text: For "betters" read "numbers". This has just been a perfect day... On 10 July 2012 23:42, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: > Message fixed in repo, should have been: > > Adjust MSCP attach routines. The current code worked fine on simh-vax, but > unfortunately failed on at least one 'real' SCSI MSCP adaptor. > In the updated code mscp_attach() still iterates over each unit on a bus, > but mscp_dorsp() now detects if we have reached the last unit and does not > return a bogus additional unit. It also loses a few gotos and handles > noncontiguous unit betters better. > > > > On 10 July 2012 23:30, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: >> Module Name: src >> Committed By: abs >> Date: Tue Jul 10 22:30:24 UTC 2012 >> >> Modified Files: >> src/sys/dev/mscp: mscp.c mscp.h mscp_disk.c mscp_subr.c >> >> Log Message: >> Adjust MSCP attach routines. The current code worked fine on simh-vax, but >> unfortunately failed on at least one 'real' SCSI MSCP adaptor. >> In the updated code >> mscp_dorsp() >> >> >> To generate a diff of this commit: >> cvs rdiff -u -r1.34 -r1.35 src/sys/dev/mscp/mscp.c >> cvs rdiff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 src/sys/dev/mscp/mscp.h >> cvs rdiff -u -r1.72 -r1.73 src/sys/dev/mscp/mscp_disk.c >> cvs rdiff -u -r1.42 -r1.43 src/sys/dev/mscp/mscp_subr.c >> >> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the >> copyright notices on the relevant files. >>


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text: hello hello, ive been trying to install potato for a few days and hope this email list will be the trick.. as i know we're all busy ill try to be brief. i have a dell inspiron 7000 laptop with a PCMCIA card to connect to DSL via DHCP (thats what the DSL tech support guy told me last night). the ethernet/DSL card works with win98. i was going to install my old cds - slink (2.1) but someone on #debian (irc.debian.org) told me just to do an install of potato; this sounded good because for some crazy reason i couldnt get my mouse working in X (new bios maybe). anyway, i have windows on 2 megs of the partition and want to put debian on the other 6. after a while i got the base sytem installed (by downloading the files to the win98 partition and installing from a "previously mounted disk"). side note: the base install was rather tricky and is something id like to work on... anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp site with the files on it. any suggestions? is it possible? (im assuming so... ;) again: dell inpiron 7000 laptop 3com pcmcia card DSL/DCHP tons of patience... much MUCH thanks ahead of time, all the best, ari firstname.lastname@example.com


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Outlook for telecommunications services jobs in Myanmar
Telecommunications involves the exchange of information between two separate systems with the use of technology. The technology used can vary widely, but is usually performed through electronic infrastructure such as: the internet, a mobile network or a landline network. Telecommunications services is what keeps the world connected and is a growing business worldwide. One of the biggest areas of growth for telecommunications services jobs is in the developing world. Places like Southeast Asia are hotbeds of international investment and infrastructure development. Although Myanmar still has some catching up to do, there is a promising future for this industry. One way to look at the industry in Myanmar is as an opportunity, nearly 90% of the population has no access to mobile communications or the internet. While that number is high now, with recent changes in political policy and a reduction in trade sanctions, that number will only go down in the near future.
One of main driving forces behind the rapid adoption of telecommunication services worldwide is because of how easy it makes communication. The industry allows for fast and convenient transmission of information across huge distances. The Myanmar government has recognised the need for the adoption of this industry country wide and as a result have given unrestricted access to the internet to the citizens of the country. Whilst phone calls still remain prohibitively expensive, many citizens are turning to the internet to stay connected. Thanks to the growth in this area, the telecommunications sector is in need of technicians, engineers, marketers, finance specialists, customer service and many more to keep the industry growing. All of this means that there are going to be plenty of telecommunications services vacancies in Myanmar for the foreseeable future.
What kind of employers have vacancies in the telecommunications services industry?
The entire telecommunication network in Myanmar used to be entirely owned and operated by the Myanmar government. The state run company, Mynamar Posts and Telecommunications, had a monopoly over the industry for many years and was the only provider in the country, until recently. In the last few years, thanks to the government's change in policy the borders have been opened and now many more companies operate in this industry. In fact, most of the telecommunications services vacancies are with four large organisations now operating in Myanmar. Ever since policy changes were enacted, in 2013 the Myanmar Telecommunications Operator Tender Evaluation and Selection Committee selected several companies to take a leading role in the Myanmar's telecommunications development.
Most of the telecommunications services vacancies in Myanmar are offered by a handful of companies. Some of them are large multinational corporations and other are national providers. Some of the biggest employers in the country in the telecommunications sector are: Ooredoo, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., J&P Myanmar and the largest, the joint venture between MPT & KSGM. All of these organisations are looking to build up the mobile network in Myanmar, as well as connect as many people as possible to the internet. Which means that these companies will be on the look out for all sorts of employees from customer service representatives to technicians and even engineers; any kind of employee who can bring some kind of innovation to the table will be highly sought after.
What types of jobs are available in the industry?
As every industry, the telecommunication sector needs all kinds of specialties. Anyone looking for a job will find plenty of telecommunications services vacancies in Myanmar. Not only are there plenty of vacancies, you can also find a variety of skills required to complete different jobs. The industry is looking for people from all kinds of professional backgrounds. Almost anything, from sales and marketing to accounting & finance. Some jobs require more study and work experience before you can qualify for the role, if you are looking to work in engineering, you'll need to complete a university degree and probably need to undertake some kind of work experience. The field of engineering in the telecommunications services industry is varied with many specialties. For example you can find a job as a network engineer, they are responsible for installing different types of servers, as well as FTTH system installations. You'll also find roles for field technicians, they take care of the maintenance and the physical networks, while a network technician operates mostly on a computer level.
The entire industry is so big and all-encompassing that you can say a lot about it and still have more pages left to write. If you're looking to make a move into this industry, or are looking for your next opportunity, make sure you check out Work.com.mm as we have all the latest job listings from the top employers in the telecommunications services industry.


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Becoming MIT
How did MIT become MIT? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology marks the 150th anniversary of its founding in 2011. Over the years, MIT has lived by its motto, "Mens et Manus" ("Mind and Hand"), dedicating itself to the pursuit of knowledge and its application to real-world problems. MIT has produced leading scholars in fields ranging from aeronautics to economics, invented entire academic disciplines, and transformed ideas into market-ready devices. This book examines a series of turning points, crucial decisions that helped define MIT. Many of these issues have relevance today: the moral implications of defense contracts, the optimal balance between government funding and private investment, and the right combination of basic science, engineering, and humanistic scholarship in the curriculum.
Chapters describe the educational vison and fund-raising acumen of founder William Barton Rogers (MIT was among the earliest recipients of land grant funding); MIT's relationship with Harvard--its rival, doppelgänger, and, for a brief moment, degree-conferring partner; the battle between pure science and industrial sponsorship in the early twentieth century; MIT's rapid expansion during World War II because of defense work and military training courses; the conflict between Cold War gadgetry and the humanities; protests over defense contracts at the height of the Vietnam War; the uproar in the local community over the perceived riskiness of recombinant DNA research; and the measures taken to reverse years of institutionalized discrimination against women scientists.
About the Editor
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).
Table of Contents
- Becoming MIT
- Becoming MIT
- Moments of Decision
- edited by David Kaiser
- The MIT Press
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- London, England
- First MIT Press paperback edition, 2012
- © 2010
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
- For information about special quantity discounts, please send email to
- special_sales@ mitpress.mit.edu .
- This book was set in Engravers Gothic and Bembo by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America.
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Becoming MIT : moments of decision / edited by David Kaiser.
- p. cm.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN 978-0-262-11323-6 (hc. : alk. paper)—978-0-262-51815-4 (pb. : alk. paper)
- 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology—History. I. Kaiser, David.
- 378.744'4—dc22
- 2009052641
- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
- Contents
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Moments of Decision 1
- David Kaiser
- 1 "God Speed the Institute":
- The Foundational Years, 1861–1894 15
- Merritt Roe Smith
- 2 Mergers and Acquisitions 37
- Bruce Sinclair
- 3 Patrons and a Plan 59
- Christophe Lécuyer
- 4 MIT and War 81
- Deborah Douglas
- 5 Elephant on the Charles:
- Postwar Growing Pains 103
- David Kaiser
- 6 "Time of Troubles" for the Special Laboratories 123
- Stuart W. Leslie
- 7 "Refrain from Using the Alphabet":
- How Community Outreach Catalyzed the Life Sciences at MIT 145
- John Durant
- 8 Putting Gender on the Table 165
- Lotte Bailyn
- with an afterword by Nancy Hopkins
- Epilogue by Susan Hockfield 193
- List of Contributors 195
- Index 201
—Charles Vest, President, MIT
—Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics, Harvard University
—Charles Vest, MIT President Emeritus


