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People, often, already know something about the larger societies such as their State genealogical society but don't know much, if anything, about the smaller specialist society. In many cases the specialist society may not have an Internet presence so are not easily found by Google or other search engines. If your ancestor came from a specific area or was involved in a certain occupation you really want to know if a society exists that specialises in these topics.
An Expo or Family History Fair is a great way to gain exposure for the specialist society, both pre-event and at the event. The Society gains positive publicity by being mentioned as exhibitors on the event's website and on various printed promotional material.
During the Expo/Fair the society gains more exposure as they are seen by a lot of people who are interested in history and genealogy. You can also put a brochure in a goody bag that is handed to all registrants as this will also give some exposure to your society.
Some groups decide not to exhibit as they feel they don't have a lot to present at an expo, perhaps they don't have many publications for sale or feel "why would anyone want to talk to us?"
I can understand anyone who has not exhibited before, being a bit fearful at first, but it is important to remember that there is no-one else around who is likely to know more about your specialist topic than your society. Whether it is the history of an area, knowledge about an occupation, knowledge of the contents of a particular museum or about a military unit, your society is the expert in your field.
A local history society may not have a lot of publications for sale but they will know a lot about their area so may have access to a burial register, knowledge about a particular industry in the area, have historic photos of the area, have a collected database of people who have lived in an area, all of which will be of interest to the patrons of the Expo. If any of these resources are able to come to the Expo you would have a lot to talk about with the visitors to the Fair or Expo.
Some societies don't exhibit because they are fearful of the committment required and volunteer assistance may be difficult to find. This is a real concern but there are ways around this problem.
Firstly, you do not have to have a stall that is manned all the time, of course you will have more exposure if the stall is manned but having a stall with a static display and printed A5 brochures giving information about the society with contact details can still be beneficial for your society.
Static displays of historical photos, year-books, directories, newspapers, postcards of the area, sporting certificates, school registers etc can be very visual and can attract a lot of attention. I attended an Expo last year where the Coffs Harbour Museum had a static display of lovely women's gowns which attracted a lot of attention and gave publicity to their Museum.
The society may be able to twin with another society where you share a table. You, then, are able to give each other toilet breaks and lunch breaks. I am sure there are many other ways that smaller societies could help each other out at an Expo or Fair
Perhaps once you have set up the table you only man it for the peak times or you say it will only be manned on one day of the fair. Obviously in these situations you would want your display protected in some sort of display case. I have seen a laptop in a protected case with a continuous slideshow of historic photos and memorabilia being shown. You may have display boards behind the table area showing maps and old photos of your area. Family group charts of the first settlers in an area especially with photos works well and there are so many other ways of promoting your society, museum, library or archive.
As an attendee it is the smaller specialist societies or people with a particular passion that I look to find. There was a gentleman at one I attended recently who had a database of people who had been hurt in mining accidents, there was a lovely lady who was collecting information about unmarked graves in a specific geographic location where there had been a number of burials not in recorded cemeteries. These were hugely interesting people to talk to but may not have been what some people would think of as exhibitors at a Family History Fair or Expo.
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When I got Khaleesi from her first family she was on Science Diet. She was in really bad shape. She was so skinny you could see her ribs (no puppy fat on that 10 week old baby), she was really dehydrated, and she had really bad dandruff. She also had a HUGE tapeworm and was a little scared of people. Needless to say, she had been seriously neglected. I don't think she actually had any diarrhea that I can remember. I wanted to give her what I thought was the "best" puppy food to help her recover and put on some weight. To me that meant Blue Buffalo.
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Bass's 17-minute film, titled "Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film," had previously been awarded "Best Comedy" in both the Gulf Coast Film Festival and the Texandance Film Festival, as well as "Best Short Film" at the World of Comedy Film Festival. But to be accepted into the prestigious Slamdance, a festival which takes place just down the road from Sundance in Park City, Utah, is a notable accomplishment for Bass. He will be traveling to the festival when it is held Jan. 21-28.
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The film is about Joey and Jerome, two friends who typically only watch intense action movies, but are inspired to make their own artistic independent film after watching several indie movies upon the recommendation of Jerome's sister. With an extremely low budget ($36), a VHS camera and no other crew or actors but themselves, the two proceed to make their own indie movie.
The idea for the film began a few years ago, when Bass saw the movie Garden State and realized that many independent films have the same cliché elements to them. So he took that idea and created a script using his two characters, Joey and Jerome, whom he had used for a previous short film.
"It occurred to me that many of the independent films I'd seen in the last several years, including Garden State, had an awful lot in common," he said. "Basically, it's a lot of forced quirkiness that's supposed to be charming. So I wondered, 'What if Joey and Jerome watched a few independent films, thought they were all like this, and made an no-budget indie movie with every one of these clichés?' That was the genesis of the idea."
After about three years of working on the film, from initial script-writing to final edits, Bass had a finished product that he submitted into Slamdance. Though he has made 10 other short films before "Joey and Jerome," this is the first to be accepted into a major film festival of this caliber.
Bass graduated from UST as a communication major with a focus on radio, television and film. H e admits that when he first came to St. Thomas, he didn't have much of an interest in film. It wasn't until he began taking production classes that he found a subject he really liked.
"When I got to college, I knew nothing about the field of communications or TV. When I finally got to the TV production classes in my junior year, it opened up a whole new world of mischievous fun for me," Bass said. "I learned the basics of camera operation, editing and all things related, and the classes showed me a field I found interesting that I previously didn't know existed."
