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Of course the minute the camera comes out, the co-editor comes to supervise. I think she is waiting to be discovered because it is really difficult to take a picture that doesn't include her ;)
The plan is to move one of the lamps to the table in between the wing back chairs and re-work the arrangement here a bit. Also, we never saw the sofa table from this vantage point before because it was against the wall by the window. Now I can see that two lamps are too heavy for this table.
One thing I am really enjoying is using my Reader's Digest books in vignettes. They add a nice touch of color to my mostly neutral rooms. They are available in the here. I don't want to sound like an advertisement every time I post, but the shop is new and I am adding things almost daily so if you haven't checked it out lately, you might want to take a peek.
So have you made any big/little changes lately?
Have a great weekend everybody!!!
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Based on the popular Scholastic book series by Norman Bridwell about the lovable oversized canine with his head in the clouds but four paws planted firmly on the ground, Clifford presents a larger-than-life view of the world. With his loving human, Emily Elizabeth, and dog pals, Cleo and T-Bone, Clifford inhabits a colorful island community, inviting viewers on a fun-filled journey through childhood, navigating the dips and curves along the way. CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG emphasizes good citizenship and the importance of community. Each episode concludes with a component of Clifford's Big Ideas – 10 different attributes children learn to embrace – which leaves them with something to think about and practice in their lives.
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If you have driven west on Cumberland Avenue you've seen her picture on the side of the A.D. Campbell Store building. The elegant lady presiding over the Victorian tea service is Nellie Arthur, wife of Middlesborough founder Alexander Arthur, and the subject of Middlesboro Little Theatre's (MLT) spring play simply entitled Nellie.
Nellie, the latest in a series of local history plays written by Amy Simpson, explores the inner world of Nellie Goodwin Arthur, wife of Middlesboro founder Alexander Arthur. While written accounts assure that Nellie remained poised and optimistic regardless of the hardships she and her husband faced, the play allows theatre-goers a glimpse of an all-too-human wife and mother navigating her way through life in the Victorian age. The play takes viewers from Middlesboro's boom to its inevitable bust, 1890-93.
The play was written by MLT Director Amy Simpson. She is currently enrolled in an MFA program at Spalding University, majoring in writing with an emphasis in playwriting. In addition to Nellie she has written and staged five local plays.
Simpson's local history plays The Gatekeeper and Magic Man were presented to enthusiastic audiences. An associate professor of English and coordinator of tutor services at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College, Simpson lives in Middlesboro with her husband Bill and children Corley and Sidney.
The cast include both veterans and actors making their stage debut. Kim Carney is making her stage debut as title character Nellie Arthur. She is a veterinarian at the Harrogate Hospital for Animals but plans to move to South America to serve as a missionary. Her husband David Carney appears as Middlesborough's founder Alexander Arthur.
Bonnie Banks appears as Nellie's childhood companion Alma, and Judy Cox plays Rhoda, Nellie's mother. Banks is a librarian at the Middlesboro Public Library, while Cox is president of MLT and has appeared in plays too numerous to mention. MLT Veteran Barbara Rowlett plays Myrtle, the Alexanders' servant. Cheryl Black, Vice-President of MLT, appears as Ruth, the Arthur children's nanny.
A number of talented children appear in the cast: Kenzie Graham as Young Nellie; Madison Monday as Young Alma; Ali Graham as Winnifred; Caleb Carney as James; Anna Graham as Marion; Claudia Black as Annabel; Vian Steele as Elizabeth; Chelsea Mullins as Caroline; Anissa Johnson as Madeline; and Haleigh and Sadie Banks as Anne and Bessie.
Serving as Stage Manager is Kennady Ray, a student at Thomas Walker High School and a newcomer to MLT.
Performances will be nightly at 7:30 p.m. on March 6, through March 10, at the Middlesboro Central Auditorium (next door to MHS) on West Cumberland Avenue. Tickets are available at the door and will cost $6 for senior citizens and students of any age, and $10 for general admission. Group discounts are available for organized school groups. For more information, contact MLT President Judy Cox at 269-1968.
Robert Cox is a professor of English at SKCTC.


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An adorable gift is a stamp with their name on it; they can put their personal stamp on everything. A great choice of coloured ink pads to match.
Includes: 1 wooden personalised stamp size: 50mm x 50mm1 coloured ink pad of your choice.
Select your ink colour and the name on stamp.
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Night is a beautiful landscape generated by computer in which you can see a lovely field of irises at night, and with a nice perspective from the ground so you can appreciate the sky too.
The night time transforms the day city landscape to the totally another scene. The night illumination outlights the historical buildings, skyscrapers, roads, trees, etc. and makes the fairy-tale atmosphere in the well-known places.
Night in the Forest is a nice animated screensaver dedicated to nature and forests.As you know, a forest isn?t only a lovely place, as it can be dangerous, where many mysteries and surprises hide, above all at night.
Starry Night Pro Plus 6.2 by Imaginova Canada Ltd. is a commercial software for Windows, and now for Macintosh as well.
Take a fascinating tour of the night city and enjoy watching the alluring urban nightscape over the water. Innovative 3D graphics complemented by beautiful ambient music produce a powerful effect. Enjoy the splendor of the city at night!
It features a night in a creepy cemetery on a cold, dark night. You can almost feel the chill in the air and the presence of evil all around.
Night Cityscapes Free Screensaver is a fantastic screensaver that shows multiple images of cities at night. The images are of great quality and very impressive.
