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Mini Shopping Cart Office Caddy
Miniature shopping cart features flip-up child seat and working wheels.
The Mini Shopping Cart Desk Caddy is a unique and playful way to organize your small office items. Store your pens, pencils, sticky notes, business cards, candy, and more in this true-to-life miniature shopping cart. Features a flip-up child seat and working wheels.
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Features & specs
- Dimensions: 6" x 2.5" x 5.75"
- Flip-up child seat
- Working wheels
- Metal with red plastic accents
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- 0:04 - Please note that the dimensions of the Mini Shopping Cart have changed slightly since this video was created. It is now 6" x 2.5" x 5.75".
Mini Shopping Cart is a delightful desk caddy
The whimsical Mini Shopping Cart is perfect for storing pens, pencils and other small desk items. It's also perfect for gnomes, nymphs, elves, and fairies looking to do a little grocery shopping.
Real working parts
The Mini Shopping Cart features a flip-up child seat and spinning wheels. So, you can drive this sucker around your desk with your PostIts® in the child seat and your gummi bears in the basket. Side note: The Mini Shopping Cart cannot accommodate the enormousness of the Jumbo StickIt Pad or the Giant Gummy Bear on a Stick, much less the World's Largest Gummy Bear.
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How do you support 57,860 online students learning R and statistics ? Late last fall, Data and GIS Services shared this challenge with Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and the staff of CIT as we sought to translate Professor Çetinkaya-Rundel's successful Statistics 101 course to a Coursera class on Data Analysis and Statistical Inference. While Data and GIS Services has supported Statistics 101 students for several years identifying appropriate data and using the R statistical language for their assignments, the scale of the Coursera course introduced new challenges of trying to provide engaging data to a very large audience without having the opportunity to provide direct support to everyone in the class.
In our initial meetings with Professor Çetinkaya-Rundel, she requested that Data and GIS create data collections for the course that would provide easy access in R and would include a range of statistical measures that would appeal to the diverse audience in the class. The first challenge — easy access to R — required some translation work. While R excels in its flexibility, graphics, and statistical power, it lacks some of the built in data documentation features present in other statistical packages. This project prompted Data and GIS to reconsider how to provide documentation and pre-formatted R data to an audience that would likely be unfamiliar with R and data documentation.
The second challenge — finding data that covered a wide range of interesting topics — proved much easier. The General Social Survey with its diverse and engaging questions on a wide range of topics proved to be an easy choice for the class. The American National Election Studies, also offered a diverse set of measures of public opinion that suited the course well. With these challenges identified and addressed, we spent the end of 2013 selecting portions of the data for class (subsetting), abridging the data documentation for instructional use, and transforming the data to address its usage in an online setting (processing missing values for R, creating factor variables).
As Professor Çetinkaya-Rundel's class launches on February 17th, this project has given us a new appreciation of providing data and statistical services in a MOOC while also building course materials that we are using in Statistics 101 at Duke. While students begin the Coursera course on Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, students in Professor Kari Lock Morgan's Statistics 101 class will use these data in their on-campus Duke course as well. We hope that both collections will reduce some of the technological hurdles that often confront courses using R as well as improving statistical literacy at Duke and beyond.


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Located on Vancouver Island, 246 km from Victoria, BC, on paved and gravel roads, Bamfield is a very pretty small town that serves as good, sheltered moorage on the south side of Barkley Sound.
Originally built in 1859, Bamfield gained worldwide prominence at the turn of the century serving as the western terminus of the first trans-Pacific telegraph cable. The West Coast Trail ends in Bamfield and the Broken Island Group in Barkley Sound is a kayaker's haven.
Winter fishing at Bamfield is influenced by southeast gales and these blow directly on the leading edge Pacific shores, necessitating fishing close to the harbour mouth. Herring gather in large numbers for a February-March spawn on Barkley Sound's northern shore, particularly Vernon Bay, drawing resident feeder chinook into deep-water holding areas.
Summer fishing at Bamfield is influenced by proximity to the Alberni Inlet. Large runs of sockeye from the Stamp/Somass River system and Henderson Lake and chinook from the Robertson Creek hatchery swim by Bamfield on their way to Alberni Inlet rivers. Fishing occurs close to many rocky, island hotspots and success depends entirely on finding bait.
In recent years, pilchards have begun breeding in the area once again and evidence suggests that mackerel, with on-going El Nino weather patterns, have initiated spawning activity as well.
Annual Cycle of Runs All five species of salmon may be found in Bamfield waters: chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and pink . As with other areas, the latter three species are mature, migratory fish encountered in summer months. This is an especially good area for sockeye, combining Alberni Inlet runs with Fraser River runs. Chinook provide winter fishing for resident, feeder salmon.
Although some winter feeder chinook salmon come in earlier, Pacific gales often prevent fishing until February - March. These fish are feeding on large, spawning herring. Fish to 30 lbs are recorded annually, making this a fishery for larger than average feeders.
May brings calm enough weather to venture out to Swiftsure Bank. There, excellent trolling for early, 20-30 lb. Columbians may be found. Halibut move onto the Bank at this time and also to inshore areas.
By the end of May the first summer coho arrive followed by Port Alberni sockeye salmon. Sockeye hold until early July when successive waves pour down the Alberni Inlet bound for Henderson Lake and the Somass River. Coho size peaks in mid-September at 15 - 19 lbs.
In June, 20 lb feeder chinook salmon appear in onshore locales. After the action wanes by the end of the month, chinook action picks up for summer migratory Robertson Creek chinook at the end of July. August is the hot month for chinook to 40 lbs, which generally move from Cape Beale to Diplock and the Rainy Bay areas.
In August - September, chum for the Sarita River Carnation Creek hatchery and the Nitinat River move through.
Chinook and coho fishing tails off by mid-October when rain washes fish to their natal rivers in the Alberni Inlet.
Weather then prevents fishing until late January when winter fishing for feeder chinook begins the cycle once again.
Lures on an Annual Basis Bait: Whole herring or anchovies at 180 - 200' in green or clear teaserheads without flashers is the winter feeder preference. Utilize a slow roll and 5 - 6' leader when employing flashers.
Hootchies: Army Truck, Red Army, Tiger Prawn squirts for summer chinoook due to presence of needlefish. Use white, white pearl, green and white, or Army Truck hootchies for May feeders, with a 44" leader to a dodger. A glow Gatorback in green and white with a 5 - 6' leader to a flasher is a winter favourite. Pink plankton squirts, or orange hootchies on 18-20" leaders to a slow-trolled red Hotspot flasher is the sockeye gear of choice.
Plugs: 4-6" models, particularly the 301, as well as: 500, 602, 158, 156 and 700. Winter favourites include the 264 and 242. Use larger plugs in summer when mackerel abound.
Spoons: Large Tom Macks, also Wobblers. Bamfield is not noted as a spoon locale.
Apexes: 7" white and white with a yellow stripe (trolled fast without a flasher), also silver. Use longer models when mackerel present themselves.
Bucktails: Grey Ghost, white, green and white, and purple and white with abalone spinners for fall coho. Speed up and troll the lure right in the prop wash, 25' from the transom. The red and purple bucktail can be particularly effective.
Drift Fishing: For late spring chinook fishing, 60 gm MacDeeps, Pirkin and Stingsilda in white or white pearl with purple, green or black edging. Also pink pearl Zzingers. Home made 1-1 � lb pipe bombs with green, pink and clear striped hootchie skirts take halibut on Swiftsure Bank. Commercially available lures include Norwegian Jigs, Lucky Jigs and 'But Slammers.
