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Symposium continues exchange of ideas between schools of education at IUPUI and Moi University
Friday, October 25, 2013
The latest in a continuing exchange of ideas and best practices between the Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI and the Moi University School of Education in Eldoret, Kenya, takes place next week in Indianapolis.
Faculty from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Moi will hold the second annual Faculty Symposium on Research and Teaching on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 29 and 30, at the Lilly Auditorium on the lower level of the IUPUI University Library, 755 W. Michigan St. The symposium runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The purpose is to bring together faculty from the two schools of education to share their research, teaching interests and scholarship, related to this year's theme "Interrogating Educational Policy and Practice in Kenya and the U.S." Through face-to-face presentations and discussions, Moi and IUPUI faculty will hear from each other and explore opportunities for joint scholarship and initiatives.
The first symposium took place in Kenya in August 2012. Pat Rogan, executive associate dean of the IU School of Education at IUPUI, led a group of four faculty who traveled to Eldoret, which is almost 200 miles northwest of Nairobi. Seven faculty from Moi will travel to Indianapolis.
"We are committed to a mutually beneficial partnership that enhances faculty collaboration and student exchanges," Rogan said. "The symposium will advance our internationalization efforts while strengthening relationships between Moi and IUPUI faculty."
The symposium is an extension of IU and Moi University's long-standing relationship, which began with the IU School of Medicine and Moi teaming up on the AMPATH Center, or Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare, a clinic that helps treat Kenyans with HIV and AIDS. In addition, the IU and Moi schools of journalism recently agreed to continue their partnership, and Kenya is now home to the IU Alumni Association Kenya Chapter.
The IU School of Education at IUPUI signed a memorandum of understanding with Moi University to formally partner for continuing professional exchanges. Last year's symposium in Kenya allowed faculty from both universities to share best practices and research on a variety of topics. The Moi faculty presented on the teacher preparation practices at Moi, how the Moi faculty uses research to inform policy and practice in higher education, and science curriculum. Faculty from IUPUI spoke about teaching techniques with the latest technology, issues surrounding the education of urban youth, and women in education.
"This year's symposium will offer a wide range of leading edge topics among the seven Moi and seven (IUPUI) School of Education presenters," Rogan said. "It promises to be a highly informative and exciting event."


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Scoping Summary
As part of preparing the Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) Plan, the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division and the Bureau of Land Management, El Centro Field Office (BLM) held a formal public scoping period that began on February 9, 2015, and concluded on April 6, 2015. Over 300 submissions were received during the scoping process, including comment cards, comment letters/emails, and website submissions. Thank you to everyone who provided input during the scoping period for the Ocotillo Wells SVRA Plan.
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Day26, a group formed by Diddy on MTV's "Making The Band," has announced that it is reuniting.
The band, which came together in 2007, is planning a 30-city reunion tour set to start Spring 2014, according to tmz.com.
The reunion is slated to feature all of Day26's members.
The band disbanded more than once, most recently in 2012.
Diddy is not set to be a part of the reunion, but tmz.com reports that Day26 has his blessing.
In 2012, Day26 attempted a reunion without all of its members. Day's Brian Angel spoke about the time off in an interview with Vibe that year.
"We basically hit the ground running," Brian said. "You know, to recording the first album, to touring, to doing various shows and we had no down time. So we pretty much took this time off to lay back, enjoy our families and really get the direction we're supposed to go in with this album and things like that. Other than that, we've just been working."
Danity Kane, another "Making The Band" group, recently reunited without all of its original members.


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Age 2 - 5 years
"If you can walk you can ride!"
A TootScoot is a sturdy, yet lightweight bike that is designed for children between the ages of 2 and 5. It has no training wheels or pedals, and is designed with wider than normal wheels to aid children in the process of learning balance and coordination and easy transition to a traditional two wheel bike.
The TootScoot is ridden just like a foot to floor push toy with kid power fuelling.
Designed in the US.
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- Focus point, depth of field, and sharpness
- Poring Over the Picture
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ISO 200 • 1/80 sec. • f/8 • 60mm lens (MFT)
Focus point, depth of field, and sharpness
In the previous chapter I covered the first challenge, controlling camera movement during exposure, to achieve sharper photos. In this chapter I'll discuss the second challenge, focusing so that the shot makes sense to the viewer; and the third challenge—also related to focus—controlling depth of field when you're going close.
What is sharp in the image? Where should your sharpness be emphasized? How do you determine the best depth of field for a particular shot? These are challenges that all close-up photographers face.


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Club Penguin Waddles Into Mobile
An iPad companion app to Disney's MMO-for-kids, Club Penguin, is slated to roll out today, the company said in a press release. Players will be able to customize and sync their penguin characters between the iPad app and the popular Web-only Flash game, and also play four mini games ported over from the Web. Disney Interactive VP Chris Heatherly (who sat down for a Q&A with AllThingsD last month) said the studio plans to update the app roughly once a month until the whole game experience is playable on mobile.


