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Burning Man grows up
America's biggest counterculture jamboree is also a $10 million business. Now, Business 2.0 reports, it's trying to leverage its brand -- and save the planet -- by (gasp!) inviting corporate participants.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Marian Goodell, 44, is a no-nonsense blond with a voice that sounds like it's barking orders out of a walkie-talkie. She's a veteran of seven industries, including law, advertising, software development, and Department of Defense contract work.
Today she's seated at a large, polished conference table with an antique gavel, taking inventory of her current endeavor. "We rent buildings, trucks, light towers, cranes, boom lifts, Bobcats, forklifts," she says. "We've got four properties in Nevada, totaling more than 200 acres. And three full-time people in accounting managing a budget of $10 million."
It sounds like a modestly successful construction company in Las Vegas or Reno. But then you look out the door and see a psychedelic caterpillar perched atop a giant mushroom. Where Good-ell works is, in fact, the global headquarters of Burning Man. Yes, that Burning Man, America's premier counterculture festival, the one that makes headlines every Labor Day.
But while most of us were looking at the pictures of people in body paint, Burning Man did something it wasn't supposed to do. It grew up. It became a sustainable business. How it did that says a lot about both the Silicon Valley culture that helped spawn it and where that culture is heading.
Burning Man started as a half-baked idea in the fevered mind of Goodell's boss, Larry Harvey. A reclusive man who favors long pauses between his gurulike pronouncements, he's a legend among burners, as Burning Man devotees call themselves.
In 1986, Harvey and his friend Jerry James built a giant wood man on San Francisco's Baker Beach, and then set it on fire. The gathering drew such interesting people that Harvey has repeated it every year since. When the event outgrew Baker Beach, he moved the whole thing to Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the largest stretch of flatland in the United States, for a weeklong jamboree.
Harvey, however, is almost never in the office. "Larry's no Steve Jobs," Goodell says. "He's not running the business. He didn't even have a checking account until a couple of years ago." In his absence, Goodell manages the money, the business side, the construction, the communications. Marian Goodell - known to burners as Maid Marian - is Burning Man's resident adult. Think of her as its CEO.
This is the year Burning Man comes of age. It's 21 years old as a festival and 11 years old as a limited liability company now called Black Rock City LLC. In that time it has learned more lessons than many companies three times its age. It has beaten threats of shutdown from government officials, both local and national, coped with two fatal accidents, and suffered weeklong "whiteout" dust storms. It has staved off bankruptcy three times. And it has found the magic formula for creating a temporary city of 40,000 souls from scratch and running the whole thing - from security to sanitation - almost entirely with volunteer labor.
But no challenge has been greater than dealing with the complaints from veteran burners - the hypernetworked old-timers at the core of the community - that Burning Man has grown too big and has lost touch with its anticommercial roots. That it is too much like, well, a business.
The event is supposed to run on what participants call a "gift economy." They have no truck with U.S. currency once inside the event's trash fence. Even bartering is frowned upon. The fact that the organization sells coffee and ice is controversial enough. Imagine the reaction, then, when Burning Man makes the riskiest business move in its history: It's going to allow companies to exhibit products at the 2007 event.
Each Burning Man has a different theme, chosen by Harvey. This year's theme is "The Green Man." Burning Man, an extravaganza characterized by the consumption of huge quantities of fossil fuel, has discovered environmentalism. It is attempting to offset the 28,000 tons of carbon it estimates the event generates (counting all those flights and long drives for its far-flung attendees), and the organization is belatedly switching to biodiesel generators to provide most of the event's electricity.
Most controversially, the organization wants to bring as many green-energy companies as possible into what Harvey calls a world's fair of clean tech. Google (Charts, Fortune 500) is going to help produce an online 3-D search service called Burning Man Earth.
A venture capitalist is bringing a vast solar-power array. Four wind-power companies will be placing turbines around the Man. PR maven Melody Haller of the Antenna Group will be bringing a campful of her clean-tech CEOs. "We're inviting the Greeks into the heart of Troy," says Tom Price, Burning Man's new environmental director. "Burning Man may have to destroy itself to save the planet."
Destroy itself? Well, possibly. Those 40,000 attendees are Burning Man's only tangible asset. Without their entry fees - $250 in January, $400 at the gate in August - there's no $10 million budget. "It's a good business," says one venture capitalist who has examined the company's financial record, "but it's even more seasonal than a ski resort." Other than those tickets, the organization has no real source of revenue. The coffee just about pays for itself - it's more an excuse for newcomers to mingle than a vending enterprise - while the proceeds from the sales of ice are donated to charity.
In other words, as Harvey says, Disneyland this ain't: "Theirs is a spectacle entirely for consumption; ours is based on interaction and communal effort. It's Disneyland turned inside out."
Nevertheless, the Burning Man community is an unusually smart, well-knit, and well-heeled social network. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google are regular attendees; they chose Eric Schmidt as their CEO because he was the only candidate for the job who had been a burner.
So many VCs show up that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like to joke that you can't get any funding during the week of Burning Man. Celebrities like Robin Williams, Sting, and Joan Baez often arrive incognito. Thousands of lesser-known artists spend up to 10 times the ticket price, mostly drawn from their own pockets, to create the spectacles at the center of the experience: the Burning Man art, in all its neon-lit, fire-spewing glory.
You really have to want to be there to truck yourself and your gallons of drinking water in and out of the desert, an environment so extreme that dehydration and other serious bodily harm are real possibilities. As it says in large letters on their tickets, attendees voluntarily assume the risk of death. (Indeed, since 1996, two have died in art-car accidents.)
But not only do people still come, they create content and provide their own services with an enthusiasm that puts even Wikipedia to shame. According to Black Rock City's annual census, 80 percent of attendees volunteer at some point during the event. Burning Man, it seems, was Web 2.0 before that label existed.
Burner volunteers solve their own disputes (through the Black Rock Rangers) and light their own gas lamps (through the Lamplighters). A few hundred even stay to clean up the desert for at least a month after the event. "Our budget is in the millions," Harvey says, "but if you include everything people give to the city, it's three times what we invest."