Overall Strategy and Specific Fishing Areas Another remote trophy area, Bamfield provides both onshore and offshore fisheries: Barkley Sound; Nitinat Lake; and, Swiftsure Bank.
Winter fishing concentrates at Swale Rock and in Vernon Bay, as the chinook follow the spawning herring. The presence of large bait necessitates large lures, trolled deep. Barkley Sound provides a major summer fishery for all five species of salmon. In Bamfield, fish concentrate close to very rocky shores where needlefish crash in the surf. Try King Edward, Folger, and Bordelaise Islands and off Cape Beale. Look for good lingcod and rockfish off Seabird Rock. Diplock Island presents a very tricky rock-engorged channel for the adventurous seeking big chinook in August.
Summer sockeye school in midchannel and move through to the entrance to the Alberni Inlet. Fishing depth is 45 - 75'. Add extra flashers to the downrigger line, ie., stack rods and flashers.
Swiftsure bank is 25 miles from Bamfield harbour or 22.5 miles from Cape Beale. Nitinat bar and lake lie 13 miles south east of Bamfield and support a major tyee chinook fishery in late August. In due course, both areas will be reviewed in this series of hotspots. Note that the angler is strongly recommended to take a guide to these remote and potentially dangerous spots. Do not venture offshore without a full complement of electronics: depthsounder, radar, VHF and global positioning system. Keep the weather channel on.
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A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
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—The New York Observer
"Eagleman engagingly sums up recent discoveries about the unconscious processes that dominate our mental life. . . . [He] is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun."
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President Trump is planning to sit down with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un sometime this spring. President Trump wants to discuss de-nuclearizing North Korea's weapons program. But not long ago, Kim signed on to a deal that would do just that. And the agreement fell apart just weeks after it was signed. NPR's Elise Hu looks back at the lessons from that diplomatic failure.
ELISE HU, BYLINE: The setting for this story is Washington and Pyongyang. It's Christmas 2011. Barack Obama was president. Van Jackson was at the Pentagon.
VAN JACKSON: And I was working for the secretary of defense as the country director for Korea policy.
HU: Journalist Jean Lee was flying in and out of Pyongyang a lot.
JEAN LEE: Because I was negotiating the opening of the AP Pyongyang bureau in North Korea.
HU: And Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un, was still alive and in charge. The goal for the United States when it came to Pyongyang's then-nascent nuclear program continued an objective from the George W. Bush administration, as Jackson explains.
JACKSON: The goal was CVID - comprehensive, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization - nothing short of that.
HU: For two years leading up to 2011, the lead U.S. negotiator for the Koreas, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, had been engaging in a backchannel, bilateral negotiation with North Korea. The aim was to get North Korea to rejoin something called the six-party talks, which had broken down.
JACKSON: And to freeze its nuclear activity.
HU: Jean Lee.
LEE: They were working on this deal. What would it be? They said a landmark deal to freeze North Korea's nuclear program, put a moratorium on testing of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in exchange for a huge amount of food aid and other concessions.
HU: On December 18, 2011, Jean Lee broke the story of the deal. It read - the United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea. An agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program will likely follow. Then, the very next day...
LEE: We got news on December 19 that Kim Jong Il had died. So that deal was happening just in the waning weeks of his life.
HU: His son, Kim Jong Un, takes over. The Americans and the North Koreans move ahead with the agreement anyway and announce it on February 29, 2012, Leap Day.
ANKIT PANDA: But then there's a problem.
HU: That's Ankit Panda. He is an Asia policy watcher and writer for the global affairs publication The Diplomat.
PANDA: Just two weeks after that deal is announced, the North Koreans say that they're going to launch a satellite. And the United States sees that as a violation of the missile-testing moratorium.
HU: The North Koreans say launching the satellite is for peaceful purposes. Van Jackson, who was at the Pentagon, says, no, it wasn't.
JACKSON: The United States made clear that space-launched vehicles, satellite-launched vehicles cannot be considered anything but a missile test.
HU: The new leader, Kim Jong Un, goes ahead with a satellite launch in April, effectively killing the deal.
JACKSON: It was really a test of how much the U.S. was willing to show good faith through leniency. Like, are you going to implement this agreement to the letter of the law? If so, I don't see where a bilateral relationship is going to remove our need for nuclear weapons. So that's the North Korean view.
HU: The U.S. view became that North Koreans negotiated in bad faith and lost their credibility.
JACKSON: This experience soured a lot of people.
HU: It is the last time the U.S. and North Korea struck a bilateral deal of any kind.
Ankit Panda.
PANDA: When we talk about an upcoming summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, I think there's the specter of something like that happening between the two sides again.
HU: All these voices say the Leap Day Deal's failures offer important lessons this time around.
PANDA: I'm really talking about trying to do the Leap Day Deal again but doing it right and doing it in a way that really sweats the technical details.
HU: Jean Lee.
LEE: You need to be on top of your game. And you need to make sure that everything you agreed to is watertight. Understanding how North Koreans operate and having more experience in dealing with them and being able to communicate with them is key, but we haven't had that.
HU: Jackson says it's not just the lack of seasoned Korean negotiators in the Trump administration that complicates matters, it's North Korea itself.
JACKSON: There are more opportunities for failure than there are for success. There's no reason to expect that he's going to continue to uphold and implement any deal that's reached.
HU: The U.S. and North Korea have yet to set a date for a potential summit. We don't know where it will happen or what each side will ask for. But there will be a prelude soon. Kim Jong Un is set to cross the inter-Korean border to meet with South Korea's president on April 27. That could help clarify what happens next. Elise Hu, NPR News, Seoul. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Mind-Body Integrative Medicine
Paul Epstein, ND is a graduate of the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM), specializing in mind-body integrative medicine and mindful healing. He maintains a thriving private practice in Westport, CT; travels extensively, lecturing, leading workshops and retreats worldwide; and offers imagery and mindfulness healing seminars. Dr. Epstein offers professional training and mentoring for health professionals to support, train and mentor those wanting to integrate mind-body medicine in their therapeutic work.
Dr. Epstein's Services:
- Physician ~ Over 30 years in private medical practice successfully treating patients with life changing therapies
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As a practitioner and teacher of Mind-Body Integrative medicine, a cornerstone of my approach is that I recognize the importance of both biology and one's biography in health challenges. I advocate the treatment of not only the 'cells' of the body, but of the 'self' in the healing process. I integrate many modalities and disciplines, including Naturopathic Medicine, into my treatment philosophy and ultimately, I seek to empower patients to access and mobilize their own unique set of inner resources for self-healing. As a doctor, I consider it my job to serve as a guide for people on their healing paths.
Beyond treating any specific condition, one of my most typical types of patients is someone who has 'seen everyone and tried everything' and yet still has not found sustainable relief from whatever their challenge is. It's not that any of the previous attempts, therapies or doctors were wrong, in fact they may have provided an important piece of the solution; it's just that something is missing. I can help people find the missing essential ingredient for their healing.
People often come to me when they have exhausted all their options and are feeling that all hope is gone. When people come to that place in their quest for curing, they are ready for healing, and I have the skill, knowledge and experience to help guide them to both.
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What is Mind-Body Integrative Medicine?
