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In the following essay excerpt, Harmon comments on Karr's move from poetry to prose in The Liars' Club and praises how Karr captures certain elements of childhood including sound and scent.
We may have financial straits to thank for Karr's decision to turn her family dramas into a memoir. It's certain that The Liars' Club has enjoyed much greater success and sales than her poetry; and criticism, God knows, makes money or friends for nobody. My review copy of The Liars' Club arrived in the custody of a thousand-word blurbissimo and a schedule of cities where Karr was to be available for publicity interviews: Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Boston, Syracuse, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago—but nothing in the Southeast (where Viking may think we don't read) and nothing even near Texas (where Viking may think they read but are sensitive about stories...
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Hey evryone long time to write huh? Well here is the update. I went in for my 8month appointment and found out that i would be haing my baby that day. I had him on Oct 3, 2003. He was 4lbs and 9.6ozs. He was pretty sick. He had very Hyperbilirubenenima. He was in the Intensive care nursey for 1 month. He got out on Nov 3. Now my baby is 8lbs and 11ozs. And he is everything I ever wanted. He will be my last try. My docter told me that it wouldn't be wise to try again. So, I am counting my blessings. I hope everyone is doing great. Happy Holidays.
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Mallorn 43
Mallorn 43 | |
Editor | Len Sanford |
Cover artist | Pauline Baynes |
Publisher | The Tolkien Society |
Printer | The Printed Word, Horsham, UK |
Released | July 2005 |
Format | A4 stapled paperback, glossy |
Pages | 64 |
Preceded by | Mallorn 42 |
Followed by | Mallorn 44 |
Mallorn 43 is the forty-third issue of the The Tolkien Society's annual journal Mallorn, published in July 2005.
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- Front Cover
- By: Pauline Baynes
- About The Tolkien Society
- Editorial
- By: Len Sanford
- Virtual History: Arnor: the Numenorean inheritance; Chapter 3: Nendor and the Enedre
- By: Majorie Willetts
- Reviews: "Traitors and translators: three German versions of The Lord of the Rings
- By: Susanne Stopfel
- "The road goes ever on: Tolkien's use of the 'Journey' motive in reconstructing The Lord of the Rings"
- By: John Ellison
- "Botanical notes on the Mallorn"
- By: Beth Russell
- "Arthur and Aragorn: Arthurian influence in The Lord of the Rings"
- By: Richard J. Finn
- "A history of song: The transmission of memory in Middle-earth"
- By: Michael Cunningham
- "Tolkien's women (and men): the films and the book"
- By: Jane Chance
- "Gandalf as torturer: the ticking bomb terrorist and due process in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
- By: Adam Rosman
- "Merry in focus: On Ring fever, having adventures, being overlooked, and not getting left behind"
- By: Hilary Longstaff
- "Tolkien's Burning Briar - an astronomical explanation"
- By: Kristine Larsen
- "Perspectives on reality in The Lord of the Rings: Part II - Nature, beauty and death"
- By: Gerardo Barajas Garrido
- About the authors
- Back Cover: The Hobbits come to Minas Morgul
- By: John Ellison
- Inside Art
- By: Lorenzo Daniele, John Ellison, Katrin Kunde, Jef Murray, Jill Thwaites and Kay Woollard
[edit] See also
- Mallorn, the large tree after which the journal is named
- List of Mallorn issues
- Mallorn cover art gallery
- Amon Hen, the bi-monthly bulletin of The Tolkien Society


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As a kid growing up i loved to watch cartoons,i mean its
why i am a cartoonist!!!. it all started with a cool show called tiny toons.i loved how myra chased bugs bunny and how daffy,lola,tazz went to there little toon school.
My second favorite cartoon is THE LITTLE MERMAID.why? because i think that it was cool how the creators of the cartoon brought greek mythology to life about a mermaid
in a good way.
My third favorite cartoon is the THE SNORKS. i liked the snorks because......THEY WERE SO CUTE!!!!.they had there little village and when i doubt the always figue something out. the theme song goes"come along with the snorks,swim along with the snorks,so much to see wating for you and me just come along with the snorks.
My forth favorite is THE SMURFS.the reason is because they remind me of the snorks,except they don't have the
little tube above there head.i also like it because when i
was growing up i use to babysit alot and that was the one show that would keep whomever i was babysitting quiet.
My fifth cartoon was JOISE AND THE PUSSY CATS. the reason them because i thought that it was a very stlyish cartoon about an all girl bad that was half human and half cat.
My sixth favorite cartoon was POPEYE. the reason why him because he encouraged kids to eat there spinach and to stand up for themselves.
My seventh favorite cartoon is TOM & JERRY. why them because jerry always think's that he can outwit tom when in reality we all knoe who can outwit who,and it sorta kinda reminds you of things that happned back in the day.
My eighth favorite cartoon is CHARLIE BROWN the reason charlie brown was because it was naturally funny.especially snoopy and the little birdy;there always daydreaming about them being superheroes;to lionel and his blanket i enjoy charlie brown.(especially the halloween special.
My ninth favorite cartoon is SCOOBY DOO. the reason why i like scooby doo is because i gives you a taste of
how investigating crime is;putting things back together
were they belong;in a good way.
My last favorite the best for last is THE FLINSTONES. the reason them because the cartoon shows you life in the prehistoric times;they use bones to tie up your hair,elephants for a sink,i really liked that cartoon and i still do.
my top 10 favorite cartoons
my most favorite characters
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A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish.
The holder of the post is connected to an Anglican or Roman Catholic cathedral or collegiate church. The position is a type of canon who has a role in the administration of a cathedral. A prebend is the form of benefice held by a prebendary: historically, the stipend attached to it was usually drawn from specific sources in the income of a cathedral's estates. When attending cathedral services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of the choir stalls, known as prebendal stalls.
At the time of the Domesday Book, the canons and dignitaries of the cathedrals of England were supported by the produce and other profits from the cathedral estates.[1] In the early 12th century, the endowed prebend was developed as an institution, in possession of which a cathedral official had a fixed and independent income. This made the cathedral canons independent of the bishop and created posts that attracted the younger sons of the nobility.[2] Part of the endowment was retained in a common fund. This fund, known in Latin as communa, was used to provide bread and money to a canon in residence, which he received in addition to what came to him from his prebend.[1]
Most prebends disappeared in 1547, when nearly all collegiate churches in England were dissolved by the Act for the Dissolution of Collegiate Churches and Chantries of that year, as part of the Reformation. The church of St Endellion, Cornwall, is one of the few still extant.
The office of prebendary is still retained by certain Church of England dioceses (those of Lichfield, Lincoln, and London being significant examples) as an honorary title for senior parish priests, usually awarded in recognition of long and dedicated service to the diocese. These priests are entitled to be called "Prebendary" (usually shortened to Preb.) and still have a role in the administration of the relevant cathedral.[3] Prebendaries have a Prebend Stall in certain cathedrals or collegiate churches.[4]
The greater chapter of a cathedral includes both the residentiary canons (full-time senior cathedral clergy) and the prebendaries (and, in London, the Minor Canons). In the Church of England, when a diocesan bishop retires, moves to another diocese or dies, the monarch will summon the greater chapter to elect a successor. This election is ceremonial, as the monarch (following the advice of the prime minister) also tells the members of the greater chapter whom they are to elect. If any members of the chapter fail to attend, they are declared to be "contumacious".