It's just as well that there's all this goodwill and free labor. Black Rock City has already suffered three times from cost overruns that threatened to bury it in debt, and not just to pay for all those rented portable toilets. The federal Bureau of Land Management charges $4 per person per day for use of the desert. Nevada's Washoe County makes the organization cover the cost of all the extra police it insists on bringing to the event.
Those charges alone add up to roughly $800,000. This year the Denver office of the BLM is threatening to add on a 19 percent fee, or $120,000, for administrative costs. Burning Man is currently protesting this new surcharge in Washington. (Since it is the largest single customer on federal land, the organization usually gets a sympathetic hearing in the halls of power - especially with San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi and Nevada's Harry Reid.)
You can think of the economics of Burning Man as a delicate ecosystem in itself. Goodell won't reveal exactly how much profit the event clears, only that most of the money is spent on donations to artists, and the remainder has been "comfortably above $50,000" since 2005. If the corporate experiment triggers a drop in attendance, Burning Man could find itself in debt for a fourth, and perhaps final, time.
This community is a dream for anyone looking at demographics," Goodell says. "We have kids who work in coffee shops and we have billionaires. To ignore the value of our brand, the buying power it has, is silly. But it's a ritual for these people, which is why it's going to be hard for them seeing businesses out there." Burning Man's customers keep coming back to Black Rock precisely because it's so far outside the scope of the corporate culture - and its incessant marketing - that most of them live with the other 51 weeks of the year.
So the organization decided that the companies that come this summer will have to play by Burning Man's rules. The first letter inviting corporate participants was pulled off the website after only a few days; Harvey says it made the event sound too much like a trade fair. The revision stated explicitly that no marketing whatsoever would be allowed at the event.
Clean-tech companies can exhibit their technologies, but their products can't display a logo. No marketing material will be allowed. Company reps can't even demonstrate their wares in the pavilion; they have to turn them over to Burning Man, which will demonstrate the technologies in whatever artistic form it chooses.
Given these restrictions, why would a company want to come? For one thing, there's evidence that simply bringing your product to Burning Man and letting it speak for itself can pay rich rewards. Goodell cites the example of Current TV, the San Francisco video content company that came to the event in 2006 and did a show every day but didn't display its brand. The response, both at Burning Man and from viewers afterward, was overwhelmingly positive.
"Branding's important, "Goodell says," but there's a middle ground between having it all over the place and just knowing that it's Current TV and feeling good about the way they're treating you. That's a very interesting potential for companies that see a value in Burning Man culture."
Plenty of companies do, it seems, and at the front of the line this year is Google. Its engineers are building software for unbranded kiosks at the pavilion where participants can zoom in to a virtual version of Burning Man. Just click on a given technology or art project and Google will take you directly to its website.
"A lot of Google people come to the event, and the reason is that their corporate culture has similarities to ours," Harvey says. "They do what they're interested in. They have fun and worry about monetizing it later."
After the invitations went out in May, Burning Man started getting inquiries from about three corporations a day. Some executives were slow to understand exactly what kind of event they were dealing with. At an early meeting, one CEO was surprised to learn that there's no cell-phone service in the desert. (The organization, however, does supply Wi-Fi.) But most are optimistic. "I'm curious to see what happens at the intersection of art and technology," says B.J. Stanbery, CEO of Austin-based Heliovolt, a maker of thin-film photovoltaic solar cells.
Then there's Matt Cheney, CEO of MMA Renewable Ventures, which funds clean technologies around the globe and offered to provide Black Rock City with enough solar cells - 270 kilowatts' worth - to light the Man and power the pavilion. After the event, those solar panels will be installed at no cost - remember that free Burning Man labor? - in the nearby town of Gerlach.
Cheney will be getting very generous rebates from the state of Nevada. Not enough to cover the $1.5 million tab, he says, but the good publicity will more than make up the difference. "There's a tremendous alignment here," Cheney says. Enough, he adds, to do it again in future years.
Still, some attendees fear that the arrival of corporations - even without business cards - is the death knell for Burning Man. "I'm sure the corporations are thinking, OK, this year those are the terms," says one prominent Burning Man artist involved in building the Man itself. "But now the door's open. In the end, the money wins."
Other erstwhile naysayers, however, have embraced the green theme. Jim Mason and Chicken John are two artists who led a rebellion against what they saw as Burning Man's arrogant arts patronage at the event two years ago. Now both are building art cars that use gasification technology - meaning they can turn trash into hydrogen gas, which they run on. Chicken John's car was a showcase exhibit at Cleantech 2007, an industry conference held in San Jose in May.
And what of Burning Man itself? Harvey sees the event continuing for another decade or so, at which point spinoffs - the so-called regional burns - can take over. By then, he says, there'll no longer be a need for a single, central Burning Man organization. But Goodell demurs. "The business model can totally function without Larry Harvey," she says. "As long as the LLC exists, the event exists." As if to underscore her point, the enigmatic sign above the door to her conference room reads, "Larry Harvey does not exist."
Chris Taylor is a senior editor at Business 2.0 and a seven-time burner. He blogs at business2.com/futureboy.To send a letter to the editor about this story, click here.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Spring's threats of nuclear war have given way to a summer of mini-breakthroughs on the Korean Peninsula. But scratch the surface and Pyongyang's charm offensive seems more about money than any great leap forward in diplomacy.
North Korea's recent string of concessions, including Friday's restoration of a cross-border military hotline, simply puts the rival Koreas closer to where they were several years ago, before North Korean attacks, atomic and missile tests, and the warnings in March and April of nuclear and missile strikes.
And despite hope that the Koreas will soon resume various languishing cooperative projects, North Korea has shown no willingness to temper a nuclear weapons drive opposed by South Korea, the United States and the United Nations.
Nuclear talks are the goal, but neither Washington nor Pyongyang will make compromises that could smooth the way for their resumption. Pyongyang insists that it be recognized in any future disarmament negotiations as an undisputed nuclear power, something Washington refuses to do. Many also suspect that North Korea's push for the so-called six-party disarmament talks after five years of inactivity is merely a gambit to trade empty nuclear promises for aid.
So while the generally mellowing atmosphere between the Koreas is far preferable to threats of war, the larger inability to settle the nuclear crisis and forge better ties between Washington and Pyongyang means that the possibility of provocations and another plunge in ties remains.
