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Taufa Vakatale beside her photograph during the Women in Politics exhibition at the Fiji Museum in Suva last
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A WOMEN in Politics picture exhibition was launched last week at the Fiji Museum by former politician Taufa Vakatale.
Ms Vakatale thanked the National Council of Women for their initiative to the public to think about the people they will put in parliament from the national elections later in the year.
She said people should vote for the party that had the most women.
"I hope you vote for the party that has 40 per cent of women candidates; that they (parties) do not put them at the last," she said.
"Then you get a good representation of women in parliament."
She labelled the beginning of her career in politics as an "accident", saying she reached the top of the ladder in her career as a teacher.
"You have to be to be able to fight your way to the top. I didn't have any qualms about my ability because I knew I could hold my own with men," she said.
"I admire the people who are taking the risks now. But there shouldn't be many risks because there are more openings now than there were during my days.
"There's always a glass ceiling, you can't see through it — women are given the same opportunity as men, let's face facts — you have to be much better than the men."
She remembers former politicians who paved the way for women in politics before her such as Loma Livingston and Irene Jai Narayan.
The Women in Politics exhibition will run until October.
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Good intentions and drafted posts have been collecting dust for over a month and I have to admit I'm not as on top of school this semester as I'd like. Any Microbiology tutors out there?
Perhaps the constant barrage of snow storms has messed with my method of madness but I'm finding it hard to manage my time. So I'm trying out a few tools to help me to start and finish tasks.
I saw this video in my Google+ stream awhile back and it's been in the back of my head intriguing me. {It's a short, informative video don't worry!}
I like the idea of intense periods of work with short breaks and have tried to do that with my handy dandy timer but with limited success. I did try this out one day last week and at the end of two 90 minute sessions I had all my homework done for the day. It was a heady feeling.
Next week I'm going to give it a more concerted effort, can't think about it until after the AWP conference is over. Which I couldn't go to on Friday since I got snowed in but that is a rant for another day!
We'll see how this little time management experiment goes.
What about you? Do you have a method to your time management madness?
PS– if you liked the video here is the article on Sparring Mind mentioned in it that also links to a ton of studies and tips.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Mike Pelfrey tossed three scoreless innings, and he was backed offensively by Joe Mauer and Trevor Plouffe to help lead the Twins to a 4-1 win over the Orioles on Tuesday at Hammond Stadium.
Pelfrey, who had his original start against the Rays cancelled due to rain on Monday, was sharp on an extra day of rest. The right-hander allowed just two hits over three scoreless innings and struck out four, including the side in the first inning.View Full Game Coverage
He's scheduled to make his final start of the spring on short rest on Saturday against the Red Sox, and Pelfrey is expected to throw about 90 pitches in that outing. He was also originally slated to pitch in a Minor League game with Triple-A Rochester on Tuesday but pitched in the Grapefruit League game because the Minor League field was in bad condition due to the rain on Monday.
"I felt fine," Pelfrey said. "My command in the first inning wasn't good. I went 3-2 on all three hitters. Not a lot of guys have 1-2-3 first innings with 25 pitches. But I plan to get better."
Right-hander Bud Norris started for the Orioles and went 5 1/3 innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on seven hits and a walk with two strikeouts.
"I'm excited. I think we all are," said Norris, who will pitch either the fourth or fifth game of the season. "We've been champing at the bit. We've been working hard. Like I said, for us to get out of here healthy is the No. 1 priority. I'm excited to get this going."
The Twins scored twice in the second, as Josh Willingham reached on an error by shortstop Alexi Casilla and came around to score on a double by Plouffe. Plouffe promptly scored on a single by Oswaldo Arcia.
Minnesota scored again in the fifth, when Brian Dozier hit a single and stole second base before scoring on a single by Mauer. Minnesota added an insurance run in the seventh on a two-out RBI double by Chris Colabello off Tommy Hunter.
Left-hander Scott Diamond pitched the middle three innings for the Twins, surrendering one run on two hits with a strikeout.
The Orioles scored against Diamond in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Steve Pearce to plate Steve Clevenger, who led off the inning with a single.
Right-hander Kyle Gibson, who was originally scheduled to make the start against the Orioles, pitched the final three innings for the Twins. Gibson is the front-runner to be the club's fifth starter over Diamond, and he threw three scoreless innings.
Up next: Right-hander Ricky Nolasco is set to make his final Grapefruit League start on Wednesday against the Pirates in a 12:05 p.m. CT start at Hammond Stadium (watch on MLB.TV). Nolasco, who joined the Twins on a four-year, $49 million deal this offseason, will start on Opening Day on March 31 against the White Sox in Chicago. Right-hander Edinson Volquez will start for Pittsburgh.
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Ontario public schools have over $15-billion of deferred maintenance. All 72 school boards in the province have a deferred maintenance backlog that contributes to this $15-billion total.
However, Ontario is not alone. In Alberta, deferred maintenance in schools is also an issue.
According to provincial assessments of school buildings conducted every five years, there is approximately $1-billion of deferred maintenance in the Calgary Board of Education's (CBE) 220 schools and an estimated one-third of these schools will soon be rated "marginal". A marginal school "meets minimum requirements; has significant deficiencies. May have high operating/maintenance costs."
Given that roughly 70% of CBE schools are more than 40 years old, nobody should be surprised at the leaky roofs, drafty windows and creaking boilers that are starting to appear. CBE Chair Joy Bowen-Eyre said the school board is coming to a "critical intersection" on capital infrastructure.
A similar situation exists in Edmonton. According to provincial assessments of Edmonton Public School Board's (EPSB) 200 school buildings, deferred maintenance in 2014 totalled $216-million and was expected to balloon to $710 million by 2017, as 40 additional schools will reach 50 years of age. Unless new funding solutions are found, EPSB is projected to have $1-billion of deferred maintenance in its schools by 2026.
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From winter to spring
I started a new job in January, and what with a nasty cold virus that wouldn't go away and all those dark nights, I haven't had much time to do a blog post, but now I have some time off so I can update you on some photographic highlights.
At weekends I try to go for walks, and am particularly fond of taking pictures of the waterfowl in Burgess Park!
Work trips have given me some variety. I went to St Beuno's in Wales for the first time in late January, surrounded by beautiful countryside.
Also fitted in a trip to Whipsnade, where it was a winter wonderland!
I have also taken a few urban shots as I'm out and about
And I'm now fortunate to work next to the beautiful Farm Street Church
The Lake District
A visit to the Lake District in mid-winter, now there's a plan!
Around Keswick:
Walk to Castlerigg:
Castlerigg stone circle:
Derwent Water at sunset
Friar's Cragg, Derwent Water
Golden autumn
I remember during my year abroad in Russia that the local people talked about Золотая осень ("golden autumn"), mostly because of the almost metallic glitter of birches as they change colour, especially against blue skies.
Autumn so far has been mostly dry and bright, although as we go into November it begins to bite.
Here's a selection of my photos from October.
Oh did I say golden? Quite a lot of reds too!
The changing colours of autumn brought out by autumnal sunshine. Fortunately, I have managed to make time for lots of strolls.
Bath looking lovely in the autumn sunshine.
Last but not least, we managed a trip to Leigh-on-Sea before the clocks went back and the evenings drew in. A very beautiful place that made me wish I was a painter!
First autumn stroll after the clocks change and the nights are drawing in.
Squirrel Season and other September Delights
As you will see, I've been focusing my September photos on strolls amid autumn leaves, and squirrels. Yes, squirrels. They are a consistently available subject at this time of year!
I like to enjoy each season to the full although it is not always possible, and much depends on other commitments and what the weather throws at us. I can't complain about September though, which was mostly mild and relatively sunny.
The first day of October has been blustery and changeable, I wonder what lies ahead?
Sunlight through leaves…
Harebell at Whipsnade
A few urban shots on my lunchtime and post-work strolls.
The clouds gather…
Winter is coming!
Summer Outings
As summer draws to a close, (though we're all hoping for a golden autumn) I am looking back on some of the places I visited over the last few weeks of British summer.
Here's some pictures from a trip to Downside Abbey, Somerset, and Glastonbury Tor.
Herne Hill and Brockwell Park – part of my exploring London's parks and open spaces series!
Lewes, a beautiful little town in East Sussex. Photographer's haven.
One of Lewes' more 'ordinary streets':
Bletchley and beyond
I fulfilled a long term ambition recently to visit Bletchley Park, with some friends of mine. The photos don't really do it justice, but I thought I'd share them with you anyway, plus a few of other things I've been doing in London.
I've every admiration for the team at Bletchley and the volunteers working there. They have collected and displayed some very interesting exhibits, with the use of various types of interpretation to bring them to life (including audio-visual displays). There was also an explanation and demonstration of codebreaking using the reconstructed Bombe machine, which really showed how a great deal of hard graft combined with fine logic, a few strokes of genius and (I add) the skills of various linguists saved millions of lives during the Second World War. The exhibit on Alun Turing is also particularly touching and a reminder of how much times have changed in this country.
The interpretation for the exhibits is very good, and brings the place to life.
Remnants of code breaking, including a reconstructed Bombe machine, built for breaking the Enigma code, and Alan Turing's teddy bear. A truly inspiring place to visit. I heartily recommend it.
Meanwhile in London, I've caught a few flora and fauna on camera…
On my meanderings on my days off, I found this view of Kings Cross. Despite having walked past St Pancras every day for several years while at UCL, I'd never gone up those steps before.
A reminder that London has some wonderful landscapes and architecture, if you know where to look.
I'll leave you with the weathervane from Bletchley though.
Spring Strolls
As spring turns to summer – whatever the weather will be, I suppose we'll still call it summer! – a chance to reflect on the last few months, with some shots of London and a few from the south west, where I grew up.
A few from around the Southbank …
Bank holiday weekend – a chance to spend some time in the garden at home and parks of Bristol.
Finally, a stroll in the Cotswolds.
2016 so far
Usual abject apologies for not posting enough… I've transferred a lot of the photo posts over to the Facebook page and Twitter in the last few months.
Winter isn't a great time for photography, if, like me, you work 5/6 days a week, don't do night photography too well and miss the sunlight and flowers!
I was offered the opportunity to upgrade my camera but decided to stick with the current one in the meanwhile, while I try to improve my technique.
I've tried to make the most of the hours of daylight and practise some night photography too.
I've been discovering a local park and taken a few shots there:
I've been taking a few 'vintage' style shots like these:
Also, since the weather has been so grey, there's been some more opportunities to practise black and white photography:
I've also taken some evening walks… more work to do on night photography.
Lastly, I've tried to capture some fauna!
I've also been to try a lot harder to be patient, take more of the same shot, and to concentrate more on composition.
It has been a fairly eclectic 2016 so far but all in all I am looking forward to sunshine and spring weather. Hopefully another blog to ensue soon.
I have been to Kiev 4 times, and it was a city I fell in love with straight away. In the summer months it is a green city and one which has many views – because like some of my other favourite cities, it has lots of hills. A wonderful city to walk around (although it has a good metro system) with the wide blue Dnipr river running through it.


