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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
Reply #35 on:
August 04, 2011, 09:37:28 AM
When I worked for the library system, the summers were awful. I worked inner city, so we got a fair share of already nutty people coming in for the A/C.
Examples of crazy in the heat:
Summertime was the only time I would catch people masturbating in the library.
I got into a fistfight trying to evict a homeless person from the building.
Kids not in school dumped their stolen cars off at the library, one they left in gear and it hit the building.
The list goes on...
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Reply #36 on:
August 04, 2011, 11:32:33 AM
Jimbo, that sucks.
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Reply #37 on:
August 04, 2011, 11:49:39 AM
Heat always brought me more audits.
That sucks about your bud.
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August 04, 2011, 01:09:46 PM
Quote from: Hawkbit on August 04, 2011, 09:37:28 AM
I got into a fistfight trying to evict a homeless person from the building.
Not allowed to physically eject someone, we tell them to leave then call the police.
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August 04, 2011, 03:10:38 PM
We wouldn't usually either. He was asked to leave then started cussing, screaming and finally lunging at a female employee. Two of us stepped between and the guy backed off. As we were corralling him away from other people he suckerpunched my buddy, so I took the guy down. He got out from my grasp before the cops got there though.
Officer and our head security told me next time to stay back, but I told them I'm not going to let another (especially female) employee be attacked and not intervene. They said okay, but next time make sure to beat the shit out of the guy before they get there... yeah. They really said that.
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Reply #40 on:
August 04, 2011, 04:38:12 PM
Sorry to hear that, Jimbo.
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August 04, 2011, 09:14:44 PM
Fear the Backstab!
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August 09, 2011, 02:10:04 PM
Almost a Darwin.
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August 09, 2011, 02:11:18 PM
I'd say it counts since it sounds likely he's made it at least significantly more difficult for himself to breed.
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Reply #44 on:
August 09, 2011, 03:58:07 PM
Thank the gods for that.
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Reply #45 on:
September 09, 2011, 11:17:15 AM
& we're back!
1st off, had some one try & "kidnap" me
well more like she was so drunk she didn't know what she was doing. We got the report of female passed out from drinking, she was awake & ready to go when she got to us. I was off doing something else & saw her jump out of bed & stripper dance on her IV pole, so I went & told her to get back in bed so she doesn't hurt her self. She took a look @ me & had that come here & fuck me look that females get (puppy dog eyes big time!!), and was doing everything I told her. Her sister told the doc to either let her take her home now or we could keep her & deal with her drunkeness. The doc was qucik to write it up, while I'm unhooking her iv & getting vitals she keeps grrabbing & rubbing my arms & once my scrub pants! The 2 female RNs outside were crackin up over me trying to keep drunk horney chick from groping me. Finally got her outside in a wheelchair (hell no I'm not letting her walk & fall), & she is like "you are soooo cute! Can I take you home?" I'm like no I have to work! She then says, " can I tie you up & throw ya in the back of the truck & make ya smile?" I'm like no you need to go home & sleep! Her sister pulls up & says sorry she just got out of prision & she is so drunk & horney! Lol! Just what I need a crazy girl w/ a prision record comeing after me!
Next tale will be off the crazy dude who shot himself in the mouth...off to work, be safe all!
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September 09, 2011, 11:46:08 AM
that's the stuff!
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Reply #47 on:
September 09, 2011, 11:59:17 AM
Dear Penthouse...
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Reply #48 on:
September 09, 2011, 06:44:43 PM
Was she hot ?
Quote from: Jimbo on September 09, 2011, 11:17:15 AM
ust what I need a crazy girl w/ a prision record comeing after me!
Pics ?
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Reply #49 on:
February 03, 2012, 10:39:43 PM
Sorry Der Helm, no pic's allowed or I would get in trouble.
I had a dude who sounded like the zombies from Call of Duty, he shot himself in the mouth and it was wild! Call came in for a male that had attempted suicide and missed and shot himself in the right lower jaw with a .357 magnum. Medics said he was anxious but holding his airway, they had put it back into place and were securing it with a NRB Mask (non-rebreather mask), had given him some meds to sedate him and got him to us. Our Doc was debating on if he needs to just intubate the person, or if the airway is so messed up he would have to do an emergency cricothyrotomy (cut a hole in his neck and pass a tube into his lung). When the pt arrived, he was stable other than his airway, I was getting report and helping to move him over, when his mask fell off when we unhooked it for cot change. He tried to talk and made the zombie noises and blood was spraying everywhere. Doc made the call of intubation and after RSI (rapid sequence intubation) meds given and he was out, Doc grabbed his jaw, held it out and slide the tube down into his lungs w/o problem. Report at 1st was that this guy had caught his girlfriend and his friend having sex, walked into the living room and put a gun to his head and said i can't live without you, and fired...but he had it too low so he blew off his lower...well sort of part was gone and part there, it was a freaking jigsaw puzzle that was bloody!
Well we stabilized him and sent him off to the trauma center in Indy, and then the cops show up and tell us the real story. Seems the three of them were actually robbers, who were going to rob and meth dealer, and they had gotten together and planned it out. They went to get a gun and the dude who shot himself had acquired a gun and was bringing it into the house to show the other two and when he got it out of his truck it had gone off and shot his truck, the other 2 were watching and said that zombie mouth had said, "hey it works!" Then all three of them went inside where zombie mouth then said, "hey let's play Russian Roulette!" The other two said hell no! So zombie mouth decides to play with it with himself, he did one click and said, "hey I'm winning!" Then on the second click BOOOM! He lost. The other two had tried to make the story of suicide, but the cops had know about these idiots and that all three had different girl friends or boy friends. The other two came clean pretty quick when confronted. Oh he lived, they had to take a piece of his rib and reconstruct his lower jaw, found out because he came in under arrest for DUI.
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Reply #50 on:
February 04, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
So, how does someone in your line of work just not decide at one point that humanity isn't worth saving?
And you become a supervillian!
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Reply #51 on:
February 04, 2012, 08:40:55 AM
Quote from: Paelos on February 04, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
So, how does someone in your line of work just not decide at one point that humanity isn't worth saving?
And you become a supervillian!
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Reply #52 on:
February 04, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
All those cases were carefully staged by evil future time-travelling Jimbo.
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Reply #53 on:
February 04, 2012, 09:02:07 AM
So supervillain Jimbo is setting him up in the past to turn himself into a supervillain. Interesting. The day he wraps himself in tinfoil and climbs into the MRI machine is when he gets his powers.
