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PICS: Proof of One Direction's Sexuality?
Monday, June 18th, 2012
All boy bands, at one time or another, have gotten the assumed notion of being "gay". Whether it's because of their songs or actions, people like to make claims. The youngest of the pack is One Direction. Even though the bandmates have tried to put the rumors to bed, the public still speculates the truth. These gifs show a certain side to the boys http://bit.ly/KHnFAU
We all get caught on camera doing things at weird angles. So, is this just several of those "angles" or is this proof ~Jeremy

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Research Profile
Dr Bella Dicks
Selected Publications
Dicks, B. (ed) (2011; in press) Digital Qualitative Research Methods, 4 volume Major Work, London: Sage (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series)
Dicks, B. (2011) 'Closing the Gap: A reflection on Late 20th Century Visitability', in Snape, R. (ed) Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in 20th Century Britain, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 135-152
Dicks, B. and Mason, B. (2011), Clickable data: Hypermedia and Social Research, in S. Hesse-Biber (ed) The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research New York: Oxford University Press
Hurdley, R. and Dicks, B. (2011) In-between practice: working in the 'third space' of sensory and multimodal ethnography, Qualitative Research, (Impact factor pending) 11 (3) 277-292.
Dicks, B., Flewitt, R., Lancaster, L. and Pahl, K. (2011) 'Multimodality and ethnography: working at the intersection', Qualitative Research, 11 (3) 227-238.
Dicks, B. and Mason, B. (2008) 'Hypermedia methods for qualitative research, in S. Hesse-Biber and P. Leavy (eds) The Handbook of Emergent Methods, New York: Guilford Publications
Dicks, B. and Hurdley, R. (2009) Using unconventional media to disseminate qualitative research, Qualitative Researcher, 10. pp 2-6.
Dicks, B. and Mason, B. (2008) Hypermedia Methods for Qualitative Research, in S. Nagy Hesse-Biber and P. Levy (eds) Handbook of Emergent Methods New York: The Guilford Press.
Dicks B. (2008) Performing the Hidden Injuries of Class in Coal-Mining Heritage, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 3, 436-452
Dicks, B., Mason, B., Coffey, A. and Atkinson, P. (2005) Qualitative research and Hypermedia: ethnography for the digital age, London: Sage.
Dicks, B. (2004) Culture on Display: The production of contemporary visitability. Open University Press.
Dicks, B. (2000) Heritage, Place and Community, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Dicks, B., Soyinka, B. and Coffey, A. (2006) Multimodal ethnography, Qualitative Research 6 (1), 77-96.
Scourfield, J. Dicks, B., Holland, S. and Drakeford, M. (2006) The significance of place in middle childhood, The British Journal of Sociology, 57 (4) pp 577-596
Scourfield, J., Dicks, B., Drakeford, M. and Davies, A. (2006) Children, Place and Identity, London: Routledge.
Waddington, D., Critcher, C., Dicks, B. and Parry, D. (2001) Out of the Ashes? The Social Impact of Industrial Contraction and Regeneration on Britain's Mining Communities London: Routledge.


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In this podcast, Carl Pritchard examines the worth of earned value management systems (EVMS), addresses the infrastructure requirements to get an EVMS off the ground, and reveals the keys to keeping it successful.
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This is a perennial favourite among us. Almost everything that has Chai Por aka Preserved Radish taste great. Chai por egg, chai por fish, chwee kueh, chai tow kueh blah blah blah.... When combined with garlic and lightly fried with oil, it has this irresistible salty, crunchy and aromatic flavour.
Cheap, ubiquitous and classic.
Recently all that fatty, rich and high blood pressure inducing food that I've been dumping into my belly (WITH RELISH!) has taken a toil on my appetite and I can feel my movements becoming sluggish. yah right.... So plain porridge combined with this simple dish seems like a healthy meal.
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- A few pieces of dried large black fungus soak and dice around the same size as the chai por.
- A few pieces of dried chinese mushroom soak and dice around the same size as the chai por.
- 2 tablespoon of dried white bait, wash and pat dry.
- A few cloves of garlic, smash and chopped. I'd normally use half a bulb.
- 2 large eggs.
- Salt and sugar to taste.
Fry garlic till aromatic but taking care not to brown it too much as it will become bitter. Then dump in the chai por, black fungus and mushroom. Stir fry till you can see the chai por "dancing" in the heat. Taste a little to see if you need more salt. Add in some sugar as well. Crack the 2 eggs in, break it up and fry it till it becomes solid and browned.
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You speak false doctrines in God's name which is a mighty sin, you are being used as a tool of the devil to confuse the faithful in Christ, in fact you yourself are confused because you are oppressed by unclean spirits.
The truth is, "God is the same, yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8)
He does not change to suit the latest fads. The God who called homosexuality an abomination does not change his views on sin, nor will he tolerate anyone who calls good evil and evil good. You must REPENT! of this sin and beg Gods forgiveness through Christ our Lord, or you will hear the four scariest words in the history of the world on the Judgement Day when you stand before Christ:
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Hell is a kingdom that rules RIGHT NOW in the world. But God's kingdom is more powerful.
Rome -- "May God forgive you." That's Cardinal Timothy Dolan's translation of a joke that Pope Francis told the College of Cardinals a day after being elected the 267th pontiff.
Having watched the prayerful mien of some of the cardinals going into the papal conclave that would elect Argentinean Jorge Mario Bergoglio pope, I have reason to believe that God had something to do with Papa Francisco, as the Romans call their bishop.
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Visualization in Landscape photography is a term made famous by American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, who is one of the fathers of American Landscape Photography, and one of the most famous photographers in Landscape photography.
One of the components in Ansel Adams' armoury of components regarding photography was his ability to 'visualize'. He is quite famous for using that term. Put simply, visualization is the ability to see the final photographic print in the minds eye before pressing the shutter.
But what prompted me to write this post was a comment I read by someone somewhere saying that the term visualization was vague. And this particular person admitted to not knowing what Adams what talking about. Of course, that was just a comment somewhere on the internet, and people are entitled to have their say. I though, feel very differently about the term visualization and what it means to me, so I thought I'd put a few words down.
When I read about visualization for the first time, I'd been taking photographs for a long while already (whilst backpacking around the world) and it really chimed with me, and it is and always will be very important to the way that I take my photos.
Adams was describing a process that he uses when he took photographs. It was personal to him, his photography, his style, his subject matter and also bound to an extent to the technology that he was using. Once Adams became a well known photographer, his views on photography were in demand and he distilled a lot of his processes into words and labels. And visualization is just a label he gave to a process. So what exactly is the process?
