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Gang members often bring to mind guns, violence and drugs—but taxes? Not so much.
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Law enforcement officials say gang members are increasingly focusing on financial crimes because they are more safe and lucrative than selling drugs. The criminals are stealing people's identities and then filing fraudulent tax returns to get sizeable returns from Uncle Sam. To gain access to consumers' personal information, gangs are infiltrating the medical world to phish for consumer information.
Detective Craig Catlin of the North Miami Beach Police Department Gang Unit goes so far as to call it an "epidemic" among the city's street gangs. "Every gang member is doing this," Catlin says. "It's a business to them—they're doing burglaries and then having other members commit the fraud."
The crime itself may seem tame for hardened street gangs, but Adam Levin, chairman of IdentityTheft911, says it's simple, safe and cost-effective.
"It's like being a vampire in a blood bank if you know what you're doing," Levin says.
The Tax Appeal
Catlin recounts a scene from a recent apartment raid where officers found six gang members sitting on laptops doing tax returns.
"Why sling dope on the corner of an apartment building, when you can rent a room at a hotel nearby and have a tax return party? You can make up to $40,000 or $50,000 in one night," he says.
Director Tom Carney of the North Miami Police Department says his unit sees victims of identity theft and tax fraud every day. "Each year this gets bigger and more pervasive," he says.
As soon as they receive an income tax return, fraudsters tend to put the money onto gift cards for retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and spend the cash as quickly as they can, Carney says. The department's financial crimes and gang units have recovered millions of dollars over the past several years along with handwritten journals with countless pages of victims' personal information.
"They're intelligent people," Carney says. "They recruit intelligent people—send emails, phish, make phone calls and hack computers. The biggest threat to this country is now cyber crime."
North Miami Police Department Detective John Philome knows all this too well. The 29-year-old's tax return was filed by an identity thief in 2012 and he says it took a year to get his return back. What's more, the IRS still isn't sure how his identity was stolen, or who filed the return in his name.
"I was shocked, being a crime prevention officer, I thought I took all of the necessary precautions to not have that happen to me. It's a horrible thing to have to come back from."
The Internal Revenue Service declined to speak over the phone, and a spokesperson would only say the IRS is "aggressively targeting identity theft on all fronts."
Gangster Girlfriends in on the Game
In the past, gang members would often have their girlfriends purchase guns because they tended not to have criminal records, but now their role has shifted. Girlfriends are being tasked with getting hired at different companies to steal consumer data, according to Levin. He adds that positions in the health-care industry are prime targets.
"If you get a job as an administrator or data person, you have access to all of this information. And with medical it's a double hit—it's not only about the money, but also the health insurance. That is a valuable commodity in the marketplace—it's big dollars."
Levin says the girlfriends show up to work, steal a sizable amount of data and then never return. The larger the medical practice, the longer it will take for the company to realize.
"It's not so much people hacking into files anymore--it's an inside job," he says. "Also, a lot of these medical facilities have their technology shipped offshore or stored with a third-party vendor. This means you have easier access to medical files in an emergency, but the downside is that more people have access to your files, and they may not have your best intentions at heart."
Catlin adds that he has seen cases of this sort ranging from $30,000 to $30 million, depending on the depth of the fraud. Florida in particular had been a hotbed for this type of crime, but in recent years the District Attorney's office has moved more quickly to prosecute tax fraud and more cases have reached the federal level.
How to Protect Yourself
Personal thefts also occur via break-ins at homes and cars, Carney says. Be sure not to leave your laptop in plain sight in your vehicle, along with your wallet or personal belongings.
"Use a shredder in your home," he says. "They will break into your house and find that personal information."
Tax fraud is harder to protect yourself from, says Catlin. "The only thing you can try to do is complete the refund in January, before anyone else can file in your name," he says.
And if you're an employer with a lot of consumer data, conduct proper background checks on any hires.
"Do in-depth background checks, because they will steal you blind," Carney says.


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Web Clip on Tuquito
The Ubuntu-based Tuquito 3 includes quite a few changes like its new GNOME desktop environment and cool new desktop gadgets. I took the time to try out a few of the Google Gadgets and see how they worked for a complete beginner on this distro. What I found was a desktop social media feel hard to find in anywhere. In some ways Tuquito reminded me of gOS gadgets which features similar widget-like internet applications that are extremely powerful. I examined the Web Clip and a few other gadgets and found them to be fantastic.
First click on Internet — Google Gadgets
This should being up the Google Gadgets icon on the bottom panel. Right click and select show all if your widgets/gadgets are not showing.
Here you can see the clock widget and web clip widget.
You can right click in the top left corner of the Web Clip widget. Select Options.
This screenshot shows us the options available for the Web Clip widget. Type another RSS feed into the field and press the Add button. The Web Clip gadget will now display posts from your feed right on your desktop.
Notice the Web Clip widget now has my RSS feed posts shown inside of it. Keep in mind you can blend multiple feeds together this way too giving you a unique custom feed that includes all the feeds you subscribe to anyway, right there in one.

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Are you in career transition?
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Join us every Monday morning to gain fresh perspective and enjoy the company of people like you—people in career transition that are committed to success in business and in life. Regardless of the type of employment you're seeking, we're confident you will find this environment encouraging and helpful.
C3G meets every Monday morning at 7:45 a.m. in the Theater at North Point Community Church.
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text: Off to the quilt shop this morning. It ate up about three hours and $200, but I really need to replenish my 1895 batiks. Spent the afternoon tracing flowers and veggies. I did two sets of the flowers for two different quilts. Then trimmed around the fusible pieces so I don't gum up too much extra fabric when I fuse them down. I have snapdragons, hollyhocks, sunflowers, cosmos, 3 kinds of peppers, carrots, beans, tomatoes etc. Now to trace the larger pieces and get them ready to fuse.The prep work is what takes my time but at least I am making progress! This blogging seems to be helping with some accountability, at least so far!


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Final report released
About the Review
In November 2010, Ross Garnaut was commissioned by the Australian Government to provide an independent update to his 2008 Climate Change Review. He is also an independent expert adviser to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee.
The Garnaut Climate Change Review—Update 2011 released a series of papers in February and March 2011 addressing developments across a range of areas including:
- climate change science and impacts,
- international mitigation progress,
- carbon pricing,
- land,
- innovation, and
- the electricity sector.
Professor Garnaut delivered his final report to the Prime Minister on 31 May 2011.


