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Chicken ... whole or leg thigh pieces (I have used 4 thigh pieces)
Onions ... 2 medium
Olive oil ... 6 tbsps
Sumac ....... 1 tbsp
Black pepper.. 1/4 tsp
Paprika ..... 1/2 tsp
Garlic ....... 1 tbsp
Zaatar ....... 1 tbsp ( this is tangy condiment used in most of the Middle Eastern recipes. It has Sumac (anardana powder / pomegranate) dried mint, crushed sesame seeds and other spices )
You may use garam masala if you don't get Zaatar
Vinegar ........ 1 tbsp
Salt ......... to taste (zaatar has a little salt in it too.if you are using that add accordingly)
Garnishing : Onion rings sauteed with sumac and salt.
1. Clean the chicken and make slits with a knife for better marination.
5. Roast the chicken in the oven until done.(250 degrees first 15 minutes, then reduce to 200)
It takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on the size of the oven and the chicken. (whole chicken takes a little longer)


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The Heart Lamp ($96) from Vinçon is designed by Lígia Carteiro, who got the idea from the Portuguese saying "cold hands, warm heart" – meaning those who have cold hands have a warm heart because they're in love.
Made from white porcelain to offer a pleasurable touch when caressed by the hand. As well as using it as a lamp you can also enjoy holding it when lit. Use a 15 watt bulb to achieve the perfect temperature. Measurements: 20x13x13 cm.
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Today is the worldwide release of the first artwork from the new DreamWorks Studios Animation Film "Megamind" staring the voices of Will Ferrell (Megamind) and Brad Pitt (Metro Man).
Coincidentally one of the six pieces of artwork has a dental themed so I thought I would show them all to you today. This film has received a lot of hype and like the all the previous Dreamworks films it is sure to be a big hit.
Here is the YouTube Video of the Trailer
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Bush Weighs Reaching Out to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Eli Lake (New York Sun)
Egypt Moves Embassy from Gaza to West Bank (UPI)
Inside Gaza, a Landscape Marked by Violent Change - Scott Wilson (Washington Post)
Muslim World Inflamed by Rushdie Knighthood - Ben Hoyle (Times-UK)
Israel Prison Service Separates Hamas and Fatah Inmates - Jonathan Lis (Ha'aretz)
Fatah Kills Suspected Collaborator with Israel in West Bank Hospital (AP/Ha'aretz)
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President Bush: "We face extremists and radicals who use violence and murder as a tool to achieve objectives....Those of us that believe in liberty and human rights and human decency need to be bound together in common cause to fight off these extremists, and to defeat them. You can only defeat them so much militarily. We have to also defeat them with a better idea. It's a better idea that's being practiced by our friend, Israel. It's called democracy. And that's the fundamental challenge facing this century: Will we have the courage and the resolve necessary to help democracy defeat this ideology?"
Prime Minister Olmert: "The idea that I have is to talk with [Mahmoud Abbas on] the current issues that can help upgrade the quality of life of the people and provide them better security in the West Bank, and to share with him the efforts to calm the terror - this is something that he is absolutely committed to doing, we have to do it, and this is not something that the Palestinians can escape. They will help fight terror in a most effective way - something that they haven't done, unfortunately, up until now. But this is something that I am sure he understands is a prerequisite for any major development in the future." (White House)
Hamas leaders in the West Bank have been driven underground by a Fatah campaign of kidnappings and arrests, but the Islamic militants warn they'll eventually come out of hiding to try to destabilize the rule of Mahmoud Abbas with car bombings and assassinations. Iranian funding for Hamas, Abbas' political weakness and Fatah infighting could one day change the balance, Fatah leaders, Hamas militants and Israeli analysts say.
A top Palestinian security official in Ramallah said Hamas has recruited hundreds who are organized in sleeper cells, outfitted with guns and uniforms, and ready to move. A senior Hamas leader wanted by Israel said the group has recruited about 4,000 gunmen in Nablus and Hebron, and has thousands of weapons. Hillel Frisch, an Israeli analyst, said Iranian money could buy off Fatah security officers who haven't been fully paid for months. (AP/Washington Post)
See also Dahlan: Hamas Could Strike in West Bank - Sean Maguire and Alastair Macdonald
Mohammad Dahlan, who runs Mahmoud Abbas' security forces, said Tuesday, "If serious reforms are not undertaken in the security forces, it would be easy for Hamas to take over the West Bank." (Reuters)
News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) uncovered a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) cell that had planned a series of attacks, including bombing a Modi'in synagogue and kidnapping U.S. citizens in the West Bank, according to information made public Tuesday. PFLP member Ramzi Sharona, who had been illegally working as a laborer in Modi'in, said he intended to plant an explosive device in a nearby synagogue, blow it up, and then flee to Ramallah. In addition, the cell was planning to kidnap U.S. civilians in order to swap them for jailed PFLP leader Ahmed Sa'adat, shoot motorists on a Modi'in road, and attack Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron. (Ha'aretz)
The IDF has allowed paramedics to administer immediate treatment to wounded Palestinians at the Erez crossing and enable the evacuation of those suffering from serious injuries to hospitals in Israel as a goodwill gesture and a humanitarian act. In addition, the IDF has started allowing West Bank residents who were in Gaza during Hamas' takeover to cross into Israel on their way back to the West Bank. (Ynet News)
Armed groups in Gaza are making their own laws and defying Hamas' authority. These are splinter groups that split from Hamas and Fatah in the past, as well as clans that established their own armed militias in order to protect themselves and their criminal business activity. Some of these factions and clans apparently receive aid and funding from organizations affiliated with al-Qaeda. When Hamas attempted to make a gesture and demanded the release of British journalist Alan Johnston, the head of the clan holding him, Mumtaz Durmush, made it clear to them he was the boss and refused to release Johnston.
It appears that Hamas does not intend to give in and in the coming days we are likely to see the continuation of armed clashes in Gaza. However, the armed groups Hamas seeks to disarm may attempt to strike at Israeli territory or launch rockets. An Israeli response would force Hamas to contend with the IDF and ease the military pressure on these groups.
Israel will apparently also need to act to curb the smuggling that has turned into a flood on the Philadelphi Route between Egypt and Gaza. We are talking about above-ground smuggling through breaches in the wall. (Ynet News)
Palestinians in Gaza fired two Kassam rockets into Israel on Wednesday. (Jerusalem Post)
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
The bloody anti-Fatah putsch staged by Hamas constitutes a strategic black eye for the U.S. and another sign of the ability of the Tehran-Damascus Axis to project power with absolute ruthlessness and brutal precision throughout the Middle East. Washington and the Europeans are discussing a resumption of aid to the PA, but to what end? Given the corruption that has long been endemic, how do we know that money going to Abbas won't "trickle down" to the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - a terrorist arm of Abbas' Fatah that has worked with Tehran and its allies in the past and remains one of the dominant terrorist gangs in the West Bank? It's time for some serious congressional oversight hearings about the continued usefulness of U.S. assistance to Abbas. (Washington Times)
Why were both the Hamas and Fatah fighters wearing ski masks? (And where do you buy a ski mask in Gaza?) These masks are worn by fighters who wish to shield themselves from the gaze of their parents, friends and neighbors, for there was surely an element of shame that Palestinian brothers were killing brothers, throwing each other off rooftops and dragging each other from hospital beds. The mask both protects you against shame and liberates you to kill your brothers - and their children. In our society, it's usually only burglars, rapists or Ku Klux Klansmen who wear masks. The mask literally says: "I don't play by the rules." (New York Times, 20Jun07)
Three years ago, Josh Mandel was fighting insurgents as a Marine in Iraq. Today, as a freshman state legislator in Ohio, Mandel has proposed a bill forcing the state's five public pension funds to divest themselves of stock in foreign companies doing business in Iran. "The state should not be investing people's hard-earned dollars in countries that are sworn to America's destruction," he says.
A new legislative movement is tapping a wellspring of anxiety over Iran and its perceived threat to U.S. troops in the Middle East and to U.S. allies such as Israel. At least 14 other statehouses across the country are considering similar anti-Iran efforts. Last month, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Sam Brownback introduced legislation to support the local divestment bills and to shield divestment legislation from potential lawsuits challenging the states' right to enact laws that impact foreign policy. While U.S. companies have long been barred from operating in Iran, more than 200 multinationals have investments there, from British-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and French telecommunications-equipment company Alcatel SA to Sweden's electronics company Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson. (Wall Street Journal, 14Jun07)
Fatah Isn't the Answer - Michael Oren (Wall Street Journal, 20Jun07)
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Cloud Music Box - Harry Potter
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These beautiful hanging music boxes make a lovely addition to any nursery and will not only soothe baby, they also come with very cool little songs that are not your traditional lullabies.