If you search Ansel Adams quotes on the internet you will see this quote over and over again…
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
That is what Adams said. But he wasn't dictating a rule that must be obeyed, he was merely expressing how he took photographs. We however, can cherry pick the bits and pieces we like from here there and everywhere, re-interpret them so that they fit our way of working, and apply them to our own photography as we see fit.
So, now I will speak only for myself and from my own experience, so that you may ignore, cherry pick or copy as you see fit!
What Adams described is actually an ability that we all have. Children have it too. If you ask a child to draw something that they can't see in front of them, in other words draw from imagination, they will do so. They will picture what they want to draw in their minds eye and they will draw or paint it on a piece of paper, and they will compose all the elements that they want to draw very simply, and in a way that makes them happy.
That is a version of visualization.
In photography, visualization is not so different. And for me it means this…
When I am wandering around the world taking photos, I kind of allow the photos to come to me. What I mean by that is that I relax as far as the photography is concerned and I wander around and only stop to take a photograph when I have that intuitive moment. And "that intuitive moment" is the moment when I say something like
"I bet that would make a good photo."
…Or some variation of!
Usually an intuitive moment comes into view out of the blue because external objects (trees, roads, buildings) move around in relation to each other when we move, so moving around creates new compositions of the same scene. If you want to move a tree in the foreground to the left, you just move a few meters to the right. You can even move mountains this way!
And when the elements come into alignment I say…and maybe you have also said……
"Wow! I bet that would make a good photo."
How many times have you said that to yourself when just walking along a road, or walking to the shops, or hiking in the hills? And how many times have you overheard other people say it? Like on a hiking path or somewhere similar. I overhear it quite often. It doesn't really matter if we have a camera handy or not, people still say it.
And so, as with the example of the children, visualization is a human thing, rather than a photography thing.
And that is the raw ingredient in visualization. What you do next is entirely up to you. It's your photograph!
Ansel Adams related his photography to manipulating tonal values in black and white photography. He created his prints in a traditional darkroom. He was seeing a black and white print in his minds eye based partly on his technical understanding of a mechanical process.
I am a digital photographer and I mostly use Photoshop with Nik Software plugins, and so that is the technical process that I understand, and am tuned into. You will have your own processes that you are tuned into.
A number of things happen when I have that "I-bet-that-will-make-a-good-photo" moment. First of all I see the graphic elements that I want to photograph. Maybe it's shapes made by the branches of trees, or maybe it's a harsh shadow creating a graphic shape across the street. Maybe it is just a pretty street.
The next thing that I see are the straight edges of the frame that will contain the final image, and that is where I see the aspect ratio too, whether it is panoramic, square or rectangle.
And at this point in my own process, visualization starts to merge into (or turn into) pure composition, as in where do I want to place the elements of my picture, what to leave out of the frame and what to keep in. And do I have to move around a bit to 'place' the elements in a more aesthetically pleasing way?
And sometimes, but not always, I will see a specific Photoshop effect for the image. So I might see the scene in black and white, or I might think that the blue sky should be pure black, via a black and white conversion. or I might see a more even exposure with shadow and highlights much more equalised, possibly even a HDR (shock, horror, gulp!)
What I have described above is a visualize-as-I-go technique for visualizing images, or I suppose you could call it visualizing on-the-fly. But there is another way to visualize a photograph, and I use that method occasionally too, just not as often, which I will now explain.
I have a collection (in my mind) of pre-determined compositions that I use if I am in the right place at the right time. Some of those compositions I have created myself, and have unconsciously repeated them so often that I have now stored them in my mind as a fixed pre-conceived composition. And some of the compositions I have copied from other photographers, partly after I started reading magazines and their fondness for a particular dawn or dusk light which I too liked very much.
For example there is a pre-conceived composition that I personally call the Classic Sweeping Vista. This composition suits that very special light that you get at dawn or dusk. So if you are down on the beach you might take a picture at dawn of a foreground object like a piece of bedrock with dawn light reflecting off its shiny surface showing it's texture in the subtle light. There may be a rockpool too reflecting the dawn sky surrounded by darker beach. The view fans out towards the sea and horizon, the sea may be smoothed out using a long exposure. Then you get to the horizon some way up the frame with a low sun radiating dawn light though wispy clouds. And that is what I call the classic sweeping vista, which is a composition that can be applied to landscapes and beaches all over the world. If you used that composition at midday you would get a balanced photograph, but the composition wouldn't suit the lighting conditions of midday. That composition also suits a wide angle lens. Something as wide as 15mm-20mm on a full frame DSLR.
Once you are tuned into these pre-conceived compositions you can then plan ahead to apply them at specific times in specific locations. That often means scouting locations before hand and visualizing the potential dawn or dusk light and working out where the sun will be at those times. This process can take place days, weeks or even months before pressing the shutter.
The location may be discovered by accident or you may know the location intimately. For me, I will often happen upon a location and see the potential for a photograph. If the location fits one of those pre-conceived compositions, like the Sweeping Vista, but the light and time of day is wrong for that particular composition, then I may plan a future visit. I think some people may refer to that as pre-visualization, but I tend to lump everything like this under the one term of visualization.
So, after all that…my interpretation of visualization is that it is a visual human reaction to our environment that is then refined and applied to the making of a photograph.
Visualization is your natural intuitive response to a landscape, whether it be rural or urban. It is unique to you and no one else. Visualizing on-the-fly will give you an opportunity to be original and have fun with your camera whether you are in your back garden, or half way around the world on a trip of a lifetime.
The way you visualize is already a part of you. So it is something that you can tap into right now. You don't need endless practice or years of experience. Just get out there and be instinctive!!
What you do now is up to you!
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Sundar Pichai is the Board Member at Jive Software.
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 and is currently Senior Vice President of product management. He leads the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's consumer products, including Google Toolbar, Chrome and Chrome OS. He is also responsible for the HTML5 and open web platform efforts at Google.
Sundar brings more than 15 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products.
Before joining Google, he held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.
Sundar received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal.
He holds an M.S. from Stanford University.
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Does Julius Caesar really need introduction?
He was a raging liberal (sort of), he knew how to throw a good party, he was ridiculously charismatic. He was a badass (when he was kidnapped by pirates, he went back after he was ransomed and crucified them), and, oh yeah, he conquered Gaul. On his own. And wrote a flawless book about it. And there was something about crossing the rubicon?
BAMF! This is why I LOVE Roman history. Love. It. Would totally tap that if I went back in time.


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In December 1980 several sightings of a UFO were reported in Rendlesham Forest.
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MUNSTER | Employees of two businesses on Calumet Avenue were tied up during armed robberies Monday evening and Wednesday morning, according to Munster Police.
The employees freed themselves and called police in both robberies, said Sgt. Steve Kovacik, police information officer for the Munster Police Department.
