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Yesterday, I was bothered by a Facebook status update from one of my dear friends. This friend is one of those people who has a heart so big that I seriously question her humanity at times. So she writes this post about having given a homeless person food and shockingly the recipient scowled at her gift. Clearly, he felt that he deserved something better than this Subway sandwich. What was even more shocking to me, was to read that this type of incident has happened multiple times to my sweet friend. Instantly, people began to comment on her post. It seemed that others had experienced this same phenomenon. So this had me really curious and I decided to google: "ungrateful homeless people." Tons of articles came up. Most of them were blog posts ranting about this same issue. Obviously, this experience is very upsetting to people. This one, tells the story of a woman who discovered how to spiritually cleanse herself of such a toxifying incident. This one, is written from a Christian perspective about how to deal with the ingratitude of others in a Christ-like way. (It's funny actually, the article is about ungrateful church patrons and the poor church leaders that have to deal with us!)
Anyway, I finally stumbled upon a gem, well in my nerd-opinion it was a gem. I found a psychological research article about the psychology of gratitude. Ok, so I actually googled "psychology of gratitude," the article was not exactly "stumbled upon" but whatever. Here's a link to the article if you're a nerd like me and actually want to read it, otherwise I'll sum it up for you.
So interestingly, the research suggests that gratitude is an emotion that is linked to people with pro-social personality traits like agreeableness and empathy. Huh, homeless people… pro-social personality traits… Something is telling me that those two probably don't mix often. So could it be that the very reason these people are homeless in the first place is because they grossly lack pro-social traits like empathy? Of course, we couldn't generalize this to ALL homeless people but it doesn't really seem like this theory is that far of a stretch. Clearly the homeless man my friend encountered had no empathy for the effort that she put into helping him. Pro-social personality traits are the very characteristics that we all bank on. They help us keep our friends, our jobs… Not to say that people with anti-social personality traits are destined for homelessness, we all know that isn't true (and unfortunately can probably think of personal examples). Yet, I just can't help but wonder if this is a huge factor playing into the fate of the homeless.
All of that being said, what do we do with this information? I have no idea. I'll admit that I'm a chicken when it comes to approaching the homeless due to this very issue. It's like I don't want to get rejected after trying to do something nice. The article above addresses that in a way. It says that by giving gratitude, the beneficiary feels indebted and "less-than" the benefactor. Yet, a homeless person can't repay this debt. So is this ingratitude a twisted way for these people to hang on to their pride? A way for them to not feel so "less-than" or indebted to us? I don't know. Whatever the reason, it sucks. It sucks because I want to feel like I did a good thing, when someone responds with ingratitude, my insecurity pops up and I question my actions. I start to wonder: should I have asked them if they had any allergies first? Am I somehow treating them as "less than" by not giving them menu options? Truthfully, I wonder: Am I really making a difference or was that a waste of my time and money?
My friend offered the solution to simply begin donating her time at soup kitchens. This sounds pretty good to me. Maybe there her time and energy would not only be appreciated, but would also be productive every time. Now, I don't think that calling is for everyone. My husband, Caleb, is way more courageous than me and often interacts with the homeless. Interestingly, he has never experienced the "biting the hand that feeds" phenomenon. I'm not really sure why and neither is he. Sometimes I wonder if it's his calling or something. He literally will feel a pull to go talk to people or to bring them food and so he does it. He's even given people lots of money because he felt led to do so (that was an interesting conversation between he and I later… "Oh by the way, Honey, I gave $130 to a homeless guy."). He's found that it has changed his heart and has made him more open to the Holy Spirit's promptings. That is so awesome… for HIM. But maybe this isn't the calling for all of us. Maybe our call to serve could be to pass the guy on the street with the "War Veteran and Hungry" sign as we drive to the local soup kitchen. Or, and I truly hope this isn't the case, maybe I'm called to give to ungrateful people. Partially for their sake, but mostly so that my heart can be changed. So that I can learn to give regardless of anyone's reaction. I'm cringing as I write this. I really am such a pansy when it comes to this stuff… but this whole issue has made me see that maybe I need to be more bold like my husband and my friend. Maybe I'll get my hand bitten or maybe I'll experience something divine. I guess I won't really know until I try.


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Living up in the clean, crisp Alaskan air my gal pal had an aurora borealis flash of an IDEA. ART CLASSES!
I'm more of a Degas or Renoir, not so much Kandinsky. Maybe a Blue period Picasso
though I love this Rousseau. Matisse, Miro. So much to choose from!
"Anita, I've had a 'lightbulb' this morning! Unpropertied SENIOR CITIZENS and other BOOMERS SHOULD START APPLYING FOR STUDENT LOANS! You can use those $$$ for food, housing, etc, and other expenses. Now the gov't. makes it easy to get these loans and easy to pay back because they know that you can't discharge that debt with bankruptcy. BUT YOU CAN discharge it with DEATH! So first you want to check out the community college nearest where you live as they frequently let you take courses nearly for free if you're 60 or over.
STUDENT LOANS are the other way. If you are 65 or older, you can probably put off ANY repayment for years, and if they say you're TOO OLD to go back to school, isn't there a law against AGE DISCRIMINATION? Pick one of those 'easy' studies....like ART. Choose, do you only go the minimum to stay a 'student'? Of full time to become a real expert? What will they do if you default on the loan ten years up the line? Put you in jail? Go after your grandkids? NO, actually, they don't! So at Federal or State Cost, learn to paint like Matisse or Monet, Picasso. Rousseau, Naif painting, Grandma Moses as these are highly saleable. Not only can you get "three hots and a cot", free medical and dental care, and probably enough to pay rent and utilities but you can sell this highly esteemed art. At the same time, while you're studying, you can hit up the state for food stamps, welfare, (if you care for a grandchild) and then ask for disability stipend too if you have some malady. WHOPEEE! LET'S ALL GO BACK TO SCHOOL 5 days a week and live like millionaires and get very productive and leave the world something it needs. OUR ART and a model of peppy senior behavior!