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LLCD will be NASA's first-step in creating a high performance space-based laser communications system. The LLCD mission consists of space-based and ground-based components. The Lunar Laser Space Terminal (LLST) is an optical communications test payload to fly aboard the LADEE Spacecraft and it will demonstrate laser communications from lunar orbit.The ground segment consists of three ground terminals that will perform high-rate communication with the LLST aboard LADEE. The primary ground terminal, the Lunar Laser Ground Terminal (LLGT) is located in White Sands, NM and was developed by MIT/Lincoln Laboratory and NASA. The ground segment also includes two secondary terminals located at NASA/JPL's Table Mountain Facility in California and the European Space Agency's El Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain. The main goal of LLCD is proving fundamental concepts of laser communications and transferring data at a rate of 622 megabits per second (Mbps), which is about five times the current state-of-the-art from lunar distances. Engineers expect future space missions to benefit greatly from the use of laser communications technology. To learn more about laser communications and the LLCD mission please click here.
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TV Ratings Report: A Drop for Grey's AnatomyMatt Richenthal at . Comments
A week after defeating CSI, Grey's Anatomy lost a couple million viewers last night and actually finished behind The Big Bang Theory. Ouch. Here are the final numbers...
8 p.m.
The Big Bang Theory: 12.9 million viewers/$#*! My Dad Says: 10.9 million
National League Championship Series: 9.7 million
Community: 4.55 million/30 Rock: 5.3 million
Grey's Anatomy rerun: 4.4 million
The Vampire Diaries: 3.6 million
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CSI (pictured): 14.7 million
Grey's Anatomy: 10.8 million
NLCS: 8.9 million
The Office: 6.8 million/Outsourced: 4.9 million
Nikita: 2.85 million
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The Mentalist: 14.2 million
Private Practice: 7.8 million
The Apprentice: 3.6 million
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I Brake For Bunny
I wrote this some time ago because I simply felt like writing something regarding Bunny Tarlek (Herb Tarlek's daughter) from WKRP in Cincinnati. I don't know who will be familiar with her or the references made. This may be extended later. I do plan on posting more WKRP fan fiction in the future using more recognizable characters. :)
And oh yes...I don't own WKRP in Cincinnati. Heh.
Bunny Tarlek was a dainty thing, her hair pulled about in pigtails with glasses nearly too big for her face; her mommy had told her once that the glasses would probably be permanent, but that if her daddy ever got up the money for her braces and her glasses chanced to break, she might just have to squint for awhile. As for Bunny, she didn't mind the glasses, and she wouldn't mind the braces...she was a cheerful child in many ways, and seldom let the world - or her correctional machinery - bother her.
The start of school had almost ruined this for her, as she came into constant teasing. Emmy and Roger were the worst. Roger was a general name-caller: four-eyes, donkey-lips, that sort of thing. As for Emmy, a year older than Bunny and a might bit bigger, she had declared one day that her father worked for Cincinnati's number-one radio station, WPIG, and that her father said that Bunny's father was an imbecile, and that he'd killed all kinds of turkeys and ducks and was apt to kill again.
Bunny had fought the accusations, knowing that they were true. Mommy, of course, hardly ever let Daddy down about those "poor defenseless ducks," and as for the turkeys, all the local and a few national television stations had covered the atrocity - her daddy took up channel-changing at a rapid pace. Upon her questioning this he explained to her, "If I want to look like an idiot in my own house I can do a good enough job of it myself."
But still, she fought. After a week of school she came home and declared proudly to Mommy, "I hit a PIG today!" and her mother, confused a moment, murmured something about ducks, before realizing just what was going on, and she yelled, "Herb, get in here! Your daughter is beating up your competitors!"
Bunny had received the standard talk about backing away from a bully, which her daddy seemed to mumble through in a confused sort of manner upon urging from mommy, and he finished as thus: "And you just...you shouldn't hit people, Bunny, because they might hit you back or discredit your reputation. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Daddy." She kissed him, and ran outside to play, leaving her parents to remain motionless and pondersome for some time. Finally they spoke to one another:
"Herb, for heaven's sake, is that the way you give a speech?"
"Well, I...what was I supposed to say? My son already plays with dolls, and now my daughter is beating up kids at school!"
"That's entirely beside the point." She sat on the sofa beside her husband, adjusting his hair out of instinct. "Bunny is very sensitive, Herb."
"I know that."
"I worry sometimes about what you say to the children when I'm gone!" She sighed heavily, forgetting his hair. "I mean, if this is how you handle bullies, then what on earth did you say to her about the frog?"
Bunny entered the living room to a silent Mommy and Daddy. She had only been outside for a moment, but already she was covered in a musty, dirty shell. She smiled. "Herb the Third and me was playing. I won!" And she ran off.
For a moment all was still; and then Herb Tarlek stood slowly, his wife Lucille following his lead. And he said: "I'll...tend to Little Herb."
"And I'll explain to Bunny that you don't know anything about handling bullies."
Herb flinched at this, but within the moment, both parents were running, yelling their children's names, in a ritualistic fashion brought on by daily catastrophes. Bunny was found playing with Greenpeace II in her room, happy as a clam, and as for Herb the Third, he had been laying silently, carelessly in the dirt in the backyard until his father picked him up, handed him a doll which had landed several feet away, and brought him in for dinner.
As punishment, Bunny was not allowed dessert; she only ate that which Herb the Third couldn't finish, and Herb the Third hadn't been very hungry that night.
At least she'd learned her lesson.
(Turkeys Away) Herb helped Arthur Carlson throw live turkeys out of a helicopter one Thanksgiving as a promotional stunt.
(Real Families) In this episode we learn that Herb once ran a promotion in which he placed live ducks in a store window and made them dance with a hot plate. Also, we discover that Herb the Third is fond of dolls.
(Frog Story) Herb accidentally killed Bunny's pet frog, Greenpeace, by spray painting him pink. She has a new frog by the end of the episode.