I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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February 04, 2012, 09:30:50 AM
Quote from: MuffinMan on February 04, 2012, 09:02:07 AM
The day he wraps himself in tinfoil and climbs into the MRI machine is when he gets his powers.
Can't remember if tinfoil is magnetic or not.
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Reply #55 on:
February 04, 2012, 09:40:37 AM
It's not, I guess. Evidently my superpower is being a dumbass.
I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Reply #56 on:
February 04, 2012, 12:27:07 PM
Technically aluminum and tin are paramagnetic. Which is to say: they react to magnetism, but only a physicist would notice or care.
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Reply #57 on:
February 04, 2012, 08:50:51 PM
My brass magnet disagrees.
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Reply #58 on:
February 04, 2012, 10:59:49 PM
Incidentally, a brass rare earth magnet is not a brass magnet.
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Reply #59 on:
February 05, 2012, 10:35:58 AM
Doesn't a MRI create a fucking strong oscillating magnetic field? You'd think that aluminum would show visible reaction to this.
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February 05, 2012, 02:23:09 PM
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February 05, 2012, 03:05:47 PM
Chaps, what are we doing ?
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Reply #62 on:
February 05, 2012, 03:32:24 PM
Taking about the feasibility of Jimbo turning into a mutant via MRI. Me? I think he's going to borrow some radioiodine from oncology.
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February 06, 2012, 11:03:58 AM
Against Medical Advice is both a book I would work on AND help get published.
Too good.
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Reply #64 on:
February 22, 2012, 09:28:41 AM
It was a rocking Sunday! I came on, saw 4 cop cars and 2 ambulances in the bays, new it was gonna be a fun night.
I'll sum up the notes on this one:
EMS from out of town roll in with a middle aged man on board holding a big serving spoon in his hand. He has a really deranged look in his eyes but got off the ems cot w/o problem, but held on to his spoon. I was out in the hall and couldn't help myself, I had to say "
" like The Tick, but damn it, I was the only one who got it, had to explain about the tick and his use of the spoon. Another nurse triaged him, I'll relay my notes she gave me on him:
Arrived by EMS from XXXX
Police dispatched to pt's house in XXXX for pt on the roof of his house shouting about Satan. Per EMS, pt is not taking his psych meds for an unknown amount of time. When EMS arrived, pt is holding a spoon (large serving type spoon), stating, "i have been eating spoonful of sugar to beat someone" Pt has not eaten or slept for days, pt is awake but not willing to answer questions. Pt thinks the year is 1962, denies that he wants to hurt himself, but states, "they want to burn me" Pt then states that his long haired dachshund is hunting witches in the house, and will come out and blink Morse code to him with status reports.
Needless to say, we took the spoon away (which broke darn it!), and gave him a nice dose of haldol and ativan and he went to sleep. We got him Emergency Detained and sent up to the psych ward. We ended up calling the pt's spoon, "the spoon of justice" since he was shouting at the devil while hunting witches. I felt sorry for his dog!
Next one----
New Year's Eve:
We get a guy who is in his late 60's come in for neck pain, he is on an ambulance from the county below us, but didn't want to go to there ER and came to mine. EMS reports that he suffered a fall, has been drinking and taking narcotics. He has a c-collar on and has a hx of broken lower back. Once in and on my cot, we find out the whole story. EMS states that they picked him up at the American Legion in XXX, his wife was the driver and went to jail, he was the passenger, they had just left
XXX hospital AMA, and was trying to drive to us when he couldn't take the pain, so the called 911, which the police came and arrested her for driving drunk and he got sent to us for his neck pain.
What had happened, he was at the Moose Lodge and had been drinking, so him and his wife left to go home. He needed to pee on the way home, so pulled over to the side of the road. The road he is on has a very steep ditch, about 8 feet down, with some cement in the bottom. Well, he lost his balance while relieving himself and fell down, hitting his head on the bottom. He felt a snap and felt a crunch in his neck, he didn't throw his hands out (was holding onto his penis) and try and stop the fall, so his head took the brunt. He then finishes up, climbs back up, gets in the car, decides his neck hurts so takes two extra strength vicoden and drives to the local ER. They immediately bring him back, get him in a gown and put a c-collar on him, but the the drunk dude gets mad at the doctor, yells at him, and leaves. He makes his wife drive, but she is drunk like him, so they don't make it far, they pull into the American Legion and call 911, where the cops come and arrest her and send him b ambulance to get checked out.
My exam shows a bruised and swollen middle of forehead, point tender to his neck, he freely admits to drinking "alot of beer and whiskey and then I took some more Vicoden to help the pain" I had to keep replacing the c-collar as he would keep
trying to take it off. The CT confirmed what I was thinking, he had a vertebral compression fracture of C-4. It was stable, but needed treated to keep from getting worse. We got his family in to help get him convinced he needed to go to Indy to get it taken care of and to do what was told.
When I called report to the trauma center, the Charge Nurse there took my report, summed it back up, "so he got drunk, drove, stopped to pee, slipped while peeing and fell on his neck, crawled out, took more vicodn, then drove hims self to the ER, left that ER ama, tried to drive to your er, couldn't make it, so had his wife drive, but she was pretty drunk, so she got arrested and he came to you by ambulance" "and when he fell he broke his neck?" I said yep that is right. The charge RN in Indy went, "Unfucking Believeable.
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Reply #65 on:
February 22, 2012, 10:33:38 AM
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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February 22, 2012, 10:41:11 AM
The dog blinking status updates in Morse code got me.
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Reply #67 on:
February 26, 2012, 04:22:46 PM
Quote from: Jimbo on February 22, 2012, 09:28:41 AM
he didn't throw his hands out (was holding onto his penis) and try and stop the fall, so his head took the brunt.
I like a man who has his priorities straight.
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Reply #68 on:
February 26, 2012, 08:35:02 PM
"A spoonful of sugar makes the beating down!"
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Reply #69 on:
March 20, 2014, 08:37:38 AM
I'll have to at some point connect Jimbo with our nurse who worked in the ER at JCH in Baltimore. I'm sure she has more crazy stories.
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Online specs: How I reframed the discussion
"Why would you want to line the pockets of the Chinese or whoever, when you can buy your glasses from an optician right here in Charlottesville? Tell me you won't buy your glasses over the Internet."
Stern counsel from my eye doctor, given to me a couple of years ago. Unwilling to be thought unpatriotic, I had responded with a timid, "Okay."