text: Dr Sarah Beck PhD In 'People' Academic StaffPostdoctoral researchersDoctoral researchers Back to 'Psychology' School of PsychologyReader in Cognitive Development Contact details Telephone+44 (0)121 41 firstname.lastname@example.com View my research portal AddressSchool of PsychologyUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK My research examines children's and adults' thinking about time and knowledge. I am interested in how children become able to speculate about events in the past and future and how they handle uncertainty, and how adults' apparently sophisticated thinking in these areas is often irrational. More information about my research and my lab can be found at www.sarahruthbeck.net. Feedback and office hours I set office hours during term time. For meetings at other times please contact me by email. Qualifications PhD (Birmingham) BA (Oxford) Biography Dr Beck completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford in Psychology and Philosophy (PPP) before moving to become a research assistant at the University of Birmingham, where she has studied and worked ever since. Teaching Sarah Beck teaches a 3rd year optional module on comparative and developmental cognition: Higher Cognitive Functions. Postgraduate supervision Current PhD students: Eva Reindl: Tool Cognition, co-supervised with Dr Claudio Tennie (Lead) and Prof Ian Apperly. Clare Williams: Development of innovation and tool-making, co-supervised with Prof Ian Apperly and Dr Jackie Chappell Caroline Putt: Counterfactuals and regret in neuropsychological patients, co-supervised with Prof Glyn Humphreys Livia Colda: Counterfactual thinking in children (MSc by Research) Catherine Darnell: Children's decision making under uncertainty Victoria Johnson, Decision Making and Executive Function in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, co-supervised with Prof Chris Oliver Previous PhD students: Nina Powell: (2013) Moral reasoning, co-supervised with Dr Kim Quinn Amélie Gourdon (2013) Communicating nonverbal probabilities Nicola Cutting (2013) Children's tool innovation, co-supervised with Prof Ian Apperly Jane Waite (2012) Repetitive behaviours in Rubenstein Taybi Syndrome, co-supervised with Prof Chris Oliver Daniel Weisberg (2011) Children's regret and relief Clare Eddy (2009) Social cognition in basal ganglia patients, co-spervised with Dr Ian Mitchell Gill Waters (2009) Children's source monitoring Research Counterfactual thinking Executive function Metacognition and uncertainty Tool use Other activities Awarded the 2011 Margaret Donaldson Early Career Prize by the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Psychology Programme Chair for the for the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology between 2008 – 2011 Publications Representative publications A full list of publications with reprints can be found at: www.sarahruthbeck.net Beck, S.R., Wiesberg, D.P., Burns, P., & Riggs, K.J. (in press). Conditional reasoning and emotional experience: a review of the development of counterfactual thinking. Studia Logica. (Special Issue on Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning in Uncertain Environments. Schurz & Unterhuber (Eds.). DOI: 10.1007/s11225-013-9508-1 Chappell, J., Cutting, N., Apperly, I.A., & Beck, S.R. (In press). The development of tool manufacture in humans: what helps young children make innovative tools? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Beck, S.R. & Riggs, K.J. (2013). Counterfactuals and reality. Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of the Development of the Imagination. M. Taylor (Ed.). New York, USA: OUP. Eddy, C.M., Beck, S.R., Mitchell, I.J., Praamstra, P., & Pall, H.S. (2013). Theory of Mind deficits in Parkinson's disease: a product of executive dysfunction? Neuropsychology, 27, 37-47. DOI: 10.1037/a0031302 Weisberg, D.P. & Beck, S.R. (2012). The development of children's regret and relief. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 820-835. Hoerl, C., McCormack, T., & Beck, S.R. (Eds.) Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation. Oxford University Press (2011). Beck, S.R., McColgan, K.L.T., Robinson, E.J., & Rowley, M.G. (2011). Imagining what might be: why children under-estimate uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 603-610. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.06.010 Beck, S.R. & Guthrie, C. (2011). Almost thinking counterfactually: children's understanding of close counterfactuals. Child Development, 82, 1189-1198. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01590.x Beck, S.R., Apperly, I.A., Chappell, J., Guthrie, C., & Cutting, N. (2011). Making tools isn't child's play. Cognition, 119, 301-306. Beck, S.R., Riggs, K.J., & Gorniak, S.L. (2009) Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions. Thinking and Reasoning, 15, 337-354. Robinson, E.J., Rowley, M., Beck, S.R., Carroll, D.J., Apperly, I.A. (2006) Children's sensitivity to their own relative ignorance: Handling of possibilities under conditions of epistemic and physical uncertainty. Child Development, 77(6), pp. 1642 - 1655 Beck. S.R., Robinson, E.J., Carroll, D.J, & Apperly, I.A. (2006) Children's thinking about counterfactuals and future hypotheticals as possibilities. Child Development, 77(2), pp. 413 - 426.View all publications in research portal


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Summary Report for:
11-9199.01 - Regulatory Affairs Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate production activities of an organization to ensure compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures.
Sample of reported job titles: Clinical Trials Systems Administrator, Global Regulatory Affairs Manager, Regulatory Affairs Director, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Regulatory Affairs Portfolio Leader, Regulatory Consultant, Regulatory Leader, Regulatory Product Manager
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.
- Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.
- Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.
- Formulate or implement regulatory affairs policies and procedures to ensure that regulatory compliance is maintained or enhanced.
- Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly.
- Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls.
- Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
- Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations, including proposed and final rules.
- Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary.
- Review materials such as marketing literature or user manuals to ensure that regulatory agency requirements are met.
- Implement or monitor complaint processing systems to ensure effective and timely resolution of all complaint investigations.
- Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.
- Oversee documentation efforts to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations and standards.
- Participate in the development or implementation of clinical trial protocols.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures or local working practices.
- Establish regulatory priorities or budgets and allocate resources and workloads.
- Train staff in regulatory policies or procedures.
- Monitor emerging trends regarding industry regulations to determine potential impacts on organizational processes.
- Establish procedures or systems for publishing document submissions in hardcopy or electronic formats.
- Contribute to the development or implementation of business unit strategic and operating plans.
- Coordinate internal discoveries and depositions with legal department staff.
- Develop relationships with state or federal environmental regulatory agencies to learn about and analyze the potential impacts of proposed environmental policy regulations.
- Evaluate regulatory affairs aspects that are specifically green, such as the use of toxic substances in packaging, carbon footprinting issues, or green policy implementation.
- Monitor regulatory affairs activities to ensure their alignment with corporate sustainability or green initiatives.
- Monitor regulatory affairs trends related to environmental issues.
