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Consider this a call to rise up from the wilderness to take the place that God always intended for you. For years, the Lord has been raising up His End-Times apostles. Not men and women of grand stature, but those who have faced the travail of the cross and borne the responsibility of the Church on their shoulders. They were not found in the courts of kings, but were tried in the wilderness.
You landed on this page so that you can hear God's message for you today. The rain is coming. It is time to prepare. At Apostolic Movement International, we are doing our part in preparing the Church for the glorious plan that the Father has for Her. We firmly believe that the Lord is coming for a glorious Bride. One that is without spot and wrinkle. A Bride that is fully in love with Her Savior.
We are playing our part by raising up God's mighty warriors. Men and women who have paid the price for the call and hunger to be armed to do the work. With a strong emphasis on mentorship and spiritual parenting, we work at different levels to help you fulfill your call. In many ways, you can say that our mandate as an apostolic ministry is to help you fulfill yours!
Our part lies in identifying and training up the Fivefold Ministry. We come with a message that is bold and uncompromising. There is no amount of sugar that can sweeten the reality of self-sacrifice and death through the cross that such leaders are called to.
We are shouting out to the gladiators - those who have laid their lives down for the Lord. You do not know compromise. You look around you with a hunger to make the Church into more than She is right now. Child of God, you are not alone! Not only are we connected with thousands of leaders just like you all over the world, but we play a part in training and raising leaders just like you up!
Training the Fivefold Ministry
A move is sweeping over the Church and without realizing it, God has already set you in place. The question remains though, "Are you fulfilling your purpose?" A revelation and anointing is not enough. You need the practical training to fulfill that purpose. Are you taking full advantage of the place God has given you in the Church?
This is the part we play. We cannot give you a calling that God did not! Only the Father can give you a place, only the Holy Spirit can anoint, and it is Jesus Himself that presents you as a gift to the Church. What we can do though is take the years of training and the anointing God has given to us to help you identify your place, train you to fulfill it, and then release you to do it!
So our part in your life is threefold:
1. Identify
Our part begins with helping you identify what you are called to do. Whether your function is that of a body ministry in the local church or to establish a pattern as an apostle, we are here to confirm and release you into this place.
2. Equip
Knowing your call is the first step towards your function. Once in place, there is much you have to learn about what God has called you to do. You will be humbled to discover that the Holy Spirit has not been asleep, but has been already preparing you for this call. Our part will be to bring together everything you have lived, add knowledge, wisdom, and training to fully enable you to do your part.
3. Release
Once you pass through our training, you will be a mighty warrior equipped for your call. Our final step is to lay hands on you and through prophetic and apostolic decree, release you into your purpose. For those who pass through our training and are released, their ministries are born and existing ministries flourish. There is nothing like fulfilling your purpose, confident in who you are and what you are called to do!
For those who want more, you can rest assured that we do not leave you there. For those who need a little more help to start their ministry, we offer internship programs and are more than happy to connect you with others with your same passion.
Our training mechanism for the fivefold ministry contains a full curriculum that is tailor-made for each student according to their calling. Find out today what your calling is, and find your place under a trainer whose calling it is to help you fulfill yours!
Training the Prophets
No one needs "hands-on" more than those called to the prophetic ministry. With an extensive training program both online and live, we emphasize the importance of mentorship in our training. It is essential to keep in mind that our training is of the highest caliber and goes way beyond knowing how to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. Every believer is called to flow in the revelatory gifts... so what is left for the prophet? Your purpose remains! Prophets, you are called to introduce the Bride to her Savior. You are meant to be bringing the Church into a face-to-face relationship with Jesus.
In addition to this, you are meant to be helping believers find their place in the Body so that they can fulfill their purpose. Decree, release, training and equipping is part of your purpose. Can you say that you are fulfilling it effectively? If not, you need training. You need someone who has been along the way to show you the way to go. Prophetic training is not for the light of heart. To whom much is given, much is also required. That is why you have already been going through such a stripping process! Our training will help you identify what exactly the Holy Spirit is bringing to death in you right now.
Learning to prophesy effectively is not enough! You require a double portion of anointing! You require the authority that can only come with prophetic office. To achieve this, you must pass through the training process - a process the Holy Spirit calls all prophets to. Our two year curriculum will forge you into a vessel of honor. Follow in the footsteps of the mighty warriors that have gone the way ahead. Find your place in one of our schools:
Online Prophetic School: www.prophetic-school.com
Live Training South Africa: www.prophetic-school.co.za
Training Pastors and Teachers
We are not a Bible College. We are a ministry training center. To make things clear, our emphasis is on training through mentorship, wisdom, and knowledge. Our students consist of pastors and ministry leaders who have a knowledge of the Word and who hunger for the training that will help them fulfill their fivefold ministry calling. Our training centers around the work of the ministry, equipping for leadership and training to release the anointing. Our curriculum in the Pastor Teacher School is a precursor for those called to apostolic office and as a result, will challenge the core of what you believe God has called you to do.
Character shaping is so often neglected in the ministry training process, but through mentorship and hands-on participation, each student engages in a journey that will open doors in their ministry and help them to fulfill the extended purpose God has for them.
Online Pastor Teacher School: www.pastorteacherschool.com
Live Training South Africa: www.pastorteacherschool.co.za
Live Training San Diego: www.ami-family.com/sandiego
Training Apostles
Can an apostle be trained by man? Only the Father can call someone to apostolic ministry, but there is no doubt that the process of training can be sped up. It takes time to identify the call to the cross. It takes time to identify the lesson that the Holy Spirit is trying to get through to you. However, if you have someone who has been along the way before, the doors suddenly open up. The time in the wilderness makes sense. The call to the cross again and again makes sense. Why you had to let everyone go makes sense. Why everyone else got the promotion instead of you makes sense.
Moses handed over to Joshua. Paul raised up Timothy and David trained up Solomon to take the throne. In the same way, there really is a place where everything makes sense. You are about to discover that what you have gone through is not unique to you. Every apostle is called to wax strong in the wilderness. Every apostle is called to let go of what he believes defines him. Our apostolic training is currently done one on one. Our school is in the process of being established after years of personally training apostles.
Feel called to the apostolic? Then, we encourage you to look into the Pastor Teacher School which is, in fact, the apostolic ministry portion of our training. Training for apostolic office will help you define your mandate and release you onto the road you are called. Also be sure to subscribe to our mailing list if you would like the announcement of the launch of the school.
Teaching from the pulpit has its place, but there is no substitute for mentorship. It is only when we disciple others into what God has wrought in us that will we see the Body of Christ mature. Bible schools, good teachers, and powerful books have been around for years. They have had a limited impact on the Church. If we want to see the Church mature at a pace such as we have never seen, then it is time for the trainers and spiritual parents of this generation to take their place.
This is indeed the central pillar of how we fulfill our mandate at Apostolic Movement International. We use the process of discipleship to train leaders into the ministry offices. We disciple new believers into Christian maturity. With a combination of sound teaching and practical training, we are rising the crest of the move of God.
Spiritual Parenting
At the foundation of our training, materials, and school structures lies the essential process of spiritual parenting. There are many with a call and a powerful anointing, however, the brokenness in their lives serve as a hurdle towards fulfilling their purpose. This is where Apostles Craig and Colette are used on a personal level to re-parent and impart to those that God brings to them.
It is not a secret that we have a Church full of broken homes and neglected believers whose foundation is marred by hurts of the past and incorrect patterns for life. There are not many apostolic leaders in the Church today who are willing to lay aside their own agenda to heal the broken right at the core of their hurt. To pick them up, train them and become parents who accept, discipline, and release them into their purpose. If you are looking for the foundation of what brings everything together in Apostolic Movement International, you will find it in the spiritual DNA that continues to be imparted through practical living.
We have no hidden agenda. What you see is what you get, and there is no question you cannot ask us. We are Apostolic Movement International, and we know that to start a movement, you need leaders whose personal agendas are put aside for a higher purpose. We are of that caliber of leaders - are you? If so, climb on board. Join a training school, get a hold of our various resources, visit one of our conferences or invite us to minister in your church. Above all - get on board, because the Apostolic Movement has indeed begun.


