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1 Yli Corpein Huocawat 8:00
2 Läpi Soiden Waeltawat 8:35
3 Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus 8:23
4 Mustan Mullan Alle Maatumahan 8:35
5 Pimeys On Ninquin Walkeus / Puuxi Tullut 10:22
Aural Hypnox / Stellar Mansion's Series (CD 43:56) ***½
(Experimental electro-acoustic music)
Do you like the strange? You will doubtless going to like "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus" from Halo Manash, or still Anti Ittna Haapapuro, a Finnish artist who specializes in the universe of the spiritual percussions and the electro acoustic sound effects. "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus" is an occult album which has passed under the radar during the French tour of Halo Manash in January 2009. The fact that it had been distributed in only 29 copies, all signed, helps to make of it an obscure object of desire among the fans of the psybient electro acoustic genre and a very silent work at the marketing level. The label Aural Hypnox has decided to reedit "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus" under the banner of its Stellar Mansion' Series division in only 444 copies and 44 others offered in a wooden casket. A completely justifiable initiative because this album of Halo Manash inhales these splendid ambiospherical elements where the Earth, its celestial bodies and its secrets align themselves for a strange and inexplicable pleasure of the sense.
A long lamentation of a gong opens the sonic forest of "Yli Corpein Huocawat". Straight out, the Finnish sound sculptor immerses us of his sound painting with scattered beatings, gongs with resonant voices, shimmering winds and odd cracklings which are covered by long sighs of mammoth having a cold. The noises and the resonances forge a surrealist ambience where a prehistoric fauna seems dominated by a Tibetan religion. And so takes place the 5 verses of "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus". "Läpi Soiden Waeltawat" is more musical, even lyrical, with a fascinating voice which caresses the hummings of gongs. The ambience reminds me the theatrical music of Jean Pierre Thanès. The lamentations of the Bone Flute are simply striking. Their breezes, at both times guttural and celestial, are a key element in this album inspired of the boreal and ancestral forests. The rhythms are slow. They are rather movements of ambiences which move forward by the strength of the gongs and the percussions scattered in an audio work which allies mystery and drama, as in "Mustan Mullan Alle Maatumahan" which, following the very quiet and idle "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus", gives the impression of preparing tribes for a war. "Pimeys On Ninquin Walkeus / Puuxi Tullut" ends "Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus" by a strong ambiospherical presence where gongs, as the winds, are covering the quietude of a growing threat. Doubtless the most powerful track of an album which will rekindle more the nightmares, by its occult strength, than paradisiacal dreams. This is for fans of electro acoustic ambiences where the winds catapult the hostile silences as the invisible roaring.
Sylvain Lupari (January 28th, 2014)
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The truth of the matter is there are recession proof business ideas on how to make money online for beginners using the latest business information resources on the internet. But… There's always a BUT and here it is!!! But how does someone with no internet experience and no computer skills learn online business startup techniques and where can they find the help to acquire them? Are there really SECRET FREE ways to make money online? If there are where in the world does a beginner start to find them?
The answer is "Yes" there are "Secrets to Make Money Online Free", well they would be secrets to one just starting in Internet Marketing. There are certain realities one needs to be aware of before embarking on an Internet Business Startup.
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The first and most important would be your determination to succeed. Without the burning desire to be independent and financially free your efforts will be useless. There are so many pitfalls and discouraging set backs in building an online business it is hard to stay on track. So you will need that burning desire to keep you motivated to accomplish your goals.
Thomas Edison, "Genius is one per cent Inspiration, ninety-nine per cent Perspiration." You can achieve just about anything if you have the Determination, Persistence and Desire with a little Knowledge.
Edison also stated "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." So if you're willing to do the work you'll most likely do well.
Secondly and just as important as the first to learn how to make money online for beginners you must have a plan or (blueprint to success if you will). This should be a proven strategy that has worked numerous times and is easy to follow as well as repeatable.
There are literally millions of sites and people on the Internet telling you they have the secrets and will show you for a price. Hey that's the way it all works. The only problem is 97% of these are lying and don't have a clue.
The other 3% are honest and will have your answer for a price, which again this is how Internet Marketing works. If you want reliable information you must pay for it. That is the big problem though what is reliable.
For example I spent thousands of dollars before I found that reliable information and to be honest… I stumble on it by accident. That's right by accident! I was tired of paying for the same old crap that told me absolutely nothing.
Then I came across a frustrated lady with a goofy name that said she shows how to make money online for beginners. She had made over $100,000 last year so I went to her site and she gave me the first 18 pages of her book for free. The rest of the story is history.
My point is "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" Thomas Edison. If I had stopped I would never have found it. Here again Determination and Persistence always pays off to those that have that burning desire to succeed.
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'Goodbye Everybody': Social Media Censors Battle the Bo Xilai Deluge
Chinese social media sites exploded late Tuesday evening after state media announced that ousted former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai had been stripped of his party positions and that his wife was a suspect in the death of a British businessman.
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"Amassing illegal funds, killing people, what else did they do?" Deng Fei, a journalist with the magazine Phoenix Weekly wrote on popular Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo in one of the earliest reactions to the news.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency and the country's state broadcaster reported the events simultaneously at 11 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Sina Weibo published the Xinhua item on its official newsfeed in a post that was reposted nearly 50,000 times in its first 15 minutes.
The biggest political crisis to face Beijing since a military crackdown on prodemocracy student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the downfall of Mr. Bo is also the first such crisis to unfold in the era of social media.
In the days following the March 14 announcement that Mr. Bo had been stripped of his position in Chongqing, unsubstantiated rumors of a split in the country's central leadership leading to preparations for a coup began to swirl online, leading the government to order the country's two largest microblog operators, Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., to temporarily shut down comments. Beijing has since pressured Internet companies to do more to control the online conversation, publishing multiple editorials in the state media warning about the dangers of rumors.