This chic mustard polka dot coloured material music boxes come with a Velcro strap so it can be hung off the pram, cot and its soothing classic song 'Light my fire' by the doors will help to put baby to sleep. The cushion is made from Oekotex cotton and is CE certified. The mechanism inside is waterproof meaning the cushion can be washed at 30 degrees.
This is a unique gift to give any new parent that will be cherished and enjoyed by baby.
Duration of the melody: About 2M15
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Weight: 170 GR
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Dreams From Obama
Since Barack Obama's rise to political prominence, great praise has been heaped on his first book, Dreams from My Father. Originally published in 1995, and re-released after Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, its finely crafted scenes and character sketches have been said to reveal a patient intellect and a great capacity for empathy. Certainly, the approbation boosted the more general feeling that Obama's presidential run, and then his election, represented a real transformation.
With such high expectations, the realities of governance were bound to produce a bit of a letdown. But it's become more serious than that. Obama's presidency seems adrift, despite all that promise, and despite the huge opportunity for progressive change presented by a financial system in crisis and an economy deep in the hole.
It seems a good time, then, to take another look at Dreams from My Father. After all, it's more than a beautifully written story about a young man's coming of age while straddling the color line. There's a fair amount of sociology in it as well, an aspect of the book that should now command our attention. For one, it says a lot about the overly cautious, seemingly moderate-by-nature politician we now see in action. But Obama's memoir also contains real insight into the way power works in the modern world. Indeed, this is a perspective we need right now, not least because it calls for a much bolder kind of leadership than we are presently getting from the very man who originally provided it.
Since Time's Joe Klein declared back in October 2006 that Dreams from My Father was perhaps the "best written memoir ever produced by an American politician," others outside political journalism have similarly praised the book. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani began her review of Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, by reflecting on the qualities revealed by his first. Obama, she said, "is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and genuinely about himself." In her letter to Obama endorsing his run for president, Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison told the candidate that he had "creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom." Morrison would later say in an interview on a Nation magazine blog that it was after reading Dreams, with its "really nice, big, strong, artful sentences," that she got "interested in him."
Right after Obama took office, the novelist Zadie Smith went further in an essay in the New York Review of Books. Noting Obama's ability to inhabit characters other than himself, she says that the "new president displays an enviable facility for dialogue, . . . animating [in Dreams] a cast of characters every bit as various as the one James Baldwin—an obvious influence—conjured for his own many-voiced novel Another Country." The limber prose not only demonstrated Obama's ability to negotiate the different realities of white and black; it revealed, in the end, that there was no secure place in either world. Throughout the book, writes Smith, Obama resists resorting to the "unified" voice, the strident voice that announces that you know who you are and where you stand. He embraces uncertainty, even equivocates in the face of it. It's a novelist's view of the world, and that's a good thing in a politician. "Flexibility of voice," Smith says, "leads to flexibility in all things."
This was one way to read the book, and it certainly accorded well with the general mood around election time. Obama's oratory was making quite a stir, enough of one to rouse the suspicion, to his left and right, that his campaign might consist only of vague exhortations about hope and change. Perhaps if word got out that Obama was also a good writer, an insightful interpreter of the human condition, people would be able to better grasp the intellectual substance behind the talk. In any event, Dreams From My Father certainly lifted the spirits of readers that were desperate, after eight years of Bush, for signs of intelligent life in American political culture.
But to understand who the politician Obama actually is requires a different reading of Dreams, especially of his account of his time working as an organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) on Chicago's South Side.
Obama had come to Chicago to help rebuild inner city black neighborhoods; but as he sorts through the experience in his memoir, we see that his real mission was to find, and then help to save, the black "community." While working on the South Side, he came across different ways to claim that community. Black nationalist calls for pride and self-esteem, while understandable given the history of race relations in the U.S., were too simplistic. He was unsure whether his approach to organizing, which centered on Saul Alinsky's maxim that all one needed to do was appeal to people's self-interest, could build anything sustainable. One thing was certain: however noble a creature a community was, the untidiness of lived experience, the struggle to just get by and keep yourself or your family together in the inner city, seemed to always conspire against it.
And so his search went on. Obama first came across Trinity Church and the now infamous Reverend Jeremiah Wright while trying to drum up support for the DCP. What struck Obama about Trinity was its inclusiveness. Inside its walls, ideas, and values—culture, in other words—didn't only flow from the top down, from the educated and better-off to the disaffected poor, they traveled in the other direction too, providing "the lawyer or doctor with an education from the streets." By being so open, Obama said, "Trinity assured its members that their fates remained inseparably bound, that an intelligible 'us' still remained."
Obama was at first skeptical about this "cultural community." Could it really keep young black men out of jail? Could it provide decent jobs, improve the schools? When he returned to Trinity and listened to one of Wright's sermons, those more secular doubts—born out of his organizing experience—faded away. Wright drove home the fact that this was a thoroughly corrupt and unjust world, and that in such a place to hope was nothing if not audacious. As Wright went on, Obama says, people began "to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters."
And in that single note—hope!—I heard something else; at the foot of the cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. Those stories—of survival, and freedom, and hope—became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world. Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black. ... I also felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.
Obama now had an image of what tied a varied Black American experience together as a whole. However "nascent" or "incomplete," the "cultural community" that was Trinity made both the gang-banger and the banker feel at home. It was a space in which individual stories of struggle, injustice, insecurity, and psychic pain were welded together to make a collective will. He now knew that community was possible; he now knew what it felt like.
In Obama's description of how he came to see the light, we find the hallmarks of his campaign. Did he not sense, one Sunday morning at Trinity, that the message of hope was both "black and more than black," rooted in particular black stories but capable of transcendence because it was fundamentally human? Like Wright's sermon that day, Obama's soaring rhetoric of hope and change seemed to create a national community by merely proclaiming its existence—a real feat, given the roiling discontent over wars, foreclosures, and $700 odd billion to save Wall Street from itself. The profound symbolism of his candidacy, along with breathless media accounts of how black and white, rich and poor, young and old, turned out to hear him speak, certainly helped solidify the intelligibility of this new "us."
Fast forward to the present, and we see the difference between proclamation and achievement. At least part of the problem is that Obama really seems to have built on that moment at Trinity, he really seems to believe that we are all in this mess of war and recession together, and so only together can we move forward. This has caused him to underestimate, or perhaps wish away, just how pissed off people were by the Wall Street bailout. And now that unemployment has broached 10% and Goldman Sachs is back in the saddle, it's no wonder that many of these same people are beginning to take aim at Obama. Of course they've been helped along by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and others fanning the fires of discontent; but then again, the belief in the immanent oneness of the political moment may have caused Obama and his team to overlook the unpleasant fact that many Americans get their news from demagogues.
As David Bromwich recently suggested in the London Review of Books, Obama's goals going in to his first term were essentially ecumenical; he wants to heal, not diagnose, whatever ails the economy or us as a society and then go after root causes. Perhaps the latter is a lot to ask. But a politician that wants to heal rather than lead can't help but avoid the basic truth that if one is to achieve anything in politics, at the very least one will have to cause some offence, hurt some feelings, and probably leave some people behind while moving forward for the greater good. Worse still, Obama seems most fearful not simply of offending this or that interest group, but the establishment itself: Wall Street, the Pentagon, the Republican Party and conservatives within his own.
Can he simultaneously represent the institutional cores of political-economic power and the ordinary millions who enthusiastically voted him in so that he might stand up to that power? No. However well it works in literary terms, in political terms Obama's "flexible" voice is simply too flexible. As Bromwich suggested, with each "post-partisan" equivocation—on Guantánamo, on troop levels in Afghanistan, on executive compensation and a new regulatory framework for Wall Street, on the Public option in the health care package—the scope for meaningful reform narrows. The real worry now is that the opening that crisis always brings has been bricked over. All that's left may be the symbolism.