I was pondering that advice recently while staring at myself in the mirror. I was wearing the new eyeglasses that had just shown up in my mailbox. The ones I'd ordered off the Internet. To say the big, round frames made me look like an owl is an insult to owls.
Perhaps the good doctor was onto something after all. You buy local, you can try the frames on for real. On the websites, you can do a virtual, two-dimensional, try-on by uploading your picture, but it's a bit of a crapshoot, as I discovered.
Perhaps you're wondering why I didn't listen to my eye doctor.
The thing is, at the time of that conversation, all I knew about buying glasses over the Internet was that you could save some money by doing it. I had no idea how much you can save. I was guessing maybe twenty percent. That would be tempting, but I could resist it, in the name of supporting local business.
As it happens, the price difference between buying glasses at your local optician and ordering them over the Internet is jaw-dropping.
For example: Back in 2008, I bought a pair of glasses right here in Charlottesville. Now, bear in mind that I don't go in for exorbitant designer frames. My high-maintenance (and pricey) eyeglass features result from other issues:
I opt for high-index lenses because they take my coke-bottle prescription and miraculously fit it into thin lenses.
And now that my closeup vision has deteriorated, I need bifocals. But who wants those telltale lines? I like progressive lenses that eliminate the lines.
Add in the cost for UV protection and a scratch-resistance coating, and you are talking major bucks for a pair of glasses. How much? That 2008 pair ran me over $450.
Ah, 2008 – before the recession hit! When it was time to select a new pair of prescription sunglasses last summer, I was determined to pay a lot less.
So I let my fingers do the walking – over my keyboard – to an online eyeglasses website, EyeBuyDirect.com.
I had a copy of my glasses prescription at the ready and watched a short video about how to measure the distance between my pupils.
After uploading a photo of myself (my passport picture was perfect for this), I virtually "tried on" a bunch of frames and found something suitable. I checked off the option for extra-thin lenses that were also progressives, the UV and scratch protection, plus the lens tint.
Including shipping, the cost was $124.63. I kid you not.
I like the idea of supporting local businesses, but shelling out an extra $325 for a similar product would make me feel like a chump, not a patriot.
About two weeks later, a little box arrived in the mail. My sunglasses! They fit without need for adjustment, and my vision is perfect with them.
Feeling cocky, I decided to take up buying Internet glasses as a hobby. Back at EyeBuyDirect.com, they were offering frames with single-vision lenses (no bifocals) including the extra-thin lens option and UV protection for $6.95. I picked out a cute frame and ordered them.
With shipping factored in, they cost an unbelievable nine dollars and ninety cents. (My hand to God: I am not making this up. Has your jaw dropped yet?)
The distance vision is excellent, but if the truth be told, I prefer bifocal glasses. (But they only cost me nine dollars and ninety cents! And they look good on me!)
This past fall, I scoured eyeglass sites, looking for yet another pair, this time with all the bells and whistles I need. The eyewear I wound up with demonstrates one of the pitfalls of buying glasses this way.
The brown plastic frames looked sort of hip and cutting-edge when superimposed upon my passport photo at the website. They were round and owlish, and seemed like they'd be a refreshing change from the elongated rectangular frames that have been in style for a few years. Cost, with shipping: $102.85.
At home, with the benefit of live-and-in-person 3D, the frames were somewhat too small to sit properly on the bridge of my nose, and the style was odd enough to make a four-year old observer gasp and shake his head as I tried them on.
The company I bought those from, <http://zennioptical.com>zennioptical.com, has a one-month satisfaction guarantee. Should have returned them, but I keep thinking the ill-fitting owl look will come into style, so I've held onto them. Haven't worn them out in public yet, though.
The good news is that my vision, with all three pairs of glasses, is excellent. The bad news is that I now have a pair of glasses that I don't want to wear out of the house.
Saving $325 on a pair of specs is, in my opinion, worth it. Both in terms of the chance you take that they might not be a perfect match for your face, and in terms of guilt at not patronizing a local optician.
I searched online for an eyeglass-frame factory in the USA and came up empty. Whether you buy your glasses from afar, via the Internet, or from a local optician, pockets are being lined in China.
If you decide to take a chance and go this route, learn from my mistakes and be fastidious about measuring your present glasses, so you get something that fits you.
And it wouldn't hurt to have a discerning four-year-old looking over your shoulder when you're doing the virtual try-on thing at your computer.
Janis Jaquith usually has to leave the vicinity of Free Union to buy the rest of her medical care.
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Very interesting. Never even thought about online glasses and lenses.
Having been scalped by local opticians as well, I might have to try this! Thanks!
Isn't that the way we all get started by buying cheep. Then we complain because of the trade imbalance and it is us buying cheep. So we have to look at this and make our own decisions remembering we live here and get paid for our work in this country.
So has it been just recently you found out that things could be cheaper on the internet? Pretty serious news scoop.
I still wonder how accurate bifocal and progressive lenses would be if you are not sitting in front of a optician measuring them. How does one really know how the frames are sitting on you?, Guessing especially with invisible bifocals were you have 3 area,s of vision should not be a hit & miss game.
When I have asked about this certain point I have not received very good answers from any of the online glasses companies, which leads me to believe they don,t really have a answer.
Maybe I should go to a optician and ask them to measure them for me so I can go somewhere else to buy them presuming I have the frames with me (not likely to happen)
jimi: Finding items somewhat cheaper on the Internet is not news to me. Finding prescription eyeglasses for a fraction of the price I'd previously paid was, indeed, news. While talking about this to other glasses-wearers, I have encountered astonishment that such a thing is possible, and disbelief that Internet lenses could be ground to the same level of precision as glasses bought through personal contact with an optician. (And these doubts are harbored by Internet-savvy people.) Shelling out hundreds of dollars every time your prescription changes (often annually) is a serious financial burden, especially if you have more than one person in your household who needs visual correction.
Bob Day: Why don't you measure your present glasses, and find a frame that's the same size online? They have instructions regarding how to measure the distance between your pupils. That measurement is crucial to preventing headaches from looking through lenses ground to the wrong pupil distance. Then, take a chance and order them! I just checked EyeBuyDirect,com, and they will give you a full refund if you return them within 7 days. (Each online company has a different return policy.) What have you got to lose?
BB: You're right. If the difference is around 20%, I can resist the temptation and buy locally. But $125 versus $450? My resolve buckles when the price difference is that big. But, again, you are right.
Janis, thank you, normally I am not. The big savings does give me pause to think but my prescription has not changed much in about 4 years so I am sticking with the expensive way.
