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Why You Need a MentorWhen I first graduated with my Bachelor's degree, I was confused. While I had a sense of accomplishment, I also wondered what my next step should be. After a year of agonizing over how to advance my career, I decided to go to graduate school. Surely after completing a Master's degree my future endeavors would be laid out in front of ...Published about 7 years ago |
Gap Year Programs for College Grads and Working AdultsWith May quickly approaching, you're probably shrinking back from panic at the idea of graduating and getting a job in the real world. Or maybe you're reading from your cubicle right now, passing time (slowly) at a job you hate in an industry you're bored with. First, these feelings are totally normal in either case. Second, if you want to postpone ...Published about 7 years ago |
Top 5 Habits for Career Success at Entry LevelI am blessed to have some of the best bosses coach me when I first entered the working world. They passed to me what seemed like, at that time – pretty obvious things one would do when in the working world. What seems pretty obvious as habits for career success isn't always so. As you start on your career path you ...Published about 8 years ago |
Nice Guys Finish Poor: 5 Personalities that Don't Get PromotedMoney is nice. But the business of earning it, according to some researchers, may be just the opposite. A German study conducted by the Institute for Employment Research recently found that "nice" people tend to earn less money than their not-so-nice colleagues. Before you ditch your good manners and start practicing your growl, take a moment to reassess your nice guy/nice ...Published almost 8 years ago |
Which College Grads Make the Most MoneyWhich College Grads Make the Most Money And Other Career-Related Superlatives A recent article from CNN Money indicates that engineering majors outperform their classmates when it comes to starting salary offers. In fact, engineers of various disciplines claimed 4 of the 5 top spots for average salary offers in 2011. And computer science majors rounded out the group. But life isn't ...Published about 8 years ago |
Reality Check for Younger Generation WorkersThe following article lists 9 characteristics of Generation Y in the workplace. "Adulthood" has been getting delayed more and more the last couple of centuries. This is partly due to increasing prosperity, allowing parents to provide longer for their progeny, and partly due to increasing longevity, leaving older workers in the workforce (and alive) longer. Unfortunately, too many "Gen Y" (also ...Published about 8 years ago |
Identify and Avoid These Career Decision-Making TrapsDeborah Schneider spent far more time researching the $15,000 car she once bought than she did on a slightly larger purchase -- her $90,000 law degree. "Years later, I realized how common that is," says Schneider, who coauthored Should You Really Be a Lawyer? with Gary Belsky and produces its accompanying Web site. "Each year, many college students spend more time ...Published over 9 years ago |
5 Reasons Professional Organizations are Worth JoiningThere are professional organizations in every field. But are the yearly dues worth it to join? While each and every organization is different, the short answer is most often: yes. Especially if you're young and just starting out in your career. That's because many professional organizations offer scholarships for college members, and mentors for those in the interning or entry-level position. ...Published almost 8 years ago |
Overcoming Time Management ObstaclesI hate to admit this, but I'm a bit overextended. I know, I know. I wrote an entire workbook on Time Management and yet sometimes, I still have trouble with it myself. I think it's just one of those things that can never be entirely mastered. We all go through phases where we feel mentally and physically overwhelmed. At that point, ...Published about 8 years ago |
6 Signs it's Time to Change CareersSo, you've been thinking it might be time to change careers – you just wish you had a way to know for sure. With 84% of Americans claiming they want a new job in 2011, you are not alone. So, how does one assess if it's time to find a new career path? We asked over 100 career experts what the ...Published about 8 years ago |
What to Expect When You're Expecting Your First JobDo you have unrealistic expectations of your first job? If the answer is yes, you may not even realize it, but you wouldn't be alone. Nearly one-third of college graduates have unrealistic expectations for their first job, according to a survey by the Creative Group, a national staffing service. Some of the misconceptions revolve around what exactly they'll be doing and ...Published almost 8 years ago |
Build a Great Working Relationship with Your BossOne of the worst things you can do when you start your new job is to make your supervisor look bad for hiring you. After all, your boss is key to your current on-the-job satisfaction and to your future success in the organization -- and perhaps even beyond. If there ever were a relationship for you to invest in, this is ...Published about 8 years ago |
The Pros and Cons of Job HoppingOut of everyone in my group of college friends, I was the only one who still had the same job two years after graduation. Everyone else had changed jobs once, twice, even three times. So, I felt somewhat smug—as if I knew something they didn't. It wasn't until many years later I understood the positive side of job hopping. It hit ...Published about 8 years ago |
Make Career Decisions You Won't Regret LaterYou can't make good decisions without good information. Yet college students often attempt this feat when choosing majors and career paths. It's tempting to make decisions based on little or no data to get rid of feeling like you're in limbo. But you won't find out what is right for you without doing some work. How can you identify the most ...Published over 9 years ago |
Question Everything as You Explore Your Career OptionsCollege is really only about one thing: Learning how to become a critical thinker -- someone who knows that truth is a moving target and who is willing to ask the many questions necessary to move continuously closer to that target. As you take your classes, participate in campus activities and interact with diverse groups of people, critical thinking should become ...Published over 9 years ago |
Moving for a Job? Learn to Love Your New CitySo, you're graduating and about to make a move to a new city for a job. Whether it's a full time gig or a summer internship you're gearing up for, getting acclimated to your surroundings is often the key to your success in any given place. Almost everyone goes through an adjustment period when they move to a new town. Hating ...Published about 8 years ago |
HR Says: Is this Interview Question Legal?The following is a Q&A segment between one of our readers and CAREEREALISM-Approved Career Expert, Ben Eubanks – a human resources specialist. This article series is called "HR Says." Question Is it "illegal" for employers to ask a person for the year they graduated from college? Isn't this asking for a person's age? Using 22 and the numbers of years since graduating, ...Published over 8 years ago |
Job Seekers: 5 Smart Steps on TwitterEvery job seeker who is using Twitter for job search purposes pretty much just gets on board and hastily creates a Twitter account. However, a few calculated steps will be invaluable in the launching of your Twitter account for an effective job search campaign. Please read the following and see if you can tweak your account today: Choosing Your Twitter Account ...Published about 8 years ago |
4 Quick Ways to Improve Your Executive ResumeTry this: pick up your resume and scan it for 15 seconds. Now put it down and write down what you can remember. Now ask yourself, "Would I call this person?" If your executive resume does not have a clear value proposition that compels someone to call you, then you need to make some changes. Here are 4 ways to do ...Published about 8 years ago |
11 Asian American Professional Organizations to Help You Get AheadIn May, we celebrate Asian American heritage month. In that spirit, we're highlighting some of the top professional organizations for Asian Americans. The organizations can help you land an internship, provide professional mentoring opportunities, help with job placement, some even offer pre-professional summer camps and other programs. And of course, they will help you develop as a professional once you're out ...Published almost 8 years ago |


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Case of 12 packets. Each packet contains 2.7 ounces.
