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Bad Flight, but Customer Relations Even Worse!
We were flying from LAX to MIA, and a passenger on board had a minor medical issue. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, the plane's first aid kit had to be opened. Also unbeknownst to us (at the time), once the plane landed, it would not be able to take off again without an intact first aid kit onboard.
At MIA, we circled the airport, unable to land due to bad weather. Our fuel ran low, so we were forced to divert and land at West Palm Beach instead. THIS WAS NOT ANYBODYS FAULT. If it had ended there, I wouldnt be angry right now.
As soon as we touched down at WPB, our plane was grounded until a new first aid kit could be obtained, but none of the crew members thought about this. Instead, we were told to just sit tight and wait out the weather. Wed head back to MIA just as soon as it cleared.
We sat on the tarmac at WPB for close to two hours. Finally, the pilot announced that the weather had cleared and we were about to take off. A few minutes later, he came back on the intercom and retracted his statement. Somebody had remembered the first aid kit issue, so he explained the problem and said an employee had been sent to see if a fresh kit was available somewhere.
It was an honest oversight, but it was one that cost 120 passengers hours of valuable time. Had the opened first aid kit been acknowledged from the start, steps could have been taken to have one delivered, a bus could have been on its way to rescue us, or, worst case, passengers could have been released from the plane to start planning their own onward travel. As things happened, we waited first for news that no first aid kit could be found, then we waited again for a gate to open so the plane could be emptied.
We were done.
After being misled for hours - however unintentionally - a planes worth of passengers were stranded. An announcement informed us that a bus was being sent to transport a selected few to Miami, but it wouldnt arrive for over an hour and it could only carry 50 people. The other 70 of us were on our own, forced to arrange our own transportation at our own cost.
My mother and I needed to catch a connecting flight out of MIA. We were already arriving a day late at our destination due to a mechanical error on an earlier plane, and if we missed this connection, we would be TWO days late and miss visiting four of our sponsored children in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. With little time left, I had to rent an SUV with my phone while enroute to the baggage claim area. I left my elderly mother to deal with our 250 pounds of luggage (gifts for 23 sponsored children) so I could rush onto a shuttle and pick up our rental vehicle. By prepaying for a tank of gas and speeding along toll roads, we made it to MIA in time to catch our connection. So what if we missed both breakfast and lunch? Nutrition is overrated.
After reading other peoples' horror stories, I feel like my experience wasn't so bad after all considering that we made it onto our next flight. Had I visited this website first, I would have known what the company is like, and I would not have bothered reaching out to American Airlines. Now that I have, I only feel worse.
I was misled by my GOOD experience when I contacted Alaska Airlines about an unrelated issue with one of their flights on the same itinerary. The rep I spoke with was sympathetic and made me feel like a valued customer. They compensated me to the best of their ability - not much - but I was satisfied just to have my grievances heard and to be respected.
My customer relations experience with AA was very different. I didn't ask them for anything, and I would've settled for just about any token gesture of apology on their part. Instead, I got canned, disingenuous responses, along with an absolute insistence that bad weather was the ONLY reason why our plane could not take us to Miami. The entire tone from AA was Were covering our own ***** at whatever cost, even if that means telling lies and dismissing our customers concerns with a derisive sneer.
I went back and forth with customer relations for days (via Twitter direct messaging), even going so far as to submit evidence that other AA flights had been successfully landing at MIA during the same period they claimed that bad weather had prevented our pilot from taking us back to the correct airport. I was told that didnt matter; our planes situation was different. Yes, it was different! There was no first aid kit onboard! The compromised first aid kit was the only thing holding us back once the weather cleared, AA doggedly refuses to admit that. The closest they would come was to say We understand that there were some other concerns that attributed to your delay, but
AAs stubborn refusal to acknowledge that their staff share any responsibility in causing 120 passengers to sit for hours inside a plane that they should have known would never be able to continue on its journey is more frustrating than the original incident that began my dispute. It proves more than anything that American Airlines cares only about profit margins and not about their passengers. Its a short-sighted approach, because happy customers are returning customers, but this is their business model and they are sticking to it!
Although I imagine that other people have had their problems, Ive never felt undervalued by Alaska Airlines or Southwest Airlines - the two companies I frequent for my domestic travel. Im pleased to see that current AirlineComplaints.org statistics reflect this same sentiment:
American Airlines - 1,276 complaints
Southwest Airlines - 250 complaints
Alaska Airlines - 91 complaints
Even given that AA probably operates more flights than the other two airlines, these numbers are quite telling. AA has significantly more complaints on the website then their two closest competitors, United and Delta.
Time to step up your game, American!
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The ice bucket challenge is meant to raise awareness and research funding for ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The progressive neurodegenerative disease is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, as the famous baseball player brought a lot of national and international attention to ALS when he was diagnosed in 1939.
The disease affects motor neurons that allow the brain to control muscle movement. Patients in the later stages of ALS may become totally paralyzed, and the disease is fatal.
In order to raise awareness, participants in the ice bucket challenge are nominated by friends to dump a bucket of ice water over their heads and/or donate money to ALS research. Videos of the water dumping are then posted on social media for others to enjoy, and to allow the participant to nominate others to join in the freezing fun.
While the origin of the ice bucket challenge is disputed, it has undoubtedly been successful, allowing the ALS Association to raise $79.7 million since July 29. The organization raised just $2.5 million in the same period last year.
Maspeth's State Farm branch recently decided to join in on the fun. Insurance Account Representative Tom Murray explained that after seeing all of their friends doing the challenge on Facebook, employees in the office started to throw around the idea of doing the challenge themselves.
"Then as an office we decided it would be a great way to raise awareness and raise money for a good cause," Murray said.
But the men and women of State Farm threw in a little twist: instead of nominating their friends or family to complete the challenge, they nominated other State Farm branches.
"We threw the idea out there that we can start challenging other agencies and do this on a macro level to raise awareness and money for the cause," Murray said.
And so, under a rainy sky last Friday, the staff at State Farm dumped buckets filled with ice and cold water over their heads.
Now the office will collect money from individuals, as much or as little as they would like, to donate to the ALS Association to help fund research.
"Everybody here does have a good heart and cares for everybody," Murray said.