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Lesson 10
* November 29 - December 5
A Wind, a Worm, and a Plant
HARD AS IT IS FOR US to understand (we who believe that our purpose as a people is to bring the good news of salvation to the "heathen"), the disgruntled prophet Jonah has expressed deep dissatisfaction with God's mercy to the wicked Ninevites. He is sorry they listened to his warnings and repented. God then asks him to reconsider his sullen attitude as Jonah sits under a booth he has built for shade. Jonah and God continue their dialogue. Though some of the most profound theological concepts of the Old Testament are recorded in this final chapter of the book, what we see more than anything is a manifestation of God's grace toward sinners. This week, keep in mind who Jonah is, the privileges he has been given, what the Lord has done for him . . . and yet still this attitude?
This should give us hope for ourselves, if nothing else.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE: What was the symbolism of the booth Jonah had built for himself? What is the irony there? Why did God grow the plant for Jonah and then take that plant away? Was Jonah facing a judgment of his own? What was the Lord teaching Jonah? How do we see here a powerful manifestation of God's grace in the life of this prophet? In what ways can we be in danger, like Jonah, of taking God's grace toward us for granted?
MEMORY TEXT: "Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way" (Psalm 25:8, 9, NASB).
*Please study this weeks lesson to prepare for Sabbath, December 6.
Sunday November 30
"Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God" (Lev. 23:42, 43).
God now prepares an "object lesson" for Jonah (Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 272). Like the "great fish" in the Mediterranean, a plant, a worm, and a strong wind become God's instruments. And, like the "great fish," they obey. This adds more emphasis to the recurring theme of the Lord's control over what He Himself has created.
In Jonah 4:5, Jonah goes outside the city and makes for himself "a booth." Look up these texts, in which the same word appears (though in the plural): Leviticus 23:39, 44 and Nehemiah 8:14-16. What is the significance in the use of that word, in Jonah, based on what it means in these other texts?
The booths were to remind the children of Israel of their miraculous deliverance from Egypt and of God's care for them after that deliverance. Apparently for Jonah, deliverance was desirable for the Hebrews but not for the pagans. Perhaps Jonah, whose only concern now was his personal comfort, missed the irony of his act.
|The Hebrew word for "booths" sukkot, the plural of sukkah (the word that appears in Jonah), is also the name for the Jewish festival of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles. During it, even today, traditional Jews live in a hut, a sukkah, as a reminder of the temporary dwellings in which their ancestors lived after their deliverance from Egypt.
|Read the last part of Jonah 4:5. What was Jonah waiting for? Did he still, perhaps, harbor some hope that the city would nevertheless be destroyed? What does this tell us about his character; more important, what does it tell us about the character of the God who endures so patiently with him? With us?
What verb reappears, in the opening of Jonah 4:6, that we have seen before?
Verse 6 opens with the phrase"The Lord God prepared." This is the second of four occurrences of this verb in the book of Jonah (see lesson 6); the last time it had been used was when the Lord had "prepared" the fish to swallow Jonah. Each time it is used (Jon. 1:17; 4:6-8), God is the subject of the verb, the One who is doing the preparing, or appointing. Its use highlights, again, God's sovereign rule over all nature in the accomplishment of His purpose.
It's clear (from what happens next) that God still has not given up on Jonah, even though the prophet was so discouraged over the Lord's grace toward the heathen that Jonah wanted to die.
While Jonah sits in a booth he had built to await Nineveh's outcome, God causes a plant to grow and bring extra shade (apparently the booth wasn't enough) "to deliver him from his grief." And, obviously, it worked.
Just as with the "great fish," the writer doesn't identify the species; nor does the author spend any time on the miracle that caused it to grow so quickly. It's just assumed that the Lord can do these things.
Read Jonah 4:6-8. Summarize in your own words what happens.
Here's Jonah, depressed over the deliverance of Nineveh from destruction but now joyous because of a plant that gives him some shade. What are we to make of this guy?
In the course of events, God "appoints" the plant, then the worm to destroy the plant, and then the vehement wind. Instead of Nineveh, Jonah himself seems to be facing some sort of divine punishment; he's getting only a small taste of what he, apparently, wanted in a big way to happen to these Gentile pagans. The grace that brought the plant, which made him exceedingly happy, is now taken away, and he's miserable.
|Jonah is afflicted with one of the most common maladies that impacts the human race: selfishness, one of the deadliest sins. Look up these texts: Luke 9:23; Romans 6:4-7; 1 Corinthians 9:19; and Philippians 2:1-7. What do they tell us and promise us that can help us overcome the sin that made Jonah such a moral and spiritual wretch?
Jonah has demanded of God that He destroy. God does just that. He destroys but not what Jonah wanted Him to. God sends a worm, and Jonah's shade plant withers, perhaps blown away (along with his booth) by the wind the Lord brought next. Jonah has some hard things to learn; he needs hard lessons to learn them.
Jonah again wants to die; this time, though, he doesn't directly ask God to kill him (maybe he figures that such a request is futile). Nevertheless, his morbid desire to die, stated for the second time, suggests a deep spiritual malaise. These are Jonah's last words in the narrative (Jon. 4:8, 9). He continues, as he has from the beginning, opposing God. But Jonah does not have the last word. God again asks a question.
What does the Lord say to Jonah? Jon. 4:9.
Divine questions keep mild pressure on Jonah to expose his attitude. This is the second time God asks Jonah to analyze his anger, using now the issue of the wilted plant.
Notice that, in verse 4, God asks Jonah whether it is right to be angry over the act of deliverance of Nineveh. Now, in verse 9, He's asking Jonah whether it's right to be angry over the destruction of the plant. Perhaps the Lord was showing Jonah the contrast between a whole city and a plant, wanting Jonah to see just how his own perspectives were so imbalanced and his priorities so off: angry that the Lord didn't destroy a city, angry that the Lord did destroy a plant. Jonah has some problems, to be sure.
How does Jonah respond to the Lord's question? Vs. 9.
Imagine this scene. Here is this mortal, this sinner deserving of deathopenly defiant of the Lord, the Creator, even after seeing all these miracles, one after another, and even himself being delivered by one of the most amazing miracles in sacred history. And, yet, the Lord still is working with him! There's no question, what we see here in Jonah is a small example of what the Lord has been doing with His people all through history: showing them more grace, more mercy, and more patience than they ever have deserved.
|From our perspective, Jonah's anger seems ludicrous. Look up these texts. What are they saying that can help us put our trials into proper perspective? Isa 55:8, 9; Luke 11:9-13, Rom 8:32; 1 Cor. 13:11, 12.
"Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night" (Jon. 4:10).
Look at how the Lord answered Jonah in the above verse. God uses the verb "pity" as He describes Jonah's sympathy for the plant (in vs. 10); He used the same word for Himself, in verse 11, regarding His attitude toward Nineveh, inviting a comparison between the two. Jonah has pity on a plant; the Lord has pity on the inhabitants of Nineveh. Could the contrast between a holy God and fallen humanity be any greater?
It is remarkable that God uses the same word, pity, for both His and Jonah's attitudes, seeking to help Jonah realize what he is doing. Jonah is grieving over the plant only because he misses its shade.
Note the choice of the verb perish in verse 10, which brings to mind the earlier occurrences of the word in the narrative. How was it used earlier?
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Jesus uses the Greek equivalent in John 3:16, where the "perishing" of the whole world is at stake. By the narrator's careful writing, Jonah's concern for the shade plant is trivialized when compared with all that would be at stake if God's judgment against Nineveh were fulfilled. And, in a real sense, the issues faced by the sailors and the inhabitants of Nineveh, and even Jonah himself (most people thrown overboard in a storm die), are, of course, those faced by everyone: life or death. In fact, the issue goes even beyond life or death in this immediate existence, where life is only a vapor (James 4:14) and death only a temporary sleep (1 Cor. 15:51); rather, the real issue comes down to eternal life (John 3:15) or to eternal destruction (vs. 16).
We need to remember that every person we see is facing either eternal life or eternal damnation (John 5:29). What ways can we avoid being like Jonah; that is, getting so caught up in our concerns that we forget what really matters and what our purpose as Seventh-day Adventists is?
Let' s look again at what the Lord had said to Jonah in Jonah 4:10. Jonah just gets done saying, basically, Yes, I have the right to be angry, even unto death, because You took away my plant. But the way God responds shows Jonah the true situation: that he really didn't have any claim to that plant or any right to that plant or any authority over that plant. He didn't work for it, earn it, or even grow it. The plant, when it gave him shade, was purely the supernatural act of God in behalf of Jonah.
Something we can't earn, can't labor for, can't create ourselves, yet is totally a gift of God in our behalf? Sounds like what? See Job 4:17-21; Rom. 3:28; 4:13-16; Eph. 2:5-10.
Again, how much different is Jonah from the rest of humanity? How often do we take the gifts of God for granted? God shows us mercy and grace, and we almost can get used to them, as though they were our due. We forget that not only are they gifts of grace (How can grace be anything other than a gift?) but what it cost for us to have that grace granted to us. All of us, every moment of our lives, are recipients of God's grace, probably in more ways than we realize. And, perhaps, that's the problem: Like Jonah, we don't realize it.
Look at 2 Timothy 1:8-10. Notice what it says about what had been given us in Christ "before the world began." If something were given to us before the world began, it was given to us before we asked for it or even before we could earn it. That's why it has to be grace.
Summarize 2 Timothy 1:8-10, paralleling it with what we can here in God's dealing with Jonah. What are those verses saying? List the things that, according to those verses, God has done for us solely by His grace. Why does Paul specify that it's not of works?
A young family ate out every Sunday night. One Sunday, for whatever reason, they decided not to go. One of their children, age six, upon hearing the news, exclaimed, "Well, I expected to go out to eat!" In what ways are we in danger of doing the same thing with God's grace: Because it has been given so freely to us, and in abundance, we assume that we have it coming or that it's owed us?
FURTHER STUDY: Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, pp. 329-335; Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 390-404.
Nineveh finally was reduced to ruins in 612 B.C. But the generation that heard Jonah preach experienced a wonderful deliverance, and the God of the Hebrews "was exalted and honored throughout the heathen world, and His law was revered."Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 271. And the book of Jonah records one of the grandest events in the history of redemption!
"The Son of God gave alllife and love and sufferingfor our redemption. And can it be that we, the unworthy objects of so great love, will withhold our hearts from Him? Every moment of our lives we have been partakers of the blessings of His grace, and for this very reason we cannot fully realize the depths of ignorance and misery from which we have been saved."Ellen G. White, God's Amazing Grace, p. 185.
"It was God's purpose that His grace should be revealed among the Gentiles as well as among the Israelites. This had been plainly outlined in Old Testament prophecies. The apostle uses some of these prophecies in his argument. 'Hath not the potter power over the clay,' he inquires, 'of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?' "Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 376.
SUMMARY: God loves us, despite our hypocrisy.
Sonia Santos
"That boy of yours is a lost cause," the teacher told Lorene. She hung her head as she listened to a list of Fernando's latest misdeeds. The story was all too familiar to her. The family lived in a poor neighborhood with a lot of crime in southern Brazil. Lorene prayed constantly for her son and was sure God had a plan for his life.
Fernando seemed to find trouble. When he was 8 years old he grabbed onto the back of a moving truck. The driver did not see the boy, and as he sped around a corner, Fernando fell off. Someone found the boy lying beside the road and they took him to the hospital.
Fernando lay unconscious in intensive care for three days. The doctor told his mother that there was little chance for the boy to recover. But Fernando's mother was not willing to give up on him. She begged the doctor to give the boy more time to come out of the coma, and reluctantly the doctor agreed to give her one more day.
Lorene went into the bathroom and begged God to save her son. The next day the doctor was surprised to find that Fernando was beginning to respond to touch. His reflexes were improving, and soon he awakened from the coma. Soon after his recovery, Fernando returned home. But his life was not easy, and he needed constant medical care.
Fernando caused problems in school, and often his mother was called to the school to deal with him. His teachers sometimes said he was a lost cause, but his mother refused to give up on him. Often she reminded the boy of the miracles God had done in his life.
When Fernando was 13 years old a neighbor invited him to attend Pathfinders. He loved it and began attending regularly. As he attended, his behavior began to change. He attended an evangelistic series and asked his mother to allow him to be baptized. But his mother thought he was too young. Besides, the family attended another church.
The night before the scheduled baptism, Lorene dreamed that Jesus was coming. She saw other people going to heaven, but she and Fernando remained on earth. When she awoke she realized that she must allow her son to be baptized.
Today Fernando is a faithful young member of the local church in southern Brazil. He no longer causes problems in school. Those who thought he was a lost cause now are convinced that God has changed him. His parents, who thought he was too young to decide for Christ, now attend church and are preparing for baptism as well.
Sonia Santos is director of Women's and Children's Ministries in the Rio Grande do Sul mission in southern Brazil.
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Hunting season brings hope in missing toddler case
Ayla Reynolds reported missing in December 2011
The start of hunting season has some hopeful that hunters walking through Maine woods will find signs of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds.
The little girl was reported missing from her father's house in December 2011. Police believe she's dead.
But followers of a website devoted to finding answers about her disappearance, including some who hope she's alive, say hunters could help.
John Pomerleau, administrator of the United for Ayla website, tells the Kennebec Journal that he and others will try to catch hunters' attention by distributing posters about Ayla at locations including gun clubs and hunter licensing offices.
He said they'll also post them at game weigh-in stations and breakfast diners.
A Department of Public Safety spokesman said there are no new developments in the case, but the investigation remains active.