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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, affords an appropriate occasion to recall the contributions of an ancient people to the contemporary world, Mr. Hoover, the President of the United States of America, writes in a message to the Jews issued by the head of the State through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Jewish deeds and idealism are written indelibly on the scroll of time, the President declares. Down through the centuries to our own time there has flowed a continuing stream of enrichment of the spiritual and cultural life of the world. In business, the arts, the professions, philanthropy, citizenship and, above all, in the evolution of the spiritual life of mankind, the race has contributed elements of strength, beauty and tolerance which are the common heritage of all men.
On the occasion of the happy festival now being celebrated, he concludes, I wish to extend my heartiest congratulations and most cordial good wishes.


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Let's start with a scandalous declaration shall we? The definition of a modern marriage is, there is none.
There isn't one way to fold sheets, or climb mountains, or be a wife. There is only your way. And my way way, and his way and her way. There is no wrong way either.
What's absolutely perfect for me – blogging, making travel plans with the hubs, having an alarm that says "kiss your wife" on his phone that makes us laugh every night – has nothing to do with what is perfect for you.
And that's okay.
We cause ourselves so much pain by thinking and believing that we have to live up to our (divorced) Auntie's idea of marriage or my great grandmother's ideal relationship.
We really don't.
What we need to do is find what integrity means to us. And then do that.
Define what love means to us. And then be that.
Brenè Brown says vulnerability is your greatest strength.
I say marriage makes you vulnerable and strong. It brings out the best and worst in you and then it changes you in ways you could have never expected. For the better.
I tell everyone I know we need to re-define marriage. Together as a society. Individually as couples. Every day.
The totally adorable Nate Bagley asked me recently if I could only give one piece of advice and never write another blog ever again, what would I say. That man is crafty with a question!
My answer?
Question your assumptions.
Leave yourself open to interpretation. Let life surprise you. Question your assumptions. So you can learn. And teach. So your mind can be broken open and your heart can overflow with awe.
Question your assumptions about what your honey should or should not do.
Question your idea of who you should be. What is a wife?
It's whoever we say she is. We make her up every day as we go along.
Savor the freedom of knowing that if you didn't like the wife you were yesterday, you can start again today.
And tomorrow.
And the next day.
You can make your marriage sacred. And soulful. And funny. And kind.
You can choose every day to look for the love. And find it.
Marriage is a choice we make every day.
Choose to make it your own.
Whatever that means.
And declare it wonderful.
Or at the very least – custom-made. Just for you. Everyday.
Like a Love-Latte.
The definition of a modern marriage is, there is none.
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While one of the most rewarding, and humbling life-long roles you'll ever undertake, the venture in to motherhood can be quite perplexing, scary, lonely, and intimidating at times. That's why it's important for new moms to get the proper support once you join The Club.
Naturally, seeking out other moms in the same boat is a great way to ease in to mother hood, and help you face all the big and little decisions ahead of you. But, more than that, there is a wealth of support available online. Here are a few of my favorite online sources of new-mom support over the years:
- What to Expect – This series, which you probably drank up whilst your little bun was cooking away in the oven, picks right back up after you bring your little bundle of joy in to the world. And stays with you through toddler-hood. Best of all, you can subscribe to their newsletter, and receive newsletters that correspond precisely with your baby's ages and stages.
- Gerber Milestones – Another great resource that goes beyond just baby food and baby formula. Plus, a great source for coupons along the way. (And if you do use formula, there are some high value Gerber coupons being sent out these days! Like, over $10!)
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By Matin Durrani and Michael Banks
Sitting in the lounge at Incheon Airport in Seoul waiting for the flight back to London, we've decided to draw up a list of 10 random things that the two of us have picked up while on the Physics World editorial visit to Korea. The list is based on observations we've made or little nuggets that physicists in the country have told us during our week-long trip. The list is just a bit of fun, so here goes.
1. "South Korea" isn't a term that people in, er, South Korea like to use, pointing as it does to the divisions in the country. One should rather say Republic of Korea, or just Korea.
2. Golf is a hugely popular hobby in the country but, with land at a premium, driving ranges and "virtual" golf centres are widely found. In fact, we discovered that atomic-force microscope manufacturer Park Systems (like many firms) has an entire room dedicated to virtual golf and employees at the business hold regular tournaments, firing balls into a padded net with a monitor tracking the ball's trajectory, launch angle and spin.
3. Speaking of golf, Seoul National University on the edge of the capital is built on the site of a former golf course using land that was previously owned by the chairman of Samsung.
4. As for Samsung itself, it is a massive corporation that has its tentacles in every corner of the country from smartphones and ships to "digital bidet toilet seats". In fact, its revenue accounts for a whopping 17% of the country's gross domestic product.
5. Korea is the first country in the world to make its development of fusion energy a legally binding commitment.
6. Graphene is all the rage in Korea but several physicists we've spoken to feel dismayed that physicist Philip Kim at Columbia University, who is Korean by birth, didn't win a share of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for his contributions to the field. They reckon a Nobel prize for a Korean physicist would give the country's physics a massive boost and really raise its profile in the country. In fact, the country hopes that its plans for 50 new Institutes for Basic Science by 2017 will produce the country's first ever Nobel-prize-winning scientist. (We think PSY bringing out a physics-related song might have even more impact…)
7. Modern Koreans have a passion for coffee with the main streets of Seoul and Daejeon littered with home-grown coffee shops as well as outlets of US chains such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. One stat we've seen suggests that the number of "gourmet coffee shops" increased 10-fold between 2006 and 2011. Top travel tip: the coffee in the breakfast bar at the Ramada Hotel in Seoul is dreadful.
8. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology was built with the help of US money as a thank you for Korea's participation in the Vietnam War. In fact, the main auditorium is named after Lyndon Johnson.
9. Nansang Tower in Seoul has great views over the nation's capital. But don't be fooled into thinking you can walk up the hill on which the tower stands – you need to get there using a cable car.
10. And finally, Koreans continue to have a passion for their national delicacy of spicy pickled cabbage known as Gimchi, which is served as an accompaniment to many meals, including breakfast. Oh and the other way of knowing you're eating Korean – rather than Chinese – food is that they use metal (not wooden) chopsticks that will be laid out pointing straight ahead rather than across a dish.
So that's all from Michael and myself about Korea. Stay tuned for the Physics World special report on physics in Korea, which is due out in September. In the meantime, you can also check out our previous special reports on China, Japan and India.