Earlier Tuesday, representatives of Sina, Tencent and Chinese search giant Baidu vowed to "resolutely support and work with relevant government departments" in fighting the spread of rumors, according to a Xinhua report.
The online community had originally expected an announcement on Mr. Bo to be made on CCTV's 7 p.m. broadcast, but the primetime program came and went without the news, giving ammunition to those deploring online rumor-mongering.
"Just as I thought: 7p.m. and all is harmonious," lamented one Weibo user.
But the rumor mill was soon grinding away again as various Communist Party members began reporting on microblogging sites that they had been summoned to attend urgent meetings at 9 p.m., with some even posting photos of the meetings.
"The CCTV report proves one thing," one Weibo user writing under the name Li Hongwen quipped after the 11 p.m. broadcast reported the news about Mr. Bo and his wife. "Rumor means truth."
While Mr. Bo's suspension from the Politburo Central Committee may have had the larger political implications, much of the early reaction came in response to the revelation that his wife was suspected in the death of Neil Heywood, the British businessman found dead in a Chongqing hotel in November.
"Why does it seem like, throughout Chinese history, behind every colorful man there's a powerful woman?" asked real-estate executive Mi Ruihong.
TV mega-personality Hung Huang tackled the news from a different angle, writing: "In this country, whenever men do something bad, it's all the woman's fault."
Writer Beicun, meanwhile, took exception to all the excitement: "What does tonight change? Nothing, nothing at all," he wrote. "Five-thousand years ago through to today, nothing has changed. Power games played over and over again for thousands of years…this culture's inhumanity is as eternal as death."
Censors appeared to be working overtime to control the flood of commentary, with Sina Weibo continuing to block searches for Mr. Bo's and Ms. Gu's names and engaging in wholesale erasure of comments even on its own official posts.
"Tonight, Sina's little secretaries are probably so busy they're spitting blood," one Weibo user wrote, using common Internet slang for the company's in-house censors. "Who allowed rabble like us to possess nuclear-level weapons like a mouse and a keyboard?"
Even relatively innocuous posts appeared to fall foul of the watchdogs. Among them, a post published on a Sina Weibo feed belonging to the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper that featured a photo of Mr. Bo bowing his head at a government meeting with the caption: "Goodbye everybody."
Note: An earlier version of this item incorrectly said state media disclosed the news at 10 p.m.
-- Josh Chin. Follow him on Twitter @joshchin.
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Planet Computers announces Gemini PDA to run Sailfish OS, Sailfish for Gemini Community Edition available to download now
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"CommunicAsia, 26th June 2018: Planet Computers today announces the Gemini PDA will feature Sailfish OS mobile operating system, developed by Finnish mobile company Jolla.
The long-standing partnership between the two companies means Sailfish 3 – the third generation of the open-source mobile operating system, based on the Linux kernel – is to be made available on the Gemini PDA.
The Gemini PDA is a quad-boot mobile device, capable of booting into Android OS as well as a number of Linux distributions – including Sailfish OS.
Sailfish X, the downloadable and official version of the OS, will be available in late 2018 and will feature a suite of advanced functions including: over-the-air (OTA) updates; Jolla Store access; end-user support; and crucially for Gemini users, full support for landscape user-interface (UI), encrypted user data and communications, Android app support and a refreshed user interface, with improvements like redesigned email.
In the meantime, Sailfish for Gemini Community Edition – a community supported version based on Sailfish OS 2.0 – is free and available to download now: http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/SailfishOS
Gemini PDA is being showcased at CommunicAsia 2018 – Marina Bay Sands, Level 5, Stand 5L4-10."
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As handy as it is when you can access the same primary source material in different forms, it also forces you to make choices about the form you're going to use. For example, when I undertook this King's Mountain project I knew that sooner or later I'd need to dig into the Cornwallis material at the UK's National Archives in Kew. I'm in no position for a trans-Atlantic commute, so consulting the original documents is pretty much out of the question. Thankfully, this material is available on microfilm, so I assumed I'd be scrolling through them while seated in front of a machine. (Some of Cornwallis's papers appeared in a three-volume biographical work published in the nineteenth century, but these volumes don't have everything I need.)
But just recently I found out about a comprehensive six-volume collection of Cornwallis's papers relating to the Southern Campaign, edited by Ian Saberton and published by Naval & Military Press in 2010. A nearby library has all six volumes, so it would be a lot easier for me to use the books than it would be to track down a repository with the microfilm and print what I need. This would also allow me to maximize my research time and budget on the collections I can only access in manuscript or microform.
At this point, I've just about talked myself into using these books instead of the microfilm so that I can spare myself some hassle and devote more time and attention to other collections that are only available in manuscript or microform. An annotated documentary edition also gives you the benefit of reading the editors' insights into the documents, which can be extremely helpful. I've found just a couple of reviews of the Cornwallis volumes. One review was pretty positive; the other criticized the editorial apparatus but said little about the transcriptions themselves. Since the transcriptions are what I really need, I'm not too worried about whether the annotations or introductions are extensive.
Still, it's a trade-off. As with any published documentary edition, the question basically comes down to whether the convenience of a printed and easily available published version of a manuscript source is worth being another step removed from the original documents. Microfilm isn't the original, of course, but at least you're looking at images of the documents themselves. And I'll be relying on the Cornwallis papers pretty heavily, since I'm trying to incorporate more of the British perspective than other King's Mountain studies have included.
These are the type of questions I've been mulling over lately. Now I want to hear from you guys. What do you folks think about using published editions of primary source material when the same material is available in microform? As readers, does it have any effect on how you evaluate a scholarly work? And for those of you who write history, do you prefer to use a printed documentary edition when one is available, instead of manuscripts or microform?


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So the annual OMG MY KIDS NEED EVERYTHING FROM SOCKS TO BACKPACKS shopathon is well under way here at our house. We started last month, picking bits and pieces up at yard sales. If you find even ONE good yard sale that has nice clothes for the size your kid is going into, take my advice. BUY IT ALL. I'm kicking myself in the arse for not taking advantage of the one and only good sale I found last month.
