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What You Shouldn't Teach (1:50)
How To Beat Out Existing Incumbent Courses (4:48)
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Your Options For How to Create Your Course (2:29)
Getting Paid For Your Course Before Creating It (12:06)
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Course Creation Schedule
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Optimizing Organic Discovery (7:09)
4 Quarter Ranking Increase Strategy (3:31)
List Building Activities in Course planning (2:26)
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Beefing Up Your Course With external feedback (4:53)
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If I were an executive at a Chinese domestic automaker, I would be very worried. Why? It is difficult to find a Chinese-brand car on the streets of Shanghai, the country's largest city with more than 23 million inhabitants.
I experienced this first hand visiting the city for the auto show. During a long bus ride from the Shanghai World Expo to the Pudong district, I didn't see one Chinese-brand passenger vehicle.
What did I see on Shanghai roads? I got a history lesson on Volkswagen's long presence in China experienced by seeing the various generations of its Santana sedan, which is the taxi of choice.
I also saw hundreds of silver Buick minivans, as well as Audi and BMW sedans and SUVs of every shape and size, all painted black and with tinted rear windows. There were also some cars I didn't expect to see, such as the Smart ForTwo and an old Saab 9-3 convertible. Missing were any vehicles from Brilliance, BYD, Chery, Geely and Great Wall.
Shanghai is not the only city devoid of domestic vehicles, which is why Chinese automakers sold just 1.38 million units in the first quarter, leaving two-thirds of the 3.93-million-unit market to foreign automakers, according to Morgan Stanley data.
The good news is that there are plenty of Chinese domestic cars on the stands at the Shanghai auto show.


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What is Phen375?
Launched in 2009, this is a diet product, which has been widely confirmed by users not only as an effective weight loss solution, but also as a successful way to improve overall health and well-being.
The users' experience indicates that Phen375 is a potent appetite suppressant and natural fat burner, which does not yield the typical side effects of other diet pills.
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What is the product made for?
Phen375 is a dietary supplement intended to help people who want to lose weight, burn fat faster, boost their metabolism, and generally improve their overall quality of life.
What are ingredients used in Phen375?
Phentemine 375 combines quality ingredients which were tested in optimized conditions, following the highest purity standards. Users report that the effects of the ingredients on speeding up metabolism are immediate.
• The first ingredient is L- Carnitine, which is involved in transporting fatty acids to cells during the metabolic process. It contributes to the breakdown of fats and generates energy as a result of metabolism. This way it helps the body reduce the existing fatty tissue by accelerating the burning process.
• Dendrobium nobile extract, which is derived from orchids, is a stimulant that increases metabolic rates with the purpose of burning fat fast.
• 1, 3, 7-Trimethylxanthine or Caffeine is responsible for suppressing appetite, which determines the body to use existing fat to produce energy. At the same time, as the sensation of hunger diminishes, you don't eat as much as you used to.
• Capsaicin-1.12 comes in a strong concentration, enabling active ingredients to flow smoothly through your body. Simultaneously, it raises the temperature of the body, increasing calorie burning rates, in a process called thermogenesis. Essentially, as temperature increases, the body needs additional energy to dissolve fat.
Besides these ingredients, what we eat and whether or not we exercise play their part in this fat-burning race. Diet and regular exercise, coupled with Phen375, enhance the production of Norepinephrine, naturally produced in the body, which speeds up metabolism and dissolves fat more easily.
What are the features of Phen375?
- Weight loss dietary supplement
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How does Phen375 work?
When our body gets less calories than it needs, it is forced to burn already existing fat to get enough energy. That's how we lose weight. Phen375 speeds up this mechanism by regulating and limiting appetite and accelerating metabolism.
To teach your body to control appetite, it is advisable to eat meals regularly. By skipping a meal, although you aim to limit calorie intake, you will achieve the opposite result, as your body is forced to starve.
As a defense mechanism, the body slows down the metabolism to decrease the burning of fatty tissue. To prevent this effect, it is recommended to eat regularly, but consume fewer calories. Phen375 enables you to do this by suppressing appetite and accelerating fat burn.
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A new survey from the Pew Global Attitudes Project shows that Mexican public opinion continues to strongly favor President Felipe Calderón's use of the military in the drug war, even though only 47 percent of Mexicans believe the government is making progress against the cartels.
The poll, conducted face-to-face with 1,200 adults from across the country, also found that a majority of Mexicans (61 percent) when asked who is to blame for the drug violence in their country – Mexico or the United States – say both countries bear responsibility. 22 percent say the U.S. is mostly to blame, while 14 percent point to Mexico.
Although respondents showed strong support for the use of the Mexican army to battle the country's powerful drug cartels, Mexicans drew the line at deploying U.S. troops to fight the drug war. Majorities were agreeable to aid in the form of the U.S. providing money, weapons, and training for Mexican police and military, but 59 percent opposed the presence of American troops within Mexico's borders.
In light of the upcoming election, participants were asked which political party could do a better job of dealing with organized crime and the cartels. Each party received roughly equal votes and 23 percent of Mexicans answered that none of the parties is particularly capable of dealing with this issue.
Three in four respondents to the survey name cartel-related violence as a very big problem for the country, and a roughly equal number say the same about human rights violations by military and police and crime. Other respondents pointed to corrupt political leaders, illegal drugs, and the economy as big problems for the country.
As he concludes his final months as president, Felipe Calderón himself remains popular, with majorities expressing a favorable view of him personally and describing his influence on the country as positive. The military is also seen in a favorable light, according to nearly three in four respondents (73 percent).
