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A brand new survey has shown that the enterprise marketplace is poised to invest heavily in SIP trunking.
SIP trunking is a means to connect the private branch exchange (PBX) of a business to a public switched telephone network over the internet. It has gained popularity thanks to the increasing security it offers to firms wishing to switch from landline phones to IP telephony.
The report suggests that money will be put into Session Internet Protocol (SIP) technology, even though many executives are still somewhat unclear how it will affect their current business phone systems and other future telecoms initiatives.
Surveyors from Voice Report questioned executives with responsibility for making decisions as regards to telecoms strategies, and asked them for their opinions and plans on adopting and using SIP trunking and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephony.
The survey found that a third of those asked are currently making use of SIP trunking technology in a meaningful way, whilst a further 56 per cent have drawn up plans to integrate it into their business phone systems by the close of 2011.
This positive trend is happening despite the survey revealing a lack of knowledge about the advantages offered by SIP trunking. The survey also indicated that:
*74 per cent understand that SIP technology can consolidate telecoms services
*64 per cent of those asked have not implemented SIP trunking
*60 per cent of companies that have installed SIP trunking have reported that telecoms operating costs have reduced by at least a tenth
*Just under a half of those asked expressed concerns about the reliability of SIP hardware
*56 per cent plan to pump more money into SIP trunking during 2011
*58 per cent have drawn plans to install SIP trunking to other locations by the end of the year