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Introducing the latest international research on school (k-12) bullying and violence, this powerful 3-hour research-based conference is designed to empower and equip school administrators, educators, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other professionals who work with children with skills and tools designed to recognize, minimize or eradicate school bullying and violence. The strategies, techniques, and interventions cited in this conference equally spans elementary thru high school students. Participants will learn:
Scottsdale Cottonwoods Resort & Suites, 6160 North Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, Arizona 85253
WhenThursday, October 6th, 2011 from 9:00am to 12:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Gifts For Attending
As our gift for attending, participants will receive a free copy of our 'Standing Up To Bullying' Game. This educational and noncompetitive game, designed to teach school-age children anti-bullying skills, can be played in classrooms, homes, and therapy settings.
Participants will also receive a free copy of our Power of Thoughts E-book (several printable worksheets for k-12 students empowering them to change their behavior by changing the way they think).
And that's not all - Participants will be able to stay up to date with all the latest international research on school bullying and violence as they will receive links to the research articles cited in the presentation along with a copy of the slide presentation which are both updated regularly. Additionally, they can sign up to receive emails from us alerting them to all the latest research as it happens.
***For a limited time, each educator and student of those schools or districts that pre-register 15 or more participants to the conference will receive a free copy of our 'Standing Up To Bullying' game along with free unlimited game updates and upgrades. In addition, these schools or districts will receive a $5.00 discount per participant.
About The Presenter
The presenter is Mark Lakewood, CEO and founder of Building Strong Families National Seminars, a distinguished bullying prevention expert, researcher, author, and speaker with over 20 years of clinical experience as a mental health therapist. Prior to beginning his own private practice, Mr. Lakewood provided counseling services at a variety of medical clinics, hospitals, mental health facilities, and a family preservation agency. He has an extensive history providing therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults. Mr. Lakewood also provided clinical and consultation services to numerous school administrators, educators, students, and families on issues of bullying and behavior management. To view Mr. Lakewood's biography, please click here.
Conference Fees
The cost to attend this 3-hour conference is $35.00 per participant. All major credit/debit cards and personal/business checks are accepted. School purchase orders are also accepted.
Seating is limited so please pre-register by Tuesday, September 20th, 2011!!
Please pre-register by visiting StandingUpToBullyingConference.com today!

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In March 2009, a renewed attempt by the Austrian Green Party to find a solution to the preservation of the country's Jewish cemeteries resulted in the Parliament once again delaying its decision. In the 2001, in Washington Agreement with the United States, the country committed to the preservation and protection of its Jewish cemeteries, but the federal government and regional authorities have yet to agree on the financial details of maintaining these sites. [March 2009]
153,623 records of Jewish Graves in Austria of people deceased prior to May 5, 1945. [April 2004]
Verein SCHALOM .. Jewish cemeteries in Austria was an online guide to Jewish cemeteries in Austria with maps and information and pictures. Link no longer functions. However, Lo Tishkach has excellent information. [April 2012]
Synagogue Without Jews [February 2009]
"Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich" (Institute for the History of Jews in Austria) has literature on Jewish Communities. [October 2001]
Jüdisches Museum Wien
Büro: A-1010 Wien, Trattnerhof 2/106
General Information for Vienna and North Burgenland about the Shalom Association:
Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil praised the work of the Shalom Association, which for the past five years restored Jewish graves in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Shalom was founded in November 1991 by Walter Pagler and his wife Carla, together with historian Erika Weinzierl and architect Friedrich Rollwagen. In the course of 150,000 hours of voluntary service so far, a 26-hectare Jewish cemetery, that for five decades was completely abandoned and overgrown, was made accessible. During this process, 19 kms. of paths and roads were either repaired or newly built, which entailed cutting out 2,000 tons of wood. This cemetery is one of four Jewish cemeteries in Vienna in which no burials have taken place for years. Since the 1938-1945 period, in which 62,000 Viennese Jews were murdered and 102,000 exiled, these cemeteries have been completely abandoned and become overgrown.
Walter Pagler succeeded in finding several mass graves of Jews in Burgenland, and particularly Hungarian prisoners of forced labour camps, who were murdered by the Nazis. Shalom Association is currently preparing a 'Guide' to the Jewish cemeteries, in order to make it easier for visitors - mainly descendants of the second and third generation - to find the graves of their exiled or murdered relatives.
The invisible core of the restoration of the Jewish cemeteries proved surprisingly to be the electronic database. This was made possible by a donation made by the former Federal Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Science, Erhard Busek. The database is linked up with 24 computers at the Vienna Business School in which the Jewish Community Centre's death register and registrar records are stored. They comprise all the Viennese cemeteries with a total of 155,000 Jewish citizens who have died since 1750 and the cemeteries in northern Burgenland and Lower Austria. Contact the Austrian Federal Press Service: Tel. ++43/1/531 15-2287. fax. ++43/1/531 15-2880. http://www.austria.gv.at
For more on Viennese cemeteries see the excellent Beginners Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy by E. R. Schoenberg on the BOHMOR website .
Cemetery database of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde
covering the Zentralfriedhof Wien first and fourth gate is now accessible via the internet. Source: bohmor digest [August 2003]
Deutsche Version: http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/suche_de.asp
English Version: http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/suche_en.asp
The "Religion" page of the Jewish community of Vienna has a list of all Jewish cemeteries in Austria with some pictures and information for each one:[June 2003]
Jewish community information: [October 2000]
[UPDATE] Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube [March 2015]


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Post subject: Server Stats removed after 30 days?
I got an idea, you know the server stats on the website? the problem whit the server stats is that when you upload info, it will only stay there for 30 days.. This makes me think it is no idea of uploading it cause it will just get removed after 30 days AND, when it gets removed ALL the players you have found on the server is gone!
If we could make the stats not disappear after 30 days, then every time someone uploads something, it stays there FOREVER but now you may think "but if we dont remove the stats then we cannot see when players delete characters or change server or when they are inactive" but then I got another idea, what if you could import server stats from warcraftrealms.com to you Censusplus? and then every time you take new server stats, then new characters will be added to the total number of characters on the realm, not only what YOU have found, and the same goes whit purge, if you can see the last time the characters on the server where seen from the imported data, then you can purge all the characters not seen whitin 30 days.
also some other ideas
If we could make all registered members of the site fill in how many characters they have on each realm, then we can see how many PLAYERS and not characters there are on each realm
also, the info saved on Censusplus data is stored in the "WTF" folder, the problem whit this is that many players delete their WTF folder cause of bugs or just because hackers or anything like that aint gonna see what account name they have, If we could make all the saved data from Censusplus be saved outside the WTF file, then we can have the data on our computer forever, no need to "Take" new server stats everytime you delete it.
Hope this really works cause then Warcraftrealms.com would be 10 times cooler than it is
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Ummm... the data on individual characters is saved, it doesn't expire. The 30 day limit on server stats serves to keep the data fairly up-to-date, which is actually a good thing and also helps to limit the amount of data stored.
At least for me, the number of characters on a realm is not static and also, the censusplus users form a very small portion of realm populations, so such registration would be fairly useless, in my opinion...
Rollie/Hybuir/Balgair and others... more opinions / explonations, I had to leave some parts without comment (at least for now)...
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The whole point of removing the server stats data after 30 days is to give an idea of the CURRENT state of the server. No good seeing a server saying it's got say 20,000 Horde when 5,000 are inactive and another 10,000 transferred off in that free transfer 6 months ago! All the individual character data remains permanently, it's only the server overviews which are pruned after 30 days, simply to give an up to date idea of the populations and activity levels.
The idea of registered members saying which characters belong to them doesn't help really, since you'll find no more than 5-10 people per realm are actually members of this site, in most cases - you only need to look at the number of realms with 0 census submissions at all to realise only a tiny tiny fraction of the WoW population actually visits this site. So that one's a no-go - it'd be nice indeed to see how many actual players there are, instead of characters, but it just can't be done.
Data being stored in WTF folder is the way WoW works - it cannot be saved anywhere else, period.
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Post subject: Re: Server Stats removed after 30 days?
Others have already covered the basics, so I will just reiterate that the purpose of the Server Stats pages is to present the
information about the server. Rollie chose a 30-day window to filter the census information in order to pick up even fairly casual players on a server, while trying to minimize anybody who is no longer active.
One way you
see much farther into the history kept in the database here is to check the history on your "claimed" characters. I see you just joined this site, but if you have been playing WoW for quite a while, you can claim any of your (level 10+) characters here, and can generally see most of your level and guild changes for the history of that character. This obviously will be more detailed on a well-censused server, since at least one person needs to have "seen" your character during a census scan at each level for it to be in this site's database. For example, if someone saw (ran a census while you were on) your character at level 24, but nobody happened to see you again until level 26, then your history here won't show you at 25.