Starry Night College makes it easy to teach astronomy. The ideal companion to your astronomy textbook, Starry Night gives you powerful, accurate, customizable tools to inspire and engage your students.
Night Of Reflections Wallpaper is beautiful and ready to decorate your PC.The main feature of Night Of Reflections Wallpaper is a small candle that lights up everything around it.
Halloween Animated Screensaver is animated for your PC showing the terrifying night of Halloween.The typical place is a cemetary, where restless souls walk in the dark of night.
Night Streets is a nice screensaver which shows images of roads and streets at night. Most of the roads are completely illuminated and this creates a wonderful effect.
In The Night Garden toolbar - find Iggle Piggle, Makka Pakka, Upsy Daisy, iggle,piggle,makka,book,night garden,nightgarden,train,teddy,night,garden,singing,dancing,talking,blanket,interactive,igglepiggle,ball,ceebeebies,bbc,makka,OgPog,Pontipines,Pon
Night Bridge Screensaver shows an image of an old bridge at night. The bridge is illuminated and it has blue lights at its sides, which are reflected in the water, creating a nice effect.
Louvre Night is a nice screensaver which shows an image of the Louvre museum. The scene shows the museum from the outside at night with its characteristic huge pyramid made of glass and the museum's building behind it.
"Halloween Dark Night" is an Animated Screensaver by EleFun Multimedia devoted to the holidays, namely, to Halloween. The place which you will be able to watch in this animated screensaver is very gloomy and frightful, that is why people never come.
"Halloween Night" - Animated Desktop Wallpaper by EleFun Multimedia.Halloween is known and loved today as a time to wear costumes, go door to door asking for candy, and watch monster movies. But the holiday's origins go back centuries to the enactmen
"Halloween Dark Night" is an Animated Desktop Wallpaper by EleFun Multimedia devoted to the holidays, namely, to Halloween. The place which you will be able to watch in this animated wallpaper is very gloomy and frightful, that is why people never.
Big City is amazing by day but even more amazing by night. Tour around its streets and enjoy a landscape painted by a palette of darkness and florescent lights in beautiful 3D screensaver.
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No software is perfect—even the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over their infrastructure in a way that helps improve and prevent problems before they cause damaging downtime. The open source development model allows innovation to happen rapidly in all areas—including security. The Red Hat development process leads the industry in providing innovative and secure solutions, and includes a dedicated Security Response Team whose speed and reliability is among the best in the industry.
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Estimation of dietary sources and flavonoid intake in a Spanish adult population (EPIC-Spain). Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2010;110(3):390-8. Abstract
Concentrations of resveratrol and derivatives in foods and estimation of dietary intake in a Spanish population: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Spain cohort. The British journal of nutrition. 2008;100(1):188-96. Abstract


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32 Partners from 28 Countries Launch LoCloud - Local Content in Europeana Cloud
LoCloud explores the potential of cloud computing technologies for Europeana, with a focus on small and medium sized institutions.
On 19-20 March, at the National Archives of Norway in Oslo, the LoCloud Best Practice Network project was officially launched. The meeting gathered 32 partners from 28 different countries to present, plan and discuss the activities of the project over the next three years.
Content from small and medium local institutions such as museums, archives and libraries is still underrepresented in the digital European arena. Cloud-based technology could offer an affordable and user-friendly solution for making their content available on-line.
LoCloud aims to develop cloud-based technology and services to help small and medium local institutions to aggregate their digital resources and make them accessible on-line, via Europeana.eu, the European Library, Museum and Archive.
The project will explore the potential of a cloud-based technology infrastructure for aggregating local content. It will also develop a number of micro-services offering geo-location and metadata enrichment, multilingual vocabularies for local history and archaeology, a historical place name gazetteer and a Wikimedia application to handling relevant 'crowd-sourced' content.
As a result of the LoCloud's activities, access to over 4 million items of digital content will be made available through Europeana.
LoCloud relies on a large group of technical partners, content providers, aggregating services and partners with specific expertise which make together a very strong consortium. Gunnar Urtegaard, from National Archives of Norway, project coordinator, underlined during the meetings close: "If we can keep it simple for content providers, keep simple for users and remove all the complexity in-between, then this project has the potential to be a great success."
Contact LoCloud:
Gunnar Urtegaard
National Archive Norway/Riksarkivet
Box 4013 Ullevål stadion
0806 Oslo
About LoCloud:
Europeana.eu provides access to the digitized content of Europe's galleries, libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections. It currently includes over 26 million books, photographs, paintings, films, sound recordings and archival resources from more than 2,200 institutions in every European member state.
More information can be found at http://www.europeana.eu/portal/.
LoCloud is one of a suite of projects, funded by the European Commission, to develop Europeana and enhance its contents. It will explore the potential of cloud computing technologies for Europeana, with a focus on small and medium sized institutions. It aims to support them in making their content and metadata available to Europeana.eu. To this purpose a set of services and tools will be developed to help to reduce technical, semantic and skills barriers and to enhance Europeana.
LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of two earlier Best Practice Network projects: CARARE, in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage; and Europeana Local, in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which has resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.
The LoCloud web site will go live at the end of April at: www.locloud.eu.
LoCloud is co-funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme.