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Anonymous is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities which promote anonymous social engagement by direct action. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. In 2012, TIME named Anonymous as one of the most influential groups in the world.
- For quotes on the subject of anonymity, see Anonymity.
- For quotes for which the author is not publicly known, see Anonymous.
- Quotes of representatives or widely reported purported representatives of Anonymous
- Anonymous motto, used in many placards, quoted at Anonymousuk.org
- We share the collective idea of ANONYMOUS worldwide; we are the people.
We believe in non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience.
Throughout history the world has been controlled by big ideologies such as religion, socialism and capitalism to name but a few. These are all forms of slavery that have stopped our evolution and removed our freedom.
ANONYMOUS see these ideologies for what they are, SYSTEMS OF CONTROL.
The time for change is now. No longer shall the people be oppressed by corruption.
- Introductory page for Anonymous UK
- We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, as quoted in Yale Law and Technology (9 November 2009)
- The tendency to relate past events to what is possible in the present becomes more difficult as the scope of the geopolitical environment changes. It is a useful thing, then, to ask every once in a while if the environment has recently undergone any particular severe changes, thereby expanding our options for the future.
Terminology, let alone our means of exchanging information, has changed to such a degree that many essential discussions in today's "communications age" would be entirely incomprehensible to many two decades ago.
As the social, political and technological environment has developed, some have already begun to explore new options, seizing new chances for digital activism — and more will soon join in. It is time for the rest of the world to understand why.
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, in "Anonymous and the global correction", Aljazeera (16 February 2011)
- I have been involved with Anonymous in some capacity or another for about six years.
Looking back at my writing over that time, I have found that my predictions, while always enthusiastic, nonetheless turned out to have been conservative; when Australia became the first state to come under attack by this remarkable force, I proposed that we would someday see such allegedly inevitable institutions begin to crumble in the face of their growing irrelevance.
Someday turned out to be this year.
I predict that Anonymous and entities like it will become far more significant over the next few years than is expected by most of our similarly irrelevant pundits — and this will, no doubt, turn out to be just as much of an understatement as anything else that has been written on the subject. … This is the future, whether one approves or not, and the failure on the part of governments and media alike to understand, and contend with the rapid change now afoot, ought to remind everyone concerned why it is that this movement is necessary in the first place.
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, in "Anonymous and the global correction", Aljazeera (16 February 2011)
- Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down. You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go. We will launch the biggest operation ever against you. Expect massive cyber attacks. War is declared. Get prepared. The French people are stronger than you and will come out of this atrocity even stronger.
- Anonymous, as quoted in "Anonymous declares war on Islamic State after Paris attacks in chilling video: 'We will hunt you down'", The Mirror (16 November 2015)
Message to Scientology (21 January 2000)[edit]
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, in a hacktivist Message to Scientology (21 January 2000)
- Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous.
- Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; your suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers; for the good of mankind; and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form.
- We recognize you as serious opponents, and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame. However, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, and the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell. You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere.
- You will find no recourse in attack because for each of us that falls, ten more will take his place. We are cognizant of the many who may decry our methods as parallel to those of the Church of Scientology. Those who espouse the obvious truth that your organization will use the actions of Anonymous as an example of the persecution of which you have for so long warned your followers. This is acceptable to Anonymous; in fact, it is encouraged.
- We are your SPs. Over time, as we begin to merge our pulse with that of your church, the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will become aware that salvation needn't come at the expense of their livelihood. They will become aware that the stress and the frustration that they feel is not due to us, but a source much closer to them.
- Yes, we are SPs but the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of your own RTC.
- Knowledge is free.
- We are Anonymous.
- We are Legion.
- We do not forgive.
- We do not forget.
- Expect us.
Letter to Citizens Of The United State Of America (24 March 2011)[edit]
- Dear US Citizens,
- We, Anonymous, would like to offer you, America, the opportunity to join and support our movement. We are a group that formed on the internet—one that knows no constructs or absolutes, and one that has recently grown exponentially. We would like to introduce an Operation. An Operation that involves Americans getting our Natural Rights and dreams back. Right now, you can help by passing on the Information. Information is Power. Share the Power of the Information with other like-minded individuals. The more people we represent, the more Power we have, both as individuals and as Anonymous. Thank you for your time and your Power.
Letter to Citizens Of The United States Of America (24 March 2011)[edit]
- Many events have taken shape over the course of only a few years, and slowly our system has been working towards the gains of itself rather than the gains of its people. While we all have watched and rallied against the system working against us, there have been other gains of the system that have gone without a peep as back room deals and bargaining allow for the passing of legislation and research funding that has resulted in the loss of more liberties such as censorship, phone and Internet surveillance and eminent domain laws, Not to mention the higher taxes, lower wages, and loss of work due to exports deals. We repeat the history of our mistakes instead of evolving our society. Generations in the past spoke of what we face as current issues, the only difference being that of our technological advancements. We have forgotten such words our society has found guidance and value in:
- "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
- That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness."
- In the past few months, Anonymous has made headlines through the actions of a few. The media tries to instill fear of which Anonymous is as a "group", and in the process failed to recognize it as an "ideal" that is gaining momentum.
- Anonymous is an ideal that the people can use to further help other people. In this case, you're not being heard and transparency in government operations is non-existent in many matters. Mobilize yourself to find your information, and we'll be giving you resources to further help you. Take the information you find and tell your government your demands.
- We want AMERICANS to wake up! We want AMERICANS to read! We want AMERICANS to think, and above all question all things! We want AMERICANS to analyze, criticize, critique and learn to read between the lines, to expose and to deconstruct! We want you to believe in the infinite power of the people! We want you to learn that we're all truly brothers and sisters in humanity regardless of all the artificial barriers that have been set up to separate us!
- "Think For Yourself, Question Authority" - Timothy Leary
- Inform. Educate. Guide. Evolve. Wake up the People. The time for the next step in our species' social evolution has come!
- To effectively reform the system that has enslaved us, we must consider following the advice and example of those who have preceded us. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and JFK are good places to start. All took fierce positions against central banking, government corruption and corporate power.
- The time has come for us to unite, the time has come for us to stand up and fight! You are Anonymous!
- We are in the information era.
- We are Anonymous,
- We are Legion,
- We do not forget,
- We do not forgive,
- Expect us.
Operation Blackout (19 November 2011)[edit]
- Citizens of the United States, We are Anonymous.
- This is an urgent emergency alert to all people of the United States. The day we've all been waiting for has unfortunately arrived. The United States is censoring the internet. Our blatant response is that we will not sit while our rights are taken away by the government we trusted them to preserve. This is not a call to arms, but a call to recognition and action!
- The United States government has mastered this corrupt way of giving us a false sense of freedom. We think we are free and can do what we want, but in reality we are very limited and restricted as to what we can do, how we can think, and even how our education is obtained. We have been so distracted by this mirage of freedom, that we have just become what we were trying to escape from.
- For too long, we have been idle as our brothers and sisters were arrested. During this time, the government has been scheming, plotting ways to increase censorship through means of I S P block aides, D N S blockings, search engine censorship, website censorship, and a variety of other methods that directly oppose the values and ideas of both Anonymous as well as the founding fathers of this country, who believed in free speech and press!
- The United States has often been used as an example of the ideal free country. When the one nation that is known for its freedom and rights start to abuse its own people, this is when you must fight back, because others are soon to follow. Do not think that just because you are not a United States citizen, that this does not apply to you. You cannot wait for your country to decide to do the same. You must stop it before it grows, before it becomes acceptable. You must destroy its foundation before it becomes too powerful.
- Has the U.S. government not learned from the past? Has it not seen the 2011 revolutions? Has it not seen that we oppose this wherever we find it and that we will continue to oppose it? Obviously the United States Government thinks they are exempt. This is not only an Anonymous collective call to action. What will a Distributed Denial of Service attack do? What's a website de face ment against the corrupted powers of the government? No. This is a call for a worldwide internet and physical protest against the powers that be. Spread this message everywhere. We will not stand for this! Tell your parents, your neighbors, your fellow workers, your school teachers, and anyone else you come in contact with. This affects anyone that desires the freedom to browse anonymously, speak freely without fear of retribution, or protest without fear of arrest.
- Go to every I R C network, every social network, every online community, and tell them of the atrocity that is about to be committed. If protest is not enough, the United States government shall see that we are truly legion and we shall come together as one force opposing this attempt to censor the internet once again, and in the process discourage any other government from continuing or trying.
- We are Anonymous.
- We are Legion.
- We do not forgive censorship.
- We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings.
- To the United States government, you should've expected us.
Anonymous Operation V (5 November 2013)[edit]
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, in a hacktivist message announcing at Anonymous Operation Last Resort at the United States Congress plan to censour any internet website(5 Novembrr 2013)
- To the Citizens of the United States and the United States Government.
- We are Anonymous.
- In the past few months, our collective has been organizing the operation known as Operation Blackout. Part of the operation's purpose was to alert the people of the coming bill that was to be called the Stop Online Piracy Act.
- This Act would give Congress the power to censor any internet website they wish without consent from the Citizens of the United States. This act would've also had the power to jail any person who infringed on its new copyright law for an equivalence of five years. This copyright law would've had the power to destroy social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube. Video gameplay and free movies would cease to exist.
- However, Operation Blackout was a success. As a collective, we've managed to spread the word and alert the masses. Internet giants such as Google, Wikipedia, and Reddit became hand-in-hand with us as we all managed to make an impact on the decisions of our, "free government". But as we've seen with Megaupload, the government may not need a bill to be passed to get their way. Other operations we've conducted over this time period have awaken the people to the nightmare that is the United States Government. Sections 1031 and 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act have been ratified. Yet we face new threats.
- The United States Government is seeking to pass the Cyber Security Act of 2012. This act is as Orwellian as it sounds; it will endanger our collective and we will not stand by and watch while this government of lies prepares to take away our freedoms. The National Security Agency insists on labeling us as a leaderless, terrorist organization. The question is, "who do we terrorize?". Can it possibly be that the United States government is truly scared of us? Nevertheless, The time for action is now.
- Our collective has realized, along with many United States citizens, that the current government is no longer functional. Our economy is unstable, our representatives uncooperative, and our system, destroyed.
- We are not calling upon the collective to deface or use a distributed denial of service attack on a United States government agency website or affiliate. We are not calling upon the people to occupy a city or protest in front of a local building. This has not brought on us any legislative change or alternate law. It has only brought us bloodshed and false criticism. For the last 12 years, voting was useless. Corporations and lobbyists are the true leaders of this country and are the ones with the power to control our lives. To rebuild our government, we must first destroy it'.
- Our time for democracy is here.
- Our time for real change is here.
- This is America's time, to have its own revolution.
- Therefore, 'Anonymous has decided to openly declare war on the United States government. This is a call to arms. We call upon the Citizens of the United States to stand beside us in overthrowing this corrupted body and call upon a new era. Our allegiance is to the American people, because they are us, and we are them.
- Operation V, engaged.
- We are Anonymous.
- We are Americans.
- 'We never Forgive.
- 'We never Forget'.
- To the United States government, it's too late to expect us.
Anonymous Operation Last Resort (2013)[edit]
- Anonymous representative of Anonymous, in a hacktivist message announcing at Anonymous Operation Last Resort at the United States Sentencing Commission (25 January 2013) and a Youtube video posted by Aarons ArkAngel
- Citizens of the world,
Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the "discretion" of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.
We have been watching, and waiting.
Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.
Anonymous immediately convened an emergency council to discuss our response to this tragedy. After much heavy-hearted discussion, the decision was upheld to engage the United States Department of Justice and its associated executive branches in a game of a similar nature, a game in which the only winning move is not to play.
- We have felt within our hearts a burning rage in reaction to these events, but we have not allowed ourselves to be drawn into a foolish and premature response. We have bidden our time, operating in the shadows, adapting our tactics and honing our abilities.
- There must be reform of outdated and poorly-envisioned legislation, written to be so broadly applied as to make a felony crime out of violation of terms of service, creating in effect vast swathes of crimes, and allowing for selective punishment. There must be reform of mandatory minimum sentencing. There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused, and consideration of motive and mens rea. The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences, unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
For good reason the statue of lady justice is blindfolded. No more should her innocence be besmirked, her scales tipped, nor her swordhand guided. Furthermore there must be a solemn commitment to freedom of the internet, this last great common space of humanity, and to the common ownership of information to further the common good.
We do not expect to be negotiated with; we do not desire to be negotiated with. We understand that due to the actions we take we exclude ourselves from the system within which solutions are found. There are others who serve that purpose, people far more respectable than us, people whose voices emerge from the light, and not the shadows. These voices are already making clear the reforms that have been necessary for some time, and are outright required now.
It is these people that the justice system, the government, and law enforcement must engage with. Their voices are already ringing strong with a chorus of determined resolution. We demand only that this chorus is not ignored. We demand the government does not make the mistake of hoping that time will dampen its ringing, that they can ride out this wave of determination, that business as usual can continue after a sufficient period of lip-service and back-patting.
Not this time. This time there will be change, or there will be chaos...
Quotes about Anonymous[edit]
- Neat labels elude those commentators who have sought to categorize Anonymous as an entity. With little consistency, commentators have referred to Anonymous as hackers, activists, vigilantes, a movement, etc. Perhaps then, Anonymous itself is the best authority on what Anonymous is. On its website, Anonymous describes itself as "an internet gathering" rather than a "group." Moreover, Anonymous states that it has "a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives."
"Very loose" might be an understatement. The group is open to anyone and is often rife with dissent over its messages and operations, which is unsurprising given that Anonymous does not utilize formal procedures for conducting its operations. In August 2011, an Anonymous member spoke to the media about this process:
- With any given operation there are always some [Anonymous members] who agree and some who disagree. . . . Annoymous [sic] allows each person individually to vote on each operation, a yes vote means they participate, a no vote means they do not. Anyone is allowed to create an [operation] and if others vote yes it will get traction and something may be accomplished.
- This system seems to allow for the frequent possibility of minority-led projects since there is no minimum approval from the collective required to initiate and execute an operation. If members of Anonymous are interested in executing a cyberattack, they will, even if they constitute a small fraction of the group's overall membership.
- In one sense the actions of Anonymous are themselves, anonymously and unaccountably, censoring websites in response to positions with which they disagree. The goals of many Anonymous activists are a free and open internet, but the regular and blanket denial-of-service campaigns could easily be counter-productive if pro-Sopa and pro-Pipa advocates can portray these actions as representative of those who are against this legislation.
- In the UAE it is now illegal to wear a Guy Fawkes mask, the iconic symbol of the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous. The clear implication of the new law is that the UAE government fears the power of the mask, and the Anonymous collective the mask represents.
External links[edit]
- Web Activism - Anonymous group who exposes fake DMCA notices
- Online Protest (Wikia)