At about 8 p.m. Monday, three black males between the ages of 20 and 30 walked into the Radio Shack store at 7967 Calumet Ave. in the Calumet Shopping Center. One of the suspects was armed with a black semi-automatic handgun, Kovacik said.
According to the police report, a female and a male employee were ordered into the back room and their hands taped behind their backs.
Kovacik said one suspect is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 180 pounds. Another is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing approximately 130 pounds. The third suspect is only described as being in his late 20s.
Electronic merchandise and cash from the register, totaling $20,000, was taken in the robbery, he said.
The three suspects fled in a vehicle. However there is no current description of that vehicle, Kovacik said.
On Wednesday, a black male entered through the back door of the T-Mobile store at 7942 Calumet Ave. shortly after the store opened at 10 a.m. He was armed with a silver semi-automatic handgun, according to the police report.
The suspect tied up the male clerk with wire and left him in the employee restroom. The police were notified of the robbery at 10:35 a.m. when the clerk freed himself.
Kovacik said the suspect is described as about 5 feet 9 inches tall and was wearing a white construction hat, a black jacket with red accents and tan-color Carhartt-type work pants.
An undetermined number of cell phones were taken in the robbery. The value isn't currently known, he said.
No vehicle was seen at the crime scene, Kovacik said.
Anyone with information about either of these robberies is asked to contact the Munster Police Department at the non-emergency number, (219) 836-6600.


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Disneyland also will begin enforcing Fastpass return times, starting next week
Written by Robert Niles
Following the lead of Walt Disney World, the Disneyland theme parks in California will begin enforcing return times for Fastpass ride-reservation tickets, starting next week.
With the new return-time requirements, let's hope that you don't end up with FPs for returns at the same time, on opposite sides of the park, as I did at Disneyland Paris last summer.
Until now, you simply had to come back at any time after your Fastpass return window opened in order to get into the shorter Fastpass-holders' queue for a participating attraction. Starting Monday, you'll need to return within the specific one-hour time window listed on the ticket. Show up after your return time window closes, and Disney won't let you into the shorter Fastpass queue.
Disney World made the switch to prepare for its new Fastpass+ ride reservation system, which allows hotel guests to schedule visits to multiple attractions in advance of their visit. While many (if not most) visitors did return within their specified time window, more and more visitors had figured out that they could come back any time later in the day, which was compromising Disney's ability to keep the Fastpass queues as short as possible, as returns backed up later in the day. With Fastpass+, Disney wants more precision in the system.
Disney's not said a word yet about bringing FastPass+ and its NextGen reservation systems to Disneyland, which serves a much, much larger number of local visitors and annual passholders than the Walt Disney World Resort. But if Disney's going to provide a specific time window for a return, as opposed to saying "come back anytime after X o'clock," it simply makes sense for Disney to try to enforce that time.
That said, Disneyland fans, now you know. No more stashing Fastpasses through the day. It's use it or lose it time, starting next week.
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From Charles Reichley on February 11, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Funny that they didn't enforce it. The only thing I'd add is that, if I were designing the system, I would offer the ability for a customer to specifically request a later return time, to take care of the issue you hit. So long as they schedule it, and there's times available, it shouldn't really be an issue for them.
From 184.108.40.206 on February 11, 2013 at 6:22 PM
Interesting thought. It would be great if you could choose your return window. The machine would say "come back after X o'clock." And then you would have the ability to program in which hour you would like to return.
From Eric G on February 11, 2013 at 7:31 PM
When you took the picture of the FastPass with the same return time I'm sure you did so out of amazement, not despair. Clearly, a real "Theme Park Insider" would know that this is not really a concern. Most Disney attractions, certainly the ones with FastPass, take minutes to complete, not hours. Arrive at one of the attractions at the start of the return window and you'll finish with ample time to make your way to the other. However, if for some reason you're too inept to do that then I'm certain that guest relations can appease your misfortune. Frankly, when this happens it's really the fault of the guest for failing to pay attention to the return time that is offered.
From N B on February 11, 2013 at 7:47 PM
It is hard to believe Disney has never enforced this.... I didn't know you could come back ant any time and still get on the ride / attraction.
From Robert Niles on February 11, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Actually, Eric, at DLP the two attractions not only were on opposite sides of the largest Magic Kingdom park, there was a parade going on in between them at the same time, blocking the most direct route between them and forcing us to go all the way around through Fantasyland. And there was only a half-hour window to get to both.
That said, heck yeah, I made the window for both. I am a trained professional, after all. ;^)
From Anthony Murphy on February 11, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Its a good article, but why are people surprised? I never even dared to try and use a Fastpass after the time was up. Then again, I don't know of a time I let a Fastpass expire.
From Beth Olliges on February 11, 2013 at 10:55 PM
I like the idea suggested above of being able to choose your return time at the FP machine. What if you get there and the posted return time is when you have a dining reservation (or, like Robert's example, you have a FastPass for a different ride during that window)? Do they expect you just to hang out until the FP return time changes on the sign? Or to go do something else and come back later, when perhaps all the FastPasses have been distributed? I'd be really bummed out if I arrived at a FP machine for a favorite ride only to discover that the return time conflicted with my existing plans, while knowing that I might not be able to circle back and get one for a better time. Maybe I'll just stop making dinging reservations. Since my boyfriend and I usually travel as a couple, we've lucked into a two-top table with a relatively short wait on many occasions.
From AJ Hummel on February 11, 2013 at 11:25 PM
Although I did sometimes take advantage of the loopholes in the system, I'm glad the park will be enforcing the window. Overall, it will probably work better that way. I've seen way too many instances where the Fastpass line was overflowing and the standby line had to come to a virtual standstill in order to keep the Fastpass line under 20 minutes (example: at Space Mountain, I once saw the standby line as being just under the cover before entering the mountain, but since the Fastpass line was all the way out the entrance the standby wait time was over an hour).
If they are going to enforce windows, however, I think one of two changes need to happen:
1. Selection of windows. Either have riders be able to select a window when getting their Fastpass at the attraction, or have a centralized distribution center where all passes for the day can be obtained at once. In both cases, each window has a set number of passes and once a window is fully booked no more passes will be distributed for it. If there was a centralized distribution center, I would add the restrictions that a. only one Fastpass for any attraction may be obtained per day and b. windows must be a set amount apart (say one hour between the end of one window and the start of the next). This would keep guests from taking too many Fastpasses at once. In either case, once tickets are collected they may not be exchanged unless a ride goes down (in which case they will either be good the rest of the day at that attraction if the breakdown occurred during the window or can be exchanged for a pass to another attraction if the ride will be down all day).