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The history-making former ad exec and author of I'd Rather Be in Charge explains why she doesn't believe there's a conspiracy by men to hold women back in the workplace and shares how women navigate relationships at home versus work.
Former ad exec Charlotte Beers
Tavis: Charlotte Beers began her career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson, rising to become the first female senior vice president in the ad giant's history. She later became CEO of Ogilvy & Mather before going into public service as Colin Powell's undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs.
She's out now with a new text called "I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power and Joy at Work." Charlotte Beers, an honor to have you on this program.
Charlotte Beers: Thank you. That's the most succinct introduction I've ever had.
Tavis: Yeah, well, you know what they say – the shorter the introduction, the more important you are.
Beers: Oh, I'm glad to hear it.
Tavis: "Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States." (Laughter)
Beers: That's fast.
Tavis: "Ladies and gentlemen, the pope." The shorter it is, the more important you are.
Beers: My husband – that'll do it.
Tavis: When I go speak somewhere and they give a long introduction, I say, "I got a lot more work to do. That introduction was way too long."
Beers: I know, I know, slow that baby down.
Tavis: Slow it down, yeah.
Beers: Sometimes it sounds your obituary if they go too long. (Laughter)
Tavis: I'm glad to have you here, though. Let me start by asking two questions. One, what is the ultimate purpose of this text for women. Then I want to ask about men.
Beers: Good, I like both questions, potentially. I think what I'm trying to do is get women past this threshold that we've now established that keeps them from moving more and more in groups and circles of influence, and that drove me crazy.
When I came out of the State Department I assumed all the women that were in the ready lane would be taking their natural partnership role, and a lot of them didn't make it, and the mystery just puzzled me.
So I've solved that, I feel, to some extent, by writing this – by putting my thinking about that into this book.
Tavis: When you say, "Their natural partnership role," unpack that for me.
Beers: Well, that is confusing.
Tavis: No, it's not, I just –
Beers: I mean not every woman is meant to be in the corner office, and very few men make it. But they should be partners with men in circles of influence everywhere.
Tavis: Okay.
Beers: We'll have a far better country. They're not necessarily getting – the data's everywhere that they're not necessarily taking those roles.
Tavis: Okay, I get it now. So my second question – what, to your point now, since women have to work with men in the workplace –
Beers: Definitely.
Tavis: – what is the message, the takeaway for men who will read this text?
Beers: Well, I have two messages for men. I don't want to terrify them by saying it's a book for them too, but I think it's very important for men to read through what the obstacle course is that women have to follow.
There is no conspiracy that I've seen from men to block women. It's just that they're continuing on a course that's familiar, and men have always thought of themselves as going to work, and they're very keen on achieving something there.
The other thing I want men to understand is not only what women face, so they can deal better with opportunities for women, but the second half of the book is all about learning to say what you mean and to say it persuasively. I know many men who would benefit from that, so I find it a real message for them too.
Tavis: When you said a moment ago you didn't think it was a conspiracy, I thought of one of my favorite shows, "Sanford and Son," and Fred Sanford always said, "It's a C-O-N-spiracy," and I think Fred might be on to something about this, because I know when this mail comes in, and it will come, I'm going to send it to you.
Because I thought I heard you suggest that you don't think there is a conspiracy on the part of men to keep women back, and I know a bunch of women watching right now who will say you're naïve if you think that men in this patriarchal, sexist world, want women to succeed and to get that corner office over them. You can't be serious.
Beers: Actually, I'm many things, but I am not naïve. I've been in the field way too long and often, I was the only woman in the room. I don't think there's – a conspiracy to me implies a very large group of people lobbying against a certain outcome. I think men will do everything they can to win.
Not every man, not every man is ruthless, and they'll certainly run over the closest-standing woman to do that. Part of it is is they think they have the ball, they're supposed to cross the goal. So some of it is instinctive and intuitive.
But you know what happens in this threshold that I've kind of invented in my mind and put in the book is that there's a point in time when the performance of the work is not the issue, but the relationships that show you're a leader become paramount.
Men are much better and more aggressive at expressing that than women, and so in that sense they're constantly running past the women candidates. But that's not going to change with men.
What interests me is not railing against that, but preparing the women to compete on their terms.
Tavis: If there isn't a C-O-N-spiracy, to your mind, to keep women back, then why and how do you argue in the text, as you do, that it's even harder now? You argue, than at some previous point for women to get to the top level.
Beers: Yeah.
Tavis: Only 12 of 50 –
Beers: I know.
Tavis: Twelve of 500 of the top CEOs are women.
Beers: Right.
Tavis: So you can call it conspiracy or you can call it a whole bunch of coincidence –
Beers: Well, it's not working.
Tavis: – a whole bunch of coincidences, but something is amiss here.
Beers: Well, I don't mean to underestimate that, but I'd like to talk about what's actionable.
Tavis: Please tell me.
Beers: Instead of defining the problem I'd like to try to solve it. So I have read many intelligent, inspiring books about what's keeping women back, and some of it is this sense of being just lined up against the losing wall.
I think what's actionable, though, is to accept the fact that you will run across some very negative powers that keep you from playing, and the answer is you outplay them. You outmaneuver them and you present your credentials over and over until you win one.
I think women have a hard time understanding that in that threshold, when the work ceases to be important and the relationships, which are different from your relationships at home, become crucial, she can get ready, and when she gets ready you can't stop a woman like that.
Tavis: But why is it harder now? You would think that as our society advances –
Beers: Oh, why it's harder now.
Tavis: Why is it harder now?
Beers: Well, because – this is my theory, I haven't proven this one, because I didn't live this life but I think it's harder now because there's such a politically correct environment, which has been very helpful in many other ways, but men at the top don't actually know the women. They haven't had that hangout time. They haven't necessarily felt free to ask them personal questions. The woman hasn't necessarily been in the game with them.
So when he's got two men and one woman to choose from, he goes for what's most familiar. He can estimate the capacity of that guy, but he's not too clear what she's done.
Another underpinning of that is that women are applauded for being communal, collaborative, modest – I'd like to hang that word out to dry – instead of fierce and brave and competitive in her way.
So the men look easier to read for leadership than the women do, because we've encouraged women to be the opposite of that.
Tavis: I want to go back, Charlotte, inside the text in just a second, but when I first saw the book come across my desk, this subtitle, "A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power and Joy at Work," I believe it's possible, perhaps, to get some pride in your work.
Beers: Yeah.
Tavis: Power at work is possible for some, although it's relative. But joy at work?
Beers: Yeah.
Tavis: Male or female, who experiences joy at work these days?
Beers: Tavis, it's so much fun to work well. It's so easy to be exhilarated and be used up in a positive way at work.
Tavis: But all the data that I've read, Charlotte, suggests that ain't nobody, pardon my English, happy at work these days in the American workplace?
Beers: Well, I think it's the roughest time ever, because you have twice as much – for instance, all the guys that interviewed me from newspapers, they have their day job, then they have their blog job.
So it's typical of what's happening. Everybody's doing twice as much work with half the people, et cetera.
Every single woman that I've been teaching in my executive classes starts off by saying, "I love my work. I love my work." When you have that, there's potential for joy. Now, they go on to tell you the 30 things that are wrong, but I think the underpinning, especially for women, who might have more opportunity for joy than men, is discovering that you can work and use these other aspects of yourself is pretty thrilling to women. But they need to feel that they're using it, not being muffled.
Tavis: You intimated – or not intimated, started to hit on something earlier that I want to go back to; namely, that the kinds of relationships that women have at home and how they navigate those relationships is very different, vastly different from how they will successfully navigate relationships in the workplace. Tell me more.
Beers: I wish I'd used your word "navigate." That's the word. Well, I think what – it's kind of a symptom of the issue and it's become large in my mind. Women seek to be liked and to be popular because that's their relationship pattern, and we love our women for that.
But when you're at office you strip away like whether they like you is fairly irrelevant, but are we going to make good work together, and are we going to follow one another.
So the ultimate test of a leader isn't what you've been told in the business books. The ultimate test of a leader is how persuasive are you, and the components of persuasiveness are surprising. They are first. You're grounded in your own personal understanding of who you are.
You don't believe someone if they're not authentic about what they're saying. The second thing is to set about mastering artful communication. This doesn't come to you in the ether. This is something you study. You've got it, but you didn't probably have it day one. You work and you try and you practice and you actually study it, and I really think there are ways to learn that. I drew that from many people I've worked with.
Tavis: How do you women – since you liked the word navigate, let me reprise it.
Beers: I did.
Tavis: How do women navigate this line between being confident and being seen by men as being too aggressive? Being confident or being called the B-word. How do women, particularly in a patriarchal society, navigate that fine line?
Beers: Yeah. Well, I'm sure I was called that from time to time. I didn't care.
Tavis: Not you.
Beers: Huh?
Tavis: Not you.
Beers: No, not me, darling. (Laughter) Well, I was so Southern they'd have a hard time figuring out which way to turn that word, but a man once said of me, "You don't know you've lost your leg in Charlotte's office until you leave," so I thought it was a great compliment, but I didn't know what it meant. I'm sure it was another version of the B-word. (Laughter)
I think one thing you have to do is not care so much. But the other thing you have to do as a woman is when you say, "I won't do this," or "This doesn't work," I don't think you take it on like a man would. I think it's uncomfortable to see a woman "being tough and steely like a man," unless it's her natural habitat, and for some women, it is.
But for instance, when women don't like other women in business, chances are that woman has only learned one way to do it, which is this kind of harsh, not like her, "I mean business" stuff. So I think you could earn that title by being someone you're not, or you could earn that title because you're really going to get something done and you've got some flak.
I had people who simply didn't agree with what I was doing, and I accepted the fact. It hurts, though. Once at Ogilvy I had a group formed to oust me. This is pretty personal. I'm not even into my first year, so I'm much more vulnerable than I look. I think, Tavis, what we all do when we're up against an emotional conundrum like that, you think, what's this doing at work? It feels so personal.
Then you learn to put it on the shelf and extrapolate out of that what matters about this. What I chose to do in that experience, I didn't think it through until the whole night, and I went back to the person who was my informer and I said, "Don't tell me who they are. I can't afford to be diverted."
So if you ask most men, they would say, "I'll hammer them." So I think it was okay, because we won the thing that I was handing my energy toward, a company vision. I considered that much primary. I also did an arithmetic. If we did the vision I was fine, and if we didn't, I was cooked anyway. Then I took on the "evil cabal," as I called it, after that.
Tavis: You keep opening up these doors, and I'm going to keep following you through.
Beers: I know, sorry. (Laughs) I'm probably off the subject, too.
Tavis: No, no, you talked about this in the text as well, so I wanted to get to it, so I'm glad you raised it, and that is the difference between women trying to work their way around men versus women trying to work their way around women in the workplace. The difference is what?
Beers: Well, here's the thing. I don't know as much about the women-to-women thing, because so much of the time I was trying to interpret and decode men and manage men.
So then as more and more women came it was easy to feel like I could bring them along. It was very rewarding. What the women tell me that I've been working with is that there are always some notoriously difficult women bosses, and what I think it comes from is that time when they're really in the world of men and they have to be downright ruthless to even be heard.
