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February's jobs data was much better than expected with employers adding 236,000 jobs in the month--pushing the unemployment rate to a four-year-low of 7.7%. While this is a big improvement for the anemic labor market, there are still 12 million people looking for work in the U.S.
The Great Recession has changed the job market and companies' hiring practices as they try to do more with less. Hiring managers today are looking to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible, says Roy Cohen , career coach and author of The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide. Companies want to hire people who can solve problems, so it's important candidates prove their value if they want to make payroll.
"Show what you can do and how well you do it," Cohen says. "Companies are looking for solutions and are hiring fewer people to do more work. You need to be able to show that you can produce results."
Job hunters need to be make sure their resume shows their value add proposition (VAP), recommends career coach Darnell Clarke. "This is your differentiation strategy and will set you apart from everyone else."
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Be current. In today's tech-driven world, Cohen advises older candidates to avoid dating themselves. "When you incorporate your legacy experience, it may make you appear less relevant," he says. "What I care about as a hiring manager is what you can do for me right now."
He suggests focusing on the immediate past and eliminating experiences from 10-to-15 years ago if they are not relevant. This also includes taking down graduation dates. "Unless you are a new grad, it's irrelevant."
Be explicit in your skills. Candidates must show employers what they can do and how they will enhance a team. "I have little tolerance for resumes that are not explicit in what they are telling the world they will do," Cohen says. "You are pursuing a specific target, so use specific language and details."
Don't get super fancy. For the most part, Clarke says the resume is not all it's made out to be. "Many people think resumes are all-important…any format that describes your information in a concise way is fine. It's more about connecting what you have done to results that saved the company money or helped do things faster."
Nail the pitch. Clarke says job seekers' No.1 goal should be proving they can make the hiring manager more money faster. "Describe what your strengths are," he says. "If you cannot do this, you don't have a differentiator strategy."
Meld experience with benefit. Listing past experiences won't help get the job, candidates must prove how previous workloads will help an employer's bottom line and strategic plan, Cohen says.
"Thoroughly research the company, its issues and challenges and be able to figure out how you can fit into that story," he says.
Avoid the 'parent problem.' It can be easy to get excited and end up talking over the interviewer and not even realize it, but this not interview-acceptable behavior, says Cohen.
"We may not realize it in an interview, but it's unpleasant as an interviewer to be with a candidate that isn't paying attention to social queues."


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Love the new site
Looking forward to exploring the new website 🙂
Thank you- looks great
New to ANZASW… Feels great !!!
Oh so WAY BETTER…I am sure this will encouarge new membership. Well done?
Na Paora
And may the force be with you both. I'm so very pleased to this move. Nga mihi nui Paora
Kia ora Paora.
And for those TW social workers who want to talk more about this renewed direction, come do so at https://www.facebook.com/groups/tangatawhenuasocialwork/?fref=ts
Congratulations Anaru and Karen, all the best for the roles you have taken on and for your co-leadership.
Kia ora korua, go well as you lead our profession for its next chapter.
These are such important steps-how great is a revolution for when we can dream it we can move that dream into action. I look to a active membership engaged in reimagining social work and the role of an association.
Congratulations Anaru raua ko Karen. Anaru I have all the confidence in you; you have the passion and drive to bring about new challenges and changes. Two persons is better than one Biculturalisim in Practice to the for front. Kia Kaha Kia Maia Kia Manawanui.
Congratulations Anaru raua ko Karen. Anaru I have all the confidence in you; you have the passion and drive to bring about new challenges and changes. Kia Kaha Kia Maia Kia Manawanui.
New Changes can only be good kia kaha kia maia kia manawanui
Please be upfront about reasons for increasing membership fees.
Of course it is about raising more funds!! Saying so acknowledges the intelligence of members. Saying it is not, does the opposite!
I am sure the reasons given are genuine and important, but so is transparency that any increase in fees is just that – an increase to raise funds.
I wish the board all the best. However, this does not give me confidence that members will be treatedas colleagues, as we should be.
The fee increase is way more, % wise ,than a average wage increase . most of your proposals are on line base and limited in the amount of resources needed .
I got a cent hr wage increase this year and wage talk will not take place again for another 3 years for my employers so there is not more money coming into our pay packets.
Between ANZASW and SWRB this would put the yearly fees over $700 a year ,and with employers tighten the budgets .if you can offer a $40 discount for early payment then why does the fee need to be so hight.
$52 a year increase to much
I wonder if this is a way to loss more members
Ngaa mihi tino mahana ki a koorua. That both of you are co-leading ANZASW together is one of the brightest things that has happened to our profession. Kia ora!
Kia ora Karen & Anaru! I think the vision developed is exactly what is needed at this time. I appreciate the clarity that the three key priority goals bring and the transparency offered in this post! Congratulations and kia kaha as you carry forth the mantle!
Congratulations to the new editorial collective. Going online seems a timely initiative that will help our local and wider social work community publish and learn. Kia kaha!
Thanks and best wishes to the editorial collective for the task ahead. Great to see our journal align with the ideals of the open access movement – social justice and sustainability. Looking forward to the first issue!
Kia ora and welcome to the ten strong collective! I celebrate the time, thinking and discussion you have all put into this as well as the collective nature and collaboration. An exciting move and while I will dearly miss the hard copy journals I look forward to what emerges from this move.
He mihi miharo kia korua i ou korua mahi kotahi.
Ma pango ma whero ka oti ae te mahi.
Congratulations to you both as you forge ahead as the collective voice of ANZASW.
Anything is possible when we work as one together.
Kia ora -Acknowledging the power in your wero and the essential principles in balance, of tika, pono, and aroha in any effort.
Acknowledging the evergreen invitation in what it is to be kaitiaki in a Te Tiriti o Waitangi informed society and this as tangata whenua, as tangata Te Tiriti and how these relationships inform social work.
Acknowledging I/we stand here in the legacies of others- and they as 'distant travellers' remain available to us.
Slainte (together we find abundant wellness)
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Thanks for your comments and apologies if our blog post is misleading or unclear in any way.
Yes a fee increase will create more funds. It will create funds to cover the ever increasing cost of base line services and to assist us as an association to be able to cover our bills.
As a board we grappled for some time about whether we should increase fees or instead drastically reduce services and functionality of the association in order to continue to function. Clearly we opted for a fee increase after members had indicated that they sought a stronger and more present voice in their association not a further diminished one.
However in increasing this fee we are ever mindful of the low pay rates and financial stress within our communities, for those in paid employment as well as those who are not. We are mindful of the challenges this may bring and have some further innovative ideas (which are no way near developed or fully thought through yet to announce as this time) to mitigate against fee payment hardship and to support those of our members who would find this $1 a week increase un-affordable.
