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"Most volunteers are seniors," said Albert Juszczak, executive director of the center. "They volunteer during the day. Their life experiences are a definite plus."
Juszczak worked in real estate before working at the Greenpoint senior center. He was then asked to make the jump to Glenridge. Juszczak proudly lists the programs and services offered at his senior center.
"We provide lunch seven days a week along with wellness, aerobics, yoga, eldercise, and seminars and lectures," he said.
Juszczak notes that for many members, the senior center is all they have.
"The kids are grown up and they move away, a spouse dies, and suddenly they're all alone," he said. "We provide companionship, medical activities, and specialists. We want to be a social net, safety net, and health net.
Juszczak hopes to be able to offer breakfast everyday but for now the senior center is beginning to offer breakfast twice a week. Juszczak is proud that a recent renovation has been completed. "We have a big screen projector. We're going to be screening movies for the members," he said.
But Juszczak become most impassioned when explaining his philosophy behind the interaction of young and old through volunteering.
"It's a two-way bridge," he said. "Seniors become energized when young people are around. The youth brings them up to date on what's going on. And the youth can learn a lot from seniors and their life experiences."
Juszczak thinks that communities are much more "diffuse" than they used to be.
"Local parishes used to be the magnet for the area," he said. "Now I think senior centers should play a larger role in the community. People want a place to call their own."


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Ignoring the invariable warning issued to people wishing to stand up for their rights that it "isn't the right time,� on May Day a million and a half immigrants across the nation boycotted work, school, and shopping and instead hit the street to mark a "Day Without Immigrants.�
Here in New York City, from Jackson Heights to Washington Heights well over 100,000 people turned out to demonstrate.
At precisely 12:16 PM – the time chosen to mark the moment last December 16th when the House of Representatives passed a bill that would turn more than 11 million undocumented immigrants into felons – immigrants and their allies joined hands in human chains. The most massive show of strength took place later in the afternoon at Union Square, followed by a march down Broadway to Foley Square, across from the federal immigration building.
At the Union Square rally, which was emceed by the noted labor organizer Brenda Stokely, many speakers addressed the issue of unity. NYC Council Member and U.S. Congressman-in-waiting Charles Barron stated that people should not allow the Republican Party to divide and conquer them. "It is not the Mexicans that are a threat to African American jobs; it is the Republicans,� he declared.
Barron went on to note that just as African Americans should support the struggle of immigrants, immigrants should support the struggle of African Americans to get jobs and fight racism. "We cannot forget African American citizens who are at the center of discrimination in the job market,� he concluded.
Speaking in the same vein was Chuck Mohan, founder of Guyanese American Workers United. He emphasized the fact that the immigrant struggle is not Latino, African, Caribbean, or Asian. "The struggle includes all of us equally,� he asserted. "There are those who would like to divide us by pitting one group against another, but we can't let that happen. We must forge a genuine unity that links us with the continued struggle of African Americans, Native Americans, and women.�
Bringing his own message of unity was Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, who is himself an immigrant from Trinidad & Tobago. He pointed out that American workers need to understand that attacks on immigrants are linked to attacks on them when they fight for their rights. "Your presence out here today makes every American worker stronger,� Toussaint told the crowd. "I call on all labor leaders to redouble our commitment to organizing the new American workforce.�
Also present was Council Member Kendall Stewart who said, "Brothers and sisters, I hail from the Caribbean; I am the Chair of the City Council Immigration Committee, and I am here to say I stand in solidarity with you.� He concluded by calling for his own brand of unity: "Just because some of us are now citizens, we should not forget those who have just arrived.�
A strong solidarity could be felt among the protesters as well. Trinidadian Yvette Rennie said, "It's very important for us to unite to achieve the so-called American dream. This is not just a Mexican issue but a human issue. We must come together to let the people running this country know we are not going to stand for inhumane treatment.�
Hazel Beckles Young Lao, who is also from Trinidad and Tobago, commented that she remembers when her mother came here as a domestic worker in the sixties, just like Mexicans now. "People would like us to think that the problem is just the Mexicans, but the problem starts much earlier and is with the job market itself,� she explained. "And if they come for the Mexicans in the morning, we'd better watch out because they're coming for the Caribbeans in the afternoon.�
Donna King, who is a proud member of 1199/SEIU, said simply that along with being in the union, she's an immigrant from Trinidad, and they are all affected equally by whatever decision Congress makes.
Soon the protesters gathered behind the lead banner – which read "Immigrants Rights Are Workers Rights� in English and Spanish – for their march down Broadway to Foley Square. Leading the march were Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Council Member Charles Barron, Roger Toussaint and many other dignitaries. Following them were tens of thousands of energetic, vocal people displaying signs in many languages and waving flags. One young man marched in a graduation cap and gown with a stethoscope around his neck. His sign read, "This Is My American Dream.�
As chants such as "Si se puede! – Yes we can!� reverberated through the canyon of buildings, people leaving work stopped to watch the moving throng that extended as far as the eye could see north and south. Many pedestrians cheered the marchers on, and store employees stood in their entranceways, some holding signs of their own, to express their solidarity. In a very appropriate symbolic gesture, some people threw shredded paper from an upper window as though they were participating in a ticker tape parade to honor this nation's invaluable immigrants and to thank them for their hard work.
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Ensure Accurate Time with an Atomic Wall Clock
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Written By Richard Williams for Galleon Systems
Accuracy in timekeeping is forever becoming more important in the modern global economy. Industries and business around the globe are now often communicating with each despite the time zone differences.
There was a time when a few minutes here or there rarely mattered but now, knowing exactly what time it is has become more and more important as conference calls and over-the-internet webinars are often scheduled as part of regular business.
Global Timescale
Fortunately, to prevent the headache of working out all the different time-zones you may have to deal with, there is a global timescale that is now adopted by the global community. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is an atomic clock controlled time used globally and kept precise and accurate by physics laboratories around the world.
UTC enables accurate communication and forms and is used by many high end technologies to ensure accuracy such as the network time server (NTP server – Network Time Protocol). Often these devices receive the UTC time directly from atomic clocks thanks to radio broadcasts from people like NIST (USA's National Institute for Standards and Time) and NPL (UK's National Physical Laboratory)
Atomic Wall Clocks
And when it comes to people telling the time, these same radio signals can also be utilised by an atomic wall clock. Atomic wall clocks, despite what the name suggests, are not atomic clocks. In essence they are comprised of a standard clock device and a radio antenna and receive. The atomic clocks signals broadcast by the physics laboratories can be received and the clock regularly adjusts itself to ensure that the clock is accurate to UTC to the second.


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A serious piece of sentimental wartime propaganda, The Fighting Sullivans came in answer to one of the biggest media events of the home front: On November 12, 1942 five brothers of the Sullivan family, all serving on the U.S.S. Juneau, were killed in action when the ship was sunk by the Japanese. The news of the Sullivans hit hard. Hundreds of thousands of households dreaded the possibility that death messengers might come to tell them that their sons, fathers or husbands had perished. One mother losing five boys in one day made for alarming headlines. Deployment policy was changed to insure that brothers would no longer be assigned to the same fighting units.
The sentimental film functioned less as a defense of war policy than as a collective memorial to lost war veterans. The Sullivans were an instant symbol of patriotism and American values, and a supremely positive spin was put on their loss. The film is infinitely interesting as a proto- "docudrama." Although highly fictionalized, the movie has the good sense not to end with speeches reading greater meaning into the Sullivans' sacrifice: That part of the story the audience already knew too well.