Wells Cathedral and Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin still call their canons "prebendaries". They form the chapter of the cathedral and sit in their prebendal stalls when in residence in the cathedral.
- ^ a b Greenaway, Diane E, "The Medieval Cathedral", in Hobbs, Mary, Chichester Cathedral: An Historical Survey, Phillimore & Co, p. 14.
- ^ Cantor, Norman F (1993), The Civilization of the Middle Ages, p. 381.
- ^ Cutts, E. L. (1895) A Dictionary of the Church of England; 3rd ed. London: SPCK, p. 476.
- ^ "Prebendary, Church of England", Debretts
External links[edit]
- Lists of prebendaries in England and Wales since 1066: "1066–1300", Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae (series), British History Online; 1300–1541 and 1541–1857
- Prebendaries of Aylesbury - The prebend of Aylesbury was attached to the See of Lincoln as early as 1092


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"Well, what do you have to say to this fine mess?" he mocks.
If our wounded confusion is on one side of this grand word, what is on the other? We stand unmoved on nevertheless.
The weight of our apparently unrewarded labors so oppressive in their density is on one side of this word. On the other rests an unchanging and unchangeable biblical truth.
Nothing Will Be Lost
In 2 Timothy 1:12, Paul gives us a two-part anthem to follow his nevertheless. Either part is, by itself, wonderful; but together they are magnificent:
"I know whom I have believed," Paul says. In the midst of trial by fire, who God is remains the greater, infinitely greater truth than what is happening.
Plant your faith in the miracles of God, and you are ripe for satanic attack. Anchor your soul in the God of miracles, and circumstances can never dislodge your hope.
Whom you have believed may someday be all you have to cling to. The thing is, it will be enough.
"And am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day." Your life, faith and labors of love on Christ's behalf are not lost under the clutter of papers on God's disheveled desk. Regardless of what you may think just now, what you may actually hear Satan screaming in your ear, God keeps, carefully and lovingly, all that is committed into His hands.
Nothing is lost. Nothing is even temporarily mislaid. On that day, at that lovely dawn of clear bright truth, it will be right there where you put it, in His hands.
This part of the passage might well be translated top side down to read, "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which He has committed unto me against that day."
Read that way it brings sweet assurance that God will not put any burden or any calling, responsibility or ministry in my hands that He will not keep in His. The ultimate responsibility for the outcome is not mine—but His. My responsibility is to intentionally place back in His hands all that He puts in mine.
This is not just for the dying missionary, but for all who have felt unappreciated. The mom whose daily sacrifices are so carelessly trod upon by those for whom she labors. The steady-Freddy—the lusterless, unimaginative husband and father who pays the mortgage, hits the backyard grounders and attends the PTA.
It's true for the retired executive who wonders if his former employees remember or appreciate his efforts to keep them all on the payroll through three recessions. It's true for the inner-city teacher who watches her dedicated creativity oozing its lifeblood on the floor of a dirty, gray classroom full of sneakered barbarians who care nothing about her heroic efforts to ignite some spark of life in them.
In the jeering din of demonic accusations of wastage, we can whisper the one great word that puts the enemy to flight and lights the corners of the room for all the unappreciated: "Nevertheless."
I know who my God is, and I am eternally convinced He will not let anything go unseen or unrewarded. When Satan tenderly drapes the dreary, but oh, so delicious afghan of self-pity around our slumping shoulders and begins to whisper, we need not let him even finish his sentence.
"What about all the ... ?"
"Who will repay all the ... ?"
"Look, they all forgot your ... "
Mark Rutland is the former president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., and the founder and president of Global Servants, an international missions ministry that provides training and support to national pastors and leaders. He is the author of Nevertheless, from which this article is adapted.
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We're launching a New/Social media membership-based training site called "Know How Cafe." It's a site were entrepreneurs, professionals, and business owners can learn about all aspects of web 2.0 and the social web. Members will learn how to be savvy users of Twitter, podcasting, flickr, linked in, facebook, etc. The site is not yet live since we need a logo to guide the design direction.
There are lots of free applications and services on line that are great for business users. But knowing how to use them effectively is not easy for non-technical people. We've provided programming, development, and consulting services for 12 years to clients around the country. We're now taking all our experience and putting that into a single resource where members can learn what they want when they want. It will feature case studies, screen casts, webinars, forums, and more. We will program the functionality but do not yet have a design concept.
Members will be the leaders of their industries, the ones who want to be the smartest, fastest innovators, and who want to use the social web with savvy.
Based on the logo, we'll then design a complementary site around it and possibly come back to the winning designer for additional work on full-site color themes, callouts, details, etc.
We will also give the winning designer plenty of link love on our site as well.
- Professional creative style
- Primary colors: Blues or Greens or deep Purples
- If you have a color pallet that comes to mind, by all means express it. We tend to think professional colors run in the above ranges but plenty of companies use Reds and Oranges to great effect.
- Secondary colors: shades or tints of the primary
- Tertiary colors for links, callouts, rollovers ect can be more on the opposite side of the wheel to provide color balance and help with depth of the design
- Prefer a somewhat standard font (or font that is easy purchased and works on Macs) so variations, banners, badges, etc. are easy to create and reproduce.
- "Know How Cafe" or "KnowHow Cafe" or "KnowHowCafe.com" should be in logo
- Friendly, professional, conversational, web-based
- Logo graphic should convey a sense of "learning" or "teaching" for professional web-based communication and marketing.
- Logo should easily and clearly reduce in size and maintain readability
- Logo should reduce to grayscale and maintain readability and be easily recognized
- Prefer logo be as simple as possible while conveying the above items
- Prefer logo to fit comfortably in a square space. No really wide and really short formats. Difficult to place in banner ads and use as avatars on Social Media sites
- If a really strong idea comes to mind, but doesn't fit the criteria above, go for it!
- No kitchy or "trend of the day" designs.
- No garish or neon colors
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Tropical storm Katia strengthens to hurricane; too early to talk threat
Tropical storm Katia now a hurricane: The National Hurricane Center in Miami cautioned the public — still recovering along parts of the East Coast from Irene — not to stress over the storm.
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Katia became the second named hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, but forecasters said it was too soon to determine where it might head.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami cautioned the public — still recovering along parts of the East Coast from Irene — not to stress over the storm. It is over warm waters and in a low wind shear environment, two ingredients that could propel it to become a major hurricane, likely by the weekend. But it's too soon to tell if it will ever come near land.
"It's got a lot of ocean to go. There's no way at this point to say if it will make any impacts, let alone when it might make them," said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman at the National Hurricane Center. "There's a reason we don't do forecasts more than five days in advance — the information just isn't good. The error beyond that just isn't acceptable."