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Deepwater horizon: an event horizon for the oil age?
In a speech given earlier this year, the Chief Economist for BP made his case that fears about peak oil were overblown.
"One factor is resources. They are limited, and a barrel can only be produced once. But ideas of peak oil supply are not true. Doomsayers have exaggerated the issue. The bell-shaped curve of production over time does not apply to the world's oil resources," he told the seminar in Alkhobar city.
"Those who believe in peak oil tend to believe that technology and economics don't matter, and I think this is false.The application of technology, the innovation of new technology and economic forces especially mean that recoverable oil resources can increase. If there is a peak in oil, it will come from the demand side. There are always fears, but these remain overstated and exaggerated."
A barrel can only be produced once, this is true. And technology has allowed us to tap into oil reservoirs that were unthinkable a few decades ago. Yet as the catastrophic ongoing oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico shows us, technology is not the savior the oil majors would have us believe. Advanced technology may allow us to drill for oil a mile under water, but it obviously does not offer any easy solutions when things go horribly awry as they have on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which has been spewing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month.
The bigger point, made by Richard Heinberg (and others) is that recent events prove that peak oil is here:
This is what the end of the oil age looks like. The cheap, easy petroleum is gone; from now on, we will pay steadily more and more for what we put in our gas tanks—more not just in dollars, but in lives and health, in a failed foreign policy that spawns foreign wars and military occupations, and in the lost integrity of the biological systems that sustain life on this planet. The only solution is to do proactively, and sooner, what we will end up doing anyway as a result of resource depletion and economic, environmental, and military ruin: end our dependence on the stuff. Everybody knows we must do this. Even a recent American president (an oil man, it should be noted) admitted that "America is addicted to oil." Will we let this addiction destroy us, or will we overcome it?
Indeed, the Wall Street Journal practically made the same point in an article earlier this year (linked through Yahoo):
Big Oil never wanted to be here, in 4,300 feet of water far out in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling through nearly five miles of rock.
It is an expensive way to look for oil. Chevron Corp. is paying nearly $500,000 a day to the owner of the Clear Leader, one of the world's newest and most powerful drilling rigs. The new well off the coast of Louisiana will connect to a huge platform floating nearby, which cost Chevron $650 million to build. The first phase of this oil-exploration project took more than 10 years and cost $2.7 billion — with no guarantee it would pay off.
Chevron came here, an hour-long helicopter ride south of New Orleans, because so many of the places it would rather be — big, easily tapped oil fields close to shore — have become off-limits. Western oil companies have been kicked out of much of the Middle East in recent decades, had assets seized in Venezuela and seen much of the U.S. roped off because of environmental regulations. Their access in Iran is limited by sanctions, in Russia by curbs on foreign investment, in Iraq by violence.
So, Chevron and other major oil companies are moving ever farther from shore in search of oil. That quest is paying off as these companies discover unexpectedly large quantities of oil — oil that only they have the technology and financial muscle to find and produce.
In May, the first wells from Chevron's latest Gulf of Mexico project came online. The wells are now pumping 125,000 barrels of oil a day, making the project one of the gulf's biggest producers. In September, BP PLC announced what could be the biggest discovery in the gulf in years: a field that could hold three billion barrels.
The discoveries come as many of the giant oil fields of the past century are beginning to dry up, and as some experts are warning that global oil production could soon reach a peak and begin to decline. The new deepwater fields represent a huge and largely untapped source of oil, which could help ease fears that the world won't be able to meet demand for energy, which is expected to grow rapidly in coming years… "A lot of people can get the very easy oil," says George Kirkland, Chevron's vice chairman. "There's just not a lot of it left."
The low-hanging fruit is gone. We are at the top of the tree, in the perilously thin branches stretching our arms as far as they can reach to grab the remaining fruit. Sometimes, inevitably, we slip and fall. The consequences are tragic, but foreseeable.
The rest of the story is compelling, if only because of the brazenness of the characters involved. Of course, there's all the usual campaign finance shenanigans and the special perks that come with that. But Americans are numb to that story, having heard it so many times. I'm sure the Wall Street Journal thought this was shocking news:
Employees of a federal agency that regulates offshore drilling—including some whose duties included inspecting offshore oil rigs—accepted sporting-event tickets, meals, and other gifts from oil and natural-gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report by the Interior Department's inspector general.
The report—published Tuesday on the inspector general's website—describes a culture in which inspectors assigned to the Lake Charles, La., office of the Minerals Management Service have moved with "ease" between jobs in industry and government, drawing on relationships that formed "well before they took their jobs" with the agency.
*Yawn*, try something original! The SEC guys already got caught watching porn when they were supposed to be supervising Wall Street and all the little Madoffs who work there. Bribery? Heard it before! Same with their tired old revolving-door story– everyone who has been paying attention knows big business bought the government long ago.
A Google search for "BP oil spill" yields a number of predictable results about the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but just one front-page result about another spill:
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil into backup containers, drastically cutting supply down the main artery between refineries and Alaska's oilfields. The accident comes at a difficult time for BP — the largest single owner of the pipeline operator, holding 47 percent — as it struggles to plug a gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well.
Well, that's bad news, but it gets worse. Surely, BP is aware now that their business-as-usual way of cutting safety corners is a bad idea, right? Not so fast! It turns out that BP is currently lobbying the Canadian government to relax their safety restrictions on deep-water rigs:
In an incredible display of corporate arrogance, BP is claiming that a current safety requirement that undersea wells drilled during the newly ice-free summer must also include a side relief well, so as to have a preventive measure in place that could shut down a blown well, is "too expensive" and should be eliminated.
Yet clearly, if the US had had such a provision in place, the Deepwater Horizon blowout could have been shut down right almost immediately after it blew out, just by turning of a valve or two, and then sealing off the blown wellhead…
Such is the calculus of corruption. BP has paid $1.8 billion for drilling rights in Canada's sector of the Beaufort Sea, about 150 miles north of the Northwest Territories coastline, an area which global warming has freed of ice in summer months. and it wants to drill there as cheaply as possible. The problem is that a blowout like the one that struck the Deepwater Horizon, if it occurred near the middle or end of summer, would mean it would be impossible for the oil company to drill a relief well until the following summer, because the return of ice floes would make drilling impossible all winter. That would mean an undersea wild well would be left to spew its contents out under the ice for perhaps eight or nine months, where its ecological havoc would be incalculable.
See what I mean? Brazen, right? If I may offer a little unsolicited advice to the Canadian government: do the opposite of whatever BP wants you to do. The safety restrictions are a good idea. Whatever you do, Canada, don't subsidize these highly profitable ventures in their risky search for new oil, like the US has done:
Since the government began aggressively issuing offshore drilling permits under President Reagan, the industry has received tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies, including exemptions from royalty payments — the fees due when a company extracts resources from U.S. government property.
The royalty waiver program was established by Congress in 1995, when oil was selling for about $18 a barrel and drilling in deep water was seen as unprofitable without a subsidy. Today, oil sells for about $70 a barrel, but the subsidy continues.
The Government Accountability Office estimates that the deep-water waiver program could cost the Treasury $55 billion or more in lost revenue over the life of the leases, depending on the price of oil and gas and the performances of the wells.
Wow, I bet the Treasury wished they had that $55 billion now, what with the economy in shambles and all. Anyway, it would be one thing to oppose safety regulations if the company had a stellar safety record to begin with, but such is not the case with BP (although they did argue that US laws were too expensive and their "voluntary" safety program was effective). Now that corporations are the same as real people, I think they should be subject to similar punishments. California has a three-strikes law, but nothing comparable exists for the corporations who commit repeated offenses with impunity. Here's a quick glance at BP's rap sheet:
In March 2005, a massive explosion ripped through a tower at BP's refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers and injuring 170 others. Investigators later determined that the company had ignored its own protocols on operating the tower, which was filled with gasoline, and that a warning system had been disabled.The company pleaded guilty to federal felony charges and was fined more than $50 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Almost a year after the refinery explosion, technicians discovered that some 4,800 barrels of oil had spread into the Alaskan snow through a tiny hole in the company's pipeline in Prudhoe Bay. BP had been warned to check the pipeline in 2002, but hadn't, according to a report in Fortune. When it did inspect it, four years later, it found that a six-mile length of pipeline was corroded. The company temporarily shut down its operations in Prudhoe Bay, causing one of the largest disruptions in U.S. oil supply in recent history.
BP faced $12 million in fines for a misdemeanor violation of the federal Water Pollution Control Act. A congressional committee determined that BP had ignored opportunities to prevent the spill and that "draconian" cost-saving measures had led to shortcuts in its operation.
Other problems followed. There were more spills in Alaska. And BP was charged with manipulating the market price of propane. In that case, it settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and agreed to pay more than $300 million in fines.
See here for Bloomberg News' current count of the potential criminal implications for the current spill. But fines in the millions of dollars are just the cost of doing business to a company that reported gross profit of $54.6 billion dollars ($54,600,000,000.00) last year–and that's profit, not revenue! As the Huffington Post reports (slideshow item #6):
BP has proven time and time again that they'd rather pay off their mistakes rather than take steps to prevent them. They have paid $485 million in fines in the U.S. alone in the past five years. BP paid $87.43 million to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in October 2009 — the largest fine in OSHA's history — for the Texas refinery explosion. They paid an additional $50 million to the Department of Justice for the same explosion. Last month, BP paid $3 million to OSHA for 42 safety violations at an Ohio refinery. The company was also fined $20 million by the Department of Justice for the Alaska Prudhoe Bay spill (pictured), which violated the Clean Water Act.
Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard notes that all this is pocket change compared to the company's $5.65 billion in profits in just the first quarter of this year, up 135 percent from last year
And now, the Deepwater Horizon explosion has killed another 11 people. Angry yet? How about if I told you that BP is hiring newly unemployed (unemployed due to BP's massive oil spill) fishermen to spread dispersants? What if I told you that those dispersants were highly toxic, and that they are being used anyway? What if we knew that these fishermen were getting sick from all the work they are doing to cleanup BP's mess, and nobody is doing anything about it? FOX News (sic) reports:
"These are the exact symptoms that you could expect from overexposure to crude oil and to the chemicals that are being used out on the cleanup," said Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist and activist who worked on the cleanup in Alaska after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Ott said she had been in contact with several Louisiana fishermen suffering a range of ailments —"sore throats, burning headaches, burning eyes, skin rashes, nausea, dizziness" — that track with those suffered in the aftermath of the Valdez spill. The dispersants, she says, compound the health risks created by exposure to crude oil.
"This is like throwing kerosene on a fire," she said.
BP has sprayed more than 800,000 gallons of dispersant into the Gulf since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20. At the same time, the oil giant has been enlisting the paid help of Gulf fishermen, whose fleet of hundreds of boats provides them broad access to areas affected by the spill.
BP's "Vessels of Opportunity" program employs commercial fishermen to hem in surface oil and help clean oil clumping along the coast, creating work for the industry likely to suffer most in the fallout from the oil spill.
But critics say the rudimentary safety training given to the fishermen isn't enough. While BP's "key requirements" include a four-hour training session and a dockside examination by the Coast Guard, the company does not appear to be providing special Hazmat equipment for the ad hoc cleanup crews.
"We are not seeing correct personal protection equipment," said Clint Guidry, secretary of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, who touted his own experience with toxins from working on oil rigs before he became a fisherman.
Guidry's colleague, Acy Cooper, gave a blunt assessment of the situation faced by fishermen patrolling the Gulf's oily waters.
"They're putting themselves at risk … [with] nothing to protect themselves," he said Thursday. "Their eyes are burning, their noses are burning, but all of them need to go — they need the money."
On May 20, the EPA ordered BP to stop using the dispersant and switch to a "less-toxic and more effective" dispersant, but BP did not do so. On May 24, the EPA told them to cut back how much of the dispersant they were using. No word yet on whether BP has complied with this order. BP wishes to keep using this particular dispersant, Corexit, mainly because the company who manufactures it shares close ties with BP (not to mention vampire-squid Goldman-Sachs). The New York Times reports:
So far, BP has told federal agencies that it has applied more than 400,000 gallons of a dispersant sold under the trade name Corexit and manufactured by Nalco Co., whose current leadership includes executives from BP and Exxon. And another 805,000 gallons of Corexit are on order, the company said, with the possibility that hundreds of thousands of more gallons may be needed if the well continues spewing oil for weeks or months.
But according to EPA data, Corexit ranks far above dispersants made by competitors in toxicity and far below them in effectiveness in handling southern Louisiana crude.
Critics say Nalco, which formed a joint venture company with Exxon Chemical in 1994, boasts oil-industry insiders on its board of directors and among its executives, including an 11-year board member at BP and a top Exxon executive who spent 43 years with the oil giant.
"It's a chemical that the oil industry makes to sell to itself, basically," said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.
The older of the two Corexit products that BP has used in the Gulf spill, Corexit 9527, was also sprayed in 1989 on the 11-million-gallon slick created by the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
Cleanup workers suffered health problems afterward, including blood in their urine and assorted kidney and liver disorders. Some health problems were blamed on the chemical 2-butoxyethanol, an ingredient discontinued in the latest version of Corexit, Corexit 9500, whose production Nalco officials say has been ramped up in response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Among Corexit's competitors, a product called Dispersit far outpaced Corexit 9500, EPA test results show, rating nearly twice as effective and between half and a third as toxic, based on two tests performed on fish and shrimp.
Angry now? Check out these amazing pictures as the oil begins to reach the Louisiana's shoreline, then let me know.
This is a boom:
A boom is supposed to contain the oil to a certain area. This oil-industry insider claims that they are just there for P.R. reasons, and are not deployed correctly if the intent is to actually stop the oil.
Anyway, I'm absolutely sickened and extremely angry about this whole situation. If you think this will spell the end of offshore drilling, you're wrong:
It won't happen. Drilling bans will not come. The predicted slowdown in the offshore industry's growth will not happen. The reason is simple: Offshore is where the oil is.
And as long as we are utterly dependent upon oil to power every aspect of our lives, we will continue to follow the oil, no matter the cost.
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I can't stop thinking that we're all part of this tragedy. It's not just the oil companies. I can't in good conscience blame only oil companies or only politicians. It's time for each energy wasteful American (that includes most of us) to go look in the mirror.
With that said, let me thank you for once again assembling so much helpful information. The information in your post is disturbing, though, and that is the problem. Because it is disturbing, it is not digestible, even to well-educated Americans who are generally good-hearted and decent people. In modern America, most of us don't know how to deal with terrifying things, or even with inconvenient things. And given the state of the mass media and politics (two sides of the same coin), we don't know how to collectively react when the solution to any problem is self-sacrifice. Hence our unwillingness to pay for any of our immense national tragedies and blunders by increasing taxes. Our energy crisis is exacerbated further because our politicians have been trained to keep us ignorantly happy lest they lose their jobs.
If anyone doubts my claim that Americans cannot bear to deal with unpleasant truths, do the following two things A) Ask yourself what's more important: maintaining national security through implementing a well-considered energy policy, or distracting oneself with tidbits regarding sports and entertainment, and B) Follow your local newspaper for the next month and compare the column inches dedicated to energy issues (even including the current Gulf disaster) versus sports/entertainment.
Energy is perhaps the most important national security issue. It is also a quality of life issue. And the only way to save anything resembling our current way of life is to steer a path away far from fossil fuels.
I barely know anyone who has voluntarily made a substantial cut in energy use for the sheer principle of it. I often talk about energy with people. I am almost always the only person in the room who is alarmed by the present situation. Most people tell me that "the free market" will figure things out (whenever I hear this claim, it occurs to me that "The Free Market" is responsible for destroying commercial fishing in the North Atlantic). Most of the well-read people I know nonchalantly talk about their jobs that require 40-minute commutes. I hear about how they heat and cool their big houses in the exurbs (some of them have heated swimming pools). I hear about their several-times-a-year trips to far away places for fun. Never is energy a concern to them except when they complain that gasoline costs a bit more.
I have yet to hear any person ever tell me that they refrained from any energy-wasteful activity because it is morally wrong to do so (though I have read of such people). It is a rare family that takes pride that they are putting on sweaters rather than turning up the furnace. As a nation, we are not motivated to conserve. We don't feel pride at conserving, even when the thing we're conserving is becoming dramatically more expensive (and, as you point out, risky) to harvest. Conservation has become un-American, thanks to ubiquitous advertising promoting conspicuous consumptions. That is my gut suspicion, that advertising is that powerful. Advertising made Mickey Mouse, Hummers, over-eating and even Christmas "American" and it made energy conservation un-American.
I'm not claiming that the federal government has never promoted conservation. There are some recent significant victories here and there, such as the 2014 ban on most incandescent light bulbs. Admittedly, we've raised fuel efficiency standards too. But none of these things will solve our fossil fuel dependency. We need to also address zoning issues, mass transit (for the masses), zero-carbon building, and dozens of other issues.
I do hear of people trying to save energy for their personal benefit, but not because it is the right thing to do. In my town, it is difficult to find anyone claiming to "save energy" by doing more than using CFL bulbs or buying green-washing products. People in Saint Louis think of me as strange because I usually ride a bicycle to work.
A neighbor once corrected me when I said that I "cared" about an issue. He said, "No you don't. If you really cared about it, you would be doing something about it." We are a nation of hypocrites. We say that we "care." But we refuse to do anything to help that cause we "care" about. All of us are collectively drilling for oil out in the deep water of the Gulf whenever we fill our tanks, whenever we buy those new houses out in the suburbs, and whenever we eat fresh fruit out of season. We desperately need to change our ways. Regrettably, we seem to love wars here in America. Well, let's start fighting a "Conservation War." Let's see how smart we can be when we use energy. Let's stop bombing poor people in the Middle East and allocate that money to becoming energy-independent. Let's "fight" to find an energy policy that we will be proud to hand to our children.
Brynn, you have repeatedly documented that we are in a national emergency that has had us on a long downward spiral (for instance, here) yet politicians refuse to admit it, the media won't take the lead and the citizens would much rather think about sports or TV shows. If people actually pondered the many charts and graphs you have published at this site, I would think that we would have a big army of recruits ready to march out and remake a better stronger energy-smart America. But there's no such mainstream movement. There is no national pride in shifting our efforts away from those deep, almost inaccessible, supplies of oil, even where there are safe and proven sustainable alternatives.
Why won't the politicians sound the alarm? I recently asked this question to a prominent energy-efficiency specialist who agreed that we are in a national energy crisis. He/she replied as follows: "Remember when Jimmie Carter told us to turn down our thermostats? Remember what happened to him?"
We are thus in a vast conspiracy of silence and denial. In America, we are a nation of cheaters, not cooperators. We constantly "forgive each other our trespasses" in order to allow and promote our dangerously unsustainable life styles.
All of this leads to the situations you have described. There is no meaningful social incentive to save energy, only private incentives. That's because we are a nation that has brainwashed itself into believing that the "Free Market" offers us wisdom, even though there is ample proof that the "Free Market" tends to devastate national resources. The "Free Market" has myopia.
We the People need to make some difficult long-range choices that we should have made ten and twenty years ago for the sakes of our children. If only we hadn't molded ourselves into a nation of attention-deficit voters. If only we had the courage to deal with the kinds of truths that weren't dressed up with smiley faces.
Couldn't we recommission the Glomar Explorer or use one of the ships designed to mine the metal nodules on the sea bottom to remove subsurface oil masses?
If we position a vast armada of tankers with lots of suction pumps around where the stuff comes to surface, couldn't they not only stop some pollution but, the resulting oil could be sold to pay for the cleanup costs?
Where's the deep sea submersible that James Cameron used to go down to the Titanic and move things around?
Where's the Alvin that went down tio the bottom of the Marianas Trench, some 10 miles, not a measly one mile?
If the drill mud can be forced through at pressure to stop the outflow of the oil and gas, couldn't these guys then use the cap they wanted to use before and keep the flow from freezing by backing off the pressure against the flow of oil and gas and adding in some warm or hot mud to keep the mixture in a suspension capable of being collected through methods already tried?
Brynn: That is a phenomenal statistic out of Rice University. Shocking and so very telling.
At Salon.com, Joseph Romm writes:
"Thus, the questions that all Americans should be asking their president isn't whether he's plugged the leak yet. It's, 'Why did you believe Big Oil and its right-wing allies?'"
Those who don't like to call it "peak oil" might be more comfortable calling it "the age of tough oil." Not that there's any difference.

