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Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) 2013 Annual Meeting will be April 11-13, 2013 in St. Louis, Missouri.
The current recession, Occupy Wallstreet, and growing recognition of the gap between the top 1% and the middle class have brought new attention to the problem of economic and social inequality in the United States in particular and across the globe more generally. Questions regarding the origins, generation, and perpetuation of inequality in diverse societies are certainly not new to anthropologists. Anthropological and other social science research can improve understanding of the social, economic, cultural and political processes contributing to systems of inequality and stratification around the world. Better analysis of such processes not only enriches scholarship on critical issues but also has practical relevance for policy and interventions aimed at alleviating inequality.
This conference aims to bring together researchers from all fields of anthropology as well as other social sciences to present and discuss research that engages with the broad theme of inequality. There are a wide range of possible topics and questions to address. Papers and posters may address, but are certainly not limited to, the following:
- At the most basic level, how is inequality defined, measured, studied and understood? How have measures and conceptions of inequality themselves changed over time? Is inequality most meaningful when considered in absolute terms of meeting basic needs or in relative terms that are context specific? How have hierarchy and inequality emerged in human societies and how are archeological remains studied and interpreted to identify social classes, early states, and relationships among state and non-state societies?
- What socio-cultural institutions and structures create and maintain inequality among and between groups? Conversely, which social institutions and practices mitigate inequality and with which effects? For example, systems of reciprocity and leveling may reduce inequalities in small-scale societies, but such systems themselves are dynamic and changing. How have institutions and structures been affected by processes of global change such as the spread of capitalist economic systems, migration, and expanded economic exchange? What trends and patterns in inequality can we identify? While there is evidence that economic inequality has increased in the United States over the last several decades, other societies are experiencing lessening of inequality as economic growth reduces extreme poverty and brings more people into a new middle class. How are such trends experienced, understood, and explained?
- Another set of questions surround the implications of inequality. The existence of some degree of social inequality is pervasive in human societies but the consequences of inequality may vary considerably from place to place and over time. For example, research has shown a negative relationship between economic inequality and health outcomes in society—while poorer people tend to have worse health outcomes, in societies with greater inequality these outcomes tend to persist even when basic needs are met and access to basic health services are provided. Why is this? Papers may explore the dynamic effects of inequality on important outcomes including health, education, political participation and leadership.
Please submit abstracts for papers (300-400 words) and posters (200-300 words) by email to Carolyn Lesorogol (firstname.lastname@example.com). The deadline for abstract submissions is November 20, 2012.
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|sign at the Carnegie Science Center
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Dear Editor,
Sometimes the biggest kindnesses come from the smallest gestures. And you've probably already forgotten, but I need to thank you for giving my son one of the biggest kindnesses of all.
You see, my boy always seems to have an idea, a story (or two or three) spinning 'round in his head.
It wasn't always that way. It's all too easy to remember when our son, now 10, struggled mightily to hold a pencil. While other parents spent Saturday mornings watching their kid on the baseball field, we spent ours watching a therapist, coaching us and our boy's imagination into being.
As a child with autism, our boy's imagination and communication was locked away inside of him. What he had instead were his own rigid "play schemes," (a phrase I would soon come to hate) based on his own scripts borrowed from favorite television shows. This, as is often the case for kids on the autism spectrum, proved to be a bit of a challenge socially. Eight years later, it still is.
But somewhere and somehow along the way, the two - an ability to hold a pencil (thank you, occupational therapy) and a fruitful imagination (thank you, floortime) - connected inside our boy's brain and a little writer was born. The prolific results burst all over our house in the form of stories and drawings. Pretty soon, our little guy got it into his mind that he could write his friends into his comics. Making people laugh soon became his way of connecting with his confusing world.
He arrived home from summer camp one day last week, brimming with an idea. I'm starting a camp newspaper, my little publishing mogul declared. Before I knew it, I was kicked off my laptop and the first issue was being written with the speed of a copyboy on deadline. I heard the whirr of my printer downstairs, seven copies of the first issue streaming off the press in full color.
This has been going on for the past week. He's been writing about the various games the campers play; their field trips to the movies and to miniature golf, combined with opinion pieces on whether the campers should be allowed to purchase snacks during such outings. There was an article about a friend's last day and a review of the accompanying celebratory cake ("it was scrumptious!"). There's an investigative piece of journalism about a cereal spiller on the loose in the camp.
He's been distributing this ("selling it", in his words) to the parents at camp. Every day. For the past week, I've drawn in my breath upon picking up the kids, for there are few parent-to-parent phrases that make one tense up faster than "Can I talk to you about [insert your child's name here]?". In the case of parents with special needs kids, we're all too familiar with the questions, the raised eyebrows, the not-so-pleasant encounters in parking lots with other parents who didn't/couldn't/wouldn't get your quirky kid. It's a visceral, automatic gut reaction and you assume you know what's coming.
At least I did when the other mom motioned to me when we both arrived to pick up our kids from camp.
"About the newspaper ...." the other mother began.
"Yes?" I said, feeling my entire body go into protective Mama Bear mode, the hard drive of my mind searching the most recent issue for anything controversial.
"I absolutely love it," she said.
"Oh," I exhaled, relieved. "Really?"
"I even showed it to my boss," she continued. "I work for The Eagle. My boss is the editor."
I stopped. Looked over at my boy, and then I saw it. His smile.
His smile.
She had already told him, I realized. Told him that the editor of the paper read his words, and the pride on his face was unmistakable. My boy knows what an editor does, that such a person crafts the words, is in charge of the paper.
This is one of those moments, I realized. One of those moments when you realize that this is what all the Saturday therapy sessions and all the IEP meetings and all the dead-end appointments with one specialist after another are for. This is why we do all of that. It leads to this ... and why, and how?
Because of a small gesture leading to a big kindness. Because the other mom brought the newspaper into work, showed it to you, and you took two minutes out of a day filled with all the pressures of running a newspaper in this god-awful economy to read the funny and somewhat nonsensical words of a funny 10 year old boy with autism. Maybe you sensed there was something different or something quirky about him, I don't know. But whatever it was, you made a difference in the day - no, in the very life - of this kid and neither he (nor his mom) will soon forget it. We could all use a little more of that kind of kindness in our world, I think.
You read the news today.
And on behalf of my boy, I thank you so very much.
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People of KDE: Wolfram Diestel
Sometimes wise men say that the quest for speed and comfort drives the humankind away from its cultural vocation. The time might have come, thanks to the free software credo, to reconcile our quest for technology and our thurst of culture. Wolfram Diestel is one of the people that work towards this goal. Wolfram is Tink's guest this week, and he presents his work on esperanto translations of KDE. Go read the interview at KDE people's page.
Some friends and I learned a bit of Esperanto about 20 years ago just for fun, but I had no idea it was actually used anywhere. Is it the official language somewhere?
By Shawn Gordon at Tue, 2001/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Esperanto?
Before you get the wrong impression, NO is it is not the official german language ;-).
Esperanto real name is "Lingvo Internacia"
P.S: just found an link:
By Max Reiss at Tue, 2001/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: People of KDE: Wolfram Diestel
Ironically, there is a character set that covers German, Esperanto and English just fine - Latin-3 has all the characters needed to write German.
By David Starner at Mon, 2001/01/29 - 6:00am
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But when I send a Latin-3-Email to a german
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Nim Rusoe is a rather resourceful young lass.