Besides fun and money all kinds of unexpected bonuses will come from this. Imagine lunching in University cafeterias, the most fun place to be, wheeling your little tray around the dazzling food choices. Then, extra bonus, GrayHair YOU become the big Kahuna Guru to all those kids. They suspect that with AGE went WISDOM so they bring you their relationship and finance problems. (Learn to read horoscopes and palms, you will make a second under the table living with that market segment and really become their spiritual guide.)
But then, the really fun part .Weekends you can sell your Matisse Canvases at WHOLE FOODS parking lot or at some posh super market in the gentrified area of town. $200 to $400 would be bon marche prices for the yuppies as a gallery would retail them for 1500$ so try to get a gallery to rep you. They take 40% but prices are way higher. The blue bloods find out about you. The newspapers cover your 'show.' You're famous, a model of this enterprise to other seniors. You're Moses, leading the seniors out of esclavitude in Egypt!
There's a very Good chance you do what the rural Grandma Moses did, get famous just out of how OLD SHE was and what good naif folk paintings she could turn out. Google Image her and Henri Rousseau and Czeck folk paintings too. All naive style requiring NO LONG involved ART STUDIES. Oil paints are costly, starter set is viridian green, thalo blue, rose, zinc white, burnt sienna, cadmium yellow and then you can mix your own colors. Pick up brushes at garage sales or thrift shops. Stretch your own canvases, hit with a layer of house paint to prime the canvas. You just need stretcher bars, very inexpensive, a small hammer, small tacks, (or switch modes, do it with a staple gun.) good fabrics, linen or cotton, the water based primer for that first base coat. see HOW TO BE AN ARTIST
I posted that online and in ten minutes a pal wrote me: Anita, hey, maybe I could apply to a college, apply for a student loan to continue my art education (which I now owe them $41,000 for with interest and penalties, since I couldn't find a art teaching job and then got sick)...but if I got a loan now, then I could apply that payment to the old loan to get them off my back... ya think?
ANSWER: Probably you would have to press them to give you more studies saying that your paintings don't yet qualify for a gallery -- and you do not have that much needed MASTERS degree, or PHD. And that another system was in use and STYLES were in VOGUE back when you first studied...or that you never took Modern Art and that's required to teach today... or there's a new form of art that sells well. Be your own lawyer or bring in a gallery owner or some academic from the Art School at Big University as 'the expert.'
ANOTHER WRITE IN: The Actuaries already thought of this, Anita. They make more money off your death. As morbid as it sounds, 18 year olds (on up) have to sign a Life Insurance policy in order to ACHIEVE the 8.25% interest loan. Don't go thinking anyone (college or feds), eats the loss. The loan gets paid back, just not by Granny Picasso. It then falls to her heirs. They inherit Grandma's debt. Any property? The state attaches that debt to it.
I hate to BELIEVE THAT but I know this writer, Emily Baehr and she was A HUGE FRUGAL WEBSITE RUNNING GENIUS, (PENNY PINCHER, now shut down,) she's savvy.. DEBTS are assigned to mates? Relatives? Or probably to the house you own in case one 'departs?' Hey, someone go get a student loan and let us know here, Anita Sands Hernandez, astrology at earthlink.net drop me a line.
SHE GOES ON: IF you get the student loan, they defer the repay until you graduate. An Educational Deferment means no one has to pay on the loan DURING a time they are enrolled full-time. You tell student loan co. & they confirm it same day with your school. Part-time or half-time doesn't do it so Granny had better have her walking shoes on and stay in class all day.
And another thing, Visit the Human Resources or UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE, Tell everyone to apply, then when they are turned down they are eligible for some re-training programs. DEPT OF REHABILITATION will put you thru school. Also there are specific trades at specific trade schools. That's how my friend Lisa became a phlebotomist, at the expense of the state. Injured workers, get help from DEPT OF REHAB, too. Lisa didn't really get to choose the path.. In my own case, Unemployment (HRD) had some Back to Work program that would have paid the $415 tuition for me to get my REAL ESTATE license! Without being unemployed and in the system you don't get that. Just being a hard worker I'd have had to pay for it myself. Or borrow from my mom. the poor and asset-less have it made.


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Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2010 Meeting of the APS Ohio Section and AAPT Appalachian and Southern Ohio Sections
Volume 55, Number 8
Friday–Saturday, October 8–9, 2010; Marietta, Ohio
Session P1: Poster Session (4:15-5:30PM)
Friday, October 8, 2010
Andrews Hall Room: Great Room
Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.OSF.P1.4
Abstract: P1.00004 : Some Unsolved Problems, Questions, and Applications of the Brightsen Nucleon Cluster Model
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Florentin Smarandache
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Brightsen Model is opposite to the Standard Model, and it was build on John Weeler's Resonating Group Structure Model and on Linus Pauling's Close-Packed Spheron Model. Among Brightsen Model's predictions and applications we cite the fact that it derives the average number of prompt neutrons per fission event, it provides a theoretical way for understanding the low temperature / low energy reactions and for approaching the artificially induced fission, it predicts that forces within nucleon clusters are stronger than forces between such clusters within isotopes; it predicts the \textit{unmatter} entities inside nuclei that result from stable and neutral union of matter and antimatter, and so on. But these predictions have to be tested in the future at the new CERN laboratory.