Vespa is an all-natural amino acid complex which encourages the muscles to metabolize fat thus conserving & stabilizing glycogen levels.
For athletes over 160 pounds VESPA CV-25 combines 100 mg of wasp extract amino acid complex with 240 mg of royal jelly and 120 mg of bee propolis.
VESPA works by encouraging the muscles to metabolize fat, thus stabilizing & conserving glycogen levels. By tapping into this plentiful and readily available energy source glycogen levels can be maintained and blood lactates are reduced resulting in greater endurance, mental clarity, motor coordination and accelerated recovery.
VESPA's unique formula: a highly bio-available wasp extract amino acid complex, synergistically blended with bee propolis and royal jelly (potent anti-oxidants) is all-natural and caffeine & ephedrine/ephedra free and safe & legal for all sporting events.
Note: these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.
Olympic Gold medalists in the marathon, figure skating and ice hockey have used VESPA as an important component in their training and performance regimen. Most recently the Japanese National team dominated the 2007 100K World Championships using VESPA as a part of their training and racing regimen.
Calories 18
Fat cal 0
Total carbs 5 g (2%)
Royal Jelly 240 mg
Bee Propolis 120mg
Wasp Extract 100 mg
Using Vespa
Since every individual is unique the effects of VESPA can vary.
For most users shake and drink a pouch of VESPA or VESPA JR 45 minutes prior to athletic activity. Some people may find the taste is undesirable. If this is the case dilute with water or y
our favorite electrolyte replacement drink or juice. It is not recommended VESPA is taken with drinks or supplements containing amino acids. Our empirical observation is this negates the unique effects of using VESPA
Some people experience stomach discomfort and a few distress. In these cases it is recommended to take VESPA with simple easily digestible carbohydrates such as oatmeal or sourdough bread/toast along with some fat derived from butter etc.
During training and races which last longer than 2-3 hours it is recommended to use VESPA at differing intervals depending upon the workout or race and the goal of a specific workout.
Because VESPA is not an electrolyte it is important the athlete continues his/her replacement regime based upon their specific needs and conditions.
Fueling is a different story. While VESPA is not a fuel so some fueling is necessary for extra long workouts/races. Most athletes successfully using VESPA have found their fueling needs are significantly reduced allowing them to perform at a higher level.
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For most marathoners it is recommended that one VESPA is taken 45 minutes prior to the race and another at the half marathon mark. For a half-marathon distance a single VESPA is recommended. Training: For most marathoners one VESPA prior to the workout, especially long runs.
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For Olympic distance 1-2 VESPA are recommended depending upon your goal time.
For Half & Full Ironman events a VESPA 45 minutes prior to the start with a VESPA taken every 2-3 hours is recommended.
Figure Skating, X/C Skiing/Biathlon, Tennis & Dance:
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For training use VESPA sparingly, that is use VESPA at longer time intervals than you would in a race. This helps develop the body's other mechanisms for increasing fat metabolism. This does not mean eliminating VESPA from your training regime altogether because VESPA's effect of lowering blood lactates is important toward enhancing recovery.
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really really fixing teleop this time
Got motor control working with scoutsim
Behaviors can now use the MotorControl class to change the speed of the motors in the simulator. The simulator correctly handles the command.At the moment, the set_motors command is limited to 'scout1'. We should look into prefixes to specify which scout (scout1, scout2, etc) each behavior should command....
Added a template scout simulator class.
Scoutsim is modeled directly from turtlesim. At this point, the only changes are in names and indentation. A separate licensing file was also added to get rid of the junk at the top of the old turtlesim files.


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Since I'm attending FGS this week, I am writing my Follow Friday post in advance. But let's just assume that I have met Missy Corley from Bayside Blog and that she is awesome and has blogged or will blog about her experiences at FGS.
Whether or not Missy has posted about FGS, make sure to take a look at her blog. Here are just a few of her posts:
It Always Pays to Re-Search
Treasure Chest Thursday: A Stitch In Time
Tombstone Tuesday: Hambleton House Edition
Scrappy Saturday: Wall Prints
History of the Hambleton House/Bartlett Pear Inn
Census Searching: Ancestor Not Home? Ask the Neighbors
I'm looking forward to meeting Missy (or having met her). I hope you will take some time to check out her blog.
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Frockin' up - last day of work, week 35
|Dress - Sadie
Shoes - Thongs - the only shoes that fit me now!
Necklace - Black Jewls
Today is my last day at work. I never thought that I would actually be looking forward to it. I love my job. I love that I have employment in my chosen field when through out uni people wondered how an Anthropology degree would get you a job outside of academia. The people I work with are fantastic and the job is fun, but.....
it's so uncomfortable sitting in an office chair. Putting my feet up hurts my back, but not putting them up hurts my feet. My feet swell too much to be able to do anything outside the office (not good when part of my job is to be in the great outdoors) plus I fell like I need to pee pretty much every time I stand up. I get so tired I need coffee mid-morning & at lunch just to get through the day which is not ideal. So it's time to give it up, put my feet up & rest a little before this baby arrives.
PS. My dad just mentioned that all the women in his family have given birth two weeks early! Plus my friend said she went 3.5 weeks early with her first! AGH! 3.5 weeks is the weekend after next!!