Living on a secluded South Pacific island whose human population consists of herself and her oceanographer father, the preteen girl exhibits some self-sufficient elements of her almost-namesake, Robinson Crusoe. She relishes eating the local squirming larva delicacy, easily befriends the neighboring fauna and can take care of herself for a couple days while Dad is on the ocean conducting research.
Nim is played by Abigail Breslin, whose precocity often precedes her. But such preternatural maturity sort of works with the protagonist of "Nim's Island." She's the antithesis of the average suburban kid sipping juice boxes and playing video games. I mean, she has the wherewithal to mimic a volcanic eruption to shoo unwanted tourists from her island if she needs to.
And, yes, the need inevitably arises. She is home-schooled by her dad, Jack (Gerard Butler), who apparently has taught her self-sufficiency -- and isolationism and xenophobia. While it's refreshing to see anti-materialist characters in a children's movie, "Nim's Island" unwittingly indulges the latter traits, evoking the more cruddy, distasteful elements of "Home Alone."
Rated: PG for mild adventure action, brief language
Several miles out on his sailboat, Jack is drilled by a monsoon, leaving little Nim worried and alone. As he attempts to MacGyver his craft back to functionality, the island is invaded by the most grotesque tourists a caricaturist could conjure. They're bloated and obnoxious, disturbing the serenity of this secret paradise with loud music, volleyball games and porta-potties.
So what does Nim do? First, she builds slingshots to catapult horned lizards at them. Then, she feeds her pet sea lion Silky a bunch of horrible food, causing gastrointestinal distress, and thus a noxious odor proliferates the beach. Eventually, she scales the sheer face of the mountain, intending to light a fire in the dormant volcano to scare the intruders, but accidentally causes a near-eruption.
Uh huh. To be fair, "Nim's Island" intends to be whimsical, to exist in a fantasy land that closely resembles our own reality, albeit one with extraordinarily communicative animals and a screenwriter's magic wand to make everybody hunky-dory by the time the credits roll. The storybook stuff is appropriate, considering it's based on Wendy Orr's children's novel, and sometimes it's hokey-cute. But when it unleashes sea lion flatulence, the whiff of whimsy wafts away.
The film also leans heavily upon another classic crutch of comic desperation: slapstick, and from an unlikely source. Jodie Foster plays novelist Alex Rover, who pens pop-fiction starring an Indiana Jones-type adventurer. Nim is a big fan. Coincidentally, Alex tries to contact Jack while researching her new book and learns Nim is alone on the island, so she sallies forth to offer aid to what she assumes is a helpless little girl.
Problem is, Alex can't walk across her apartment without tripping or falling or banging her head or dropping things. She talks to herself regularly, or to the star of her books, who, for no discernible thematic reason, is played by Butler as a handsome hallucination. On top of this, Alex is agoraphobic and obsessive-compulsive; she has the local pharmacy deliver cartons of hand sanitizer to her front door.
So she has to face her fears all the way to the South Pacific, experiencing the usual hijinks with airport security and tiny prop planes. Foster isn't really acting so much as hyperventilating throughout the script, and we feel embarrassed for her. Alex isn't a character -- she's an irritating and unfunny bundle of neurotic tics.
To suggest "Nim's Island" intends to contrast Nim and Alex by showing us how youngsters can be sophisticated and adults infantile is giving it too much credit. By the time the third act plays out, we realize this isn't a movie about character -- it's all plot-plot-plot, and one shot full of holes at that. By delving into fairy tale cliches and ignoring the opportunity to be something substantive, it undermines the earnest and able qualities of its young heroine.


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The Visitacion Valley Branch Library was the 18th branch established in the San Francisco Public Library system, having been opened as a "deposit collection" in 1934. Eventually the facility was upgraded to a full service branch library and installed in a leased storefront facility at 45 Leland Avenue. The new library building at the corner of Rutland and Leland opened July 2011. Information on the project can be found on the Branch Library Improvement Program page.
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but you not once suggest any way that commercial beekeepers have a better way to learn the details of how to best work with bee biology and communicate this to the broader beekeeping community for review, criticism and (hopefully) validation by the entire community!
What does THAT have to do with the price of rice in China? It doesn't.
Money talks, and BS walks.
I gave examples of commercial beekeepers (Allen Dick, Keith Jarrett) who found what worked best for them. They funded their research out of their own pocket. They earn their rewards by using their product to make them money. Heck, look at The Honey Householder's operation. Pests and diseases are NOT an issue in his operation.
Review, criticism, and validation are subjective things that DON'T generate profits. They are the feel good fluff; popularity contest crap that is emotion based - and that doesn't pay the bills.
You also bring up 'how to best work with bee biology'. Once again, more subjective theory that is NOT objective. Objective results are what keeps the beekeeper's operation profitable. That is what works best for the beekeeper's operation.


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Major oversight not including support for this or is it another little $20 download for the future. Seems strange as their mobile range support them.
First seen at CES in January, the Archos TV+ launched in the UK this afternoon and will be available in two variations: the 80GB and 250GB model, priced at £180 and £250, respectively. It combines a Wi-Fi media player with a hard drive to allow you to stream or store movies, music, photos, podcasts and web video, while the …
Underpowered (chipset doesn't support HD)
Overpriced - and charging for extra codecs is frankly astonishing
Already superceded by TViX/NMT/Popcornhour etc
Way to go on bringing us the latest in Press Releases that fell on my desk/spewed out of fax machine/cluttering up my inbox though!
Go Archos!
I choose Paris as my icon because... oh no reason really. I just like her. And her short adopted midget friend on the Simple Life. They're like sooooo hot.
Built my own DVR for 400 quid, it has a DVD recorder, plays any video format, all my music, slideshows of my photos, upscales to HD, can surf the net, EPG and no subscription fees. The box is a little bigger but it is hidden in a cupboard anyway since it has an IR receiver on the end of a USB cable. Why can't PC manufacturers sell them like the one I made?
Darn, I've always been a fan of Archos since the Jukebox Recorder 10 in 2001, followed by their PMP ranges.
But like the other posts say, this looks underspecced, overpriced and late to market, which is a real shame.
And all these seperate companies trying to negotiate terms with the seperate movie companies, such a headache.
*sticking to torrents*
What is up with reviewers who don't seem to do any actual bleeding research?!
Just like the Archos 605 range (which I own) this Archos TV+ DOES support divx and xvid, they don't display a "supports divx" sticker because then Archos would have to pay DivX to do so.
but for the last freaking time (this question gets asked all the time for the 605) IT DOES SUPPORT DIVX/XVID!
and it kicks arse. This is a seriously nice toy. Runs on Linux.
The stand has 2 scart sockets so you can record live TV ala sky+ and watch films at the same time. You can surf the web on your TV and if you play a streaming video (youtube) it will show it full screen on the TV. It's also an mp3 player.
I want one.
I was at the press conference yesterday and took one of these to review.
Here are my initial thoughts:-
Setting this thing up is a herculean effort. Instructions are poor by omission of critical information.
-The default settings are for NTSC so don't show up on a standard SCART PAL system on initial device power up. It took over an hour to find this problem and had to initially use HDMI to see the screen.
-Connectors on the back of the device are RGB / phono with 6 each for input and output (making a total of 12).
-There is an HDMI output socket but no HDMI capability in the device (max 576p).
-The device forces you to "register" online to access most of it's functionality. Unfortunately, to register you need to go to your office PC as there is no native browser support (it's an extra plugin at 20 quid).
-EPG doesn't work (even after registration). Unhelpful numeric error code.
