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Three Gothenburg DI teams earn trip to Global Finals
If they can raise the money, three Destination Imagination teams will travel to Knoxville, TN, May 22-25 to compete at Global Finals.The Dudley Elementary teams qualified last Saturday during DI state competition at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Destination Imagination is the world's largest celebration of creativity, supporters say.
More than 1,100 teams from 45 states, seven Canadian provinces and 13 countries will gather to showcase their Challenge solutions in Knoxville.
Team manager of the "D.I.-Inators," Jenny Daup, said the team is looking forward to Global Finals and added that the win to get there was great.
"This year's team learned a number of things about teamwork and working together and branched out to learn new skills too," Daup said.
For example, all of the team members learned to use a sewing machine and created a costume, a huge stuffed animal prop and background scenes.
The team, she said, is a mixture of veteran participants and those who have never been in DI.
Veteran participants, and veteran managers Daup and Khris Jinks, may have helped with the win. Daup and Jinks managed the team that went to Global Finals last year.
When asked what she wanted out of DI, Daup said team member Lauren Johnson said, "I want to stretch my brain."
Daup said she thinks kids want to be challenged and use facts and skills learned in the classroom to solve problems and be creative.
"It makes what they are learning in school more 'real' to them and helps them understand the purpose of all of the concepts they learn in school," she said.
Daup added that members showed teamwork during the instant challenge portion of the competition that helped win.
The team's first-place ranking in the instant challenge (where Maxwell Jinks created an original, rhyming rap that included a celebration of this year's 30-year anniversary of creative problem-solving programs in Nebraska) and their first place finish with artwork, original songs and sewing projects helped pull them ahead for the win.
Khris Jinks, Maxwell's mother, is managing a fourth-grade team this year, along with Lois Shea.
"I'm so proud of all their hard work and it paid off," she said. "I'm so excited for the team and can't wait to have them show the world their incredible creativity."
Her team members call themselves the "5 Wizards" because of their passion for "all things Harry Potter."
One team member is another son, Weston, who attended Global Finals last year.
"He's had fun telling the rest of the team members how much fun they will have performing their Central and Instant Challenges, pin trading, meeting other kids from around the world, etc.," she said.
Another fourth-grade team is managed by Kathy Oliver.
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The premise that kinder gentler capitalism is possible
Livingston is writing from the perspective that a kinder gentler capitalism is possible. I agree with Marx that it isn't possible because of inherent flaws in the capitalist economic model. Businesses don't withhold capital investment from production because they're mean or greedy. They do so because their profits drop once everyone has an SUV, refrigerator, washer and drier. They do so because their profits drop once consumer demand for durable good becomes saturated. In other words, once everyone has a fridge, washer, drier and SUV, companies that make those things have to find some other way to make a profit.
Marx predicted 150 years ago that monopolistic capitalism was inevitable. Ironically he and Lenin also predicted the fusion of the monopolies that control finance with those that control production and manufacturing.


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Grumbling at GramblingPosted by rtmsf on September 28th, 2009
This story got lost in the Friday afternoon rush of people heading to happy hour, but Grambling St. University basketball made national news for the third time in a year that day, and unfortunately, not for anything good. Rick Duckett, the head coach who (likely) orchestrated this particular crime against hoop-anity back in January, reportedly resigned after one of his transfer players, Henry White, fell ill during workouts and later died.
Connecting the dots, it might make sense to presume that Duckett somehow felt responsible for White's death, as the White family attorney asserts that it was common practice for Grambling coaches to run their players outside during intense summer heat and humidity, and had in fact done so that day (where two other players also fell ill). The problem with that theory is twofold: first, Andy Katz reported on Saturday that Duckett claims he didn't resign at all; rather, he was fired (technically he's on leave until Oct. 31, then he'll be released). And not just him, but his entire staff of assistants save one (new interim coach Robert Washington, Jr.). Second, on the day that White collapsed during workouts, Duckett wasn't even at practice. In fact, he wasn't even on campus. Instead, he was instead having an undisclosed medical procedure of his own at the time.
So what in the name of Eddie Robinson is going on here?
We understand the legal concept of vicarious liability, and if Duckett directed his assistants to run players through the sweatbox known as Louisiana humidity against all better judgment, we could believe that university officials are looking to CYA here. But one question. Don't Grambling football players also run drills in the sweatbox throughout August? In pads? If true, it would appear difficult for us to believe an argument that it's ok for the football team to run outdoors, but not the basketball team.
It's also clearly not performance-related. Grambling takes its football team very seriously; basketball is pretty much an afterthought. Duckett's 6-23 record in his first and only year didn't turn any heads, but the school's had only two .500+ seasons since 1994, so there's really nothing unusual about that. The last head coach, Larry Wright, wasn't much better: over nine seasons, he turned in a record of 88-160 (.355). Furthermore, Duckett was successful at the D2 level, so there was reason to believe he could turn around the Grambling program.
The bottom line about this is that something is missing from the story – Grambling officials are leaving something out. Considering their recent history of making up stories about SWAC refs when it suits them, we're not exactly surprised.


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New London Judge Patrick J. Clifford on Friday ruled that the state had presented enough evidence for him to find probable cause that William Long committed murder, or was at least an accessory to the May 21 murder of Norwich resident Johnny Amy.
New London Judge Patrick J. Clifford on Friday ruled that the state had presented enough evidence for him to find probable cause that William Long committed murder, or was at least an accessory to the May 21 murder of Norwich resident Johnny Amy.
The decision came at the end of a two-day hearing that revealed Long was one of four others with Daquan Holmes on the night Amy was shot on Oak Street, near where a fight had occurred earlier in the night outside Chacers Bar & Grill on Franklin Street.
Judge Clifford acknowledged some inconsistencies in the testimony presented at the hearing but said the burden of proof at a probable cause hearing is much lower then it would be at trial.
After a night of bar hopping in the Norwich area, Long said Holmes became involved in a fight outside Chacers. After leaving the scene, Holmes directed his girlfriend, Maria Fluker, to drive back to the area of the fight when they came across two men walking in the area of the intersection of Boswell Avenue and Franklin Street, according to testimony.