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Feeding the campfire…developing a content strategy for your marketing efforts.
C.C. Chapman and Ann Handley have developed a wonderful metaphor about content in their book, Content Rules (which I highly recommend!) Think about a campfire. What do you think about? We remember the times around the fire with friends, telling stories and staying warm. It creates a sense of "instant community" and camaraderie.
There are five steps to build a campfire according to Content Rules:
- Start with small, easily ignitable branches and twigs and pile them in the middle of where you want your fire.
- Surround the tinder with bigger sticks in a tepee fashion, allowing plenty of air to circulate (you need both air and fuel to build a good fire).
- Light a fire from multiple sides and allow it to grow slowly.
- Once a fire is going, add larger logs to provide continual warmth without needing much tending.
- Adjust the logs to keep it interesting; add fuel as needed.
Building a campfire is not an accident. It takes care and patience to build a lasting fire. The same is true to create a content strategy that will build a center of warmth and instant community for your church and those you are trying to reach.
Building a content strategy for your church.
Before working on getting the word out about your church or organization, it is really important to know what you are about and why you want to engage in conversation to your audience. In other words, what behaviors, thoughts and actions that you hope to drive. For some, it may be to create a conversation about the struggles of poverty. For others, it could be helping families instill values in their children. Whatever it is, it needs to be a passion for you and important to the community you are trying to reach.
Find Fuel for the Fire – Brainstorm what events you want to build content around. Make a list of different topics that you would like to communicate and then build a calendar of what you will write about. One approach you can take would be to start with your church calendar. Look at all of the major events, sermon series or community events and determine how you could surround those events with content.
Using these topics, conduct a "content asset audit." You may have a lot of the content already available. Whether it is an old newsletter article, a written sermon or a pamphlet your church created, you will find lots of content that you can reuse as part of your digital content strategy.
Plan how to build a lasting fire – Mapping your content. Once content assets are cataloged, map the assets into a sequential lead nurturing 'curriculum,' i.e., moving prospects through a series of content-focused engagements – each of which signify a higher degree of complexity/value and a closer proximity to the behavior you want.
As an example, Elberon UMC, an urban church in Cincinnati, OH, holds an annual school fair to give away free school supplies to its community every August.
|Entice donors to give more school supplies and volunteer to support the event.
|Inform parents about the event and why it is important.
|During the Event
|Post Event
Using this outline, create a 1 to 2 page document outlining the event and why it is important. Now use it as the key reference to create the rest of the content outlined in the plan.
Turning Trees into Firewood – Produce and atomize your content. Start by writing the basic piece of content. This is usually a blog post or other written piece of communication. Keep it conversational and focused on what really matters. Remember, you have about 3-5 seconds to catch your reader's attention, and about 12 seconds of writing to keep it. Check out Dan and Chip Heath's book and blog called "Made to Stick" for great tips on writing effective content.
Once you have finished, you probably have a beautiful, well written 1 to 2 page document covering the topic. Now, atomize it. SHIFT communications created this concept on their blog "PR-Squared" to help improve readability and reuse. You can post the full document as a PDF, and post each section as several blog articles. Create a podcast explaining and expanding on your thoughts. Break you large document in a number of smaller, bit size chunks and spread it across all of your "outposts" (otherwise known as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and so on.)
Keep adding fuel – Build a content calendar including owners & deadlines. Sequence content in a logical way both leading up to the event and afterward. Build an integrated content calendar, assign who will be responsible for producing it, and create deadline on when it will need to be completed. Make sure that you have included time for writing, editing, and molding the content to fit into the different outposts (other social networks and social media platforms connected back to your website.)
Build your fire and start telling stories!
People community through stories. We rarely remember facts and figures, but we can all remember a funny story or one that touched our heart. We have an opportunity to tell the story of how God created us, constantly sought after us when we fell and how he sent his Son as a perfect act of love to reconcile us to Him.