We don't expect The Fighting Sullivans to be the unvarnished truth but it is undeniably sincere. The cruel irony of their story made the enormous national war sacrifice seem 'real' to America, and the filmmakers present them as pure patriots, offering an idealized view of an ordinary American working-class family. They're Irish Catholics. Dad's solid railroad job gives them a modest house, but none of the brothers assume they're going to college. The various childhood vignettes establish that the family is loving and close. The boys are good kids but they have a reputation as scrappers, and Father's discipline doesn't deter them from getting into trouble. An episode where they unsuccessfully launch a homemade boat is used to telegraph future events. The tone is somewhere between the Our Gang kids, Frank Capra cutups and Tom Sawyer, with an extra dose of Gentleman Jim - the "ready to fight anytime" part. Surely these bright-eyed, true-blue boys are the nation's greatest resource. The 'childhood' section of the story ends with a pan across a dinner table lined with the kind of earnest faces that make mothers cry for joy.
Their one sister, Genevieve (Trudy Marshall) might as well be a hat rack in the hallway, the way the film ignores her. The focus is on the brothers, and not a moment goes by without them doing something 'meaningful' in relation to the fate we know they will share.
Beautiful neighborhood girl Katherine appears and Al wants to marry her. The brothers taunt her cruelly but then realize their error and help to reunite the sweet hearts. No other ambitious plans are made for the future. When Al is laid off, the brothers steer him to a job in the meat packing plant.
War comes and the Sullivans literally march off to battle in a signature shot of the four rounding a neighborhood street corner, arm in arm. Al runs to catch up; Katherine sends him off to fight with her baby in her arms. It's the right thing to do, plain and simple.
The boys use a letter from their congressman to get the US Navy to assign them all to the same ship. The Fighting Sullivans is careful to make clear that they all stay together at their own insistence; recruiter Ward Bond grudgingly gives in to their wishes. It's well established that Navy policy was changed because of this very public tragedy.
The Fighting Sullivans then leaps almost directly to an idealized version of the end of the U.S.S. Juneau. When George is wounded, another brother mans an ack-ack gun and shoots down a plane, which ironically crashes into the ship. Interestingly, the film also shows a sequence of events (a fabrication?) that makes the brothers seem responsible for their own demise. After the call to abandon ship, they defy orders to rush down to sickbay to get George. Strictly speaking, it looks as though five die instead of one because the emotional Sullivans put family interests ahead of their duty.
The movie makes the last scenes quick and somber, as Ward Bond comes with the bad news. Genevieve and Katherine run from the room in tears but there are no overblown histrionics. Mother and father are still staring in shock a year later when they help the Navy christen the U.S.S. The Sullivans. As the ship slides down the ways, Mother says, "Our boys are afloat again." A brief coda shows the five brothers walking into the clouds of legend.
Although Fox distributed The Sullivans, the film is copyrighted as a "U.S.S. The Sullivans, Inc. Production." I believe that Anne Baxer was definitely a Fox contractee at the time. The film print as shown has no "buy war bonds" seal on its "The End" card, another curious detail. I can't imagine this film being exhibited without somebody taking up a collection. It opened to only mild boxoffice and was re-titled The Fighting Sullivans and given a more battle-oriented ad campaign.
VCI's The Fighting Sullivans Commemorative Edition packs a lot of material onto two discs. It opens with two cards acknowledging sources and research personnel. The menu design is ambitious but technically primitive. Disc one has a textless trailer (no narration, no titles) and a couple of scrolling text bios. The film itself is a clean source, reasonably well transferred and encoded.
Disc two is crammed with information gleaned from a permanent Sullivans exhibit, much of which plays out in scrolling text pages superimposed over a patriotic image of an Eagle and a flag. The Sullivans enlisted on January 3, 1942 and were serving at sea only a few weeks later. However, the two oldest had already become sailors in 1937 and had just finished three years of service (some on 'medical assignment') before re-enlisting with their brothers. The youngest were all put on a sea-duty fast track, presumably to keep them with their more experienced older siblings. One wonders if this was a common practice, or whether the Congressman twisted the rules. A Sullivan photo album includes images of George Sullivan's Blackhawk Motorcycle Club activities. It looks as if newspapers clipped and snipped a couple of existing group snapshots dozens of times to satisfy the need for images of all five brothers together.
A grand-niece tells the story of the Sullivans, who did indeed enlist to avenge a friend killed on the Arizona. There are also text-and-still representations of a letter from President Roosevelt and an explanatory piece about the 'freedom flags' that were placed in the windows of families with sons in the service. I checked with my mother, who doesn't remember the flags having a name. She doesn't recall them being called flags, either.
More extras are provided by small videos produced for the Grout Veterans' Museum in Waterloo, Iowa, home to the Sullivans. Also included are videotaped testimonials given at ceremonial dinners honoring the veterans. One ex-sailor eyewitness says that the Juneau sunk only twenty seconds after being struck by a torpedo.
The disc mentions twice that the film inspired Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, a movie with a puzzling concept. The whole point of the Sullivans is that the brothers represented ALL of the boys lost and families broken by wartime sacrifice. The Spielberg movie makes a grotesque case out of the need to save one particular soldier (a last remaining brother) as if the entire war effort were less important than removing him from harm's way. As a nation, we just can't seem to identify with tragedy any more unless it's narrowed to one person, and then we forget the context that his example is supposed to represent. That lost context is felt in every frame of The Fighting Sullivans.
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FWISD Slates Day of Service Honoring Chávez, Huerta
A rally, keynote presentation by civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, service projects and break-out sessions are how Fort Worth ISD students are observing the District's inaugural day of service honoring Ms. Huerta and César Chávez.
On Monday, March 25, Fort Worth ISD will become the first school district in Texas with a student holiday honoring the lives and legacy of the Latinx leaders who worked 30 years advocating for the civil rights of labor workers. District employees must still report to work.
The District expects 400 high school students to participate in a César Chávez and Dolores Huerta Day of Service event at 9 a.m. at Tarrant County College- Trinity River Campus where Ms. Huerta is slated to speak.
"We will be in the presence of greatness," Sherry Breed, FWISD's chief of equity of excellence, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a recent article. "We want [students] know, not only how to advocate for themselves, we want them to know there are heroes and 'sheroes' who are still with us. We want them to hear from them directly."
The event will also include performances and presentations from Young Women's Leadership Academy Cheer, North Side High School's Mariachi Espuelas de Plata, My Brother's Keeper, Girls, Inc. and Con Mi Madre.
Following the keynote, students have the option to participate in community service and leadership break-out sessions or board buses for service projects at Cook Children's Medical Center, Presbyterian Night Shelter, Eastside Blossoms, Community Food Bank, and the Fort Worth Safe House. About 100 students are expected to volunteer.
Transportation to and from the day's events at TCC is provided to all participating students.
"It's not so much a day off for students, but a day for them to be of service to their community, their neighborhood or just helping out at home," said Jacinto Ramos Jr., FWISD Board of Education trustee.
Luella Merrett Elementary School is inviting the campus community and school partners to participate in a 165-foot community mural project from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The mural, depicting literacy from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, will be painted on the wall belonging to the Frank Kent Cadillac Body Shop in the 7600 block of Kermit Avenue. Trustee Norm Robbins is slated to kick off the Luella Merrett Community Project with remarks at 8:30 a.m.
"We are excited for our school community, local businesses, local churches and FWISD families to come together on César Chávez and Dolores Huerta Day to paint a beautiful mural," said Principal Karelyn Roberts. "This collaborative community mural project will be a colorful symbol in our community of unity, the importance of education and the power of working together for generations to come."
More than 62 percent of students in the Fort Worth District are Hispanic.
The Board approved a resolution in April 2018 establishing the annual observance honoring Mr. Chávez and Ms. Huerta the Monday before Chávez's birth date on March 31.
FWISD's Day of Service is one of several local events being held to honor Mr. Chávez and Ms. Huerta this month across Fort Worth. All Tarrant County offices are closed March 25 in observance of Chávez. The Cesar Chávez Committee of Tarrant County will host its 19th solidarity walk and rally, Saturday, March 30 to honor the civil rights leaders.