Long claims it was Holmes who, "began to shoot out of the window past his face towards the individuals on the street," Norwich Police Det. Trevor Robinson testified. Long claimed Holmes continued to shoot outside the car until one of the two men fell to the ground.
Robinson interviewed Long after his arrest in Westerly, R.I. Holmes remains in custody in New York and will be charged with murder when he returns to Connecticut.
Police responded to the area of the May 21 fight at 2:25 a.m. and found Amy lying in the middle of Oak Street suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
Fluker and Franklin Street resident Roberta Karr, who said they were in the car at the time of the shooting, each testified that Long and Holmes had exited the car before the shots were fired. Additionally, the women said they believed Long had retrieved a gun from his East Main Street residence just minutes before the shooting. Both said they saw Holmes with the gun following the shooting and claimed Long had tossed the gun out of the car window before leaving Norwich.
Additionally, one unidentified witness saw Holmes being pulled away from the fight at Chasers while yelling, "I'm going to get my gat," according to the police warrant affidavit.
The group of five, which included Holmes's brother, all fled the area and stayed at a Days Inn in Mystic. Fluker testified that at Holmes' request she tossed the shirt he was wearing into the woods near the hotel.
It remains unclear if Amy was even involved in the fight outside Chasers. The man he was with when he was shot, 23-year-old Joseph Cadet, told Holmes and Long, "they had the wrong guys."
Judge Clifford entered a not guilty plea on Long's behalf, moving the case to the pre-trial phase.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant State's Attorney Stephen Carney and defended by Peter Scillieri.


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This is what the front page of Yahoo.com's NBA page looked like this morning.
Here is a list of the Timberwolves Connections
- The Kevin McHale story
- Ricky Rubio Saga
- The offer sheet with Ryan Hollins – good pick-up if the Mav's don't match the offer.
- Mark Madsen's issues
- Stephen Marbury's issues
- Sheldon Williams getting signed by the Celtics – Actuall 5 or 6 teams could claim a connection to Williams.
The Timberwolves are everywhere on Yahoo.com.


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The Congressional Budget Office came out with its closely watched annual forecast of federal spending and revenues Tuesday, which underpins U.S. tax and regulatory policy. The CBO is the place elected officials run to because it is considered the main source for credible, non-partisan numbers.
The CBO said U.S. gross domestic product will be weak this year and the U.S. budget deficit would drop to $845 billion. It also said that the government would add a scary $7 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years.
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However, the stock market rallied anyway yesterday. Why? Because Wall Street analysts note to FOX Business that they understand the CBO has been consistently way off in its projections.
Economist Kevin Kliesen and economic adviser Daniel Thornton wrote last year in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (click here) that, surprisingly, "in 2000, after more than 40 years of nearly consecutive budget deficits, both the White House's Office of Management and Budget and the CBO projected decade-long budget surpluses."
Moreover, "both agencies projected that publicly held government debt (then totaling $3.5 trillion in 2000) would be completely eliminated by 2010," the two economists wrote.
But rather than being wiped out as projected, "publicly held government debt increased to over $9 trillion by 2010," the two note.
And it wasn't because the financial collapse wrecked the CBO's forecasts. "The failure of the projected surpluses to materialize was not the consequence of an unforeseen financial crisis," they said. "Publicly held government debt had increased to over $5 trillion before the crisis."
However, the CBO's initial rosy forecasts caused a blow-out in government spending—why should the government run a surplus?
The rosy estimates "naturally, caused economists and market participants to consider potential changes to market-making activity associated with the all-important Treasury securities market," the analysts noted, adding that in turn, "over the past few years, U.S. budget deficits have been at levels previously attained only during the Civil War and the two world wars," as well as the War of 1812.
The CBO misfired again, back in January 2001. Back then, CBO's baseline projections showed a cumulative surplus of $5.6 trillion for the 2002 to 2011 period. Instead, the government ran a cumulative deficit over the 10-year period of about $6.2 trillion, "a swing of $11.8 trillion from the January 2001 projections," notes Paul Caron, tax professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.
The CBO's economic growth forecasts have been off, too. For instance, it forecast back in 2011 that GDP growth for 2013 would be 3.4% and the jobless rate would be 6.4%.
It now says GDP growth for this year will be less than half of that number, 1.4%, and the jobless rate will be above 7.5%.
In fact, each of the CBO's "Outlook" forecasts in January 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009, all forecast a robust recovery around the corner, just two years away.
The CBO in each of those forecasts since 2009 said that the U.S. "economy would grow by more than 3% two years out and maintain that growth for three to four years," says Salim Furth, PhD, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
But that hasn't happened either. Instead, "from 2010 to 2012, annual growth averaged 2.1 %," notes Furth, and GDP "hasn't grown by 2.5% in any year since the recession."
Despite the fact that the reality check has clearly bounced, the CBO now projects 3.4% GDP growth "in 2014 and an average of 3.6% a year from 2015 through 2018."
Kliesen and Thornton wrote in the St. Louis Fed Review that CBO forecasts are less predictive "than a random walk model," for example, mathematical models used on Wall Street to show haphazard picks of stocks perform better than managed portfolios. "Using CBO deficit projections over the period 1976-99, we found that the deficit projections beyond a year were unreliable," they added. "Importantly, we found that the projections were biased in the direction of under-projecting the size of the deficit or over-projecting the size of the surplus."
The concern over CBO numbers is heightened now because the White House and Congress are still battling over deep sequestration cuts in the fiscal cliff 2.0 negotiations. A Congressional "super committee" failed to lay out at least $1 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years as required under the Budget Control Act passed last summer (a "super committee," even though the government already has a debt commission, Congress, which has failed to do its day job, notes Senator Tom Coburn).
The problem is that the CBO is, by law, hamstrung largely because it can't include in its forecasts any of its own judgments about the decisions made by federal and monetary policymakers.
"Unlike private-sector forecasters," wrote the economists, the CBO cannot "anticipate future changes in fiscal or monetary policy." Instead, it must adhere to strict rules when scoring legislation. By law, it essentially must assume that existing Washington policies will stay the same and never change, the same policies "that govern outlays and receipts will prevail over the projection horizon," note the economists.
