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Considering that only the 17-year-old daughter was at home when it happened, it's amazing that the husband knows every little detail about how the murder went down. Apparently the murderer was somebody named "xenophobia."
al-Arabia In their first interview with the media, the family of Iraqi-American woman Shaima Alwadi, who was beaten to death in San Diego, decided to break their silence and recount the details of the murder that has sent shock waves across the United States and brought back worries of rising Islamophobia in the West.
"My wife was a victim of xenophobia," Alwadi's widower Qassem al-Hamidi told Al Arabiya in a phone interview Tuesday. Hamidi said he and his wife are both from the city of al-Samawa in the governorate of al-Muthana in southern Iraq. "We got married in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia." Hamidi and Alwadi had five sons and daughters, aged 17, 16, 13, 12 and eight.
Hamidi, 48, said he could not go on talking and explained that he was in a bad state before passing on the telephone to his wife's cousin Hussein Alwadi.
"I saw her body in the dinning room a few minutes before the police arrived," her cousin told Al Arabiya. (That's funny, I thought only the daughter saw her)
(But look at all the details the husband seems to know, especially considering he wasn't at home at the time) He said the murderer snuck into the house on Wednesday morning from the back garden.
"The garden has no fence so he was able to break the glass of the kitchen window right away and apparently he did so without making a noise." (Yet in an interview this morning -see video in link below – the next door neighbor said the glass was shattered from the inside and was all over the cement walkway)
Hussein added that the attacker then reached for the window handle, opened it, and got inside. (And he knows this because WHY?)
"He did so after watching Shaima's husband drive away with four of the children he was taking to school. (WHO saw all of this?) Only Shaima and her eldest daughter Fatima stayed in the house. Fatima was asleep."
The murderer, Hussein recounted, saw Shaima in the dinning room and attacked her with an iron rod or a spanner. (Sounds like somebody witnessed the whole thing. Funny that Shaima didn't scream when she saw a stranger in her house)
"He first hit her on her forehead then on her right ear. The third strike was on the back of her head. This was followed by five fast and consecutive strikes on her head and shoulders." (That's a pretty detailed account. How would he know the sequence if he wasn't there?)
Shaima, Hussein said, lost consciousness, upon which the attacker left the house. (Maybe the police should be investigating cousin Hussein?)
"Because the attack was fast, the eldest daughter Fatima, who was asleep in the upper floor, did not hear a thing and only found out when she woke up and went downstairs to see her mother's body drenched in blood."
Hussein added that they immediately transferred Shaima to the hospital, where she died three days later after doctors failed to save her life and had to take her off life support. "We got her body and are taking the necessary procedures to take it to Iraq, where she will be buried." (Good idea to get rid of the evidence)
In addition to the calamity that has befallen the family after Shaima's death, Hussein noted, they have also been subjected to a smear campaign that has caused them a great deal of emotional hurt. (Are they referring to this blog? "Smear campaign" is a favorite charge made by CAIR)
"The media said that Shiama's husband was a cultural advisor at the U.S. Army and that he used to train American soldiers heading to the Middle East." According to Hussein, Qassem al-Hamidi has been unable to work for the past 18 years. "He had a complete kidney failure and one of his brothers had to come from Sweden to donate one of his kidneys to him."
Hussein added that Hamidi has had refugee status since he came to the United States and that Social Welfare pays his rent and his family's expenses. "Shaima did not work so they had no source of income." (NO INCOME? Yet the family had the money to move from Michigan to San Diego? Lived in a nice house, had at least one car. Where'd they get it?)
Hussein Alwadi was a taxi driver at San Diego Airport and is currently working at the administration of a well-known supermarket in the city of El Cajon, where he lives with his wife and four children.
Hussein said that he and his family were at the same refugee camp where Shaima and her husband got to know each other. The camp, which in 1991 sheltered more than 32,000 Iraqis who fled Saddam Hussein's regime, was located in the town of Rafha in northern Saudi Arabia. (So she hooked up with her husband when she was 10 years old and he was 27?)
Both families stayed in the camp for four years before immigrating to the United States. In 1995, they all left to the United States including Shaima's seven brothers, some of whom currently live in San Diego and neighboring cities and others in Texas with Shaima's mother. (Are they all living on welfare?)
Shaima's father, Islamic preacher Sayyed Nabil Moaad Alwadi, was in Iraq when he got a phone call about his daughter's death. "He will stay there to receive her body and burry her," Hussein concluded.


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Digital Agenda: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg invited by Kroes to promote internet freedom globally
Brussels, 12 December 2011 – European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has invited Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a former Federal Minister of Defence, and of Economics and Technology, in Germany, to advise on how to provide ongoing support to Internet users, bloggers and cyber-activists living under authoritarian regimes. This appointment forms a key element of a new "No Disconnect Strategy" to uphold the EU's commitment to ensure human rights and fundamental freedoms are respected both online and off-line, and that internet and other information and communication technology (ICT) can remain a driver of political freedom, democratic development and economic growth.
VP/HR Catherine Ashton and Vice President Neelie Kroes want to ensure that the European Union and its Member States cooperate closely towards these goals, supporting bottom-up approaches to building and strengthening Internet freedom and democracy in countries where Europe perceives that a vibrant and open Internet is not the norm or where grave human rights abuses take place. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg will liaise with Member States, third countries and NGOs which are committed to work in this area and advise on how to advance the strategy in a co-ordinated and effective manner.
The "No Disconnect strategy" will assist people in four ways:
Catherine Ashton said: "Human rights policy is not just an add-on. It is a silver thread which runs through everything we do. The right to communicate freely is a key part of basic human rights. The Internet and social media have become an important way of promoting freedom of expression. That's why the EU is determined to resist any unjustified restrictions on the Internet and other new media. And that is why I am so pleased to support the 'No Disconnect' strategy."
Neelie Kroes said "Technology can support human rights, but we must also ensure it is not used against those struggling for freedom. I want Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to champion this cause with governments and NGOs and ensure it gets the attention, focus and support it deserves."
The Joint Communication, "A Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean" (COM(2011) 200) committed the Commission to develop tools to allow the EU, in appropriate cases, to assist civil society organisations or individual citizens to circumvent arbitrary disruptions to access to electronic communications technologies, including the internet. This followed evidence of such disruption or attempted disruption by authoritarian governments during the Arab Spring uprising, for example in Egypt.
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Peter Jones gave an invited opening plenary talk at the Global Marine Protected Area Enforcement conference in San Francisco on Monday 26th November. His presentation, based on the findings of the MPA Governance project, which includes additional analyses carried through the MESMA project, highlighted that governance systems tend to be more resilient to the driving forces that can challenge the fulfilment of conservation objectives where a larger diversity of different incentives are used in combination to enforce restrictions. He discussed how this is analogous to ecological systems, which tend to be more resilient where a larger diversity of species is present.
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When you live in Northern California for so many years, as I did, you hear a lot of things about different parts of Southern California. "San Diego is beautiful." "There's nothing like shopping on Rodeo Drive." Everyone knows the part of Los Angeles that you go through to get to Disneyland.
Instead, the hot weather persisted and proceeded to get hotter. This is the beginning of May! That is when the word "unseasonably" started popping up a lot. The weatherman was saying it was "unseasonably hot". Then it was "unseasonably hot and humid". My neighbors were saying "Oh it's not usually like this". Leave it to us to get so lucky. LOL.
I never realized what an effect humidity had on heat until moving to the "dry" desert. It didn't take me long to get used to no humidity. My sinuses were doing better, the 100 degree heat only felt like 80, maybe. When there's humidity in the air, all of a sudden 100 degrees feels like 120.
Another gentleman I met here in our community told me when I first met him, "We have a couple of months of really hot weather, but then we have just beautiful winters." Well Honey, it's winter now and what I'm hearing from the weatherman is "temperatures are 'unseasonably' low this week" (and the week before that). My ray of hope is "temperatures will rise over the next couple of days. It will be 33 degrees, not quite reaching freezing temps."
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Catholic church on climate change: Franciscans urging policy changes in United States
U.S. Catholic bishops take a lot of heat for entangling themselves in American politics when it comes to abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage. But for those of you who have come to mistake Catholics as members of a monolithic, conservative Republican super PAC, consider the Franciscan Action Network.
The Franciscans, who also seek to transform U.S. public policy, say one of the most serious challenges facing the nation is being ignored by both presidential candidates. They're calling on President Obama and Mitt Romney to acknowledge that global climate change is "an extremely critical ecological and moral issue." Obama and Romney should identify the actions they would take to address this "threat to life on earth," they say.
"The most prestigious scientific bodies in the world agree that climate change is a reality, that it is primarily attributed to human actions, and that the emission of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced to avert devastating consequences," the Franciscan Action Network wrote in a release this week. "Leaders of major faith communities also agree that global warming is a real and serious moral and ethical concern."


