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I ready the book "Go Kiss The World". This book should be read by all specially younger generation. Lot of things to imbibe regarding how to drive ourselves in this world.
I liked the idea of young minds dwelling on great ideas. Keep writing, you inspire us all.
Dear Sir,
As a budding Entrepreneur at SP Jain, I got ur book from our College at SYB. I relished reading it.
Thank you very much Sir, for sharing so much of ur valuable experiences and insights.
I was wondering how can I get the copy "All about Integrity". I wrote from Mind Tree website also, I did not get response. Can u Plz guide me Sir.
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Sir/Madam,Please sent me my Aadhaar Card because till now I have no get my aaadahr Card. I have applied on 16/12/2012 16:32:42 pm my enrolment no. is . 1207/93870/10952 Please send on my address.i hope u give me reply very soon.Thanks,Shobha Jain
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Sunt şi alte motive, asta-i clar. Eu oricum nu plec în primul rând datorită oamenilor. Dar dincolo de asta e şi satisfacţia pe care cred că ţi-o poate da contribuţia ta în ţara-în-care-nu-merge-totul-brici.Şi nu înţeleg.. banii îi poţi face dincolo, mai mulţi şi mai uşor ca în România. Nu cred că îţi trebuie bani la început, ci doar curaj.A..nu vreau să-mi spuneţi neapărat dacă sunteţi de acord cu ce am scris. Sunt curioasă de motivele voastre.
Brill thanks! I have this old eyeshadow Palette which has 4 shadows in which i adore and I have already decided I will need to take it to my Mac counter for them to pick out the four shades they match, and from looking at your swatches I seriously think they patch it, just need to find a white which has gold/pink undertones and a true goldy colour x
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I am not able to read the following blog
"Beyond degrees: How to be a neo-professional"
There are many changes on the website, clicking on the link takes to the News secion and when one continues to search and reaches in Aug 2009 and click the link, it open DC epaper website which does not has the article.
Request you clean up the website, as it is clutered and most of the links take you nowhere.
If the person was your freind, they would probably be happy to hear from you. It would be a pleasant surprise to reconnect.If they don't reply, it could be the wrong email address or an email address that they no longer use.I use it every day.
"News | Subroto Bagchi Blogs" was in fact seriously pleasurable and
educational! In modern world honestly, that is challenging to deliver.
I am grateful, Gabriele
Daer Mr Subroto Bagchi,
If I am right I think you are from Rorkela Evenig college, I too ws a student of this college, excuse me if I am wrong.
Dear Mr Bagchi,
Your writings will inspire not only this generations but generations to come. Through your books i was able to know more about the founding teams members , their experience, Thought process of you & Team thus giving me confidence to invest in MindTree. I wish you all success. Waiting for upcoming results.
with regards,
Dear Sir,This is regarding my adhar card which i haven't rciveeed till date.My enrollment number is 1207/04085/02513. I applied it on 4/9/12 at 10:59:44 at Sampark center Chandigarh.Kindly update me with its latest status as its earliest as I need it urgently for some really important purpose.Hoping for your favourable response at the earleist.ThankyouIsha Arora
SupportHi Ibrahim Thank you for the query. The advice I would give to you is to go tourhgh all the videos listed in this section of the Website, labelled Free Videos. You can access it by clicking . I hope these videos will help you grasp the concepts. Regards
Hi Subroto,
I'm delightful to see you after a long time through your Blog.
It reminds me of your early days in Keonjhar, Odisha.
I am heartily happy to see your dream turn true, " MindTree".
Below is my contact no.-
I am eager to know about all of you. How's Debu da & boudi? Hope you remember Asha di…!!
I request you to pass on your Email address & contact number.
Hope everybody at home are fine.
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My wife and I have been very blessed in our lives. We have also lived thrguoh very tight times ( I. E., blood donations.) We have always felt the love if others. Many times, we picked up the bill for another at a resturant. Other times we paid for another's groceries. Another time we put together a baby shower for a lady we never met who left an abusive home. Instead of money, we gave a man in the rain a sleeping bag, a coat, and accessories along with a gift card for a meal at Denny's. When my wife ad I ran into financial issues, we were blessed by people who remained anonymous with a $500 gift card twice. We always asked why. We had a very hard time accepting. Why us? LovePay it forward It will come back when needed
Respected Sir,
Read all your books and now you are my mentor and everything. Failures, Failures, Failures and one day miracle happened. BY profession I am a Chartered Accountant and your book "The Professional" gave me so many insights and inner strengths to make myself a complete professional.
However, this mail is relating to Vasai Chartered Accountants Branch wants to organize one seminar for a day on " CA – A Professional". No wonder no one can deliver better then you. Request you to kindly share you mail id or procedure so I can connect with you and take this relation one step ahead. The program is scheduled to be on 10th November 2013. Kindly update me about your availability and procedure to close it. Thanks once again to shape my professional life. Thank you so much.
Hi folks, it's a small thing, but i thought i would share.I was at Costco in the mildde of the day, with time to spare. How rare!I noticed that the two folks behind me were each holding a single item. Well, no problem. I asked each of them if they would like to go ahead of me, and what do you know they did!Since the checkout crew at Costco are a well-oiled team, it only took an extra 3 minutes out of my day, and made those customers pretty happy.Pay It Forward!
(I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the corerct place as I was unable to post it from the Dashboard.)The type of physician I would like to work with is a gerontologist. A gerontologist specializes in caring for the elderly. I have a fondness for our older population. They built out society and lived in a time that many of us can learn from. I would take great pride in caring for them as they age. In my opinion, working with a doctor that shares my passion and excitement would be the ideal work environment.The type of physician I would not be as excited to work with would be a proctologist. To be completely honest, I just don't think I have what it takes to be in that environment. It's important to be professional in any medical environment. I believe my sense of humor would not allow me to be as professional as I would need to be. I would also prefer not to work with ophthalmologist. Several years ago I spent a week with my grandfather at a specialist to have cataracts removed. I found it very difficult to watch the videos of my grandfather's up coming procedures. It wasn't difficult caring for my grandfather after surgery, but I must admit the pre-op was an experience that I would not want to assist in on a daily bases.
Dear Gardener, Farmer and Coach,
I became your ardent fan ever since I read your book: "Go Kiss the World".
Till date I bought all your books within the first week of release.
I must convey my thanks and profound gratitude for having reaped my wisdom, happiness and life's big lessons on personal and professional lives from your writings.
Hopefully, one day I would get to personally see and talk to you, when I would be in a position to make an appointment with you. Until then, I remain your 'ekalavya shishya' farming my dreams with your intellectual manure.
Happy New Year and may Mindtree become successtree of the corporate worlds.