-Plugins don't work. 3 plugins downloded all of which returned another unhelpful numeric error code. On further investigation, we found the Archos website was sending us HTTP 404 (file not found) plugin files.
-To install the web browser plugin you need to hook up the TV+ to your PC using a USB cable (not supplied). This would certainly be beyond an average home consumer.
-No HDMI support. The video low resolution output (576p) shows up on HDMI 40" capable TV.
-Plays streaming media from home network. Extra plugins (extra cost) required to play video files.
-Large capacity (250GB version).
-We have yet to get the input (from a HD satellite box) to work with the Archos. It just displays a blank screen but audio works ok.
-The TV+ uses IR to "control" your satellite box, DVD, Freeview or whatever. This means that it need to sit FACING these devices to operate. This is simply "weird" as most home would stack the device underneath / on top to the IR will NEVER work.
Progress Today
At the end of the day (5pm), this is working working:-
-Connected TV+ to TV by SCART (HDMI is a waste of a good TV socket).
-Browse networked media server.
This is NOT working:-
-Internet browser (plugin failure)
-Recording. (EPG failure, video input not working)
-IR control of other devices. (this is simply BARKING mad how Archos design a unit to beam IR horizontally when your external devices are stacked vertically!)
The idea (convergence of media to your living room) is good, but (like many good ideas) it's implementation sucks at the moment.
The humble PS3 outshine this unit in every respect other than the TV+ PVR capabilities (which I've yet to get working). As well as native HDMI support, PS3 has a pretty fine web browser built in (no extra charge / hassle of registering, downloading and installing plugins.
All in all, we have currently a hard disk under the telly. I'll give it a week and try again but this device might end up relegated to a simple external HDD for backing up PC files.
Would I buy one? A resounding No... Sorry Archos.
I only used a full size case to give me loads of expansion room, it would have all fit into a half size case, and the £400 also included a cheapo monitor. If you're churning out thousands of them then you could reduce the price to £300 and still be able to stick in ultra-quiet fans. There must be a market for this kind of thing or did they all get scared off by the expensive Windows media systems from a few years ago?


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Schlobinski's brother, Teddy Schlobinski stated in a Monday press conference: "We mourn the passing of Debra who was a great daughter, sister, mother, and friend, but most of all she was a great Packer fan. There is no other way she would have wanted to go out. Go, Pack. Go!"
At his post-game press conference, Mike McCarthy stated that all full-time offensive and defensive players get a 20 minute training in how to do a Lambeau Leap, but since Hunter was fairly new to the team and no one ever expected him to score a TD, he hadn't received the training. McCarthy continued by saying that players are instructed to slow up, plant, and jump straight up, resting their rears on the edge or have fans hold them up. "Jason, in his excitement, did not slow up, and propelled himself three rows into the bleachers, unfortunately striking Ms. Schlobinski on the chin. Our condolences are with her family," McCarthy said.
Lambeau security staff believe Hunter's Lambeau Leap was the single highest Leap ever done since LeRoy Butler invented the touchdown celebration in 1993.


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See!? That's what I'm talkin' about. I'm trying to get my 2-1/2 yr old son to crap in the toilet. That's a priority in life, and his comfort, like you said. Therefore, any and all internet forums fall way off the charts in the hierarchy of "**** to get balled up over".
'Aint life grand?
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Sounds like sour grapes to me.
They have so few rules there, it's hard to imagine getting perma-banned when it's so easy to stay.
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That's what it needs alright.
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Moss necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 283 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
We need a logo for a clothing site. We will have various bands.
styles2you.com will be a high end clothing site for teen and college age women. We are open to all types of designs. Must include .com in logo as it is an online company only. Would like a real clean, clear, classy design. Open to any colors. It's a real plus to add an element to personalize the products.
We like the S to be Upper or lower case with the rest of the letters being lower case. We need photoshop high resolution images for a shopping cart site, rectangle in shape as to fit at top of site. Rich colors.
This logo will be used on everything from the website, to letterheads, business cards as well as on a vehicle. The higher the resolution end product the better. Adobe Photoshop and or Illustrator images accepted.
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text: Men's Lacrosse 4/22/2013 8:59:14 PM For Loyola, runs of both six and seven unanswered goals were the key to trouncing Hobart, 19-11 on the road in their ECAC regular season finale on Saturday, April 20. Going on the attack early, Mike Sawyer (Charlotte) put up six points four goals and two assists with three ground balls, as he led the attack unit to a combined 10 goals and 15 points total. Midfielder Josh Hawkins (Hamilton) also contributed heavily for the Blue Jays, tallying two goals in addition to four ground balls and two caused turnovers, while Scott Ratliff (Boston) led the way on defense with three points on two goals and one assist, plus seven ground balls and three caused turnovers. Despite it being Senor Day, things did not go as well for Colgate, who dropped a 13-8 game to Bucknell at home on Saturday. First overall selection Peter Baum (Ohio) was held to just one assist and three ground balls, as the Raiders could not hold onto a second-half lead that saw them score four straight goals for the second straight week. Now seeded fourth in the upcoming Patriot League Tournament, Colgate faces Lehigh on Friday night, while the Bison (ranked second) face Army in the tournament opener earlier that day. After a long six-game losing streak seemed to dishearten the University of Virginia, the Cavaliers bounced back on Saturday to pick up a 12-7 victory over Bellarmine. Matt White (Charlotte) contributed three ground balls to the five-goal victory, which is the largest margin of victory against Bellarmine by any team this season in addition to UVA's 12 goals being the most any team has put up against Bellarmine this year. In their semifinal ACC match-up this Friday, the no. 4 ranked Cavaliers will look to upend Maryland; a tall task in and of itself. Speaking of the Terrapins, this past Saturday saw them squeak out an 8-7 victory over Yale in College Park, MD, thanks in large part to Owen Blye (Charlotte) who contributed three goals and an assist for the Terps. Jesse Bernhardt (Chesapeake) also showed great hustle on defense, picking up an assist along with four ground balls and a caused turnover, while Kevin Cooper (Chesapeake) registered two assists for the day, putting him at 19 multi-point games for his career. The Terps will have to continue their winning ways and cement their status as no. 1 in the ACC when they take on Virginia in the first semifinal game this weekend. In a dominant performance, Johns Hopkins trounced Navy 15-4 at home in Baltimore, as John Ranagan (Rochester) contributed two tallies on the day. Their defense was on point as well, evident by the scarce amount of goals Navy was able to register, and Lee Coppersmith (Boston) and Mike Poppleton (Hamilton) were largely to thank in picking up 13 ground balls total between them. This past week saw Syracuse split their games, as the Orange fell to Hobart, 13-12 at home and had their six-game home winning streak snapped. Despite the loss, JoJo Marasco (New York) looked good for Syracuse, contributing three points on two goals and an assist, with two ground balls and a caused turnover to go with them. Meanwhile, Brian Megill (Denver) also chipped in a ground ball and caused turnover, but it was not enough to give the Orange a victory. The following Saturday, Syracuse met Georgetown in a Big East match-up and redeemed themselves with a 9-8 victory in another close game. Marasco again had three points, this time on one tally and two helpers, while also scooping up two ground balls to add to Megill's three. The Orange will close out their regular season this Saturday, April 27 against Notre Dame at the 2013 Konica Minolta Big City Classic in MetLife Stadium. Last year's first overall selection Rob Pannell (New York) registered three points on two goals and an assist, setting the Ivy League record for individual career points as he lifted