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Yannick BONTEMPS: the creative DNA of HELYS
PhD in Molecular Biology with 10 years experience in DNA manipulation (bacteria, animals, plants and humans).
At HELYS, he manages the firms laboratory operations. He supervises each step in the creation of our artwork: obtaining DNA profiles, printing and quality control before each work of art is shipped.
Alain SIMEON: the entrepreneurial DNA of HELYS
PhD in Biochemistry, his research work concerned formation of scar tissue. Before founding HELYS, he worked as R&D manager for a biotechnologies start-up.
At HELYS, he manages the firms administrative processes. He runs the communications and sales departments.
HELYS is not their first professional project. Working as researchers in the same laboratory, they pooled their knowledge to publish, in 2000, an article they had co-authored in an American dermatology journal.
During their studies, they became aware of the graphic beauty of DNA imagery. They decided to work on transforming these images into authentic works of modern art.
This is how HELYS was born, from the desire to take DNA images out of the laboratory and share the fantastic artistic possibilities they offer with a wider audience.


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Look who came out to support the Opening Night of CeeLo Green's new Las Vegas residency show "CeeLo Green is LOBERACE" at Planet Hollywood!! CeeLo's co-star on NBC's The Voice, Christina Aguilera, flew to Vegas with her boyfriend Matthew Rutler and made sure she was sitting front row to cheer on CeeLo for his opening night on Wednesday, February 27th. After the show, Christina waited for the Vegas headliner backstage in his green room to congratulate him on a successful show and later, they all went to celebrate at Chateau Nightclub.
"CeeLo Green is LOBERACE" is live at Planet Hollywood every Wednesday - Saturday night, running through April 13th 2013. It is an electrifying, musical journey into the colorful world of CeeLo's brainchild, "LOBERACE." Visually, the production captures CeeLo's flamboyant sense of style and over-the-top creativity, paired with brilliant 3-D graphics and surprise appearances throughout the show like the takeover by Goodie Mob. There's magic, 10 amazingly talented (and flexible) female dancers that are sure to make you blush, and the larger-than-life wardrobe and impressive stage design out-glams and out-clevers anything you've seen from the international Lady Killer to date. One hit after another, CeeLo takes the stage with non-stop high energy to perform powerful covers of music that inspires him, from Rod Stewart to INXS, as well as hits of his own, including "Bright Lights Bigger City," "Crazy" and "Forget You." The 90-minute show – or dance-party – is guaranteed to get you on your feet and is the perfect pre-party for a night out in Vegas.
In order to turn his dream of a Las Vegas residency into a reality, CeeLo assembled a top-notch creative team, including multi-award-winning producer Paul Morphos; world-renowned production/lighting designer Mark Brickman; one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world, Fatima Robinson, who is also the creative director; production manager Geoff Perren; and executive producer Larry Mestel, who is also the Founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music, CeeLo's management company. Apart from his role as executive producer, Mestel has overseen the entire project, keeping the creative team on task and schedule.