Respectfully yours,
Satheesh Sirivoru
Note from fifth grade teacher whose suetdnts are participating in the Kiwanis essay contest: We have really enjoyed working on this project. It has sparked quite a bit of thinking about the suetdnts own acts of kindness and they want to begin a "Kindness Club" here at school. I'm very proud of their ambition. Our class is writing essays on kindness as part of the Kiwanis essay contest. We have really enjoyed working on this project. It has sparked quite a bit of thinking about the suetdnts own acts of kindness and they want to begin a "Kindness Club" here at school. I'm very proud of their ambition.
Dear Sir,
Its great to know that Mindtree is breaking into Billion $ companies list.
I have seen your complete interview in BT.
Your thought process of company being in the hands of employees than in those of few high ranked individuals is a fascinating idea and carries a lot of inspiration in it.
It reminds me of Bhagavat Gita, where in – Lord Krishna says, do your duty and leave the rest to destiny! Its relevance is very opt to the style that you have inducted into Mindtree as a founder and is reaping fruits now- "Its a verifiable fact from your company's sustenance".
All the very best…..
and btw, we are craving for something to read like that of yours "Go Kiss the World", its been quite a long time we are awaiting for an emotional writing like that!
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Respected Bagchi Sir namaskar have you remembered those days at d.n.high school keonjhar frm 1966 to 1972 a batch mate of yours feel extremely proud of you.If possible hav a reply for which i will be ever greatful to you.thanks.sarat panda.
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Can I have Mr Bagchi's email address
Respected Mr. Bagchi,
I know you and your family as I was a student of Keonjhar College, when your brother Shri D P Bagchi was our ADM and you were studying at D N Highschool. One of your brother was studting in Ravenshwa College, who later joined Indian Army and then joined Bank of India as security officer.
Now after serving Canara Bank as an executive, post retirement I am working as State Head of Asmacs Skill and currently working as training partner of ORMAS to implement DDU-GKY and OSEMS to implement their placement linked training programme.
I and all in Skill Development in Odisha are very happy that our Cm has given you the task to spearhead skill movement in Odisha. Welcome to Odisha Sir.
Given an oppertunity, I will like to meet you and give feed back regarding Skill Odisha and my organisation.
Nirmal Kumar Behera
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I got home from work yesterday afotenorn and mowed the lawn and blew leaves before the rain came today. After I mowed my lawn, I went next door to my neighbors house and mowed his lawn and blew the leaves off his property. I slipped a pay it forward card under his door mat when I was finished. He came over and thanked me for what I'd done, and also asked me about pay it forward. I often do things for other people, but yesterday it felt a little different because it gave me the opportunity to tell him about paying it forward; also in hopes that it would have a chain reaction and many lives would be effected by such a positive and simple notion of paying it forward .
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Respected Sir,
We are thankful to Odisha Government for your position as chairman "skills development authority". Its an opportunity for unemployed youth of Odisha to increase their employable skills and earning capacity.
our company Udyog Infra. (P) Ltd. is working for development of Electrical skills for last 20 years. More than 600 workforce are trained and placed for construction, Operation and maintenance of Electrical system at East coast Railway,Discom,IMMT,MCL and many more..
As a dependable outsourcing agency for the above organisation, we have focused on valued practical training of workforce for placement. We have successfully Executed the fusical, breakdown and O&M service to entire Electrical network and more than 1,10.000 consumers under Puri Electrical Division of (CESU)for one year, for which we have trained and placed more than 200 nos of workforce.
It is unfortunate that the DTET Odisha was rejected our application no. T/VTP/N/91295 dt. 26.10.2015 for VTP without any verification.
Further we are hopeful for your kind support to produce trained workforce with better placement services in Odisha.
Thanking you
With Regards
Surajit Mishra
Managing Director
Udyog Infra (P) Ltd.
207, Bapujinaaagar, Bhubaneswar-9
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Dapp is an incredibly complex multicellular organism made up of really tiny particles.
Dapp is the singer, songwriter, bassist and frontman for his four piece "frunk" band, and in a short time, has built a reputation for the spontaneous and improvisational style of his funk/rock jam-pop songs and performances. Pocket grooves mixed with freestyle jam sessions and brought together by tight arrangements have made Dapp a crowd favorite wherever he goes.
In the past, Dapp has been a contributing member of the bands: The Blue Method, The Burndown Allstars, Mortal Men and Peripheral Rhythm. He has shared stages at venues all over the U.S., including World Cafe Live Philadelphia, The TLA, House of Blues Atlantic City, Nectar's in Burlington Vermont, B.B. King's New York City, and such festivals as New York Blues Festival, Jam on the River, and the XPonential Music Festival with such greats as Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Soulive, Chick Corea, The Disco Biscuits and many more.
Dapp has been compared to Jason Mraz, Maroon5, Jamiroquai, and Jimmy Neutron.
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AaronBeats necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 336 diseños de 60 diseñadores freelance.
StrengthReport is a muscle fitness resource that provides videos, information, products, and most importantly, great Software built around the strength training and weightlifting industry.
The software provides "Reports" of a user's strength and weightlifting training results. The program tracks users improvements in strength with weightlifting, muscle growth, speed/agility, and diet.
StrengthReport needs a logo that has an element that could be branded, to a point where it could be recognized even without the text once the brand is established. For example, Apple, McDonalds, Pepsi, all have icons that identify what the company is even without the text present.
This would be great, but the text should be cool and attractive as well. The design should be punchy and colorful, visually appealing to the market of weightlifter/bodybuilding athletes. It would also be nice if the logo could still be recognizable on any color surface as well. For example, if we had to make the logo all one color to put on a weird color t-shirt, then it could still be effective.
I am looking to turn StrengthReport into a huge recognizable company in the strength training and sports industry, and your wonderful logo design will make that possible!
The logo should preferably be in a vector format that can be resized to any size without losing quality or pixelating. We also tend to like logos that have an element of shine to them, also known as the "glazed" look.
Feel free to experiment with a design that includes some type of icon that represents some type of "report" that has to do with muscle strength, or something that can be brand-able, displayed and recognize with or without the text displayed.
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Don't be limited to the above ideas. They are just suggestions to try and get your mind thinking, but I am not married to any of it. In the end, the logo should be something can become as recognizable as ESPN, Apple, Pepsi, GNC, etc.
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It's been a pretty lousy day for football highlights, so let's dig a bit deeper to the OAC for this wild 74-yard punt return from today's Heidelberg-Muskingum game.
Muskies punt returner Dominick Williams ends up running at least 100 yards in trying to escape Student Prince tacklers. It didn't do much for Muskingum, as they lost 49-21. But still! A college football highlight!
h/t to John


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File info grabber
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
File_info_grabber consists of
- file_info_grabber.rb
Get this script
- For a copy of the script down file_info_grabber.zip and extract file_info_grabber.rb
- This application is meant to run under the Ruby Shoes GUI module that can be found here[1] and downloaded and installed for free.
- File:File info grabber.zip
- This application will collect filename, extension, file size, parent directory, and the name of the output file it is part of and put it all into a CSV comma delimited file for use in some other script or program.
- Digital services uses scripts like this to collect many different types of information from lots of sources. this script can be edited easily to collect other types of data if need be.