I wouldn't be happy with "making" members do anything, and has been pointed out, only a very small percentage of a typical server are members here. One thing that might be interesting, though, would be for Rollie to pull some stats from the database on how many characters on average are being claimed by members, and how many members haven't claimed
characters, if it's significant.
As mentioned, the add-on has no choice on where the data is saved. If you are not interested in
this is so, then you can skip the rest of this post. In case you're curious about the specifics, though, what actually happens is that the add-on specifies that certain variables need to be saved between games, and when the add-on is being shut down (when logging out or reloading the UI), the game saves these variables into a file at a defined location (the "saved variable" file for that add-on). When you're logging in, the game "sees" that the add-on specified that certain variables were to be saved, so after loading the add-on, also reads the saved variable file to set those variables to what they were before.
The intent for this was so that add-ons could "remember" things like user settings, so they didn't need to be set each time. This website takes advantage of the fact that the saved variable files are in a (fairly) readable format, and that each add-on has it's own file, so the proper file containing the (large, complex) variable holding all of the censuses you've collected with the add-on can be uploaded here, to then be parsed and added to the database.
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JetBlue will JetBlue will serve the Caribbean region this winter with an average of 200 daily flights. In addition to its own network growth, JetBlue also announces the signing of two new interline agreements with LIAT and Seaborne Airlines, and a growth of its partnership with Cape Air. Five new Caribbean routes will launch in the coming months, including service to two new destinations: Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. JetBlue will deploy its brand new Airbus A321 aircraft to a variety of Caribbean destinations and will offer even more frequencies between New York (JFK) and Barbados during peak holiday times, including President's Day and Easter. www.JetBlue.com
KLM and KENYA AIR - JOINT VENTURE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has expanded its cooperation with Kenya Airways within East Africa, following the signing of a joint venture agreement. Effective from January 1, 2014, four new routes will be added, thus increasing the total KLM - Kenya Airways joint venture to a total of six routes. Kenya Airways and KLM operate daily service between Schiphol Amsterdam Airport and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. The airlines jointly operate 19 weekly return flights between The Netherlands, France and Kenya. The cooperation will be expanded through the addition of the London - Nairobi; Amsterdam -Entebbe/ Kigali route; Amsterdam - Lusaka and Harare routes; and the Amsterdam-Kilimanjaro/Dar-es-Salam route, the latter subject to regulatory approval.
This month, the U.S. Virgin Islands will start benefiting from more flights out of the New York and Atlanta gateways. Daily flights from JFK in NY to Cyril E. King International Airport on St. Thomas will debut from December 15, 2013 to March 30, 2014. Delta will return in the summer to continue the daily New York service from July 1 to September 2, 2014. In addition, this winter Delta will serve St. Thomas with twice daily flights from Atlanta's Hartfield Jackson International Airport, and add a third Saturday service, representing a total of 15 flights per week from the Atlanta market. www.delta.com
Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways have a new schedule that starts March 30, 2014, combining their slots at London Heathrow to offer maximum customer convenience, particularly for business travelers. Beginning, April 2, 2014, Delta will move its arrival and departure terminal for several important business markets to join Virgin Atlantic in Heathrow Terminal 3. This includes its LHR to JFK, LHR to BOS, and new LHR to SEA services and the two airlines will co-locate on all NY and BOS flights to LHR. Delta, in co-operation with Virgin Atlantic, will also operate a second daily service between LHR and DTW effective June 2, 2014. This flight will complement Delta's previously announced West Coast route between SEA and LHR, launching on March 30, 2014. Virgin Atlantic is also moving its VS1 Heathrow to EWR service from a late afternoon departure to a morning departure.
The Los Cabos Tourism Board announced plans to welcome a new direct flight from NY's JFK airport to San Jose del Cabo (SJD) airport via Aeromexico. The new Aeromexico flight, officially launching on January 18, will run non-stop from New York to Los Cabos once per week. The flight will depart JFK on Saturdays at 7:00am EST arriving in Los Cabos by 10:50am MST and departs SJD at 11:50am MST arriving back at JFK at 7:40pm EST. www.aeromexico.com
90th anniversary
November 1, 2013 marked Finnair's 90th anniversary. Established in 1923, Finnair is the world's fifth-oldest airline still in operation. Finnair specializes in flights between Europe and Asia, offering direct connections from Helsinki to over 60 European destinations and 13 Asian destinations. Over eight million passengers per year fly on Finnair's modern Airbus fleet. Finnair became the first airline to take delivery of the new Airbus 321 Sharklet aircraft in September and is also installing new, fully reclining seats in most of its long-haul fleet beginning January 2014. www.finnair.com
NEW equipment
Ethiopian Airlines took delivery of the first of four Boeing 777-300ERs on November 7, 2013. These are the largest aircraft in the airline's fleet with a nearly 400-passenger capacity. The aircraft will operate in Guangzhou; Washington, D.C.; Dubai and Luanda. It is scheduled to serve the Addis Ababa - Luanda route three times a week and three times a week on the Addis Ababa - Guangzhou route. Service to IAD will commence in June 2014. The aircraft will feature 34 business class seats and 365 in economy. Ethiopian will phase in three additional B777-300ERs in January 2014, May 2014 and June 2015. www.flyethiopian.com


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Student Leader inks petition
Editors note: Douglas Fiefia, a Huntsman student majoring in Business Administration, is also the Utah State University Student Body President and president of the Utah Student Association.
USU's Fiefia traveling to D.C. to urge action against loan hike
By Kevin Opsahl
The Utah State University student body president has signed a petition along with more than 100 other student presidents across the country and will travel to Washington, D.C., to urge lawmakers to avoid the looming hike in student loan interest rates.
At issue is the fact that interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans are set to double July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
Douglas Fiefia, a senior who is also president of the Utah Student Association — a group that represents all of Utah's 11 colleges on a state level — spoke about the issue following a USU Board of Trustees meeting on Friday.


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Stockbroker Requests to Scrub Complaints Are Often Granted
Study Shows Brokers' Requests to Strike Complaints Granted in Vast Majority of Cases
Stockbrokers are being routinely allowed to scrub some customer complaints from their public records, leaving investors in the dark about potentially troubled advisers, according to a study of more than 1,600 arbitration cases.
Brokers asked to remove customer disputes from their records in 1,625 arbitration cases filed from 2007 through 2011, according to a report by the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, an association of securities lawyers. Arbitrators approved removal requests in more than 90% of the 629 cases...


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I have a mysql database on a shared web host. It's grown too large, and a single dump process with zipping is getting killed. I want to dump and zip each table in individually. With this command
mysqldump -uuser -ppass database < show_tables.sql
I can get it to return all the names of the tables like so:
How can I feed this into a bash script so that I can feed each line into a command of this syntax
mysqldump -uuser -ppass database table_name_goes_here > and_here.sql
Edit Sorry folks, I made a mistake in the original formatting. The output from the
show tables query is not a single line with space-delimited table names; it is actually one table name per line, as it is formatted now. I apologize for the confusion.


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Today's the big day for Lancaster County high school graduates.
This day stands as the hour you've worked for since you launched your education career in kindergarten with the 1995-96 school term.
Today as those cameras flash with toothy grins and proud parents, take a moment to reflect on your journey.
It's been a long road, one filled with challenges and new horizons. No doubt there's been peaks and valleys along the way.
In the last few weeks we have reported about the layoffs at Springs Memorial Hospital, the possibility of job losses at the Lancaster County School District, pleas from nonprofit agencies for continual funding and the inability of a local philanthropic organization to offer free summer camp for at-risk children this year.
Add to that $4 per gallon gas, high unemployment, decreasing home values, increasing food costs and you get a bleak picture of our economy.
I wanted to commend senior reporter Jenny Hartley for her outstanding work to put animals in the limelight and on the front cover of The Lancaster News. As a teacher and an animal lover I am flabbergasted by the amount of people who treat animals as if their lives were completely expendable. However, it is individuals like you who have a voice and can shed some light on the cruel world of animal abuse and neglect.
I was shocked and dismayed to read that the Lancaster School District did not close in observance of Memorial Day. Does the school district not have history books in the schools? Do school board officials not know of the supreme sacrifice so many brave Americans have made to defend our freedoms? Do they not care about the loss so many millions of American family members endured so we all can enjoy life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
What is the school district teaching our children by its callous attitude toward our fallen heroes?
On Memorial Day we recognized all those individuals who stood up for us in all branches of our military service. Memorial Day should always be a day of remembering, giving thanks for and to any person who ever wore a uniform in our defense.