As of 11 p.m. (0900 GMT), Katia was still centered about 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands and was moving west-northwest near 20 mph (32 kph).
Maximum sustained winds were 75 mph (121 kph).
Also becoming an area of concern is a thunderstorm cluster over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. It has a high chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next two days, the hurricane center said.
National Weather Service meteorologist Fred Zeigler said the system could bring rain to coastal Mississippi and Louisiana but it's too early to tell whether it will mean anything worse.
Most models used to track such systems are struggling to predict whether it will move toward Brownsville, Texas, or the Florida Panhandle, he said.
As for Katia, some models show it veering away from the East Coast. But Feltgen said it's simply too soon for coastal residents to tell.
"Folks along the East Coast shouldn't be getting a lot of heartburn over this — not yet," he said.
The storm's name replaces Katrina in the rotating storm roster because of the catastrophic damage from the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and the coast. The World Meteorological Organization maintains six rotating lists of storm names, but it strikes names associated with storms that were catastrophically deadly or costly.
Meantime, a tropical depression in the Pacific has fallen apart over southwestern Mexico with winds dropping and the hazard dissipating.


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The antimension (from Greek for "instead of the table"), also called the antimins, is one of the furnishings of the altar. It is a rectangular piece of cloth, of linen or silk, with representations of the entombment of Christ, the four Evangelists, and scriptural passages related to the Eucharist. It often has a very small relic sewn into it. During the Divine Liturgy, it is unfolded on the altar just before the Anaphora, and the Eucharist is consecrated on it. The antimension must be consecrated and signed by the bishop, indicating his permission for the Eucharist to be celebrated in his absence. It is, in effect, the priest's permission to officiate.
The antimension is a substitute altar. A priest may celebrate the Eucharist on the antimension even if there is no properly consecrated altar. In emergencies, war and persecution, the antimension serves a very important pastoral need. The eileton is now often used to wrap the antimension when it is not in use.


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Doesn't matter if you profit from it, just that it occurs. And gifting within Russia isn't an issue.
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The fact is - there are many screenshots of Steam support saying that gifting from Russia to other regions is A-ok. The only thing that isn't, is doing it for money, whether it's for profit or not (mine wasn't for profit). Gifting from Russia to the US is most definitely not a bannable offense. Doing it in exchange for money is.
But Steam Support still haven't told me why I'm banned, and as far as they are concerned I was just gifting a lot of games to friends, because I know that they haven't hacked my paypal ;)
Yeah, games cost nothing to make, and whenever a game is sold it's all profit. None of it goes to covering the costs of actually producing the game because they just pop out of thin air.
Games cost little to nothing to press and distribute. Even less if digitally distributed. But they don't cost nothing to make. I'm all for the free flow of information, and games are fundamentally information. But good information doesn't just happen.
Also, pretty much all exercises in voluntary pricing have failed to indicate that they generate enough income to cover the costs of production. All you get are people who couldn't afford it at full price paying what they can, and those who could afford it at full price, paying a lot less.
Of course they don't ... but what of it? Producing a game (or any other form of IP) is a risk voluntarily assumed by everyone involved. Society owes them nothing.
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Also, pretty much all exercises in voluntary pricing have failed to indicate that they generate enough income to cover the costs of production. All you get are people who couldn't afford it at full price paying what they can, and those who could afford it at full price, paying a lot less.
I never said we owed them anything. But I quite like people who make games 'taking a risk'. And I'd rather foster an environment where more people are willing to take those risk. And environment where they are highly unlikely to see any renumeration for that effort is not such an environment.
And as to your second point: The world is not a laboratory. Society and consumer habits even less so. If the environment is biased, then you need to conduct experiments in that biased world.
I would love a world where things were not so biased and consumer habits were different. If you have any suggestions as to how to change that, I would gladly listen.
The discussion around HOW we create an environment that fosters creativity and good information production by renumerating (which does not necessitate financial renumeration) that production AND accepts that information can will and shoul pass freely is far, far more the interesting discussion to be having.
But isn't the availability of cheap personal importing, brought about by the internet, and especially appealing for digital products, a legitimate factor in altering what the market will bear?
I'm fairly sure Steam have developers capable of outright blocking gifts from Russia to people in other territories. They can clearly identify when this happens so why not just block it using technical measures. Or if it's only 'excessive' gifting that's the problem, decide on a number for 'excessive' and stop any trades over that number.
More generally, when did this 'no gifting for money' thing start? I wasn't aware of it, we've had a 'data smuggling' thing going on in these forums and I seem to remember "buy a double pack and split the cost with a friend" was something Valve heavily marketed with Portal 2?
This is the only place I've found it in writing:
Note that that isn't actually part of the SSA, just a separate kb article. Also excessive gifting is not the problem - at least not according to Steam Support. In their one and only reply to me, they said excessive gifting was not why I was banned. It's why I want to know why i was banned, but there's no way they will tell me, which is why I was hoping RPS would ask - they know how to get answers...
But you make a good point - in the case of 4 packs, do they really expect one person to pay for all of them from the goodness of their heart? I don't think that's ever happened, and anyone buying 4 packs has had 3 people paying the buyer.
"I helped some friends get cheaper games from my region (Russia). Some paid me via paypal (Steam doesn't allow this) and some via pints/beer/other games."
Yeah, that's an ordinary predictable and expected ban.
Steam has to enforce region restrictions on games. You bypass it repeatedly you get banned.
Sometimes they pay different people based on the region purchased. Sometimes a different product goes to different regions, this might be because of a legal requirement for blood or whatever. Steam is licensed to sell particular products in particular regions for particular prices. Often whole regions are forbidden to buy the product at all.
If steam doesn't enforce the region restriction they are violating their contract with publisher.
Russia has drastically lower prices for many games on steam right now so there is newly a rush of people trying the same thing you did and getting banned. The temptation right now is pretty high. The problem is so bad that many publishers have withdrawn their product from Russia completely, including ID, bethesda, etc..
There's lot of threads on steam forum where they establish that the region restrictions are a serious contractual and legal issue for steam that they have to enforce, and the region restrictions aren't their choice it is a requirement put on them by the publisher contracts.
Here's another Russian banned for this kind of thing, and showing many people are interested and active in these trades.
BenWah: I saw a few people post screenshots of bans, but they were given warnings first. That way they knew what they were banned for. Also they were doing it blatantly, just selling games for profit. I was doing it strictly between friends - so as far as Steam knew, I was just gifting (which is absolutely allowed, to any region). In my opinion there are easier ways to enfore this - like taking away the ability to gift or trade, instead of outright banning an account with $1000+ games on it.
But the reason I made this thread is because they haven't told me that that's why I'm banned. I wonder if it's because they don't have any proof - I didn't post about it anywhere (before getting banned, anyway).
Edit to clarify: Steam Support have said before that gifting games to regions where they are unavailable to buy is allowed. But either way, that's not what I was doing.