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We All Want to be Seen.
How can someone sit in a group of strangers and feel more calm, connected, heard, loved and seen than they do in their normal every-day life waiting outside the doors?
The fact is that many people do. The company of strangers becomes a place to heal from "normal" life.
Many people feel alone, isolated, lonely, "different" - particularly when surrounded by friends and family. Even those who have large numbers of familiar people in their lives are more open, calm, comforted and less alone in the company of strangers - sharing their deeply-held and closely-guarded secrets, exploring their most challenging feelings and simply learning to be themselves in the absence of the expectations of others.
Perhaps, with a group of strangers there is nothing to prove; we are not even sure what we should be hiding from them so we don't bother raising the facade we use with everyone else?
Maybe we recognise that there, we get to test-drive or at least explore a "new" version of us - one that feels better and fits better, one that is less exhausting than the version we currently show?
Could it be a sign that we no longer have the energy to raise that well-worn facade for yet another group of people - leaving us with no place to turn where we can truly be ourselves?
It is when we choose to be what others expect of us that we are the most disconnected from ourselves. In living up to the expectations of others, we abandon our relationship with, and knowledge of, ourselves.
In the absence of these expectations, we are free to make other choices about how we behave, think, feel.
It's one of the great paradoxes of life that there, in a group of strangers, we are more at "home".


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The Science Of Real Hoverboards
Two weeks ago, Tony Hawk and a slew of other famous celebrities collaborated to prank the Web with a video purportedly demonstrating a real hoverboard. Sadly, and quite obviously, it was a fraud. That inspired super nerd Hank Green of Sci Show to explain the true science of hover technology. Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2014/03/16/the-science-of-real-hoverboards/


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This is one of my favorite Christmas 2007 pictures…it is Biggest Brother and Chris at our Christmas Eve Candlelight service. Part of the challenge for candlelight services is you can't use a flash…for one it is hugely distracting and two it destroys the feel of the moment. So here are some tips depending on your camera and understanding:
If you have a point and shoot or a dslr, but don't really understand more than automatic shooting you will need to first turn off your flash. If your camera has a night mode, try that. If not use the auto setting and either hold your camera very still or sit it on something sturdy for the shot. Using the self-timer option will also help with keeping it sharp. You will need to be steady and still.
If you have a dslr and understand its manual settings….flash off, use a high ISO (mine was around 600), slow shutter speed (mine was around 1/60), low aperture (mine was f/2.8) and a sturdy hand/lap/tripod.


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My website contains a review of the WikiReader. This little device set me back about $20. It's apparently no longer available on Amazon, but there do seem to be examples available on eBay and elsewhere. It's a small battery-operated device that contains in its internal memory (with some limitations) the full contents of the English language Wikipedia.
In other words, it contains what its manufacturer called "the Internet without the Internet." If you're transported back in time, if you get stranded on another planet or on Gilligan's Island, or if the world suffers TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It), you'll no longer have access to the Internet, but you'll have a pretty good summary of just about any subject. The batteries of the WikiReader will eventually go dead, but before that happens, all you need to do is find the Wikipedia article on the history of the battery, take some good notes, and you'll be able to whip yourself up a new one when the time comes. Once you're settled in in your new era, you find an interesting article such as the one on the electrical telegraph, put together a prototype, and then make arrangements to demonstrate it to Julius Caesar or Louis XIV.
The WikiReader has a number of practical limitations, and I rarely use it. But it's carefully put away just in case I'm involved in inadvertent time travel. In my pocket, I have the important knowledge of the 21st century. If I accidentally get stuck in a time warp, I'm going to make the best of the situation.
It appears that I'm not the only one who thinks that way. I recently got an e-mail from Amazon stating that customers who bought the WikiReader also bought a book with the intriguing title The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell. The book is available in the usual places, such as Amazon, amazon.ca in Canada, or your local library.
As the title suggests, the book is written for the benefit of some future inhabitant of Earth who needs to reconstruct (or "reboot" as author Dartnell calls it) civilization after some sort of cataclysm. The first chapter suggests some possible sources of the disaster, and the second chapter discusses the "grace period." After some types of disasters, such as a pandemic (such as happened in Earth Abides by George Stewart or in my own novel Caretaker), the survivors of the disaster have at their disposal the spoils of the earlier civilization. It's a relatively simple matter to eat canned food, set up generators, and take advantage of what was left behind. In some cases, such as pandemic, that grace period might extend for generations. In other cases, such as nuclear war, there will be fewer benefits available from the earlier civilization, and survivors will need to get to work right away tending to their immediate needs.
Dartnell doesn't dwell a great deal on the grace period, since he correctly notes that numerous other survival manuals have been written. What he spends most of his time talking about is rebuilding a technological civilization after the grace period has ended. With a few exceptions (such as how to make soap), he doesn't provide enough detail about any given technology in order to show exactly how they're done. But Dartnell does give enough clues in order to point survivors in the right direction.
For example, in the section on radio communication, he describes how to build a crystal radio, and he gives enough detail to allow the future archaeologist to recreate one. He gives some of the theory, but no unnecessary theory. In our current timeline, for example, it probably would have been impossible for society to come up with radio without first having an understanding of Maxwell's Equations. Instead, Dartnell gives only enough theory to make the thing work. After building a few radios, the post-apocalyptic society would eventually come up with Maxwell's Equations on its own. So future history would follow the same general course, but in the opposite order from ours in some instances.
In addition to the plans for the receiver, Dartnell also gives enough detail so that someone could probably come up with a workable spark-gap transmitter. I think the stumbling block for the future inventor would be coming up with an earphone sensitive enough to work with the receiver described. Armed with theory in our own civilization, the telephone was created first, which gave the required prior technology. Dartnell does qualitatively describe both a magnetic and piezoelectric earphone, but either one would require a great deal of trial and error. In our own history, a skilled inventor would know enough theory to realize that sound would come out of a telephone receiver if hooked up properly. If it didn't work the first time, he would eventually figure out that he needed to make it more sensitive by adding more windings to the coil. The post-apocalyptic inventor would have more trial and error. But if he or she had enough faith in the book (perhaps because he knew that the soapmaking description was correct), that might provide the incentive to keep experimenting. (Dartnell does provide the future inventor with Edison's admonition that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.)
Similarly, Dartnell gives enough clues to invent the triode tube. There isn't nearly enough detail to make one, but he tells just enough about the Edison effect so that a gifted future scientist could verify it, and some hints as to how this effect could be harnessed to provide amplification. Dartnell mentions in passing that oscillation is possible, although I hope the future scientist figures out that feedback is necessary in order to get the thing to produce radio signals.
In order to jump-start science, Dartnell provides a few simple experiments to prove non-intuitive concepts, such as the Earth spinning on its axis (Foucault's Pendulum) and revolving around the sun (stars rising four minutes earlier each night). In case the surviving society has lost track of time, he shows how to establish the year, either by the proper motion of Barnard's Star or changes in the night sky due to the Earth's axial precession. The book contains convenient charts showing the reader the year (as well as a map and picture to locate the Svalbard Global Seed Vault).
In short, the future reader will get a lot of useful information from this book. In most cases, the ideas contained in the book will need additional details, but Dartnell points the future inventor on the right path for either experimentation, or at least a clue as to which ancient texts he or she should try to recover. (The book contains an extensive bibliography to help the future inventor in that quest.)
Chances are, nobody would read a book entitled, "The History of Science and Technology." But when you get to the end, you realize that's exactly what you read. In detailing the easiest course for future civilization, he necessarily recreates our own. There will, of course, be some differences. For example, most readily accessible deposits of fossil fuels will be gone for the next civilization. But he offers a number of workarounds. And since the current nitrate supplies of our early civilization (see The Guano Islands Act for an interesting discussion of a seemingly mundane commodity) are also depleted, he goes into more detail regarding the relatively simple chemistry required to fix nitrogen from the air. On the other hand, aluminum requires a great deal of industry to refine. But in the case of a future society, even hundreds of thousands of years in the future, our dumps will provide ample mines of high-grade ore that will need little more than melting down and re-casting.
In short, if you bought a WikiReader after reading my review, then, yes, Amazon was right. You'll want a copy of Dardnell's book as well.
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Mariah Carey loves a good prank!
On this Sunday's Mariah's World, Mariah and her squad decide to have a little fun with Stella's assistant Molly, who's out getting food for them.
"Where's my food?" Mariah asks in the exclusive clip above.
"We gotta call Molly," Mariah's makeup artist Kristofer tells her.
He then suggests that Mariah call Molly because she's the "best prank caller on earth."
Mariah then agrees and hilariously pretends to be "Mariah's aunt Pamela" while on the phone with Molly.
So how does Molly react to Pamela?
Take a look at the clip above to see the LOL-worthy Mariah's World scene!