text: A few comments below... On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, David Mathog wrote: > Mike, > > I've been trying to pick the brains of other folks on the > beowulf list who have computer rooms with modern equipment. > > One problem with the existing air, with regards to future > expansion, is apparently the total amount of air that the > current A/C can move. This is all horrendously complicated > and needs to be looked at carefully by a HVAC consultant. > Pretty sure we have enough tons and flow for now, meaning > my rack and Deshaies and everything else I know is going in there > in a couple of months. More and more convinced that we don't > have enough to handle multiple full racks of the next generation > of computers. We learned about this after putting in a big new A/C (adding to an old but still functioning one) in our server room. The problem was mitigated by having the vents on the old AC replaced with flanges attached to large flexible vents. They hang near the top/front of two racks, and this has helped quite a bit. Air flow is important! > Jim Lux from JPL answered my questions as attached after > my signature. Thanks go out to Jim for the useful numbers. > Darryl did say something interesting though, he said that for > some units the A/C people can increase the capacity by changing > the pulleys around. Apparently this blows more air, and the > cold water isn't limiting, so it effectively upgrades the unit > without changing very much. Darryl said that this was done > at some point for Mayo's computer room in the subbasement > of the BI. Sounds like a pretty cheap upgrade. It would certainly be nice if we could do that here, as we've been running on the edge in terms of cooling for some time now. Our industial chilled water loop runs at around 16C, so obviously the chilled water is simply acting as a resevoir for dumping heat from a compressor rather than being the direct source of cooling. So the limiting factor is likely the compressor/fluid/heat exchanger with the chilled water, rather than the chilled water itself. I wonder what "changing pulleys around" is really doing? Stay cool - John


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The last day of the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival continued to pile on the surpises mixed in with main stage artists being cut off.
Headliners Arcade Fire performed with Blondie's Debbie Harry and closed out their show with the Preservation Jazz Hall Band. While Beck showed the crowd he could still bust a move, even though it was not enough to prevent him or Arcade Fire's sets from being cut off Sunday night on the main stage.
Arcade Fire was not the only group to have special guests as heavy metal's Motorhead brought out former Guns N'Roses guitarist Slash in the Mojave tent and electro house's Adventure Club had a brief appearance from The Kite String Tangle in the Sahara tent.
At the Outdoor Theatre, next to the main Coachella Stage, English house duo Disclosure welcomed guest English singer/songwriter Sam Smith.
Otherwise, the day featured stellar sets from new wave/indie pop's Blood Orange and Neutral Milk Hotel, who refused access for media photographers to shoot their set, hours earlier at the same theatre.
New York house duo Duck Sauce also crafted a sharp set Sunday night in the Sahara tent sending everyone home happy with their hit "Barbara Streisand."
While Lana Del Rey treated fans with a premiere to a new song, The Naked and Famous were just as happy as festival-goers to be performing and attending their first Coachella.
The New Zealand band weren't the only ones, Noelie Martin, made it to her first festival.
The 24-year-old Phoenix native said she was at the fest to catch several acts including Sunday night's closer, Arcade Fire.
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Discontinuing Antibiotic Used to Prevent Opportunistic Infections Among HIV Patients Could Increase Risk of Malaria, Diarrhea
April 12, 2012
"Abruptly discontinuing co-trimoxazole -- an antibiotic used to prevent opportunistic infections in HIV-positive people -- can lead to a higher incidence of malaria and diarrhea compared with patients who keep on taking the drug," according to a study conducted by the CDC in eastern Uganda and published by the Oxford Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases in March, PlusNews reports. "The researchers found that 72 percent of the 315 cases of fever reported by study participants occurred among those who had stopped taking co-trimoxazole prophylaxis, and they were also nearly twice more likely to report diarrhea," the news service notes.
"'The findings most likely mean that HIV-infected persons, while on co-trimoxazole, have a lower rate of these infectious diseases, and stopping the drug increases the rate,' James Campbell, lead researcher of the study and director of science at CDC Uganda, told IRIN/PlusNews," the news service writes. "Co-trimoxazole is relatively cheap, but the researchers note that lifetime prophylaxis using the drug may have cost and toxicity implications," PlusNews notes, adding, "Campbell said, 'Important questions include the effect of more frequent malaria and diarrhea episodes on the longer-term outcomes of HIV infection, the longer-term risks of inducing or selecting for resistant micro-organisms, and comparing antimicrobial prophylaxis to other means of reducing the risk of malaria and diarrhea in this population'" (4/11).
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Dexter is your typical lab-coat wearing, three-foot-tall science genius with a strange accent. He tries to run his science lab quietly behind a bookshelf in his house, but his biggest challenge is keeping his meddling sister Dee Dee from ruining his great inventions.
Dee Dee is Dexter's big sister, and annoys him constantly while he's trying to make scientific discoveries. She is very girly, and often dances through Dexter's lab breaking important equipment. She might seem silly but she's good at tricking her brother.
Dexter's sworn enemy Mandark is almost as clever as Dexter is, but his lab is even bigger and better. Mandark's main ambition is to shut down Dexter's lab and be the only scientific genius around. He has a crush on Dee Dee, and his real name is actually Susan!
Dexter's happy home-maker mother has no idea her son has a secret working laboratory in their home. Often her demands around the house get in the way of Dexter's work, and she embarrasses him sometimes, but they are still quite close.
Dad is blissfully unaware of Dexter's lab, and Dexter does his part to keep it that way. He usually treats simple competitions between his children as very serious and important - even silly snowball fights - and thinks Dee Dee is better at sports.


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The Inner Wheel Club of Heanor has donated £500 to Water Aid.
The money was raised at a coffee morning, at the home of Dr and Mrs Mukherjee.
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Batting Around: Stars on the move
Sale of Huntsville franchise gets Southern League approval
By Benjamin Hill / MiLB.com | January 16, 2014 10:30 AM
Welcome to Batting Around, a biweekly curation and analysis of Minor League Baseball off-the-field news from around the country, locally sourced whenever possible. If you have an item to contribute for potential inclusion in a future edition, please email Ben Hill.
It's (almost) official
On Jan. 10, a much bandied about rumor finally became official as the Southern League announced the sale of the Huntsville Stars to an ownership group led by veteran Minor League operator Ken Young. The Stars, entering their 30th season at Huntsville's Joe Davis Stadium, will move to Biloxi, Miss., for the 2015 campaign.
This transaction still must be approved by Major and Minor League Baseball (a formality, in most cases), but the Southern League stamp of approval has put the pressure on Biloxi to be ready to host Southern League baseball in 2015. Per Biloxi TV station WLOX:
It's time to get busy transforming the site across from Beau Rivage [Casino] into a $35 million baseball stadium for Biloxi's AA ball club. ... Dale Partners is the firm in charge of the project. Biloxi has yet to secure the $21 million needed to build the stadium. City officials must hammer out some lease agreements and contractual issues with the Southern League, then work on putting the financing together.
