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A recent poll asked, "When you think of non-governmental organizations that help conserve wildlife and natural resources, who do you think of?" The responses weren't encouraging: a full 63 percent of respondents didn't know of an organization to cite. The Sierra Club and Greenpeace got 8 percent each. Ducks Unlimited garnered but 4 percent.
"This points out the tremendous job we still have to do," says Bob Benson, manager of Ducks Unlimited media relations. "We must get the word out so Americans know what we're doing on the ground. We're well-known in sporting circles, but outside that, obviously, the recognition drops off."
To Delta residents, it may seem odd that poll respondents could have missed the ubiquitous Ducks Unlimited stickers affixed to pick-ups and SUVs, the announcements of banquets in newspapers, the Ducks Unlimited wildlife scene T-shirts worn by outdoor types everywhere.
More importantly, though, is that the general public seems to have missed the work done by Ducks Unlimited field biologists all over North America. This work, an effort to lessen the blow of our nation losing more than half its original wetlands (and cope with the 100,000 wetland acres lost annually), is paramount.
"Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1937," says Benson. "We've conserved, to now, 11 million acres. Currently, we have 660,000 members. There are 50,000 active volunteers across the continent. We have a staff of 641 professionals — about 150 of them at the Memphis headquarters."
This infrastructure is in place to service conservation plans both near- and long-term.
"We have an international conservation plan that focuses primarily on North America, although it incorporates some of Latin America as well," says Alan Wentz, Ducks Unlimited group manager for conservation. "Currently, there are 60,000 projects on-going. We have some top priorities to accomplish this plan."
Among those at the top are the Prairie Pothole region — from Iowa through Nebraska and Montana into Canada — and the vast Boreal Forest, which snakes from Canada into Alaska. These two areas are a Ducks Unlimited focus because they're crucial to duck production.
"The prairies are in kind of a boom-and-bust cycle," says Wentz. "When there's good water and good cover, large amounts of birds can be produced very quickly. That's particularly true of puddle ducks."
The Boreal Forest is a more stable environment because water levels don't fluctuate as much. It's primarily wooded, but also contains large amounts of wetlands. It's very productive, but not on the same scale as the prairies.
California's Central Valley and a bit of the coastal area is also very important to ducks. This area is a primary wintering ground for western waterfowl and is under great threat, says Wentz.
Areas of concern in the Delta include the lower Mississippi alluvial valley and the Gulf Coast, where habitat loss "is alarming." The coast is a primary wintering area for wood ducks.
In setting up plans for the areas, Wentz says three concerns are primary:
Planning. "This is based in research. We have the largest staff of waterfowl scientists of any organization — including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."
Direct Conservation. "This is what comes about from the research."
Policies. "We're also concerned with policies related to habitat. That concern is primarily focused on federal policy, but also some state policies."
Ducks Unlimited's habitat work is mostly accomplished through partnerships. "We do own land and work it, but the vast majority of our work is done with state agencies, federal agencies, municipal organizations, corporations and, mostly, private landowner. We primarily work with agricultural landowners.
"Currently, we're directly touching over 250,000 acres annually in the United States alone. Look at the whole continent and that acreage doubles. While we've been around 67 years, Ducks Unlimited has only worked in the United States for the last 20. Only in the last decade or so, have we gotten to such a high number of acres being worked."
And Ducks Unlimited isn't stopping. "We'll be at 400,000 to 500,000 acres in the next few years if our pace doesn't slacken. We're able to do this because we're one of the top two or three — depending on whether you're counting members, dollars or acres — conservation organizations in the world."
It's important to know a couple of things, insist both Wentz and Benson. First, it's not just lip service when Ducks Unlimited pledges "science-based conservation across the continent."
Second, you should know that "Ducks Unlimited isn't just scientifically based, but emotionally based as well," says Wentz. "Everyone who works for Ducks Unlimited honestly believes this is the right thing to do now and for future generations."


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Burbank resident Allison Riccardi would love to find a bigger place to live.
Her 17-year-old daughter sleeps on a mattress in the dining room behind a black sheet pinned to the ceiling, while her 2-year-old son shares a room with her and her husband in their one-bedroom apartment.
But right now, her family can't afford to move. Soon, though, she might have to.
Riccardi is one of the dozens of tenants who live in the nearly 40 apartments on Avon Street and Olive Avenue, where a 241-unit luxury residential complex, along with a Whole Foods Market, has been proposed.
If the project gets the green light, all existing buildings on the 3.8-acre lot will be demolished.
"We literally live week to week and still barely make it," Riccardi, 43, said Wednesday, as her son Bradley waddled around her living room carrying a bright yellow stuffed cat. Riccardi's husband works in construction, but if she worked, she'd only make enough to cover the cost of day care.
"So going to another place, it would really be hard for us," she said.
She's not the only one.
For Miura Green, 40, the location — less than a mile from Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center — is crucial. Green, who suffers with fibromyalgia and lupus, often makes three or more doctor visits a week. Since Green's boyfriend was laid off two years ago, the pair has lived off his unemployment benefits — which have expired — and her disability income.
"It's very scary to think you'd have to reconfigure your entire life because they're going to tear down what you consider now your home," said Green, who has lived in her apartment for three years.
While any sort of tenant relocation is at least nine months away, Michael Cusumano of the Cusumano Real Estate Group, which has proposed the project, said he expects to work with existing tenants to move them to other properties owned and managed by the company.
"We're uniquely qualified to be able to work with these people to find them alternative places to live," he said. "We own and manage a broad variety of housing opportunities in a wide range of prices."
For some tenants, the prospect of splitting up from their neighbors, who over time have grown to become like family, was overwhelming.
"They call me grandma," said 89-year-old Musseta Snow, who has lived in the complex for 43 years. Since her husband died in 1996, she's lived alone. "I'm hoping it doesn't work out and I'll still be able to stay here."
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Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit") has landed the lead role opposite Kevin Costner in a McG-directed untitled action feature setup at EuropaCorp and Relativity Media.
Previously titled "Three Days To Kill", Luc Besson and Adi Hasak penned the script in which Costner stars as a Service agent who discovers he's dying. Before he goes, he attempts to complete a final mission, and reconnect with his estranged daughter.
He's also taking an experimental drug that could prolong his life, but causes hallucinatory side effects. Besson, Hasak, Ryan Kavanaugh and Virginie Besson-Silla are producing.
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Those Compostela Valley landslides? Could they have been caused by small mining operations? Already, eighteen are dead and more than 900 have been displaced. I mean, wow. If it is proven that small mining caused – or even contributed to – the landslides, then I say it's time to reassess (if we haven't already) the conventional wisdom that small mining operations are better than large-scale ones.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Coker Cross Country teams had a promising showing at the 2010 Disney World Classic Meet on Saturday. In a field of nearly 200 runners, the Cobras ran some of their best times of the season. The Cobra men placed 17th, while the Cobra women placed 22nd.