Dis-ease tells a story not just of our cells but of ourselves and our life histories. Mind-body Integrative Medicine involves approaching our illnesses and pains with a comprehensive, total person-centered approach.
In Mind-Body Integrative Medicine, we listen to the symptoms and to the story behind them as our guide to treat the cell and the self. We work to cure the biology as we simultaneously heal the biography. Only when both the cell and the self are tended to, can we find authentic, deep healing.
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Morry is also the founder of EasyExcelAutomation.com, offering custom and ready made Excel VBA Tools and the co-founder of IQdial.com. IQdial.com is the result of subscribers at SuccessorsData asking Morry for faster ways to reach heirs and for prospecting tools. For years customers of Successorsdata would go to Data24-7.com, which was founded by Marc Orenberg, to append phone and email addresses to their property records and find ways to call the individuals. Finally, Morry and Marc decided to offer a product that would help both companies help their customers reach their prospects faster and easier and IQdial.com was established. Their new product, DialExcel now allows you to dial directly from your Excel file. So, instead of taking the data to your dialer, we bring the dialer to your data! Take and keep notes directly in your Excel file or in the DialExcel system
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We believe in helping heirs to sell their inherited real estate properties easier and faster. We identify the newly inherited real estate properties within about three weeks for you to contact the heirs. This is usually about the time that the heirs contact probate attorneys to file probate proceedings.
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I'm about to widen the slots in a new nut for a 12-string guitar. I'm using .015 strings (up from .011 or so), and tuning the guitar down significantly; my test-run with .014 strings is very promising, and the guitar has a much fuller, richer sound (although that's only with six strings).
The existing nut isn't appropriate for strings of this gauge, however, and the three thickest strings are not staying in tune well. I expected this, and I ordered a new Tusq nut, intending to widen the slots.
The question:
Does changing the angle of the strings above the headstock affect tone and stability? I understand that a sharper angle increases sustain, and that's a desirable change. However, assuming the string slots in the nuts are of appropriate width, will increasing the angle cause the guitar to go out of tune faster or slower? (This would be mostly done by winding the strings top-to-bottom on the posts.)


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Trada – one of our investments that is based in Boulder – is absolutely killing it. It was started by Niel Robertson, who we've worked with in various forms going back to the mid-1990's. When Niel first came up with the idea, he and my partner Seth Levine spent a few months really going deep and figuring out how (PPC) pay per click marketing campaigns (e.g. Google AdWords) worked and whether a crowdsourcing approach could materially improve their performance. It turns out that it does – if you are doing any sort of PPC marketing you will see dramatic improvements by using Trada's service. And – if you are a PPC expert, you can make extra bucks by being one of the optimizers for Trada's service. But don't take my word for it, hear it directly from Niel the scarf maker.
Recently, Trada announced that in addition to Google and Yahoo, they now support Bing. Rather than putting out a turgid press release, Niel and Seth made a second video in a series that continues the saga of Niel the scarf maker.
If your company does anything around PPC marketing, take a look at Trada. And – if you run into Seth on the street, ask him what he thinks of the Yankees.


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Tani represents all of the juvenile island foxes that were born this spring (A special Island fox is Born). As summer turns to autumn these young island foxes will venture off from their parents to begin their own lives. But before they do, they just might have a close encounter of the human kind.
Across the California Channel Islands biologists are catching island foxes in capture cages to count their numbers, replace and outfit radio tracking collars, and conduct annual health checks.
For young island foxes that means a microchip that will identify them for life. It may also mean vaccinations for canine diseases - rabies and distemper. Both of these diseases have a high mortality rate, meaning that most wild island foxes would die if they encountered them. We know this is true because the Santa Catalina Island population of island foxes declined by over 88% between 1998 and 2000 when distemper was introduced to the island. (More about Catalina Island).
Pet dogs and cats that have not been vaccinated can introduce disease to wild populations. Island species like the island fox are especially vulnerable because they have not evolved with the same diseases that animals may be exposed to on the mainland. Wild animals from the mainland can also introduce disease to island populations (see Raccoon on Catalina).
The land managers across the islands hope to vaccinate at least 60-80 island foxes on each island this autumn. The minimum (60 foxes on 6 islands) would be a total of 360 island foxes with a cost of $10 per fox. Just providing minimal disease protection to this endangered species comes with a minimum cost of $3,600.
You can help provide a young island fox heading out into the world with a better chance of survival by supporting vaccination costs. A donation of $10 will protect an island fox from rabies and distemper.
You can also make a positive difference by reminding friends and family that vaccinating pet dogs and cats helps protect wild animals. Disease has no sympathy, it can attack an endangered species or a beloved pet. To keep both safe, pets should stay home and leave wild animals to live in their native habitats.
See more of Tani's adventures on Facebook and @ifoxtweet on Twitter.
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RootMetrics today released its most recent survey of the big four wireless networks in the United States, crowning Verizon Wireless best overall performer.
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Nicola Palmer held a short call with media this morning to discuss the results of the survey.
"This is the equivalent of getting straight As for Verizon Wireless," Palmer said.
Verizon's network scored highest in reliability on a nationwide basis, while AT&T had the fastest network. But Verizon's real achievement was bringing home the highest overall score, which takes into account data, call, voice and text performance.
It's hard to argue with the thoroughness of the survey. In conducting testing, RootMetrics logged 218,000 drive miles and tested more than 4.6 million data points. Verizon logged an overall score of 89.7, followed by AT&T in a close second at 86.2. Sprint and T-Mobile finished third and fourth, with scores of 68.2, and 64.3 respectively.
Palmer noted during today's call that RootMetric's testing was done during the second half of 2013 and did not take into account the efficacy of Verizon's recently deployed AWS spectrum, which is intended to increase capacity in high-traffic areas.
Palmer said the company had exceeded the number of cell sites at which it had projected it would add AWS. She said roughly 25 percent of the smartphones the company now sells are able to take advantage of the AWS spectrum.
Verizon isn't done improving its network anytime soon. The company is on track to deploy VoLTE this year, and will continue adding LTE-Advanced features in the near future. "There's always something to fix. There's always something to work on or improve," Palmer said. "We're very proud of this showing for sure."
While an overall score reflects Verizon's lead on its competitors on nationwide basis, the results of this most recent study are perhaps most valuable to consumers looking to ascertain coverage and reliability in their specific markets. The full results of RootMetrics' report, as well as a state by state breakdown are available online here.


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With a community of support behind her, international studies and Spanish major Hannah Griffith, BA '17, says she is ready to take her global experiences and translate them into change at home.
"I come from a small town in New York State, and the first time I visited UB and heard three different languages, I knew it was the place for me! I was fascinated by the diversity and all that I could learn." Griffith calls the support she has received from UB Fund donors incredible.
"It has made it possible for me to pursue my degree in international studies," she says. "My classes have prepared me well. But it's the experiences I've had outside the classroom that are preparing me for my future even more. Gifts to UB helped me to study abroad in Mexico and Russia, land an internship at a bilingual public school and work with nonprofit organizations in the Buffalo area."
After graduation, Griffith plans to start a nonprofit organization for dual communities: Buffalo and another community abroad.
"I will travel to find the right location to help, determine their greatest needs and figure out how best to meet them," she says. "Then I will return to Buffalo and begin doing it! With my in-class knowledge, my out-of-class experiences, and with the support of my family, friends and the UB community, I know I'm on my way."
Griffith says she is sharing her story so that your continued support, via a gift to the UB Fund, will help other students.
