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Set sail for high adventure in Asia, Africa and South America during a guided tour of the world's most remote rivers.
Cast off on a thrilling expedition where tigers, gorillas, elephants and maybe even a headhunter await your arrival.
Trek to a dusty tropical jungle outpost—overflowing with cargo nets, wooden crates, rusty lanterns and faded marquee signs—and board a weathered tramp steamer for a tongue-in-cheek adventure through some of the world's most "dangerous" rivers. Led by your trusty skipper, leave civilization behind as you cross continents and oceans through untamed waters rarely seen by man.
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During your lively 7-minute journey, encounter awesome wonders of nature amid some of the world's most exotic locales. Highlights of your unforgettable adventure include:
Throughout the sometimes perilous voyage, take in lively narration from your friendly skipper, known for a brave heart and a clever joke… or two.
The original Jungle Cruise opened on July 17, 1955 at Disneyland Park. Based on Disney's award-winning True-Life Adventure films, Jungle Cruise premiered with a more serious and educational tone. In the early 1960s, however, Walt Disney introduced more drama and lighthearted scenes and asked one of his most accomplished animators, Marc Davis, to sketch some humorous gags.
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Occupational therapy assistants collaborate with occupational therapists to develop and carry out a treatment plan for each patient. Plans include diverse activities such as teaching the proper way for patients to move from a bed into a wheelchair and advising patients on the best way to stretch their muscles. For example, an occupational therapy assistant might work with injured workers to help them get back into the workforce by teaching them how to work around lost motor skills. Occupational therapy assistants also may work with people who have learning disabilities, teaching them skills that allow them to be more independent.
Assistants must monitor rehabilitation exercises to make sure that patients are doing them correctly. They record the patient's progress and provide feedback so that the physical therapist can change the treatment plan if the patient is not getting the desired results. Occupational therapy aides, by comparison, typically prepare materials and assemble equipment used during treatment. They may assist patients with moving to and from treatment areas. After a therapy session, aides clean the treatment area, put away equipment, and gather laundry. Further, occupational therapy aides fill out insurance forms and other paperwork and are responsible for a range of clerical tasks, such as scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, and monitoring inventory levels. Beyond degree major requirements, you may consider Trident Technical College academic calendar 2017 as a complementary elective.


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Sparta': Iraq War haunts Marine with PTSD horrors (book review)
Marine Lt. Conrad Farrell, just back from four years in Iraq, has a problem watching Monty Python's "Life of Brian."
"Crowds of robed people milled about, pressing bodies, the confusion, growing chaos. He wanted someone to take charge."
It's one of the stranger manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder in Roxana Robinson's disturbing "Sparta."
Robinson, who often writes about financially comfortable East Coast families, has published four other novels, three short-story collections and a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. In her previous book, "Cost," a family confronts a son's addiction: "Jackie was always the star, the center of things. There was a glitter about him."
Similarly in "Sparta," Conrad "was always on the honor roll, always captain of the team," Robinson writes. A classics major at Williams College -- his senior thesis was on the militant Greek city-state -- he shocked his liberal Westchester, N.Y., family by announcing in early 2001 that he would join the Marines following graduation.
That initial jolt is a fading memory when Conrad returns physically whole yet mentally lacerated. Although he was close enough to a roadside bomb to catch the shock wave, he's damaged only in places no one can see or reach. Nor can he ask for help because that's not the Marine way.
It isn't just his recurring symptoms: "the roaring blackness in his ears, the intrusions on his mind, the explosions of rage, the sense of sullen misery that underlay each day. The sense of confusion, and the relentless headache."
He also has lost vital connections to his parents, his two siblings and his girlfriend because they haven't shared his world for the four years in Iraq: "No one would round a corner to find something lying in the street, ripped open and gasping, ruby-colored, terrible."
Robinson draws a compelling victim, a man trained to control himself and command others in extreme situations yet helpless among civilians, wrenched by anger and paranoia on crowded streets and in quiet restaurants, in highway traffic and at home watching a comic film.
Conrad resists seeking support from the Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan. Then an initial foray ends in retreat, while a second try gets him an appointment for three months later.
When that day nears, he's told he has to wait three months more. For his eventual interview he draws a distracted doctor who reels off rote phrases and writes four prescriptions. Robinson's understated take on the VA is devastating.
The author's small cast and few settings generate more than enough heat and emotion in the many moments when humans try and fail to connect. Her flashbacks to Iraq supply vivid snapshots that footnote Conrad's pain and stress on the home front.