It was a yard sale being held by a woman who has a kiddo in Mad's year at school. Her daughter is one size up from Mad and they have great taste in clothes. But I was in a hurry, had to pee and only grabbed a few things thinking, "It's only early July..there will be plenty of other sales." Ha. For every one yard sale I see with girls 10/12's and 14/16's…there's approximately 300 with NOTHING. Old bodice-rippers that smell like mold? Check. Crusty Tupperware from the 70's? Check. Girl's clothes in the right size that don't show too much skin/don't smell like dog or smoke/aren't stained, ripped or torn? NONE.
In a fit of panic this week, I girded my loins and loaded the two girls into the car and headed to the….mall. *gulp* Just thinking back on it makes me break out in hives. I am NOT a mall shopper, Cheeky Monkeys. I hated the mall as a kid when my mother would cart us up from Castine to get back to school clothes at Porteous. Malls to me were dark, crowded, and full of scratchy, stiff clothes that I hated anyway. My views haven't changed much. But off we went, stiff upper lip, shop for England, etc.
And do you know what? I was right, as usual. It was as crazy as I thought it would be. Backpacks, even cheaply made, boring ones were $30 and up. In one store they started at $40 and went up. Another had a plain purple one for $58. Think about that. For NYLON. I quickly abandoned the search for backpacks realizing we'd never get one for less than the price of a kidney. We did find a few pieces of clothing for each kid on clearance racks, but not much. Sears had some cute graphic tees for the little one for less than $5 each and Deb had some super cute tops and leggings for Hallee for about the same. I called it quits after an hour and came home to formulate a new plan of attack.
I had $10 worth of Target gift cards in my wallet. We went online and within a few minutes both girls fell in love with the exact same back pack that was on sale for $22.49. Sigh. $34.98 plus tax later, they should be delivered (free shipping with my Target Red Card) today. LL Bean did have some cute ones on sale, but they were smaller than what we needed and the larger size was a big price difference. I hope I don't end up regretting not just sucking it up and spending the money at Bean's.
There is a HUGE outdoor yard sale this weekend on Union Street at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and I'm hanging my hopes on cleaning up there like we did last summer! I'd like to find fall/winter coats if I can. The sale benefits Sarah's House. We KILLED it there last summer, it's the best sale of the season as far as I'm concerned. Win-win situation! A great non-profit gets cash, we get everything from clothes to furniture for awesome prices and SO MUCH STUFF. If I can't find a goodly chunk of school clothes there than I'm in the wrong business. (That business being shopping).
So look for me if you are there on Saturday!


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I've written about many of the cool tricks, tips, and things to do with Google in the past, and I have another to add to the list.
Butterfat combines Google Maps with live web cams in a neat way. Arrive at the main page and you are greeted with a map of the world with popup marks wherever there is a live cam on record with them. Click it and a small video screen pops up with a view through the web cam. The screen even features a neat background shadow.
Not all web cams are active 24 hours a day, and in the night, most of those are dark and too hard to see, but the rest are active and fun to watch whether they update every few seconds or minutes.
For the traveler, this is a fun way to check the weather and how things look, even if the view is out someone's apartment window. Still, it's fun to see what the world looks like outside of someone else's window.
There are tons more web cams that can be found through Earthcam that aren't on the map. I look forward to more locations being added over time.
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24 Hour Fitness, San Ramon, CA, announced that it has sold all 18 of its California Fitness clubs in Asia to The Ansa Group. Financial terms of the sale, which closed on Monday, were not disclosed.
The announcement comes a few days after 24 Hour acknowledged that its parent company, New York-based private-equity firm Forstmann Little, is in the process of putting the company up for sale. Sources tell Club Industry that 24 Hour has been trying to sell the California Fitness clubs for a long time. The deal adds more value to 24 Hour prior to its sale, since a prospective buyer no longer has to be concerned with operating clubs in Asia, sources say.
The California Fitness clubs, which were acquired by 24 Hour in 1999, are located in Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
"The sale of our Asia-based California Fitness clubs will enable 24 Hour Fitness to remain laser focused on our team members, members and clubs throughout the U.S.," Carl Liebert, president and CEO of 24 Hour, said in a statement. "While our California Fitness operations no longer align with our greater business objectives, we're proud of our contributions to the exercise and fitness industry in Asia."
24 Hour says it now has 415 clubs in operation.
The Ansa Group owns international consumer, health and property businesses with operations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. Ansa manages retail operations in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia, FMCG brands and a portfolio of more than 400 consumer, health and food products which are distributed in international markets.


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IUCN - Alien invasive species
Posted: 15 February 2002
A useful site for information about alien invasive species.
URL: iucn.org/biodiversityday/index.html
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- Voices from Planet 21
- Most endangered primates on brink of extinction
- Species decline is threatening people and the planet
- SPECIAL REPORT: Bringing nature back to Holland
- Bees at risk from chemicals increase
- Over 100 endangered species on course for recovery in the United States
- We are using 50 per cent more natural resources than planet can sustain
- European zoos are failing animals and conservation says EU report
- Will crocodiles soon be gone?
- New Russian park will protect world's rarest cat
- Suriname survey reveals 46 new species
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Hotel employees help with Pittsburgh Marathon security
The Greater Pittsburgh Hotel Association has held a security briefings for the Pittsburgh Marathon every year for the past decade. But, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, the crowd was larger and more attentive.
Bob Winters is Protective Security Advisor for the Department of Homeland Security. He showed a number of videos that showed the employees how they can be more aware of suspicious behavior.
The protocol is called "See Something - Say Something - Do Something." It encourages employees to question behaviors, such as customers who refuse to pay in anything but cash.
And the manager of the Doubletree Hotel, Michael O'Donahue, says he has already noticed an intensified vigilance with his employees since the Boston bombings.