"My time at UB has been incredible. I never imagined that I'd have had so many opportunities to experience the world. I am grateful to donors like you for helping make it possible."


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We ship every Thursday from the UK for delivery to our Gibraltar store and shipments take 10 days from leaving the UK (order cut off is Wednesday at midnight or your order will be on the following week's Thursday shipment).
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Succubi are the female version of incubi, although the word is actually masculine in medieval Latin because demons were supposedly sexless. The feminine form is "succuba". It was supposed that incubi outnumbered succubi by 9 to 1.
Francis Barret described succubi as wood nymphs in his book "The Magus"
"And seeing the fauni and nymphs of the words were preferred before the other [spirits] in beauty, they afterwards generated their offspring among themselves, and at length began wedlocks with men, feigning that, by these copulations, they should obtain an immortal soul for them and their offspring but this happened through the persuasions and delusions of Satan to admit these monsters to carnal copulation, which the ignorant were easily persuaded to and therefore these nymphs are called succubi although Satan afterwards committed worse, frequently transchanging himself, by assuming the persons of both incubi and succubi in both sexes for they conceived not a true young by the males, except the nymphs alone."
One story of a succubus was told by Walter Mapes in his "De Nugis Curialium [Courtier's Trifles] (approx 1185)" about Gerbert of Aurillac, who became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003). As a young man, Gerbert fell in love with the daughter of the Provost of Rheims. She rejected him, and he became despaired. One day he met a beautiful maiden named Meridiana who offered him sex, magical knowledge, and money if he would only stay faithful to her. He agreed and prospered rapidly becoming Archbishop of Rheims, Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, and ultimately Pope. All the while, he kept Meridiana secret, and she even forgave him when the Provost's daughter found him inebriated and seduced him one day.
Finally, Meridiana prophesied that Gerbert would die as he celebrated mass in Jerusalem, which turned out to be a church close by possessing an alleged piece of the Cross. Realizing he was about to die, Gerbert made a public confession of his sins and died repentant. Mapes also noted that Gerbert's tomb in the Lateran sweats copiously before the death of a Pope.


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Lenovo A Plus is a quality Android smartphone, which comes with 4.5 inches touchscreen display powered by 1.3 GHz Quad-core processor along with 1 GB RAM and the device runs on Android Android V5.1 (Lollipop) operating system. If you own this device and looking for a quick way to root it, you are on the right page as I have given a step by step tutorial to root Lenovo A Plus here.
By following the instructions given here, you will be able to root Lenovo A Plus successfully. Once you have gained root privileges in your device, you will be able to install custom recovery images, flash custom ROM firmware files, etc.
Step 1: The first task to do before rooting your smartphone is to take a complete backup of personal data like contacts, music, pictures, etc. Although the rooting procedure given here is not a data-loss process, take a backup using the appropriate app to be on the safer side.
Step 2: Next, enable "Installation from Unknown Sources" in your Smartphone for installing the "Framaroot" app (one-click rooting application). To enable the option, follow this path: Settings -> Security -> Device Administration -> Unknown sources (just tap on it).
Step 3: Make sure that your smartphone has at least 50-60% battery backup in it before getting started with the rooting procedure. Also, make sure that you uninstall or deactivate antivirus applications on your smartphone as they tend to disrupt the rooting process.
Once you have finished all these prerequisites, you can move forward with the rooting tutorial given below.
Tutorial To Root Lenovo A Plus Without Computer:
Step 1: To get started, download Framaroot app to your device. Once downloaded, install it on your smartphone by clicking on the .apk file. While doing so, you will get an Android security warning message. Just ignore it and install the app on your smartphone.
Step 2: Once installed, launch the application on your device by clicking on its icon under your Smartphone's Apps Menu.
Step 3: Now, select "Install Superuser" under "Select an action to execute after root". Next, click on "Boromir" under "Select an exploit in list above to potentially root your device" to begin the rooting process.
Step 4: Framaroot will take a minute or two to root your device, and once the rooting process is finished, you will get the following message: Success. Superuser and SU binary installed. You have to reboot your device.
Step 5: Now, reboot your device to finish the rooting procedure.
That's it. Now you have successfully finished rooting Lenovo A Plus Android Smartphone without using a computer. To confirm whether you have successfully rooted your smartphone, open up your Apps Menu, and look for SuperSU app. If you can find it there, then the rooting procedure is successful. Alternatively, you can install and use the Root Checker app to verify your root privileges.
If you own a smartphone or tablet other than Lenovo A Plus and would like to get rooting tutorials for the same, kindly visit our Rooting Tutorials page.
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Length- 2.25 meters
Width- 95 cm
Return: Product eligible for exchange or return only if damaged, return claim due to dissatisfaction may not be taken (please read return and cancellation policy).
Material- Georgette dupatta embroidered with acrylic woolen threads
Craft- Phulkari / Fulkari Handembroidey from Punjab
Washing instruction: Dry Wash only. No machine wash please, do not keep soaked in detergent or water.
*Designs are traced over fabric before embroidery so these trace marks may be visible at some points. Continuous exposure to artisans hands and outer enviroment may make it appear little dusty too. These are part and parcel of hand-embroidery and don't amount to defect. These usually go away in first wash itself.
Photography is done under enhanced/optimal light conditions so appearence may differ slightly in indoors and dull light.
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I. Genealogical Records
A. Reference and Resources list
B. Early Potsdam Families
See also: IIA Early Settlements
IIB Centennial Celebrations
C. Individual Families
D. Miscellaneous deeds and legal papers
E. Cemeteries Censuses
F. Early Census Records
G. Diplomas and Certificates
H. Births, Marriages and Deaths
II. Potsdam and Vicinity History
A. Early Settlements
1. Potsdam
2. Chapman Papers
3. Settlements
4. St. Lawrence County
5. Civil War 1861-1865
6. Historic Buildings Survey
7. Photographs
B. Potsdam- Centennial Celebrations
C. Berry Papers
D. Churches
E. Businesses
1. Manufacturing and Early Industry
2. Dr. Thatcher, Milk Bottle and other Patents
3. Retail Establishments (see cards II.E.3 for lists and locations)
4. Business Ledgers and Account Books
5. Historical Research Studies on Potsdam Businesses
F. Railroads
G. Banks
H. Water and Electric Power
I. Newspapers
J. Professionals (Doctors, etc.)
K. Theaters and Circuses
L. Weather Events
M. Houses (by street name and number)
III. Government and Municipal Services
A. Municipal
B. Health Related Organizations
C. Fire Department
V. Diaries
A. William Raymond
B. Other Diaries and Account Books
C. Josiah Brown's replica watches
D. Misc. Diaries (authors unknown)
E. Henry S. Allen
F. Amos W. Brown
G. Capt. Thomas Hickey (see Civil War Index)
VI. Education Resources
A. Elementary and Secondary Schools
B. ST. Lawrence Academy
C. State University College at Potsdam
1. Historical Material
2. SUNY Course of Study and Commencements
3. SUNY Clubs and Organization
4. SUNY Alumni
5. SUNY Faculty and Trustees
6. Crane School of Music
D. Clarkson College of Technology and Clarkson University
E. Canton, ATC and Canton College
VII. Sewell Raymond Papers
Biography, Arrangment, Index and Descriptive Inventory in Separate Book. Boxes VI.