- A Ruby script containing Shoes code can be invoked by running Shoes.exe and opening the Ruby app from the shoes interface. or I prefer to make a simple shortcut and in the target field put "full\path\to\shoes.exe" "full\path\to\app.rb" and this way you can invoke the ruby script through shoes no matter where the shoes or script file are located. I find this better than making a package because it allows many users to run the application across a network while still allowing functionality to be edited adhoc
A little info about Shoes
Shoes is a GUI module and framework for creating windowed applications with the Ruby programming language. To use an application that makes use of the Shoes framework you must download the installation package from their website. it is free and easy to install. The Shoes installation includes a fully functional instance of Ruby 1.9 and can handle any Ruby code you send its way. The Shoes classes and methods are tersely written and structured making them easy to implement.


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Scientists are a step closer to harnessing a technique that "literally mends broken hearts", according to the Daily Express. The newspaper says that the simple procedure "uses patients' own cells to regrow muscle damaged by a heart attack".
This story is based on an early-stage trial that examined the safety of using stem cells to heal the scars and cardiac tissue damage experienced after a heart attack. In the study researchers recruited patients who had recently had a heart attack and took a sample of healthy tissue from their hearts. They then used the tissue to grow stem cells that could turn into any type of heart cell and injected them directly into the hearts of 17 patients. Next they assessed the safety of the treatment over 12 months and compared the results from these patients with those from eight patients who received standard care. The researchers determined that the approach was safe. They speculated that there may be some interesting clinical results, such as a reduction in scar tissue and an increase in new heart tissue. However, as this was a trial of the technique's safety, the effectiveness of the process will need to be examined in further studies.
This small, early-stage study identified a potential application of stem cells for the treatment of heart attacks, but a great deal of additional research is required to see whether or not this therapy will literally mend broken hearts.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, the EMMES Corporation and The Johns Hopkins University in the US. It was funded by the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Heart Stem Cell Center.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet.
Despite some contradictory reporting on the degree of scarring reduction, the research was covered appropriately by the media, with The Daily Telegraph, BBC, Daily Mail and Daily Express all reporting that this was an early-stage study designed to investigate the safety of the procedure. The Daily Telegraph also mentioned the need for further research to determine the long-term implications of the study.
What kind of research was this?
This was a small phase I clinical trial designed to assess the safety of using stem cells found within the heart as a treatment for repairing the damage experienced following a heart attack. Such small, early-stage studies are required to ensure that a procedure is safe and feasible before larger studies to assess the effectiveness of the treatment are started.
Although stem cells can be obtained from a variety of sources, the stem cells used to treat this study's participants were derived from their own bodies rather than embryos or foetal tissue. Treating a person using their own stem cells may provide an effective therapy as the cells are not at risk of being rejected. This study used a type of stem cell called a cardiac-derived cell (CDC), which is found in a layer on the surface of the heart. These particular stem cells can grow, or differentiate, into any type of cell found within the heart tissue.
What did the research involve?
Researchers recruited 31 patients who had had a heart attack within the previous 30 days, 25 of whom were included in the study's final set of analyses. These patients were randomly allocated to receive either cardiac-derived cells (CDC) or standard care.
All of the patients had shown a reduction in a measure called the 'left ventricular ejection fraction' (LVEF). The left ventricle is one of four chambers of the heart, and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body. LVEF is a measure of the amount of blood the left ventricle is able to pump in one heart contraction.
The researchers took a sample of healthy heart tissue from the patients in the group allocated to receive CDC treatment. They used this tissue to grow CDCs, which were later injected directly back into the particular artery that had been involved in their heart attacks. This injection occurred between 1.5 and 3 months after the heart attack.
Participants in both the CDC and the standard care group had been given a scan using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the start of the study, which provided an image of heart damage following their heart attack but before treatment. Researchers followed up the progress of the participants two weeks after the start of the study, then again at one, two, three, six and twelve months. The researchers assessed several safety measures at these follow-up points, including any instances of death immediately following the CDC injection, sudden or unexpected death, and a range of heart-related safety outcomes such as another heart attack, the development of new tumours of the heart and being admitted to hospital for heart failure.
Although this was primarily a trial assessing safety, the researchers also collected data on a range of relevant clinical factors in order to form a preliminary idea of whether the treatment might prove effective or feasible. This included conducting additional MRIs at six and twelve months to determine the extent of heart damage, scarring and the amount of healthy heart tissue in the left ventricle.
The researchers then compared the proportion of patients in each group who experienced any of the study's predefined negative outcomes. They also compared the degree of heart scarring and the amount of healthy heart tissue between the two groups.
What were the basic results?
The researchers found that no patients in the CDC group experienced complications during the cell injection procedure or in the day after. The researchers further determined that:
- At six and twelve months, there was no significant difference between the two groups in the proportion of patients who experienced a serious adverse event (CDC group: 24%, standard care group: 13%, p=1.00).
- There were no deaths in either group, and no patients were admitted to hospital for heart failure or for another heart attack. No patients were found to have developed heart tumours.
When assessing preliminary effectiveness data, the researchers found that:
- At baseline (the start of the study) the average scar size (proportion of the left ventricle that was scarred) was 24% in both groups.
- The proportion of the left ventricle that was scarred did not significantly change in the standard care group between the start of the study and six months (difference in size: 0.3%, p=0.894), but significantly decreased in the group given CDC treatment (difference in size: -7.7%, p<0.0001).
- At twelve months, patients treated with standard care still did not experience a significant difference in scar size from the start of the study (difference in size -2.2%, p=0.452), while the CDC-treated group had a decrease in scar size of 12.3% (p=0.001).
- Similarly, at six months, the standard care group showed no significant difference in the amount of healthy left ventricle tissue (mass difference 0.9g, p=0.703), but this significantly increased in the CDC group (mass difference 13.0g, p=0.001). This pattern held at 12 months.
- No patients in either group demonstrated significant changes in LVEF at six months.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers conclude that the results of this safety trial offer a preliminary indication that it may be possible to regenerate heart tissue that has been damaged during a heart attack. They say that the apparent ability of CDCs to reduce both the amount of scarring and to generate new heart tissue is promising, but requires further research.
This was a small, early-stage clinical trial that was designed to assess the safety and feasibility of using adult cardiac-derived stem cells to treat patients who have suffered a heart attack. While it has helped support the safety of the technique, it is too early to tell whether this will be a viable and effective treatment. The study should be seen as leading the way to larger trials of the technique, rather than directly supporting its use in an everyday medical setting.
The study's analysis looked at data from just those participants who successfully completed the trial according to the original criteria laid down by the researchers (25 of the 31 patients randomised). While this approach is commonly used to assess the safety of a treatment, it is not the best approach for assessing effectiveness. Further trials designed to determine the effectiveness of the technique will need to be larger and in their data analysis they will need to include all participants who started the trial, not just those who adhered to particular rules or procedures. Analysing all participants is of paramount importance during trials of effectiveness (which are typically larger than safety trials), as it allows researchers to assess factors such as whether patients will realistically be able to complete a treatment if it is given in a clinical setting.