Then there's another quality. It's kind of like scarcity. If there's going to be someone chose and there are two women, they're only going to pick one woman. They may pick five men. So you all of a sudden, and I notice them doing it, they see the woman as a competitor instead of the five men.
This is something I really work on in the book. It's not even interesting to focus on your competition. You need to focus on you and what you have to present about yourself. It takes you away from that narrow world.
Tavis: "Mad Men." Very successful TV program.
Beers: Yeah, I know, it's fun.
Tavis: You grew up in the ad world.
Beers: Right.
Tavis: In the age of "Mad Men."
Beers: I was 10 years later. There wasn't that much smoke around. (Laughter)
Tavis: So you're a decade later –
Beers: I'm sure I didn't see all that sex. I don't know where that was.
Tavis: It was there, trust me.
Beers: I know. My secretary said, "You're the dumbest woman on the floor," because I didn't know.
Tavis: So you're at the tail end of that era but you got some of that.
Beers: I did, I did.
Tavis: I raise that to ask, Charlotte, how it is that you – I was going to say how you survived that, but in your case it's not just surviving, it's thriving. How did you manage that?
Beers: Well, I did communicate that I like men. I have two really adorable brothers who just beat me into the ground day in and day out, so teasing, heavy teasing, was part of my history. I think it was a huge advantage, because once the guys started teasing me at the office, I've seen real teasing, so they were just amateurs, and I had a sense of humor about that.
So that allowed me to take more lightly some of the things that women feel umbrage about, and I think it's an advantage. I do encourage women to not be so serious. The men are laughing it up down the hall, and they're being serious because they think that's how people will take them seriously.
I believe the group of women together make that mistake, because also they're serious about competing and so on. So I had that advantage in that I was – and the men thought I was a one-off and they didn't have to worry about the subject too broadly, so I had a lot of freedom, oddly enough, to invent myself.
Tavis: Where's the line, though, between yukking it up with the guys and sexual harassment?
Beers: Well, that line is so subtle that I would occasionally be fooled.
Tavis: Mm-hmm.
Beers: I would think I was talking to my friend and I was talking with a potential seducer. That is very distressing. But I had all kinds of safety nets that are not – I find from the women, they're not necessary today. For instance, I would never go out with my client and say past 10:00.
I always had somebody with me, and I slipped away. Those are the times when things spin out of hand and I was very defensive and smart about it, I think. Occasionally I got trapped. There's a story in the book about me getting trapped in this hotel, and I've only known this man two hours. It's preposterous.
What I learned about that is we're all vulnerable, and I thought I was a big, fat CEO and therefore unscalable, but that wasn't true.
Tavis: You said something again a moment ago that I want to go back to. How do you – because I love the way you phrased it, and I'm going to mess it up now. But how do you signal to men that you like them but not that you "like" them.
Beers: Right.
Tavis: Because I am a man I can speak as a man. Sometimes, you know –
Beers: What's the signal, yeah?
Tavis: Yeah, you're like, "Does she really like me or is she just being nice?" I was on a plane the other day and I couldn't tell whether this flight attendant just liked me or recognized me, or whether she really liked me. (Laughter)
Beers: What were you hoping?
Tavis: Well, that's another conversation for another time. (Laughter) I will tell you this – I stayed to myself and I got off that plane without trying to pursue anything.
Beers: I understand.
Tavis: Because I don't want to misread signals, and that's not who I am –
Beers: And you don't want to misrepresent yourself.
Tavis: Exactly, exactly. But I say that because I know how men are. So a woman gives a signal and you're trying to figure out is that a signal or is that a signal. So how do you say to men that I like you, because you want to get along in the workplace, but I don't like you like that, fool.
Beers: Well, I guess it's a constant calibration. Southern women are a little bit flirtatious, but our whole point is this is for fun, and I think a man can enjoy that and not take it home.
So if I felt like it was getting misinterpreted then I would immediately start talking about my daughter. I would ground myself in my home life. When it was very difficult for me, honestly, Tavis, is when I was divorced, because that signal suggests open sesame kind of on dates and flirtation and so on, and I developed a very careful way of watching when the line crossed over.
I think women usually know ahead of the men where the inclination is going and you can make a move. Sometimes you get trapped, but – and that's why I told my one story about harassment, not because – the women tell me today that it's more subtle and they have to be alert, and there's a great deal less of it in the sense that anything goes.
But you can still get blindsided, and my warning in there was about that. I ended up in a company apartment inadvertently. I would have had – no one would have understood my story because it was so stupid of me to go up. But I wasn't thinking like that then.
Tavis: You've referenced two or three times in this conversation family life, home life, and there are a number of questions, and I won't go through all of them because I know you want to sell the book. (Laughter) But there are some powerful questions you suggest in the text that women have to ask themselves.
One of them that comes to mind immediately is what did you learn from your siblings. What did you learn from your siblings? Why is that an important question?
Beers: Well, the proposition there is that I hit a wall early enough in my career to have it work for me. I actually was in despair, and I realized that I knew how to work but I didn't know myself. The reason I had to learn in a hurry about myself is because I was really frightened every night about the job I had in front of me the next day, and it was because all emotions were all around – drugs and booze and a debt, a huge debt in the company and angry clients, not just unhappy.
So the idea that I could know how to handle those didn't seem to be possible, so I began to learn who I was. At the same time, I began to try to help the agency steer itself.
As I look back on that process, because I couldn't articulate that to anyone else, I ended up drafting these questions. I only learned those questions after the fact. When I went through, and you go back and see what messages and habits and motives you're carrying forward, because we're all born of those things, and the siblings, if you had them, or you had the equivalent sometimes, they teach you what life is like.
I will never forget realizing that men have more fun, that men have the right to earn money and therefore have control over their lives, and I didn't seem to have that. So I ended up taking math and physics in college just to make sure I had a shot at their world. That was a powerful lesson.
The other lesson my two brothers taught me is that bravery is good and failure is inevitable. Those aren't bad lessons, but my brother, the closest one to me, ran away from home all the time, and he got a licking every time he came home, and he never quit running away. (Laughter)
I thought, this guy is really tough. Now, I wouldn't run away if I lived to be 100, but I thought I can find my way to bravery.
Tavis: Before my time runs out, let me ask you what all of this, all these lessons, that is to say, inside of corporate America, how that in any way aided and abetted you engaging in public diplomacy inside the State Department?
Beers: Well, I grew dumb again. You think you know something to do, and I will say to you, every new job you get can drop you to your knees. When I was being interviewed at the White House, at my last interview, it was a token interview, I happened to turn to a woman who hadn't been spoken to and said, "Do you have any advice for me?"
She said, "Just remember this – 50 percent of the people you meet hope you fail." I thought – I reverted back to the fifth grade. I thought, well, they don't even know me. That's a childlike response. In fact, I knew a lot about communication and I certainly knew the charter, which was to create mutual understanding between the American people, and the Congress moved me strictly to Muslim communities.
I didn't do as good a job at understanding the powerful play of politics, where if you don't share my ideology, I don't like you. I'm not going to work with you and I'm not going to help you.
I had this naïve idea that we would all have this common goal for brand America, and I had to course-correct all along the way. In that sense, it's the toughest job I've ever had. But I'd never trade it for another.
Tavis: Charlotte Beers was undersecretary for Colin Powell at the State Department, as we were just discussing, and prior to that had a wonderful and long and distinguished career in corporate America as the CEO at one point of Ogilvy & Mather.
Her new text is called, "I'd Rather Be in Charge." The title needs no explanation.
Beers: (Laughter) I'm afraid it does.
Tavis: "I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power and Joy at Work." Charlotte Beers, I'm honored to have you on the program. I enjoyed the conversation immensely.
Beers: Thank you very much.
Tavis: Thank you for your time.
Beers: It was delightful.
Tavis: That's our show for tonight. See you back here next time on PBS. Until then, good night from L.A., thanks for watching and as always, keep the faith.
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In "Heavyweights," a movie about obese kids trying to lose weight, camp director Tony Perkis used a tactic that resonated with me when he said, "Attention campers. Lunch has been cancelled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it."
In "Heavyweights," a movie about obese kids trying to lose weight, camp director Tony Perkis used a tactic that resonated with me when he said, "Attention campers. Lunch has been cancelled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it."
In light of obesity moving past smoking as the number one cost of health care, it dawned on me that excluding those with serious medical conditions, sheer laziness more so than ignorance or developments in technology, has formed the foundation for this nationwide epidemic. With obesity costing us hundreds of billions of dollars every year, it's time to examine the root of the problem and change the American mentality.
The sedentary lifestyle is becoming a staple of American culture. According to a 2010 article from Harvard University's health blog, only 18 percent of Americans are meeting weekly recommendations for cardiovascular and muscle strengthening activity. Instead of going to the local Planet Fitness or joining a crossfit gym, too often I've seen late night infomercials with people enthusiastically advertising electronic stomach belts or magic pills that allegedly help you lose weight. Perhaps this path of least resistance fitness attitude is simply a byproduct of living in an instant gratification society where anything that doesn't happen instantaneously isn't worth having. When you have an atmosphere that is permeated with lethargy of this magnitude, it is easy to see why we are in the midst of a crisis of epic proportions.
Some people contend that what contributes to obesity is the serious lack of information available to most kids at an early age. This has some truth to it. Having attended public schools, I cannot remember a single class putting any real emphasis on things like caloric intake, BMI, metabolic rates, or anything that would help students understand the impact of unhealthy food and a sedentary lifestyle.
Instead of examining the science behind obesity, our schools would rather teach kids about the important stuff that they'll use every day of their professional lives, like photosynthesis and Covalent bonds. However truthful this is, it does not excuse us from our responsibility to stay in shape. If schools refuse to design a curriculum that will teach kids about the ramifications of obesity, then it is incumbent upon us, or parents of young kids to inform their children about this issue. With the Internet at our disposal, we have the ability to instantly research obesity and how to avoid becoming part of the problem.
Obesity may be triggered by laziness in the physical sense, but it is compounded by laziness in the intellectual sense when we refuse to simply type in "obesity causes" on Google and educate ourselves or our children.
While exercising is absolutely a part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, it seems that advancements in technology are providing excuses for/inhibiting some of us from getting active. Although there are video games like Dance Dance Revolution that effectuate good exercise, it seems they are losing out to games like Madden and Call of Duty. Some people claim that since Call of Duty is so lifelike with vivid imagery and features like first person shooter, many kids would rather sit on their couch and pile up kill streaks all day than go outside and get some fresh air.
Forgive me if I remain unconvinced that playing realistic video games is a good excuse for not exercising. The video game excuse seems to further the growing notion of zero accountability that many have argued our society is beginning to embrace. It is eerily reminiscent of those who say "I'm not fat because I'm lazy; I'm fat because of McDonald's." Growing up, I remember playing outdoor games like man hunt and tag for so long, that my mother would have to scream to get us back in the house. Sadly, I don't see the same outdoor activity anymore and I fear that kids today are being encouraged to live a passive and naive lifestyle.
Long ago, Ronald Reagan said, "It's time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his own actions." I echo his sentiments, and believe the time has come to embrace the reality of our culture of laziness and ditch the excuses holding many of us back from being fit. Due to the financial implications involved, we literally cannot afford to ignore this problem anymore.
Thomas Cribbin is a student at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, R.I.