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Clippers sign Dan Dickau
Oct 4th, 2007 by Inside Hoops
InsideHoops.com NewsWire: The Los Angeles Clippers today signed free agent guard Dan Dickau. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not released.
Dickau was waived by the New York Knicks on Oct. 1 after joining the team in a trade from Portland on June 28. Dickau played in 50 games last season for the Trail Blazers, making three starts and averaging 3.3 points and 1.4 assists.
A five-year NBA veteran, Dickau has career averages of 6.0 points, 1.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 233 career games. The 29-year old Oregon native was selected with the 28th pick in the first round of the 2002 NBA Draft by Sacramento. The Kings traded his rights to Atlanta, and Dickau made 73 appearances for the Hawks before being traded to Portland on Feb. 9, 2004.
A First Team All-American performer and the West Coast Conference Player of the Year at Gonzaga University as a senior, Dickau played for the Mavericks and Hornets in 2004-05 before moving to Boston and appearing in 19 games with the Celtics in 2005-06 before an Achilles injury ended his season. In 67 games with New Orleans in 2004-05, Dickau averaged a career-high 13.2 points.
Dickau began his college career at the University of Washington before transferring to Gonzaga and developed into a star over his last two college seasons, finishing his career seventh on the school's all-time assists list (299).


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Pin of the Week- August 2nd
I just love this cool DIY from Better Homes and Gardens. I love the paper they used and I love how they made a collage of them on a wall. It's even cooler that they covered the books too. BHG on Pinterest has a lot of cool pins and boards. Next time we have a party at the house I know what i'll be making for decor. Maybe I'll do one of these collages for christmas too. They'd be great going up a stairway! You can see this pin here, and check out my DIY Crafts board on Pinterest here.
Happy Pinning!
Pin of the Week- July 26th
I just love this sweet little birdhouse! The tin roof is so cute! I have several in my garden that are shabby and sweet, and they make me happy every time I see them. I would love to have this one to add to my collection! Image found on Pinterest Here
Pin of the Week- July 19th
I love to craft! When my daughter Ashlee was little I used to sew all the time for her, and now that she's grown she does most of the sewing these days. I still love to sew and frequently craft with my girls. One of the new things we are all learning to do is crochet. I saw this pin today and just fell in love with the vintage sweetness of these pillowcases! I am now on the hunt for some fabulous fabric to make the cases with and coordinating yarn to crochet sweet edgings to them. Wish me luck! And you can see this lovely pin Here
Pin of the Week- July 12th
This is one of my absolute pins from Pinterest! I love the photograph, it is just lovely. But really the reason why it's one of my favorites is that I would really love to be there! I have been wanting to take a trip to Italy for years now, Rome, Venice, and Milan, and a dozen or so other cities as well. It looks like such an amazing place to visit with it's amazing architecture, rich history and culture, and heavenly cuisine. I hope to experience it myself someday!
Pin of the Week- July 5th
When I saw this photograph on Pinterest I was immediately captivated, it's just so stunning! The photo is titled Nuthatch Reflection, and was taken by photographer Mark Hancox. Kudos to Mark on capturing this amazing moment! You can see this image and source on Pinterest Here.
Pin of the Week- June 28th
I fell in love with this structure while browsing through Pinterest this week! I would love to have one of these in my garden, it's so beautiful! I am not sure of the source as it was uploaded straight to pinterest by a user, you can see it here. It looks to me like it was constructed with old windows, the stained glass window on the top really makes this little outdoor room so charming. Maybe one day I'll have one to call my own in my garden. Until then, i'll just have to swoon over this one.


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April 2017 is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
Prepared Pet Parents Save Lives
According to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) 1-out-of-4 more pets would survive, if just one pet first aid technique was applied prior to getting emergency veterinary care.
(Springfield, VA) – Pet First Aid Awareness Month emphasizes the importance role education and training plan in being a caring, conscientious, responsible and loving pet parent. It also stresses the important of ensuring that the care you arrange for your pet when you are away are trained and capable, meaning that your Pet Care Professional should also have pet first aid training as well.
Planning for pet health and safety is important AND it is achievable in just one day. With all of life's competing priorities, many pet parents forget about pet safety education such as Pet CPR & First Aid training class. But when their dog or cat suddenly has a medical emergency, they quickly realize the importance of this training. Raising awareness is critical. It's important to promote the important of putting aside one day every two years for pet safety education. In doing, pet parents gain the knowledge needed to both prevent emergencies and also to take action when to help save their pet's life. Accidents and emergencies present themselves often and in many forms, examples include choking, near drowning, being hit by a car, or ingesting one of the countless pet toxins found in the average home (grapes, azaleas, acetaminophen, anything sweetened with xylitol, etc.). Our pets are surrounded by hazards and these hazards can sometimes lead to medical emergencies.
Pet First Aid is the immediate care given to a pet that has been injured or suddenly taken ill. This includes home care and when necessary, veterinary help. What occurs in the first moments following an accident can often make the difference between life and death; temporary and permanent disability; and expensive veterinarian bills and reasonable home care. Learning pet first aid not only saves the lives of our companion pets in an emergency, but also provides education to develop more relaxed and confident guardians. In addition, it can helps pet parents and pet care professionals spot less obvious health issues through education about warning signs and what are normal pet vital signs.
"We encourage all conscientious pet parents to learn the skills and techniques of pet first aid, as well as become aware of common dangers that exist for their four legged family members", said Becky O'Neil, President of Becky's Pet Care. "All pet care professionals who work with animals at shelters, rescue groups, groomers, boarding and pet sitting are encouraged learn pet first aid." The skills gained from these courses allow professionals and pet parents to avoid pet emergencies and provide a higher level of care for pets in their care, sometimes uncovering health issues and performing life-saving exercises when needed.
Training is available in locations throughout Northern Virginia. Becky's Pet Care PetPrep Classes are taught monthly by licensed PetTech™ instructors in Springfield and Herndon, and are also available to teach private classes throughout Northern Virginia. Pet CPR & First Aid classes are open to industry professionals and the public. We want everybody to have easy access to pet first aid training. Shelters and rescue groups benefit not only by having their volunteers trained, but through educating adopting pet parents. The case for learning Pet First Aid is strong. According to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) 1-out-of-4 more pets would survive, if just one pet first aid technique was applied prior to getting emergency veterinary care.
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Becky's Pet Care has been providing Professional Dog Walking and Pet Sitting services in Northern Virginia since 1998 and has grown to be one of the largest pet care companies in the area, employing over 140 Pet Care Professionals. Winner of Business of the Year by the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters, seven-time winner of Angie's List Super Service Award and voted "Best Of" by the Washingtonian and Northern Virginia Magazines, our Pet Care Professionals are trained employees of Becky's Pet Care and true animal lovers who provide professional, loving care to your pet. Becky's Pet Care hosts pet education classes under their PetPrep division, teaching pet parents and Pet Care Professionals emergency prevention and preparedness skills and


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Foxes in McGivern Link
Leicester manager Nigel Pearson could look to Manchester City left-back Ryan McGivern to bolster his side's defence, according to The People.
The 19-year-old spent some of last season on loan at League Two side Morecambe, where he impressed in his short spell with the club.
McGivern is a current Northern Ireland under-19 international, where ex-Leicester academy manager Steve Beaglehole now resides. The defender was called up to the Nigel Worthington's full squad last year, despite not yet making an appearance for Manchester City.
Since then the youngster has gone on to win 6 caps for Northern Ireland, and could now be a summer target for Nigel Pearson's Foxes on a season long loan.