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After waiting three years to get a taste of postseason play, the Giants are going to stay around and savor it for a while.
Using a smothering defense and an opportunistic, big-play offense, the Giants routed the Atlanta Falcons, 24-2, Sunday in an NFC Wild Card Game in MetLife Stadium. It was the Giants' first postseason victory since Super Bowl XLII and their first home playoff win since the 2000 NFC Championship Game triumph over Minnesota.
"It was great to have a home playoff game and have our fans involved as much as they were," Coach Tom Coughlin said. "Our players greatly appreciate that."
"It's special," running back
The fourth-seeded Giants, 10-7, advance to a divisional round game next week in Lambeau Field against the top-seeded Green Bay Packers, who had a bye this weekend after finishing the regular season 15-1. On Dec. 4, the Packers defeated the Giants here, 38-35, on a 31-yard field goal by Mason Crosby as time expired.
The Giants defeated the Packers in Green Bay in the 2007 NFC Championship Game, but lost there, 45-17, on Dec. 26, 2010.
Is the offense playing its best at the most important time of the season?
"I think it could be," Manning said. "Just a great mix of run and pass and I think guys have a great understanding of what our offense is, what their responsibilities are. We just have to keep grinding, keep getting better, and go with a great game plan next week and know we have to play great football."
As good as the offense was, the defense was even more dominant. The unit did not allow a point – the Falcons' only score, obviously, was on a safety. Atlanta rushed for only 64 yards, including 41 on 15 carries by Michael Turner, who ran for 1,340 yards in the regular season. The Giants stopped the Falcons on 10 of 14 third down attempts and all three of their fourth-down conversion tries, including a pair of fourth-and-one quarterback sneaks by Matt Ryan.
"Probably our best effort so far this year," defensive end
"I think today we played outstanding defense and that set the tone for everything else that happened in the game," Coughlin said. "It was wonderful to see it and it has happened over the last two or three weeks of the season. If we can continue to play defense like that, we can make ourselves heard in this tournament."
The game began poorly for the Giants. They had only one first down on their first three possessions and punted all three times. Their fourth series – which began after the Giants stopped Ryan on fourth down - was worse. Manning was being tackled in the end zone by safety James Sanders when he threw the ball to the right side. The officials ruled that no receiver was in the vicinity and penalized Manning for intentional grounding – a safety in the end zone.
It was the first time a Giants opponent scored on a safety in a postseason game since Super Bowl XXV on Jan. 25, 1991, when Buffalo's Bruce Smith sacked Jeff Hostetler in the end zone. It was the second safety allowed by the Giants this season. On Oct. 9, Seattle's Anthony Hargrove tackled
After forcing the Falcons to punt following the free kick, the Giants put together one of their best drives of the season, a 13-play, 85-yarder that consumed 7:32, their longest touchdown possession of the year. The catalyzing play was Manning's 14-yard scramble on third-and-two.
"That was instrumental when he pulled that down because we were struggling to make a first down," Coughlin said. "He was able to clear that side of the field, get a first down and give us some momentum. The timing of the play was outstanding."
"We had a third down play-action," Manning said. "It was third-and-two right there and I kind of knew right away they had a pretty good coverage. We had all out-breaking routes and everybody was playing outside leverage. I did the play-action, I scooted up just trying to find a lane to see if maybe a guy won, and I just saw an opening. I had to get two yards so I just tucked it and ran it right there and got a first down and we hadn't had many, so that was a big play right there."
The Giants soon converted another third down opportunity on Manning's seven-yard pass to Ahmad Bradshaw. Two plays later, Jacobs ran for a postseason career-long 34 yards to give the Giants a first down at the Atlanta 15. Bradshaw gained nine yards on first down, but the Giants didn't pick up the first down until Jacobs bulled his way forward for two yards on fourth-and-one.
On first-and-goal, Manning faked a handoff to Bradshaw before firing a pass to the right side for Nicks, who leaped high over cornerback Dominique Franks for his first postseason touchdown with 2:47 remaining in the second quarter. Franks started in place of the injured Brent Grimes. The Giants' 7-2 lead held up until halftime.
"It was something we practice during the week and Eli knew he had to get it up over the linebackers with the play action pass," Nicks said. "Once he put it up, he put it in a place where only I could catch it and I went up and got it."
Tynes' short field goal increased the Giants' lead to 10-2 with 7:51 remaining in the third quarter. The Giants failed to take advantage of a first-and-goal at the five and had to settle for three points.
The field goal concluded an 11-play, 72-yard drive that included three big plays: Manning's 19-yard pass to Nicks on third-and-eight, a 22-yard pass to Cruz on third-and-two and, on the next snap, Bradshaw's career postseason-long 30-yard run to the five. Bradshaw gained a yard on first down before Manning passes to
Minutes, later, the offense and defense fittingly combined to put a stranglehold on the game. Atlanta drove from its own 21-yard line to the Giants' 21, where the Falcons faced a fourth-and-one. Coach Mike Smith again decided to go for it. Ryan again tried to gain a couple of feet by forcing his way up the middle. And the Giants again stopped him as
"The two fourth down stops were just outstanding and both were in the shadow of the goal line as well," Coughlin said. "That really inspired everybody, to be honest with you. Those plays that our defense made really inspired everybody."
Suitably motivated, the offense needed only three plays to cover 79 yards and score the touchdown that put the Giants in a commanding position. On third-and-three from the 28, Manning threw over the middle to Nicks, who caught the ball at the 33, weaved through Franks and Thomas DeCoud and sprinted the rest of the way for a 72-yard score that is tied for the longest postseason play in Giants history. On Jan. 3, 1982, Scott Brunner threw a 72-yard pass to Earnest Gray. Manning's previous long postseason pass was a 52-yard touchdown to Amani Toomer in an NFC Divisional Playoff Game at Dallas on Jan. 13, 2008. It was Manning's fifth touchdown pass of more than 70 yards this season and the first caught by someone other than
The Giants added an insurance touchdown with 9:55 remaining in the game when Manningham got behind the Falcons secondary and caught Manning's third touchdown pass in the end zone for a 21-point advantage. Tynes later missed a 32-yard field goal attempt.
Fittingly, Atlanta's final offensive play resulted in Ryan being sacked for an eight-yard loss by
Now it's on to Green Bay, where the Giants won the 2007 NFC Championship Game in frigid Lambeau Field. The Giants will enter the game with confidence after taking the then-undefeated Packers down to the wire in their first meeting on December 4.
"They had a lot of yards and we had a lot of yards," Coughlin said. "It was a lot of points scored and our defense is hopefully better. When we go back and look at the tape and study what has happened over the last few weeks, hopefully we can do a little bit better job."
"We know they are a good team and we played them tough here," Manning said. "We did some good things offensively, scored some points, and our defense is playing great football right now so hopefully they can continue to do that, but we know offensively we are going to have to play strong. We are going to have to play good, we are going to have to go score some points, we can't make mistakes and hopefully get off to a faster start than we did today."
If they do, they just might be able to savor this postseason experience a while longer.
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WARREN BENNIS, USC Leadership Institute, USC Marshall School of Business.
This op-ed originally appeared at CNN on Nov. 21
I vividly recall those 13 days in the fall of 1962, watching President John F. Kennedy on our black and white television in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was a professor at MIT focusing on the emerging field of leadership studies, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was about leadership writ large for the world to witness.
Fifty years after the Kennedy assassination, there is conversation everywhere about JFK's unrealized potential. Amid the wave of sentimental reflection this year, there has been much focus on the mythical elements of Camelot or too many details about that tragic day in Dallas, and not enough on the real-world challenges of the JFK presidency.


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We are now on our second week of studying Brazil which means we are ready for an interview. For this interview I had the pleasure of interviewing 10 year old Naomi. Let's read what she has to say about her life in Brazil.
A: I live in a big city called Sao Paulo. It is one of the largest in the world. It has about 18 million people. With so many people there is lots of traffic, lots of high rises, and lots of different people. Whenever we go out my mom always takes a book along to read to us while we're stuck in traffic. If she's the one driving, I'll read. I have 2 brothers and a sister. In Brazil that's a big family. People here have 1 or 2 kids. Sometimes you see bigger families, but usually not. We homeschool and get to spend a lot of time together. Joshua loves Math and playing board games or strategy games, Kaleb loves to pretend he's a knight, he has lots of energy, and Priscilla is a sweet girl we love to play with our dolls together.
Q: Could you describe your country's flag? Tell me a bit about the colors and design and why they were chosen?
A: Brazil's flag is a green rectangle with a yellow diamond laying on its side and a blue circle in the middle of that. The green is for the jungles, yellow for the gold and blue for the sky and water. In the blue circle there are constellations of stars that you can see here in Brazil. The most famous one is the Southern Cross. There's also a white banner across the circle of the flag that says "order and progress".
Q: What language is spoken in Brazil? Can you tell us how to say, "Hello, how are you?" in that language?
A: In Brazil they speak Portuguese. It is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese because it was colonized by Portugal. The phrase in Portuguese is "Oi, como vai voce?" (the c in voce sounds like an s)
Q: I have heard of a very large worldwide sporting event that will take place in Brazil in 2014. Can you tell us about it? What is it called and where will it be held? Is this something that Brazilians are excited about?
A. Next year Brazil will have the World Cup of Soccer here. Brazilians are very excited. Usually everyone stops work to watch the game and even traffic is less on the roads. When Brazil scores people yell from house to house. When Brazil loses everyone is sad. Brazilians love soccer, they play it everywhere and with anything they have that they can kick… even rolled up socks. My mom loves to watch the games and so does my brother.
Thank you Naomi. You did a great job answering these questions! If any of you have more questions for Naomi or about Brazil, please write them in the comments below and Naomi and I will do our best to answer as many as we can. And if you don't remember where Naomi's hometown of Sao Paulo is, look at the map on my Brazil/week 1 post to see if you can find it!