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At Adimec, supply chain management means more than simply controlling the supply i.e. knowing what to order and make sure that it arrives on time. The Adimec supply chain is all about planning and communication: planning of future demand and communication between our customers, Adimec and our suppliers.
Our delivery performance is high due to our supply chain management processes for safety stock and second source suppliers. We have involved our suppliers in our supply chain up through our customers. We structure our production in such a way that the highest value addition takes place in the latest stage possible. All of this, combined with continuous communication, enables us to react in a flexible manner to ever-changing customer needs.
We understand that change is not always a good thing when it would impact your system consistency. We have the least product changes through solid product life cycle management of component obsolescence. Our thorough product development process provides a finished product right from the start of production to eliminate the need for frequent upgrades and modifications.
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Here is me doing an amateur review of my new conceal carry revolver the Smith and Wesson 586 L-Comp.
In 4 months I will be out of Marine Corps and be a civilian again after 5 years of active service and a 1 year deployment to Afghanistan. I have been doing my transition classes and getting my VA, Eduction benefits and my college set up. I find myself more afraid of this change then the one to become a Marine in the first place. I don't know if it's normal or just me, but trying to find a job, living place, paying bills, while being a full time student is more scary then getting in a fire fight.
So am going home on leave today and when I get back to Washington am going to buy my first personal firearm. I'm looking at getting a Springfield Armory 1911 .45 Mil Spec or the GI model. Also am going to get my CC permit which also allows me to open carry it loaded. God Bless the 2nd amendment
After watching one the greatest movies (again) Field of Dreams I have done something that I have never thought I would. After 5 years of expelling my Father out of my life ( not going into the reasons why, but let's just say he wasn't a good father after the divorce) I have open the lines of communication between us. I hope this is the first step in patching up our relationship. In the spirit of the movie He and I will be seeing each other after 5 years out a Ball game ( which is one of the few


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Robin Roberts: 'I'm coming home;' GMA anchor returning to desk
Roberts says last bone marrow test shows 'no abnormalities'
Robin Roberts announced Monday on "Good Morning America" that her last bone marrow test showed no abnormalities, and she's ready to get back to work.
"Praise God," Roberts said. "I am beginning the process of returning to the anchor chair. I'm coming home."
Roberts said she should be back some time in February.
Roberts has been undergoing treatment for MDS, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder and has been on medical leave since the end of August.
Next week, she said she plans to do a "dry run," by getting up, getting her makeup and hair done to see how her body reacts to her resumed schedule.
"I don't think there's any one particular timetable we can lay out. We rarely encourage patients to go straight back to work. We usually encourage them to do a few days a week," said Dr. Robert Soiffer, co-chief of the Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Soiffer did not treat Roberts, but is familiar with her type of cancer.
"They want to get back to their jobs; they want to get back to helping their kids. They want to get back to participating in everything. It is a constant challenge after such an aggressive treatment to not do it too soon and risk any complications to their recovery," Massachusetts General Hospital's Dr. Yi-Bin Chen, who like Soiffer did not treat Roberts but is familiar with her type of cancer.
Roberts said her skin is "very sensitive," and her doctors want to see how her skin reacts under the harsh studio lights.
"After a patient's had treatment with chemo or radiation and has received a transplant, your skin is quite sensitive to inflammatory stimulus such as bright lights, sun, extremes of temperature. So I think she needs to be careful with that," Soiffer said.
"People's minds get better faster than their bodies. It's not unusual for people to wake up and feel like they're themselves physically and then try to jump back in to their normal life," Chen said.
Roberts has never been far from viewers' minds, thanks in part to frequent Twitter and Facebook posts. Last week, a Tweet had everyone buzzing.
"Happy Friday. Looking forward to sharing news of my recovery with you on Monday on 'GMA,'" Roberts Tweeted.
Roberts had a bone marrow transplant in September -- a risky procedure that left her weak and vulnerable to infection.
"It's wonderful that there are no bone marrow abnormalities at this point. My attitude is to remain positive that it's going to stay that way for the future," Soiffer said.
"The body has memory and it just needs time to recover. I think what people like Ms. Roberts needs to do is be patient about it and let their body get better. Start slow, take things half pace and just ease their way back in," Chen said.
But through it all, Roberts has been positive and thankful for all the support she's received.
"She's a wonderful ambassador. She's really held up extremely well and has been inspirational to both patients and caregivers alike in how she's approached her disease," Soiffer said. "This is a terrific outcome for her. Things are looking well so far. And hopefully they will continue to do that for her."