Cornell over Brown, 13-7. Max Von Bourgondien (Charlotte) also registered three points for the Big Red on one goal and two assists, as well as three ground balls while Jason Noble (Hamilton) scooped up one GB as well. Cornell secured the Ivy League crown with their victory, and will host the tournament for the third time in four years. The Ohio State was able to slip past Air Force, 10-9 this past Saturday in Colorado thanks in large part to Logan Schuss (Ohio). Schuss had five points on four tallies and one assist, plus a ground ball, increasing his record of career goals for the Buckeyes to 133, as well as his career points total to 216. Schuss' co-captain Dominique Alexander (Ohio) also put up five points on the day with two goals and three assists, and scooped up two ground balls of his own. With the victory, Ohio State clinched a berth in the ECAC tournament for the third-straight year. After getting out to a big lead early, the University of North Carolina never faltered as they cruised to a 20-8 victory over High Point on Saturday. Marcus Holman (Ohio) had two goals and two ground balls on the day, extending his consecutive games streak with a goal to 28, breaking the school record of 27 set by Mac Ford in the mid-1980's. While it took Ford nearly two years to set the Tar Heels record, Holman was able to break it in just over a year's time. In hosting the ACC Tournament next weekend, UNC will look to take down rival Duke in the second semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. at Kenan Stadium. Ducks Limited Herbert 10 Blackout Jersey Stitched Justin Despite taking the no. 1 ranking this past week, Denver lost that recognition on Saturday when they were upset by Fairfield, 10-9 in overtime at home. Eric Law (Denver) led the Pioneers with two goals, two assists and a ground ball, but it was not enough to keep Denver ahead. Chase Carraro (Ohio) also contributed for the Pioneers with three ground balls and 10-of-20 face-off wins, but the Stags were able to overcome an early deficit and score less than a minute into overtime for the upset. Denver closes out their regular season this Saturday as they host Michigan. In another upset, the University of Massachusetts rallied for a 9-8 win over Hofstra on the road, as Will Manny (Boston) contributed his sixth helper of the day to Colin Fleming (Ohio) for the game-winning goal with just six seconds of play left. Fleming finished the day with two goals total, while Jake Smith (Boston) picked up a ground ball. 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When singer Roy Orbison was touring England in 1968, it had been four years since he last appeared at the top of the charts with "Oh, Pretty Woman," even though he continued playing live and recording long after the pulse of rock music shifted away from his signature brand of sweepingly operatic pop.
Barbara Orbison: In the Dec. 8 LATExtra section, the obituary of Barbara Orbison, widow of singer Roy Orbison, said she died at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. She died at the Keck Hospital of USC.
At a show in Leeds on that tour, he met 18-year-old German fan Barbara Ann Marie Wellhoener Jakobs, and within a year the two were married.
"In the '70s I think I nearly cost him his career, because I don't think he was ambitious enough," Barbara Orbison, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, told Goldmine magazine last year. "He fell in love with me in '68, he asked me to marry him, and we had two kids. And I think he just wanted to live."
It was a turbulent time in Roy Orbison's life: The singer had lost his first wife, Claudette, in a motorcycle accident two years earlier. Later, while he was still on the same tour of England, two of his three children died when his house in Tennessee caught fire. His relationship with Barbara appeared to bring a renewed sense of joy to his life.
"In the '70s, he was basically rebuilding a life," she told another interviewer earlier this year. "He didn't want to do anything except be somebody in love, with a little money and lots of fun. By the '80s, he was ready again."
Indeed, in the 1980s Barbara was a catalytic force behind much of the activity that restored the shine to her husband's star in the pop music world. Orbison was lionized by rock stars including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Jackson Browne, starred in a popular and widely acclaimed HBO documentary "Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night," and was an early inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Orbison also was drafted by ex-Beatle George Harrison to join him in the rock supergroup the Traveling Wilburys along with Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne, and the band released a pair of platinum-selling albums.
Orbison's final studio album, "Mystery Girl," reached No. 5 on the national sales chart in early 1989, two months after his death, and yielded the top 10 hit "You Got It."
Barbara remained her husband's manager until his death at 52 on Dec. 6, 1988, 23 years to the day before she died at age 61 at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where she'd been undergoing cancer treatment since May, a family spokesman said.
Barbara was born Jan. 10, 1950, in Bielefeld, Germany, and after marrying Orbison raised their children in Nashville and Malibu.
She worked relentlessly to keep her husband's legacy not just alive but growing after his death, leading to his induction into Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and a 1998 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.
Barbara also oversaw the creation of "Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll," a four-CD, 107-song box set, in 2008 and co-produced a stage musical, "Only the Lonely: The Roy Orbison Story," which toured England in the 1990s.
She established her own publishing company, Still Working Music, in Nashville that worked with successive generations of songwriters including Taylor Swift, Billy Burnette and Tommy Lee James. Still Working received the 2010 song of the year award from BMI, the publishing rights organization, as publisher of Swift's hit single "You Belong to Me."
In addition, Barbara spearheaded philanthropic efforts including a 1991 benefit tribute to her late husband at the Universal Amphitheatre that raised $1 million to help the homeless in Los Angeles, and she funded Orbison House, a 21-unit residence for the mentally impaired homeless in L.A.
She produced another tribute album, "Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison," by Irish Australian singer-songwriter Damien Leith, which was released in Australia in conjunction with what would have been the singer's 75th birthday, on April 23 of this year.
Barbara is survived by her sons Roy Kelton Orbison Jr. and Alexander Orbison, and her stepson, Wesley Orbison, Roy's son from his first marriage.
Services in Los Angeles will be private. Details on a public service in Nashville are pending.


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AMERICUS - Jake Koonce and Valentin Demande did something against the perennial national power Columbus State men's tennis team that Georgia Southwestern hadn't accomplished in almost five years: win a double match. It was the Hurricanes only team point on Wednesday afternoon as the 7th-ranked Cougars won 8-1 at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex.
CSU improves to 9-1 overall and 4-1 in the Peach Belt Conference while Southwestern slips to 2-8 overall and 0-4 in the PBC.
Koonce and Demande defeated Olivier Simonet and Marco Almorin, 8-5, at No. 1 doubles. The last GSW doubles victory against CSU came on April 7, 2008, when Brent Bjerregaard and Brenton Hochstetler won 9-8 at No. 1.
Matt Vansant played a strong opening set, falling 7-5, against 25th-ranked Marco Almorin at No. 3 singles before losing the second, 6-1.
The Hurricanes resume match play on March 13 when they host North Georgia at 2:30 p.m.
Singles competition
1. #24 Olivier Simonet (CSUM) def. Jake Koonce (GSW-M) 6-3, 6-4
2. Gordan Divljak (CSUM) def. Joseph Bjerregaard (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-1
3. #25 Marco Almorin (CSUM) def. Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 7-5, 6-1
4. Danilo Sardelli (CSUM) def. Stephen Moore (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-3
5. Adi Malicbegovic (CSUM) def. Valentin Demande (GSW-M) 6-1, 6-2
6. Benedikt Wilde (CSUM) def. Chris Eastwood (GSW-M) 6-1, 6-2
Doubles competition
1. Jake Koonce/Valentin Demande (GSW-M) def. Olivier Simonet/Marco Almorin (CSUM) 8-5
2. Gordan Divljak/Oussama Zoghlami (CSUM) def. Joseph Bjerregaard/Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 8-4
3. Danilo Sardelli/Michael Trebuhov (CSUM) def. Stephen Moore/Chris Eastwood (GSW-M) 8-6
Match Notes:
Columbus State 9-1, 4-1 PBC; National ranking #7; Regional ranking #2
Georgia Southwestern 2-8, 0-4 PBC
The Lady Hurricanes had their hands full with 6th-ranked Columbus State on Wednesday afternoon as the Cougars cruised to an 8-0 victory.