I did not know that students did not have Memorial Day off until field day.
Having been in other school districts in the past, I was caught off guard, especially since Charlotte and the Rock Hill districts were off.
I'm just curious as to why. I was not really concerned about the attendance issue point because my kids did not attend out of respect for our armed forces. My main concern is why the school district does not respect our armed forces. There are other days the kids could have gone to school and had this day off. For example, maybe one day for Easter instead of two.
Larry Neal asked in his letter "Writer questions Mulvaney's vote on inhalants" in the May 23 edition of The Lancaster News why I voted against a bill to ban alcohol inhalants. It is a fair question, and I am happy to answer it.
By way of quick background, the bill was designed to outlaw a new device called an "alcohol without liquid" device. This is essentially an inhaler for alcohol. The device is currently not available in South Carolina.
The 2008 spring will go down as a landmark season for Lancaster County high school golf.
Golfers from Lancaster County earned two of the four individual state championships at the state tournaments earlier this month.
One state crown is impressive, but two from the same county, is an extraordinary effort.
Indian Land's Chase Hunter shot a 147 (75-72) to win the Class A medalist, a first for the Warriors' golf program, at the Stoney Point Golf Club in Greenwood.
The Humane Society of Lancaster County Inc. is pleased to announce that Karma, the sweet labrador with a collar embedded in his neck that we rescued is now ready for adoption.
We are now accepting adoption applications for him as well as several other pets that are in need of forever homes. Karma loves attention and is best suited for an indoor home where he can be around people. Please visit our Web site at www.savelancasterpets.org to view Karma and all the other wonderful pets ready to go home with you now.
Before I could get my letter applauding The Lancaster News for its opposition to the proposed courthouse, Mr. John Baker supplies all the technical fine points and logic to support the need for a new courthouse.
The next thing I see is a column by Steve Willis, our county administrator. Now, I am confused and confounded. Betcha that would make me a good politician, able to change horses in mid-stream.
With apologies to the news editorial board, I sorta lean toward the views of Mr. Willis, maybe it's because I can remember when.
I would like to recognize a person who is a true ambassador for Lancaster County. When my wife and I moved here four years ago, we did not know a single person. As a result, we were left to reference the yellow pages when determining where to take our car for service.
"Look out! Run for your life," Sgt. Clifford Sims shouted to his platoon after hearing the all-too-familiar clicking sound in the dense underbrush. Too late. The Vietnamese booby trap exploded as Sims unhesitatingly hurled himself upon the device, taking its full impact. His blood-soaked flesh scattered in a hundred different directions. He gave his life to save theirs. Sims earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his sacrifice.
The Kershaw Chamber of Commerce Executive Board would like to thank the many people who worked together to make this year's Springathon a success.
The Kershaw News Era and The Lancaster News were both vitally important in getting the advertising we needed printed. Year after year, their staffs work with us in promoting our event.
I am writing concerning the disrespect shown to the soldiers who gave their lives defending this country. I am a student at Lancaster High School and I feel that the Lancaster County School Board's decision to have school on Memorial Day is very hypocritical. We are taught in school to honor and respect the ones who decide to serve in the military and fight for our freedoms and yet the school board decides that it is justified to have classes rather than show the very respect they teach us to have.
I'm new to politics. I've never run for office before. Some folks might think that's a liability, but I think it's one of my greatest assets.
Too many of the elected officials in Columbia have lost focus. We need a fresh perspective. We need new leadership that's committed to our communities and to the conservative ideals that we believe in.
I, like many people around Lancaster, are descendants of men who helped bury the dead at the Buford battle site. At that time, it was called Wild Cat.
In one book on Andrew Jackson, he mentioned two men, a Carnes and an Usher. There had to be many more to be able to dig two graves, one large with more than 80 men in it, and a smaller one with at least 29.
May is Mental Health Month. Many individuals and families have experienced or will experience a mental health issue at some point in life.
Many people who experience mental disorders are able to have relative normal lives with their families and careers provided they are properly diagnosed and receive appropriate treatment.
However, the stigma associated with mental illness continues to exist without any treatment of its own.
On Sept. 20, 2002, my life was changed forever when a drunken driver swerved into my lane and hit my car head-on, causing me to lose an eye and shattering the bones in one of my legs. I am now permanently disabled because of another man's irresponsible attitude about abusing alcohol.
That is why I was so shocked and offended when I learned that one of our elected officials, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, also has a cavalier attitude about abusing alcohol.
I am 95 years old and I objected strongly when I became a resident of White Oak Manor. My first thinking was this was a place to die in.
But that is not so. It is really a place where love and care are abundant. South Carolina provides good medical care for its senior citizens. And I am a "damn Yankee" from Buffalo, N.Y.
Mother's Day was a special day here. I had breakfast in bed. Then families came to visit. The parking lot was overflowing. At lunch, the main dining room was crowded, with sons, daughters, grandchildren and friends.
South Carolina's drunk driving law will have more bite in February 2009. That's when tougher penalties go into effect and some loopholes in the existing law are set to go out of effect. You'd be pressed to find anyone in law enforcement or in the prosecution of drunk drivers who'd argue the driving under the influence law in South Carolina didn't need revising.
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King Arthur was about to embark on a long crusade. Before doing so he called to Merlin to devise a cunning chastity belt for Gwenivere. The belt contained a miniture guillotine.
Upon his return, he called to his Knights of the Round Table and had them all strip from the waist down. One by one, he went to each knight and shook his head, telling all those whose members were missing to get out of his sight.
That is until he came up to Lancelot. Seeing that Lancelot was intact, he exclaimed, ''Now I knew I could count on you to be trusted. Name anything at all and it is yours.''
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Co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission say "fractured and overlapping" congressional committee jurisdiction continues to be an issue.
Congress' failure to act on the 9/11 Commission's recommendation to reform and sharply simplify the overlapping maze of 17 congressional committees claiming jurisdiction over homeland security is the biggest problem remaining since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the co-chairmen of the panel said Tuesday.
Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that while the nation's defenses have improved, the Christmas bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound airliner showed that a lot more needs to be done.
"Enduring fractured and overlapping committee jurisdiction on both sides of the Hill have left congressional oversight in an unsatisfactory state," Kean and Hamilton said in their joint statement.
That complaint was quickly embraced by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman and ranking member Susan Collins. "The one institution Congress is less willing to reform is Congress itself," Lieberman said. "There is no excuse for that, except turf protection."
Other weaknesses cited by Kean and Hamilton were the lack of analysis of the intelligence pointing to the alleged terrorist and ambiguities in the intelligence reform law over the director of national intelligence's absolute authority over the array of intelligence organizations. They attributed that latter flaw to the lack of strong leadership by President Obama.
Kean and Hamilton also shared the "outrage" expressed by the committee leaders and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that no one in the national intelligence leadership was consulted before the Justice Department decided to handle the alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, as a criminal rather than as a prisoner of war who could have been interrogated for information on other terrorist plots.
"I was shocked," Kean said. "Decisions of this kind should never be made without consulting the top intelligence officials."
Hamilton said what bothered him the most was the fact that there was no clear policy in place on how to handle the suspect.
Asked how Obama was dealing with these issues, Hamilton said he did not think the president "has a firm grasp of intelligence. ... He has to step in harder" or the current lack of clarity on the DNI's authority over the intelligence community would get worse.
"We've always thought the success of the DNI depends on leadership of the president," Kean said.
Kean and Hamilton co-chair the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group.


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All three are chasing a first title on the European professional circuit and will play in the final group at Golf de Gouverneur in search of the biggest win of their respective careers.Saltman, the former English Amateur Open Stroke Play Champion who twice represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup, leads the way after a second successive three under par round of 68 which moved him to the front on ten under.
After entering the day three shots off the lead, the Edinburgh man birdied the par three third hole before bogeying the seventh – thanks to a difficult lie in the rough for his approach - to reach the turn in level par.The determined 27 year old, who would significantly boost his chances of making the season-ending Apulia San Domenico Grand Final with a win this week, came out with all guns blazing on the more testing back nine and back to back birdies at the 12th and 13th followed by another gained shot at the last elevated him to the top of the leaderboard.
"It was a great back nine today because it's the tougher nine I would say," said Saltman. "It was a bit breezier today and I didn't really get a chance on the front nine. I said to (brother and caddy) Zack, I want to be leading after today, so we just said 'be patient' and then we were joking about it when I hit it close at the 18th - it all worked out."It was pleasing and a good day's golf. The focus this week has really been to play to win and I'm in a great position so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's challenge.