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So the Judge has re-written the law himself because congress didn't write and include it in the law themselves. This judge or anyone else for that matter cannot think on what congress should/would have done with regards to what they write in law in or not. It is for the matter of congress and congress alone to write the law etc. and no one else. If congress wanted "It is doubtful that Congress would stamp with approval a procedural rule permitting a corporate defendant to intentionally violate the laws of this country, yet evade the jurisdiction of United States' courts by purposefully failing to establish an address here." then congress should have written it in the law in the first place but they didn't. The judge is making the law up as what he has stated is not written in law. Still they can serve Kim Dotcom when he steps foot on US once he is extradited but I believe that the extradition will be refused as all the Illegal action committed by US and NZ with regards to illegal warrant, illegal search and raid and illegal transfering of data to the US and now the illegal spying will no doubt add weight in the extradition hearing that Kim Dotcom will not get a fair trail due to the illegal acction by the US and NZ. I am sure that a lot more revelations and further illegal action will be revealeed in the forthcoming weeks of illegal action committed by both the US and NZ. If there is no extradition then there will be no court case and Kim Dotcom will not be found guilty (if he is guilty) and if he is found to be guilty without his presence then that will show what a kangroo and injustice of the US judiciary system is.
If you should happen to pay this settlement then there is nothing to stop the company in question say 6 months down the line to send you another another letter asking for more money and with pointing out them by them that as you have previously paid us we will use this as evidence of guilt that you have settled out of court. Pay up this new amount or fact court action. Extorntionist blackmailer strikes again and will continue to extortinate the same people who pay up over and over again for more and more money because they now have them in trapped in their web.
If only someone would deploy the captcha for the use of DMCA takedown requests. This may put a stop or even limit to the automated bots.
Google should comply with this DMCA regarding Bing and take the link down. Should Microsoft complain then Google should point out that they were doing there job in taking the link down as required by the DMCA.
""But what he meant to say was that some of the automatic matches will be sent to be reviewed "by the content owner" — not by Google""
And what is to stop this so called "the content owner" lying with stating that the copyright belongs to them when it doesn't.
But Megaupload will not be going away when Megabox takes off in the next few weeks it will be another thorn in the side of Hollywood that they will so desperately want to remove which they will not be able too. All this publicity that Meguapload that is generating will no doubt ensure that Megabox becomes a success.
Kim Dotcom will not be extradited and if is not extradited then there will be no court case and he won't be found guilty and sent to jail. All the ILLEGALITY with regards to illegal search warrant, illegal raid, illegal transfering of data from NZ to the US and now the illegal spying etc. will add weight to ensure that the extradition will be refused. The US DOJ can scream and shout, spit and spat all it wants to get Kim Dotcom extradited but it wont help them.
The Meagupload case will fail before Kim Dotcom is brought to tril http://www.decryptedtech.com/editorials/someone-should-tell-the-mpaa-dont-poke-the-bear
Mini-Me, Dr. Evil may still be heading to an all expenses paid vacation to the Super Max in Florence, Colorado but Kim Dotcom is not going to be a visitor as he won't be extradited.
So you have seen and read all evidence and documentation with your own eyes or are you just reading and thinking that everything in the Indictment must be true?
None of the Evidence and documentation given and stated in the Indictment or gathered by the FBI etc has been proven as actual fact or proved as true in a court of law. It is so easy to trawl through documentation and take out all the shit and dirt from it to show that the person is guilty etc when in actual fact the person is innocent. The FBI can trawl through Little Red Hiding Hood and make her come across to be a psychotic schizophrenic murdering psycopath but on seeing all the film she is just a sweet innocent girl.
If the FBI HAD already sezied control of the servers then there would be no way that Kim Dotcom could have destroyed any of the evidence if the servers were already seized. So why the need for a SWAT style response etc. when NO way could the evidence be destroyed as it was already seized. FBI or whoever are just trying to come up with something to jusify the fact when the fact couldn't have happened being as they already took care of it beforehand.
"I don't see how the case is not a success so far for the U.S. Dotcom et al. are all indicted and awaiting extradition."
Dotcom et al has NEVER been served with an indictment. Megaupload has never been served with an inidictment because it cannot be served with one because the company is based outside of the US and a foreign company cannot be served under US law which is my understanding. If an indictment cannot be served because it is a foreign company according to US law then who is at fault for not getting an indictment served.
""For example, in January – in one of the largest criminal copyright cases in U.S. history – the Department indicted two corporations and seven individuals with operating an international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works, through Megaupload.com and other related sites.""
Megaupload has never been served with an indictment so how can it be indicted when it hasn't and so far can't be indicted. How can you call it being indicted as successfull when it hasn't been served as per stated in the US court and so far can't because it is outside of the US which is being argued in US court right now. The mind boggles.
The more countries that the US adds to the Special 301 list the more lonelier the US will be.
I wonder if the American Entertainment industry will now write a new law for the peopoe of Portugal as they did for Spain.
I wonder if they will stamp all over the new Megabox service (should it launces)in order to stfile out the competition before it gets a foot hold.
"It appears that the RIAA and MPAA are pretty scared about this possibility. They've filed quite the amicus brief in the case claiming that buying goods overseas and selling them in the US is the equivalent of piracy. No joke:"
Well in that case the RIAA and MPAA should start bribing the US government to ban all countries imports and trades with the US from entering the country to be sold. They should also bribe the US government to create an internet wall of US and ban all non US websites from being accessed too. This should stop people importing goods into the US to be sold and therefore no more piracy.
This of course will never happen because if the US created a great internet wall of US and stopped all imports and trades then there will be lots of jobs destroyed and the US economy will totally suffer.
I wonder if the DOJ in the Megaupload case will file for voluntary dismisall if it transpires in the extradition hearing next year (for which the DOJ etc. have now been told that they now have to/must give fuller discloser of evidence etc.) that Kim Dotcom and co. cannot be extradited. I bet that if Kim Dotcom and co. wins against extradition and cannot be extradited that should the DOJ file for voluntary dismisal of Megaupload that it will refuse to give back all the assets and monies seized from Kim Dotcom.
Crimestoppers has joined with FACT to make it as easy as possible for you to report criminal activity related to the manufacture, distribution and sale of pirate DVDs as well as people using the internet to make stolen films and TV programmes available.
"It can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to prosecute an infringer, especially in cases such as this where the crown refuses to prosecute."
That sentance really made me laugh. According to the MPAA piracy costs them Millions. So to prosecute someone would only cost tens of thousands of pounds and yet they still loose millions. So money is still lost to the MPAA even when they do prosecute lol


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On this page you will find a list of software that we feel you should have on your computer to aid you in Indigenous language maintenance, and it also takes minimal time and maybe skill to use, we will call this your "language computer toolkit".We will also list other software which we know about but may not necessarily use.If you would like to suggest a piece of software please do so by sending us a message via the Contact Us page
Language Computer Toolkit
- Miromaa - Of course we are going to have this program first, this is the one which we developed and we think it is pretty good.So what is it? Miromaa is a program which we have developed to aid in Aboriginal language work; it is an easy to use, user friendly database to help you gather, organise, analyse and produce outcomes for your language work.The program enforces good archive practise and helps you gather any and all evidences of language including, text, audio, images and video. You can also use it to store your digitised documents for example PDF and Word documents, Excel spreadsheets plus more.It has a secure environment which can only be accessed by username and password, it can help you work on multiple languages or dialects and it also has a learning area where you can begin learning immediately.The program can run on either a stand-alone desktop or on a network and you are not just limited to using Miromaa only, as the program has the ability to export its data in various forms including SIL Shoebox/Toolbox text file format, Lexique Pro text file format, Microsoft Word, tables and more.
- Lexique Pro - this is a great program for making interactive lexicons or word lists, it also makes picture dictionaries and lexicons for CD's and websites.
- Audacity - Is an excellent freeware program for doing your audio editing, when you download it you have to remember to also get the mp3 encoder file for converting your wave files to mp3's.
- Toolbox - Now this is a very hard program to use, you need to have specific training for it which is best done hands on. We use it for making Dictionaries mainly, linguists do a lot more with it, but what we have done is made Miromaa compatible with it so you can transfer all of your Miromaa data into Toolbox, this also goes for Lexique Pro.