Views of the police and judicial system are less positive, with less than half of Mexicans seeing either of them as having a good influence on the country.
A majority of Mexicans overall (56 percent) say they have a positive opinion of the U.S. Attitudes toward the U.S. have improved since the passage in 2010 of the controversial Arizona immigration law, which had a significant impact on public opinion of the United States: 62 percent of Mexicans rated their northern neighbor positively prior to the law's enactment, but that number shrank to 44 percent following its passage.
Interestingly, despite the fact that 53 percent of Mexicans believe that those who emigrate to the U.S. have a better life there, a majority (61 percent) say they would not move to the U.S. even if they had the means and opportunity to do so.


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What's in a name? Apple names its operating systems after big cats. When Google gets around to naming products and updates, what's their naming strategy?
You may already know that Google's creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin named their baby "Google" by adapting the word googol – the number one followed by one hundred zeros. This encapsulates the scope of Google's mission: To provide large quantities of information and make it universally accessible and useful.
But why Chrome, Panda, or Buffy? We've done research and looked at the most notable and peculiar names that Google has given their algorithm updates over the years (and a couple of others we were curious about) to see if we could hack the mind of the world's biggest search engine.
Here's why Google named it…
2002: Boston
It all started with a dance. If you were in SEO at the time, you'll remember those flux periods when Google performed major maintenance/index updates, coined the Google Dance. These updates would majorly shake up the search engine results page (SERP) for 3-5 days and occurred approximately 10 times per year. Fast-forward to today, updates occur between 500-600 times a year!
In any case, "Boston" was the first documented update and was announced at SES Boston. The name was given by Webmaster World (WMW) members.
2003: Cassandra, Dominic, Esmeralda, Fritz
These series of updates were actually aimed at combating shoddy back links, hidden text and hidden links. With the goal of delivering fresher, better results for users, Google set out to execute these new updates on a monthly basis.
Cassandra, Dominic, Esmeralda, Fritz were also named by the folks over at WMW.
The members decided that they wanted to name the updates similarly to how hurricane names are selected: in alphabetical order, one month male, one month female. Since the previous month's update was Boston, they went with a female name and voted on Cassandra because "we just liked it." See below why Brett Tabke, founder and owner of WMW and the PubCon conference, finalized the name.
"Dominic" was actually named after a pizza place in Boston that was frequented by PubCon attendees. "Esmeralda and Fritz" marked the end of the monthly "Google Dance" and the beginning of Everflux. The index was now being updated daily.
2003: Florida
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There were several theories floating regarding the origins of the name "Florida" for this 2003 update. Some speculated the name came from the series of hurricanes that hit Florida.
In many ways, the Florida update was like a hurricane, scooping up low-value SEO tactics into its raging cyclone. However, like Boston, Tabke called it Florida because there was an upcoming WMW conference in Orlando.
Florida was by far the most noticeable and significant update at the time. It was the hardest crack down on unethical SEO tactics, spam sites, and fishy backlinks. It also negatively affected many small businesses website rankings.
2005: Bourbon
Tabke was also the man behind the name "Bourbon" and strategically chose it to align with the WMW New Orleans conference. Bourbon was one of the first updates to really target content scrapers and rogue link wheels (i.e., web properties created for the purpose of interlinking and pointing back to your main website).
2005 – 2006: Big Daddy
Big Daddy had Big repercussions on notorious link exchangers, link buyers and sellers. Big D was a new data center with major software upgrades implemented that affected how the algorithm crawled and indexed sites. Site pages containing suspicious links were no longer getting indexed in the new data center.
The name for the update actually came a year after it was first rolled out. It was GoogleGuy, Matt Cutts' first chance to christen an update name.
Why Big Daddy? As Cutts recounts in a blog post, he and some members at PubCon 2006 were sitting around the lunch room after a Q&A session. Cutts took the opportunity to get some feedback about what the new data center name should be. One of the webmasters suggested "Big Daddy" because that's what his kids called him. Cutts approved. Big Daddy was dubbed.
2008: Buffy
Named after the notorious link spam slayer?
To some degree, yes. The Buffy update, was actually named in tribute to Vanessa Fox, the creator of Google Webmaster Central. Matt Cutts described the Buffy update as "an accumulation of smaller changes".
When Vanessa left Google to pursue other ventures, they honored her by naming their next update Buffy. We aren't exactly sure why "Buffy" and not "Vanessa" or "Fox" but we certainly like the images it conjures up.
2009: Vince
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Google named the "Vince" update after one of their engineers (Vince) who developed and executed the project. The update focused on promoting "authority" and "trust" throughout the SERP.
Also known as the "Trust Change update" it was geared towards favoring big brands. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was even quoted saying, "Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."
2010: Caffeine
In 2009, a preview of Caffeine was released. The goal was to drastically change the search indexing infrastructure.
With the official launch in 2010, Google called it "whole new web indexing system" generating 50 percent fresher results than their previous index. "Caffeine" gave the search engine a major jolt (hence the name Caffeine) increasing the speed of crawling pages, speeding up how fast the search engine delivered results, the accuracy of results in relation to the search term and more.
2011: Panda/Farmer
This update seemed to directly target content farms. According to Google, this update affected up to 12 percent of search results. The update penalized low quality sites, low quality content/duplicate content; generally content deemed not valuable to the user.
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts revealed that they used the code name "Panda" to refer to the update internally. Like Vince, Panda was named after one of the key Google engineers who worked on the update and made it possible, Navneet Panda.