With the win, CSU remains perfect in 2013 at 10-0 overall and 5-0 in the Peach Belt Conference. GSW falls to 5-7, 0-4 in the PBC.
The Lady 'Canes top showing in the opening doubles matches came at No. 2 where Taylor Jones and Kalie Douberly lost 8-4.
Ginny Jones had GSW's strongest singles performance, losing at No. 4 to Laura Chapman, 6-3, 6-3.
Next up for the Southwestern women is the University of Tampa on Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex.
Singles competition
1. #6 Paola Cigui (CSUW) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-1
2. #42 Carolin Weikard (CSUW) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-0
3. #47 Olivera Jokic (CSUW) def. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 6-3, 6-1
4. Laura Chapman (CSUW) def. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 6-3, 6-3
5. Andrea Redrado (CSUW) def. Taylor Jones (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-2
6. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) vs. Renata Paiva (CSUW) unfinished
Doubles competition
1. #9 Paola Cigui/Carolin Weikard (CSUW) def. Carly Cangelosi/Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 8-0
2. Laura Chapman/Olivera Jokic (CSUW) def. Taylor Jones/Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 8-4
3. Renata Paiva/Andrea Redrado (CSUW) def. Ginny Jones/Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 8-1
Match Notes:
Columbus State 10-0, 5-0 PBC; National ranking #6; Regional ranking #2
Georgia Southwestern 5-7, 0-4 PBC


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OSE necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 183 diseños de 44 diseñadores freelance.
We sell, as the name implies, office supplies along with office furniture, equipment and machines and miscellaneous janitorial supplies.
We hope this is the first of many sites for which we need a logo!
Typically our customer will be an office manger, executive assistant, store manager or secretary in an office setting who is in charge of ordering supplies for the office or shop.
There are no real "must haves" in the design. We are hoping for your creativity to brand a basic, straight forward business.
We would like a very sleek, professional design that will stand the test of time. The logo should include the website name.
One line logos seem to be working for us - no need to create multiple lines or blocks.
Current colors on the site include navy/royal blue, chocolate brown, and beige, but logo will go on white background. You can look at site with the username and password provided in the post on the main contest page.
Would like to use the same logo for cards as well, but not imperative.
Would like logo in a vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator in addition to JPG and GIF.
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Alastair Cook has insisted that there is life after Kevin Pietersen, as his side aim to get revenge over South Africa without the controversial batsman.pieterson is out of the one day series against south africa as well. as the fall-out continues from the text message scandal that threatens to end his international career.The 32-year-old has been cast into exile after angering England captain Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower by sending texts to South African players that allegedly contained criticism of the duo.Cook's side trashed Australia 4-0 earlier this year without Pietersen and the skipper said: "There's not really that much change here. He (Pietersen) hasn't been around the one-day squad for a year or so now.
cook is pretty much sure that england can win the t20 world cup without pieterson as the team is full of match winners..cricket News updates


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Jeffrey Brewer
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Jeff Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Computer & Information Technology (CIT). CIT offers baccalaureate degrees in both information systems development and telecommunications & networking. Prof. Brewer's teaching and scholarly interests cover systems analysis and design, computer-aided software engineering (CASE), rapid application development (RAD), agile development methodologies, and IT project management. Prof. Brewer, before deciding to return to Purdue to teach, spent 19 years working in several different industry environments including specialty retail, manufacturing and most recently as the IT Director for the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in Chicago. Most of the 19 years of experience was spent in a Project Manager role. He hs developed a new undergraduate course in IT Project Management based on the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge. Professor Brewer is a certified Project Management Professional.
- M.S. (Management Information Systems), University of Missouri St. Louis, MO, 1995.
- B.S. (Computer Technology), Purdue University , 1982.
- A.A. (Computer Technology), Purdue University , 1980.
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- 2004 - CPT Ourstanding Non-Tenured Teaching Award
- 2003 - CPT Ourstanding Non-Tenured Teaching Award
Textbooks and Editorships of Journals/Proceedings
- Jeffrey L. Brewer and Kevin C. Dittman, (2013) Methods of IT Project Management, 2nd edition Purdue Press.
- Brewer, J.L., Dittman, K.C., (2010) Methods of IT Project Management Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Refereed Articles and Conference Papers/Presentations/Abstracts
- Thomas Bunton and Jeffrey L. Brewer (October 2012). Discovering Workplace motivators for the millennial generation of IT employees. Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education Calgary, Canada.
- Brewer, J. , Harriger, A. and Mendonca, J. (2006). Beyond the model: building an effective and dynamic IT program.. Journal of Information Technology Education (In Press.)
- Kane, M. and Brewer, J. (2006). An information technology emphasis in biomedical informatics education.. Journal of Biomedical Informatics (In Press.)
- Brewer, J. , Dittman, K. and Ghatge, G. (2006). A study of software methodology analysis: "great taste or less filling". Information Systems Educators Journal ((In Press).)
- Brewer,J. (October 2006). Benefits achieved from self and peer assessments in student led group projects.. College Teaching & Learning Conference Las Vegas, NV. (Accepted.)
- Kane, M., Brewer, J., Goldman, J. and Moidu, K. (October 2006). Integrating bioinformatics, clinical informatics, and information technology in support of interdisciplinary curriculum development.. ACM/SIGITE Conference Minneapolis, MN. (Accepted.)
- Brewer, J. and Oman, G. (January 2006). Add business value using agile value stream improvement process.. Applied Business Research & Teaching Learning Conference Orlando, FL.
- Brewer, J. (July 2006). Improving learner understanding of object-oriented information systems development.. 13th International Conference on Learning Montego Bay, Jamaica.
- Brewer, J. and Dittman, K. (2006). Meeting the challenges of today's IT labor demands by building a better prepared student thru targeted curricula enhancements.. Review of Business Information Systems Journal (In Press.)
- Brewer, J. (2005). Project managers, can we make them or just make them better?. ACM/SIGITE Conference (pp.167-173). Newark, NJ.
- Lorenz, L. J., Brewer, J.L. (May 2005). Preparing students to run projects: a self evaluation mapping our curriculum to needed project management learning ourcomes. IRMA
- Brewer, J.L. (2004). Project management best practices to increase success. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (pp.2335 - 2340). Idea Group Reference.
- Brewer, J. L., Lorenz, L. J. (October 2003). Using UML and agile development methodologies to teach Object-Oriented analysis and design tools and techniques.. ACM/SIGITE
- Mendonca, J. & Brewer, J.L. (2003). The case for a less methodical methodology: lean, light, extreme, adaptive, agile and appropriate software development. Practicing Software Engineering in the 21th Century (pp.42 - 52). IRM Press.
- Brewer, J.L. (2002). A course model for information technology project management instruction based on the project management institute's body of knowledge. ISECON
- Pinto, J., (2006) Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.. (Reviewed 6 chapters.)
Industry Engagement:
2006 - Wabash Center,
2000 - 2001 - American Association of Nurse Anesthetists,
Director of IT
1997 - 2000 - M&D Industries, Inc
Director of IT
1996 - 1997 - Crawford Consulting, Inc.
Project Manager
1995-1996 - Compuware Corp.