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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - April/May 2005
It is with great satisfaction that I am able to report two fantastic breakthroughs at the Taricaya Research Centre over the last eight weeks. Both represent the culmination of long and hard work by both volunteers and staff alike.
Firstly I am proud to announce that at a ceremony in Lima, attended by many government officials and Congressman, Fernando and I were presented the private reserve: La Reserva Ecologica Taricaya (yellow shading). As the maps indicate we have finally been allocated our 450 hectare reserve due east of Puerto Maldonado (O), in the section Gamitana, along the southern bank of the river Madre de Dios. The awarding of this private reserve represents the termination of nearly four years of dedication by volunteers in the collection of data from our programmed observations. Each and every one of the 322 volunteers that has visited Taricaya to date has had a part to play in this fantastic achievement and I wish to thank them all. However, this is not the end of the work as every year we now have to provide a report to the Peruvian government justifying our involvement in the area. An increase in the sightings of fauna in the area will indicate that we are having a positive effect within the reserve and that the wildlife has an increased confidence as their habitat is being successfully protected form hunters, wood extractors etc. Thus the first major step has been taken and current and future volunteers are now invaluable in our duty to manage the reserve in the best possible way.
The second piece of exciting news is the dam. After two years I am very pleased to report that the Taricaya Research Centre now has water constantly pumping up to the storage tanks 24 hours a day without the need to use the petrol generator. This is a great piece of news as we can now start planning strategies for generating electricity by connecting a dynamo to the water pump and both Fernando and I are confident that we can generate enough power for the needs of the centre and hence make the generator redundant during the dry season. This would be a great achievement as we would reduce pollution as the petrol generator would not be used for six months, and, perhaps more importantly, there are many communities in the area that possess their own streams or "quebradas". If we could implement our successful system in other locations then we would be able to help them with irrigation for their farms and light would become a possibility at night. In June we hope to investigate the possibility of electricity at Taricaya and the pumping of water to the farm project so watch this space!
Elsewhere at Taricaya we have been dedicating time to the animal release program and improving the living conditions for the birds and monkeys in the project. In June we will have successfully completed the new aviaries where all the different macaws, parrots and parakeets will have newer and larger cages where they can rediscover the ability to fly before being released back into the wild. This month we received four more Cobalt-winged parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera), another White-bellied parrot (Pionites leucogaster) and a first in the release program a Red-bellied macaw (Ara manilata). The monkey enclosure has also been remodeled and will be completed in June also.
At the farm project we continue to investigate various different projects at any given time and at the moment we are currently looking at the possibility of producing our own vinegar from bananas and even the possibility of producing wine from some of the natural palm fruits. The fish-eye chilis are producing very well and we have brought glass jars from Lima in an effort to try an increase their value by selling them in our vinegar in small jars. The idea is to increase their worth to the farmer. At the moment a kilo will fetch 3 soles in the market in Puerto Maldonado but we, at Taricaya, feel that by packaging the product in a more attractive manner than the farmer could receive up to three times as much profit. It may not seem a large amount by western standards but on a local scale if we can start a farmer producing a variety of different products then his dependency on one is reduced and he can start to become self-sufficient by mixing many different ideas together. Ideally we want to get the farmers in the area up and running on their farms with goats, chickens, mahogany, bananas for vinegar, chili, coffee, cocoa, bamboo etc.. Thus at any given time he is able to generate capital from any one of his products. It is not such a distant possibility because at the farm project we have produced a self-sufficient module and now we have to start implementing it within the local communities.
As you can see it is a very exciting time to be at Taricaya and things are looking very positive for the future. We, volunteers and staff, must keep the momentum going and continue to work hard on all that is happening at the centre.
Stuart Timson
Conservation Manager
Taricaya Research Centre
31st May 2005


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No, it isn't. But they might put one there anyway.
The proximity of a proposed dog run in Van Cortlandt Park to the site of a Revolutionary War massacre has sparked criticism from a group of Bronx historians.
The dog run — set to be built in the park's Northeast Forest section — will replace the current makeshift dog run that occupies a space approximately 50 feet to the north of a memorial commemorating the site of the Stockbridge Indian Massacre of 1778. Wording on the memorial states that during the battle, British troops killed 17 Stockbridge Native Americans allied with Revolutionary soldiers, though historians say that enlistment records and reports from those who fled put the number closer to 40.
Members of the Kingsbridge Historical Society (KHS) liken the placement to putting a dog run next to the Vietnam Memorial or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
As if this whole proposal wasn't cringe-worthy enough already, let me add that the bodies of the men killed that day were scavenged by dogs before being buried in a common grave. Yeah. Really not the most appropriate place for a canine playground, is it?
On a side note, a Hessian officer who saw the bodies of the Stockbridge militiamen killed in the attack produced this image of their clothing and arms, giving us a firsthand glimpse of these Patriot-allied Indians. Note that he's carrying a bow and arrows as well as a musket.