Which makes it all the more frustrating that there is evidence of a more radical political imagination in Dreams from My Father. The book clearly reads like a novel; and like a lot of good novels, an ethnographic sensibility courses through its pages. In addition to getting to know Obama, we get to know a lot of other people: their way of talking; their foibles; their humor; their frustrations and small triumphs. Obama doesn't play favorites, and many of the characters that populate his memoir are there because of their flaws more so than their strengths. But they always have a certain dignity about them. That Obama is a skilled and empathetic writer has something to do with this. But it also comes from his attentiveness to the places and circumstances that shape these characters' lives: the particular ethnic mix that was Hawaii in the late 50s, 60s and 70s; mid-60s Indonesia; the South Side of Chicago in the mid-80s; post-colonial Kenya.
All this context forces us to at least think about the broader political and economic forces that shape the way people live. Oft-times in the book these forces are a kind of backdrop against which characters develop and the drama plays out. Other times, Obama takes a bolder step and presents a particular social or political formation—beyond, yet utterly bound up in individual lives—as the main narrative force.
The great strength in this approach is that it forces us out of the old habit of seeing individuals—heroes or villains or something in between—as being in charge of their own fate. Again, not all characters and scenes in the book get this treatment. But when they do, a corrupt and corrupting system comes into view, the thing that needs to change for the story to end the way we might want it to. Take the example of Lolo, the Indonesian man whom Obama's mother married after his father returned to Kenya. Obama got along well with Lolo, and seemed to sincerely enjoy him and the time he spent as a youngster in Indonesia. Before long, though, Lolo began to change. He got grumpier and more distant, straining the relationship between him and Obama's mother.
It was not some quirk in Lolo's personality, or demons that until then were quiet in his heart, which caused it all. To explain the change Obama tells the reader that Lolo had been abruptly called back from college in the U.S. after an attempted coup back in Indonesia. In the anti-communist purges that followed (directed by soon-to-be President Suharto), Lolo did better than others; students that went to East-bloc nations to study got the worst of it. In any event, this experience, this run-in with raw and brute power, took its toll. And not only on Lolo, but on his mother as well:
Power. The word fixed in my mother's mind like a curse. In America, it had generally remained hidden from view until you dug beneath the surface of things; until you visited an Indian reservation or spoke to a black person whose trust you had earned. But here power was undisguised, indiscriminate, naked, always fresh in the memory. Power had taken Lolo and yanked him back in line just when he thought he'd escaped, making him feel its weight, letting him know that his life wasn't his own. That's how things were; you couldn't change it, you could just live by the rules, so simple once you learned them. And so Lolo made his peace with power, learned the wisdom of forgetting.
Compromises were made; they had to be, for the sake of survival and sanity. But the damage was done. Obama's mother saw that if power could take Lolo, it could also take her son. She sent young Barack back to Hawaii, to go to school and live with her parents.
In telling the story of his biological father's struggles in newly independent Kenya, and of his paternal grandfather's time working as a butler and a cook for the British before that, we see that in each case, the traits that made up the individual could not be understood separately from the particular social and political world in which these men built relationships and molded their ambitions. Less forceful than the tale of Lolo, these descriptions nonetheless say, pretty loudly and clearly: if you don't like how people are behaving, or how they have turned out, make sure you measure up the circumstances of their lives before you blame them for bad choices or poor judgment.
One wishes there was more of this in the Chicago section of Dreams from My Father. Were the dictates of power really that below the surface at Altgeld Gardens, the public housing project where Obama did much of his organizing? Obama writes lyrically about how difficult it was to get the people of Altgeld fighting and keep them fighting. Why not take it further, and argue forthrightly that a big reason for this was that power—in this case the power of corporations to take their jobs wherever they please and the power of the federal government to pretty much abandon the inner city and its people—had made everyday life so challenging? The community Obama wanted to "organize" could not help but be fractured, riddled with tension and infighting.
We can see where this kind of analysis would take us politically. Community is nice to think about, but if we want one that is real and just, momentary experiences of unity (whether in Church or on the campaign trail) won't get us there on their own. In his memoir Obama says that he chose to leave organizing for Harvard Law because he had decided that he needed to learn the language of power to better serve the people he had come to know on the South Side. Fair enough. One hopes, though, that he re-reads Dreams and is reminded of its most unequivocally progressive message: If we really want national renewal and reform, we need to take on the structure of power, and then we reconfigure it so that it stands by the side of the many instead of being so freely wielded by, and in the interests of, the few.


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Today is the seventh annual International Day Against DRM (Digital Rights Management). If you're not familiar with DRM, it's the technology that keeps you from truly owning your digital content. It's region-specific DVDs and music that plays only on a specific device or a certain number of times, books you can't let a friend borrow and all the content you think you own but is really still controlled by a company.
If you think it's not such a big deal because all they're doing is trying to prevent piracy, read Ernest Miller's response to the former head of the RIAA (which has fought tooth and nail for DRM) complaining that she can only play iTunes store music on her iPod. "You can't have it both ways Miss Rosen. If you want DRM, someone is going to have to control that DRM. And if you don't think they won't use that control to their ultimate advantage, you obviously didn't learn anything from your association with the music industry." Then read some of Cory Doctorow's writing on the subject (there's plenty more where that came from with a little help from your search bar!).
Of course, there is DRM-free content out there, and today is a perfect day to show the companies that sell it your support.
- O'Reilly, which writes today, "Having the ability to download files at your convenience, store them on all your devices, or share them with a friend or colleague as you would a print book is liberating, and is how it should be," offers all of its books DRM-free, and today you can use the code DRM2013 to get 50% off all of their ebooks and videos. May I suggest Vintage Tomorrows, which I recommended in another post today?
- No Starch Press explains, "We've always offered DRM-free ebooks because we trust our readers and we believe that electronic books should have the same reader rights as printed books." You can also get 50% off of their ebooks today with the code DRMFREE. What a perfect time to pick up Python for Kids!
- GOG games are always DRM-free.
- Tor and Forge went DRM-free last year
But what's most important for this year's Day Against DRM isn't movies or books. It's the way you interact with the entire internet. There are efforts to get DRM into HTML5. Read this post from the Free Culture Foundation to better understand why that's a huge problem for the future of the web.
For more on the history of DRM in music and video, read my two-part timeline:
- The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music
- The DRM graveyard part 2: A brief history of digital rights management in video and TV
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's International Day Against DRM site has suggestions for other ways you can participate today.


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One of my rewards-related routines is checking out my Credit Karma account on a weekly basis. By doing so, I can keep track of my estimated TransUnion and Equifax credit scores, while also making sure that the information reflected on my credit score remains accurate.
Recently, I noticed something while accessing my Credit Karma account. It appeared that my Equifax score had gone down by a few points for no apparent reason, given nothing had happened that would warrant my score going down. When trying to decipher what had caused the decrease in my score, I noticed two accounts that I did not recognize had increased my total credit card balance by about $5,000, which in turn increased my credit card utilization ratio by a couple of percentage points.
The credit card utilization ratio is one of the most important factors considered when determining your credit score. It constitutes the ratio between your total credit card balance and your total credit card limit. In other words, if your total credit card balance is $5,000 and your total credit limit is $100,000, your credit utilization ratio is 5%, which is considered excellent.
When looking into the account details for both of the accounts, I did not recognize I noticed that they had both been issued by Chase and that I was an "authorized user" on both accounts. Here is snapshot of the details for both cards:
Card #1
Card #2
Up to that point, I had never noticed any account on which I was an authorized user on my credit report. I was an authorized user on some my wife's Chase accounts, but the dates on which these accounts were opened did not match the dates on which any of my wife's accounts were opened. In fact, I was able to confirm that none of my wife's accounts on which I am an authorized user appeared on my credit report.
I proceeded to give Chase a call to see if they could provide more information regarding the two accounts in question. Eventually, we were able to figure out that one belonged to my sister, while the other belonged to my mother. I had completely forgotten that I was an authorized user on both of these accounts. Since they appeared to be having a negative impact on my credit, I asked if there was anything that could be done.
Chase customer service was extremely helpful. They removed me as an authorized user from these accounts on their end and told me they would contact the three credit bureaus to inform them that I was no longer a part of these accounts. A couple of weeks later I was able to confirm that both of these accounts were no longer showing up on my credit reports.
When Does a Credit Card Account on Which You Are an Authorized User Show up on Your Credit?