The recent optimism, albeit guarded, is a testament to the terrible state of inter-Korean relations. Whereas tangible diplomatic and security accords were once seen as the measure of a breakthrough, a simple easing of tension is now greeted as progress.
This spring's unexpectedly intense warlike rhetoric and defiant moves by new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may even have prompted pangs of nostalgia in Seoul for his father, the late dictator Kim Jong Il. His 17-year rule at least contained some predictability as he alternated provocations with flashes of charm intended to win aid.
Now that Pyongyang's rhetorical firestorm has died down, that ancient pattern of brinkmanship appears to be playing out again.
"This is about the cash flow," Stephan Haggard, a North Korea specialist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, wrote recently about Pyongyang's decision to start "making nice" with Seoul.
The Koreas are in talks to resume operations at a jointly run factory park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong. Before Pyongyang pulled out its 53,000 workers in April, the plant brought the poor country a rare legitimate stream of foreign currency.
The countries also plan reunions later this month of families divided by the Korean War, and Pyongyang has proposed talks on restarting lucrative, jointly run tours to the North Korean resort of Diamond Mountain, called Kumgang in Korean.
These new developments can be seen as long-overdue gestures that ultimately benefit Pyongyang. "From North Korea's perspective, family reunions are costless while reopening Kaesong and Kumgang is a big win," Haggard said.
No matter how relaxed things get between the Koreas, discord still churns between Washington and Pyongyang.
Besides the moribund six-party nuclear talks, there's last year's U.S.-North Korean food-for-nuclear-freeze deal, which soon collapsed after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket seen as a cover for a banned missile test. The North followed another rocket test in December with a February nuclear test. Subsequent U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang and annual U.S.-South Korean military drills prompted the weeks-long torrent of threats from the North — and a fierce South Korean response — that has only recently eased.
Stung by last year's diplomatic failure, Washington now sets a high bar for more nuclear talks, demanding Pyongyang first take concrete steps to demonstrate its disarmament commitment.
Those prospects aren't good, and U.S. diplomats have been less focused on seeking direct talks with the Kim government than on building consensus among the other six-party nations to increase pressure on Pyongyang. This week, the top U.S. envoy for North Korea policy, Glyn Davies, will be traveling to Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo to continue that effort.
The United States sees China, in particular, as the key to getting North Korea to change. Although Beijing has become more critical of Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, it remains reluctant to abandon its troublesome ally.
Washington and Seoul also remember that Pyongyang is pressing ahead with its nuclear and missile programs, even as it steps up diplomacy.
Analysis of recent commercial satellite photos shows Pyongyang may be doubling the size of its uranium enrichment plant and expanding its main rocket launch site. North Korea was also caught in July attempting secretly to ship old fighter jets and missiles from Cuba via the Panama Canal.
Last month, Pyongyang snubbed Washington by withdrawing its invitation to a U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss the release of a detained American. Pyongyang cited the alleged participation of U.S. nuclear-capable bombers in recent U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
In the past week, perhaps intensifying the snub, the North allowed former NBA star Dennis Rodman to visit for a vacation with Kim Jong Un, the second trip to Pyongyang by Rodman this year. Rodman left North Korea on Saturday, praising Kim and hurling profanity at the Obama administration.
The easing tensions may signal a new policy approach in Pyongyang, Joseph DeTrani, a former North Korea specialist for the U.S. government, wrote recently. But improvements could be reversed if, as many suspect, North Korea stages more provocations in coming months.
"This has been our experience in working with North Korea — periods of optimism, only to be dashed by another missile launch or nuclear test," he said.
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Bill Fischer proudly holds the 2.78-pound tomato he and his wife, Holly, grew in their West Hwy 146 garden.
A vacuum salesman was making his first call in rural Tennessee. He had his vacuum cleaner and excitedly knocked on the first door. A kind-looking lady answered the door and he said, "I've got the most exciting vacuum cleaner you have ever seen. It will clean your house from top to bottom. You only have to pay so much down."
The lady acted interested so he said, "You see that big pile of dirt right there on the floor with all those fur balls and bugs and things. This vacuum cleaner will pick it all up or I'll eat it."
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Fiegle placed first out of 70 people in the 2013 United States Trampoline and Tumbling Association National Championship in both the Novice Trampoline division and Novice Double-Mini Trampoline division.
"It's great to be in the Top 10, and here she comes with two national first place trophies," Coach Nick Young said. "She was on cloud nine."
Roughly 50 years to the day, 14 women in their 20s gathered in La Grange with a similar goal in mind, one focused on improving their community by tackling smaller, but necessary, projects.
Little did they know that decades later, that first official meeting of Project Guild would lead to numerous fundraising events, a day-long festival or even a parade where they will be honored as grand marshals this year.
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The Oldham County Extension Office was first opened by John T. Taylor in 1914 and has grown from a rural agriculture outreach service to one available to any resident of the county, extension agent Traci Missun said.
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Thanks to more than two dozen youth from La Grange Baptist Church, the train located outside of the La Grange Railroad Museum looks as good as new after a month of work.
A La Grange man is partnering with a well-known Oldham County restaurant for a fundraiser to help combat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mike Hamilton was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, almost two years ago. And he's partnering with Gustavo's in Crestwood for a fundraiser to improve his quality of life while sick.
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One South Oldham High School grad is making the trip of a lifetime — nearly 3,000 miles.
Luke Sparks joined 11 of his Western Kentucky University Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brothers on a bike ride to raise $100,000 for Alzheimer's research.
It's the third trip for the fraternity. In 2010, a grandfather of a brother passed away from the debilitating disease causing the fraternity to ban together for the cause.
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Explanation of the hadiths by Mr. Adnan Oktar
"When our Qaim [the Mahdi] appears, you must make haste to join him, even if you have to crawl. By the leave of God, it is as if I see oaths of allegiance being sworn to him in a new agreement between the Rock and the Pillar."
Masha'Allah, masha'Allah. Our Prophet (saas) sees it in a state between waking and sleep. "I see it," he says. He sees an image. It appears like a vision. Almighty God shows it, partly through revelation and partly as an image.