Based on this initial study, it is unclear how the CDCs might regenerate a heart damaged by a heart attack. Additionally, it is still not known whether such a 'repaired' heart will affect cardiac functioning in a significant manner. The researchers say that although there were reductions in scar size after CDC treatment, there was not significant improvement in cardiac function, as measured by LVEF. The reasons for this are unclear.
While this study was a randomised controlled trial, its primary aim was to assess the safety of the procedure and it is too small to provide much indication of whether or not the therapy will work. Like a similar safety trial published last year, the study indicates that treating patients who have recently had a heart attack with CDCs is safe, and research can move on to larger phase II trials. Phase II studies are designed to determine the effectiveness of a therapy in a highly controlled setting. Phase III trials are larger still, and are required to confirm the safety and effectiveness findings of the previous studies. It is only once a therapy or treatment has found significant results in each of these phases that it can move on to be used in wider patient populations. This process can take many years, and is by no means certain.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Scarred hearts can be restored to health with stem cell treatment, say researchers
The Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2012
Stem cells used to 'heal' heart attack scars
BBC News, 14 February 2012
How a heart's own stem cells could be used to heal it following a heart attack
Daily Mail, 14 February 2012
Grow your own muscle to mend damaged heart
Daily Express, 14 February 2012
Links to the science
Makkar RR, Smith RR, Cheng K et al.
Intracoronary cardiosphere-derived cells for heart regeneration after myocardial infarction (CADUCEUS): a prospective, randomised phase 1 trial
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, February 14 2012


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I have long believed that the University of West Florida needed a football team. Pensacola gave the football world Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith. The city also has produced more than its fair share of football talent.
I have long believed that the University of West Florida needed a football team.
Pensacola gave the football world Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith. The city also has produced more than its fair share of football talent.
The wait will so be over as beginning in 2016, the school will field a football team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II, West Florida announced Sept. 4. It will play in the Gulf South Conference, in which the school's athletic teams are now competing.
There will be no mistaking West Florida football for games in the Southeastern Conference. Most Division II athletes are a few pounds lighter or a step or two slower than the so-called Big Time programs are seeking.
Division II schools are allotted 36 total football scholarships as opposed to the 85 Division I Bowl Subdivision schools have or the 63 that the Division I Championship Subdivision can offer.
Thirty-six scholarships for a varsity football team might not seem like much, but for a young man dreaming of playing the game each of those scholarships the Pensacola school offers will represent another opportunity to play college football.
Northwest Florida is a hotbed for high school talent stretching from the Alabama-Florida state line east to Panama City. But most young men who take the field in local stadiums on Friday nights never again play organized football after they graduate from high school. Maybe the addition of a team at West Florida will open the door for some of those kids to play college football close to home.
Several local players would easily benefit from having a Division II school two counties away. I think of former Baker running back Cameron Domangue, and I have to believe he would have been a perfect fit at West Florida.
Domangue played a year or two at Division III Birmingham-Southern � which doesn't offer athletic scholarships � before transferring to West Florida to finish his education.
I've lost track of how many Okaloosa County football players have made their way to Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama or some other state to play football at a Division II school.
Now, if that kid works as hard in the classroom as he does on the football field, he might be able to get some sort of academic scholarship to help with the cost of his education. Moms and dads also will be able to drive an hour or so to Pensacola to see their sons play college football.
Having moved to Gulf Breeze in 1966, I'm old enough to remember those early years of UWF. The school opened its doors in the fall of 1967 and was a two-year school for juniors and seniors.
Football wasn't even a dream in those early days.
Soon, a whole new world will be open for local football players.
This year's high school sophomore class will be college freshmen in the fall of 2016. I'll be looking for some of those players on that first UWF football team.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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Hawaii Tops Well-Being List for Fourth Consecutive Year
Lucky devils.
Hawaii has ranked highest on a well-being survey for the fourth year in a row, according to a new Gallup poll.
Weather wasn't even a variable. On a local level, in fact, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index showed that Lincoln, Neb., ranked number one, a state that doesn't share Hawaii's sultry breezes.
"It's safe to say weather probably isn't a factor there," Bruce Middlebrooks, Healthways spokesman, told ABCNews.com.
Colorado took the runner-up position, on a slate of 50 measures that looked at factors including emotional health, work environment and access to healthcare. West Virginia placed at the bottom of the list, with Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee not far behind - states with low median household incomes, said the survey, released Thursday.
Residents of Hawaii ratcheted up their happiness in 2012 compared even with a year earlier, with a score of 71.1 out of 100 compared with 70.2 in 2011.
Western, Midwestern and New England states in general ranked higher than the rest of the country, while Southern states placed in many of the lowest spots. Rankings remained mostly unchanged since 2008 when Gallup and Healthways began the survey, Gallup said.
The motivation behind the research is to help improve people's health through awareness and pilot projects on a community level, Dr. James Pope, vice-president and chief science officer of Healthways, told ABCNews.com.
"We knew that people in the U.S. were getting more unhealthy over time and we recognized that there are differences around the country in terms of chronic disease," Pope said.
Things might be looking up nationwide as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 gets into gear, the Gallup statement noted. The act, which requires all individuals to have health insurance or pay a fine, will make it easier for people to get treatment at no cost for everything from smoking cessation to obesity counseling.
"Certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act … may help low-income individuals improve their wellbeing, if they aware of and take advantage of them," Gallup said.
Massachusetts, the state with the highest percentage of residents with health insurance in the country, scored the top rank for access to "basic necessities," the survey noted. This category also looked at whether residents believed they had enough money for food, shelter and medicine, a safe place to exercise and access to clean water. Mississippi ranked lowest here.
Vermont wins when it comes to healthy behaviors. Residents in that state had the highest percentage of residents who ate five or more servings of fruits and vegetables at least four days per week, according to the survey, which was based on telephone interviews with 350,000 Americans. On an individual level, the survey found that doctors were typically in better health than the average person and those who "are engaged in their work" were likely to lead healthier lifestyles.
In 2011, the index defined the happiest person in America as a tall, Asian-American male 65 or older, a resident of Hawaii who's married with children, religious, owns a business and earns more than $120,000 a year.
It's important to note that individuals and communities are malleable, however, said Dr. Lindsay Sears, principal investigator at Healthways. With the right policies put in place by healthcare groups and local businesses, especially, big changes can happen.
"People can really change over time," she said. "You might think people or even communities are the way they are, but we've seen from five years of research that people are able to change and sustain that change."
A Hawaiian psychologist chalked up her native state's top spot to a relaxing natural landscape and a local culture that prizes collectivism.
"Thank aloha spirit that's hard to define," June Ching, a Honolulu-based clinical psychologist, told ABCNews.com.