"I had a good record as an amateur and I've won a few smaller tournaments as a pro but I just haven't done it on the big stage yet. I've had a second and a third place on the Challenge Tour but it would be really nice to get my first win here in Lyon."I feel really comfortable out there and I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and seeing what's thrown at me and trying to handle it as best I can."
A shot back were Hutsby and South Korean An, who became the youngest player to win the US Amateur Championship in 2009, beating the record set a year previous by Danny Lee and previously held by Tiger Woods.The 21 year old also needs a high finish this week to keep his season on the Challenge Tour alive and, after a three under par third round of 68 which included a birdie at the last, he is feeling in good spirits as he chases a maiden professional victory.
"I had to play well here just to make sure I have a Challenge Tour card for next year," said An. "But I was playing pretty well in the last few weeks and hitting it well so I just needed to play my game."It will be my first time in the final group and it's supposed to be rainy tomorrow so it will be fun. I love to play, I don't care what group I'm in. I just want to play and hopefully my game will stay like this. I can't wait; it's going to be a big day."
Hutsby couldn't repeat his heroics of the second day, when an eight under par 63 moved the Englishman into a two shot overnight lead, but is relishing the opportunity to play in the final group as he looks to improve on his one over par third round of 72."It was a bit of a boring start with seven pars," said the 25 year old, a former Spanish Amateur Open Champion. "I hit some really nice shots then and thought I'd hit good putts but they were difficult to read. I took a few risks towards the end and got punished but it's a day where you can blow yourself out of it and I didn't do that.
"It's still a nice position to be in I suppose. It's almost a bit of match play in the final group and I haven't had that for a while, the last time I had it was when I finished second at Qualifying School Final Stage, and I really enjoy it.
"My game's a bit inconsistent but hopefully tomorrow things can fall into the right place and I can have a nice finish."
Two Frenchman were a shot further back on eight under par, alongside Scotland's Chris Doak, as Baptiste Chapellan and amateur Romain Langasque kept alive hopes of a second successive French home victory on the Challenge Tour after Julien Brun's victory in Toulouse two weeks ago.
|Player name
|DOAK, Chris
|SLUITER, Tim
|HANSEN, Joachim B
|GARCIA PINTO, Jordi
|SALTMAN, Lloyd
|WALTERS, Justin


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February 2002
Botanical gardens are global treasures in an age of ecological crisis. This gazebo is part of the public gardens at historical Spanish Point, Florida.
Photograph: Oksana Hlodan.
Gardens, as landscapes with scattered trees and copses interspersed with open spaces or bodies of water, widely appeal to our aesthetic sense and our need to perceive an organized natural world. Such settings may even appeal to a genetic memory of humanity's remote origins on the African savanna. Undoubtedly, flowers and the near-infinite diversity of their fruits influenced the survival of early hominids and the skill of modern humans to inhabit every corner of the planet.7 Flowering plants originated during the Cretaceous Period, nearly 100 million years ago when Africa and South America were still connected to each other. The dramatic co-evolution of flowering plants and their insect pollinators colored the face of the planet and set the stage for the emergence of our vision-dominated ancestors millions of years later. Loren Eiseley, late anthropologist from the University of Pennsylvania, exclaimed, "the weight of a petal changed the face of the world and made it ours."4
What are botanical gardens?
Some people have the mistaken impression that botanical gardens are parks devoid of play, something like 19th century museums where plants bear labels with unpronounceable names. Modern botanical gardens, however, are global treasures in an age of ecological crisis. Today numbering more than 2000 gardens worldwide, they are places devoted to the culture, study, and exhibition of documented collections of living plants.12,13 Further, they:
- are committed to developing, documenting, verifying, maintaining, sharing, propagating, and disseminating their plant collections — a description offered by the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA)11
- serve as reference centers for plant identification, cultivar registration, nomenclature, and plant exploration
- and, for some threatened species, have become the last hope for their precarious survival
Simply put, modern botanical gardens are scholarly places for the research and conservation of plants.
The western tradition of botanical gardens
Botanical gardens can be traced to human beginnings and are found in all cultures, past and present. In the western world, gardens went through a metamorphosis:
Medicinal Gardens: 16th and 17th centuries The early European institutions were medicinal gardens, also called physics gardens or gardens of simples (such as Florence's Giardino dei Semplici), whose principle role was to provide material for medical faculties in Italy, France, and other western countries. The earliest medicinal gardens in Europe were all established in the 16th and 17th centuries: Pisa (1543), Zurich (1560), Paris (1597), Oxford (1621), Berlin (1679), and others.9,11
Colonial Gardens: 17th and 18th centuries
Later on, governments created tropical botanical gardens as instruments of colonial expansion and commercial development.2 The celebrated 18th century Calcutta Botanical Garden and Royal Botanic Gardens Pamplemousses in Mauritius come to mind.
Linnaean Gardens: 18th and 19th centuries Gradually, a strict utilitarian display gave way to a comprehensive study of plants. Based on the work of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778),15 the father of modern taxonomy, gardens were laid out to show plant relationships. Live and preserved material poured into the botanical gardens of Europe, especially from the New World, to be exhibited, studied, and identified. As taxonomy gained in prominence, botanical gardens emphasized their herbaria, laboratories, and libraries over their living collections, on which little research was then undertaken.
Civic Gardens: 19th and 20th centuries Municipal gardens were founded in the 19th and 20th centuries (e.g., Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859) that advanced the horticultural aspects of their living collections.
Specialist Gardens: 20th and 21st centuries Specialist gardens, such as experimental stations and orchid gardens, emerged in the 20th century that highlighted research on particular plant groups. Floristic explorations and taxonomic studies, especially in remote tropical locations, allowed botanical gardens to expand their living and preserved collections. It also allowed them to advance as leading research centers for plant conservation.
Sanctuary Gardens: 20th and 21st centuries Today, much of the responsibility for the genetic protection of threatened species, along with ex situ protection of plants with economic and ecological importance, rests with botanical gardens. For instance, the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida propagates a handful of species that are listed as no longer existing in the wild: Anthurium leuconeurum (Araceae) from Chiapas, Mexico; Epidendrum ilense (Orchidaceae) from the Pinchincha Province in Ecuador; Platycerium grande (Polypodiaceae) from Mt. Banahau in the Philippines; and others. These species may depend upon the horticultural and scientific support of trained staff members at the Gardens for their survival. Botanical gardens have become flagships of our international botanical efforts in the service of science and humanity during an age of unparalleled ecological crisis.2
Stewardship in an age of crisis
Botanists have identified more than 400,000 species of plants worldwide.5 However,
- approximately 34,000 are threatened at present6
- two-thirds of the world's plant species are in danger of extinction during the course of the 21st century3
- of the 20,000 known plant species in the United States, more than 200 had already vanished by the end of the 20th century; and another 600 to 700 are in imminent jeopardy10
These plant species are in jeopardy because of a burgeoning human population that then affects proximate causes such as deforestation, habitat loss, the spread of invasive species, and agricultural expansion.3,6 Given the deplorable rates of deforestation throughout the tropics, where most of the planet's biodiversity is located, we stand to lose thousands of plant species worldwide in the next few decades unless we make a concerted and collaborative effort to conserve them.
Conservation is not always synonymous with preservation. Conservation implies wise management. Preservation means to put aside. Preservation can be a conservation strategy, however, for a natural resource that is rare, nonrenewable, or irreplaceable. For example, authorities for a national forest may decide to protect an old-growth stand from hunting, logging, and other extractive uses because of its overall value for posterity. Conservation, then, is an umbrella term that widely encompasses use and nonuse of natural resources, depending upon our management strategy. Ideally, that strategy should be based on four considerations:1
- What ecosystem service is provided by the resource?
- What is the economic benefit of the resource?
- What is the aesthetic value of the resource?
- What is the ethical value of the resource?
Ecosystem service
Easily overlooked are free services provided by nature, such as:
- clean air and water
- nitrogen cycling
- decomposition
- erosion control
- climate stability
It is near-to-impossible to place a dollar value on these benefits, and attempts to replace them with human technologies have fallen short. Mangroves are superior to seawalls, protecting our shorelines from wave erosion and acting as a resilient living barrier during hurricanes. Bacteria return nitrogen gas from our atmosphere to all other living things, where it is essential for the construction of proteins. No invention has been able to imitate that ancient global function. These services have immeasurable value for all living things on the planet.