As a board we felt it important that if fees increased, to cover essential costs, that we also consider new ways of doing some things and ensured that this extra $1 did not just 'disappear', but could be shown to being effectively used in creating changes.
We hope our strategic plan reflects to members a new vision forward and over time we will continue to roll out announcements demonstrating more of the changes we envisage to support our membership, voice and CPD.
Apologies again if our initial blog did not put this in a way which was clear enough.
Please keep your comments coming however,; the Association is all of us, and we value feedback, engagement and participation of all members as we re-imagine our association into the next 50 years.
Nga mihi nui
From all of us at TKA, we too acknowledge the wero in this blog. Powerful Paora…and I hope that people can rise to it! Thank you for lighting up the pathway.
My thoughts are none of the above made any sense. I work in an adolescent mental health unit starship hospital. These young people are our future kaumatua sad to say they will not reach that age as they and their whanau are struggling to live under this cruel system that diminishes our Walrua.
We are the doers the ones at the bottom of everyone's Maunga trying to keep them on their waka.
All of yous out there who talk at these conferences you haven't a clue what's happening in your back yard
Our unit also provides guidance for mothers suffering with a mental illness
You all don't know what you'd ate talking about
I work with a brilliant multidisciplinary team as culture advisor and they hold
The answers to the well-being of our
Maori people
We live it breath it walk the talk
Our young people need our help now
Help them first then we all can grow
In harmony
I acknowledge their are serious racists issues that's why our dynamic team work within the structures set up to honour the principles of our Treaty of Waitangi
A conference like this should be set up for indigenous elders and rangatahi
Then our Pepi will not be harmed if we return to our roots
Tena koe Te Wharewaiata
It is so good that you had the couarge to respond to this blog. Indeed I wish more of our people would do so. The Healing Our Spirit Worldwide hui went for a week and had the crème de la crème healers from multiple Indigenous nations around the world. Some were academics, many were just grass-root healers, steeped in their own traditional rongoa knowledge and methods. There were many kaumatua from those nations attending, including many of Aotearoa's most esteemed kaumatua. There were also as many rangatahi from all walks of life and abilities who spoke out and performed. They talked at length about mental health issues and much of the conference centered on whakamomori and its impact upon our people. There would also have been representatives from your place of work attending. So I think these people do "have a clue about what is going on in our own backyards."
I'm sorry the blog didn't make sense to you. Not everyone 'gets' institutional racism and how it works under the radar within organisations, hence the point of the blog. Perhaps share it with your team and see if someone else could explain their perspective of it to you. 'Step Up or Step Aside' is the heart intention of the blog…encouraging our own, young and old to speak up about their experiences, their truth… be they right or wrong, without them being knocked back for having the courage to do so.
Mauri ora, Paora Crawford Moyle.
Good stuff Luis. Exciting range of actions here and it's just so fantastic to have you coordinating our collective voice on important issues. Nga mihi, Jude Douglas.
Well done. It is the responsibility of all Social Workers to oppose the TTP. It will undermine Maori Sovereignty, New Zealand Sovereignty, the ability of one parliament to bind a future parliament i.e. parliamentary sovereignty, and basic Human Rights as set out in the NZ Bill of Rights Act and the UN Charters on Human Rights.
The agreement was negotiated in secrecy.
It gives power to Transnational Corporations to challenge anything that they see as impinging on their interests in the NZ Polity. We need to remember the Multi-lateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that was nearly adopted internationally. The MAI was stopped when the French government withdrew from the negotiations. Many local authorities adopted positions declaring there territorial areas as being MAI free zones. We need to now create new TPP free zones in Aotearoa New Zealand. The TPP ignores both the Spirituality of the peoples of the Earth. It commodifies people and puts them under the mantle of neo-liberal economics. The people are the subjects of economics not the objects. The wairua present in Papatuanuku cannot be abused and violated.
Great to see ANZASW taking a position on the TPP issue that has the potential to further marginalise the already disenfranchised.
Looking forward to as many members of your organisation as possible helping to pack Queen Street tomorrow lunchtime from 12 noon Aotea Square – to Britomart (NOT Sky City) 1pm.
For a peaceful, family-friendly march, of thousands of concerned Kiwis, which will show this John Key led National Government, (and the watching world) that we, the people, do NOT want this pro-corporate TPPA.
Penny Bright
2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
(Who does NOT support NZ signing the TPPA).
What a rewarding path you have followed. Congratulations Pauline. I have just met a lovely dedicated person like u in nepal. His name is Samir. The voluntary group is http://www.dirghajeevi.org all the best xclaire
Agree it is great that ANZASW is taking a stand on this one and that each and every social worker should take a stand against TPPA
Thank you for crafting this release on our behalf. It is very important for social workers to be actively engaged in this major concern.
Great that ANZASW is representing us publicly and well. Thank you!
This sounds a wonderful focus for our journal and the opportunity for social workers who are out in their communities using innovating and creative practice to share with us all and tell us what we are doing. Ka Pai.
Thanks to our editorial team for their innovation in this 🙂
I don't agree with such a massive fee increase when this membership doesn't seem to give you much as a member. The website is not user friendly and there are no opportunities that warrant the current let alone an increase. If SWRB are undertaking competency, then I can see a lot of people, who are not having their fees paid through employment asking the question what do I get for memnership? Anzasw seems to be motivated by the people who work tirelessly to advocate for social work within self directed groups/lots of unpaid work for publish. I think focus needs to be what are the true benefits are for anzasw members – extra funds for IT? Another sad reality of socially driven expectations.
It is getting to a point fiscally when agencies are going to have to consider whether paying for their staff to be members of both the ANZASW and the SWRB is financially viable…if I personally had to pay out of my pocket there is no way I could afford to be members of both…
Kia ora Karen and Anaru
I appreciate the decisions which have been made by the Board in consultation with members and the open, friendly and transparent way in which those decisions have been communicated. While it is a struggle for members on low salaries to pay both ANZASW and SWRB fees, the reality is that this is politicial! Sometime in the recent past Lucy made available a chart which illustrated the fees paid by other professional groups and it seemed to me that ANZASW membership fees were modest by comparison. If we want recognition of our profession and the corresponding benefits we are obliged to participate in ANZASW to raise those issues, debate them and make them known to politicians. Before this however, it is my belief that we must work at a personal level and as Association members, with and alongside whanau and community advocacy groups to raise the issues and bring about change for those most marginilised by the current and historical policies of the state.
I agree with BEW that more information about the present Board resignations is required.