2. Validation stickers. If something happens that interferes with your window (slow service at a restaurant, unexpected trip to first aid, stuck on a ride, etc.), you would be able to get a validation sticker that will allow you to use your pass after the window has ended. Also, in the event of a ride you hold a Fastpass for being closed for an extended period of time, it would be nice to be able to transfer your Fastpass to another attraction if you wish (with a separate validation sticker that can only be obtained at the closed attraction, of course).
From Aaron McMahon on February 12, 2013 at 3:26 AM
The whole point of Fast Pass was to offer virtual queuing so that guests will have more time to spend in restaurants and gift shops instead of waiting in line. Now that they are enforcing the windows guests might feel more rushed and end up spending less money.
I could get another Tequila shot in Mexico pavilion but I have to leave to catch my Test Track window.
I think this claim that "late fast pass users are clogging up lines" is a lot of BS or hyperbole. It's not that hard to figure out how to distribute between fast pass and stand by capacity. Cast member's have recommended us to come back later with our fast passes when one of the sides of Sorin' is down.
From Mark Hollamon on February 12, 2013 at 6:25 AM
Good article Robert. I am surprised they never enforced the FP windows in the first place. Doesn't really follow the spirit of the plan, does it?
From Ryan Spann on February 12, 2013 at 7:06 AM
Just this past summer I was at WDW with my family. The fast pass time slots were pretty annoying, especially trying to get on BTMR and Space Mountain, AND Splash Mountain.I remember trying to run towards the back end of the parade as it went through Frontierland one night in order to get around it to Splash Mountain before our Fast Passes expired. We got there about five minutes late but luckily the cast member let us slide in anyway.
From Tyler Stover on February 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM
I like the idea of a validation sticker for exceptions with slow service, delays, etc. The "choose your own return time window" idea sounds good at first, but I imagine in execution the distribution would be so painfully slow. Annoyed when people spend a long time queuing at counter service restaurants only to look at the menu for the first time when they reach the counter? Imagine a line at fastpass distribution where guests start thinking about what time they want to and are able to return when they get to the machine. I've seen long enough lines even though all you have to do right now is just stick your ticket or pass in and take the FP ticket that dispenses.
From Jay R. on February 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM
I usually only get 1 or 2 per day, other wise, my group always just does the single rider line when available.
However, this will make the RSR Fastpass line.........
From 188.8.131.52 on February 12, 2013 at 8:22 PM
I am one of the guys that used the 'FastPass' when ever it was convenient, even if it was expired. In fact near the end of the night I almost always had 2 or 3 unused 'Fastpass' and would hand them to someone just coming into the park.
I guess that I should not have abused it, but it did make for a stress free relaxing day.
I hope the new wrist-band system will make our visit just as enjoyable.
We will soon see.
Donald, BC Canada
From 220.127.116.11 on February 13, 2013 at 11:51 PM
I don't believe the idea of choosing your own return time for the Fast Pass would work.
During the mornings, when lines are shorter, there is less reason to get a Fast Pass **if the return times are enforced** because you don't save much time versus being in the standby line. The lines tend to be longest in the evenings, especially after parades and nighttime shows, and the demand would be greater for Fast Passes around those times.
The logic of the Fast Pass system is that a ride's Fast Passes are used up in sequence throughout the day until all Fast Passes have been distributed.
Those who have the knowledge that return times were not being enforced could "game the system" by collecting Fast Passes throughout the day, and then using them during popular times. This would force the standby line to slow considerably for a given ride because the allocated number of Fast Passes for a given hour, say 8-9 pm, were being far exceeded by people who had collected them for earlier return times.
I don't think that most people realize that when the system was rolled out in 1999, Disney told the media that the idea was for visitors to collect their pass and then stay in the general area of that major attraction and shop, eat at a restaurant, or go on a smaller attraction with a shorter line. Visitors would benefit by being able to do other things than spend time waiting in line. The unspoken part of the equation was that Disney would profit from being spending money in shops and restaurants instead of standing in lines.
I'm not claiming that is the motivation for enforcing the return times. It's been reported by Robert and elsewhere that implementing the Fast Pass+ and Next Generation reservation systems requires better control over how visitors were using the limited number of Fast Pass slots.
From Meg T. on February 15, 2013 at 8:48 PM
My family and I went for the first time to Disney World in January of 2013. We waited at most 30 minutes for the New Mermaid ride in New Fantasyland. Those that choose the fast pass actually waited longer then we did, and on some rides I would not recommend the fast pass because you will miss out on the details. For example, the mermaid ride has a fast pass access; however you bypass the details in the cave by doing so and that is the case on many rides. I guess if there was one ride you were dying to get on the fast pass may be the best idea for you, but I don't recommend it when the lines are not long. I am sure when I go back in october the lines will be double or triple what we had though.
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Although the story isn't original, it's powerfully directed by David Fincher, and Morgan Freeman gives another of his superbly understated performances.
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The reason to see Seven, which is decidedly not for the faint of stomach, is not for the punishment of sin, but the many virtues of Freeman's contribution.
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The investigation and the clues that lead to the murderer are well thought out and continually provocative. As a narrative, the film is quite involving.
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David Fincher is at the top of his form with Seven, one of the darkest, creepiest, and most brilliant serial killer pictures in American film history, far more interesting than Silence of the Lambs.
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Hiya, It is a sad time for us to be leaving The Beaumont Arms after just 7 months, but we feel we have done what we intended to do and bring back some old customers as well as new ones. It is once again a thriving traditional pub, just as it should be. Thank you to you guys, and also... More
Visited this pub Dec 2012 with 15 friends and it was terrible. We have since found out the pub was taken over. We had a fantastic night aug 31st 2013 and what a difference two people can do to improve the pub. Well done guys carry on the good work and keep on saying no problem. ( saying of the... More
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We decided to try the pub again after a couple of years away. It was operated by the same team for many years who in my view unfortunately made a mistake by hiring a different chef who produced a somewhat pretentious menu which, to compound the mistake, was more expensively priced. Hitherto, we had enjoyed good food, reasonably priced, and... More
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poor portions,sweet burnt chips(red potatoes),not as described on menu. Whoever is cooking they have no Chef skills,will not be using again.
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Have had a few great meals at the Beaumont Arms recently. Steak's are amazing and the staff can't do enough for you! Also had a wonderful fish pie! Real ale and a "proper pub" environment make this the perfect local!
Hi. We are please that you enjoy it here so much. We have had a difficult battle to find the perfect balance of what the Beaumonts was and what it is now. Every week we see more and more people enjoying their visit to us, whether eating or having a few drinks with friends and family. As for the fish... More
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I have been going to this pub for about thirty years and like all pubs it's had numerous changes of landlords/management some for the better some for the worse. The recent change does seem to be a change for the better. It was a Wednesday night so quiet but the tables in the dining area all had fresh flowers and... More
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With gates down at Utah's five national parks and federal employees suffering a financial blow that is likely to limit their recreational spending, the state's tourism industry has its collective fingers crossed that the federal shutdown will end soon.