Technology Skills
- Analytical or scientific software — Analyse-it; Risk management software; Statistical analysis software
- Compliance software — Aris Global Register; MediRegs Regulation and Reimbursement Suite; SAP EHS Management; Thomson Reuters Liquent InSight Suite (see all 10 examples)
- Data base user interface and query software — Database software; Microsoft Access ; Structured query language SQL
- Desktop publishing software — Document publishing software
- Development environment software — Integrated development environment IDE software
- Document management software — Adlib Express; Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat ; Thomson Reuters Liquent CoreDossier Submission Accelerator for eCTD; Virtify eCTD (see all 32 examples)
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise application integration software — XML authoring software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — SAP
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Microsoft Visio
- Information retrieval or search software — Dialog DialogLink
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Microsoft Windows
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software — Microsoft Project ; Microsoft SharePoint ; Total quality management TQM software
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Work Activities
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Staffing Organizational Units — Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
- Selling or Influencing Others — Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Detailed Work Activities
- Manage control system activities in organizations.
- Review documents or materials for compliance with policies or regulations.
- Advise others on legal or regulatory compliance matters.
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
- Implement organizational process or policy changes.
- Develop organizational policies or programs.
- Communicate organizational policies and procedures.
- Coordinate with external parties to exchange information.
- Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
- Maintain regulatory or compliance documentation.
- Prepare reports related to compliance matters.
- Examine marketing materials to ensure compliance with policies or regulations.
- Monitor organizational procedures to ensure proper functioning.
- Represent the organization in external relations.
- Develop organizational methods or procedures.
- Develop organizational goals or objectives.
- Prepare operational budgets.
- Prepare staff schedules or work assignments.
- Conduct employee training programs.
- Monitor external affairs or events affecting business operations.
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders.
- Evaluate potential of products, technologies, or resources.
- Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
- Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities.
- Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
Find occupations related to multiple detailed work activities
Work Context
- Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 88% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 70% responded "Extremely important."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 84% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 75% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 75% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Contact With Others — 58% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 58% responded "Extremely important."
- Letters and Memos — 52% responded "Every day."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 79% responded "Every day."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 58% responded "Some freedom."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 52% responded "Some freedom."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 48% responded "Important results."
- Time Pressure — 33% responded "Every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 58% responded "Very important."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 45% responded "High responsibility."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 30% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 36% responded "Important."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 36% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Consequence of Error — 25% responded "Extremely serious."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 39% responded "Very important."
- Level of Competition — 45% responded "Moderately competitive."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
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- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Managers, All Other.
Employment data collected from Managers, All Other.
Industry data collected from Managers, All Other.
|Median wages (2018)
|$51.67 hourly, $107,480 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2016)
|992,000 employees
|Projected growth (2016-2026)
|Average (5% to 9%)
|Projected job openings (2016-2026)
|State trends
|Top industries (2016)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2016-2026 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2016-2026). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
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Dec. 5, 2005
The Elis outmaneuvered opponents St. John's, MIT, Boston College, and Brandies at the Brandeis Invitational on Sunday, ending the tournament 5-0.
Sophomore Diana Schawlowski put forth an impressive performance in the women's foil, winning 13 of her 15 bouts. Teammate Alisa Mendelsohn also made a strong contribution in the women's foil with 11 victories. In the women's saber, Carly Guss lead the Bulldogs with 11 victories, and Olympian Sada Jacobson won 10 of her 11 bouts.
The cumulative final scores from all weapons were: Yale 16- St. John's 12, Yale 17- Boston College 10, Yale 16- Brandeis 11, Yale 16- Brown 11, and Yale 18- MIT 9.


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"Jon Miller of News Corp may have predicted 2012 will see the "channelisation" of the web, but he really means a renewed focus on curation…" "Channelisation implies that media corporations such as News Corp will be the ones controlling the playlist of content, but 2012 will see the role of such organisations fall back to providing content for others to turn into a wealth of different "channels" where the barrier to entry essentially falls to zero." Key highlights curated from the article: Curation of niche interest: channelisation "…opening up of video on demand services from all these channels will allow much smaller organisations to provide cross-channel curation. If the channels who provide the content are still showing their ads before, during and after each show, then curators could start channels focusing on more specific interests and smaller niches than a broadcast channel could do – there will be channels dedicated to crime shows, medical shows, shows with appearances from certain actors, and more. A user will just have to think of a single genre or idea that they want to watch in a show, and there will be a "channel" or that." The curator
"More interesting than the drive to smaller and smaller niches, which could, at least in part, be algorithmically generated – will be the focus on the curator. If a user trusts the taste of a journalist, presenter, blogger or other figure – they may be more interested to watch the content that user picks than the content programmed for any particular channel. …These curators could add to the content by providing commentary from their own knowledge of the content – offering a place where consumers could find a new love." Social Curation
"…Equally, groups of curators could join together to offer more regular programming than the one-off playlists of individuals, basically creating "channels" without any of the budget and monetary constraints of a real channel. They would not have to pay for licensing as the content owners will bundle ads with the in-stream content, and so people will curate out of love and interest rather than having to focus on budgetary constraints." Read the full article here: http://www.techfruit.com/2012/01/12/channelisation-curation/ (Curated by Robin Good)
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Study at Henan University, Kaifeng or Shandong University, Jinan
Students attend one of the universities, chosen in consultation with their advisor.
- Fall semester or academic year
- Curriculum:
- Three units of Chinese language courses focused on listening, speaking and writing skills. Written and oral tests to determine placement.
- One unit Chinese Cities in Transition course taught by a Beloit College professor. The course begins with the professor in Kaifeng before the start of the university year, and meets again in Jinan during mid-term break. At the center of the course are ethnographic research projects. Past projects have focused on night markets, parks, restaurants, a Catholic church and hospice, and other sites. The internet is used for much of the course delivery.
- Housing in an international student dormitory on campus. Rooms equipped with bathrooms.
- Costs:
- Henan: Beloit College tuition, room and board (double room), the Beloit activities fee, $50 overseas administrative fee, and a $90 wellness fee.
- Shandong: Beloit College tuition and room, the Beloit activities fee, $50 overseas administrative fee, and a $90 wellness fee. Students provide their own food.
- Eligibility:
- Two years of Mandarin Chinese is required, with third year Chinese recommended. Students have found it very useful to take intensive Chinese through Beloit College's Center for Language Studies the summer immediately before their semester in China.
- At least one course in modern Chinese history, society, or government.