You can have your optician measure the distance between pupils and include it on your prescription. I went to a pricey optician in DC and got my first set of frames from them (covered by insurance). I ordered a back-up pair online with Transitions lenses/glare coating using the same prescription/frame dimensions as the first pair.
If you find frames that you like and it's just your prescription that's changed, you can find online places that will take your old frames and pop in the new lenses.


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Confirmed: There Is No Real Oversight Of The NSA's Surveillance
from the debunk-that-myth deptThroughout these revelations of NSA spying, the common refrain from supporters of the program was that there was strong oversight "from all three branches of government." We'd already questioned those claims, but with the recent revelations of widespread abuses, combined with the head of FISC (judicial branch) admitting that he relies on what the NSA tells him to do the oversight, and Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein claiming to have never even seen a key document concerning abuses, not to mention that the NSA teaches its analysts how to hide relevant info from those in charge of oversight, it seems pretty clear that the idea of real oversight is a joke.
The EFF has now broken down exactly why the truth is that none of the three branches of government have been able to do real oversight:
So, the next time an NSA defender trots out those claims of strong oversight from all three branches, don't let them get away with it, since it's clearly not true.
First, the Executive. After a review of internal NSA audits of the spying programs provided by Edward Snowden, the Post lays out—in stark detail—that the claims of oversight inside the Executive Branch are empty. The article reveals that an internal NSA audit not shown to Congress, the President, or the FISA Court detailed thousands of violations where the NSA collected, stored, and accessed American's communications content and other information. In one story, NSA analysts searched for all communications containing the Swedish manufacturer Ericsson and "radio" or "radar." What's worse: the thousands of violations only include the NSA's main office in Maryland—not the other—potentially hundreds—of other NSA offices across the country. And even more importantly, the documents published by the Post reveal violations increasing every year. The news reports and documents are in direct contrast to the repeated assertions by President Obama (video), General James Clapper (video), and General Keith Alexander (video) that the US government does not listen to or look at Americans' phone calls or emails. So much for official pronouncements that oversight by the Executive was "extensive" and "robust."
Second, the FISA Court. The Post presents a second article in which the Chief Judge of the FISA Court admits that the court is unable to act as a watchdog or stop the NSA's abuses: "The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the Court," its chief, US District Judge Reggie B. Walton, said in a written statement. "The FISC does not have the capacity to investigate issues of noncompliance." Civil liberties and privacy advocates have long said that the FISA Court is a rubber stamp when it comes to the spying, but this is worse—this is the Court admitting that it cannot conduct the oversight the President and others have claimed it is doing. So much for claims by officials from the White House (video), NSA, DOJ, and Intelligence Committee members of Congress that the FISA Court is another strong pillar of oversight.
Third, the Congress. Last week, Representative Sensenbrenner complained that "the practice of classified briefings are a 'rope-a-dope operation' in which lawmakers are given information and then forbidden from speaking out about it." Members of Congress who do not serve on the Intelligence Committees in the both the House and Senate have had difficulty in obtaining documents about the NSA spying. Last week, it was even uncovered that the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, failed to provide freshmen members of Congress vital documents about the NSA's activities during a key vote to reapprove the spying. Senators Wyden and Udall have been desperately trying to tell the American people what is going on, but this year the House Intelligence committee's Subcommittee on Oversight has not met once and the Senate Intelligence committee has met publicly only twice.
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A senior military official tells NBC News the special operations community feels betrayed by the former SEAL who published a book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports.
What legal consequences could a former U.S. Navy SEAL face for writing a book about the still-classified 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden?
Legal experts say the author could face trouble on two fronts -- a civil lawsuit for not seeking a military review before the book was published and possible criminal prosecution for revealing classified information.
But a former Justice Department national security lawyer, Pat Rowan, said the government might be reluctant to prosecute a man who helped kill America's No. 1 terrorist enemy, unless the book reveals highly valuable and sensitive intelligence secrets.
"What's more, if the government did decide to prosecute, the author's lawyer would be entitled to dig into the information that was disclosed by the White House and other officials, in both sanctioned and unsanctioned leaks," Rowan said.
Rowan was referring to the fact that President Barack Obama and other administration officials have been accused by Republicans of leaking details of the bin Laden raid for political gain.
Dutton, a subsidiary of Penguin Group USA, announced on Wednesday that the book, titled "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden," would go on sale on Sept. 11. The author, who will be identified only by a pseudonym, "was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist leader's hideout and was present at his death," it said in a statement.
A similar case arose in the 1970s, when a former CIA officer named Frank Snepp published a book about his activities in Vietnam.
NBC's Brian Williams spoke with President Barack Obama about how it felt to look at the image of Osama bin Laden's dead body, and what it was like to place a call to George W. Bush after the terrorist was killed. He also speaks with Michael Leiter, Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who was in the Situation Room with the President and the national security team during the bin Laden raid. Although al-Qaida still exists, Leiter says there's no doubt the U.S. is much safer.
The U.S. government sued on the grounds that he did not seek pre-publication review -- as he was obligated to do under an agreement he signed as a condition of employment -- and lower courts agreed to a demand that all the profits from the book be turned over to the government. By a vote of 6-3, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed, even though the government never claimed the book revealed classified information.
"When a former agent relies on his own judgment about what information is detrimental, he may reveal information that the CIA -- with its broader understanding of what may expose classified information and confidential sources -- could have identified as harmful," the court said.
The participants pictured in the famous photo of the White House Situation Room taken during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound speak with NBC's Brian Williams.
These days, said former Homeland Security official Stewart Baker, most government non-disclosure agreements say that if pre-publication review isn't sought, the profits must be forfeited. Legal experts doubt, however, that the government could stop publication of the book.
The author could also be charged with violating federal laws that make it a crime for government employees to reveal classified information. Anyone given a security clearance is bound for life by its non-disclosure terms, so the fact that the former SEAL is no longer in the military would not free him from the obligation to keep government secrets to himself.
A DOJ official who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity on Thursday said he knew of no legal action against the former SEAL. That process would most likely start with a request from the Defense Department and, so far as the official knew, none had been made. DOD would have to verify that the book revealed government secrets before making such a request, the official said.


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Differing attitudes about race reflect two Americas
Black and white Christians' views on race differ. Take our quiz to test your knowledge about race and the church.
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In a historic campaign speech in Philadelphia addressing issues of race and religion, then-candidate Barack Obama held up the different Americas experienced by black and white citizens.