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As a fellow gluten free eater, you know exactly what it feels like to not be able to eat your favorite foods – like pasta, bread, or even pizza.
You salivate and practically drool at the mere smell of fresh bread wafting out of a bakery as you pass by. You want to just be able to order anything off a menu at your favorite restaurant, but have quickly learned that very few offer a large gluten free selection. You may even stop in your tracks when you smell the hand tossed pizza that was just delivered being carried through the house during the Super Bowl Party, leaving a trail of delicious scent, beckoning you to follow and dive in.
Those of us that have to eat gluten free certainly do miss out on a lot. Or we have to eat "cardboard" 10 times before finding a good-tasting brand. However, the good news is there are brands out there that have figured out the secret to successful gluten free baking and have made their products available for us to use in our homes. And the best part – they taste delicious so we no longer feel totally deprived!
Pamela's brand of gluten free goodness has been a favorite of mine since the day I tried her chocolate cake mix! The company also makes Baking & Pancake Mix, Pizza Crust Mix, Brownie Mix, Chocolate & Vanilla Cake Mixes, and so much more – all gluten free!
Friday night is our pizza night, which makes it very interesting since we are gluten free. However, it also gives us an opportunity quiet often to try new products or new things with products we already use.
I had Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix just sitting on my counter, taunting me. Then I had a brilliant idea – make our pizza crust out of the mix! It's great for everything from waffles and pancakes to biscuits and amazing pumpkin loaf.
I got out my ingredients…
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
~ 1 1/2 cups Pamela's Baking Mix
~ 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
~ 3 tbsp olive oil
~ 1/4 cup water
~ 1 egg
~ 1/2 tsp sea salt
~ 1 tsp basil
Mix all ingredients together until well blended and kneed between your hands to make sure it's mixed thoroughly. Dough will be sticky.
Reduce oven temp to 375. Roll dough out on a greased, flat pan, like a 9 x 13 baker or cookie sheet to desired thickness (I did about 1/4 – 1/2 inch).
Bake approximately 15 – 18 minutes or until slightly golden on the edges.
Remove from oven, top with sauce, cheese, veggies, meat – whatever your pizza topping preferences are.
Place back in oven for 5 – 8 minutes to melt the cheese.
Variation: Leave the Parmesan and basil out of the dough to have a more plain crust. Personally, I like to top my pizzas with spinach, tomato slices, etc., so mine tastes the best with the basil / Parmesan mix!
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Tomorrow, the PlayStation Network will be down for a whopping 11 hours (which if you haven't updated your PlayStation 3 in about two weeks is par for the course, ifyaknowwhatImean) largely in part to add cloud-based storage for game saves. There are some size/access restrictions, of course and it's only for Plus subscribers, but this is a great step in the right direction for any console. Does anyone else dread their hardware failing and losing all of their save content? I know I do. It seems that now consoles are trying to go the way of Steam (or Google-based contacts for phones) by keeping the content safely tucked away on a remote hard drive on the internet rather than only solely in your console or on a memory card. The sooner that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo make this a ubiquitous feature across all of their games, the better.
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Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote: >> On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >>> > Surely the error message can be polished, though? > > How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an > unsupported platform? My guess here is that you could use `lsb_release -a` or some other system dependant facilities to know the current platform, then error out with a nice error message if it's not one you know you support. This way the installer won't even try to run and won't go wrong on an unsupported platform… Regards, -- dim
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This one-week session teaches high school sophomores, juniors, seniors and recent graduates about construction careers. All participants participate in OSHA 10-hour certification, flag person certification, work zone safety, hands-on activities at the Operating Engineers Center, blue print reading, construction math, surveying and layout, and starting your own construction business. Program Details
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by Titans Insider, Oct 10, 2013.
Warmack dealt with Watt effectively.
Warmack got spanked by Watt. There's no shame in saying that a rookie got whipped by the best defensive lineman in the league while playing in his second game, but it's the truth.
Watt made a couple of plays, but he did not live in the backfield like last season
Being an upgrade to Kyle DeVan should not be worth mentioning as a positive....
And it wasn't just Watt. Antonio Smith blew up a short-yardage play while blowing right by Warmack. I don't remember if it was third or fourth down, but it was critical.
I feel like maybe you're only looking at stats... because I think Warmack only gave up one sack to Watt, which doesn't sound too bad on paper. But as Fry said, he got completely owned all game. Watt was overpowering him every snap and getting QB pressures/stuffing the run all day.
sadly that was still much imporved from 2012
low bar too get over though
Someone hasnt been watching the games.
and that someone is me :(
I'm on the record preaching for Lotulelei, Richardson, or Vacarro... all three are dominating right now. Man, how much of difference would they be at #10, take Hunter 2nd, slight trade up for Warford in the 3rd.
I've a watched every game. Warmack is much better than our past interior line. Compared to our previous right guard, he is a beast.


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My theory of 10 years is now officially broken. I believed that if you had a mean parent they turned nice with dementia and if you had a nice parent they would turn mean with dementia. My random sample was everyone that I have ever spoken to about this theory.
Well, the tables have turned and my mom has turned mean again. Years ago, the ugly side of my mom was only exposed behind closed doors. The mental abuse for years took a tool on all my siblings and I. In fact, when they each turned 18, all of them moved to other states. I stayed to protect my dad. I figured if she took half her wrath out on me, he would only be subjected to it 50 percent of the time.
In college, psychology classes opened my eyes to mental illness and depression. After my mean mom did not attend my graduation or marriage, I was done. A wonderful counselor taught me how to deal with it. When I spoke to my mom and she was mean, I would say, "I am sorry that this conversation is not going the way I hoped, I have to go now, bye." After I did this three times, my mom's treatment of me turned around. She has treated me well for 28 years.
Now, she is in the late stages of vascular dementia. I got a call two days ago saying she is yelling and swearing at the staff. Oh boy, my nice mom is gone. Say hello, to sundowners syndrome and her living in the past of about 30 years ago. Yesterday, I went to spend some quality time with her. The mean look was on her face. My mom harshly said, "Where have you been? You have a lot of gaul showing up now. Why haven't you come to see me? Everyone is stealing all my things. The neighbors are selling off all my clothes. You are just showing me defiance. I am hungry, no one has fed me in days." Then she pointed to one of the staff and said, "See, she is crying." (No staff was crying.)
Little Diane, felt she was back in high school again. I kept my head and tried to talk her off the ledge (so to speak). She just continued ranting and repeating what she already had said. She was visible agitated. I handed her the banana I had brought and she relaxed by 50%. Every time she repeated that she was hungry, I invited her to eat the banana. She said, "I am not hungry, I will save it for later." My husband and I continued to talk to her in a calm and reassuring way and an invisible sundowners switch finally turned her back to my nice mom.
About a half hour later, I explained to her that she had memory loss. I explained how I was helping her by having a doctor (podiatrist) trim her toenails this week and she screamed, "Don't touch me, don't cut my nails" at the top of her lungs. She said, "I did? Well one doctor hurt me a long time ago." I told her about another doctor who came to do an eye exam and now she has new glasses and can read again. When she said that she could not understand the staff, I said, "Yes, your hearing is bad and we have an audiologist scheduled to come in and maybe get you a hearing aid." She loved the explanations, enjoyed me being there, holding her hand and feeling calmness.
Eventually, I said, "Mother I heard that you were yelling and swearing at the staff this week." She said, "I did? I can't remember. I didn't mean to." Then I said, "When I came in today, you were mean to me and yelled at me." My mom said, "I am sorry, I didn't mean to, I don't remember." Well, all was forgiven and I was so glad that I did not walk out earlier that day by reliving the harsh criticism and mental abuse of the past.
If your parent has turned mean, just remember it is the monster disease of dementia, sundowners syndrome or Alzheimer's. (I know it's easier said that done.) As my mom sundowners continues to progress, I may have to hold onto this apology forever. She may not have the brain cells left in vascular dementia to be cognitive enough to apologize.
Her psychiatrist says the sundowners has progressed to the point of needing medications to help her. I am very protective of my mom and don't want to over medicate her, but my mom has been in her own daily mental torture for about three weeks. My goal is to keep her comfortable and pain free. If the medications can give her peace, I am now all for them.
Please share your successes, failures or comment below to join the conversation and interact with other senior living professionals on what is currently being effective to increase occupancy on a nationwide basis.
Diane Twohy Masson is the author of "Senior Housing Marketing – How to Increase Your Occupancy and Stay Full," available at Amazon.com with a 5-star rating. The book is required reading at George Mason University as a part of its marketing curriculum. Within this book, the author developed a sales & marketing method with 12 keys to help senior living providers increase their occupancy. Masson developed this expertise as a marketing consultant, sought-after blogger for senior housing and a regional marketing director of continuing care retirement communities in several markets. She has also been a corporate director of sales and a mystery shopper for independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled care nursing communities in multiple states. Most recently Masson was recruited to consult for two debt-free Continuing Care Retirement Communities in Southern California – Freedom Village in Lake Forest and The Village in Hemet, California. Interestingly, this career started when she was looking for a place for her own mom and helped her loved one transition through three levels of care.


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Joiner Signs With Marquette
Nov. 18, 2010
MILWAUKEE – Marquette University head men's golf coach Steve Bailey has announced the signing of standout golfer Will Joiner (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood) to a National Letter of Intent. Joiner will join the Golden Eagles in the fall of 2011.
Joiner, the second ranked golfer in the state of Tennessee according to the Junior Golf Scoreboard, finished tied for 14th overall at the AJGA Franklin Junior Championship this past July in Murfreesbro, Tenn.
"We are excited to have Will join the Marquette family," said Bailey. "Will exemplifies all the qualities that are synonymous with Marquette and our golf program. His play on the course is what initially attracted us to recruit him, but once we had him on campus and got a chance to meet his family, that solidified our decision."
"Will's background as a multi-sport athlete is a huge asset to our program," added Bailey. "He understands our team's commitment to excellence is contagious and vital to our success."


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It's not the ScreenJunkies first Honest Trailer, but they still have to fight... In the latest edition of the long-running YouTube series, "Fight Club" gets the honest treatment, with narrator Jon Bailey and company taking the highly-acclaimed satirical mindfuck to task for, among other things, hypocrisy. (They point out how the film is nominally anti-capitalist, but still features product-placement, multiple DVD an Blu-Ray editions and even a soap-based merchandising tie-in.)
The Honest Trailers team also takes issue with the numerous "hints" peppered throughout the movie indicating the real identity of Tyler Durden. (SPOILER ALERT: "Fight Club" is 15 years old and you should know how it ends by now.)
In a surprising bit of trivia, this is the first time Honest Trailers have ever taken on a David Fincher film. Surely, "The Social Network" can't be far behind.