The CBO's hands are "tied by current laws," Philip Joyce, former CBO staffer and author of The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking. Congress won't change the laws to let the CBO exercise its own judgment.
Which means the term "non-partisan CBO" is actually an oxymoron, because the CBO is merely serving up a reheated dish of numbers ordered up by the White House or Congress that are merely predictors of goals that these branches of government want to achieve.
The CBO, of course, knows its constraints, which is why it publishes its "alternate fiscal scenario," which gives it flexibility in making its own judgment calls.
The CBO also appears to be ratcheting down its expectations. "Since 2009, CBO's expectation of real GDP in 2019 has slid by 4%," Heritage's Furth says.
Despite that, the CBO has been heavily criticized for sticking hard and fast to the use of Keynesian multipliers, which say that if the government borrows and spends $10 billion, that adds $10 billion to GDP—never mind the cost of that spending, as well as the cost of government agencies and government workers.
The CBO also has been criticized for flawed assumptions that understate the amount of wealth the middle class owns and overstates the wealth of the top 1%.
"If your tax return shows no income from capital, then, according to the CBO, you own no capital," Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute and David Henderson, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, have noted in The Wall Street Journal.
But they add: "Can the CBO spell IRA? A huge and growing portion of capital owners in the U.S. earns dividends, interest and capital gains that never show up on tax returns because it is tax-sheltered. And the middle class owns a much higher fraction of its wealth in tax-sheltered assets than does the top 1%," they note.
Moreover, the analysts note that "high-income taxpayers are not allowed to contribute to an IRA or tax-free Roth account, and their contributions to other accounts are tightly limited. As a result, about 95% of the top 1%'s assets are still potentially taxable. And that causes the CBO's method to show an increase in wealth of the top 1%."
Oddly, the CBO skews the 1% wealth higher because it "assigns corporate profits to households, and includes the taxable portion of capital gains" as well, skewing the 1% wealth higher, they note. CBO's allocation of most corporate profits to the top 1% implies an average income of $1,259,700, compared to an average income of $940,441 in the most similar Piketty and Saez series (which includes capital gains)," citing groundbreaking research by renowned economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.


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To say there's been a lot of buzz about Pinterest in recent months would be putting it mildly!
Pinterest's ease of use for visually bookmarking, organizing and sharing things you love has made it a hit among individuals and businesses alike.
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One important way to let your clients and prospects know about your presence on Pinterest is to add a Pinterest button. Pinterest has several choices available on their goodies page. Find the one that works for you. When you add a Pin It button, you can encourage your customers and readers to pin your products onto Pinterest.


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Florida Museum Guide: Morse Museum of Art
The Morse is a hidden gem known for its comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The highlight, however, is the glimmering interior of the Tiffany Chapel originally created for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, 407-644-8355, www.morsemuseum.org
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I am new to the Linux scene but I have been working with Mandrake and Redhat for about 10 hours a day for the last 3 days and I am getting the hang out it. However with my Mandrake 8.2 (I am upgrading to 10 as we speak) when I have a terminal open and then I try to switch to login as root is says "incorrect login." However if I open the terminal as a "superuser" it allows me to do so with the password.
I have googled this and couldn't find anything. I have a theory but I am not sure so here it is. Could I not be allowed to switch from a user to a "superuser" without being in a SSH not sure but that is my idea.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – At this weekend's USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Tournament held in Sumter, S.C., the King Tornado were well represented on both the singles and doubles front. Senior Patrick Jones stood atop the bracket of the Men's C Singles division, sweeping through en route to a tournament victory. The combination of Rodrigo Avila and Pablo Vidal competed for the Men's B Doubles tournament championship, advancing to the finals.
Jones, a senior from (Bluff City, Tenn.), defeated a pair of Conference Carolinas singles players en route to being named the tournament champion in the Men's Singles C division. In his opening round he defeated Gabriel Trombini of Belmont Abbey College (6-4, 6-3). After suffering a loss to Limestone's Benjamin Lascari (6-2, 6-4), he redeemed himself with a strong showing (6-3, 1-6, 10-6) against Michael Van Dusen prior to his withdrawal, giving Jones the victory. He advanced to the Men's C Singles consolation championship round where he defeated Alex Poda of Limestone in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1.
The combination of Rodrigo Avila (Cuernavaca, Mexico) and Pablo Vidal (Madrid, Spain) won three consecutive matches to advance to the championship round of the Men's B Doubles division. The duo breezed through their first two matches against Benjamin Lascari /Lucas Guinski (8-2) and Orlando Castillo/Stephen Miller (8-0) before defeating Akio Mariano/Gabriel Trombini of Belmont Abbey, 8-5. In the finals round, Avila and Vidal dropped an 8-4 decision to Kenneth Cozart and Taylor Powell (GC).
Leo Brigato, Pablo Vidal, and Rafael Francisco each advanced to the semifinals of their respective brackets before being eliminated.
Sophomore Rafael Francisco (Santos, Brazil) won his first singles match with the team, defeating Alex Poda (Limestone) 6-2, 7-6 (6).
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There's a lot to be said about the fucked-upedness of airing a goddam funeral across multiple television networks, but Saturday's Whitney Houston memorial service did, at the very least, provide for a couple of truly moving musical moments. During the service, R. Kelly, possibly the one single person on Earth who can best relate with Houston's combination of soul-pop stardom and personal demons, sang a truly wrenching version of "I Look To You," the title track from Houston's final album. Kelly, who wrote the song for Houston, had to visibly fight to get through the thing, and you could practically see the entire room willing him to finish strong, which he absolutely did.
And Stevie Wonder was also on hand to share a few memories of Whitney and to sing a couple of his own songs: A rewritten version of his 1982 song "Ribbon In The Sky," apparently a favorite of Houston's, and the Songs In The Key Of Life track "Love's In Need Of Love Today." Watch all three performances below.
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On the flipside of all that, Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown reportedly left the funeral early after his entire entourage wasn't allowed in, which yikes.