The inability to understand one another, Obama said, is part of "the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through -- a part of our union that we have not yet made perfect."
It is also a part of American religious life that continues to be far from perfect, according to new research on race and religion. If church leaders hope to make congregations and other church organizations more diverse -- as many say they do -- understanding each other's point of view is vital. New research sheds light on the differences between black and white Christians' views on race.
Fifty years of racial progress, including public apologies in recent years by the two largest Protestant denominations, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church, have done little to change the reality that the United States is still a nation divided on Sunday morning.
Just 2 percent of members of historically black Protestant churches are white, the same percentage of members of mainline Protestant churches who are black, according to the 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
There has been some movement toward interracial worship from blacks attending white churches.
The National Congregations Study, directed by Duke University sociologist Mark Chaves, found that between 1998 and 2006-07, predominantly white congregations became slightly more diverse. In that period, the percentage of predominantly white congregations with some black attendees increased from 60 percent to 66 percent.
Predominantly African-American congregations, however, saw no change in nonblack participation.
But what may be more significant is how far apart black and white Christians are in their understanding of the significance of race in America.
The recent Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity shows the challenges religious leaders face in raising awareness and initiating changes in houses of worship. In a massive research effort led by Michael O. Emerson of Rice University and David H. Sikkink of the University of Notre Dame, 2,610 people were interviewed face to face. Blacks were oversampled, with 528 respondents.
Racial differences were substantial.
If you are a mainline or evangelical Protestant -- a group that is overwhelmingly white -- the study found, race is not a major concern. The vast majority said they do not experience racial prejudice, race is not very important to their sense of who they are and they really do not think about race that much.
In contrast, race is something more than four in 10 black Protestant respondents said they think about every day.
This racial divide is not fading away. The vastly different perspectives on race hold true among young adults, and both blacks and whites are reluctant to talk about race.
In his 2008 speech, Obama called for a national dialogue on race. Yet a plurality of respondents to the Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity said race relations would improve if the country stopped talking about race.
Forty-three percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks agreed with the statement, "race relations would improve if we stopped talking about race." And even those who agreed that talk is not the answer are divided about the reasons why.
In follow-up questions, Emerson said, white respondents who considered dialogue part of the problem reported, "There's nothing to talk about. We've made enough progress. … It will just stir things up."
The black respondents who opposed further dialogue, on the other hand, said the time for talk is over. Emerson said their perspective was, "We need to act on it now. We need to stop talking about it and do something."


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Paris: French President Francois Hollande's attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation - and all over Twitter.
In the great Gallic tradition of murdering the English language, Hollande ended the letter to the U.S. president in his own hand, writing: "Friendly, Francois Hollande."
The mistake was a literal translation of the French "amicalement," instead of what probably should have been "kind regards."
It went viral on Twitter, overshadowing the rest of the note, which fleetingly touched on topics such as the Middle East and the economy.
According to local media, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was also weak in English. To excuse bad weather in January 2010, Sarkozy told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "Sorry for the time."


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SILVER SPRING, MD -- Motionsoft Inc. received a $5.5 million investment from Edison Venture Fund, Lawrenceville, NJ, earlier this month. The money will go to expand sales, marketing and development, according to a release from Edison Venture Fund.
"Edison's strategic counsel, growth experience and value-added resources will be instrumental to our success as we continue our expansion," Al Noshirvani, CEO of Motionsoft, Silver Spring, MD, said in the release.
Tom Vander Schaaff, vice president of analysis with Edison Venture, said, "Motionsoft achieved impressive growth and repeated customer renewals."
Motionsoft was ranked No. 1,172 on this year's Inc. 5000 list and No. 102 in the business products and services division of the list. It had revenue of $6.3 million in 2009, a 253 percent growth rate since 2006.
On Motionsoft's blog, Hossein Noshirvani, co-founder and executive vice president, wrote that the investment would now quell talk that his brother, Al Noshirvani, and he planned to sell the company. He also wrote that the cash would go to research and development.


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One week after the deadly Colorado shootings, families and friends gathered to bury their loved ones. The movie theater in Aurora is still a crime scene where investigators continue their search for answers. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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James Eagan Holmes sent a notebook to his psychiatrist, his lawyers disclosed.
Court records confirmed Friday that James Eagan Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist before he allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater last week, killing 12 people and wounding dozens of others.
The disclosure came in a motion(.pdf) seeking a hearing on what Holmes' lawyers called inappropriate leaks to the news media. The motion was granted, and the hearing is scheduled for Monday.
The motion noted media reports this week that Holmes had sent a "package" to a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado-Denver medical school, where he was a first-year graduate student studying neuroscience and psychiatric disorders.
The existence of the package was first reported by Fox News. A law enforcement source later told NBC News that the package contained writings about killing people but wouldn't go into more detail.
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In their motion, Holmes' court-appointed attorneys disclosed that the package contained a notebook and confirmed that Holmes was a patient of Lynne Fenton, the medical school's student mental health director. That means his communications with her should be protected under Colorado doctor-patient confidentiality laws. The disclosure, they argued, violated the judge's gag order on participants in the case and put Holmes' right to a fair trial "in serious jeopardy."
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By Constance Taylor (Gorongosa Lion Project)
Exciting news! Since the last post we've documented four lions:
Tripod (the three-footed lioness) on September 19th
Two unidentified lionesses on September 20th. One appears to be pregnant/lactating (we suspect these lionesses are the Baobab Pride)
And one of the Sungue brothers on September 22nd.
We're on lion time right now, which means we've been waking up at 3am to be out on the floodplain, which is a favored hunting ground for them. The past four days we've been scouting and putting up remote cameras to capture photos of our lions.
We have also caught glimpses of…
Sable grazing in front of Baobab trees, the quintessential Gorongosa bush scene.
Gorongosa's herd of Wildebeest… a rare sight!
A Waterbuck looking ghostly in the early morning fog
A flock of White-backed Vultures we went over to investigate, since they were near where we saw the male lion the other day.
And what do you know, we found the fairly fresh remains of a Reedbuck! We suspect a lion preyed upon it because of the way the bones had been chewed upon and scattered around, but it's hard to tell for certain unless you actually witness it or there's fresh lion scat around.
In addition to our field work, we took a trip down to Gorongosa's Community Education Center (CEC), where a Paola gave an impromptu presentation to a group of American high-school girls who happened to be visiting that day and were eager to learn more about the project.