Bass said he plans on to continue to make more short films, sketches and commercial parodies, all of which he enjoys much more than making full-length feature films. His breakthrough with Slamdance is one that could potentially help him land a distribution deal, and it gives him a confidence boost as he creates future projects.
"I have a better chance at Slamdance than any other fest I've been in to meet other filmmakers and other people in the industry that could get my work into the right hands to further my career," Bass said. "At the very least it will encourage me to not be as shy about entering larger festivals with my next project."
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posted at 4:50 am on October 13, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Perennial ghost blogger DRJ on Patterico's Pontifications (my second favorite blog) raised a fascinating issue yesterday. Quoth she:
The FBI is using facial recognition software to scan driver's licenses in an effort to locate fugitives[.]
In a nuttery, the Fibbies take mug shots of wanted suspects, run them through facial-recognition software (FRS), and compare them to digitized drivers-license photos — assuming they have some idea where the suspect might be hiding. They check potential matches by normal legwork; and if they find an actual match, they haul the blackguard in for questioning.
In the Houston Comical newspaper story DRJ quotes, the technique has already yielded at least one murder suspect:
Earlier this year, investigators learned that a double-homicide suspect named Rodolfo Corrales had moved to North Carolina. The FBI took a 1991 booking photo from California and compared it with 30 million photos stored by the motor vehicle agency in Raleigh. [Thirty million? The entire population of North Carolina is only 9.2 million! How far back do these records stretch?]
In seconds, the search returned dozens of drivers who resembled Corrales, and an FBI analyst reviewed a gallery of images before zeroing in on a man who called himself Jose Solis.
A week later, after corroborating Corrales' identity, agents arrested him in High Point, southwest of Greensboro, where they believe he had built a new life under the assumed name. Corrales is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles later this month.
Civil libertarians are outraged, not surprisingly:
The project in North Carolina has already helped nab at least one suspect. Agents are eager to look for more criminals and possibly to expand the effort nationwide. But privacy advocates worry that the method allows authorities to track people who have done nothing wrong.
I'm trying to logically analyze the liberty issues involved here. There are several purposes for limiting the power of the government to investigate citizens:
- Foremost is the danger that the State might use its investigatory power to harass and intimidate political enemies or dissidents.
- Next is the risk of the peelers leaping to a conclusion and putting a perfectly innocent person through the living hell of a prosecution for a crime he didn't commit.
- Finally, there is the danger of lazy police just sifting through reports and Google-type searches to try to find people guilty of a crime nobody has reported, and which nobody — not even the police — even knows occurred.
Let's take 'em one by one.
First, I don't see how this technique can be used to intimidate protesters and other dissidents whose only crime is injudicious use of the First Amendment, as my old teacher Timothy Leary used to put it. The odds of finding some thug who resembled a political enemy closely enough to pass the laugh test seem remote. So much for liberty threat no. 1.
Second, threat no. 2 seems to be of very small concern with the FRS technique: Obviously, those who don't score any "hit" in the software are not affected at all; they don't even know their photos were scanned (along with everybody else in the system, so the comparison doesn't even cast aspersions).
The same holds for those who do score an initial hit, but are knocked out by the second phase, where actual humans look at the photos. The officer shrugs, says "Not him," and there's an end to it. No suspicion attaches to the citizen in the photo.
The only threat is to an innocent person who looks enough like the suspect that he's brought into the station and quesioned. I can see an argument that this is a frightening and intrusive event, which is visited upon a completely innocent individual (by definition) on no greater "evidence" than facial similarities. But the odds are that nothing else is going to match, no other evidence; and he'll be let go after questioning. It's really no different than if a citizen saw the real gangster's picture on America's Most Wanted, then saw the innocent doppelganger, and called the cops. Regrettable but not very damning, and few would argue we should refuse to cooperate with such TV shows. We dismiss no. 2.
Thus remains only threat no. 3: That somebody will have committed a crime that is not even on the cops' radar, but will be detected via the FRS. For the record, I note that I do consider this a serious question; while there is no general right to get away with criminal activity, I'm uneasy at the prospect of every last trivial crime — from once hiring a prostitute, to a girl steaming open mail from her boyfriend to her female roommate, to pilfering some petty cash from an employer who routinely screws you out of earned overtime — being prosecuted because a computer dug it up.
But in this case, the FRS only works when a dangerous suspect is sought, and his mug shot (or other photo of him) is run through the system. Defintionally, this can only occur when the police are already aware of the crime — so threat no. 3, while a valid worry, is not relevant in this case.
Thus logic compels me to give it my ethical blessing, no matter how personally creepy I find it.
It's weird, this logic thing: I took my first class in the propositional calculus (formal logic for systems not large enough to include the counting numbers) in junior high school (nowadays called "middle school"). My math/science/logic teacher's name was William "Fitz" Fitzgibbon, and he gave us a test before we had our first lecture. It included a number of word problems in formal logic specifically calculated to seem false on the basis of mere intuition.
I don't recall specifics, but here's something similar I just made up: True or false — If you could flap your arms and fly to the Moon, you'd be made of green cheese.
Answer: True!
- Given "If A then B" and "not-A." (We're given the conditional, and it's self-evident that I cannot flap my arms and fly to the Moon.)
- "If A then B" is logically equal to "B or not-A." (That is, they have the same truth table.)
- "B or not-A" is true if either part is true. (This is the definition of the "or" statement.)
- "Not-A" is given.
- Thus "B or not-A" is true.
- Therefore, "if A then B" is true: If I could flap my arms and fly to the Moon, I would be made of green cheese. QED.