"We'll come back and finalize the issues related to the contract and get the City Council, the team and Beau Rivage in agreement. Once that's done, we'll sell the bonds. It will take us, once all that's done, about 30 days to have money in hand to start paying vendors," Biloxi CAO [Chief Administrative Officer] David Nichols said.
In related and decidedly more lighthearted news, the Mississippi Press Gulf Live Blog has launched an informal name-the-team contest for the Biloxi franchise. Seabees, Mudbugs, Fighting SeaTurtles, Bay Beaus and Gopher Frogs are among the contenders; Sand Crabs, the name of Biloxi's 1908 Cotton States League team, sadly has been left off the list.
Fredericksburg inches closer
Biloxi isn't the only new market hoping to play its first Minor League season in 2015, as a group of Fredericksburg, Va., investors hopes to break ground on a privately funded $29 million baseball complex in March. The premier tenant of this complex would be the South Atlantic League's Hagerstown Suns, who currently compete in 83-year-old Municipal Stadium. From Fredericksburg.com:
The investors in the planned Fredericksburg Minor league baseball complex plan to purchase the land in February, break ground in March and have the facility ready for the start of the 2015 season.
The complex is a joint venture between the owners of the Hagerstown Suns, a Class A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, and Diamond Nation, a New Jersey-based company that runs amateur baseball and softball camps and tournaments.
The owners of those two entities, along with Rosner Automotive Group principal Ron Rosner, plan to buy the 38-acre parcel in Celebrate Virginia South where the U.S. National Slavery Museum was once planned. A 4,750-seat baseball stadium for the relocated minor league team and five artificial turf fields for Diamond Nation youth and amateur baseball and softball camps and tournaments will be built there.
If the above timeline is indeed adhered to (far from a sure thing, given that the land hasn't been purchased yet), then 2014 will be the Suns' 34th and final season in Hagerstown. City officials there have stated in the past that, if the Suns relocate, they will pursue other professional baseball options for venerable Municipal Stadium.
Here we Columbia?
Columbia, S.C., is the second-biggest market in the country without a professional sports team (after Tucson, whose Triple-A franchise has moved to El Paso), but that could change as early as 2015. At a City Council meeting on Jan. 7, consultants hired by the city presented a Minor League Baseball feasibility study. Based on geographical considerations, this as-of-now theoretical team would compete in either the Carolina or South Atlantic League. From Columbia television station WIS-TV:
The study was done by Brailsford & Dunlavey, whose firm has worked with more than 125 governmental entities on sports venues. ... Analyst Jason Thompson with Brailsford & Dunlavey said the Columbia market can support a Minor League baseball team. But the city would have to lure an existing team to town. An 8,000 seat stadium would cost an estimated $42 million.
Columbia's Minor League Baseball aspirations have the enthusiastic backing of Jason Freier, who owns both the Fort Wayne TinCaps and Savannah Sand Gnats. According to South Carolina's The State newspaper, Freier has guaranteed that, if the city musters the funding for a ballpark, he would be able to bring a team there. Columbia last fielded a Minor League team in the form of the SAL's Capital City Bombers, who relocated to Greenville, S.C., following the 2004 campaign.
Florida State League comings and goings
Per the Tampa Tribune, a plan to move the Tampa Yankees to the city of Ocala has hit a serious roadblock due to widespread concern over the use of tax dollars to build a new stadium.
"It does not appear likely the funding mechanism for the stadium ... will be placed on a referendum in time for the project to proceed as planned," Yankee Global Enterprises senior vice president Anthony Bruno wrote in a letter read to city council. "While we expected to bring the community together with this project, it unfortunately has become a source of division."
The Tampa Yankees currently play at George Steinbrenner Field, which also serves as the Spring Training home of the big league Yankees.
Meanwhile, in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park, city officials have begun exploring options for a new Minor League Baseball stadium. The Orlando market has been without a Minor League team since 2003, when the Southern League Orlando Rays relocated to Montgomery, Ala.
Back over on the Gulf Coast, there is uncertainty surrounding the Blue Jays' future Spring Training home and potentially their FSL franchise in Dunedin. Again per The Tampa Tribune, plans have hit a snag to relocate the Jays' Spring Training facility to Palm Beach Gardens, in a complex that would have been shared with the Houston Astros. The Tribune does a good job explaining all of the potential moving pieces, including St. Lucie County perhaps stepping into Palm Beach Gardens' place to build the multi-club complex and Dunedin seeking a tenant to replace the Blue Jays should they leave.
There's a lot of "potential" and "perhaps" in this situation, so stay tuned. Dunedin has been the Blue Jays' Spring Training home since the Major League club's inception in 1977.
Whitecaps on the comeback trail
While the above items all involve the building of new stadiums, the West Michigan Whitecaps are in the midst of rebuilding their current one. A fire on Jan. 3 caused major damage to Fifth Third Ballpark, leveling approximately 40 percent of the facility, but the Detroit Tigers' Class A affiliate has pledged to be ready for the club's home opener on April 8.
On Monday, the team provided a glimpse into just how much rebuilding needs to be done, posting 37 photos to their Fifth Third Ballpark Rebuild photo album on Facebook. As that effort proceeds, the Whitecaps and their fans are set to receive a much-needed morale boost. On Jan. 23, 20 current Tigers players, coaches and executives are slated to appear at the team's annual Hot Stove Dinner.
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OK, Ashley Judd is starting to act like an actual possible candidate for the Senate in Kentucky, as opposed to a coy celebrity who's flattered that reporters are asking her about politics instead of her film career.
Either that, or she's conducing hands-on research for a part in next season's "House of Cards."
We say that because in recent days the actress/activist met privately with officials from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to a report in Politico. That's a Station of the Cross for Senate candidate wannabes.
The DSCC is a contribution clearing house for Democratic candidates. It also recruits candidates and advises them on strategy, all in the name of keeping, or capturing, chamber control.
The GOP has a similar organization, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. There are also Democratic and Republican campaign committees for the House.
For what it's worth, the DSCC's chairman this cycle is Sen. Michael Bennet from Colorado, who knows a thing or do about winning a tough election in a state that's not deep blue. Maybe he feels a kinship with Ms. Judd, who'd be taking on a tough opponent in incumbent minority leader Mitch McConnell.