Google Chrome
According to the Design Lead at Google Chrome, Glen Murphy, the name "Chrome" was established initially as a codename for the project by one of the project leads. Presumably, he liked fast cars, speed and shiny engines.
From a design perspective, the name was particularly fitting as 'chrome' refers to the non-webpage parts of the browser's interface (toolbars, tabs and buttons).
Murphy says, "because our design philosophy was 'Content, not chrome' – putting our focus on minimizing the amount of browser UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name the browser 'Chrome'."
Android Dessert Suite
Let's round up with something sweet. Did you ever notice that all Android operating systems are named after desserts? The timeline goes something like this: Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and Ice Cream Sandwich, with Jelly Bean on the horizon.
Again adhering to the alphabetical order scheme, when asked why Google names its OS upgrades after desserts, Google spokesman, Randall Sarafa says, "It's kind of like an internal team thing, and we prefer to be a little bit — how should I say — a bit inscrutable in the matter".
We can assume this is an easy to remember, quirky system that makes naming more fun.
Google pays homage to its desserts by building massive statues and laying them out in front of Googleplex (pictured above).
What's In A Name?
Google algorithms will always be something of a mystery, but their naming strategy isn't! In fact they abide by the principles of any good product naming system:
- Make it simple
- Make it easy to remember
- Make it short
- Give it personality
If you are interested in reading more about Google updates through time, SEOMoz offers a full list of Google's algorithm changes.
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Is UK doing enough to protect itself from cyber attack?
In 2010 the British government designated the protection of computer networks as one of the country's most important national security priorities. In its Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) it pledged, "the National Cyber Security Programme will be supported by £650m of new investment over the next four years".
What exactly has this investment bought, three years on?
Speaking on and off the record to insiders - from the government, intelligence agencies and security industry - it is apparent that the achievements in defending the UK from this threat have disappointed many.
Much of the available funding may actually have been directed at improving the UK's ability to target other countries' computer secrets.
Some point out that even if everything had gone to plan, an investment averaging £162.5m per year over four years could only have a limited effect on such a huge problem.
Security experts estimate that there are about 50 million cyber attacks a year in the UK, a number which they say is growing rapidly all of the time, and they put the damage to the UK economy at up to £27bn last year.
Yet, even according to government plans, less than half the total money committed has so far been spent.
There are suggestions that early strategising consumed many precious months and that the Cabinet Office, which is supposed to be giving overall direction to the project, has not yet allocated much of the money to specific projects.
"Some people have… said we're saving money for a rainy day," Mark Phillips, who helped draught the government's strategy, and is now at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) think tank, says. "To which my response is that we already have a rainy day, we have a high threat already with cyber."
Francis Maude, the minister responsible for cyber security, disputed this interpretation in a statement to BBC Newsnight, saying:
"Far from abdicating our responsibility on funding, to date we have spent over one third in the first two years of the programme. We are on target and in line with our public spending forecasts. The rapidly changing nature of cyber threats to the UK demonstrates the need for a flexible cyber security response so we reassess our spending priorities on a regular basis as was always the case. This is a prudent, sensible, smart approach as we move forward into the final two years of the programme."
Even if the full £650m is spent, as those close to the policy insist it will be, it is apparent that this will be done over five years rather than the originally promised four.
The other striking thing about the capability that has been taking shape is its offensive character; official figures show that 59% of the planned spend is meant to go to the intelligence agencies.
"We can achieve a tremendous amount these days through remote exploitation rather than face to face meetings with agents," says an MI6 officer referring to attacks on computer networks.
"GCHQ's offensive capability gives the UK an edge," a former senior officer at the eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham told me, adding, "a large proportion of that money has [therefore] gone into those capabilities".
John Bassett, now at RUSI and formerly GCHQ's Senior UK Liaison Officer in Washington, adds that much of the new government funding has gone on, "existing programmes... designed to get a really strong grip on global situational awareness".
Is this just a polite way of referring to stealing others' secrets?
Mr Bassett suggests that understanding the threat to UK computer security requires the exploration of adversary capabilities.
This argument, that the UK's defence requires the penetration of other countries' computer networks makes it hard to define whether most of the British cyber-security spend is actually going on offensive work - hacking for want of a better term - or whether that activity only accounts for some of it.
However, everybody one speaks to within the circle of secrecy assumes that this type of activity has consumed a significant proportion, measurable in the tens of millions, of the UK's total spending on cyber elements.
That emphasis on offensive work is remarkable given that the SDSR and the government cyber security strategy published in 2011 explained the rationale for the new spending almost entirely in terms of protecting the UK economy and government from attack.
Indeed, at an SDSR press briefing in 2010 a senior government official who I asked whether the UK even had an offensive cyber programme declined to confirm that it did, although another official subsequently contacted me to say that there was such an effort.
Mark Phillips, who was present at many of the meetings that formulated both policies, told us that the offensive programme was "one of the two unstated objectives" of the cyber security plan. The other, he implied, was providing support to allies, which in an intelligence context is usually taken as a reference to the US.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) meanwhile has taken 14% of the new money for cyber security, spreading it more or less evenly between offensive and defensive roles, insiders suggest.
It has launched Project Watchtower - a series of programmes designed to crated a super secure cyber architecture for the MoD -in an attempt to secure the military's computer networks from sophisticated attacks, with experts suggesting some good progress has been made.
On the offensive side, the MoD has established its Joint Cyber Unit, based at Cheltenham. The impetus for the creation of this outfit, several dozen strong, came from Nato's bombing campaign in Libya, says one Whitehall player.