It seems absurd; but by the rules of the propositional calculus, it's true.
I feel the same way about my conclusion that there is no threat to liberty combining facial-recognition software and drivers-license photos to catch crooks: I know in my head it's true, but I can't help feeling in my glandular secretions that there's something fishy about the whole thing. Being a natural Spockian, I must vote for the cerebral cortex over the endocrine system every time.
But I don't have to like it.
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Ryo believes his time on loan with Feyenoord has helped him to adjust to the demands of life in England.
The 18-year-old enjoyed a three-month loan spell with the Eredivisie outfit last season and became hugely popular in the Netherlands after a series of exciting displays.
Ryo made his second appearance in an Arsenal shirt in Tuesday night's Carling Cup win over Bolton and he believes he is settling into his new life at Emirates Stadium well - even if he does have trouble understanding the language.
"It wasn't a big shock really, especially because I spent six months in Holland with Feyenoord," Ryo told the Official Matchday Programme.
"The real shock was the difference in football between the Dutch league and the Premier League. It's a big change in level so I feel I need to get used to the style of the game here.
"I was trying to speak English in Holland, because I had to, so my use of the language improved. But then it was a real shock to see the difference in accent here in London, and it's often very difficult to understand what people are saying!"
The Japanese youth international has had a whirlwind start to his life in north London. From high school football to Arsenal's first team in just a year, the youngster had to learn fast.
"If I was to say 'everything' has changed I think that would be right," he said. "I have been learning technique, tactics and physicality, and there have been a lot of new things over the past few months.
"I believe in Arsenal and know that I will get better as my time here continues."
The full interview with Ryo is available last night's Official Matchday Programme. You can subscribe to the Matchday Programme by calling 08700 20 20 20.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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I got something finally
I've watched this a few times now but being drunkish and smoking some spliffs, I realized one possible parallel to us.
Forgive me if I'm way off base.
We mostly all have laptops or desktop computers(and by computer I mean anything but something powered and/or built by Apple)with immense capability for mass chaos.But they usually end up getting used for mundane purposes such as status symbols.Not many truly realizing what kind of mayhem can really be accomplished with them.Such as carrying around an A-bomb on your back without giving one piss about it besides impressing the next guy.
Finally comes the kid with the no-name brand bomb/computer.Assume his computer would be eqaul to an E-machine or something.He gets picked on enough and does a remarkable job of ruining the economy of his country.Simply because he's pissed and decides to try out his no-name shit.
"Well fuck me I never thought that could happen!" says everyone...
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Are you Jerry Jackons alter ego?
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This flash mvie really does have a story and a moral to it. "It dosn't really matter what kind of whatever you have, as long as it works". Yeah that message came to me immediately when I was watching this. I liked the graphics on it, the black & white style made it really cool and you can always expect sound quality and voice acting good from mvoies that David Firth makes. This is sorta a good movie, if you liked all of the stuff that Firth has made (like me).
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The boy got pwned! But that is quite true, there seems to be a fad and then someone abuses it. I don't happen to find that happening here. True, but funny!
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Har har, har.
Reminds me of "One Better", by Les Claypool. Very good, mate. Can't wait for more Firthy submissions, for I enjoy my Firthy submissions.
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Way to give this video a specific slam on a age-old delimna. How far is too far? I loved the idea of everyone running around looking for the "latest model" - PERFECT blend of satire and seriousness. Great Job!


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'"James Patrick has a big influence on this team. This is a guy who really leads by example. While he may be the oldest player on the team, he certainly doesn't act it. He's probably in better shape than the rest of us. In fact, he's in tremendous shape. He puts the rest of us to shame."'
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Sabres brass sees a solid foundation
'Yet the reality is the team lost $10 million and there is a very real possibility the NHL may have a shortened season in 2004-05 because of prolonged negotiations between the league and the National Hockey League Players' Association over a collective bargaining agreement. The team's losses were about 40 percent more than what Golisano had initially projected before he bought the Sabres.'
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Three Sabres picked for U.S. team
'Forwards Chris Drury, Mike Grier and defenseman Jeff Jillson of the Buffalo Sabres were among 14 National Hockey League players added to the U.S. team for the world hockey championship later this month.'
NHL labor dispute looms as Sabres head into offseason
'''My gut feeling from what I see on both sides is there's not going to be a season,'' Satan said.'
Biron finally emerging as Sabres top goalie
'''I think in past years, one night you'd get Marty Biron `A,' one night you got Marty Biron `B,' and then some night there would be Marty Biron `C,''' he said. ''But if you look at all the tapes of my last 25 games, they're all the same. They all show where I was under control, where I was calm, I wasn't fighting the puck. And that's the way I want to play. I think that's how I made strides.'''
Sabres prepare for long offseason
'"We're definitely prepared — if it comes to it — to be locked out for a year," Sabres defenseman Jay McKee said.'
Sabres are ready to sit awhile
'"It could get very ugly," Sabres winger Mike Grier said. "Both sides are fairly passionate about their stance and what they believe in. If neither side is willing to compromise, it could be a long time."'
Returnees eager for playoffs
'While with the Sabres, he averaged just over 15 minutes of ice time per game. By the end of the season, he was often playing 20 minutes. The Sabres even adjusted their lineup to create a permanent spot for Roy by trading veteran center Curtis Brown. "They were saying, 'You can be our third-line center,'" said Roy, who scored 9-10 — 19 in 49 NHL games. "I was playing a lot and it gave me a lot of confidence."'