Kia Ora. I too agree we as members deserve to be told the whole story in regard to the board member who transgressed. Please tell all. Also in relation to fee increase: increasing fees is likely to lose members in the long run – the choice will soon be to go with the SWRB as this is mandatory for some of us now and more will follow at some point. I accept the rational for increasing the fees but believe the board needs to prove to us that they can deliver bang for that buck – if not then what. ANZASW cannot keep asking for more but not deliver on outcomes promised.
Thank you Karen, I totally agree with your stance in this instance .
If members are unhappy pls stand for the next AGM.
I agree with your comments Karen. The board statement made me really angry as it was exactly like a piece of spin you may recieve from a politician, not an open and honest discussion. If not for my respect for staff and for the potential of ANZASW I would have resigned immediately. Its crunch time for ANZASW now, we need to sort this out get back to our mahi of advocating for and educating social workers.
Thanks Neil for sharing the 'taking a hit for calling out racism' blog. Whilst I appreciate that you do not agree with its content, there is nothing "distorted or alleged" about my experience of being 'taken to task' inside that Board meeting. In the same way you remind me (above) about my obligation to the "code of ethics for the governance of the ANZASW board." And how I expect I will be 'taken to task' at the coming SGM (sigh).
It might help to know that I adhere to both Maori as well as Pakeha ethical guidelines. Confidentiality is a Pakeha construct that can protect abuse as well as the abused. I will always be firstly accountable to my own people, which means, when anyone of my whanau is transgressed (including myself), I will not be silent about it.
In the same way, I will not be silent about racism and privileged positioning within NZ social work. A neon example being, that tangata whenua can be democratically voted onto the ANZASW Board by its tangata whenua membership, only to be voted off by tauiwi.
I think it is incredibly sad and the epitome of privileged positioning that the very members who continue to talk about 'my' having damaged their professional reputations, could be perceived as doing exactly the same to the remaining Board members; whom only three months ago they sat in unity with.
To my fellow Board members, truly honorable people and as dedicated to the Association as any have been before; who collectively have provided many years of faithful and competent service to social work and ANZASW. "Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes."
Now I am interested in focusing on 'infinitely' more important issues such as the release of final CYF review report which bought tears to myself and my colleagues when we see the stealth that will result from this report to further alienate whakapapa from whanau. The termination of the 'ti' in tikanga!
Na Paora Moyle. See you all at the SGM.
You make your comment directly to Neil despite the post being sent from Neil, Jane and myself.
I refuse to enter into this any further until the SGM.
thanks Paora for your response. See you at the SGM
Thanks for your response Paora. Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui i roto i te huarahi tika!!
Tēnā koutou katoa,
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As a member of ANZASW I have until now mostly observed from the sideline. Until now I have chosen to refrain from entering into this particular discussion forum, and not react or respond publically. However, I have been reminded that my silence can be seen as further supporting a mono-cultural privileged position and further marginalise tangata whenua. I would like to categorically state that I am supportive of the board's actions and decision to respond to the confidentiality breach. Do I need to know exactly how this was addressed, no. I am also supportive of the blog posts mentioned earlier in the comments thread. Why? I have been a member of the Association for a few years now, and my position and voice has not been reflected by the board until now. Now we have someone that has the courage to ask the difficult questions and to publically challenge issues such as racism and white privilege. This in turn gives me the courage to speak publically in forums such as this.
Ngā mihi nui ki ā koe e Paora!
Nā Marlana Maru
Kia ora,
We have been following your blogs with interest for quite some time and although I am not an ANZASW member, I have considered joining since seeing your unrelenting voice for our people. Nga mihi to Marlana above and others for their support of you. I still remember how inspired our wananga of 50 tauira were after you presented your journey to us with such passion. You even inspired a waiata to be written for you. You have our faith and our tautoko to keep representing us all. Nowhere have I read or heard any korero from you that presents as injurious to any person's reputation. What I see is you challenging the critical issues for our people and for tangata whenua practitioners in social work. You are carry yourself in a tika, pono, aroha way and we understand that sometimes tauiwi and tangata whenua ethics are polarised. I too support the current Board and the way in which they appear to have used a relational model of whanaungatanga to address any concerns. In social work, we have an ethical code which means 'be ethical.' It means when you get a critique of your ethics, whether it is in research or in practice, you take a good hard look at yourself. You don't whine that you are the one being wronged. You can't call yourself an advocate for social justice and at the same time complain because your privilege and unethical research behaviour are being challenged. You step up to the mat and get back in alignment with anti-oppression and anti-racism. You do not, in response, draw upon the power of your privileged position to become more oppressive under some misguided belief that you hold a moral high ground, because you don't.
What sanction were these people wanting or still seeking from you? Regardless, of those who seek to take you down, you are a rangatira in this mahi and you have done what we asked of you.
Mauri ora e Paora
Nga mihi John Tumanako
Is it relational to completely ignore people's emails and requests for action? Is it relational to go straight to very public attack without at least trying to have a conversation? Is it relational to accuse colleagues of not answering valid and important questions when they did in fact go to great pains to do so? And took abuse in the process.
You and I have a different understanding of what it means to be relational.
Everything I have ever written and talked about is publically available. People can determine for themselves the truth of my korero. I will not apologise for my lived-experience or expression of it. I will not take down any one of my blogs, which do not "publicly attack" any person. I have always been open to talking through the issues, but not in a way where I am 'taken to task' and told what I can and cannot say. Regardless of anyone's opinion, it took considerable thought and courage on my part to go public about the many faces of racism in social work. It continues to take resolute courage. I was elected onto the Board by tangata whenua to represent them and I believe I have done so. I have never been "abusive" to anyone and if it is said that I have, then I ask the evidence be presented and I will be accountable to the tangata whenua membership and to the SWRB. Nga mihi nui Paora Crawford Moyle.
Here's my view on this. ANZASW is supposed to be our professional body with Board members who uphold the values and practice of SW. I do not see much of this being demonstrated with the lack of transparency and accountability with regards to breaches in confidentiality of board matters, the management of this event, the loss of board members and how we are to move forward.
Social work has a value of social justice which is about challenging systems and processes not having personalized 'bitchfests' within our own profession. Are we not meant to be modeling respectful difference. Publically trashing our peers, in my book, does not equate with positive role modeling.
Recently I voted for a clean slate for our board to start again fresh – our credibility as a professional group is at stake here folks!!! In-fighting and publicizing it is an embarrassment. I am assuming our constitution is a process that has been agreed upon by the profession so this is what needs to be upheld or modified if it is not reflecting the values and practice that our board should be modeling.