- Microsoft Software - Believe it or not but the majority of us more than likely have a Windows based PC, some may have an Apple but more of us not. Now at your fingertips is usually some great software already installed, if you have MS Office that is. The ones which we recommend that you should get to know really well are:
- Word
- Publisher
- PowerPoint
- PhotoStory - download from Microsoft
- MovieMaker - comes with Windows XP onwards
- OpenOffice.org 3 - is the leading open-source (FREE) office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose and is a great alternative to Microsoft Office.
- Keyman - Keyman Desktop is a market-leading keyboard mapping solution, designed with the user in mind. Well-supported across Windows®-based software, Keyman brings a simple solution to the complexity of typing in a range of languages and scripts that are either unsupported or only partly supported by the operating system.
Software not yet in our Toolkit (but being tested)
- Fieldworks Langauge Explorer - FieldWorks Language Explorer is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks. It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks. It can help you: elicit and record lexical information, create dictionaries, interlinearize texts, analyse, discourse features, study morpholog.
- Transcriber - Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals.
- VSO Free Image Resizer - The VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.
- Picasa - Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:
- Locate and organise all the photos on your computer.
- Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
- Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it's fast, easy and free.
- Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.


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Dynamo forward Cam Weaver will miss Saturday's opener at FC Dallas, head coach Dominic Kinnear confirmed after training Monday. Weaver suffered a muscle strain in his right knee during last Wednesday's friendly against the San Jose Earthquakes when he and Ryan Johnson both went for a bouncing ball. Kinnear said he expects Weaver to miss 2-3 weeks.
The injury comes at an especially bad time for the 6-4 target forward, entering his second year with the Dynamo. He had a strong preseason, including goals against FC Dallas on February 27 and the Chicago Fire on March 11, and has had a prodigious goal-scoring rate when healthy for the Dynamo. He scored four goals in 450 minutes in all competitions for the Dynamo last year, including two at FC Dallas on June 13. Weaver missed July, August, and the first half of September last year due to a groin strain. He then scored in his first game back against Columbus on September 13.
In Weaver's absence, Dominic Oduro started and played 90 minutes in the Dynamo's 3-1 win over Chivas USA on Saturday in their final preseason game. Brian Ching and Luis Angel Landín split time at the other forward spot, with Ching expected to start Saturday.
Other than Weaver's injury, however, the Dynamo are very healthy. Brad Davis and Andrew Hainault, two of the chief injury concerns throughout the preseason with less than 100 minutes before Saturday, both saw time as substitutes against Chivas USA and trained fully on Monday. Richard Mulrooney has played in the last three games contested on a natural surface, going 88 minutes against Chivas USA. He did some work on his own Monday as he continues to work toward full fitness but should also be available for selection on Saturday against his former club.
After all, it was against Dallas on the road last year that Mulrooney notched his first goal since 2006 with a long-range blast. The Dynamo hope his presence this weekend yields a similar result.


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South African Journal of Child Health
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S. Afr. j. child health vol.7 no.4 Cape Town Abr. 2013
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a child from an informal settlement: 12 litres of fluid drained from the lungs and successful use of ECMO
D A WhiteI; S R KlugmanII; R WeilIII; E ZigiriadisIV; R J GreenV
IMB BCh, FCPaed (SA), MMed (Paed), Dip Allerg (SA), Cert Pulm SA (Paed); Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
IIMB BCh, FCPaed (SA); Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
IIIMB BCh, DCH, Dip Allerg (SA); Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
IVMB BCh, FC Cardio (SA); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
VMB BCh, FCPaed (SA), PhD; Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Steve Biko Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare cause of chronic interstitial lung disease, characterised by accumulation of pulmonary surfactant, respiratory insufficiency and an increased incidence of infections. The current standard therapy is whole-lung lavage to remove the accumulated surfactant. We report on a cachexic 12-year-old boy from an informal settlement in South Africa, presenting for the first time with PAP. Twelve litres of broncho-alveolar lavage fluid were drained under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and the patient gained 10 kg during his 2-month admission.
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a syndrome characterised by respiratory failure caused by pulmonary surfactant accumulation and resulting in respiratory insuiciency and an increased incidence of infections.[1] The current standard therapy is whole-lung lavage, which is used to physically remove the accumulated surfactant.[2] PAP can be grouped into distinct categories based on clinical, histopathological, biochemical and genetic data.[3]
Surfactant homeostasis is critical for lung function and is tightly regulated, in part by pulmonary granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which is required for surfactant clearance by alveolar macrophages and alveolar macrophage maturation[4] The effects of GM-CSF are mediated by cell-surface receptors composed of GM-CSF-binding a-chains and affinity-enhancing β-chains (encoded by CSF2RA and CSF2RB, respectively)[4] Primary PAP occurs when GM-CSF signalling is disrupted[3] either on an auto-immune basis, where high levels of neutralising GM-CSF auto-antibodies block GM-CSF signalling (90% of cases), or by GM-CSF receptor dysfunction. Interestingly, recent articles describing both CSF2RA mutations[2,3] and CSF2RB mutations[4] in children with PAP failed to detect GM-CSF auto-antibodies in any of the patients, and identified increased serum GM-CSF as a useful biomarker. Secondary PAP occurs as a consequence of an underlying disease presumed to impair surfactant clearance by reducing either the numbers or the functions of alveolar macrophages[3] Hereditary disorders of surfactant production, for example, because of mutations in the genes encoding surfactant protein (SP)-B, SP-C or ABCA3, exhibit disordered surfactant homeostasis to varying degrees but are distinguished from PAP by their surfactant dysfunction, disruption of alveolar wall architecture, and clinical course.[3]
Case report
A thin 12-year-old boy on a stretcher was wheeled into the pulmonology clinic at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa. He had been admitted to a local district hospital a month before after presenting with a short history of chest pain and dyspnoea. He had received repeated courses of antibiotics for pneumonia, but remained oxygen dependent. His cardiac status was normal and he was HIV-uninfected. His symptoms had not responded to 3 months of empiric antituberculosis therapy. He was born and had lived for most of his life in a rural part of KwaZulu-Natal Province and had no unusual environmental exposures. He had recently moved to Gauteng and was living with his mother in an informal settlement.
On examination the patient was cachexic, weighing only 20 kg (50% of expected weight for age). He was alert, and on oxygen via face mask with an oxygen saturation of 92%. He became severely cyanosed off oxygen. He had digital clubbing and no significant lymphadenopathy. He was tachypnoeic with fine inspiratory crackles at both lung bases. There were no signs of cor pulmonale. Pulmonary function testing revealed severe restrictive impairment. A chest radiograph revealed a diffuse bilateral reticulonodular infiltrate (Fig. 1), and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest showed smooth thickened interlobular septa superimposed on a background of ground-glass opacity, characteristic of a 'crazy-paving pattern' (Fig. 2) and in keeping with an interstitial lung disease, most likely PAP. Haematological testing revealed a haemoglobin concentration of 18 g/dl, but levels of electrolytes, C-reactive protein, a beta-D-glucan assay, an autoimmune screen and immunoglobulins and their subclasses were all normal. Smear and culture of the sputum for tuberculosis (TB) was negative. A barium swallow examination revealed mild gastro-oesophageal reflux which was treated with omeprazole.
The findings on bronchoscopy were normal, and broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) only produced a small amount of milky secretions. An open biopsy of the left lung was complicated by a pneumothorax, which required two intercostal drains. Postoperatively the patient required mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit. The lung biopsy revealed diffuse filling of the alveoli by a pinkish, granular exudate that stained periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) positive and normal pleura and interstitium, diagnostic of PAP (Fig. 3).