Ex-Sabres coach hopes presentation impresses Sather
'A lack of knowledge about current players and systems was thought to be a reason Sather did not hire Nolan two summers ago, but Nolan now laughs that off. "Well, I didn't know anybody in Buffalo the first time I got there, either," he said. "But I have to say I'm probably the most aware of who is in this league now than I've ever been. And my forté, anyway, is to get the most out of the players that I have at the time. Getting people to work is my thing."'
Sabres Send Help to Rochester
'All three will be in the line-up for the Amerks final three regular season games beginning Wednesday at Toronto.'
Buffalo sends Taylor, Roy and Bartovic back to Rochester
'The three forwards were made available following the conclusion of the Sabres season on Saturday night.'
The Sabres Clean Out Their Lockers
'Satan said, "We didn't make the playoffs for the third straight season and this is getting old." Satan says he's under contract for next season, but indicated he would not sign another deal in Buffalo.'
Sabres D Zhitnik intends to test free agency
'''My agent will keep talking to the Sabres, but I think I'm going to test (free agency) and see what's going on,'' Zhitnik said on Tuesday as Sabres players cleaned out their lockers after the team failed to qualify for the playoffs. ''I don't want to say I've played my last game here. I'm just taking it one day at a time right now.'''


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Requirements for teaching in countries seems to change regularly, as do visa requirements. I have done a small amount of travelling through Asia, Australia and Africa but wish to continue after spending the last 4 years as a corporate advisor. My issue is, I never went to university and got a degree, something I never thought I would come to regret. Are people aware of counties throughout South America, Africa or Asia where I can teach with just a good TEFL qualification and not a BA or equivalent? Contradicting info of TEFL sites, recruitment sites etc etc have fried my brain. Of course this should be entirely legal, I'm not looking for, 'get there then keep it hush hush', and I am talking about paid jobs rather than volunteering.
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BALTIMORE, MD. - The fifth-ranked North Carolina men's lacrosse team outscored ninth-ranked Johns Hopkins 9-2 over the last 31:30 of the game to beat the Blue Jays 13-9 at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. Joey Sankey had a career high five goals and he matched his career high for points in a game with seven to lead the Tar Heel comeback.
UNC has now won three games in a row and has improved to 8-2 on the season heading into a home game next Saturday against #8 Virginia at Fetzer Field at 3 p.m. The Blue Jays have lost three in a row and are now 5-3 on the campaign.
UNC trailed 7-4 five minutes before halftime but scored the next six goals in a row to take a 10-7 lead that Carolina never relinquished. Carolina had its biggest lead of the game with 4:50 left in the fourth quarter at 13-8 after Shane Simpson scored an empty net goal.
Sankey led the Tar Heels with five goals and two assists while Steve Pontrello had a pair of goals for UNC. Shane Simpson had a goal and an assist for UNC while Pat Foster had two assists. Carolina's other goals came from Jimmy Bitter, Ryan Creighton, Chad Tutton, R.G. Keenan and Jake Matthai.
The Blue Jays were led by Holden Cattoni who had a hat trick. Brandon Benn had two goals for the Blue Jays while Wells Stanwick added a goal and two assists.
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Kieran Burke made 10 saves for UNC, including five in each half. Eric Schneider had seven saves for the Blue Jays but had only two saves in the second half when the Tar Heels put 10 shots on goal.
Sankey's previous career high for goals in a game was four. He accomplished that three times in his sophomore season in 2013. This is the third time he has had seven points in a game. He also did it against Dartmouth in games both last year and this season.
The Blue Jays outscored the Tar Heels 4-3 in the first quarter and 3-2 in the second quarter to take a 7-5 lead at the half. In was an opening 30 minutes in which Johns Hopkins dominated the game statistically. The Blue Jays outshot the Tar Heels 22-13 in the first half and had a 19-8 edge in ground balls. The Blue Jays won 13 of the 14 face-offs taken in the first half. The only flaw in the first half on the stat sheet for Hopkins was 10 turnovers, a total which included four failed clears.
Carolina opened the scoring 2:26 into the game as Joey Sankey scored unassisted on a bounce shot from a tough angle from the right side. Hopkins quickly answered with a pair of goals. John Crawley scored on a bounce shot at 11:10 and then eight seconds later Phil Castranova scored off the face-off to put the Blue Jays up 2-1.
UNC's Jake Matthai tied the game off an assist by Pat Foster at 10:26 after the Tar Heel ride caused a Blue Jay turnover. Neither team scored for nearly nine minutes before there were three combined goals in the final two minutes of the half. Wells Stanwick scored an extra-man goal for the Blue Jays at 1:37 but Sankey tied the game 46 seconds later. Hopkins then retook the lead on an unassisted goal by Holden Cattoni with 22 seconds left in the first quarter.
Less than two minutes into the second quarter, the Tar Heels tied the game on a goal by Steve Pontrello on an outside bounce shot, assisted by Joey Sankey. Shortly thereafter, UNC had an extra-man chance but Eric Schneider made two saves for the Blue Jays and within moments Hopkins claimed a two-goal lead on the other end of the field. Holden Cattoni gave the Blue Jays the lead at 10:15 of the quarter before back-to-back goals by Brandon Benn, both assisted by Wells Stanick, gave Hopkins a 7-4 lead with 5:27 left in the half. Carolina's Chad Tutton scored on a bounce shot with 1:30 left in the first half to pull the Heels within two goals at intermission.