"I'm really hoping that we get some resolution in the next couple days," said Jim Burgess, president of the Utah Hotel & Lodging Association. "If they could have waited a month or two, it wouldn't have been as impactful."
As it is, people — many from outside the United States — are in Utah to visit its world-famous geography, and they're being told that they simply can't. Burgess says most hotels will cancel reservations within 24 hours, but that doesn't do a lot of good when you've already booked an international flight out.
"People who came here to visit the parks don't really have an alternate," he said. "Obviously, that leaves a bad taste in their mouth."
The State Office of Tourism has tried to remedy that, releasing "50 Awesome Alternatives to Utah's National Parks" on its website Wednesday. They point to the ski areas, state parks, scenic highways and cultural attractions that are unaffected by the federal closures. (Click here for a map of campgrounds unaffected by the shutdown.)
But surely if you go to Moab and can't see Canyonlands or Arches, you're going to be an unhappy camper, right? State Office of Tourism Communications Director Jay Kinghorn disagrees. "We think the alternatives in Moab are pretty spectacular," he said, citing the stunning views at the still-open Dead Horse Point State Park and nearby mountain bike trails. "Here's just another opportunity to introduce people to these areas."
Kingham said his office has "kicked into overdrive" since the shutdown, filling a void that was created when the National Parks Service took down its website and left travelers in the lurch.
Marty Carpenter, vice president of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, is in Washington with about 70 other business leaders on a trip that was planned pre-shutdown, listening as the state's delegates justify their actions and make "really valid points," he said. But that doesn't lessen the frustration.
"In what is essentially a standoff, it's the economy that gets taken hostage," Carpenter said. After "the biggest decline since the Great Depression," Carpenter said that it's especially galling that the biggest obstacles businesses now face come in the form of shutdowns and debt-ceiling showdowns.
There is a multiplier effect of the federal closures, he said: People who are employed by the government won't spend money, and then people who depend on those employees — such as restaurateurs in Weber and Davis counties who may see less Hill Air Force Base clientele — also dry up. And the effects aren't just felt in the short term; those affected may be mulling ski passes for this winter, or a new car, or any number of nonessential things that they are now re-evaluating in the face of financial uncertainty.
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Got lots of compliments on these served at a party. I served them with homemade marinara, and used that in place of the tomato sauce in this recipe. Instead of Italian seasoning, I used garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, and basil. Added a bit of white pepper and used panko instead of bread crumbs. Cooked them in a mini muffin pan with great results.
Beef Meatballs
Using ground round for the meatballs and baking them instead of frying them keeps them low in fat but still full of flavor.
Yield: 30 meatballs (serving size: 5 meatballs)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 228
- Calories from fat: 35%
- Fat: 8.8g
- Saturated fat: 3.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Protein: 27.4g
- Carbohydrate: 8.2g
- Fiber: 0.8g
- Cholesterol: 73mg
- Iron: 3.4mg
- Sodium: 370mg
- Calcium: 95mg
- 1 1/2 pounds ground round
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) finely shredded fresh Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup dry breadcrumbs
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 3/4 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Combine all ingredients except cooking spray in a bowl; stir well. Shape mixture into 30 (1 1/2-inch) meatballs. Place on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until done.
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Beef Meatballs Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CONVENIENCE: Kid-Friendly, Quick/Easy
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Beef
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Carbohydrate
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A professor at Florida Atlantic University has suggested that the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was a hoax.
CONFIRMED: The professor's conspiracy theory
James Tracy, a communications professor at FAU, alleged in his blog (read his entry here) and in interviews that "crisis actors" likely were employed by the Obama administration to influence the gun-control debate and that the shooting never took place, Newsmax.com reported. Tracy, who has cooked up conspiracy theories surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination, Oklahoma City bombing, Aurora theater shooting and 9/11, said uneven media coverage also is a basis for his Sandy Hook theories.
"While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described," Tracy wrote.
In an interview Monday with WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tracy said he isn't convinced a lone gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, is responsible for the massacre of 26 people. When questioned about his theories, Tracy told CBS12: "The whole country mourned about Sandy Hook, but yet again the investigation that journalistic institutions should have carried out never took place, in my opinion." (Click here for more accounts of Tracy's conspiracy theory.)
Public outcry
Newtown first selectwoman E. Patricia Lladro said Tracy is "an embarrassment to me as an educator" and should not be drawing a paycheck, Fox News reported.
"I can assure you, sadly, that the events here in Newtown unfolded exactly as are being reported, with the horrible outcome of the violent death of 26 innocent people, including 20 children," she said.
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A 12-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy were stabbed multiple times in the attack.
A Hudson,
Ohio man wedged between a truck and a building was pulled to safety by
co-workers on Tuesday afternoon.
Sharonville Police and Fire Departments were
called to the 3400 block of Hauck Road for an auto accident after receiving reports
of a person stuck.
Initial reports indicated that a man was pinned
between a truck and a building. Emergency crews arriving on the scene say that
Daniel Gaither, 22, had already been freed from his position when they arrived.
Gaither was transported to Bethesda North
Hospital where he is listed in stable condition.
The accident is currently under investigation.
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Aussie chick, trying to get fitter - annoyingly hard to measure but I think i'm getting there... well, either that or i'm just caring about what other people think about my weight less. Either way.... Awesome.
(just ignore I'm drinking beer in the profile pic)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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What movie? I had to do that with Incidious LOL I got about half way through, and had to shut it off becuase I was terrified
Paranormal Activity - finally got around to watching it. i'll watch the rest when the sun is up lol.


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Carrot top plastic surgery steroids – At a Glance
Carrot top plastic surgery steroids usage is an allegation or fact? Carrot top had plastic surgery and there is great speculation that he used steroids. His body has changed drastically from face to muscular transformation. In recent few years, people undergone through cosmetic surgery have increased tremendously. People like to fit themselves with the changing fashion and trends and ready to spend a major part of their incomes on cosmetics and beauty products. In this fashion freak world cosmetic and plastic surgery has made a great impact on the peoples' lives. Thus Carrot top plastic surgery is a perfect example to know to what extent plastic surgical procedures have left mark in the heart of people. Carrot Top is a stage name of world famous comedian. The carrot's real name is Scott Thompson well known not only for his bright red hair but also for his great sense of humor. Carrot Top looks have been changed a lot after surgery and this can visible clearly when you see Carrot before and after surgery pictures.