Numerous subsequent attempts at BAL using a double-lumen bronchoscope and saline washes of both lungs under conventional ventilation failed, as the patient sustained cardiorespiratory arrests secondary to hypoxia and the procedures had to be aborted. He was given a single dose of GM-CSF subcutaneously but remained ventilator dependent. As there was no evidence of TB, the TB treatment was stopped. Finally, with the patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in theatre, 12 litres of milky, pink fluid was successfully drained out of both lungs (Fig. 4).
The patient improved dramatically postoperatively; his pneumothorax re-expanded, and he was extubated successfully. His oxygen requirements decreased and he eventually only needed nasal prong oxygen at night. Careful attention to nutrition with supplements enabled him to gain 10 kg during his admission.
We then faced another obstacle. The patient's mother lived in an informal settlement under very poor social circumstances with no electricity, and therefore did not qualify for home oxygen. We placed him in a children's home with oxygen at night and enrolled him in our hospital school. He was discharged after a 2-month hospital stay and is currently doing very well.
The diagnosis of PAP can be made with confidence on the appearance of the lung on HRCT of the thorax, which shows patchy or diffuse ground-glass opacifications with superimposed interlobular and intralobular septal thickening, a pattern referred to as 'crazy-paving',[5] in conjunction with examination of fluid obtained from segmental alveolar lavage.[6] The lavage fluid has an opaque milky appearance. [7] It contains foamy alveolar macrophages and increased numbers of lymphocytes, but few inflammatory cells of other types.[7] There are also large, acellular, eosinophilic bodies in a difuse background of granular material that stains with PAS, as well as elevated levels of surfactant proteins.[7] Lung biopsy is not always required, and in view of the patchy nature of the disease may be inconclusive.[6] Tests for GM-CSF auto-antibodies and genetic testing for GM-CSF receptor abnormalities are not currently available in South Africa.
Treatment of PAP depends on the underlying cause. Autoimmune PAP has been treated successfully by whole-lung lavage, which improves clinical, physiological and radiographic findings as well as survival.[7] The median duration of clinical benefit from lavage has been reported to be 15 months.[7] Genetic/hereditary PAP (GM-CSF receptor dysfunction) in paediatric patients has responded well to whole-lung lavage, similar to results for patients with autoimmune PAP and in contrast to patients with disorders of surfactant production, who do not respond well.[2] Multiple segmental lavage by fibre-optic bronchoscopy is a possible alternative to whole-lung lavage and has been used successfully in infants, especially as a feasible alternative in resource-constrained environments.[8] Therapy for secondary PAP involves treating the underlying condition.[7] Administration of GM-CSF subcutaneously to adult patients with idiopathic PAP has resulted in a partial favourable response, manifest by a decreased need for oxygen.[9] Newer potential therapies include aerosolised GM-CSF therapy, gene therapy for GM-CSF receptor defects, and bone marrow transplantation.[3]
Despite a huge burden of infectious diseases in South Africa, rare lung diseases still occur. In addition, despite a general paucity of social services, some children still receive health services comparable to the best in the world.
Acknowledgements. We thank Professor Guy Richards for his contribution to the patient's intensive care, the rest of the cardiothoracic surgical team for their contributions to his care, and the nursing staff in the intensive care unit and paediatric ward at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
1. Trapnell BC, Carey BC, Uchida K, Suzuki T. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a primary immunodeficiency of impaired GM-CSF stimulation of macrophages. Curr Opin Immunol 2009;21(5):514-521. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.coi.2009.09.004] [ Links ]
2. Suzuki T, Sakagami T, Young L, et al. Hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: Pathogenesis, presentation, diagnosis and therapy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010;182(10):1292-1304. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1164%2Frccm.201002-0271OC] [ Links ]
3. Suzuki T, Sakagami T, Rubin BK, et al. Familial pulmonary alveolar proteinosis caused by mutations in CSF2RA. J Exp Med 2008;205(12):2703-2710. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1084%2Fjem.20080990] [ Links ]
4. Suzuki T, Maranda B, Sakagami T, et al. Hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis caused by recessive CSF2RB mutations. Eur Respir J 2011;37(1):201-217. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1183%2F09031936.00090610] [ Links ]
5. De Blic J. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in children. Paediatr Respir Rev 2004;5(4):316-322. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.prrv.2004.07.001] [ Links ]
6. Shah PL, Hansell D, Lawson PR, Reid KBM, Morgan C. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: Clinical aspects and current concepts on pathogenesis. Thorax 2000;55(1):67-77. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fthorax.55.L67] [ Links ]
7. Trapnell BC, Whitsett JA, Nakata K. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. N Engl J Med 2003;349(26):2527-2539. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056%2FNEJMra023226] [ Links ]
8. Hodges O, Zar HJ, Mamathuba R, Thomas J. Bilateral partial lung lavage in an infant with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Br J Anaesth 2010;104(2):228-230. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbja%2Faep371] [ Links ]
9. Seymour JF, Presneill JJ, Schoch OD, et al. Therapeutic efficacy of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in patients with idiopathic acquired alveolar proteinosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2001;163(2):524-531. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1164%2Fajrccm.163.2.2003146] [ Links ]
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Google bought social marketing startup Wildfire for $350 million, but it's placed $100 million in incentives and retention bonuses to keep its acquisition's employees from flying the coop.
Google set up $100 million in earn-outs and retention bonuses, according to TechCrunch citing multiple sources. For those of you too busy for math, that's $450 million, a sum that TechCrunch things is enough to keep founders Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard to keep leading the Wildfire team and keeping others from straying.
So here would be these employees go? Straying to competitors would mean Facebook, but have you seen that mess lately? Employees are leaving Facebook in an attempt to get something back from their company stock. Apple? Perhaps, but mass hiring was never its strong suit. Startups? Probably.
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While the more entrepreneurial out there might head a startup, the majority would be willing to stay put. That's human nature, despite the romanticization of Silicon Valley opportunities. So did Google spend too much money? Possibly, but it was much less than $1 billion and Wildfire is much more than just a photo app.


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LA Prohibition County Mayor Antonovich To Re-Empower the Al Capone's of Pot – Hemp Industry and Exocannabinoid Patients and Researchers to Riot
Freedom Under Attack – L.A. County moves to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas – Antonovich and LA County BoS-es Ban Successful Industry for 'Fear of Robbery' and to Keep Crime Down.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has moved toward enacting a complete ban on flourishing businesses that may be targets of robbery in a Depressionary economy in the unincorporated areas of the county. Loss of industry and Freedom will remove new tax dollars, jobs, local economy growth, industry development and lawful regulation back to a criminalized industry of the Black market whereby the most criminal not the most friendly, clean and efficiant are empowered.
In a unanimous vote, the supervisors directed county staff to prepare an ordinance banning pot dispensaries. Mike Antonovich is the author of a motion to Criminalize Medical exo–cannabinoid Clinics. This would criminalize the regulated commerce of prescribed and controlled distribution as well as agricultural processing and development.
As the County board of supervisors he is the acting city council and now mayor for the unincorporated communities many different cities and independent individuals of Los Angeles County in this Decision. Spearheading the decision of Prohibition for all of the people in the unincorporated areas that exo–cannabinoids and the Hemp industry in general is not welcome in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County's Economy. "It leaves the unincorporated portion vulnerable," said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, author of the motion. The board, he said, needs to protect residents' "safety and property values."
Antonovich believes this Industry is Dangerous on its face and the Unincorporated communities and population of LA County are in danger from it.
Attorney Tulane M. Peterson, added: "This is a public safety issue. It is not a debate over the medical properties of a drug." An official with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said pot-dispensing locations tend to draw crime and violence. "(Dispensaries) are turning a lot of money and have attracted the attention of armed robbers," Assistant District Attorney Jacquelyn Lacey said.
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After WW1 W.G. Harding was going to return the United States to Pre-War conditions by removing the War or Maritime measures and Institutions. In War time curtain rights can be violated and infringements into the economy were temporarily authorized, Harding wanted a return to Normalcy, a ramping down of the Wartime Policey State.
