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Healthcare in 2021? What will we be doing in 10 years time? Well, according to Jim Carroll, keynote speaker for the opening session, definitely not what we're doing today! He presented an invigorating view of what our healthcare systems could be looking like and it's up to us to decide how we get there. We'll be accepting his challenge to take three scary ideas away and think about how we can make them work, rather than the reasons why they won't. The poll4 system was fun and it was definitely the first time we'd been asked to turn our phones on during a presentation!
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May 17th, 2012 by milwaukeepolice
On Friday, May 18, 2012, the 22nd Annual Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony will be held at noon on the Capitol grounds in Madison. Two Wisconsin law enforcement officers will be added to the memorial during the ceremony. They are:
Officer Fredrick T. Samp from the Beloit Police Department was shot and killed on May 28, 1935, as he attempted to take two males into custody for armed attempted theft of a vehicle.
Officer Craig A. Birkholz from the Fond Du Lac Police Department was shot and killed on March 20, 2011, while responding for a call to assist officers, who were fired upon while they were conducting an investigation.
Speakers include Governor Scott Walker, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and former Fond Du Lac Police Chief Tony Barthuly.
Additionally, members of the Wisconsin State Patrol, Fond du Lac Police Department, Fond Du Lac County Sheriff's Department, Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department, Portage County Sheriff's Department, Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department and Fitchburg Police Department Honor Guards will post guards at the memorial site starting at sunrise. Similar to the military guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, two memorial guard members will continually encircle the memorial site from about 5 a.m. until the memorial ceremony at noon.
Since 1844 more than 250 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty in Wisconsin.

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It comes but once a year ... Father's Day. It's such a great time to celebrate with dads since it occurs during the warm months and kids are getting out of school. There are so many outdoor activities that dads like to do, so it shouldn't be too hard to think of what to do with dad. But in case you need some ideas, we have a few thoughts on what to do for Father's Day.
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- Go camping. Lots of dads like to camp and this is the perfect weekend to do it. Even if you can't go to a campground, pitch the tent in the backyard and do breakfast and dinner on the grill or make a campfire if you have a fire pit.
- Go for a hike and go geo-caching. If dad is a hiker, he will enjoy this especially since yiou came up with the idea.
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Neta Stoddard Nelson,
Neta Stoddard Nelson went home to be with her loved ones on October 9, 2012. She was born in Shelley on September 17, 1937 to Wilford and Ireta Stoddard. Neta loved to be with family and with coming from a family of 16 it was a good thing. She would regale all with the antics what they did as kids. She was the tenth child of the Stoddard Clan.
Neta married Alan Smith and moved to Tacoma WA where they had four children DeAnna Robbins of Toolia UT, Becky Nay of Spokane WA, Jeff (Caileen) Smith of Saratoga Springs UT, and Lisa Myers of Ortting WA. During their time there Neta worked as a CNA in a nursing home and later in the kitchen. When she returned to Shelley she worked at French's and helped the family by babysitting the nieces and nephews. She then moved to Utah so that she could be closer to family. For a time she lived in Oregon to assist her ailing sister, Darleen. In her later years Neta returned to Shelley to be with family. She loved to be with her grand children and great grand children.
She is survived by sisters: Violet Cox Hamilton MT, Delpha (Don) Beck Blackfoot, Connie Bumgarner Firth, Louise Stoddard Pocatello and brothers: Fred (Sandra) Stoddard Idaho Falls, Martin (Linda) Stoddard Woodville, Denny (LaRue) Stoddard Jameston children: DeAnna Robbins Tooele UT, Becky Nay Spokane WA, Jeff (Colleen) Smith Saratoga Springs UT, and Lisa Myers Ortting WA, twelve grandchildren and 14 great grand children and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Graveside service will be held on Saturday October 20, 2012 at 11:00 at the Shelley cemetery. Family and friends are welcome.


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"Russia is the fastest growing search market in Europe but it's easiest to get you money out of Brazil" Says Andy Atkins Kruger in his presentation. The emerging markets are Brazil, Russia, India and China or BRIC as it's called. Russia is quite target-able through cities as some are larger than the whole population of countries in Europe.
The conference just started and It looks good, John Brenne of Webcertain Oslo gave a good introduction of things to come and Andy took over and is now talking about the the diffirent language markets focusing on the above BRIC.
India is a market that not so many target, it seams a forgotten market. The growth of Internet usage is great, even though the country only holds only 10% of the Asian Market.
In China Baidu holds some 73% at the expense of Yahoo but Google holds a string position. Andy also says that Google is the largest in the world, yes sir.
So what are the issues managing campaigns and what are the main elements "SEO, Paid Search and Social Networks" – Use UTF-8 (Unicode), this is important across the line, especially when you look at Google and how it uses UTF-8. Then Andy mentions 301's and SEO localization, Keyword research, Glossary, Translation then Optimize and polish in the end. Remember alternative spellings and words that you might be missing out on.
The France are very dependant on Google correcting them when they search, they leave out parts of words and let Google correct them, and Google does that but not always. Don't force languages to them that they might not want, make them choose by them selfs.
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A fraudster who stole more than $100,000 from the Black Saturday relief fund has walked free from court after a judge found he was mentally ill at the time of his crime.
Habib Khoury, 61, falsely claimed $111,000 from the Victorian Bushfire Appeal fund when his investment property in Pheasant Creek was destroyed in the February 2009 fires.
Claims, however, could only be made for an applicant's primary address.
Khoury lived in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe at the time and had planned to move to the property, which included a supermarket and two sheds, when he retired.
County Court Chief Judge Michael Rozenes accepted the destruction of Khoury's retirement dream had triggered a serious case of depression.
He noted a psychologist's report that found Khoury's mental illness had affected his "perception, judgment and reasoning" when he signed the fund application forms in early 2009, declaring the Pheasant Creek property was his primary address.
"I find that your moral culpability is reduced because of your mental illness and that your detention in custody for his reason would be more onerous," he told Khoury.
Judge Rozenes said Khoury, a married father-of-five, was a man of previously good character and was unlikely to reoffend.
But he said the community would view his fraud as particularly shameful given its links with the bushfire which killed 173 people.
Khoury has repaid the funds in full.
He pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining property by deception.
Judge Rozenes sentenced him to a 12-month jail term, suspended for 12 months.


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OCC Working Paper 94-5, May 1994.
The market share of foreign-owned banks (subsidiaries, branches, and agencies) in the United States grew dramatically during the 1980s and early 1990s, amid fears that foreign banks were out-competing U.S.-owned banks in their home market. However, more recent data show that growth of the market share of foreign-owned banks has slowed substantially. Furthermore, the data show that foreign-owned banks in the U.S. have persistently exhibited lower profit rates than counterpart U.S.-owned banks, subsidiaries of foreign banks have operated less efficiently than U.S.-owned banks, and in the last few years the credit quality of foreign banks plunged below that of U.S.-owned banks.