Code of EU Online Rights
As part of the Digital Agenda for Europe actions, the Code of EU online rights compiles the basic set of rights existing in EU legislation and related to the digital environment. The objective of the Code is to find simple explanations of their legal rights and obligations, set out in a transparent and understandable way.
Code of EU Online Rights
As part of the Digital Agenda for Europe actions, the Code of EU online rights compiles the basic set of rights existing in EU legislation and related to the digital environment. The objective of the Code is to find simple explanations of their legal rights and obligations, set out in a transparent and understandable way.
As foreseen in the Digital Agenda for Europe, this list of online rights and principles will be an important tool for inspiring trust and confidence among consumers and contribute to promote greater use of online services.
These basic rights protect citizens and consumers for instance when using online services, buying goods online, and in case of conflict with their providers of these services.
You may also find useful information about your online rights in the EU on the Your Europe website.
MIREIA - Measuring the Impact of eInclusion Actors
The MIREIA study aims to better understand the role of e-Inclusion intermediary actors and to create adequate instruments to facilitate the demonstration of their outcomes and their contribution to the achievement of European e- Inclusion policy goals.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an essential role in supporting daily life in today's digital society. The EU policy on e-Inclusion aims at reducing gaps in ICT usage and promoting the use of ICT to overcome exclusion, and improve economic performance, employment opportunities, quality of life, social participation and cohesion.
The MIREIA research aims to address two key gaps identified at policy and research level:
a) the need to characterize the diverse set of actors involved in implementing eInclusion policies;
b) the lack of common methodologies and practice in measuring the impact of ICT for socio-economic inclusion.
The MIREIA research will carry out the following activities:
1. State of play Analysis - Review of Literature and practice on measuring ICT for socio-economic inclusion.
2. Selected Locality Mapping - to provide a detailed picture of eInclusion local landscapes in selected localities
3. Conceptualization and design of the Impact Assessment Framework for eInclusion intermediaries
4. Survey design and testing of the Impact Assessment Framework for eInclusion intermediaries
5. Development of an implementation methodology for applying the Impact Assessment Framework for eInclusion intermediaries
6. Stakeholders' Engagement, communication and dissemination
Start date: 1st January 2012
Preparatory studies: January – May 2012
1st Experts Workshop: 3-4 May 2012 (JRC-IPTS, Seville)
Stakeholders' Consultation Workshops – 6th September 2012
2nd Experts' Workshops: June 2013
Final Stakeholders' Consultation Event: October 2013
End date: 31st December 2013
2nd Digital Agenda Assembly - streamed LIVE on 21/22 June!
The Digital Assembly is a conference to assess progress towards and identify challenges with the implementation of Digital Agenda for Europe.
The Assembly consists of an online engagement space launched ahead of the event (read more here), 8 workshops on key Digital Agenda topics (such as cloud-computing, social media and innovation and entrepreneurship) and a plenary session to report feedback on previous discussions and hold debates on the way forward.
The plenary session and 7 of the workshops will be streamed live on 21 and 22 June 2012.
You can also take part in the discussion in the online forum!
Read more information about the Digital Agenda for Europe and the online forum here!
2nd Digital Agenda Assembly
The Assembly consists of an online engagement space launched ahead of the event (read more here), 8 workshops on key Digital Agenda topics (such as cloud-computing, social media and innovation and entrepreneurship) and a plenary session to report feedback on previous discussions and hold debates on the way forward.
Background information
The Digital Agenda for Europe is the European Union's roadmap for bringing the benefits of a digital society and economy to Europe's citizens.
The main objectives of the Assembly are to:
- Assess progress to date on implementation towards the Digital Agenda's goals and actions and seek ways to improve delivery;
- Identify challenges ahead for the implementation of the Digital Agenda and for the information society in general;
- Mobilise stakeholders' actions to make further progress and address challenges.
The conference website provides direct links to join workshop-related discussions on the online engagement platform and a list of twitter hashtags for each workshop. Follow and discuss online!
Digital Agenda for Europe - new online platform launched
A new online platform has been launched to discuss the Digital Agenda for Europe. Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission, published the news in her blog.
The forum of the Digital Agenda Assembly is an online space for discussion and feedback to prepare the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 ("DAA12") on 21-22 June in Brussels, as well as the review of the Digital Agenda for Europe ("DAE"), planned for adoption in October.
Join the discussion, provide comments and launch new discussion topics.
What is the Digital Agenda?
From the official press release:
"The European Commission launched in March 2010 the Europe 2020 Strategy to exit the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the next decade. […]
The Digital Agenda for Europe is one of the seven flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, set out to define the key enabling role that the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will have to play if Europe wants to succeed in its ambitions for 2020.
The objective of this Agenda is to chart a course to maximise the social and economic potential of ICT, most notably the internet […]. Successful delivery of this Agenda will spur innovation, economic growth and improvements in daily life for both citizens and businesses."
The Digital Agenda and e-learning
For the purpose of boosting the economy a list of planned actions has been put together, some of which relate directly to e-learning, others influence e-learning indirectly.
Pillar VI is exclusively focussing on enhancing e-skills, but other categories of actions, such as Pillars I (Digital Single Market) and IV (Very Fast Internet), also contain actions which could have an imapct on the European e-learning market.
One of the actions most relevant to e-learning - Action 68 - calls on member states to mainstream e-learning in national policies. The Commission in turn will raise awareness on the benefits of adopting e-learning, sharing knowledge about results, practices and solutions available in Europe and laying the foundations for future plans.