text: Logical corruption in Microsoft Exchange Server database (EDB) file is far more problematic and difficult to identify and repair than the physical damage. Microsoft Exchange Server does not provide any inbuilt tool to diagnose the logical corruption of EDB database. Moreover, there are no specific symptoms to identify the logical corruption of database. In case the EDB database is affected by logical corruption, the EDB database becomes inaccessible and you face acute data loss situation. Let's consider a real life scenario wherein when you attempt to access the data from the Exchange Server, you come across the following entries in the Application Event log: Event ID: 42 Source: EDB Type: Warning Category: General Description: MSExchangeIS ((###)) The database engine found a bad page. The aforementioned entries in the Application Event log symbolize logical corruption of Exchange Server database files. After restoring the database, just in case you replay the wrong transaction log files, logical corruption of Exchange Server database takes place. As a matter of fact, the "bad page link" or JET_errBadPageLink errors symbolize or indicate the logical corruption of Exchange Server database. In order to overcome this situation, you need to perform Exchange recovery. Now let's see what all you can do to resolve the aforementioned issue. A lot can be done to resolve the aforementioned issue. First and foremost, try to restore Exchange Server database from the last, valid, and clean backup. However, in case of unavailability of a valid backup or just in case you are unable to restore Exchange Server database from a valid backup, use the exmerge.exe tool to export the data. If the above-mentioned does not work, then use the "Move Mailbox" feature in Exchange Administrator program for moving users from damaged Exchange Server to another one. Now, recreate priv.edb file on the original Exchange Server and then move users back to the original Exchange Server. However, if nothing works then use a professional and proficient restore Exchange tool to repair the damaged and corrupt Exchange database. EDB Repair is a professional, comprehensive, and result-oriented restore Exchange tool that is specifically devised to repair Exchange Server database (EDB) files.


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Jason McBride was the P-I's Olympia intern for the 2006 legislative session. Jason has traded committee hearings for the bustling markets and urban crush of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The recent University of Washington graduate is spending his summer in Cambodia, working as an intern for the Cambodia Daily, an English-language newspaper. He will be sharing his impressions of the country's people and politics with Strange Bedfellows readers this summer. Jason can be contacted at: email@example.com
By JASON McBRIDE
I've been traveling in Vietnam for about a week now, having finished my internship at the Cambodia Daily. The last story I wrote was on a high school girl whose entire community had been evicted from Phnom Penh in one of the munincipal government's many "development projects." The eviction threw off her studies, and when I met her, she was in the midst of taking
her graduation exams.
A well-off Phnom Penh family had taken her in so she didn't have to prepare under the leaking roof of her family's makeshift house; the municipality had dumped about 170 families into an empty field
without homes or facilities, including schools. And the transporation costs into the city each day for school are generally beyond the means of most evictees. So this girl, Srei Mom, considered herself one of the lucky ones, and when I last talked to her, she felt confident she had done well on her
exams. But there are thousands of families in similar circumstances without benefactors.
Another problem plaguing Cambodia is mass cheating. Some underpaid school employee, or employees, leak the answers to the high school graduation exams, and the night before the tests, there are lines out the door at all the photcopy shops in town. Kids who don't have the money to pay for the answer sheets can bribe their proctors with a few dollars in order to consult each other during the test. Most people believe the answer to this problem is higher salaries for school employees. My understanding is that most teachers make about $30 a month, so taking bribes from students is probably a no-brainer.
A few words about Vietnam: Compared to Cambodia, hands down it is far better off. It's clear that the government has invested much more in infrastructure and education. I've encountered far fewer young people who say they would like to go to college but cannot afford it. There is definitely a sense of confidence and optimism about the future you won't find in Cambodia. I was told by an employee at my guesthouse in Saigon that there is a lot of cheating, but it's clear that the country is not suffering so much for it as in Cambodia. I met a young man on the train from Hoi An to Hanoi who had taken an interest in Ronald Reagan's economic policies and read a biography on him. Admittedly, I didn't take a survey on the reading habits of people in both countries, but all it takes is a 30 minute ride around the streets of Hanoi or Saigon to see that they are much more worldly cities than Phnom Penh. The boutiques look as sharp and trendy as any you would see in the
West. Many of the buildings are freshly painted in self-consciously quirky pastels. Monstrous five-star hotels make me, the supposedly wealthy foreigner, feel like a pauper. And the abundance of French-pastry shops adds another touch of elegance you won't find in Phnom Penh.
Don't get me wrong. I have a special place in my heart for Cambodia. Undoubtedly my conclusions are somewhat self-serving, but I like the fact that Cambodians take so much interest in foreigners. They seem to be much more curious about us than the Vietnamese, and that's probably because we
represent a better life to them. Cambodia is a desperately poor country with a government that does little more than ride the back of the nation and skim off as much as it can without being too, too flagrant (but a little flagrant is okay). In the past week, I have met one Vietnamese person who wants to go to the United States. But it seemed like every day in Cambodia I met someone who
envied my supposedly luxurious life in America. I think Vietnam's pride in itself is the healthier attitude, and well-deserved, considering the years of war and destruction it has suffered. They have done well for themselves, and I think it has a bright future, economically as well as culturally.
That said, I want to relate one anecdote that contradicts everything I just said. There's a hotel mafia in Saigon. The woman who runs the guesthouse I'm staying in now told me she had to hire a rival gang to keep them in check, otherwise she would have to pay them a commission on every guest she took in. In other words, it's a protection racket. It was amazing to me that she
couldn't go to the police, that she had to actually fight fire with fire. So Vietnam isn't without its seediness. In both Saigon and Hanoi, I had many motor-taxi drivers offering me marijuana and "massage."
In Cambodia, it's just a little more out in the open.


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Elder- Head Doug & Wendi Posey
Pastor Posey graduated from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biblical studies in 1976. He later earned his Master of Arts in Christian Education at Talbot School of Theology, a graduate school of Biola University in La Mirada, CA, and earned his Doctor of Ministry there. For over 14 years, Doug served as a Teaching Pastor and Pastor of Adult Discipleship at Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, CA. His calling and passion is to help others grow in their faith and understanding of God's Word.
Elder- Board President Jeff & Debbie Price
Jeff was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. In the fall of 1982, he entered the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy, graduating in early 1983. Jeff and Debbie married in 1988, and have two adult daughters; Jenna and Nicole. Both Jeff and Debbie came to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior in 1994, and both were baptized soon thereafter. Jeff and Debbie have attended Living Oaks for five years. Jeff is currently the coordinator for the Living Oaks security ministry. After thirty years of service with the Sheriff's Department, Jeff Retired at the rank of Lieutenant in December of 2012. Jeff looks forward to further serving the Lord as an elder here at Living Oaks.
Elder- Secretary Derek & Tricia West
Derek grew up in Anaheim, CA, and met his wife Tricia while attending Youth Group at Sunkist Baptist Church. They were baptized on the same night and within a year began dating. In 1977 they were married and eventually moved to Camarillo when Derek was hired by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. Derek worked for the Sheriff's Office for 34 years and retired in 2013 as a Sheriff's Captain. Derek received his Bachelor's degree from Biola University and his Master's degree from CSUN. Derek and Tricia have two married children; Matthew and Kari and three grandsons; Matthew, Daniel and Micah. They are both active in the church and enjoy serving the Lord.
Elder- Treasurer Paul & Deeanne Sutter
Paul and Deeanne, his wife, have been part of Living Oaks since 2008. Paul received his degree from United States Military Academy at West Point. After moving throughout the United States & Germany they finally settled in California in 2002. Paul and Deeanne have been married over 21 years. They have two children: Michael 18 and Lauren 16. Paul is currently serving on the security team and Deeanne is active and teaching in the Wellspring Women's Ministry. They are currently involved hosting a small group. Paul is humbled and honored to serve as an Elder for the Living Oaks community.
Elder- Chaplain Bob & Deanne Rhoads
Though born in Kansas, Bob grew up in Whittier, CA. Both he and his wife Deanne, committed their lives to Christ in Young Life, as high school students. They were high school sweethearts, and have now been married more than 40 years. Bob graduated from CLU with a teaching degree, and after serving 38 years in the Conejo Valley School District, retired in 2010. The Rhoads' three grown children all actively serve Christ. Bob and Deanne have attended LOCC since 2006 and over the years have led several small groups. Deanne is actively involved in Wellspring Women's Ministry. Bob has partnered with Project Love International and currently heads "iheartBukasa", a non-profit, that works to financially support and solicit student sponsorships for the primary school in Bukasa Village, Uganda, Africa.
Elder- Service Jim & Dusty Sawyer
Jim and Dusty were founding members of Living Oaks and have been involved with Priority One marriage ministry, teaching the Love and Respect class and recently certified as Prepare/Enrich (marriage) lay counselors. Jim and Dusty have been in a small group since 1993 are also involved in the usher ministry and Dusty is involved in Wellspring and MOMSnext. Jim looks forward to serving the Lord as an elder here at Living Oaks.
Elder- Tim & Debbie Carpenter
I married my best friend, Debbie in 1973. The Lord has blessed our lives with three children, all married, and we have four grandchildren. Debbie and I are both fortunate to have been raised in strong, God honoring Christain homes. I graduated from Biola and entered the field of education in the Conejo Valley. Throughout my 40 year career, I was a teacher, site and district-level administrator. I apprecate the ministry of LOC and the impact in the community. Through the current ministries, small groups, and discipleship, I believe LOC will have a greater impact on our community for Christ.