After Paola's talk, Cesar (one of the trainers for the anti-poaching patrol) gave us all a demonstration of how wire snares are set and how they capture animals. So far this year, the anti-poaching patrols have removed over 1,000 wire snares from Gorongosa's park lands. The snares catch anything that steps in them, including elephant, buffalo, and lion, even though the primary targets are antelopes.
Tomorrow we resume our 4am field days in search of more lions. We'll let you know what we find!
Until next time, the vervet monkeys around camp say hello…


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The Arnold Arboretum is pleased to announce that Dr. Guang-You Hao was awarded a Putnam Fellowship to conduct independent research utilizing the Arboretum's living collection. Dr. Hao received his PhD from the University of Miami and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 where his work focused on the hydraulic properties of tropical plants in an ecological context. As Putnam Fellow, Dr. Hao will focus on the conifer collection to compare the ecophysiology of evergreen and deciduous conifers, investigating whether differences in growth form and foliage persistence may influence the ability to colonize or adapt to specific environments.
Most conifers are evergreen, and deciduous conifers are confined to wetter environments. Dr. Hao aims to understand the physiological trade-offs inherent in determining whether plants hold or shed their leaves. Preliminary data collected at the Arboretum indicate that both the structural and mechanical properties of xylem are distinct in the two types. These distinct properties may play a role in increased sensitivity to drought and increased levels of hydraulic conductivity (movement of water through the plant) observed in deciduous conifers. During his Putnam Fellowship, Dr. Hao will use a phylogenetic context to make detailed comparisons of the structural, physiological, and mechanical properties of these two growth habits toward a more enhanced understanding of how plants in each category will fare in a changing climate.
The Katharine H. Putnam Fellowships in Plant Science are made possible by the generosity of George and Nancy Putnam through the Putnam Fellows Fund.


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Schools of art and architecture
Schools of art
France's écoles supérieures of art and applied arts are public institutions of very high quality that confer nationally regulated diplomas after 3 or 5 years of study.
Other schools—private or administered by chambers of commerce—grant degrees that are specific to each school.
Both categories of school practice selective admissions based on the student's application file or examination results, and often an interview.
The CampusArt network
The CampusArt network offers a choice of some 200 art programs at the licence and master's levels.
Students who have completed at least 3 years of postsecondary study in art can use the system to prepare a single online application that will be considered by every school in the network. The system allows applicants to track their application through to the offer of admission.
Schools of architecture
French education in architecture has been harmonized with the European LMD degree system.
- The first 3 years of study lead to a degree in architectural studies that is equivalent to a licence (bachelor).
- In 2 more years, students earn the diplôme d'État d'architecte, equivalent to a master
- After an additional 3 years, students can earn a doctorate in architecture.
All 20 national schools of architecture regulated by the French Ministry of Culture offer post-master programs of specialization and advanced study, including the important credential known as HMONP that entitles graduate architects to direct building projects independently and in their own name.


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August 25, 2011
Ted Grinter, who lives between Lawrence and Tongonoxie, works his 27 acres of sunflowers on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011. Some of the sunflowers are up, but others were washed away or didn't spout this year. Grinter replanted, but says the crop will be weird this year. Some flower will be in bloom on time, while others will be up to three week's late.
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After slow start, some sunflowers are blooming at Grinter farm south of Tonganoxie
Ted Grinter's sunflower crop had a slight Goldilocks complex this summer — but he hopes his bounty of the state flower now has found that everything is just right.
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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
FEBRUARY COCKTAIL #Istanbul
Un cospect asuprea vizitei in Istanbul in ordinea evenimentelor - conduc aproape haotic si detin abilitati incredibile in ceea ce priveste strecuratul pe bulevard si franare la limita, sunt chemati la rugaciune de trei ori pe zi (atat am numarat eu), iti ofera toate detaliile de care ai nevoie chiar daca decizi sau nu sa cumperi, te ispitesc intr-un mod cat de poate de marsav cu turkish delight si gozlem preparate intr-un loc special amenajat langa geam, te invita insistent in restaurantele lor si iti ofera ceai negru din partea casei servit traditional (eu am cerut de mere, hihi), si ei au pita (lipie-paine penru kebap), dupa patru zile in Old Town realizezi ca e jaf la drumul mare (preturile sunt de 3x mai mari in comparatie cu alte zone deci strict pe descoperit cultura), arunca gunoaie pe unde apuca pentru ca lucratorii lor de la salubritate sunt intr-o activitate continua, pisici peste tot! In statii de autobuz (tramvai in zona Sultanahmet), in moschee, in vitrinele magazinelor, in Grand Bazaar. Monumente desavarsite cu peisaje superbe. Indragostita iremediabil si irevocabil de Topkapi Sarayi, palatul lui Suleyman (si Bayazid si Selim si Mehmed, etc) care este construit precum cetatea Rasnov, in stilul specific si fascinant otoman, loc unde am descoperit ca se afla sabia lui Stefan Cel Mare'nin haha!
Long story short Journey to Istanbul in oder of events - they drive chaotically and also got incredible skills when they sneak down the boulevard and hit the brake pad at the minimum distance, you can hear priests on speaker on the street calling for them to pray three times per day (at least that's my counting), they give you all the glory details even if you're gonn buy something or not, they lure you like the snake with Turkish Delight and gozlem (turkish pie) preparing it right in front of you, they keep inviting you to taste their food at the restaurant and offers black tea on the house (I always asked for apple), they also got the "pita" (a different kind of bread), after four days in the Old Town you figure it out that it's pure robbery (the prices are 3x comparing with others districts, so its strict to discover a new culture), they throw garbage on the streets because the garbage collectors are always reporting for duty, and cats everywhere! On the bus stations (tramway on the Sultanahmet area), in the mosquees, shop fronts, in Grand Bazaar. Extraordinary monuments and landscapes that take your breath away. Irremediably and irrevocably in love with Topkapi Sarayi, the palace of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (and Bayazid and Selim and Mehmed, etc.) which its architecture reminds me of the Rasnov fortress, with the fascinating otoman style, the place where I've discovered the stolen sword of our prince Stefan Cel Mare'nin (Stephen the Great'nin of Moldavia - translated in turkish, haha!)
Quote of the day: Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.
Day 1 - Sultanahmet, Aya Sofya, Sultan Ahmet Camii, Grand Bazaar
Day 2 - Taksim, Galata Kulesi
Day 3 - Topkapi Sarayi
Day 4 - monkeing around


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Doing online surveys is an easy way to raise money for Kiva and other non-profit organisations (or for your 'genealogy wish-list').