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The primary purpose of this position is to ensure all pricing within the store is correct and in compliance with the Stipulated Judgement and Permanent Injunction, dated April 13, 2000. The incumbent is required to perform all tasks in a safe manner consistent with corporate policies and state and federal laws.
The associate is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:
1. Implement weekly price changes, ad sale pricing, and temporary price reductions.
2. Verify the appropriate signage is displayed throughout the store.
3. Audit store merchandise on a daily basis to ensure pricing accuracy.
4. Post and remove all signs associated with promotional programs.
5. Verify discounted and clearance items are priced correctly and the associated signage is correct.
6. Communicate all pricing errors to the Store Manager and Regional Pricing Specialist.
7. Verify the integrity of new plan-o-gram pricing.
8. Ensure all Third Party audits and/or government weights and measures audits are
reported to the Regional Pricing Specialist, Regional Vice President, and Vice President, Quality Assurance, the same day they are conducted.
9. Interact with the Store Manager to verify scan errors are recorded and the scan guarantee log is properly completed and filed.
10. Train new store associates with regard to the correct pricing procedure.
11. Verify the inventory levels of merchandise in advertised events and mark advertisements accordingly when rain checks are issued.
12. Maintain records and files related to pricing accuracy information and audits as required by the California Pricing Manual and the Regional Pricing Specialist.
13. Oversee that store inventory is regularly inspected in accordance with the Product
Freshness Review Schedule.
14. Ensure that all outdated product and product with less than 30 days until expiration is removed from the sales floor to be processed through the established returns process.
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To perform this job successfully, the associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:
-Minimum age of 18 years old due to the maturity level required to complete the essential
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-Ability to pass drug test.
-Committed to providing customer service that makes both internal and external customers feel
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-Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.
-Ability and willingness to move with purpose and a strong sense of urgency.
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-Ability to work within strict time frames and resolute deadlines.
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- 2 Bedrooms Sleeping 4 people
Bedroom 1: Double Bedroom with 1 x Double bed with en-suite bathroom Bedroom 2: Double Bedroom with 2 x Single beds Air Conditioning in each Bedroom.
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No matter how hard you aim to keep your carpet clean, it is likely that years of use, walking, spills, dirt, grime, dust, and anything else that is in the air has accumulated on your carpet. Since it took years to get your carpet this messy, what can you expect from fast carpet cleaning– is it really worth it?
One of the most important thing to know is which carpet cleaning method to pick– there are a few different ones out there. Dry cleaning, using a steam cleaner, or hiring a carpet cleaning company that does fast cleaning professionally are all possibilities. Remember, whatever chemicals you put into your carpet will likely stay there.
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There is one important thing to note here: when you get a fast carpet cleaning El Monte CA, you are not getting the deepest possible cleaning. Nevertheless, that should be common knowledge. What isn't common knowledge is that steam cleaning your carpets doesn't actually utilize steam at all. Those machines that you purchase or rent from the store, or even the ones used by professional cleaners, actually use hot water. You do see steam from the water, but it isn't used to clean anything.
Instead, the machine uses a mixture of hot water and spray detergent that activates on the carpet fibers then the vacuum sucks up the water so that your floor isn't saturated. Note that your floor will still have some wetness.
Dry carpet cleaning, however, often use chemicals that many believe impacts the natural environment and even the health of your residence. It is essential to note that some chemicals are worse than others and more professional carpet cleaners won't use chemicals that will harm you. Still, dry carpet cleaning doesn't tend to get as good of a clean, though they take about the same amount of time to accomplish.
Of course, with steam cleaning, the drying time is longer because you are using more water that goes deep into your carpets as opposed to just hitting the top of the carpet fibers.
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Naturally, cleaning is always more convenient when there are chemicals utilized, but you have to hedge your bets when it pertains to what chemicals you use. The very best carpet cleaning companies will use cleaning mixtures that are safe, hypo-allergenic and don't use dyes or perfumes. You still get the fast and deep cleaning, but you don't get any of the extras.
For a professional carpet cleaner making use of a steam cleaner for fast cleaning, the hot water, and the power behind the professional tools is usually enough to cleanse any chemicals out of the carpet. The models that you can rent at your local grocery store or buy at a big box store generally don't have the power, which is why you use diluted cleaners that don't do as good of a job.
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Patrick Drum, 34, was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for fatally shooting two convicted sex offenders in Washington state in early June.
A Washington state man convicted of fatally shooting two men "because they were sex offenders" was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without possibility of parole, KOMOnews.com reported.
On June 2, Patrick Boyd Drum fatally shot his new roommate, Gary Lee Blanton Jr., 28, at their home in Sequim, Wash. Then, around 9 p.m., Drum drove to the home of Jerry Wayne Ray, 55, also a convicted sex offender, and shot and killed him.
At 9:26 p.m., police received a cell phone call from man who said, "Help, 911, I'm being shot," according to court records obtained by NBC News. Police were not able to trace the call.
At 6:30 a.m. the next morning, deputies responded to neighbors complaining about a suspicious man sitting on their porch. The man had identified himself as Patrick, told the neighbors they had nothing to worry about and then walked away.
Nearby, the deputies found an abandoned rental car issued to Drum, 34, with an empty box of 9mm bullets and a note apologizing for the disturbances, according to the court records.
About an hour later, at 7:40 a.m., Ray's father found him unresponsive at his home.
As police investigated the crime scene, Blanton's wife called saying she hadn't heard from her husband but that she had received a text message from Drum saying the two were going camping. When police arrived at Blanton's home, they found both doors padlocked. Upon entry, they found Blanton dead.
Related: Washington man accused of killing two sex offenders
At 2:30 p.m., after a three-hour manhunt, police found Drum, who told a detective that he shot Ray and Blanton several times "because they were sex offenders," according to the court documents. He told the detective that he had intended to drive to another county and kill a third sex offender, according to the records.
Drum, who pleaded guilty to the double murder, told Judge Ken Williams in July that he wanted to represent himself because "he stood up for a belief and the attorneys don't have the same belief," the Sequim Gazette reported.
In court Tuesday, chastised Drum's supporters, KOMO reported. The wife of one of the two men killed said that people who consider Drum a hero have stalked her home, spat on her family and thrown things at her car.
Blanton, 28, was convicted in 2001 as a teenager of third-degree rape, according to the National Sex Offender Registry. Ray was convicted in 2002 of first-degree rape of a child.
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Instructor Fatality During HPDE
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My condolences to Tom Norby's family and friends. I have a lot of respect for any instructor that rides in a car on a race track with someone else at the wheel. It is their instruction and passion that gets more people into this sport.
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CHICAGO -- This must be bankruptcy emergence week in the club industry. A day after Crunch formally announced its emergence from bankruptcy, Bally Total Fitness, Chicago, announced its emergence today.
Bally's reorganization plan was approved last month by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York. The company filed for bankruptcy in December 2008—its second Chapter 11 filing in 17 months. It emerged from its first bankruptcy in October 2007.
"Bally is moving in the right direction as we continue to systematically improve every aspect of this company," Bally CEO Michael Sheehan said in a statement. "With the dramatic restructuring of our balance sheet and improved financial performance, Bally is now positioned to put 100 percent of our energy towards improving the customer experience and growing our business."
In the reorganized Bally, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Anchorage Advisors LLC own a majority interest in Bally's equity. JP Morgan received 50.5 percent of Bally's equity, and Anchorage received 33.7 percent. The approved plan, which includes financing from Wells Fargo Foothill LLC and CIT Business Credit, will enable Bally to reduce its debt by approximately $700 million to less than $100 million.
Joining Sheehan and current board members Eugene I. Davis and Timothy J. Bernlohr on the board of directors of the reorganized Bally are Kevin J. Corgan and Michael Kerrane of JP Morgan, Daniel Allen and Aaron N. Rosenstein of Anchorage, and Fredric F. Brace, a retired executive with United Airlines.
"The unparalleled financial flexibility we have after emerging from bankruptcy will allow us to make the investments necessary to build Bally into the preeminent fitness chain in the country," Sheehan said. "We have the right team in place and a strategy that will allow us to offer our customers the best experience in the industry."