"Believe it or not, we have had a number of backpacks and luggage left around in the lobby by guests going to get a cup of coffee. Employees are pointing these things out more than ever before," O'Donahue said.
An executive vice-president of the Greater Pittsburgh Hotel Association, Richard Strunk, said security experts regard hotels as "soft targets."
"We are the hospitality world. We meet you. We greet you. We want you to have a good experience. We can't set up metal detectors like the TSA would do at the airport," Strunk said.


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Dirty pictures, dirty texts, top secret work info, contact information for who knows who—our phones are like little vaults containing all our most super top secret important info. And yet...
A good friend of mine recently woke up to find he'd left his phone (a Blackberry, sucker!) at some girl's apartment, in a state of drunken oblivion the night before. Obviously the phone is just brimming with all manner of juicy and inappropriate text messages. And she's been reading them, no doubt. Which serves him right... right?
His is a textbook case for keeping your smartphone password protected. The thing is, I can totally understand why it wasn't. Mine isn't either. Sure, I've tried it before. But usually the password only lasts a day; entering in that little 4-digit code every time I want to check my email or texts or Twitter or whatever—it is just too annoying. Exasperating. Luckily, I'm more careful with who gets their grubby mits on my iPhone.
Do you password protect yours?
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This was a big mistake.
For the first time in history, the two party-nominated candidates for president of the United States were about to debate with television cameras trained on them. And Nixon was beginning to regret agreeing to this.
In the studios of a CBS affiliate in Chicago on Sept. 26, 1960, he felt like death warmed over. The month earlier, he'd slammed his knee into a car door, an injury that became a staph infection. He'd just spent two weeks in the hospital, and now, with the cameras about to roll, he was sweating, 10 pounds underweight and feeling terribly. Some guy had painted the backdrop almost the precise shade of gray as Nixon's suit, and he was fading into it. As if things couldn't possibly get worse, his opponent, Sen. John F. Kennedy, had spent the past month taking it easy on the campaign trail in sunny California. He looked tan, rested and as fit as Nixon had ever seen the kid.
That first debate was a groundbreaking event. Sixty-six million people watched it on television alone [source: CNN]. Historians would capitalize the "d" in debate and place the word "Great" in front of it. And Nixon looked seriously ill throughout.
Whether television had an impact on the 1960 presidential election was clear. A majority of people who listened to the debate on the radio considered Nixon the winner. A poll of TV viewers of that same debate found a clear majority believed Kennedy had won [source: C-SPAN]. Later polls found more than half of voters said the televised series of four debates had shaped how they cast their ballots; six percent said they voted specifically according to their impression of the debates [source: MBC]. Kennedy won the November election.
No longer was politics only about the issues and whatever a campaign could plant in the papers; they were also about aesthetics now. No longer were debates for the benefit of the few people in a room. They were now about the tens of millions who tuned in not only to listen to the candidates but watch them as well.
Lesson learned. So instead of allowing their candidate to be abused by the new medium, campaign managers and party leaders sought ways to exploit it. Presidential debates would never be the same again. By the time the 21st century rolled around, they bore about the same resemblance to that first televised debate in 1960 as the game show in the movie "The Running Man" bears to "You Bet Your Life."


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John Fuller earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Georgia, where he also minored in film studies. After a brief stint in film and television production, John began his career at HowStuffWorks as a staff writer, writing about spacewalks, cave dives and everything in between. He eventually switched to a position as editor, which is where you'll find him now. John also co-hosted the music podcast 'Stuff From the B-Side' with publisher Mark Larson from 2008 to 2009, and he currently contributes to "Stuff From the Future.'
John stands at his desk while he works, which still gets him the occasional funny look from his coworkers. When he's not editing articles or eating too much free candy from the office, he enjoys reading fiction, searching high and low for cheap (but quality) used vinyl, playing basketball and watching baseball.


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HOTSEAT- SOL: Pam Moran and the incredibly shrinking budget
Growing up in the low country of South Carolina, Pam Moran remembers sitting around the table on her grandfather's back porch, and the lessons she learned there.
Those lessons came with her, and the table did, too. It's now sitting in her office in the Albemarle County Office Building, where she's superintendent of schools and in charge of steering the county's schools amid the rocky shoals of a multi-million budget deficit, complaints over snow cancellations, and a proposal to create longer classes.
A Santa-suited Grinch stands on a nearby console, perhaps a fitting symbol of the job ahead– although Moran sees it as more of a team builder than an evil omen. Every winter, the school superintendent is literally in the hot seat at budget time, and this year is the worst so far. Yet Moran seems cool as she contemplates the changes proposed to keep the Albemarle school system afloat.
And when she presciently says, "I'm anticipating more winter storms," she's not talking about the weather. "We suspect the other shoe is going to drop from Governor McDonnell."
Sure enough, a week after she talks to the Hook (when the deficit is estimated at $6 million), McDonnell announces he's undoing a freeze to the state's all-important funding formula, the Composite Index, a move that could send Albemarle's total deficit spiraling to nearly $15 million.
Moran didn't start out dreaming of heading a school system, or even being a teacher. Her first love was... snakes. At Furman College, where she studied biology, "I thought I'd be chasing snakes through the Everglades," she recalls. "I thought I was going to be a herpetologist."
Her native low country teems with herpetoids. "Most people have a fear of snakes," she notes. "I wanted to get to know why. I decided to take that on and became fascinated with reptiles and amphibians."
She has a wooden staff in her office with a coral snake curled around it that she often takes with her when she visits classrooms. "Red on yellow, it'll kill a fellow," she recites the rhyme that distinguishes the venomous coral snake from the harmless scarlet kingsnake.
A romantic love brought her north to Virginia, where she started teaching in Orange's schools. She later picked up her master's and doctorate at UVA, took a job in Albemarle, and served as principal at Stony Point Elementary for 10 years.
She now commands the central office, but she's frequently out in the county's 26 schools. "It reminds me—I'm the superintendent, but my roots are in the classroom."