Ministers asked why the MoD did not have the capability to switch off the Libyan air defence system from afar by means of cyber attack.
One MoD insider argues that the UK is some way from being able to take action of this kind, or match the unleashing of the Stuxnet virus on Iran's uranium enrichment plant, widely believed to have been carried out by the US, although they have not officially admitted it, but that the hold-up is on the policy and legal front rather than the issue of technical ability.
There has been a lively discussion among Whitehall law officers about whether the use of such a cyber attack would constitute an act of war or could under certain circumstances, for example switching off power to a hospital, be construed as a war crime.
Increasingly it is in this area, the development of cyber weapons or disruptive malware, rather than in the long established game of stealing secrets - state or commercial - that attention is focussing in the security community.
In 2011-12, for example, the US Department of Homeland Security tracked 23 cyber attacks on companies related to the national gas pipeline system. They assessed that the targeted information would have allowed an intruder to blow up hundreds of compressor stations, blacking out the US energy grid, "at the click of a mouse". Oil installations in Iran and Saudi Arabia have also had their control equipment hit by malware.
Mr Maude stressed to us that the UK's programme is "not just about securing government systems, though it helps do that too, but underpins all our objectives in tackling cyber crime, protecting our critical national infrastructure and making the UK one of the safest places in the world to do business in cyberspace." He noted that the Economist Intelligence Unit has put Britain top among the G20 countries for creating a secure environment for networks.
Notwithstanding this accolade, there is widespread concern about the vulnerability of the UK's national infrastructure to attacks of this kind.
"I don't think anyone is any more secure than they were," said Rashmi Knowles, Chief Security Architect at RSA, a leading cyber security firm, when I asked her whether Britain's infrastructure is any better protected than when the government launched its initiative in 2010.
In part this stems from constant evolution of the threat, with hackers far more dynamic, constantly evolving new techniques, than the government bureaucracies that try to stop them. As for the work that has been done to thwart them, some sectors, such as banking, have a far greater interest in investing in secure networks than the likes of public utilities.
Nightmare scenarios such as hijackers taking control of an aircraft via its computerised systems, or shutting down a national power system or a country's entire internet, appear feasible in the light of the US gas pipeline case. To what extent such risks are exaggerated by security firms touting for business is open to argument.
What almost all parties in the cyber security sector agree is that awareness of the risks is growing. For the government experts trying to devise a response, the risk is that their solutions may be judged inadequate to the scale of that challenge.


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Pre-hospital EKG worthwhile for chest pain
Having paramedics do field EKGs in patients with chest pain instead of waiting until they get to the hospital hasn't caused undue delays in San Diego, California, researchers said Wednesday.
In fact, patients whose EKGs showed they'd had a serious heart attack were brought in faster after the city equipped its ambulances and fire trucks with machines to do the test.
Pre-hospital EKGs are recommended by medical groups because they cut the time it takes hospitals to get heart attack patients the care they need, with every minute saving heart tissue.
But some researchers had feared that doing the tests in the field would slow down the paramedics instead, producing no or little net benefit.
"This study shows that out in the real world those concerns were not true," said Dr. Umesh Khot, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who wrote an editorial about the findings.
The City of San Diego began training paramedics in doing EKGs, or electrocardiograms, after it received a donation of half a million dollars from a heart attack patient.
Until the end of 2005, San Diego emergency medical services had been taking people with chest pain to a hospital of their choice. But since the pre-hospital EKGs were rolled out, patients who test indicated a massive heart attack, called STEMI, have been directed to the nearest hospital that can care for them.
The new study, led by Dr. Ehtisham Mahmud of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), used data from nearly 22,000 patients evaluated for chest pain before and after the new system was put in place.
On average, paramedics spent only 18 seconds more on the scene after they started doing field EKGs, and the transportation time rose by just 12 seconds.
By comparison, the advance notice saves about 15 to 20 minutes once patients get to the hospital, said Mahmud, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
And with the new system, it took considerably less time for STEMI patients, who have completely blocked heart arteries, to reach the hospital.
"The paramedics are getting those patients to the hospital even faster than the rest," Mahmud told Reuters Health. "They were shaving off about three minutes."
He added that for every additional 15 minutes a heart attack patient goes without treatment, one in 100 will die - so although three minutes isn't a lot, it could still be meaningful, according to Mahmud.
Pre-hospital EKGs have now been rolled out across San Diego County, and the Cleveland Clinic's Khot said most other places in the U.S. have adopted it as well.
Mahmud said death rates from heart attacks have dropped from between six and seven percent to less than four percent at UCSD over recent years, although it's hard to pinpoint the exact reasons. While medical treatments have been refined, he ventured, "this is more a system-of-care thing."
Khot praised the study for looking at the whole picture instead of just focusing on the faster treatment once patients reach the hospital.
"This is part of making sure there are no untoward effects" of the new system, he said.