From Muhammed bin Ali bin Shah, from Ahmed bin Hasan, from Ahmed bin Halid Halidi, from Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Salih Tamimi Muhammed bin Hatim Kattan from, Hammad bin Amr from, Imam Jafr Sadik; it is related that Rasulullah (saas) told Ali the Commander of the Faithful:
"O Ali, you should know that at the end of time (in the End Times), their (the followers of the Mahdi) faith will be magnificent and their certainty will be very great. There will be no prophet among them, but instead they will believe through black on white (in written things/books)." (The Awaited Mahdi, Allame Muhammed Baqir el-Majlisi, Biharul Anwar, Vol. 13 (Old edition)/ Vol. 51-52-53 (new edition))
"They will be very sure of themselves," he says, through the power of faith. "There will be no prophet among them (the followers of the Mahdi), but instead they will obey black on white (written things/books)." They will read and obey books. It is written in black on white, in black ink on paper. In other words, "They will obey the works, the books of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)."
In Ghaybat Tusi: Fadıl bin Şazan relates from Ömer bin Aslam Bajali, from Muhammad bin Sinan, from Ebul Jarud, from Muhammed bin Başar Hamadani, from Muhammad bin Hanefiye. To Muhammad bin Hanefiye, one of the children of Hazrat Ali. You know my lineage; I also am from the line of Muhammed bin Hanefiye, insha'Allah.
"The rule of the Beni this or the Beni that will continue for a certain time. " Our Prophet (saas) is saying that the rule of the Beni Hashim will continue in various forms." He does not give names, however. When they attain peace and security they will think that their kingdoms will never end. They will think their rule and government will never be brought down. At the time, a divine command will come and no king will remain in power. God is saying "I will tear down all regimes." "I will tear down all regimes, be they in Egypt, or Syria or wherever," He is saying. Almighty God reveals:
"…Then, when the earth is at its loveliest and takes on its fairest guise and its people think they have it under their control," just when they are happy, "Our command comes upon it by night or day and We reduce it to dried-out stubble, as though it had not been flourishing just the day before!" God says he will destroy such regimes and states and governments. "In this way We make Our Signs clear for people who reflect." (Surah Yunus, 24)
'Our command comes upon it by night or day," that refers to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). That is God's command, insha'Allah. "Therefore, when hunger and poverty rise and people start to reject one another, you must expect the divine commander [the Mahdi] to come at any moment, day or night." (The Awaited Mahdi, Allame Muhammed Baqir el-Majlisi, Biharul Anwar, Vol. 13 (Old edition)/ Vol. 51-52-53 (New edition))
The verse also says that – "by night or day." "He will either appear at night or else by day." "Our command comes upon it," he says, insha'Allah. "as though it had not been flourishing just the day before!" People who grow wealthy. "We reduce it to dried-out stubble." God is saying He will destroy all systems. '"In this way We make Our Signs clear for people who reflect."
Provenance: it is related from from Abu Hamza Thumali, from Abu Halid Kabuli, from Ali bin Hussein (pbuh):
"O Abu Halid, there will be a lengthy period before the appearance of the 12th heir to the Messenger of God (saas). O Abu Halid, those who live with the imam [the Mahdi] before his coming shall await his coming. People will await the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). They will be superior to those who lived at all other times. In other words, he is saying, "They will be superior to everyone who has lived from the time of Hazrat Adam (pbuh) until the day of Reckoning." Almighty God will give them (the followers of the Mahdi) such understanding and foresight that…, in other words, the non-appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), his remaining in secret and his presence will have the same effective status. "They will serve as if he were present," he says. We are serving now as if he were present. Aren't we? We have no problem of issue with his not being visible. His being out of sight will be the same as his presence for them. They will serve as if he were present. They will be sincere people.So speaks our Prophet (saas). They will spread the religion of God in an explicit and sensible manner. Openly, explicitly. Not in secret. 'And in a sensible manner'. They will spread it honestly. "Then he said "Waiting for victory … he [the Mahdi] is himself a great victory." (The Awaited Mahdi, Allame Muhammed Baqir al-Majlisi, Biharul Anwar, Vol. 13 (Old edition)/ Vol. 51-52-53 (New edition))
"He is himself a great victory," says our Prophet (saas).
"Before the coming of this Owner of Time (the Mahdi), it will be as if those who remain loyal to their faith are rubbing their hands on thorny branches." In other words, "they will serve in constant pain and suffering," he is saying. (The Awaited Mahdi, Allame Muhammed Baqir al-Majlisi, Biharul Anwar, Vol. 13 (old edition)/ Vol. 51-52-53 (New edition))
There is a hadith that reads "Woe to the Arab at the start of the 60s."Toward the beginning of the 60s. In the 1950s in other words. When the communists came to power. Those are fiercest times of the Ba'athists. The most shameful time, when Muslims were slaughtered. "At the start of the 60s." Around then. In the 1950s, '60s and '70s. "Woe to the Arab." The dajjal is nicknamed "The shaver." In the sense of shaving bits off the faith, The destroyer of the faith.
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Assemblymember Holly Mitchell delivers 17,000 Signatures in support of Bill to Aid Poor Families
AB 271 would lift cap on CalWORKs aid to families when a baby is born
Sacramento - Assemblymember Holly J. Mitchell delivered 17,000 signatures to Kevin De León, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee this morning in support of her bill, AB 271. The measure, designed to repeal the Maximum Family Grant (MFG) rule in the CalWORKs program, has been declared a priority by California's Democratic Party (CDP), and has garnered support from 80 organizations who advocate for the poor and social and reproductive justice. AB 271 would repeal a law passed under the Wilson Administration which denied basic aid to infants born into a family already receiving aid. Similar laws were passed in several states in a bid to reduce out-of-wedlock births and, ironically, reduce childhood poverty. Now, 15 years later, many states have repealed this law as all studies have shown that this rule has helped to create greater rates of childhood poverty.
"The evidence is that CalWORKs families get poorer, not smaller, when the state tries to control family size by capping aid for the needy," argues Assemblywoman Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), whose south Los Angeles district has high CalWORKs caseloads. "Driving families deeper into poverty needs to stop being state policy."
Former Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin was serving in the Assembly when the original law instituting the Family Cap passed by a slim margin in the Legislature after a last minute, "gut and amend." In a letter delivered to the Senate Appropriations committee this week, she writes to the Chairman of the committee that the MFG "remains in state law today as a shameful vestige of a 1990's war on the poor that was both classist and racist." In the letter she urges the committee to pass AB 271 to the Senate floor for a vote of the full body.