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Mothers in one of South Africa's poorest areas are drinking heavily to deliberately damage their unborn babies - just so they can claim disability benefit.
Life is so tough with unemployment high and crime rampant in South Africa's Eastern Cape, that a newborn baby represents a form of income for the mothers.
State benefits mean 250 South African rand (£20) per child per month for an impoverished family. But disability allowance is a far more lucrative 1200 rand a month (£85).
It has led to a spike in the numbers of babies born with disabilities.
Mothers who drink heavily during pregnancy run a far higher risk of giving birth to a child born with what is known as Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The condition is usually irreversible and can mean speech problems, physical deformities, learning difficulties and behavioural issues.
More than three-quarters of the children at the Miracle Kids Centre in Helenvale suffer from FASD.
The centre manager Genevieve Hendricks says the children struggle at school, end up dropping out and then many turn to crime to get by.
"It's so sad to see," she says cradling one of her young charges. "But we need to educate these mothers to know they are causing a lifetime of difficulties."
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has now been prompted to launch a campaign to educate young mothers about the dangers of drinking heavily whilst pregnant.
South Africa has had the highest number of FASD cases in the world since 2002, according to the World Health Organisation.
Many of the problems link back to the prevalence of illegal shebeens, or drinking houses, where homemade, highly addictive and damaging alcohol is sold cheaply. For about two rand (14p), you can buy a litre of kah-kah as the locals call it.
"If I don't drink this, I'm like someone who is sick," Ruth tells us swigging from a transparent bottle containing kah-kah. "I can't sleep, and I cant think straight but when I have this then I am better and I can do anything."
Within two sips Ruth (not her real name) was slurring and dribbling. She staggered up to the door to try to change her baby's nappy before plonking the child on her lap, letting the baby breastfeed while she carried on drinking the toxic liquid.
She told me she drank about "five or six bottles a day" and that this started from "about nine o'clock" in the morning.
"I don't drink through the day because I have things to do," she said.
I'm afraid to say I didn't believe her and when we dropped by her house the following morning, her eight-year-old twins were at home alone with her 15-year-old daughter.
"She's at the shebeen," we were told.
The police continually conduct raids on the shebeens, closing them down and throwing away the illegal alcohol. But no sooner one is shut down, another springs up.
"It's cheap to produce and this represents an income to these people," Colonel Abdoerahgmaan Humphries told Sky News.
We are with the Gelvendale police team as they raid one of the shebeens.
The filthy shed is packed full of people, including at least two women cuddling tiny babies. Most appeared intoxicated.
The police move onto what appears to be a small concrete room opposite. Against the wall is a brown wooden panel and when the police pull it down, it reveals a small hole, just big enough for an adult to crawl through. It opens out into another room which is the brewery. There are three barrels half filled with a milky brown liquid - the kah-kah. There are also numerous crates of bottles - all filled and ready to be sold.
"Asse blief bass (please boss)!" the man pleads. He wants to at least finish his own drink. Most of the brewers are themselves addicts.
The police take the crates out and pour the liquid away in front of the assembled residents, many of whom are drunk and now angry.
"Leave them! Leave us! It makes us happy," one of the women screams at them.
There are several attempts to try to snatch bottles before they are poured on the wasteground.
The police move off to attend to a shooting elsewhere in the area.
"They'll be back brewing some more right now," one says to me as we speed off.
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Republicans and Democrats tend to go about the business of building presidential tickets in different ways. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen--Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient.) Republicans do the opposite: with the exception of Bush-Cheney, they select a senior statesman as their presidential candidate and a dynamic, young and often ideological type for No. 2. Richard Nixon was a ripe old 39 when Dwight Eisenhower chose him, Dan Quayle was 41, Sarah Palin was 44--and now Paul Ryan, 42, is the perfect picture of a traditional Republican Vice President.
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But there is something radically different about the Ryan pick, something I've never seen before. This presidential campaign is now, substantively, all about him. That was sort of true of Palin, but her disastrous insubstantiality, not her beliefs, was the issue. This time, the maddeningly vague Mitt Romney has effectively outsourced his job as intellectual leader of the ticket to his occasionally specific junior partner. Romney seems to have mixed feelings about that, flipping another flop on the Ryan budget, which he once called "marvelous" and now has walked away from, saying he's going to come up with a budget of his own one of these days. Romney also had a fair amount of trouble describing his view of Ryan's plan to voucherize Medicare. The Ryan pick may have energized the Republican base, but Romney remains the same old awkward, evasive Romney.
And so we seem to be headed for a campaign of ideas--Ryan's ideas--and that may or may not be a good thing. Yes, it's important to have a ground-zero discussion about the sort and size of government we want to have. The trouble with Ryan's deep thinking on so many of these issues, though, is that it's not very deep at all. He lives in a libertarian Disneyland where freedom is never abused, where the government is an alien entity whose only function is to flummox the creative intelligence of übermensches like Ayn Rand's hero, the architect Howard Roark. It is remarkable and, frankly, a bit terrifying that this puerile vision has become the operating philosophy of the Republican Party.
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Worse, some of Ryan's most important ideas have been tried and proved failures. Ryan has produced various plans, proposals and two actual federal budgets, and they all have one thing in common: they cut taxes drastically. In his 2011 budget, which he sent to the Congressional Budget Office for scoring, he estimated that despite the drastic cut in rates, the revenue would remain the same as a percentage of gross domestic product. This is supply-side economics, the utterly uncorroborated theory that the less people pay in taxes, the more they'll produce. Ryan's mentor Jack Kemp sold Ronald Reagan on it in 1980. The result was such a huge hole in the federal deficit that in 1982, Reagan was forced to come back with one of the largest proportional tax increases in American history. Supply-side tax cuts didn't work for George W. Bush either. By contrast, Clinton raised taxes and the economy boomed. Who knew?


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Let's raise a glass to Brad Penny, and, hell, all the Brad Pennys of the baseball world, those thoroughly passable starters who find the right mix of good teams, tepid consistency (or rather, consistent tepidity), and just enough semi-standout seasons to garner tens of millions of dollars over a lengthy and forgettable career.
Brad Penny won a championship in Florida, and made a couple of all-star teams in Los Angeles, but since 2009 had bounced around from the Red Sox to the Giants to the Cardinals to the Tigers back to the Giants, all of them teams notorious for collecting various Brad Pennys from the aether on the odds that at least one of them will coalesce into something useable, or at least someone who will devour innings with a minimum of embarrassment. Penny did that often enough to stay in the majors until 2012, at which point he signed with a Japanese team, pitched nearly four whole innings before asking to be removed from the game, and got released from his contract.
After basically two years off, Penny made one more go at the bigs, signing a minor league deal with the Royals this offseason. In spring two appearances, the second coming yesterday, he got mollywhopped for 13 hits and seven runs in four innings. He was released today. Now this:
Penny has denied the report. That level of disappointment would be understandable, though, because there aren't many chances left for a 35-year-old. But being a veteran does have its advantages: Brad Penny is a righty, and an injured glove hand won't stop him from trying to catch on somewhere else.


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The Jays' willingness to look at Gangné leads us to this question: We know that you can never have too many arms, but at what point does following that truism creep over the line to goofy self-parody?
Okay, we're mostly kidding about that last bit. It's probably a good thing that the Jays, under Alex "Doogie" Anthopoulos are being all OCD about making sure that they get someone at every workout, because who really knows what you might find. And it doesn't cost them anything to show up and have a look see.
Of course, the depressing part about this for us is that the Jays could bring in 100 bullpen arms, and we know that we're still going to have to sit through 60 Shawn Camp outings this year. (And yes, we know he put up okay numbers, but we have an irrational hate-on for Shawn Camp. Can't help it. It drives us batshit crazy when we see that guy running out of the pen.)