The elearningeuropa.info community members have gatherred a variety of materials about this topic. Join the elearningeuropa.info community about 'Mainstreaming eLearning in National Policies' to contribute to the discussion.
Access the online forum of the Digital Agenda Assembly online space and post your views.
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Megatron Wolf wrote:commanders are still $10 and walmart is now charging $16 for deluxes, looks like i still wont be buying new transformers anytime soon. Off to ebay i go. But how in the hell are people ok paying these outlandish prices? $16 for an undersized deluxe is ridiculous plus it screws eveyrone in the long run. Hasbro sees people are paying their stupid prices so they raise them again, they see people still buy em so they raise em again so on & so forth, there really needs to be some big public boycott or something. The madness has to end. Fans of all ages are being screwed over by this and no ones seems to care.
MagnaBlade wrote:Ahh, beef jerky, Mountain Dew, and some new Transformers. Good times!
Sledge wrote:Finally! Wheelie will get the credit he's due with a set of five Wheelies.
STngAR wrote:MagnaBlade wrote:Ahh, beef jerky, Mountain Dew, and some new Transformers. Good times!
I always read what else they buy when they post the reciepts. If I remember correctly there are pretty many that include the jerky and soda combo.
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The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens - tombs from the 1st millennium BC constructed of large stone slabs. They form part of the Megalithic culture, found in many parts of the world, but nowhere in such a concentrated form.
Les cimetières préhistoriques de Gochang, Hwasun et Ganghwa abritent des centaines de dolmens – sépultures faites d'énormes dalles de pierre datant du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. Ils appartiennent à la culture mégalithique que l'on retrouve en de nombreux autres endroits du globe, mais jamais en si forte concentration.
تحوي مقابر غوشانغ وهواسونغ وغانغوا القديمة مئات الدلامن وهي قبور مؤلفة من شواهد حجرية ضخمة تعود الى الألفية الاولى قبل الميلاد. وتنتمي هذه الدلامن الى ثقافة الميغليث المتواجدة في أماكن متعددة أخرى من العالم إنما بكثافة أقل.
На этих доисторических кладбищах находится много сотен дольменов – древних захоронений, относящихся 1-му тысячелетию до н.э. и сооруженных из больших каменных блоков. Эти памятники отражают культуру эпохи мегалита, которая может быть найдена во многих частях мира, однако нигде – в столь ярко выраженной форме.
Las necrópolis prehistóricas de Gochang, Hwasun y Ganghwa albergan cientos de dólmenes –sepulturas construidas con enormes bloques de piedra– que datan del primer milenio antes de nuestra era. Estos monumentos forman parte de la cultura megalítica extendida por muchos lugares del mundo, pero en estos sitios su grado de concentración es mayor que en ninguna otra parte.
The Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen sites contain the highest density and greatest variety of dolmens in Korea, and indeed of any country. Dolmens are megalithic funerary monuments, which figured prominently in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures across the world during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. Usually consisting of two or more undressed stone slabs supporting a huge capstone, it is generally accepted that they were simply burial chambers, erected over the bodies or bones of deceased worthies. They are usually found in cemeteries on elevated sites and are of great archaeological value for the information that they provide about the prehistoric people who built them and their social and political systems, beliefs and rituals, and arts and ceremonies.
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Criterion (iii): The global prehistoric technological and social phenomenon that resulted in the appearance in the 2nd and 3rd millennia BCE of funerary and ritual monuments constructed of large stones (the "Megalithic Culture") is nowhere more vividly illustrated than in the dolmen cemeteries of Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa.
A significant number of dolmens are distributed in each of the three areas, fully showing the development history of the megalithic culture with numerous examples of various style and type. The existence of a quarry near the site is especially important in providing references to the origins, nature and developmental history of the dolmens, as well as contributing to the integrity of the property. These components are all included within the boundaries of the inscribed property.
The re-erection of selected collapsed or dispersed dolmens is planned. This work will be based on meticulous scientific research, in order to establish the original configuration and location of the dolmens.
The greatest risk to the dolmens is fire and damage to the surrounding environment.
The dolmens possess authenticity of form, materials and location. Most of the dolmens have remained untouched since the time of their construction, their present condition being the result of normal processes of decay. Although a few have been dismantled by farmers their stones have survived intact and their original location and form can be identified without difficulty.
The entire area of the three separate sites has been designated as a Cultural Heritage site under the Cultural Heritage Protection Act, which requires that they be protected and managed accordingly. The sites and the area that extends 500 m from the boundary of the each site have further protection under the Cultural Heritage Protection Act as a Historic Cultural Environment Protection Area. Any form of development or intervention requires authorization and environmental impact assessment, and repairs must be carried out by licensed specialists. The sites are open to the general public.
The properties belong to the Government of the Republic of Korea. Overall responsibility for protection, funding and the preparation and implementation of conservation policies for the sites and buffer zones rests with the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA). The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage carries out academic research, field survey and excavation (in association with university museums and private heritage research institutes).
Day-to-day preservation and management is the responsibility of the relevant local administrations (Gochang-gun County, Hwasun-gun County and Ganghwa-gun County). The Gochang Dolmen Museum, Hwasun Dolmen Site Protection Pavilion and Ganghwa Historic Museum provide information about each dolmen site to visitors. Regular day-to-day monitoring is carried out and in-depth professional monitoring is carried out on a 3-to-4 year basis.