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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
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J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.81 no.2 Pretoria ene. 2010
Veterinary education for global animal and public health
Coordinated by D A Walsh
2009. Scientific and Technical Review of the World Organisation for Animal Health 28(2): 439-872, OIE, Paris, France. Price €60. ISBN 978-92-9044-761-0
This 28th annual volume published by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), addresses the need for a global shift in the way veterinary students are taught veterinary public health (VPH). As well as taking the lead in prevention and control of animal diseases, the OIE develops health and welfare standards to promote food security and equitable international trade in animals and animal products. It considers veterinary education to be a key component in the quality of veterinary services globally. Professor R E W Halliwell, from the University of Edinburgh, suggests that curricula in most veterinary colleges are conservative and traditional and slow to respond to societal demands. Thus it has taken two decades to recognise that there is a lack of expertise in VPH and training in this area has remained a low priority. Change is also impeded by overcrowded curricula. Another major challenge highlighted by Professor P G Wall, from the University of Dublin, which echoes what is happening in South Africa, is how to stimulate interest and make VPH relevant to undergraduate students, who may see their future only in clinical medicine and surgery. He includes the whole of EU regulation number 854/2004 as an appendix to his paper. This document lists the professional qualifications required for an official (state) veterinarian. As the EU is an important trade partner these competencies are relevant to South African graduates.
In line with the direction that has been taken by the OIE, this compendium of 49 papers aims at encouraging and facilitating curricular change in VPH, so as to include food safety and security, livestock welfare, wildlife and aquatic animal health, ecosystem health, zoonotic diseases, global trade and risk analysis, epidemiology and veterinary management of disasters and emergencies. Donald Walsh, the coordinator of the Review, suggests that there is good evidence that a successful curriculum should be based on a defined set of competencies in knowledge, understanding, skills and professional attributes that all veterinary students should have attained and demonstrated by the time they graduate. A 2nd level of competency, is seen as that level required by those who devote their careers to global veterinary public health issues and would be considered specialists. The interdependence of humans, animals and the environment has prompted a view of VPH that is more holistic and collaborative, with an actionbased approach to solutions for global problems. These include the rapid spread of animal disease due to global transport, emerging zoonoses and climate change, which is linked both to intensification of production systems and also causes habitat changes for livestock and wildlife. One of the great challenges facing those veterinarians qualifying today will be to produce safe food for the nine billion people who will inhabit the planet by 2050, without compromising the environment. This Review would be of considerable interest as a guide and reference, not only to academics but also to veterinarians working for the state veterinary services.
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LONDON: Britain's self-appointed arbiters of morals, the Festival of Light, has won an albeit temporary victory against the fair presentation of gay sex on television when Ross McWhirter, better known for compiling the Guinness Book Of Records and meddling in comprehensive education, managed to con the Court of Appeal into stopping ITV's planned screening of a documentary by photographer David Bailey on Any Warhol, without bothering to see it.
McWhirter, perhaps in an attempt to win a record for stupidity, could not claim any greater knowledge of the programme's content. He, too, had not seen the documentary made for the Midlands ITV company, ATV, before spending a day getting the law to rush through its due processes with undue, and almost obscene, haste.
He started with Mr Justice Forbes, sitting in private. Judge Forbes dismissed McWhirter's objection to the programme. Within hours – not the months any mere mortal would have to wait – McWhirter was in the Court of Appeal conning three judges into passing an opinion on the programme none of them had seen.
Lord Justice Cairns said that he didn't think the court had any right to stop the screening of the programme. But all the same he didn't think it was the type of thing people should be allowed to see. The other two judges, Denning and Lawton, thought they could judge the programme and meddle in ITV's schedules.
The trouble started when Lord Longford, whose self-appointed commission into pornography tried to silence sexual liberty, and other Festival of Light trouble-seekers decided they didn't like the idea of a programme about the American movie-maker and artist that didn't put him down.
Longford lashed out with his first broadside safe in the knowledge that he knew enough about porn to be able to criticise Bailey's work on Warhol without moving his ass and bothering to see the film.
What he didn't like about the movie he hadn't seen was that he'd heard that the hadn't seen was that he'd heard the movie Bailey had made for ATV's documentary spot on the ITV network contained references to and the sight of "homosexuals, lesbians, transvestites" and such like.
"And on the strength of that it ought not to be shown."
To make matters worse, David Bailey, who appears seemingly nude in bed with Warhol, who remains fully clothed, included footage from Andy Warhol factory movies. During this characters used the word 'fuck' four times, Lord Longford had heard. 'Fuck' is a word heard more than four times in the average AA-movie in the commercial cinema.
Just as the Festival of Lighters were sitting down eager to be shocked and disgusted by ATV's cavorting around the New York movie factory the news came that the judges of the Appeal Court had come to the unprecedented decision of letting the Lighters have their way in getting the Warhol documentary banned.
The Independent Broadcasting Authority, the ITA as was, the authority that has the responsibility of making sure that all ITV output is 'up to standard', held out longer against the attacks from the Festival of Light than the BBC has of late in its brushes with the Festival and Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' Association, but in the end it was outmanoeuvred by the self-righteous moral guardians who managed to get the programme banned.
Where Longford and the Festival of Light with their usual under-the-counter tactics – usually so effective on Lord Hill and the BBC – failed, Ross McWhirter succeeded.
McWhirter is new to the business of being a clean-up television campaigner, and could be said to have done much to encourage violence by working for the BBC as a rugby commentator. In the past he has battled to get comprehensive school plans scrapped for Enfield where he lives waiting to be discovered for Parliament.
The position at the time of going to press was that the IBA was appealing against the Appeal Court's ban. At this hearing the judge may actually see the programme instead of dispensing justice blindfold.
Critics in Fleet Street are unhappy about the ban, which they feel smacks of dictatorial censorship.
They are even unhappier that McWhirter got the injunction stopping the screening of the Warhol movie partly through his claims that television critics who'd seen the movie were shocked by it.
John Howkins of Time Out, Tom Hutchinson of the Evening Standard and Elkan Allan of The Sunday Times issued a statement dissociating themselves from McWhirter's protest.