Economic benefit
Many plants provide us with food, shelter, fuel, clothing, and medicines. Indigenous peoples face this reality on a daily basis. People in the United States and other affluent countries may think they live removed from local ecosystems, but no one escapes from nature entirely. As a global species, we gain our sustenance from our surroundings. For example:
- fully 50% of our medicines are derived from plants
- 25% of all prescription drugs have their origins in tropical forests
The Rosy Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is a native of Madagascar and is considered to be highly medicinal. Photo: Creative Commons.
The cinchona tree of the eastern Andean tropical forest yields the anti-malarial drug, quinine. The rosy periwinkle from Madagascar produces scores of different alkaloids, two of which led to major breakthroughs in cancer treatment. In addition to their medicinal value, plants provide us with numerous other economic benefits: food products, building materials, paper, ornamentation, fuelwood, green gas, even pest control (e.g., the use of the carnivorous plant, Utricularia, to trap aquatic insect pests in ponds). Life on the planet, much of it unexplored, represents a cornucopia of natural resources for humanity.
Aesthetic value
In addition to deriving our livelihood directly and indirectly from the planet's rich biodiversity, we also value species richness for
- recreation
- scientific research
- wonder
- and primal companionship
Early exploration of the tropical rainforest canopy yielded new kinds of organisms and new ecological processes unknown to us. Fishermen, hunters, skiers, golfers, pet owners, and boatmen all value the outdoors for their sports and livelihoods. And who can say how the faithful of major world religions have been affected by the natural world in which their credos emerged?
Ethical value
What is the moral basis for conserving our natural resources, especially the more diminutive, not-so-glamorous species such as bacteria, mosses, and worms? Some scientists argue that morality is the most valid reason for our management strategies, obligating us to do everything possible to prevent human-caused extinction everywhere on the planet. For many scientists, in situ preservation of species is the first commandment of conservation. As Aldo Leopold wrote in his A Sand County Almanac, "To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."8
Education and environmental ethics
Education and ethics are components of a vital formula for our survival on an ancient, but latterly threatened, planet. Already botanists have documented relentless threats facing the tropics and their plant stocks. Recent data from the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, released in September 2000 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, indicate that the global extinction crisis is worse than previously believed:14
- Not only has the magnitude of risk increased with forest areas shrinking around the world, but the capacity of remaining forests to maintain biodiversity also appears to be diminishing significantly.
- Plant species are declining most rapidly in Central and South America, historically important areas for many botanical gardens, as well as in Central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia.
- Some plants are no longer found in the wild. Botanists have catalogued and preserved many species of orchids and bromeliads that, because of tropical habitat destruction, may now exist only in greenhouses.
In short, the plants forming the basis of botanical gardens' core mission and ethics are under serious threat around the globe. A solid commitment to education and ethics could stem this appalling trend, launching botanical gardens as leaders in ecological stewardship.
Conclusion: the weight of a petal
Many modern botanical gardens started in far different times. Twenty-five years ago the threats to tropical systems were not as widely documented as they are now. Then we had barely begun our explorations in the world's treetops. Today we sense the imminent collapse of entire ecosystems, including many vital habitats for threatened plant species. The early mission of botanical gardens prioritized the exploration and cataloguing of the wealth of tropical rainforest flora that formed the basis of their plant collections. Today exploration and collection of species are increasingly limited by international regulations and botanical gardens are expanding the scope of their mission to be relevant in the next 25 years.
Botanists now recognize unequivocally the temporal/spatial ecological connections operating within plant communities. We no longer simply focus on collections of rare and unusual species but also include in situ and ex situ conservation of their ecological associates. Thanks to pioneering efforts during the last 25 years in many remote regions, especially the canopies of tropical rainforests, we now realize how little is known about the diversity and ecological richness of the world's plants — and how much effort is needed to conserve them. Botanical gardens can change the world as flagship institutions for research and education about the plant kingdom. Plants represent the basis of most life on the planet. Like the weight of a petal, a handful of botanical gardens across the globe can help us steward earth's green mantle and, thereby, insure our own survival in an age of ecological crisis.
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The Quebec government has announced plans to suspend the current academic session for striking students in an attempt to restore order in a province plagued by unrest.
Sticking with his planned tuition hikes, Premier Jean Charest says he will table emergency legislation aimed at ending three months of disorder that has occasionally made international headlines.
The fact that his announcement Wednesday was instantly followed by protests and warnings of potential violence underscored the challenge ahead.
His legislation would temporarily halt the spring semester for the minority of faculties paralyzed by the strikes; push up the summer holidays; and reconvene students in August so they can complete their session before starting the fall one in October.
The government also hinted at severe penalties for anyone who tries to picket or otherwise prevent students from entering classrooms.
Charest did not answer when asked about reports of stiff fines. He simply said those details would be revealed when the legislation is tabled — perhaps as early as Thursday.
He did make it clear that the legislation will target the crowds of protesters who have blocked access to schools, and even stormed into classrooms in an attempt to enforce what they call a legal strike.
"It's time for calm to be restored," Charest said Wednesday at a podium, flanked by several rectors and university-association officials.
"Access to education is a right. Nobody can pretend to defend access to education and then block the doors of a CEGEP or university."
"The current situation has lasted too long... Quebecers have a right to live in security."
Polls suggest Charest's unpopular government, facing a longshot re-election bid, might actually have public support for its tuition hikes. But the premier has responded angrily in recent weeks when accused of encouraging a climate of confrontation for his own political benefit.
Bracing for more of that criticism, the Charest government has bought ads in Thursday's newspapers explaining how it has already made several adjustments to its tuition plans to soften the impact on the poorest students.
The ads emphasize another point Charest is keen for people to understand: 70 per cent of Quebec students have quietly finished their semester and aren't even striking.
But the remaining legions of dissent won't easily be quelled.
Boisterous late-night protests were already being held in Montreal and Quebec City on Wednesday, while the government's most vocal opponents promised further defiance.
There were even whispers of worse trouble, potentially.
"If there is violence, if there are serious injuries, Premier Jean Charest will have to carry the blame for the rest of his political career," said a visibly furious Leo Bureau-Blouin, who had gained a reputation in recent months as perhaps the most composed and moderate student leader.
Seated next to him, Martine Desjardins said: "If Jean Charest wanted to reduce tensions with this proposal, I'm really afraid that it will increase them instead... Young people will remember."
The tumult in Quebec has repeatedly made international news. It happened again Wednesday morning. Foreign media picked up reports about groups of protesters storming into Montreal university classes and forcing students to get out.
The conflict has lasted three months and caused considerable damage — with numerous injuries, countless traffic jams, a few smashed windows, subway evacuations, clashes with law enforcement, a heavy police bill, and of course disruptions to the academic calendar.
The protests have even mushroomed beyond the cause of cheap tuition.
They have attracted a wide swath of other participants who dislike the Charest government and represent a variety of disparate causes — ranging from environmentalism, to Quebec independence, anti-capitalism and anarchy.
They have also prompted one of the most intense left-versus-right ideological clashes in recent Quebec history.
Such discussions have often taken a backseat in a province where the biggest debates since the 1960s have centred on independence, with political parties defined not by their differences on fiscal policy but by whether they're pro- or anti-sovereignty. Recently political discussions have shifted onto things like the income-tax burden, the role of the state, and individual responsibility.
The dispute claimed the province's education minister, who announced her resignation from politics earlier this week. Her replacement, Michelle Courchesne, said Wednesday she'd noticed a hardening of demands from student leaders.
"There is no openness to make the necessary compromises," she said.
Her remark came as a surprise to the student groups, who had emerged from a meeting the previous night saying they'd had a constructive dialogue with her.
Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois made it clear even before the announcement that she would oppose any legislated crackdown. Wearing the iconic red square of the protest movement, Marois said negotiation would always work better than coercion.
"I think the best way is to discuss," she said.
She picked up on an analogy used earlier in the day from a student leader. One student-group leader, Bureau-Blouin, had urged Charest to do the right thing as a "family father" — and deal with problems in the house, not call in the police.
Marois said that, speaking as a "family mother," she hoped for a peaceful resolution.
Quebec's bar association appeared to hold the same hope.
In a very nuanced, cautious statement, it called for mediated discussions between the students and government. It added that both parliamentarians and student leaders were democratically elected, the latter under provincial law governing student votes.
However, it also expressed concern over some protesters' disregard for the law. It called it "unacceptable" that legal injunctions, as well as the right to protest, appeared to have been ignored during occasionally violent clashes.