I have always been aware that credit card accounts on which you are an authorized user can show up on your credit. However, I had always assumed this only happened when your social security number was provided when requesting your authorized user card. That is why I always avoid providing my wife's social security number when adding her to one of my accounts and ask her to do the same for her accounts. Even though some issuers, for business cards, will request social security numbers when you try to add an authorized user, if you say you do not have it they will still issue the authorized user card.
When I asked Chase how these accounts could have been tied to me without my social security number they mentioned that they were likely able to do it because of the addresses associated with our credit histories. While currently my sister, mother and I all have different billing addresses, at some point we have all used the same address.
Bottom Line
I used to think that adding an authorized user to a credit card account had no impact on the authorized user's credit report as long as a social security number was not provided to add the authorized user. Clearly, that is not the case. While in some instances you might improve your credit scores as a result of an authorized user status on a credit card account, in most cases it is likely better to avoid the mere possibility of your credit score being negatively impacted by a credit card account for which you have little to no control over.
I used to add my wife to all of my credit card accounts and vice-versa. I will no longer do this unless it is necessary to enjoy some of a card's benefits.
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3D-printed, safety critical parts fly on V-22 OspreyNews
August 01, 2016
PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) officials announced the completion of a flight demonstrating flight critical aircraft component built using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques also known as 3D printing.
Pilots on a MV-22B Osprey performed a test flight of the aircraft outfitted with a titanium, 3-D printed link and fitting assembly for the engine nacelle -- one of four that secure a V-22's engine nacelle to the primary wing structure. The 3-D printed equipment will remain on the aircraft for continued evaluation. According to the Navy flight was operated using the standard V-22 flight performance envelope.
"The flight went great. I never would have known that we had anything different onboard," says MV-22 Project Officer Maj. Travis Stephenson who piloted the flight.
Additive manufacturing uses digital 3D design data to build components in layers of metal, plastic, and other materials, according to a NAVAIR release. The metal link and fitting assembly for this particular test event were printed at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Naval aviation has employed additive manufacturing as a prototyping tool since the early 1990s and in recent years began printing non-flight critical parts and tools. Today's demonstration is the first time a U.S. Navy aircraft flew with an Additive Manufacturing part deemed essential to maintaining safe flight. Navy officials say they would like to see a future where all parts can be made on-demand globally by fleet maintainers and operators, and industry partners - stocking digital data instead of ordering, stocking, and shipping parts.
Prior to this flight, multiple V-22 components built by Lakehurst and Penn State Applied Research Laboratory personnel were tested at Patuxent River to validate performance.
"The flight today is a great first step toward using [additive manufacturing] wherever and whenever we need to. It will revolutionize how we repair our aircraft and develop and field new capabilities - [additive manufacturing is a game changer," says Liz McMichael, [Additive Manufacturing] Integrated Product Team lead. "In the last 18 months, we've started to crack the code on using [Additive Manufacturing] safely. We'll be working with V-22 to go from this first flight demonstration to a formal configuration change to use these parts on any V-22 aircraft."
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Aviation Mechanic Cody Schwarz works on installing a 3-D printed titanium link and fitting on an MV-22B Osprey engine nacelle at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. He can be seen in this image holding the link prior to affixing it to the aircraft. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)"][/caption]
Including the V-22 link and fitting assembly, McMichael and her team say they have identified six additional safety-critical parts they plan to build and test over the next year for three U.S. Marine Corps rotorcraft platforms: the V-22, H-1 Huey helicopters, and U.S. Marine Corps' CH-53K Marine helicopter. Three of the parts will be made out of titanium, while the other three will be stainless steel.
NAVAIR officials caution that there is still much work to do before deployed aircraft are flying in theater with 3D printed, safety-critical parts.
"Although the flight today is a great step forward, we are not trying to 'lead' industry in our [Additive Manufacturing] efforts, but it is absolutely critical that we understand what it takes to successfully manufacture and qualify [Additive Manufacturing] parts for flight in naval aircraft, which we expect will largely be manufactured by our industry partners," says Vice Adm. Paul A. Grosklags, NAVAIR commander. "Where I believe we can 'lead' industry is in the development of the [Additive Manufacturing] "digital thread," from initial design tools all the way to the flight line - securely maintained and managed through the life of an aircraft program."


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Welcome friends and Chrysler Enthusiast to another monthly newsletter, it is great to see some new people at our Club meetings again. It was good to see a new member rejoin.
This year's Christmas party for the Club members was a roaring success. Some photos on the face book page to see only two none Chrysler cars appeared but that cannot be helped. There was more food to eat and drinks for all it was a great day, I should say a huge thank you to both Tina and Rose for the work that went into our Christmas party as well the club members that helped set up a big thank you and it was appreciated by all that attended. The refundable $15 was returned to all that showed up, the secret auction had only one bid and that bid was by Paul Denman so we just have to arrange for Paul to collect the antique clip holder.
Our next Club Run is on Australia Day we meet at the Alexandra Hotel at 06:30am to head for the Ormiston State school then we gather up and head off for our Australia Day Run our selves. This will be the last Newsletter for the year of 2019 the next one will be for the January newsletter so if you head out somewhere over the Christmas break then take \some photos and share the fun in our newsletter.
We have a couple of XL club T-shirts on hand so if you want one in the new year just let me know and I will bring it to the next club meeting in January. If anyone gets asked by a friend or someone whilst you are out in your Chrysler family of sheet metal how to join the club let them know that they can join the Chrysler Owners Club QLD on the net just go to the club website. The last President Pen for 2019 will be a short and very sweet one, stay safe and be careful on the QLD \ Australian roads if you are travelling over the Christmas period. I hope to see you at the next Club meeting in January 2020.
So, let us get out there, support the club on the runs, and have the fun that we all planned to have when we started with the Club.
Graham McLean
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|Chris Herbert with his Aunt Martha/Julie & Nathan Gunn (yes, he's married!)
There is nothing we love more at Barihunks than when singers are involved in good charities. No one does more than Chris Herbert and on Thursday night he was a key part of the "Sing for Hope" gala. The program raises awareness and need money for programs that benefit schools, hospitals and local communities.
Thursday's event also raised funds for the 2011 return of "Sing for Hope" Street Pianos, a public art installation that brought 60 upright pianos to the streets of New York, which we covered earlier this year.
Attendees included soprano Renée Fleming, Hugh Jackman, Nathan Gunn, Billie Jean King, Martha Stewart (Herbert's aunt), pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Roger Bart, mezzo Kate Lindsey, tenors Glenn Seven Allen and Michael Slattery, and pop legend Tony Bennett.
We encourage readers of this site to support this great organization. Please visit their website and help make a difference. A gift of $25.00 provides six New York City students with an hour of dynamic arts and leadership education or brings bedside performances to five hospital-bound patients.