Very bottom of the first post. They don't specifically say bypassing is allowed, but they do say gifting internationally is fine. If you want, contact Steam Support and ask if you're allowed to gift a game to your friend who is in a region where it's unavailable, they'll say yes (I've seen screenshots of that too but can't find them right now).
If they didn't want you to do it, they would jsut disable trading/gifting of games to a region where it's unavailable.
I don't really see why I need to convince you. like I said, if you don't believe me, send Steam Support a ticket and ask. You'll get a reply (within 2 weeks). It's kind of irrelevant though because I'm not claiming innocence, I want Steam to say exactly what they're banning for.
Which I don't think is an unreasonable expectation. If you're going to get banned for something, particularly if you've invested money into it, you should be told why you're being banned. Whether you think he's innocent or not I think we can all at least agree on that he should be told exactly why they've decided to ban the account.
gimperial, just let me say that if you take this issue to a trial, you should win. If the TOS aren't clear enough, if there is proof that others have done this without being warned/banned... you should win and take lots of money from them.
Valve has NO proof (only your word, and that's... silly) that you sold those games you gifted, "overpriced". And if you did, it's your problem. Valve should have implemented REGION LOCKED trading.
Oh by all means carry on, I'm just pointing out that it's not an unreasonable request for him to find out exactly why he was banned. I mean Valve isn't a silly little clan server with an admin who bans people "because of teh ghey lel", they have to make decisions and be held accountable for them, which includes detailing what the decision was in the first place.
They also work on Valve-time, which is likely forever swamped by endless requests by their millions of customers. I suppose there's something to be said in our modern technocracy where actually supplying legions of live representatives is probably the biggest bottleneck a lot of these companies have.
They've replied twice to me, both times copy pasting their "violated the SSA". The second reply also said the ban wasn't due to excess gifting, and it ended with "we will not be able to help you further with this issue", which means they'll be ignoring any further tickets from me (which they have been). I'm not really complaining about response times, and I certainly don't see how I'm committing perjury considering I've said I did someting that's a bannable offense.
All I want is for Valve to tell me why I'm banned. My guess is they have no proof.


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TORONTO, September 10, 2010 — After rapid gains in the early part of the year, Canada's economy slowed in the second quarter and is expected to rebound only modestly over the second half of the year, according to the latest Economic Outlook report from RBC Economics.
RBC slightly pared back its 2010 forecast, expecting GDP growth of 3.3 per cent which is down from 3.6 per cent projected last quarter.
"While Canada's second quarter growth put real GDP close to its pre-recession high, concerns in the U.S. and nervousness about the health of the global economy are weighing on the outlook for the second half of the year," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.
RBC forecasts that the economy will continue to grow and that the output gap will be completely eliminated by mid-2012. The labour market has recovered 94 per cent of the jobs lost during the recession and the unemployment rate is expected to decline to 7.3 per cent by the end of 2011, from the 8 per cent that prevailed the second quarter of this year.
With government infrastructure spending to be exhausted in the first quarter of 2011, there will be pressure on the private sector to fill the void and sustain economic growth.
GDP is expected to rise 3.2 per cent in 2011, down 0.3 percentage points from projections in last quarter's Outlook. RBC notes that core inflation has been stable through the economic downturn and expects it to remain anchored around the Bank of Canada's 2 per cent mid-range target.
"Global financial conditions have not been severely damaged by the European sovereign debt crisis as previously feared," said Wright. "With central banks pledging to do whatever is necessary to keep the recovery on track, interest rates will remain low, supporting business and consumer spending once confidence is restored."
RBC adjusted its U.S. GDP forecast to 2.7 per cent in 2010 and 3.0 per cent in 2011, compared to 3.1 per cent and 3.4 per cent the previous quarter, in light of the sharp weakening in real GDP in the second quarter and disappointing reports on the housing and labour markets over recent months.
According to the report, the Canadian dollar has been hurt by concern about the U.S. and global recovery continuing, with an attendant downward impact on commodity prices, and will likely remain under pressure until the risk of another downturn in the global economy dissipates. RBC forecasts that the Canadian dollar will close out 2010 at 93.45 U.S. cents and will again trend upward toward parity by mid-2011.
At the provincial level, RBC expects all provincial economies to grow in 2010; however, the downshift in economic momentum prompted growth forecasts for most provinces to be revised lower in 2010 with the exception of Saskatchewan (increased to 6.3 per cent from 3.8 per cent) and Alberta (up 3.5 per cent from 3.1 per cent). The largest downward revisions were made to Manitoba (down 0.9 per cent to 2.0 per cent) and Newfoundland & Labrador (from 4.1 per cent to 3.3 per cent). All other adjustments were fairly modest from June and are as follows:
A complete copy of the forecast is available as of 8 a.m. EDT, at www.rbc.com/economics/market/pdf/fcst.pdf. A separate publication, RBC Economics Provincial Outlook, assesses the provinces according to economic growth, employment growth, unemployment rates, retail sales and housing starts.
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John A. Sklaryk, age 95, of 307 Ampersand Ave, Saranac Lake, died Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at home surrounded by his family and friends.
Born in Schodack, New York on September 12, 1916, he was the son of George and Anastasia (Laskovich) Sklaryk. He married Beatrice Gauthier on November 20, 1939 in St. Bernard's Church. She predeceased him on April 3, 2000.
John had been employed as an Accountant for Paul Smiths Electric and later for Niagara Mohawk for over 30 years until his retirement. Prior to that he had work at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. John was an active member of the Saranac Lake Adult Center and was a past member of the Knights of Columbus.
He is survived by two daughters Diane Sklaryk of Albany, NY, Debra Jewell and her husband John of Altamont, NY, one son John Sklaryk of Poughkeepsie, NY, one granddaughter Kaitlin Jewell of Altamont, NY, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, mother two sons Gary and Stephen Sklaryk, and four brothers and sisters.
Calling hours will take place at the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. A Mass of Christian Burial will immediately follow at 12:00 PM at St. Bernard's Church, with Rev. Mark Reilly officiating. Burial will follow in St. Bernard Cemetery in Saranac Lake.
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A creative workshop for women, a silk-screen printing course for young drug addicts, a drama club for young people, and language training for immigrant women: these are just some of the 98 projects for disadvantaged groups in Leipzig. Starting in 2009, as part of the Federal 'Strength on the Ground' programme, the Leipzig authorities devoted EUR 645 000 to small local projects in deprived neighbourhoods across the city. "The funding has enabled the promoters to try new ideas and concepts," said Mayor Thomas Fabian, who explained that this financing is additional to ongoing support for the disadvantaged, and that many of these projects will be extended. Young people from difficult backgrounds are a priority target of the funding, as are women wanting to get back into work.


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msgexec - process translations of message catalogSYNOPSIS
msgexec [OPTION] COMMAND [COMMAND-OPTION]DESCRIPTION
Applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog. The COMMAND can be any program that reads a translation from standard input. It is invoked once for each translation. Its output becomes msgexec's output. msgexec's return code is the maximum return code across all invocations.