As Ching spoke, she was driving into a parking lot and an attendant left her booth to hand the ticket to Ching, who couldn't reach it.
"A perfect example of what I mean," said Ching, a former president of the Hawaii Psychological Association. "[Hawaiian culture] has been composed of a lot of people with values that have to do with the family and a sense of collectivism. We're working together."
As for the stunning scenery, "I love not having seasonal affective disorder because we have the sun," Ching said. "The sky has a different kind of blue that soothes you."
Click here to see where your state ranks.
Highest-Ranked States
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- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C., Va., Md., W. Va.
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Media Arts and Design Major
The major is a part of the School of Media Arts and Design, an academic unit within the College of Arts and Letters.
School of Media Arts and Design offers a program of study that prepares students for careers that rely on mass media. Program areas of concentration allow students to pursue interests in journalism (print, broadcast, and online), television and video production, corporate communications or converged media (print, video & web production). The major also prepares students for advanced graduate school study in the fields of mass communication and related areas such as journalism, corporate communication, visual communication or digital production.
Degrees Offered
- Creative Advertising
- Digital Video and Cinema
- Interactive Design
- Journalism
Declaring the Major
New Freshmen and Transfer Students
Students should declare the Media Arts and Design major when they register for orientation. This will enable students to enroll in SMAD 101. Students must have completed SMAD 101 or be enrolled in SMAD 101 at the time of application to be considered for full admission to the major.
Currently Enrolled Major Changers
Students should submit a "Change or Declaration of Major" form to the School of Media Arts and Design in Harrison Hall, Room 0276. This will enable students to enroll in SMAD 101. Students must have completed SMAD 101 or be enrolled in SMAD 101 at the time of application to be considered for full admission to the major.
Admission to the Major
Admission to the School of Media Arts and Design is competitive. Students interested in majoring in the programs offered by the school must apply for a limited number of spaces in the major. An admission committee in the school reviews applications and offers admission based on availability to the most qualified students. A student may apply no more than two times to the school for admission.There are two application periods for admission to the School of Media Arts and Design - September and January.
September Application Period
The September application process is only available for new transfer students matriculating to JMU in the fall semester who have declared the SMAD major. Students must be officially admitted to JMU as a transfer student for the fall semester and must have earned at least 30 hours of JMU approved post high school college credit. Students must be degree-seeking and must be enrolled in at least 12 hours at JMU during the fall semester. The application is due on Friday of the second week of the fall semester.
January Application Period
Currently enrolled JMU students (including new transfer students matriculating to JMU in January) may apply during the January application period. Students must be degree-seeking and have completed at least 12 hours or be enrolled in at least 12 hours at JMU. The application is due on the last Friday in January.
The Application Process
Students interested in this major must "declare" SMAD as a major and apply to become a "fully admitted" major. Declaring a SMAD major does not guarantee that the student will be fully admitted into the SMAD major. Students are restricted from taking SMAD courses beyond SMAD 101 until they are fully admitted to the major.A complete application to the major includes the following:
- Completion of SMAD 101 or enrollment in SMAD 101.
- Completion of the SMAD Admission Test with sections on English grammar and usage, timed writing samples and basic computer knowledge. (Instructions for the SMAD Admission Test are given in SMAD 101).
- An Application Letter/Personal Essay.
- A completed change of major form (available in the SMAD office).
- A completed SMAD major card (available in the SMAD office).
- A completed SMAD Questionnaire (available in the SMAD office).
- Unofficial transcripts (For transfer students, it must include the record of JMU transfer credit evaluation).
- Completed SMAD Application Package Checklist.
Students must present the required information in a manila folder to the main SMAD office, Harrison Hall, room 0276 with their last name, first name and student identification number on the tab of the folder. Students must supply the folder.Following the review by the SMAD Admission Committee, students will be notified about their acceptance into the major. If accepted, students will be eligible to register for SMAD courses. Students not accepted into the major will be notified and may reapply the following January or in a later January. Students may apply no more than two times.Minimum GradesIf students are enrolled in SMAD 101, are accepted in the major, and make an "F" in the course, they will be dropped from the major and can reapply. If students are enrolled in SMAD 101, have been accepted in the major, and make a "D+" or "D" grade in the course, they may continue to take classes in the major; however, they must retake SMAD 101 again in the next semester and earn at least a "C-." Students are limited to taking SMAD 101 twice. Failure to achieve a grade of at least a "C-" after the second time will result in being dropped from the major and students may not reapply.
Progressing in the Major
To graduate with a degree in Media Arts and Design, a student must have a grade point average of 2.0 ("C") or better in the major.


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Facts: The parties divorced after 17 years of marriage. They have two children. There are two issues on appeal that I think are of interest to my readers: imputing income to Mother for child support and and an upward deviation in child support for the children's private school expenses.
The proof showed that Wife has undergraduate and master's degrees in education and 12 years of teaching experience. She testified that the last time she taught was in the Spring of 2005, at which point she and Husband agreed that she would stay home to care for the children and household. Husband likewise testified that he and Wife "had an agreement, just like any other partnership, that she'd take care of the kids. . . ."
As part of the division of property, the trial court awarded several rental properties to Wife and that the court found "generates taxable income of approximately $4,000 monthly" less expenses such as property taxes and repairs/maintenance.
In determining the amount of child support to be paid by Husband, the trial court considered and rejected Husband's argument that income should be imputed to Wife. The trial court found that "Wife has no current income."
The trial court also included in the Permanent Parenting Plan a requirement that Husband "pay the costs of the children's private high school tuition, fees, activity fees, lunch program, school trips, required books and school supplies and equipment, reasonable uniforms, regular school expenses, school lunches and tutors through their 12th grade graduation." The trial court did not make findings with respect to the amount of these expenses or enter a monthly average of the expenses into the deviation section of the child support worksheets.
Husband appealed.
On Appeal: The Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Imputed income. Husband argued that, because the trial court later found that Wife had the ability to earn a salary as a school teacher, the trial court should have imputed income to Wife in determining the amount of child support he should pay.
Awards of child support are governed by the Tennessee Child Support Guidelines, which provide that, in determining child support, income may be imputed to a parent as follows:
(I) If a parent has been determined by a tribunal to be willfully and/or voluntarily underemployed or unemployed; or
(II) When there is no reliable evidence of income; or
(III) When the parent owns substantial non-income producing assets, the court may impute income based upon a reasonable rate of return upon the assets.
The Guidelines do not presume that a parent is willfully or voluntarily unemployed. The Guidelines enumerate factors relevant to the determination of willful or voluntary underemployment or unemployment and recognize "the role of a stay-at-home parent as an important and valuable factor in a child's life." Whether a parent is willfully or voluntarily unemployed is a question of fact that requires careful consideration of attendant circumstances.