Leading the men was senior Austin McJunkins (Walhalla, S.C.) with his best time of the season in a 8k race, 29:42. Quinn Wegner (Sumter, S.C.) followed with a time of 30:14 and Joel Bristol (Palm Bay, Fla.) came in at 30:27. Britian Tomlinson (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Thad Sulek (Hilton Head, S.C.) rounded out the Cobra runners with times of 20:27 and 31:19 respectively.
In the women's race, Kendyl Seawright (Manalapan, N.J.) came in at 20:11, while Ashlyn Barnwell (York, S.C.) finished with a time of 22:07. Alex Ochoa (Pamplico, S.C.) was next at 22:26, followed by Aliese Gregory (Aiken, S.C.) at 22:59. Caitlyn Driscoll (Grand Island, N.Y.), Ashley Meador (Union, S.C.) and Angela Williams (Johnston, S.C.) finished out the Cobra runners with times of 23:16, 24:34 and 26:29 respectively.
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"More Moving Parts to This Machine"
The public discussion of Thomas Jefferson and slavery continued this month as The Atlantic Monthly's Ta-Nehisi Coates posted an essay about a comment that the third President was caught in an "economic system of which no alternative was readily available." That appears to be a quotation from a commenter, but Coates didn't single out the author. It has been, as he wrote, a rather common claim.
Coates noted how Jefferson had counterexamples within his own circle, genteel planters who freed their slaves in different ways: President George Washington, his own cousin John Randolph, young correspondent Edward Coles, and the religiously-minded Robert Carter III. As I've written someplace before, the idea of emancipation was definitely in the marketplace of ideas during Jefferson's career. He chose not to buy into that idea because ultimately he found the price too high.
Jefferson made his choice despite what Coates called his extraordinarily eloquent condemnation of slavery. In past decades authors glossed over the mismatch between the third President's rhetoric and behavior, but that topic appears at the heart of many recent books. However, earlier portrayals of Jefferson as a champion of liberty for all still influence popular conceptions. That means complaining against the received image of Jefferson depends on what one has actually read.
In his next posting, Coates addressed the controversy over Thaddeus Kosciuszko's will. He also wrote:
There's a temptation here to rage against a man who preached the evils of slavery in public, actually tried to talk others into continuing to hold slaves in private, and then refused to act on his own words, even when it would have cost him nothing. I think this instinct only works if you understand slavery strictly as an economic system. But as we've discussed before, slavery was the foundation of antebellum society. . . .This fall the Kosciuszko will has been one item of dispute between Henry Wiencek, author of Master of the Mountain, and Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello. A commenter said Coates's summary of the issue was too simple, and he agreed.
It seems clear to me that one can salute the ideas of a founding father, and at the same time condemn his cowardice when it came to putting them in practice. In other words, Jefferson can be both the intellectual father of this country and a notorious violator of the very ideas he put forth.
But then Coates went on to quote Gordon-Reed's critique of Wiencek as a "defense of Jefferson" that "implicitly assumes that Jefferson bears no moral culpability, that Kosciuzko is ultimately (and seemingly totally) at fault." I think that was also simplistic, seeing a "defense" in a reminder that the situation was more complicated than described in the book she was reviewing.
Gordon-Reed sent a reply, which Coates featured in yet another post. It noted racist statements even from emancipator Edward Coles and concluded:
Many today do not want to face the fact that white supremacy was as much a part of the founding ideology as republicanism. Beating up on TJ, as if he were some singular case, is part of the denialThat prompted more discussion, which Gordon-Reed, Coates, and Wiencek all joined. This might have been the most interesting discourse of the series.
Coates and some of his commenters argue that it's valid to criticize Jefferson more harshly than other slaveholders of his time because he wrote so well about the harms of slaveholding. As commenter "abk1985" wrote to Gordon-Reed:
The difference here on this blog from what you do is that we are much more likely to make moral evaluations rather than simply attempt to understand historical personages. So there's a kind of built in conflict here.Gordon-Reed's reply:
Writing history is for me a moral enterprise, but there are different ways to show that. I don't think anyone who has read my books and articles about TJ would think I have not been critical of him when appropriate, witheringly critical at times. My point in writing this post was to make it clear that there were more moving parts to this machine than have been described. As I said in another post, I've existed in this strange position where some people are absolutely convinced that all I want to do is destroy Jefferson and others are absolutely convinced that all I want to do is to protect him. I don't approach TJ, or the founders, with any notion that my goal is to hold them to a standard. I don't "expect more". I don't expect anything beyond what my knowledge about them, gleaned from my study of them, suggests they are capable of doing at any given point of their lives, and what their society would have allowed them to do.


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There are some artists who are absolute geniuses, in the most retarded way possible. I think two of the best examples of this are T-Pain and R.Kelly. And so what do we get when they combine forces?
In the immortal words of T-Pain himself: "Greatness plus greatness equals great greatness."
Couldn't have said it any better myself.
Im A Flirt-RMX (ft. T.I. & T-Pain) - R. Kelly
What can one say about a song the calibar of "I'm A Flirt"?
To call it "brilliant" would be too easy, too cliche. To call it "the best possible song to sing while drunk" would be correct, but too obvious.
I will say that the first time I heard it, I wept. It was such a relief to finally find a song that expressed my deepest inner emotions, really spoke to me and described me so perfect. It was like R. Kelly had been reading into my figurative diary, the journal of my mind, and drew on that to compose this number.
"I swear to tell the truth and the whole truth...when it comes to ho's, I be pimpin' like I supposed to"
That line? Stolen word for word from something I said when trying to explain to a guy why I ditched him at a party for some other dude.*
"So, baby, don't bring your friends to meet me, unless your game is tight and you trust them, don't bring them around me because I'm a flirt"
If I'm actually serious about a guy (pfff, yeah right), I have to give him this warning before he introduces me to his pals. There have been instances in the past. Is his game ever tight? No. Did he trust his friends? Way more than he should've.
"Cuff your bitch, cuz hey: I'm black, handsome, I sing, plus I'm rich"?
I say that to every girl with an attractive boyfriend, and they usually cower in fear and insist on dragging their man out of the premises immediately. If they're smart.
"Now I'ma flirt whether I'm in or out of town, that's why they call me Teddy Bend Her Ass Down"
This is one of the few lines not directly stolen (though gender-reversed) from my life philosophy. I just had to give it a shout-out because it's incredibly cunning, if you got the reference.
I have to tell you, it's a relief to find a song that so thoroughly related to me, instead of simply the little "Play on, playette" at the beginning of "No Diggity". Sure, Mr. Kelly had to reverse the genders to make it applicable to himself (for example, when I pass by, they're all saying "She's so fly, and, yes, she's so coooool")
Anyway, I guess the truth is out. I'm currently not planning on suing, because the song is so goddamn good. Now I know how Roberta Flack feels - R. Kelly's been singin' my life with his words.