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Almost every retreat winds up with action planning. In fact action planning is typically interwoven throughout the retreat. There are two basic approaches that Meeting Facilitators International uses for action planning. The first is a one step approach based on what we call offers and requests. The second is a two step approach that includes a barriers identification or gap analysis. A brief explanation of each follows:
One step Approach
Lets assume that we are wrapping up a two day strategic planning off-site meeting. Many things may have happened up to this point including environmental scans, SWOT analyses, Visioning, Competitive analysis, Strategic Issues discussion, Win Loss Analysis, etc. But now we want to make sure that we leave with action plans for all of the things that need to be done.
We believe that an action plan should describe who does what by when. Although the team will have set priorities as a group, we do not believe that the team should tell people how to do things. Instead we believe in having people make offers of what they will do. These offers are recorded by the facilitator including who is making the offer, and when it will be done by. We work closely with person making the offer to make sure that it is "checkable". (What we mean by this is that if the offer was recorded in a calendar or diary to be done by a particular date, then anyone knowledgeable of the situation would be in a position on that date to either "check it off" as done, or not. "Strengthen the new product development process", is not particularly checkable. "Develop a job description for and hire a new development manager by June 2008", is. So is, "Implement a new procedure for exploring and priority ranking development projects by July 2009."
Requests typically come into play when we are not going to achieve all of our objectives with the offers that have been made and someone needs something from someone else before they will make another offer. If the request is accepted it is recorded just like any other action item. Before leaving the action planning step the team needs to be confident that by carrying out the action plan you will achieve your goals, if they are not then either the goals or the plan will have to change.
Two step Approach
The two step approach begins by brainstorming a list of barriers that are going to get in the way of achieving your goals. This is a good approach when the goals have been established elsewhere. Once the group has brainstormed the list of barriers we use a priority ranking exercise to identify the most significant barriers. Starting with the top ranked barrier we then develop an action plan (using offers and requests) to overcome the barriers. At the end of this step the group needs to be confident that by taking the actions the barriers will be overcome and your goals will be achieved. If they are not confident then the goals and the action plans will both have to be re-examined.
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The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that the state Department of Public Safety contracted last week with Miami-based JPay to offer new ways to send money to prisoners, but for a fee.
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2017 Spring Training marks the sixth season of JetBlue Park at Fenway South, the Spring Training ballpark and adjoining Player Development Complex for the Boston Red Sox in Lee County, Florida.
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The "Flight" EP, out on 7th November, is the second official single from Edinburgh based quartet Hidden Orchestra, who released their stunning debut album 'Night Walks' on Tru Thoughts in September 2010, and have seen their star continue to rise in the intervening year with an ever-growing media and word-of-mouth buzz. Highly in demand as a live act, their hectic touring schedule this year alone has taken in over 20 countries as their incredible music has worked its way into hearts and minds the World over, and this single brings eagerly anticipated new material and remixes.
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The lead track on this new EP, "Flight" is the first brand new material to be put out since the album's release; "Flight" started out life as part of a live film soundtrack project, and evolved into this intense and transporting piece, which at almost eight minutes long sees composer and bandleader Joe Acheson exploring a dubby avenue, with a strong half-time feel running against a faster double-time context. Dotted rhythms in the kicks and snares and an occasional bass wobble interplay with acoustic basses and acoustic percussion including castanets, metal pipes, snare drums and ride cymbals. The jazz influence that often characterises Hidden Orchestra's work is barely there, giving way to a very strong folk feel. Acheson expands: "This track is the strongest testimony yet to the last eleven years I have been living in Scotland - you can clearly hear the folk influence creeping into various aspects of the melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation."
Harpist Mary Macmaster features heavily in the track, playing the clarsach - a traditional Scottish wire-strung harp. A legendary figure and a veteran of the live folk scene in Scotland, Mary has performed with Hidden Orchestra a number of times this year in special live shows where they have been able to augment their usual quartet with an extended line-up - including Glastonbury Festival, North Sea Jazz, Edinburgh Jazz Festival and Insider Festival. "Flight" also features the band's two most regular live guest musicians reprising their appearances on 'Night Walks' - Su-a Lee (cello) and Fraser Fifield (low whistle and soprano sax) - and in addition plays host to a cameo appearance on clarinet from the celebrated Czech producer Tomas Dvorak (aka Floex, who also created the remix of "Dust" for this release).
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Do You Know When to Let Go?
Guys, I has the guilt and the frustration right now.
I'm conflicted on when is the precise moment when to decide that a book is just not for me. It really feels like back in high school, breaking up with that really cute, really nice boy who turned out to be kind of predictable and doesn't have any standout qualities...
But could POTENTIALLY make you happy...
BUT you're just so unsure that you don't want to waste anymore time on it...
(I've never actually gone through this hypothetical, analogical scenerio, but I've read about it!)
It's so hard for me to put down a book in which I've already invested time and money. It's equally hard to continue turning pages when your eyes glaze over and it's been 15 minutes and you've looked at the same sentence 20 times. Giving up, to me, feels like I'm not being fair to the author. What if they have something special in store several pages down the line? I know that I could pick up a book I'd be more interested in, but what if something MINDBLOWINGLY AMAZING happens within the next 200 pages?! And I miss out on it? And then all my friends are talking about "OMG can you BELIEVE that one part of Said Book?! It changed my life! I can solve ALL the world's problems now!"
I realize this is highly unlikely. But that's how my mind works. I'm super enthusiastic about books, as are we all, and I love to pick out the good things in the books I read. So how do you know when to say goodbye? I've only DNFed 3 books in 2010.
I asked a couple other bloggers via Twitter and here's what they had to say:
Tara from Fiction Folio
"I have only stopped reading one book. If I start it, I have to finish it.
Tara from Hobbitsies
"I hate giving up. If I don't like a book, I'll put it down and come back to it. Usually my mood affects how I like what I read."
Kristi from The Story Siren
"I have a 100 page rule. I used to feel more guilty [about giving up]."
Kate from Literary Explorations
"I've rarely given up on a book, but I think if I wasn't liking it halfway through then I'd give up and read something better."
Jamie from The Perpetual Page Turner
"I have such a hard time not finishing a book.. but lately I give it about 100 pages, depending on how long the book is."
Jami from YA Addict
"I have a 5 chapter rule."
Melanie from Reclusive Bibliophile
"I usually give it a few chapters, say 50 pages-ish, and then I give up if I'm not into it. I feel a little guilty jumping ship, but then I glance over at my TBR pile. I just try to remind myself that not every book is for every reader and then move on to one that hopefully will be for me."
Annette from Annette's Book Spot
"Usually 50 or so. But if it's a longer book, or one I THINK I should like, I give it longer."
So there it is. It's good to hear what other readers think, but it doesn't lessen the guilt for me. I think the more that the TBR pile grows (and it will, that wily minx!) the less guilty I will feel about letting go and moving on.
Melanie said it best when she told me: "You'll just have to decide what feels worse: guilt or boredom."
So what do you guys think? Do you have a hard time giving up on a book? Do you feel guilty about doing so? Or is giving up not even an option?