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Casey Anthony Appeals Convictions For Lying to Law Enforcement Officialsby Free Britney at . Comments
Casey Anthony is appealing four convictions handed down for lying to law enforcement officials in 2008 regarding her daughter Caylee's disappearance.
It's unlikely that Anthony will be at the hearing (defendants rarely attend) but the outcome of the appeal likely will affect her testimony in several lawsuits.
Tuesday's arguments will be heard by a three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach. The hearing, set for 1:30 p.m., will be short.
The panel is not expected to make a ruling Tuesday.
The convictions Anthony is appealing stem from her initial claims that Caylee was kidnapped by a nanny whom she named as Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.
In reality, authorities said, Caylee Anthony was dead.
Anthony was charged with her daughter's murder, and despite public perception of her guilt, was found not guilty of murder charges at her sensational 2011 trial.
The appeal is notable because of the effect it has on lawsuits she faces, including one brought by a woman whose name is similar to the fictional nanny.
Anthony has cited her right against self-incrimination during the appeal, which asks for her convictions to be vacated or for a new trial on the lying charges.
Her defense is expected to argue the appeal on several grounds:
- Jurors only heard testimony about Anthony's lies because Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry improperly allowed it into her trial.
- Casey had not been read her rights before making statements, nor was she officially in custody, though she was cuffed and in a deputy's vehicle.
- Anthony's attorneys also argue that her four convictions for lying are improper under the "double jeopardy" clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- The four lies she was charged with were actually one ongoing act.
- Perry incorrectly ruled against Anthony on an objection to a portion of the jury instructions, relating to the materiality of alleged false statements.
Casey Anthony, 26, has been in hiding since her acquittal.
She has been living almost completely under the radar, but was subpoenaed to appear at trial in the Gonzalez suit, which was delayed pending this appeal.


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Laugh your way to good health
A DAY without laughter is a day unfulfilled!
How often do you laugh? Several times a day, perhaps at some points during the week, or do you have trouble remembering the last time you had a good laugh!
Perhaps you're so caught up with deadlines, school events, appointments, work and so on that you do not realise that you are taking life too seriously! Maybe you take yourself too seriously?
Think back to a time when you had a good laugh, how did you feel? Great, no doubt, because laughter makes you feel good. And the good feeling that you get when you laugh remains with you even after the laughter subsides.
We live in demanding times where life can get very stressful. And now we know that stress weakens the immune system leaving us vulnerable to disease and illness.
Today, scientific evidence supports the fact that humour provides a powerful antidote to the immune suppressive effects of stress! So in other words Laughter is good for your mental and physical health!
Consider this: * Laughter relaxes the whole body. A hearty laugh dissolves tension and stress causing muscles to relax. It also decreases stress hormones thus boosting your immune system. * Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel- good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of wellbeing and enhances mood. * Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against cardiovascular problems. With so much power to ease anxiety, relieve stress, improve moods and boost immunity, laughter can also enhance our social lives. Not only does laughter attract others to us but it can help diffuse tension and conflict and strengthen relationships. Here are some ways to lighten up your life: * Laugh at yourself and at situations. Recall times that you took yourself too seriously and laugh at the absurdity of it. Look for the humour or the positive side of difficult situations rather than bemoan them. * Get active. Working up a sweat releases endorphins; your bodies happy chemicals, in to your bloodstream making it easier to find the joy in things. * Release the inner child. Map out time to play! All those things that you once loved doing but fell by the wayside because you believe you're too old or too busy! These usually involve things that you did when you were younger - bowling, crazy golf, comedy club, a games night with friends, fun based sports, going to the cinema, dancing etc * Let go of judgements and criticism and shift perspective. Many things in life are beyond our control, particularly the behaviour of other people. Is it really worth getting upset about. Will it matter in a week, month or year? What is the bigger picture?
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it'
Remember you will always have the power of choice. You can live your life with more joy, laughter and positivity or you can choose not to! That choice is yours and yours alone. Choose wisely - Bill Cosby


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Prince of Peace Lutheran Church will hold a "Lunch N Learn" session from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7.
There is no cost for the event. However, registration is requested by May 5.
"Lunch N Learn" is a health information event hosted by the congregation's parish nurses. Each session provides a light, healthy lunch consisting of soup, a sandwich, dessert and a beverage along with a brief presentation and discussion of health-related issues of general interest.
Presenter for this session will be Mary Pat Leonard of the American Heart Association, who will give information on staying healthy and avoiding cardiovascular disease. Rhonda Walton, registered dietician with DeKalb Health, will also talk about on eating healthy for a healthy heart.
"By talking together over lunch, a lot of good ideas and information can be shared," stated Debra Kennedy, a parish nurse at the church and coordinator of the event.
The church is located at 10275E 550S, three miles southwest of Stroh, just north of Big Long Lake.
For more information or to register, call the church office at 260-351-2144 or go to the website at www.princeofpeacestroh. com.


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POTTSTOWN PA – Just two months after its Board of School Directors named a new superintendent, another administrative departure will again shake up the Pottstown School District, (Pottstown PA) Mercury reporter Evan Brandt wrote Wednesday morning (Feb. 27, 2013) at his Digital Notebook blog.
The resignation of Robert Stevens, who most recently served as the assistant to Pottstown's superintendent, was unanimously accepted Monday night (Feb. 25) by the school board, Brandt said. The vacancy created by Stevens' retirement apparently will result in a number of changes at lower administrative levels, Brandt added.
Pottstown School Administrators Play 'Who's On First'
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text: Package: installation-reports Boot method: Booted from CD. Image version: debian-40r3-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 23-6-2008 14.00BST Machine: Home build on Abit AN78GS motherboard. Processor: AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Memory: Crucial 4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-6400 memory module CT2KIT25664AA800 Partitions: Didn't get that far Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card: [See Below] Configure network: [ O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: On first attempt the onboard NIC was not recognised so I disabled it in BIOS and installed a PCI ethernet card. This was recognised and the install went a bit further. Installation stopped at a screen headed No disk drive was detected. If you know the driver needed by your disk drive, you can select it from the list. In order to see if there was an updated driver to be had I tried installing with 64studio_2.1_amd64.iso and debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso dated 16-6-2008 Both with results similar to the above. I attach "hardware-summary" and "syslog" files from the last install attempt. Regards, Rob