text: Taiwan,Taiwan local elections | December 1, 2014 Written by Wen-Ti Sung. Taiwan concluded its nine-in-one elections on Saturday with results that can only be described as historic. Of the 22 mayoral seats up for grabs, the ruling party, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), was reduced to only six (and came within 2.12% or less of losing three of them); while the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) made significant inroads and won 13. The real story for this author, however, is not the number of mayoral seats won. It's the fact that the pan-DPP coalition has effectively gathered more than 6.88 million votes — breaking its historical ceiling by half a million votes. Disregard vote shares As I've stressed before, when it comes to Taiwan's electoral statistics, the absolute number of votes is usually a better indicator of a party's electoral ceiling than its percentage share of the votes, both because of inter-party differentials in electoral turnout as well as overall-turnout-differentials between different types of elections (which can go as low as say 20+% for by-elections and sub-municipal level elections, or as high as 80+% for presidential elections). According to the Central Election Commission, this year the DPP gathered 5.83 million votes, or 47.55%, of the 12.26 million votes cast. However, this is not the whole story. While most independents tend to align with the KMT, there are a few exceptions this time around that need to be considered. The DPP had endorsed (not nominated) two independent mayoral candidates in Taipei and Hsinchu County. Additionally, two long-time pan-DPP candidates broke away and ran as independents in Changhua and Hsinchu City. These four candidates had 1.05 million votes combined, the bulk of which would have come from the pan-DPP side. Therefore, when forced to choose, without a precise method to divide these votes, we can safely add these votes to the DPP side of the DPP-KMT dichotomy. That means 5.83 million plus 1.05 million, for a total of 6.88 million. Note that the DPP did not either nominate or endorse any candidate in Hualien and a few other counties. Had it done so, its track record over the years suggests it would have added at least another 0.4 million votes, pushing the number up to 6.92 million. The 4 pan-DPP independents Candidate Electorate Votes Note Ko Wen-Je柯文哲 Taipei 853,983 DPP-endorsed Cheng Yung-Chin鄭永金 Hsinchu County 118,698 DPP-endorsed Tsai Jen-Chien蔡仁堅 Hsinchu City 40,480 DPP splinter Huang Wen-Ling黃文玲 Changhua 37,593 TSU (DPP's junior ally) splinter 6.88 million votes in historical perspective What do 6.88 million votes mean in Taiwan's electoral history? It means two things. First, it's the third-highest vote by any camp in any election in recorded history. Only President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) 6.89 million votes in 2012 and his 7.65 million votes in 2008 exceeded that. But those contests registered 74% and 76% turnouts respectively; the DPP's 6.88 million this time is achieved with only 67% overall turnout. Second, it follows that 6.88 million votes is the DPP's new historic height. Prior to this, its apex was the 6.47 million votes won in the 2004 presidential election. But the 2004 election was a sui generis case that may not be very comparable. Back then, the DPP enjoyed the advantage of incumbency. It bundled two referenda with the presidential election to maximize its nationalist rally-around-the-flag votes, and some exit polls show that the DPP's core support group, the 20-29 year olds, turned out in truly miraculous numbers and made up as much as 29% of the votes cast, which if true would defy all conventional wisdom about youth voting (or the lack thereof). Plus, of course, there is always the intellectually unfalsifiable but cannot-be-ruled-out speculation that the image of then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) getting shot in public on the eve of the election may have helped DPP's turnout. If not 2004, then the more comparable case is really Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) 2012 presidential bid. Like most of the municipal elections this year, Tsai's was essentially a single-member district election featuring two viable candidates and, like this time, was held at a time when the DPP was in the opposition. Using 2012 for comparison also frees us from most of the possible meddling of incumbency, referenda, incredible turnout structure, and shooting. Tsai received 6.09 million votes with a 74% turnout. Those 6.09 million votes therefore represent, in my opinion, the DPP's true ceiling at any election when in opposition. It is in comparison with this baseline that the 6.88 million votes cast on Nov. 29 represent an astonishing historical landmark for the DPP — an astonishing increase of 0.79 million votes, or what would have amounted to a 5.9% swing in the last presidential election, which would have won the DPP the majority — and the presidency in 2012. Other considerations Are there plausible reasons to believe that this voter-growth number is inflated and does not represent DPP's true strength as of November 2014? Sure. One can argue that DPP's ceiling hasn't really been lifted and it's just some spurious factors at work. For starters, it may be that those four independent candidates brought in additional local patron-client based constituencies that otherwise would have gone to the KMT (this is most likely true to some extent in the case of Cheng Yung-chin [鄭永金], a runaway ex-KMT mayor of Hsinchu County). Or one may point to the quirkily charismatic Taipei mayor-elect Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), who ran as an independent with low-key endorsement by the DPP. One may argue Ko's charisma and image as a political outsider is what brought the pan-DPP camp issues-based swing votes that otherwise would not had voted for it. If that's true, then there is reason to consider the results of the 2014 election as sui generis and irreplicable — after all, Ko, or indeed any candidate ever elected, can only run as a political outsider once. Either way, the main argument is that the fact that the pan-DPP camp broke its historical ceiling is either irreplicable, or is a fluke. Of these two arguments, the second one is easier to rebut. Out of the 22 municipalities, the pan-DPP has broken its historical records in terms of absolute number of votes received in 12 of them. Even if we take away the effect of the independents, the DPP candidates have still broken records in nine municipalities. The advances by DPP candidates in these nine places cannot be explained by the role of independents in local KMT-friendly constituencies. They did it on their own. The more interesting question is the Ko Wen-je argument. It is very hard to falsify without obtaining a good number of exit polls data about why people decided to vote the way they just did (and perhaps not even then). The best we can say is that there had been a number of strong independent candidates in the past, and none seemed to have changed the fundamental political landscape of the 46:54 DPP-KMT divide. Tsai Ing-wen, the current DPP chairperson and 2012 presidential candidate, for example, was once considered a political outsider too. Implications It is true that 2014 was only a local election, and that the 2016 presidential election will be governed by different dynamics and concerns. The fact that the pan-DPP camp won 2014 convincingly is by no means a guarantee that it will win the presidency in 2016. But the true significance of this election is this: with 6.88 million votes, for the first time ever, we can conclusively say that the DPP has developed enough vote-earning potential to be able to win an election at any level. This was never the case before. In the past, in Taiwan as a whole, the DPP always had fewer potential voters than the KMT. Victory depended on either KMT's self-destruction (fielding more than one candidate), or on fostering favorable inter-party turnout differentials, i.e. having DPP votes over-represented at the polls by having a higher percentage of potential DPP supporter turning up to vote than potential KMT supporters. The DPP never had the numbers to win; it had to wait for the KMT to lose. (The only outlier in the past was the 2004 presidential election, when the DPP had 50.11%. But for all the reasons mentioned earlier, that election annot be considered as a definitive proof.) Whether the additional votes the DPP has gathered this time are from local constituencies or the "Ko Wen-je effect" or something else is less relevant than the fact that now, for the first time, it is possible for a majority (51.5% per 2012's electorate), or 6.88 million of Taiwanese voters, to fathom the idea of voting for the pan-DPP camp. From December 2014 onwards, the KMT is no longer the ruling party by default. For the two political camps, Taiwan's electoral playing field is finally even. Wen-Ti Sung is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the Australian National University and a CPI blog Emerging Scholar. Wen-Ti tweets @wentisung. This piece first appeared on Thinking Taiwan. Image Credit: CC by neverbutterly/Flickr. Voters assert themselves as Taiwanese in a warning to KMT Good Science, Administrative Churn and Reform: Some Chinese Puzzles


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On 8th May 2011 The Coca-Cola Company celebrates its' most iconic brand's 125th anniversary across the world. Throughout 2011 Coca-Cola will be celebrating the biggest milestone globally through its marketing as well as with employees, partners and customers. As part of the campaign, Coca-Cola will be thanking people, places and partners through a series of innovative and cultural events.
On May 8th (the Founders Day), The Coca-Cola Company will mark the date that Coca-Cola was first sold in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886. The company will mark its 125th year through a series of events and celebrations at both headquarters in Atlanta and over 200 countries where it operates.
An integrated marketing campaign will support the anniversary in Great Britain including a new TV ad, outdoor, digital Retro Poster Maker and iconic graphics on-pack. Each element of the campaign will be influenced by the brand's rich and iconic heritage over the decades, as well as bringing to life its enduring appeal and celebrating 125 years of bringing happiness in a bottle to consumers.
To mark this occasion Coca-Cola will be releasing a new TV ad. Starting on 18th April the new TV ad spot will take fans back in time through a series of montage retro images from the brand's famous past, as well as the soundtrack from Hilltop classic which coined the phrase "I'd like to teach the world to sing".
Millions of bespoke packs will also carry the 125th anniversary heritage artwork branding including limited edition multipack cans giving consumers one of eight free collectable fridge magnets and a special limited edition heritage bottle range available exclusively at Selfridges. This unique collection will showcase the innovation of the original glass bottle through the ages from when Coca-Cola was first bottled through to the iconic Coca-Cola contour bottle.
Captivating outdoor advertising will continue to spread happiness throughout the UK with four creative executions highlighting the 125th anniversary heritage artwork across 96, 48, 12 and 6 sheets as well as digital sites. In addition, five special builds featuring high impact imagery will be placed at busy consumer sites nationwide to make an iconic statement and inspire consumer conversations. Using 3D technology, the builds bring the original glass bottle to life with bubble machines alongside heritage imagery.
Making use of its rich iconic advertising archives, Coca-Cola will also introduce a Retro Poster Maker. Giving fans the opportunity to become immortalised in a poster for the first time in the brand's history and the chance to have their poster on the world renowned Piccadilly Sign. From April 18 anyone can be the star of a vintage Coca-Cola poster as Retro Poster Maker will be available via Coke Zone.
And on May 9th across Europe, Coca-Cola employees will take time out from their day jobs to hit the streets of London thanking consumers by giving out, refreshing ice-cold Coca-Cola.