And she values all the jobs in the school system that contribute to a child's education, not just teachers. "At one time, I had a bus driver's license," says Moran. "There's no job in the school division that I can't see myself doing."
That's one of the reasons Moran just earned a national "Tech Savvy" award. "I really push myself to keep current in technology," she says, because it's something she's asking everyone else who works for her to do.
That's what makes the cuts she's going to have to make all the harder, and on sleepless nights, it's the faces of people that keep her awake. "For me, education is a people business," she says. "When I look at budget cuts, I don't see dollars. I see children's faces."
Dire financial circumstances mean losing teachers and bus drivers, and increasing class size, the latter a sacred cow in the county.
Her proposal to eliminate freshman sports at Western Albemarle and Monticello highs, and to charge a $75 athletic fee has caused another uproar. Less publicized is another discussion by the School Board to make sure that it's not just athletes who will feel the pinch. Almost any extracurricular activity—band, Destination Imagination, drama— could carry a fee. "We're not going to deny kids who have an economic challenge from participating," pledges Moran. "We don't do that now."
Meanwhile, there's budget time to get through. "What is difficult for all of us is the school division a year from now will be very different," admits Moran.
Even with that grim future, Moran is not morose. Much like she studied the snakes that people fear, she's taking on a dismal funding landscape and looking ahead to the next challenge: "How do we work together on the services we're backing off and move back when the economy recovers?"
Age: I'm a baby boomer. Enough said!
Why here? I followed a man to UVA grad school. He left, I stayed.
What's worst about living here? Increasing traffic on 29 north and Pantops.
Favorite hangout? Our schools. The best work and most fun in our county goes on in our schools.
Most overrated virtue? Patience.
People would be surprised to know: I once kept a pygmy rattler in my house.
What would you change about yourself? My workaholic nature.
Proudest accomplishment? Graduating from college because neither of my parents did.
People find most annoying about you: I have MTP (multi-tasking personality) syndrome.
Whom do you admire? Captain Richard Winters, who led the 101st Airborne Easy Company in World War II. He defines leadership: compassion, commitment, courage.
Favorite book? This week or last? Novel: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Nonfiction: Lift by Ryan Quinn.
Subject that causes you to rant? The growing culture of incivility in our country.
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Social networking.
Biggest 21st-century creep out? Social networking.
What do you drive? Blue cars.
In your car CD player right now: Bagpipe music, Joshua Bell, Einstein the book.
Next journey? My son wants me to go to Peru or Greece.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Can't tell you because my mother might get a copy of this.
Regret: I won't get to work another 20 years in education.
Favorite comfort food: Grits with lots of butter.
Always in your refrigerator: Cran-Grape light.
Must-see TV: Re-runs of the Band of Brothers series about the 101st Airborne Easy Company in WWII.
Describe a perfect day. On my screened porch, writing, watching hummingbirds on the trumpet vine and my garden grow.
Walter Mitty fantasy: I would like to direct a movie. My husband would say, "That's not so far afield, Pam. You like to direct everything anyway."
Who'd play you in the movie? Matt Damon.
Most embarrassing moment? Water skiing.
Best advice you ever got? From my grandfather– remember we are all people, and we put on our pants in exactly the same way.
Favorite bumper sticker? If you can read this, thank a teacher.


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Lost Prospect Mine
Lost Prospect Mine is located South Eastern Skyrim. You can find it by traveling East of Riften.
There are a variety of mushrooms and a minor health potion to be had here, but no people or enemies. There are three rooms on the main floor with nothing of much worth in them. However, if you'll notice there is a ledge with a waterfall and passageway behind it. You can walk up the wooden plank ramp to the ledge of equal height to the waterfall ledge and perform a Whirlwind Sprint (shout). Follow the passageway back to a room with 3 gold ore veins and a partial skeleton. The only other interesting item you'll find is a miner's journal explaining that this mine is "barely a glorified cave" with no veins or gems to be found and a missing friend. Perhaps the skeleton in the 'secret' passageway was Bern?


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- sugars12g
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Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large, non-stick frying pan. Fry the aubergine for 5 mins until softened, then tip into a bowl. Fry the mushrooms in the remaining oil for a few mins until golden, then mix with the aubergine and peppers. Spoon half of the veg into a 20 x 30cm baking dish. Spoon over half the passata, then arrange a layer of lasagne sheets on top.
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The FBI has arrested a 48-year-old man on charges that he transported sexually explicit images of a 13-year-old girl across state lines.
Thomas Lee Fritz is under investigation in San Jose, Calif., in connection with allegations he promised the girl an iPhone in exchange for her posing nude in May so he could take pictures of her with his own iPhone and iPad, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in federal court here.
The affidavit said the girl also alleged that in August, Fritz took more pictures of her and sexually assaulted her.
She also told investigators he made her watch pornographic videos and fondled her.
In late August, Fritz moved back to San Antonio, and flew back to San Jose on Nov. 7. San Jose police seized his iPhone, but have not yet examined it. The affidavit said he declined to talk to police, and eventually returned to San Antonio.
The FBI was contacted and raided his home last Friday, seizing an iPad. A preliminary examination turned up several pictures of the 13-year-old girl, and at least one was of the nude girl in a sexually suggestive pose, according to the affidavit.
Fritz appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad, who ordered him detained pending a bail hearing this Friday.
In court, his wife said "he is a good man" and that the allegations are false.
During the court proceedings, her phone rang to the ringtone of "Whistle" by Flo Rida, and was admonished by a bailiff.
She blew kisses to Fritz, and told him she loved him as he was returned to jail.