- Program highlights: Historically and culturally rich cities, prestigious institutions of higher learning, opportunity to engage with local communities through the Chinese Cities in Transition course.
Links to photo pages of Kaifeng and Jinan
History of the China Exchange Program
Timeline of Beloit's engagement with Asia
Grade & Credit Conversion Tables:
- Henan University
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Yale Falls 75-55
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Saint Louis got big contributions from a couple of unlikely sources and was typically stingy on defense en route to a 75-55 victory over Yale before a crowd of 8,659 at Chaifetz Arena.
Rob Loe scored 19 points, nearly 10 more than his season average, and Austin McBroom added 16, eight more than his average, to pace the Billikens, who won their seventh straight game.
Saint Louis, ninth in the nation in scoring defense, forced the Bulldogs into 18 turnovers and held an opponent to 60 points or less for the eighth time this season.
Javier Duren, playing in his hometown, paced the Bulldogs with 13 points. The game also was a homecoming for junior Will Childs-Klein.
"Unfortunately we weren't able to come away with the win and that is the primary objective," said Childs-Klein, who played three minutes and had a rebound. "It felt good to play in front of my family and friends. It meant a lot to me."
Duren also was thankful for the opportunity, despite the disappointing outcome.
"It was an amazing experience," he said. "To have my family behind the bench was a blessing. They don't get the opportunity to see too many games."
Yale (5-7) got off to a fast start and led 10-4 four minutes in. Saint Louis (13-2) scored the next six points to tie, and the game remained close for much of the first half. The Billikens outscored the Bulldogs 14-4 over the final four minutes and led 37-25 at the intermission.
Duren scored the first seven points of the second half to pull Yale within five, 37-32, but Saint Louis answered with an 11-2 run to regain control.
The Billikens, who entered the game shooting just 30.5 percent from three-point range, were 11-of-23 from beyond the arc in the game.
"We started strong which the coaches mentioned as a positive [after the game]," Duren said. "They are a very good defensive team. Offensively, we need to work on running and cutting hard. They took us out of a lot of what we wanted to run."
Nevertheless, the Bulldogs shot 50 percent from the field and stayed around the 50 percent mark for much of the game before cooling off late.
Nick Victor had nine points, four rebounds, three steals and two blocks for the Bulldogs. Leading scorer Justin Sears got into early foul trouble and was held to eight points, nearly 10 below his average. Brandon Sherrod scored seven points off the bench, and Matt Townsend, who made his first start of the season, contributed five points and five rebounds.
The Bulldogs, who have played nine of their 12 games away from home, return to the friendly confines of Lee Amphitheater on Wednesday to host Vermont. That's the first of three straight home games, including the Ivy League opener against Brown on Jan. 18.
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Lately, I've warned several people that they have to post pictures in their sales threads. IF the person had actually read our BST rules, they would have noticed that the 10th rule on the list is, "Pictures are required for all sales threads". Now, let me put it in simpler terms for you. Would YOU buy something, sight unseen, from people you don't know? I certainly wouldn't and if you do, you might want to read this link...
Invariably, I always get the same, "I don't know how to post a picture" response. I look at the number of posts you have, and notice you have feedback on 4 other forums, and you're telling me you don't know how to post pictures? Well, whatever, but here's how you go about doing it on OUR site.
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1. You must take a picture, either digital or otherwise, and then upload it to your computer. If you have a digital camera, just attach the camera and upload your pictures. If you have a standard camera, you can get your pictures printed, then scan it into your computer. But, you can't even start this process with the pics on your computer - so get them there!
2. Now you have to have it hosted somewhere on the internet for you. There are several places you can choose, the more popular being Photobucket or Imageshack. Google is your friend - search for photo or picture hosting.
3. Once you've decided on a host, sign up and get your pictures uploaded to their site. The next step is somewhat important to me - CHECK THE SIZE OF THE PICTURE! All hosting sites have a function that allows you to resize your pictures - mostly for the smaller.
I have a large monitor, and nothing irritates me more than have a GINORMOUS picture eating up my internet time while I wait for it to upload. If it's large, don't be a lazy ass, resize the damn thing! Your customers will thank you! Personally, my favorite size for viewing is 640 by 480, but that's just me. Others like them a tad bit larger. It's up to you, of course.
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WINGATE, N.C. – The Lees-McRae women's basketball team saw Alyssa Munson score 16 points at Wingate (N.C.) University Thursday, but it was not enough as the Bobcats suffered a 76-53 setback to wrap up the 2013 portion of the schedule.
Munson (Summerfield, N.C.) posted her seventh straight double-digit scoring effort to go along with seven rebounds in the contest. The sophomore has raised her scoring average up to a team-best 13.4.
Kabrina Truesdale (Wilmington, N.C.) chipped in nine points while Niroska Perez (Asheville, N.C.) contrubited eight bench points for Lees-McRae. Kasey Haynes (Mooresville, N.C.) also came off the bench with a season-high 26 minutes of action with a block, five rebounds and three assists. Layana De Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) also dished out three assists for the Bobcats in the contest.
The home squad jumped out to a 9-2 lead in the opening 2:38 of action. Lees-McRae chipped away at the margin and eventually took a 21-20 lead thanks to a Tayler Collins (Fayetteville, N.C.) score with 6:27 left in the first half. Wingate, now 8-1 on the season, answered with a three pointer and never trailed again. Lees-McRae faced a 34-24 deficit at halftime. The Bobcats saw the margin grow to 31, 65-34, but Lees-McRae closed the game on a 21-11 run in the final 8:05.
Wingate's Kayla Harris led all scorers with 25 points to go along with 11 rebounds. Janitsha Williams posted a dozen points while Shelby Tricoli and Morgan McGee both finished with 11 points.
Lees-McRae returns to action January 4 when the squad goes to Belmont Abbey for a Conference Carolinas meeting scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. before returning to Williams Gym to play Erskine (S.C.) Jan. 8 at 5:30 p.m. The Bobcats will begin the 2014 portion of the schedule with an overall record of 4-7 and a 1-1 league record.


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News and events relating to Ronald Duncan
July - August
New - Special Collections Blog
The University of Exeter Special Collections hold archives, rare books and manuscript resources covering all subject areas. Our Special Collections blog will highlight treasures from the collection and keep you up to date on current projects.
Read blog post 'Ronald Duncan's Welcombe'
The Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation is supporting The Plough Arts Centre with the creation of Family Arts Activity Afternoons in the beautiful surroundings of Hartland Abbey and Castle Hill Filleigh.