I want to acknowledge that everyone's view is valid – not necessarily right nor wrong but sometimes different; and the relational aspect is about coming to a place of respectful agreement regardless of ethnicity, gender, cultural, religious or other viewpoints. Bi-cultural values are embedded within SW practice – when these may not be evident there are more respectful ways of addressing this issue.
ANZASW has bigger fish to fry – what about getting politically vocal about the things that are going to impact on how we work with the people we are trying to provide a service to. Is that not the point of SW after all???
I agree Shelley. We as a group of PROFESSIONALS need to be working as one here. There are huge issues out there right now ,such as the review of CYF and what that means for all of us. We as a profession have been silent and dictated to, for too long from a group of people in Wellington who think they know what works best-why are we listening to these people? They are not trained Social Workers. Do Engineers take advice from Real estate agents when they are building a bridge? As a group we need to be speaking up for our profession and supporting and growing a professional body that can hold its own.
We need ANZASW to be offering us a place to belong and a professional body that is providing our profession with the training ,support and innovative practice that we require.
I, for one am tired of our profession being looked upon as a bunch of do- gooders out there drinking coffee and 'thinking' we are making a difference. We actually have to do what works and there is plenty of evidence out there that states what does work-we just need to do more of it. If you are practicing in a way that is not useful-please stop and move to a place where you can practice in a way that actually is effective. I am really questioning my future in this profession over all this and want to be proud of this Social Workers title-do you?
Well professionalism is just more white privileged positioning when you have a proffesional body that will not address its internal racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S338qnpji7U
Great work team! This will help share the good news about social work in Aotearoa.
Hi, Is there any way of printing it out to read? Not only do I prefer a hard copy, it's easier to cart around and read it when I have a spare moment.
Sure Caz, you can download the pdfs of each article and print them off.
What are the requirements for registration with the Social workers Board?


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Mother of costal Ga. tot slain in stroller being cross examined by defense attorney
MARIETTA, Ga. – The mother of a baby who was fatally shot in his stroller in coastal Georgia testified at a man's murder trial Tuesday that she threw her arms across her baby in a bid to save him.
Sherry West cried as she told the court what happened as she walked home from the Brunswick post office March 21 with her 13-month-old son, Antonio Santiago. Two teenagers approached her, and the older one demanded money, West testified.
De'Marquise Elkins, 18, is charged with murder in the baby's slaying.
West testified about her interaction with the older teen who approached her. "I told him I have a baby and I have expenses and I didn't have it," she said.
The teen threatened the baby when she refused to give him money a second time, she said.
"He asked me if I wanted him to shoot my baby," West said. "I said, 'Don't shoot my baby.'"
She said the teen fired a warning shot into the ground, then another shot that grazed her ear and another that hit her in the leg. He then turned toward the baby in the stroller.
"I tried to stop him," she said. "I put my arms over my baby, but he still shot him."
Afterward, the teen tried to grab her purse and hit her in the head with his gun, she said, adding she screamed for help and both teens ran.
Asked by prosecutor Andrew Ekonomou if the shooter was in the courtroom, West said he was and pointed at Elkins. Seated at the defense table, he showed no emotion.
West is expected to take the stand again Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Elkins and an accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, stopped West, and the older teen pointed a small .22-caliber revolver at her and demanded money before shots were fired.
The killing in the port city of Brunswick drew national attention, and the trial was moved to the Atlanta suburb of Marietta owing to extensive publicity
Elkins faces life in prison if convicted of murder. At the time of the shooting he was 17, too young to face the death penalty if convicted under Georgia law. Lang, who also faces murder charges, is to be tried at a later date.
Prosecutors have said information from Elkins' mother and sister led investigators to a pond where they found a revolver. Karimah Elkins is standing trial alongside her son on charges of evidence tampering and lying to police. Elkins' sister also was charged with evidence tampering.
De'Marquise Elkins' attorney, Kevin Gough, asked West about whether she and the baby's father, Louis Santiago, ever regretted having the baby. West said she never regretted having the child, that she and Santiago had been planning to have another. But she acknowledged under questioning by Gough that her relationship with Santiago was troubled.
Gough also repeatedly attacked West's credibility on cross examination.
He asked her several times how she could be certain it was Elkins who shot the baby and asked questions about her interview with police that seemed to indicate she had expressed uncertainty about the shooter's identity to investigators.
Gough also asked West about medications she takes for various conditions, including bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoia. He had her look at a list of side effects of her medications, including memory problems, hallucinations, delusions and impaired vision. He asked several times whether it was possible she was suffering from a psychotic episode during questioning by police.
He also questioned her choice of walking route to and from the post office and asked why she would take a walk with her baby if she knew the neighborhood to be dangerous. He also noted that Louis Santiago had stopped by the morning of the shooting and asked her why she didn't have him get stamps or mail a letter for her.
Prosecutors have also accused De'Marquise Elkins of shooting a pastor during an attempted robbery outside a Hispanic church in Brunswick 10 days before the baby was killed. Wilfredo Calix Flores testified earlier Tuesday that he and another man, Clever Jimenez, were working on a fence outside the church when they were approached by a young man who pointed a gun at them and demanded money and cell phones.
When the men said they didn't have any, the young man shot Flores, he and Jimenez testified. Both men testified that they picked Elkins out of a photo lineup and pointed at Elkins when asked if the shooter was in the courtroom.
Dont'e Jackson, 17, said he and another friend were with Elkins on March 11 and saw him shoot the pastor after demanding his wallet. Jackson said Elkins threatened that something bad would happen to them if they told anyone about the killing.


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The Next Turn
Renesmee is now 17, and just starting her relationship with Jacob. She how their relationship develops and evolves. The next chapter begins now!
1. The Beginning
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Renesmee's POV
I was sitting at the counter in the main house, enjoying my breakfast of eggs and bacon when I heard Jacob enter. I knew he must have been busy last night running regular patrols with his pack, but sometimes I wished he and I could send one full night together. Our relationship was in the beginning stages still. He had been dating for 2 months now and I loved every moment of it. Jacob was always kind, caring, and loveable.
I finished eating and put my plate in the dishwasher. I made my way into the living room, and saw Jacob sitting on the couch. The moment he saw me, he opened his arms and waited for me to sit on his lap. I took my spot and he wrapped his hands around my waist and said. "Hello baby, how was your night?"
"I slept good, but I would have slept even better if you had been there." I replied and he knew I meant it. But, I also knew that my parents would never allow it to happen, even though he did everyday had the meet. "Renesmee, please control your thought when you are around me." My dad said from the other room. I always forgot he could hear my thoughts from miles away. "Sorry daddy." I replied.