They also underline how little dramatic tension the novel's civilian side presents. Other than wrestling with his demons and dodging offers of help, Conrad's main lines of action are efforts: to apply to graduate school, to reconcile with his girlfriend and eventually to get help from the VA. There's no significant movement for most of the book in any of these areas.
The paralysis is psychologically, even politically, apt. But in a country that's only just starting to produce fiction from our sad ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, Robinson's powerful case study leaves a lot more to be done with the genre.
-- "Sparta" is published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (386 pages, $27).


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Discussion of a BBSRC-funded project to tackle blackgrass.
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MBA Course Adopts New Open Source Model for Student Projects
The spring 2014 Information Technology and Solutions course (IDSC 6050) challenged MBA students to examine how businesses use information technologies to reach new markets around the globe. And for the first time ever, the 18 groups' findings are available through an online repository where anyone is free to distribute, modify, and build upon them. Made possible by a Creative Commons license, the open courseware model encourages students around the world to interact with and carry forward the case studies.
"In platforms like Wikipedia, the content is crowdsourced from many people who have knowledge and expertise in that area. That's exactly what's happening here," says Information and Decision Sciences Assistant Professor Soumya Sen. "We've built an online repository of case studies created by students who have been trained in these different principles, and it's made for other students to understand."
The course also explored the potential of a "flipped case" structure. The students were first taught core IT principles in class or through video lectures. They then selected an organization to evaluate outside of class guided by a topic and leading questions provided by the instructor. Each student group conducted independent research and received feedback from Professor Sen to help develop their case reports. This year's topic was the role of cultural adaptation in developing IT solutions for new markets.
Open courseware model draws interest
Already, Sen has been contacted by fellow educators looking to implement the open courseware model within their own curricula. Sen's colleagues will incorporate the Carlson School students' case studies, which involve a mix of business and technology, into their international entrepreneurship courses and student thesis. He hopes to expand the repository in future classes.
"Right now, it's only the students from this course who can contribute, but maybe at some time it can be made into a Wikipedia kind of repository where maybe other schools can also participate," he says.
Students investigate IT applications in a globalized world
Sen's course explored how information technology can boost economies in developing nations. Students discovered the nuances of technologies like mobile, cloud, and social computing; information security; and web communications.
"The internet and information technology holds great promise in this globalized world for creating a level playing field for many countries," says Sen. "It's important for students to understand how to adapt IT solutions and strategies to the local market conditions."
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This is just a scratch design for how one might make a list of dangerous animals. We usually don't make lists, but the point of this one is to make it easy to write a short reference to animals in some articles, but link here for a full description.
This article provides a short reference to some of the dangerous animals which live in North America. Please don't overworry about these animals, they aren't anywhere near as dangerous as the other drivers on the road who are far more likely to kill you by accident than any of these animals.
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Pumas are a large cat-like animal. While only about half the size of African Lions, they are quite capable of killing a human. Different regions of North America have different names for this one species including Mountain Lion, Puma, Cougar, and Panther. Pumas are extremely shy animals. Most people who live in the same land as Pumas have never seen one.
Pumas are pervasive throughout the western United States and Canada, and are found throughout Mexico and Central America.
Being cats, Pumas like to chase running things like joggers. They also like to surprise people who are bending or kneeling down like bicylists changing a flat. Or children playing hide-n-seek. Consider having a hiking partner rather than hiking alone. Do not permit children to hike out of your sight.
If you encounter a Puma, do not run. Look as large as possible. Pick up children without bending down. Pick up a rock or other weapon if you can do it without appearing smaller. If attacked, fight back.
Rattlesnakes are a venemous snake found in the Americas. Older snakes have a rattle on the end of their tail composed of dead skin stuff. Rattlesnakes helpfully shake this in order to make you aware of their presence and how they would very much like you to go away. Unfortunately, younger snakes may not have this helpful rattle, and are easily confused with other, harmless snakes.
Rattlesnakes will bite when threatened. For hikers, the usual pattern is that two hikers follow a path. The first one steps on a sleeping snake and pisses it off. The snake begins to shake its tail vigorously. The second hiker says "what the hell is that noise" and stops in his tracks. The snake then bites the second hiker. Try to avoid stepping on rattlesnakes by looking for them on the path. If you are the second hiker and hear a snake, don't stop unless you are certain you are not already standing next to the snake.
If you are bitten, the good news is that you almost certainly will live through the painful experience. Rattlesnake venom is essentially digestive enzymes, and will break down tissue around the bite. Try not to move much (which spreads the venom) unless you must do so. Seek immediate medical attention. The bad news is that some tropical species have neurotoxin venom, and are considerably more dangerous. In any case, seek medical attention promptly.