Alarming statistics about the plight of families living in deep poverty (less than 50% of FPL) have prompted online petitions demanding the repeal of the MFG to go viral. One in six Californians lives in poverty and almost one out of every four children is growing up impoverished. These children are at higher risk for an array of disabling impacts the longer they live in such conditions, including food and housing insecurity, educational setbacks and social maladaptation.
"I am pleased and humbled by the overwhelming response from constituents who have spoken up on behalf of our most vulnerable families," said Mitchell. "Now it is time for those in elected office to heed their call."


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The genesis of the West
Douglas Brinkley's new biography tells the story of TR
The Bible tells us that God created the Earth in six days.
Now comes historian Douglas Brinkley with his massive The Wilderness Warrior to tell us that President Theodore Roosevelt created the American West in seven years.
From Sept. 14, 1901, to March 3, 1909, Roosevelt forged a glorious legacy for those who revel in the beauty and wildlife of the West.
Where possible, he worked with Congress. Together, for example, they created Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. But if Congress resisted, TR would roll over it, as he did in 1906, when he invoked the newborn Antiquities Act to protect the Grand Canyon — one of 18 times he used the law to set aside national monuments. Overall, he issued executive orders creating 51 bird refuges, four game preserves, and 150 national forests.
Idaho, for example, should rightly call itself Rooseveltia to honor the man who created a dozen national forests and two wildlife refuges in the state. But other states have an equal claim to the name: TR created three national parks or monuments in New Mexico, five in Arizona, four in California, and two in Colorado.
The strength of Brinkley's biography lies in its description of our youngest-ever president's environmentalism. Only Jimmy Carter's 80-million-acre Alaska Lands Act of 1980 comes close to TR's protection of 230 million acres, most of them in the West. And only Richard Nixon's signing of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act Extension and the Endangered Species Act took us in a new environmental direction the way Roosevelt did.
But the actions taken by Carter, Nixon and then Clinton, with his 20-plus national monuments, were peripheral to their presidencies. Brinkley argues convincingly that TR's environmental achievements were at the core of his life, his presidency, and his strategy for creating a great and powerful nation.
TR's protected lands were a declaration that the United States could afford to set aside vast landscapes as symbols of its greatness. But Roosevelt also believed that the protected lands were useful. He believed that the nation's ability to develop industrially and to fight wars rested on men who were brought up leading "strenuous lives." To do that, they needed wilderness and wildlife to test themselves against.
TR lived the strenuous life he preached. As a hunter, he slaughtered thousands of large animals. As an explorer, he almost lost his life on the South American River of Doubt after his presidency. But he was also a scholar and writer, responsible for 35 books, hundreds of articles, and thousands of letters. His books are mostly forgotten, but he remains famous for signing hundreds of proclamations protecting land and wildlife.
TR knew that laws and proclamations alone wouldn't protect land and wildlife. So he recruited powerful protectors: straight-shooting frontiersmen from the Rough Riders who had accompanied him to Cuba and from the African-American Buffalo Soldiers who had fought the Plains Indians.
TR's conservation achievements were enough to earn him a perch on Mount Rushmore. But Brinkley reminds us that Roosevelt was as enthusiastic about developing natural resources as he was about setting some of them aside. Even as he was protecting Florida's birds, he was trying to drain the Everglades to further its development.
In the West, he backed and then implemented the Newlands Act, a 1902 law that led to the draining and damming of thousands of streams and rivers to irrigate millions of acres across 17 Western states.
Economically, his "trust busting" was mostly a matter of imposing restraint on those who called him "a traitor to his class." He had no desire to damage the industrialists and financiers he thought the nation's greatness also rested on. He said, and meant, "Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
Abroad, he was the great colonizer, achieving pre-presidential fame in Cuba at the head of his Rough Riders. In Central America, he carved Panama out of Colombia to build the Panama Canal. Finally, as peacemaker, he received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end the war between Japan and Russia.
In our liberal, environmentalist dreams, we might prefer a Roosevelt who was not an imperialist, who did not have a blood lust for big game, and who was not a social Darwinist.
But that would deprive us of the TR that Brinkley so vividly brings to life. That TR — with his squeaky voice, his puny childhood, his weak and bespectacled eyes, his draft-dodger father — transformed himself into a vigorous, indomitable, war-like man who learned to command the loyalty and obedience of a young and vigorous and brutal nation.
Luckily for that nation, and now for us, he was also a first-rate scientist, an intellectual, a voracious reader and author, and a man of such compassion and justice that he almost always overcame his race and class, although never his nationality, to do the right thing.
The American West could not have had a better founder.
The author is HCN's former publisher.


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Summerlander wrote:To Ryan: that's pure conjecture buddy
Of course it is. Everyone here knows that.
and a highly improbable one too.
And that is your opinion, of which, you're free to hold.
I, however, think that there is some probability.
certainly nothing has been detected to exit the body either.
ACTUALLY, there has been experiments done on the dying where they put them on a very fine measuring table. What they noticed is that at the moment of death, they lost a few ounces of weight.
Not conclusive by any means, but hard to ignore as well. hehe


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Manchester mayor wants policy governing campaign visit costsBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 10. 2012 11:46PM
MANCHESTER - In the wake of the presidential campaign, Mayor Ted Gatsas wants to make it clear that the city won't be footing the bill when major candidates come to town.
Gatsas said the Board of Mayor and Aldermen needs to adopt a policy governing how such campaign visits are coordinated and who covers the costs, such as police overtime and park rental fees.
Several communities have had to grapple with whether to bill the Obama campaign for the several visits he made over the past year leading up to his reelection last week. Municipalities typically incur security and other costs during such visits.
Gatsas said the city needed a clear policy, regardless of which candidate holds an event in the city.
"It should be the same for anybody who visits," he said. "I don't know if we absorbed the costs for the Romney visit the other night, but they should have to pay. It should be the same across the board. It shouldn't be about political party."
Gatsas said such visits also need to be coordinated from the office of the mayor or city clerk. As it stands, the U.S. Secret Service has directly contacted and worked with separate departments, Gatsas said.
The Manchester Police Department has said that costs associated with presidential events are minimal.