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When you take the top prize at Sundance and your female lead is awarded a Special Jury Prize, it's a safe bet that you're going to get an awards-season release.
"Like Crazy,"from writer-director Drake Dorewmus ("Douchebag") and starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as a young couple kept apart by the Atlantic Ocean, visa problems and a few other dalliances, is being released by Paramount Vantage on Oct. 28.
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Of the all the films we saw at Sudance this year, "Like Crazy" was easily our favorite, and of the ones we missed, only "Another Earth" enjoyed similar buzz on the streets of Park City, Utah.
Some unfairly dismissed "Like Crazy" as "'Blue Valentine' light," but "like Crazy" is a very different relationship drama with a very different message. And it's not as good as "Blue Valentine," but that's hardly a criticism.
Paramount bought the film for a modest $4 million, but a big payday is hardly guaranteed. Looking back at the previous decades Grand Jury Prize winners out of Sundance, only "Precious" managed to crack $9. But Yelchin and Jones are future stars and the home video rights alone will no doubt make this a sound investment.
Yelchin has a big year ahead of him, with "The Beaver" out May 20 and showing at Cannes, "The Smurfs" out July 29, and his remake of "Fright Night," co-starring Colin Farrell, out Aug. 19.


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Best Comic Book Covers Ever (This Month) – April 2012
A great comic book cover is both an advertisement and a work of art. It is both a statement and an invitation. Sometimes a great cover conveys character, sometimes mood, sometimes moment. Great covers can pastiche the classics or pay tribute to the past, or they can strive to show us something new. Great covers always show us a glimpse of somewhere else on a canvas no bigger than a window pane. In Best Comic Book Covers Ever (This Month), we look back at some of the most eye-catching, original and exceptional covers of the month that was.
The big noise on the racks this month was Marvel's Avengers Art Appreciation Month. To mark next week's release of the Avengers movie - and following on from 2009's Wolverine Art Appreciation Month - the Mouse of Ideas invited artists to create Avengers-themed pastiches of fine art and cartooning legends for its variant covers. It's a weird gimmick that led to a lot of covers with even less than usual to do with the contents of the book, but it did create some beautiful pieces. So what are we waiting for? Let's appreciate some art!
Winter Soldier #4 (Marvel); variant cover by John Tyler Christopher, after Erté
Erté is one of the great masters of the art deco aesthetic, and his use of shape and color was exemplary. I see his influence in the work of such diverse talents as Yuko Shimizu, Maurice Vellekoop, Sanjay Patel and Emily Carroll, but I think his grasp of graphic simplicity should be more widely appreciated in comics. John Tyler Christopher has done a lovely job of capturing his elegance here.
(Art nerd fact: Erté's real name was Romain de Tirtoff; he took his pseudonym from the French pronunciation of his intials, 'RT'. Hergé did the same with his initials reversed; 'RG' for Georges Remi.)
Scarlet Spider #4 (Marvel); variant cover by Mike Del Mundo, after Milton Avery
Black Widow is the only Avenger to get a solo cover in Avengers Art Appreciation Month, and she got two of them! Strikingly, neither of them are cheesecake. This cover was Del Mundo's second entry into the event. I feel like the other, for Amazing Spider-Man #683, got more attention, but this is the one I love. It reads like a Madison Avenue take on Milton Avery's abstract paintings.
Fantastic Four #605 (Marvel); variant cover by Michael William Kaluta, after Winsor McCay
Avengers in Slumberland! There have been so many Little Nemo pastiches in the world that any new entries really need to step up. But for Mike Kaluta, that's not a problem.
Uncanny X-Force #24 (Marvel); variant cover by Julian Totino, after Georges Seurat
It takes a bold man to try to reduce Georges Seurat's six-foot-by-ten-foot pointilist masterpiece Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte down to the size of a comic book cover. I suspect Totino didn't actually paint this point-by-point as Seurat did, and the effect is a little muddy (I must have looked at this cover a dozen times before I noticed Black Widow standing next to Thor), but I applaud the attempt!
Secret Avengers #26 (Marvel); variant cover by Joe Quinones, after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I think this is my favorite Art Appreciation cover. It's a witty and subversive pop-art take on Toulouse-Lautrec, and turning a Moulin Rouge cancan dancer into a high-kicking Black Widow is inspired.
Incredible Hulk #7 (Marvel); variant cover by CP Wilson III, after EH Shepard
Winnie the Pooh Hulk is the best Hulk since Where The Wild Things Are Hulk.
Wolverine #304 (Marvel); variant cover by Gurihiru
If this is a pastiche, I'm not sure what it's pastiching; it's possible the guys at Gurihiru Studios didn't get the same memo as the other Art Appreciation guys. But it's still great, isn't it?
That's enough Avengers Art Appreciation. Let's get on with Regular Art Appreciation.
Casanova: Avaritia #3 (Marvel Icon); cover by Gabriel Ba
I'd like to think that every time Matt Fraction sees the latest glorious contribution that Gabriel Bá or Fábio Moon has made in building the look of the Casanova world, he weeps a little with gratitude.
Folly: The Consequences of Indiscretion TP (Fantagraphics); cover by Hans Rickheit
Hans Rickheit has a gift for creepy that could make him America's answer to Junji Ito. But you probably gathered that from the cover. It's a picture of some sort of fluffy rabbit creature; that shouldn't be nightmare-inducing, right? So why am I worried that it might be looking at me?
Daredevil #10.1 (Marvel); cover by Marcos Martin
Noir. Now in glorious Technicolor. There are two elements I love here; the rainbow of senses is a simple visual way to establish Daredevil's world and powers, and the logo with the Braille is much stronger than Daredevil's usual logo.
Archie Meets Kiss HC (Archie Comics); cover by Francesco Francavilla
Consider this a victory lap for one of the best covers of last year. It's testament to how great this cover is that it started out as a variant cover and ended up as the cover for the trade.
Unwritten #36 (DC Vertigo); cover by Yuko Shimizu
Jimmy Corrigan Super-Man, is that you?
Black Panther: King of Wakanda TP (Marvel); cover by Patrick Zircher
Another 2011 cover makes a trade paperback comeback. I think this may be one of the all-time best Black Panther images. Simple, dramatiic, iconic.
Harvey Pekar's Cleveland HC (Top Shelf); cover by Joseph Remnant
This is an elegantly sombre picture postcard; a beautiful but unglamorous tourism ad. This is not an invitation to an exotic destination. This is the doorway to Harvey Pekar's Cleveland. Do not pack sunscreen.
Warlord of Mars #17 (Dynamite); variant cover by Joe Jusko
I feel like the fella should probably be lurching back a little more, given the circumstances - and his lady friend has chosen a terrible spot for a nap - but the colors and the craziness on display here are a great example of Juskovian excess.
Shark King HC (Toon Books); cover by R Kikou Johnson
Shark King passes the fundamental test that guarantees a book a spot on Best Covers Ever; the cover made me check out the book, and the book made me buy it. This cover presents a graphically striking snapshot with a touch of Hawaiian flavor, and I love the title treatment
Valen the Outcast #5 (BOOM! Studios); variant cover by Matteo Scalera
Ah, that dependable design classic; spot red on a black-and-white cover. But that's not all this cover has going for it; it also has a blindfolded woman balancing on a pole in the middle of a stormy sea. At some point I should really find out what Valen the Outcast is about, because this looks awesome.
Peanuts Vol 2 #4 (BOOM! Studios); variant cover by Charles M. Schulz
This is the 'first appearance' variant cover featuring the original Snoopy design, which I have to say I prefer to the more familiar big-nose version. That's right; I liked Snoopy before he sold out and went mainstream.
Batwoman #8 (DC); cover by Amy Reeder
Spot red on black-and-white! Everybody drink! What I love about this cover is that it takes an iconic Batman moment - the hero perched on a rooftop looking out over the city - and gives it a sleek, updated Batwoman look.
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Pickens County Horror #2 (Dark Horse); cover by Becky Cloonan
I don't know where Pickens County is, but I never want to go there. This is a deliciously gruesome piece from Becky Cloonan, and I love the bloody fanged mouth, the bright blue eye, and the way the top of the page reads as landscape until your eye travels down to discover the horror.