"For almost 14 weeks we've been watching growing social tensions and disruptions that are harmful to our social peace and legal democracy," the bar association said in a statement.
Opponents of the Charest government put their views far more tersely on Twitter.
"Charest (government) bringing in 'special law' to break student strike via stiff fines of picketers. It's time to rock n roll!" said Jaggi Singh, a well-known anarchist activist.
"Defying Charest's 'special law' is at heart a struggle for social justice, against capitalism & neo-liberalism." He said the "showdown is set" for next Monday, with a huge protest planned in Montreal.
Patrick Bourgeois, a hardcore pro-independence activist who recently quipped that this cause had turned him into a "revolutionary," was equally adamant.
"Now the system must be derailed," Bourgeois tweeted. "We will fight them intelligently, but we will fight them firmly, with courage!"
Under the latest version of its tuition plan, the Charest government would increase fees by $254 per year over seven years and then peg future increases to the level of inflation.
That would mean tuition increases of more than 75 per cent for Quebec students, who pay the lowest rates in Canada. The change would still mean some of the country's lowest rates.
But the antagonists in the dispute are casting this as much as a battle of principle as of public policy.
To the hike defenders, it's about improving the quality of universities, about students' personal responsibility, and about sparing Quebec's long-suffering taxpayers from an even heavier burden. To its opponents, it's about defending universal access to education against any future attempt to whittle it away.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version carried a typo in Martine Desjardins' name
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Core Scientology Scripture
Released in Chinese for the First Time
The Church of Scientology announced the milestone completion and release of the Chinese translation of core Scientology Scripture. The accomplishment marks the first time all of the fundamental works of Founder L. Ron Hubbard, comprising 18 books and 284 recorded lectures, have been accessible to the world's Chinese speaking population. The announcement was made by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, to more than 6,500 Scientologists attending the annual celebration of Mr. Hubbard's birthday in Clearwater, Florida.
The Chinese translation of these religious materials is part of ongoing preparations for the opening of the first major Church of Scientology in Taiwan, scheduled for fall 2012. The 109,000-square-foot Church, currently under final construction, stands in Kaohsiung and will serve as Asian headquarters for the religion. The new Church is necessitated by the meteoric growth of Scientology in Taiwan. The first Scientology Mission opened in Taichung in 1989. Today there are 17 Missions across the country: in the central region, including Taichung, Chang-Hua and Feng-Yuan; in the northern cities of Da-An, Dong-Chi, Taipei and Tao-Yuan; and to the south in Yung-Kang, Ping-Tung and Kaohsiung.
The Church of Scientology's translation program, served by more than 1,000 translators across 50 nations, represents the Church's continuing commitment to bring the entire body of L. Ron Hubbard's works to all. To date, this massive undertaking has included the restoration and release of more than 2,000 recorded lectures on compact disc and better than 1,000 articles accompanying those lectures—and all in addition to Mr. Hubbard's seminal Dianetics and Scientology books. In combination, these works present the day-to-day record of Mr. Hubbard's path of discovery and development, from his initial breakthroughs on the mind to the codification and rehabilitation of the human spirit. The release of this body of materials, in January 2010, represented the conclusion of a 25-year program to recover, restore and preserve the complete Scripture of the religion. The program was initiated by Mr. Hubbard in 1984 and was guided to completion by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center.
The Chinese translation brings the number of languages core Scientology Scripture are now available to 17: English, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Castilian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. Additionally, Mr. Hubbard's beginning books on Dianetics and Scientology are now published in 50 languages.
The Scientology religion was founded by author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was formed in the United States in 1954 and has today expanded to more than 10,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups, with millions of members in 167 countries.


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My daughter is 16 and I can honestly say I've never told her a lie. I told her that I was her own personal Santa and that we can help out other Santas by giving to the toys for tots drives and what not. I told her that shots would hurt but that they were important and I told her why they were important. I told her that someone else's mommy got mad at her mommy and said they couldn't play together anymore. I even told her that I made a mistake and that her daddy and I would be getting a divorce.
Weirdly (to some), she has turned out great. And, she TRUSTS me to tell her the truth. She knows if I don't know, I will say I don't know. And, if I do know, I will tell her like it is. Of course when she was younger, I didn't tell her the whole story on everything, it's important to give your kids age appropriate information. And, it's important to teach your kids not to break the hearts of their friends by exposing the lies their parents have told them. But, I think my daughter is much better off with me telling her the truth than she would be if I lied to her whenever I thought it was more convenient to do so. YES, it makes for hard conversations sometimes but it is worth it because getting through those hard moments is what makes us closer and our bond stronger.
I agree with Sarah! My daughters are now 27 and 25. To this day my younger one reminds me how DEVASTATED she was when she found out that I had lied to her about Santa-the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. Some children/adults view the world in black and white. In her mind if I lied about THOSE things then I could have lied about EVERYTHING! She now has a 4yo son and she doesn't tell him about Sants but about the spirit behind the season. He knows that he has lots of people to ask for gifts if he wants something. AND he knows that he won't be disappointed when he doesn't get EVERYTHING he asks for because we are not made of money!


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To New Yorkers, George Steinbrenner – who passed away Tuesday – was simply "The Boss."
As the owner of the New York Yankees, he opened his checkbook, hiring super stars who helped bring seven World Series trophies to a city that considers itself the Mecca of professional baseball.
Around New York there was almost immediate reaction to his passing. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, declaring few people have had a bigger impact on the city than Mr. Steinbrenner, ordered the flags at City Hall plaza to be lowered to half staff in Steinbrenner's honor. "George was a larger than life New York figure whose passion and drive to succeed will forever be missed," said Mr. Bloomberg in a statement.
IN PICTURES: George Steinbrenner through the years
Steinbrenner's influence went beyond New York. He was, in many respects, the first owner to embrace free agency, offering top players unheard of sums of money to join the Yankees. In the process, he revolutionized professional sports, ushering in the current era of multimillionaire athletes.
"He came into baseball a few years before free agency and was one of the first owners to realize the opportunities it presented," says Andrew Zimbalist, a professor at Smith College and the author of "Circling the Bases: the Future of the Sports Business," which will be published this fall. "
By exploiting those opportunities in the world's largest entertainment market, Steinbrenner was a trailblazer in the commercialization of baseball, followed by the other pro sports in the United States," he adds. "He spent money not only on the players but also on the front office, promotion and advertising."
After buying the Yankees from CBS in 1973 for $8.7 million as the majority owner of an investor group, his impact on the franchise was enormous and immediate. "Those CBS teams were awful," recalls Doug Muzzio, a political commentator at Baruch College and a long-time Yankee fan. "He brought back the premier sports franchise and he did it in a swashbuckling way."
In 1974, he signed free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter to a $750,000-a-year contract. At the time, most of baseball's top players were making little more than $100,000 a year. Two years later, Steinbrenner signed outfielder Reggie Jackson.
In subsequent years, the trend only accelerated. Today, the Yankees pay third baseman Alex Rodriguez $33 million a year, the highest salary in baseball.
In fact, partially because of Steinbrenner's penchant for paying super-size salaries Major League Baseball established a luxury tax to try to equalize the differences between large-market teams like the Yankees and small-market teams.
In the first seven years of the luxury tax, the Yankees have paid $175 million. This year, the team has a salary of $206,333,389, the most in the major leagues.
Steinbrenner was known for his mercurial temperament, such as his hiring and firing of the late Billy Martin as manager five times. Mr. Martin had public feuds with Steinbrenner, including one where he suspended Mr. Jackson for trying to bunt instead of swing. After the game, Martin told reporters that Jackson and Steinbrenner deserved each other. "One's a born liar [Jackson], and the other's convicted," said Martin, referring to Steinbrenner's conviction of an illegal political contribution to Richard Nixon in 1972.
"It was a serial soap opera," recalls Muzzio of the Martin affairs. "It was all entertainment."
Despite its Bronx location, the Yankees became a major tourist and fan attraction, drawing some 4 million fans, the largest in baseball. Steinbrenner also formed his own television network, the YES network, which broadcasts many of the Yankees' games.
Although Steinbrenner was known for his big player salaries, he also gave away millions to charity through the Steinbrenner Foundation which supports medical care for disadvantaged children, musicians, firefighters, and slain law enforcement officers. He was also known to anonymously donate millions to athletic and educational causes in Florida's Hillsborough County, where he lived.