Girl, you know just who I am...don't hate!
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By Lisa Capobianco
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The Southington Education Foundation welcomes the public to its fifth annual Fan of the Foundation Gala on Friday, Oct. 25.
With a theme of "Tailgate at the Turf," the event gives attendees an opportunity to dress in their favorite sports gear and apparel while eating tailgate-style appetizers and entrees. The gala will also feature the new STEM University Lounge, a dorm-style reclining area that has a pinball game and a professional photographer to take photos of all attendees.
"It is a fun, informal evening," said SEF Chair Dawn Miceli. "Every year we have some different things going on."
Besides the new STEM University Lounge, the event will feature live entertainment from local DJ Butch Gray along with open bar and silent auctions. Miceli said the auction items are "unique," and include student artwork, principal and gym teacher for the day opportunities, Graduation 2013 seating and more.
Tickets cost $75 each, and all proceeds will benefit the Southington public schools. Currently, the SEF has warded nearly $100,000 to local classroom initiatives that increase educational opportunities. The SEF has also started a new initiative with its long-term commitment to advancing STEM education within the entire school district.
Miceli said the community's presence at the gala will play a role in these new classroom initiatives.
"The education budget can only do so much," she said. "Our teachers want innovative programming for the students."
Superintendent Dr. Joseph Erardi said he feels appreciative of the work that SEF puts into the entire school, and hopes to see members of the community attend the event.
"I am hoping the community recognizes just how hard this group works," Erardi said. "I look forward to being there."
Anyone interested in buying tickets or sponsoring the event can contact Dawn Miceli at (860) 681-8006.
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Culver City's Hayden Tract is home to agencies (Ogilvy), TV networks (Tennis Channel), and international brands (Nike, Converse), but there is one thing that has been sorely missing from this burgeoning creative community – a bar. Well, that changed on Thursday, September 15th when we introduced the Hayden Watering Hole at our Culver City studio. With neighbors and a few friends as our guests, we had the ladies of Comal cook up the best Frito Pie in a Bag in LA and serve up some tasty libations while we enjoyed tunes courtesy of KCRW's Jason Kramer and his Elias Arts crew. Stay posted for more Hayden Watering Hole events, including a series of live musical performances.
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text: > IS DSM is more complex or its not a good idea ? I'm always puzzled by interest in DSM. why? basically just because pages are big, pagefaults are expensive, and networks are slow. naive DSM (and I'm not puting words in your mouth here) just seeks to provide a shared workspace acoss mulipe nodes. MMU hardware is cool, and we can use it to, for instance, provide a big chunk of memory that appears the same on each node, and appears readonly. if/when someone touches a page, we can trap it, and impose some consistency model on the whole set of nodes. for instance, if A writes a page, DSM would revoke any copies of the page on othe nodes, then resume the writer. then if node B reads the page, it would fault, DSM would make A's page readonly, copy the content to B, and resume B. great stuff, and you can easily think of ways to make it faster, relax the consistency requirements, let the user provide hints, etc. all of that is great fun to think about, but how much sense does it make? the programming model can be quite simple, but I really doubt that the performance would be acceptable for many applications. if your data is very read-mostly, perhaps, or if you can somehow tolerate inconsistent/stale data. or perhaps your data is big, network is slow, so you'd wind up always waiting for data anyway... I think most people believe that explicit message passing (MPI, etc) is a better solution to cluster programming. specialized hardware could make DSM more interesting, but that starts to be more than a small matter of programming ;)


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Near neighbors aren't bullies
It seems that "near neighbor" has become a term of vilification. In the SugarLoaf negotiations, as in many other local controversies regarding zoning and development proposals, near neighbors have been represented as self-interested, NIMBYist, anti-development, "convenient forgetters" … and on and on. I suggest that characterization – fed in part by a few individuals who relentlessly express their opinions in these pages – is unfair and unwarranted.
On the contrary, near neighbors are by definition well placed to understand the issues that a particular project presents. Precisely because they are familiar with the locale, they can foresee the impact of the proposal on traffic, noise, storm water run-off, or whatever. As residents they are as concerned as anyone else about the bigger picture – the economic health of Chestnut Hill.
It is plain wrong to accuse them of placing their local interests above those of the wider community. As individuals they often don't have the resources for slick PR or the unquestioning respect that an established local institution commands. Please, understand that near neighbors have intentions that are just as – if not more – pro-community as those with whom they are negotiating. Please pay attention to the concerns of near neighbors before airily dismissing them as strident and obstructive.
It has been suggested that after 18 months of negotiations over the SugarLoaf development proposals, it is time for the near neighbors to quit whining (about their spoilt vistas) and get out of the way (of a glorious proposal to bring prosperity to Chestnut Hill.) But the issues surrounding development of SugarLoaf are many and complex, the stakes are extremely high and the executed outcome is irreversible.
Eighteen months is no time at all to thoroughly investigate and listen to all concerns about a project of this magnitude, particularly when the public has only been allowed access to information about it in the last few weeks.
It is just worth reminding those who would "conveniently forget", that without the intervention of the near neighbors in this case, the college would have proceeded to implement its original proposed master plan without objection. And that plan would have been, to put it bluntly, a disaster for Chestnut Hill. Much has been accomplished for the community through negotiation, but the work is not quite finished. Let's take the time we need for everyone to agree that we've got it right.
Arabella Pope
Chestnut Hill
Hillers have moved on
The twin pleas from Bob Previdi and Walt Sullivan for Bullies, Nay Sayers and all other Hillers to get behind economic expansion and the CHCA board deserves a response – a clarification, actually.
Bob identifies foes of development as a minority. It's the CHCA board, and those who believe in its relevance who are in the minority. It's a minority status that the CHCA board has worked hard to attain. ZIP Code 19118 has 9,600 residents. The CHCA has 1,700 memberships. Only about 1,000 are in 19118. (I won't discuss the surrealism of non-residents belonging to a community organization.)
In the last election, 175 votes were counted for 18 or so board candidates. That's 10 percent of the membership and 4 percent of the population, counting two per household. These numbers show that an overwhelming majority of 19118 residents don't consider the CHCA board worth the trouble. This view is reinforced every time the CHCA board sides with business interests over residents, which is almost always.
Now, when residents want to have their views represented, they don't even bother with the CHCA board – they just organize a group of their own, get legal help, call local politicians and take action. It saves time, energy, and is a damn sight less frustrating. It's proper, it's democratic, and it's legal. It's just not what Walt, Bob or the CHCA board wants.
Too bad. The CHCA board also has an embarrassing reputation in many quarters of city government, and it has nothing to do with the manners of its audience. It rather has to do with its legal record, one that certain members of that audience were instrumental in establishing.
The CHCA board has made its bed. Its tiny electorate can all fit into it. But an overwhelming and increasing plurality has moved on.