"Jake, do you want to hunting with me?" I asked. I was starting to feel the thurst. "Sure baby." He replied, and took my hand as we both stood up. I then took the lead, and we were out the back door seconds later.
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Hope Wrap Dress
Added Aug 3, 2009
by erdronen
Cincinnati, Ohio...
Hope is a simple wrap dress pattern for knit fabrics with some stretch. The dress uses binding around the unfinished edges which continues to form the ties. This dress is a quick make with only 3 pattern pieces! Make it your own!
This is my first pattern, so I apologize that it's not perfect! If you have any questions at all, please message me I'll be happy to clarify :)
This is also posted on my blog if you're interested in checking it out!
Material Notes
~2.5 yds knit fabric (I used a soft jersey)
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Dress
- Style
- Casual, Evening Wear
- Material
- Knits/Jersey
- #Credit#
my sister for whom this was first made
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Jul 13, 2016, 12.57 PMby Annhav
is there a small scale example /drawing of how the pattern should look like once everything is cut out? thx, annette
Mar 10, 2015, 03.04 AMby Balikini
Hello there! So, I've cut out and put together the pattern, but it seems that the pattern front and back don't really match. For instance, the arm holes and the shape of the waist don't jibe. Can anyone help me? Thank you!
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Oct 22, 2018, 09.37 AMby Jirip
I too dont know. Can you help me now?:-)
Jan 13, 2014, 02.07 PMby Xiaolu Ding
it is strange, I also wear in size 34. I printed all of paper(free papar pattern), and put them correctly. But the back side is totally not matched the front. I mean waist size, chest size can not be mached. (the silmest on front is 26.5cm, but the back waist is 15*-x2=30cm, even 30cm, which is still too small for most of pepole. ) I don´t know what´s wrong with it. Who could help me?
Oct 21, 2012, 02.08 PMby ADR
Hi! I'm about to cut my jersey fabric and I'm not sure when you said "seam allowances are 5/8"" if the allowances are actually included in the pattern or if I have to add them. I know I checked everywhere if it says that it's included but I can't find anything that explicitly says it. Would you please assure me before I cut? Is it included or do I have to add? Thanks! I'm so excited! : )
Jul 9, 2012, 07.00 AMby NicoletteSteel
Hi I am new to this site. Really want to make this dress. Where do I get the pattern, I got the instructions but not the pattern. How do I go about please?
Jan 29, 2012, 11.58 AMby HannaTT
Can you tell me how wide the fabric is? I understand that it is 2,5yards long but I know that (at least in Austria) there is differences in the width of different fabrics. Thanks!
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Jun 13, 2012, 10.51 AMby Zimcke de Staey
It was mentioned in the instructions: 45'' wide. Have fun! :-)
Jan 3, 2012, 07.03 AMby merlinatman
I'm making a wrap dress inspired by this one…although im making the pattern myself. Lets see how it goes..Thanks a ton for posting the instructions.
Aug 26, 2011, 05.24 PMby melanee
Maria Jose, to your question. Yes, I add 1 cm on the sides for each size larger that I need. So, I would add 3 cm on each side. I add 3/4 cm at the top of the shoulders for each size larger and I add 1/2 cm. down the sleeve seams and 1/4 cm at the top part of the sleeve that attaches the top of shoulder and underarm for each size larger. I hope this will help.
Aug 24, 2011, 11.43 PMby eblackpa
Fantastic job and dress! Looks great:)
Jun 28, 2011, 06.53 AMby mehramehra
I really like wrap dress ,but my size is 36-38 , how can I change this 34 size wrap to 36-38 size, can any body help me , please?
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Jul 5, 2011, 06.13 PMby gabriellegutierrez
it depends on what fabric you are using, but if you use a stretch knit then you won't have to be so precise. you can just make the pieces a little larger.
Dec 11, 2010, 06.35 PMby Sophia Porter
How do I post a "finished" picture? I made this very dress, only out of duct tape!
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Dec 22, 2010, 12.42 PMby erdronen
Just like any other project. Up in the right corner (above the ratings) there's a button called "Add a project", click that and follow the instructions. I would love to see it! How interesting!
Dec 10, 2010, 12.29 AMby monicacaroline
I wold LOVE to try this but I just don't think I will be able to do the Jersey bias binding :(
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Dec 22, 2010, 12.40 PMby erdronen
It's really not that bad, it was just hard for me to describe! If you just think it through a little before you start, and take your time, it will be fine! You could always turn the edge under instead if you want, or add a facing like many patterns have. Just remember to add a seam allowance to the neckline if you do either of these instead…
Nov 21, 2010, 05.31 PMby rabab-star
I love it so much. thanks so much!
Nov 15, 2010, 12.41 AMby linusik
so simple and yet beautiful !
Jul 23, 2010, 02.37 AMby darlamommy
Thank you for the pattern! I printed it out and made my dress last night, and I adore it! It's so comfortable and flattering!
Mar 28, 2010, 04.38 PMby brooklynstitch
This looks so great on you! I can't wait to download your pattern and make one. So great that it's easy too…
Feb 13, 2010, 06.40 PMby onelove420
i cant wait to start your dress
Jan 31, 2010, 05.15 PMby Liz Orlandini
This pattern is incredibly easy to sew! Started it last night, finished this morning and all it took was an hour and a half!
Jan 28, 2010, 03.06 PMby melanee
I really like this soft gray color, I think it was the color with the dress style that caught my eye. Yes, it is a good idea to use a thicker material for me. I just found your web site, I wil visit again!
Jan 23, 2010, 08.22 PMby hazel
Hi, this looks very nice! You're well proportioned so the wrap dress loves you. A bit of a suggestion…next time choose a pattern with colors. (e.g. that grey dress with some purple or green pattern) It will look awesome, funky and fun on you! Thanks for the pattern!
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Jan 25, 2010, 04.43 PMby erdronen
I agree- I love patterned fabrics and the other versions in prints look beautiful! I also think it would help hide things better. A thicker fabric would help too :) This is one of those really soft, thin, ultra-stretchy jerseys. Fantastic, but reveals everything :)
Nov 28, 2009, 09.11 PMby melanee
Thank you for this pattern! It looks so elegant. After reading one of thet other posts.I decided to try it. I wear a 42 in the Burda size, and thought that I would be too large for this style, but I'm going to try it! Being older, I am going to make it longer and bring up the neck line. I have always added or taken away 1 cm for changing sizes, on most of the main seams if this could be of any help to anyone. Thank you again.
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Aug 22, 2011, 07.01 PMby MariaJose Vasquez De Sasse
thank you for the tip. I am a size 40. So you mean I should add 3 cms on the sides?