After the Tar Heels killed off an extra-man chance for the Blue Jays in the first minute of the third quarter, Carolina began chipping away at the Johns Hopkins lead. Ryan Creighton and Shane Simpson worked a brilliant two-man game leading to a goal with 11:17 to play in the third quarter. Creighton scored the goal, assisted by Simpson. UNC then got the equalizing goal with 6:53 to play in the third quarter as Jimmy Bitter ran his consecutive game streak with a point to 35 off an assist by Sankey. The Tar Heels took the lead for good on Sankey's unassisted goal with 3:02 to play in the third quarter. Just 1:02 later, Steve Pontrello stung the net from 10 yards out to give the Tar Heels a 9-7 lead. Carolina's R.G. Keenan won the ensuing face-off and raced down the middle of the field to score past Schneider just five seconds after Pontrello's goal.
Leading 10-7 heading into the fourth quarter, UNC outscored the Blue Jays 3-2 in the final period. Hopkins scored the opening goal of the period as Ryan Brown tallied to make it 10-8 with 13:07 to play. The next eight minutes of the game was all Carolina. The Tar Heels scored back-to-back timer-on goals by Sankey, both on near Herculean efforts. The first came at 9:14 as the Tar Heels chased down a loose ball from going out of bounds before Pat Foster made a cross crease pass to the right side from Sankey finished off his diving attempt. Sankey scored again on a wrap around the crease with 6:57 to play, again while the timer was on. Just over two minutes later, the Tar Heels' Shane Simpson scored into an empty net. The Tar Heels committed two late penalties and Holden Cattoni got an extra-man goal with 3:07 left to finish off the scoring.For the game, UNC forced 16 turnovers by the Blue Jays while UNC committed just 11. Johns Hopkins had six extra-man opportunities in the game and scored twice while UNC was 0-for-1 on the EMO.


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Shooting Restriction--Help Needed
If I can impose on your time for one minute. We have a no shooting zone restriction that the county commissioners are trying to pass in Thurston County Washington that could be a tool the antis use to further their cause. The commissioners have proposed a 300 "YARD" shooting restriction on marine waters as well as restricting the use of firearms on other rural areas of the county. Their proposal as written will close areas on both Washington Department of Fish and Game public hunting areas as well as public hunting areas on the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. This could have far reaching implications if the antis see this as a tool to further their cause and further restrict hunters rights.
If you could be so kind as to send an email to the county commissioners and cc: Cedarville Farms so we have records on file of objection to this ordinance. Email to firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you for your time and your support is appreciated Oly1
Commissioners Cathy Wolfe, Sandra Romero, and Karen Valenzeula attn:Robert Smith,
I a writing to state my opposition to the proposed No Shooting Ordinance in Thurston County. My concern is that a population of citizens, who disagree with the morality of hunting, are using "safety" and "noise" as reasons to eliminate shooting county-wide. Washington State and the Game Department have developed policies in order to protect our society from individuals being unsafe with firearms. If there are safety concerns in particular areas based on space and distance, then they should be addressed individually, as many other counties in the state handle these concerns. If this is a noise issue, then will contructions and loud music also be limited on the waters of Thurston County. Many families have a long heritage of hunting on the salt waters of Thurston County and whether it be for subsistence, as a waterfowl guide or to manage the birds that predate on thier shellfish crops, this ordinance would eliminate most oppurtunities for lawful citizens to hunt waterfowl on the salwaters of Thurstons County.
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I just started this week doing the Post-It Tuesday with Supahmommy which is great fun! I also do a regular Saturday Post called "Saturday Shorts" where I sit in my shorts when possible and give you a short blurb with a pic similar to a Wordless Wednesday post. I do try and blog at least once everyday and a couple to three times on the days I have off.
My blog does not really have a purpose or a theme for that matter (YET, reminder, I am just getting started) other than being an outlet for me and being what I hope to be somewhat entertaining for my readers. I do plan to eventually find out more about product reviews and such to make my blog more open for new readers.
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|the 300 horse 327 had 461 casting camel hump heads in the early years, flat top pistons, 10:1 compression, 1.94 1.50 valves, 160cc intake runners, a cam with 195 202 duration and 390 410 lift, this cam is still avalible in crane cams "blueprint" series. the L79 350 horse 327 had 11:1 compression, camel hump heads with 2.02 intake 1.60 exhaust valves, dome top pistons, a aluminum intake, a Holley 585cfm 4 bll carb, cam specs were 222 duration and 447 lift. to duplicate the 300 horse 327 would be a safer bet, but you could build the 350 horse if you lower the compression to run on pump gas, get a set of good heads and a decent cam and intake package and your 327 will be a strong runner, these engines are known to be more revvers than torque engines.
We are all on a budget. I know more of 350`s but an engine is an engine. All your BIG power comes from your cam and cylinder heads. Heads will cost you $1000. I believe you could get 50 ponies from a decent cam and exhaust. Keep your duration between 220-235, that`s a nice street cam. But you got to do the work yourself to save money, cams are only $100 bucks or so.
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327 rebuild help
hey guys well I just wanted to know if anyone had the specs for the 327's that came in the vettes that were I think 300 or 350 horsepower. I have a 327 out of a 67 chevelle wagon and it's the 250 horsepower but I need to rebuild it. What I want to know is I plan on rebuilding it without boring it but I want to build it how the 300+ horsepower 327's were built so does anyone know the setup for those. Like the cam durations and everything that was stock on those so that I can setup my engine just the same way to get that many ponies... I am on a little budget so whatever input you can give me would be great. thanks again..