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Childrenisms – a laugh a minute
Occasionally I write about my youth, when I was a member of a gang of young ruffians that banded together for no other reason than to survive childhood. We figured there was strength in numbers. None of us thought we would ever see adulthood if we attempted to grow up on our own.
The gang was a collection of social outcasts. Most were too nerdy to be accepted by the popular kids. The ethnic kids, as well as the not-too-well-socialized kids from the poor side of town, were also included in our loosely organized "gang," for lack of a better term.
One of our most beloved members was Chilly Mac. His real name was MacArthur Harrison. His father was a staff sergeant in the Army and had named his only son after the great Army general, Douglas MacArthur.
Chilly was the only black kid in the neighborhood, and we made sure that he felt as if he fit in. Back in those days, being an ethnic in any neighborhood was tough.
Anyway, Chilly was one of those kids who could make us laugh whenever he opened his mouth. He said some of the funniest things, and he often did not intend to be funny – he just was.
Now keep in mind, we were only five or six years old at the time. We were learning to communicate and we were curious about everything life had to offer. Chilly was the only black kid, and I was the only Hawaiian kid. I was brown, and although the other kids never made us feel as if we were different, sometimes our color sparked our curiosity.
One day I asked Chilly a question that would not be tolerated in today's sensitive culture. But we didn't perceive the question as rude at the time. It was something to be considered. I asked him why the palms of his hands were white and the rest of him was black.
Without missing a beat he said, "I've thought about that too. I think it's because my mom makes me wash them too much."
We laughed so hard tears ran down our cheeks. Life was like that back then, and I will never forget Chilly for his generous smile and quick wit. His father was away much of the time, and we were Chilly's surrogate family.
Writing about Chilly inspired me to gather anecdotes and witty quotes from other kids so I can share them with readers. Here are a few from the past few months:
This came from the diary of a pre-school teacher. Her fiveyear old students were learning to read. One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, "Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"
She said that she about had a heart attack but kept her composure and asked, "What did you call it?" The kid replied, "It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"
And sure enough, the caption under the picture said "African Elephant."
Children in their formative years are a breeding ground for the greatest wit in the world. Here's another:
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. She came home frustrated and said to her mom, "I'm just wasting my time. I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!"
Sounds logical to me. The following contribution was from a policeman:
"At the end of the day I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked. 'It sure is,' I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'"
Kids have opinions too: On the first day of school, a firstgrader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read: "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."
Nudity is of little consequence: A young mother was driving with her three young children when a woman in a convertible ahead of her stood up and waved. She was stark naked. The young mother's 5 year old then shouted from the back seat, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"
"Childrenisms" — just one of the wonderful perks from life in a system we can't understand.


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Free, Fast, and Factual: Top Online Reference Sources for 2005 and Beyond - Description [1]
In this era of disappearing budgets and increasing workload it can be difficult to keep up with all the new web sources that can supplement your library's reference collection. This course will update you on free websites you can use to find the answers to up to 70% of ready reference questions. You'll learn where to find information quickly on topics such as:
- Public domain photos of the 2003 California fires;
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Completing this course will help you save time, frustration, and budget dollars and will enable you to serve your users more quickly and efficiently
Workshop Description: This all-day hands-on workshop will teach you the tools you need to mine the web for answers to ready reference questions. Through exercises and group discussions, you will update your knowledge of the best free websites for finding reliable answers to questions you might otherwise have to refer elsewhere. You will also explore gateways and portals designed to lead you to the best information on specific topics and will learn new uses for old ready reference standbys. Instructor Sarah Houghton will provide cheat sheets and a webliography, as well as practical tips for improving your search strategies to reduce the time you spend searching for that elusive answer.
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By Jonathan McConnell
Title: Dorothy Stratton U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Christening and Commissioning collection, 2010 - 2012
Primary Creator: Stratton, Dorothy C. (1899-2006)
Extent: 0.2 Cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: The collection is organized into two series: 1. Christening, 2010 2. Commissioning, 2012
Date Acquired: 10/28/2010. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Stratton, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Constance), 1899-2006, United States. Coast Guard, United States. Coast Guard--Boats--History, United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve, Women's Archives at Purdue University
Forms of Material: Ephemera, Medallions (medals), Photographic prints, Souvenir programs
Languages: English
Stratton, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Constance), 1899-2006
United States. Coast Guard
United States. Coast Guard--Boats--History
United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve
Women's Archives at Purdue University
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
The christening ceremony material was sent by the U.S. Coast Guard in response to a request by a staff archivist on October 28, 2010.
The commissioning ceremony material was donated by archivist Sammie Morris, who attended the ceremony on March 31, 2012.
Alternate Extent Statement: 6 folders
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Source: U.S. Coast Guard; Sammie Morris
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The head of a U.N. chemical weapons investigation team, Ake Sellstrom of Sweden, heads to Damascus next week to discuss his probe into allegations that chemical arms have been used in Syria's two-year civil war, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.
U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane will accompany Sellstrom on the visit, which is taking place at the invitation of the Syrian government, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
Sellstrom and Kane will be meeting with the Syrian foreign minister and technical experts, U.N. officials say.
So far Sellstrom's team has not been allowed into Syria due to diplomatic wrangling over the scope of access it will have. But Sellstrom has visited Turkey and received information from U.N. member states about alleged chemical attacks in Syria.
Syria has refused to allow the U.N. chemical investigation to visit anywhere but Khan al-Assal in Aleppo province, where Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government say rebels used chemical weapons in March.
The rebels deny the charge and accuse Assad's forces of repeated deployment of chemical warheads in Syria. The government says it has not used chemical arms.
The United Nations says that as many as 100,000 people have died in the Syrian war since March 2011. U.N. assistant secretary-general for human rights, Ivan Simonovic, told the Security Council on Tuesday that around 5,000 people are dying in Syria every month.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has insisted that the team be permitted to visit at least one other location, the city of Homs, site of an alleged chemical attack by the government in December 2012.
The United States, Britain and France have insisted that Sellstrom's team have unfettered access in Syria. Together they have reported around a dozen incidents of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, a senior Western diplomat said on Wednesday.