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Dropping out has always fascinated me. Dropping out of college is always something that has intrigued me a lot. The reason being that quite a few of them who actually drop out go on to become not just world beaters but path-breaking innovators who actually improve humanity as a whole. While my intention is not to encourage people to drop out, I feel that this actually works for a certain section. Here's why:
Education is defined as a process in which we gain knowledge, values and skills set that can aid our future lives. In today's educational systems, we are told that these three core competencies are imbued in us, unfortunately that is not always the case. The fact is, in quite a few cases, we are stuck in the illusion that we have obtained these under the garb of a degree certificate. A degree certificate is largely (not always, there are exceptions) a reflection of our memorising ability, our ability to study local author books to pass the exam somehow and also of knowledge which eventually gets diluted once we enter the working world.
In essence, our educational experience fits the person who is comfortable with adapting himself to a structured system. The structured system is efficient in its own ways but it suits only certain types of people. On the other hand, the person who has dropped out, ironically, attains all the three competencies with his experience with the practical world.
First, the dropout experiences downright humiliation from society. Our society would decry and despise him for his inability to cope with the Engineering/Medicine demands. He then goes through a stage where he is mentally cornered and he decides to pursue the unknown. He starts to explore himself more since he has the time to do so and doesn't have much of a choice.
Once in the exploration process, he decides to explore the unknown in his area of interest. He is not confined by the structures set by either society or the system; thus the exploration covers a much wider area of study since that individual never takes anything for granted.
For example, if I was an engineering student, I would forgo some chapters in my syllabus since these would not be covered for the "exam." On the other hand, the dropout would try to explore the practical implications of this subject and explore the unknown within this subject by reading on his own. As such, this allows him to study beyond the realms of structural education which narrows down our intelligence to a streamlined path. This immense exploration enhances that individual's knowledge in a much wider perspective, a perspective that would enhance his skills set also.
Skills set is a very crucial aspect of education. In fact, the focus on education should be on the skills set more than the academic jargon. Once an individual starts to explore and settles in one specific area (owing to his own exploration and not what the system pushes him into), then that individual will look for skill sets that can help him out. Additional courses can help him gain this practical knowledge that can directly help his area of interest.
When the dropout ventures out to earn his skills set, he comes across the wrath of social prejudice at a very early age. The impact of social inequality and social prejudice sets into that person very early on. As such, the dropout understands the need for finding ways to enhance the fundamentals of long-term success. Most of the dropouts generally look for role models and they realise that the values system is the base for any success at any stage in life. The fundamental importance of values, which the educational structure often overlooks, is imbibed by the dropouts at an early stage. The practical hardships of surviving without anything also make them yearn for more sustainable success mantras. As such, life corners them to imbibe values within since their survival is at stake.
My reference here is to people who want to succeed but they are not able to do well in the structured and rigid education system we have. In no way do I encourage people dropping out, if given an option it should be avoided. However, if someone is forced to drop out (or feels that's the way out), then the world is equally at his feet. It offers him enough possibilities to gain knowledge, attain skills set and enhance their value systems.
Just because you drop out doesn't mean the world ends, it is just the beginning of a whole new exciting world!
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Boeing Co. executives eliminated Elgin as a potential site for their new world headquarters but were still investigating other locations Thursday, as lawmakers in Springfield began talking about offering the company millions of dollars in financial incentives to move from Seattle to the Chicago area.
Executives of the world's largest aerospace company spent a second day in the area gently griping about traffic in Schaumburg, munching on fruit in a Rolling Meadows steakhouse and carting off a crate of apples from Westmont. But when they jetted off in midafternoon, they offered only compliments--"We know why Chicago made our short list," one said--and no commitments.


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Happy hour: time for new media to create new business modelsSubmitted by Guy Berger on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 15:58.
Business models around digital media need to keep changing, Robert Picard told Rhodes media management students today. To back up his point, he noted that online advertising is still only 3% that of the story in the offline world. Also:
• Rapid growth in online ad revenues is not matched by rapid growth in total ad share;
• In most countries, two-thirds of online revenue went to the top ten sites;
• E-commerce is profitable, but still represents only about 2% of retail sales worldwide (compared to mail order at 7%).
A way of theorising Highway ASubmitted by Guy Berger on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 05:47.
We've sweated into our 11th year of Highway Africa - and I've often asked: what's it all mean? What's HA signify?
We began with a once-off conference, and the thing just grew into the multi-faceted unique project that it is. With a life of its own. It's pulled us along, as much as we've pushed it as well. And our actions have been intuitive to a large extent.
Onerous bill attempts to control speech on the internetSubmitted by brad on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 21:10.
ITWeb ran an article titled " Thought police target 'new' media" about changes to the film and publications act that attempt to place censorship processess on blogs/websites. The crux of the matter is the demand that "any blog or other Internet or mobile content that contains visual presentations, descriptions or representations of sexual conduct, advocacy of hatred, incitement to violence or propaganda promoting war must be submitted for classification before publication".
New media - articles and resourcesSubmitted by Guy Berger on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 16:11.
This refers to my research articles on the subject
New Media and Press Freedom in the Developing World. Keynote speech for Unesco conference, Paris, February 2007.
Digital migration and public broadcasting. Paper for Open Society Institute, London, 2006.
NML website climbs up googleSubmitted by brad on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 09:56.
Because it is fun to google yourself I googled new media, and found that we currently sitting on page three (at around position 22) on the results page. If you use the South African Google we come up fourth, and if you constrain it to only South African pages then we are number 2. I also tried a search for citizen journalism and our tags section comes up as second. It is a bit arb, but it means we do have incoming links from Google for relevant stuff.