Tom Hutchinson wrote, in a remarkable front-page attack on the ban in the Standard: 'Some of the objected-to words are in fact contained within clips from Warhol's own films which the cinema-going public has already been granted the privilege of seeing or not.
'Of course, now my appreciation of the film has accelerated. Bailey's point has been substantiated beyond my first reaction. For it seems very true now, that as Bailey suggests, Warhol is what you make him and what you think he is – even without seeing him'.
When the programme was cancelled, Thames TV, the London week-day television station, was besieged with telephone calls. All of its 84 ones were blocked for 90 minutes, the IBA reported a bigger-than-ever response to any of the programmes the ITV companies had been allowed to show. All the callers were complaining that the documentary had been shelved. Mr McWhirter may claim to represent the silent majority, but the majority, in this case, were against his under-hand, old-school-tie censorship tactics.
Thames compounded the silliness, which Anglia TV had already added to by individually refusing to show the programme, when London viewers were told that there had been a programme change – just that – with no reference to the court battle that had forced the chanage.
During the safe replacement documentary on a Nottingham craft centre – a programme which had been shown before – the BBC had The Old Gray Whistle Test on BBC2, including David Bowie's Andy Warhol track, from the Hunky Dory album – played in sympathy?
QUOTES: Andy Warhol (in New York): "How quaint. How old-fashioned. Maybe they should see my movies."
Jimmy Vaughan, Warhol's European agent: "This is a terrible blow – it is censorship of the worst kind. Surely people have a right to decide what they watch."
The National Council for Civil Liberties: "While a minority has a right to persuade, it does not have the right to impose its views with the blunt weapon of censorship. The NCCL urges the IBA to show this film at the earliest opportunity and let the viewing public decide on its merits or deficencies."
Peter Thompson, secretary of the Festival of Light: "Thank God for men like Mr McWhirter."
David Bailey: "I am amazed that the judges can make the order stopping the film without having seen it. Hitler used to burn books he hadn't read."


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This is a beautiful national park, and perhaps my favorite among the battlefields I have visited with my husband. The Guilford Battleground Company, established by David Schenk in the 1880s to buy up the land where the Battle of Guilford Courthouse took place on 15 March 1781, was not able to purchase all of the land on which the fighting took place, and there is undergrowth in many places where there was none at the time of the battle. However, painstaking efforts have been made to establish the exact locations where the first, second, and third lines of the Continental forces under General Nathaniel Greene fought the British under Lord Charles Cornwallis, including a revision of the locations erroneously identified by Schenk. The Visitor's Center has some excellent educational resources, and in addition to the visitors who tour the battlefield, many locals also take advantage of the park's beauty for walking, jogging, cycling, and other activities.
As we passed one of the rows of monuments near the Visitor's Center, my husband started to read the inscription at the base of a statue of a woman: "Kerenhappuch Turner." This was a surprise - I am related to her (through the Norman line). I had completely forgotten that this was the battle in which her son had been wounded and she is said to have come to nurse him back to health.
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Willard "Bill" William Remmers II was born Dec. 28, 1939, in Chicago to Willard William and Mabel Johnine Ray Remmers.
He died June 16, 2013, after a 20-year struggle with prostate cancer. He died peacefully in his home surrounded by his family and friends. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mabel; his father, Willard; and by his stepmother, Margaret G. Remmers. He leaves his wife, Ruth Bernadine Heuertz Remmers, and daughter, Juliet Inez Remmers.
A celebration of Bill's life will be held at noon Saturday, June 29, at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence.
Bill spent his early years in Marion, Kan., with his grandmother, Inez Ellis Ray; his uncle and aunt, Rusty and Mary Longhofer; and in Corona del Mar, Calif., with his uncle and aunt, James and Hazel May Ray. Bill's mother, Mabel, and Bill moved during his grade school years to Topeka where Mabel became known for her work at the Menninger Foundation and in Topeka Civic Theatre.
He continued his education with a B.S. in mathematics and physics at Washburn University in 1963. Bill earned an M.S. in mathematics at the University of Kansas in 1966 and later a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at KU in 1985.
Bill's relationship with Ruth, the love of his live, began in 1978. They married Sept. 1, 1990. Their daughter, Juliet, was born Aug. 18, 1991. Bill was a loving husband and took an active role in raising Juliet. He loved listening to his wife sing and play piano and found joy in Juliet's violin playing and her passion for dance. He often mentioned his extreme good fortune in having a daughter of Juliet's accomplishments and personality.
He did a variety of work, including research, statistical analysis, modeling, and artificial intelligence for various KU departments including social psychology, biochemistry, and human development. He taught math at Donnelly College in Kansas City and psychology and computer science at KU. He worked as a mathematician on rocket trajectories and laser theory for Aeroneutronics in Newport Beach, Calif., and as a researcher and computer network manager for the U.S. Parole Commission in Washington D.C. He also taught chess, guitar making, astronomy, sailing, telescope making, and ceramics.
He was passionate about his avocational interests. When he was a boy living in Marion, his grandmother, Inez, nurtured what would become a lifelong interest in astronomy when she gave 8-year-old Bill a college textbook on astronomy, which he memorized. Inez also gave him a subscription to Scientific American, which he continued taking the rest of his life.
Bill affected many people's lives with his friendship, generosity, analytical skills, inventiveness, and puns. He was a great friend to many and made people feel special because of his genuine interest in their lives.
Bill participated in clinical trials over several years and used his scientific background to actively do laboratory and literary research on prostate cancer in hopes of helping himself and others who suffer from this devastating disease. In Bill's honor, please support oncology patients in need by giving generously to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association-Oncology Department, 325 Maine St., Lawrence, KS 66044.