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The Iowa Lakes Community College Men's Basketball earns the 16th rank in this week's NJCAA Div. II top 25 coaches' poll.
"It's an honor for our current players for how hard they have been working," Head Coach Troy Larson stated when asked about the rankings. "We need to keep improving like we have been in order to be at our best come tournament time."
The Lakers have started the season on fire, winning 3 of their first 4 games by an average of 19 points. They have 3 players averaging in double digit scoring; leading the way is Kelly Madison from Des Moines, IA putting up 22.5 points per game (1st in the conference and 17th in the nation), followed by Ben Shellim from Melbourne, Australia with 14 and Deondre Parks from Flint, Mich. adding 13.5. The Lakers have been out rebounding their opponents by 8 boards per game; Josh Schaben from Harlan, IA has been a big factor in that stat pulling down 8 a game (2nd in conference) himself.
Iowa Lake's next action is Nov. 18th at Southeastern, a NJCAA Div. I Community College, then on Nov. 20th at Clinton Community College, their first conference game of the year. The Lakers will be back at home on Nov. 27th when they face Iowa Western Community College another NJCAA Div. I program.


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Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
Originally Posted by LoboPops View Post
I'm retired Navy and use the VA here in Houston. I, also, have TRICARE for a backup but the VA has been sensational here.
I've been wondering what to do when I get a boat and start cruising now that they have got most of my health issues under control.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
Originally Posted by chucklesR View Post
Retiree's don't get to use the VA as far as I know.
I've been wondering what to do when I get a boat and start cruising now that they have got most of my health issues under control.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
Originally Posted by travlineasy View Post
I am retired and I use the VA.
Do You Qualify For VA Health Care? (VA Health Care Eligibility & Enrollment)
Retired MILITARY with a pension.
Not retired as in over 65 and on soc sec.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
VA iseverywhere inside usa. outside usa--you fly home, from what i have seen of my veteran friends needing healthcare. or va will pay for treatment in a hospital where you urgently need care.
i dont get sick. i am disabled with an underlying condition--but i do not get SICK--just more impaired.. but i dont use medical facilities loosely--as an rn i am very stingy with my spending on healthcare. usa is taking 100 dollars from me for medicare, as useless to me as anything not used, and i do not have other insurance, nor will i support a lobby(ins) which is based solely on scamming the people i into thinking they are safe because they sold em insurance--insurance is a scam. money for nothing.
what do people get out of insurance?? being told where NOT to sail and when not to sail there--outside of common sense, one needs not to be TOLD where to go in life. among other deficiencies as not allowing the proper care for an individual as the treatment is not covered by the particular insurance you have purchased??--what worth is this alleged insurance --is scam.
i am not only one thinking along these lines. insurance scam is why usa pays up nose for health care delivery.
i find much less expense in treatment in other countries. pay cash and not pay much. good systems. good luck.
from what i have seen and known of vets under va heathcare--if urgently ill, the va , if you are within a certain distance for a va hospital will pay for treatment in other hospitals. where you fall out they will have ye treated.
retirees are qualified for va program and are eligible to receive even when on ssdi or ssi.
for procedures such as replacements of joints--hip and knees --one goes to va, gets workup done then makes arrangements for this procedure at a later date.
doesnt matter where you choose to live, as long as usps delivers to there--which includes mexico and many other places expats want to reside.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
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Retiree's don't get to use the VA as far as I know.
I'm watching this thread with great interest! In a few years I'll be where you are now.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
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I am retired and I use the VA.
Do You Qualify For VA Health Care? (VA Health Care Eligibility & Enrollment)
New topic - OVERSEAS BASES
Overseas bases are not like those in the US. They are governed by Status of Forces agreements. They may be joint bases with the host country controlling a lot of the policy. For example in Rota, Spain the base is run by the Spanish. Retired can not use the Commissary or the Exchange but are permitted to use the mini-mart. The mini-mart is quite big and well stocked but it is not the Commissary. I got my hair cut but I think that was just because I was there and technically I was not authorized to use the barber shop. What you can do varies from country to country. Most have no marina facilities Access in Rota is controlled by the Spanish. You have to get a new pass every two days. Summary - don't plan to go to a US overseas base and expect the same reception and services that you would get in the US.
Get a copy of Skipper Bob's Guide to Military Marinas. It is free if you send them an email. Good places to stop to reprovision and they will be cheaper than the local economy. They are seasonal and may be hard to get into (e.g. Key West NAF in the winter.) Call well ahead - several months in fact. Again, policies vary. In Key West everyone must be a US Citizen. In other bases NATO allies are welcomed, in others as long as you vouch for them and they are in the US legally there will be no problem In one unnamed base (you will see why in a minute) the CO extended the courtesy of docking two Canadian boats I was traveling with for a couple of days as long as I was willing to vouch for their conduct. (That was a stretch, they were cruisers after all.) Don't depend on historic data. A new CO can change the policies overnight and in my experience this does happen with some regularity.
Enjoy your new cruising life.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
I am retired and I use the VA.
Do You Qualify For VA Health Care? (VA Health Care Eligibility & Enrollment)
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
I should think a base hospital could/would give you enough to last. maybe a 6mo supply? Tell them what/why you need the added dose. I know when we went overseas they gave me a 6 mo supply no problem. Nothing fails, but a try.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
There are sections in the tricare web site that talk about overseas care. First, you are on Standard or Prime until you get to 65. At 65 you get Tricare for Life but only in the United States. (No comment about what might happen to Tricare - this is the sailing, not political thread.) In the rest of the world you get Tricare Standard after age 65 so the strategy is get stabilized and get back to the US. Each country has a different Tricare manager - they are all listed on the international part of the Tricare web site.