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Corrections welcome.When we're taught to meditate, there's so much emphasis placed on being in the present moment, not wandering off to the past -- not wandering off to the future -- that we tend to neglect a very important part of Right Effort, which is to prevent unskillful qualities from arising. To prevent these things we have to anticipate them, we have to recognise there are certain patterns of behavior that we tend to fall into, ways in which we're really quick to stab ourselves: thoughts of shame, thoughts of inadequacy, fear, feeling threatened very easily... there are lots of ways in which we bring unnecessary suffering onto ourselves, and they tend to be very quick. They're like paths in the mind that we've walked back and forth many, many times. There's nothing in the way, we've killed all the grass, we've cut back all the bushes, cause we've been back and forth so many times that now we can just run right down those paths, find the arrows at the end of the path and just stick ourselves with them.
And when you recognise you have these patterns you have to learn how to counteract them, so they don't arise or if they do arise you can let go of them quickly. That's what this aspect of Right Effort is all about. And it does require planning. You want to be able to observe the mind: What kind of thoughts does it engage in, [to] bring on that ability to stab yourself? What's the line of thought, what's the reasoning, what's the agenda behind those patterns of thinking? And then very deliberately sit down and think in other ways, learn how to counteract whatever the reasoning there may be behind them. And you want to break these things down into manageable bits.
Last night I heard someone talking about how she'd been on a retreat, and had been dealing with large archetypes in her mind, and perhaps they were taught that they were dealing with archetypes so that they could have a sense that what they were dealing with was important work. But when you think of patterns in your mind as being archetypes, i.e. parts of the collective unconscious, these are things that are built into the human mind, it makes these things really large, much larger than you. And it's very easy to be overcome by these things.
So remember it's not an archetype, it's a pattern, it's a pattern you may have in common with lots of other people, but it's simply a habit, or a series of a habits, and you want to learn how to recognize them as specific habits, specific choices that you make. And when you cut them down to size this way, then you find that they are more manageable, you can take them out one by one by one. And if you let them remain archetypes... I was told that Jung had these archetypes carved into stone and placed around his house. And that's a good symbol for what a lot of people do with their patterns of behavior, they carve them into stone, and you can never get rid of them that way. But if you realize it's a series of choices, and patterns of behavior, these pathways in the mind that you've been running up and down, up and down, up and down, it means you can choose other paths, paths that don't lead to a briar patch, don't lead to lots of thorns and arrows. Cut other paths across them. And very deliberately think in other ways.
At first it may seem awkward, but as you learn to think in opposite ways... [For instance] you realize that you've done something wrong, you've hurt somebody, and there's a sense of shame, a sense of embarassment. OK, recognizing that it was a mistake is an important skill that you have to develop, you have to maintain, but by burning yourself up around it, it's not going to brand it into your mind. Because what often happens is when those thoughts become very painful, then you try to deny them. You try to bury them away. The more painful they are, the more they get buried, and of course the more they get buried of course, the harder they are to deal with. And then they don't really help you. You want your memory of your mistakes to be near at hand, but not so painful that you can't pick it up. So just make a mental note, "That was a mistake, I shouldn't have done it that way," and then you try to sit down very deliberately and think about what an alternate way of handling the situation might have been. And that way the shame becomes a useful quality of mind. It's no longer an unskillful quality, it's part of your skillful process of learning.
So in each case, you recognize you've got these habits, you've got to sit down and deliberately counteract them. Cause otherwise they turn into something way too big, way to contentious. That's the kind of thinking that the Buddha calls papanca, where you identify yourself, "I am this kind of person, I am the thinker, and the thinker has these habits, and the thinker has these needs." And as soon as you take on that identity, of course being a being, then you have to feed. Your sense of identity has to be fed with certain thoughts, certain ideas. And it just grows bigger and bigger and bigger. And it's going to conflict with other people's sense of their identity. And these things just get too big to deal with.
This kind of thinking is called objectification, you turn yourself into a particular type of object. You're this being, with these habits, these archetypes filled in. Sometimes papanca is translated as proliferation, it's not really the amount of thinking that's causing the problem, it's the type of thinking, the type of thinking that makes you bigger and more solid than you have to be. And you become a being with all these needs that need to be fulfilled.
So the Buddha's approach is to learn to take all this apart. Remember those questions he said that don't deserve asking, or don't deserve attention? "Who am I? What am I? Am I good? Am I bad?" Get the sense of identity out of that, simply look at, what kind of habit is this? Is this a useful habit? Do I really want it? You may know very well that you don't want it, but it keeps coming back, coming back, so you say, well I've got to face it, and deal with it, and deal with it as a habit. And learn how to question it. If you can't come up with good arguments to your mind against following that kind of habit, or falling in line with the reasoning which drives that habit, at least learn to put question marks in, [for instance if it says] "This is this and that's that", and ask yourself well, is that really true? It's so easy to make yourself miserable over what you think someone has said, or someone has done, or what someone represents. And then only to find out later that that wasn't the case at all. So learn how to insert some question marks in the rush of those thoughts, break them up a little bit. So when the impulse comes to follow your old habits, you've got some alternative ways of thinking, alternative ways of breathing, alternative ways of picturing the whole situation to yourself. And alternative ways of relating to these patterns, instead of thinking of them as being large archetypes, or part of your identity, they're simply a series of habits.
And you can create new habits, it's like finding that the paths you've been follwing through the forest lead only to traps that are filled with spikes. Well, you can find other habits, you can cut other paths through the forest. It takes time, sometimes you've got to cut through a lot of brush, but once you've made that first foray into the new path, then it's simply a matter of going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth over and over again. So you get a path out of the forest. Or at the very least if you're going to stay in the forest, you know the good places to go. You know where the water is, you know where shelter is, you know where the good medicinal and edible plants are, and try to blaze a path to those areas.
So you're cutting your old habits down to size by cutting new paths through the forest. This is an important aspect of Right Effort. So you don't keep stabbing yourself in the way you used to, or if you do find you're stabbing yourself, you can quit more quickly. Not just keep indulging in the old habits.