Last week Russia's U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin sharply criticized what he described as Western nations' "small propaganda storm in a glass of water" regarding allegations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people.
Syria is one of seven countries that has not joined the 1997 convention banning chemical weapons. Western nations believe it has caches of undeclared mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents.
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Late Wednesday afternoon, the Auburn Tigers continued their preparations for Saturday's regular-season final game at No. 2 Alabama with a 90-minute workout in shells at the Auburn Athletics Complex Practice Fields.
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This is the 77th renewal of the Iron Bowl rivalry; the game will be televised by CBS with a 2:30 CT kickoff. The Iron Bowl will also be the final collegiate game for 13 Auburn seniors: Daren Bates, T'Sharvan Bell, DeAngelo Benton, Emory Blake, Jonathan Evans, Philip Lutzenkirchen, Onterio McCalebb, Ikeem Means, Anthony Morgan, Ashton Richardson, Travante Stallworth, John Sullen and Jamar Travis. They come into the contest with a career record of 33-18.
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Everybody loves Snoop Dogg…or if they don't love him, they at least know who he is. (Seriously, how many other rappers have such instant name recognition?) As such, it should be no surprise that the folks at LANDY Cognac should want to get into bed with Snoop, so that he might assist them in promoting that which has been called "The New Generation of Cognac."
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Mr. Dogg – who, we are led to understand, was already known to indulge in the beverage prior to striking this deal – will appear at select LANDY events and promotions, and will feature LANDY Cognac at numerous after-parties. We can only hope that he is able to find time in this busy schedule to chat with Bullz-Eye (rest assured that we have made our request), but in the meantime, you'll want to see the photo that LANDY has released to promote the news of their new collaborator. Normally, we'd put this right out in the open, but we think you'll agree it's worth making the jump.
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THE GREAT BEYOND: WALL-E conquers space in the new Pixar feature.
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WRITER Neil Gaiman's embodiment of Death in Sandmancomics, a salty, pretty goth girl in a black tank top, explained her role in the scheme of things: "When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."
The meek cube-bot WALL-E seems to have inherited the Earth. WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth Class) and his unkillable pet cockroach are the last creatures moving on a planet veiled from the sun with smog and space junk.
It's a rusty scrapyard from pole to pole; spires of eroded skyscrapers poke out of the midden of discarded truck tires, fractured parking lots and tumbled-down freeways.
The occasional flickers of life flash on the electronic billboards, outside a Buy N Large supermegastore. The only clue to the disappearance of humanity is the beaming face of Buy N Large CEO and president of the Earth, Shelby Forthright (Fred Willard). He rallies the human race for an ark ride until the terrestrial cleanup can be continued. The cleanup continues apace, as it has done for 700 years.
After solar-powering up for the day, WALL-E crunches debris into metal cubes and stacks them. Sometimes he hides from the dust storms that roar in without warning. At the end of the day, he wearily takes off his tractor treads, as if they were too-tight boots, and watches his decaying old Beta tape of the 1969 Hello, Dolly.
When a spacecraft lands, WALL-E is not alone anymore. A white, translucent egg-shaped robot called Eva arrives. She glides noiselessly, but she's armed: a quick-draw artist, she carries a large and horrible blaster. Seemingly, her only word is her term for duty: "Directive."
The similarly wordless WALL-E falls in love with this robot, and he seeks a response in the changing shape of Eva's eyes, glowing in a black screen. When she leaves the planet, WALL-E tries to follow. And here, always for Pixar Studios, the emotional power and graphic simplicity of a classic cartoon mixes with the fiendishly difficult technique of 3-D animation.
WALL-E's coming attractions seemed underwhelming. Likely for commercial reasons, these previews stressed the cuteness of the robot instead the decay of his world. Will that decay be a sticking point for children? Who knows, but it's smothering a vital art to insist that animation is only meant to keep kids placid. WALL-E discusses the fate of the Earth, giving our future the kind of emotional power that Disney Studios used to use only for stories of separation anxiety between mothers and children.
The film is a thing of beauty. As a character, WALL-E is a prime pantomime comedian. The angled binocular eyes look like the thick-framed glasses and recall the demurely worried expression of early-period Woody Allen. The burbling primitive-synthesizer chirps that WALL-E emits, all engineered by Lucasfilm's robot vocal coach Ben Burtt, are as expressive as a good pop song.
In the second half of the film, WALL-E changes into a tangy—even biting—satire of a future race of humans. They have devolved into babylike blobs with stubby limbs, floating in deck chairs, hovering through spotless corridors that are part Las Vegas, part Lido deck of a gargantuan stellar cruise ship.
Director Andrew Stanton references some of the classic sci-fi films: obvious ones like Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and less commonly known ones like This Island Earth. One strong apparent source is Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull's space epic that was made in a mid-1970s wave of ecological panic, before we got distracted for 30 years by far more important matters than human survival. But WALL-E isn't merely a series of put-ons of science fiction.
This most mature Pixar film to date is, among other things, a solace for preservationists, who feel that they are part of a vanishing world. WALL-E's sessions with his favorite tape, the last copy of Hello, Dolly, insists on the power of cinema to persist as more than just downloadable content.
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Thomas Newman's score haunts this haunted planet, and orchestrates a space ballet (how else can mute lovers communicate?). In moments of classic pop, WALL-E shows its class as a soulful, unpumped-up romance. Escorting his unlikely love, the battered, noble robot shows her through his wonderland, his worldwide junkyard, as Louis Armstrong's version of "La Vie en Rose" echoes around them.
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WALL-E (G), directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton and Jim Capobianco, with the voices of Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver and Fred Willard, opens June 27.
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Scientists there are planning to gather that morning to hear the latest about the decades-long search for a subatomic particle that could help explain why objects in our universe actually weigh anything.The buzz is that they're closing in on the elusive Higgs particle. That would be a major milestone in the quest to understand the most basic nature of the universe.
Or even things like, "Come worship god in his true form-- THE PARTICLE! Knew he was always there!"