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I don't have a rule, I just give up when I start to not like it. I don't want to waste my time reading something I'm not enjoying, because that is the whole point in reading for me. I do try to push past not liking it at first though, because sometimes I think the mood I'm in may affect how I feel about the book.
ReplyDeleteEhh...give it up. Your time is precious! This is supposed to be fun! And I'm saying this with a feeling that deep down you are talking about MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER. It's okay--everyone has different tastes, and if a book isn't for you...stop making yourself miserable and go pick up something you can devour :)
ReplyDeleteUgghhhh - this is my big issue right now. I can not give up on a book I've started. I have only given up on two books so far (one I sneaked a peek at the ending so I know what happened)
I'm like you - I hold out hope until the end that it will turn around and amaze me. It doesn't usually happen though. I am currently reading three books at one time becuase none of them are grabbing me but I won't stop reading them....just in case :-)


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This is the third of a fourteen-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly.
When people ask me for my top tip on personal finance, they're often disappointed. My top tip isn't sexy. "To get out of debt and to build wealth," I say, "you must spend less than you earn." People are hoping for something more — some sort of mystical secret. But you know what? As mundane as it sounds, that is the mystical secret of money.
If you want to get out of debt and build wealth, all you ever need to do is spend less than you earn. Everything else we talk about at Get Rich Slowly is window dressing, a prop in support of the fundamental equation of personal finance:
The wider the gap between what you earn and what you spend, the more financial success you'll achieve.
Spend less
This simple formula has a couple of implications. The first is that frugality can have a very real impact on your financial situation. Frugality is an important part of personal finance. When you decrease your expenses, your cash flow increases. If you're living paycheck-to-paycheck on $3000 a month, reducing your monthly expenses by $300 can give you substantial breathing room. (See the Charles Dickens quote at the start of this article.)
The big advantage of thrift is that you can implement it immediately. In theory — if there were no psychological factors — you could cut your expenses in half today and your savings would sky-rocket. Thrift pays immediate dividends.
The disadvantage of frugality is that there's a limit to what you can do. You can only trim so much from your budget before you become miserable. Or until you don't have enough for food and shelter. If you earn $3000 a month, you only have $3000 total you can cut. At $3000 monthly income, your maximum positive cash flow is $3000.
Earn more
Thrift has limits. You cannot spend less than zero. On the other hand, there is theoretically no limit to how much money you can earn. Frugality is important, but if you want to make real progress, increase your income.
In the 3-1/2 years I've been running this site, I feel like I've never been able to make this point emphatically enough. The people I know who have met with wild financial success have all done so by increasing their income in some way. They've all had to make sacrifices to do this, but once they've met their goals, they're able to scale back to a normal way of life. If you want to destroy your debt — not just defeat it, but destroy it — do something to boost your income. How do you earn more money?
- Work longer hours.
- Get a second job.
- Start a small business.
- Sell the stuff you have.
All of these work, but they all require sacrifices — especially the sacrifice of time. Most people feel that these options aren't right for them. If that's the case — if you've already cut your spending to the bone and you're unable to earn more — then there's really no answer other than extreme frugality and patience.
There are no silver bullets.
There's no magical way to change the fundamental equation of personal finance: To build wealth, you must spend less than you earn. If a person has already cut her spending to the bone and is unable to increase her income, she will continue to struggle.
This is the third of a fourteen-part series that explores my financial philosophy. These are the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. Other parts include:
- Tenet #1: Money is more about mind than it is about math
- Tenet #2: The road to wealth is paved with goals
- Tenet #3: To build wealth, you must spend less than you earn
- Tenet #4: Pay yourself first
- Tenet #5: Small amounts matter
- Tenet #6: Large amounts matter, too
- Tenet #7: Do what works for you
- Tenet #8: Slow and steady wins the race
- Tenet #9: The perfect is the enemy of the good
- Tenet #10: Failure is okay
- Tenet #11: Financial balance lets you enjoy tomorrow and today
- Tenet #12: Nobody cares more about your money than you do
- Tenet #13: Action beats inaction
- Tenet #14: It's more important to be happy than to be rich
Look for a new installment in this series every Monday through the end of the year.
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text: $300,000 Ferrari FF catches fire during test driveMatt Hardigree11/04/11 10:00amFiled to: Ferrari FFCar-B-QueFerrari FF FireFF FireffFireFrankfurtVideoFerrariClipsTop1431EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink There's been some debate as to whether the three-door, AWD Ferrari FF hatchback was a proper Ferrari. The debate is over. One of the $300,000 cars caught fire and burned to the ground during a test drive. Yup, it's definitely a real Ferrari! UPDATE! A 44-year-old was out test-driving the new FF in Frankfurt, Germany when he heard a bang and noticed flames coming from the tail in his rear view mirror. So, since the FF has its monster V12 engine up front, maybe it's an exhaust issue?The test driver bailed, unharmed, as the car burned to the ground. Self-immolation is the best indicator of a true Ferrari product so we're not surprised. We also will not be surprised when Ferrari denies this ever happened and blames the drivers before inevitably recalling all the models. The burnination of a pristine Ferrari FF went first reported in early October (translated), but we somehow missed the story and accompanying video. Advertisement Advertisement But now, after watching it, let's just say — if you love Ferraris, we don't recommend watching the video.UPDATE: User Fan512bbi over at FerrariChat says he knows the individual involved in the test drive and "I will not reveal any names but my friend who was driving is ok, he managed to bring the FF to a stop and get out before the car was engulfed in flames, the cause of the fire is still unknown."(Hat tip to AxisOfOversteer!)Reply143 repliesLeave a reply


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Literally a list of Footballers with posh-sounding names
We honestly couldn't tell you…
After reading about Liverpool's pursuit of Southampton's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the wants-to-be-posh-but-is-distinctly-middle-class Daily Mail, The Spoiler got to thinking – are there any other footballers with proper posh-sounding names? Can anyone beat a player with a double-barrelled surname, half of which is the same as a former Prime Minister?
There are a few after the jump. But, as always, help us out with any we've missed…
Quinton Fortune
Despite sounding like a scampish young aristocrat with a heart of gold in a Charles Dickens story book, Fortune is in fact the former Manchester United player who was a promising youngster for about nine years.
Matthew Le Tissier
Not only does his name sound posh, but he was born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. The Spoiler had a holiday there when it was a whippersnapper and can confirm that it is indeed proper posh. There's an aquarium and everything.
Graeme Pierre Le Saux
Another one from those fancy Channel Islands. He has a son called Lucas and a daughter called Georgina and was once seen reading the GUARDIAN!!! La-di-da.
Christopher Gerald Bart-Williams
Four names! You may know him better as former Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest midfielder Chris Bart-Williams – veteran of roughly 15 relegation battles.
Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink
Despite having NEVER been photographed in a suit or tux, he makes it into our list.