Management plans have been developed for each of the three properties within the inscribed site. Their primary objective is the preservation of the original character of the dolmen sites and their immediate environments. The plans cover scientific research (survey, inventory, selected excavation and paleo-environmental studies), protection of the environment (selective clearance of vegetation cover, routing of visitors to ensure minimal impact on the natural environment, acquisition of adjacent farmland to prevent incursions, etc.), systematic monitoring and presentation (signage, access roads and parking, interpretation facilities, public awareness and participation of local communities, festivals and other onsite events).
To prevent forest fire, scrubs near the dolmens are removed regularly and dolmens that have collapsed as a result of unearthed land or tree roots are investigated, extensively researched and restored to their original state.
The Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa sites contain the highest density and greatest variety of dolmens in Korea, and indeed of any country. They preserve important evidence of how the stones were quarried, transported and raised and of how dolmen types changed over time in north-east Asia.
Dolmens are manifestations of the 'megalithic' culture that figured prominently in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures across the world during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens - tombs from the 1st millennium BC. They are to be found in western China (Tibet, Sichuan and Gansu) and the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea basin (Shandong peninsula, north-western Kyushu). They arrived in the Korean Peninsula with the Bronze Age. The Jungnim-ri group in Gochang is considered to date from around the 7th century BC. Dolmen construction ceased here in the 3rd century BC. The Hwasun dolmens are a little later, from the 6th-5th centuries BC. There are insufficient data to permit dating of the Ganghwa group, but they are thought to be earlier rather than later.
Dolmens usually consist of two or more undressed stone slabs supporting a huge capstone. It is generally accepted that they were simple burial chambers, erected over the bodies or bones of Neolithic and Bronze Age worthies. Earth mounds (barrows) would have covered them, but these would gradually disappear as a result of weathering and animal action. They may have been platforms on which corpses were exposed to permit excarnation to take place, leaving bones for burial in collective or family tombs. Dolmens are usually to be found in cemeteries on elevated sites, to allow them to be seen from the settlements on lower ground of the people who built them. In East Asia two main groups have been recognized, classified according to their form: the table type ('northern' type) and the go-board type ('southern' type). The first is an above-ground construction: four stone slabs are set up an edge to form a box or cist and a large capstone is laid on top. In the second case, the burial chamber is constructed below ground, with walls of slabs or piled stones; the capstone is supported on a number of stones laid on the ground. The so-called 'capstone' type is a variant of the go-board type in which the capstone is laid directly on the buried slabs.
Gochang Dolmen Sites: the Jungnim-ri dolmens, the largest and most diversified group, centre on the village of Maesan. Most of them are located at altitudes of 15-50 m along the southern foot of the hills running east-west. A total of 442 dolmens have been recorded, of various types, based on the shape of the capstone.
Hwasun Dolmen Sites: like those in the Gochang group, the Hwasun dolmens are located on the slopes of low ranges of hills, along the Jiseokgang River. Individual dolmens in this area are less intact than those in Gochang. The Hyosan-ri group is estimated to comprise 158 monuments and the Daesin-ri group 129. In a number of cases the stone outcrops from which the stones making up the dolmens were quarried can be identified.
Ganghwa Dolmen Sites: these sites are on the offshore island of Ganghwa, once again on mountain slopes. They tend to be higher than those in the other sites and stylistically early, notably those at Bugeun-ri and Gojeon-ri.
Les dolmens sont les manifestations d'une culture « mégalithique » qui s'exprime dans le monde entier plus particulièrement à l'époque du néolithique et de l'âge du bronze, aux IIe et Ier millénaires avant J.-C. Cette utilisation de grandes pierres trouve son origine dans l'émergence de nouvelles techniques et s'est manifestée par des alignements et des cercles rituels tels que ceux de Stonehenge et des Orcades au Royaume-Uni, des chambres mortuaires telles que celles de Brugh na Bóinne en Irlande ainsi que des cercles et des sépultures de pierre en Afrique occidentale.
Les mégalithes sont une caractéristique notable de la préhistoire de l'est de l'Asie au Ier millénaire avant J.-C. On les trouve principalement dans l'ouest de la Chine (Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu) et dans les régions côtières du bassin de la Mer Jaune (péninsule de Shandong, nord-ouest de Kyushu).
Il semblerait que les dolmens soient apparus dans la péninsule coréenne à l'âge du bronze. Le groupe de Chungnim-ri, à Koch'ang, date environ du VIIe siècle avant J.-C., d'après les données archéologiques. La construction des dolmens s'est interrompue à cet endroit au IIIe siècle avant J.-C. Les mégalithes de Hwasun sont un peu plus récents et remontent aux VIe et Ve siècles avant J.-C. On ne dispose pas de suffisamment d'informations pour dater le groupe de Kanghwa mais il semblerait qu'il soit antérieur.
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"It is an early priority for us," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, told CNN as the 113th Congress convened Thursday. "Since it passed the Senate last time, with two more Democrats in the Senate, we hope that it will have an easy path there and a doable path there -- and a successful one in the House."
The Violence Against Women Act mostly provides support for organizations that serve domestic violence victims. Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
Supporters credit the 1994 act with sharply reducing the number of lives lost to domestic violence over the past two decades.
The Senate voted to renew the act for a third time in April, barring agencies that receive funding under the law from discriminating against gays and lesbians, allowing immigrants who face domestic violence to seek legal status and giving tribal authorities new power to prosecute cases on Indian reservations.