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Partisan fireworks at Libya hearing
Partisan fireworks erupted Wednesday at a House hearing on the Benghazi attacks that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya dead and vaulted the issue of national security to the forefront of the presidential campaign.
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sharply criticized the Obama administration for its fluctuating explanation of the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three diplomatic personnel.
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"Any reasonable person …. had to come to the conclusion that it was tumultuous at best," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said of the security situation in Libya.
"We now know that, in fact, it was caused by a terrorist attack that was reasonably predictable," said the committee's chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Wednesday's highly anticipated hearing came as the State Department disclosed for the first time that it never concluded that the consulate attack was fueled by furor over an anti-Islam video circulating on YouTube — an explanation that congressional Republicans have long publicly doubted.
In recent weeks, Republicans have ramped up pressure on administration officials for more clarity on details surrounding the Benghazi assault, which came on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and has turned into a political issue.
Coming under a barrage of criticism was Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who said in the days immediately following Stevens's death that the attacks appeared to be a "spontaneous" protest of an anti-Muslim video, rather than a premeditated terrorist attack. One top House Republican — Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) — is demanding Rice's resignation.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Issa to call Rice as a witness at a future hearing.
"I'd like to have another hearing where we can ask Ambassador Rice, under oath, 'Who told you what, when?'" Gowdy said. "… I want to know why we were lied to."
Issa said the panel plans to pursue issues raised at the hearing and elsewhere, including how Rice could have said what she did on TV after the attacks.
A top State Department official came to Rice's defense at the hearing.
"If I or any other senior administration official … would have been on that television show other than Susan Rice, we would've said the same thing because we were drawing on the same intelligence information," said Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary for management at the State Department.
Last week, Issa and Chaffetz released a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, detailing 13 security threats to U.S. diplomatic officials in Libya and how requests for additional security were rejected, according to the lawmakers.
But despite previous threats in Libya, one security official testified that additional security may not have helped. State Department officials testified that there were five diplomatic security agents on the Benghazi compound during the attacks, along with three Libyan security officials.
"The ferocity and intensity of the attack was nothing that we had seen in Libya, or that I had seen in my time in the Diplomatic Security Service," said Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer at State. "Having an extra foot of wall, or an extra-half dozen guard or agents would not have enabled us to respond to that kind of assault."
Democrats have had their own criticisms in the fallout from the attack.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings accused Issa of leading a one-sided investigation, alleging that Issa withheld documents and refused to give Democrats access to a key committee witness. Cummings said Democrats could "not even get [the witness'] phone number."
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The dance minor program focuses on the art of making dances by offering two dance composition classes. Dance Composition I focuses on dance improvisation, enabling dancers to create spontaneous dance studies and/or performance pieces based on specific themes or intentions. Dance Composition II is designed to develop skills in choreographing dances. Students in this class can have their final dance adjudicated for inclusion into the annual main stage dance concert.
Our dance minor also addresses the art and science of teaching dance. The Dance Pedagogy class emphasizes an understanding of the human anatomy and how it most effectively moves and maintains healthy alignment. Coursework explores how to teach basic technique for all forms of dance, while developing an awareness of common problem areas, as well as focusing on injury prevention. Students will participate in weekly practicums: teaching each other, as well as an after-school class of young students. Our Children's Creative Dance course highlights teaching dance as an improvisational approach in a classroom setting. A weekly in-class practicum will involve teaching a 4thgrade class and creating a final school-wide performance.
Our offering of different types of one-hour technique classes is a part of our plan to nurture creative, versatile dancers, while also demonstrating proper dance pedagogy. Dancers are encouraged to take a variety of different dance forms. Technique classes are also open to the general Berry College community, fulfilling the required Gen Ed activity credit.
The dance program also offers Survey of Dance, which teaches a variety of social and ballroom dances. This course teaches everything from salsa to waltz, giving special attention to the technique of leading and following in partner dances. Dance History is taught annually, exploring primarily western dance with an emphasis on the dance that has evolved during last two centuries.
The fall Dance Performance class enables our students to dance in young audience performances. Sometimes this involves taking our show on a Tour-of-Schools, going directly into the schools and after-school settings. Other options involve developing a community concert—while working collaboratively with local dance studios—and performing to live music in a main stage setting.
The annual spring dance concert provides the opportunity for students to choreograph and perform in a main stage production. Student choreographers run their own weekly rehearsals in the fall and then show their pieces every December during adjudication. The dances that are chosen are costumed and prepared for a professional level production.


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Marriott introduces the ultra-adaptable room. Essentially a well placed hub that allows the hotel guest to quickly hook a variety of devices (Laptops, gaming systems, camera,etc…) into the flat screen in your room. Well placed power plugs round it all out. Would be curious to see if anyone has stayed in one of these rooms and their thoughts on the experience.
Marriott's ultra-adaptable room
Article No :274 | March 19, 2008 | by Howard Mann
March 19, 2008
They get negative points for the "auto play on load" approach (on the web page you linked to). I hate that. Otherwise the room sounds good.


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Why do astronomers never put a scale on their photographs? I have been looking at images of the Bird nebula, a collision of three galaxies, but in none of the dozen or so that I have found, nor in the accompanying text, is there any scale to show how much (or how little) sky this represents. No cartographer would omit a scale of distance from, say, an isolated Pacific island, but very very seldom do I see an arc-second, or whatever is appropriate, scale on a photograph of the sky. This omission is not just for this one image, amazingly it is true for every (well 99.99...% of them) astronomical picture I look at.
The area covered by the Bird must be very small as the picture came from a clever analysis of data from Hubble and a new South African telescope, but it would greatly enrich the wonder of this achievement if we were told just how tiny it appears in the sky.
I have posted this as a question, I would really like to see, and sign up to, a petition to demand that astrophotographers correct this strange policy.


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Green Guidance
Green Guidance
Cultivating Clean Water
by Mindy Pennybacker
Summer is a thirsty time for us all, but we can't all safely quench our thirst. Worldwide, more than one in five people-1.2 billion in all-does not have a regular supply of clean drinking water, according to the World Health Organization. More than 90 percent of people in the Middle East live in areas of water stress, where fresh water is being consumed more quickly than it can be replenished.
Developed nations, too, are trying to cope with water scarcity and pollution, problems exacerbated by droughts and violent storms possibly due to global warming. "Safe drinking water will almost certainly be the single most limited natural resource worldwide in the twenty-first century," notes Peter Rogers, Ph.D., professor of environmental engineering at Harvard University.
Aside from drowning one's sorrows with some other liquid, what's a consumer to do? The key is to see ourselves as part of the flow. Whether our drinking water trickles from a mountain stream or is pumped from an aquifer, we can take several measures to keep it clean and safe:
8 Conserve water. Moderating use for washing, flushing, and watering saves potable water for drinking and helps prevent pollution caused by overpumping of aquifers. The average faucet delivers more than 11 liters of water per minute, so turn off the tap when brushing your teeth and while soaping in the shower, and you'll save as much as 150 liters. Water your lawn between dusk and dawn to slow evaporation, and use rainwater, drip irrigation systems, and less-thirsty native plants. Reduce runoff by covering outdoor surfaces with plants, bricks, or gravel rather than smooth pavement. Go for water-saving washing machines, showerheads, and toilets.
8 Urge government cleanups of underground storage tanks. In the United States alone, more than 100 million people drink groundwater from areas where underground storage tanks leak toxic substances, including the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), benzene, toluene, and heavy metals, according to the Sierra Club.
8 Protect your watershed from development. Worldwide, watershed areas are being polluted by agriculture and by residential and industrial development. This pollution, plus the diversion of water for these uses, affects stream flow and aquatic ecosystems as well as our drinking water. Urge your representatives to support the purchase of buffer lands around aquifers, as New York City has done to protect its Catskill reservoirs.
8 Buy products from farms that embrace watershed protection. A 1999 U.S. Geological Survey study found that more than 95 percent of U.S. streams contained at least one pesticide. Certified organic farmers and ranchers, however, cannot use toxic synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that seep into water and threaten human and animal health. They must also maintain buffer zones near water bodies, plant cover crops, and till the soil in ways that prevent runoff and erosion. Look for foods and cotton that are certified organic or carry labels (such as Protected Harvest in the United States) granted to farmers who meet stringent environmental growing standards.
8 Buy products of sustainably managed forests. Standing forests serve as filters that help keep streams clean. Choose shade-grown organic coffee and cocoa purchased from fair-trade co-ops that invest in better life conditions, including clean water, in farming areas. The Gayo Organic Coffee Farmers Association in Aceh, Indonesia, used its fair trade funds to produce a potable water system. Look also for the Forest Stewardship Council label on wood products, for post-consumer-waste recycled paper products, and for non-timber forest products such as flowers, plant oils, personal care products, handicrafts, nuts, fruits, and honey.
Mindy Pennybacker is editor of The Green Guide, published by The Green Guide Institute (www.thegreenguide.com), which provides the research for this department.