Project Manager
1989 - 1995 - Electronics & Space Corp.
Manager Distributed Systems Support
1985 - 1989 - Great Lakes Chemical Corp.
Project leader
1983 - 1985 - Melvin Simon & Assoc.
Programmer Analyst
Professional Affiliations:
- Project Management Institute, 2002 - 2010


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Our most recent meeting for Jack was last Thursday, but I should go back to last fall to give you the whole background.
Jack started struggling early this year. Third grade is a big transition for anyone and it was a huge transition for Jack. I started to see early on that things weren't going well and called a meeting to get the ball rolling to have the school district take a look at him to see where they thought the appropriate placement was. Then I hired an advocate and went through the same process privately.
Both sets of people pretty much came up with the same conclusion: Jack's next step in school placement is the Asperger's program, which is a self-contained classroom with mainstreaming opportunities in a public school located somewhere between Quinn's school and Sam's.
I mean, actually it's called the High Functioning Autism program, but I think referring to people as high or low functioning is kind of an asshole thing to do and bullshit to boot, so I'll be calling it what most people in the county call it, which is the Asperger's program.
No one mention to anyone that Jack doesn't have Asperger's, okay? It's our little secret.
Anyway, at one of the IEP meetings, it was mentioned that Jack had long (like, for years) been considered a "poster child" for this program, but as he was doing well in his inclusion classroom, he was not eligible for the Asperger's program.
Interesting, huh? See, there's this thing called the "least restrictive environment," or LRE. Unless you have a special education kid, you probably don't know about it. If you do have a special education kid, you've probably heard that phrase a million times. What it means is that kids are supposed to be put in the most mainstream placement that they can hack.
It makes sense. You want kids to learn to live in the mainstream and you don't want to isolate or stigmatize special needs kids just because they have a diagnosis. That makes sense. I'm a fan of inclusion. I think it is great for both typical and special education kids. I think everybody can learn from each other. I understand LRE and I think, applied with broad strokes, it's absolutely what we should strive for.
Except that it's kinda bullshit. See, Jack had to pretty much fail at his current placement to be put in a more restrictive environment—that is, a classroom made up entirely of kids with autism.
Then there is Sam. You might remember that he is in what is known as the Highly Gifted Center (another asshole name for a program, if you ask me) in a classroom made up entirely of kids with giftedness—and the quirks that come along with it. That is for damn sure not the least restrictive environment for him. And he damn sure didn't have to fail at his original placement to end up there.
But because being called gifted is something to strive for, being put in a self-contained classroom in a school 20 minutes away from his home school is something to be coveted, sought after, and congratulated. Because being a special education student has an entirely different value judgement attached to it, kids are supposed to strive to move out of their self-contained classrooms in schools 20 minutes away from their home schools back into the mainstream.
There are two exactly opposite standards for these two groups of kids.
What I see when I look at my kids is that they have found classrooms that work for them. They have/will have teachers who know how to teach to their particular brains. They will have peers. They will build on their strengths and work on improving their weaknesses. This is how it should be. It shouldn't matter if it is more or less restrictive. Semantics shouldn't get in the way of teaching children.
If someone is the poster child for a particular program, HE SHOULD BE IN THAT PROGRAM.
I don't know that the Asperger's program will be the best thing for Jack. I hope it is. If it isn't, then we move on to the next step. What I hope happens is that Jack will be able to get a couple of really solid years of specialized instruction under his belt so that he will be able to either move on to a middle school Asperger's program or return to his home school for those grades.
Mostly I hope that his dread and negativity about school will be alleviated at least a little.
Also I hope that I can figure out how to deliver three different kids to three different schools every morning and then manage to reclaim them again every afternoon.
So remember that meeting where I was told Jack was a poster child for this program? That was two months ago. At that meeting, it was decided that the Asperger's program was the place for Jack and that we thought it was the right environment for him and yay for the correct placement! Except they couldn't finalize the placement until we had new goals written and blah, blah, blah, we'll meet again in May and we can do this then.
Unless, of course, somehow Jack pulls his shit together and has a great couple of months, in which case he would no longer be eligible for the program for which he is a poster child. Therefore, Stimey, because you believe that the Asperger's program is the right place for Jack, you are going to spend the next couple of months being torn between wanting your child to be successful so he feels good about himself and wanting your child to fail so he can have the right placement.
Yeah. Exactly. That sucked.
Also? I shouldn't have worried.
Things got, like, exponentially worse, to the point that Jack was not getting a whole lot done at school at all. Both his teachers at school and us at home worked really hard to try to help him. To no avail. His teacher told me a story about how once Jack stalled and refused to do any work until lunchtime and then looked at her and said, "I won."
Ballsy, that Jack.
So. Long story short, the special education system eventually led us to what I hope is a good place for Jack for next year. In many ways I am sad for Jack to leave the school he has been at for four years because he has had wonderful teachers and his team really, truly cares about him. They have tried their hardest to get him what he needs and I am so grateful for that. I'm a little nervous to step into the gaping unknown of a whole other school and program.
Regardless, I'm hopeful. I really do think this is the best available option for us. My fingers are crossed. And my heart is finally fully set on the hope for absolute success in the right classroom for my precious child.


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Vote 2012 Analysis: Now the real campaign begins (PERSPECTIVE)
(Video: OSCE election observer statement on Armenia's May 6 parliamentary elections)
By Naira Hayrumyan
May 6 saw general elections in several European nations, including France, Greece, Serbia, as well as their eastern neighbor - Armenia.
Experts usually make references to ideological differences between contestants in elections. In referring to the Armenia vote, most foreign media would call it a contest between the presidential party and the party of a billionaire former arm wrestling champ – the Republican Party of Armenia led by President Serzh Sargsyan and the Prosperous Armenia Party of Gagik Tsarukyan.
In France, people went to the polls in the presidential runoff to choose between the right-wing ideology, which is based on the support of those "who know how to make money", and the socialist one, which stands for higher taxes for the rich and more money spent on the opening of new jobs. In France, the Socialists won (with their candidate Francois Hollande beating incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy), and the people of France, still experiencing the effects of the recent global economic crisis, decided that they needed social benefits more than the financial strengthening of Europe.
Greece was also making its difficult ideological choice: two major parties that have alternately ruled the country since 1974, have been in favor of austerity measures, including the sale of national wealth, if only to stay in the euro zone and to get loans to repay the debt. The Conservatives and the right-wing forces think they can sacrifice the future of the euro zone to preserve the national wealth and social guarantees. And in Greece, the latter ideology has prevailed.
In Serbia, the choice has been between the forces espousing concessions on national issues for the European future, and those who have a hard line on issues related to sovereignty, including on Kosovo. The pro-European party is enjoying a slim advantage, with President Boris Tadic still facing a tense runoff.
And what have the political forces in Armenia been fighting for? What ideologies do the parties that entered the fray stand for? Perhaps, it is only clear that ARF Dashnaktsutyun is a nationalist and socialist party. It speaks of social reform, about promoting national issues. The other parties are quite amorphous.
For example, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, which spent much of the past five years trying to grapple with the crisis, has been running on the platform of reforms. What it hasn't said, however, is what kind of reforms it wants to press ahead with. Nor has the opposition Armenian National Congress elaborated in plain terms what kind of reforms it wants to implement. Sometimes it stresses social issues, stating that it is necessary to curb migration, resulting in a dwindling of the population, then it speaks of a liberal economy that is far from being social-oriented.