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Farmingdale State - 3, New Jersey City - 2
Farmingdale, N.Y. - A goal by sophomore forward Katrina Cerverizzo (Center Moriches, N.Y./Center Moriches) in the 84th minute of play lifted the Rams over New Jersey City (1-1) in today's non-conference women's soccer game in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Farmingdale State's freshman forward Melissia Elie (Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood) opened the scoring in the first half as she stole the ball from the defender and put a low shot past the goalie for the 1-0 lead. The Gothic Knights responded just under a minute later, as sophomore forward Julia Caseras (Union, N.J./Union) made a quick pass to freshman midfielder Ashley Cunha (Edison, N.J./Edison), tying the score at 1-1.
In the second half, the Rams controlled the play as they outshot New Jersey City 17-8. The game would not see any scoring until the 82nd minute. Elie gave Farmingdale their second lead of the day, stealing the ball from a defender on a goalie rebound. NJCU's Caseres tied the game 25 seconds later, running the ball down and scoring on a scramble in front for the 2-2 score.
The game-winner came from Cerverizzo at 84:34 and the Rams took their final lead of the day to improve to 2-0 on the season.
Kelly Reilly (Pennsville, N.J./Pennsville Memorial) held strong in the net for the Gothic Knights, finishing with 12 saves, including nine in the second half.
The Rams will face Scranton tomorrow, Saturday, September 5th, in another non-conference game at 4:00 p.m.


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Braille & Talking Book Program | Newsletters | Fall 2013
Volume 8, Issue 2 | Fall 2013
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Inside this issue:
Living with Your Digital Player
As almost all of you are aware, our digital players talk back to you. Every time you touch a control button or arrow, the player announces the name of the control you've just pressed.
This feature is a great help when you are learning how to use the player. But some readers find that over time it gets to be a bit of a bore. You know you've hit the Volume Up arrow, and you don't want to waste an extra second every time you tap it.
There is a very simple way to change this routine. Turn the player on and make sure you do not have a book cartridge or USB drive plugged in. Press the Fast Forward and Speed Down arrows simultaneously, and hold them down until the player says "Reduced Verbosity."
The Reduced Verbosity command turns off all but the essential announcements. The player will still tell you which book you are playing, how far you are in that book, and how much time you have left on the battery. But it won't repeat every control name every time you touch one.
If you find you miss the chattier version, it's easy to switch back. With the player turned on, remove your cartridge or thumb drive, and hold the Fast Forward and Speed Up arrows keys down until you hear the player say, "Normal Verbosity." Your player returns to its original, loquacious but well-intended self. Kind of like your editor.
Do be aware that advanced players, those with serial numbers beginning with "DA1," are set to "reduced verbosity" when they arrive. If you want the enhanced audio feedback on your DA1 Player, just press the Fast Forward and Speed Up arrows down simultaneously. You'll hear the "Normal Verbosity" message.
NLS Audio Magazines Now on Digital Cartridge
In the spring of 2013 NLS began the transition of its magazines from cassettes to digital cartridges. Now all NLS-produced magazines are circulated on digital cartridge.
The magazines need to be returned to help keep costs down and potentially expand the magazine program. The cartridge loan period for weekly publications is one week after you receive them. The cartridge loan period for monthly, bimonthly, and quarterly publications is one month after you receive them.
Please treat magazine cartridges the same as book cartridges. After reading the magazine(s), return the cartridge to the red container, flip the mailing card over, and place it with your outgoing mail. Timely reading and returning of magazine cartridges will help NLS continue to provide the high-quality audio-magazine program you have enjoyed.
In some cases you may receive a magazine cartridge that has more than one magazine on it. The NLS digital player is equipped with a bookshelf feature to assist you in navigating your digital cartridge. To activate the bookshelf feature, press and hold the green rectangular Play/Stop button on your player until you hear a beep and the announcement "Bookshelf." Then use the fast forward and rewind buttons to go from magazine to magazine. Press Play when the magazine you want is announced. Complete audio instructions for using the bookshelf feature are included on all cartridges that contain more than one magazine issue.
Keep in mind that any magazine cartridge that has a monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly publication on it - even if it also has a weekly publication on it - will have a loan period of one month after you receive it. Enjoy your audio magazines but please remember to return them.
Failure to return magazine cartridges in a timely manner can result in magazine service being deferred. If you do not return your magazines NLS will stop sending you magazines. Magazines produced on cartridge by NLS are also available for download on the BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) website.
Applications by Fax or Email
The South Dakota Braille and Talking Book Program is now permitted to accept faxed or electronic applications for library service. The application must be signed or stamped by a "competent authority" who can certify that the applicant has a qualifying condition. The information pertinent to the applicant must be legible on the application. The completed application can be faxed to 605-773-6962 or scanned and emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com .
Of course, the Braille and Talking Book Program still accepts applications by regular mail. If you know someone who would like the service, you may call to have an application mailed. Applications can also be printed from the website: library.sd.gov/BTB.
Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) - Another Great Idea
In previous newsletters we have talked about Braille and Audio Reading Download or, as it is commonly known, BARD. Our collection contains approximately 12,000 titles in digital format. In BARD you have over 30,000 titles to choose from. The trick with BARD is that you must have the means to download the books.
Many of you don't have the computers, computer skills, or high-speed Internet connections required to download books. In the past, we have suggested that you put your relatives - especially the grandkids - to work downloading books for you. For those who don't have family nearby, we have another suggestion.