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A row is brewing over upcoming film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro-Intelligent Design documentary due for release next February. The film features interviews with Richard Dawkins and other prominent atheists, who claim they were led to believe they were appearing in a documentary called Crossroads: The Intersection of Science and Religion, a debate about creationism and evolution.
It turns out the scientists were misled by producer Mark Mathis, whose finished product Expelled is based on the claim that scientists sympathetic to intelligent design are denied posts in universities. In an email Richard Dawkins told newspapers he would not have agreed to take part in the film had he known its true agenda, pointing out that "at no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front".
PZ Myers, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota and author of the science blog Pharyngula, is another scientist duped into appearing in Expelled. He has reproduced on his blog a letter from Mathis that clearly shows participants were asked to appear in Crossroads, saying "we are interested in asking you questions about the disconnect/controversy that exists in American between evolution, creationism and the intelligent design movement."
Having done the interview, Myers was surprised to later find out that he was appearing in a film called Expelled, with producers claiming that interviews with the likes of Myers and Dawkins show that "freedom of thought and freedom of inquiry have been expelled from publicly-funded high schools, universities and research institutions".
The report on this controversy in yesterday's New York Times included comments from the documentary's host, the actor and TV presenter Ben Stein. He told the paper he accepted the invitation to appear in the film because he "does not accept that evolution alone can explain life on Earth". He added that he believes the theory of evolution leads to racism and genocide, saying if it was up to him the documentary would be called "From Darwin to Hitler".
Friday, 28 September 2007
Dawkins tricked into appearing in pro-Intelligent Design documentary
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Posted by New Humanist at Friday, September 28, 2007
Labels: creationism, Expelled, Intelligent Design, religion, Richard Dawkins, science
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- Hugh Caldwell said...
Ben Stein is an interesting character. I doubt if he's particularly qualified to host a philosophical debate.
" He lives with his wife, Alexandra Denman ( former lawyer,) his son, Tommy, four cats and two large dogs in Beverly Hills."
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Michigan has a surprisingly high number of excellent breweries producing exceptional beer. Michigan's total of more than 80 beer-makers ranks fifth nationally. Two of our very favorites are Arbor Brewing Company out of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti and Dark Horse Brewing Co. out of Marshall and, when we heard they were working on brewing another beer together, well, we just had to check it out.
In 2007, the owners of Arbor Brewing and Dark Horse, Matt Greff and Aaron Morse, respectively, decided to collaborate on a beer. They wrote the recipe down on a napkin late one night after much drinking. They named it "Dark Corner", a mash-up of Dark Horse and The Corner Brewery, Arbor Brewing Company's Ypsilanti brew pub. They split all of the raw materials used to make the beer right down the middle; the hops, the grains, everything. Then, using the same recipe, they set out to each brew their own version of an Imperial Brown ale. The only difference between their beers is the yeast, the water, and the brewer's technique. Because the yeasts used by individual breweries is essentially a "fingerprint" of that brewery, you would expect a somewhat different result when two breweries make the same beer. Throw in regional variations in water chemistry and each brewer's differences in style and what you get are two similar but still remarkably different results. The first batch of the Imperial Brown was released in the summer of 2007 and, although the two breweries intended to make this an annual thing, time got away from them until last fall when they decided it was about time they released another Dark Corner ale.
The Imperial Brown ale is described by the brewers as follows:
Style: Imperial Brown Ale
Strength: 7% (ABV)
IBUs: 26
Body: medium
Availability: Limited Release April 2011 – available while supplies last. 12oz bottles and 1/2 barrels.
It is an imperial brown ale with lots of rich malts for a pleasing palate with hints of toasted bread and caramel. Hops are floral and understated, which contributes to its balance and drinkability. A nice bold summer beer with a huge floral hoppy nose, medium body, and a well balanced palate full of bready caramelly malts balanced by rich floral hops. Medium carbonation contributes to the drinkability of this unique ale.
Matt's friend, John Tebeau, created an entertaining comic six-pack carrier featuring the two brewers as comic book characters along with a host of local politicians such as Congressman John Dingell and State Congresswoman Rebekah Warren. Each beer has a slightly unique label with different colored caps. In stores, you can purchase mixed six-packs with three of each beer. Quirky state law in Michigan prevents the breweries themselves from selling mixed six-packs.
Wanna try these two versions of the same beer? Here are a few opportunities.
Whole Foods: 4pm – 7pm
Official Ann Arbor Happy Hour Release! Featuring both versions of the Dark Corner on draft. Matt and Aaron and the brew-team will be on hand for sixer signing.
Ashley's: 8pm – 11pm
Official Ann Arbor Evening Release! In addition to both Dark Corners, Ashleys will be serving up a two year old Flamboyant Wild Red (there's only a 1/6 bbl of it so get there early!), Ryeclops Imperial Rye, Hoptown Brown, Espresso Love and a firkin of cask-hopped Arborealis. They will also have several specialty taps from Dark Horse (Plead the Fifth Imperial Stout, Double Crooked Tree IPA, Raspberry Black Ice, Super Juice Imperial IPA and Ginger in the Rye Imperial Red/Ginger/Rye/Barrel Aged Whatever). Matt and Aaron and the brew-team will be on hand for sixer signing .
Crunchy's – East Lansing: 4-7pm
Official East Lansing Happy Hour Release! Matt and Aaron and the brew-team will be on hand for sixer signing.
Graydon's Crossing – Grand Rapids: 8pm – ??
Official Grand Rapids Evening Release! Matt and Aaron and the brew-team will be on hand for sixer signing.


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So reads the headline to a New York Law Journal article about yesterday's New York appellate court decision in Matter of Brito v. Wolcott (N.Y. Super. Ct. App. Div. Mar. 20, 2014). Here's an excerpt from that decision; the same result was reached in the case involving the other teacher:
Petitioner [Alini Brito] taught Spanish at James Madison High School (JMHS) from 2003 until November 20, 2009. On Friday, November 20, 2009, she ate dinner with colleagues and returned to the school later that evening to watch a musical competition in the first floor auditorium, although she was not required to do so. During the performance, petitioner was allegedly observed in an upstairs classroom "partially undressed["] … and "engaging in what appeared to be sexually inappropriate behavior with a colleague" …. These actions allegedly "caused widespread negative publicity, ridicule and notoriety to [JMHS] and the New York City Department of Education (DOE) when [petitioner's] misconduct was reported in New York area news reports and papers" ….
Multiple witnesses gave interlocking and closely corroborating testimony indicating that petitioner engaged in sexual conduct with an adult colleague [Cindy Mauro] in a darkened and empty third-floor classroom on November 20, 2009 at about 9:00 p.m., while a student musical performance was under way in an auditorium on the main floor….
[But] the penalty of termination of employment is shockingly disproportionate to petitioner's misconduct …. "[A] result is shocking to one's sense of fairness if the sanction imposed is so grave in its impact on the individual subjected to it that it is disproportionate to the misconduct, incompetence, failure or turpitude of the individual, or to the harm or risk of harm to the agency or institution, or to the public generally visited or threatened by the derelictions of the individuals. Additional factors would be the prospect of deterrence of the individual or of others in like situations, and therefore a reasonable prospect of recurrence of derelictions by the individual or persons similarly employed. There is also the element that the sanctions reflect the standards of society to be applied to the offense involved[.]"
Petitioner was present at the school as an audience member and not in any official capacity. The incident involved a consenting adult colleague and was not observed by any student. Before the incident, petitioner, a tenured teacher who had made many positive contributions to the school, had an unblemished disciplinary record, and, moreover, was described by her supervisor as one of the best teachers she had ever worked with.
While petitioner's behavior demonstrated a lapse in judgment, there is no evidence that this incident, was anything but a one-time mistake. Of critical significance is that, unlike matters involving some form of romantic involvement or other inappropriate conduct with a student, petitioner's engaging in what appeared to be consensual sexual conduct with an adult colleague is not in and of itself either criminal or otherwise improper. Indeed, lesser penalties have been imposed where a teacher had an ongoing relationship or engaged in inappropriate behavior with a student (compare City School Dist. of the City of N.Y. v McGraham, 75 AD3d 445 [1st Dept 2010] [penalty of 90-day suspension without pay and reassignment rather than termination reinstated in light of overall circumstances demonstrating the improbability of teacher engaging in similar inappropriate behavior in the future], affd 7 NY3d 917 [2011]; Matter of Asch v New York City Bd./Dept. of Educ., 104 AD3d 415 [1st Dept 2013] [six-month suspension and mandatory counseling constituted an appropriate penalty for a librarian with 20 years of service who over a three-year period had engaged in inappropriate touching of high school students that the hearing officer found was not sexual misconduct]; Nreu v New York City Dept. of Educ., 25 Misc 3d 1209[A] [Sup Ct, NY County 2009] [where petitioner, who had unblemished record, was found guilty of repeated inappropriate communications with student, one-year suspension without pay did not shock one's sense of fairness]).
Nor is there is any indication in the record that petitioner's conduct will affect her ability to teach or that she intended to inflict any damage on any student. While it is unfortunate that the incident garnered so much attention and was exploited in the media, that in and of itself does not warrant the penalty of termination (see Matter of Ellis v Ambach, 124 AD2d 854 [3d Dept 1986] [two-year suspension for driver education teacher who had been convicted of criminally negligent homicide in connection with a hit-and-run accident that had been widely reported in the press], lv denied 69 NY2d 606 [1987]).
Seemed like an interesting case, so I thought I'd pass it along. Note that the case rested on the New York civil service law, not on some broad constitutional principles — the court doesn't deny that, if a state wanted to leave schools with the discretion to fire teachers for such behavior, it could; the court's position is simply that New York law limits schools' discretion on this point.
The record is silent on which songs drove the teachers into their ungovernable passion. For local coverage of the incident, see this New York Post article.