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The long-awaited Localism Bill has finally arrived. Despite the abandonment of the word 'decentralisation' from the bill's title, the 577-page document has lived up to expectations in its aims for a groundbreaking shift of power from Westminster to the people.
The Government's commitment to its Big Society agenda is best seen in the bill's proposals to radically change the planning system. The bill introduces the concept of neighbourhood planning, hailed by the Government as a "right for communities to shape their local areas".
Regional planning policy is to be swept away, causing much controversy in the development industry, particularly from developers promoting schemes that depend on policies in a regional spatial strategy. The absence of regional policy, coupled with Government promises to curtail national planning policy, will leave a policy vacuum at both the national and regional levels. Instead, planning policy will be strengthened at the local level with the introduction of a new style of planning policy document – neighbourhood plans – which will form, according to the Government, the "new building blocks of the planning system".
In addition, for the first time, local communities, in the form of parish councils or alternatively designated neighbourhood forums comprising at least three local residents, can request
that their council makes a neighbourhood development order (NDO).
An NDO will have the effect of granting planning permission for a development or type of development in their neighbourhood. Similarly, the bill enshrines the much-publicised community right to build by allowing groups to promote a limited form of NDO. In both cases, the local council must make the order if at least 51 per cent of voters in a referendum support it.
Other planning provisions in the bill are clearly skewed in favour of the community. Developers will be under a legal duty to consult the community before submitting their planning application. Furthermore, there will be a duty on developers to have regard to consultation responses. Although this will make the consultation process more meaningful, it will no doubt place a heavy burden on developers.
At first glance, the planning provisions certainly seem to empower local communities to play an active part in the planning of their area. However, a trawl through the schedules of the bill dealing with neighbourhood planning reveals a convoluted process that must be followed.
For example, the draft NDO must be submitted to the secretary of state for examination before it is made. This begs the question of whether forming a community group and requesting the local council to initiate the NDO process is a more streamlined process than applying for planning permission in the usual way.
The more fundamental question is whether the aims behind the neighbourhood planning provisions will be realised. The bill envisages a world where communities pull together to play a part in the planning system, preparing plans, responding to consultations and promoting development. The reality, as many developers know, is different.
The provisions ignore the 'Nimby' effect. Communities want to engage with the planning system only when they have to, and that usually means opposing, rather than promoting, development in their localities.
If the bill is passed, it will be interesting to see how many NDOs are made. How many neighbourhood plans will promote a substantial amount of new housing? One questions whether power to the people will result in the level of development the economy badly needs.