VIII. Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany (our sister city)


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Contract Writer/Coordinator Training
Writing and processing employment contracts is a complex, multistep and multi-departmental collaboration that requires attention to regulatory compliance while ensuring timely service, communication and payment.
As the number of contracted staff and adjunct faculty increased over the years, the Office of Human Resources (OHR) measured an increasing challenge in meeting regulatory standards and maintaining timely service and payment. In an effort to improve current practices, OHR designed an informative web resource, redesigned and created electronic contract forms, developed a Contract Coordinator user group, and is ready to deliver training to ensure your success in developing and processing employment contracts.
This 2-hour supervisory training is required for all identified Contract Coordinators and their Business Managers, in addition to faculty and managers who write employment contracts.
If you are unable to attend any of these sessions, please contact Mark Emmel at ext. 4399 for alternative scheduling.
We look forward to seeing you there.
- Contact Name:
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- Contact Phone:
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Appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request 10 days prior to a campus event and 30 days prior to an event requiring travel.


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Denarius Names
Denarius provides a service for storing name->value pairs in its blockchain (Name-Value Storage, or NVS). The initial concept was inherited from the NameCoin cryptocurrency yet while NameCoin is mostly focused on supporting decentralized domain zone *.bit in their extension, Denarius provides a universal, extensible service to store and maintain name->value pairs without imposing a narrow specialization.
Denarius also supports a distributed alternative DNS service too (DDNS), and each Denarius wallet contains a built-in simple DNS server, supporting the standard RFC1034 UDP DNS protocol.
Denarius Names Overview
Denarius stores data in the blockchain by a set of name->value pairs:
- name – label for the stored data, up to a length of 512 bytes.
- value – the data itself, up to a length of 20*1024 (20kb).
Denarius allocates up to 20kB for value, enough to fit public keys for most modern cryptographic applications. We consider a cryptocurrency blockchain to be an extremely reliable place to publish and maintain public keys for many cryptographic applications such as SSH/SSL certificates. Like regular payment transactions, NVS pairs stored in the blockchain also get confirmations during block generation, and are virtually immune to being altered in a Man-In-the-Middle attack.
Since the blockchain is a trusted data store protected from unauthorized modification it is a great foundation for the deployment of cryptographic Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Proof-of-Data (POD), immutable recordkeeping, timestamps, IPFS, and other distributed services.
The Denarius blockchain will accept NVS pairs without any restrictions to the data format of either the name or value. However, for standardization purposes we recommend the following format for names:
For example:
Each NVS pair has its owner. Each owner is specified by the Denarius payment address stored together with the pair. Only the owner of the payment address is able to modify or delete the pair, or transfer ownership to another address. When a new pair is created, a new payment address for the pair is created in the local wallet.
You can manage Denarius NVS entries either through the Denarius wallet QT, or denariusd JSON RPC.
Denarius Service abbreviations
While you are free to create your own services using Denarius's NVS, we recommend using the following supported service abbreviations:
dns: – Denarius DNS – DDNS
ssh: – Denarius SSH – DSSH (Coming soon)
gpg: – Denarius GPG – DGPG (Coming Soon)
nft: – Denarius NFT – DNFT (Coming Soon)
magnet: – Torrent Magnet Link
video: – IPFS Video Hash
@ – Denarius Aliases/Names – Used with Denarius Addresses for sending funds/verifying identities, etc.
Managing Denarius Name entries with the QT
The "Manage Names" tab will include the following elements:
- name: If this NVS entry will be used with a particular service abbreviation (dns:, etc) then characters allowed by the appropriate service prefix should be used. e.g.
- days: How many days to register the name (between 1 and 9999). Upon expiration, the name can be taken by another user.
- Operation type:
- NAME_NEW – create a new name.
- NAME_UPDATE – update values, change owner, or extend the registration.
- NAME_DELETE – delete a name.
- value: To be filled with the content to be associated with the name. The percentage indicator shows how much of the 20kb maximum space is used. This field can contain ANY type of data, although conventions should be observed when the name-value pair is to be used by a particular service. e.g.
A=192.168.0.123|TXT=example txt record
- Import: This button allows you to choose any file (not more than 20kb), to be inserted in the value field.
- new address: To enter the D-address you wish to transfer the name to. Applicable only for the NAME_UPDATE operation.
- Submit: This button confirms the operation and submits the data to the Denarius blockchain.
- Names in your wallet: This table displays a list of your names. Yellow fields indicate the name is pending or when less than a month remains before expiry. Red fields indicate expired names.
- Filters:
- Owned by me – displays only names owned by the wallet.
- Owned by others – displays names transferred to others.
- Expired – displays expired names previously owned by the wallet.
Managing Denarius Name entries with the daemon
Below is the list of Denarius JSON RPC commands for managing NVS entries. Parameters in square brackets [ ] are optional.
name_new <name> <value> <days> [toaddress]
Create a new Denarius NVS pair and publish it into the blockchain.
: initial lease time in days. (Max ~100 Years)toaddress
: address to register new name to
name_update <name> <value> <days> [toaddress]
Update the value for an existing name.
: adds lease days. (Max ~100 Years)toaddress
: transfer name ownership to another Denarius address.
name_delete <name>
Delete a Denarius NVS pair from the blockchain.
name_show <name>
Retrieve a Denarius NVS pair and transaction info for specified name
name_list [<name>]
List all matching NVS pairs belonging to the current wallet and those that were owned in the past. If name
is not specified, then it lists all names:
name_scan [start-name] [max-returned]
List Denarius NVS pairs existing in the blockchain, returning max-returned
entries (default 500):
: An integer. Skip this number of names. This is useful to download the list in chunks.
sendtoname <name> <amount> [comment] [comment-to]
Send an D payment to the address associated with the specified
: D amount, rounded to the nearest 0.01.comment
: will be stored in the local wallet, not in the blockchain.
name_filter [regexp] [maxage=0] [from=0] [nb=0]
Scan and filter names.
: applyregexp
on names, empty means all names.maxage
: look in lastmaxage
: show results from numberfrom
: shownb
results, 0 means all.stat
: show some stats instead of results.
Denarius NVS Name Fees
The cost to do any NVS operations on the Denarius blockchain is roughly 1 D.
0.9 D goes to miners in the network to help support the network by doing any name operation
0.1 D goes to the address for the name operation and is non-spendable
Denarius NVS name as a payment alias
It is possible to send D currency directly to a name, without knowing the address.
To create a name alias for payment address, just create an NVS pair with a specified unique name and any value. We recommend entering a text description as the value.
All payments made to that name will be sent to the appropriate payment address, to which the name is registered. e.g:
name_new "@buzz" "Donation name registration for an awesome person" 365
You can then send @buzz D payments with the JSON RPC command:
sendtoname @buzz (amount)


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DMC-Six-Strand Embroidery Cotton. A brilliant, six-strand floss made from double mercerized, long staple 100% cotton fibers. The floss is 8.7yd/8m skeins.
DMC Cotton Embroidery Floss, made from long staple cotton and double mercerized for a brilliant sheen, is the most recommended floss in the world. This premium thread is made up of six size 25 easily separated strands, which also allows you to customize the thickness of the thread by choosing the number of strands.
DMC Embroidery Floss is 100% colorfast and fade resistant.


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Summary report of the FINABEL Conference
COS PME II-2015 Meeting
Trencin, Slovakia, 21 april 2015
Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann, IERI, Brussels
The Finabel Coordination Committee is a Land Forces organisation comprised of 17 Member States of the European Union to promote interoperability between its Members.