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Grizzly Bears
If you see a bear, climb a tree to get away. Grizzly Bears like to push trees over to eat people. I was eaten by a grizzly bear once. Yup.
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Polar bears are one of the few species on the planet which hunt humans for food. There are no trees where polar bears live, so you won't need to waste time climbing one before you are eaten.
Manatees are slow-moving seal-like animals which graze on sea grasses at the bottoms of rivers and estuaries. They live in Florida and nearby states, except during their annual migration to Minnesota.
Because they aren't very visible, they often get run over by motorboats. If driving a boat in areas with Manatees, they might eat you. Climb up a tree to escape the cow of the sea!


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Govt bats for made-in-India IT products
The government meets two objectives by pushing a made-in- India electronics policy: create a market for indigenous electronics products and safeguard the country from cyber attacks.
The Centre will soon come up with a notification, which will make it mandatory for all government departments to procure a part of their information and technology (IT) requirements such as desktops, laptops, printers, etc, from domestic companies that manufacture the product locally.
While the drive will help the domestic sector, it will also help the government ensure there are no cyber attacks from malware loaded on devices manufactured abroad.
"We are in the process of coming up with notifications for procurement of IT products, under which preference would be given to manufactured-in-India electronic products for all government procurements and procurement by government licensees," said a senior government official.
Under the new guidelines, government agencies will have to procure not less than 30 per cent of their IT requirements from the domestic manufacturers. For example, if 100,000 laptops are to be procured for a government project, then the government will have to buy at least 30,000 laptops from domestic manufacturers or foreign companies manufacturing the product in India.
This is going to create a huge opportunity for domestic players, as well as foreign players manufacturing in India. In its Gujarat election manifesto, the Congress party has promised free laptops to students in the state.
If implemented, this would be a few hundreds of thousands of laptops. The Uttar Pradesh government has already announced that it will procure around 1.5 million laptops to give away to students.
Besides giving impetus to the domestic hardware manufacturing sector, the new guidelines will address strategic and security concerns of the government.
"Most electronics items are being imported. This creates a huge security hazard, especially for the critical sector. The imported products may have chips loaded with malware, which can siphon off critical information," said a government official.
Earlier this year, the government had said it would provide preference to domestically manufactured telecom products, especially to those with security implications. The new rule is a part of the national electronics manufacturing policy that came into effect from October this year. Under this rule, all the ministries will have to notify what percent of their hardware needs they are procuring from domestic players.
"With increasing of electronics devices and IT applications in various sectors, the critical applications are vulnerable to cyber attacks. As use of electronics and IT becomes pervasive, the ability to use these devices or applications to disrupt normal human life and threaten life and property by an inimical interest has become increasingly common," a government notification proposing the policy said.
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What happens when you merge a smartphone with a tablet? You get the ASUS Padfone.
Evan Blass of PocketNow just posted some leaked photos that reveal one of the most interesting hardware ideas I have seen come to Android in awhile. The Padfone is a combination of a normal Android smartphone and a tablet accessory (appears to be 10 inch) that includes a special dock which completely consumes the phone when closed.
The concept is similar to what we saw from the Motorola Atrix 4G and its lapdock accessory which were a major disappointment, so hopefully ASUS has a few tricks up their sleeve to improve the user experience.
No details were provided about the hardware specs, but I'm going to assume the Padfone will feature a multi-core CPU to power that big tablet display. ASUS recently went with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 in their Transformer tablet, but they also have a working relationship with Qualcomm so we could see a new dual-core Snapdragon inside as well.
It was also reported that ASUS is working on devices with the upcoming Tegra 3 processor, but we don't expect quad-core CPUs in smartphones until Christmas.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Dec. 7, 2012) – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association released its 2011-12 All-America Scholar-Athletes on Thursday, with ETSU landing nine on the list to top all Atlantic Sun member institutions.
Among the Buccaneers' award winners were Jackie Baird (Ooltewah, Tenn.), Amy Campbell (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Marlina Delisa (Tucson, Ariz.), Whitley Hensley (Erwin, Tenn.), Casey Horner (Whitesburg, Tenn.), Sam Lower (Sebring, Fla.), Annie Martin (Centerville, Tenn.), Shelby Morris (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) and Lily Robins (Collierville, Tenn.). To earn NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete accolades, a player must carry a GPA of 3.50 or higher.
ETSU was one of 140 NCAA Division I participating institutions, joined by Stetson, USC Upstate and Northern Kentucky as the four from the A-Sun. Stetson and USC Upstate earned seven honorees, while NKU wound up with five.