These findings call into question fears about foreign banks out-competing U.S. banks in the U.S. market and suggest that, despite having captured a substantial share of U.S. banking business, further penetration of the U.S. banking market by foreign-owned banks is far from certain.
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Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population HealthDr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical EthicsDr. Macklin first began working in Global Health in 1988, when she was invited to become a member of the Scientific and Ethical Review Group (now under a new name), located in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO). She continues as a member of that committee and also serves on the HIV Vaccine Advisory Committee, located within the Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR) at WHO. She is a past member of the Ethical Review Committee responsible for reviewing all WHO research projects. Dr. Macklin is a frequent participant in WHO and UNAIDS consultations and workshops sponsored by the programs with which she is affiliated, which have been held in recent years in Uganda, Malawi, Botswana, Senegal, and South Africa. She is a past President and Board Member of the International Association of Bioethics and was re-elected to the Board in 2009.
Dr. Macklin has close ties with colleagues in India and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), in which she has several published articles. She was an invited speaker in 2007 at the Second National Bioethics Conference of the IJME held in Bangalore, and regularly consults with colleagues on topics of research ethics in India. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and the Editorial Board of Developing World Bioethics.
She chaired the Ethical Review Committee at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva from 1996-2000, and also at UNAIDS was a member of the Global Reference Group on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights from 2003-2008. She served as Vice President and Member of Executive Committee, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) from 1999-2007.
Several of Dr. Macklin's published articles and two of her books focus on global health topics. The latter are: Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004; and Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Her latest book is a collection of her previously published articles on topics in global health entitled Ethics in Global Health: Research, Policy, and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Dr. Macklin is Co-director of an NIH Fogarty International Center Training Program in Research Ethics entitled "A Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas." The program takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is conducted entirely in Spanish. The program began in 2000, with four post-doctoral trainees each year spending several months in residence and then returning to their respective countries to implement a practical project. Since renewal of the program in 2006, a distance learning course was added, open to other scholars and professionals throughout Latin America. Following the latest renewal in 2010, Dr. Macklin is working with her Buenos Aires co-director to establish a Master's degree in bioethics as part of the Fogarty program.
In the years since the program began, trainees have included physicians, biomedical scientists, lawyers, social scientists, and philosophers. In the early years, the majority of the trainees came from Argentina, but more recently Peru, Brazil, and Mexico have been in the lead, with others hailing from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador. The program features an annual seminar co-directed by Dr. Macklin and Dr. Florencia Luna, the Argentine Co-director, mentored projects for each year's trainees, and a required distance-learning course open to others in addition to each year's trainees. Several past trainees have begun new careers in bioethics, have organized conferences in their countries, developed new courses in their institutions, and published articles on aspects of research ethics. A few of the best past trainees are invited to serve as guest faculty at the annual seminar and as presenters or tutors in the on-line course.
Dr. Macklin serves as an external advisor to another Fogarty International Center training program for Central and Eastern European countries, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is a visiting faculty member at the seminars conducted by this training program.
Einstein-sponsored projects Although Dr. Macklin does not have an ongoing project in Global Health in which students can participate, she is prepared to serve as a mentor for students interested in doing their required research project in the area of Global Health or developing a fourth year elective project.
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BISMARCK, N.D. – Food Management Investors, Inc. (FMI) and Apple Core Enterprises, Inc., Minot, N.D.-based companies, have agreed to resolve a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) relating to practices at their Bismarck, N.D. Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, the agency announced today. Applebee's violated federal civil rights laws by permitting a former store general manager to create a pattern and practice of sexual harassment and retaliation against employees, the EEOC charged in a lawsuit filled in June 2010. (EEOC v. Apple Core Enterprises, Inc. & Food Management Investors, Inc. d/b/a Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, .No. 1:10-cv-00048 (DLH/CSM)). The EEOC filed its suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary, out-of-court settlement through its conciliation process.
According to the EEOC's complaint, which followed a pre-suit administrative investigation directed by John Rowe, director of the EEOC's Chicago District, between 2002 and the end of 2007, former Bismarck South Applebee's General Manager Mike Cordova allegedly regularly groped female employees, solicited sexual relations, and exposed himself. He also allegedly exposed employees to pornography, told sexually explicit stories and jokes and made highly personalized sexual comments designed to demean and humiliate female employees. The EEOC's investigation indicated that on at least one occasion, Cordova allegedly coerced an employee into giving him oral sex in exchange for a raise.
Despite repeated complaints by employees and, on occasion, customers, Applebee's allegedly failed to discipline or stop Cordova's behavior. Five women previously employed at the Bismarck South Applebee's filed charges of discrimination with the EEOC that led to the lawsuit. Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"This case demonstrates in a rather emphatic way that sexual harassment is still a challenge for women at some of our best known neighborhood businesses," Rowe said.
The EEOC's lawsuit ended today when U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland entered a consent decree resolving the suit. Under the terms of the decree, the ACE and FMI will pay out $1 million in compensatory damages to 17 female former employees who experienced Cordova's sexual harassment and retaliation during their employment at the Bismarck South Applebee's. The companies are required to implement a comprehensive training program to enable its employees to identify sexual harassment and properly investigate internal complaints.
John Hendrickson, the EEOC regional attorney in Chicago, said, "This manager's sexual harassment of his subordinates was blatant and ugly, and it permeated every aspect of life on the job for these women. Women who work in restaurants have it tough enough without having to put up with illegal sexual misconduct." Hendrickson added.
According to its website, (http://nglobe.com:78/), ACE is "a franchisee of Applebee's International, which owns and operates Applebee's restaurants in North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona and California." Also according to its website, FMI is "a restaurant management company located in Minot, North Dakota [and is] responsible for accounting management for [] Applecore Enterprises, Inc." Myron D. Thompson of Minot, N.D., has been the president, CEO and director of FMI since 1990. Thompson and Abe Sakak, also of Minot, N.D., are co-owners of ACE.
The EEOC's litigation efforts were led by trial attorneys Nick Pladson and Jessica Palmer-Denig of the EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office, Camille Monahan of EEOC's Milwaukee Area Office, and was supervised by Associate Regional Attorney Jean Kamp of the EEOC's Chicago District Office. The EEOC's Chicago District office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Viewshare is a platform designed to support the work of cultural heritage institutions in their efforts to share data, dynamically visualize their collections and access and discover items. It was developed as a free and open tool for partners of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Its central goal is to reveal patterns within collections to lead to new understanding. Viewshare features a simple and intuitive interface and limited requirements for technical skills, and it supports a wide variety of digital collections and metadata types. Its users establish custom metadata, import and enhance collection data and create their own interface to support dynamic and interactive views of their digital collections. The process is illustrated with the Fulton Street Trade Card Collection from the Brooklyn Public Library.