The annual conference of the chief of staff Committee (COS) and the Principal Military expert Committee (PME) took place in Trencin, Slovakia the 21st of April. A conference on the future of Land forces has been organized on this occasion. The IERI has been invited to contribute to this conference and this paper presents a summary of the two following contributions:
- Lieutenant General (LTG) Michel Yakovleff - SHAPE- NATO made the keynote speech
- Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann - IERI, made a presentation on « European Union squeezed between two arcs of tensions »
Executive, the highest level. It meets once a year to summarise work of the past year and to establish the objectives for the coming year. The Chairmanship of the COS Committee changes annually.
Made up primarily of officers responsible for doctrine, planning and studies within the staff of land components of Finabel member states. This Committee analyses the directives of the Chiefs of Staff and reformulates them in terms of missions. Belgium provides the Chairman for this Committee.
High level Conference : The future of European Land forces
The existence of armies is a permanent fact as all countries have their own armies or someone else's army.
War in the future is a real prospect.
We experienced more than two decades of intoxication about the soft power replacing definitely the hard power. However, still today, hard power is the ultimate tool, tanks and land power count in the end in a conflict and determine the issue of the conflict (for example, in Somalia, the training of the Somalian army on the ground made the difference more than maritime operations to eradicate piracy).
The change of paradigm: from « luxury wars » to contested battlefields
So far, since the end of the Cold War, the Western world experienced « luxury wars » where land forces could operate in an environment where its armies could achieve total air superiority, maritime superiority, electro-magnetic superiority and finally land superiority because it entered in conflicts with weak opponents.
We are facing a paradigm change: for the Western armies it was too easy and they had « luxury wars » because air power was not contested. Evacuation of wounded soldiers for example was made within an hour; this was the golden hour (although this is not the case for French forces in Africa, in Sahel). In the future, land forces will have to operate in combat fields with contested land, contested air, contested sea, and contested electromagnetic space.
During the Second World War, there were about 20 German submarines operating in the Atlantic at the same time. During the cold war, USSR forces could gather 64 submarines for an exercise. We can expect a contested sea in future conflicts.
In the future, logistics could also in a much easier way be degraded by potential enemies. GPS for example can be very easily degraded because it is easy to jam. The land forces depend more and more on technology, like artillery for example and will be vulnerable if electromagnetic space is contested.
Culture of command and operational culture
The culture of command and operational culture in NATO is too rigid.
The top down command culture does not give enough margin of manoeuvre to officers on the battlefield at lieutenant/captain level and platoons on the battlefield.
The future of land armies could be very different from today: in 20 years, robots will be integrated parts of a platoon and drones will fly around in a city for example, both in the air and underground. The problem with this trend is the impact on populations.
War is in the end a psychological event, where armies try to impress the populations to agree to their own definition of peace. The soldiers look more like ugly extraterrestrials and this will have an impact on populations and reinforce resistance. We also reached the limits of what a soldier can carry in terms of equipment and we can imagine there will be robots carrying the armour on a robot donkey (similar to Roman time's soldiers). However we have to admit that soldiers will be killed in situations where they won't have their armour since they cannot wear it all the time.
The army model that has been sold the last decades is the small expeditionary model, in fact an Anglo-Saxon model with professional and competent armies.
However, in the future, we can have again conscript armies as they can also be very professional (like the Swiss army). In Ukraine, they combined the disadvantage of having a fading conscript army without yet a new competent professional army.
In the future there might be again frontlines (this is not the official line of NATO exercising for expeditionary army) and the air, land and electromagnetic space will be contested.
In NATO, the routine exercises should be broken as military personnel is trained to the same situations, in particular the doctrine of air superiority. The need to have air superiority to engage land forces should not be a precondition anymore in some situations because total air superiority won't be any more possible in the future. It will be useful also to train without electromagnetic superiority and to adapt to new forms of cyber war (for example a campaign of disinformation on a high rank officer accusing him of being a paedophile to disrupt the command line and break the moral of the troops). Officers have to be trained to operate in a more autonomous behaviour.
In conclusion, the West may face real enemy in the future (next 20 years) and break the routine of « luxury wars ». War is back and it will be difficult to convince European population that muscle must be rebuilt, but also the right muscle.
The land forces must also be more playful and avoid repetitive actions and be able to make the adversary make mistakes (like the Russians are good at that and we should study that) ; officers should also know better the other regiments way of fighting as more cohesion and degree of operating together will be required. The officers should be more innovative, like rebels on a war field (but we cannot promote rebels).
Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann
Directory of research in geopolitics, IERI
Founder of www.eurocontinent.eu
Intervention: « European Union squeezed between two arcs of tensions »
The utility of geopolitical analysis
It is necessary to establish a diagnosis on security threats and risks to European Union territory and populations before to think about military capabilities (the reverse approach is currently put into practice and distorting a right diagnosis of the situation). A central point is then to examine the different/common perceptions of security between European Union Member States according to their history/geography. The security perception has an impact on geopolitical priorities and they diverge between EU Member States (mainly Southern orientation of France and Eastern orientation of Germany). The posture of third powers must also be understood to know their red lines in order to avoid mistakes and unnecessary suspicion that spiral into conflict when taking wrong decisions.
Lessons from past mistakes and success stories should also be central to adjust security and defence policies. As an example, we should remember about the incoherence between the decisions taken during ex-Yugoslavia crises and its impact on the Ukrainian crisis today as the territorial integrity of Ukraine is today Western priority, but not for Yugoslavia in the 90's. Some aspects of the operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya war can be considered as military successes but they are political failures. The situation of these countries and our security is worse today than before these military operations. The operations in Mali, Central Africa were initiated for example partly to repair the mistakes of the previous destabilization of Libya.
Finally, it is necessary to forge common European priorities on territory. Negotiations would be long and difficult but it may have been more useful to engage ourselves in that direction than applying a restrictive legal and economic approach during ten years of negotiations for the Lisbon Treaty with few results: there is still no real European common diplomacy and no credible common European and defence security policy.
Geopolitical diagnosis
The world is experiencing an evolution towards a multipolar world and an enlargement of factors of power (the combination of different factors of power during a conflict is named as a « hybrid war »). Globalization can be defined as a fight to carve up geopolitical spaces between the different state powers but also sub state actors.
In this new world, we are confronted to permanent instability and uncertainty coming from State rivalries mixing territorial rivalries on the ground, air space, maritime space and cyberspace. It is then more and more complicated to make a right diagnosis of a geopolitical situation and to build a coherent strategy.
Geography and History are the main factors to understand a crisis. In the case of Ukraine, old historical maps are necessary to understand the geopolitical stakes between the actors.
The importance of ground forces remain central since control of territory is the most important objective in most of the past and future crises (the German philosopher Carl Schmitt said that human beings are not fish nor birds but have their feet on the ground, so what is happening on the ground is what is the most important). Because of technological breakthroughs, we can fly, navigate and enter cyber space, but in the end, we live on the ground and the need to control ground territory remains the main geopolitical stake.
There is an illusion of total control of territory from air, cyber space or maritime zones. The current « technique supremacy » ideology to master our geostrategic spaces is misleading.
Threats and risks to Europe
The land forces of European Union Member States face today many different scenarios. Hybrid wars are not new: the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu invented already the concept.