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I've been helping with a kids choir at my church this summer, and one of the songs we're currently learning begins with these words: "God is so big, God is so small: He's big enough to rule the universe, He's small enough to live in my heart." Taken aback a little by the phrase, "God is so small," I asked myself the question, "What do they really mean when they say God is small?" Below are my thoughts.
The song is driving at the inexplicable nature of God's omnipresence. Even though all of God exists everywhere, His presence can be experienced by us in different ways. Think about this: God isn't necessarily big or small as far as physical dimensions go. You can't measure Him with a ruler or fit Him in a box of any size. Why not? Because God is spirit (John 4:24). But even though God is spirit, He can still be said to exist in certain physical locations. In Isaiah 66:1, God declares that heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool. When my choir kids sing, God is "big enough to rule the universe," they're singing about God as King, who sits on all of heaven like a monarch sits on his throne and who plops His feet down on all of earth like a tired man plops his feet on a footstool. But the Bible also says that God puts His Spirit within us when we are born again (Ezekiel 36:27). When the kids sing, God is "small enough to live in my heart," they're singing about the Holy Spirit (who is God) who dwells within us to rule, teach, comfort and delight.
In our human minds, if God can use the earth like a footstool, He must be REALLY big, and if His Spirit can actually live in an individual believer, He must be REALLY small. We can talk this way – we can say that God is both big and small – because the Bible leads us to talk this way. That is, the Bible expects us to be able to look at things and describe them from different angles. I think that's awesome (it's certainly a lot of fun). And, I think the kids' choir song is alright, after-all. =)


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A vast expansion of charter schools, an overhaul of teacher tenure and establishment of a statewide program to pay private school tuition with public dollars moved within one step of final passage Thursday, as the Louisiana Senate Education Committee endorsed the headliner components of Gov. Bobby Jindal's education agenda without changes or dissent.
Senate Minority Leader Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, was among those who did not object Thursday, though he voted against the same measures when the committee heard the Senate version of the Jindal bills earlier this month. LaFleur said earlier this week that pushing amendments or raising objections at the committee level "would be futile." He predicted some of his colleagues would attempt amendments on the Senate floor, though the administration is positioned to block them.
Senate changes to the bills would require House reconsideration, a move that would not threaten final passage but would delay the declaration of victory for the governor. The bills have the same implementation date regardless of when Jindal signs them.
Their support notwithstanding, Republican senators questioned a Jindal aide and state Superintendent John White about the developing teacher evaluation system that includes new teacher tenure rules, while tying teacher pay to student performance. The lawmakers said they hear concerns from classroom teachers, though the hearing room and the surrounding Capitol hallways were largely quiet for the afternoon session, a stark contrast to the initial hearings for the bills, when several thousand education employees filled the hearing room to overflow and the front steps in protest.
The general premise of the tenure bill -- HB 974 -- is that job protection and salary structure should be tied directly to an evaluation concept that lawmakers approved during Jindal's first term. That system, which is being piloted this year and is not final, bases half of a teacher's job rating on a principal's evaluation and half on a "value-added" components that turn on student test scores and other metrics.
Teachers would have to be rated "highly effective" five out of six years to receive tenure and could be deposed any year they receive an "ineffective" rating. The state estimates that about 10 percent of teachers will fall in the highest category, with another 10 percent in the lower. The rest would likely be rated "effective."
The bill also generally empowers superintendents in personnel decisions and changes due process considerations to allow teacher dismissals before hearings.
Sen. Mike Walsworth, R-West Monroe, told White that some teachers are concerned that their job and pay will depend on "whether two or three Johnnies have a good or bad test day."
White stood by the concept of a value-added evaluation system, which he said will not simply give teachers marks based on absolute test scores. Rather, the formula for teachers whose students take standardized tests will consider what the group -- based on past performance, socioeconomic status, behavior and attendance records -- could be expected to do. All teachers are expected to have their students show improvement, White said, but the calculation will consider "how much improvement should be expected."
He said the state Department of Education provides a database of sample questions on standardized tests to allow teachers to measure progress throughout the school year.
Jindal policy adviser Stafford Palmieri also highlighted to senators a House floor amendment that delays until the 2013-14 school year the results of the evaluations to a teacher's job status. That would effectively make 2012-13 a statewide pilot year for the new system.
Besides the evaluation system, Louisiana Federation of Teachers President Steve Monaghan again argued that Jindal's changes do not give teachers adequate due process. Current tenure law does not preclude firing a teacher, but it grants a hearing before a school board can dismiss a teacher.
The new law allows the superintendent to make that call, with a subsequent appeal hearing in front a three-person panel: the superintendent (or designee), the principal and another teacher of the fired teacher's choosing. Monaghan said that is not an effective appeal.
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Internet, and the technologies that enable it, allow people of every nationality, race, faith, and point of view to communicate, cooperate, and prosper like never before. Today, an Africa company can do business anywhere in the world with an internet connection, supporting countless jobs and opportunities for the African people. A mother in rural Africa can sell agro products to a family in America through an internet connection, advancing broader economic development. Every day, internet plays an increasingly important role in enhancing the lives of people around the world.
All of this has been possible because of the multistakeholder approach to the way in which the Internet is governed. An approach that includes contributions to the governance process from civil society, private sector, governments and others.As the Internet continues to grow and evolve, governments like other players in this multistakeholder approach have an important role to play in helping facilitate access to the Internet for their people. And if governments play their critical role in the internet governance it can spearhead the sustainable development within communities, citizens can be empowered to hold their governments responsible through the use of the internet.