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Mobile Testing Course Content
Chapter 1: Introduction to Mobile Device Testing
- 1.1 What is all about Mobile Device Testing?
- 1.2 Why is it required?
- 1.3 Terminologies used in telecom industry
- 1.4 Knowing about Mobile OS/Platform
- 1.5 Introduction to different mobile devices
Chapter 2: Setting up an Android Environment on your PC
- 2.1 What is emulator ?
- 2.2 How to install an emulator?
- 2.3 How to launch first app on emulator?
- 2.4 Explore the capabilities of emulator
- 2.5 Install a real time application on emulator
Chapter 3: Testing in Mobile Domain
- 3.1 Mobile Application Testing
- 3.2 Mobile Handset Testing
- 3.3 Mobile Website Testing
- 3.4 Test cases and general scenarios for mobile application
Chapter 4: Types of Mobile Apps Testing
- 4.1 User Interface Testing
- 4.2 Functional Testings
- 4.3 Usability Testing
- 4.4 Compatibility Testing
- 4.5 Interrupt Testing
- 4.6 Certification Testing
- 4.7 Performance and Stress Testing
- 4.8 Unique Challenges in Mobile testing
Chapter 5: Mobile Application Testing on IPAD IOS Andriod IPhone
- 5.1 Fundamental concepts of mobile app testing
- 5.2 Differences from Web app testing
- 5.3 How to start a mobile app testing project from scratch
- 5.4 Designing and setting up a mobile app testing lab
- 5.5 Exposure to various mobile devices and platforms. iOS and Android primarily
- 5.6 Native Apps, Mobile Browser Apps, Hybrid Apps
- 5.7 Real-Device, Simulation, Emulator, Reflector testing. Detailed defect reporting, screenshots etc
- 5.8 Challenges, Uniqueness and Best practices for MAT
- 5.9 Automation Tools: DeviceAnywhere, AndroidDriver in Java and Robotium
Chapter 6: Mobile App Testing – Appium
- 6.1 Significance of Mobile Automation, Introduction to Appium, Evaluation Criteria for Test Automation Framework, Architecture, InfraStructure information for Test Automation, Software Pre-requisites.
- 6.2 Steps for Installation and Configuration,Installation and configuration of Appium, Android Sdk,Setting up Virtual Devices using Genymotion, Oracle Virtual Box, Pdanet on Mobile and computer.
- 6.3 Launching Hybrid App
Installation and Configuration of Eclipse and Pydev perspective.
Basic script to Launch a Hybrid App (Email app) using Appium Driver class of Appium Bindings.
Setting Desired Capabilities specific to Application Under Test.
- 6.4 Element Locating using UIAutomatorViewer.
Element Locating Mechanism, UIAutomatorViewer,Element by Id, Xpath,UISelector Class
- 6.5 Working with Dropdown(Spinner) and Text boxes,Working with Drop Down menu options eg the Spinner Objects, Populating text in the text box Using Node Details of the element to get attributes.
- 6.6 Unittest Framework,Unittest Test Framework to write scripts inform of test script.
- 6.7 Context Switches Showcase of switching between Contexts of the Application i.e. NATIVE_APP for Native part of the app and WEBVIEW for webkit.
Remote Debugging to locate elements in the Webview using Chrome Inspect plugin app.
- 6.8 Touch Actions
Drag and Drop, Scroll
- 6.9 Touch Actions
Swipe,Tap, Pinch, Zoom Keystrokes.Multi-touch actions
- 6.10 Hosting Appium with CLI
Running Appium with Specified Configuration through CLI. Connecting to specific device with running instance.
Significance of different arguments supported by Appium
- 6.11 Miscellaneous Capabilities
Get file from Device and Push to Device.
Application Management (Backgrounding Application, Installing Application, Checking Applications Installation status, Removing Application, Resetting Application)
Other Methods (start_activity, set a value directly on an element, lock device, shake device)
- 6.12 Selenium Grid
Showcase to execute the same test script on multiple devices using Appium driven by Selenium Grid.


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Wigan were last night docked four points for the biggest salary cap breach in the Super League's history, despite an audacious defence which included a claim that nine senior players had agreed to forgo their wages for three months last autumn.
The Warriors were found guilty of busting the limit of £1.6m on payments by £222,314 (6.3%). The punishment dumps them from fourth to ninth in the congested table and leaves them with an uphill struggle to qualify for the top-six play-offs, with only six matches remaining.
However, that is a drop in the ocean compared with the eight points they would have lost without winning a preliminary hearing to reduce the maximum punishment two weeks ago. That would have left them a point above the bottom club, Salford, and back in real relegation danger - although not quite as deep as the trouble they were in last June, when they made the world-record signing of Bradford's Great Britain prop Stuart Fielden, which led to their salary cap problems.
It emerged yesterday that the Rugby Football League, which had initially blocked that deal until it was given a personal assurance by Wigan's chairman, Maurice Lindsay, that it would not lead to a salary cap breach, would not have allowed Fielden to move had it been aware of the way in which Lindsay would attempt to wriggle off the hook.
The Fielden deal had gone through two weeks after Kris Radlinski agreed to come out of retirement, with Lindsay insisting that money had not been an issue because Wigan were at their salary cap limit.
He did manage to release some players, as he had promised the RFL - notably Kevin Brown to Huddersfield and Dennis Moran to Widnes. But that was never going to be enough, so Lindsay renegotiated the contracts of nine players - including Fielden, only two months after he had signed. Fielden and Harrison Hansen, another of the players who agreed to the new terms, attended last night's independent tribunal as witnesses but Lindsay expressed his disappointment that they "apparently weren't considered".
Lindsay said that Wigan, who have been ordered to pay costs, will reserve their right to appeal until they see the written judgment. But the verdict could also lead to legal action from Castleford, who were relegated after finishing three points behind Wigan.
Last night's revelations also raise the question of how Wigan have avoided breaching the cap this season, with all the players who agreed to defer their payments now on better or longer deals. But cynics have already noted that by the time the 2007 figures are considered next year the danger of relegation will already have been removed, with a new franchise system due to be introduced for 2009.
Wigan's punishment follows a two-point deduction for Bradford and a fine for St Helens for smaller breaches last season, and in previous years Halifax, Hull and Wakefield were also docked two points. But the Warriors have struggled with the salary cap since it was introduced in 2001, with Lindsay initially securing an exemption because the club was already locked into a number of long-term deals.
They were also docked two points and fined £50,000 for conduct prejudicial to the interests of the game last year, after a dispute over whether image rights should count towards their salary cap figures.


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text: > > I know this has been rehearsed in detail, but my summary of it would > > be, if you want your code to become _the_ standard implementation, > > there's a considerably better chance if you have a BSD license. > > The authors of emacs, gcc, gdb, autoconf, bash, etc., etc. would be > very surprised to hear you say that. Ah; well I would hope that, by reading the other threads, they would think that I was referring to library code rather than applications, but I agree that if they just had the email above, they might think I was being a bit gauche. Obviously the differences between BSD and LGPL are considerably more subtle. Best, Matthew


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The Supreme Court in Delhi has decided that a law which could have people sent to jail for making pretty harmless comments on Twitter and Facebook is unconstitutional.
The judges say section 66A of the Information Technology Act breached the Indian constitution and struck it from the statute book.
The order was made after it was successfully argued that this section of the law violated the principles of freedom of speech and expression.
The law allowed people to be sent to prison for three years for sending emails or other electronic communications that upset or annoyed other people.
Several people have been arrested for posting comments about politicians on Facebook, and for sending tweets that annoyed people.