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Yes, you're in the right place. Yes, it is citrus season. However, some of you know by now I tend to follow my stomach more than trends. Besides, isn't the point of citrus to brighten up a gloomy winter's day? I don't consider overcast skies the real issue here in Southern California. It's just cold, by our standards. Such… Continue reading Recipe Review: Brown Sugar Apple Cobbler
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Recipe Review: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
This wasn't supposed to happen. I wasn't supposed to start the year like this. I had a plan. I was going to make a somewhat healthier dessert using oatmeal. But my bright idea began to flicker, as my cravings took over. I couldn't shake the memory of that glorious Swedish Chocolate Brownie Cake. It had taken all… Continue reading Recipe Review: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
Recipe Review: Swedish Chocolate Brownie Cake
Friends, to say 2015 was nothing like I expected would be a gross understatement. This year has given me more twists and turns than I felt capable of handling. My bright spot has been this blog; knowing I could share my latest dessert discoveries with you. I do miss my adventures around Southern California. However, rekindling my love for… Continue reading Recipe Review: Swedish Chocolate Brownie Cake


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Stamford school receptionist charged with stealing student ID's
STAMFORD -- A Bridgeport woman charged with stealing personal information of students at a medical imaging school where she worked in Stamford, was extradited from North Carolina on Thursday and is facing multiple identity theft and larceny charges.
Bianca Torres, 25, of 1204 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, was arraigned Friday in state Superior Court in Stamford on 17 counts of identity theft and single counts of attempt to commit identity theft and third-degree larceny.
In all, Torres was able to use the fraudulent credit cards to rack up over $4,000 in charges to pay for household bills and airline tickets, and buy furniture.
Torres, who worked as a receptionist at the Institute of Allied Medical Professionals for six weeks and had access to a databank of student personal information, moved to Jacksonville, N.C., over the summer after she was terminated by the school.
Police began investigating Torres on June 28 after a 42-year-old student at the school reported that someone was trying to open up a Victoria's Secret lingerie and Wal-Mart credit lines in her name, according to the arrest affidavit.
The student explained to police that two airline tickets, a Verizon phone bill, a Geico insurance payment, a Cablevision payment, three E-ZPass payments and a furniture store payment had been levied against her bank account. A Wal-Mart charge on a new line of credit of which she was unaware had also been opened for a total loss of $2,570,
The woman told police she did some of her own investigating and found out that the person responsible for the airline charge and furniture charge was Torres.
Following Torres' termination, the school then sent out an emergency email to students and staff telling them to check their credit status and report any unauthorized charges or new lines of credit opened in their names without their knowledge.
Over the next several weeks, police fielded complaints from three students and one from a teacher that either involved the attempted opening of lines of credit in their names or debts incurred in their names by someone unknown to them.
Another student came to police headquarters to report someone tried to open a Victoria's Secret account, and another student reported someone used her Social Security number to open a Wal-Mart account in her name and charged $836.
Another student reported to police that someone had tried to compromise her debit card in order to charge $300 while trying to purchase an online discount account with Wal-Mart. That charge was not processed, the affidavit said.
Then a part-time instructor reported $850 in charges made to her bank account to pay two Geico payments and a loan payment.
During the investigation, police determined that Torres was successful 17 times in purchasing goods and merchandise, as well as paying her own bills and loans in the amount of $4,276, the affidavit said.
The affidavit said she also tried to open up lines of credit in other people's names seven times.
Torres was released on $20,000 bond.
Stamford property crimes Sgt. Peter diSpagna asked that anyone who may be a victim of fraud connected with this case to call 203 977-5828.


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Twitter is punching up its mobile experience on iPhone with more visual interactivity and slickness, according to 9to5Mac.com. The upgrades and updates were leaked on Apple's App Store.
Twitter for iPhone 4.3 will have content previews, videos and images. The autocomplete function is also getting an upgrade.
Another change is the push notification as users can now choose who they want to notified of when that person is active. Tapping a user's avatar taes the tapper to that person's profile page.
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The release notes also highlight that users can manually input passwords when having authentication issues.
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Self-Driving Cars: Will They Shrink Your Insurance Bill?
1 February 2013 - Wall Street Journal
Lawmakers are starting to pass the first set of rules governing self-driving vehicles. But there's one question they haven't addressed that's likely on the minds of some car owners: Will the technology save me money?
So far, Nevada, California and Florida have passed legislation laying out the early rules for cars that don't always have a driver in control. Legislators have gone the furthest in Nevada, where the state's motor vehicle agency laid out rules for testing the automobiles on highways.
Law Blog talked to Bob Hartwig, economist and president of the Insurance Information Institute, a trade association, for insight on how the technology might affect consumers' insurance bill.
The answer, it turns out, isn't all that complicated. The cost of auto insurance, he says, is a function of two things: the frequency of car accidents and their expense.
If the technology succeeds in reducing both, then consumers should see that reflected in the form of lower insurance costs. "If it reduces the total cost associated with motor vehicle accidents, … then yes the cost will go down," he says.
But making that determination is another matter, he says, and will require years of study of the technology and number-crunching by the insurers. "We're on the first page of the first chapter here."
Currently, drivers are able to get discounts on their insurance for buying cars with technologies that improve safety – and this has always been true, says Mr. Hartwig.