Nov 13, 2009, 05.24 AMby nessys
It would be absolutely wonderful if someone had the skills and the inclination to scale up this dress – I love it. I printed it out (even though I'm a 40 (sigh . . .)) and am going to compare the changes you made to the original pattern from New Look as see if I can replicate it. I have no pattern drafting/scaling skills what-so-ever. Your dress looks beautiful – you did a fab job with both it and the alterations you made to the pattern. Lovely!
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Nov 18, 2009, 12.08 AMby nessys
Thanks for the tips Darl, I will definitely give it a go! xxx
Aug 28, 2009, 10.21 PMby smallone
I've been coveting you're lovely, simple, elegant wrap dress since you posted it a couple of weeks back…
… I can just see it in a heavy jersey worn with boots for Fall.
But alas although I am a petite Burda 36-8…you are tiny.
…. So I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wanting this classic piece in a larger size…I know there are many very skilled Burda Style member out there…and am sure many on this forum would thank heartily anyone who felt like grading your lovely dress for larger sizes.
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Aug 28, 2009, 10.36 PMby erdronen
Oh thank you so much for the vote of confidence! I really do wish I could grade patterns, but I haven't the slightest clue where to start… Maybe you could just print it and add some width where you need it. It is a very simple pattern, the tricky part though would be the sleeves! BS did post a how-to for a wrap dress- maybe you could start there? Anyway, good luck!
Aug 28, 2009, 08.32 PMby miekekolkman
Just printed out the pattern so I can start tomorrow. Thanks!
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Aug 28, 2009, 10.37 PMby erdronen
I can't wait to see it! :)
Aug 17, 2009, 04.58 PMby leeloe
I'll definitely give it a try :) .. tnx..
Aug 10, 2009, 08.54 AMby tonnygo
Love it !!!!!!!!Beautiful………
Aug 5, 2009, 09.05 PMby camilaustral
love it!!!!!! you look great ;)
Aug 4, 2009, 06.18 PMby hannnc
It looks fantastic on you! But the pattern would certainly not fit me. Maybe one day i could cut it a bit larger.. Thanks for the opportunity to make this dress! Good job :)
Aug 4, 2009, 08.35 AMby hkjaer
This is beautiful on you. Well done!
Aug 4, 2009, 06.23 AMby mayadaughterofsun
good choice of fabric that accents the shape, nice dress:)
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Hope College is one of a select group of locations nationwide, and the only site in Michigan, to be chosen to host a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-supported traveling exhibition that highlights the creation and impact of the King James Bible in conjunction with the 1611 book's 400th anniversary.
Hope College is one of a select group of locations nationwide, and the only site in Michigan, to be chosen to host a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-supported traveling exhibition that highlights the creation and impact of the King James Bible in conjunction with the 1611 book's 400th anniversary.
The exhibition "Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible" will be featured in the college's Van Wylen Library from Wednesday, Feb. 29, through Friday, March 30, 2012. The library applied in partnership with Herrick District Library and Western Theological Seminary's Beardslee Library, and all three will be working together to highlight the exhibition and organize additional presentations by area scholars and guests that will expand on its themes.
Admission to the exhibition will be free.
"We are thrilled to be able to bring this exhibit to Holland and the West Michigan community," said Kelly Jacobsma, who is the Genevra Thome Begg Director of Libraries at Hope. "While most everyone is familiar with the King James Bible, few people understand the historic, cultural and literary impact that the King James Version has had over the course of 400 years since it was first printed in 1611. The partnership with the Herrick and Beardslee libraries will allow us to offer a wide variety of programs and venues. The exhibit will also allow us to highlight the Hope College and Western Theological Seminary rare book collections. Between the two institutions we have several Bibles and other works that led up to the printing of the King James Bible."
The Van Wylen Library has already been commemorating the anniversary of the King James Bible's publication with a small but significant exhibit of its own, displaying the 1611 edition that is a part of the college's Rare Books Collection. The college's Bible is from a printing known as the "She" Bible because a "he" pronoun in Ruth 3:15 in another of the 1611 printings was instead rendered as "she."
"Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible," a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the NEH.
The selection of Hope to host "Manifold Greatness," which includes a $2,500 grant for expenses, is through the NEH's Small Grants to Libraries program, which brings traveling exhibitions and other types of humanities public programming to libraries across the country. Only 40 institutions nationwide were chosen to host the exhibition.
"Manifold Greatness" tells the story of the origins, creation, and impact of the King James Bible, including its influence on English and American literature, and its multifaceted impact on culture and society to the present day. Displayed on 14 panels, the exhibition consists of high-quality reproductions of rare and historic books, manuscripts and works of art from the Folger and Bodleian collections, combined with interpretive text and related images.
The local presentations being organized in conjunction with the exhibition will expand upon a variety of themes addressed in the exhibition, ranging from an opening lecture providing historical context, to the reason King James authorized the Bible, to a discussion of the printing process used for the first edition, to reflections on the edition's significance. The schedule will be announced nearer to the time that Hope hosts the exhibition.


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About Certification
Attendance and active participation across the two days will result in the registration as a Certified Scrum Product Owner®.
About Your Trainers
This course will be trained by one of the below trainers:
Karim Harbott
Karim is one of only a handful of people globally to hold both the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) and Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC) status. He is also a Certified LeSS Trainer®, SAFe Program Consultant®, Accredited Kanban Trainer®, and ICF Professional Certified Coach®.
He specialises in advising organisations on how to work with Agile at scale, business agility, leadership coaching and Scrum Master & Product Owner capability building. Karim is the former Head of Scaled Agile at global strategy consultancy McKinsey & Co.
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Why Choose Chickahominy Family Practice?
At Chickahominy Family Practice, the patient always comes first. In these ever-changing times, it's important to have some stability and dependability in one's life – that's where Chickahominy Family Physicians comes in. We provide qualified medical professionals and several state-of-the-art facilities to serve you. Call us today to set up an appointment.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Jets cut quarterback Tim Tebow on Monday, ending his ill-conceived stint in the Big Apple and leaving one of the most hyped players in the National Football League (NFL) facing an uncertain future.
The Jets notified Tebow of their decision to waive him after just one season at a voluntary team workout on Monday morning.
"We have a great deal of respect for Tim Tebow," Jets' head coach Rex Ryan said in a statement. "Unfortunately, things did not work out the way we all had hoped.
"Tim is an extremely hard worker, evident by the shape he came back in this offseason. We wish him the best moving forward."
The decision to release Tebow came just two days after the Jets acquired West Virginia University quarterback Geno Smith at the 78th annual NFL Draft.