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As promised, I
want to talk today a little bit more about printing experience in IE7. Printing
is after navigation/search one of the most used features but it still lacks the
fidelity of like say a photo printing program. Why is that? Content for the Web
is in general not designed for printing. If laid out at 100% it generally
exceeds the space provided on the paper. In IE6, for example, you end up often
with cut-off right margins. Another very common problem when printing for
example receipts of the Web is that you end up with 2 pages of paper where the
second page only holds 2 lines of useless information like copy right statements
etc. These are all examples where the authors did not think of the user
Our goal for IE7 is to put more control in the
users hand to get the Web right for printing. In IE7 Beta1 you will see the
first steps in this direction. Keep in mind this is just a teaser of what you
will see in Beta2.
For Beta 1, I want to emphasize 3 changes to
printing and PrintPreview:
We now have Shrink-to-Fit on by default when you
print a page with IE7. This feature will determine the width of the document
and adjust it to fit on your paper. No more cut off right margins. Of course we
give you the ability to adjust scaling rates to really adjust it the way you
want it.
Orphan Control:
If IE discovers that you are printing a document
that gets laid-out on two pages and the second page only covers minimal
white-space, we automatically shrink-to-fit the page to fit on only 1 page of
paper. Of course, you can manually adjust the scaling rate back if you rather
have it printed on 2 pages but we believe that we will save a lot of trees with
this feature. 🙂
UI-changes to put the user in control:
The look and feel right now is still very "bare
bones" but you can detect the new emphasis on user control. Notice that we
elevated the selection of landscape and portrait mode. The motivation behind is
that if content is much wider than suitable for portrait mode it should be easy
for the user to select an alternative. Also we provide now the capability to
turn on/off header and footers. Even though they provide useful information
(like origin of the page and page numbers etc.) they sometimes not wanted for
printable output (like images etc.).
We would love to hear your feedback on:
- Currently
we apply the orphan control if we detect that only 10% or less of the available whitespace is used. Does that work for you or would you rather see a bigger/smaller
- Shrink-to-fit.
Does it work for all of your pages? Since we are relying on the horizontal
scroll-able area to report us the width of the pages, we want to ensure that
this will work in all corner cases.
- Markus


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Ho Ho Horrors!
Look, I know sometimes it's only natural to spend your workday fantasizing about the many and colorful ways your boss/customers/coworkers could meet an untimely end - I do.
That said, maybe someone should look into getting these Wreckerators a little group therapy time.
This Just In: A bakery butcher is on the loose! Suspect should be considered armed and dangerous.
P.S. Make that VERY armed:
[shining flashlight in face all spooky-like] "And aaaall that was left was a Santa-shaped smear on the floor, with the name "Dallas" ominously written beside it - in blood."
Derrelyn P., Tamara Q., Aaron D., Kyle B., Becca S., & Christie M., I gotta admit: after spending yesterday afternoon out in the teeming masses of holiday shoppers, I kind of relate to these Wreckerators. Then I watched Prep and Landing and got my holiday mojo back. :)
- Related Wreckage: Because We Need More Holidays


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Key Votes
S 442 - Internet Tax Freedom bill - National Key Vote
Rick Santorum voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Read statements Rick Santorum made in this general time period.
- Oct. 27, 1998 House Bill Sent To Committee
- Oct. 8, 1998 Senate Bill Passed
- March 13, 1997 Introduced
Issues Related to S 442
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Sent To Committee (House) - Oct. 27, 1998
Legislation -
Bill Passed
With Amendment
(96-2) -
Oct. 8, 1998(Key vote)
See How Your Politicians Voted
Title: Internet Tax Freedom bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to pass a bill that creates a three-year moratorium on state taxation of the Internet and establishes a commission to study taxation of the internet on local, state, national, and international levels.
- Prohibits states from taxing Internet access or imposing multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce for 3 years, beginning October 1, 1998.
- Excludes taxes on Internet access that were in place before October 1, 1998.
- Excludes taxes on individuals who knowingly engage in transferring material harmful to minors over the Internet.
- Establishes the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce which is responsible for studying Internet taxation on local, state, national, and international level.
- Requires the Commission to report its results to Congress within 18 months of the bill being enacted.
- Requires the Commission to review regulations five years after its formation and report findings to Congress.
- Asks the President to seek international agreements to remove barriers to global electronic commerce.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - March 13, 1997
Title: Internet Tax Freedom bill
- John D. Ashcroft (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Conrad R. Burns (MT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Duncan McLauchlin 'Lauch' Faircloth (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Forbes Kerry (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick J. Leahy (VT - D)
- John Sidney McCain III (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Patty Murray (WA - D)
- Richard C. Shelby (AL - R)
- John William Warner (VA - R) (Out Of Office)


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Deek Duke
Young and modern restaurant specialized in chicken
Branches:Ashrafieh, Hamra
Price:Between 15$ and 28$
Review by Souad
As its name implies, Deek Duke offers a variety of dishes based on chicken, but also some with beef. The restaurant has two branches, one in Ashrafieh and one in Hamra. We have visited the Hamra branch, the restaurant has two floors: one smoking and one non-smoking. The decoration is modern and young.
Menu includes a variety of international starters, salads, sandwiches, burgers and platters in addition to pizza and pasta. Most of the proposed food is traditional while some has a special DD twist that is not bad. The service is fast and friendly.
If you parked your car at Hamra Crown plaza, don't forget to mention it to the waiter because they will offer you the parking ticket.Write a Review
Starters, wings, salads, pasta, sandwiches, pizza, burgers
Good to know
Has a non-smoking area. Recommended for friends.
Charles Malek Avenue, Ashrafieh
Phone Number: 01 210 310
(11:00 A.M till 1:00 A.M)
This branch makes delivery.
Crown Plaza blg, main street, Hamra
Phone Number: 01 344 744
(10:00 A.M till 1:00 A.M)
This branch makes delivery.
See Also
Tomatomatic Pizza - Ashrafieh(5 votes)
Pizzeria in Monot with regular and signature pizzas
Lavazza Espression - Hamra(9 votes)
Italian Café Restaurant
Cucina - Hamra(12 votes)
Italian Restaurant of Le Commodore Hotel
La Pizzeria (Bread Republic) - Ashrafieh(10 votes)
Classic and Innovative Pizzas
Brisk - Hamra(47 votes)
Natural Self-Served
NeeVie Sante - Mar Elias(3 votes)
Online Diet Meal Delivery


text: I went to the electronics store to buy a L298-N H bridge chip, and they told me they don't have it. I asked whether they had another similar chip that does the same thing (I expected less power or more power, different voltages, but same functionality). They recommended L292, I paid almost $10 for it, went home and found almost no record of it being used by hobbyists on their projects. It looks like a very old, specialized part that's meant to be used along with L290 and L291 on some motor positioning systems, but the manual says it "can" be controlled directly by a microprocessor too (that would be atmega328 for me) but I have no idea of how I should go about it.I just want to control simple 1A DC motor : forward, reverse and off .http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/L/2/9/2/L292.shtmlPS - They won't accept it back, they said so from the beginning. I hope somebody will be kind enough to share some knowledge and save the chip from being smashed to pieces


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It is the last weekend of summer here in Sydney! Saturday was beautiful so we decided to pack our picnic basket and bags and spend the day on the boat at Sydney's beautiful Pittwater. It was a stunning day and every time we go boating it feels like such a luxury. I love getting away from the city, away from all the traffic noise and masses of people. There is no better way to enjoy this beautiful city than on water and it really is the best way to relax and just get away from it all.
this couscous salad to go along with savoury muffins of thyme, pine nuts and feta. Lunch on the boat is always the best part of the day!
Preheat oven to 180C and prepare the muffin tins or a medium size loaf tin. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl along with the pine nuts and the thyme leaves. In a separate bowl, lightly whisk the eggs and the milk. Pour the egg mixture in with the dry ingredients and mix through. Finally crumble in the feta cheese and stir everything to combine. Spoon the batter into the prepared tins, sprinkle each muffin with extra pine nuts and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden and a tester comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
We were back at the marina late at dusk - a little dazed from all the fresh air, but so happy and relaxed. Looking forward to the next time! Thank you again M & G!


