attentive level. Quality not quantity of time spent with your child is what matters most, which is notably helpful and positive for working moms.
Parenting is never a simple, made to order skill. To complicate things further, moms and dads are saturated with information about parenting fads, they often get pressure from grandparents, and receive a great amount of advice from "experts." Parents must develop their own bonding and attachment with their child by relying more on their good judgment and intuition. Every family works it out uniquely and differently. The secret to healthy parenting is to give babies a secure foundation so they can venture out in the world, explore their environment, face obstacles and challenges, overcome these tests and then make gratifying developmental breakthroughs on their own.
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Sears Breaks Promise, Resumes Selling X-Rated Material
A year after chain-store Sears agreed to stop selling X-rated products on its website, the company has apparently once again started offering pornographic material despite the protests of pro-family organizations.
The American Family Association noticed the new offers on the Sears website, which include sexually explicit products featuring human bondage and sadomasochism. Last year, after a nine-month struggle with the AFA and other pro-family organizations, the company removed the content and even sent a letter to the AFA apologizing for causing any offense.
"We sincerely apologize to any customers who were offended," Sears wrote in the statement. "Our agreements with our vendors prohibit content that is pornographic or sexually explicit in nature."
"We are removing these items that do not meet our guidelines. We regularly review our processes to ensure compliance by our vendors, and we encourage our customers and community to help us flag any items that they believe might violate our guidelines," the letter continued.
According to the AFA, what makes matters worse is that anyone can buy the X-rated material, including children. To test out the procedure, the pro-family group ordered one of the pornographic DVDs, which was shipped to them from Sears, and never in the entire process were they asked to confirm their age.
Sears has not revealed its reasoning for re-adding the pornographic in its catalog, but the AFA has urged concerned parents and citizens to revive the same initiative that first led to the chain store taking down the content.
"Unless Sears hears from you, they will continue to sell hardcore pornography," the AFA stated, encouraging people to contact directly the company's chairman, Edward Lampert.
Last year, Tim Wildmon, president of AFA, initially declared victory in the initiative when Sears took down the material, claiming that thousands of people had called Sears and influenced the decision.
"Because you and thousands of others chose to get involved, Sears could no longer defend selling pornography, nor could they continue to deny it! Thank you for taking action and convincing Sears to get out of the pornography business," Wildmon said.
"Together, and with God's help, we are making a difference," he added.


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I visited the CCO near me recently and bought a few bits and pieces – extremely random mind, but here goes!
I bought Origins Gloomaway Gumballs – chewing gum but they taste of grapefruit and seriously don't last for very long at all. When they dry up they go hard like fimo. Not sure if they are making me less grumpy but they taste good!
The gumballs:
I got a mini Ojon Hair Revitalizing Mist – it needs a good shake to mix up the formula then you spritz it in for some shine and hydration. Works a real treat and smells good too although this mini bottle won't last long.
I bought 3 MAC eyeshadows…
I was surprised by how much LE stuff was there and discounted – made me wonder what the point of paying full price was!
I got All Races, Apres Ski and Zingy. I swatched these and they look rubbish but applied on the eye with some primer, they look pretty good! The first two shades are boring but handy shades for work.
I can't say this haul was a super bargain – things just weren't *that* cheap – I think my total bill was £35. It was nice to have a nosey in the shop though – CCO's sell Estee Lauder brands like…well, Estee Lauder, MAC, Bobbi Brown, Clinique, Aramis, Origins etc.
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Petition to the General Assembly to issue a stay of execution for John Gordon
To the Honorable General Assembly now is session at Providence.
The undersigned, citizens of the State of Rhode-Island, would call the attention of your Hon-
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Petition to appoint a commissioner to enforce labor laws
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of the State of Rhode Island
The undersigned citizens of Woonsocket, respectfully
represent that the Laws of this State in relation
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Petition for equal school rights
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Fugitive Slave Law petition
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Pawtucket, January 30, 1900.
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John Gordon, a convict sen-
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Embrace serenity in Hamilton's Japanese Garden of Contemplation
Let your mind relax into the serene and peaceful landscape at Hamilton Gardens.
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The Japanese Garden of Contemplation at Hamilton Gardens follows ancient rules of landscape design to create a calm, restful space. Take some time to contemplate the carefully laid out arrangements from your seat in the Abbott's Quarters, and after a moment you will feel your mind relax into the serene, peaceful landscape. This is a garden that embraces contradiction in all its forms: you will see contradictory pairs such as movement/stillness, complexity/simplicity, vastness/ smallness, and even wet/dry.
The karesansui (dry landscape) gardens of the Muromachi era of Japanese history are amongst the most austere garden designs ever created. Within tightly bounded compositions of gravel, rocks, and only the minimum of vegetation, they evoke vast landscapes of mountains, oceans, and forests – although the final interpretation of the arrangement is always up to the individual viewer. These dry landscape gardens are often called 'Zen gardens' because the most renowned examples are found in Zen temple complexes in Japan. However, while their underlying design does use Zen Buddhist concepts of 'the void', 'movement without movement', and so on, the deep sense of contemplation that they produce in the viewer goes beyond any particular religion and can be enjoyed by everybody.
The scroll garden, on the other side of the Abbott's Quarters, shares some features with the karesansui. Both gardens are designed to be enjoyed from a single perspective. Both gardens create a miniature version of a vast landscape with year-round interest, and both gardens are intended to create a feeling of peace and serenity in the viewer. However, the scroll garden is much more literal in its approach.
Visit Hamilton Gardens and be transported into a story which explores the arrival of Buddhism into Japan.
Hamilton Gardens
Hamilton Gardens is a conceptual garden based in the Waikato that explores the context, history and meaning of gardens through time, and from around the world. It is internationally recognised for its unique concept and is the Waikato region's most popular tourist destination.
Only five minutes drive from Hamilton's CBD, the Gardens is open 7 days a week during daylight hours and entry and parking is free. Mobility scooters, wheelchairs and pushchairs are available to hire and guided tours are available.