Quote from: IAmFirst on July 04, 2012, 07:07:50 AMOr even things like, "Come worship god in his true form-- THE PARTICLE! Knew he was always there!" Haha I LOLed... "GOD: You can't see him cos he's really, really tiny"
Because it's complicated material, we turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist and a blogger for NPR's 13.7. We asked a him a few questions about why this matters. Here's part of our conversation:Q: I've heard many metaphors for what this Higgs boson is. A basic explanation is that it's the thing that gives subatomic particles their mass. The best metaphor I've heard is from Fermilab's Don Lincoln, who says the energy field made by the Higgs is like water. Depending on your mass you'll move through the water with ease — like a barracuda — or slowly, like a big, fat man. How would you explain the Higgs to a friend at a bar? A: In a bar, I'd probably use one of those analogies. The real important thing for me is that fundamental particles are as far as we can tell zero-dimensional particles. They have no radius. You can't think of fundamental particles as being glass marbles. They literally have no extension in space. They can never bump into anything else.It's all about interactions. It's about them exchanging other particles as forces. With a particle like the electron — what gives the electron mass is really inertia, that's the property that we associate with massive particles. Mass and inertia go together.So since an electron or a quark has no extension in space, you sort of wonder where did the mass go? Well it's not that the mass resides with the electron or the proton. It's that the mass comes from its interaction with other things. And in this case, it's the Higgs field that gives this point particle — the electron — the appearance of inertia. That is what allows it to act like it's resisting changes in its motion.Whereas you have other particles like the photon which has no mass, and because of that it can go at the speed of light, whereas a massive particle will never be able to go at light speed.Q: So, if the Higgs didn't exist, what would the world look like?A: It would all be photons. Everything would be moving at the speed of light, right. Which means at light speed, you wouldn't be able to have the kinds of structures we see today. You'd never get atoms and chemistry and rocks. So it's really important. The property of mass is really important for getting clumpy structures, essentially, like us.Q: The particle has been described as the missing piece of the Standard Model. Is that a fair characterization? A: Yeah, pretty much. So the Standard Model is this beautiful edifice of modern particle physics that's really 40 years old. The pieces were really in place 40 years ago and people have just been going around and discovering them.The theory — the Standard Model predicted all these different pieces 40 years ago — and the quarks were part of it, the different flavors of neutrinos, some have been discovered and essentially the top quark was the last big thing that needed to be discovered and that was discovered in the mid-90s. And the Higgs boson, which was predicted not just by Peter Higgs but six different physicists at the same time, is the last piece of the Standard Model that needs to be discovered, that needs to be shown to be true.One of the interesting things about this is that for particle physicists, they're in a bit of a conundrum, where they've been working on the Standard Model for all these years. And the Higgs particle is an enormous achievement, but it's also for them a little bit boring because they've been expecting this for 40 years and they keep looking for ways to go beyond the Standard Model.Q: Another thing I find interesting, though, is that despite this announcement, scientists have never actually seen the Higgs, right?A: You're never going to get the Higgs to appear in a laboratory and float. It's very short-lived. What happens in particle physics is that particles decay into other particles, just like with radioactivity. The Higgs does that but in a very, very, very short time scale — so short that you're never going to be able to see the Higgs directly, you're going to see what it turns into.And there are a lot of different ways it can turn into other things. There are a lot of different channels. What we're looking for is different possible channels. And that's how they're going to tell if it's a Standard Model Higgs. It'll have a certain kind of decay pathways.Q: Fermilab, the American organization with much smaller version of the LHC, made a similar announcement on Monday, saying they had identified those decay pathways, except they said they had fallen short of a 3-sigma standard, which determines strong evidence. Can you tells us what that means? A: A definitive discovery is a 5-sigma result. What do we mean by these sigmas? Really it's all about how sure are we that what you're seeing is not noise, is not just a statistical anomaly.The higher your sigma, the more statistically you're certain what you're seeing is not just something crazy that's happening in the background.With the Tevatron, which was Fermilab's particle accelerator, in many ways, scientists hoped they would be able to see evidence of the Higgs. With these particle accelerators, you want to have enough particle collisions that you have lots of statistics and the problem with Tevatron is that even though it ran for a long time, it wasn't powerful enough to create lots and lots of collisions so that they could very quickly see if they were getting a high enough sigma result. Unfortunately the government said, OK we're done with the Tevatron.But they did have 10 years worth of data to play with, so they did this very deep, very powerful statistical analysis and they found — and they of course announced in on Monday to take a little bit of the thunder from the LHC — this signature of the Higgs.Q: What's next for physics? What's the next frontier?A: Astronomy. [Laughs] If they discover the Higgs, there's going to be lots of interesting things to do with trying to make lots of them and probe their properties. They're going to learn a lot from that.And they're still going to hope they're going to find things that break the Standard Model — new physics they often call it. They're going to find something in the LHC that really looks very different than the Standard Model.If they can't get beyond the Standard Model that will be a problem for them. If everything they find is in line with the Standard Model, it'll feel like a dead end. If nothing they see goes beyond the Standard Model, they're going to say, "Well nature isn't showing us where do we go from here, so where do we go from here?"Q: Let's back up a bit. You have a vested interest in saying astronomy. But what do you mean by that? A: Doing physics in this way — of smashing things together with ever larger machines — we are clearly sort of reaching a limit of how big these machines can get, or what people are willing to fund, let me put it that way.So in order to go to even higher levels of energy, you know colliding things at an even higher level of energy, you have to rely on nature. You have to look to astrophysical conditions. You have to look at the beginning of the universe and the big bang or the environments around black holes to find enviornments where interactions between particles are so violent that you are getting insights to regimes beyond the Standard Model.A lot of high energy physicists are looking to astronomy and astrophysics as being their next particle accelerator, you know nature's particle accelerator
The video posted above is well done, but I'm curious about the part where he says, "You can't have negative mass...you can't have repulsive gravity..."What is dark energy? It seems like physicists sometimes get themselves trapped in the same kind of box as Christians (except with good reason), and they wind up trying to fit their understanding into their box, as opposed to trying to expand the box around the new ideas.
I really wish the media would stop calling it the "God Particle". Even in quotes, it seems to cheapens the discovery and the meathods used to discover it.