Zoe Howorth, Market Activation Director for Coca-Cola Great Britain comments: "Coca-Cola is a timeless icon that has been synonymous with happiness and is still as relevant today as it was when it first began in 1886. May 8th is a very special day as Coca-Cola, one of the world's most favourite brands, is 125 years old and we want to take this chance to say thank you to our consumers, employees and partners for their continued loyalty".
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Genres: Christian Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Format: Kindle
Heaven's Bait: A Journey of the Soul by Diane Theiler
A struggling Soul, a binding contract, and the hope to find her way home, leave Annie no choice but to fight with everything she has.
Fighting for her fleshly body in a spiritual world makes the battle even harder. When bad choices lead her through a demon infested forest and plops her at Satan's door, Annie is torn between faith and fear.
Does she have what it takes to make it through or will the outcome leave her entrapped forever?
Annie wakes up in a beautiful, but mysterious place with no recollection of how she got there, or why. She soon learns that her captor, Rigas, as she is told to call him, is really her appointed protector, but protected from who, Annie does not remember. How can she have no memory of what has happened? After seeing a cryptic and binding agreement contract with her own signature at the bottom, Annie realizes she must find out how to get back home to her husband and family, who she dearly misses, and why she is in this puzzling and fearful situation she has found herself in.
Every time Annie tries to escape, she finds herself back in her little room that she's being held captive in. Finally, Annie realizes there is no escaping, her surroundings are a loop that never ends and the town she sees from the window is nonexistent. Heaven's Bait by Diane Theiler is a perplexing and captivating story of a challenge of the soul. Annie must fight her dragons and decide her fate by her own freewill to make it through. The book has a wonderful, curious and mystic vibe that pulls you in, wanting to know more at every turn of the page. Theiler's complicated characters are interesting to learn about, as the story moves along, and really gives the reader a sense of empathy and compassion for each one.
Heaven's Bait held my attention to the very end. I enjoyed the descriptive and detailed writing style of every scene. Author Diane Theiler paints a vivid picture of every setting she places her characters in and has a perceptive way of making her audience feel like they are experiencing the journey right along with her protagonist, Annie. I felt just as bewildered and shaken as she did during the entire book. I couldn't put this book down and was fully engaged from the very first chapter all the way to the satisfying conclusion. Artisan Book Reviews and Book Promotions highly recommends Heaven's Bait to anyone looking for a tale of the spirit and soul. Great read. Reviewed by Beatrix Bloom for Artisan Book Reviews.
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Ferrari considers taking on the Porsche Cayenne SUV
That's right; Ferrari is considering an Italian Stallion SUV. According to a report by AutoExpress, Ferrari is considering an SUV to rival the success of the Porsche Cayenne which will open up the Ferrari brand to a huge new customer base.
Codenamed 'Project G151,' the Ferrari SUV is still in its early stages and has yet to be passed by the big guys at the Italian automaker who are nervous of opening up the brand to the masses. The Ferrari SUV probably won't be a true off-roader but a crossover that will have a choice of V8 and V12 engines.
Ferrari's main obstacle is to come up with a four-wheel-drive transmission, which it is expected to develop in partnership with Mercedes.
AutoExpress says that bosses have scratched the idea of building an SUV with sister company Maserati and have decided to go with a true Ferrari 4×4 with higher price tag. Pricing is expected to be above £100,000. If the project receives the green light we may see a concept some time in 2010.
Source: AutoExpress
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Paula is the Director of Research and oversees the firm's Research Department. She has 25 years' experience conducting and managing the research of labour and employment law matters.
Paula provides guidance and assistance to the firm's lawyers, articling students and other members of the research team. She frequently develops material for continuing legal education seminars, training seminars and the Firm's seminar series on a variety of labour, employment and workplace issues. She also co-ordinates the firm's external publications, materials and website content.
Although she conducts and manages research in all aspects of labour relations and employment law, Paula has developed a particular expertise in the preparation and drafting of interest arbitration briefs and has prepared countless briefs over her lengthy career with the firm, particularly in the health care, emergency services and other public sectors including the federal public sector. Paula is also well-versed in collective bargaining issues and specializes in drafting contract language, providing background research on monetary and non-monetary proposals in preparation for collective bargaining.


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If you want to create a spreadsheet, calculate numbers by using formulas, or make a chart, there is hardly a more efficient application than MS Excel. But other than using it for the above purposes, Excel serves as a great tool for organizing in general. Apart from using Excel for generating agendas, creating calendars and building inventories, or to make employee time sheets, an easily readable schedule can also be made for all employees in an organization.
Instructions to make a schedule in Excel
To make a schedule in MS Excel is a fairly easy and simple task as the necessary formats are already in place and once the basic template is built, many different schedules can be made for a wide and different variety of applications. In order to create an MS Excel schedule, you are required to go through the following steps.
Step 1: Of course, the first step is to open the Excel application. In case you are using Excel 2007, click on the 'Office' button; however if an older version of Excel is installed in your computer, click on 'File' and then select 'New'.
Step 2: In the 'Templates' pane in Excel 2007, click on 'Microsoft Online'; in case of Excel 2003 or older versions, search for the 'Templates' section of the task pane. In the box that says 'Search online for', type 'schedule' and then click on 'Go'.
Step 3: To preview a schedule template, click on it and when you have found the one that meets your requirements, click on the 'Download' button. The schedule would then open as a new Excel worksheet.
Step 4: After this, change the existing text that is there in the schedule template. It is done by double clicking on the cell that contains the text needed to be altered. The existing text is selected using the mouse or by pressing the 'Ctrl' and 'A' keys together on the keyboard. The existing sample text is then typed over with the information you need on the schedule.
Step 5: The next step requires modifying the color of a cell. It is done by clicking on the cell to select it, and then by right clicking and choosing 'Format Cells'. In the 'Patterns' tab, select the particular hue that you want in the 'Cell Shading Color' section. Click on the color and select OK for applying it to the cell.
Step 6: The font in any cell is then adjusted by clicking on it to activate it. Then right click on it and choose 'Format cells', go to the 'Fonts' tab, and choose a font type, size, color and style. Apply any effects you choose and click on OK.
The schedule is thus made in Excel. To save it, you can press 'Ctrl' and 'S' keys and provide a name to the worksheet and then navigate to the location where you want to save it.


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Coast Guard rescue teams airlifted an injured mariner from the Vicious Cycle, a commercial fishing vessel, 130 miles southwest of the Hawaiian island of Kailua Kona on April 27.
An Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew hoisted the mariner from the yacht and transported him to Queens Trauma Center. The MH-65 is the Coast Guard's primary rescue helicopter.
At this time, his medical status is unclear.
Sector Honolulu watchstanders (sailors) received word the Vicious Cycle's master had suffered a forearm injury at 11:14 a.m.
Watchstanders tried to radio the Vicious Cycle, but the vessel was out of range.
An HC-130 Hercules aircrew from Air Station Barbers Point was dispatched to assess the situation. Then, a Coast Guard duty flight surgeon requested a rescue helicopter.
Since the Vicious Cycle was beyond the Dolphin's range, the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) served as a refueling station. The Dolphin aircrew later landed successfully and brought the injured mariner aboard.
(Edited by Fern Siegel and Judith Isacoff)
The post VIDEO: Helicopter Rescues Injured Mariner Off Hawaiian Coast appeared first on Zenger News.


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Elementary Special Education Teacher – Reedsport School District
Reedsport School District is accepting applications for a Special Education Teacher(Resource Room) teacher at Highland Elementary.
Begin the application process by clicking the "Apply" button in the upper right of this announcement. (If you are not viewing this via Applicant Tracking (Applitrack), click HERE.
** NOTE: For current employees of Reedsport School District interested in applying – in the beginning of the application process, please select "YES" when asked if you are an ESD employee. It is only by selecting YES that you will be able to see this job ID to apply to.
- Competitive salary – $42,613 – $78,409 per year
- Friendly and helpful staff
- District picks up 6% PERS
- Excellent benefit package
Reedsport School District is a small, pleasant school along the Oregon Coast. We invite you to join the Reedsport School District where the staff collaborate and partner together to help every student succeed.
- Applicant must hold or qualify for an Oregon Teaching Certificate, with subject area endorsement and grade level authorization.