We are also experiencing an evolution from defence to global and home security missions when classical threats are still credible scenarios. European taboos in some countries make it difficult for the army to operate on home territory.
When we examine the geopolitical situation map of Europe and its geographical surroundings, the Southern arc of crisis is the source of Jihadist forces threats, failed States and hostile States. This area is potentially the source of the worst security scenario for European territory. (See map « European Union between two arcs of crisis »)
Hybrid war originating from the Southern arc of crisis is the most likely threat. The scenario combining internal threats (uprising of European cities suburbs concentrated with non assimilated minorities) mixed with home grown jihadist terrorist acts and manipulation and support from hostile third States from the Southern arc of crisis is a situation we have to anticipate (See map « Common threats from North Africa and Middle East to the Eurasian continent »).
The Eastern arc of crisis presents many risks but constitutes no threats as there is no enemy in this area. Most likely is the destabilization of this area because of civil wars provoking flows of refugees. A nuclear power plant incident can also be a risk for European Union Member States. However, the degree of potential escalation depends also on the attitude of European States and their own political decisions.
Utility and optimization of land forces: main features
- Special forces sent to remote and difficult locations (Sahel)
- Urban combat abroad (Sahel) and on home territory in Europe
- Interventions in support of civilian powers for security risks (nuclear power plant)
- Less likely scenario : worst case scenario of full scale intervention (example : blockade of strategic maritime passage)
- Since budgets are squeezed, then ability to rebuild forces for a classical conflict if necessary is required
- Think the unthinkable and adopt European hybrid strategy
The Eurasian continent faces common threats from the Southern arc of crisis with the destabilizing actions of jihadist forces (see map « Common threats from North Africa and Middle East to the Eurasian continent »). The European Union Member States are increasingly squeezed between these two arcs of crisis on the South and East and it is in our security interest to overcome this situation of encirclement.
However, we lose time with the Ukraine crisis. The threat of escalation in this area depends also on the actions from European States, and red lines from our neighbours shouldn't be crossed (like in Ukraine crisis, there is a lack of geopolitical analysis at EU level). Since Russia is not an enemy for European security in the Eastern arc of crisis (it is not in the interest of EU Members States to have more fragmented geopolitical space on the Eastern flank), the Eurasian nations, EU Member States, Eastern European states, Russia, Central Asian States, and also possibly China should cooperate more to face these common threats coming from the Southern arc of crisis (See map « European Union between two arc of crisis »). Increasing military cooperation was initiated between EU and Russia in EU operations in Africa (transport with helicopters) before the Ukraine crisis and there should be a reset in that direction.


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By Brad - Saturday 12 Jul 1:05 pm
No matter how perfect a person is for a job, potential employers cannot find them without an effective resume. Invigorate your job search with these ten resume updates.
1. Use keywords. Spend any time searching the internet and you notice that the more specific your keywords, the more likely you are to find what you want. The same is true for your job search. Many companies use resume scanning programs that search your resume and cover letter for keywords. Make sure you use what employers are seeking.
2. Limit jargon. While a resume requires effective keywords it should not be buried in jargon. The first person to screen your resume may be a human resources contact or manager with little experience with the jargon. Don't set your job search up for failure by being unclear or generic.
3. Be honest. Don't lie on your resume.
4. Use active verbs. With active words your resume will illustrate what you've done and won't look like every other applicant claiming they are organized, self-motivated or responsible.
5. Be specific with short, simple sentences.
6. Leave lots of white space. Don't jumble or overload your resume. Most initial scans of resumes last less than fifteen seconds. Let your resume demonstrate you are organized and efficient in a single glance.
7. Make it relevant. Don't put irrelevant jobs on your resume unless they fill a questionable gap in your work history. Provide detail for the skills that are relevant to the job you are applying for.
8. Focus the objective or skills summary to the employer's needs. Be clear and concise. Vague or extravagant objectives with no focus serve no purpose for the employer. Employers want to know that you can fill their position not that they can fulfill yours.
9. Provide numbers and statistics. When including, for example, that in your previous position you improved customer service, the statement becomes imminently more effective when you say "Improved customer service by five percent in two year period". Share proof of your accomplishments.
10. Consider a resume critique. Nothing helps your job search better than a second pair of objective eyes looking at your resume.
Make your resume work for you with clear, active statements that the future employer needs to know. Choose quality substance instead of gimmicks and your resume will boost your job search.
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[Image: The population density of the United States, ca. 2000, via Wikipedia].
If you'll excuse a quick bit of landscape-inspired political speculation, I was reminded this morning of something I read last year on Boing Boing and which has stuck with me ever since – and that's that there are more World of Warcraft players in the United States today than there are farmers.
Farmers, however, as Boing Boing and the original blog post it links to are both quick to point out, are often portrayed in media polls as a voice of cultural and political authenticity in the United States. They are real Americans, the idea goes, a kind of quiet majority in the background that presidential candidates and media pundits would be foolish to overlook.
If you want a real cross-section of Americana, then, you're supposed to interview farmers and even hockey moms – but why not World of Warcraft players? This is just a rhetorical question – it would be absurd to suggest that World of Warcraft players (or architecture bloggers) somehow have a special insight on national governance – but, as cultural demographics go, it's worth asking why politicians and the media continue to over-prioritize the rural and small-town experience.
[Image: A street in Columbus, Wisconsin, the small and, at the time, semi-rural town in which I grew up, photographed under a Creative Commons license by Royal Broil].
In a related vein, it's often said in the U.S. that certain politicians simply "don't understand the West": they're so caught up in their big city, coastal ways that they just don't get – they can't even comprehend – how a rancher might react to something like increased federal control over water rights or how a small-town mayor might object to interfering rulings by the Supreme Court. Politicians who don't understand the west – who don't understand the rugged individuality of ranch life or the no-excuses self-responsibility of American small towns – are thus unfit to lead this society.
But surely the more accurate lesson to be drawn from such a statement is exactly the opposite?
One could even speculate here that politicians from small towns, and from the big rural states of the west, have no idea how cities – which now house the overwhelming majority of the American population – actually operate, on infrastructural, economic, socio-political, and even public health levels, and so they would be alarmingly out of place in the national government of an urbanized country like the United States.
If the United States – if the entire world – is rapidly urbanizing, then it would seem like literally the last thing we need in the White House, in an era of collapsing bridges and levees, is someone whose idea of public infrastructure is a dirt road.
Put another way, perhaps coming from a ranch or a small town is precisely why a certain candidate might be unable to govern a nation that is now 80% urban.
It's a political collision of landscape management strategies.
[Image: Urban areas in the U.S. Map courtesy of NASA].
On the other hand, perhaps this juxtaposition would be exactly why a rural or small-town candidate could be perfect for the job – fresh perspectives, thinking outside the box, and so on. After all, a good rancher is surely a better leader than a failed mayor.
Or, to take an even more aggressive stand against this argument, surely the administrative specifics of your previous professional life – you were a doctor, a minister, a novelist, a governor, a business owner, a soccer dad – are less important than your maturity, knowledge, clarity of thought, and judgment?
Even having said that, though, I can't help but wonder if a candidate might "understand" one particular type of settled landscape – a small town, a thinly populated prairie, an icy state with a population one-fifth that of Chicago – but not another, more heavily urbanized type of landscape (i.e. the United States as a whole).