That's one of the ways in which your Right Effort becomes all-around. Then you're not stuck with just one technique, the way the British were stuck in World War II, they thought the Japanese were going to attack Singapore from the sea, so they pointed all their cannons out toward the sea, they had them set in concrete, and sure enough the Japanese came down the Malay peninsula, and the cannons were useless. So don't let yourself be stuck with just cannons pointing in one direction, you've got four directions which you've got to watch out for: learning how to prevent unskillful habits or unskillful qualities from arising, and if they have arisen, learning how to abandon them. How to give rise to skillful qualities and how to develop and nurture skillful qualities when they have arisen. You want your right effort to be all-around. Because only that way can they give you all-around protection.
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Very insightful, just the kind of teaching I'm trying to try to put in practice right now, thanks five bells
18 years ago I made one of the most important decisions of my life and entered a local Cambodian Buddhist Temple as a temple boy and, for only 3 weeks, an actual Therevada Buddhist monk. I am not a scholar, great meditator, or authority on Buddhism, but Buddhism is something I love from the Bottom of my heart. It has taught me sobriety, morality, peace, and very importantly that my suffering is optional, and doesn't have to run my life. I hope to give back what little I can to the Buddhist community, sincerely former monk John
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Library One-Liners
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 ~ Sana Moulder in Fayetteville, NC asked Publib:
I'm seeking library patron one-liners for a project. I'd like questions and requests such as:
"I need a photograph of Jesus Christ," or "I need a DVD of A Christmas Carol, one with Charles Dickens in it," or (one of my personal favorites), "I need information on how Muslims celebrate Christmas."
This is for a Staff Development Day program, and should be of a caliber guaranteed to drive a Zombie Librarian into a homicidal rage. TIA
And, the Publib chorus responds:
~ I'm looking for all your true books about time-travel. ~ Can you find instructions for me on how to build a guillotine? (magician).
~ Patron: I need a video of President Lincoln's assassination. Me: You mean President Kennedy's assassination? Patron: No. Lincoln. You know, the Civil
War? My teacher told me I could get extra credit if I could bring in a video showing the actual assassination.
~ I need to check out all your books on biomes so no one else in my class can finish their reports.~ Lynn Schofield-Dahl – Boulder City Library – NV
~ I'm doing a term paper and need information comparing and contrasting the 3 Stooges with the 4 Evangelists in the Bible. ~ I need direction on how to get to Valhalla, the home of the gods, on a bicycle. ~ Do pimentos grow in olives? ~ What is the average size of a lawn in Beirut?
~ 2 part question -(early 90s): Everyone knows AIDS came from Africa. It was transimitted by animals and carried over to animals in the US. At one point, everyone will die of AIDS except for small, furry animals that look like the Muppets. How did Jim Henson know to design his Muppets to look like the small furry animals that will survive the AIDS epidemic?~ I saw a documentary on TV about a type of tree frog that is going extinct. This tree frog looks like Kermit the Frog, by Jim Henson. How did Jim Henson know to design Kermit so he would look like this type of tree frog? Editor's note: Ms. Piggy conspiracy?
~ I need film of Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address. ~ Becky Tatar – Aurora, IL
~ I was recently asked for photographs of angels. When I tried to clarify and see if paintings would do the woman got upset, called me stupid and asked for someone else to help her. 🙂 To my knowledge, she did not get any photographs out of the next librarian either.
~ I once overheard: "Do you have books on booby-traps? I need to catch the damned Mexicans who keep stealing my chickens. I heard those Viet-Gongs were real good at booby-traps." I laughed too hard to help the poor librarian who was trying to explain that the man was responsible for anyone who was maimed on his property before handing him several references for web sites.~ Terry Ann Lawler – Burton Barr Library – AZ
~ Patron asks for an aerial view of local landmark, Nottoway Plantation. Peering quizzically at the GoogleEarth image, she asks, "What's that brown stuff all along there?" "That's the Mississippi River," I reply. "Why isn't it blue?" "It's called the Mighty Muddy Mississippi because of all the sediment." "Is there any way you can make it blue?"~ Audrey Jo DeVillier – Iberville Parish Library – LA
~ "When was the first recorded use of the word 'love' in any language?"~ Ann S. Owens – Sacramento Public Library – CA
~ Do you have any books on Chanukkah and other foreign Christmas holidays? ~ My son needs a book for school. The author's last name is Chaucer–I don't remember his first name. ~ What was the date that God kicked the bad angels out of Heaven?~ Kevin O'Kelly – Somerville Public Library – MA
~ This one was over the phone: "I have a book about William Shakespeare that I would like to sell. It is very old, it even has photos of him in it!~ Terry Dohrn – Fruitland Park Library – FL
~ I need a photograph, not a painting, of the meteor hitting the earth and killing off the dinosaurs. ~ Not exactly a one-liner but close: I need a picture of a Georgia Cherokee teepee. (Librarian: The Cherokees didn't live in teepees.) I need a picture of a teepee that Cherokees would have lived in if they did make teepees. ~ I need information on the war, you know, the one where everyone got killed. ~ Another close one: DO you have anything besides "Learn Spanish in 30 days"? I need to learn it by tomorrow's test.~ Dusty Snipes Grès – Ohoopee Regional Library – GA
~ We had someone once ask for a photograph of a dragon. Not a picture or drawing or painting but a photograph. ~ I also had a high school student ask for the book Ibid. I asked her where she got the title from and sure enough she showed me a footnote in a book. She would not believe me when I told her it was referring to the previous footnote until I showed her the sample in a Turabian style manual ~ Meg Van Patten – Baldwinsville Public Library – New York
~ This one sticks out: when in academia I got this urgent call: "My son has read every book there is and now he wants to read The Clavicles of Solomon, We can't find it anywhere!" I told her that could only help with the Canticles (Song of Solomon)… I know we touch people's spirits but I hope when still in their bodies 😉 ~ Shahin Shoar – Arlington Public Library Columbus, OH
~ I once had a patron complain because our color copier wouldn't make color copies of his black and white Resume. I never did figure out exactly what he was expecting.~ Michael Gregory – Campbell County Public Library – KY
~ My all-time favorite reference question was the Santa Fe kid who wanted to do a report on pirates in New Mexico. ~ Another fine one was the woman looking for a book on how to choose a lottery number.~ Miriam Bobkoff – Peninsula College Library – Port Angeles
~ Several years ago, a young man called to find out if the library was a government suppository. ~ And there was a woman calling from Georgia wanting to know if we had any information about an Inglewood business, the Los Angeles Kings. (For the sports-challenged: the Kings are a hockey team, who used to play in the Forum, a sports arena a few blocks from the library. That year [and not last year] they had made it to the Stanley Cup finals. They lost.)~ Sue Kamm – Los Angeles, CA
~ I was once asked for a color photo of Christ.~ Christine Lind Hage – Rochester Hills Public Library
~ Not a question I received, but I remember a story from another librarian who was asked for a map of all the lost gold mines in the Rockies. ~ And the tale of a Black librarian with whom I worked, who was asked for a mailing list of white supremacist organizations. "I gave it to him," the librarian said, "But ewww."