- Desire and ability to work with a team of professional educators in a small/rural school.
- Familiarity with a variety of age appropriate instructional, assessment and classroom management strategies that reflect current research on best practices.
- Experience working with diverse groups.
- Familiarity with state standards and curriculum frameworks.
- Knowledge and experience with differentiated instruction.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to exhibit professionalism and effective human relations.
- Ability to effectively manage and supervise students and their work.
- Ability to direct the work of other staff members.
- Ability to develop lessons that prepare students for academic and social success.
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THEory into ACTion
A Bulletin of New Developments in Community Psychology Practice
August, 2015
Facilitating Engagement in Our Communities
Tabitha Underwood
Missouri Campus Compact, Missouri State University
Little Free Libraries are the product of a nonprofit organization aptly titled Little Free Library that seeks to provide everyone easy access to books. Their mission is "to promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide and to build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations". Initially, the organization set out to exceed the number of libraries built by Carnegie (2,509) and has done so by leaps and bounds. A Little Free Library (LFL) is a small structure, typically placed in the front yard of a home or business, containing used books spanning a variety of genres and age groups. The idea is simple "Take a Book, Return a Book." (see website for more information: http://littlefreelibrary.org/)
Little Free Libraries have the potential to (1) help community practitioners engage in their own communities and (2) to facilitate engagement in the communities within which practitioners work. As a community psychologist and practitioner, I have found Little Free Libraries as a way to engage with my community outside of the work environment. Many of us work within the realm of community engagement every day, helping others find their place and connection in the world. However, what do we do in our own neighborhoods? Does our own engagement as community psychologists stop when we leave the office? Little Free Libraries are an avenue for involvement within our neighborhoods, while also espousing the competencies and values of Community Psychology. They are also both an engagement and a literacy tool to be used by community practitioners to help others improve their communities and potentially improve educational outcomes through access to literacy. As John McKnight has stated, Little Free Libraries are an easy and accessible intervention because they do not require a lot of effort or resources (Aldrich, 2015).
Little Free Libraries (LFL) have a natural connection to many of the Community Psychology competencies as outlined by the Society for Community Research and Action. The following provides examples of these connections (SCRA, n.d.).
● Sociocultural and Cross Cultural Competence: The LFL helps us to get to know other cultures through books. You can learn about others' reading preferences and sometimes worldviews through what they take and leave from the library; however, this knowledge can really only be acquired by combining the library with actual discussion (either online or in person).
● Community Inclusion and Partnership: LFLs are an easy way to include others in neighborhood initiatives. For the library to function, residents need to come together to supply the books and use the library. The library provides a passive way for residents to become involved. Anyone can take or leave a book without judgement or sometimes even notice.
● Resource Development: The collaborative nature of this project requires you to involve the resources of others. This project often takes more than your own resources to be successful. You must rely on others to leave or donate books in order to keep a rotating, fresh supply for the avid readers in the neighborhood. Once they see a lack of turnover in books, what will keep them returning?
● Program Development, Implementation, and Maintenance: This might be the simplest competency of all to practice. LFLs are programs in and of themselves. You can flex your program management muscles through the planning, building, placement, maintenance, and even evaluation of your own small library.
Little Free Libraries also help us live out one of our greatest values as community psychologists, that of building a sense of community. As we know, Sarason (1974) proposed that sense of community was the core to our field. Indeed, this is the entire focus of the Little Free Library initiative. It is a way for residents to get to know one another, grow a sense of belonging and connection, and rely on one another, even if only for reading material. The newly published Little Free Library Book (Aldrich, 2015) sheds light on this outcome. Stories of LFLs across the world show how they have helped neighbors get to know one another and develop a connection. The book outlines "Building Community" as an essential use of the libraries.
Little Free Libraries have great potential for our work as community practitioners, not only because of their inherent connection to community psychology principles and practices but because of their associated outcomes for the individuals and the communities in which we work. Through their exchange of resources (books), LFLs help neighbors connect, facilitate a love of reading, make books more accessible, serve as a common space and an anchor to other community activities, demonstrate creativity and innovation, and ultimately build social capital (Aldrich, 2015). They also have the opportunity to build neighborhood leadership. As Todd Bol, the founder of Little Free Library, says of library stewards, "they are the perfect concerned citizens, ready to pick up the charge, improve their neighborhoods, and ensure that all their neighbors read well and often" (Aldrich, 2015 p. 2)
Beyond being a tool in our community practice arsenal, I would argue that Little Free Libraries are also a way for community psychologists and community practitioners to engage with our own neighbors and practice what we preach. As we work day in and day out as practicing community psychologists, helping others to find their voice, work together to solve community problems, and improve quality of life, what do we do for our own personal growth and development within the realm of engagement? I propose that Little Free Libraries are one way that we can serve as role models of the principles of community psychology in our own life.
This is what Little Free Libraries have done for me as a community practitioner. A few years ago, we purchased a house in a neighborhood that was just getting started with its organization. A group of interested residents were in the process of setting up a community watch, there were discussions of reopening a park that had been closed, and a neighbor had started to organize regular neighborhood gatherings. Community engagement is my passion and my work, but with an incredibly demanding schedule at work, I found it difficult to find the time, and quite frankly the energy to engage with my neighbors as fully as I wanted. However, the Little Free Library provided an answer. It was a resource I could provide my neighborhood and became a way to start conversations with my neighbors. Our house became know as the one with the little book exchange in front of it. When meeting new neighbors that was the only defining feature I needed to mention to explain where our house was positioned in the neighborhood.
Once we moved cross country and settled into our new home, it was time for the Little Free Library to once again work its magic and help me get to know my neighbors. As my husband and I worked to level a small patch of land in our yard and place the cinder blocks as a base, our neighbors took notice. Almost immediately our neighbor to the right came out to see what we were doing, which initiated a conversation. Another neighbor across the street brought over her toddler grandson to take a peek. In the evening when I return home from work I find people walking with their dogs and those pushing strollers searching for that next great read. I should mention that our neighborhood does contain other Little Free Libraries, so some people are accustomed to their presence and understand their purpose. However, our library has given us an opportunity to teach the occasional passerby about this common good. These interactions are not unique to our library. There are countless stories of this same phenomenon occurring in neighborhoods around the world (Aldrich, 2015).
In all, my Little Free Libraries have helped me to meet new people, provide a resource to my neighbors, generally observe neighborhood behaviors, and build my own sense of community. Through the two libraries that we have placed in our yards, I have witnessed first-hand what they can do for me as a practitioner and how practitioners working in other communities may help others utilize Little Free Libraries as an engagement tool. I don't pretend to claim that Little Free Libraries will change the world, but they may in fact add to the quality of life of neighborhoods, help build relationships with neighbors, and provide a venue for you to live community psychology practice at home.
Aldrich, M. (2015). Little free library book: Take a book, return a book. Coffee House Press.
Sarason, S. B. (1974). The psychological sense of community: Prospects for a community psychology. Jossey-Bass.
Society for Community Research and Action (n.d.). Competencies for community psychology practice. Retrieved from http://www.scra27.org/what-we-do/practice/18-competencies-community-psychology-practice/.


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Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is unpopular — really unpopular. According to a poll about all 100 senators released Tuesday by Morning Consult, just 37 percent of registered voters in Arizona approve of their junior senator, compared with 45 percent who disapprove. That gives Flake a net approval rating1 of -8 percentage points, the worst of any senator. (Sen. John McCain, also of Arizona, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky both have higher disapproval ratings but better net approval ratings.)
Usually, polling numbers like that would be a big warning sign for a senator who is up for re-election in 2018, as Flake is. And yet, the Democratic field in the race doesn't include anyone who has held elected office or a high government position (a common measure of candidate quality).2
Democrats' failure (at least so far) to field a strong candidate against Flake could hurt their already small chance of retaking the Senate in 2018. As I discussed Monday, the Senate map is very favorable for Republicans in 2018: Just eight Republican-held seats are up for re-election — out of the 52 they hold overall — and Democrats have to win at least three of them to regain a majority. Arizona looks like one of the best opportunities for Democrats to pick up a seat — if they can find someone willing to run.