After reviewing the record, the Court concluded that the
evidence supports the trial court's rejection of Husband's contention that Wife was voluntarily or willfully unemployed and that, as a consequence, income should be imputed to her for child support purposes. It is undisputed that Wife left her employment outside the home beginning in 2005 to care for the children, who were then six and eight years of age, by agreement with Husband; the trial court properly considered this agreement in holding that Wife was not willfully or voluntarily unemployed.
Husband then argued that income should have been imputed to Wife considering the trial court's award of income-earning rental properties to Wife.
Under the Guidelines, a parent's gross income includes "all income from any source," including income from self-employment. "Income from self-employment includes income from . . . rental properties . . . less ordinary and reasonable expenses necessary to produce such income." Courts are wary of increasing child support based on possible income that is merely speculative. Instead, they look for "income regularly received by the obligor."
After reviewing the record, the Court concluded:
The trial court did not err in not assigning income from rental property to Wife in its determination of child support. The record establishes that, while Wife may derive income from the rental properties awarded to her, the amount of such income is speculative, because of the uncertainty of the expenditures required to manage and maintain the property. In light of the uncertainty of the amount of income Wife would receive from the properties, as well as the effort required for her to manage the property in addition to maintaining regular employment and performing her role as primary residential parent, the trial court properly declined to include potential income from the rental properties in its determination of Wife's income.
On the issue of imputed income, the trial court was affirmed.
Upward deviation. Husband argued the trial court erred in awarding an upward deviation from the presumptive amount of child support by failing to make specific findings with respect to the children's private school costs.
The trial court may order an upward deviation from the Guidelines for extraordinary educational expenses including tuition and other expenses associated with private schooling. The Guidelines require that a monthly average of extraordinary educational expenses be based on evidence of prior or anticipated expenses and entered into the deviation section of the child support worksheets.
The Court reviewed the record and found that
[n]o evidence was heard with respect to the amount of potential private school expenses for the children. Furthermore, as the children never attended private school before the divorce, no evidence was available of prior private school expenses. The only testimony with respect to private schooling was Wife's testimony that she would like to have the option to send the children to private school if she was unable to stay in her current home.
In the absence of evidence required by the regulations to support an upward deviation for extraordinary educational expenses and in the absence of the factual findings by the trial court, this Court cannot determine whether the trial court abused its discretion. We remand the case for the trial court to make specific findings with respect to potential private school expenses for the children, as required by . . . the Guidelines.
Thus, the trial court's refusal to impute income to Mother was affirmed while the upward deviation in child support was reversed and remanded for more specific findings.
K.O.'s Comment: It is also worth noting that Wife sought to have the cost of an expert's report awarded as a discretionary cost. That effort failed because the expense did not fall precisely within the narrow scope of Rule 54.04. The Court classified the expense as a marital debt, however, and held it should be equitably divided by the trial court on remand.
Halliday v. Halliday (Tennessee Court of Appeals, Middle Section, December 6, 2012).
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Matrimonial, Divorce and Family Law Attorney.


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Looking to buy a Leaf S using all of the hefty discounts currently offered. I'm willing to travel pretty much anywhere on the Front Range, although I'd rather not go real far outside of the Leaf's range from my house just south of downtown Denver.
Can anyone recommend a salesperson or dealer? I stopped by Larry H Miller in Highlands Ranch when I was down there for work the other day but didn't even talk to a salesperson after seeing they put $2,000+ in useless paint protection and pinstripes on all of their Leafs! That's a huge turn-off.
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Hong Kong COO figure update:
Two new Family II Hong Kong COO figures. One complete with a nice Dark blue bowcaster. Interesting discovery with the leg markings. Discussed below.
Leg Markings:
Both figures appear to have II.1b markings. However one has a the third line going under the last 'G' of the Hong Kong stamp.


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Hutchinson, Francis (DNB00)
HUTCHINSON, FRANCIS (1660–1739), bishop of Down and Connor, second son of Edward Hitchinson, was born on 2 Jan. 1660 at Carsington, Derbyshire, according to the parish register, in which the family name is invariably spelled Hitchinson. His mother was Mary Tallents, sister of Francis Tallents [q.v.], the ejected divine. His brother Samuel (d. 1748) was the ancestor of Richard Hely-Hutchinson, first earl of Donoughmore [q. v.]| He matriculated as a pensioner on 4 July 1678 at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1680, and M.A. 1684 (Graduati Cantab. 1823, p. 254). Tallents directed his historical studies, and employed him (about 1680) in taking the manuscript of his 'View of Universal History' to Stillingfleet, Beveridge, and Kidder for their corrections before it was printed (Defence of Antient Historians, 1733, p.33).
His first preferment was the vicarage of Hoxne, Suffolk. Before 1692 he became perpetual curate of St. James's, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. On 3 July 1698 he commenced D.D. at Cambridge. His residence in Suffolk turned his attention to the earlier proceedings against witches in that county [see Hale, Sir Matthew, and Hopkins, Matthew]; hence his treatise on the history of witchcraft (1718), which is full of valuable historical details, with many particulars collected by personal inquiry from survivors.
In 1720, on the death of Edward Smith, Hutchinson was appointed bishop of Down and Connor, and consecrated on 22 Jan. 1721. He took up his residence at Lisburn, co. Antrim, and at once threw himself into the work of his diocese. Hutchinson in 1721 issued proposals for building a church and settling a clergyman in Rathlin, and for teaching English to the Irish inhabitants of the island by means of bilingual primers and catechisms, the Irish being printed phonetically in the English character. Rathlin was made a separate parish by act of council on 20 April 1722, and a new church, dedicated to St. Thomas (in compliment to Thomas Lindsay, the primate of Armagh), was consecrated in 1723. Hutchinson's interest in the Irish language and history was considerable, as is shown by his work on' Antient Historians.' He lived on good terms with Roman catholics and presbyterians. A squib on his versatility, published in Dublin in 1725-6 as a broadsheet, is attributed to Dean Swift. From a letter (4 Aug. 1726) of Francis Hutcheson [q. v.], the metaphysician, it appears that efforts were then made to get Hutcheson to conform; he had an interview with Hutchinson, and ' was a little pinched with argument.' Hutchinson summed up the points at issue thus: 'We would not sweep the house clean, and you stumbled at straws'
Hutchinson removed to Portglenone, co. Antrim, purchasing the estate on 22 April 1729 for 8,200l. Here (not long before 1739) he built a chapel, mainly at his own expense (it was made a parish church in 1840). He died on Saturday, 23 June 1739, at Portglenone, and was buried on 25 June in the chapel, where there is a monument to his memory. His portrait is in the possession of the present Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore. By his wife Anne, who survived him nineteen years, he had a son, Thomas, who predeceased him, and a daughter, Frances, who married firstly, John Hamilton (d.1729), dean of Dromore; secondly, in 1732, Colonel O'Hara (d. 1745) of Crebilly, co. Antrim; thirdly, in 1748, John Ryder, afterwards archbishop of Tuam. To her eldest son, the Rev. Hutchinson Hamilton (d.2 July 1778), Hutchinson left the bulk of his estate. His library was sold by auction in Dublin on 26 April 1756.