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Lindenwood University's Film Series will usher in Halloween with a showing of the classic silent vampire film Nosferatu, including accompaniment with original music performed live by the university's Symphonic Orchestra and Concert Choir. The screening will be at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts' Bezemes Family Theater on campus. Admission is free of charge, but tickets are required. They can be obtained at the Lindenwood Box Office, 636-949-4433.
Based on the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, the 1922 German film by director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a mysterious nobleman from Transylvania whose move to a small German town corresponds with a series of deaths in the town. As in the source work, a small group of locals figures out what is going on and tries to stop the murderous count.
Peter Carlos, one of the organizers of the film series, said the film was an opportunity for the series to collaborate with a number of departments, particularly the schools of fine and performing arts and communications. The music for the show was written by Lindenwood alumnus Adam Tevlin, who graduated in May 2012.
"This is also a great opportunity for our students and the public to see a movie with music performed live, the way it used to be," Carlos said.
Professor Shane Williams, who directs Lindenwood's orchestras, said the film is also an opportunity for audiences to see the premier of these compositions in a truly unique format. The musicians will be on the stage, directed by Williams with the movie projected above them. Vocal portions of the score will be performed by the Lindenwood University Concert Choir, directed by Pam Grooms, chair of the school's music department.
"This movie is a silent film, and the music was written specifically for this event," Williams said. "This is the kind of experience that doesn't just happen all the time."
Williams said the experience is new for the student performers, too, because they were able to work directly with the composer and they will perform the music throughout the 80 minute film with none of their typically breaks between numbers that come with their usual performances.
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At least four East County youth will be performing in the "Death by Chocolate" concert at Booker High School tonight and Saturday.
This night of jazz featuring the Berklee Award-winning Booker High School Vocal Jazz ensemble and Jazz Combo includes live performances as well as a hearty supply of chocolate, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 22 and at 7 p.m., and 8:30 p.m., Jan. 23 at Booker High School, 3201 N. Orange Ave., Sarasota.
"It's really an enjoyable night," East County student performer Andrea Medred said. "It's all professional charts. It's really relaxed and we have a lot of fun."
Other East County youth performing in the event include Josie Fleming, Donnie DeFraties and Mary-Katherine Kerr.
Tickets cost $10. Contact Booker High School at 355-2967 to reserve a seat.
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Making connections: Bridging racial divisions in the LGBTQ2S* community
LGBTQ2S* rights have come a long way, and we know there's still a long way to go. Yet some things are continually overlooked, like the glaring gap in conversation and action around race.
"It's a major problem," says Uzoma, a Winnipeg woman who identifies as black, and prefers to go by first name only for safety reasons.
She's the initiating force behind a new queer people of colour (QPOC) group that held its first dance party for QPOC and allies during Pride this year. Although Winnipeg has many strong LGBTQ2S* groups, most are white-dominated. "There's a danger with the queer community just because the experience of being queer in itself is an experience of existing on the margins," says a local queer woman of colour who is using the pseudonym Jill for fear of backlash.
"There can be a tendency to think that because we exist in this space, we don't have to deal with the issues like racism, or we've figured that stuff out. We haven't."
Ray Hogg's experience as a local black gay man and artistic director of Rainbow Stage, is one of finding himself in a homogenous Winnipeg culture, where the environments he works in every day are mainly made up of white people. He attributes this partly to Winnipeg being a small city. "I haven't directly been on the receiving end of any overt racism in the queer community or any other community in Winnipeg. But I am on the receiving end constantly of systemic racism…. Those who have straight privilege or white privilege or cis privilege… naturally and without thinking, discriminate against me and fail to recognize that they're doing that."
Uzoma says the QPOC group is necessary because, "(It) triggers a conversation that people (who are not directly facing the issues) have not been having."
Hogg would like to see people take the responsibility of actively empathizing. "As a community, the queer community is an oppressed community; it's a misunderstood community and it's being discriminated against. And so it behooves us as gay people, or whatever you want to call us all, to think about other marginalized members, and care for them."
Albert McLeod has seen some of the ways marginalization plays out on the front lines with the most vulnerable, in his work with two-spirit youth.
"For aboriginal youth coming into the (queer) scene, a lot of places they get exploited," he says.
In his work as a co-director with Two-Spirited People of Manitoba, and the AIDS movement, McLeod has seen a lot. "There's been a history of many aboriginal youth—they come to the city, they're HIV-positive within a couple of years, then get discarded and then they move away to other cities, and that's where they die. It's life on the very fringes of society."
Winnipeg is home to the largest urban aboriginal population in Canada, and Manitoba as a whole encompasses the territory of at least 63 First Nations.
Part of Two-Spirited People of Manitoba's advocacy work is bridge- building between the aboriginal community and broader LGBTQ* community. The organization also offers workshops to schools and does research on two-spirit people's experiences.
One academic project published from the research, titled Aboriginal Two-Spirit and LGBTQ Migration, Mobility and Health, draws a parallel: "Colonization is sometimes presented in public policy discourse as a thing of the past." The result, according to the report, is that indigenous people are rendered invisible and current colonization is ignored and enabled. "Similarly, some people may underestimate the effects of homophobia given the advances that have been made in Canada regarding same-sex rights. Yet the results from this study clearly show the continuing impact of colonization, racism and homophobia on many people's lives," reads an excerpt from the study.
"The intersection of gender and race is a dangerous place to be," says McLeod, quoting a friend.
Denying that racism is a problem in Winnipeg's queer community can only perpetuate it, says Uzoma, but being willing to feel uncomfortable means being willing to grow.
The QPOC group in Winnipeg will be working hard to bring more events to the community as the year moves ahead. Dance parties, Sunday pickup basketball, open-mic nights and more are in the works.
Uzoma says from there, "We'd like to formally put together a presentation for other LGBTQ organizations… on the unique issues of queer people of colour."


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Ms. Nancy Forbes is not your typical physics graduate. She earned her first bachelor's degree in comparative literature and then a master's degree in Spanish. After finishing these degrees, Forbes worked for the automobile company Fiat in Italy and as a financial journalist for the Wall Street Transcript. She returned to school at 28 and was considering medicine as a second career before she "fell in love with physics." Forbes had little background in physics and worked hard to obtain her bachelor's degree before going on to graduate school in physics.
By her second year of graduate school, Forbes says that she was not only tired of school, but also was realizing that her goal of a tenure-track theoretical physics faculty position was distant. She was also concerned that a physics research career would be too narrow for her, since she felt she had a broad range of skills including writing and knowledge of foreign languages.
"In addition," she says, "I had little [academic] support, didn't do well on my qualifiers (having little of the requisite background)," and felt the environment was unbalanced and even harsh towards women. "Maybe if I had found a supportive advisor, and a good experimental research group, it would have been different. However, I persisted in wanting to do theory, and so I was isolated, probably depressed, and down about my future—and felt I had better prospects outside of physics. That said, I think I also left part of my heart in the physics world when I left."
Forbes took a one-year appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) after leaving graduate school. "It gave me a year to think things over, while still remaining in the physics environment," she says. "Coincidently, the experiment I was working on was a BNL/Yale experiment in nuclear physics, and my colleagues talked me into writing Allan Bromley, a Yale nuclear physicist, then Bush senior's Science Advisor in DC, about my career plans. Bromley was great, a super mentor. He invited me to Washington DC, told me even though I lacked a PhD I had excellent [communication] skills and that Washington needed more scientists who could write." In addition to her conversations with Dr. Bromley, Forbes also met Dr. Harvey Brooks (then of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government). "Brooks was a physicist turned science policy expert, and he also helped me get into the [science policy] field," she says.
How did Forbes decide that science policy was the right career choice for her? "I had a strong writing and literature background and liked people," she says. Both Dr. Bromley and Dr. Brooks convinced her of the vitality of writing and publishing. She says it was "the importance of the issues and the chance to help inject sound science into public policy through clear and accurate writing" that attracted her to the field.
Mentoring played a key role in Forbes career choice. In addition to Drs. Bromley and Brooks, she found other mentors in Mark Sakitt, who was working on national security policy at Brookhaven, and Harvard's Lewis Branscomb. Forbes was also influenced by her Columbia physics professor I.I. Rabi, "who in some way encouraged us to develop an awareness for the impact of science on society, and to not shirk our responsibility in this respect—and that being a physicist meant being aware of how physics and science affect the outside world," she says.
Forbes networked and did informational interviews to prepare for her career change. She traveled to Washington, D.C. several times to interview people she had met and read a lot about the field. Her humanities background was helpful, she says, "as I already knew how to write well." Forbes says the transition was somewhat difficult, including learning how to tailor a resume to her field. "My first resume was way too detailed; a friend of mine in the business environment helped me a lot to tailor my first resume," she says. In hindsight, her transition to a science policy career was gradual; she acknowledges that applying for an AAAS policy fellowship might have been a more direct route.
Forbes' networking helped her land her first job. Bromley, she says, "helped connect me with people here in DC. I got my first job at ICF Kaiser by conducting an information interview with a physicist on their staff, and a few months later, he contacted me about an opening they had and I got the job." Her job at ICF Kaiser, Inc. involved doing risk assessments for the Department of Transportation on transportation of spent nuclear fuel and work for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office. Forbes has also worked on technology assessments for the EPA over a two-year period, served as a consultant for the American Institute of Physics and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) for a year, and provided scientific, technical and systems engineering support for organizations such as the National Reconnaissance Office and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) over a five-year period. She also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as a senior analyst for three years, receiving the CIA Exceptional Performance Award, and was in charge of the Emerging Threats Program as a senior researcher for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for over a year.
In the beginning of 2006, Forbes left DHS and started working as an independent consultant. Her clients now include the National Academy of Sciences and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's National Coordination Office for Networking and IT Research. She has written one book and is working on a second, as well as several articles. While Forbes has worked with a number of different agencies in different capacities, she says, "the common thread through all my jobs has been to help provide the government with sound science information as the basis for policy, through good research and clear, accurate analysis and writing."
What is the outlook for science policy careers? Forbes says, "I see the government continuing to outsource more, so there'll be more opportunities in S&T policy in the private sector—in policy, military and even intelligence arenas. In addition, as technology increasingly affects the way we live and communicate, the economy, global health, even how we wage war, it will be ever more important to provide the government with good S&T advising ... based, of course, on an ability to 'translate' the results of sound science to the lay person and government policymaker."
Forbes' advice for students interested in a non-traditional career is to, "network, network, network." For those interested in her field she recommends the AAAS Science Policy Fellowships and internship opportunities at the National Academies. As for what she would have done differently, Forbes says, "I would have steered towards a PhD in public policy at a good school like Harvard or MIT. As it was, after being in school for so long, I preferred learning on the job to going back to school. However, here in DC, having a PhD in the science policy world can be a ticket to many jobs. I didn't have that ticket so I had to work harder," she says. Having only a Master's matters less, she says, "as I now have a solid publications list (30+ pubs in IEEE magazines and in the now defunct AIP's The Industrial Physicist), a book on biologically-inspired computing with another about 19th century British physics on the way, and lots of good contacts." She adds, "Be curious, keep your eyes open, think about where you want to head career-wise. Learn good communication skills, especially writing. Most importantly, talk to people working in those fields to see if you think you'd like working in that area."
Forbes offers some additional advice for women in science. She has been a member of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) since graduate school and says, "I've always found a lot of support there." She adds, "I would look into things like the APS Forum on Physics and Society, and join organizations like AWIS and Women in International Security (WIIS) based at Georgetown University." Women's issues are important to her she says, "because coming from a not-very-women-friendly physics department, I needed the support and encouragement. And it seems even since then, I've ended up in male-dominated fields, so having organizations like AWIS has been a real help to me. And I like mentoring as well—giving back, so to speak."