Reputable sites do not generate spam emails or unwanted phone calls (and in most cases you can avoid giving them your phone number). Some of the surveys are conducted by Universities. Others involve trying new products, and I have 'tested' icecreams, cereal, kitchen wipes, teabags etc.
Some sites pay cash. Others let you choose a gift card (Coles/Myer, Woolworths/Caltex, Amazon, iTunes, Bunnings, etc). All the details will be on the site (look for FAQ or Help).
Survey panels to which I belong include (in order of preference):
- Pure Profile: Available to residents of many countries. This site is my favourite, and I always earn $300 per year here. Pure Profile pays you 5c-20c even if you are screened out of a survey. Each time you log in, click 'Surveys' to see what's currently available. You will qualify for more surveys if you log in every day (or as often as possible). The surveys will be more relevant if you regularly check whether there are more questions to be answered about your preferences and interests (click 'Profile').
- Australian Meal Panel: For Australians only. When asked for the 5 digit pin, enter 86127. Earn money by doing a 3-minute survey about food once or twice per month, and receive extra payments if you send in supermarket receipts. You will be paid via PayPal or by deposit to your bank account.
- Your Voice: For Australians only. I have occasionally earned $50-$70 for a single survey here, but the smaller ones also add up to a decent amount. I recently earned $20 by doing an interesting survey about travel, TV programmes and other topics.
Genealogists for Families members with some spare time may find surveys a good way to fund extra Kiva loans - or to earn money to buy family history documents (wills, birth death and marriage certificates, etc).


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I have, over the years, playfully accused some of my atheist interlocutors of being "secret Herods." The biblical Herod arrested John the Baptist but nevertheless took pleasure in listening to John preach from his prison cell.
So, I've suggested, the atheists who come to my website and comment so acerbically and so frequently on my Internet videos are, despite themselves, secretly seeking out the things of God. I will confess to having a certain Herod syndrome in reverse in regard to Christopher Hitchens (who died Dec. 15).
Though he was the most outspoken and biting critic of religion in the last 50 years, and though he often infuriated me with his cavalier and insulting dismissals of what I hold most dear, I will admit that I loved to listen to him.
I think I watched every Hitchens debate that I could find on YouTube; I subscribed to Vanity Fair largely because Hitchens was a regular contributor; I read every one of his books; and I delighted in watching him thrust and parry with news interviewers from across the political spectrum, who just could never seem to get a handle on him.
No one wrote quite like Christopher Hitchens. Whether he was describing an uprising on the streets of Athens, or criticizing the formation of young men in the British boarding schools of the 1950s, or defending his support of the Iraq war, or begging people to let go of what he took to be their childish belief in God, Hitchens was unfailingly intelligent, perceptive, funny, sarcastic and addictively readable.
Another part of the appeal was that his personality was always massively present in what he wrote. There was absolutely nothing detached about a Hitchens book, article or speech. Rather, his aggressive, inquisitive, cock-sure, irritated, delightfully alert self was consistently on display.
But what I appreciated most about Hitchens was his passion for God.
I realize this might require a bit of explanation.
One of the fundamental mistakes that Hitchens and his new atheist colleagues consistently made in regard to religion was their misconstrual of what serious believers mean by the word "God." Time and again, the new atheists mocked God as a "sky fairy" or an "invisible friend," and they argued that religious belief was tantamount to accepting the existence of "a flying spaghetti monster," a wild mythological fantasy for which there is not a shred of evidence.
Or they ridiculed religious philosophers for proposing, over and again, a pathetic "god of the gaps," a supernatural cause fitted awkwardly into a schema of explanation that science would eventually clarify in its own terms.
However, they missed their mark. For the classical theological tradition, God is not a being in the world, one object, however supreme, among many. The maker of the entire universe cannot be, himself, an item within the universe; the one who is responsible for the nexus of causal relations in its entirety could never be a missing link in an ordinary scientific schema.
Thomas Aquinas makes the decisive point when he says that God is not ens summum (highest being) but rather ipsum esse (the sheer act of being itself). God is neither a thing in the world, nor the sum total of existing things; he is instead the unconditioned cause of the conditioned universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing.
Accordingly, God is not some good thing, but Goodness itself; not some true object but Truth itself; not some beautiful reality, but Beauty itself. And this helps us to see how Hitchens, despite his protestations, actually loved God.
What you couldn't miss in Hitchens' writing and speaking was a passion for justice, a deep desire to defend those who were denied their rights.
Where does this passion come from? If there is no God, which is to say, no unconditioned justice, no absolute criterion of good and evil, why precisely would someone burn with righteous indignation at violations of justice?
If we are here simply by dumb chance, if the earth will one day be incinerated and the universe spins away without purpose and in utter indifference to human cruelty and human nobility, why would anyone finally bother?
The passion for setting things right, which burned so brightly in Hitchens, is a powerful indicator that he was, whether he acknowledged it or not, connected to unconditioned justice. That connection brought him close indeed to what serious believers mean by God.
Soon after Hitchens revealed that he had been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer, I wrote a piece for the CNN Belief Blog in which I urged my fellow Christians to pray for him.
The article, which I considered rather benign, awakened a furious response on the part of Hitchens' allies. More than 2,000 respondents told me, effectively, to leave Hitchens alone and not impose my "medieval mumbo-jumbo" on their hero. I didn't abide by their recommendation. I prayed for Hitchens throughout his illness, and I pray for him now – a man religious despite himself.
(Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry, Word on Fire, and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill. He is the creator and host of a new 10-episode documentary series called Catholicism and also hosts programs on Relevant Radio, EWTN and at www.WordOnFire.org.)


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Are internships paid positions?
Almost all summer internships are paid and most semester-long internships are paid. Some businesses elect to pay an hourly rate and others simply give the intern a stipend for the semester. In the Sioux Center area the rates can range from five to eight dollars an hour for business internships. Accounting internships tend to have higher pay. Other areas of the country will vary.
Are all internships during the academic year?
About half of our internships are during the academic year. The other half are during the summer.
Are most internships in Sioux Center?
The majority of our summer internships are not in the Sioux Center area. Many intern in Iowa and surrounding states, but we place interns virtually anywhere in the United States. An intern's summer location is largely dependent on his or her network. During the academic year, most of our interns find themselves with companies very close to Sioux Center (including Sioux Falls and Sioux City), but our international internships are an exception. We have placed interns in Haiti, Africa, Mexico, and Nicaragua during the academic year.
How many interns does the Dordt University business department place in a year?