Hutchinson published, besides single sermons, 1692, 1698, 1707, 1721 (his first visitation at Lisburn), and 1731:
- 'A Short View of the Pretended Spirit of Prophecy,' &c., 1708, 8vo.
- 'A Compassionate Address to … Papists,' &c., 1716, 8vo.
- A Defence of the Compassionate Address,' &c., 1718, 8vo.
- 'Life of Archbishop Tillotson,' abridged in Wordsworth's 'Ecclesiastical Biography,' 1718, 8vo.
- 'An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft,' &c., 1718, 8vo; 2nd edit., enlarged, 1720, 8vo.
- 'A State of the Case of the Island of Raghlin,' &c., Dublin, 1721, 4to (reprinted in Ewart).
- 'The Church Catechism in Irish. With the English … in the same Karakter,' &c., Belfast, 1722, 16mo (in this he was assisted by ' two clergymen ').
- 'A Defence of the Antient Historians: with … Application … to the History of Ireland and Great Britain, and other Northern Nations,' &c., Dublin, 1734, 8vo.
- 'The State of the Case of Lough Neagh and the Bann,' &c., Dublin, 1738 (Harris).
- 'The Certainty of Protestants a Safer Foundation than the Infallibility of Papists,' &c., Dublin, 1738, 8vo. The following are given by Harris from an incomplete list of his writings furnished by Hutchinson, without dates, and not arranged chronologically.
- 'An English Grammar.';
- 'A Defence of the Liberty of the Clergy in their choice of Proctors,' &c.
- 'A Letter … concerning the Bank of Ireland,' &c.
- ' A Letter … concerning Imploying … the Poor,' &c.
- 'A Second Letter … recommending the Improvement of the Irish Fishery,' &c.
- ' An Irish Almanac.'
- 'The many Advantages of a Good Language to any Nation,' &c.
- 'Advices concerning … receiving Popish Converts,' &.c.
- 'A Defence of the Holy Bible, &c.
[Belfast News-Letter, 26 June 1739 (needs correction); Harris's Ware's Works, 1764, i. 215 sq.; Mant's Hist. of the Church of Ireland, 1840, ii. 369 sq.; Christian Moderator, 1828, p. 353; Ewart's Diocese of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1886, pp. 103 sq.; extract from parish register of Carsington, per Rev. F. H. Brett; information kindly given by the Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.163
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|Hutchinson, Francis: omit His brother Samuel .... Donoughmore [q. v.]


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Universal Power over Ethernet
UPOE, or Universal Power over Ethernet, is the latest innovation from Cisco with broad, positive implications for many enterprise operations. We are not new at this. Cisco has been pushing the standards since 2000 for the incorporation of electrical power running on the same cable as data.
UPOE is a big milestone as we can now consolidate 60 watts on a single CAT5E cable. The flexibility that this enables cannot be overstated. Multiple third party vendors are jumping into the ecosystem here as dynamic environments using Virtual Desktops with integrated monitors, IP Turret systems for trading floors, not to mention building management, physical security and host of networking devices such as AP's and compact switches that are often installed in very obscure locations.
The Catalyst 4500E is the initial beneficiary of this industry first for Cisco and this episode of TechWiseTV covers not just the use case and deployment examples as we go hands on with the big switch, but also a unique deep dive into understanding just how this works. A full appreciation for the engineering talent behind this innovation is warranted on this one when we go beyond the power negotiation and get into the physics of heat dissipation and other hurdles that had to be overcome. It's the action packed TechWiseTV you have come to expect!
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Resources to check out:
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Segment Break Down:
Sylvia gets the context from Pradeep Parmar
Jimmy Ray is taking us 'inside the cable – make sure we can appreciate just impressive this is electrically
Nikhil Sharma is our guest engineer with a UPOE demo from the CiscoLive show floor and right here with us in the lab as we go hands-on the Catalyst 4500E
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Lupita Nyong'o Is People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person
It has been an incredible year for Lupita Nyong'o: The soft-spoken actress nabbed an Academy Award for her role as Patsey in '12 Years a Slave' (her first-ever feature film, might we add), became a worldwide fashion icon and even kicked up some Oscar-season rumors that she was dating Jared Leto. (The pair denied the rumors in the best way possible, of course.) But now, Nyong'o has yet another reason to celebrate — she has just been named PEOPLE's Most Beautiful Person!
"It was exciting and just a major, major compliment," the 31-year-old actress told the magazine of receiving the honor of becoming the famed magazine's cover girl. "I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen."
And that is a point that Nyong'o, who is of Kenyan and Mexican descent, holds of the utmost importance.
The dark-skinned beauty was not always fond of her skin color, and, as she revealed in a moving speech at Essence's 'Black Women in Hollywood' speech, used to pray every day that she would magically wake up with a fairer skin tone. But by becoming a famous and highly sought-after actress, she has transformed into a role model for young black girls everywhere.
"I could never have guessed that my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself and that it would propel me to be such an image of hope in the same way that the women of 'The Color Purple' were to me," Nyong'o said in her speech.
Still, the Nyong'o's favorite compliments are the ones "when I have been called beautiful with not one drop of makeup on. And also before I comb my hair or put on a pretty dress," she revealed to PEOPLE. "Happiness is the most important thing."


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Good evening. Nearly ten years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor. This mass murder was planned by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, and signaled a new threat to our security – one in which the targets were no longer soldiers on a battlefield, but innocent men, women and children going about their daily lives.
In the days that followed, our nation was united as we struck at al Qaeda and routed the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then, our focus shifted. A second war was launched in Iraq, and we spent enormous blood and treasure to support a new government there. By the time I took office, the war in Afghanistan had entered its seventh year. But al Qaeda's leaders had escaped into Pakistan and were plotting new attacks, while the Taliban had regrouped and gone on the offensive. Without a new strategy and decisive action, our military commanders warned that we could face a resurgent al Qaeda, and a Taliban taking over large parts of Afghanistan.
For this reason, in one of the most difficult decisions that I've made as President, I ordered an additional 30,000 American troops into Afghanistan. When I announced this surge at West Point, we set clear objectives: to refocus on al Qaeda; reverse the Taliban's momentum; and train Afghan Security Forces to defend their own country. I also made it clear that our commitment would not be open-ended, and that we would begin to drawdown our forces this July.
Tonight, I can tell you that we are fulfilling that commitment. Thanks to our men and women in uniform, our civilian personnel, and our many coalition partners, we are meeting our goals. As a result, starting next month, we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and we will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer, fully recovering the surge I announced at West Point. After this initial reduction, our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as Afghan Security forces move into the lead. Our mission will change from combat to support. By 2014, this process of transition will be complete, and the Afghan people will be responsible for their own security.