A couple of other things I have learned:
1) The Express Scripts Tricare Pharmacy can not ship overseas. You need an intermediary in the US to get the delivery and forward it to you.
2) Certain countries will not let you import drugs. I am in Spain - no way can I get my drugs delivered from my agent in the US (who got it from Express Scripts.) On the other hand many common drugs do not require prescriptions - I am on Lipator and Palvix both of which are over the counter here in Spain. As long as you are willing to pay they will sell you any quantity - when I leave Spain I will stock up with a three month supply - by then I should be in the USVI or Puerto Rico where the USPS will deliver the drugs.Doctors and Pharmacies can send drugs to Spain but my attempts to do that were a losing battle.
3)) If you call Express Scripts they will give you a six month supply - called a vacation supply, but I think only once per year.
4) You do have to pay for the drugs, but again cost can depend on where you are. In Spain I paid about 100 € for a three month supply of both Lipator and Plavix. The cost in the US would have been considerably higher. I have not yet gotten the reimbursement for the drugs. It is on my round-to-it list.
Summary - best you can do out of the US is Tricare Standard after 65. Stock up as best you can on drugs, know the drug import policies for the places you intend to visit.
Hope this helps. If you learn more please share it here.
Re: Experiences with Tricare while cruising?
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Chuckles - I'm in the same boat. Have just starting researching the issue. For cruising in the US, TriCare should be fine. Overseas there is a program details at TRICARE Benefit Updates.
Like you, I am very interested is hearing firt-hand accounts of those using TriCare in thier travels.
Looks like I'll be hanging out around Puerto Rico for a while.
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Default - How to Finish a No-Answer Default Case
A Petitioner can finish a family law case by default (without the Respondent's participation), if the Respondent is properly served and does not file an Answer or otherwise appear in the case. This is called a no answer default.*
Instructions: How to Finish a No-Answer Default Case
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In this era of medical necessity and evidence-based therapies, it's easy to lose sight of the basic truth that psychotherapy is a special form of conversation: we heal not through prescriptions and procedures, but through talking and listening. Diagnoses and therapeutic models give us markers and road maps, but we have to put them into words, sentences, silences, looks, and gestures--the stuff of human interaction. However, we can get so focused on assessments and strategies that we don't pay enough attention to the core craft of our work: the spoken word. Surgeons cut and suture; therapists converse.
In workshops, I like to show a tape of a conflicted couple in which the wife, during a first-session diatribe about how emotionally distant her husband is, slips in these words: "I want my husband back." I ask the audience what they'd do next--what exactly they'd say, and to whom. Typical answers reveal a reluctance to get specific and a desire to talk strategy: "I'd try to get the wife to get in touch with her hope," or "I'd help the husband hear what his wife is saying." I keep repeating: "Whom would you address first and what words would you use?" Sometimes I have to be firm: "The floor is only open to two responses: whom and with what specific words?"
As we unpack the conversational options, it becomes clear that the outcome of the session, and perhaps of the therapy, could depend on what's said next. Nearly everyone in the room understands conceptually that the angry wife has expressed a vulnerable longing for her husband, and that the therapist's strategy should be to highlight that longing and the hope that it reflects. I break down the choices: say something to the wife or the husband, make that either a statement or a question, go cognitive or affective. Here are examples that have come from audiences:
Cognitive question to the wife: "Could you say more about what you mean when you say you want your husband back?"
Affective question to the husband: "How did you feel just now when you heard your wife say she wants you back?"
Then there are nonverbal options: for the therapist to be cool (using a calm, neutral voice, keeping the body still and relaxed) or more intense, as in my favorite response, saying softly and with emotion to the wife, "Susan, I just heard you say something that really struck me. In the midst of all the pain and hurt you feel in this marriage, you still long for Jeff. You want him back with you." The rationale here is that you want to turn up the heat on her hope before you do anything else with what she said. It'd be a mistake to ask the husband to respond before Susan goes deeper into her positive feelings for him; after all, everything else she'd just said was critical of him.
We continue the role play with ideas for how to get the husband involved in this pivotal moment. Once again, we have many options: cognitive statement or question, affective statement or question, cool or hot, having him respond to the therapist, or asking him to say something directly to his wife. It's like a basketball player leading a fast break: do you pass the ball, to whom, and at what time? Or do you take the ball to the basket yourself? In basketball and therapy, you have microseconds to decide--and your choice can have outcome-determining consequences.
Some choices, like asking the husband to turn to his wife and respond in any way he wants to her remark about wanting him back, carry risks of derailing the therapeutic moment, and perhaps the therapy, if it's the first session and the couple is on the brink. The husband is apt to respond with something like, "You sure have a strange way of letting me know you still care." The husband now looks like a jerk, and the wife shuts down, firmer in her belief that he's emotionally unavailable. On this clinical fast break, the therapist has passed the ball too far out ahead of a teammate, who kicks it out of bounds and looks bad.
Here's what I tell audiences is a better approach at this moment in the conversation: after the wife has stayed with her softer feelings for a moment or two, the therapist leans toward the husband and says softly, "Jeff, I know this has been a hard time for you in the marriage, and you've been feeling Susan's anger. What's it like now for you to hear her say that she longs to be connected with you again?" I'd have him respond to me, rather than his wife, because if he mixes positive and negative feelings, I can help him focus on the positive ones before I reengage his wife in the conversation.