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Alec Baldwin, who once had a feud with Page Six — we made up — is now at war with Mike Walker of the National Enquirer. The day before he co-hosted the Oscars, Baldwin — angry at Walker for reporting he'd screamed at Tina Fey on the set of "30 Rock" — told the Times of London the veteran columnist was a "whore" and a "queen." Walker vents in this week's Enquirer: "Here's my headline: 'Alec Baldwin — Raging Closet HOMOPHOBE!' Grab your pitchforks and torches, Hollywood — the monster lurks among ye!" Baldwin, who says he never screamed at Fey, doesn't seem to be afraid of a gay backlash. He told us yesterday, "Yes, he [Walker] is a goat-footed, wheezy, old queen, and all my male lovers agree with me." Walker states, "Just for the record: I am not gay, as my wife will attest. Right honey? . . . HONEY?? Hey Alec: Stay tuned."
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lifealike needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 137 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
lifealike is a new category of web app which will give people a way to learn about themselves and their options in life by exploring the worklives and experiences of people similar to them. We need a logo!
lifealike (all small letters)
The user experience will be of a fun, friendly, viral community site with a twist. It will have lots of entertaining user-generated content and discussion, interesting data and fun facts. There's some pretty clever math behind the scenes, which means everyone's experience will be personalised and unique. Over time as you continue your conversation with the site, it will become increasingly useful and valuable.
We think of it as a smart but friendly mentor who engages you in an interesting, provocative conversation about your worklife situation and choices, and we need a logo to reflect and embody what we are creating.
Will need PSD, AI files, font names (though fonts ideally rendered as curves). We will need to have all rights worldwide for the winning design.
A bit about the site to guide you:
Tone: your smart but approachable friend
- about me (self-discovery / exploration)
- Genuinely fun but also useful
- Web 2.0, but not geeky (i.e., mass market, not just early adopters)
- Collaborative, people working together
- Advice, guidance, discussion, community
- Friendly, personable
- Clean, modern
- Witty, smart, clever
About the logo:
- Mark/figuration should be an integral part of the name
- But ideally mark elements will be identifiable enough to be used independently over time
Logos we like:
- TUI (one of the cleverest logos anywhere), YouTube, Last.fm, Flickr, Moo, Slide, Mint... plenty of the stuff at http://www.go2web20.net/
Some ideas to start you off (but no need to pick any or all of these):
- pick out ".if...i.." within the name to emphasise the self-exploration theme
- visually distinguish "life" and "alike" (otherwise can be a hard word to read at a single glance)
- bring out explicit metaphor for self-improvement / life journey (climbing, sailing, exploring, etc.)
Don't wants:
- Too complex or technical
- Too cliched
- An offline logo that doesn't work on screen - most of the time this will be viewed on a (our) webpage
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I want to say, hello and I want to invite you out to Campbell Chapel Church and be a part of our adult Sunday school class. Our adult Sunday school class is made up of men and women above the age of 18 years old. We all get together and congregate in the auditorium upstairs while the kids are in different class rooms downstairs with all the adults are upstairs. I'm the teacher of that class. We have a great time there. We would love to see you come out and be a part of that on Sunday, Lord willing. We are going to start studying the book of Daniel and going through different places in that and different books of the Bible down through this quarter. I would encourage you to come out and be a part of our service. I have said many times that if we were just going to have one service a week, I would want it to be Sunday school because I think that probably in that service, we can learn more than any other service all down through the week.
We love you. We appreciate the great attendance that we are having. Come and be a part of the service and come and enjoy the blessings of Almighty God.
Again, Thank you
We look forward to seeing you in Sunday school.
Have a great day!
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Obama's Absence at AIDS 2012 Gains Attention of Activists, Bloomberg Reports
July 25, 2012
Noting that President Barack Obama's "only presence [at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)] is a 50-second cameo in a three-minute video welcoming delegates," Bloomberg reports that his "absence ... has activists talking." The news service discusses Obama's campaign schedule, interviews advocates about his decision, and talks to policy experts regarding U.S. global AIDS funding. "Administration officials defended the president's priorities and his attention to the issue," Bloomberg writes, adding, "Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for Obama's National Security Council, said in an e-mail that 'the most important metric for PEPFAR is lives saved, not dollars spent, and through smart investments we are delivering results'" (Brower, 7/25).
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Remote Access: No Travel Required
One of the Fastest-Growing and Most Quickly Accepted New Technologies to Hit Control Systems
New automation industry technologies seem to have a consistent path from inception to adoption. First, suppliers and research organizations tout the technology as a game-changer, a paradigm shift, a must-have — pick your cliché. Media outlets such as this one write about the new technology, but we are skeptical, as are prospective customers.