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Leafs v. Capitals Post-Game: Lucky Number 3
Three goals in three minutes and three seconds in the third period. Yes, the Toronto Maple Leafs actually came back from a two-goal deficit after two periods to gain a point in the standings.
Let's get right to it with some thoughts on the game:
- Although most of my hair was pulled out in frustration, the Leafs displayed a lot of heart tonight and they deserve credit. It's hard to remember the last time the Leafs came back from a two-goal deficit in the third period, but it's encouraging they managed without captain Dion Phaneuf.
- Kudos to Nikolai Kulemin on the game's first goal. Instead of shooting under pressure he opted to hold on to the puck, position himself for a quality scoring opportunity and take advantage of Micheal Neuvirth's poor positioning.
- Luke Schenn continues to solidify his reputation as a defensive stalwart on the Leafs' blueline. What he lacks in offensive ability, he has in delivering menacing hits. Entering his third campaign at 21 years old, there's no longer an intimidation factor, as evidenced by his 42 hits, second among NHL defensemen.
- Kris Versteeg had his ups and downs tonight. He caused the third goal against with a careless pass in the neutral zone but came back in the third period with a breakaway goal. Wilson's experiment to play Versteeg on the point on the powerplay was intriguing, but it failed miserably. Versteeg couldn't CAPitalize (HA, get it?... sorry) on his scoring chances, and he had plenty of time and space. I won't lie, before he scored a goal I thought a trip to the press box might be in order to light a fire under the Stanley Cup champion. Currently riding a two-game point-streak, perhaps Versteeg is slowly coming around.
- Tomas Kaberle had a great third period, displaying the offensive talent that once made him one of the league's top offensive defensemen. The first forty minutes were an entirely different story, however, as his defensive shortcomings were apparent. Had he sustained pressure on Boyd Gordon as he entered the Leafs' zone, the second goal could have been avoided. Although Mikhail Grabovski did absolutely nothing to disrupt Jason Chimera from scoring the goal in front of the net (he literally didn't even touch him).
- Although the Leafs' struggles is familiar territory for its fans, the goaltending is one aspect that has vastly improved. Jonas Gustavsson robbed Nicklas Backstrom on a two-on-one and displayed poise between the pipes that he sometimes lacked as a rookie last season. He controlled rebounds effectively, which is usually his weakness, and didn't overplay the puck against the Capitals' high-octane offense. Despite allowing four goals, he's the sole reason the Capitals didn't run over the Leafs in the second period.
- The Capitals tied the game at 4-4 on a bogus penalty. Just sayin'.
- What a game for Mike Komisarek. He logged 25 minutes and 41 seconds of ice-time, recorded two assists and a +1 rating. He deserves credit for stepping up in Phaneuf's absence and playing nearly double the minutes he previously logged.
Despite the shootout loss, it's hard to get upset about the result of tonight's game.
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A Comparison of Fonts Similar to Helvetica and Arial, For Raspberry Pi
If you're looking for the closest font to Helvetica that is one of the default fonts on the Raspberry Pi (assuming Raspbian wheezy), I would say none of them. Instead, install the ttf-liberation package and use Liberation Sans. If you absolutely have to use one of the default ones, or one more strictly closer to Helvetica, use FreeSans or Nimbus Sans L. They are pretty much a toss-up for me. If that's all you wanted to know, you can stop right here :) Otherwise, feel free to read the rest of this long, boring post. Also watch the short comparison video on YouTube.
I have to point out that saying "Use Helvetica" is kind of like pointing to a bookshelf full of books and saying "Get me the book". There are many variations of the font family. LinoType currently offers 36 families of Helvetica, each one with up to 6 variations and each one costing $35 or $45. It is possible to find a bunch of variations on the internet.
Many people would point to Arial as a replacement for Helvetica. Indeed, it was designed by Monotype to be metrically identical to Helvetica, but has influences from some of Monotype's preceding font faces, so it has a different look.[1] Also, it does not come on Raspbian by default, although it can be obtained by installing the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package (.25MB) which then downloads and extracts the fonts from sourceforge (3.5MB). Removing the installer also removes the fonts. If you only want specific fonts, you could download the appropriate .exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/ and extract it yourself, if you know how to extract a cabinet file and how to install the font on Linux (see https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts).
Liberation Sans was designed as an open replacement for Arial, with metrics that are compatible with Arial.[2] Liberation Sans was released in 2007 and is not part of Raspbian's default fonts, but can be installed with the ttf-liberation package (approx 2MB). Some of the letter forms are like Arial (G, R, r) and some are like Helvetica (a,t), but some are different from either (Q, 1). Liberation fonts are included in installations of LibreOffice and OpenOffice and used as their default fonts.
Some people might mention DejaVu Sans, which does come by default on Raspbian. However, its ancestry is from the Bitstream Vera fonts and is quite a bit different and does not even flow the same as Helvetica or Arial.[3]
Nimbus Sans L was designed in 1987 and some of the font family was released under GPL in 1996 (an open source license). Nimbus has metrics almost identical to Helvetica and Arial. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts which are free alternatives to the 35 basic PostScript fonts, as a replacement for Helvetica.[4] In appearance, it looks like Helvetica rather than Arial. I have found that at some type sizes, the bottom curve of some letters falls strangely far below the baseline ("a" being the worst, espcially in some of the sizes between 16 to 32 points... as shown on the comparison video). So it would be hard for me to use in general use.
FreeSans is one of the free fonts developed by the GNU FreeFont project. It is based on Nimbus Sans from the Ghostscript fonts. A goal of the FreeFonts is to include as many characters from the Universal Character Set as possible.[5] Like Nimbus Sans, FreeSans has some weird issues with bottom curve going under the baseline.
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts
4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans#Nimbus_Sans_L
5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont


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NomiS' first true full length solo release. Mouthpiece of the Lion delivers 14 songs of honest, thought provoking lyrics accompanied by an underlined theme of hearing NomiS' battle to learn and teach at the same time.
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Before Chad Crews started his magic show at Merriwether Elementary School, he showed the pupils a book and told them it's how he learned magic.
Then, he began his show.
There were a lot of "ooohs" and "aaahs" May 18 as Crews performed tricks such as turning a green balloon snake into a real snake. Then there was a room full of laughter as their teachers assisted him with his suit jacket version of Houdini's famous straight jacket trick.
As he demonstrated a copper cup and balls trick, the pupils looked on curiously and shouted guesses of where the balls went, with teachers joining in on the fun.
While the pupils were intrigued with his performance, Crews continued to emphasize that reading and using the library's resources were a great way to learn and expand their interests.
"My whole goal is to get them to read. Find something they are interested in and check out a book and read all about it," said Crews, who has been doing magic for more than 10 years and in area schools and libraries for the past six years.
They hope that by seeing what things can come of reading, that it will encourage pupils to read for enjoyment, said assistant principal Patty Gibbs.
"I think it's important that they see something interesting and interactive," she said. "We want them to see that reading is fun and you can learn about a lot of different things when you read."
The magic show was one of several activities the pupils and parents participated in as a part of the school's third annual Reading and Math Beach Blast.
The event is a fun way to show pupils that math and reading skills are essential in life, he added.
"I believe that reading and math are the foundations for education," he said. "If you have those skills, you can achieve anything."
Throughout the day, pupils completed reading and math activities and received visits from guest speakers.
There were seminars for parents on how to help their child succeed in reading and math. Parents were also given reading and math activities their child can complete over the summer break.
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