The most obscure position is of the Prosperous Armenia Party, whose leader Tsarukyan, known for his charity projects, would state at campaign rallies that after the elections he will be doing "even more for the people than he has done before."
An ideological struggle, when everyone could try this ideology on themselves and see what their lives would be like if one ideology or another prevails, would have entailed a real competition. But this time, the presidential party prevailed.
France and Greece, in fact, have changed their ideologies and the power along with it. In Armenia, the power remained, and this means that nothing will change in people's lives. Do people going to the polls really want their life to stay unchanged?
Still before the parliamentary elections both the government and opposition were saying that they were preparing for the February 2013 presidential election. And from this point of view it is interesting what the list of presidential candidates will look like against the new backdrop of the alignment of forces in the National Assembly.
Still last year President Serzh Sargsyan publicly spoke about his plans to run for a second term in 2013. And the victory by his party, which is expected to gain some 70 seats in the National Assembly and an opportunity to form the government single-handedly, is likely to become a solid support for his reelection bid. The question is whether or not the first and second presidents of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Robert Kocharyan, mount any serious challenge to him.
The opposition Armenian National Congress led by Ter-Petrosyan has overcome the 7% hurdle for election blocs in the May 6 parliamentary elections and has got the right to form a faction in the next parliament. The result appears to be much more modest than expected by Ter-Petrosyan, whose bloc, however, has been speaking about large-scale violations during the Sunday polls.
But the real question here is whether Ter-Petrosyan will estimate his chances as good enough to try to join another presidential campaign against Sargsyan (the last time they had a rivalry in 2008 the opposition leader got some 21%, as against Sargsyan's 52%, and the eventual street standoff resulted in deadly clashes). As things stand now, Ter-Petrosyan hasn't got any reassuring result percentage-wise.
As for Kocharyan, he had implied he would announce his decision on whether or not to return to active politics after the elections, after May 6. Prosperous Armenia and the ARF, both of which are believed to be loyal to Kocharyan, according to preliminary vote results, have about 36% of the vote. This appears to be a formative resource, and Kocharyan may just put everything on the line.
In this view, new alliances could already be in the offing, such as those that have already been formed once during the pre-election month. If the ANC also backs the candidate from the PAP (whether Kocharyan or former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian), then an alternative to Sargsyan is possible.
One way or another, May 7 marks not only the end of the grueling parliamentary campaign, but the start of perhaps a similarly strenuous presidential race.
---This commentary originally appeared in ArmeniaNow.


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WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL 2, 2013 -- As college costs and student debt continue to expand, lawmakers and the public have increasingly called for better and more useful consumer information about the true cost of college. In an effort to improve financial aid award letters, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) engaged with JBL Associates, Inc. (JBLA), an independent research firm, to consumer-test three different types of award letters with students and families.
The three letters tested were: (A) the U.S. Department of Education's Shopping Sheet, (B) an award letter developed based on recommendations from NASFAA's Award Notification and Consumer Information Task Force, and (C) a NASFAA-designed hybrid of the previous two letters. The study showed no clear winner among those tested. Participants thought that aspects of each award letter were useful, but JBLA found that no document could replace a knowledgeable financial aid advisor in providing further explanation and assistance in understanding the award letter. This also serves to confirm NASFAA's assertion that, until consumers are directly involved in the development of consumer information tools and products, it is impossible to accurately gauge what they want or need.
"Recently we've seen an uptick in interest at the federal level for a single, standardized award letter for all institutions," said NASFAA President Justin Draeger. "NASFAA is supportive of efforts to improve the student and family award letter experience, but we have concerns with the prescriptive nature of a standardized award letter. Schools need the flexibility to craft award letters and consumer notifications that address the needs of their specific student body. It's also concerning that--despite the vast amounts of consumer information made available to families--much of that information has not been consumer tested in any systematic way to determine what works."
In conducting this consumer research, JBLA queried study participants about the clarity in each of the three letters, and asked participants to highlight features of the letter they found helpful or confusing, and if they had any suggestions for improvement. JBLA also tested participants' comprehension levels of financial aid concepts and content as presented in each letter. In addition to the questionnaire, JBLA conducted focus groups in three geographically diverse locations with students and parents at the high school level, and in colleges across all institution types.
Overall students and parents who took part in the study said they felt overwhelmed and confused by the information presented. In terms of rating the individual letters, 46% of respondents stated that the NASFAA Hybrid letter was favored overall in terms of clarity and ease of comprehension, with the NASFAA Task Force letter and Shopping Sheet and trailing behind at 28% and 26%, respectively.
As a result of this study, NASFAA is offering the following four recommended changes to award letters and consumer information:
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The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is a nonprofit membership organization that represents nearly 20,000 financial aid professionals at more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and career schools across the country. Each year, our members help nearly 15 million students receive funding for postsecondary education. Based in Washington, D.C., NASFAA is the only national association with a primary focus on student aid legislation, regulatory analysis, and training for financial aid administrators. For more information, visit www.nasfaa.org.


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How to Teach a Donkey/
My normal routine in the morning is to eat breakfast and watch the news. I switch between CNN, MSNBC, and Good Morning America. This morning, I was derailed and accidentally tuned into How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is one of the teenage movies from American International Pictures, also responsible for Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, etc. In the 1950s, AIP was the studio behind the teenage science fiction and horror movies such as I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and Teenage Cave Man. As a side note, the original title for Clueless was I Was a Teenage Teenager. In the 1960s, they focused on beach movies. The 1970s saw drugs, gangs, and blaxploitation films.
The Beach movies are awful, but hypnotic. How can they not be? They have Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, teenagers is very scanty bathing suits, bad musical numbers, motorcycle gangs, fake surfing, and slapstick comedy with Buster Keaton. The posters follow the same less than subtle approach. Albert Kallis designed many of the remarkable 1950s AIP posters. I often say the right way to communicate is like teaching a donkey; first hit it over the head with a two-by-four. Then give it the message. These posters do this in spades.
I understand good taste movie campaigns like Lincoln. The poster is minimal and states, "This is a serious masterpiece, and this is an Academy Award movie." The other side of the coin is the blunt approach.
Good marketing and advertising typically works when the viewer is given a command: Just do it, Enjoy Coke, Think Different. The Kallis posters do this and more. Often they listed the commands on terms of seeing: See strangest of all rites in the temple of love! See earth attacked by flying saucers! AIP posters in the 1970s were never subtle, but I'll watch a film that promises, "Shamelessly loaded with sex and violence," and "She's brown sugar and spice, but if you don't treat her nice, she'll put you on ice."


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Brilliant news. I can honestly see this guy scoring heavy soon. He holds the record in ODI's, has surpassed 290 on 3 occasion with the Don and should become the first player to hit 3 test triple 100's. Also the fastest triple century. He really has revolutionised test opening and ensured that no target set is safe.http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-...ry/590076.html
Virender Sehwag, who scored a fighting century for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh on Monday, refused to be drawn into the debate about his form. His innings of 107 - his first century in any form of cricket in 11 months and his first in Ranji Trophy in six years - couldn't prevent Delhi's defeat, but it allayed the doubts over his indifferent form. Sehwag said he was happy to have scored the century and hoped to bat well in the upcoming Test series against England.
"I am happy that I scored 100 against UP. Whether I am back in form or not, is not for me to decide but I thought I played well enough and hope to do well (against England)," he told PTI.
Sehwag, who scored 25 in the first innings, suffered a cut on his ring finger when a chance off Mohammad Kaif flew past him at first slip on the second day. He didn't take the field for the first two sessions on the third day and only came out to bat at No. 6 as Delhi's bid to save the match started faltering. He batted for almost four hours and faced 165 balls during his innings.