The Republican-led House passed its own bill, one that didn't include those provisions and that advocates said rolled back some protections in existing law. The White House threatened to veto it, and no resolution was reached before the clock ran out on lawmakers this week.
The failure to reauthorize the act leaves people such as Nancy Neylon, executive director of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, facing the prospect of layoffs at her organization and others that work with spousal abuse victims. Neylon said the act funds the paycheck of one of her group's nine employees and others in towns around the state.
"We have no state money that supports domestic violence or sexual violence programs," Neylon said. The money already in the pipeline is running out, she said -- and without federal support, "We have no services here."
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women says the failure to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act doesn't mean the law is dead -- "VAWA itself is very much alive and will continue in its 2005 version," it notes.
But the programs it supports "are certainly threatened because the budget crises at the local, state and national levels are always looming."


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I hear you Jesster. The cops certainly weren't always this bad. Things are getting worse very quickly from my view, with their cameras on our roads, their infrared vision devices, steadily expanding ability to perform searches without warrants, electric torture devices, and on and on. I mean, this is the wealthiest country in the world and we have the highest prison population in the world. This fact alone should scream out tyranny to everyone in the country. It warms my heart to see more people waking up to our growing police state. Its way past time to end this absurd "drug war" that has militarized our socialist police force and free ALL prisoners being held for victimless crimes immediately, in mass. In fact, everyone of these unlawfully imprisoned victims of the "drug war" are properly entitled to restitution for their imprisonment. Ideally, I would say the government should give them each an acre of land per year they were imprisoned out West, land which the government is currently holding off the market via physical force.
Sounds like if Ron Paul were elected some cops would be searching for a new job.


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The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. The ESS was established in 2001, and was led by its founder and coordinator Roger Jowell until his death in December 2011.
Currently in the midst of its sixth round, this biennial cross-sectional survey covers more than thirty nations and employs the most rigorous methodologies. The ESS information brochure outlines the origins and development of the project. In addition two collections of findings are available: one summarises key findings from the first three rounds of the survey; the other focuses on 'topline' results relating to Trust in Justice data collected in round five.
The ESS has received funding from the EC's Framework programmes, from the European Science Foundation, and from national funding councils in participating countries. In January 2013 the ESS applied for selection as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
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Why The Video Looks Shaky
Updated: 6:03 PM - We did a quick helicopter tour of the Black Forest burn area. Someone asked why the video looks shaky.
Police are trying to track down a man who robbed a convenience store armed with a hammer Sunday morning near Palmer Park Boulevard and North Powers.
Police say the man wielded a hammer as he threatened a clerk in the Diamond Shamrock and demanded money. After receiving an unknown amount of cash, he ran off towards the Sand Creek wash area west of the store.
Police are looking for a white man, 6 feet tall with a thin build. He was dressed in dark pants, a black jacket and tan work boots.
No one was injured in the robbery.
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Updated: 05/20/2013 - Two weekends left to catch one great show!
Updated: 05/14/2013 - I'm still focused on meeting my goal of doing a pull-up. And I'm almost there! But I'm always getting this question:
Updated: 04/17/2013 - Crossing the finish line is such an awesome moment. It's hard to imagine what it has been like for the runners in Boston.
Updated: 04/09/2013 - Admittedly, there are days that I just don't feel like working out. But then I met Viola. And if she can make working out a priority at 99, then none of us have any excuses! Here's how she's living a FIT LIFE:


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In 2008, 604,632 Arkansans volunteered time
Volunteers are the engine that powers the services in our community. KARK as celebrated 33 years of volunteerism, and now we plan to expand out work in this area.
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The Division of Government Information is delighted to be posting on the Future Ready 365 blog this week. DGI is a diverse community of knowledgeable information professionals who share an interest in government information and government librarianship. Our posts this week come from librarians in a variety of government library environments including federal, military, and academic. These DGI blog contributors share their insights on navigating the complicated landscape that today's information professional must travel — from getting that library job to staying on top in a rapidly changing field once you're there. Maybe you'd like to join us on the journey! Come check out the Division of Government Information at: http://govinfo.sla.org/.
By David E. McBee, Federal Government Librarian, www.librarybuzz.blogspot.com (Washington, DC Chapter, Business & Finance and Government Information Divisions)
The late Gilda Radner created a character for Saturday Night Live named Emily Litella who would speak out on various topics. Unfortunately, Miss Litella didn't hear things quite right so she was against the efforts to remove violins from television programs. She was corrected that the effort was to remove violence from television programs. As this new information would sink in she would realize that it was very different from what she had been thinking and she would end her spots with an apologetic, "Never mind."
I wonder what Miss Litella would have thought of e-braries and e-books and e-journals and e-patrons and e-librarians and who knows what will be next.
It started with e-mail and as that caught on we all started living in an e-world. And to no one's surprise this didn't simplify our life in the least. We have to make distinctions between e-mail and postal mail (or the pejorative snail mail), and e-journals and print journals. Having been a cataloger I can appreciate the many challenges this created to the folks describing our collections.
From everything we read and experience we know that a lot of users will still prefer print resources, but more and more will want information made available in a variety of electronic formats ported to multiple devices. And we, being the service industry that we are, will strive to meet that need explaining to our budget folks that it doesn't mean it is cheaper nor that we will reduce the footprint of the library.