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From Records to Data with Viewshare: An Argument, An Interface, A Design
by Jefferson Bailey and Trevor Owens
Creating and manipulating an interface to a digital collection is fundamentally an interpretive act. Viewshare (http://viewshare.org/) is a free and open platform that intends to make it easier for archivists, librarians, curators and scholars working with discreet digital collections within cultural heritage institutions to engage in that interpretive act. Through work in digital preservation, the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) team is continually reminded of the critical need our partners have to provide access to the collections they are working to preserve. Access remains an essential way to demonstrate the value of these collections. Viewshare grew out of a project designed to enable NDIIPP partners to provide access to their diverse digital collections, but has widened its scope to support the broader cultural heritage communitys efforts to empower data sharing, the creation of dynamic collection visualizations and access and discovery of their digital collections.
In this essay, we describe some of the ideas and ideals that informed the design of Viewshare. This effort is, in effect, an argument for the design of this free, open-source tool. We will suggest how Viewshares design helps empower cultural heritage stewards to create new ways to encounter, manipulate and explore digital collections. In the next section we briefly describe three goals that have emerged through our iterative software design process. They include setting a low barrier for entry and emphasizing usability, allowing users to work with heterogeneous data and helping to reveal emergent patterns in collection data. We then provide a walkthrough of how to use Viewshare and examine a sample collection in order to illustrate how these broader goals are enacted in the design and use of the application.
Values Embedded in Designing Interfaces
In developing Viewshare our goal was to create an application that is open, beneficial and widely adopted. To this end Viewshare leverages the existing open source Exhibit software as a lightweight structured data publishing mechanism [1]. Viewshare aspires to provide a dynamic tool useful to collection stewards and users who need to share, build and interpret digital collection interfaces. It accomplishes this task by designing features and workflow that can be utilized by non-technical users, by supporting ingest and augmentation of heterogeneous, extant data and by empowering the visualization, discovery and understanding of collection-wide trends and patterns.
Low barrier to entry. The software needs to provide collection managers without deep technical skills an intuitive way to articulate and visualize their deep knowledge of their digital collections. It needs to balance among the complex demands of being sophisticated, robust, transparent, and easy to use in order to attract a broad user base [2]. To this end Viewshare is designed entirely around a drag-and-drop interface.
Work with heterogeneous extant data. The software needs to support the heterogeneity of metadata across many different types of institutions and collections. It also needs to offer behind-the-scenes tools to transform this metadata into the kinds of data required for visual interfaces. To demonstrate the value of a range of digital and digitized collections, the tool needs to work with many different kinds of collections and with a heterogeneous mixture of extant content and metadata.
Reveal emergent patterns in collections. The software needs to enable visualizing cultural digital collections as unified sets of data and not just as discreet, individual objects. Visualization is thought of as a process for revealing and illustrating knowledge. Recognizing work from humanities scholars on visualization, we see the value of working with visual interfaces as part of a process in which we create new knowledge and understanding. According to Drucker, the process of visualization can be generative and iterative, capable of producing new knowledge through the aesthetic provocation [3, p. 41]. In embracing this subjective and iterative notion of visualization, the Viewshare platform attempts to make it easy for librarians, archivists, curators and others working with cultural heritage collections to exercise and surface patterns in their collections.
The Viewshare Workflow
Viewshares workflow is designed to support these particular goals. Users import and augment existing collection data, iteratively build interfaces to their collection data and ultimately are able to share the interfaces and views that they have created. We will briefly explain the steps in this process and how they are connected to the design goals and then further illustrate those connections in an example.
Viewshare interfaces are built entirely on user-uploaded metadata. Recognizing the heterogeneity of collection data, Viewshare allows multiple methods of importing data. Users can build or work from existing simple spreadsheets or MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) records or import Dublin Core metadata via OAI-PHM (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). To make this data usable, Viewshare includes a set of data augmentation tools to work from this extant data. For example, Viewshare enables users to derive latitude-longitude coordinates from plain-text geographic place names and then use these coordinates to plot their items on a map. Similarly, plain-text expressions of date information can be used to derive ISO 8601 formatted dates for plotting items on a timeline. With its ease-of-ingest and data augmentation features Viewshare understands and facilitates the use of the unique and sometimes idiosyncratic nature of cultural heritage collection metadata. At the same time it also allows users to enhance this metadata in order to enable the creation of dynamic interfaces.
After importing and augmenting collection data, users can begin creating interfaces. The tools primary purpose is building dynamic, interactive views of digital collections. Through a drag-and-drop workspace, users can create multiple views including maps, timelines, charts and other dynamic visualizations. Users can then choose which facets they want to include, and these facets will be available for each view, creating unique ways of manipulating the data presented in each of them. For instance, in a collection of postcards, a tag cloud facet set to display subject information will show the relative frequency of the subjects throughout the collection. If a user clicks on one of those subjects, Viewshare will limit the display of whatever view they are using to show only the objects associated with that term. As a user selects the data values they want to use in a given facet, and the particular views they want to display, they can use the show preview function to continually toggle back and forth between building their interface and a fully functional preview of what their resulting interface will look like. In this way, the tool supports an iterative and exploratory approach to creating these interfaces.
A Working Example: The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection
The Brooklyn Public Librarys Fulton Street Trade Card Collection, a collection of late 19th and early 20th century merchant trade cards from Brooklyn, New York, is an excellent example of a hidden special collection that generates significant patron interest and use; it is also a good demonstration of Viewshares ability to empower new ways of navigating, interpreting and understanding collections. This colorful, idiomatic group of hundreds of advertising cards offers many insights into the commercial and social world of turn-of-the-century Brooklyn [4]. Special collections such as this one are not just a grouping of individual items, but should also be thought of collectively as datasets documenting the trends, influences and styles of this time period and place. Using Viewshare, a collection manager or curator, with his or her deep knowledge of the contextual details of the collections, can create views that allow users to interact with this collection in ways not possible via a static web interface; and those views can also empower users to uncover collection-wide relations not evident or interpretable through traditional online gallery display or through item-by-item browsing. A working example of the view we are about to describe is available on the Viewshare website (http://viewshare.org/views/jefferson/fulton-street-trade-cards-collection/) and an image (Figure 1) is provided below.
Figure 1. Screenshot of Fulton Street Trade Card Collection views using flowers from the Augmented Subject facet as the search term (http://viewshare.org/views/jefferson/fulton-street-trade-cards-collection/).