After Harding's sudden death the return to Normalcy was lost, most of the Federal War time Policies, subsidies, tariffs, institutions and departments became permanent fixtures in the American tapestry of Federal Institutional Heraldry.
Due to The Charter Mongering consolidation (Most of the major Corporations in the nation had relocated to New Jersey in the decade before the war) and the creation of the Federal Reserve that had taken place just before the Great War; the nation was primed for massive centralization and consolidation.
In order to Secure this newly Consolidate setup, Harding's Return to Normalcy had to be removed, The New Federal Regulations were needed to be permanently Institutionalized (war time tariffs, subsidies etc. to protect monopoly holds).
Once this was done a bubble needed to be created to consolidate and liquefy the wealth that was still outside of this new system.
In the 20's we had Families that had owned land for 50-100 years that invested in this new debt speculation system and Lost their Homestead and Their Posterities Savings in the Glass-Stiegel Like Speculation crash.
Federal Police Enforcement of Prohibitions on Alcohol and Drugs allowed the empowerment of mafia crime and fraud into business (with black market, mark-up, artificial bubbles and lawlessness rewarded) as well as local, state and federal government corruption.
We never found Normalcy, never ended prohibition and criminal cartel empowerment and never a return to a Government of State Over Federal for Individual Over All.
Everyone had bought in to the System, the Depression Hit and the 100 year old family farm went to Mr. Potter at the Bank. Farms were seized over any infraction or often outright foreclosure Fraud, the government and Banks Just Seized Property. It was a national emergency, It was an Economic War. A Buying War, A Policy War, A War for Public Opinion, A Propaganda War. And the Goal, the Enemy? Kill the Competition and the competition was the individual private producer. We were all number, tagged, tracked and enlisted into this management system, so that we could be tracked and managed. Which is UN Constitutional, UN Natural and UN Moral. It is Personal Control From Afar, Remote Rulership, and Centralized Global Governance.
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Will you tell that guy I'm giving him the chance of a lifetime? You hear – the chance of a lifetime.
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Since 1914 Individual States and Communities had the Big Business Money Trust working the individual legislatures to issue total prohibition of intrastate Hemp, Drug and Alcohol Industries. Social Reform Through Prohibition was a Red Herring
Hemp was big competition and threatened the big business' of petroleum, cotton, soybean and lumber, especially with Mechanical advances in processing and technology.
Hemp Cellulose –
- Higher Per Acre Yield than Corn,
- Higher Quality, Cleaner Cellulose
- Much Lower Water, No Pesticide, Min. Soil Nutrient Depletion
Hemp Protein –
- Higher protein yield per acre than soybean
- Most Complete plant Protein contains all 21 known amino acids (soybean imbalanced amino acids, Hemp no increased estrogen production)
- Much Lower Water, No Pesticide, Min. Soil Nutrient Depletion
Hemp Fiber –
- Higher Per Acre Yield than Cotton
- Over 24" average fiber length (cotton average over 3")
- Strength of fiber is 20x-100x stronger
- Much Lower Water, No Pesticide, Min. Soil Nutrient Depletion
- Material Development potential surpasses cotton into Structural Hemp vs Steel (lighter, stronger, cleaner, cheaper) for Automotive or Construction industries
Hemp Bio Mass –
- Higher per acre yield than Crab/Blue weed Grass
- Density and Carbon Highest yield of Any Weed
- Equivalent Water Needs, No Pesticide, Min. Soil Nutrient Depletion
Industrial Hemp can be very Small Scale with Extremely High output, in almost any terrain or climate, minimum/low water crop, that can be fully processed on site. A single plant can be processed for Cellulose from the core of the stalk, Protein from the seed, Fiber from the sheath of the stalk, Bio Mass from the stems and leaves.
This Entire Industry has been intentionally bared from American Life and World Commodity Markets, at the profit and for corporations that pollute to Kill Us and Kill Us to control us.
It is all Still Happening again and again the same way Today and what is Left of Value, Liberty, Freedom, Production and Life in the 'private' business sector is under it's final attack.
- Small Insurance co-ops and Independent/Alternative Method Doctors – Big Corporate Insurance and Health Care wrote the Obama Care Bill/ Obama can Issue Insurance requirement waivers to big business (Teachers Union, McDonald's, WalMart, Target, etc)
- Small Farms and Independent Food/Vitamin Processors – Big Agra and Big Global Corporations wrote Food Modernization Act. Making it illegal for any Individual's to process, buy, sell, trade or give away private garden produce and also spent tens of millions on congress in the few months leading up to the Lame Duck Session alone.
- Alternative Online Networks and Information Outlets – Main Stream Media and Global Communications Corporations wrote the Communications Act of 1996, the Millennium 'Dream' Copyright Act of 2000 and now the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act COICA. Allowing warrantless, unilateral removal of a crimeless website from America's World Wide (except for the USA) Web.
- Homeowners and Personal Private investments – Central Banks, Real Estate Lenders and Wall Street/Global Bet Hedge Funds wrote the financial regulations and have received Immunity for blanket Fraud.
28 trillion has been stolen by the private Federal Reserve Bank paid to these very same 'special interest' groups and with the desired and stated intention of consolidation and bankrupting the American People, we are being fleeced into more slavery.
97% of all the Federal Reverse 'bailout' went to fortune 500 offshore corporations inline with that agenda. Every 'Dollar' that the Fed's Bank is giving to select corporations and offshore banks is a Tax Debt Note Obligation that the Private Federal Reserve Bank is Unilaterally and Secretly Attempting to Make the Citizens of America (and the next 10 generations) Obligated and Enslaved to pay.
And those family homes and savings are being fraudulently foreclosed on.
We do not owe this fraudulent Criminal Debt.
We must Remove the Lien that has been placed on the UnaLienable Human Lives of Every Person Under this Anti-Liberty Beast Machine.
War is a Racket.
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If you've come here looking for spoilers, you have definitely come to the wrong place. As a matter of fact, I'm not going to tell you much of anything about City of Heavenly Fire, the long-awaited conclusion to Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series. Do yourself a favor and read it. And the rest of the series. And the prequel trilogy. And anything else that Cassie Clare writes. Even if it's her grocery list. I'm pretty sure even that would be epic.
For those not caught up with all things Shadowhunter, you absolutely MUST read the first five books of the Mortal Instruments saga before picking up City of Heavenly Fire. Those books are City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, and City of Lost Souls. (And no, seeing the movie adaptation of City of Bones is not a substitute for reading the book. In my opinion, the movie was absolute crap and didn't begin to do the book justice.) I'd also highly recommend reading the prequel series, The Infernal Devices (Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess). There's a fair amount of crossover, and you may not get the importance of certain things if you don't have the background provided in the prequels. (Hint: Brother Zachariah for the win!)
I honestly don't know what I can say about City of Heavenly Fire without giving too much away. From the very first page, I was enthralled, and I'm still processing a lot of what happened. Throughout this 725-page tome, I laughed, I cried, and I got angry. It was an emotional journey, and one that I won't soon forget…especially since I was extremely worried about my favorite character for much of the latter part of the book. (If you've read my other posts on these books, you likely know who I'm talking about.)
Those of you who've read the series thus far will get everything you've come to expect in a Mortal Instruments book. Snarkiness, sadness, redemption, action, emotional upheaval, intense battles, loss, fear, laughter, and love overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds. The characters we met in the first book–Clary, Jace, Simon, Alec, Isabelle, and Magnus–have grown so much, endured so much, to get where they are, and this final war with Sebastian, Clary's own brother, is their greatest battle yet. They are being tempered in a great fire, and, if they emerge, they will be stronger than ever.
I will say that the ending, while heart-breaking at times, was rather satisfying, and didn't leave me with–you know–the urge to throw the book across the room or egg the author's house. (I cannot say the same for my feelings when I finished reading Allegiant.) I felt it was a very fitting end to a beloved series, and it served well as a new beginning for many of the characters who've come to mean so much to me.