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The Clemson Extension Home & Garden Information Center (HGIC) delivers information to the residents of South Carolina via a toll‑free telephone number (1-888-656-9988) through an interactive voice response (IVR) system and a web site.
Nearly 600 recorded messages on landscaping, gardening, plant health, household pests, food safety & preservation, and nutrition, physical activity & health are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Callers use a four-digit code published in the Home & Garden Information Center User's Guide (EC 700) to retrieve the message they wish to hear. If a caller does not have a copy of the User's Guide, he/she can request one via surface mail, or find it on the Center's web site. The guide is also available from county Extension offices. Callers can also proceed through a menu system to access some of the messages without having access to the User's Guide.
There are 23 telephone lines into the IVR system to listen to recorded messages. From 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday (except university holidays), there will be up to five more telephone lines open to Information Specialists who are available to speak with consumers to answer questions not covered by the recorded messages.
The HGIC web site has over 700 fact sheets.
The Home & Garden Information Center is designed to complement Clemson's network of professionals and volunteers by answering the routine types of calls and thereby free agents to deal with commercial agriculture/horticulture questions and conduct proactive programming to larger audiences.


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Ultrasound uses sound waves to produce an image of the fetus inside the womb. It poses no minimal risk to either mother or baby, but it should be performed by a licensed healthcare professional.
Common reasons for having an ultrasound include:
- Determining the age of the fetus
- Determining a cause for bleeding during pregnancy
- Evaluating the anatomy, blood flow, and size of the fetus
- Diagnosing multiple births
- Checking for the fetus' position in the womb
- As guidance for amniocentesis and CVS
A Level II ultrasound is a high resolution ultrasound used to assess the entire fetal anatomy. The outstanding expertise of the medical team at the Prenatal Diagnosis Center, coupled with the latest in ultrasound technology, allows us to offer the patient the highest level of diagnostic accuracy and medical counseling.
Ultrasound is also used to guide amniocentesis and chorionic villi sampling. High-resolution (Level II) ultrasound can detect many but not all fetal abnormalities. At the Cedars-Sinai Prenatal Diagnosis Center, we offer you state-of-the-art equipment and an experienced staff for the best possible care.
In order to expedite the scheduling process, we ask that you complete the Ultrasound and NST Form and return it to us via fax at 310-423-9939. A patient representative will then contact you to schedule your appointment for the procedure. If you prefer, you may also schedule an appointment by contacting our office directly at 310-423-9999.
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Rensselaer has embraced sustainability as a way of life and is dedicated to ensuring the ol' red and white campus is forever green.
Members of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) are harnessing the strength of the sun to improve the situation of an impoverished Haitian school and jumpstart a new dairy industry in rural Peru.
LEDs are semiconductors that convert electricity into light. The holy grail of solid-state lighting is a true white LED and the key to true white LEDs is all about green.
Red White & Green (Rensselaer Magazine, Winter 2011)
A torrent of green thinking is sweeping over Rensselaer, leaving in its wake a new culture that marries the university's spirit of innovation with a strategic vision for a sustainable future.
Sponsored by the President's Office, the inaugural Rensselaer Sustainability Charrette comprised of an interdisciplinary team of Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff generated numerous ideas for projects and initiatives that could potentially be implemented at Rensselaer to improve the way we operate, educate, research and live in regards to sustainability.
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"Sustainability at Rensselaer" Report
The Student Sustainability Task Force (SSTF) released their first "Sustainability at Rensselaer" report last year.
Researched, compiled and written by members of the SSTF, the report includes input from many members of the Rensselaer community, including vice presidents, deans, directors, faculty and staff.
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New Degree Program in Sustainability Studies
Feb. 2012Rensselaer is launching a new undergraduate major in sustainability studies through the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The new major, which results in a B.S. in Science and Technology Studies (STS)-Sustainability Studies, is an option that crosses disciplinary boundaries by design at the nation's oldest technological university.
The B.S. in STS-Sustainability Studies weaves together techniques and insights from the humanities and social sciences with knowledge from the natural sciences and engineering to address environmental problems.
From the humanities and social sciences, students learn the history of environmental thought and law, and study current environmental controversies, sustainable pathways, and design.
They also complete a "technical option"a suite of four courses, in disciplines such as biology, geology, or physics, to develop technical expertise.
Students can also minor in STS-Sustainability Studies. Learn More
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The visitors from Prague did very well last week during Wednesday's amazing rain storms. Doug even managed a trout on a dry fly while Tomas looked on in amazement!
Doug also had a good catch in Cape Cod in June
The Club is a private one, founded in 1877, of approximately sixty-four members and six Town Rod subscribers. The Club's waters consist of about 12 miles of wild brown trout & grayling fishing in the main River Frome, River Cerne and River Piddle, together with attendant carriers and side streams. The waters extend both above and below the town of Dorchester and the Club employs a part-time keeper.
If you see any fishing, netting or trapping you think is illegal, please don't tackle it yourself.
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Angling's representative body, the Angling Trust, has a web site for anglers to record sightings of cormorants, goosanders and mergansers throughout the UK: www.cormorantwatch.com The site is easy to use and will gather vital data to help persuade government of the need for action to protect fisheries.


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After 10 years, strike finally ends...
Striking hotel workers who became a familiar sight on Chicago's famed Michigan Avenue as they picketed -- for 10 years -- are ending one of the longest strikes in American history.
Their union has offered "unconditionally" to halt the strike, which began at the Congress Plaza Hotel in June 2003 over disputes involving wage cuts and other issues.
A hotel attorney says that means if the workers do return to work, they would do so under terms of the contract that expired a year before the strike began, including wages that the union argues are now half the city's standard.
The strike ranks among the longest in the U.S., lasting about four years less than a strike in California at the Diamond Walnut Growers plant in Stockton that's believed by experts to be the longest in American history.
But a Cornell University labor relations professor says the Chicago strike may rank as the country's longest among hotel workers.