By uploading a spreadsheet of collection data that includes links to the web-accessible image files, a collection manager can begin building new interactive views. After deriving points of latitude and longitude for the cards, the user can create a map view. The map view shows the locations of each cards business. A clickable pin on the map allows users to see a thumbnail image of the item and select metadata elements. When users add a facet to the view, they can click on any facet element, such as the Augmented Subject element flowers, as demonstrated in Figure 1. The map will then update to show only the location of the trade cards with flower imagery. Adding other facets such as date or subject will allow a user to further manipulate the display. A pie chart view can also be constructed from this same data set. The pie chart view defaults to a creator-defined metadata element. Each pie slice, when clicked, shows the calculation of the total number of items with that particular element in the collection and its percentage of the collection as a whole. For example, in a chart built on the element describing business type, the pie slice for confectioners when clicked will show there are 15 trade cards from confectioners representing 4.4% of the collection. Faceting can be used on charts, too, so if viewing a pie chart of subject headings, a user can then apply the business type facet and see that the 15 confectioners used four different image subjects in their trade card advertising images. Switching to a gallery view, a user could use the same faceting and see thumbnails of those specific cards. As users create and iteratively interact with their collections they are simultaneously building an interface and deepening their own understanding of the collection and the collections metadata.
Interfaces for Visualization and Understanding
There are many ways to build interactive interfaces and visualizations of cultural heritage collections. However, the time, cost and expertise necessary for creating these kinds of interfaces leave them outside the reach of many cultural heritage collections and users. To this end Viewshare is intended to empower librarians, archivists, curators and other cultural heritage professionals to create interfaces that help illustrate the value of the content they are working to preserve and make accessible. By making it easy to rapidly and intuitively create these interfaces, we hope that Viewshare can enable cultural heritage professionals to experiment with and explore their collections. In this respect, Viewshare aspires to John Bradleys characterization of another digital humanities tool: It is meant to be a tool that blends so well into the task of the development of an interpretation... as to be almost invisible [5, p. 263].
In sum, working with idiosyncratic extant collection data, Viewshare enables new ways to visualize and analyze cultural heritage collections. By providing these new levels of interactivity, it encourages users to see digital collections less as discreet items and more as broad, unified datasets that can be manipulated and interpreted to form new modes of understanding. In this sense, Viewshare supports the ongoing efforts to involve existing cultural heritage assets in the growing use of information visualization in digital humanities scholarship as it also provides cultural stewards a free, intuitive tool for the display and use of digital collections.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Huynh, D. F., Karger, D. R., & Miller, R. C. (2007). Exhibit: Lightweight structured data publishing. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 737746). Retrieved November 22, 2011, from www2007.org/papers/paper161.pdf
[2] Borgman, C. L. (2009). The digital future is now: A call to action for the humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3(4). Retrieved November 22, 2011, from www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/4/000077/000077.html
[3] Drucker, J. (2010). Graphesis: Visual knowledge production and representation. Poetess Archive Journal, 2(1), 1-50. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/4/50
[4] Brooklyn Public Library. (2011). Fulton Street Trade Card Collection. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://fulton.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/
[5] Bradley, J. (2008). Thinking about interpretation: Pliny and scholarship in the humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(3), 263-279.
Jefferson Bailey is currently a fellow focusing on digital preservation projects in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Previously, he managed digital projects at Brooklyn Public Library and at Frick Art Reference Library and has done archival work at NARA and NASA. He can be reached at jbailey<at>loc.gov.
Trevor Owens is a digital archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. At the Library of Congress, he works on the open source Viewshare cultural heritage collection visualization tool, as a member of the communications team and as the co-chair for the National Digital Stewardship Alliances Infrastructure working group. Before joining the Library of Congress he was the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and before that managed outreach for the Games, Learning and Society Conference. He can be reached at trow<at>loc.gov.
Articles in this Issue
Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovations and Integration, Introduction
The Dynamics of Primary Source and Electronic Resource: The Digital Renaissance and the Post-Reformation Digital Library
A Brief Introduction to Data Mining Projects in the Humanities
Pale Males 2.0: Revisiting a Traditional American Studies Project Using Digital Humanities Tools
When Computers Read: Literary Analysis and Digital Technology
Visualizing Social Connections in the Humanities: Beyond Bibliometrics
Interactive Visualization for Multilingual Search
From Records to Data with Viewshare: An Argument, An Interface, A Design
Beyond the Score: Music Visualization and Digital Humanities
The ISO 25964 Data Model for the Structure of an Information Retrieval Thesaurus
IA Column: What Happens When Architectural Questions Are Not Asked?


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Morales v. Barnett
In November 2004, the Morales family and their friend Emma English, all United States citizens, were assaulted by border vigilante Roger Barnett while they were hunting on state land in southern Arizona. Armed with a semi-automatic military-style assault rifle, Barnett held them at gunpoint, cursed and screamed racial slurs at them, and threatened to kill them.
At the trial court, Barnett was convicted by a jury of his peers and the family was awarded monetary compensation for their damages. Although Barnett claimed that this was a case involving the protection of private property, the court ruled that Barnett's actions were racially motivated, outrageous, and offensive.
Barnett appealed and MALDEF handled the case on appeal. MALDEF argued that the jury had rightfully found Barnett at fault for his vicious attack upon the family and urged the court to reject Barnett's request for a new trial. The appellate court rejected Barnett's claims and affirmed the trial judge's conclusion that Barnett had received a fair trial. In September 2008, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Barnett's Petition for Review and affirmed the civil judgment in favor of the Morales family and Emma English. The Morales case was an important victory for the rule of law over racist and violent anti-immigrant vigilantism.
MALDEF also represents 16 individuals who were assaulted in a similar fashion by Barnett in March 2004 near a state highway in Douglas, Arizona, in the case of Vicente v. Barnett. The Vicente case was tried in federal court and resulted in a victory on behalf of the women plaintiffs in February 2009.


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Barney Connelt enters inside cockpit of his tiny Submarine. It submerges into water with only periscope visible. Submarine surfaces and Barney emerges out of cockpit with big smiles. July 1941.
View of a Greyhond tourist bus marked Jacksonville. Next, a different tourist bus with destination sign of Miami. Tourists in Florida travel south through Florida on the bus. View of the City Gate of St. Augustine, Florida, and a horse carriage passes through the stone gate. Flags flying on the oldest house in the city, known as the Gonzalez-Alvarez House (later the Oldest House Museum) on St. Francis street. The flags flying include the American flag, the Confederate flag, and others.Tourist bus travels on a bridge. View of tourists inside the vintage 1940s bus. Silhouette of the bus driver, driving the bus, and view through the windshield of the road ahead as the bus drives along Route 1 and over the Overseas Highway toward Key West. View of the bridges and ocean beneath. Scenes in Miami Beach area. View of the beach in Miami Beach.