An Obama speech at Veterans Park in October "would not result in any direct costs to the Manchester Police Department or the city of Manchester, so none is billed," police said the day before the event.
Alderman Phil Greazzo has also questioned how the city's costs for such events are calculated and covered. "We're going to make sure we know what these events are costing, and that the city sends a bill," he said. "I asked about the (Obama) event before it happened. It turns out no one paid up front, and the city is going to be footing the bill."
Other communities have taken a range of responses to presidential campaign visits, and even if they send out a bill, it doesn't mean it gets paid.
Aldermen in Nashua are set to take up a proposal this week to have the city always cover the costs for presidential campaign visits, on the grounds such events bolter the city's reputation.
The proposal comes after the city hosted a number of visits from presidential candidates.
A March 1 Obama visit to Nashua was touted as a presidential visit, so the campaign was not charged for any associated costs, according to the city's mayor. But when Mitt Romney campaigned there Sept. 7, the campaign was charged $2,000 for the use of Holman Stadium and $5,000 for police overtime. The mayor said the campaign paid the Holman bill, but told the city to contact the Secret Service for the police work.
Windham taxpayers covered a $5,400 bill for an Obama campaign visit Aug. 18, according to previous media accounts. In Durham, an anonymous donor offered to pay nearly $13,000 for a Jan. 25 Obama campaign visit.
The Portsmouth City Council voted to bill the Obama campaign for $30,000 associated with a Sept. 7 visit by Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives. The town's city manager told the Union Leader last month that it had not received any payment - and did not expect to.
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Five years ago, as the 18-year-old girl lay in a drug-induced coma following a brutal rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Library, her family still believed they would get her back.
Queena still would attend her East Bay High School prom, graduate and go off to college at the University of Florida, they thought. She would get on with her life.
"I told her that the bruises and swelling would go away, she would still be able to make it to prom the following weekend," her sister, Anna Vuong said. She still was able to speak then, before doctors put her into a medically induced coma to reduce brain activity and help fight the swelling in her brain. Vuong consoled her, telling her she'd help her cover the scars with makeup.
"She asked me a few times things like 'Who did this?', 'What did he want?', 'Will I be OK?', 'Why can't I see?'" Vuong said. "I told her that she would be fine and that everything would be OK and that she just needs to stay in the hospital for a little while to heal up."
When she came out of the coma, Queena, who will turn 23 on Monday, could no longer speak.
"I haven't heard her speak a whole word since that night," Vuong said. The brain swelling from her injuries had caused permanent damage.
Kendrick Morris was convicted of raping and beating Queena about 10:30 p.m. on April 24, 2008, after she pulled up to the library to return books. He is serving 65 years in prison for the attack.
Queena is serving a life sentence, trapped inside her broken body, her family says.
She is still unable to speak, walk, control her muscles to any great extent or in any way function independently. The doctors tell her family she is unlikely to regain those functions. "The therapists are more hopeful," Vuong said. "So, it depends on who you ask."
The family's struggle, as they work daily to help the young woman recover, has been huge, both emotionally and financially.
Recently they decided, with Queena's input, to make her face and her first name public in their ongoing effort to fund her therapy. They released a website -- www.joinqueena.com – and a Facebook page – Join Queena -- to bring her story to more people and raise money for her treatment.
Her mother, Vanna, who didn't want her last name published, said Queena was in on the decision.
"She chose the name for the website," insisting, with her facial expressions and arm movements, that her real name be part of it. "We kept asking her over and over, 'Are you sure you want to use your real name?' She kept answering 'Yes,' in her way."
Following the attack, Queena's doctors weren't saying much, Vuong said.
The family didn't hear the words "brain injury" until a few days after the attack.
"And at that point, no one had any idea what that meant, how dangerous it was, and how it would affect her health and functionality. I remember her barely waking up after a few hours of being in the emergency room the night of the attack."
Vuong told her that authorities had arrested her attacker.
Moments later, she went into a deep sleep.
Vanna visited several nursing homes, at a social workers' advice, then quickly decided that would not be Queena's future.
She dug in her heels and immediately began researching brain injury on the internet -- something she still does most evenings. "My mom had high hopes that we could bring her back. She thought the best place for her to heal was home where she belonged, with the people she loved," Vuong said.
That road toward some semblance of recovery has been almost unbearable, Vanna said. Every night she prepares Queena for bed, and gets a few hours' rest herself before getting up at 1 a.m. to give her daughter food and medicine. Up until two years ago, Queena had seizures. Now her medication has them mostly under control. She still has nightmares.
"While we were at HealthSouth Rehab for three months … the doctors and nurses and therapists there trained my mom and me on how to care for Queena once we got home," Vuong said. "Our family was willing to do anything and learn as much as possible."
Vanna loads Queena into a van every day and whisks her off for physical, occupational therapy and aqua therapy. The speech therapy has stopped due to a lack of funds.
"I had no idea what it would entail," Vuong said. "Neither did my mom."
Friends and volunteers jumped in.
"We had help with remodeling our house to make it accessible and ready for Queena when she got home. We had friends who were therapists and would visit and evaluate Queena."
They explained how the brain injury affected Queena's motor skills and the kinds of therapy she would need.
Vanna gave up her job to become Queena's fulltime caregiver. Anna is there as back-up, having given up a promotion at work following her own college graduation, so she could stay close to her sister and help in her recovery.
"I lost some of my ambition for career advancement and continuing education. It's hard to stay focused on anything but work and home and therapy and doctors.
"I think our family would have fallen apart a long time ago without the community's support," Vuong said. "They have donated financially and emotionally and physically. It's hard to think about the evil that exists when we're surrounded with goodness every day."
Since the early days after the attack, when Queena couldn't eat, talk, walk or see, Vuong said she is now able to eat anything that can be pureed, she is tracking with her eyes and is able to stand and even take a couple of steps with a lot of assistance.
"I still can't believe that people still care after five years. It's amazing to have that support," Vuong said. "I know we're not alone. And with the community's help, I think we can really get Queena to progress more."


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Tin and Teapot, Tea and Cake: Favorites from Toast
One of our favorite online shops is Toast, an apparel and home goods shop in the UK. International shipping is a doozy, so we look and don't buy, for now, but we do find their kitchen things very inspiring. Here are a few favorites from their current catalog. Taken all together, they inspire us to sit down this afternoon and have a proper tea.