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Has T-Swift's new song Trouble gone to the toilet? Well not exactly. Last week, we brought you the catchy tune featuring a screaming goat but this week, she was unwillingly teamed up with a motion activated paper towel dispenser.
To see a seemingly "mature" Taylor (at least that's what she wants us to believe) jump around and grovels on the ground and then, BAM! The dispenser emerges. I gott say this duo works. We knew you were trouble, Taylor, when you tried to make your self edgy. Fail!


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Clement Art Gallery at 201 Broadway in Troy has issued a call for artists for small works for a summer show:
Call For Art: Small Works Summer Salon: July 29 -Aug 25, 2011. Artists in all media except video and computer graphics may apply. Works must be under 10″ in longest direction framed, sculpture must be no larger than 10″ in all directions. Artists may submit up to 5 pieces. Submissions by email only. Please send images as jpeg, 72dpi and under 1mb each. Each piece should be numbered, titled and medium. Please send to: email@example.com – Subject line should read Small Works Submission. All artists will be notified by May 15. If accepted all artists are responsible for shipping to and from the gallery. All works are insured while in the gallery.


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Forbes's knowledge of the interesting and obscure plays an important role in the essential new book he wrote with Elizabeth Ames, Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't. In convincing fashion the authors set out to explain "why the free markets of democratic capitalism occupy the moral high ground", though it's Forbes ability to weave in historical anecdotes that fill his extraordinary mind that give life to the authors' correct assertions about the wonders of capitalism and freedom.
Full disclosure, I work as Opinions editor at Forbes's eponymous media company, and long before that I looked up to him with great admiration. It's my view that if Steve had won the GOP nomination and been elected President in 2000 that the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn that still plagues us wouldn't be, and it's similarly my view that no GOP contender in 2012 held a candle to Steve, including the eventual nominee, Mitt Romney. Much that I claim to know I learned from Steve, so readers can perhaps discount or add my high opinion of him to how they perceive my review.
Importantly, the timing of Freedom Manifesto is fortuitous. As the authors note, neither Mitt Romney nor Newt Gingrich (and for that matter, Rick Santorum) were powerful advocates of the moral virtues of capitalism in the primaries just past, so if readers are looking for something to correct their omissions, this is the book for you.
At the very least, it should be acknowledged from all sides that something's amiss inside the electorate, and that same electorate is looking for answers. As Forbes and Ames write, as of 2011 "a 'historic' 81 percent of Americans – majorities of both Democrats and Republicans – were dissatisfied with the way the nation was being governed." My own view for why has to do with the nonchalant way in which both parties approach the Constitution, the latter a document that grants the federal government a very limited role in our lives.
We can talk about the sluggish economy that still weighs on our collective psyche, but even there it should be said that our downcast state is a function of a governing class that no longer uses the Constitution as its guiding light for governance. Figure our founding document enumerates to Congress the power to "coin money, regulate the value thereof", yet a Congress composed of Democrats and Republicans has explicitly outsourced money to the U.S. Treasury and Fed; the results disastrous.
Indeed, as the authors so correctly point out, the recessionary rush to housing that turned the economy and fortunes of banks south "could never have happened without the Fed creating too much money." Of course if Congress took seriously the few powers enumerated to it, money would be stable and strong such that there would have been very little incentive to run blindly into housing to begin with.
So while the political class ignores the value of the dollar to our economic detriment, it created new powers for itself that the Founders never intended for it to have, and which it never bothered to float as amendments to the voters in order to "evolve" the document. In short, cheap money was the major driver of the tragic housing boom, and then politicians poured gasoline on the proverbial fire with Fannie, Freddie, and legislation meant to make everyone a homeowner. The recessionary housing boom did not have to be.
Back to the dollar, the authors correctly note that nosebleed gasoline prices are a direct result of the "dollar dilution" that politicians ignore, not to mention high rates of unemployment. Simply put, there are no jobs without investment, investors in future ideas are tautologically buying future dollar income streams when they commit capital to ideas, but with the Fed and Treasury having trashed the dollar right in front of a witless Congress, there's little incentive for the intrepid in our midst to direct money to productive endeavors.
Americans are unhappy with our governance, and with good reason. Where we need protection from our elected legislators they're AWOL, and then in areas where they're not supposed to meddle per a Constitution that limits their action, they've gone hog wild. Absent all these extra-constitutional actions, most legislative decisions would be local, local decisions per Founders' intent would mean individuals could choose their small, medium and big government bliss, and for most governance being local there would arguably be a great deal more harmony within the national electorate.
Considering the bailouts of banks that turned a downturn into a financial crisis, the authors argue that these similarly extra-constitutional actions (the health of banks is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution) encourage "companies to make bad decisions." There's some disagreement there not about bailouts – they're reprehensible – but with the assertion that they encourage bad decisions. This doesn't ring true because when we consider the banks like Bear Stearns that were bailed out, it wasn't the executives of Bear that were saved (they were wiped out), rather it was Bears' counterparties.
Bailouts are instead problematic because they create moral hazard among counterparties big and small (when's the last time any reader considered the health of a bank before depositing money with it – much the same could be asked of large counterparties of institutions deemed "too big to fail"), and then they blind us to good decisions. They do because bailouts perpetuate a status quo in all sectors they're allowed to infect, and because they do they restrain commercial evolution.


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I opened the refrigerator in search of dinner last night and was confronted by leftover portions of ingredients that seemed anxious to be combined together into one epic dish. Seasonal produce conveniently seems to work that way, doesn't it? As I pulled various items out onto the counter–half an onion, some mushrooms, half a box of spinach–a dish started to materialize in my mind. The freezer coughed up half a bag of frozen sweet potato cubes and the pantry matched that with half a pound of whole wheat pasta. I was itching to stir.
I should pause here to point out that while I'm no slave to a recipe or a measuring spoon, when I try to cook completely without a net, well, result may vary. But I was feeling bold, plus I was home alone, so I just kept crashing forward. The cat looked worried, but I figured I could cook the various pieces and then pull the dish together with a little cream and butter. In the end, I was mostly hoping it looked good enough for me to plate it and try out my new photo lighting system.
Though I was nagged by the thought that this impulse I was following was completely ignoring some essential thing that I would only realize once the meal was prepared and I tried to actually eat it, no drama ensued. I just ended up with a nice autumn pasta dish that effectively consumed all my leftovers into something classy. Mission accomplished.
Considering how the dish was made, there are obviously no hard and fast ingredients or proportions. However, this was my approach:
Autumn Pasta with Mushrooms, Sweet Potatoes, and Greens
1 T olive oil
1/2 cup chopped white onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 pint cremini mushrooms, sliced
1 cup frozen sweet potato cubes
4 cups spinach or leafy greens of your choice
1/2 cup vegetable broth
1/2 lb. whole wheat pasta
4 T butter
1 cup heavy cream
2 tsp chopped sage
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
salt and pepper to taste
Heat olive oil over medium heat and sauté onion until softened and translucent. Add garlic and mushrooms and continue cooking until mushrooms release their juices. Add sweet potatoes, greens, and broth to the pan and, without stirring, place lid over top and allow vegetables to steam for six minutes. At this point, the greens should have begun to wilt and the potatoes to soften. Toss the vegetables and continue cooking until potatoes are tender.
Meanwhile, in a large pot, cook pasta according to package directions. When complete, drain and return to pot, adding the cooked vegetables and any cooking liquid in the pan. Stir to prevent pasta from sticking together.
In your (now empty) saute pan, melt the butter and add the sage, cooking for a minute or two. Add the cream and cheese and stir until melted and heated through. Return pasta and vegetables to the pan and toss to coat with the sauce and rewarm the pasta. Season with salt and pepper to taste as needed. Garnish with a few chopped nuts (I had a few toasted hazelnuts on hand–leftover, of course) and enjoy.