Scenes showing various historical events that took place in April 1935, during the Great Depression. In Stresa, Italy, on the banks of Lake Maggiore, leaders of Britain, France and Italy confer on German rearmament, in violation and defiance of the Versailles Treaty. (There they sign the "Stresa Front"). Images show the French and British delegations arriving by boat and walking near the port at Stresa, including British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, French Prime Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and French Foreign Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) Pierre Laval. U.S. College students across the country join in anti-war, pacifist demonstrations. They are seen marching with banners and anti-war signs and cartoons. One banner reads, "It is the task of the 20th century to make this world a brotherhood." Also "War is Hell....Who want to go to hell?" and "War is Stupid". President Franklin Roosevelt returns from a two week cruise. He arrives in Jacksonville Florida. Local officials and crowds in Jacksonville greet him and cheer. Boy Scouts in a line greet the President. Views of Franklin Roosevelt in an open car and on ships and docks. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover share the speaker's stage in New York lending their support for the Salvation Army during the Depression. Scenes from the Easter Parade in New York City. Crowds gather, filling double-decker open air buses. Al Smith seen with his wife. Postmaster General James Farley and Irish tenor singer John McCormack are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York. Amelia Earhart completes a 1700-mile flight from Burbank, California to Mexico City. Scenes of her in Mexico City in a car laden down with celebrating Mexican officials. Aviatrix Bernadine King sets a new record for upside down endurance flying. She is seen getting into her plane, and her plane is seen upside down in the air.
A football match between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators in Jacksonville, Florida. Spectators seated in a stadium watch the match. The match in progress. The Georgia Bulldogs win the match by 4 scores. Some spectators come on the ground as the match ends and the Bulldog wins.
U.S. Naval officers walk across the lawn at the the Aviation Building, also known as the Fritz Hotel in Miami, Florida. Among tenants in the building is the Weather Bureau office and joint National Hurricane Center. Their WSR-57 radar antenna can be seen atop the building. Scene shifts to inside the Joint Hurricane center where theree Naval officers and a sailor are reviewing weather data. An animated map shows how the Caribbean regions are accessed by Hurricane Hunter aircraft from Jacksonville, Florida, and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, respectively.
Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman on a Stinson Detroiter in Jacksonville, Florida. The monoplane stationed showing legend on side 'The Stinson Detroiter'. Fuel tanks are put aboard the plane by men and fuel is put into tanks. George Haldeman with two ladies. Eddie Stinson looks out of the cockpit. The plane takes off.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - In as little as a few months, airline passengers could play video games, read e-books, watch movies and listen to music while their flights take off or land, ending a long-standing ban on devices being used during those risky phases.
But looser rules under consideration for portable electronic devices (PEDs) are likely to force airlines to make some major changes.
Carriers, for starters, will need to determine if their planes are "PED resistant" and able to tolerate the proposed broader use of electronics. Some smaller and older planes with less robust avionics may not be, calling for different procedures on device use.
Cabin crews will need new announcements, placards and ways to monitor broader use of such devices as Apple Inc iPads or Amazon.com Inc Kindles. Bulky devices such as laptops and DVD players will need to be stowed during takeoff and landing, and perhaps even when planes are taxiing for long periods to avoid blocking people in an evacuation.
Most importantly, on some landings in poor weather, passengers may still be required to shut down devices so they won't interfere with electronic guidance systems that planes rely on to locate the runway.
The new guidelines, under review by the Federal Aviation Administration, put the onus on airlines to ensure planes are operated safely, according to members of a government-industry committee that recommended policy changes to the agency.
"It's not about certifying devices to be used on airplanes. It's about certifying airplanes to enable use of devices," said Douglas Johnson, a committee member and vice president of technology policy at the Consumer Electronics Association.
Johnson and others said they hoped the FAA would act swiftly on recommendations in the report. Johnson also said he hoped the government shutdown would not slow action on the new guidelines so that they could be in place by yearend.
For now, rules banning use of electronic devices below 10,000 feet remain in effect.
FAA officials did not respond to questions, and email messages said they were unavailable due to the shutdown.
Passengers and electronics makers have long sought to ease restrictions on portable electronics use on flights, and the committee's effort is likely bring the biggest update in years.
The new guidelines pose some tricky questions for air carriers. For example: How will cabin crews deliver safety announcements when passengers are plugged into their own devices?
" 'You have to get out of the plane because there's smoke' - What if you did not hear that?" said Captain Chuck Cook, a committee member and pilot who is manager of fleet programs and technology at JetBlue Airways.
Airlines also will need to harmonize their announcements and rules to avoid sowing confusion. Otherwise "passengers will start to create their own reality about what's allowed," Cook said.
Solutions devised for a large airline with modern jets might not work for a small carrier with propeller planes, he said. Accordingly, the report provides an outline to structure the FAA's thinking, and "the book is still waiting to be written" by the agency, Cook said.
"There are lots of ways to solve a problem, and we were careful to not say this is how to solve it," he said.
The guidelines cover technical changes such as how to ensure planes are resistant to electronic interference; changes to ensure they can operate safely with the devices; and changes in the ways attendants instruct passengers about using them appropriately.
Paul Misener, vice president for global public policy at Amazon.com, led the subcommittee on technical standards. He said the report, together with FAA guidance, will help airlines determine if their planes can tolerate greater electronics use.
"Aircraft have improved rather dramatically over the years" to resist electronic interference, Misener said. Today most are "immune to it" since they are designed to fly through radio beams from satellite dishes and broadcast towers.
Airlines will still look at the plane make, model and avionics systems to guarantee they can handle any stray signals from portable devices.
In some landings where visibility is low and guidance instruments are turned on, the portable devices may still need to be turned off to be cautious, but that would be in fewer than 1 percent of flights, said Misener, who is also an electrical engineer.
The FAA is expected to take at least several weeks to review the recommendations. With the government shutdown, it may take until yearend. Afterwards, airlines will need time to develop announcements, update manuals, train crews and inspect planes.
"You just can't turn that on in a day," said Cook.
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|2008-05-24, 04:18
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Translation Group
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Denver
Onikakushi Day 12 Release is Ready!
Hi everyone, and thanks for continuing to wait patiently. Onikakushi Day 12 is ready, along with the related TIPS. Check our latest blog post for more details.
The creepiness continues... BEWARE THE OHAGI!
Last edited by Sonozaki Futagotachi; 2008-05-24 at 14:57. Reason: changed link
|2008-05-24, 09:10
|Link #242
Guitar Man
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brazil
It is very well done
|2008-06-01, 18:20
|Link #246
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Warwick, RI
Age: 35
Due to schoolwork as well as me finally downgrading my computer to XP, I haven't been able to play the game at all.
But now I am installing the full game (I had the demo before) as I type and then I will download the patch and replay ... wow, up to Day 12! Good job!
|2008-06-09, 05:49
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Thank you so much Sonozaki Futagotachi!! Just downloaded and installed the demo on vista using applocale and ran the patch with no problems so far and it looks great!! Ive been reading this topic for a few weeks now just wishing i could play the game and now i can thank you again and keep up the good work! youre doing all higurashi fans a great favour!
|2008-06-21, 17:27
|Link #249
Translation Group
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Denver
Japanese native wanted...