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Jim Solomon joins the club chain from Converse.
NEW YORK - When Jim Solomon took time to talk to Club Industry, he had only been on the job at Crunch for four hours. So it's understandable that the club chain's new president and CEO couldn't share a complete, revolutionary vision for the company. Still, Solomon had plenty to say about his new role at Crunch.
Although Solomon's position is new to the company, Solomon himself is not exactly new to the fitness industry. Before joining Crunch, he was the senior vice president of global marketing and sales at Converse. And during most of the '80s, he familiarized himself with athletic footwear at New Balance and Avia. "I have a pretty good feel for the sports/fitness mentality," Solomon said.
Solomon believes that his experience at these sneaker companies will work to his favor at Crunch. He explained that when buying a sneaker or joining a club, consumers are influenced by brand. "It's all about feeling healthy, getting in shape, aligning yourself to the right product and brand," Solomon said.
Since sneaker companies commonly spend millions in marketing to build their brands, Solomon understands the importance of making a psychological connection to the consumer. He pointed out that Crunch has already done an excellent job of making this connection. Crunch's colors, its mission statement, its philosophies, its unique fitness classes - all serve to differentiate the Crunch brand from the competition in the eyes of consumers.
"It's not a club," Solomon said. "You're joining a brand."
As part of his job, Solomon hopes to build this brand even further. Crunch sportswear and videos will continue to help make this happen - and strengthen the core club business while bringing more growth to Crunch. Growth will also come through expansion - either via acquisitions or start-ups.
Again, Solomon's past experiences will assist Crunch's expansion. Having watched other companies develop (for example, Solomon claimed that, from 1985 to 1988, he witnessed Avia blossom from a $25 million to $225 million company), he knows how to organize and grow a company. In fact, Crunch's rapid expansion necessitated the new executive position; the club required an officer who could help keep tabs on the company's additional clubs. "You need an infrastructure to make sure it can grow," Solomon said.
And given Crunch's recent growth (a $30.5 million company in 1998, the chain reported $65 million in revenue in '99), there's more than enough to keep Solomon and Doug Levine (Crunch's chairman and founder) very, very busy.
Obesity, it seems, has gone to the dogs. According to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), 60 percent of all adult dogs nationwide are overweight or likely to get that way - despite the fact that 68 percent of all pet owners provide their pooches with regular exercise.
Part of the problem may be that the chubby canines aren't getting enough exercise. (No, walking a dog around the block before putting him in a crate doesn't count.) In addition to going for walks, dogs can get exercise through playing (e.g., chasing a ball), swimming or other activities - depending on the breed. For example, hunting dogs may enjoy a dip in the pool, but a poodle may not want to take the plunge.
This exercise not only helps dogs, it helps their owners. For example, a walk exercises the dog and owner.
With that in mind, why not offer a walking program that encourages members to bring their dogs? (Just make sure the members are willing to clean up after their pets.)
Scientists testing an experimental cancer treatment on mice may have inadvertently discovered an appetite suppressent. Twenty minutes after taking the treatment, the rodents lost their appetite.
The scientists theorized that the chemical made the mice feel like they had already eaten. This discovery indicates that scientests may be able to regulate the part of the brain responsible for appetite - or at least the part of the brain responsible for cheese cravings.