For a list of dates for these free events go to -http://www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/event/family-arts-afternoon-hartland-abbey
The Plough International Poetry Competition has re-instated The Ronald Duncan Short Poem Competition. The Plough Arts Centre in Great Torrington, Devon, UK is hosting both the Ronald Duncan Short Poem and the Open Poetry Competition; the deadline for entries being 31 January 2018.
Find out more about the conditions and how to enter on the The Plough Prize website. The judge for this year is Michael Symmons Roberts, award winning poet, opera lyricist, and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
O-B-A-F-G has been scheduled for broadcast at 3pm on Thursday, 1 September, on Radiophrenia Glasgow
Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium.
Radiophrenia is broadcasting for two weeks from Monday on 87.9FM in Glasgow and online at http://radiophrenia.scot/
Sponsored by the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation 'Pulling Out' by Lucy Bell will be performed at the London Camden People's Theatre on the 14 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2016. With PULLING OUT, writer Lucy Bell interviewed young men who became dads very young, lost and regained a relationship with their kids.
The Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation is supporting the literary programme of new writers and plays at Bristol Old Vic with a substantial grant spread over four years, to create a long-term legacy for Britain's oldest continuously working theatre.
The funding will provide a range of opportunities for new writers and poets, including access to mentoring, dramaturgical expertise, performance platforms and seed support for scripts in development. New monthly writing nights and poetry for performance masterclasses will also be launched.
The programme will also support our South West regional playwriting competition, The Open Session, with the work of selected writers also commissioned to produce two studio plays. Each playwright who receives a commission will become the recipient of the Ronald Duncan Prize.
Press Release from the Bristol Old Vic
The Ronald Duncan Reading Room was opened at Exeter University on 17 August 2016, by Trustees of the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation.
A celebratory event was held by the University's Special Collections Department to recognise the support of the Foundation and to thank trustees for their generous donation.The donation to Exeter University will help sustain its South West writing collections and related research with a digitisation project that will secure the accessibility of archival resources - all with the wider general aim to preserve and share Ronald's legacy.
The support of the Foundation ensures students, academics and the wider local community have the opportunity to learn more about the varied works of Ronald and how his work connects with other local authors and artists. In recognition of this, the University has established an annual lecture associated with Duncan's interests and a literary prize, awarded to an exemplar student within Art History and Visual Culture.
Press release from Exeter University
Ronald Duncan reading room
O B A F G - the re-imagining of 1960s audio theatre piece by Ronald Duncan has been selected for Radiophrenia Live-to-Air Performances. http://radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air/
June: The Mounted Police Association have chosen 'The Horse' poem by Ronald Duncan to be displayed on a plaque at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, in the avenue known as 'The Beat' in honour of the Police Horse. The service is being led by the Chaplain to the Metropolitan Police, and present will be two Police Horses, and two Senior Officers.
May: The full programme for the fifth Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival is now available and tickets are now on sale. The programme 27 – 29 May – includes readings and workshops by Pascale Petit, Sarah Howe, John Harvey, Declan Ryan, Zeina Hashem Beck as well as the Acumen poets whose event the RDLF have sponsored. www.bodminmoorpoetryfestival.co.uk
February: RD playwriting prize: winning play - "Candy" by Yorkshire writer Robert Pashley. The show will be produced at the Seven Arts Theatre, Leeds, on 16th and 17th June at 7.30. (http://www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/certainty-of-chance-theatre-candy/)
January: Cornwall based art student Michele Goodchild, produces one off edition of Duncan's 'The Horse' as a specially designed photobook.
December: Turkish publishers to bring out new limited edition of Duncan's playtext Abelard and Heloise. Kitap Yayınevi
November: Horse poem included on Shires Holt charity website for Remembrance Sunday: the horse
John Greening's book comes out featuring Duncan's work with Britten, amongst other poets who have worked with composers: Accompanied Voices
May: RDLF is proud to sponsor 'Rural Writing: Wild Ways' on Wednesday the 8th of July as part of the Ways With Words - Literary Festival Dartington. Tickets £10 each. Day ticket £40. For a full festival brochure click HERE. Specific 'Rural Writing: Wild Ways' day listings below.
10am Martin Hughes-Games: Life in the WildThe BBC Springwatch presenter shares his adventures on location.
11.45am Philip Marsden: The Shape of the LandThis Cornish writer looks at our reactions to place.
1.30pm Charlie Elder: Diversity on our DoorstepA report on the search for Britain's unusual wildlife.
3.15pm Hugh Thomson: Old WaysA description of a walk across England full of information on history, literary characters and the people the travel writer meets.
5pm Matthew Kelly: MoorscapeAn exploration of how Dartmoor is used today.
Feb - March: A RDLF funded poetry competition announces the winners! In 2014 the Poetry Book Society ran a National Student Poetry Competition which the RD Foundation sponsored. The winners are Talin Tahajian (1st prize), Jamie Osborne & James Giddings who will read at the Knox-Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge at 6 pm on 10 March and receive their prizes. Competition judge, Jane Yeh a Next Generation Poet 2014 - will be in attendance to read from her work and present the prizes to the winners.More about the National Student Poetry Competition. Click on pdf link to read the free e-book anthology of all the winning poems.
April - May: Successful run of performances and good reviews of Lucifer Saved - a verse play by Peter Oswald from the Abyss Theatre Company whom the RDLF helped to sponsor for this production. See reviews HERE and HERE and performance details HERE.
March: The RDLF sponsored a story writing competition for the Uganda Schools Learning For Life project. All pupils at the chosen school Coloma Primary in Mbarara who took part, won small prizes, and the school received a prize find to spend on learning aids such as books and writing equipment. View the activity report HERE. View the winning story soon!
January: Torrington-based Wolf and Water company are to produce the story 'Hansel & Gretel' on stage. Rehearsals are now fully underway with two North Devon Many Directions groups, meeting weekly. With the help of RDLF, BBC Performing Arts Fund, the Co-operative Foundation & Esmee Fairbairn they achieved funding targets and the play has been accepted as part of the North Devon Fringe Festival at the Queens Theatre in Barnstaple in June 2014. Details of performances posted nearer the time.
Oct - Nov: Britten100. Ronald Duncan worked with Benjamin Britten on the major opera The Rape of Lucretia amongst other projects, and the two were friends for many years. As part of the centenary celebrations you can catch The Rape of Lucretia performed by The Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra in the UK until December info here...
Also in Novermber you can catch Britten's last opera Death in Venice performed within the venue for which it was written - Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh info here...