Judd has yet to set up any political committees of her own for fundraising or just plain exploratory action. But she's also met recently with top state Dems in Louisville, Ky., presumably to test the waters and engage in a little prefundraising survey of potential wallets, according to another report in the Atlantic.
As we wrote the other day, Senator McConnell is acting as if he's wary of running against Judd. He's included her in a preemptive ad he's issued mocking potential opponents. A GOP polling firm found him 9 points up on Judd in a survey it released last week, which is OK, except that we'd think an incumbent senator might do better matched up against a co-star of "Dolphin Tale."
Look over at New Jersey to see what we mean. Geraldo Rivera's been talking about running for the Senate there as a Republican, and a new Quinnipiac poll finds the mustachioed action journalist trailing Democrat Cory Booker by a whopping 54 to 23 percent. That's the kind of margin McConnell's probably been hoping for.
Of course, it's also possible that the DSCC met with Judd, not to talk about giving her money, but to talk about her giving money to them. Wealthy contributors are always useful, even if a quick perusal of contribution data finds that Judd gave but $350 to one Democratic candidate in the 2012 cycle. (The form listed her address as Los Angeles, by the way.)
And that candidate was Rep. Steven Cohen, who represents the Ninth Congressional District in ... Tennessee! She's already vulnerable on the Volunteer State front: she was a Democratic National Convention delegate last year from Tennessee, and that's where she's actually been living. McConnell's attack ad replays a clip of her saying "Tennessee is home" a number of times. We think the Tennessee issue is maybe her biggest vulnerability. That, and her own grandmother calling her a "Hollywood liberal."
So that's how we'll know Judd is really serious. She'll make a big deal about actually living in Kentucky, either by buying a property or moving back in to an old family home. After all, what happened to that carpetbagger female Senate candidate who was born in Illinois, lived her adult life in Arkansas, and then ran in New York?
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Questions, questions
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I'm currently in deacon formation for the Diocese of Spokane, WA, and I'm very grateful for your willingness to share via this blog. In your book The Deacon at Mass, you mention that "traditionally the deacon has been associated with the chalice." Do you know why this might be, and whether it might have a practical or theological origin? Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Nick Senger
Catholic School Chronicle
You mentioned in your first post a passing reference to the history of the renewal of the diaconate:ReplyDelete
"The truth is, the majority of recommendations for a renewed diaconate came from the bishops of Europe, especially in the aftermath of World War II. We should talk about that in more detail in later posts, if people would like!"
Would you explain the aftermath of WWII connection to the renewal?
Let me jump in here. There is a lot of information out there about how/why the diaconate got started via the input from Bishops who were inmates at Dachau/ Auschwitz/ Treblinka/ Sobibor. And that is accurate enough. BUT the idea of permanently ordaining married men to the diaconate actually had been swirling around obscure theological journals printed in Latin and published with very small circulations since shortly after the end of World War I. The reason why most American bishops who attended Vatican II were clueless about this -- and a lot of other Vatican II agenda items -- was that they were not privy to those discussions and journals (intercontinental communications being as primitive as they were then). Besides, European prelates in those inter-war years were rather insular and really did not respect their colleagues on this side of the Atlantic.ReplyDelete
Deacon Norb Wethington
Dear Norb,ReplyDelete
True enough. Actually, the continental literature goes back well before the First World War. The way I like to characterize it is that the experiences of WWII gave a particular focus and urgency to the question and moved it from the rather theoretical to the eminently practical.
And the journals in question were not all that obscure, nor were they all written in Latin. Many of them were in German and French, but for most US bishops, they would have been nearly as inaccessible.
You are also so correct about the fact that the US bishops went to the Council with nary a clue about the concerns on the minds and hearts of so many of the bishops from other parts of the world. This is evidenced, for example, in the fact that the US Bishops didn't create any study/research groups for themselves on conciliar issues until AFTER the Council convened and they realized the scope of the project.
Most of the US bishops, by the way, were either against the notion of a renewed diaconate or were neutral to the idea. Several wrote later that they voted FOR the diaconate, not because they were going to use deacons, but they thought it would useful for OTHER bishops, and those other bishops needed deacons, they should be able to have them.
One bishop who was there told me that most of the US bishops figured that they would go to Rome, "re-enact the Catechism" (as he put it), and come home. They thought they'd be in Rome a couple of weeks and then get back to their normal ministries.
God bless,
I would really like to see the blog take on the controversy over the diaconate as a ministry of service, particularly service to the marginalized. From Lumen Gentium on, our official documents have described it that way, but there seems to be another trend in the theology of the diaconate today, one found in articles like "Deacons and the Servant Myth". Is this a rebellion against what some see as the lowliness of the deacon's ministry in the church?ReplyDelete
There is a lot in Deacon Anthony's article which challenges. I'll leave it to Deacon Bill to sort out some of its more complex insights.ReplyDelete
My secular field goes by the bizarre name of "philology." I am a language-scholar and my dissertation covered some really obscure and extremely early translations of the New Testament into English. As such, I can tell you that Kione Greek (the language of the New Testament) is a language with a fairly limited vocabulary. In comparison, Modern American (and certainly Modern Australian -- Deacon Anthony's dialect) English has six to ten times more words than Kione Greek does. As a result, any one Kione Greek word can have six-ten Modern English equivalents depending upon the precise insight offered by the translator.
Just consider that issue raised by Deacon Greg in his blog entitled "A Deacon Named Phoebe." Was she a "deacon," a "deaconess," a "minister," a "helper," a "servant" . . the list can go on depending upon he modern twist the translator wants to convey.
Back to Deacon Anthony's article. His citations from several Modern English translations of the New Testament in English -- while accurate enough -- utterly dismisses the insight that in the mind of the apostolic generation, there needed to be empowered ministers to serve what we would call a "disenfranchised minority."
Let me suggest that it is the Modern Western Church -- particularly in English Speaking Countries -- that has lowered the value placed on servant ministries. There is a reason for this but it is more cultural than scriptural.
The U.S., as I often have told my own audiences, has the highest per-capita educational attainment among Roman Catholics of any other nation in the world. More of our Roman Catholic folks are better educated than anywhere else. Australia cannot be far behind us.
That may well help to explain why -- consistently -- almost 50% of all Roman Catholic Permanently Ordained deacons worldwide live in the US. We are an incredibly talented pool of energy and if we did direct it toward the call of the servant exclusively, a great deal of work important to the Kingdom of God could be accomplished.