Why not promote a volunteer downloading service in your community? It could be done through the youth ministry of your church, a local school, a service group, your book club, or another community organization.
NLS and the South Dakota Braille and Talking Book Program do not object to your having a trusted friend, relative or caregiver download books for you. All we ask is that these helpers observe the BARD Pledge and do not make downloaded books available to anyone who isn't a certified patron of our library network.
So why not check with your pastor, local Lion's Club chapter, or other community volunteer group? You'll be surprised how many people are willing to volunteer help, especially when it's an activity they can do in their own homes or parish halls, at no cost to themselves. You can provide the blank NLS cartridges or USB drives, and the volunteers can copy downloaded books onto them for you to read at your leisure.
Braille and Talking Book staff will be happy to talk with representatives of these groups and explain how the BARD download service works.
Bestsellers - Biography and Autobiography
This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (DB070853)
Comedic variety-show star Carol Burnett shares anecdotes about fellow actors, including Tim Conway, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jimmy Stewart. She also provides glimpses into her personal life, both humorous and sad.
Steve Jobs (DB073682)
This biography of entrepreneur Steve Jobs (1955-2011) chronicles his childhood; education; entry level jobs in California's Silicon Valley; 1976 cofounding of Apple computer in his parents' garage; leadership in spearheading the iPod, iPhone, and iPad; personal and professional relationships; and his 2003 cancer diagnosis. Some strong language.
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (DB074166)
Texas ranch hand-turned-Navy SEAL recalls his career as the sniper with the most kills in U.S. military history, his training, his four tours of duty in Iraq, and the strains of deployment on family life. Violence, strong language.
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (DB044849)
Some twenty years after college, Mitch Albom reconnects with a former professor who is terminally ill. His weekly visits with his dying mentor become a colloquium on the meaning of life and Albom gains insight into "love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and finally, death."
American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood (DB070691)
This film historian's biography of the Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director discusses Eastwood's five decades of work, his life as the father of seven children with five different women, the palimony lawsuit against him, and his stint as mayor of Carmel, CA. Some strong language.
Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story (DB069565)
This book explores the relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy following the death of President John Kennedy in 1963 and asserts that their friendship turned into an affair that continued until Bobby's 1968 presidential campaign. Strong language.
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Prairie Bud & Pasque Children's Book Awards
The Prairie Bud and Prairie Pasque Children's Book Awards are sponsored by the South Dakota Library Association with the express purpose of encouraging children to become enthusiastic, discriminating readers.
Any South Dakota student in grades K-2 can vote for the Prairie Bud books and any South Dakota student in grades 3-5 can vote for the Prairie Pasque books. To vote, a child must have read or heard at least 5 of the contest books. Schools must participate in the Prairie Bud and Pasque awards for students to be eligible to vote.
The voting deadline is March 31, 2014. The book award winners will be announced in April during National Library Week.
Below is the list of books nominated for the Prairie Bud and Prairie Pasque awards. The DB number follows each title. If you would like to read a book that does not have a DB number or that says In Process, please let us know and we will rush processing of that specific title. Start reading today. March 31 will be here before you know it.
2013 - 2014 Prairie Bud Nominees
- Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match/Marisol McDonald No Combina
by Monica Brown
- Tom's Tweet
by Jill Esbaum (DBS004654)
- Three Hens and a Peacock
by Lester Laminack (In Process)
- The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
by Laura Murray
- Prairie Storms
by Darcy Pattison (DBS004652)
- Blackout
by John Rocco (DBS004651)
- Rah Rah Radishes
by April Pulley Sayre (DBS004649)
- Tales for Very Picky Eaters
by Josh Schneider (DB075818)
- Swirl by Swirl
by Joyce Sidman (DBS004638)
- Earth to Clunk
by Pam Smallcomb (DBS004653)
- Love, Mouserella
by David Ezra Stein (DBS004637)
- Balloons Over Broadway
by Melissa Sweet (DB075815)
- Press Here
by Herve Tullet
- A Storm Called Katrina
by Myron Uhlberg (DBS004644)
- Harry and Hopper
by Margaret Wild (DBS004657)
- When I Grow Up
by Al Yankovic (DBS004655)
2013 - 2014 Prairie Pasque Nominees
- Henry's Adventure at the Franklin Hotel
by Nancy Cartwright and Joanna Jones (DBS004640)
- The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
by Carmen Agra Deedy (DB074273)
- Titanic Sinks!
by Barry Denenberg (In Process)
- No Ordinary Day
by Deborah Ellis (In Process)
- Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming (DB073290)
- Tuesdays at the Castle
by Jessica Day George (DB075926)
- True (…Sort Of)
by Katherine Hannigan (In Process)
- Zita the Spacegirl
by Ben Hatke
- Junonia
by Kevin Henkes (In Process)
- Wild Wings
by Gill Lewis (DB073949)
- Elephant Scientist
by Caitlin O'Connell (BR19609)
- Cal Ripken, Jr.'s All-Stars: Hothead
by Cal Ripken (DB073910)
- The Christmas Coat
by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (TVB00249)
- For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
by Peggy Thomas (DBS004659)
- Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
by Lee Wardlaw (BR20022)
- Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World's Greatest Escape Artist
by Janice Weaver (In Process)
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Winter 2019 Prairie Trails Newsletter
Volume 14, Issue 1 | Winter 2019
Articles include "Celebrating 50 years of service", "Summer Reading Program", "Ten Squared Club", "Holiday closing" and more!
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