June - Dec: Poetry in Sound (part of Britten's centenary celebrations): British Library exhibition features the composer's manuscripts, including Duncan material.
July: The Ways With Words Literary Festival is back again and we are proud to be sponsoring this popular event. We are especially delighted to support a talk by Paul Kildea, recent author of 'Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century', who is giving a talk about his book on the 11th of July. For more information and booking details click here...
April - Ongoing: RDLF are sponsoring the Thresh and Ply project at the historic Heron Corn Mill in Cumbria. The project aims to draw on a wealth of archive material to create a performance and live art piece to perform at the Mills reopening in Septermber 2013. For more information and details on how to get involved click here... View project summary HERE. Watch clip of Ghostcog performance HERE.
March: RDLF support the successful launch of Penelope Shuttle's new poem collection 'Unsent', in Cornwall on 16th (see image, left). The Falmouth Poetry Group who hosted the event were also celebrating their 40th year anniversary. Penelope will give further readings at regional venues and events such as the Charles Causeley Festival. Read more about Penelope here...
March: RDLF prizewinning play performances of 'Rasputin's Mother' Ilkley Playhouse, Seven Arts, Chapel, Allerton, Leeds & Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham.
January: RD pic & mention in BBC Music magazine - Britten issue.
New release of Britten & Duncan's co-written opera The Rape of Lucretia recored at Snape Maltings during the 2011 Aldeburgh festival (Kirschlager, Bostridge, Gritton, Purves, Coleman-Wright, Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Knussen).
Listen to Track Samples here...and read the Guardian five star review here...
November: RDLF sponsors prizewinning playwright for the Encore Drama award. Winner: Rasputin's Mother by Michael Davies, an intriguing exploration of the man and the myth.
October: We sponsor Ronald Duncan Reading at Exeter Poetry Festival with poets Fiona Benson and Anthony Wilson, held in Exeter Central Library on Friday the 5 October, 7.30pm. Ronald Duncan Archive at Exeter University (Special Collections) is officially launched at this event. It was a well attended and enjoyable event for all involved.
Aug-Sept: Confirmed funding support for Exeter Poetry Festival 2012 from Arts Council England. The sponsored Ronald Duncan Reading will go ahead. More...
May: RDLF supports annual John Betjeman Poetry competition prize. Young people 10-13 yrs eligible for entry. Deadline July 31, 2012. Click the logo (left) for more details.
April: The Ronald Duncan Annual Playwriting Competition is supported with a grant from the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation. The winning play will be performed by Encore Theatre later in 2012 Performances will be in three studio theatres for two nights each.
March: The BBC recording of Ronald Duncan's 'Seasons' poems with music by David Cain (Radiophonic Music) is re-issed by Jonny Trunk Records. Buy the reissue-clear vinyl/CD along with more information about the recording plus interview with David Cain (& some sound clips) HERE
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November - From Maconie's Freakzone
(Pictured: '60s album cover of 'The Seasons' originally recorded by The Drama Workshop)
February: Duncan Foundation sponsors West Country (Weymouth) segment of national poetry festival 'Winning Words' - for Cultural Olympiad 2012.
January-March: (Pictured left: Ronald Duncan bust/trophy cast by Briony Lawson.)
Encore Drama tours the play 'Jo's War' by Lucy Bell, winner of the Ronald Duncan Playwriting Prize 2011/12.
A special trophy was presented to playwright Lucy after the January performance in Leeds. Upstairs @The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD. www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk
October 13: Lecture, Dr. Alan Munton on Ronald Duncan: Poetry, Plays, Opera and Exploding Pigs: – a life in Devon, taking place at Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, N. Devon, EX39 2QQ. 1 pm.
October: 6-9: Exeter Poetry Festival, sponsored lecture.
September 3-4: Conference - Literary Britten, Cambridge UK. Paper: "Modernity and Archaism in Ronald Duncan's libretto for The Rape of Lucretia" by Dr. A. Munton.
September 3: 1968 University alumni encouraged by Duncan to write whilst a student at Exeter. Now David Axtell has written a book 'A Bird for All Seasons' combining poetry with his love for birds. MORE
August: Wordquest's 'Map of Literary Devon' including the local area where Ronald Duncan wrote in North Devon.
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Matt Kuchar finally put Hunter Mahan in a hole and then answered every challenge Sunday to win the Match Play Championship.
Mahan had gone 169 holes over 11 matches without trailing in this wild tournament until Kuchar won the fourth hole of the championship match with a par, and Mahan never caught up. Kuchar took advantage of a series of miscues to build a 4-up lead at the turn, and then held off a noble challenge by the defending champion.
There was never a dull moment on the back nine. Only two holes were halved, and those were with birdies.
But for all the great shots, the match ended when Mahan went from a tough lie in the bunker to a bush in the desert, and it took him four shots to reach the 17th green. Kuchar wound up winning, 2 and 1, when Mahan removed the stocking cap he used to fight the cold desert air and conceded Kuchar a short birdie putt.
It was the first World Golf Championship title for Kuchar, and it follows a year in which he won The Players Championship. Kuchar became the second player in the last three years to win the Match Play Championship without ever playing the 18th hole.
Mahan was trying to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners, and he gave it a good shot despite the big deficit halfway through the match.
Kuchar polished off Jason Day of Australia in the semifinals Saturday morning, 4 and 3. Mahan hit a series of remarkable wedge shots in beating Ian Poulter, 4 and 3, in his semifinal.
Day defeated Poulter in the consolation match, 1 up.
It was the first all-American final in five years at the Match Play Championship, and Kuchar's win gave the Americans a clean sweep of the PGA Tour's West Coast Swing for the second straight year. He moves to No. 8 in the world and picked up $1.5 million, and has earned just over $3.2 million from his last two wins.
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South Korea's Inbee Park took advantage of 17-year-old Thai star's Ariya Jutanugarn's closing triple bogey to win the LPGA Thailand by a stroke.
Jutanugarn blew a two-stroke lead on the par-5 18th, driving into an unplayable lie in a bunker, hitting over the green and three-putting for an 8.
Park shot a 5-under 67 to finish at 12 under, and earned $225,000 for her fourth LPGA Tour title. Jutanugarn had a hole-in-one on the par-3 12th and closed with a 72.
Top-ranked Yani Tseng had a 63 to tie for third at 10 under with So Yeon Ryu (68), Stacy Lewis (70) and Beatriz Recari (70).