Instead, the modern English Speaking churches have tapped the secular talents of their diaconate
pool in ways no one in the first century church ever anticipated. More and more deacons are (or are becoming) diocesan chancellors, finance officers (almgivers of old?), pastoral leaders, college professors on top of their traditional roles inspired by the servant ministry model.
This is way too long!
Only the very best of blessings!
Deacon Norb Wethington
Diocese of Toledo
I am a second year aspirant,(5 year program in our diocese), and am exploring as much as possible to help with my discernment. I have found this blog to be very helpful and interesting. I hope to be able to share my thoughts as time goes by. Thank you.ReplyDelete


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Brunswick County's district attorney still supports the traffic school program that got him into a legal dispute with a local judge, according to court documents filed last week with the state Supreme Court. District Attorney Ben David also opposes a motion by Judge Jerry Jolly's attorney to dismiss the case. Jolly argued in a motion to dismiss the case last month that the issues were moot now that traffic court is again running in Brunswick County. The judge cancelled administrative… Read More »


text: Hi Steve, On Friday 29 August 2008 20:29:30 Steven Toth wrote: > Regarding the multiproto situation: > > A number of developers, maintainers and users are unhappy with the > multiproto situation, actually they've been unhappy for a considerable > amount of time. The linuxtv developer community (to some degree) is seen > as a joke and a bunch in-fighting people. Multiproto is a great > demonstration of this. [1] The multiproto project has gone too far, for > too long and no longer has any credibility in the eyes of many people. > > In response, a number developers have agreed that "enough is enough" and > "it's time to take a new direction", for these developers the technical, > political and personal cost of multiproto is too high. These developers > have decided to make an announcement. > > Mauro Chehab, Michael Krufky, Patrick Boettcher and myself are hereby > announcing that we no longer support multiproto and are forming a > smaller dedicated project group which is focusing on adding next > generation S2/ISDB-T/DVB-H/DVB-T2/DVB-SH support to the kernel through a > different and simpler API. > > Basic patches and demo code for this API is currently available here. > > http://www.steventoth.net/linux/s2 > > Does it even work? Yes > Is this new API complete? No > Is it perfect? No, we've already had feedback on structural and > namingspace changes that people would like to see. > Does it have bugs? Of course, we have a list of things we already know > we want to fix. > > but ... > > Is the new approach flexible? Yes, we're moving away from passing fixed > modulation structures into the kernel. > Can we add to it without breaking the future ABI when unforseen > modulations types occur? Yes > Does it preserve backwards compatibility? Yes > Importantly, is the overall direction correct? Yes > Does it impact existing frontend drivers? No. > What's the impact to dvb-core? Small. > What's the impact to application developers? None, unless an application > developer wants to support the new standards - binary compatibility! > > We want feedback and we want progress, we aim to achieve it. Feedback is no problem :-) I noticed that the properties work very similar as to how extended controls work in v4l: http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/video4linux/API/V4L2_API/spec-single/v4l2.html#VIDIOC-G-EXT-CTRLS It might be useful to compare the two. I would recommend adding a few reserved fields, since that has proven to be very useful in v4l to make the API more future proof. Also: is setting multiple properties an atomic action? E.g. if one fails, are all other changes rolled back as well? And how do you give the caller feedback on which property in the list failed? Will there also be a TRY_PROPERTIES variant which just checks for correctness without actually setting it? How do you query/test whether a device has certain properties? Do you need separate get and set commands? Why not either set or get a list of properties, and setting them implies an automatic SEQ_COMPLETE at the end. By having a variable length array of properties you do not need to set the properties in multiple blocks of 16, so that simplifies the API as well. As I said, extended controls in v4l do something very similar. I thought about the extended controls a great deal at the time, so it might provide a handy comparison for you. > Importantly, this project group seeks your support. > > If you also feel frustrated by the multiproto situation and agree in > principle with this new approach, and the overall direction of the API > changes, then we welcome you and ask you to help us. > > Growing the list of supporting names by 100%, and allowing us to publish > your name on the public mailing list, would show the non-maintainer > development community that we recognize the problem and we're taking > steps to correct the problem. We want to make LinuxTV a perfect platform > for S2, ISDB-T and other advanced modulation types, without using the > multiproto patches. > > We're not asking you for technical help, although we'd like that :) , > we're just asking for your encouragement to move away from multiproto. > > If you feel that you want to support our movement then please help us by > acking this email. > > Regards - Steve, Mike, Patrick and Mauro. > > Acked-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb at linuxtv.org> > Acked-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky at linuxtv.org> > Acked-by: Steven Toth <stoth at linuxtv.org> > Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at infradead.org> > > * [1]. Rather than point out the issues with multiproto here, take a > look at the patches and/or read the comments on the mailing lists. While I am no dvb expert I do think that this is a good and simple approach that should be reasonably future proof. It needs some work to hammer out the details, but I like it. Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl> Regards, Hans


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Celebrity Cribs: Superbowl Baller Ray Lewis Puts His $5 Million Palm Beach Mansion On The Market For Sale [Photos]
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Ray Lewis Puts $5 Million Palm Beach Home Up For Sale
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis capped off a Hall of Fame career by hoisting the Lombardi Trophy a second time, but he won't be riding out his retirement in South Florida. Lewis, who is headed to Bristol where he'll have a significant role as an analyst for ESPN, apparently has little need for his West Palm Beach mansion and has listed the oceanfront property for a cool $5 million.
Perusing through the listing photos for the Highland Beach estate offers an interesting peek into the life of one of the most galvanizing figures in all of sports. The luxury manse offers a contrast from Ray Lewis the football player, who is renowned for his punishing play and fiery, inspirational rhetoric, The & bed, 9 bath, 6,788-square-foot home offers a sleek Mediterranean design that is warm and inviting, thanks to cavernous ceilings and towering windows. The vaulted interior allows for a wealth of natural light, while also offering up panoramic views of the Atlantic.
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Current Resident is a zine made by Krissy from PonyBoy Press. Originally the title Current Resident was a sub title under the zine Imaginary Life, but reprints have changed each issue to only the name Current Resident only.
Current Resident is a zine filled of what Krissy calls house fictions. Each issue has several vintage pictures of houses. Just houses, no people. Then Krissy supplies the stories of the houses and some of the people who spent time there long ago.