On the surface, the reluctance to challenge Flake seems understandable. Beating an incumbent senator is a hard thing to do under even the best circumstances. And Arizona hasn't been an easy place for Democrats to win in recent decades — the state has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000 and hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1988. Any Democrat running against Flake would face a scenario in which challengers have often struggled: Since 1982, senators who are members of the same party as the president and represent states that lean in the direction of the president's party have a re-election rate of 85 percent in midterms.3
But there is reason to think Democrats may have a chance in Arizona. The Morning Consult poll result is just one of several indicators that Flake's re-election could, at a minimum, be in jeopardy. Let's take a look:
1. Flake has pretty much never been popular.
The most recent Morning Consult poll is no fluke. The polling firm has consistently had Flake's approval ratings at lower levels than those of many other senators. Other surveys have also generally found Flake to have a relatively low approval rating. Flake even commented on one of the surveys in 2013, saying: "Given the public's dim view of Congress in general, that probably puts me somewhere just below pond scum." There's still time for Flake to recover, but the consistently negative view that Arizonans have had of Flake suggest that the feelings expressed in the Morning Consult poll won't just blow over.
Flake is being squeezed from both sides of the aisle. Democrats voted heavily against Flake in 2012, and he's done himself no favors with them by being a fairly reliable Republican vote this year. Some Republicans, meanwhile, are incensed over Flake's continued criticism of President Trump. Flake would probably win most of those Republicans in a general election, but even a small erosion of his Republican support from 2012 could cause him to lose in 2018.
2. Flake barely won a first term.
Flake struggled at the ballot box in his one Senate race. During his 2012 bid for this open seat, Flake beat Democrat Richard Carmona by just 3 points. His showing was the worst for a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona since 1988. At the same time in the presidential contest, Republican Mitt Romney was coasting to a 9-point win over President Obama in Arizona. In other words, Flake underperformed the presidential lean of the state.
3. The 2016 results show a state shifting left.
Flake might not be able to win in 2018 if he underperforms the presidential lean of the state again. Trump won Arizona by just 3.5 points. That's the worst finish for a Republican presidential candidate in the state since 1996, when President Clinton won.
Trump, of course, was hardly a typical Republican candidate, so his comparatively weak 2016 showing might not on its own suggest a leftward move for the state. Georgia's traditionally Republican 6th Congressional District, for example, was more Democratic in 2016 than it had been in 2012; however, that did not foretell Democratic victory in the special congressional election there this year. But it wasn't just Trump who last year underperformed previous Republican showings in Arizona. McCain won re-election by 13 points, which might sound like a wide margin but was a weak performance for McCain. He had won all his previous Senate races, dating back to 1986, by at least 20 points. And McCain wasn't alone: In the state's most populous county (Maricopa), the longtime and controversial sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and the longtime head elections official, Helen Purcell, were defeated.
4. There are other signs that Arizona may be moving left.
These shifts in state and local races may have been related to Trump's unpopularity, but they may also be tied to a changing political environment. Throughout his presidency, Obama was less popular in Arizona than he was in the country overall, according to yearly data from Gallup. In 2012, for example, Obama's net approval rating was 5 points lower in Arizona than it was in the U.S. overall. Later, however, Obama began to make inroads in Arizona: In 2016, his net approval rating there was only 1 point below his national net approval rating. At the same time, the state went from being 9 points more Republican than the nation in 2012 to 5 points more Republican in 2016, according to Gallup data on party identification. All of this suggests that the best way to describe Arizona is a Republican state that could go Democratic under the right circumstances — for example, in a year in which the Republican president has an approval rating nationally of less than 40 percent.
5. Flake needs to survive a primary.
Flake may not even make it to the general election. He's being challenged in the Republican primary by the very conservative former state Sen. Kelli Ward. Other Republicans may join the race. In the 2016 GOP Senate primary, Ward lost to McCain by only 11 points, which was the closest Senate primary he has ever had. And Flake's voting record in the Senate is ideologically similar to McCain's. Additionally, the limited polling conducted late last year and early this year has shown Flake tied or trailing Ward. I'm not sure I believe those numbers, but it's not difficult to imagine that Republican voters in Arizona, who went for Trump by nearly 20 points in the 2016 presidential primary, would be upset with Flake for his tendency to go after Trump.
If Flake were to go down in the primary, Democrats would be handed a golden opportunity. Open races are generally easier to win than those against incumbents. Also, Ward's record is so conservative that any general election involving her and a viable Democratic opponent would probably start off as a tossup. Even if Flake doesn't lose in a primary, he might be forced to shift to the right because of Ward's challenge. That could make him more vulnerable in a general election.
CORRECTION (July 12, 9:45 a.m.): Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly said the U.S. Senate has 50 members. There are 100.


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(Bangkok) – Cambodian authorities should immediately and unconditionally drop the charges and release an opposition activist arrested in Pursat province, Human Rights Watch said today.
On October 6, 2020, police arrested Chum Sarath, a former elected commune councilor from dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in Anlong Reap commune, Pursat province. The charges date back to a land dispute in 2014 between affected villagers and the timber tycoon Try Pheap's M.D.S. Import Export Co. company. At that time, M.D.S. lodged a complaint against Chum Sarath, alleging that he had cleared forest using a machete. The case had been dormant.
"Digging up old cases of dubious wrongdoing to silence critics is a longtime tactic of the Cambodian government," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The authorities should immediately drop the case against Chum Sarath and other activists unjustly held."
Chum Sarath, 66, was elected as a local commune councilor during the nationwide commune council elections in 2017, but was removed from office when the ruling party-controlled Supreme Court dissolved the CNRP in November 2017. Since then, the authorities had repeatedly harassed Sarath, and local police and unidentified persons carried out surveillance of his home in Pursat. In the revived case, the Pursat provincial court charged Sarath with illegal occupation of property and use of violence against a possessor of land (articles 248 and 253 of Cambodia's Land Law) and ordered him held in pretrial detention at the Pursat provincial prison.
In December 2019, the United States Treasury Department brought Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against tycoon Try Pheap after finding him to be involved in widespread corruption, including "misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery." The US Office of Foreign Assets Control added 11 companies owned or controlled by Try Pheap, including M.D.S. Import Export Co., to its sanctions list.
In another recent case, on September 22, the Tbong Khmum provincial court convicted seven opposition activists – Sim Seangleng, Mean La, Yem Vanneth, Chok Hour, Kong Sam An, Van Sophat, and Choem Vannak – of conspiracy (article 453 of Cambodia's penal code). The case was based on charges stemming from Facebook comments they posted between 2018 and 2019 in support of a leading political opposition figure, Sam Rainsy, and his planned return to Cambodia in November 2019. The court imposed prison sentences of up to seven years against the seven activists. Kong Sam An was the only defendant in the courtroom; the other defendants, who are in hiding or abroad, were convicted in absentia.
On October 7, Prime Minister Hun Sen gave a speech in Kandal province in which he alluded to political opposition and activist figures who speak out or engage in other activities, declaring that "if one emerges, one gets hit; if two emerge, then two get hit." In the speech, he said there would be further arrests of opposition activists.
The Cambodian government has ramped up its crackdown on dissent during the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting repressive laws. A state of emergency law has been enacted, but not yet put into effect. The government is currently drafting legislation that, it is feared, will drastically limit internet freedom and online expression. As of October, there are 55 political prisoners – including opposition activists, environmental and youth activists, and journalists – who are arbitrarily detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association, Human Rights Watch said.
"The social and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped Prime Minister Hun Sen from trying to crush any and all perceived opponents," Robertson said. "Foreign governments, the United Nations, and donors should call out Hun Sen for his unrelenting human rights abuses."


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Check the comments by Lance Mountain and Tony Hawk below for more info on this picture 👍🏽 Big explosion by my house today (no injuries)... internet/phones/tv all out for now. I was going to add names once back connected, for now it's for y'all to guess 😉 (or since i originally posted this Read the comments) gonna go use some public wifi to post this now... #skateboarding #bros #contest #early80s #pads #newNextCrop #GuessNames Lakewood or Paramount? @lancemountain fill'em in! #inspiration #skateparks This photo appears tiny in the collage section in the MY RULES book.
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A child also includes any individual under 15 years of age who does not have a parent usually resident in the household but is instead assigned to a nominal parent from among other household members. Such children may be related to the nominal parent (e.g. as a nephew or niece) or not be related at all. Allocation of a nominal parent to a nominal child is determined by the application of certain coding rules. For more information refer to ABS Family Composition standards on the ABS web site <www.abs.gov.au>.
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