The official City of Heavenly Fire book trailer was released a few weeks before the book, and it captures the basic mood of the book. (I will admit I'm not crazy about the trailer. Something about it felt a bit off. The same is definitely NOT true of the book!) Check it about below, compare it to the book, and judge for yourself.
I first met these characters six years ago, and I've enjoyed every minute of the time we've spent together. Luckily, I don't really have to say goodbye. I'm fairly certain I'll see them again in Cassie Clare's next Shadowhunter series, The Dark Artifices. We definitely get glimpses of what we'll encounter in the new series, starting with Lady Midnight in 2015. Our newest adventure will center around Julian Blackthorn and Emma Carstairs in the Los Angeles Institute, and, if what I saw in City of Heavenly Fire is accurate, we can expect another thrill ride from these young Shadowhunters!
I know this post didn't give you a ton of information about City of Heavenly Fire, and I do apologize for that. It's just that this series means a great deal to me, and I find it rather difficult to put my thoughts on it into words. Those I've used here don't feel adequate in any way. If you take anything away from this, though, I hope it's this: Read anything you can find by Cassandra Clare. She will wrap you up in an intense story, give you characters you grow to love, and teach you a little something about caring for your fellow man (or vampire, werewolf, warlock, whatever) along the way. Her books–this one and any others–are not to be missed.


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A storied tapestry, the cowgirl's tale unfolds in the Hall of Fame. Here you can explore the distinguished lives of the honorees via one of two large touch-screen electronic "yearbooks."
A Movie in Glass
Located between the first and second floors, you'll discover 12 different Lifetiles -- murals made of hand-blown glass that change as you move around. Come wander through and experience famous cowgirls, trick roping, bronc riding and a few surprises!
"Spirit of the Cowgirl"
A starting point for the Museum experience, this beautifully filmed 8-minute presentation introduces you to the many faces of the cowgirl.
Kinship with the Land
The cowgirl's spirit seems to stretch as far as the horizon! Embark on a sweeping journey in the film, "Closer to the Land," then explore the cowgirl's complex relationship with the land. From working with animals on the ranch to preserving the land, you'll experience the wide-open spaces of the West.
Into the Arena
From the glory of the spotlight to life outside the chutes, share in the victories and heartaches of cowgirls and follow their stories from the rodeo arena to the racetrack. Thrill to "Great Rides," a multi-screen movie that captures some of the greatest arena images and events. Don't miss your own eight seconds on the bucking bronc!
Claiming the Spotlight
Discover the tremendous influence of cowgirls on pop culture: from matinee idols to musicians, from television stars to the cowgirls portrayed in literature and advertising. See some "Reel Cowgirls" then claim the spotlight by posing in your very own movie poster.
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Wiffle Ball, created and manufactured in Fairfield County, finally knocked one out of the park, winning a coveted spot in the National Toy Hall of Fame.
The time-honored plaything — made in Shelton, Conn. since 1953 — joins paper airplanes and the board game Clue in the hall's Class of 2017.
The new group was inducted into the Rochester-based hall, taking their place alongside previous honorees such as the dollhouse, jump rope and the Radio Flyer wagon.
To make the hall of fame, toys must have inspired creative play for years and over generations. The winners are displayed in the hall, located at The Strong National Museum of Play.
This year's 12 finalists were: the board games Risk and Clue, the Magic 8 Ball, Matchbox cars, My Little Pony, the paper airplane, PEZ candy dispenser, play food, sand, Transformers, the card game Uno and Wiffle ball.
Invented more than six decades ago by retired semi-pro baseball player Dave Mullany, the Wiffle Ball was born when a small backyard and several broken windows meant Mullany's son all but gave up on baseball.
Mullany developed a lighter ball with eight oblong slots that allowed it to grab air, changing its trajectory.
A strike-out was called a "wiff," according to the family-owned Wiffle Ball Inc., which has produced millions of balls each year ever since.
The Class of 2017 inductees join more than 60 other toys that have been inducted into the hall since its opening in 1998.
Past winners include Barbie, inducted in 1998, the ball (2009) and 2015's Little Green Army Men. The Hall of Fame makes room for both commercial successes and more creative playthings, which have included the blanket, the cardboard box and a stick.
Wiffle Ball nearly made the cut in 2015, but lost out to the puppet, Twister and super soakers.
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Several hundred people braved poor weather Friday to attend a rally to oppose the New Jersey's tough gun-control laws outside the Statehouse annex in Trenton but Gov. Chris Christie was a no-show.
Organizers said they were hopeful Christie would participate but Frank Fiamingo, president of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, said the governor's absence was "not disappointing.'' He said the group found out Thursday Christie would not attend.
"I understand. I'm a reasonable person. The governor has a very active schedule. I'm sure there was something that conflicted with it. I think they waited until the last minute because I think they did want to try to get the governor to attend. But he's a busy guy. I'm sure something more important came up. However, I do ask we get an opportunity to sit down with the governor and discuss this man to man because there are some things I don't believe he understands. It would be to his benefit to have his conversation,'' Fiamingo said.


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Today, the Lincoln Park area of Chicago is an affluent stretch of neighborhoods, parks, beaches, two museums, and a nationally know zoo. It is also home to one campus of DePaul University. Few know, however, that Lincoln Park began when this area of prairie and truck farms became the first campus of McCormick Theological Seminary. Read more about it in Elizabeth K. Ware's 1999 book.
In 1999, author Elizabeth K. Ware wrote a companion book to an exhibition entitled, "Within the Wrought Iron Fence: The Hidden Heritage of McCormick Theological Seminary." The exhibition was mounted in the Richardson Library of DePaul University from January to March of that year. Ware's book traces McCormick's history from its beginnings in the Lincoln Park area on the north side of Chicago, to a time just prior to the building of McCormick's current Hyde Park campus. A copy of "Within the Wrought Iron Fence" may be obtained by visiting our Office of Seminary Relations and Development, or by contacting Stephanie Moore at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It seems Landon Donovan's knack for late saves may extend beyond the soccer field.
Following the American soccer star's dramatic game-winning goal against Algeria in extra minutes Wednesday at the World Cup, Donovan blew an on-air kiss to his soon-to-be ex-wife Bianca Kajlich and followed up with an emotional conversation by phone that went on for hours, Yahoo! Sports reported.
The "Rules of Engagement" actress and LA Galaxy star reportedly first split two years ago. But Donovan said Thursday his marriage isn't a done deal.
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"We are not officially divorced," Donovan told Yahoo! "We spoke last night; it was nice."
That the pair might be on the cusp of reconciling "would surprise no one," a friend of Kajlich's told the sports news site.
"They have remained in contact and are very close to one another," said the friend, who asked to remain anonymous. "The fact that Landon wanted to share his special moment with her is very significant."
Speaking of special moments – Donovan and the rest of the U.S. squad reportedly received a pep talk from President Obama heading into Saturday's do or die match against Ghana.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Sept. 27, 2009) – Buoyed by the return of it setter Bruno Rezende, who had not played in six weeks due to a broken wrist, Brazil defeated the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-12) on Sunday in Uberlandia.
The U.S. Men's National Team will be back in action at the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship on Oct. 12-17 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) led the U.S. Men on Sunday with 10 points on eight kills and two blocks. Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) added six point five kills and one block. Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.) scored six points on three kills and three blocks. Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) had six points on five kills and one block.
Leandro Araújo da Silva led Brazil with 17 points.
The U.S. Men completed 25 of 66 (38 percent) kill attempts with seven errors and 12 blocked hits. Brazil completed 46 of 77 (60 percent) kill attempts with two errors and eight blocked hits.
Brazil out-blocked the U.S. Men 12-8 and had five aces while the United States had none.
Team USA was 66 percent positive and 36 percent excellent on receptions with five errors on 56 attempts. Salmon was 81 percent positive and 44 percent excellent on 16 attempts with no errors. Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was 75 percent positive and 44 percent excellent with one error on 16 attempts. Brazil was 81 percent positive and 54 percent excellent with no errors on 48 attempts.