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Hofstra Law Alumni Association
The more than 12,000 alumni of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law make up its Alumni Association. Membership in the association is free to all alumni. The Alumni Association provides alumni with opportunities to engage with their fellow alumni, students, faculty and administrators for their personal and professional development, as well as to enhance Hofstra Law programming.
The Alumni Association is led by an executive board and is organized into three committees — Career Services, Development and Diversity — each of which works closely with a member of the Hofstra Law administration. The executive board, roles of the committees, and committee co-chairs are as follows:
Executive Board
|Michael Schnipper '04, President
Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
50 Jericho Quadrangle, Suite 300
Jericho, NY 11753
|Mark J. Caruso '77, Vice President
Partner, Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP
1 MetroTech Center, Suite 1701
Brooklyn, NY 11201
|JoAnna R. Nicholson '08, Secretary
Associate General Counsel, North American Partners in Anesthesia
68 South Service Road, Suite 350
Melville, New York 11747
|Andrew L. Oringer '84, Vice President
Partner and Co-Chair, ERISA & Executive Compensation Group
Dechert LLP
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
|Terrence L. Tarver '07, Vice President
Owner, Tarver Law Firm, P.C.
1140 Franklin Avenue, Suite 200
Garden City, NY 11530
Judicial Liaison
|Hon. Denise L. Sher '78, Judicial Liaison
Justice, Nassau County Supreme Court
100 Supreme Court Drive Mineola, NY 11501
Career Services Committee
The Career Services Committee assists Hofstra Law by, among other things, engaging in outreach to fellow alumni for the purpose of identifying potential internship and postgraduate employment opportunities for Hofstra Law students and graduates, promoting alumni participation in Hofstra Law's on-campus recruitment programs (OCI), identifying alumni who are willing to serve as professional mentors for current students, and participating in career- and professional-development-related programming run by Hofstra Law.
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Daniel P. Vaillant '08
Development Committee
The Development Committee assists Hofstra Law's Office of External Relations with alumni programs and fundraising initiatives. The committee consists of alumni class agents, who serve as ambassadors of Hofstra Law, contacting classmates to build a stronger alumni community and encourage gifts to The Fund for Hofstra Law.
Seth A. Presser '07
Michael Romano '11
Diversity Committee
The Diversity Committee was formed to further Hofstra Law's efforts to maintain a diverse student body, faculty and administration. The committee supports Hofstra Law's efforts to identify and recruit students from diverse ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds; provide support to minority students and organizations through participation in their programs and events, as well as serve as mentors and advisors; assist in engaging alumni from diverse backgrounds and help to develop ways of encouraging their participation in alumni activities; and help to build financial support for Hofstra Law's diversity scholarships and overall fundraising efforts.
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All Texas pharmacy tech schools have to be certified in accordance with federal and state standards. To become qualified to sit for your state's licensure test, you must graduate from coursework that is recognized by these bodies.
It is important to keep in mind that curriculums vary at every school but, as long as they are accredited, your main concern is to find one that fits your needs. The standards for almost all schools in Killeen, TX state that candidates hold a high school diploma, clean criminal background and be 18 years of age or older.
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The co-main event is upon us, and it features lightweight Donald Cerrone moving up to welterweight to face Patrick Cote (who's fought at light-heavyweight). Good grief, Cerrone just doesn't care, does he?
Cote comes out and clocks Cerrone with an overhand, and Cerrone counters with a well-timed double-leg takedown. The Canadian does an impeccable job of tying him up in his guard, so they're stalemated for a good bit of time until Cote scrambles back up. However, when he steps in to throw leather, Cerrone against effortlessly takes him down, and not long after landing in side-control, Cerrone has passed into back-control and begins working on a choke. Cote escapes with ten seconds left.
Round 2 sees Cerrone perfectly happy to engage on the feet, which he does in the form of leg-kicks that have Cote nearly buckling. The addition of boxing has Cerrone dropping him with a left hook, and when he recovers, Cote is going for desperate takedown attempts. He survives – obviously, he's still every bit as tough as he's ever been.
Perhaps acknowledging that his only hope is to land something wild, Cote rushes forward firing punches in the third. Cerrone drops him again with that same left, lets him back up again, and bangs him up a bit more before dropping him one last time with that punch. This time Cote is done, and the referee is forced to step in.
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Obituary for Bernice W. Reed
Updated 2:29 pm, Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Bernice W. Reed, 97, of Panhandle, died Friday, December 28, 2012 in Pampa.
No services are scheduled.
Bernice W. Reed was born December 5, 1915 in Nolan County, Texas to Benjamin and Julia (Hollowell) Wilkerson. She was a homemaker and was a Panhandle resident since 2005, moving from Jasper, Texas.
Survivors include her daughter Nancy McIlroy of Panhandle, seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren.
Bernice is preceded in death, by her husband of 60 plus years, Utah Reed in 1992, two daughters; Carla Knight, Julia Reed, and a son Coleman Reed.Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors
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richard m/head b 1770 richmond co, va
richard m/head was born ca 1770. probably in Ricmond co, VA. please don't get this confused with Richmond VA, which is in Henrico Co. He was married twice; first wife was margaret Muse. 2nd wife was Isabella ?. what was Isabella's last name and when/where did he marry her.
There were 3 different George Mothersheads ca 1770 in Richmond Co, VA who could be Richards father. any suggestions on which one had which kids??


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I may not be always up for trying new moisturisers or serums lest they muck up my skin, but I'm always game for new cleansers. They don't stay on the skin long enough to do much damage (if they do, then there's something seriously wrong with the ingredients. Look for "bleach". I'm kidding. Or not?), and when you happen to stumble upon a good one, you've hit the proverbial jackpot.
A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to try out the Purifying Cleansing Gel from Comvita. It's a refreshing cleanser that comes in a light brown gel. It mentions something about containing Manuka honey, but I can't be sure if that's what it smells like. I'm rubbish at describing scents, so suffice to say, it does not stink the big one 😉
What I like about this cleanser is that it's very light (almost runny, in fact) and does not leave my skin feeling dry and tight after cleansing. It actually reminds me of Cetaphil's Skin Gentle Cleanser. Unfortunately, like Cetaphil, it does not remove makeup well too. Still, I do not rely on one cleanser alone to remove my makeup, so this inadequacy does not bother me at all.
As it's a light cleanser, I enjoy using this in the morning before I put my day face on. One surprising and very odd thing though: for a light cleanser, I use about 4 pumps per application. This cleanser comes in a 150ml bottle. I've been using this twice daily for 2 months, and I've barely hit the middle. How the heck is that possible?! Usually by the second month, it's time for me to replenish my exhausted cleanser, but this one, this just doesn't seem to want to finish. It's bizarre, I tell ya 😛
It's not a cheap cleanser at AU$42 but like I said, I can't seem to get through this in 2 months. In fact, I'm going on three now, and it's not even halfway done. Hmmm…cost per use isn't too bad here.
Comvita's skincare range is available on the website and exclusively at David Jones.
What I like about it: Light cleanser, suitable for oily/combination skin
What I do not like about it: It's not a cheap one
PS: Now you get my Mary Poppins carpet bag reference, don't you? No? Go watch the show! 😛


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Fruit Body Scrubs
Anything that is fruity is ever so refreshing. Fruit-based skin care products give a refreshing and cool punch to the skin. Along with giving the skin a youthful glow, it leaves the skin rejuvenated and fresh. Body scrubs are used for exfoliating the skin i.e. removing the dead skin cells and speeding the cell renewal process. Fruit-based body scrubs help in not just exfoliating the skin cells but also provide essential vitamins and minerals to our skin.
A few of the homemade fruit scrub recipes are discussed in this article.
1. Fruitilicious!
Summer fruits are not just super refreshing and beneficial for our body from the inside, they can benefit our body from the outside too. Pick you are favorite one- banana, mango, avocado or papaya. Mash the pulp of one fruit, add a tablespoon honey to it and ground oatmeal for the grainy texture of a scrub. Use it as a body scrub 2-3 times a week.
These fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals like vitamin A, manganese, iron etc and provide nourishment along with an exfoliating effect.
2. Banana and sugar
Mash the bananas in a bowl using a fork (or your fingers) and add the sugar and vanilla essence to it. It is better to use this scrub within a day or two but you can store it for 3-4 days too.
This is a great scrub for dry skin type. The bananas moisturize the skin and provide essential vitamins and minerals like Vitamin A, manganese, iron etc.
3. Tomato and sugar
Yes, the tomato is a fruit! This scrub would remove the dead skin and expose glowing and fresh skin cells. Take 2 cups of tomato puree and add 1 a cup of fine sugar to it. Scrub this mixture on your face and body in circular motions and rinse with lukewarm water after letting it stay for 10 minutes.
Use this scrub weekly to lighten the sun tan in a natural way.
4. Orange peel and milk
Grind orange peels dried in the shade and add ample amount of milk to it to form a smooth paste. The paste should neither be too runny nor too thick. Massage this paste on the affected areas in circular motions for 5 minutes and let it stay for 10 minutes. Rinse it with cool water and pat dry. Repeat this 2-3 times a week and you will see your tan reducing.
Scrubbing is a great way to rejuvenate your skin, and doing it with natural ingredients enhances its effectiveness. But you must take care of a few points while indulging yourself into this.
- You must take care not to rub vigorously, scrub your skin gently with these scrubs and rinse with lukewarm water.
- Your skin becomes sensitive post scrubbing, so avoid going in the sun as far as possible.
- Don't overdo the scrubbing. It should be done once or at most twice a week.
- Scrubbing is definitely not something to be done on a daily basis.
- Avoid scrubbing in areas with cracked or chapped skin and around open cuts or wounds.