Waits for the first Christian to tell us we cannot find God unless we believe in him. Scientists be damned.
Quote from: inveni0 on July 04, 2012, 10:43:25 AMThe video posted above is well done, but I'm curious about the part where he says, "You can't have negative mass...you can't have repulsive gravity..."What is dark energy? It seems like physicists sometimes get themselves trapped in the same kind of box as Christians (except with good reason), and they wind up trying to fit their understanding into their box, as opposed to trying to expand the box around the new ideas. You're in luck, inveni0, at least sort of. The same people who did the video I posted above did another one about dark matter and dark energy. No answers, of course, but at least they give us a good idea of how weird and important and unanswered the questions are.[snip]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic "God particle" last week, yet his legacy has been largely scorned in his homeland because of his religious affiliation.It's a sign of the growing Islamic extremism in his country.Adbus Salam, who died in 1996, was once hailed as a national hero for his pioneering work in physics and work that guided the early stages of Pakistan's nuclear program. Now his name is even stricken from school textbooks because he was a member of the Ahmadi sect that has been persecuted by the government and targeted by Taliban militants, who view them as heretics.
In December 2012, shortly after CERN teams first declared that they had seen signs of the famous boson with a mass of 125 billion electron volts, Gian Giudice, a CERN theorist, and his colleagues ran the numbers and concluded that the universe was in a precarious condition and could be prone to collapse in the far, far future. The reason lies in the Higgs field, the medium of which the Higgs boson is the messenger and which determines the structure of empty space, i.e., the vacuum. It works like this. The Higgs field, like everything else in nature, is lazy, and, like water running downhill, always seeks to be in the state of lowest energy. Physicists assume that the Higgs field today is in the lowest state possible, but Dr. Giudice found that was not the case. What counts as rock bottom in today's universe could turn out to be just a plateau. Our universe is like a rock perched precariously on a mountaintop, he explained, in what physicists call a metastable state. The Higgs field could drop to a lower value by a process known as quantum tunneling, although it is not imminent. Dr. Giudice's calculations suggest that it would take much longer than the age of the universe; the whole Milky Way galaxy could disappear into a black hole long before then. Which is good. If that should happen — tomorrow or billions of years from now — a bubble would sweep out through the universe at the speed of light, obliterating the laws of nature as we know them.


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Translation english russian english työt
Russian voice over.
...translations from english to Russian required by Estate Agency. Work varies from once a week to a few times a month. Must be able to understand the gist of the descriptions and use initiative as very high standard required. Paid by word, (negotiable ) Currently a back log of work needs to be completed immediately. A small sample of a translation will be required
Hi Mrs Mary Louise W., I need translation from Russian into English done for the AFTERWORD.
For russian speaking only. It is necessary to create subtitles (!) for video courses and translate it. Cooking courses. About 100 videos, with a total duration of about 22 hours. Speech all this time almost without stopping. (per hour about 7 thousand words) Video lessons in Russian, you need to decipher to subtitles word for word, with punctuation
english russian translators required need to translate some informatiom on sports in madeira
We are looking for an available linguist to translate a divorce decree ( 300 words)
We have a website in russian and we want to make high quality links building in russian [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] We want to increase DA of our website in russian We would like you to work 15 hours per week We need an experienced SEO, so please tell me in your message your strategy about links building and SEO, do not copy paste a package, give a personalized
I'd like to hire a Russian speaker(Fluent/Native) who can do (parttime or fulltime) online job. This project is related to [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] which is the number one Organic shopping website in the world. Russian user group in the site are the most dominant among other countries' user groups I've prepared this project since five years ago and I'...
I need co-operator who can translate english-russian. Only Russian or Ukraine bid. If he is other countries, I'll skip.
Hi, our company do from time to time have the need for English / Russian / and Russian / English translation. This will most of the time be "easy" mailing translation and NO tech. expertise needed. Average pr. mail would be approx. 100 - 300 word (pr. email). Great if we can have a price pr. word as an average. * Needed the freelancer who have ...
...translators and proofreaders of the above language pairs. Legal translation experience (EU law, US law) preferred. Maximum offered rate $0.02 / $0.01 per word, $4 per hour, but lower quotes will have preference. Please quote for 1000 words. Short free sample will be required. No machine translation allowed - this will be strictly enforced; no payment will
Experienced person to translate website and animation video on website to Russian. It of course must be grammatically correct. Once translated in same layout I will have it proofread for any changes. Thank You
I have some documents needed to be translated from English to Russian. Thanks
Hello, We have a website with 10 pages and 47 product. Web site has full META descriptions for SEO. We need you to translate our website by login into admin and translate products and pages one by one. Product descriptions are short. I will share website URL with chat. Web site CMS is Joomla and you must understand how Joomla works. Best Regards
We need I native english translator to translate landing pages from russian language to english language (texts are in excel will be provided individually). Topic: SAAS cloud service.
www.iDialog...translate our texts into Russian. We also need to create brochures for an upcoming educational fair, for that we need a seasoned copywriter who can create engaging texts and call to actions in Russian. We are looking for a very talented translator/copywriter who can create a very engaging and inspiring content for our Russian audience.
I'm looking for a translation. The main language is English. Need a translation from Russian into English
I have a small task around 1500 words that need to be translated from Russian to [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] 24 hours with quality [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] will be given to selected [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] Native please.
We need a Russian and Portuguese translator for an urgent project and then ongoing as well. 1,031 word project—very easy!
Have a website items descriptions written in Russian and Ukrainian, needs to be translated in US EN
Translate 10 short pages of Landing page into Russian.(5,000 words)
Needed for a Russian translator to translate from EN to Russian.
We need a translation of 3700 words. The deadline is next Tuesday. Thanks
We are a machine manufacturer in China. Our russian google adwords campaigns have ran about one year. But since few days ago, there is no conversion any more. So, we need an experieced adwords expert to audit our campaigns. Thanks!
I need this translated. Want to know what the verbiage says and also what the stamps are
I need live russian leads generated for me , let me know if you can help
Несколько видео фаилов (7 - 8 шт. От 20 секунд до 3 мин каждый. Около 7 минут все вместе. Поздравления на свадьбу). Нужно собрать в один. Выровнять громкость звука. Оформить слегка музыкальными и видео еффектами по теме. В одном ролике замазать изображение на футболке.