Effects of Carrot Top plastic surgery steroids
Carrot top's past and present looks reveal the truth that he has experienced plastic surgery on his face and might use steroids for pleasing appearance.
- Earlier Carrot was slim but now he seems bulky.
- His body appearance seems to be like a body builder whereas it was skinny before.
- The use of steroids causes side effects which alters the shape of his cheeks and jaws.
- Growing age and use of steroids may impact his face but no one can deny the fact that carrot did not take any kind of plastic surgery.
Carrot Top plastic surgery steroids before and after
Though there is no way to prove except photo comparisons over the internet to confirm whether or not carrot has undergone through surgical procedures or might used steroids but there are great rumors worldwide about carrot top plastic surgery steroids that whether Carrot is a victim of bad plastic surgery or not. However, still carrot Top has not stated any personal opinions about the surgery. Beside rumors there is a great deal of speculations over usage of steroids and the most popular speculations are regarding eyebrows lift, rhinoplasty, laser resurfacing treatment and Botox injections. Many people have the opinion that Carrot looks quite freaky after the surgery.
Carrot Top plastic surgery is hot news and headlines for many newspapers. Though there are various theories spread on which procedure have been opted by Carrot and which he didn't but now many people firmly believe that Carrot top might be using steroids as his body shape has been changed dramatically from skinny to body builder and altered his jaw line. If the statement is true then changes in carrot top's body shape is an outcome of using steroids. Thus many people believe that after surgery Carrot looks freakier and it is all because of the bad plastic surgery. However there is no strong evidence to prove it but overall rumors of Carrot top plastic surgery steroids are true to a some extent.
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The pianist was part of Gillespie's acclaimed United Nations Orchestra and enjoyed a front-row seat on the inventive way the trumpet maestro lassoed rhythmic aspects of the African Diaspora. Perez's update melds players from the Caribbean, Middle East, and India to address a wham-bam songbook that stretches from "Con Alma" to "Salt Peanuts." The group is chock with killer soloists (Sanchez, Mahanthappa) and driven by a gleefully pliable rhythm section. Expect strength: They've got a few weeks of tour dates under their belt.
April 1-4, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., 2010


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"MIT Startup Boot Camp, presented by the awesome StartLabs! It is an annual event that features talks by startup founders and on 9/14/13, the talks took place at MIT's Kresge Auditorium."
This is one of the many University of Michigan professors who have supported Warmilu and guided it along its startup voyage.
Grace Hsia is passionate about saving infant lives. So passionate she decided to become an entrepreneur and enroll in the University of Michigan's inaugural Master of Entrepreneurship class. When Hsia was a materials-science engineering student at the university, she discovered some sobering data from the World Health Organization.
- By Amy Haimerl, June 02, 2013
Can Ann Arbor become the next big thing in high tech?
Story by Julie Halpert
Photos by benjamin Weatherston
Grace Hsia, a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of Michigan, thinks she has the next big business idea and she spends most of her waking hours making sure it succeeds. • As an undergraduate engineering student, she and a team of five others got a patent on a non-electric heat technology they use to make infant warming blankets. She's CEO of a company they founded, Warmilu, which seeks to reduce infant mortality from hypothermia, a condition that kills 140 infants in developing countries every hour, she said. • "I am passionate about spreading warmth to save lives," she said. Hsia and her five partners have raised $30,000 to launch the product, which is being tested in Bangalore, India. • For the past 17 months, Hsia has spent as many as 90 hours a week nurturing her startup from her cramped, 196-square-foot apartment in downtown Ann Arbor. She tends to her pet project while perched on her lone piece of furniture, a cappuccino-colored futon. • She also takes a full 16-credit class load in her master's of entrepreneurship program and works 20 hours a week at U-M's Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy. She even manages to squeeze in exercise, logging 56 miles on a stationary bike on a recent Saturday while typing away at her laptop. • She doesn't sleep much. "When you know your technology is saving lives, it really makes you go the extra mile," she says. Hsia is extraordinarily committed, but she's not alone. Ann Arbor has a growing techie subculture of people chasing their dreams, hoping to cash in on the next great idea.
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2009 Research Grants
In 2009 the United States Studies Centre awarded research grants totalling $100,000 for ten projects on a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences by academics from nine Australian universities.
The chief executive of the US Studies Centre, Professor Geoffrey Garrett said the quality and breadth of all the research proposals was very impressive.
"Receiving ninety applications for the Centre's inaugural round of research grants is testimony to the great interest in the United States among Australian academics and the high quality of research they are engaging in", he said.
Professor Garrett said he was also particularly impressed by the quality of the American collaborators in some of the proposals.
Research grants were awarded to:
- Care, Employment and Social Policy in Australia and the USA
Megan Blaxland, Research Associate in Social Policy, UNSW; Professor Deborah Brennan, UNSW; Professor Bettina Cass, UNSW; and Dr Ann Orloff, Northwestern University;
- Dear Father Abraham: Defining the rights and obligations of citizenship in Civil War America
Dr Frances Clarke, Lecturer in History, University of Sydney;
- The US Heartland States - Economy, demography, culture, governance
Dr Paul Collits, Research Fellow in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT;
- The Political Worlds of Nineteenth Century Virginia
Professor Don DeBats, Professor of American Studies and Politics, Flinders University;
- Demand Response in the Electricity Markets of the US
Dr Shu Fan, Research Fellow in Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University; and Dr. Wei-jen Lee University of Texas Arlington;
- American English and Australian English
Professor Cliff Goddard, Professor of Linguistics - School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England;
- Global Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy: Trends over time and soft-power consequences
Dr Ben Goldsmith, Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, and Dr Yusaku Horiuchi, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government ANU;
- The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a new foreign policy in the 1970s
Dr Barbara Keys, Lecturer in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne;
- Californian Climate Change Law - Lessons for Australia
Jacqueline Peel, Associate Professor of Law, University of Melbourne; and
- Federal / State Relations in US Education Policy
Dr Louise Watson, Associate Professor of Education, University of Canberra and Assistant Professor Patricia Burch, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Megan Blaxland - Care, Employment and Social Policy in Australia and the USA.
Broad brush analyses of welfare typically bracket Australia and the USA as 'liberal' welfare states. More nuanced analyses show that 'liberalism' is a complex category, that orientations to family, market and state are profoundly different in the two countries, and that political traditions and institutional configurations in Australia and the USA have lead to distinctive welfare outcomes.
Scholarly comparative analyses of Australian and US social policy is surprisingly uncommon, although such comparisons seem to intrigue both policy-makers and the public. An example of such interest at the policy level is the Australian government's commissioning of econometric modelling of US 'welfare to work' reforms applied to the Australian population. In popular debate it is has recently been asserted that 'Australia and the United States are the only two OECD countries that do not offer paid maternity leave'. It is our contention that Australian policy makers and media commentators frequently misunderstand US social policy and especially the concept of 'welfare'.