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I don't think I've ever seen any tech company go through so much negative media publicity other than Blackberry (RIM). Take this news for instance.
Blackberry is known to be the Enterprise-King (after its tarnished customer segment). From data storage to multimedia communication devices, Blackberry is literally "the" choice for most (if not all) companies on a global scale. Ever since the arrival of competitive smartphone platforms, Blackberry has been struggling in all segments of the wireless playground. Consumer market is completely out of bounds, the only thing Blackberry was standing on was its Enterprise market, which unfortunately is also under severe attack. Nowadays, lots of companies have been reporting to allow their employees to use 'alternative smartphone handsets' alongside RIM phones – ouch.
The source article pertains to Samsung's goal of directly attacking RIM's remaining 'safety for enterprise' throne. "SAFE", aka "Samsung Approved for Enterprise" is a security brand/concept by Samsung, labeling its flagship handsets to be completely compatible and secure with Enterprise servers. Seeing the way Samsung handsets are being flooded in store-shelves (and flown out), I don't think RIM will stand a chance against competitors in the upcoming year, to say the least. Apple has been replacing BB handsets in many companies as well.
Market adaptability takes a lot of time, effort and good products (Apple vs RIM), but sometimes its the other way around (Samsung vs Apple) and things can take a change in no time. The amount of time RIM has been taking to develop its new platform is just far too long in this current-gen world where everyone (Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple, BlackBerry, etc) is trying to develop a new software eco-system with next-gen hardware on an almost monthly basis. On top of this, media has been attacking RIM negatively from left and right anyways due to pathetic devices – and this news is definitely not helping their media-image.
The point is, I have a feeling it might be a little too late for RIM to catch up back to the #1 spot. I wish them the best of luck to remain a company and at least keep our smartphone prices going south. You never know though, when Apple was going strong no one thought Android could come around and give it a hard time – maybe BB OS 10 could do the same? Time will tell.
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As Halloween approached at Yale this year, a university committee sent around a mass email encouraging students to consider that costumes playing on ethnic, racial or other stereotypes might cause offense. A student life administrator, Erika Christakis, circulated a critical response to that email, which in turn sparked a campus-wide discussion. Faculty, staff and students debated the issue in person, in school publications and online, sometimes heatedly. Many students argued Christakis' stance was incompatible with her role overseeing a campus residential community. Others disagreed. Some even argued Christakis and her husband, who had been similarly vocal, should be fired — a call that the university quickly rejected.
Many of us, watching from afar, saw all this as a controversy in the best traditions of American college life — spirited debate, heated disagreement, rowdy protest. And if the stakes struck us as small, and some of the reactions overheated, that was hardly unprecedented either.
For others, though, the events at Yale were a major scandal, confirmation that the U.S. higher education system is in a deep and dangerous crisis. The students who protested Christakis were, it was charged, a mob of censors — "snowflake totalitarians" who "made no allowance for legitimate dissent."
How did we get to this point? Why are such ordinary disagreements suddenly being cast as threats to the American university, even America itself?
Part of the answer lies in the fact that these disputes are now more public than they were in the past. Our current boom in student protest is the first since streaming video and social media made every sit-in a real-time global spectacle. Twenty-five years ago, the last time the country freaked out about student radicals and "political correctness," we had a bit more distance, and maybe even a bit more perspective.
There's also the issue of who today's activists are, and what they believe. The demographics of American higher education have been transformed dramatically since the 1960s, and the concerns of protesters have changed as a result. No previous generation of American student protesters foregrounded the concerns of women, students of color and LGBT students like this one has, or was so visibly led by people who weren't middle-class-or-better straight white men. And much of the jargon of the current movement — trigger warnings, microaggressions, safe spaces — can be off-putting, particularly to non-initiates.
But these explanations only go so far, particularly since so many of the movement's critics are self-proclaimed free-speech advocates. Even if they think the students' ideas are bad or weird, the right to put them forward is surely worth defending. But that premise — that campus activists have free-speech rights that are worthy of robust and aggressive defense — has been largely absent from mainstream writing about contemporary campus culture. Many high-profile commentators, in fact, have taken the opposite tack, claiming that the students' ideas are so bad and so weird as to represent a threat to free speech itself.
A bizarre, but not unrepresentative, example: Early this year, a student theater group at Mount Holyoke College announced that they would no longer be staging their annual production of The Vagina Monologues, explaining that the play's "perspective on what it means to be a woman" is too "narrow" and "reductionist" for their taste. When word of this decision broke in the media, the troupe was widely accused of censorship. By canceling the play, Lizzie Crocker wrote in The Daily Beast, "you're excluding me from watching something I want to see." Feminist writer Meghan Murphy asserted that the group was "silencing women." New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, a leading critic of today's student activists, highlighted the Mount Holyoke case in a widely read essay that condemned political correctness as an "attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate."
But who exactly was being censored here? Who was being silenced? What was being regulated? The troupe hadn't been forbidden to stage the play. They'd just decided not to. Surely the same freedom of speech that had given them the right to perform it gave them the right to stop. And even if other students had encouraged them in their decision — if, say, activists had gone to the troupe and explained their objections to the play and asked them not to put it on again, and the performers had mulled the request and decided to honor it — that wouldn't have been censorship either. It would have been dialogue, discussion — exactly the encounter of minds and ideas that the university is supposed to nurture.
Some will argue that I'm painting too rosy a picture of typical campus "discussions" around issues of identity and ideology in the year 2015. It's not rational discourse that such activists use to change people's behavior, argues Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic, a persistent critic of the movement, but "stigma, call-outs, and norm-shaping." But even granting that premise, since when is upholding norms something to condemn? When has publicly shaming people who do publicly bad things ever not been a legitimate part of political debate? Friedersdorf is shaming activists, not reasoning with them, when he describes them as overwrought children. I'm shaming Friedersdorf, not reasoning with him, when I point that fact out. And that's OK. There's nothing wrong with a little public shaming. In fact, sometimes a little public shaming is exactly what circumstances call for.
Last May, news leaked at San Diego State University that Vincent Martin, a tenured professor, had been found by campus investigators to have sexually harassed one of his undergraduate students. He'd neither been terminated nor publicly reprimanded — the whole thing had been swept under the rug. When students found out, they protested. They planned a picket outside of one of Martin's classrooms, and when he canceled that day's classes they plastered his office door and the surrounding walls with their signs and posters.
The protesters' goal wasn't to engage Martin in discussion. They had no reason to believe that a rational consideration of the harms of sexual harassment would dissuade Martin from re-offending, or, for that matter, convince the university to get him out of the classroom before he victimized someone else. (It has since emerged that Martin sexually harassed multiple students at two different universities.) No, what the protesters were engaged in was exactly what Friedersdorf criticizes: "stigma, call-outs, and norm-shaping." And they were right. That was what the situation required, and it worked — Vincent Martin is no longer employed at SDSU, and he will have a very difficult time finding another teaching job.
Sometimes, as Frederick Douglass once wrote, "it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder." Some occasions call for rational debate, he said, but others demand nothing less than "a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke." To acknowledge that is not to express hostility to discourse, but to embrace it — to embrace the power of speech in its full scope and capacity.
Student activists have always understood the power of thunder. And they understand as well that sometimes thunder, on its own, isn't enough. Sometimes you have to do more than just speak. Sometimes you have to organize — to, as the First Amendment says, assemble and pursue a redress of grievances. Sometimes, as Mario Savio declared in the greatest and most famous speech to emerge from the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley half a century ago, "the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that … you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop." Because sometimes putting your body upon the wheels is the only influence you have.
In a November essay, Jonathan Chait described the Yale students who protested Erika Christakis and her husband as "jeering student mobs expressing incredulity at the idea of political democracy," screamers who see debate as "irrelevant." But Yale is not a democracy, and the administrators who set and enforce its policies are not elected officials accountable to a campus electorate. What the activists understand, and what Chait does not, is that in the governance of the university — in the making and enforcing of the rules that govern students' lives — debate, however cogent, often is irrelevant.
Columbia professor John McWhorter, another critic of today's protesters, concedes that some of their goals have value. For instance, he says, "campus police must conquer any leaning toward treating students of color like potential criminals." But look at that framing — "police must conquer any leaning." Not "must be compelled to conquer," or "must be held accountable if they do not conquer," just "must conquer." And if they do not, what then? McWhorter doesn't say.
We see this over and over from the protesters' critics. "If any discrete group of students is ever discriminated against," Friedersdorf writes, then "of course … remedies should be implemented." But if they are not, again: What then?
Unacknowledged here is the obvious: That students have very little direct power on the contemporary American campus. Administrators have lots of power. Trustees have lots of power. Faculty have quite a bit. But students have very little. And so a call to resolve campus disagreements by reasoned debate is a call to allow the people who have been setting the rules to continue to set the rules. Students understand this, and that's why they have little patience for decorum. It's why activists sometimes yell at professors. (And why the professors typically stay calm when yelled at.) It's why activists make demands — because the power to change the university directly isn't theirs to wield.
I'm not saying that students should have the power to fire college presidents and remake curricula at will. (Not quite.) But I am saying that a "free speech" argument that ignores power — an argument that says "let the best debater win" without acknowledging that being the best debater is not, for students, a path to victory — is not an argument that any student activist will, or should, find convincing.
Claims that student activists are trampling on free-speech rights are, as we've seen, frequently overblown. But to the extent that activists see free-speech arguments as, as Jelani Cobb wrote recently in the New Yorker, a "diversion," it's largely a reflection of the constant use of "free speech" as a weapon against legitimate agitation by critics who don't understand that a student protest and a debating society are two different things.
Those of us who would have today's student activists embrace free-speech principles, rather than grudgingly tolerate them, need to defend the activists' free-speech rights. When they are punished for marching, we must defend their right to march. When they say things we think are stupid, we must defend their right to say them. When they yell, we must defend their right to yell — even at professors, and especially at professors who are saying things we find sensible. When they engage in behavior that pushes at the boundaries of acceptable speech, we must remember that pushing at boundaries is what the First Amendment, and the university, are for.
When student activists advocate policies that would, if implemented, compromise essential free-speech guarantees — punishing fellow students for constitutionally protected speech, for instance — their proposals are worthy of pushback. But if we are really committed to preserving a climate of rigorous, robust disputation on campus, we have to commit to defending students' right to agitate for what they believe in — which means distinguishing speech we find obnoxious from acts that threaten free expression itself. We have to stop screaming "censor" every time a student says a challenging thing in a challenging way, and we have to start rebuking those who do.
If the critics of the current student movement continue to reflexively demonize students' speech, tactics and demands as hostile to free-speech principles, students will continue to tune those critics out — and rightly so. Today's campus activists are raising urgent questions about the proper character of the university, initiating debates that will only grow broader and more important as the campus movement continues to develop. Their ideas deserve supportive engagement, not dismissal.


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