According to our in-depth research, the Rapid Vienna striker got his name because, in the 17th century, two farming households, both alike in dignity, in fair Holland, where we lay our scene, married into each other and kept both names. 'Of' in Dutch literally means 'or' in English, so Vennegoor of Hesselink is either really posh, or somewhere down the line, there was debate over someone's baby daddy.
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North Carolina allows low-income homestead exclusions for qualifying individuals. Qualifying owners must apply with the Assessor's Office between January 1 and June 1. If you qualify, you can receive an exclusion of the taxable value of your residence of either $29,500, or 50% (whichever is greater).
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June 2007 Site of the Month Research 101
Author: John W. Holmes (see also http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/acknowledgements.html) Institution: Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington
Interview with: John W. Holmes
Interviewer: Marie-Elise Waltz
Description: Research 101 is designed as a basic library tutorial for use in any academic institution, although the examples used relate to the University of Washington Libraries collection. The tutorial has six sections: The Basics, Info Cycles, Topics, Searching, Finding, and Evaluating. It is available for download on the University of Washington website, and comes with information and documentation for librarians and teachers interested in using the modules in their own institutions. So far, 123 institutions have downloaded this tutorial. The software, which includes many Flash and Shockwave animations, can run on any browser and is easy to install. Each section ends with a quiz, which can be used to test one's knowledge. The tutorial has been recognized by a variety of publications, including Choice and School Library Journal.
Q. How long did it take you to construct your tutorial?
A. The bulk of the original content development was done in 1997-98 to synchronize with the roll-out of our new UW Libraries website in October 1998. When I attended the inaugural ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Program in Plattsburgh, NY in the summer of 1999, I developed a plan to make extensive use of our new computer lab/reference department as a structured extension of the course classroom, both physically and intellectually. The original plan did not fly in our environment, so I wrote a funding proposal that autumn to convert this original tutorial (called "Information-Based Research Tutorial" or something equally lacking in imagination) to a database of digital learning objects. The idea was to push these objects out to faculty desktops and allow them to customize the objects to support their course learning objectives. This proposal was funded by the UW and between 2000 and 2004 we "rebuilt" the original tutorial into Research 101. My team was comprised of, besides myself, two graduate staff assistants, later joined by an undergraduate student assistant.
Q. Would you say your tutorial is done or do you continue to modify it?
A. It is essentially done. This is partly because the structure and content encompasses the essential tasks associated with information research and partly because formal funding for maintenance and refinement has been discontinued. Informally, I intend to improve the section on "Evaluating" because I think it could stand to be much better. We have acquired some new funds for developing multimedia learning objects; but I would not add these to what is currently Research 101. I think the linear tutorial format on a library's website is a thing of the past. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace.com – these are the places where students are working and playing and where their chances of finding our stuff and using it are somewhat greater. Making the tutorials shorter, tighter, focused on a single objective at point-of-need provides more flexible delivery and application options.
Q. Your tutorial offers a lot of interactivity for the users. Was this difficult to build into the tutorial? What were some of the software tools and techniques you found helped the most in building interactivity?
A. It is always, I think, difficult to build interactivity into something like this. Activities that establish understanding, or even mastery, should come at key points in a sequence, so you want to place them appropriately. For a starter kit like this, it helps that you can make activities pretty entertaining because you know most users are not coming back to it often. It is not meant to build mastery over time. That needs to come in course contexts or by engaging in self-directed inquiry, practicing these tasks recursively in a variety of situations. One of the visions I had for the database of digital learning objects that I had hoped this would become included instructors plugging in their own set of activities related to their course outcomes, keeping the material fresh and giving it broader application.
The interactive objects in Research 101 were largely developed by my graduate student assistants whom I credit on the acknowledgement page. They are Javascripts (in the case of the little quizzes at the end of each unit) and Macromedia Flash files (for the larger, splashier scenes like the refrigerator magnet search query design task, the primary-source-in-the-backpack task, and the generic library map in the "Finding" unit). These items all had to be storyboarded, the content cleared for any diversity issues, and then tested for usability by students.
Q. How do you publicize your tutorial in the UW community? How about in the outside community?
A. Research 101 is seldom used at the University of Washington. There is an instruction course in the Information School here that requires students to access it and evaluate it as a model of its type. But the set of competencies addressed by the tutorial are considered by many UW faculty as largely "remedial."
This has spurred me to market the tutorial to the K-12 and community college world. I placed it under a Creative Commons license a few years back, zipped up the whole thing in a modest archive, and made it available to the world for download. I do not support it actively, short of giving some advice and providing any missing pieces that users identify for me. I do a fair amount of outreach and consulting work with public, school, and community/technical college librarians in this region and I am on the faculty of the ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Program, which is often attended by librarians whose institutions have not budgeted for such a tutorial and many have taken advantage of Research 101 as a free starter kit.
So far, some 123 institutions, school systems, or individuals have downloaded the tutorial. They include, geographically and culturally, Seattle Public Schools, Wind River Tribal College in Ethete, Wyoming, the University of Southern Queensland in Sydney, Australia, Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi India, the Healthcare Library at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London, the League of Women Voters (somewhere), Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, and other interested stakeholders from points north, south, east, and west.
Q. What is a typical student user doing with your tutorial?
A. As I say, most of its users are K-12 students. They seem to be using it as part of a class activity and using it in pretty much the straightforward way I had imagined. I made a set of worksheets available to them in MS Word and Adobe .pdf formats (these same worksheets are available as e-mail forms in Research 101) and their instructors seem to be asking them to use these to structure some research assignments. Since I do not communicate directly with these people, I am sorry I cannot report on their use.
Q. How much time do you normally expect a student to work on your tutorials?
A. I think that most students use about an hour. The original plan was for it to take about as long as a course period – for us, 50 minutes. But, since most students do not take the whole tutorial (at least at a single sitting) I think it is safe to say that the actual time spent on task is considerably shorter.
Q. Has your tutorial been used in any innovative or unusual ways that you did not expect?
A. Not that I know of. I made the interactive files available separately, so I know that some folks have taken those and plugged them into their own materials. I know that the Information School here uses it to stimulate exploration and discussion of online learning, which I had not exactly anticipated, but which does not surprise me.
Q. If you had to start building a tutorial from scratch, knowing what you know now, how would your approach change?
A. Any tutorial of this type should, in my opinion, be a collaborative effort between librarians and faculty. This creates a natural constituency that will allow the tool to be used in meaningful contexts and be comprised of content that functions appropriately within existing curricula. Otherwise, the tutorial becomes a "field trip to the library," something no one really wants, and something that takes the significance away from both the experience and the content. It also permits a more meaningful assessment of student learning. Since, as librarians, we still so seldom see the "products" of our work as instructors, the relationship with teaching faculty moves us closer to a realistic evaluation of our impact on their students.
Also, like many librarians, I want to pack as much of what I know into the relatively few opportunities given me to teach students about doing research. Research 101 is packed and constitutes what amounts to a mini-course. Most students and faculty want a quick-and-dirty help guide at point-of-need and I think this type of resource is seeing more use in today's networked environment. Most Web 2.0 materials I am seeing are consistent with this approach.