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Community Connections
Community Partners
It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes the effort of many individuals and groups working together to build a healthier community. For over a century, Silver Cross has formed valuable partnerships with many organizations throughout the area to improve the health and quality of life of all those within the all communities we serve. Here are just a few of our partners:
Aunt Martha's Joliet Community Health Center
Aunt Martha's began in 1972 as a drop-in center for troubled youth but has grown to become a health care and social service agency that provides services such as primary health and dental care, mental health counseling, child welfare, juvenile justice, prevention and youth development.
Aunt Martha's has over 50 locations and is the third largest community health center in Illinois. In June 2013, Aunt Martha's opened a new Community Health Center in Joliet, IL. 2.2 acres of land was donated by Silver Cross Hospital to Aunt Martha's Youth and Health Center along with $550,000 in operating support for the new Federally Qualified Health Center. The new facility includes 21 medical exam rooms, 9 dental rooms and 5 behavioral health offices.
Catholic Charities Daybreak Center - Back to School Fair
For more than 20 years, Silver Cross Hospital has partnered with Catholic Charities Daybreak Center in coordinating the annual Back to School Fair to help children prepare for the start of the school year. The fairs involves 46 health and human service agencies including Silver Cross that provide free service to over 3,000 low-income families living in Will County. Silver Cross employees have volunteered their time and talents at University of St. Francis to immunize children and provide school physicals, asthma screenings, Tuberculosis (TB) tests and lead screenings. In addition, children entering kindergarten through 12th grade received backpacks filled with school supplies.
Community Services Council of Will County
The Community Services Council of Will County Inc, (CSC) exchanges information, promotes professional growth, coordinates services, identifies needs, and provides ongoing education for the residents of Will County, Illinois. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has given the Community Services Council of Will County a grant to help fund workforce development grants and quality of life initiatives for area residents.
Drunk Driving Education
For over eight years, local High School students along with their parents witnessed the dangers of drunk driving at the "Road to Reality" program at Lincolnway West, Tinley Park High School, and Wilmington High Schools. With the help of live actors, the impact of drunk driving unfolded before the students' eyes as they witnessed a series of live scenes depicting students drinking at a party, a motor vehicle crash, a simulated hospital Emergency Department, and ultimately an appearance before a judge. Silver Cross employees volunteered to enact a real Emergency Department experience, simulating care to both the drunk driver and other victims involved in the accident.
The Forest Park Community Center was established in 2003. Their mission is to improve the lives and welfare of the residents in the Forest Park Community. The Forest Park Community Center is celebrating 20 years of serving the community. The Center offers various programs such as the Early Learning Center, Free Library/Silver Cross Reading Room, Computer Training Center and the Computer Advantage Program and many more. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has given the Forest Park Community Center a grant to help fund positive community programs and the daily operation of the center.
The Harvey Brooks Foundation (HBF) is an organization formed by professionals within the All Nations Church of God In Christ, which is located on Joliet's southeast side, to address the needs of area youth, adults and families in its surrounding low-income community. Over the years, HBF has offered a variety of programs that positively impact youth development and leadership, which is an ultimate correlation to employment, income potential, neighborhood stabilization, business development and community safety. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has recently given the HBF a grant to help fund positive community programs and the daily operation of the center.
Hispanic/Latino Coalition of Will and Grundy Counties
The Hispanic/Latino Coalition of Will and Grundy Counties (HLC) develops collaborative partnerships to increase access to information, resources, and services for the Hispanic Latino community. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has given the HLC a grant to fund 7 individual scholarships.
Lincoln-Way Student Intern Program
For over thirteen years, the Lincoln-Way Student Intern Program has provided students with a window to their future. Many former interns have even come back after graduation to work at Silver Cross in many areas including admitting, respiratory therapy, nutrition services and the emergency department. For fifteen days, 20 Lincoln-Way East High School students set aside their text books and came to Silver Cross Hospital for real-life lessons. The free program offers a great opportunity for seniors enrolled in human anatomy and physiology class allowing them real insight into medical careers. Under the supervision of their classroom instructor and hospital managers, the students rotated through 17 areas including pharmacy, nursing and diagnostic imaging.
MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships)
Silver Cross Hospital continues the tradition of caring for the community by providing programs and services that meet the community needs. To ensure we are aligned with the most current community needs, various staff members from Silver Cross Hospital have participated on the Steering Committee, Chronic Conditions Action Team, and Access to Care Action Team for the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) process.
Through MAPP, Silver Cross Hospital participated with other healthcare and community organizations to create the Will County Community Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan. This assessment utilizes national public health performance standards innovated by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MAPP has enabled organizations to engage in a county-wide strategic process to ensure that area residents receive the best possible public health services.
Silver Cross Hospital has used the Will County Community Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan as a resource tool to develop its community programming.
The Miracle League of Joliet is part of a national organization determined to bring the game of baseball to children between the ages of 3 and 19 with disabilities around the globe. Their focus is to orchestrate baseball programs and to help build accessible, custom-designed, synthetic turf fields that accommodate wheelchairs and other assertive devices, so that every child has the chance to play baseball. The Miracle League removes the barriers that keep children with mental and physical disabilities off of the baseball field, and lets them experience the joy of America's favorite pastime. The Miracle League is also about making new friends, building self-esteem and being treated just like other kids. With the permission of the City of Joliet, a field was built on the grounds at Silver Cross Field in Joliet and opened in the spring of 2007. In addition, Silver Cross Hospital sponsors the Second Inning Stretch for The Miracle League of Joliet baseball games.
National Hook-Up of Black Women, Joliet Chapter
The National Hook-Up of Black Women, Inc. (NHBW, Inc.) is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and their families through support of the arts, culture, health and human service initiatives. The Joliet chapter has partnered with Silver Cross Hospital to increase literacy through the Reading For Life Literacy Program. As part of a two-year, $10,000 pledge, the hospital donated funds, furniture and computers to help establish the NHBW & Silver Cross Reading Room. Silver Cross continues to promote the program with annual grants.
- Unity CDC, Center for Working Families - 1 Doris Avenue, Joliet
- Fairview Homes Community Center - 1426 Englewood Street, Joliet
- Forest Park Community Center - 1017 Woodruff Road, Joliet
- Shiloh Baptist Church - 181 Oak Avenue, Lockport
The NHBW & Silver Cross Hospital Reading Corners locations are:
- Aunt Martha's - 1200 Eagle Street, Joliet, IL
- St. Johns - 403 N Hickory Street, Joliet, IL
Broadway Center - 110 Willow, Avenue, Joliet, IL
Good Shepherd - 151 E Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, IL
At the Reading Room, children and parents are able to swap, borrow or take a book to keep in their own personal libraries. Events include Real Men Read Night, Book Chat, Book Swap, and a Family Read Night with Open Mic. During the past three years, the Reading for Life Literacy Program provided more than 10,000 books to over 3,000 children and adults in the community.
Joliet Chapter, National Hook-up of Black Women, Inc. Reading for Life Literacy Program 647KB PDF
Neighborhood Improvement
Over the past several years, Silver Cross has worked closely with the City of Joliet, Will County and State officials to enhance the quality of life on the eastside of Joliet. Our combined efforts have resulted in a much needed stoplight at Briggs & Copperfield Streets; streetlights on both Copperfield & Walnut Streets, the widening of Walnut St. to include more curbs and sidewalks and, a picturesque park at the corner of Walnut St. & Route 30. This park, which Silver Cross donated the land for, is the home of a life-size sculpture entitle Medical Professionals: Masters of Healing. Created by the Friends of Community Public Art, the sculpture pays tribute to Joliet's dedicated medical professionals and signifies the strong ties that Silver Cross has with the Joliet community and its neighboring towns.
"Safe New Lenox" is comprised of four organizations that work in collaboration with the Village of New Lenox. These groups include New Lenox Safe Communities America Coalition, New Lenox Citizen Corps Council, New Lenox Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and New Lenox Medical Reserve Corps (MRC). The New Lenox Safe Communities America Coalition and New Lenox Citizen Corps Council include representatives from over 20 organizations that are located in New Lenox, Will County and beyond. Silver Cross Hospital, along with other public and private sector organizations, provide a wide variety of services to our community.
Senior Services Center of Will County
The Senior Services Center of Will County is dedicated to enhancing the lives of Will County's growing senior population. As a not-for profit agency 501(c) (3), Senior Services Center has been providing services and programs to the area's senior citizens and their families since 1967. The Center's mission is to enhance the quality of life for older persons, help maintain the wellness and the independence of older persons, and to help avoid or lessen isolation and loneliness. This is being accomplished through a variety of interactive programs, classes, activities, and rewarding volunteer opportunities. In the last year Senior Services has served over 62,819 seniors. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has given the Senior Services of Will County a grant in the amount of $32,000 to help support the Meals on Wheels Program for the seniors in our community.
In addition in FY13, Silver Cross continued to serve as the resource hospital for the Silver Cross EMS System, training 46 paramedics from 37 fire departments and ambulance services including dispatch centers in Cook and Will counties. Silver Cross Hospital subsidized $710,000 providing resource hospital duties. This program provides the initial paramedic training, ongoing continuing education, monitoring of ambulance service and staff within Will, Cook and Grundy Counties. Silver Cross also provided EMS training and program development assistance for medical providers in other countries. This program sent surplus equipment to Honduras and Haiti for medical aid missions that totaled around $4,000 worth of durable medical goods.
Spanish Community Center
The Spanish Community Center was founded in 1967 in the city of Joliet Illinois. The purpose of the center was to provide social services to the city's growing needs of the Spanish speaking people in their native language, to make the transition of setting in the community, and learning English as a second language. Over the last four decades the center has evolved from an agency helping only the Spanish speaking people of the neighborhood to an agency providing help to the entire community. There are various programs and services offered by the Spanish Community Center such as food pantry, childcare, toy drive, computer training, and job readiness classes along with other programs.
The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission provided the Spanish Community Center with a grant in 2008 to implement a GED Program and continues to support the program. In 2013, the Spanish Community Center was given a grant of $30,400 to help support the GED program.
Silver Cross Hospital raised over $25,000 to help the Annual United Way Campaign. The hospital's theme for the campaign this year was "Live United." It captures the commitment that the employees have shown to the community for those that are less fortunate. Hospital employees were asked to participate in the Campaign by making a pledge through a payroll-deduction program.
Veteran's Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic
The Veteran's Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic is proud to provide top quality healthcare to area Veterans in the beautiful new state-of-the-art Joliet Veterans Clinic. The 2-story 60,000 sq. ft. facility is the former Silver Cross Emergency Department. The clinic provides outpatient primary care & mental health services. Additional services include women's health, home-based primary care, laboratory, neurology, rehabilitation, podiatry, optometry, basic radiology, ultrasound, retinal imaging, nutrition and geriatrics.
Warren-Sharpe Community Center
Warren Sharpe Center is serving their community by working with at risk youth, strengthening the family and helping to improving the quality of life for the people they serve in their community. The Community Center offers several programs such as Ride it out Fitness Program, Kids in the Kitchen, Parenting Support Group and the Children's Community Garden.
The Warren-Sharpe Foundation is very passionate about addressing food insecurities within her area. Children's Community Garden is a project designed to educate the youth about agriculture, healthy food choices, and increase physical activity along with supporting their food pantry. The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission has given the Warren-Sharpe Community Center a grant in the amount of $15,000 to help support community programs and the daily operation of the center.
Will County Community Health Center
The Will County Community Health Center—a division of the Will County Health Department—provides preventive and primary health services to the medically underserved people of Will County regardless of age, sex, color, and ability to pay through direct care and partnerships. Through a five-year $450,000 pledge, Silver Cross helped to fund the construction of the Will County Community Health Center, which opened in 2006. Through our relationship, Silver Cross Hospital provides obstetrical and gynecological physician care when the Will County Community Health Center is unable and Silver Cross pays for 24-hour coverage when needed. Silver Cross Hospital also has provided in-kind recruitment services to the Will County Community Health Center.
Will County Workforce Investment Board — Work Certified Program
The Work Certified Program enables individuals with certification that verifies that a job seeker has the reading and math skills, problem solving and critical thinking skills, workplace behaviors and personal habits that are the foundation of success in the workplace. Joliet Junior College's Institute of Economic Technology has been contracted to teach the skills and run the certification program, which consists of 90 training hours spread across nine modules.
The Will Grundy Medical Clinic provides free medical and dental care to individuals who cannot afford medical care. Silver Cross Hospital supports the Will Grundy Medical Clinic through free services and procedures as well as $35,000 in monetary donations. Many physicians and nurses at Silver Cross volunteer their time to staff the "Free Clinic." The hospital also provides thousands of dollars in free healthcare services including testing and surgical care.