The Jets already had five quarterbacks, including former first-round draft pick Mark Sanchez, who struggled so badly last season that he lost his starting spot, prompting speculation that someone had to go.
It was little surprise that it was Tebow, who won the Heisman Trophy as most outstanding U.S. college football player in 2007, that got the chop.
His tenure with the Jets was brief and hugely unsuccessful, both for him and the team. One New York newspaper described it as a circus.
Tebow, a devout Christian whose public displays of religiosity polarized public opinion, did not make any public comment about his axing but did post a Bible verse on his Twitter account.
"Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding...in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight," he tweeted.
Tebow had previously been with Denver, taking the Broncos on an improbable run to the 2011 playoffs, despite criticism and reservations about his ability as a passer.
He had quickly become a cult figure. Deeply religious and with a clean-cut image, he became a magnet for sponsors, signing a range of massive endorsement deals, which earned him an estimated $4 million a year.
His jerseys were among the biggest sellers in the NFL and his trademark touchdown celebration, where he kneeled down in prayer, became known as "Tebowing."
In early 2012, the Broncos signed future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning after he had become a free agent, and traded Tebow to the Jets.
The Jets said they planned to use Tebow on special teams and 'wildcat' plays, as a complement to Sanchez, but the experiment failed and Tebow-Mania never quite took off in the New York.
Tebow, 25, spent most of each game stuck on the bench and the Jets, who missed the playoffs, were ridiculed for acquiring him and not playing him when Sanchez struggled.
Tebow's immediate future remains uncertain. Most NFL pundits said he was unlikely to be claimed in the short term because of his high salary, but once he clears waivers, he would be able to sign with any team as a free agent.
He had previously linked with the Jacksonville Jaguars, his hometown team, but the Jaguars had ruled that out. Other teams have said they might interested in him, in a different position from quarterback.
Another option could be the Canadian Football League, although he would not be guaranteed a starting spot there either.
"If he wants to come to Canada he would be in the same situation as the one he was in with New York," Jim Popp, the general manager of the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, told TSN.
Financially, Tebow's future looks secure. Of his five corporate sponsors, three did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and two said they were undeterred by the quarterback's departure from the Jets.
" is not based solely on football and Tim exceeds his status as a football player," said Steve Wymer, a spokesperson for TiVo.
"Hopefully he'll have a better season this coming year than he did last year, since this clearly this has been a crazy season with the NY Jets."
Lan Kennedy-Davis, the chief executive of SOUL electronics, said her company was "100 percent behind Tim Tebow regardless of his team."
"We support Tim, we like Tim, and he's our ambassador because he stands for greatness - not just in football but in what he does in his life," she said.
(Additional reporting by Atossa Abrahamian in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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"The Bush Administration Is Secretive" has become a familiar story line in the press. And since the September 11 attacks, much of the media attention on secrecy has focused on the Justice Department's detainee policy and the murky legal issues involving the administration's labeling of terrorism suspects as "enemy combatants." But some observers believe that the issues surrounding the classification of documents, Freedom of Information requests, and access to basic, everyday information will, in the long run, turn out to be more significant.
Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, describes it this way: "What I'm most concerned about are not the front-page news scandals. It's the routine, mundane stuff that is increasingly inaccessible." For example, Aftergood says, "Ten years ago, I used to go to the Government Printing Office bookstore and purchase the Pentagon phone book.... My understanding is that that phone book is now for official use only, and cannot be purchased. In a way, it's a small thing. But in another way, it's a wall that has been erected between the public and the government."
Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project, says, "In terms of government sunlight, we're in the dark ages now." He puts most of the blame on the Bush administration for implementing the secrecy policy. "There's no other rational explanation than administration policy, for a phenomenon that's springing up like a thousand dead lightbulbs. This can't be a coincidence. It's become the rule," Devine says.
Open-government advocates point to a number of indicators:
Although the classification of documents began to rise during the Clinton administration, the practice has become more widespread under George W. Bush.
The number of documents declassified has dropped precipitously under Bush; the amount of money spent on declassifying documents has also dropped.
- An increasing number of gags are being placed on whistleblowers within the executive branch, according to Devine's Government Accountability Project.
OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of journalists and government watchdog groups, released a "Secrecy Report Card" in late August declaring, "Government data now confirm what many have suspected: Secrecy has increased dramatically in recent years under policies of the current administration."
The government classified 14 million new documents in fiscal 2003, an increase of 60 percent over the comparable figure for fiscal 2001. The number of documents classified increased steadily in the Clinton administration, the group points out, from 3.6 million in fiscal 1995 to 8.7 million in fiscal 2001 (which ended 19 days after 9/11 and about eight months into Bush's term). But the number of pages declassified by the Bush administration in the past two years, 43 million and 44 million respectively, is much lower than in any year from 1995 to 2001. From 1996 to 1998, the number of pages declassified hovered around 200 million a year.
The cost of securing classified information, which involves safeguarding facilities and personnel, has increased steadily from $3.4 billion in 1997 to $6.5 billion in 2003. And the amount of money spent on declassifying documents in the Bush administration was $113 million in 2002 and $54 million in 2003. By comparison, $231 million was spent in 2000.
More agencies are also reporting a backlog in FOIA requests. A surge in the number of requests is mostly responsible for this backlog, but the OpenTheGovernment.org report complains that spending on resources to work on FOIA requests also has not increased. Contributing to the problem is a Bush executive order in November 2001 restricting FOIA access to documents of earlier administrations.
According to Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, the delay in FOIA requests from Reagan Library documents has increased from 1.5 years to four years. "The ones that they would have responded to in 2001, they're now responding to in 2004 or 2005. That is a huge difference in the system," says Blanton.
The Bush administration's overall approach to the FOIA has been sharply criticized. On October 12, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies that superseded the Justice Department policy in place since 1993. The memo states, "When you carefully consider FOIA requests and decide to withhold records, in whole or in part, you can be assured that the Department of Justice will defend your decisions unless they lack a sound legal basis." The line was widely seen as a reversal of Clinton policy; where Attorney General Janet Reno's memo said that Justice would defend an FOIA exemption only when the agency "reasonably foresees that disclosure would be harmful to an interest protected by that exemption."
Patrice McDermott of the American Library Association says, "Ashcroft's memo on the Freedom of Information Act essentially said that if agencies could find any plausible statutory reason for withholding information ... then the Justice Department would defend them in court. The standard under the Reno Justice Department was that the default was disclosure."
Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, however, defends the Ashcroft memo. "All the attorney general's message said is, 'Look, make sure that you are processing FOIA applications carefully, and that you do take under consideration national security and privacy.' "
Corallo added that the memo was not a unilateral move by the administration. "One thing you have to remember is that Ashcroft's memo was issued in October [2001], but of course the department had started looking at the issue long before that. In talking to the career FOIA officers, they felt that there had been too much emphasis on releasing documents without looking at potential concerns."
An additional FOIA exemption that was written into the Homeland Security Act of 2002 has also drawn the ire of members of Congress and of open-government advocates. Critical Infrastructure Information, which the law declared to be information "not customarily in the public domain," and usually related to food and water distribution systems, transportation, and energy, is not subject to disclosure under FOIA.
Because CII involves private companies, observers fear that the restriction could limit public access to health and environmental information. A company could use the law, for example, as a way to restrict public oversight of the safety of its business practices, something that is of concern for a community near a nuclear power plant or toxic-chemical facility.Already, citizens have sought information for various reasons, only to have their requests denied by the government on security grounds. In Living Rivers Inc. v. Bureau of Reclamation, a U.S. district court in Utah denied a request by a local environmental group for flood inundation maps that showed the potential consequences if either the Hoover or Glen Canyon dams failed. The court ruled in March 2003 in the government's favor, declaring that the agency's "statements concerning risk assessment by terrorists demonstrate that release of the maps could increase the risk of an attack on the dams."
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, says that the Homeland Security Act and other regulations are creating new classification systems that are giving government agencies a much greater ability to hide records. "The situation is pretty darn nasty, and it's percolating down to the states. The states are being told what they have to do and how to manage their own records," she says.
The Bush administration has its defenders. Some believe that Bush has been fairly cautious, and that a post-9/11 world has made change necessary. "I think, on the whole, the Bush administration has taken an understandable course," says Mark Tapscott of the Heritage Foundation. "One can make a very persuasive argument that environmental impact assessments, for nuclear plants for example, ought not to be posted on the Web, when there are people out there who would like to know what the vulnerable points are and take advantage of them."
Tapscott argues that the rising level of classification in government, under both Clinton and Bush, is more a reflection of big government bureaucracy than the practices of any particular administration. "The fundamental problem is bureaucratic inertia. And one administration to the next may affect things on the margins, either positively or negatively. But that doesn't get to the fundamental problem. With big government, you get big secrecy," he says. In a recent paper, Tapscott says that the midlevel federal bureaucrats who handle 99.9 percent of the 2.3 million FOIA requests annually know that they are immune from penalties for mishandling or ignoring these requests.
And institutionalizing new secrecy rules is a complicated process, which requires compliance across a vast spectrum of government agencies. Blanton's National Security Archive conducted a study indicating that Bush's policies haven't had a blanket effect on the executive branch. After the controversial Ashcroft memo, his group asked 33 federal agencies that handle almost all FOIA requests for copies of any changes they made because of the DOJ memo.
The study showed that five agencies made "significant" changes in regulations and that the memo was "widely disseminated." Eight agencies surveyed indicated "implementation activities concerning the Ashcroft memo." Seventeen departments indicated "awareness and dissemination" of the memo, but made few changes as a result. Three departments indicated no changes in procedure, and little or no dissemination of the memo.
Regardless of the increasing concern over access to information, observers foresee few changes on the secrecy front in the near future. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over FOIA, has introduced a bill titled the "Restore Open Government Act of 2004." Among other things, it would revoke the Ashcroft memo and Bush's November 2001 executive order, while attempting to curtail excessive classification. But no hearings have been scheduled.


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Indian Engineering Services exams, typically known as IES exams held on All India premise and led by Union Public Service commission (UPSC) under the Govt. of India. IES exam in India is thought to be one of the hardest exams to clear. The main goal of the IES exams is to find talented person who are well suitable for this job. The recruitments for such engineering posts are ready on the basis of merit and there is limited number of seats.
Preparation Tips for IES
- Any other competitive exams, you should be well aware and updated with the latest news happening in India & around the world. You should daily read the national and international newspapers.
- Students should to be very much aware of the most recent and pattern of the exam and start prepare for the exam accordingly.
- It is strongly prescribed to write answers logically and short form instead of writing long answers.
- Students should not spend more time on questions which they don't know. Rather they should attempt answers to questions they know.
- The question paper is very tough and the difficulty level is above than average. You have to concentrate on logical aspects and more practice is required.
- Students should to dedicate equal time to every single subject. Also take references from B.tech books to crack the IES exam.
- Students should maintain the speed in answering the entire paper. Both objective and descriptive sets of question papers are more time consuming therefore very crucial for the students to check their speed. Students can keep on checking their speed by solving number of mock papers and online test series.
- The exam pattern of the question paper is English only and answer should to be given in English language.


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Yoga is an essential remedy for a stressful life. At Real Yoga, we understand this. We offer you an energetic place with highly motivating and friendly instructors. Whether you are looking for high-intensity yoga facilities or a restorative experience, we offer yoga classes for people of all levels. We are highly dedicated to meeting the needs of our students and committed to deepening your understanding in an inspiring manner to ease your learning.
Our yoga classes in Indonesia seek to create healthy, strong bodies and also tranquil minds. If you are constantly seated in front of the computer or engaging in repetitive activities; you are shortening your muscles. Yoga enables you to lengthen and expand, thus releasing unhealthy toxins that build up during these activities.
With yoga, we will improve your posture; thus rejuvenating your body and mind while eliminating tension, stress and pain.


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Photographing people can be fun, exciting – and complicated! This course will make taking beautiful pictures of adults, children, and babies simple. Don't be nervous if you're new to digital photography, because we'll start with the basic principles you need to know in order to become a people photographer. You'll discover the best way to shoot faces, fix common close-up problems, and use digital photo editing techniques to retouch your photos and make other improvements. Next, we'll move onto portrait and formal group shots, where you'll learn how to organize people, which angles to use, and which to avoid. You'll become proficient in action photography, and you'll also learn several fun and creative ways to photograph children and babies. You'll even gain expertise in filling your photographs with imagery, setting moods, and creating themes. This course will have you well on your way to becoming a skilled people photographer.
Curt Simmons, M.Ed, MCSE, MCSA, CTT, is a best-selling author, technical trainer, and multi-media expert. Curt has written more than 50 computing and technology books on a variety of topics, including How To Do Everything with Windows Vista, How to Do Everything with Windows XP, Mac OS X Headaches, and iPhoto For Dummies. Curt's multi-media expertise provides a focus on digital photography and other Internet-related technologies. He is both a classroom and online instructor, and has developed custom courseware for major U.S. companies.
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