Hi, Shion here. I was wondering if there were any native Japanese speakers on this board who might have time to help us out with some undocumented idioms and cultural references that we've had trouble finding information about, as well as maybe cross-checking some bits. Just to help us get Onikakushi finished up to be the best it can be. Oh, and it'd be a bonus if you know about mahjongg, since some talk about that comes up during Detective Ooishi's break-time, and I'm _really_ not an expert . Please PM us if you would be willing to help us out. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu!
Shion (Sonozaki Futago-tachi)
|2008-06-22, 01:11
|Link #252
Translation Group
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Denver
Onikakushi Day 13 Release!
Hi everybody!
The Sonozaki Futago-tachi release of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi (Days 1-5, 9-13) is now ready!
Check our latest blog post for more details.
Nothing bad happens to Keiichi today, but that doesn't mean things don't go horribly wrong....
Mion (Sonozaki Futagotachi)
|2008-06-24, 16:03
|Link #255
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
May I ask without sounding stupid, what I can delete when putting in the new patch? What I'm concerned about is my savedata. Where is it and will i lose it if i delete the folder containing patch for day 12 and then put in day 13 patch?
THank you
I just saw a .sav file called global.sav, If thats it I'm fine but just to confirm..is that it??
|2008-06-24, 18:53
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Freshly Exiled Zero
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Australia
onscripter-en stores its save game data in the Application Data folder (AppData in Vista) in your Windows Profile. the original game saves in its own folder, however.
Do note that the entire English patch should be located in a sub-folder of your Higurashi install folder, so deleting that subfolder will remove the patch.
Also, since it only updates the same files, the updates can be applied over each other without loosing any data. (in fact, thats what my Installers do - just update changed files)
|2008-06-27, 05:09
|Link #259
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Germany
Age: 29
Really thank you for translating. Good work, and up till now the game works really fine (on Vista). The anime left many funny things out ... But a question. Will you also translate the other games, or will you stop with Onikakushi? Not that I want to force you to do it, but just that I can estimate how fast I have to study japanese ... ^^
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Congratulations to all of Bluffton Middle School sixth and seventh grade students who have qualified to participate in the National Geographic Bee school competition at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday in the Media Center.
The winner of the BLMS school competition will advance to the next level of competition — a written examination to determine state competitors.
For the 24th year, the National Geographic Society is holding the National Geographic Bee for students in the fourth through eighth grades in thousands of schools across the United States and in the five U.S. Territories, as well as in Department of Defense Dependents Schools around the world. The 2012 Bee is sponsored by Google and is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in their classrooms, spark student interest in the subject and increase public awareness about geography.
All school winners are eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $25,000 college scholarship, at the national competition May 22- 24, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The school contact is Tricia Anne Kindle, Social Studies Department Head. Go to www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee for more information.
Grade six qualifiers
Ryan Livingston, Cassidy Meyer, Chandler Butler, Brenna Mayer, Jenny Nguyen, Abby Skakandy, Jade Hatfield, Maddeline Wallin, Drew Lee, Jeffrey Hodge, Anne Evans, Lexi Twitchell, Emily Kustak, Katie Miller, Adam Babington, Hannah Gregory, Austin Hardin, Jewel McCants, Maria Peralta, Ajai McGough, Zoey Marie, Miriam Zisneros, Alexis Tinoco, Serena Lin, Elizabeth Mosley, Jasmine Peralta, Vanessa Rodriquez, Itsairis Urias, Adam Park, Matthew Rasmussen, Bailey Priester, Zach Stevens, Ryan McCormick, Brooke Wilhelm, Aidan Sanz, Zach Johnson, Walide Semmoum, Jack Binder, Matthew Zampino and Robyn Johnson
Grade seven qualifiers
Evelyn Diaz, Silas Hernandez, Tyler Akey, Pablo Chirino, Daisy Velasquez, River Ery, Megan Wiggs, Justin Kowitz, Daniel Heslin, Malarie Godwin, Kaiti Allen, Alanis Cervantes, Emily Turner, Summer Rasmussen, Emanuel Lopez, Ricardo Cortez, Nathan Butts, Caroline Griggs, Matthew Ball, Mateo Sanders, Patrick Connolly, Zach Hellstrom, Hayleigh Stevens, Emma White, Makena Avichouser, Lindi Hilsabeck, Tanner Soulia, Alura Marshall, Connor O'Brien, Logan Mulholland, Julian Weston, Alec Stephens and Daniel Johnson


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The Photography Club of Beaufort will have Bluffton photographer Marge Agin as guest speaker for its August meeting.
Marge's program is "Out of the Box with Photosshop." She will show how to enhance average or even exceptional photos using Photoshop techniques. She will begin with a slideshow that compares before and after images using the computer and Photoshop and talk about the equipment she uses and her workflow patterns.
Agin's work is an art form that encompasses the use of digital camera equipment and computer capabilities. Her finished work combines talent, imagination and techniques that are unique which she will share with the audience.
Her professional career began in Southern California where she worked as an event photographer, photographic illustrator and portrait photographer, specializing in outdoor photography. Today, Agin works exclusively in fine arts photography and her travels have taken her around the world. Presently residing in Palmetto Bluff, her images revolve around the scenery of the Lowcountry.


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TBFGK Epilogue 13
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The second leg took them down a long river valley that led to a bayside city called Aqua Velva.[1] It was a pretty little Level 2, its garrison made of blue slate stonework sealed with black tar, in crazy patterns. It had a defensible harbor with a complement of three black galleons with white sails, bearing the red and black bat emblem of Transylvito. The ships were manned mostly by men, but the ramparts were guarded by festive-looking scarecrows. It was the first indication Jillian had seen that Transylvito might have a Dollamancer.
The city had a regent warlord named Al Frappacino,[2] an enormous, tanned man in a beige toga with gold garlands. He greeted Caesar with theatrical respect. Their stack stood in the courtyard while Big Al kissed everyone's cheeks and made flowery small talk and everybody ignored Jillian completely.
Jillian ignored them back. She wandered to the center of the slatework courtyard where a huge circular stone fountain stood, pouring water from the four sculpted mouths of a tentacled beast she had never seen before. Orange spotted fish the size of her forearm were swimming up to the edge of the fountain where she stood, as if expecting to be fed.
In two quick motions, she drew her sword and speared one of the meatier looking fish through the spine. The rest lacked the sense to scatter. It thrashed only twice on the end of her weapon as she drew it from the water, then fell still. Her strike had been clean through the heart. She jerked it from the blade, sheathed the sword in favor of her dagger, and sat on the edge of the fountain to gut and fillet it.
"Hey, HEY!" The four warlords in her stack were flying quickly in her direction. Big Al, who apparently did not fly, was waddling angrily behind them. "What are you doin'? What is she doin'?"