Ed Feldman
Loved Fathers' Club story
Kudos on your article about Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club a/k/a Fathers' Club. I coached with the Club for 17 years – baseball, basketball and soccer – helping my Tim and Dan and a lot of other people's sons and daughters. We taught how to field grounders, but mostly we taught teamwork, sportsmanship, kindness and playing with enthusiam and joy. My kids learned a lot from other people's good examples and their bad examples.
I loved to win but some of my favorite experiences came with teams where we didn't have a chance. One May evening my team in the "non-competitive" division had an away game at Warminster and only eight players (the minimum) showed up. Not a pitcher in the bunch! I told the boys that it was pointless to drive all the way to Warminster for a game we couldn't possibly win.
My first basemen stood up and said "Coach, if I go home now my mother will make me do homework, let's go play ball, I don't care about the score" All of the other seven agreed and off we went. When we arrived at the game I told my son Dan he had to pitch. "Why me?" he said. "Because my health coverage includes psychotherapy."
The parents ordered pizza to arrive in the fifth inning when the mercy rule kicked in. We lost big but we had a great time. I learned later than Dan wrote a poem about this game for English class, "The Accidental Pitcher." I kept it over my desk for years.
One of the major changes I saw over the years was the growth of female participation. Finally a girl was selected to play on our 12-year -old summer travel team – because she earned it. I'll call her Sue. We went to play in Roxborough where they had real fences in the outfield 180 feet to deep center, I recall.
She came up to bat in the second inning, the opposing coach by the third base line called out to his infielders "shorten up, first; shorten up third" it's a girl!"
Sue glared at him, waited for her pitch and then slammed a homer over the 180 sign. As she trotted past the opposing coach at third, she took off her helmet and let her hair fall to her shoulders as if to say, "You're darn right, I'm a girl"
We made memories, we made friends. Happy Anniversary.
Tom Johnson
West Mount Airy
Thanks for the Fathers' Club story
Thank you so much for your column about the 50th anniversary of the Fathers Club. (Yea, I know I can't call it that anymore. Well I did 'cause that's the way it was! (Smile)
When my boys played baseball, from age 8 to 14, Saturday mornings at CHA's field to the 21st Ward league, I umpired the Little League games. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Friday night basketball at Watertower, I officiated.
They were some of the happiest days of my life. Not only sharing the times with my kids, but all the kids of the Fathers Club. I think any parent/parents of their kids would feel the same way.
The only sad part was looking at the picture of the '62 Dodgers and knowing that some of those kids have passed away.
Thanks again for a great column and hope to see you on the "4th at Watertower" where I will do the opening tribute in honor of this great country we call "home."
Tom Woodruff
Support healthy families act
It is easy to give lip service to "family values." The challenge is to put them into practice. Our employment practices often fall far short. More than 40 percent of workers in Philadelphia cannot take a sick day without losing a day's pay, sometimes even putting their very job in jeopardy. Over 200,000 hardworking Philadelphians cannot take time off to care for a sick child or elderly parent.
Respecting the health and dignity of all human beings is a core religious value for all faith traditions. This includes not just access to health care, but time away from work to recuperate from illness, as well as to tend to ill family members.
Many of us are blessed to be able to stay home to care for ourselves or our loved ones when illness strikes. Yet thousands of our neighbors – including all too often the cashier at the market, the waiter at a restaurant, or the attendant at a hospital – do not have paid sick days.
They must continue to work – through colds, fevers, and stomach flus (jeopardizing as well the health of those with whom they come in contact). Nor can they afford to take off to care for their sick children or other dependent family members
Right now Philadelphia's City Council has the opportunity to change this for many workers in Philadelphia by passing the Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. Workers want to be responsible on the job and be able to care for their families. Our policies lag desperately behind this reality – and Philadelphia families are struggling as a result. We can and must do better – and we will, if we truly value families.
Rabbi George Stern
Executive Director,
Neighborhood Interfaith Movement
Happy for smoking ban
I applaud Mayor Nutter for his recent executive order that banned smoking in city playgrounds and recreation centers. Residents should not have to choose between exposure to second-hand smoke or not enjoying public recreation centers and playgrounds.
Besides the health risks associated with second-hand smoke, even witnessing adults smoke is not in the best interest of children. The fact that 80 percent of adults that smoke were regular smokers by the age of 18 shows that children need to be discouraged from smoking beginning at a young age to prevent them from smoking as an adult. With this order, playgrounds and recreation centers will be healthier places for everyone to enjoy.
Molly Reynolds
Still too noisy
A few months ago my wife and I went to Cantina Feliz in Fort Washington shortly after it opened where Alison used to be. We thought the food was very good, but the place was extremely noisy.
Then in April I read Craig LaBan's review of the place in the Inquirer. He also said that the food was good but that the place was way too noisy. He said it was "92 decibels even without a full room." (He always says it should be no more than 75.)
Then I read the review in the Local, which also raved about the food but commented on the really loud noise level. Then in the May 19 issue of the Local, Missy and Dick Lee, who had written the article in the Local, wrote a letter stating that Cantina Feliz, "is taking steps to reduce its noise level." As a result of that comment, we returned to Cantina Feliz last night. The food was again very good, especially the sea bass, but the noise was worse than ever.
And the godawful "music" was so loud that my wife and I had to yell at each other to be heard. I would not expect to hear such abominable noise at a Taco Bell, much less an upscale restaurant like Cantina Feliz where you can drop over $100 for dinner without even trying. The Lees need to check their information out first-hand before putting it in the paper because they were dead wrong. We could not enjoy the fine food because the noise level is still horrendous! I could not recommend it because of the atrocious noise.
Fred O'Hara


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As part of a global multi-million pound investment intiative1, this newly-created centre will help IBM apply its advanced analytics expertise to the complex business challenges facing its UK-based clients.
Leveraging its London location and IBM's deep industry expertise, the centre's initial mission will be to focus on the UK financial services sector. It will help IBM's financial sector clients to develop systems that provide improved visibility and tracking of risk positions across markets and asset classes, as well as to drive information management to support improved client satisfaction and cost efficiencies.
Brendon Riley, Chief Executive, IBM UK (Left) and Ireland, and Lord Mandelson, UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills share a few words on organisations' need to manage data under pressure in order to win as they view the 2009 F1 World Championship-winning Brawn GP car at the launch of IBM's London Analytics Solution Centre.
Over time, the centre will expand to help clients across other areas of business. These include: energy and utilities companies, as they seek to roll out smart grids and intelligent metering; public sector organisations, as they develop smart city and transportation initiatives that reduce congestion and improve public safety; and, pharmaceuticals firms as they introduce smarter ways to improve the speed and quality of drug development.
The centre will be the focal point for a UK & Ireland analytics team which will initially number a total of 400 consultants, software specialists and mathematicians. It is anticipated that the team will double in size as demand for business analytics and optimisation services increases.