We are starting this drawdown from a position of strength. Al Qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11. Together with the Pakistanis, we have taken out more than half of al Qaeda's leadership. And thanks to our intelligence professionals and Special Forces, we killed Osama bin Laden, the only leader that al Qaeda had ever known. This was a victory for all who have served since 9/11. One soldier summed it up well. "The message," he said, "is we don't forget. You will be held accountable, no matter how long it takes."
The information that we recovered from bin Laden's compound shows al Qaeda under enormous strain. Bin Laden expressed concern that al Qaeda has been unable to effectively replace senior terrorists that have been killed, and that al Qaeda has failed in its effort to portray America as a nation at war with Islam – thereby draining more widespread support. Al Qaeda remains dangerous, and we must be vigilant against attacks. But we have put al Qaeda on a path to defeat, and we will not relent until the job is done.
In Afghanistan, we've inflicted serious losses on the Taliban and taken a number of its strongholds. Along with our surge, our allies also increased their commitments, which helped stabilize more of the country. Afghan Security Forces have grown by over 100,000 troops, and in some provinces and municipalities we have already begun to transition responsibility for security to the Afghan people. In the face of violence and intimidation, Afghans are fighting and dying for their country, establishing local police forces, opening markets and schools, creating new opportunities for women and girls, and trying to turn the page on decades of war.
Of course, huge challenges remain. This is the beginning – but not the end – of our effort to wind down this war. We will have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we have made, while we drawdown our forces and transition responsibility for security to the Afghan government. And next May, in Chicago, we will host a summit with our NATO allies and partners to shape the next phase of this transition.
We do know that peace cannot come to a land that has known so much war without a political settlement. So as we strengthen the Afghan government and Security Forces, America will join initiatives that reconcile the Afghan people, including the Taliban. Our position on these talks is clear: they must be led by the Afghan government, and those who want to be a part of a peaceful Afghanistan must break from al Qaeda, abandon violence, and abide by the Afghan Constitution. But, in part because of our military effort, we have reason to believe that progress can be made.
By the numbers
Overall troops (U.S., allies): 146,000
United Kingdom: 9,500
Germany: 5,000
France: 4,000
Italy: 4,000
February 2009: Obama orders 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan
December 2009: Obama decides to send 30,000 more troops
January 2011: U.S. announces 1,400 additional Marines to Afghanistan
The goal that we seek is achievable, and can be expressed simply: no safe-haven from which al Qaeda or its affiliates can launch attacks against our homeland, or our allies. We will not try to make Afghanistan a perfect place. We will not police its streets or patrol its mountains indefinitely. That is the responsibility of the Afghan government, which must step up its ability to protect its people; and move from an economy shaped by war to one that can sustain a lasting peace. What we can do, and will do, is build a partnership with the Afghan people that endures – one that ensures that we will be able to continue targeting terrorists and supporting a sovereign Afghan government.
Of course, our efforts must also address terrorist safe-havens in Pakistan. No country is more endangered by the presence of violent extremists, which is why we will continue to press Pakistan to expand its participation in securing a more peaceful future for this war-torn region. We will work with the Pakistani government to root out the cancer of violent extremism, and we will insist that it keep its commitments. For there should be no doubt that so long as I am President, the United States will never tolerate a safe-haven for those who aim to kill us: they cannot elude us, nor escape the justice they deserve.
My fellow Americans, this has been a difficult decade for our country. We have learned anew the profound cost of war -- a cost that has been paid by the nearly 4500 Americans who have given their lives in Iraq, and the over 1500 who have done so in Afghanistan – men and women who will not live to enjoy the freedom that they defended. Thousands more have been wounded. Some have lost limbs on the field of battle, and others still battle the demons that have followed them home.Story: Slow domestic economy puts focus on cost of 2 wars
Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm's way. We have ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country. And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars will come to a responsible end.
As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America's engagement around the world. Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face. Others would have America over-extend ourselves, confronting every evil that can be found abroad.
We must chart a more centered course. Like generations before, we must embrace America's singular role in the course of human events. But we must be as pragmatic as we are passionate; as strategic as we are resolute. When threatened, we must respond with force – but when that force can be targeted, we need not deploy large armies overseas. When innocents are being slaughtered and global security endangered, we don't have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own. Instead, we must rally international action, which we are doing in Libya, where we do not have a single soldier on the ground, but are supporting allies in protecting the Libyan people and giving them the chance to determine their destiny.Story: Afghanistan presents GOP candidates with identity crisis
In all that we do, we must remember that what sets America apart is not solely our power – it is the principles upon which our union was founded. We are a nation that brings our enemies to justice while adhering to the rule of law, and respecting the rights of all our citizens. We protect our own freedom and prosperity by extending it to others. We stand not for empire, but for self-determination. That is why we have a stake in the democratic aspirations that are now washing across the Arab World. We will support those revolutions with fidelity to our ideals, with the power of our example, and with an unwavering belief that all human beings deserve to live with freedom and dignity.
Above all, we are a nation whose strength abroad has been anchored in opportunity for our citizens at home. Over the last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times. Now, we must invest in America's greatest resource – our people. We must unleash innovation that creates new jobs and industry, while living within our means. We must rebuild our infrastructure and find new and clean sources of energy. And most of all, after a decade of passionate debate, we must recapture the common purpose that we shared at the beginning of this time of war. For our nation draws strength from our differences, and when our union is strong no hill is too steep and no horizon is beyond our reach.
America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.
In this effort, we draw inspiration from our fellow Americans who have sacrificed so much on our behalf. To our troops, our veterans and their families, I speak for all Americans when I say that we will keep our sacred trust with you, and provide you with the care, and benefits, and opportunity that you deserve.Interactive: The cost of war (on this page)
I met some of those patriotic Americans at Fort Campbell. A while back, I spoke to the 101st Airborne that has fought to turn the tide in Afghanistan, and to the team that took out Osama bin Laden. Standing in front of a model of bin Laden's compound, the Navy SEAL who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost – brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on bases where our troops stand guard overseas, and on headstones in quiet corners of our country where their memory will never be forgotten. This officer - like so many others I have met with on bases, in Baghdad and Bagram, at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital – spoke with humility about how his unit worked together as one – depending on each other, and trusting one another, as a family might do in a time of peril.
That's a lesson worth remembering – that we are all a part of one American family. Though we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents, and a conviction that the United States of America is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. Now, let us finish the work at hand. Let us responsibly end these wars, and reclaim the American Dream that is at the center of our story. With confidence in our cause; with faith in our fellow citizens; and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of America – for this generation, and the next. May God bless our troops. And may God bless the United States of America.
The Associated Press, Reuters and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.


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We are so blessed to the Catholic!
The Church is a gift Jesus gave us to sustain and guide us until He comes again, or until we go to Him.
The gym at my parish was home this summer to Catholic young people from all over the United States who came to help with the clean-up and restoration after the tornadoes last spring. They were Christ's representatives in a hard time for people here.
We are all Christ's representatives when we reach out to other people in their need. That is the deep meaning of Catholic Social Teaching: Being Jesus to other people.


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