If some potential users and/or system integrators see possible competitive advantage, then these early adopters will try out the technology to find out if the benefits outweigh the costs. Simultaneously, suppliers fight it out to establish their proprietary technology as the standard. If end users determine the technology delivers promised benefits and required rates of return with acceptable risk, and if suppliers agree on standards and interoperability, then the technology is widely adopted.
Remote access has traversed this path successfully in the process industries, proceeding from supplier promotion to widespread end-user adoption in less than 10 years. How do we know? Because a host of end users and system integrators are eager to share remote access success stories, as you'll find here.
Competitive Advantage
There are many ways to skin the remote access cat. Remote access has no standards-making organization touting its capabilities. It's not proprietary, and there isn't widespread agreement on how to accomplish it, yet it's growing at a breakneck pace. When something comes along that is truly useful and beneficial, end users jump on it.
Sukup Manufacturing, based in Sheffield, Iowa, makes grain-handling equipment such as bins, dryers (Figure 1) and conveying equipment. The company redesigned the control system on its QuadraTouch continuous-flow dryers using a PLC with Ethernet communications, says Matt Koch, electrical engineer at Sukup.
"We offer optional global system for mobile communications (GSM) functionality so that our customers can keep an eye on dryer operations from any cellphone," Koch says. "The GSM modem provides this add-on functionality. The PLC is already set up to connect to the modem, so all we have to do is simply plug the modem into the serial port of the PLC and activate service onto a SIM card to realize instant GSM functionality."
Remote access and other automation helped McCall Farms, a manufacturer of Southern-style foods in Effingham, S.C., to triple in size over the past five years to more than 250+ million pounds of produce per year.
Jeff Crisp, maintenance manager at McCall Farms, uses a wide range of PC-based remote access technologies that enable him to access process equipment (Figure 2) remotely from different plant buildings, from his phone and from home, if there's an urgent need to do so. "I can securely and easily dial into plant systems from my house in order to troubleshoot," he says. "Using our PC-based control systems, I can watch any process in the plant run from my office."
Access from home is via a virtual network computing (VNC) server. "If something must be fixed in the middle of the night," Crisp explains, "this is a very attractive option."
There is no overwhelmingly popular method for remote access — process automation professionals are using software technologies such as phone dialing systems, cellphone messaging systems, virtual private networks (VPNs), VNC and various PC-based software programs that allow remote users to view and even control PCs at the local site.
Remote Access Fuels Success
It seems everybody in the process industry is using remote access in one way or another, for a variety of purposes ranging from equipment diagnostics to optimizing control systems.
Nor Cal Controls ES, a system integrator in Placerville, Calif., used remote access to solve a similar problem with unfamiliar software. "Recently, we were in the process of providing balance-of-plant tuning for AEP at one of its new power plants," says Bob Lopez, control engineer at Nor Cal. "We purchased ControlSoft's PID tuning software, but because of our unfamiliarity with the software and the GE ICS PID controllers, our process models were generating tuning values that were completely off in magnitude."
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A fireplace can be an attractive addition to any room, but a fireplace with the Fullview Forged Iron Fireplace Screen 47"W x 35"H will truly elevate the elegance of your home. Complete with high-quality construction and Old World styling, this hearth accessory provides a perfect accent for any fireplace or insert.
Each Forgecraft Fireplace Screen is unique and handcrafted. Natural variations in the materials that are used, makes every fireplace screen a masterpiece of its own.
- 47"W x 35"H
- Made in the USA
- Forged Iron design
- Protects against spark and ember damage
- 90 day warranty
Regardless of whether you've got a fire going, you'll love the way the Fullview Forged Iron Fireplace Screen 47"W x 35"H looks. This screen also offers excellent protection from sparks and embers. You'll no longer have to worry about incidental fire damage or small hands getting too close to the flames.
Add a decorator's touch by selecting any one of our specially designed toolsets and wood holders to complete your hearth design.


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Latine (adv.); Latinus, Latina, Latinum
I'm revising vocubulary in LLPSI Pars 1 and have found the following, the grammar of which I don't understand (must have been asleep the first time around.
Marcus "Ego ipse non scribo, sed Zenoni dicto. Zeno est servus doctus qui et Latine et Graece scit.
mmmm.. Now I know what this means. He doesn't write but dictates to his servant but what's the grammar.
Is '....sed Zenoni dicto' an ablative absolute 'I don't write myself but my servant is dictated to...? Is Zeononi ablative? or is it dative....but then what would be the subject of dicto...
Then we have 'Zeno est...qui et Latine et scit..'
'Latine' is an adverb . Latine scit .... knowing latin ?


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