Panama Claro Championship
Kevin Foley won the Web.com Tour's season-opening Panama Claro Championship for his first tour title, holing a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a one-stroke victory over Mathew Goggin.
The 25-year-old former Penn State player closed with a 3-under 67 in 93-degree heat to finish at 8-under 272 at Panama Golf Club. He earned $108,000.
Goggin had a bogey, double bogey and triple bogey in his final-round 70. The 2010 champion had a chance to force a playoff with a birdie at the 465-yard 18th, but settled for par after his second shot went into a greenside bunker.


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My world got rocked last week when my buddy Bruce Cucchiara was senselessly murdered in New Orleans. Wow ... this one hurts. Bruce and I met every Wednesday at his office with a group of spiritual investigators who were kicking the tires of the faith to see if the claims of Christ were true. Bruce concluded Jesus was who He said He was and his entire life was radically changed by amazing grace. Bruce had a Saul-to-Paul kind of transformation and he wanted all to know God in a personal way. Bruce is already missed. At the memorial service I shared four of Bruce's Spiritual "aha" discoveries:
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#1 Life Is Short, Hell Is Hot and Eternity Is Long - Bruce understood the brevity of life. It is motivating when the reality sinks in that we will live a whole lot longer on the other side than on this side.
#2 Dead Men Can't Throw Life Preservers - Bruce understood that Christianity stands or falls upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The evidence for the resurrection was so overwhelming that Bruce was compelled to follow this One who conquered death and offers life … even eternal life.
#3 God Doesn't Grade on the Curve - Word out on the street is that human beings in-full or in-part are responsible to save themselves. Bruce was shocked to discover the Bible doesn't teach one gets to Heaven by good works. He discovered the GRACE plan as opposed to the human achievement plan. The JESUS plus nothing plan.
#4 Intellectual Ascent To Jesus Is Not Enough - Bruce discovered it wasn't enough to know a few facts about Jesus. One has to make a faith decision to trust Jesus alone for salvation and the gift of eternal life. Bruce made that decision. For him, to live is Christ and to die was gain.
This week showed me once again that life is fragile and the issues of heaven and hell hang in the balance. Decisions about death need to be made in life. Like Bruce, I want all my friends, family and this world to have peace with God and have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. GRACE ADVENTURES is committed to ASKING QUESTIONS, EXPLORING ANSWERS and EQUIPPING ADULTS.
New Training and Resources
This past month I received a week of training from SEARCH MINISTRY. Larry Moody and his staff provided cutting-edge equipping and have graciously allowed me to use their excellent training and outreach materials for ministry in New Orleans. The following activities and presentations are now available to help people find honest answers to tough questions and investigate the claims of Jesus.
The Open Forum is a gathering of friends for the purpose of interacting on significant life and God issues. Normally, it takes place in a home or a convenient daytime location for business and professional people and lasts for four weeks where the guests enjoy eating, meeting each other, laughing and sharing their thoughts. There is an authentic, stimulating discussion about basic life issues, not a Bible study, lecture series, or theological debate. The objective is to create a safe atmosphere where people can examine their philosophy of life. Many people have never carefully evaluated their beliefs or been able to have open dialogue with others on the subject. The Open Forum provides a comfortable environment for just this kind of meaningful interaction. And since the Forum is "open," you pick the topics of conversation! If you are interested in attending or hosting an Open Forum, please call Michael Sprague at 985 502 4265.
To help friends get started with God, we often begin with the Foundations study. Foundations is a study intended for small groups or one-on-one discipleship. Chapters include:
· How to Begin a Relationship with God
· How to Grow in your Relationship with God
· How to Communicate with God through Prayer
· How to Listen to God through Bible Reading and Study
· How to Tell Others about our Relationship to God
The Big Questions Class
This is a 12-week course dedicated to directly answering Christianity's toughest criticisms – Is there a God? Is the Bible reliable? Is Jesus the Son of God? Will God judge those who have never heard about Christ? Why are there so many hypocrites? Why the innocent suffer? Do miracles really occur? Isn't Christianity just a psychological crutch? What does it mean to believe? Can anyone be sure of heaven? How good do you have to be to get to heaven? Isn't going to heaven by faith too simple?
Heart for the Harvest
There are many people today who would like to know God in a personal way. Unfortunately there are few that are able to help their friends know God. This seminar trains people how they can talk with their friends about having a relationship with God in a very real and relevant way.
Small GroupsIn today's hectic world, people need a place where others know more about them than just their name. Small groups are a place where you can build meaningful friendships with others, while learning more about God and yourself.
A small group is a gathering of 5-20 people who meet on a regular basis, with the common purpose of discovering and growing in their spiritual walk with God. If you are interested in joining a small group, let me know.
Praise and Prayer Requests
· Give thanks for men who are taking up their cross and following Jesus.
· Pray for speaking opportunities this month with the Rotary Club, Dental Group, Heart for the Harvest Seminar and a wedding.
· Pray for the establishment of a key new small group with community leaders.
· Thanks for an abundance of open doors of ministry in this community. God's floodgates are open and people are thirsty. People are more interested in spiritual things than we think.
· Pray for boldness, wisdom and spiritual sensitivity. Spiritual skepticism is on the rise. Nearly one in four Americans under thirty now describe their religion as "atheist," "agnostic," or "nothing in particular.
· Pray for Donna as well as Jonathan and Patricia.
· Pray that I practice John 15:5 for apart from God I can do nothing of real value.
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It's not especially insightful, but one paragraph did jump out at me:
Here are two matters for consideration. If Democrats win, the incoming Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Representative John Conyers (D-MI), has said he wants to impeach both President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. I have my differences with President Bush but do we really want our President dragged through an impeachment process in front of the world when we have a worldwide enemy, Islamofascists, whose devotion is to death? Will the impeachment of our President help us defeat this deadly enemy?
Um, yeah, it will.
You only have to accept the colossal incompetence of the current administration to come to that conclusion. Almost every decision this president makes spurs on terrorists. Think that allowing torture's making us any friends? How about blowing the living crap out of Iraq -- for pretty much no good reason? How about a bullying foreign policy -- does that win us any allies? It's hard to figure how having two completely insane executives is helpful in fighting terrorism.
Would Bush/Cheney be impeached? If there's any kind of investigation at all, it's hard to see how they wouldn't be. There's just too much in this White House that's obviously criminal. If lying us into a war isn't enough, there's corruption in the form of Jack Abramoff. If that's not enough, there's election fraud. Still not enough? Katrina. And don't forget the massive incompetence that led to 9/11. This administration's record is one of lies, fraud, and disaster. How could removing them not help us fight terrorism?