An agitated Vinny got to her first. "Commander? What the flip?"
Jillian did not stand up. She angled the dagger to pry the head off the fish and let it plop to the ground. "What? I'm taking on provisions."
"We got provisions set out for you!" shouted Al as he trundled up. "Titans' tonsils, Lady! These fish are my pets. They have names!"
"It's 'Princess.' If we're usin' titles," said Caesar quietly. He was addressing Al, who suddenly stared at him in confusion. Vinny also cocked an eyebrow at him. "Crazier'n a jug of bugs. But a princess. Don King tells me we're supposed to care about that now." Caesar punctuated this last statement by raising his own eyebrow.
The regent's face went slack at the mention of their sovereign ruler. "Well... arright, Princess. But please. We have plenty of stores you can stock up on. Leave the fish alone." He sighed and clapped his hands, trying to recover himself. "C'mon, let's everybody go inside. Leave the fish."
Jillian shrugged and stood, wiped the dagger clean, and followed along. She saw herself as a prisoner of Transylvito and didn't feel any need to apologize, but she walked up beside Big Al as the group headed toward the tower.
"You give names to fish?" Her voice was a little phlegmy from lack of use. She cleared her throat and spat a wad, placing it a respectful distance out of their path.
"Yeah. I do," said Al, a little sadly.
"That's weird," said Jillian. "I don't even name my mounts any more."
"So I'm a weird guy," shrugged Al.[3]
Jillian looked at the flat stones underfoot as they approached the dapper scarecrows guarding the tower steps. Something made her ask him, "What was the name of the one I croaked?"
"That one?" said Al, climbing the blue steps with a small amount of difficulty, "I called it Wanda."[4]
- ^ Aqua Velva A reference to the brand of aftershave/fragrance, "Aqua Velva."
- ^ Al Frappacino A pun on the name of Al Pacino, an actor famous in part for his portrayal of gangsters, particularly Don Michael Corleone in The Godfather. A "frappacino" is a brand of iced coffee beverage sold by the Starbucks chain.
- ^ Weird A reference to musical parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- ^ Wanda A reference to the movie A Fish Called Wanda. Also, a possible metaphor for the state of the relationship between Jillian and Wanda Firebaugh.


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Last Sunday's Mountain Views section featured battling columnists on the obesity epidemic, both of whom prescribed wrongheaded solutions. Space-age technology won't make it into the marketplace for at least a decade, and the last thing we need is another massive government program to dictate what Americans eat.
Last Sunday's Mountain Views section featured battling columnists on the obesity epidemic, both of whom prescribed wrongheaded solutions. Space-age technology won't make it into the marketplace for at least a decade, and the last thing we need is another massive government program to dictate what Americans eat.
What we need, instead, is a new understanding of the obesity problem that will inspire individuals to regain control of their dietary practices.
We need to recall that our distant ancestors had access to highly energetic animal-derived foods more than any sort of agricultural product, so our bodies evolved ways to use these foods effectively to sustain health. Those stone-age humans were prey to infectious diseases that modern medical science has largely eliminated, but if they survived youth, they were as likely to enjoy their grandchildren as modern humans.
Then, about 10,000 years ago, global warming set in. The ice that had covered much of the current temperate region receded toward the poles, and agriculture began. This innovation grossly increased the human population, as starchy foods furnished energy in a cheaper and more reliable way than hunter-gatherers could.
Fast-forward to the recent past, and we see something more ominous coming out of the industrial revolution: Farming is mechanized, food distribution is corporatized, and work is mostly something we do sitting down. Then our nutritional establishment gets the idea that excess dietary fats are the main cause of preventable health problems in older Americans, our government jumps onboard to encourage substitution of starchy foods for fatty ones, and an epidemic of obesity breaks out.
The cure is obvious, once you stop and think about it: Cut way down on the "white stuff" — sweet and starchy foods that are now a mainstay of the American diet.
This requires a strong commitment to new ways of eating and shopping. Stay away from the center of the grocery store and obsessively read the ingredients list on everything before you buy or consume it. Everything with sugar, grain, potatoes, corn or any other starchy product has to go. Most beverages are ruled out, for example, as they are rife with sugar.
Note that food manufacturers have a lot of ways to disguise sugar in your food. Anything ending in "ose," "ol," "syrup," "nectar" or "concentrate" is suspect, along with cane extract, honey, beet juice or any fruit extract. Almost anything labeled "lite" is bad for you.
What's left? Meat, for one, including fish, seafood and fowl as well as beef and pork — baked or broiled rather than deep-fried with breading. Eggs. Anything green, especially raw, boiled or steamed. All sorts of nuts. Limited amounts of fresh fruits and root vegetables other than white potatoes. Occasional cheese if it contains no more than three ingredients. Butter and olive oil. Sea salt, limited doses of an artificial sweetener such as stevia for your (unsweetened) tea, and all the herbs and spices you can stand.
That's really a rich, varied, healthy diet once you get used to it. It's not a cheap diet, but it's a lot cheaper than the heart attacks, diabetes and hypertension problems associated with our current diet.
Though the non-fat faddists will shriek, scientific research clearly shows that reducing your carbohydrate load will likely help your weight normalize along with insulin resistance, hypertension and even blood lipids.
It shouldn't take government mandates to persuade us to mend our ways!
John Rathbun, a retired psychiatrist, is a Mills River resident.


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Dubba wrote:As a famous man once said "you can't please all of the people all of the time". Guillaume I personally love your work with Bitty and would encourage you to pay little mind to obvious wind up merchants that sit behind keyboards and focus your energies on making more excellent music.
Nice kind words,
perhaps it all started by the original post being placed on a public forum on the front page ?
In the new release section usually it's only people that like the material reply ?
Just thinking.....


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Research and Analysis by Mary F. McGee
Medical Care Outlays for Three Age Groups: Young, Intermediate, and Aged
from Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 5 (released May 1971)


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Western Farm Press, in partnership with MANA Crop Protection and the Almond Board of California, has launched a new, free online continuing education course.
Disease Management for California Almond Production is now online at www.westernfarmpress.com.
It is accredited for 2 CEUs by both the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and the California Certified Crop Adviser program. It is accredited for 2 CCA units in Integrated Pesticide Management. DPR credits are in the "Other" category.
The new online course represents the ninth free online CEU course offered by Western Farm Press.
Since Western Farm Press launched the first online CEU in August 2004, more than 10,000 courses have been completed by Pest Control Advisers and other DPR licensees, as well as Arizona Department of Agriculture applicators and CCAs in both states. More than 25,000 CEUs have been earned online.
This new almond disease management course is supported financially online by MANA Crop Protection. Information for the course was developed by the Almond Board of California.
"MANA is proud to partner with the Almond Board of California and Western Farm Press to bring this online continuing education course to almond growers and PCAs," said Troy Bettner, senior product marketing manager for fungicides with MANA Crop Protection. "The almond industry is very important to MANA, and this service reflects our overall commitment to integrated disease management in the orchard."