We've averaged over 65 internships a year over the past three years.
Why does the department recommend that every business major participate in at least one internship?
Internships allow you to apply what you've learned in the classroom. As such, they provide an excellent opportunity for you to reflect on Christian perspective and its relationship to business. Historically, 90 percent of our students participate in an internship.
How many internships may I do?
The number is unlimited, although you may apply only nine credits (three internships) to a general business major and only three credits (one internship) to an accounting major. You may apply additional internship credits to your free electives. Additional internships are particularly helpful to accounting majors in fulfilling the new 150 hours requirement.


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Océ Published "Choosing the Right UV Flatbed Printer"
The guide walks buyers through all aspects of UV flatbed technology
The decision to purchase a UV flatbed printer may seem straightforward, as there are many benefits of direct-to-board printing. Choosing the right printer to fit a print service provider's specific needs, however, is a bit more complex. Potential buyers need to not only find the style and model that suits their business today, but will also accommodate future growth.
Océ has published "Choosing the right UV flatbed printer," a guide that walks buyers through all aspects of UV flatbed technology so they can make intelligent, informed decisions. The guide covers the following topics:
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UV printers use piezoelectric inkjet technology in one of two formats: grayscale (a.k.a. variable dot) or fixed droplet. This section explains and illustrates the differences of these two approaches.
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Digital inkjet printing technology is constantly evolving. In the UV inkjet world, mercury vapor lamps have been the standard, but there's a new technology available as well: UV-LED. This section reviews and illustrates the pros and cons of each technology so buyers can choose the right one for today's applications as well as future needs.
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Luis Francia, Asian American Studies
Luis H. Francia is a poet, journalist, and nonfiction writer. His semiautobiographical account of growing up in the Philippines, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, won both the 2002 PEN Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. His poetry books include The Arctic Archipelago and Museum of Absences. He is the author of Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades; the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English (Rutgers University Press, 1993); and co-editor of Flippin': Filipinos on America (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1997), and of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999 (NYU Press, 2002).He is included in numerous anthologies, the latest being the forthcoming Library of America's Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. He completed a brief history of the Philippines in 2010.
He has written for a number of publications, including the Village Voice, the Nation, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. On the board of trustees of the Asian American Writers Workshop and Kundiman Arts, he also teaches at New York University and lives in Queens.
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The first day of Comic-Con International, now underway at the San Diego Convention Center, draws an eclectic mix of superfans, rabid merchandise collectors, rare comic book hunters and those that love nothing more than donning a costume and posing for photographs with appreciative conventioneers.
Patrick Purog has been attending the festival in excess of 25 years, and Thursday saw him navigating the crowded thoroughfares and alleys laden down with exclusive merchandise only available at the Con.
"I used to come here for the comics," explains Purog, a San Diego native. "But since it has grown I have always bought a lot of the exclusives and they're just for me, they're not part of the secondary market."
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If he misses out on something he was hunting Purog says he doesn't get disappointed, after 25-plus years you have to take the good with bad. Being an early attendee, though, is the way to ensure you get your hands on that limited edition "Star Wars" figure or "Doctor Who" sonic screwdriver.
Opening his bags, Purog proudly lists the haul of the day: "I scored the Metroplex Transformers, the Angry Bird 'Star Wars' [collection], the "GI Joe" Transformers, the new 'Star Wars' Black Series Boba Fett - I've always been a big 'Star Wars" fan so any Star Wars exclusives I always try and get those."
"Basically Wednesday's preview night and Thursday are my days to buy and that's typically the best time to score your exclusives because Friday and Saturday you are dealing with everybody else," Purog says. "The crowds are just so much bigger and the lines will be two, three times longer.
Over at Buying Comics, a booth that buys and sells back issues of comic books dating from 1970 on, business is brisk.
"Movies, video games, entertainment, it's all a synergy that has come together to form this," says Heather Brumley, one the attendants manning the booth for the Florida-based business which has been a fixture at Comic-Con since 1996. Brumley says their customers range from the avid collector to the first-time buyer. "Most of our buyers are collectors - some of them do invest. Others have no idea and just like 'The Avengers' so they want an 'Avengers' comic book."
While Brumley admits the San Diego festival is their biggest campaign of the year and sales are always good, the profit margin takes a hit due to the higher-than-normal overheads that come with the most well-known event of its kind in America.
"It's not just the cost of the booth, which is more expensive than any other event, but the hotel prices are very high," Brumley says. Would they ever consider not coming?
"We wouldn't miss it!" she replies with a grin.
Early twenty-somethings Matt Jensen and Amanda Shafer met at Comic-Con two years ago. Today they are each wearing the first of four costumes they have created for the event. Constantly stopped by well-wishers and photograph seekers, their journey from one end of the convention hall to the other is a slow process.
Jensen, who hails from Santa Ana in Orange County, is dressed as Captain America while Shafer (who resides in Los Angeles) is ablaze in the crimson Spandex of Dark Phoenix from "X-Men."
For Shafer, her wardrobe list will play out as follows: "Friday I will dress as a Star Fleet Officer from 'Star Trek,' Saturday I am going to be Poison Ivy from 'Batman the Animated Series,' and Sunday I am going to be White Phoenix of the Crown which is the same costume as this but in white."
"Tomorrow I will be Cyclops from 'X-Men,'" Jensen says proudly, adding that on Saturday he will don the garb of the Riddler from "Batman" and revisit his Captain America costume for the final day.
Along with the costumes, what Jensen looks forward to most at the festival is catching up with old friends he only sees at conventions. The downside? Long lines for the most popular panels.
In fact, Jensen no longer even tries to get in. "I've given up on panels, mostly because when one panel is over a lot of people don't leave and keep their seats. So if you're waiting in line for one panel and most of the people don't leave from the previous one, you're screwed."
Purog admits to not being a regular panel fixture either, but this year he's planning on hitting more than usual.
"I'm really excited about 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' so I'll be catching that one tomorrow, and there's lots of buzz on the new Thor and Captain America movies so I'm going to try and get in to those as well."
How does he handle the long waits? "I have a lot of patience."
Though Purog does admit that it takes a very early bird to score a coveted seat in the most prestigious venue, Hall H.
"I have to come much earlier than I used to," he admits. "In the past I used to come in at five or five-thirty in the morning to get on line. But now it's even earlier, four or four-thirty with the buzz of 'Spider-Man' - and you have competing panels with 'Game of Thrones' and 'Walking Dead.' So I won't be surprised if people aren't already lining up outside now for tomorrow."