To fight terrorism, we need to address the root causes of terrorism. And one of those causes is that the US acts like a dick. Does anyone really believe that Bush or Cheney will decide to stop being jerks any time soon?
I've come up with a term to describe the Bush/Cheney brand of conservatism -- Hardass About Everything. I actually came up with that a few years ago to describe talk radio programmed robots on online forums. For them, there is no problem that can't be solved by being a bigger jerk than you are now. If Iraqis are unhappy that we're killing them, for example, the HAE solution is to kill more of them. Punishment solves every problem and the military is the only arm of government worth a damn.
Bush is often accused of being power mad. That's not actually true -- he just doesn't know any better. Bush and company just have about the worst case of HAE in american history. It's an extremely limiting mindset. Punishment is the only tool in their toolbox. That's why they came up with torture as an american policy -- they are unable to see any alternative. They fail to see that the way to end their 'war on terror' is to stop making terrorists. And the reason they fail to see this is because that would mean they'd have to stop being dicks. In the mind of an HAE sufferer, this is unacceptable.
So removing the president and vice president from office would help the war on terror immeasurably. Having a couple of inflexible jerks in office is helpful in what way? Why is it surprising to learn that being an ass earns you enemies? This became obvious last year, according to the State Dept.
Washington Post:
The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week.
Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides who were briefed on statistics covering incidents including the bloody school seizure in Russia and violence related to the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir.
Terrorist incidents in Iraq also dramatically increased, from 22 attacks to 198, or nine times the previous year's total -- a sensitive subset of the tally, given the Bush administration's assertion that the situation there had stabilized significantly after the U.S. handover of political authority to an interim Iraqi government last summer.
In what insane version of reality does increased terrorism constitute success in fighting terrorism? All the evidence shows that the Bush administration sucks at this stuff. How on Earth can you argue that removing people who are doing a lousy job wouldn't be helpful?
There may be good reasons why impeachment wouldn't be a good idea -- although, frankly, I can't think of one. But the argument that it would hurt the fight against terrorism isn't one of them.
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This is the manifesto of little monsters
There's something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras
So precisely, so intricately and so proudly.
Like Kings writing the history of their people.
It's their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be perceived as the "Kingdom."
So, the real truth about Lady Gaga fans (my little monsters) lies in this sentiment:
They are the kings. They are the queens. They write the history of the Kingdom, and I am something of a devoted Jester.
It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond.
Or, the lie, I should say, for which we kill.
We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of
Who we perceive ourselves to be, or rather to become, in the future.
When you're lonely...
I'll be lonely too...
And this is the fame.
Love and art, 12-18, 19-74, Lady Gaga


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Pens' Crosby out for Game 1
Pittsburgh, PA – Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will not play in Game 1 of the team's first-round playoff series against the New York Islanders.
Crosby did not receive medical clearance to play after seeing the doctor on Tuesday. There is no timeframe for his return.
"He said everything looks good, he just wasn't prepared to clear me to play," Crosby said. "Obviously I would have loved to have the chance to play tonight, but it's not the way it is and I'll make sure I'm ready when the time comes."
Crosby has been out since March 30 with a broken jaw after taking a puck to the face. He worked on a "fifth" line in Wednesday's morning skate and did not practice on the power play after working one-on-one with strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar before team practice.


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FamilySearch book scanning at Georgia Family History Expo
Friday, November 11, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
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FamilySearch is pleased to offer a unique free service at the Georgia Family History Expo held Nov 11-12, 2011 at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Georgia.
We will have a book scanner on site and will scan a digital copy of your family history book free of charge! Sign up below to have your books scanned at the event.
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- Sign up selecting the number of pages that most closely matches your book (no more than 300 pages per person)
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Have you ever seen a visually impaired person in public and didn't know how to react, or felt awkward? Have you ever wondered what it's like to 'see' through the eyes of their guide dog? I know I have.
September is National Guide Dog Month, so I decided to learn more about what it might be like for people who are blind or visually impaired.
I'm partnering with Natural Balance (the maker of premium-quality pet food) and Guide Dogs for the Blind (a non-profit charitable organization that raises and trains exceptional guide dogs to serve the blind and visually impaired) to recognize the 'Top Human-Canine Teams Who Make Us Believe.'
These nine teams are outstanding examples of the amazing partnerships possible between humans and canines. I was particularly inspired by Ashleigh and his guide dog Yuri, and I want to share their story with you:
Imagine, for a brief moment, what it would be like to work in the middle of Times Square in New York City. Imagine weaving through the large crowds, the bustling commotion, and the pulsing energy at every corner. Now, imagine trying to do this without your eyesight. For Ashleigh Hertzig, this is not just an imaginary scenario—it's her everyday life.
Visually impaired since birth, Ashleigh used a cane to get around for years—but found that it became increasingly difficult to be mobile during the wintertime due to dangerous patches of ice on the pavement. These harsh winter conditions—combined with encouragement from her family—got her to consider the possibility of a guide dog.
Ashleigh grew up terrified of dogs, but as she began researching Guide Dogs for the Blind, she felt that their positive reinforcement philosophy matched her personal beliefs and values. So she took a leap of faith. When Yuri—a Guide Dogs for the Blind-trained yellow Lab—first walked into her life, Ashleigh remembers he was so excited that he couldn't stop sneezing. Now, over two years later, they're so connected that she can't imagine life without him.
"Being paired with Yuri has changed my life in so many ways. In addition to being my eyes, keeping me safe, and giving me independence, he has also become my best friend—and is constantly by my side," says Ashleigh. Without Yuri, Ashleigh may have never developed the confidence and independence needed to fulfill her dream of living and working in New York City. She is now able to navigate the city's fast-paced subway system every day, feeling fully safe and cared for.
As Ashleigh's story shows, in addition to providing enhanced mobility, guide dogs can also be a social bridge, opening a world of possibilities for friendship and human connection.
To help people like Ashleigh thrive, please consider donating to Guide Dogs to the Blind. Once there, you can also read about the eight other amazing human-canine teams. There's no better time than National Guide Dog Month to show your support for these incredible people and their four-legged superheroes.
To those like Ashleigh, dogs are much more than companions, they are life-giving. Just like the bond Ashleigh has with Yuri, my bound with my little dogs Bama and Little Girl is love without boundaries.
Do you have a special bond with your pet? Tell me about it in the comments below.
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