The January/February 2011 issue of Information Outlook was all about mobile applications. Coincidentally in my current job that has been the current push as well. The agency is rolling out mobile devices to about 1,000 research staff and we want to let them know what the Library can provide for them on their new tool.
As in other instances, this is not something the Library can do on its own. We need the help of our IT folks – the ones who control access to what is on the mobile devices – to open the gates for the Library content. We have to work with our vendors to find a good solution for subscriptions that will work in our total environment – desktop, physical collection, and mobile devices.
It is exciting when you find a partner for a project who understands the value of what we are trying to deliver to our end-users. Often we have to educate in many directions – and we have to learn. What devices is our agency buying? What information resources have mobile applications? What is the pricing structure for the access? What products will we make available?
The Oxford English Dictionary may have a mobile app, and it would be oh-so-cool to have it, but how many of us would actually push that out to our mobile end-users?
We need to keep up with the wave of e-information. The demand is there and if we don't do it, someone else will. Like all the other tools for information access this needs to be part of our expertise.
The same way we went from print to dial-up, to software and then to Internet – we need to help our end-users get their information on their mobile devices and keep up with what the next platform will be.
Once you find the IT and Communications folks who are managing the mobile devices work with them to develop the Library application – pointing to the Library resources that staff can access on a mobile device. Talk to your vendors to make sure you are licensed properly to give access to your users.
Review and refine your list. If you already have a page on your website listing online news resources you have a head start! Just as we had to rethink presentation and writing for the web – we have to be even more concise on a mobile device. A segmented list of resources on a website is easy to navigate – on a mobile device keep to the basics until users ask for more.
If you have been around the Internet since the early days then you'll remember those Under Construction pages that we used to put up and use. Those are long gone – everyone understands that the Internet is under continuous development and updating. It is the same with mobile devices. People will expect additional resources and upgraded applications. Let the vendors take care of upgrading the apps. But don't worry if you have a great news resource that you have finally been able to contract. Roll it out. If it is a significant resource, then roll it out right away. If you have a couple new resources in the works then roll them out together.
Two agencies I worked for had a lot of agents in the field who were then still using dial-up access for the Internet when they were on the road. For that reason we designed our pages with as little graphics as possible and did our best to avoid anything other than html.
This experience taught me something about our users. You need to take care of your biggest user group. By minimizing graphics we didn't hurt our onsite users with a fast connection. Our efforts helped them too. Government librarians are looking at a finite set of end users with mobile devices. Yes, they seem to breed like rabbits, but they are still expensive enough that not everyone in your organization will have one. So you don't want to license solely for the mobile devices. Even the mobile users will want to read the Wall Street Journal on their desktop or even in print. (Print? Remember that?)
To be good librarians we need to see what our patrons are doing and listen to their questions. We don't need to pounce on everything – but we need to be aware of trends so we can be ready to ride the wave and not get caught by the undertow.
So – there isn't an E in Library, but there is an E in Libraries and end-users and mobile devices. And there are two Es in people and those are the folks we are here to serve as librarians.
David has over 25 years of library experience having worked for federal banking agencies and other libraries. He earned his MLS from the University of Maryland in 2000 and has been a member of SLA since 1998. He has been active with the DC Chapter of SLA and the Government Information Division. He has worked in all aspects of librarianship – Reference, Cataloging, Web, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources. David started his blog – Library Buzz in 2004. He has written for the GovInfoPro Best Practices for Government Libraries and has been published in the One-Person Library Newsletter. In addition to working as a librarian, David plays trombone with DC's Different Drummers.


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Interview with David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds
In a 2001 interview, Contributing Editor David Sibley, author of our column
"ID Toolkit,"
tells how his field guide came to be and that its success surprised him
By Matt Mendenhall
Published: November 29, 2007
Read an article by David Allen Sibley about birdwatching at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
If anyone expected
David Sibley's
bird guide to sell a half-million copies in nine months, they sure didn't tell Sibley. When we spoke in June 2001, the author seemed genuinely surprised that his
Sibley Guide to Birds
was such a hit. This, after countless book signings, interviews with national media and dozens of positive book reviews.
Now, he's even beginning to feel the effects of celebrity. The day before our interview, Sibley led a
People Magazine
reporter on a morning bird hike. While he felt somewhat odd having a reporter take notes while he birded, Sibley was even more surprised when birders along the trail recognized him. "Just two months ago I wasn't being recognized," he says. "They'll usually apologize for interrupting and ask for an autograph."
Not that he's complaining, he says. It just takes some getting used to.
Given the unbelievable sales for
The Sibley Guide,
he'd better keep getting used to it. Sibley expected that 40,000 to 50,000 top-flight birders would buy his book to get more detail than the National Geographic or Peterson guides offer. That's why he's still a bit surprised by novice birders' attraction to the book.
The pull, he figures, is the guide's design. With no more than two species per page, the clean layout and the various depictions of each North American species,
The Sibley Guide
is a fresh approach to field guide design. In fact, at book signings, he often hears compliments about the design.
"It's very gratifying because the design was the thing I worked hardest on," he says. "I spent years just thinking about the design."
In fact, the field guide is the culmination of Sibley's lifetime as a birder. The son of the well-known ornithologist Fred Sibley, David began drawing birds at age 7 and first painted birds at about 18.