Government can for example lobby for better prices on internet to allow more people connected to the internet and it can also play its role in making sure that internet is not taxed especially in poor countries where internet gets to be taxed. It's only when governments compliment such activities that allow its citizens access to the internet by allowing a conducive business atmosphere within countries. We cannot talk about internet empowering sustainable development when citizens are being denied these very same basic services due to bad laws and bad policies influenced by governments and these can only be addressed at government level. Therefore it's no longer a question of whether internet can bring about economic change


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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined a plan of attack for strategic forces and the financial challenges of the Defense Department during his first major policy speech as Pentagon chief.
Hagel, in a speech at the National Defense University on Wednesday, said that the DoD would face big choices due to a review of the department's strategic choices and management. Hagel, along with Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey will be heading the review, which is "about matching missions with resources -- looking at ends, ways and means," Hagel said.
The review will consider all choices -- "change that involves not just tweaking or chipping away at existing structures and practices but, where necessary, fashioning entirely new ones that are better suited to 21st-century realities and challenges," Hagel said. Reshaping the defense enterprise means confronting "the principal drivers of growth in the department's base budget -- namely acquisitions, personnel costs and overhead."
"The goal of the senior leadership of this department today is to learn from the miscalculations and mistakes of the past drawdowns, and make the right decisions that will sustain our military strength, advance our strategic interests, and protect our nation well into the future," Hagel said. Topics to be reviewed include military technology, personnel, funding for headquarters and sequestration
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Environmental Restoration/Mitigation Services, Water Resource Planning and Management, Environmental Consulting
MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, May 2018
Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University, Durham, NC
Concentration: Water Resource Management
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, May 2018
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University, Durham, NC
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Professional Experience
United States Army, Fort Campbell, KY
Special Forces Battalion Assistant Operations Officer
Served as a member of the Operations Planning Cell and assisted the development of a detailed operational plan in preparation for a near-term unit deployment to the Middle East. Represented Special Forces as a liaison to the 82nd Airborne Division during a major training event, which facilitated a priority effort of the senior most Special Forces officer in the Army. 2014 – 2015
Special Forces Operational Detachment - Alpha (SFODA) Commander
Led a 12-man Special Forces team on two overseas deployments. Planned, coordinated, and led over 120 combat patrols accomplishing initiatives of strategic importance. Advised, assisted, and trained a 140-man indigenous battalion; facilitated strengthened internal security and counterterrorism capabilities. 2012 – 2014
Special Forces Company Executive Officer
Served as the second-in-command of an 88-man Special Forces company during a combat deployment. Oversaw a logistics program that ensured the sustained support of more than 450 personnel dispersed across 12 remote locations in northern Afghanistan. 2011 – 2012
Support Company Commander
Led a 182-soldier company during a pre-deployment training cycle. Maintained 100% accountability of a hand receipt valued in excess of $17.5M and developed a marksmanship training program that increased the company weapons qualification by 25%. 2009
Support Company Executive Officer
Synchronized logistics support to 185 soldiers dispersed across three locations in Iraq during a combat deployment. Supervised the maintenance and accountability of over 570 items valued at over $10M. Planned and executed the redeployment of 47 vehicles and 50 shipping containers from Iraq to Fort Campbell, KY. 2008 – 2009
Combat Engineer Platoon Leader
Planned and led over 130 combat patrols which resulted in the clearance of more than 20 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from over 2,800 kilometers of route in northwest Baghdad. Implemented a rigorous pre-deployment training plan resulting in the platoon being commended as "one of the best" by senior evaluators at a national Army training center. Developed a thorough property accountability system for equipment valued in excess of $6.7M. 2006 – 2008


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"Rabbit Hole" is a vivid, hopeful, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of all situations. In this clip Academy Awards winners Nicole Kidman and Dianne Wiest bring a warm sense of humor and levity to an emotional scene from the film.
One to watch? After seeing the trailer on apple.com I was intrigued by this movie. It's got a terrific cast and the story is a good fit for the actors; it will give them something to really sink their teeth into. I'm also a fan of director John Cameron Mitchell's other movie, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and I suspect this movie will benefit from his visual style. From the trailer "Rabbit Hole" looks like it will have just the right blend of tenderness and humor to make it memorable without being too melodramatic.
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text: Today I took a Filipino Historical walking tour of San Francisco's SOMA district. With all the press regarding the gentrification of the city, it was refreshing to see that in very tiny ways the city is trying to preserve the immigrant culture that create much of the richness of San Francisco. The tour began at the Bayanihan Community Center and we walked through the nearby neighborhoods and parks that were historically inhabited by Filipinos. The neighborhoods are beautiful but because of the location it still suffers from drugs, gangs and other city ills. I'm afraid that some day it will totally disappear off the map as affordable housing is replaced by high-end condos. Until then, it is there to share and educate.