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- Increase participation of women and minority students.
- Develop new and foster existing alliances with national organizations that are stakeholders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education.
- Develop educational partnerships with organizations, foundations, and corporations that are engaged in K-12 workforce development.


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Lots going on in the mean time.
The Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) Disney DVD is finally available in the U.S.! (Get it at Amazon.) The Sundance Film Festival starts this week, and shall, for the first time ever (I believe this is accurate, please correct me if your understanding confirms otherwise), feature an Indian film! It's Peepli Live, a satire from Aamir Khan Productions, directed by debutante Anusha Rizvi. From Aamir's blog:
PEEPLI LIVE is a satire, a black comedy about rural life in India. Except for Raghuvir Yadav, most of the actors are facing the camera for the first time, so a predominantly new cast, many of them of Adivasi origin from Madhya Pradesh. And what performances! I have been acting for 20 years and there was so much that I learnt from watching them.
The regular January and February Bollywood release calendars are all about Veer (January 22; official website) and My Name is Khan (February 15; official website).
I'm more excited to see Veer, what with it being a period film (a favorite genre) and starring Salman Khan the Superhero. The soundtrack (Sajid-Wajid) isn't bad, but that kind of comment has always been a quiet, back-handed slap. Never mind bluegrass music (elements of which are found in 'Meherbaaniyaan') didn't exist in the nineteenth century. The issue I have with the soundtrack is that there's hardly a consistent identity it lends to the film. Salman has overcome that often, and we know not to discount his presence. Let's hope the film satisfies the history geeks, hopeless romantics, and hero worshipers in us! :o)
It's prudent to look forward to any film starring Kajol. In her upcoming film, she's paired opposite Shahrukh, whose last name is Khan. Appropriately, then, the Karan Johar-directed film is titled My Name is Khan (MNIK). As an American Muslim, my view is the last couple of films from the Johar camp on this subject -- New York (2009) and Kurbaan (2009) -- were rather hollow and filled with cultural and legal inaccuracies. (I'd rather not discuss further, please excuse me for this.) That's the major concern here. Does one trivialize issues for maximum entertainment value, or does one tackle the issue head-on?
It's guaranteed to be a commercial biggie, regardless. The music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is a definite complement (I'd rate it at a 3.5/5; the qawwalis could've been way more authentic instead of very filmi) and carries an identity and that bodes well for the film it's for.
Other films to look out for include Ishqiya (official website), with a great cast including Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, and Arshad Warsi; and Rann (official website) starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Mohnish Behl, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Gul Panag, and Rajpal Radav (whew, talk about tons of talent!). Both Ishqiya and Rann release January 29. Not too thrilled with the soundtracks to either, but wouldn't be surprised if they were the more engaging films this month.
A bird was faint with thirst,
The breath in his body was heaving like waves of smoke.
He saw a diamond in the garden:
Thirst created a vision of water.
Deceived by the sunbright stone
The foolish bird fancied that it was water.
He got no moisture from the gem:
He pecked it with his beak, but it did not wet his palate.
"O thrall of vain desire," said the diamond,
"Thou hast sharpened thy greedy beak on me;
Be a diamond, not a dewdrop!
Students who give up a significant piece of their lives to get to a top-tier institution of learning are hopefully driven by a 'thirst' for knowledge.
There are those who, in their quest for success, fail to let their definition of success evolve as they evolve. They are 'deceptive'.
- The message presented is one I agree with, but it ignores the 'survival of the fittest', which inherently applies in every academic framework that is hierarchically linked to an economic one (is there one which isn't?). In other words, it defines the problem very well, but steers clear of presenting a solution other than 'pursue excellence'. (And no, I'm not saying silly old me has the magical solution. :) The message is not near as impactful as those of Rang De Basanti (2006) or Taare Zameen Par (2007), but I don't think it was intended to be.
- I enjoyed the integration of the music, but the music continues to not meet expectations of an Aamir film. Probably a biased criticism here, because Aamir's conditioned us to expect better. While the background score is beautiful, can you imagine what magic A. R. Rahman would've weaved into this with the songs, especially? It wouldn't have been another Jaane Tu, and even if it were, it would've had exponentially greater repeat value.
- Bollywood will eventually grow by a lot in North America, and you can bet the first thing demanded of it by a bigger audience of non-Indians will be facilitation of better comprehension via textual aids to accompany motion picture and sound (keeping with the spirit of Rancho's definition of 'book'...I meant better subtitles, of course. =) It's one thing to use 'the today' instead of 'the present', quite another to be simply incorrect. Good news is, there's only one direction to go from here.
- This one's personal, but hopefully that doesn't make it any less substantive: The film almost ridicules my kind (science freaks who switch to business), but what good would science be without its practical applications in or via business? How would research be funded in isolation? And what if I said the righting the wrong I did to switch from core science to the business of science was precisely a result of being turned off by the static-mindedness and impractical approaches to life and purposefulness of academia many scientists all over the world seem to employ?
There's not much more I ask of any film. This one's a keeper. Four and a half stars, perhaps slightly more, absolutely! Aal izz well. Indeed.


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Welcome to MMCIS/TicketStage
TicketStage by MMCIS, Inc. is a Web-based box-office service. It provides theaters Internet ticket ordering by credit card for their patrons and a Web-based box-office service for their staff.
TicketStage adds on-line ticket ordering to a theater's web site for both subscriber and non-subscriber patrons. Patrons select seats from the theater's seating chart. Subscriber credits are automatically checked, applied, and usage recorded. Orders are instantly confirmed and ticket/invoices provided.
TicketStage also provides a web-based box-office service for theaters to book phone, mail, and window orders. Since the box-office is web-based, theater staff can book orders from both the theater's box-office and their home computers. The system supports multiple staff simultaneously booking orders.
Theaters decide what TicketStage services to use and can change at any time. A theater can use just the patron on-line ticketing and integrate it with their existing ticketing system. Theaters not ready for patron on-line ticketing can use just the on-line box-office service.


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Create a User Bar with this Small Help Tutorial Here.
Download The attached Image templatebanner.gif or templatebanner.png
Add your background image, logos, and other images do not move the txt or bars.
Save Your Image. jpg is recommended.
Goto, https://sinistergaming.com/vbgamez_userbar.php?
and click create New userbar
at this point do not click the go button next toCreate userbar based.
fill these sections out:
Userbar name (the Name You Give Your Banner)
Background image (Browse to upload)
Color text by default #FFFFFF (optional)
Default font Leave Blank
Font size default 9
At Background image click browse and browse to your image .
here you can also use custom fonts.
were it says font size default put 9
Click The edit userbar button on the lower right of that section.
when it loads you will see your banner.
Next, click the add location Button
and enter the below settings one at a time
Management of locations
Text Radius Horizontal margin Vertical margin Font Font size Font color Manage {ip} --- 120 58 -- -- --
{players} --- 116 90 -- -- --
{offline} --- 355 58 -- -- --
{online} --- 355 58 -- -- --
{name} --- 120 29 -- -- --
{map} --- 355 88 -- -- --
{rating} --- 255 90 -- -- --
then click edit userbar again.
you are done !!!
now you can create multiple userbars using the same format as the template here.
just modify your userbar to fit what game it is for and save your image.
Create a new Userbar
Where it says
Create userbar based..
Select your userbar and click the go Button
Change The Name
Click Browse to upload your new image.
Click edit user bar and your done.
I hope this is helpful.
here is what some look like with a background and logos and such