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Lizards change their diet to avoid predators
A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Negev Desert in the Near East. According to the study, these reptiles move less and catch less mobile and different prey if they are under pressure from predators. Many theoretical models had predicted this result, but until now there had been very few experimental trials and none in the case of saurians (reptiles). This experiment by Dror Hawlena, a researcher at Yale University in the United States, and Valentín Pérez-Mellado, a researcher at the University of Salamanca, has shown that certain animals, such as the insectivore lizard Acanthodactylus beershebensis, can change their behaviour and diet to avoid being eaten.
"When there is greater pressure from predators, the individuals tend to move less and catch more mobile prey from somewhat different groups. The lizards' diet and food-seeking behaviour changed significantly when we experimentally increased the predation pressure on them", Pérez-Mellado tells SINC.
The study, published recently in the journal Oecologia, shows that reptiles threatened by predators become less selective and eat a more diverse range of foods, according to Pérez-Mellado, who was in charge of analysing their diet in Spain. The field work done over the summer months in 2000 and 2001 in the Negev Desert in Israel was carried out by Hawlena.
The scientists studied the species' diet data (trophic ecology) in two different situations – with and without predators. The Spanish researcher analysed the contents of 327 faecal pellets taken from 291 different lizards in order to reconstruct their diet. Ants were the prey most commonly consumed by the lizards, both by those at risk (69.32%) and the controls (67.12%), followed by insects such as termites (19.14% and 19.17% respectively). The difference could be clearly seen in the consumption of seeds, because the lizards hardly consumed these (0.52%) when they were under threat from predators.
An ingenious experiment in the desert
In order to reach these conclusions, Hawlena, who is from the University of the Negev in Israel, designed an experiment that made it possible to prove that the presence of predators affects the behaviour and ecology of this endemic species. "A series of artificial perches were placed in a desert site, which made it easier for shrikes (small birds of prey that catch lizards) to make use of the area, since they could detect the lizards from raised perches such as trees and bushes. These perches were not placed in a similar site nearby, which was used as the control site", explains Pérez-Mellado.
Source: FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology
Other sources
- Lizards change their diet to avoid predatorsfrom Biology News NetThu, 3 Dec 2009, 1:21:09 UTC
- Lizards change their diet to avoid predatorsfrom PhysorgWed, 2 Dec 2009, 17:35:24 UTC
- Lizards change their diet to avoid predatorsfrom Science BlogWed, 2 Dec 2009, 16:07:36 UTC


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Comet Lulin, photographed here about 100 million miles away, will be passing within 38 million miles of Earth from February 23rd to mid-March, which apparently puts it within binocular range.
Some quick facts about Comet Lulin: it was discovered in July 2007, and is frequently visible to the naked eye (though seeing it through binoculars during the aforementioned window will give you a much clearer look). It'll appear about 2 degrees south-southwest of Saturn before it disappears out into the dark abyss in mid-March. The above photo shows the comet's tail off and to the right, and the fading red and blue light comes from the X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes, respectively. [Wired]


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Wow! I can't believe they have St John's Ambulance just like at a music festival!
I had no idea fish markets were opened beyond midnight!! That seems pretty cool, I wish i knew earlier so i could have made a visit for the hype!
Enjoyed reading your blog post again Simon :) Merry Christmas!
Simon, its great to see your commitment to the seafood cause by attending the fish markets at midnight! Impressive... whilst most of us (me) were zzzzzzz :)
hi madam wu, it would be interesting to know if anyone actually needed first aid too. must get really busy during the day.
hi food is our religion, i've been doing the midnight run for a few years now.
hi jess, have a merry xmas too.
hi kerancia, i'd probably be rather sleeping as well hehe
We wanted to do the midnight run but too much effort. So kudos for doing it! We did head down early morning though and fortunately to find parking.
hi penny, i always worry what the traffic would be like during the day. how were the crowds? really crazy or OK?


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London Broncos new boy Tommy Lee admitted head coach Tony Rea would be working his men hard to turn a losing Super League start on its head this weekend.
Broncos travel to Lee's former club Huddersfield Giants on Sunday, and the 24-year-old hooker said everyone would put their nose to the grindstone to get a win.
"We're obviously disappointed with the overall performance but based on the build-up and the way we've prepared and trained, I thought we could have done things a lot better," he said earlier this week.
"Obviously, it's a long season so we're not going to be too disheartened.
"We know we've got a lot of things to improve on next week against a tough Huddersfield team.
"It'll be a tough week training and we're back into it. We know we've got a lot of improvement and we're a better team than that."
Rea already has early season injury concerns with captain Craig Gower, who limped out of last week's 28-14 defeat to Widnes Vikings, a doubt for the trip north.
There was even worse news when it was confirmed David Howell has broken his arm in the clash, which featured a Kieran Dixon brace and a try from Chris Melling.