• 1 Longpi Teapot - £39.00. Rustic artisan craftsmanship from India. The black finish is beautiful.
• 2 Longpi Mug - £16.50. Goes with the teapot.
• 3 Cake Tins - £25.00. We love these lidded cake tins! They are so pretty and yet practical. Anyone know of a similar sort in the US?
• 4 Linen Tea Towels - £5.50. Durable and long-lasting.
• 5 Duralex Picardie Glasses - £9.50 for six. These elusive French favorites are hard to find in the US.
Related: Slim Pot and Basket: Two Good Things from KIOSK
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The quack is back on A&E with the return for the fourth season of "Duck Dynasty," one of television's biggest hit shows and best family shows on the network as it chronicles some of the life and spoofs of the Robertson family in Louisiana.
The show returns tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern and 9 p.m. Central on A&E.
By Alan Clemons, Southern Managing Editor
Phil Robertson and his wife, Kay, founded the Duck Commander line of duck calls several decades ago. They got their sons involved and, with a family ethic grounded in Christian faith, hard work and the outdoors, turned Duck Commander into one of the most popular and successful waterfowl call manufacturers in the country.
Along the way, the bearded and face-painted hunters gained a following among waterfowl hunters for their no-holds barred methods. Simple, but effective. They hunted deer, small game, frogs, fished and trapped, and did what they needed to do to put food on the table. A few years ago after Willie Robertson took over as CEO of Duck Commander, he saw the growth of deer hunting and created Buck Commander.
"Duck Dynasty" has been wildly successful for the family and A&E. The Robertsons negotiated for a per-show salary increase and finally agreed to it just recently. The final episode of Season 3 was the most-watched series show in A&E's history, with 9.6 million viewers and 5.5 million of those in the critical 18-49 age demographic. Strong numbers, no doubt.
Check out this "I'm A Deer Hunter" interview with Willie Robertson from earlier this year:
It's been a whirlwind for the Louisiana family well-known among waterfowl hunters. Phil Robertson founded the Duck Commander line of calls. Hand-made by the family, the calls have been mainstays in duck blinds for decades. Videos and DVDs grew in popularity, too, and today with the success of Duck Dynasty the business has exploded into other avenues.
A few years ago, Willie Robertson — he's the one who runs the company and wears the headband — decided their duck business needed a little sideline. Deer hunting had been something the Robertsons did on occasion for food, but it wasn't a high priority. Nor was it anything they had thought about as a business venture.
That spawned Buck Commander, which today is thriving. When autumn rolls around, the Buck Commander crew is busy filming hunts and making expo show appearances. When duck season arrives, mallards command their attention. They're busy!
The success of Duck Dynasty has been pretty amazing, hasn't it?
"It's been crazy. We were in People, Rolling Stone, on billboards. The A&E network's marketing campaigns have been huge. People in New York City are sending us duck calls and asking for autographs. It's been amazing. Who would have thought?
"I've just about gotten all the busy I can stand. It's all the time. That kind of started even when had our show on the Outdoor Channel, being a year-round thing with advertising and all. We couldn't change our look (with the beards) due to photos and the marketing stuff. Buck Commander still is on Outdoor Channel and is the same way: hunting hard, filming hard, editing and then a little off-season of sorts to get ready to do it again.
"Duck Commander has grown to a new level of getting stuff done. I found it was six days a week and we had to bring in some people to get the calls made and other things done. Sales went crazy after Duck Dynasty aired. We had no idea it would do that. I knew it might be big, but we really didn't know. It's hard to plan for anything like that, too. The thing that's surprised me the most is selling duck calls to people in bigger cities. I didn't think they would buy them because a duck call is a tool, but I was wrong. It's something they know we made with our hands and is affordable.
"If you're a fan of American Chopper you probably can't afford a bike, but our calls are $40 to $100. So you could buy one of those. We're still in the dark about how things might do at the (retail) store level. If it's like what we've been doing then it'll be crazy."
How's it been with everything involved making Duck Dynasty?
"Making the show isn't hard. It's time-consuming, of course, but if a show is a hit then maintaining your business while trying to maintain that level of the show can be tough. People say 'hire more' for your business, but then you run the risk of going backwards. It's been a challenge. It's hopping. We've doubled our workforce in three months. I hired more family … my wife's cousins, my other little-known brother. He was a minister. I hired his wife and son-in-law."
What's up with Buck Commander and the deer hunting? Was that just a natural spinoff? It makes sense with the name and seeing as how deer hunting is so popular.
"I was doing the deer side, which no one else (in the family) really does. They hunt the first few weeks until duck season opens and then quit, so I kept it (deer) going.
"Look at the timing of everything. I was talking with (Realtree founder) Bill Jordan about timing and love his stories about it. People ask how I got here, how I got on a TV show … when I took over our duck (call) business it was when Walmart was just about set to get out of selling hunting stuff. They were scaling back, there was a pretty good ripple in the outdoors industry about it and I knew we had to do something or make some plans."
Duck Dynasty really seemed to hit it big with not just hunters or men, but also with women and kids. A&E isn't a hunting network, so I guess that was planned?
"I wanted the youngsters to watch this and say "Man, that looks like fun" and get into deer camp. If you see Jason Aldean or one of us, I think it just looks like fun. I never wanted the show to be boring or something where kids don't enjoy it. I told my editors to edit it for women and kids. A dude can watch a deer in a field for two hours and be totally entertained. But a show should be something where a wife or girlfriend or mom or kid can watch and enjoy it.
"That's what happened with Duck Dynasty. We all sit and watch it and have a good time. I've heard (complaints) from a few hardcore hunters, but a show like that is on A&E and not the hunting channels."
How did Duck Dynasty come around? Did you think it would be as successful as it was for a first-year show?
"I never would have thought a duck show would have made it because I didn't think duck hunting would go mainstream. But the big thing was "Swamp People." They've been doing that show for years but I wasn't sure if they'd show shooting a hole in a gator's head. Then it became a juggernaut hit, and the other shows like Deadliest Catch were big. Hollywood said if this is what you do and where you live, then let's do it. Then it became all about finding the next show.