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Threats to federal information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems continue to grow in number and sophistication, posing a risk to the reliable functioning of government and highlighting the need to ensure that the federal and contractor workforce has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to maintain the security of federal IT infrastructure and systems.
In discussing his 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review,[1] President Obama declared the cyber threat to be one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation. Because of the importance of federal information systems to government operations, as well as continuing weaknesses in the information security controls over these systems, GAO has identified federal information security as a governmentwide high-risk area since 1997.[2]
Cybersecurity professionals help to prevent or mitigate vulnerabilities that could allow malicious individuals and groups access to federal IT systems. Specifically, the ability to secure federal systems is dependent on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the federal and contractor workforce that uses, implements, secures, and maintains these systems.
[1]President Barack Obama Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure (Washington, D.C.: May 29, 2009).
[2]See GAO, High Risk Series: An Update GAO-11-278 (Washington, D.C.: February 2011).
GAOs work and the work of other organizations suggest that there are leading practices that workforce planning for critical positions such as federal cybersecurity positions should address. These include defining roles, responsibilities, skills, and competencies for these positions and establishing a training and development program that supports the competencies an agency needs to accomplish its mission.
The Department of Commerces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have separate efforts intended to help agencies define roles, responsibilities, skills, and competencies for their cybersecurity workforce. However, it is unclear how or whether the aforementioned entities will effectively align their efforts and, if so, the timeframe for accomplishing that. The four efforts are discussed briefly below:
Although NIST guidelines are currently widely used throughout the federal government, it is unclear whether or how the results of the efforts of the CIO Council, OPM, or DHS will be used governmentwide. A more consolidated effort to develop one framework defining roles, responsibilities, skills, and competencies for the federal cybersecurity workforce rather than four separate efforts, would be a more efficient use of resources.
In addition to efforts to define roles, responsibilities, skills and competencies, there are multiple governmentwide cybersecurity training efforts under way. In 2005, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and DHS began to collaborate on an initiative, called the Information Systems Security Line of Business, to address common information systems security needs across the government, including cybersecurity training. As part of this collaboration, DHS designated five agenciesthe Departments of Defense, State, and Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and OPMto be security training shared service centers available to all federal agencies so as to reduce duplication and improve the quality of information security training. The training courses that these agencies offer are organized into two training tiers: general security awareness training and role-based security training. While one of the goals of the shared program is to reduce duplication, there are several areas in which the training roles overlap among the agencies, and no process exists for coordinating or eliminating duplication among the efforts. For example, NASA, VA, and State all have training for employees in system administrator roles. Additionally, both NASA and VA offer training for CIOs, and NASA and State both offer training directed at the system owner role. However, neither the individual agencies nor DHS evaluate the training for duplicative content, effectiveness, or extent of use.
[1]The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education began in March 2010 as an expansion of Initiative 8 of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which focused on efforts to educate and improve the federal cybersecurity workforce. According to the interagency committee recommendations establishing the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, it is to provide program management support and promote intergovernmental efforts to improve cybersecurity awareness, education, workforce structure, and training.
To ensure that governmentwide cybersecurity workforce initiatives are better coordinated, GAO recommended in November 2011 that Directors of OMB and OPM and the Secretaries of the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security should
Regarding the Information Systems Security Line of Business initiative, GAO also recommended in November 2011 that the Secretary of DHS should
Implementation of these recommendations could help the government more efficiently and effectively develop the federal cybersecurity workforce in a constrained fiscal environment.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the product in the related GAO product section. GAO identified governmentwide initiatives based on interviews with subject matter experts at federal agencies and private organizations, and a review of publicly released information on the initiatives. GAO reviewed plans, performance measures, and status reports. GAO also interviewed officials at agencies responsible for these initiatives, such as NIST, OPM, the National Science Foundation, and OMB. GAO assessed the status and plans of these efforts against GAOs prior work on strategic planning, training and development, and efficient government operations.
GAO provided a draft of its November 2011 report to OMB, OPM, the Department of Commerce, and DHS, for review and comment. OPM, the Department of Commerce, and DHS generally agreed with GAOs recommendation to consolidate and align efforts to define roles and responsibilities, skills, and competencies for the federal cybersecurity workforce. OMB provided technical comments, which were incorporated as appropriate. In addition, DHS officials agreed with GAOs recommendations regarding improvements to the Information Systems Security Line of Business and stated that the department is developing a mechanism for gathering input to address GAOs recommendation and will work with other shared service centers to ensure that they align with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education activities and findings. As part of GAOs routine audit work, GAO will track agency actions to address these recommendations and report to Congress.
GAO provided a draft of this report section to OMB for review and comment. OMB provided additional technical comments. However, GAO did not revise its findings based on these comments. In one instance, OMB indicated that GAOs statement that the CIO Council released an updated version of 11 standard cybersecurity roles in October 2010 was not completely accurate and that the CIO Council document we referenced did not update the 11 roles. GAO disagrees. The CIO document clearly shows that the roles were updated on October 29, 2010. OMB also noted that the October 2010 CIO Council document contained additional information discussing efforts at NIST and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. GAO was not provided this additional information at the time of its review, but to the extent this information supports better coordination of federal cybersecurity workforce development efforts, this is a positive step. Furthermore, OMB commented that it is intended that NIST will account for the cybersecurity workforce framework developed by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education in its follow on work. Any steps OMB and NIST take to better coordinate federal cybersecurity efforts will be helpful. Nevertheless, we continue to believe that consolidating and aligning efforts to define roles, responsibilities, skills, and competencies for the federal cybersecurity workforce will help the government more efficiently and effectively develop the workforce in a fiscally constrained environment.
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Threats to federal information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems continue to grow in number and sophistication. The ability to make federal IT infrastructure and systems secure depends on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the federal and contractor workforce that implements and maintains these systems. In light of the importance of recruiting and retaining cybersecurity personnel, G...


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Ithaca College-Cornell University Exchange Program
This exchange program is a reciprocal arrangement between Ithaca College and Cornell University that allows matriculated full-time students with prior approval and within stated stipulations, to cross-register for one course per semester.
No additional tuition is charged except in the case of 1) graduate students, and 2) undergraduate students enrolled during any one semester for a total of more than 18 credits (Ithaca College and Cornell combined). Those students are subject to additional tuition charges on a per-credit basis. Course fees (lab and supply fees, for example) are the responsibility of IC and Cornell students, and are not covered by this program.
Ithaca College-Wells College Exchange
Ithaca College also has a reciprocal arrangement with Wells College in Aurora, New York. For information, contact the Office of Extended Studies, Job Hall 202, 607-274-3143 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Eighteenth-century apothercaries serve as druggist, doctor, and occasional surgeon.
Strips of white oak await the basketmaker's nimble fingers.
From the laundry to the barn, the blacksmith's wares are always at hand.
The bookbinder adorns a tome's cover with the imprint from an array of wheels.
Williamsburg's foundations rest on rows set by the brickmaker's strong hands.
In the skilled cabinetmaker's grip, carving tools inscribe feathered rows.
Carpenters transform boards and beams into sturdy shelter using hefty mallets and sharp planes.
Circles drawn with the cooper's compass translate into barrels of perfect roundness.
Straw whisks, metal tongs, and wooden spoons used in historic foodways are shapes familiar to modern cooks.
Hand-held bellows coax transfigurative heat from low flames at the foundry.
The gunsmith plies the skills of several trades, assembling a weapon from wood and metal.
The milliner's shears slice cloth to fit a woman's form.
All the news that's fit to print is transferred to paper at the printer's shop.
Cart and yoke await the oxen's pull in rural trades.
Harnesses, leads, straps and stirrups from the saddlemaker's shop guide horses all through town.
Keeping Williamsburg well shod requires an array of expertise of the shoemaker.
Files of varying degrees smooth rough edges at the silversmith's shop.
Needle and thread make the clothes that make the man at the tailor's bench.
A shuttle feeds a yarn-hungry loom at the weaver's.
Once assembled, a wheel from the wheelwright's shop can weigh as much as 250 pounds.
Keeping heads in high fashion is the wigmaker's charge.
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