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Nov 1854
I then dreamd of kissing another
16 woman that i had met in my trav
els I for got who she was &c —
four of us got gold 60$ Lloyd &
Lawrence is stiping beautifull weather
Fr 17 four of us got gold 99 1/2$ Lloyd
& Lawrence were stripping &c
Sat 18 I shaw & Lloyd started for
the american vally early this
morning for the purpose of tas
an appeal in the suit with Vaughn
& shaw & Lloyd as securities we
took 5 picks along & had them
sharpd cost 2 3/4$. I paid my la
wyer 25$ moore. Lawrence & the
englishman workd to gether
did not make mutch. John
was at work by himself &
took out 97 1/2$ one piece that
weighd 55$ it clowded up this
morning. But the sun shone at
inter vals all day, commensd
Nov 54
raining about sun set, though
but light. I & John are sitting
in the cabin taking our ease. he
is trying to play a new tune
on his fiddle & ive wrote this down
Su 19 clear & warm. I went down
to the point early & got a letter for
John from John Stevens date of oct
2nd1 giving an account of Thom
as Ridsdale going crazy & Death
allso, the starving condition of
the poor in the county & cheap
ness of young hogs &c for letter
1$ we devided our dust for the last
two weeks & we got 211$ to our part
John washd 4 shirts & 1 pair Dr
owers. my lesson Revela chp 15
Mo 20 the weather is delightfull four
of us was working to gether weve
hired John Bull at 2$ per daw, we
got gold 58 1/2$. Lloyd & LAwrence
is not making match as yet &c


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20139 Milano
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The new Milan venue for contemporary art
Located in Largo Isarco 2, Fondazione Prada is housed in a complex that was used as a distillery for several years. Architectural firm OMA, co-founded by Rem Koolhaas, took over the place and completely transformed it to come up with what is now Fondazione Prada. The complex now boasts a huge collection of contemporary arts.
The complex consists of four buildings divided into in three categories: a multifunctional auditorium, an exhibition space and a nine-story tower holding all the collections of Prada. Fondazione Prada covers an area of about 19,000 sq.m.
Miuccia Prada, the granddaughter of Mario Prada, and her husband Patrizio Bertelli started the museum in 1993 with the aim to provide a platform for supporting and promoting contemporary art, architecture, and cinema as well as philosophy projects. You would find the place delightful because it is interesting from both inside and outside. There is also a special kids zone that has been designed by the students of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles.


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Cold and shivering—and bereft of any sense of accomplishment—I stood at the top of Mount Everest. The ski instructor called it the bunny hill, but I knew better. The icy slope in front of me could only lead to one thing. A painless death was out of the question, so I gripped my ski poles and prayed I'd be lovingly remembered. I took one last, shaky breath. It was all the encouragement my skis needed. One minute I was awaiting my demise, the next rushing toward it at breakneck speed. My skis traveled in opposite directions. My poles flew through the air. I didn't mind. Better a snowball than a javelin. In the moments that followed, I became a firm believer that what must go down should never come back up.
I still have times when I feel as though I'm standing at the top of a mountain—figurative, of course—and wonder how I'm going to make it down. I see the slippery slope, and my mind pleads for escape. I can't stay where I am—I know that—but the only way down looks like a scary one. Sometimes the situation involves facing an illness, or a problem with a family member or friend. At times my life takes me in a new direction, one that holds uncertainty.
Fear is a powerful emotion. Do I succumb to it and lay helpless in the snow, or do I get up and ski? Those moments of fear are inevitable, but we don't have to let them rule us. When Jesus died on the cross, He conquered death and fear. With His help, we can take up our ski poles and glide—or tumble, if need be—our way to victory.


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It's a new day
It's a new life
And I'm feeling fine (Nina Simone).
I am done with my steroids and my exacerbation seems a thing of the past. Looking back over the summer, I could have probably stood a round in June and then I wouldn't have dragged so much all summer. Right now, I feel great. I am full of energy and for the first time in a long time, I'm not in pain. My joints feel good, the fatigue is gone and so is the headache I have been dragging around most of the summer. I am hoping the energy from the steroids will last all week.
This change couldn't have come at a better time. I start work tomorrow. The steroids have gotten me up early three days in a row so I have been more productive than I was all summer. I already have the first few days of school planned and I'm ready to rock my interview for the instructional coach job tomorrow. Either way, I think I am finally prepared physically and mentally for the transition.
I imagine that after today, my presence on the blogosphere may fade out a bit for the next few busy weeks but I will swing by to read comments and hopefully to post a highlight or two.
Today I am grateful to be feeling like my old, energetic self again.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
It's a new dawn...
Posted by Denver Refashionista at 8:06 AM
Labels: Exacerbation, Steroids
4 comments:
- Stephanie said...
Glad to hear that the steroids did the trick! Sounds like you are definitely ready to rock your interview!
- August 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Denver Refashionista said...
Thanks Stephanie. I sure hope I am.
- August 9, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Webster said...
Steroids are so wonderful when they do what they're supposed to. I'm glad that you're feeling so much better.
- August 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Joan said...
Ditto! I'm really glad you are feeling better, also!
- August 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM
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Nepal, two years on: why the time to go is now
In April 2015, Nepal hit global headlines when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated the country, killing almost 9000 people. Two years on, Nepal continues to…
The spelling and pronunciation of Himalayan place names has given many a traveller a headache. There are competing systems for transliterating from Nepali into English, and many names in mountain regions are taken from Tibetan dialects or even unwritten languages, so the possibilities can proliferate chaotically. When reading from maps and guides, or asking for directions, keep an open mind as to what might mean where. In general, we follow the most widely used spellings, but significant alternatives are given in brackets.