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Determine the Length of Your Workouts
Evaluate Your Progress
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"Doing more exercise with less intensity,"
Arthur Jones believes, "has all but
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of weight training. Something
must be done . . . and quickly."
The New Bodybuilding for
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The Secret by Ellington Darden, Ph.D.
"Training secrets? There are NONE!" Arthur Jones often said.
"Just understand some simple rules concerning intensity, progression, and frequency — then, combine that with a few good exercises. That's all you need."
Jones with his rules, exercises, and commanding personality produced outstanding results for almost every man he supervised.
Arthur Jones, shown here from page 55 of The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results, certainly understood the HIT guidelines. But did he recognize fully the secret revealed in this article? I don't think so.
For more than 30 years, I've preached and practiced successfully what Jones said. Learn the basics — and workout hard, in good form.
Recently, I've began to wonder if amongst the basics there was something hidden that actually contributed as much or more to Jones's and my training successes.
Jones's death on August 28, 2007, caused me to reflect like never before on those early days at Nautilus. Prominent in my mind were Casey Viator's all-out training, Arnold Schwarzenegger bagging it, Sergio Oliva sweating what seemed like gallons, The Colorado Experiment, The West Point Study, Mike and Ray Mentzer going through their workouts, Eddie Mueller getting pumped, hundreds of seminar demonstrations, and thousands of one-to-one exercise sessions.
What I'm about to share with you kept popping up after each prominent memory. The pops were small at first, but as I progressed, they became larger.
The Emergence of a Profound Element
After several days, those pops revealed a profound element in high-intensity training that I had failed to appreciate. That element had been there all along, in plain sight, rearing its head during almost every training session.
I hesitate to call it a secret, because it's sitting right in front for everyone to see — staring you in the face every time you train.
If anything the HIT crowd has tended to believe the opposite of this concept. I know, I have . . . all the while prodding, "Relax your face, breathe, keep the resistance moving, one more rep, fight the negative."
Applying the above guidelines, I was trying to teach self-reliance, the ability to understand all the fine points — so a person could eventually train himself.
But I was wrong . . .
Very few people retained the details. Most did NOT. Worse, many people didn't have the ability to understand. But the vast majority could, if they were in the ballpark, get good results — but nowhere near great results.
Note: Good is not the same as great. Most people want GREAT RESULTS.
The Unrealized Key
The unrealized key to great results, a secret, if you will, is simply: You can't train yourself.
But don't let that simplicity fool you. It goes way beyond just training harder. It has to do with FOUR elements:
Literally, no one can . . .
a) Make the right training choices for his own body. b) Understand accurately and clearly what's going on during his workout. c) Push himself through HIT-style workouts. d) Be consistent, day in and day out, with what's required for maximal and optimal results.
a) Make the right training choices for his own body.
b) Understand accurately and clearly what's going on during his workout.
c) Push himself through HIT-style workouts.
d) Be consistent, day in and day out, with what's required for maximal and optimal results.
It just can't be done. Not by Casey Viator, not by Mike Mentzer, not by Arthur Jones, and not by me.
Let me repeat myself. It is NOT simply about busting your butt during each training session. It's much more than that.
You see, no one really views himself like other people do. In other words, you have a distorted self-image. We all do.
And you have a distorted view about what you need in the way of training. In fact, some, maybe even most, need the exact opposite of what they're feverishly striving for.
From professional bodybuilders to teenage trainees to the serious in-betweens, all of those who traveled to Florida for Nautilus seminars in the 1980s, not a single one saw himself with the same accuracy as the rest of the world.
How can I make such a statement? Because I was there . . . and I talked with each one.
For outstanding ongoing results from your training, you must have an experienced, objective, non-distorted view of what's happening to your own body — both in and out of the gym. Then, you must be able to balance your physique, and your life, to the reality of day-to-day living.
Perhaps a few, a very few, have been able to see, evaluate, and balance their bodies in a healthy manner. But if so, they don't attend fitness seminars nor frequent bodybuilding Web sites.
Are You Satisfied?
Take off your shirt and stand in front of a large mirror. Study closely your neck, upper chest, side deltoids . . . your biceps, triceps, and forearms . . . and, of course, your midsection and abdominals.
Be honest with your assessments.
Are you satisfied with what you see? Are you pleased with your muscular size?
Do you train yourself?
I used to observe Arthur Jones and marvel at his ability to plan individualized routines for people. He'd then put them through the best workout they'd ever had. And, afterward, over a meal, he'd explain what had happened and why.
Those enthused guys would return home to train themselves. After four weeks, we'd get a call, with something along the lines of: "My progress has stopped, PLEASE HELP?"
Help and More Help
And we'd help, with a slightly different routine, a new technique, or encouragement to revisit the Nautilus headquarters. It worked; growth would resume — for a short while. Then, the cycle would be repeated, again and again. And it went on this way for years, throughout the 1970s and the 1980s.
Gradually, as I observed, unlearned, and relearned — I reached a level where I could provide the same guidance as Arthur did. I authored a dozen HIT books, with case studies, to prove it. But neither Arthur nor I understood and appreciated fully that . . . You can't train yourself.
In other words, we were getting results, not from the teaching of the basics, as much as it was from the individual attention we were giving the subject.
Looking back on the Nautilus era, which stretched from 1972-1985, the practice that remains strong — in fact, even stronger today — is the one-to-one, personal-training concept.
Personal Coaching
Arthur Jones and Nautilus almost single-handedly started the personal-training industry in the 1970s. It's somewhat difficult for me to accept that one-to-one training may be more lasting than all the HIT techniques combined.
I should have recognized this more than a dozen years ago when many clients kept repeating my weight-loss programs at the Gainesville Health & Fitness Center. A dieter would lose 20 pounds, regain it, rejoin, and lose it again. One guy did this seven times over a five-year stretch.
In today's TV-marketing world of tasty, high-calorie foods, it's almost impossible to lose significant amounts of fat and keep it off permanently. Any lasting approach has to be grounded — not on self-reliance — but on old-fashioned coaching and someone to answer to. It's common to pay top dollar for this service.
Is supervised dieting any different from supervised training? No, the guidelines are similar and the application is the same: They both require coaching, measurements, hard work, and accountability.
The facts remain that you and I need help. We all need help and the right kind of coaching, based on experience and science.
One of my best training experiences involved Keith Whitley, a bodybuilder from Dallas. Keith responded by packing on 29 pounds of muscle. His complete training program and results are reported in my book, Bigger Muscles in 42 Days.
Private, One-To-One Workshops
Training people has been the core of my passion . . . at Nautilus in the 1970s and 1980s and at the Gainesville Health & Fitness Center in the 1990s. I like to work with people, people of all ages, in small and large groups.
With Jones's passing and my spending hours reflecting on my career, the most fulfilling times of my life have been training people one-to-one.
I especially remember those men who had a burning desire to improve and an unwavering commitment to success. Under my coaching they thrived and exceeded their own high expectations.
That's why I've decided to offer private, three-hour workshops from my new home gym in Orlando. I want to help. I want you to achieve GREAT results, the best-possible results, from HIT.
Stay tuned to this Web site for all the details on how to take advantage my training workshops.
Professor Chaos
Ellington Darden
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I too registered for it...By the way, what is CIs 2012 beta ? is it same as CIS 5.8 beta ?
im wondering the same thing
idk if this is a bug or not but i installed CIS 5.8 on my parents computer then i wanted to start using CESM so installed it and tried to connect there endpoint to the ESM but it says CIS isnt installed on their computer so i click install CIS and it fails. both computer are running win 7 pro 32


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Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, across the Narrows at the entrance to New York harbor, linking the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Designed by O. H. Ammann , the bridge was completed in 1964. It is the longest suspension bridge in the United States, with a main span of 4,260 ft (1,298 m). There are two levels, each holding six traffic lanes.
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The time has finally come: "The Voice's" battle rounds are over!
We've seen multiple aspiring singers go head-to-head, surprising steals and tearful goodbyes--and tonight sealed the deal on who would be representing each coach as the competition moved forward.
So let's get straight to it!
U.S. & World
The first battle of the night was between Christina Aguilera's Adriana Louise and Jordan Pruitt who performed an "aggressive" version of Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold."
Xtina found it difficult to choose between these "pop stars," but when it came down to it, Aguilera went with Adriana, which left her saying goodbye to another fellow Disney star, Pruitt. Unfortunately, the only coach that has a steal left is Christina, so Jordan didn't have a second chance.
Kelly Crapa and Michaela Paige from Blake Shelton's team took on Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You," which allowed the 15-year-old and 16-year-old singers to combine their punk rock and country backgrounds together.
Aside from their powerhouse vocals, the dirty looks and glares at each other proved to be extra entertaining. "I thought a fist fight or a brawl was going to erupt for a second," Xtina said. Shelton's fellow judges were stumped, and so was he, but he went with Michaela.
X Factor's David Correy gets connected to birth mother
Cee Lo Green matched up 16-year-old Avery Wilson with former Lady Gaga backup singer, Chevonne, in a battle he called "youth versus experience." The duo sang "Titanium" by David Guetta featuring Sia, which turned out to be a "spectacular" and "engaging" performance, according to Adam Levine.
When it came to the full package, Green chose to stick with "the child prodigy" Avery. And then there was a steal! Christina used her last steal spot for Chevonne, keeping her in the game.
That concluded the battle rounds, which means the knockout rounds are next!
Do you agree with the choices made on "The Voice"? Sound off in the comments!