"Today's business leaders need to move beyond intuition to insight, from gut feel to facts – it is now possible to see key patterns in vast amounts of data, to extract critical insights and move to a new level of intelligence," said Brendon Riley, Chief Executive, IBM UK and Ireland. "London was chosen due to its status as a global financial centre and world-class skills base. Business analytics offers an opportunity for us to help clients transform the way they operate – enabling them to become smarter and improving levels of competitiveness."
The centre will be based at IBM's Southbank office. It will draw on a wealth of IBM expertise from IBM's Business Analytics and Optimisation global consulting organisation as well as from technologists at Europe's largest software development laboratory – IBM Hursley in Hampshire, UK.
"We live in a knowledge economy - services which help companies to understand and interpret complex systems, such as financial markets, are becoming increasingly important," said Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills at the launch event. "This new initiative from IBM is an important vote of confidence in the continued strength of London's banking and financial sector, and will help to give British firms the competitive advantage they need to thrive and grow."
The London centre will have access to IBM's comprehensive Information Management portfolio that includes technologies integrated following the acquisitions of Cognos, iLog and SPSS. It will also provide expertise to help organisations embed new sensor technology into their processes to gather detailed performance and management data on which to base analysis and decision-making.
RSA has used analytics software from SPSS, an IBM company, to drive a 15 per cent increase in customer satisfaction, retention and lifetime value. The technology is enabling RSA to capture detailed data about customer attitudes, opinions and preferences, regardless of their geography, language or communications channel, at various points in their lifecycle. RSA can then use this information to identify the key drivers of satisfaction, such as first call resolution and access to support, improving the overall customer experience and offering more appropriate products.
"In the current climate, customer satisfaction and retention are key priorities for us. The technology has been instrumental in measuring customer service and providing a deeper understanding of behaviour and intention, helping us to improve our business processes," said Nigel Bowman, Head of Customer Experience at RSA.
IBM is working the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX) to develop new analytics that help ORX member banks quantify risk exposure. ORX, a not-for-profit association owned and controlled by its members, is the predominant global consortium for secure and anonymous exchange of operational risk loss event data used by over 52 leading financial institutions across 18 countries. ORX, in partnership with mathematicians from IBM Research, has analysed more than 135,000 loss events, each event over €20,000 in value, to a total value of €42 billion. This has provided new intelligence that has enabled its member firms to secure a more accurate understanding of exposure to potentially damaging operational risk.
"Making sense of massive amounts of risk loss data from an array of different events at a diverse number of member banks is a far from simple exercise," explained Simon Wills, Executive Director at ORX. "IBM's research team has helped us advance fundamental research into the measurement of operational risk, allowing us to better leverage our shared consortium data to extract meaningful conclusions and obtain valuable insight for our member banks."
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The School of Biological Sciences at UEA is a vibrant community, boasting state-of-art research facilities as well as modern teaching laboratories and is firmly embedded in the internationally renowned Norwich Research Park.
Our world-leading research covers the full spectrum of biology, from biomedicine and developmental biology to microbiology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, ecology and conservation. In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) we achieved major gains in the rankings of all our research areas. 80% of our research output and 100% of our research environment and research impact was judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.
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I made sure this wasn't mentioned, but was surprised it wasn't. Anyone who had seen/own the Dearly Departed 1 DVD; what was your favorite death scene? Mine, just for the amount of inside footage of the home was Jean Harlow. But, Dekker, Dahlia, Cassidy were amazing also. Discuss.
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Students will be assigned to one of these three tracks to attend classes.
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Breaking Down the Three Track System
BYU-Idaho operates year-round with three distinct 14-week semesters: Fall, Winter, and Spring. Each student is admitted to a track consisting of two semesters: Fall/Winter, Winter/Spring, or Spring/Fall. Students can enroll in classes only for the two semesters of their assigned track and remain on the same track for the duration of their time at BYU-Idaho.
Students may be assigned to any of the three tracks. Some students will be assigned to begin in the second semester of a track (example: assigned Spring/Fall track starting in the Fall). Others may be admitted to start in a semester other than the first available semester indicated (example: available Fall, assigned Winter/Spring track starting in the Winter).
As part of the admission process, BYU-Idaho students are assigned to a specific track that remains permanent through graduation. Track assignments are carefully considered, with the goal of enrolling a balanced and varied student body across all three semesters. The university is committed to providing numerous opportunities to students who come from variety of backgrounds and share values based on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Though this commitment, the University fulfills its mission to provide an educational experience of continually increasing quality.
To further enhance the effectiveness of the Three Track System, BYU-Idaho has introduced a two-stage procedure for admission and track assignments.
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Prospective students submit a formal application that screens for admissibility. The Admissions Committee reviews each application. If the applicant is accepted, an offer is extended to attend BYU-Idaho.
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Admitted students then complete a questionnaire that gathers additional personal information to help determine appropriate track assignments. At the same time, the University carefully considers when these students are needed most on campus in order to enroll a balanced and varied student body across all three semesters. Once all the information is individually reviewed, a track assignment is made.
This two-staged process provides the essential balance BYU-Idaho is trying to achieve. Students and employees will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from others with differing geographic, educational, and cultural backgrounds. The University is committed to Christ. This will create the distinctive learning environment that is integral to the BYU-Idaho experience.
Students are required to enroll in at least one class each semester of their track assignment or defer their enrollment in order to maintain their active enrollment status at BYU-Idaho. Wondering what to do in your 'flex semester' (the semester you aren't assigned to attend BYU-Idaho)? Consider these options:
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Students with 50+ credits, an approved grad plan, and a minimum 2.8 GPA can request permission to attend all three semesters until they graduate by using the Fast Grad program.
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Online courses from BYU-Idaho can be taken in any semester, regardless of track assignment, and from anywhere in the world where internet access is available. This option is frequently used by students who want to continue their education while working. For students who have been admitted and assigned a track, no separate application is required to enroll in these courses.
Many students will take advantage of their flex semester to work and save money that will help offset the upcoming costs of their education. Many students have found that the Three Track System schedule provides a calendar that supports work opportunities very well suited to their future career, or which they may not have had otherwise.
Internships: Internships are required for most BYU-Idaho degrees, and can be done in any semester of the year, whether during your track or flex semester. You can contact BYU-Idaho's Academic Discovery Center for more information about when to plan your internship.
When space is available, BYU-Idaho may extend invitations to upperclassmen to attend as a full-time student during a student's flex semester as a means of helping students graduate more quickly. This opportunity is by invitation only.
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Students who come home just before the beginning of their flex semester may be eligible for a one-time enrollment override to facilitate prompt entry into school.
Expanding flex semester enrollment
Even without an override, students with 60+ credits earned can enroll in 300 and 400 level classes in their flex semester if there is available space on the day before classes begin.