Krissy has explained a bit of her process before and says that it can take sometimes years to write the zine. When she is in the mood to work on it sometimes she will stare at many house pictures she has and no story will come. Then at some point on line will come and the rest then just flows.
Current Resident currently has three issues. The first was published in 2002. The most current in 2009.
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In conversations you have with your student they may mention places and events that are common place for most Minnesota State University Mankato students. Here is some of the lingo your student may use.
Use the following links to quickly navigate the lingo for Academics, Student Life, Residential Life, and Around Campus.
College: Minnesota State University Mankato is divided into six undergraduate academic colleges. Each major falls into one of the colleges listed below.
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text: Crystal Morey Talks Shop with Bunshin Horitoshi By Crystal Morey I dropped Bunshin Horitoshi's shop today. I adore his work, particularly his underwater creatures and I think that, for an emerging artist, he's done a remarkable job creating a signature style for himself, while still adhering to the strict canon of wabori (Japanese traditional tattoo motifs). His work is simple yet bold and flatters the form. There is a wonderful playfulness to his illustrations, which mirror Horitoshi's own personality and it is this levity that make his pieces so appealing and unique. CM: What first attracted you to tattooing as a profession? Horitoshi: I grew up in the ghettos of Osaka and seeing men and women with tattoos was very commonplace during my childhood. I'd been to onsen (public bath houses) with my father and seen his friend's bodysuits so there was never that "bad-boy" appeal for me. I went to school to join the fashion industry. It wasn't until I attended the 1999 Tokyo tattoo convention and saw tattoo work from the likes of Filip Leu, Luke Atkinson and Mick from Zurich that I became enthralled. I saw a guy with an amazing snake tattoo on his stomach, it was so powerful, there was no background and it had so much impact... I approached the guy and asked who did the tattoo. It was unlike anything I had ever seen. He told me and I immediately sought him out and began getting tattooed by him. I was a student back then, and poor, so I would go get work done once every other month and as he was tattooing me I decided I wanted to do a formal apprenticeship with him after I graduated. I saved up for about a year and a half (because with a Japanese apprenticeship you don't make any money) and then I became his apprentice.* CM: How long are Japanese apprenticeships? What does an apprenticeship consist of? Horitoshi: It's case by case. I was there every day, all day, just in case I was needed. Some people go just on the weekend and work during the week but I'd planned ahead and saved money so I could focus entirely on my apprenticeship. I watched every time my teacher tattooed. I cleaned, made ink, bought supplies, ran errands, took care of any arrangements that arose, served tea and beer to guests, things like that. My apprenticeship lasted for two years and I have been tattooing a total of nine years now. I do traditional Japanese hand poke method because that is the method of my teacher. I did outline and shading by hand as well up until 2006. I use a machine for that now, because it is faster, but I am still not 100 percent comfortable with machines. CM: What's the difference between tattoos done by machines and tattoos done by tebori? Horitoshi: It really depends on the skill of the tattooer. I don't think one method is better than the other. I know some amazing machine-only tattooers whose pieces heal beautifully, and I've seen some tattoos done by hand that were quite rough. I find with tebori I can make my black work really solid and clean, and in the case of my tattoos, the parts tattooed by hand heal a lot quicker. CM: What kind of jobs did you hold prior, in order to save money for your apprenticeship? Horitoshi: Ha-ha... I was a waiter in a hostess club and also a blow-job bar here in Tokyo. I was a bicycle flyer guy, you know those illegal sticky flyers you find downtown that advertise erotic massage or girls for hire and just have a pic and a phone number? I rode around at night sticking them to lampposts and in phone boxes. So illegal! Ha-ha... CM: Ah-ha! No way! Insane. A blow-job bar huh? Horitoshi: I was only a waiter! CM: Ha-ha-ha... Aaaanyway... You know I am a fan of your underwater creatures. I love your blowfish, crabs and lobsters. Who do you use for reference when you draw? Horitoshi: Ukiyo-e masters, you know, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi -they are really good, so how can I create something better than them? CM: Hmm, I don't think your pieces look like Hokusai or Kuniyoshi, per say. I look at a lot of tattoos and I can tell exactly what image some tattooers referenced, ha-ha-ha down to the page number they pulled it from, and I don't get this from your images... Horitoshi: I look at a lot of photo books of you know, fish and frogs as well. You have to know the small details of the animals. How they move. What their bodies look like. CM: Do you like the underwater creatures in particular, or did you do one and someone came in wanting something similar and it snowballed? Horitoshi: Yes like that! I started doing them, and the more I did the more requests I got. Ha-ha, I like them too so it's okay. Me: If you could do a backpiece tomorrow completely of your own design what would you do? Horitoshi: Whatever the customer wants but Japanese backpieces are tricky because they connect everything and must unite the bodysuit, the back is the main piece. If someone asked for something like a fugu (puffer fish) backpiece I wouldn't do it cause it's too small of an image for that huge space and it would look strange if I blew it up. I always think about, you know... balance. CM: Do you get a lot of requests for bodysuits? Horitoshi: No, I am still earning the trust of my clients. I have only been tattooing for nine years. CM: A lot of your clients are foreigners too, correct? Horitoshi: Yes, ha-ha probably because I can speak English and I like to do guest spots and conventions abroad, so they know my work. I don't advertise, my shop is a traditional custom tebori shop and all my clients here are recommended by previous clients. CM: I understand. Just one last question and I'll let you go.....What happened in Minneapolis? Horitoshi: Ha-ha. Ugh! Nightmare! I was turned away at the border last year on my way to Philadelphia. I'd been to the States 12 or 13 times over a five-year period without the necessary paperwork and that time they flagged me, found a couple of business cards for tattoo and bike shops and started making phone calls. I wasn't sure what was going on or being said, so I sat there saying nothing and in the end and they put me on the next plane home. It sucked I ended up flying from Narita to Minneapolis to Amsterdam to Narita... So I flew around earth in two days! I really miss Philly too! CM: Ouch. That does suck! We need to find you an American wife! Ha-ha! Can you clean? Horitoshi: I'm very clean! CM: Awesome!! *Author's Note: Bunshin Horitoshi intentionally does not mention the name of his former teacher because he no longer belongs to that family. He currently studies under Shinjuku's Horikyo. (Bunshin Horitoshi can be reached for appointments through his website... http://www.bunshin-horitoshi.jp/ and you can view current tattoos on his Facebook page as well... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bunshin-Horitoshi/122466511107772?sk=info) (Crystal Morey works for Gomineko Books and is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. For more info on Gomineko Books please visit their website: www.gominekobooks.com.)