"I started playing around with the idea of doing a field guide when I was in junior high school, and started serious work on books of various scope just after high school," says the 39-year-old Sibley. He didn't decide on the guide's layout until 1994, which is when he started painting the final draft. When he wasn't painting birds, he worked in various bird-related jobs: as a hawk counter at Cape May, New Jersey, as a sound technician at Cornell's Library of Natural Sounds and as a tour guide for WINGS Inc.
Volume 2 on the way
This October, birders can get another taste of Sibley's avian expertise when his next book hits store shelves.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
(Knopf, $45) is a fascinating examination of North American birds that complements his field guide.
Focusing on bird families rather than individual species, the book features almost 800 of Sibley's paintings.
"It covers things the first book didn't," Sibley says. "It summarizes information for each family, so if you want to know the nesting habits of wrens or the conservation status of grassland sparrows, this book will explain it."
Why not give such details about each species?
"We wanted to present the broad patterns rather than giving a mountain of data," he says. "That way people can interpret what they see."
He compares the new guide to BirdLife International's
Handbook of the Birds of the World
, albeit on a much smaller scale. It's an apt comparison. An early edition of the new
Sibley Guide
provided to
Birder's World
captivated us with its easy-to-read family descriptions. Sibley's paintings of birds in natural settings - Golden Eagles on their nest, for example - were more than pretty pictures. Their rich detail add to the book's educational impact.
Read reviews of bird books by Kenn Kaufman, Keith Bildstein, Scott Weidensaul, Christopher Cokinos, and other writers.
Some critics of his field guide point out its lack of conservation notes, but Sibley feels the guide was designed to "get people excited about birds." The new book, which is full of conservation information, should satisfy such critics.
Sibley's fans will be excited to know he's got more on his plate. In about a year, he'll publish a book on bird identification
(Sibley's Birding Basics)
. And after that, he's planning to produce
Eastern and Western field guides
. "They won't replace the first guide, but will complement it," he says.
In the meantime, if you catch a glimpse of him in the field, be polite and don't gawk. He's simply enjoying the birds, just like you.
David Allen Sibley is the author of
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf, 2000),
Sibley's Birding Basics
(Knopf, 2002),
guides to birds of eastern and western North America
(Knopf, 2003).
Read David's column "ID Toolkit."
Read more about him and our other contributing editors.
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October 2001 issue of
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In Shock Cinema Number 33 [http://www.shockcinemamagazine.com/], actor/playwright Austin Pendleton recalls working with Orson Welles on Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970).
Here are a few quotes from that interview:
SC: How was Orson Welles to work with?
Pendleton: Impossible. (...) He was actually and literally trying to direct the film. We would rehearse the scene, and when we were about to shoot after it had been lit, Orson would say: "Now, Mike, this is all wrong." And he would tell all the actors what to do and he was invariably wrong. Those scenes are half as good as they had been with Mike.
SC: So Welles had that much impact on the set?
Pendleton: The scenes work because they're well cast and well written but the way Mike directed them was extraordinary and the way Orson directed them was conventional. He doesn't understand that kind of humor. He never did in any of his stuff.
SC: On the DVD commentary, Nichols says you're the only person who wasn't afraid of Orson Welles.
Pendleton: That's because everything I did was with him and I finally got so fed up with him. I thought, this guy is gonna kill my performance. He's making it impossible for me to do the work. (...) I got mad. I don't think anybody else felt their performance depended on him as mine did. Everything I did was in response to him and he would blow takes if he didn't like the way I was doing a moment. And I knew I was supported by Mike. You don't get afraid of someone when you think they're out to get you. (...) I don't care what Welles directed. I'd seen him in other people's films where he'd been plain awful. So I thought, okay, he made a good movie once. Big deal.
SC: Apparently, Welles had wanted to direct Catch-22 for years.
Pendleton: Yeah, well tough. We all have these things. When you agree to act in a movie you agree to act in it. It's just not fair. And to hear Orson Welles publicly give Mike Nichols a lecture about comedy is painful and degrading. Mike Nichols falls asleep thinking about comedy in a way that Orson Welles never dreamed of.
And then Welles left Mexico for Belgium to shoot MALPERTUIS.


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I was a decent high school track athlete and thanks to good fortune I was able to attend university because of my athletic achievements. However, as a former sprinter, one must learn to run relaxed. Typically sprinters as well as long distance runners get stressed and need to learn to relax during their competition or exercise runs.
What I've learned over the years is that business professionals including doctors tend to get very stressed about their practice. This includes infighting among staff or low patient volume. Their stress affects their self-esteem and work ethic. They need to learn to relax by recasting their self esteem.
Research proves that if your self-esteem and confidence are shot you absolutely must change your state. Your attitude will provide you either a low or high altitude. Don't believe me? Think of the times when you are stressed, everything annoys you. From less ice in a beverage to conversations you have with friends and patients. However, when you are flying high you often say "…and this is the way it gets done exclamation!"
Self-esteem is about selling yourself first. You have to look into the mirror every day and believe in yourself. You need to diminish limiting beliefs. You need to believe in your self worth and your self-image. You have to look in that mirror and say that you are the force of good and you are the force that controls all of your emotions. Believe in yourself and you control your destiny.
Stop reading the motivational and self-help books. If they really helped there would not be so many of them. Stop listening to unsolicited feedback and stop comparing yourself to others. Look at what you bring to the table, look what your creator has developed and look at all the good in your life. Take control, look at the mirror and realize the wonderful gifts you have!
© 2013. Drew Stevens PhD, all rights reserved.
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