Transfer work
Many students capitalize on the Three Track System by taking courses at other colleges/universities during their flex semester. This usually works best for students whose flex semester is Fall or Winter. For information about transferring credits to BYU-Idaho, email email@example.com or visit our transfer course matrix at www.byui.edu/admissions/transfer. We encourage students to work closely with the Academic Discovery Center if they want to pursue this option.
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For convenience or scheduling purposes, some students choose to take courses offered on an abbreviated schedule called 'block classes'. These classes typically last for half the semester (about 7 weeks) and usually meet every day during that time. A student must be on-track or have an override for the semester in order to take block classes during the day.
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BYU-Idaho offers courses between Spring and Fall semesters on a 7-week schedule called Summer Session. This option is only available after the student has completed at least one semester of study at BYU-Idaho.
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Apple's been denied an injunction against Samsung, Samsung's been denied a new trial against Apple, and Europe is being denied more FRAND-based patent nonsense. Want to know more? Seriously?
Apple has been denied an injunction on Samsung products that were found to infringe on Apple's patents. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh determined that Apple failed to demonstrate that the demand for Samsung's products came from technology that Samsung copied. As only three of the devices found to infringe on Apple's patents are currently on the market, all part of the Galaxy S II line, so this doesn't come as a surprise. Newer phones like the Galaxy S III were not part of Apple's injunction efforts, and have already been added to an upcoming lawsuit set to go to trial in 2014.
Judge Koh also ruled yesterday that there would be no new trial despite Samsung's allegations of juror misconduct. Samsung had accused Velvin Hogan of hiding his involvement in a lawsuit with Seagate. Koh said that because Hogan disclosed his employment with Seagate at the time of jury selection, Samsung's legal team had plenty of time to raise objections to his selection. Samsung had also claimed that Hogan's post-trial interviews had demonstrated that he had swayed the jury, but Samsung had never claimed nor demonstrated that Hogan had introduced "outside knowledge specific to the facts of this case" to the jury in their motions, and Koh denied their motion.
Finally, Samsung has announced that they will be dropping their efforts to seek injunctions in Europe against Apple devices using technology covered by Samsung's FRAND (free, reasonable, and non-descriminatory) patents. While Samsung will still seek damages in lawsuits going forward, they have withdrawn requests for import bans on Apple products. While Samsung claims that this is about "protecting consumer choice", it probably has more to do with the fact that they are being investigated by the European Commission over possible abuses of FRAND patents.


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My theory for wearing a scary bright colours is:
- Stick to one bright colour - No rainbow business!
- Tone it down with brown.
The yellow I used is Mac 'Bright Future' from the 'Style Warrior' collection, it's a veluxe pearl and has a subtle undertone of gold. I teamed it with Mac 'Bronze'. Below are some swatches...
Wearable? For me yes, I did go out in public with it. I like this look as you don't immediately see the yellow, it's only when I blink or look down, which makes it quite 'safe'.
Here is the order I did look in:
- Nars 'Smudgeproof eyeshadow base' as primer
- Mac 'Bright Future' e/s on eyelid.
- Mac 'Bronze' e/s on the outer corner and blended into crease.
- Urban Decay 'Bourbon' 24/7 pencil on upper lashline and waterline.
- Benefit 'Eye bright' to highlight.
- L'oreal Voluminous mascara.
With such a unique colour on my eyes, I wanted nude lips. I used YSL Rouge Volupte #2 (Sensual Silk), I think a darker brown would have looked nice too. I kept my cheeks bare with just a little bit of Chanel Bronze Universel. I did take photos of the full look but they were blurry, I am very anti blurry! :(
On another note, I removed the insert from one of my Mac palettes, and I fit 26 instead of 15 which is brilliant as I'm always trying to save space. I have also noticed this way that the colours really jump out and I can see the difference in all of them, as they are so close to each other.
Will you ever wear yellow eyeshadow? If so, how will you wear it?


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Everyone has their own visions of the perfect husband and the perfect father. Gopal(Dr. Shreeram Lagoo) fits everyone's version of both the perfect father and husband. He always thinks of his family before he thinks of himself. This aspect of his personality is what keeps him from telling his family the fact that he has cancer and needs medical treatment. He wants his children to fulfill their dreams and he doesn't want to hurt them. He tells them that he needs to move to Bombay for work. His wife, Asha(Nutan), finds out about Gopal's terrible disease and watches him die in Bombay. She also promises never to tell anyone that he's dead for his children's sake, however, it is against her religion to do so. Will Asha keep her promise to her husband until her children fulfill their dreams? Will Asha be able to stay married after becoming a widow? Watch the classic film Sajan Bina Suhagan to find out the answers.
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Truth or Dare
1 out of 5 Stars
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Writers: Jillian Jacobs, Michael Reisz, Christopher Roach, Jeff Wadlow
Starring: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rated: PG-13 for violence and disturbing content, alcohol abuse, some sexuality, language and thematic material
Synopsis: A group of college friends visit Mexico during their spring break. While there, the group participates in a game of truth or dare with sinister consequences.
Review: I like horror movies and over the past few years Blumhouse Productions has produced numerous films that I'm very fond of including "Get Out," "The Gift," "Insidious," "Slight" and "Happy Death Day." They've also produced a lot of garbage.
"Truth or Dare" is utter garbage.
Somehow, I had managed to avoid the trailers (which I prefer, but rarely get to do) and had no real sense of what I was walking into beyond the Blumhouse brand. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination, but having sat through the disappointing "Rampage," I hoped that "Truth or Dare" would at least be a pleasant distraction. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case as the narrative lifts ideas from "The Ring," "Final Destination" and every teenage horror film made in the 1990s (which were actually liberally borrowing tropes that were established decades before) and fails to do anything interesting with them.
Horror is often derivative, but that doesn't mean it can't be smart or be infused with original ideas. We only have to go back to last week's "A Quiet Place" or a few weeks to "Annihilation" to see non-traditional horror films that are immersive because they are built around strong characters and bold ideas. "Truth or Dare" is ineffective because it doesn't invest as much thought into its characters or its core narrative. It feels like a film that had a final scene and was written backwards.
Seeing as I don't watch a lot of television, the amiable cast is mostly unknown to me. They really aren't give much to work with, so I won't hold them too responsible for the film's many missteps. I'm putting the blame at the feet of writers and director.


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If some of the big retailers had it their way, Thanksgiving would evolve from a day of thanks with one's family to a full-day shopping extravaganza. And based on consumer response this year and last, that's just where we're headed.
Retailers, more than ever, are commercializing Thanksgiving to give those who want to get a jump on holiday sales, versus watching hours of football, that chance. Plus, they are trying to vigorously compete with online sites for those valuable early holiday dollars.
The result? This year, 35 million Americans ventured out to retail stores on Thanksgiving Day, up from 29 million last year, according to the National Retail Federation.
What's more, 89 million shoppers braved the Black Friday crowds or shopped online Friday, up from 86 million last year. And if last year is any indication, those retailers electing to open on Thanksgiving for the first time generated at least a 20 percent increase in sales over the entire Black Friday weekend.