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Native American music sampler
The Phoenix Symphony performed the world premiere of Mark Grey's Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio in February 2008. The work, about a returning war veteran, to a libretto by Laura Tohe, offers distant echoes but no direct quotations of music of the Navajo tribe. Naxos released the first recording of the work in spring 2009, featuring the Phoenix Symphony and Chorus and baritone Scott Hendricks, conducted by Michael Christie.
Listen to mp3 samples from the new recording of Enemy Slayer:
Enemy Slayer composer Mark Grey and librettist Laura Tohe
The Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis premiered Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's Nitoshi' Imali, a concerto for guitar and orchestra, in October 2007, with soloist Jason Vieaux. The work, dedicated to Tate's wife, Ursula Running Bear, includes a love theme, a theme based on an abstracted bone whistle/war cry sound, and abstracted rattle sounds from his tribe's stomp dances. Two of Tate's other orchestral works—Tracing Mississippi, a concerto for flute and orchestra, and Iholba', for flute, orchestra, and chorus—were released on a 2008 Thunderbird Records CD. That recording, by the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, features flutists Christine Bailey Davis and Thomas Robertello, conducted by Edwin Outwater.
Listen to mp3 samples of the San Francisco Symphony performing Tate's music:
- Tracing Mississippi first movement, "Taloowa" (Song)
- Iholba' first movement, "Halbina" (The Gift)
- Iholba' second movement, "Iholba" (The Vision)
Nitoshi' Imali composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (photo: Alana Rothstein)


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The English as a Second Language Program strives to prepare non-native English speakers to succeed in their university writing and speaking assignments and to improve their academic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The program offers credit-bearing courses in writing and speaking for Wright State students who are non-native English speakers and a special classroom communication course for International Graduate Teaching Assistants (IGTAs). These courses are designed to improve students' success in the university classroom. Non-native English speakers from the community wishing to improve their English language skills may also take these courses as non-degree students or enroll in the LEAP Intensive English program offered by the Department of English.
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The 2nd Regional National Working Group (RNWG) meeting of the Mekong Region Water Dialogues (MRWD), programme of IUCN's Asia office was organized in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from November 30th to December 1st, 2009.
National Working Group (NWG) members representing government departments, private organizations, community representatives, and the academia participated in the two day Regional National Working Group meet.
The overall agenda of the meeting was to review the progress and achievements of NWG for the year 2009. The meeting also focused on identifying key issues related to the strengthening of NWG and charts the course along with activities to be undertaken by NWG for the year 2010.
The Situational Analysis paper on Water Governance has been able to identify areas and issues which are strong and weak in relation to water governance in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. To strengthen MRWD process, a variety of partnerships have been established both at a regional and country levels like ADB, UNESCAP and FAO at a regional level while at country level, partnerships have been established with Can Tho University, WWF in Viet Nam and National University of Laos in Lao PDR.
Discussions also focused on including more stakeholders from various other groups and it was decided to include more participants from the private sector and community organizations within the NWGs.
Apart from the one day discussion, there was also a field trip to Tram Chim National Park in the Dong Thap Province. The Tram Chim National Park is home to a variety of migratory birds which includes the Sarus Crane, a species marked as endangered under the IUCN Red Book. Wetlands management has been successful to a great extent in Viet Nam and Tram Chim is an example of that. However, conversion of wetland areas across the region for rice cultivation was a cause of concern highlighted by the participants.
Development projects in Viet Nam and Thailand on the Mekong river to a great extent has reduced water flow for the wetlands and the ecosystem. Lao PDR and Cambodia which still contributes a significant flow to the Mekong is also undergoing rapid transition like building of dams and conversion of wetland for agricultural purposes which was highlighted as an issue to deal with. At the end of the workshop, participants agreed to increase and strengthen the NWG membership in the respective countries, conduct various studies on dams, groundwater, and get involved in advocating important policy issues with the respective government.


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In an interview last night, President Obama responded to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's criticism of his nuclear weapons policy, saying, "the last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues" "If the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin," said Obama.
"Anger over the health-care overhaul has led to a nearly threefold increase in recent months in the number of serious threats against members of Congress." Federal lawmakers reported "42 threats in the first three months of this year, compared with 15 in last three months of 2009." According to the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, "[n]early all of the recent threats appear to come from opponents of the health-care overhaul."
The operator of the Upper Big Branch Mine-South, where an explosion killed 25 miners this week, "was warned by federal officials just over two years ago that it could be cited for having a 'pattern of violations,' which would have allowed far stricter federal oversight of the mine. But the mine escaped the stepped-up enforcement even though it continued to amass violations."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his plans to attend a nuclear nonproliferation summit in Washington next week reportedly fearing "that Muslim states were planning on using the occasion to raise the question of Israel's nuclear arsenal." Israel refuses to discuss whether or not it has a nuclear weapons program and will not join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Two Republican National Committee (RNC) members from North Carolina have called on Chairman Michael Steele to resign. The state's chairman called for Steele to step down yesterday, and now RNC member Dr. Ada Fisher is as well, saying, "Leadership demands that when something is fundamentally wrong, we must stand up to it."
In a "signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee" former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson said the Bush administration "knew [some] Guantánamo prisoners were innocent" but refused to release them based on political reasons. "He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent," Wilkerson asserts of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) plans to announce his retirement today, Democrats briefed on his decision said." Stupak led a pro-life group of Democrats during the health care debate, but "hinted" that he might retire "in a letter to constituents on Wednesday."
A large coalition of civil liberties groups has sent a letter to Congress urging members to vote against closing the Guantánamo Bay prison camps unless the Obama administration alters its internment policies. The groups, which include the ACLU and the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society, object to the administration's right to detain people indefinitely without trial, among other things.
The number of improvised explosive devises in Afghanistan has doubled in the past year, "prompting U.S. officials to rush billions of dollars of new protective gear to troops and double the number of road-clearing teams." The plan "follows Pentagon warnings of an increase in casualties in the months to come."
And finally: "I want to get on the Metro," First Lady Michelle Obama tells Conde Nast Traveler, commenting on all the normal D.C. activities she wishes she could do.
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