So I was reminded again of the opening statistic from Boing Boing – a statistic that I have not researched independently, mind you, but that appears to be based on this data – when I read that President Bush had stopped off this morning to speak about the credit crisis "with consumers and business people at Olmos Pharmacy, an old-fashioned soda shop and lunch counter" in San Antonio, Texas.
The idea here – the spatial implication – is that Bush has somehow stopped off in a landscape of down-home American democracy. This is everyday life, we're meant to believe – a geographic stand-in for the true heart and center of the United States.
But it increasingly feels to me that presidential politics now deliberately take place in a landscape that the modern world has left behind. It's a landscape of nostalgia, the golden age in landscape form: Joe Biden visits Pam's Pancakes outside Pittsburgh, Bush visits a soda shop, Sarah Palin watches ice hockey in a town that doesn't have cell phone coverage, Obama goes to a tractor pull.
It's as if presidential campaigns and their pursuing tagcloud of media pundits are actually a kind of landscape detection society – a rival Center for Land Use Interpretation – seeking out obsolete spatial versions of the United States, outdated geographies most of us no longer live within or encounter.
They find small towns that, by definition, are under-populated and thus unrepresentative of the United States as a whole; they find "old-fashioned" restaurants that seem on the verge of closing for lack of interested customers; they tour "Main Streets" that lost their inhabitants and their businesses long ago.
All along they pretend that these landscapes are politically relevant.
My point here is not that we should just swap landscapes in order to be in touch with the majority of the American population – going to this city instead of to that town, visiting this urban football team instead of that rural hockey league, stopping by this popular Asian restaurant instead of that pie-filled diner (though I would be very interested to explore this hypothesis). I simply want to point out that political campaigning in the United States seems almost deliberately to take place in a landscape that no longer has genuine relevance to the majority of U.S. citizens.
The idea that "an old-fashioned soda shop" might give someone access to the mind of the United States seems so absurd as to be almost impossible to ridicule thoroughly.
[Images: From the fascinating series of electoral maps produced by M. T. Gastner, C. R. Shalizi, and M. E. J. Newman after the 2004 U.S. presidential election].
Of course, I understand that there are electoral college strategies at work and so on; but what I think remains unchallenged throughout all of this is the idea that small town voters somehow offer a more authentic perspective on the political life of this country – and not, say, people in West Hollywood or the Upper East Side or Atlanta or even Reno. Or World of Warcraft players. Or people who eat sushi. People who read Harry Potter novels.
"President Bush stopped off today with a group of people who read Harry Potter novels – the eleventh-largest demographic group in the United States – to discuss the ongoing financial crisis…"
Which group is larger, more important, more likely to vote, more demographically representative of the United States?
Call them micro-niches or whatever new marketing term you want to invent, but it seems like American politicians are increasingly trapped in a kind of minor landscape, a geography that is demonstrably not that within which the majority of Americans currently live.
"Barack Obama campaigned today in the early 1960s by visiting a small pancake house near Springdale…"
In any case, the entire political premise of the last eight years seems to have been one of landscape: big city dwellers near the Great Lakes and the ocean coasts simply don't understand small town communities, and they're embarrassingly out of touch with the everyday big skies of lonely ranchers on the plains. But while this might be true – and I don't think it is, frankly – reversing this belief is surely even more alarming: the idea that someone whose background includes ranches and small towns should go on to lead an urban nation in an urban world seems questionable at best – and potentially dangerous in actual practice.
Again, though, there seems to be no adequate way to measure how political exposure to certain settled landscapes might affect a candidate's ability to govern – and so this post should simply be taken as a kind of geographic speculation about democracy in the United States.
But it does raise at least one interesting group of questions, I think, including: what are the real everyday landscapes of American life, if those landscapes no longer include old-fashioned soda shops and small-town hockey arenas – or do such everyday landscapes simply no longer exist?
And if there are no everyday landscapes, then surely every landscape we encounter is, by definition, extraordinary – so we should perhaps all be paying more attention to the spatial and architectural circumstances of our daily lives?
Further, if political candidates have managed to discover – and to campaign almost exclusively within – an American landscape that seems not yet to have been touched by the trends and technologies of the twenty-first century, then why is that – and is it really a good indication that those candidates will know how to govern an urbanized, twenty-first century nation?
Finally, if urban candidates – or coastal candidates, whatever you want to call them – "don't understand the west," which is simply cultural code for not understanding small town life and for being out of touch with the moral hardships of the American countryside, then surely that's not altogether bad in a country that is 80% urbanized?
Put another way, it would certainly be frustrating to think that a candidate doesn't understand how a cattle ranch or an alfalfa farm operates, or that a candidate has no experience with a small town and its parent-teacher associations and so on – but it is extraordinarily troubling to me to think that a candidate doesn't understand how, say, New York City functions – or Chicago, or Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, or Phoenix – let alone the globally active and thoroughly urbanized economic networks within which these and other international cities are enmeshed.
Surely, then, it is small town candidates and politicians with ranching backgrounds who are demonstrably unqualified for the leadership of an urban country?
Surely we need urban candidates for the twenty-first century?


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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called reports that President Donald Trump knowingly downplayed the severity of COVID-19 "a life and death betrayal to the American people" during an address from Warren, Michigan on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO, IL (May 8, 2011) — Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) offers further evidence that diet affects gastrointestinal illnesses, such as gallstones and celiac disease, and that some patients who think their digestive problems are caused by lactose intolerance are actually reacting to a psychological disorder. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the field of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
"New research is providing critically important, evidence-based results on the effect of diet on gastrointestinal disorders, and this is changing the way we detect and treat a number of digestive diseases," said Mark DeLegge, MD, AGAF, professor of medicine at Medical University of South Carolina. "It is important that patients understand what they eat has an effect on the way their digestive system works and that diet plays an important part in maintaining good health."
Carbohydrate Intake: A Risk Factor for Biliary Sludge and Stones During Pregnancy (Abstract #322)
High consumption of carbohydrates, starches and fructose increases the risk of developing gallstones during pregnancy, according to a new study from the University of Washington (UW). Pregnant women are frequently diagnosed with gallstones, and gallstone-related diseases are the most common non-obstetric cause of hospitalization in the first year after a woman gives birth. With other studies in men and non-pregnant women tying high carbohydrate intake to gallbladder problems, the UW researchers focused on dietary risk factors for the development of gallstones during pregnancy and the incidence of consequent illnesses and surgeries.
Dr. Ko will present these data on Sunday, May 8, at 8:45 a.m. CT in S401D, McCormick Place.
Do symptoms of lactose intolerance reveal a somatoform disorder? (Abstract #493)
Patients may mistakenly think their digestive problems are caused by lactose intolerance, when actually their problems may be attributed to a somatoform disorder, a psychological disorder characterized by symptoms that mimic physical disease, but for which there is no identifiable physical cause, according to new. These results suggest that symptoms of lactose intolerance could reveal a somatoform disorder and that counterproductive behaviour such as diets excluding milk products should be discouraged as they can contribute to osteoporosis
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A recent study analyzed the benefits of serological screening and maintaining a gluten-free diet in asymptomatic celiac patients. The study results showed that although patients were apparently asymptomatic, they in fact suffered from subclinical gastrointestinal symptoms and lower health-related quality of life when on a regular gluten-containing diet. In contrast, patients on a gluten-free diet saw significant improvements in these parameters and felt that the treatment was valuable and beneficial.
Dr. Kaukinen will present these data on Monday, May 9 at 8:00 a.m. and Tuesday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m. CT in S406B, McCormick Place.
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