The bottom line is that retailers opening earlier are not simply trading Friday sales for Thursday. They are seeing growth in total holiday sales as a result, offering incentive for this earlier opening trend to continue, to the exasperation of many.
The question is: How much earlier can stores open without cutting into Thanksgiving dinner? Granted, the holiday shopping season is crucial for retailers – a period when they typically generate between 20 and 40 percent of their revenue for the entire year – but where is the line?
This year, more and more consumers skipped the holiday altogether to line up for early sales, and should even earlier hours be offered next year, more consumers are likely to stop the tradition of saying thanks with their families.
While two years ago opening on Thanksgiving evening may have been a risk, retailers have learned that the reward was greater than the backlash from consumers concerned about their holiday (and that of the retailer's employees) being infringed upon.
An exciting trend this year is improved Web shopping experiences combined with retailers offering door busters online with no shipping charges, removing the necessity to shop in-store. In fact, many retailers began offering door busters online even before their stores opened.
So, whether you prefer to skip the early bird madness and shop on Thanksgiving, or you feel frustration about this infringement on your holiday, this trend is a reality, at least for the near-term. Either way, you can voice your views with your dollars.
Lori Turner-Wilson is an award-winning columnist and managing partner of RedRover Sales & Marketing, www.redrovercompany.com, with offices in Memphis and Nashville. Follow RedRover on Twitter (@redrovercompany and @loriturner) and Facebook (facebook.com/redrovercompany).
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Jakub Rebelka was born in Starogard Gdanski into a family of artists. He is one of Poland's most recognizable and original comic artists. His highly individual style is expressive and innovative with a tendency to the grotesque and horrific; his colour palette is extremely vivid.
Rebelka studied painting at the Gdańsk Academy od Fine Arts, obtaining his MA in 2008. His diploma work was a cycle of paintings entitled 'Element of Chaos'. The cycle was later exhibited at the modern art gallery BWA in Wroclaw and BWA in Jelenia Gora (2010) with an accompanying art-book.
Rebelka debuted as a comic artist when he was 15 years old by receiving the Junior Grand Prix at the Polish International Comic Festival in Lodz (1997). The following year he received the Junior Grand Prix a second time together with writer Dawid Ciechocki. In 2001 he was awarded the 1st prize together with illustrator/writer Benedykt Szneider for their comic 'Oskar – King of Shadows'.
In 2002 his first book, 'Doctor Bryan', was published. The book received positive reviews and its author was compared to artists like Edvard Munch and Ted McKeever. After his debut Rebelka went on to create a row of dystopic and grotesque horror comics that could inspire movie directors such as Robert Wiene or Fritz Lang.
Doctor Bryan 2 – The Soul Archipelago
His work has been exhibited many times in Poland and abroad (France, Canada, Japan, Croatia) and published in many comic anthologies and magazines. He has collaborated with Polish comic writers like Rafal Skarzycki, Dennis Wojda and Bartosz Sztybor. Among his books are 'The Ballad of Edward' ('Ballada o Edwardzie', 2003), 'Doctor Bryan 2 - The Soul Archipelago' ('Doktor Bryan 2 - Archipelag duszy', 2005), 'Ester & Klemens. The Three Heads of Professor Muri' ('Ester i Klemens. Trzy glowy profesora Muri', 2007), 'Dick4Dick. Zordax' Harem' ('Dick4Dick. Harem Zordaxa', 2009) and 'Element of Chaos' ('Element chaosu', 2010).
Rebelka also worked on the critically praised video game 'The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings' (2011) as illustrator for the animated cutscenes and background/character designer. He is a renowned painter of public art murals and his work can be seen in Gdansk, Sopot, Warsaw and Bremen. He lives with his family in Gdansk where he works as an illustrator.


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LAS VEGAS – Phillips 66 Aviation honored Showalter Flying Service with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, and Perry Brothers Aviation Fuels with its 2013 Safety Values Award during the recent 2013 Phillips 66 Marketing Conference & Trade Show.
Showalter Flying Service, at Florida's Orlando Executive Airport (ORL), earned the Phillips 66 Lifetime Achievement Award for nearly seven decades of service to the aviation industry.
"It is my privilege to announce that the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to a family owned and run business whose success spans nearly seven decades," said Bryan Faria, General Manager Aviation, Phillips 66. "Recognizing that customer service is the key to winning and keeping business, Showalter Flying Service built a nationwide reputation for providing the services and accommodations their customer base – the flying public – desired."
Winners of the Phillips Lifetime Achievement Award must meet several benchmarks. Recipients are selected for dedicating a lifetime time of efforts to the business and aviation industry; activity with key industry associations (such as NATA, NBAA, EAA and others) that improved a significant area of aviation; and having a major impact on local and regional aviation communities.
Showalter Flying Service has built a loyal following by instilling a family culture throughout its operations. In fact, everyone working at Showalter Flying Service has a name tag with the last name "Showalter."
"Family culture in our business is so important," explained Kim Showalter, President of Showalter Flying Service, who runs the FBO with her husband Bob, Chairman of the FBO. "Everybody here is the same, they ought to be treated the same."
Founded by Howard Showalter, his younger brother Sandy, and their cousin Buck Rogers, the fixed base operator has been run by Bob and Kim since 1965. Today, Howard's grandchildren, Sandy and Jenny Showalter, also work for the FBO.
"My dad always had great loyalty amongst his employees when I was a kid at this place," explained Bob Showalter. "Most of his employees had been here a long time, and that's true today. It's a very stable workforce and that's what works for us."
A Phillips 66-branded FBO since 1979, "Showalter Flying Service has been an excellent steward of the brand," Faria said.
View the Phillips 66 tribute video on Showalter here.
Perry Brothers Aviation Fuels earned the Phillips 66 Safety Values Award for its dedication to delivering quality fuel and providing safety guidance to its FBO customers. Run by two siblings, Dave and Steve Perry, Perry Brothers is a Phillips 66 Aviation marketer serving the South from its base in Americus, Ga.
"The first value of Phillips 66 is safety; Dave Perry and Perry Brothers Aviation Fuels sets the bar when implementing quality control standards and being safety conscious with aviation products at their branded FBOs," said Faria. "Through their 25 years as a Phillips 66 Aviation marketer, Perry Brothers has continuously focused on delivering fuel that meets the highest of industry standards. I am pleased that they are our Safety Values Award recipient."
Two of the notable criteria for winning the Safety Award include no aircraft accidents or incidents related to fuel handling, and established employee work procedures that adhere stridently to industry standards, while demonstrating ongoing recurrency training.
See how Perry Brothers approaches safety on this Phillips 66 Tribute video here.
Phillips 66 Aviation supplies jet fuel and avgas to a network of 880 FBOs.