Therapy as Craft
We rarely talk about therapy on the ground like this: what words at what time and with what tone and body language? Maybe we assume that if therapists are trained in good models of therapy or in the common factors of all successful therapy, they'll just know how to execute the skills. But what if we think of therapy as a conversational craft that we hone over a career with our clients and with a community of conversational healers? The term craft (a Germanic word for "power" or "ability") describes a skill set for producing useful things. Crafts are traditions passed down; we learn our craft from apprenticeship with masters. Crafts have communities with standards for whether the work is done well and the product meets practical needs. Carpenters recognize good and bad housing construction. Even therapists with different models can recognize good therapeutic craft when they see it, just as musicians who play different instruments or in different genres recognize good musicianship when they hear it.
The craft idea differs from two other images handed down to us: the therapist as scientist-practitioner and the therapist as artist. The first was born in 1949 with the Boulder model of clinical psychology. To the dismay of many academics, the scientist-practitioner model never took hold in community-based practice. Although few therapists would argue that research in areas such as psychotherapy efficacy, neuroscience, and attachment theory (to name a few) are irrelevant to the practice of psychotherapy, the treatment room is miles away from the science lab. The alternative conception, of the therapist as artist, was popular during my training. The best therapists were conversationally creative: think Carl Whitaker, Salvador Minuchin, and Virginia Satir. But art doesn't have to be useful, and artists today are expected to thumb their noses at tradition and convention. In Woody Allen's classic line from Bullets over Broadway, "An artist creates his own moral universe." Psychotherapy may be a creative exchange, but by contrast, we work as part of a community of healers, and it matters whether our clients get better. We're not each our own moral universe.
So if psychotherapy is a conversational craft, not mainly a science or an art, what are the tools of the craft? They include words, gestures, statements, questions, listening, pausing, and the nonverbals that go with them. (Of course, there's a knowledge base, too, for the craft of therapy, but here I'm focusing on the tools.) Then there are metaconversational tools, such as pacing versus leading the client, heating up the conversation versus toning it down, staying with a subject versus shifting focus, keeping the conversation productive, recalibrating when the therapy is no longer productive, and using additional tools for multilateral conversations with couples, families, and groups.
For example, heating up a conversation can take the form of using colorful and challenging metaphors. Instead of pointing out for the umpteenth time that a wife was indulging in indirect, negative communication with her husband, here's what I said: "Susan, I want to tell you what I just saw. I saw you pick up a hand grenade, calmly pull out the pin with your teeth (I mimicked the motion), and toss it into your husband's lap--and then you seemed surprised when it blew up--BANG!--and he shut down once again." The key to this being effective was the twinkle in my eye and a sense of near admiration in my voice for the offhanded artistry she showed in pulling this off. She had to laugh at herself, and I laughed with her. By contrast, I could have challenged her with more clinical (and blaming) language, such as saying something like, "That was pretty passive-aggressive, Susan," thereby bringing the wrong kind of defensive heat to the conversation. If this seems overwhelming, well, it is--for beginners. Even as an old-timer, I'm always nervous before seeing new clients, because I don't take for granted that we'll achieve a therapeutic level of conversation.
I made a craft mistake yesterday that scared me. I was seeing a couple for Discernment Counseling, a way of working with couples considering divorce in which they spend time deciding whether to continue on the divorce path or devote six months of therapy to an all-out effort to restore their marriage to health. It was the second session, and I was talking with the husband alone. When he launched into what I sensed was going to be a lengthy monologue on his wife's failings, I tried to interrupt and steer him back to looking at himself. He must have felt that I was telling him his feelings were wrong, because I hadn't said two words before he cut me off and became enraged. No one, he shouted, was going to tell him he didn't have the right to feel angry at his wife. Not the last goddam therapist, not his wife or adult daughters, and certainly not me. He was so worked up that I felt a pang of fear for my safety. I'd misjudged his openness to have me structure how he talked about his hurt and anger.
I switched to a calm, listening stance, focusing my attention on his pain and not allowing my nonverbals to communicate fear or distress. (I recall Jay Haley teaching a nice piece of craft: when you feel threatened by a client, act the opposite nonverbally, open and calm--which signals safety to the client.) The storm soon passed. I knew it was important for me to pace him better, but I told myself that I shouldn't overreact and play it too safe. So I challenged him several times, but with better skills. After waiting for him to pause, I'd say, "I have a thought about what you're saying that you may or may not agree with. I'm wondering if . . . ." I gave him permission to disconfirm my statements and maintain his sense of self-protection.
Near the end of the session, he told me that the angriest he'd gotten in his whole life was at a therapist who, after he said he was feeling guilty about how he'd behaved in his marriage, rubbed his bearded chin and said, "Guilt: I'm not hearing guilt." If that happened as reported, it was a megamistake by the therapist (the client refused to return to therapy). Mine was a smaller mistake, although potentially serious. Without knowing the client well enough, I'd tried to lead him without enough pacing of his feelings, and I'd done so by interrupting him without waiting for a natural pause.
In this situation, the advantage for me in thinking about my work as a craft is that I knew immediately that I'd made a technical mistake. Of course, I learned a lot about my client from what happened, but too often, when our clients act dysfunctionally in sessions, we veteran therapists focus on them and not enough on ourselves--on what we did or didn't do, or on what we can learn. How did my client's previous therapist respond to the therapy-ending outburst? He called the wife to tell her that her husband had narcissistic personality disorder.