We are developing comparative analyses of policies towards sole/single parents and policies surrounding family leave in each country. The conceptual link between these areas is that both are concerned with paid or unpaid periods of absence from employment for purposes of caring for young children and other vulnerable family members. This will involve in-depth policy research in each of these areas in order to identify: policy developments (1996-2008) in each country; similarities and differences in these policy developments; the political rationales for their introduction; and the outcomes as shown in the scholarly literature.
Dr. Frances M. Clarke: Dear Father Abraham: Remaking Citizenship in Civil War America.
This project sets out to chart the effects of the American Civil War on ordinary peoples' understandings of the rights and obligations of citizenship. It starts with the widely held belief that this conflict is America's greatest watershed, out of which a modern nation state emerged. According to a wealth of scholarship, the Civil War gave birth to a new kind of nationalism, defined by a triumphant North that now held the weight of political power.
Rising above their pre-war identities-rooted in local attachments, partisanship, and self-interest-Northerners allegedly joined in embracing what one historian calls a "transcendent patriotism" that relied on the compelling symbols and rituals developed during the war. Imagining a shared history, they came to feel a much more emotional connection to the nation-state, now conceived as an organic and thus indissoluble entity, not merely the result of a contract between sovereign states. This textbook version of American history has never been tested on a broad scale. Although there is a wealth of studies charting the Civil War's impact on constitutional interpretation, laws and legislation, or the formal political realm, there is currently no study focusing specifically on how the war reshaped the political understandings of ordinary people.
Dr Clarke will examine this question by concentrating on citizens' tangible dealings with the federal government, utilizing an unexplored archive of tens of thousands of letters sent to president Abraham Lincoln and other government officials during the war. Using these unique sources, Dr Clarke will start by looking at how ordinary people framed their appeals and demands, as well as the way they represented themselves to federal officials. After following particular cases in depth, Clarke will then work to demonstrate the ways ordinary people affected federal decision-making, contributing to the creation of the world's first welfare state.
Dr Paul Collits: The US Heartland States - Economy, Demography, Culture, Governance
Much of the analysis of "small town America" focuses on values, politics and the culture wars. Yet the important story about the Great Plains States is the region's survival in the face of obstacles - obstacles also faced by many Australian rural regions. These include population decline in many counties, youth out-migration, the impact of globalisation, the future role of agriculture, and the sources of future economic development. US heartland regions also have particular histories, governance structures and cultures that frame the way they respond to the challenges they face, including an entrepreneurial culture and communities built on social cohesion.
There are lessons here for Australian rural communities, and the potential for two-way learning across the two countries.
Dr Collits will host a small conference be held in rural Australia in the first half of 2009, with visiting US scholars, to share experiences and develop proposals for collaborative research on the future of US and Australian "heartland regions". Australian scholars with an interest in rural community futures will be invited to present papers at the conference.
It is planned that a seminar also be held in Sydney to consider economic, demographic, cultural and governance trends and issues in the "red States", also featuring the invited US speakers.
A book featuring case studies from both countries is planned to be published, and proposals for further joint research will be developed."
Professor Don DeBats: The Political Worlds of Nineteenth Century Virginia
Before the Civil War, Virginia was one of the several places in North American adhering to the British practice of oral or viva voce voting. For the first half of 2009, Professor DeBats will be at the University of Virginia as a Research Fellow with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities working on two Virginia communities where good runs of poll records survive -- the city of Alexandria on the eve of the War and the County of Southampton in the era of the Nat Turner slave rebellion.
The system of oral voting required written poll books as a definitive record of who voted for whom, but these unique records can be used to reveal far more than that. Linking individual social information to individual political records produces unsurpassed social profiles of past voters - and non-voters, places political life squarely in its social context, and reveals more about the nineteenth century political world than we can discover about politics in our own times. The two case studies will help clarify the reach and meaning of political engagement for ordinary citizens at critical moments in the American past.
Professor DeBats will also work with the University of Virginia's Center for Digital History with the goal of creating a major new interactive website in the field of nineteenth century American history. Alexandria - a commercial slave-owning city - will be paired with Newport, Kentucky - an immigrant and industrial city that is another of Professor DeBats' poll book projects. These are the only individually mapped nineteenth century American cities and Professor DeBats hopes his "Tale of Two Cities" story will become the urban equivalent of the renowned "Valley of the Shadow" project, also created at the Center for Digital History.
Professor Cliff Goddard - American English and Australian English
George Bernard Shaw famously remarked that the Americans and the English are "two peoples divided by a common language". Much the same could be said about Americans and Australians. Along with the important overlaps in values, language, and communication styles, there are also significant divergences between American English and Australian English - not only in vocabulary, but also in ways of speaking. The potential for miscommunication is real, and intertwined with national stereotypes and preconceptions. This study applies newly developed techniques of linguistic analysis to identify these communication style differences, and, just as importantly, to explain them from the point of view of the cultural insider.
The study will focus on two domains: self-presentation, i.e. expressions of achievement, ambition, confidence, self-deprecation, modesty, self-disclosure, and the like; and humour styles, with a special focus on Australians' unusual fondness for jocular irony, sarcasm, and negativity. To both domains, I will apply linguistic techniques of semantic and cultural analysis. The semantic analysis will focus on the meanings, uses and frequencies of certain key words and phrases, such as (for American English) dream, hero, and great, and (for Australian English) taking the piss, a bit, and bloody. The cultural analysis uses a method known as "cultural scripts". These are statements, phrased in simple ordinary words, that can capture shared insider understandings about valued ways of speaking. The study aims to shed light on the ways in which routine ways of speaking are linked in subtle ways to social attitudes and values.
Dr Ben Goldsmith and Dr Yusaku Horiuchi - Global Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy: Trends over time and soft-power consequences
This project will research the relationship between global public opinion and U.S. foreign policy.This research is part of a broader research program that Goldsmith and Horiuchi have been pursuing since 2002.
This research grant will allow Goldsmith and Horiuchi to produce two papers.
The first of which explores patterns in the large amount of data on international public opinion about U.S. foreign policy. Current research will step back from previous detailed exploration on certain topics (such as support for the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq the effects of public diplomacy) and examine some bigger-picture trends and dynamics.
The second paper has the tentative title: "In Search of Soft Power." The aim will be to test whether there is any systematic evidence that "soft power" (Nye 2004) - more specifically, how foreign publics view the U.S. and its foreign policy - really matters for U.S. foreign policy.