As regards pronunciation, there's not even agreement on what to call the country – or its mountains. Should it be Nuh-pawl, as it has been in English for a century or so, or Nay-paal, imitating Nepali pronunciation? Is the range a singular Hi-maal-ee-yuh (reflecting the local word for mountain, himal) or Him-uh-lay-ers? Actually, that one's easy: the name derives from the Sanskrit hima laya, or "Abode of Snow", not himal, so the stress should be fairly even; and in English mountain ranges are usually plural, like "the Alps". Hee-maa-lay-ahs it is, then.
besi lower
bhanjyang pass, col
cho, tso lake
chorten stone religious monument/reliquary
deurali meeting point, often of paths on the saddle or side of a hill
danda hillside
gao village
gompa monastery
himal mountain range
kosi river
khola stream
la mountain pass
lekh watershed range of hills, ridge
mani wall of stones inscribed with prayers
phedi settlement at the foot of a hill
pokhari lake
ri peak
tal lake
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Evil Ed
Directed by Anders Jacobsson
Courtesy of Arrow Video & MVD Distribution
Original Year of Release: 1995
Blu-ray Release Date: May 30, 2017
I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised by EVIL ED. I've heard people talk about the film for two decades now, and a lot of what was said was negative. But I was always curious about it, and I definitely wanted to give it a look. Thanks to Arrow and MVD, I got the opportunity to do so in HD, and I found the film an absolute joy to experience. As the synopsis mentions below, if you're a fan of THE EVIL DEAD, RE-ANIMATOR, or DEAD ALIVE, then you'll certainly want to give EVIL ED a shot!
If you are not familiar with EVIL ED, here is the plot synopsis courtesy of Arrow Video & MVD Distribution:
A blood-soaked love letter to the splatter films of the 80s, video rental favourite Evil Ed returns in a brand-new Special EDition featuring an extended cut of the feature and hours of stomach-churning bonus features!
Mild-mannered film technician Edward enjoys his job. That is, until he finds himself transferred from his regular post to the Splatter and Gore department, where he's forced to edit hours upon hours of grisly video nasty footage. Traumatized by the onscreen violence, Ed starts to lose his grip on reality with ghastly (and bloody) consequences…
Owing a debt to films such as The Evil Dead, Re-animator and the early splatter classics of Peter Jackson, Evil Ed is a veritable smorgasbord of flying limbs, exploding heads, busty babes and creepy creatures!
I like the discreet homages to classic horror movies that are sprinkled throughout this film. For example, the title, EVIL ED, is a slight play on words from THE EVIL DEAD. Also, Ed's boss is named Sam Campbell, an indistinct reference to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell from the DEAD trilogy. Not to mention the NUMEROUS movie posters strewn throughout various scenes. These direct and indirect tributes are one of the many joys you'll experience with EVIL ED.
EVIL ED is shot well and looks great onscreen. The HD transfer is very tight, and the picture quality is excellent. I got to experience every blood splatter and hacked limb in glorious high definition. Likewise, the sound quality is great as well.
The acting in EVIL ED is very good, with Johan Rudebeck portraying the titular character. Surprisingly, Rudebeck only has a couple of credits on his IMDB page, with this role being the first; he is a great actor, and I'm surprised we have not seen more of him. The rest of the cast is great as well, however nobody really stands out like Rudebeck.
The special effects are superb, and there's plenty of gore to go around. I am very impressed with the life-like quality the carnage has, and gore-hounds should be pleased with the amount of it. Also, the creature effects are pretty slick; the grotesque Gremlin-like beastie is only in a couple of shots, but it looks great (perfect for a horror comedy).
The storyline in EVIL ED is intriguing and laughable at the same time. It is a big part of what makes the film so much fun. Watching Ed's decent into madness…just from watching LOOSE LIMBS movies (the fictional SAW-like series he is editing) is at time humorous and humbling. Director Anders Jacobsson made the movie to take a shot at censor boards, and he definitely gets his point across. The result is a vastly entertaining jaunt into humor and gore.
EVIL ED is a major win for me, and I highly recommend it. It's off-the-wall and campy in some aspects, but it's 100 percent fun. Part social commentary, part horror, and part downright comedy, this is one of those films you'll watch more than once, so be prepared! It is available now.
• Two versions of the film!
• Original Stereo and 5.1 Audio Options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
• Collector s booklet with new writing on the film by critic James Oliver
• World premiere of the newly-extended version of the feature [95 min]
• Keep Em Heads Rollin making-of documentary
• Reconstructing Edward featurette on the creation of the Special EDition cut
• Deleted scenes
• Bloopers
• Teasers and Trailers
• Still Gallery
• Original Cut [93 mins]
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Most digital signage is completely silent. The reason is fairly simple. While you can avoid the visual portion of a presentation by turning your head, you can't avoid the audio as easily. "Where video tends to be focused into a vector, sound tends to be a 360-degree bubble around you," explains Dick Trask, marketing director for Scala, Inc.
"Repetitive noise is a huge issue with employees," says Ed Glicken, director of foreign sales for Brown Innovations. "We became involved in a lot of kiosk applications early on as a direct result of employees turning off or actually damaging equipment because of the repetitive noise."
The repetitive noise issue could disappear completely because of a new generation of speakers that focus sound into a narrow beam. The Audio Spotlight from Holosonic Research Labs, for example, confines its sound within a tight band- just three to five degrees across. As you move outside the audio beam, there's a sharp decline in the volume. "One step will be 90 percent of the sound level- it drops like a rock," says F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonic's founder. "We've had installations where three people can stand shoulder to shoulder and hear completely different soundtracks."
Sound and Motion
Focused speakers really come into their own when combined with a motion sensor or other triggering device. "We did a project in New York in about 50 locations- bookstores, coffee shops and other places like that- where we had a triggering system that would whisper at you as you walked by a display for Court TV," says Pompei. "It would whisper,'Excuse me, have you ever thought about murder?' It was a creepy message that really got the point across. The point was to do something clever and unusual as they were walking through a quiet space."
Motion sensors also trigger focused audio in London's popular Churchill Museum, a permanent installation within the underground Cabinet War Rooms where Churchill and his War Cabinet commanded British forces during World War II at the height of the German Blitzkrieg on the city. Among the exhibits relating to Winston Churchill's political career is a "speech wall" capped with a series of directional speakers aimed down from the ceiling. "We fitted a reflector on the floor under glass and a sensor next to them," says Rob Ferguson, a design manager with Electrosonic Systems. "As you walk under the directional audio, it triggers our MP3 players back in the control room. It gives you a monologue about each of the pictures you see in front of you."