The course covers all the diseases growers must deal with in producing California almonds. One of the increasingly important elements of this effort is managing resistance to the arsenal of fungicides available to control diseases.
"A key component of this course is fungicide resistance management, and its release is very timely," said Bob Curtis, senior manager, production research for the Almond Board of California.
"In particular, PCAs and growers who deal with late-season diseases must view fungicide resistance management from bloom to the end of June. They must consider the number of applications of any given fungicide and how it is alternated with others having different modes of action spanning this entire period.
"This course covers the very important principles and execution of season-long fungicide resistance management," Curtis concluded.
There are nine accredited CEU courses on the Western Farm Press Web site offering 20 hours of DPR credit. This includes 5 hours of DPR approved laws and regulations. Almost that many credits are available to Arizona Department of Agriculture licensed applicators and CCAs.
All courses are free, supported online by major California agricultural suppliers or Western Farm Press. The courses also are available on the California Association of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA) Web site www.capca.com.


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Erica Blandelli is awesome. And its nice that Godou's not a complete tool.
Get Some!
I've been catching every simulcast so far, looks good to me. I hope it stays that way!
I'm just glad the took out the pointless running away form the girls during critical moments when he has to kiss them during battles. also they at book 4 if going to the books right now but I wonder if they will do all of the books because it takes approximately 2 episodes to for each book (4 if they didn't cut anything) and I read it was only 12 episodes long. I hope its 26 instead.
another thing I wish they left in there was the beginning and epilogues of each book because the lunch scenes with Shizuka are hilarious.
Meh, I think it's entertaining, but forgettable.
Episode 8
Typical beach episode in the beginning with everyone (almost everyone) having fun in the sun.
Hmm, it does look like there's some seriousness going around though and that brutal ending, oh boy.
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Episode 8
What adventures await our God-Slaying King?
Today shall be remembered as a sad Friday afternoon for me.
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
Nay, there be no adventures ahead. It is the infamous beach episode, well known among those who view Japanese animation. Before our eyes lays glory in the form of voluptuous women dressed in fine bathing suits and the possibility of them being nude. Such beauty must be showcased. However, this was a beautiful lie all along.
We've reached an action-filled episode but at what cost? Our promised beach episode was a deception all along. Our hopes have been crushed only to develop an episode in which men fight amongst each other. The animators have forsaken us. They've turn their back on us.
All I sought were fair maidens in beach gear yet I only received a subtle taste of the promised eye candy. I came not to watch men fight but for gorgeous wenches. The change in subject causes anguish within me. I am furious but more heartbroken about this matter.
In loving memory of Cryska.
Yes, a mostly silly beach episode, waste of time but for the last few minutes and a few funny moments.
I'm still wondering when they'll intro the final addition to Goudou's harem. If this is 12 episode run we're running out of time pretty quickly.
Living life in the Far Far West
Episode 9
LOL @ this episode especially with Liliana believing what everything that Karen, the maid, is saying. Liliana is such a funny girl~
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Episode 9
Following the accursed loss of the beach episode, this week carries on our young God-Slaying King's adventure.
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
Between the boundary of life and death, our king reaches the state of enlightenment. Fear not, he shall not die even if he is killed for he has the power of the Ram - a power bestowed upon him when he defeated the rogue god, Verethragna. Our King possesses not only such powers but also the charisma to capture the hearts of wenches all around. He has won the heart of Maiden Knight Lilliana. However, her hidden libido is disclosed during this courtship.
Weep not, fair maiden, your secrets are safe with our King. If you do decide to weep, you may do so on the King's broad shoulders; he has collected the tears of many maidens and they were key to his victories. Let the saline, watery fluid shed from your eyes drive him to victory against the foe! Evil shall not stand up against the King's justice!
But battle will not occur tonight; the King needs his rest. Let the foe, Perseus, slayer of serpents, battle against our mighty God Slaying King next week!
In loving memory of Cryska.
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what was the bondage interlude about? The other campione seems to be enjoying Goudo's girls. Don't leave home without your harem is again the moral of this week's episode LOL
Not a horrible episode, some funny stuff but not the best either.
I think Campione! is doing fine, it's still one of the newer anime and some of the problems can still be fixed to be better in the long run. I think it can be an even bigger hit with a lot more positive results in the future.
Question! Wouldn't it be more accurate to use the Roman names of the gods since they meet most of them in Italy?
Episode 10
The duel commences with a long kiss between Liliana and Godou. Long kiss is long.
GG Perseus, GG.
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Huh anybody know why all the Campione! episodes are down? They were available earlier, but now they're nowhere to be found.
Living life in the Far Far West


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The Castellanos fan Twitter account first brought us the news:
"You heard it here first!! Alex Castellanos is officially a member of the LOS ANGELES @Dodgers !! #DodgerNation he flies out TODAY!!!"The owner of the account later revealed he is Castellanos' best friend and received a phone call earlier today.
If you needed more confirmation, Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus tweeted this:
"Sources have confirmed: The #Dodgers have called up 2B Alex Castellanos. I'm a believer in his bat."The 25-year-old is just destroying Pacific Coast League pitching this season. He has a .379/.476/.759 line in 22 games. He missed about a month with a hamstring injury.
Still, the Dodgers recalled him primarily to play second base, reportedly.
While Tony Gwynn will be the biggest beneficiary of Kemp's absence, as he will be his primary replacement in center field, a couple infielders could feel the effects of this move even more.
With Mark Ellis out, Elian Herrera and Ivan De Jesus have been getting the playing time at second base. With Castellanos coming up, it appears Herrera will return to his "normal" utility role, backing up at third base, center field and second base. De Jesus should be the primary backup second baseman.
As I said with Scott Van Slyke -- whose time with the Dodgers will likely be extended due to the Kemp injury -- prospects should not be recalled just to ride the pine. If Castellanos is coming up, he needs to be playing nearly every day.
Yet, Van Slyke hasn't played since May 27. Hopefully Don Mattingly doesn't let these prospects just wallow on the bench. If they're not going to play consistently, send them to or keep them in Triple-A. It doesn't help a young guy's development to eat sunflower seeds and chew Bazooka Joe on the bench.
But back to Castellanos. He's a work in progress defensively. He's not going to be better than any of the other four guys who have played second base this season (Ellis, De Jesus, Herrera, Jerry Hairston), but his bat could be better -- and worth whatever the Dodgers lose defensively.
If he doesn't work out at second, he has experience at all four corners -- first base, third base, left field and right field.
I'm excited to see him get a chance. I've grown fond of Castellanos since he was acquired for Rafael Furcal in July. I ranked him as the Dodgers' 21st-best prospect heading into the season -- and he's far surpassed my expectations.


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