~ And, for real, when I worked at Baraboo, Wisconsin's circus museum, I was asked whether we might have a photo of George Washington at the very first US circus in 1793.
I gently mentioned that photography was not invented until about the 1840s, and because of that, the requester wouldn't find any photographs of George at any event, let alone at John Bill Rickett's original one in Philadelphia. "Oh. Right."~ Erin Foley – Rio Community Library – Wisconsin
~ The library gods must have heard your plea because today I got a phone call. There's some context to this but this question was asked: Patron on phone: What is Shakespeare? I've heard of it but I haven't seen the movie. If you must know the context he called to ask about an actress and her career and when he found out that she was in Shakespeare he wanted to know what it was. ~ Katilyn Miller –Frederick County Public Libraries
My friend was asked to "point out the River Styx on a map". Seems the person asking wanted to your there.~ Liz Mcclain – Glencoe Public Library
~ We had a patron wanting to know the time. The circ clerk answered his question gesturing to the large, roman-numeraled clock nearby. He replied he couldn't read it because he didn't know Romanian.~ Jacque Gage – Joplin Public Library – Joplin, MO
~ Famous one-liner: "Where are the stacks?"
~ Teresa: Mam, would you like to sign up for our winter reading club for adults, Cabin Fever?
Woman: What do I have to do?
Tersesa: Rate all the books you read.
Woman: But I didn't like the last one.
Tersesa: That's okay. You don't have to like them all.
Woman: I only want to enter the books I liked…
~ Leah: I love my new WiFi detector t-shirt!
Scott @IT: We should give one to the director at North Pocono. Maybe then we can pin down the source of their WiFi problems. "Call us if your shirt goes on or turns off." Come to think of it…that doesn't sound good, does it?
~ I called our local printer to get a rough estimate on printing book marks.
Leah: How much would 300 book marks cost to print?
Printer: In color?
Leah: Sure.
Printer: Will they bleed?
Leah (baffled): I HOPE not…. It's YOUR paper!~ Leah Ducato Rudolph – Abington Community Library
~ Several years ago someone asked me for a picture of a cross-section of a banana showing the seeds. I finally found one, but it wasn't easy.~ Holly Hebert – The Brentwood Library – TN
~ Patron – "I'm looking for information on the Sultana Indians"
Me (after a long and fruitless search) – "where did you get this reference?"
Patron – "I dreamed about them."~ Lisa Richland – Floyd Memorial Library – NY
~ Two favorites from here… The High Rockies of need… (Hierarchies of need) ~ And that song, Furry Lace (Fur Elise)~ Karen E. Probst – Appleton Public Library
~ I'd like a sound recording of real dinosaurs. ~ If I make recipes from a diabetic cookbook, will it give me diabetes? ~ Susan Hunt – Aboite Branch Library- Fort Wayne, IN
~ I once got asked where our gynecology department was. I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing out loud as I explained where our genealogy department is.~ Deborah Bryan – Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
~ Not a patron one liner but….I had a staff member ask me one day, Where are the eBooks shelved?
~ Patron: Where can I find the books on um, you know motivation and stuff? Me: (looking on the catalogue), I see there is one here, shall we go over and have a look? Patron: Nah, I can't be bothered just yet, maybe tomorrow. I swear – true story. ~ Lisa Pritchard – New Zealand
~ At my previous library out west, we once got a call from a patron asking if we had the "Anals of Wyoming" in our periodical collection. ~ Stephen Sarazin – Aston Public Library – PA
~ Henry Huntington, railroad millionaire, established the famous Huntington Library and Art Collection in his estate in San Marino, California. It's home to many rare books, including a Gutenberg Bible. About 50 miles away is Huntington Beach, California, named for Henry Huntington when he put a rail line through to the town.I used to work at the Huntington Beach Public Library, and for years confused tourists would come to the desk to ask to see our Gutenberg Bible. Best one-liner ever? Look at the computer screen and say, "Sorry, that's checked out today." Maybe a little too much background needed for this to be a great one liner, but we loved it.~ Roger Hiles – Library Services Manager Arcadia Public Library – CA
~ Just saw a written information request: "About epilepsy or Grandma Ceazer. Just been diagnosed."~ Anne Felix – Grand Prairie, TX
~ I have one from when my son worked at a grocery store. A woman requested "bee honey" so they escorted her to the honey aisle. "But which one is bee honey?" They told her that only bees make honey, and she didn't believe them. In fact, she thought they were making fun of her. (Which they did, in spades, after she left the store.)~ Cheryl Coovert – Lexington, KY
Clover honey is made by clover.
Wild flower honey is made by wild flowers.
Spelling bees make word honey.
And WHERE do you think quilts come from?~ Chris Rippel – Central Kansas Library System – Kansas
Editor's note: Everyone on Publib knows that the best Quilts come from BiblioQuilters such as Nann Blaine Hilyard and Sana Moulder.
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