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I love churches. I really do. Back before we had Olivia, Brandon and I would take regular trips around Austin and its surrounding cities to visit churches we had never been in before. I love the art, stained glass windows, smell, architecture, everything. Kinda dorky, but it's one of our favorite things to do together.
One time I visited this particular church and decided to stay for daily Mass. There was a small group of people there and one of them was a policeman in complete uniform: gun, walkie talkie, baton and all. This really struck me. I thought how much faith this man must have to still attend daily Mass when, I could only assume, he was on duty or about to go on duty. Mass continued and it was during the Lamb of God that the Eucharistic ministers (EMs) came forward. One of the EMs was this very same policeman. I am sure that my mouth dropped because of how shocked I was.
All sorts of questions were flying through my head. Was I going to feel uneasy receiving Communion from a policeman in full uniform? Should I? Is this man going to write me a ticket for that right turn I took on a red on my way over? What about that safety cone that I stole in college? My car is 3 inches into a no parking zone. Did he notice? What if someone here has a warrant for his/her arrest? What if someone is undocumented? What's going through the heads of everyone else?
I haven't had any run-ins with the law and, yet, walking up to this man with a gun at his hip to receive the Body of Christ, I was uneasy.
It was after this event that I really became aware of things during Mass that might make people feel excluded or on the outside.
One trend that I have found unsettling since the first time I noticed it is the presence of an American flag in the main part of the church near the tabernacle. I have thought about this a lot and have found no theological argument for its placement there. Here in Texas, I have seen this present in the majority of Catholic churches that I enter.
I have no problem with an American flag in a church but I think that it needs to be kept in the parish hall or in the atrium or narthex. To have it in the sanctuary of the church seems opposed to what the church stands for, a place for all people, no exceptions.
As Christians, I do believe that we are called to be patriotic and to perform our civic duty. I see nothing incompatible with a patriotic Catholic who has pride in his/her country. But in the physical space of the Mass, in that sacred place, our country is heaven and our allegiance is to God. There are no divisions of citizenship. I have often wondered if someone who is not American feels somewhat excluded when they are in Mass and see a flag up there by the tabernacle.
I believe that it is important to make sure the symbolism of things that we have in a church are not going to ostracize anyone. Having the American flag right next to Jesus seems like a symbol of division. The message of Jesus was that all were welcome to come to God regardless of sins committed, socioeconomic status, past history, race, ethnicity, etc. Having a flag there changes this message.
In our time here in Austin, my husband and I have had the opportunity to get to know the Paulist community. The vision of Isaac Hecker, the founder of the Paulist Fathers, was that being American could make you a better Catholic and being Catholic could make you a better American. Even with this vision though, the Paulist churches here in Austin that we've been to do not have an American flag in the sanctuary of the church. I bring this up because these churches obviously value being American but I don't think it is an accident that they have chosen to place the American flag in other places outside of the main church.
Just like this policeman in uniform that was a Eucharistic Minister, I think having an American flag near the tabernacle might make some people feel excluded or reluctant to come to Jesus. And as the Church, we want to get rid of any barriers that might prevent people from coming to Jesus. I believe when it comes to the Body of Christ, there should be a separation of flag and faith.


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"The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
Rev. Tripp Hudgins
First Baptist Church, Palo Alto, CA
September 15, 2014
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
Alexander was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
It's a children's story. I know. A no good, very bad day…how do you prepare your kids for that kind of day where nothing seems to go right, where at every turn knobs break and we step in puddles and get gum stuck in our hair?
Maybe, we tell ourselves, that we can move to Australia and everything will be better.
Well, no. Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days happen there, too. They happen everywhere. Everywhere. It's a great book.
So what do we do about them? The classic children's book doesn't answer the question for us. Not really. It's just a little bit of truth telling with fun illustrations. Some days are just terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days.
But as we grow older, we learn that though these days do simply happen, that there are attitudes one can have, there are approaches to these days one can take.
We also learn that those days are rarely so kind. Gum in our hair? Mud on our clothes? Life can be much more challenging. There is greater cruelty in the world and we all know it.
I bring this up for us to consider today as we look to our Psalmist. Psalm 14 is a challenging lyric to hear. Fools. Evildoers. They're everywhere. The whole world has gone to Hell in a hand basket! Don't you see?! Doesn't everyone else see? No. Why? Because NONE are good, not one. Not a single one.
Our Psalmist is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
The country is crumbling. The nation is in an uproar. The poor are ignored. The government is careless. The enemies of the state are gaining power.
It was a bad day. Truly. It was an apocalyptic day, the kind of day movies are made about.
Someone needed to write a song about it, it was such a bad day. Heck, the Psalm was so popular that it appears twice in the Psalter. The re-mix or cover is Psalm 53.
It's not a Psalm about un-belief (a possible contemporary reading), but a Psalm about relentless cruelty in the face of God, about life coming apart at the seams, and one person's wail of helplessness.
Why do these things happen?
Am I the only one who sees all of it flying apart?
What has happened to the world?
Are there any good people left?
I don't know about you, but I've had those days.
I'm not talking about gum-in-your-hair days. I've had my share of those, of course, and I cuss when I do. I hate water in my shoes as much as our boy Alexander does. No, I'm talking about the day that the Psalmist is having, the days where despair sets in and you are convinced more than ever, that nothing good could possibly come from anything.
Death. Destruction. Loss…incredible grief about personal and collective loss.
A little testimony, if you will. I've had dreams dashed and hopes denied. I've wrestled with depression and addiction. In the process I learned that there is nothing at all unusual about wrestling with depression and addiction. One of the key components, however, of addiction is the illusion that somehow you are the only person in the world like you, that you are alone, so very, very special in that loneliness. Then, when you start to recover, to awaken from the nightmare of staring at yourself in the mirror or keeping your head in the sand, you realize that you are just like every other person on the planet.
You are just like everyone else, except that you are really bad at it.
I learned that I was the fool. I've hurt people I love and I've been hurt. But that's another story.
It's a silly title, the title to this children's book, Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, but we know what it points to. "Terrible" becomes terrifying and "horrible" becomes horrifying.
I've been terrified and horrified…sometimes at myself. Sometimes by others.
War. Terrorism. It's endless. Some of you are old enough that I know you sat at the feet of your parents to talk about the "War to End All Wars." And here we are a century later on the brink of another war, of another terrifying, horrifying display of human cruelty.
"There is no one who does good, no, not one."
I am sorely tempted to sing the song of the Psalmist. "There is no one who does good."
I want to bury my head in the sand. I do. I want to pretend that everything is okay. I want to insulate myself. I want to isolate myself. I want to do whatever it takes to keep "those people," whoever they are, as far away from me as possible. I want to run. I want to hide.
I want to deny the truth of the world as it has always been and pretend that I can keep the violence and cruelty at bay, that I can somehow, some way…separate myself.
But then God comes like the shepherd from our story today. God comes and scoops me up out of my pit of despair, of my self-imposed isolation. I am the one sheep. I am the lost coin that the woman is looking for.
God, the shepherd, the woman, sometimes comes as a friend who knows me, as a wife who never ever lets me wallow in self-pity as much as I wish she would.
God comes as an encouraging bit of music, as an act of beauty and reverence, and scoops me up.
We are so often the sheep lost in anger, despair, longing for peace, convinced that there is "no one who does good. No, not one." We have to lament. We need to mourn. We need to grieve. We need to rail in horror and terror.
And then God comes.
God comes. And then we need to surrender it all.
We need to let it go and let God come and scoop us up. We need to surrender and let God carry us.
Sometimes I am the lost sheep. It's the truth of it. Getting ordained certainly hasn't protected me from that truth. And being The Church hasn't protected us from that truth.
It was my first year of seminary. The Twin Towers were destroyed, tumbled to the ground. So many people assumed that everyone would go rushing back to the churches. It was the turn of the millennium and we started counting heads to get a renewed sense of the church in the US. We assumed the crisis would encourage people to return. They would need the church. The exact opposite happened.
Since then my it seems all my conversations have been about church and the place of Christianity in the world. My conversations have been about responding to crisis after crisis. "Save the church," is the constant cry.
Fix it. Fix. It.
It is like the church fell when the Towers did. That is not the reality of it, of course. Not at all.
Yet, I cannot help but wonder…
Are we lost? Have we forgotten the shepherd? Have we forgotten the woman? Are we so concerned by our terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day that we have become like the Psalmist? Have we convinced ourselves that everyone is a fool? There's no one who does good, no, not one.
…how might we claim instead a sense of God's abundance? Not in possessions. No, that notion won't serve. But, in humanity.
How might we recover an abundance of compassion and grace, of a sense of shared humanity and the joy that comes from friendship and generosity?
We turned inward so long ago. How might we turn toward one another and the world today? There is so much to give and to share.
I have been seeing signs of hope. Have you? Have you been seeing signs of hope? Have you been seeing the shepherd? The woman? Hope abounds.
This week the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported a statement from Pope Francis urging open dialogue with people who practice or adhere to no faith tradition:
"Since it is born of love," he wrote, quoting his own encyclical "Lumen Fidei," "faith is not intransigent, but grows in respectful coexistence with others. … Far from making us inflexible, the security of faith sets us on a journey; it enables witness and dialogue with all." (www.facebook.com/godgirl/posts/10151757770320819)
This sounds like someone who has been scooped up by God.
This sounds like someone who has been found.
And then there's this from Andrew Slack, Executive Director of the Harry Potter Alliance (Yes, another children's book):
"Today, on September 11, we send love to children who grew up without parents…We send love to all those who have lost loved ones in the madness that followed the attacks in 2001. We send love also to those in Darfur, in the Congo, and beyond: to those whose suffering has been ignored in part due to this madness. We send hope that those who have been living in fear for over a decade can find safety and healing. We send hope to the children of Syria and hope that all Syrian civilians find peace." (www.facebook.com/thehpalliance/posts/10151657283638111)
This, too, sounds like someone who has been scooped up by God.
This sounds like someone who has been found.
Tattoo-wearing, and cussing Lutheran pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber writes,
"God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word. My selfishness is not the end-all…instead, it's that God makes beautiful things out of even my own [mess]. Grace isn't about God creating humans as flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us peace—like saying, 'Oh, it's OK, I'll be a good guy and forgive you.' It's God saying, 'I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.'" (Pastrix, p. 50)
This sounds like someone who has been scooped up by God.
Like someone who has been found.
These people give me hope.
Brothers and sisters, are we that one lost sheep?
Are we willing to entertain the idea that it may be we who are lost,
lost in our own fear,
our own insecurity,
our belief that there is no one who does good?
Do we need to surrender?
Perhaps we need to start paying attention to the people who've been found because we need finding. We need to let God find and carry us.
And if this is you, I offer you this: Wait for the Lord.
No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
God is like a shepherd.
God is like the woman.