Dr Barbara Keys: The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a new foreign policy in the 1970s
This project examines the origins of the human-rights diplomacy that emerged in the United States in the 1970s, a revolutionary transformation in the making of U.S. foreign policy that for the first time linked foreign aid and trade not just to tangible security and economic interests but also to human-rights concerns.
This study will be the first to examine the causes of this remarkable development, looking in detail at the influence of the civil rights movement, religious groups spurred by Vatican II, conservative opposition to détente, the antiwar movement, the rise of nongovernmental organizations, and international opinion.
Drawing on the literature on emotions in social movements and on psychological studies of cognition and emotion, the project pays particular attention to the emotional currents that shaped new forms of empathy toward foreigners suffering government-sponsored repression.
Dr Shu Fan: Demand Response in the Electricity Markets of the United States
Electric power industries around the world have been deregulated and restructured from vertically integrated mechanisms to open market systems for higher efficiency and maximization of social welfare. The restructuring of electricity markets has also been accompanied by numerous problems, including generation capacity shortages, transmission congestion, wholesale price volatility, and reduced system reliability. These problems have created significant new opportunities for technologies and business approaches that allow load serving entities and other aggregators, to control and manage the load patterns of their wholesale or retail end-users. These technologies and business approaches for manipulating end-user load shapes are known as Load Management or, more recently, Demand Responsive (DR) programs.
This proposal aims to study and understand the demand response in the electricity market of the United States, since the electric utilities in the United States are taking the lead in electricity market deregulation and demand response implementation. We will focus on two aspects of electric demand responses: retail pricing tariffs and incentive-based demand response programs. Understanding and reconciling these two perspectives is crucial to characterizing and valuing demand response as well as recognizing its limitations. The results will be valuable for policy makers in developing effective demand response programs for Australian electricity market.
Associate Professor Jacqueline Peel: Californian Climate Change Law - Lessons for Australia
In recent times, climate change has come of age as an issue of significant public concern, both nationally and internationally. Enormous policy and legal developments are occurring in the field. In Australia this includes national policy proposals regarding an emissions trading scheme and renewable energy measures, State-based activities to develop carbon trading schemes, and high-profile climate change litigation.
Rapid policy and legal development is also taking place in some areas of the US, with the State of California emerging as a clear leader in climate change law and policy. The Californian government has implemented an aggressive regulatory program to promote renewable energy generation and enacted landmark legislation establishing a comprehensive system of regulatory and market mechanisms designed to achieve cost-effective reduction of greenhouse emissions. California has also been the site of innovative climate change law suits seeking to force large greenhouse polluters, like car manufacturers and coal-fired power generators, to pay for pollution that their products cause. Consequently, Californian legal developments and experience with respect to climate change have much to offer in designing an effective, legal response to the problem here in Australia.
Accordingly, this project involves a detailed assessment of Californian climate change law and regulation with a view to drawing out lessons for the design and implementation of climate change law in Australia. The research will focus particularly on areas of similarity or common challenges for the Californian and Australian regimes, such as the design of emissions trading schemes, renewable energy measures and climate change litigation.
Dr Louise Watson - Federal / State Relations in US Education Policy
Since an American President cast doubt on the quality of American schooling with the release of A Nation at Risk (1983), three successive US Federal administrations have implemented policies to promote school reform. These interventions have been wide-ranging in scope, targeting areas such as the quality of teachers and teacher education, standards-based assessment, competition and school choice, new funding models and accountability regimes, privatization and devolution, and the introduction of a national private tutoring scheme. Yet in developing their policy reform agendas for schools, each Federal Administration has faced a series of challenges arising from the Federal/State division of responsibilities under the United States constitution.
This research will identify the major federal school reform agendas of the past twenty-five years and discuss the dynamics of US Federal/State relations that have come into play when these policy initiatives were introduced. The project will investigate the impact of Federal/State relations on the development and implementation of national education policies in the USA.
See also:
- 2012 Research Grants
- 2011 Research Grants
- 2010 Research Grants
- SSMART Research Training
- Dow Sustainability Program
- Innovation Program
- Opinion Surveys
- Academic Directory
- Publications
Greater need than ever for philanthropy
Global philanthropy faced challenges as it weathered the storm of the global financial crisis, but as Centre guest Bradford Smith from the Foundation Center explains, chartiable giving and investing is stronger than ever.
China–US relations strained by jet encounter
CEO Bates Gill discusses the growing rift between China and the US sparked by a close encounter between American surveillance planes and Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea.


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So sometimes it happens that such a situation can arise within you in which the unlimited energy of grace can descend unknowingly on you, but its effect can be destructive, or even fatal if you are not ready. You have been caught unawares so the event can turn into a disaster. Yes, grace can also become harmful and destructive.
In the case of shaktipat the chances of an accident are very few, almost nil, because there is a person who is functioning as a medium, as a vehicle. Passing through a medium the energy becomes gentle and mild, and the medium can also regulate the intensity of the energy. He can allow only that amount of energy to flow into you which you can hold. But remember, the medium is only a vehicle and not the source of this energy.
So if a person says that he is doing shaktipat, that he is doing the transmission of energy, then he is wrong. It would be just like the bulb declaring that it is the giver of light. Because the light is always emitted through the bulb, the bulb may be under the delusion that it is the creator of light. This is not so. It is not the primal source of light but merely a medium for its manifestation. So a person who declares that he can perform shaktipat is under the same illusion as the bulb.
The energy that is transmitted is always the energy of the divine. But if a person becomes a medium, then we can call it shaktipat. If there is no medium and this energy descends suddenly it can be harmful. But if a man has waited long enough, if a man has meditated with infinite patience, then shaktipat too can happen in the form of grace. Then there will be no medium, but then there will be no mishap. His infinite waiting, his boundless patience, his unwavering devotion, his everlasting resolve, develop his ability to allow the infinite. Then there will be no mishap. Then the happening can take place both ways - with or without a medium. But in the absence of a medium he will not feel it as shaktipat but as grace from the beyond.
So there are similarities as well as differences between the two. I am in favor of grace as far as it is possible; as far as possible there should not be a medium. But in certain cases this is possible and in certain cases it is not possible. So for those people, instead of wandering for endless lives, some person can be made a medium to bring the divine energy down to them. Only that person can be a medium, however, who is no longer an individual ego. Then the hazard is almost nil, because while becoming the medium such a person does not become a guru - there is no person left to become a guru. Understand this difference well.
When a person becomes a guru he becomes a guru in reference to you; when a person becomes a medium he does so in relationship to the universal being; then he has nothing to do with you. Do you understand the difference?


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Central planners cause chaos; free people create order. - Tom Woods
Start video at 7:30. Worth your time, particularly if you haven't read Woods' Rollback and Meltdown.
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