On Tuesday night Major League Baseball will play its annual All-Star game, which includes six Yankees. New York Gov. David Paterson commented: "I hope we all take a moment to remember the life and legacy of George Steinbrenner: the owner, the businessman, the husband and father, the Boss."
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Silversea Summer Sails for Foodie Funby Janice Wald Henderson | 04.06.12
New European culinary adventures expand the list of the cruise line's summer shore excursions.
Dinner at Château Haut-Bailly in Bordeaux, France may be the most gourmet highlight. The fabled winery sits above a lush, expansive vineyard in the heart of the Graves and Pessac-Léognan region. Guests enjoy a tour, wine tasting and four-course gourmet dinner (paired with fine wine) served with style at this Grand Cru class winery.
Rivaling that Bordeaux highlight is the Médoc & Château Cordeillan-Bages luncheon. First, visit legendary Château Lynch-Bages to learn about winemaking techniques. After sampling two vintages, head next-door for an elegant three-course luncheon at Château Cordeillan-Bages, a boutique hotel that has earned two Michelin stars (three is the highest) for its stellar cuisine. Michelin two-star restaurants are difficult to score reservations for; this excursion is a great way in the door and to receive VIP treatment.
In Odessa, Russia, take a cooking class at Dacha restaurant, tucked inside a resplendent 19th century mansion on famed Frantsuzsky Boulevard. This illustrious home was once a summer residence for Odessa's nobility. The cooking class is hands-on, and yes, you will sit down and gobble up the sumptuous repast you prepare – with a glass (or two) of Ukranian vodka, naturally. Luckily, someone else will drive back to the ship.
I'm all for chocolate tastings – anywhere in the world – and on a Silversea visit to Dubrovnik, Croatia, you can take an Old Town walking tour just for chocolate lovers. After soaking up the scenery, the cobbled streets and medieval architecture, you visit Dubravka restaurant for a blowout chocolate tasting. Consider the walk a workout (I would), to feel free to indulge in delicious dark and white chocolate sweets, flavored with fruit, nuts and Mediterranean herbs.
In Bodrum, Turkey, sign up for the cooking class at the popular Denizce seafood restaurant. This is a hands-on class; you will learn how to prepare the chef's family recipes using his techniques and Turkish ingredients. It's a cool thing to do and gives you lots of bragging rights for the next cocktail party back home. For more information on these culinary shore excursions and more, visit silversea.com.)


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I have a weird problem of connecting to a wireless network. I am connecting to a network named "C-202" with WPA-Personal. This network shows up in the scan results some time and won't show some time. I can't really figure out a pattern from this. Sometime the network won't show up. It may work after few restarts.
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Wicd initially and thought this was the problem with wicd. Uninstalled wicd and started using
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This shows a list of networks available, but not the one I want to connect. I can connect to that network from other computers, but not from this.
Interestingly, when I change the SSID from
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C-202-New, it shows up in the list and I can connect. The connection works for few days and the problem starts again. Changing the SSID again will fix it. It looks to me like some cache is messing things up.
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03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
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ROBIN ASKWITH from 'Confessions...' films
Robin appeared in a number of film and television roles before two key appearances in 1973. The first was in appearing in Antony Balch's Horror Hospital. Now seen as something of a cult film, it is in many ways a bizarre hybrid of horror and the mild titillation of the later 'Confessions...' films. In the same year Askwith also appeared in a Carry On film, Carry On Girls. These appearances led producers Norman Cohen, Greg Smith and Michael Klinger to offer him the starring role in Confessions of a Window Cleaner after the part was turned down by several other previous candidates, Richard Beckinsale, Richard O'Sullivan, Nicky Henson and Dennis Waterman. The success of the film led to three sequels, Confessions of a Pop Performer, Confessions of a Driving Instructor and Confessions from a Holiday Camp.
Although the Confessions series came to an end with Confessions from a Holiday Camp, a fifth and a sixth film, Confessions of a Plumber's Mate and Confessions of a Private Soldier had been planned in 1977. Askwith even expressed a desire to direct Private Soldier, but neither film materialised. Plans to shoot a further made-for-video Confessions film in the 1980s also came to nothing, although by this time he was appearing in the ITV sitcom Bottle Boys.
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Milton D. Feeney, 70, of rural Solon, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 at Mercy Hospital following an extended illness.
Memorial Mass was celebrated Thursday, Feb. 19, at St. Wenceslaus Church with Rev. Michael Phillips officiating. Memorials may be directed to the Milton D. Feeney Memorial Fund. Arrangements are with Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service.
Milton was born Nov. 10, 1938, in Davenport, the son of Charles and Helen Feeney. On June 24, 1967, Milt married Sandra Jones.
Angela Nejdl Everett (of Ginsberg Jewelers, Cedar Rapids), arrived at St. Luke's Hospital 8:05 a.m. on Oct. 3, 1948. Departed St. Luke's at 5:43 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2009.
Angela was the daughter of Robert and Vilma (Polehna) Nejdl. She also leaves behind Aunt Vera; cousins; many friends; and her menagerie, Emily, Yusa, Icky Bird, The Mayor and Gracie.
Her lifetime devotion to her animals was evident over many years. One example was having a prosthetic beak made for her pet goose, Husa.
Jerry Robert Cahill, 46, of North Liberty, lost his brief but courageous battle with liver cancer on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, at KU Med.
Edward "Ed" Michael Boyle, 70, of Marion, died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy, Hiawatha, surrounded by his loving family. Funeral Mass was held Saturday, Feb. 21, at St. Jude Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids by Father Phil Thompson. Visitation was Feb. 20 at Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Marion. Burial was in Campbell Cemetery, Bertram.
Wilma Mae (Smahel) Bowersox, 93, of Swisher, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at Higley Mansion Care Center in Cedar Rapids. Visitation was Sunday, Feb. 15, at Brosh Chapel in Cedar Rapids. Services were held Monday, Feb. 16, at Brosh Chapel, with burial following in the Shueyville Cemetery.
Wilma was born July 11, 1915, in Johnson County, the daughter of Emil and Libbie (Becicka) Smahel. She graduated from Shueyville High School. She married Robert Bowersox in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 14, 1939.
The greatest challenges facing the 83rd General Assembly are balancing the budget during a severe recession and providing disaster relief to hard hit counties in Iowa. These issues notwithstanding, there is a better way to do government business.
At first I learned of the News Agency through stories Dad brought home.
Since the yarns came from Dad– no stranger to telling a whopper just for the heck of it– I had no way of knowing the accuracy of anything he told me.
IOWA CITY– I'm looking at the Iowa bench in their 49-45 home loss to Purdue last Saturday and I saw three starters who couldn't play against the Boilermakers.
First you have Anthony Tucker, academically ineligible, who is the Hawks' best three-point shooter, along with Matt Gatens.
Sitting next to Anthony was Jeff Peterson, Iowa's only true point guard, who leads the team in assists and steals.
Jeff has been playing with a broken bone in his left wrist, but a hamstring pull in last Wednesday's loss to Wisconsin put him on the bench for the whole game.
Carey Lynn Van Etten, 51, of Mount Vernon, died Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 in her home following a courageous battle with cancer. Services were held Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids, by the Rev. Bill Harnish. Visitation was Monday, Feb. 9, at the funeral home. Burial was in Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Survivors include her husband, Ben; her mother, Marlene Lisenbee of North Liberty; her brother, Bob (Terese) Lisenbee of North Liberty; her in-laws, John (Marilyn) Van Etten of Cedar Rapids; and numerous other relatives.
Christopher L. Tilley, 35, of Ely, died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 at home. Arrangements are pending with Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Cedar Rapids.


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I'm an American, and a New Yorker at that, so I am all for change – but I was really saddened yesterday to see that this very romantic old store has been turned into just another big name jewelry boutique.
Let's put aside that this was a fur shop, that is a different argument for a different day. The interior of this place was pure 50′s Italian, all wood-lined and fixtured. The kind of shop that you just don't see very often anymore, and really remember when you do see it. (Actually, I don't know what exact period this shop was built so if any of our Florence friends know anything about the history of this place we would love to hear.)
The main reason I took this shot was not just the the dramatic lighting, but while I was admiring the store signage this little old lady's head popped around the curtain to take a look at something down the street.
I love the shot the way it is – stoic, silent, elegant, reeking of old world glamour and the little movement in the curtain keeps it from being too stiff. However, if I'd been able to get the shot with the lady's head in the window it would be hanging on my wall at home. The picture, not the little lady's head – did I make that clear?


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