...quality reading it. I will select only the voice sample that has the best studio quality level and just then I will send to you the link for the video in English. The files in English and the translation of the copy are already here in the project, as you can see. You will note that the Translations, as well the original text, have different colors: this
I need to record hip-hop track for me in russian. I need a full track with words, beat (ghostwriting,producer etc). Need a real fire hit .
We are looking for a writer who would be able to write articles in Russian language about basic financial topics.
We're looking to translate two string files from English to Russian.
Translation from English to Russian of a page
I need a translation from/to Russian/English. I'm a native Russian speaker. I have a huge experience of translations and communication with English speakers.
I need help translating a job description sheet from english to russian.
So, all in the description. It should be Multiply languages website (ONLY INTERNET SHOP) ( at least 2 languages). Bid for 10 000 Contacts. Need get in file- Website www + e-mail + Country of orgin + industry
Hello, I need an experienced translator who can translate Russian to English(US) If you are Native American, it will be a big plus. Best regards Thanks
I have a file that need to be translated into Russian from [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] 650 Sentences. Budget 25 USD. Details will be provided to right [kirjaudu nähdäksesi URL:n] native Russian or Ukrainian please. Thanks
Hello! I'm looking for a NATIVE RUSSIAN to ONLY translate a short text (153 words) from English to RUSSIAN I need a PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR, that can figure out the right words to the rhytim and tone from the future video that we are about to produce. I will send the files just for the ones that show me a very good portfolio and are NATIVE RUSSIANS
I have a list of 1,000 short English sentences and words that I would like translated into Russian. Native speaker only. No agents please.
I am looking for one translator or a handful to help me translate a product manual into Russian, Ukraine, and Armenian. The part of the manual that needs to be translated is only 4 pages. Looking for a freelancer who is fluent in the desired language and who is experienced in the proper grammar/writing of the desired language.
...video, spoken in English, that needs to be translated to Russian. The video is already transcribed and timed into subtitles. I'll provide you with a video and a Word document. You only need to translate each subtitle into Russian, in the corresponding column. Please base your bid on 4:25 min. of content. I'll need the translation completed within
...countries apart from India. For English, we already have the in-house content writer available but for other languages, we are looking for Translator who can help us with regular Translation oriented tasks. Apart from all Website Static Pages Content, we are also looking for Help on Product based Content Translation. This is going to be a Long-term
We have a website in russian and we want to make links building in russian We want to increase DA of our website in russian We would like you to work 20 hours per week We need an experienced SEO, so please tell me in your message your strategy about links building and SEO
Rekisteröidy tai kirjaudu sisään nähdäksesi tiedot.
This is an hourly job to translate and localize a website into Russian. The work will consist of: - Verifying the translation of approximately 150 currency names - Verifying the translation of approximately 230 country/territory names - Translation of approximately 200 strings. The majority of the strings to be translated are just a few words.
We have a website translated in russian and we want to make links building We want to increase DA of our website in russian Please bid for one week of work and we will renew the contract every week Tell me in your message your strategy
ЗАДАЧА -------------------------------------------------------------- * Задача: Необходимо написать «8» статей, на: «Русский (Russian)» языке. Основная тема для всех статей: «кредитная история». Так же во всех статей, необходимо использовать следующие, дополнительные, ключевые запросы: плохая проверка отчет Россия узнать получить кредит ипотека займ
we need a translator for English to Russian. You should speak russian as native language. It is probably a bigger translation project with a couple of pages / text documents to translate. Some of the documents will be harder to translate, some easy to translate. For this reason you will be able to chose if you charge us on a per word base (we pay xy
It is our website content. They all have already been translated by Google Translate. We now need native speakers of French, German, Russian and Spanish to proofread them to make the content 1. Grammarly correct 2. Readable and understandable in local languages. We prefer native speakers of each language while agencies are also welcome. Please see the
I have a Russian file . Already translation done . i need to proofreading . i can pay 5 aud per 1000 word . if you are interested please apply .thank s


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Secular Coalition for America Makes History with Administration Briefing
Since our meeting, rightwing groups have been telling the media that ours is a "hate-filled" coalition, but the truth is that our message could not have been more compassionate and constructive. We used this historic opportunity to raise issues such as protecting children from religiously-based medical neglect, ending military proselytizing, and curtailing religious discrimination. SCA President Herb Silverman responded to some the far-right's attacks in his Washington Post On Faith column, and outlined the secular movement's struggle for justice on behalf of all Americans, even those with whom we disagree.
To get a better idea of the positive, inclusive agenda we brought to the administration, take a look at the formal testimony of our presenters:
- Liz Heywood, who as a child suffered terribly due to religiously-based medical neglect (Ms. Heywood was unable to attend due to weather, so her testimony was read by SCA Legislative Director Sasha Bartolf).
- Jason Torpy, President of the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers, and Kathleen Johnson, Vice President of American Atheists, addressed religious coercion and equality for nontheists in the US military.
- SCA Executive Director Sean Faircloth outlined the problems of religious discrimination and misuse of taxpayer funds in the Faith-Based Initiatives program.
The news media took note of the significance of the meeting, with coverage by ABC News, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the McClatchy News Service (appearing in the Miami Herald, the Denver Post, the Sacramento Bee and other large papers). All over the blogosphere, the event remains a topic of impassioned discussion. Over at the Christian Broadcasting Network, one rightwing pundit warned that the SCA and its allies are "influential" and "very effective." We're pretty sure he didn't mean it as a compliment, but we agree just the same.
The Secular Coalition for America has big goals for the coming months and years. We're executing a strategy that will see us expanding our base of issues, increasing our lobbying efforts, and generating new and innovative ways for secular Americans to connect, network, and get active throughout America. As Sean Faircloth said in his closing remarks to the administration:
"It is not our disbelief that brings us before you today. Rather it is our deep belief in the light of reason -- and our confidence that the light of reason and justice will lead us all to a better and more compassionate world."
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