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are many industrial, commercial and institutional boilers subject to a new EPA
rulemaking in the United States. There are approximately two dozen of
these <25 MW units in the public power utility sector. This webinar will
summarize the emission limits applicable to public power utilities with <25
MW boilers in EPA's reconsidered final Boiler MACT rule issued Dec. 21,
2012, and the schedule for required notifications and compliance demonstrations.
The presentation will also identify the testing, monitoring, recordkeeping and
reporting obligations required in the rule to track continuous compliance with
the MACT limits. The reconsidered rule offers some compliance options that may
reduce the regulatory burden for some APPA members. The webinar will
highlight strategic choices regarding limited use curtailments, averaging, fuel
choice, output-based limits, etc., to help members evaluate if these options are
worth pursuing. Finally, the speaker will provide thoughts on anticipated
legal challenges to the final rule and how those challenges may affect
compliance obligation. Technical consultants and outside counsel to APPA member
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I was just commenting on your post regarding Gingrich.
I'm not sure what your motivation was in attacking his Faith, but please don't think I have an issue with your belief system. It really doesn't concern me.
Have a good evening my FRiend...
No one even mentions my choice Rick Santorum. Sigh...I do not like Newt's whiny arrogance. There's a reason he didn't win vs Mitt and some of it has to do with his inability to raise enough money to fight. He also has a poorly organized team of advisors, JMO. I can't warm up to him, sorry but I just can't.
It will be interesting to see what the rest of the nation thinks so don't bite my head off because I don't agree with everyone's love of Newt.
I hope that all of us will vote for the GOPer left standing in November, whoever it is. We have to eject the chimp in chief...anyone but obammmie!


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The row over the banning of anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders from entering Britain last week has not boosted the popularity of his PVV party greatly, according to the latest online poll by Maurice de Hond.
The populist PVV would win 25 seats in the 150-seat parliament in an election was held now, just two more than a week ago. The party currently has nine MPs.
The two extra seats come from the main government partners, the Christian Democrats (CDA) and Labour, who both lost one each in the latest opinion poll. This makes the PVV the second biggest party after the CDA.


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I was going for a simple, clean, puppy site that anyone would be able to navigate through without much hassle.
Constructive criticism will be helpful
site hosted on Powweb
I was going for a simple, clean, puppy site that anyone would be able to navigate through without much hassle.
Constructive criticism will be helpful
site hosted on Powweb
Last edited by tkbauder; 11-4-13 at 02:06 AM. Reason: forgot to list the site:)
I'm partial to Brittany Spaniels, but decided to look at a site about Labs anyway.
I think you've achieved your goal of a clean design. Looks nice and uncluttered. Easy navigation. Very minor nits to pick:
- On your opening page the paw graphics each have a label on them; there's no need for a title attribute to pop up the exact same label. This same behavior is on other pages as well.
- The upper right paw on the opening page, "Litters Available", has a different text alignment. The explanation text is center aligned rather than the left-alignment of the rest of the paw/explanation sections.
- You might consider a "photo gallery" script for displaying your pictures. I use a very simple jquery based script. It works with your existing page and layout. A lot more elegant than simply popping the full-size photo in a new window. See it in action here: http://troop53.net/events/aah13/ View source to find a link to the script. There's others out there though if the one I use isn't to your liking. Since you use WordPress there's probably a plug-in you can find.
- The Sitemap, Support/Help, & Terms of Usage links at the bottom of each page lead nowhere.
Overall, nice job!
Good luck,
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn... that was fun!"
Hmm. A hassle to one may not be a hassle to another, as well as what may not be a hassle to one, may be to another, so I can't get into constructive criticism right now. But on another note, WOW. Maybe if the site I had been doing for a Mastiff breeder in Maryland was as good looking as this one, she'd still be a paying customer of mine..
So what's Interfeis? And what's with the J/S for the other three links at the bottom? I don't use or particularly like Wordpress, so I can't really give an unbiased comment about it's use, other than to say, IMO, it can be used to make things look nice..
All in all, you've got a great looking and informative site there. My opinions and comments are worth less than a grain of salt, but are you not glad that I like it!
-bruce /* somdcomputerguy */
'If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.'
1 - I will work on the paw graphic - I am not sure why they pop up the same words since one of them doesn't - I will get that figured out, I must have done something to the one that doesn't lol
2 - Have had a dickens of time in wordpress trying to get the alignment to work (and stay) the way I want it to I hope to change that as well.
3 - Photo Gallery...ya...that is definatly the goal I have had many a meltdown, being self taught, going from expression web to word press & it was taking me a while to figure out the photo gallery so to tide me over I did a quick table to keep everything in line Now that you have said what I thought, it seems to be something I will con't to work with and get that done.
4 - I pretty much forgot about the bottom menu lol...thanks for reminding me - most of what is there is from the theme
Thanks! You have given me much to think about!
Bruce...are you Irish? Just wondering Your 1st paragraph reminds me of something I would say.
Interfeis...hmmm...I think it is some bs thing that was included with the theme & needs to be deleted...I will defiantly get on that! I think the rest of the bottom stuff is the same & it needs to go as well...thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Thanks for the opinions...no opinion is worthless (most of the time)...You too have now given me more for my "to do" list! Have a great week!
My response to you will be up soon Kevin...it is awaiting "moderation" - thanks for your help!
isnt the popup title tag (the 'alt' tag, right?) there to assist those using assistive devices Kevin?
In terms of a review, it is clean and straight forward. while the paw pictures are cute, I would personally find it more interesting if the paws were replaced with other pictures. I also think it could be presented more 'economically' - it would be nice if no scrolling were required to read all the first page content. For example, I dont think a description of what is in the 'contact us' or 'guarantee' is needed...is a description of any of them really necessary?
to be clear, it's fine - in my eyes, some modifications would make it better
tpoynton - Thanks for taking a look! I too wondered about assistive devices...I have a friend that is blind and I wondered if that is what his machine read??
I will try to reduce the home page so you don't have to scroll. That makes sense. I do however wonder about the picture links instead of the paws only because I have so many pics of the dogs on all other pages?
-bruce /* somdcomputerguy */
'If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.'
Now (since 2002-ish?), they're different. For example, you can put an alt in the img tag and a title in the a(nchor)tag surrounding the image, or both in one img tag. I often do one of those. To sum up, alt is for assistive devices and should not show in "visual" browsers, title should appear (if that's the right word) in both "visual" browsers and assistive devices for visually impaired.
At least that's my understanding.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn... that was fun!"
tpoynton - the way the theme is set there is no way to make the home page smaller so some scrolling is always going to be necessary. I did, however, get the page name (HOME) off, because it didn't need to be there anyway, and it did help a little bit.
I did, also, consider removing the description of the links on the home page (the contact us link & the guarantee link don't need to be described) but I think I need to remember that there are many people that are not as positive as I am & if they are looking for something and don't know where to click (because it isn't spelled out) they freak out & automatically hit the contact us button to ask us a question. I guess the site is a tool to weed people out that only want information. My husband is one of those I talk about...not very computer literate but is great with his dogs - he wants to know where to get the information he wants before he clicks.
The only other option would be to add more link buttons but I didn't want a ton of them on the home page????
So I should type in the Alt field & not the Title field - the goal would be to be read by devices but not seen on the site - is this correct??
You can do both, but the alt "field" is really the one that would matter to your blind friend.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn... that was fun!"
Thanks for your help...I am busy making changes! Everyone has been helpful & I have added to rep
Kevin, thanks for clarifying the title vs. alt tag thing. alt tag good, title bad.
OP, RE: the pictures I just thought that maybe a picture of some afterbirth would be good for the 'litters' link, a phone cord for contact us (etc). I find the big paws to be a waste of space, making those smaller (or replacing with smaller pictures related to what you are linking to) would reduce scrolling. I'm not sure how saying 'Here is a copy of our 3-Year Written Guarantee' really helps clarify what someone is clicking on when they click on the link to the '3 yr written guarantee'.
These are my thoughts...or more accurate perhaps, clarification of previous thoughts. you can take or leave them, fine by me
So, alt is required by W3C for any img tag, title is optional and can be applied to any tag. In fact, I use title for "definitions" via CSS. I have a CSS class defined that puts a dashed underline under acronyms or other esoteric terms. When you hover over that acronym/term the content of the title attribute pops up. Just one practical use of title...
Ah well, kind of off-topic so I'll just shut up now and crawl back into my hole.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn... that was fun!"