Among other U.S. scorers, David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) scored three points on three kills. Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) added one points on one block and Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) totaled one point on a kill.
U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) started Anderson and Salmon at outside hitter, Hoff and Smith at middle blocker, Tarr at opposite, Thornton at setter and Lambourne at libero. Holmes, Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and Alfee Reft (Oxnard, Calif.) all played as substitutes.
The U.S. Men took a 7-5 lead in the first set, including kills by Hoff, Salmon and Tarr, but Brazil scored twice to tie the score. A Brazil error gave the United States the 8-7 lead at the first technical timeout (TTO). The two teams battled back and forth. With the scored tie4d 13-13, the United States scored two straight points on a Brazil error and Hoff block. Brazil scored on a U.S. error but Team USA reached the second TTO with a 16-14 lead on a Brazil error. Brazil came out of the break and immediately tied the score on a kill and a U.S. error. A Tarr block put the U.S. Men ahead 17-16; but Brazil score three straight points on two kill and a block to go ahead 19-17. Trailing 18-20, Team USA scored two points on a Smith attack and Holmes block to tie the score. The two teams battled back and forth until it was tied at 22. Brazil used a kill and an ace to reach set point. Team USA scored on a Brazil error, but Brazil won the set with a kill.
Brazil jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the second set. Knipe called timeout, but Brazil scored two more points to reach the first TTO. The U.S. Men scored twice on a Brazil error and Salmon block. But the United States could not put together a significant run and continued to trail at the second TTO, 10-16. The U.S. Men came out of the break and scored on Salmon's kill. Brazil got a kill of its own before Team USA scored twice on kills by Smith and Salmon. Brazil scored three straight points on a Leandro kill and two U.S. errors to lead 20-15. Brazil reached set point first at 24-18. Hoff scored on a kill before Brazil took the set 25-19 with a kill.
Brazil took an 8-4 lead into the first TTO of the third set with Team USA getting kills from Anderson and Salmon. Anderson made it 8-5 with a kill, but Brazil used a 7-1 run to increase its lead to 15-6. Knipe called his second timeout of the set and Team USA scored on a kill by Tarr and a block by Hoff. A Brazil kill and block increased its lead to 17-8. Team USA scored three straight points on an Anderson kill and two Brazil errors. But Brazil responded with an 8-1 run, with the one point coming on a Brazil error, to win the match. The setter Bruno, who was celebrating his mother's birthday with his return to the team, served for the last five points and had an ace to boot.
View a photo gallery from the match on the web site of the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation.
U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team
Tour of Brazil
U.S. Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
4 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
8 Andy Hein (MB, 611, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
9 Jonathan Winder (S, 6-8, Irvine, Calif., Pepperdine)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
11 Robert Tarr (Opp, 6-6, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Long Beach State)
12 C Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
15 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
16 Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Competition Schedule and Results
Sept. 22: Brazil def. USA, 23-25, 25-18, 25-20, 25-21
Sept. 23: Brazil def. USA, 25-19, 31-29, 25-15
Sept. 25: Brazil def. USA, 25-23, 30-28, 25-17
Sept. 26: Brazil def. USA, 25-21, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18
Sept. 27: Brazil def. USA, 25-23, 25-19, 25-12


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Module System
From Gambit wiki
This is a project to create a module system primarily for the Gambit Scheme system. It does not have a real name yet.
The system is meant complementary to the Snow package system: unlike Snow, this project does *not* focus on distribution, but instead it has the following objectives:
- good interactive development capabilities (like runtime inspection and modification, included build system for the base case)
- good code modularity features (parametrization, macros (hygiene, ..), and probably more)
- generality (run code written in different language styles, to some extent in different module philosophies, interface with OO systems, host languages requiring translation like lazy variants of Scheme or maybe different languages like Arc or XSLT)
- efficiency (employ cross-module inlining, parametrization specialization)
- possibly achieve (partial) portability by moving parts into or building parts on top of the Snow framework (maybe not achieving the same level of integration with the host system, but at least make modules written by users portable to other Scheme systems)
The projects wants to deliver a base system usable for everyday use quickly, and explore the more advanced objectives in the longer term.
One essential part of the task involves getting to know the Gambit internals well enough to be able to embed the system well. Another essential one is laying a sound foundation especially for syntax handling (macros), considering the limited knowledge of the current contributors, this involves finding the right literature and people to query.
During a first phase, the project will draw from (and may for some time continue to develop in) the code bases of the chjmodule and the gambit-modules projects.
- Christian Jaeger
- James Long
Google Summer of Code
(This project is attempting to participate in the Google Summer of Code campaign and intends to accept one student as additional core contributor.) Gambit has not been accepted by the GSoC, so this part is moot now (and this section will thus be removed soon); the project will proceed nonetheless.
Rough points of the planned timeline:
- James Long goes on reading literature for the next ~two weeks
- Christian Jaeger finishes up and announces the long-promised chjmodule release, and contacts James Long.
- seeking input in the Gambit community, student selection if possible
- seeking input in the wider area, continuing to work on chjmodule and gambit-modules to work out thoughts
- find out the necessary essentials
- fork off a new code base and start implementing new infrastructure
- start coding features
Virtual Library
We are keeping a list of literature which we think is relevant for our work. It contains items we've read or intend to read, so it will be growing; we will not put anything there which we don't think we will manage to read, so by looking at that list you can see whether we are missing something you think we should know about. We hope that you will notify us in this case.
There is a logfile mentioning the events in the project.
The project will license all code under the same licenses as Gambit, namely dual LGPL version 2.1 or Apache version 2.0 license (freely choosable).


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It's one of the special events that are forever emblazoned in our memories. For girls, a lot of attention to detail that goes into the preparation process.
In order to make the night memorable for years, we fret over choosing the right dress color; having just the right hairdo and selecting the perfect pair of shoes. It's a lot of stress, but all worth it.
Prom night is an evening when teenage girls and boys experience the glamorous lifestyle of a princess and prince.
Fancy prom dresses and boys in tuxedos contribute to the larger-than-life feeling for an evening.
It's never too early to get started preparing for one of life's most memorable evenings!


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Here's me again trying to stretch my wardrobe with different outfit ideas with one piece... this time I'm pairing it with a basic plaid shirt featured in one of my hauls.. And I look tired because I was doing this at 1 in the morning!! School and work really has gotten the best of me!!
With wide-leg Linen pants
Wide-leg linen pants, jean jacket and scarf
Jean Skirt with black scarf
Leggings with cream scarf
With black jean pencil skirt with black belt
Same but with cardigan
With a dressy pencil skirt
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We are strongly convinced that when we empower women, we also empower the individuals and communities around them. When women do better, we all do better.
An issue close to our heart
We are the world's 19th largest employer and 54% of our employees are women. We have always placed gender equality and the advancement of women at the heart of our economic, social and environmental development. Beyond a moral obligation, gender diversity is a business imperative because we must reflect the diversity of everyone we serve.
Since 2009, our Sodexo Women's International Forum for Talent has been dedicated to promoting women's advancement. Today, women represent 50% of our board and 30% of our Group senior executives.
Still, there is more to do. We are working to increase the number of women in leadership roles to 40% by 2025 and boost equality in facilities management, one of our areas of growth.
But it's not just about us. With an extensive global supply chain, we are uniquely placed to make change happen. So, we prioritize working with women-owned small enterprises and encourage our suppliers to embrace gender inclusion. Beyond this, we are improving opportunities for women around the world through health and well-being education.
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I have migrated! & it's for much longer than the summer!!
My recent work is now being updated over on Wordpress. So update your reader-url-rss-dotcomifies incase you missed me. The new blog is obviously full of new illustration, but also writing about my travels & my new travelling career-in-a-backpack, so it's extra exciting because of extra new-ness.
Here's a little snippet of some work you can see over there...
Big love!