Because the audio commentaries are triggered via sensors, visitors hear each audio clip from the beginning. "We have a display about every six feet along the wall," says Brian Hinckley, business manager of Electrosonic Systems' Managed Media Services Group. "You can walk from one display to the next and get a personalized tour that's completely unobtrusive relative to the other displays."
Ready, Aim, Fire
For the speech wall, Ferguson chose American Technology Corporation's (ATC) HyperSonic Sound speakers. He was impressed with their extreme directionality. "We did some tests where we took a speaker down and aimed it across the room," he explains. "People could hear it from one end of the room to the other. It must have been a 20-meter-long area." He wasn't as impressed with the speakers' frequency range. "It's really just suited to voice. It's not full range by any stretch of the imagination."
Hinckley cautions that you need to understand the limitations of the technology and manage the expectations of your client. "If the client wants to stand under here and think it's going to sound like a studio- quality or full-range speaker, then he or she is going to be let down," he says. "At the same time, whoever is creating the audio track needs to be aware of the particular model. If we're creating custom content, we often provide a similar speaker so we can understand what it sounds like in the studio. We tune it to the appropriate frequencies and try to limit the low end. We essentially EQ the soundtrack to that particular box in order to maximize the focused sound performance."
ATC has sold its HyperSonic speakers to a wide range of commercial, government and military installations. The complete system combines an ultrasonic powered emitter (directional speaker) and proprietary signal processor/amplifier. In addition to generating a cone of sound targeted to one or two listeners, you can use HyperSonic speakers to communicate intelligible messages over long distances or move sounds around a room in real time.
A Targeted Audience
With new audio capabilities comes the freedom to create different forms of content. "Everyone is learning what the content would be," explains James Croft, ATC's chief technology officer. "Is this content people will want to hear? Is it something more people are going to enjoy? Or is it something only someone in one spot is going to be interested in?"
In a grocery store, for example, a 42-inch screen over the vegetable section might require a wider audio beam so groups of customers can hear the audio simultaneously. In that same store's checkout line, however, the audio might be targeted to one person and last only as long as it takes to remain in that position in line. "Usually you're either trying to cover an area that's equivalent to what the video screen coverage is, or you're trying to limit the area to a very narrow area so that only someone in a very specific spot hears it," says Croft.
Focused audio often has to reconcile competing interests, especially at retail. "You have the advertisers who demand that their message be heard," says Glicken. "Otherwise, they're not going to pay. And you have the retail environment that the signage is going into that says we can't bother our employees, and we don't want it to bother our customers who are not in viewing range. The digital signage company is stuck in the middle, where it can't be too loud for the store and it can't be too soft for the advertiser."
Glicken's employer, Brown Innovations, sells two types of directional speakers, each suited to a different purpose. The downward-pointing Sound Dome provides a tight audio beam with a 5-to-1 isolation ratio. "That means within the sweet spot, it's going to be five times as loud as the bleed just outside," he says. "If you tune it so that the bleed is lower than the ambient noise, a person outside isn't going to hear it." The Sound Dome is well-suited for applications where you know exactly where the person will be standing, such as at a touch screen. The side-pointing Maestro, on the other hand, offers a somewhat wider audio beam. It would be a good choice for creating an audio space for a 42-inch screen. "You want to create an area in front of the screen where anyone who is aware of the screen will hear the associated audio," he explains.
The Maestro also features an automatic audio gain. "It uses a microphone to monitor the environment, and it will raise and lower the volume of the speaker as the ambient environment changes," says Glicken. "In a lot of environments, there can be a 30 to 40 dB swing throughout the day as crowds come and go. This will keep it at the same relative comfort level no matter what is going on." You could mount a Maestro underneath the monitor or install it flush into a wall or cabinet.
Finland-based Panphonics takes a similar two-pronged approach with its focused speakers. The Sound Shower is usually mounted in the ceiling to provide a highly directional audio footprint underneath. It's available in a variety of sizes, ranging from 600 by 600 millimeters to 3000 by 200 millimeters. The Sound Sign is typically mounted on the same wall as the screen. It's designed for digital signage applications where you want to maintain an audio corridor around the screen, but don't want to annoy the employees. Like the Maestro, it has an automatic ambient volume control so the audio won't be drowned out during periods of extreme activity.
Add It to the Mix
Whether you should even consider audio or not will depend largely on the installation's environment. "If you're in a noisy train station, and you're displaying the train schedule, you might not use audio because you're competing with the ambient noise around you," says Trask. "Or you might not use audio in a digital signage application where you don't have an audience that's there for any longer than a few seconds. They're on an escalator, in an elevator or walking down an aisle. However, if you're standing in line waiting for the next ATM machine or your next hamburger, audio might be an option because you have a captured audience."
What's the best approach if you have an audio-friendly environment? Use sound sparingly to generate an initial curiosity and draw the viewer in for the visual content. "The eyes tend to follow the ears," says Croft. "You hear a sound behind you and then turn to look at it. Whereas if there's a visual element behind you, it may be out of your field of vision, so you may not notice it." Just as TV advertisers have learned to emphasize the audio message visually because viewers prefer to mute the volume during the commercials, digital signage will likely remain a mostly visual medium. "Communicating visually is the heart and soul of what digital signage is all about," says Trask. "It's all about the content. If the content isn't delivering the message on its own, then the sound isn't going to help you."
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