Q. You have created an interesting site map of your tutorial. It works as a type of index into your tutorial and in many ways covers the librarian's terminology for what you are teaching. Why did you create it, and what do you think users do with it?
A. I imagined people wanting to access specific pages or items and I had hoped that this would make it easier to find them. The formal introduction of the terminology was kind of unplanned and might actually work against the underlying purpose of demystifying the information world. This is something I would probably rethink if I were to start over – perhaps framing the site map in terms of goals or tasks, from a learner's perspective.
Q. Is there anything you'd like to add about your tutorial that you think our readers might like to know?
A. I guess that, of all the things I learned while doing this, one of the most important is the importance of the early, conceptual phase of a project like this. I wanted to involve a fairly large and diverse group of colleagues and others in the process and tried to set up a situation where they would feel comfortable helping me imagine what this might be. But people are understandably busy and sometimes would prefer to just be assigned a specific task rather than deal with the ambiguity we faced. I regret that we did not throw out all of our preconceptions and really discuss the full range of possibilities. We let the need for deliverables shortchange our imaginations a bit. My fault, but a great lesson.


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"If you two don't stop fighting, I'm going to pull this car over and leave you by the side of the road." Cris and her brother don't, so their parents do. Stranded in the rugged northwest of Brazil, the bickering doesn't stop and the siblings part ways. On her own, 12-year-old Cris is forced to navigate a world far from her upper-middle-class upbringing. This modern fable about independence and identity, subtly dissects issues of class and race in modern day Brazil. Best Film, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, 2012 Brasilia Film Festival; Official Selection, 2013 Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco Film Festivals.
DIR/SCR Marcelo Lordello; PROD Marilha Assis. Brazil, 2012, color, 100 min, DCP. In Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED S L
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Extreme points of Norway
The extreme points of Norway include the coordinates that are further north, south, east or west than any other location in Norway; and the highest and the lowest altitudes in the country. The northernmost point is Rossøya on Svalbard, the southern-most is Pysen in Mandal, the eastern-most is Kræmerpynten on Svalbard, and the western-most is Høybergodden on Jan Mayen.[1] The highest peak is Galdhøpiggen, standing at 2,469 m (8,100 ft) above mean sea level, while the lowest elevation is sea level at the coast.[2]
The Norwegian Antarctic Territory—consisting of Queen Maud Land, Peter I Island and Bouvet Island—are not part of the Kingdom of Norway. Norway administrates the claims based on the Antarctic Treaty System; therefore they are sometimes considered part of a wider definition of Norway.[3] If included, the Norwegian Antarctic Territory accounts the southern-most, eastern-most, western-most and highest extreme points.[4][5]
The latitude and longitude are expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, in which an "N" value refers to the northern hemisphere, and an "S" value refers to the southern hemisphere. Similarly, a "E" longitude value refers to the eastern hemisphere, and a "W" refers to the western hemisphere. The extreme points of latitude and longitude are published by the Norwegian Mapping Authority, while the elevations are published by the World Fact Book. Both make use of the World Geodetic System (WGS) 84, a geodetic reference system.
Latitude and longitude[edit]
For the Kingdom of Norway, the northernmost point is Rossøya, just north of Nordaustlandet on the Svalbard archipelago, bordering the Barents Sea. The southernmost point is Pysen in Mandal bordering Skagerrak—the only latitude and longitude extreme point that is in Norway proper. The eastern-most location is Kræmerpynten on Svalbard, bordering the Barents Sea, while the westernmost point is Høybergodden on Jan Mayen, bordering the Greenland Sea.[1]
All four latitude and longitude extreme points are bordering the sea; due to the geographic nature of the coastline, all extremities are located on islands. Therefore, extreme points of the Norwegian mainland are also included in the list. The northernmost point is Knivskjellodden, located in Magerøya in Finnmark. The northern-most mainland point is Cape Nordkinn, located in Lebesby, Finnmark; this is also the northern-most location of mainland Europe. Both border the Barents Sea. The southern-most location of Norway proper is Pysen, while the southern-most mainland location is Lindesnes; both border Skagerrak. The easternmost point is Hornøya, with Kibergneset being the eastern-most mainland location. Both are in Vardø in Finnmark. The western-most location is Holmebåen in Solund, Sogn og Fjordane, while the western-most mainland location is Vardetangen in Austrheim, Hordaland. Both border the North Sea.[1]
If Antarctica is included, the southernmost point is the South Pole. All seven Antarctic claims meet there, so this point borders all other six territories. The easternmost point is the border between Queen Maud Land and the Australian Antarctic Territory, which follows the 45th meridian east.[4] The westernmost point is Peter I Island. As the only Antarctic claim that is not a sector, it borders the Amundsen Sea.[6]
The highest point in the kingdom is Galdhøpiggen, which, standing at 2,469 m (8,100 ft) above mean sea level, is located in Lom.[2] Galdhøpiggen is part of the Jotunheimen mountain range, as well as Jotunheimen National Park.[7] It is also the highest peak along the Scandinavian Mountains.[8] If Antarctica is included, the highest peak is Jøkulkyrkja, standing at 3,148 metres (10,328 ft).[5] It is located in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Princess Astrid Coast.[7] Norway's lowest point is located on the coast, at sea level.[2] The coast stretches 83,281 kilometres (51,748 mi), including fjords, bays and islands.[3]
Extremity | Name | Elevation | Range | Region | Coordinates | Ref |
Highest (kingdom) | Galdhøpiggen | 2,469 m (8,100 ft) | Jotunheimen | Lom | 61°38′11″N 8°18′45″E / 61.63639°N 8.31250°E | [2] |
Highest (Antarctica) | Jøkulkyrkja | 3,148 m (10,328 ft) | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | Queen Maud Land | 71°53′00″S 6°40′00″E / 71.88333°S 6.66667°E | [5] |
Lowest | Sea level | 0 m (0 ft) | Coast | Atlantic Ocean | n/a | [2] |
Only public transportation.
Heading | Airport | Railway station |
North | incl islands: Longyearbyen mainland: Mehamn |
Narvik |
South | Kristiansand | Kristiansand |
West | incl islands: Florø mainland: Bergen |
Bergen |
East | Vardø | Bjørnfjell |
Highest | Fagernes | Finse |
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Norwegian Mapping Authority. "Ytterpunkter for kongeriket Norge" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Central Intelligence Agency (5 February 2009). "Norway" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b Statistics Norway (2008). "Oversikt over geografiske forhold" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d Government of Norway (27 June 2008). "Lov om Bouvet-øya, Peter I's øy og Dronning Maud Land m.m. (bilandsloven)." (in Norwegian). Lovdata. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b c Caplex. "Jøkulkyrkja" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b Geographic Names Information System. "Peter I Island" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (2007). "Jotunheimen" (pdf) (in Norwegian). p. 6. Retrieved 7 February 2009.[dead link] Cite error: Invalid
tag; name "gnisjokul" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ Annika, Rydman (August 18, 2008). "Sydtoppen fortfarande högst i Sverige" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2008-10-27.