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"Aunt Flow"
The first night I slept over I got my period and bled all over his white sheets. I was mortified. He said "No biggie, that's what detergent is for," and made me breakfast.
— Red
Postscript: We were together for a while but it didn't work out. He' still a great guy though. No hard feelings.
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The past decade has been a lost one for domestic equity investors. The Standard & Poor's 500 is down 24.5% over 10 years, meaning that even amid all the hubbub over our most recent bull market, many long-term investors are still under water--and not by a little either. This means that the markets still have a long way to go before they get back to where they were when Bill Clinton was president,
How to ensure that the coming decade isn't as much of a debacle as the one that just passed? We asked some industry followers for their thoughts on where to go, and what to do in order to keep one Lost Decade from becoming a Lost Generation.
John Osbon, the head of Osbon Capital Management, invests via indexes. His suggestion couldn't be more basic: stocks and bonds. Still, there is more to this than meets the eye, as any investor with a long-term time horizon already knows. Specifically Osbon likes the
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Osbon likes the stock fund because, as its name implies, it seeks to track the entire world of stocks. As such, it gives a fair representation of the world's major economies and markets, holding 2,754 stocks. It costs 30 basis points a year, and has risen 15.6% year-to-date, besting the markets, which are up 13%.
The bond ETF, similarly, tracks the entire U.S. investment-grade bond world. It cost 14 basis points a year, what the institutions pay. Year to date, its performance is flat, although over five years, it's up 5.4%. This might seem modest until you compare it to the general stock markets, down 29.8%. This ETF holds 3,072 bonds, providing diversification, with maturities averaging 6.6 years. Its average quality rating is AA1, "so you are taking little credit or interest rate risk," Osbon says.
The key here, he says, is how you divide between these two. One tried and true method is the "Bogle Rule," named for Vanguard founder John Bogle, which states that your bond percentage is your age.
Stephen Roseman, head of hedge fund Thesis Capital, took a different approach and said he would like exposure to food and infrastructure in the next decade.
"The drivers of increasing global demand for both are incontrovertible," he says.
Food is driven by upwardly mobile population growth worldwide. Infrastructure is driven by increasingly wealthy nations building better infrastructure to both help their citizens and stay globally competitive. The fact that the U.S. is prepared to spend billions on infrastructure as part of its stimulus programs doesn't hurt either.
Roseman declined to provide specific securities, but some research points to some names worth considering. Marc Gerstein, research consultant at Portfolio123.com and contributor to Forbes, likes to invest in value plays in infrastructure, picking companies like
Food is the other half of Roseman's equation, and again, there are some interesting ways to play this. One way is through sugar. The powdery white stuff is trading near 30-year highs, thanks to India's worst monsoon season in 40 years driving up demand. As reported by the Manila Bulletin, New York's October raw sugar contracts are at 23.5 cents per pound, a (sugar) high last seen in 1981.
There are various ways to play sugar. For starters, you could invest in a sugar maker. A domestic option is
Going more generally into soft commodities, one might consider a more general exchange-traded fund, such as the
Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist of Advisors Asset Management, is also bullish on agricultural commodities. Part of this is because it's possible that unusually high amounts of natural disasters could hurt crops worldwide. While not as valuable as metal and oil prices, "scarcity in food supply can have far more reaching ramifications," he says. He believes that, where appropriate, the best way to invest here is through principal-protected notes. These are fixed-income security that guarantees a minimum return equal to the investor's initial investment.
"Volatility in the commodity area looks to be rising dramatically over the next few years in our opinion," he says. "The prices will be pushed by underlying fundamentals (rising demand and inconsistent supply) as well as pressure on the U.S. dollar, which will create a nice tailwind for commodities," he says.
The Decade to Come
Forbes: If you were to buy two securities to hold for the upcoming decade of the teens, what would they be? (You can buy them in any proportion you want, like 50/50, for example).
John Osbon: There are two securities that are "must own" for the next decade, in our view. They are VT, the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, and BND, the Vanguard Total Bond Market exchange-traded fund.
VT, as the title implies, is the entire world of stocks, giving you the advantage of owning an index representing all major economies and markets worldwide. Very powerful. With an expense ratio of 30 basis points, you are exercising cost control and keeping the overwhelming majority of your return, instead of paying it to someone else--VT owns 2,754 stocks.
BND, likewise, is the entire U.S. investment grade bond market. With an expense ratio of 14 basis points, you are again getting the lowest possible institutional rate. BND holds 3,072 bonds, providing generous diversification, and has an average maturity of 6.6 years and an average AA1 quality rating, so you are taking little credit or interest rate risk.
The overwhelming determinant of your investment outcome is the percentage split between the two. You could use the convenient "Bogle Rule," which is that your equity allocation equals 100 minus your age, with the rest going into bonds. Or you can use your own intuition or formula.
And there you have it ... global indexing in two securities. This plan can be implemented literally anywhere with any amount of money, is transparent, low-cost, tax-efficient and user-friendly. Almost makes you want to ask what you are really paying your adviser for!
Forbes: Thanks, John, for those picks. Stephen, what do you think of this? Speaking of these ETFs, how should retail investors determine which ETFs make sense for them? It seems like sometimes people oversimplify the idea of investing in ETFs and figure that they can just pick one, when there are differences in them. What do you both think about that?
Osbon: Picking good ETFs is critical. Of the 700+ out there, less than 9% make it past our filter. We select them based on representation (fidelity to an index), cost, tax efficiency, sponsorship and volume. Selecting good ETFs may be simple, but it certainly is not easy.
Stephen Roseman: Instead of thinking about which two securities, I would offer up which two areas of the market that I would want to have exposure to for the next decade. The answer to that question is food and infrastructure. You could get that exposure domestically or internationally, depending on your investing preferences, but the drivers of increasing global demand for both are incontrovertible.
Forbes: What are the drivers here? Can you be a little more expansive about what you like about food and infrastructure?
Roseman: In addition to global upwardly mobile population growth, which demands higher volume of food and an improvement in its quality, you also have increasingly wealthy nations, which are building additional infrastructure to better accommodate their citizens and so that their industries can be better global competitors. These dynamics give rise to increased infrastructure spending and the need for greater food production.
Forbes: John, what do you make of these areas for the next few years or so?
Osbon: Both areas sound plausible but lack a connection between cause and effect. Assuming the best case comes through, how can one be sure those stocks--hard enough to pick in advance--will actually go up? Think of the current profitless prosperity of "green" investing--especially solar. Solar is a great idea that has been a lousy investment.
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We had 40-something people. I did create a seating chart and gave that to my onsite coordinator with the placecards and they set it up for us. I bought fish stickers and put a sticker on those who chose the red snapper. That was something I was really nervous about, thinking it was going to be set-up wrong but they set everything up perfectly. The people who had the beef they even had a steak knife at their place setting for them.
I cannot say enough how great Michelle and the servers were at the wedding. Family that attended our wedding are still commenting about it to us. My aunt wanted something to drink and the bar was missing an ingredient and she told him no problem and ordered something different. One of the servers ran, yes literally ran to find the ingredient, brought it to bar, and found her on the dance floor to give her the drink. They were making trays of shots/drinks and walking abound with them and my one friend couldn't drink alcohol at the time so the servers would make sure to have a "virgin" version of the drink on the tray for her. I mean the list can go on and on..
I LOVE hearing this!
Ana, my coordinator, just emailed me last night that we can mix and match menu items. I wrote her back asking for more clarification, so we'll see what she says.
Was there an upcharge to do the long tables vs the round ones?