"My injury forced me to bat in the middle order," he said. "The doctor did not give me local anaesthesia on time. The team management decides [the move to] the middle order and not the player himself.
"My finger is getting better. It's fine at the moment."
There have been concerns over the form of Sehwag and his opening partner, Gautam Gambhir. But Sehwag, like Gambhir, believes they are still the best openers in India, and refused to comment on the selectors' decision to pick two more openers in the squad for England, Ajinkya Rahane and M Vijay.
"Yes, we are [the best opening pair in the country]. The decision [to include two more openers] is taken by the national selectors. They know it well."
Sehwag is also close to a personal milestone. He is just two matches short of becoming only the ninth Indian player to play 100 Tests. "It was my dream to play for my country. Since the time I achieved that, my next dream has been to perform well and play 100 Tests for India. I am very happy that moment is coming soon," he said.


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This is a natural untreated rough specimenfrom Tanzania Africa showing the firey flash it is known for.
It is also known as Labradorite feldspar.
Weight 25.30 cts app
Size 30 x 17 x 9 mm app
Note photo taken with the rough wet.There are natural fractures in the stone[which is common for this type of material] so it will cut smaller stones.Visit SEDA GEMS to see some stones cut from this parcel.
Sunstone contains inclusions of copper crystals. Sunstone can be found as large as three inches across. The copper leads to varying color within some stones, where turning one stone will result in multiple colors. The more copper within the stone, the darker the complexion
Sunstone is a plagioclase feldspar, which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a brilliant spangled appearance; this has led to its use as a gemstone. It has been found in Southern Norway,tanzania and in some United States localities. It is the official gemstone of Oregon.
GRADING The first factor in grading is the amount of Schiller[a sub -surface iridescent shimmer]The more schiller the less the stone reflects and shimmers as it blocks suns rays.The next grade is for colour as it can be found in red ,green.yellow,pink and orange.
Sunstone with high amounts of schiller are great for carvings.
The optical effect appears to be due to reflections from enclosures of red haematite, in the form of minute scales, which are hexagonal, rhombic or irregular in shape, and are disposed parallel to the principal cleavage-plane. These enclosures give the stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, whence sunstone is known also as "aventurine-feldspar." The optical effect called shiller and the color in Oregon Sunstone is due to copper. In the middle part of this crystal, it sparks a lot, and usually has a dark color in the middle, and the color becomes lighter as it becomes the outer part.
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to hold someone away from someone or something; to prevent someone from getting at someone or something. You must keep the child from her mother until the mother is infection-free. It is hard to keep a child from the playground, even a sick child. I could hardly keep myself from the dessert table.
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Saint Thomas West Hospital
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A Legacy of Compassionate Care
For over one hundred years, Saint Thomas West Hospital has been devoted to physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Our mission is to serve all persons, with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable, while improving the health of individuals and communities. Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Louise de Marillac founded the Daughters of Charity in Paris, France. In 1898, Thomas Sebastian Byrne, the fifth Catholic Bishop of Nashville, asked the Daughters of Charity to establish Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville.
Today, Saint Thomas West Hospital provides adult specialty healthcare to the more than two million residents of Middle Tennessee, Southwestern Kentucky and Northern Alabama. Saint Thomas Health's regional health system consists of five hospitals - Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital, Saint Thomas West Hospital and The Hospital for Specialty Surgery in Nashville, Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro and Saint Thomas Hickman Hospital in Centerville – and a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures in diagnostics, cardiac services and ambulatory surgery as well as medical practices, clinics and rehabilitation facilities. Saint Thomas West Hospital is a member of Saint Thomas Health and Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and non-profit health system.
Mission StatementRooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care, which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words.
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I have an MSi GE70 Laptop (Graphics: nvidia GeForce GT650M). At first I couldn't boot nor install. After adding 'nomodeset' in Grub I was able to start the installation. `Try Ubuntu`` just gave me a blank screen.
I installed a dualboot with Ubuntu 13.10 and Windows 8.1, UEFI, secure boot off (UEFI with CSM).
After the installation was a success, the computer boots straight into Windows. I knew this could happen and need to run boot-repair from the live-CD. Unfortunately I can't find a way to do this from CLI, since I get a blank screen in X I cannot use it's GUI.
I tried installing
nvidia-current when booted with the live-CD, restarting lightdm (/etc/init.d/lightdm stop/start). No luck.
Trying to diagnose the problem this are the things I found:
/var/log/lightdm/x-0.log ends like this:
(EE) Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found
(EE) Please consult the The X.org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help
(EE) Please also chech the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information.
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Looking at
/var/log/xorg.0.log I noticed:
[ 1867.351] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
[ 1867.351] (EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range
[ 1867.351] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 1867.351] (II) UnloadSubModule: "int10"
[ 1867.351] (II) Unloading "int10"
[ 1867.351] (II) UnloadSubModule: "vbe"
[ 1867.351] (II) Unloading "vbe"
[ 1867.351] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 1867.351] (EE) Fatal server error
[ 1867.351] (EE) no screens found
[ 1867.351] (EE) Please consult the The X.org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
[ 1867.351] (EE) Please also chech the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information.
[ 1867.351] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
So I am trying to run Boot-repair, but I'm stuck because I can't get the GUI working with the live-CD. I've added
nomodeset, tried
Can anybody help me with either Boot-repair from CLI or graphics in live-CD? For me it's weird that the installation is able to show a nice GUI where the live-CD doesn't find a screen.
If I am able to boot into installed Ubuntu, I probably will run into the same graphics problems, but maybe it's easier to fix them on an installed version?


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Hotchkis Performance cures the EcoNova's sloppy suspension and steering
We spend a lot of time hanging out around autocross and road courses throughout the year watching some of the best handling muscle cars in the country cut corners around cones, so our level of expectation for our own cars gets correspondingly elevated. As a byproduct of this, we just don't have much patience for wallowing, worn-out suspension systems. We want to actually be able drive our cars with abandon.
While crawling in and under the EcoNova during the drivetrain swap, wiring, exhaust, fuel system, and so on for the E-Rod LS3 conversion, we noticed that the suspension system was in terrible shape. All the bushings were original and in very poor, disintegrated condition front to rear. No one makes upgraded suspension parts for fourth-gen Novas—or do they?! The key here is that Novas after 1967 were basically parts bin cars that were outfitted with components from other Chevys on the production line. In the case of the fourth and last generation of Novas ('75-79), the front suspension, steering, and brakes are all standard second-gen ('70-81) F-body stuff from Camaros and Firebirds, since the subframe is very similar in design. In the rear though, they're the same as third-gen ('68-74) Novas and first-gen ('67-69) Camaros and Firebirds, so all we had to do is find a company with great bolt-on handling parts for both cars, convince them we were right, and we'd be in business.
Hotchkis Performance fit the bill with their Total Vehicle System (TVS) suspension kits for both platforms, and having felt firsthand how well they function under other muscle cars, we gave them a call to discuss our plan. They were intrigued since it would be the first time they'd be able to create a new application for a full TVS suspension without designing or fabricating a single new part, but a bit doubtful on fitment since they'd never actually worked on a fourth-gen X-body. So we dropped the EcoNova off at Hotchkis' R&D and installation facility for verification of part numbers to create the first commercially available full suspension system for fourth-gen Novas. You're welcome X-body lovers!