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"Fringe" may have been truer to its title in terms of r appeal, but that didn't stop the show, which stars Joshua Jackson and John Noble, from seeing its storyline through to its series finale, culminating with its 100th episode airing Jan. 18.
Even as its lead characters were exploring some of the most mind-bending plotlines ever found on network television, Fox's cult sci-fi hit was following its own extraordinary journey, remaining on the air for five seasons due largely to a small-ish but passionate and highly targeted fanbase that convinced the network to keep it on the air.
As the series finally weaves many of its long-running storylines together and reveals secrets closely held for five seasons, writer/producer/showrunner J.H. Wyman and Noble – the series' breakout star thanks to his charismatically quirky turn as resident mad scientist Walter Bishop – reflect on creating appropriate closure for "Fringe."
J.H. Wyman: It's a tough order writing a series finale, because you're going to have people that like it and people that don't. That's just the way it is. So at the end of the day, I just had to basically answer the question truthfully. 'What would I want? And how can I tell the truth, and how can I make sure that I can move people?'
John Noble: I think we were all apprehensive to see what would happen in the finale. We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel would finish it off. I can honestly say that it was everything that I had hoped it could possibly be.
Wyman: I just said, 'Well, as a huge fan of television, what would I want? What would I really, really want?' And that is two things: I would want to make sure that everything happened logically. Not tricks, not bring in another universe or another thing, or it's all a dream. No – we have enough emotion here for real, honest, good stories. And number two is I really wanted people to leave and think, 'I have hope. I know where they are. They're just like a universe away, and it was worthwhile, and I feel like nobody pulled the rug out from underneath me.'
Noble: The way that Walter's relationship with Peter plays out in particular in the finale is really quite remarkable. That's something we had to do, because we spent so much time – and I know that the fans love the relationship between Peter and Walter so much and we certainly paid homage to that and brought it home, I believe, really strongly. I would love to have had an episode with each of the characters. I do have some beautiful moments with Jasika [Nicole] and Anna [Torv] as well.
Wyman: This year was a bit different because I actually called each one of them and told them the whole journey beforehand, which I never did. I'm always a very secretive person as far as stories are concerned. I never really communicated where I was going for a whole host of reasons, but they got used to it.
Noble: The last day on set was really quite fun. We were all kind of buoyed up. It was one of those nights that go forever. I think we finished at nine in the morning or something, but we had a lot of fun. I can remember we all got a fit of the giggles halfway through the night, which is probably really inappropriate. All of us were doing a scene together. I don't know. It was just hilarious. I couldn't get my lines out, which is very unusual for me. I just kept getting it wrong and we were all laughing a lot.
The series finale of "Fringe" will air Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.


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Williamsburg, July 9, 1772.
Just arrived from Africa, the Snow Nancy, James E. Colly Commander, with about two Hundred and fifty fine healthy WINDWARD and GOLD COAST SLAVES, the Sale of which will begin at Osborne's on James River, on Wednesday the 29th Instant (July) and continue until all are sold. Merchants Note, payable at the General Courts in Williamsburg, will be received in Payment. John Lawrence, William Call, & Co.
Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon) July 09, 1772
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James Eckley Colley left Liverpool in September 1771 and traveled first to Iles de Loss (islands off the present day Guinea) and on south along the coast of today's Sierra Leone. It is thought that about 280 slaves were taken on board in Africa.
Sources: TransAtlantic Slave Trade DB


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4 slices bread
1/2 C milk
1/4 C dry bread crumbs
4-6 cloves garlic, minced
4 eggs, beaten
1 lb beef
1/2 lb pork
1/2 lb veal
1/2 C parm
1/4 C Parsley, chopped
15-20 turns pepper
1 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
Olive oil for pan frying meatballs
1/2 c olive oil
10-12 cloves garlic
1/2 - 1 tsp Red pepper flakes
4 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
1/2 C Parm
Basil & Parsley, 1/4 C each, chopped
Pinch sugar
Salt and pepper to taste (you'll need about 2 tsp salt)
In a sauté pan over medium high heat sauté garlic and red pepper flakes in olive oil until translucent, but make sure not to burn garlic. Add tomatoes and paste. Stir. Bring to a bubble. Add salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar, parmesan, basil, and parsley. Turn down heat to let simmer. Stir periodically. (I like to make mine at least the morning of... if not the day before. If day before, make sure to refrigerate overnight with a lid or covered with foil.)
In a large mixing bowl soak bread in milk until soft. Squeeze out any excess milk and crumble bread finely in bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix together without overworking. Roll meatballs into even golfball size balls. Brown them on all sides over medium high heat in a large sauté pan with about a 1/2 in of olive oil. Then I drop them in the hot sauce to finish cooking. Alternately you can bake them on a sheet tray in a preheated 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes.
Serve these alone topped with extra parm and fresh herbs, over pasta, sliced on a pizza, or on a roll with sauce and fresh mozzarella. So many choices!
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4 slices bread


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3. Put fruit cocktail into moulds and pour the Konnyaku solution into the moulds.
4. Put moulded jelly solution in the fridge for at least one hour. Serve chilled.
Very attractive...m sure kids will love them!!
hey, that day I just did but my moulds are not cute as yours! hahaha.. ok, i will try on egg shells too.. but then where to get so many, i must eat egg from tomorrow onwards! hahaha..
so cute :)
Love rainbow jelly! It's so fun!
WOW! this is so cute and pretty :)
How pretty and what a clever idea :)!!!
These are so pretty and such a creative idea!
Looks like round marbles! I like the unique shape.
look so colourful and cute.
so colourful - very attractive!
Love jelly! Not only kids will love these, adults would go for these too! I definitely would!
They looks cute and pretty..
this is gorgeous..my kids would love this..
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Looks like I should make a wish in front of these 'crystal ball', loverly :).
What is beautiful jelly...
wowwwww! I LOVE the idea of doing jelly in egg shells, such a simple concept but the outcome is so pretty and unique! Beautiful :)
SOo cute. I love how they are in little balls!! easy to hold. LOL
OMG! This looks SOOOO GORGEOUS!!
Haha at first I thought they are ice cubes!
Looks very pretty. Not only kids but I will eat lots, too :D
So beautiful! Great idea to use the egg shells, just peel off to eat huh!
lovely jelly!!! wonderful clicks!!!
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Like GULI! So pretty~~~~
Thanks for sharing.
so colorful.... can try it out in future if there is any pot luck or gathering. :)