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Thursday, 26 July 2012
'The Curve' liquid eyeliner
I love it when innovation is applied to commonplace make up products – it's all too easy to not consider the design of make up items that have been around for years and sometimes just a little tweak in design can make application a whole lot easier, and have us all wondering why someone didn't think of it sooner.
So I was most intrigued when Wizard PR uploaded a teaser image to its Facebook page this week, showing The Curve: "an ergonomic shaped liquid liner that makes application mistake-proof." I've never really questioned whether the usual pen shape of eyeliner makes application difficult, so it will be interesting to see if the rounded shape of The Curve liquid eyeliner will make a marked difference when applying eye liner.
Wizard PR is keeping its cards close to its chest as to which brand is launching The Curve eyeliner, so keep your eyes peeled!
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If you originally created a cluster by specifying its member brokers with the imq.cluster.brokerlist property in a central cluster configuration file, it isn't necessary to stop the brokers in order to remove one of them. Instead, you can simply edit the configuration file to exclude the broker you want to remove, force the remaining cluster members to reload the cluster configuration, and reconfigure the excluded broker so that it no longer points to the same cluster configuration file:
Edit the cluster configuration file to remove the excluded broker from the list specified for the imq.cluster.brokerlist property.
Issue the following command to each broker remaining in the cluster:
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Fall 2009 faculty lecture series presents research as the moviesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Oct 27, 2009
Fall 2009 Faculty Lecture Series, sponsored by the UH Mānoa Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Office of Research Relations, and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library, presents a lecture by Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, on Thursday, November 5, 2009 in Hamilton Library Room 301 from 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Drawing examples from his experiences as a television documentary and radio producer, as a journal and book editor, as a performer and dramaturge, and as a member of university Personnel, and Tenure and Promotion Review Committees, Craig Howes will discuss how such academic work differs from the paradigms embedded in traditional notions of university research; how production scholarship poses challenges for those engaged in it, and for those assigned to evaluate its importance or relevance; and how such productions can affirm the value of scholarship outside of the academic community while at the same time being professionally valuable in themselves.
Craig Howes has been the Director of the Center for Biographical Research (CBR) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa since 1997, and Editor and Co-Editor of the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly since 1994, the same year he became a Professor in the Department of English where he has taught since 1980. His book Voices of the Vietnam POWs (Oxford UP, 1993) was selected as a notable academic book by Choice magazine. As CBR Director, he is also General Editor of the Biography Monograph Series, co-published with the University of Hawai'i Press, and the series scholar and co-producer for the Biography Hawai'i television documentary series.
He teaches courses in editing, lifewriting, composition, literary theory, and drama, receiving the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998. A past President of the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council, he has served on the boards of Kumu Kahua Theatre and Monkey Waterfall Dance Theatre Company, and has numerous stage and television credits as an actor. He currently serves as co-producer for the Bamboo Ridge / Hawai'i Public Radio show, Aloha Shorts. In 2005, he received the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation Award for Faculty Service to the Community, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
For more information, please call, Teri Skillman (956-8688) or email email@example.com.


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Graduate Program Thesis/Project Procedures
Selection of Thesis/Project Chair and Reader
You should select your Thesis/Project Committee Chair prior to taking KINS 299 and beginning preliminary development of a topic. See Appendix A for a list of all eligible faculty members and their areas of expertise. Before enrolling in KINS 211, select a Committee Chair and a Reader, select a thesis/project topic and begin working on a review of the literature or on a pilot study.
Your Master's program academic advisor may serve as your Thesis/Project Committee Chair OR you may select another faculty member with expertise related to your topic. Your Chair must advise or teach in the Kinesiology Graduate Program. You will also need to select a Reader, who should be a member of the Kinesiology faculty. However, faculty from other departments may serve as Readers if requested.
Thesis/Project Process
Upon completion of the majority of coursework, students register for KINS 211 in which a Thesis or Project Proposal is developed and presented to the class. Students may begin collecting data only after the proposal is approved in KINS 211 and after procedures have been approved by the Human Subjects Committee.
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NOTE: As a student in KINS 500, you are eligible to receive extended library privileges. The special library card marked "Thesis" is available from the Graduate Center. You will need to provide proof of enrollment.
For Thesis/Project format, the Kinesiology Department uses the most recent editions of the CSUS Thesis/Project/Dissertation Format and Information Workshop and the most current APA Publication Manual for reference citation format.
Following successful completion of KINS 211, stay in contact with your Committee Chair regarding your progress in collecting data and writing your manuscript. Expect to write and rewrite your manuscript several times in order to complete a high quality project. Continue to register for KINS 500 each semester until you have completed 4 units. If you have taken 4 units of KINS500, but have not completed your Thesis/Project, you may register for Continuous Enrollment at a lower fee. Contact the Graduate Center for information regarding this option.
Communicate with your Reader as to his/her preference for frequency of draft review. Usually a Reader is provided with a near completed project to evaluate.
Upon completion, submit the Thesis/Project on bond paper with signatures to the Graduate Coordinator for departmental format approval.
Before submitting the thesis or project to the Graduate Coordinator:
- Review the Thesis/Project Checklist for format that was provided in KINS 211
- Review the checklists in the CSUS Guide for Thesis Format and the CSUS Guide for Project Format located on the Office of Graduate Studies website.
- Secure your Chair and Reader's signatures (black ink) on the required number of copies of the approval page. The Chair also needs to sign the abstract page.
Make an appointment with the Graduate Coordinator for format evaluation.
Provide the original signed, unbound copy and at least one additional signed, unbound copy of the Thesis or Project to the Graduate Coordinator for format review. Both copies should be printed on bond paper. If corrections are necessary, two (or more) copies of the corrected materials will be required.
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- We believe in dressing in modest apparel, as it says in 1 Timothy 2:8-9 - "I also want a women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God."
- We believe in saving our bodies and not exposing them to others, but protecting what God has given us.
- We believe in being modest in the way we act, talk, walk, and carry ourselves.
- We know that true modesty begins in the heart, and is an attitude more than what we wear.
- We believe in behaving discretely and with modesty.
- However, our clothing usually displays our true self, and we believe in dressing modestly to be a witness to others.
- We know that modesty isn't a legalistic set of rules, but rather guidelines to help determine what we should wear.
- We believe in presenting discretion and dignity in what we wear and how we behave- "Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful women who shows no discretion." ~ Proverbs 11:22
- We believe in helping to protect men from the visual attack by dressing modestly as their sisters-in-Christ
- We believe in dressing in a way that glorifies God, not our body.
- We believe that modesty and purity are always in fashion!
- We believe that modesty isn't old-fashioned - you don't have to wear colonial dresses (like the ones in the picture) or have waist-length hair to be modest!
- We believe that fear of the Lord is the most beautiful thing - "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." ~ Proverbs 31:30
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We are not perfect and we don't have modesty all figured out. However, we believe that we should honor God in the way we dress. We are committed to living a life of modesty.
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