"A&E came in and had seen Swamp People, and they were on fire with Pawn Stars. They also have the History Channel. But A&E is about 50-50 men and women, and sometimes difficult to make programming that men and women will watch. So I was nervous about it when we started.
"But I think a key is the show is funny. Phil says if you can make 'em smile you're doing OK, if you make them say "Huh!" then you're doing better and if you can make them laugh then you're doing really well. I think with us coming out funny that it broke down every barrier. It doesn't matter what color you are, if you're male or female … it covers relationships. People say 'That's like my uncle' or 'My brother's like that' and they can relate to it.
"We had just enough experience in outdoor industry making videos, and we all went to seminary and have spoken to crowds, so those made it easier. Plus, being known in the outdoors industry helped with the (fan) interest. But it's been even bigger than we thought. I can't really put on a disguise because people know I'm one of the Robertson crew. But everything works out for a reason."
Watch Duck Dynasty tonight at 9 p.m. Central on A&E, and be on the lookout later this summer for the full "I'm A Deer Hunter" interview.


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Vivian Gamblian Tapped by National League for Nursing for Selective Faculty Leadership Development Program for Simulation EducatorsFeb. 19, 2014
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WACO, Texas (Feb. 19, 2014) -- Vivian Gamblian, RN, MSN, coordinator of simulation at Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas has been selected through competitive application for the year-long Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators.
The program is the National League for Nursing's faculty leadership development initiative, designed for those interested in assuming a leadership role in the research or administration of simulation programs in nursing education.
The fourth cohort consists of 20 nurse educators chosen from colleges and universities around the United States. They will all study for a year under the direction of Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, editor of the second edition of Simulations in Nursing Education: From Conceptualization to Evaluation (NLN, 2012) and Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education: Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities.
"Vivian Gamblian has spent the past years dedicating herself to developing state-of-the-art simulation facilities and experience for our students and faculty here at LHSON," said Shelley Conroy, EdD, MS, RN., who is dean and professor of nursing at Baylor University's Louis Herring School of Nursing in Dallas. "Her passion for simulation as an instructional methodology is evident to all of us here in the School, and has generated significant external funding for our simulation laboratory. Being named to NLN's Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators is a logical next step in her career trajectory --a fitting growth opportunity for both Vivian and LHSON."
Vivian Gamblian is a senior lecturer and coordinator of simulation for LHSON, where she has been a faculty member since 2006. She has more than 30 years' experience in nursing in diverse roles, including nursing faculty, staff nurse, manager, nursing consultant and nurse entrepreneur. As simulation coordinator, she works with all levels of undergraduate and graduate nursing students to develop and improve their critical thinking and psychomotor skills through the use of high-fidelity simulation experiences. Her accomplishments in this role include faculty development in simulation, embedding high-fidelity simulation across the curriculum, implementation of standardized patients for psychiatric, community and health assessment courses and incorporation of high fidelity simulation as a teaching strategy for a perioperative nursing elective course.
She has participated in international nursing experiences in Asia, Central America, and Africa over the past 15 years. Her international work includes coordination and supervision of U.S. nursing students, direct patient care, and simulation training for university and hospital nursing faculty and staff. She works with colleagues in Vietnam to incorporate simulation into Vietnamese nursing education programs.
Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
The Baylor Louise Herrington School of Nursing was established in 1909 as a diploma program within Baylor Hospital in Dallas, which is now Baylor University Medical Center, and in 1950 became one of the six degree-granting schools of Baylor University. The first Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees were awarded in 1954, establishing the school as one of the oldest baccalaureate nursing programs in the United States. In 1999, the School was renamed the Louise Herrington School of Nursing after Louise Herrington Ornelas, a 1992 Baylor Alumna Honoris Causa, made a $13 million endowment gift to the school. The School of Nursing offers a bachelor of science in nursing degree and a master of science in nursing degrees in advanced neonatal nursing, nursing administration and management, and family nurse practitioner programs, which are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The School also offers a nurse midwifery doctorate in nursing practice.
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Mississinewa Lake - Hunting and Trapping
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(765) 473-6528
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Miami SRA, Red Bridge SRA w/marina, Frances Slocum SRA, Pearson Mill SRA
Hunting and Trapping
Mississinewa Lake is located southeast of Peru, south of Wabash and northwest of Marion in Miami, Wabash and Grant counties. Hunting opportunities are available for fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit, deer, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, woodcock, snipe, sora rail, fox and coyote. Waterfowl hunting is available on ponds, marshes, river and the lake. Night hunting for raccoon, opossum, fox and coyote is permitted. Spring turkey hunting is by drawing (reservation only). Fall turkey hunting is not reserved. Mourning dove hunting is by reservation only the first 2 days of the season. Non-reserved mourning dove hunting is available beginning September 3 except in Dove Management Areas (marked with green signs), which have limited hunts by daily drawing only thru the first week of the season. Check with the office after August 15 for hunting dates and locations of mourning dove management area hunts.
The total acreage at Mississinewa Lake is 14,386 acres (3210 acres water). Camping is available in the Miami S.R.A. only. No shooting range and no archery range are available. Seasonal refuge Oct 1 thru Jan 15 - No Trespassing.Waterfowl resting areas and restricted areas – No Trespassing.
No hunting is allowed in marked safety zones around major recreation areas. All hunting areas are marked with white signs that read: "Wildlife Management Area – Registered Hunters Only". The management unit number is located directly under the wildlife management area sign.
Mississinewa Lake does not allow the use of bonus antlerless deer tags.
Trapping opportunities are available through a sealed bidding process for specific trapping units. Contact the property office in late summer for details on the bidding process.
All hunters must register and sign the waiver of liability at one of the twelve hunter sign-in stations on the property. Hunter sign-in is mandatory, and failure to sign in and out properly may result in a fine. All game taken must be recorded on a required one-day hunter permit card that is carried with you as you hunt and turned in at the end of the day. At some properties, the card must be returned to the same hunter sign-in station where the waiver of liability was signed; please look for that requirement when you check-in. Take and use only one card per day. This system provides valuable wildlife management information.
For additional information about hunting opportunities at Mississinewa Lake, contact: 765-473-6528.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain withdrew five export licenses to Egypt on Friday, saying it wanted to prevent British goods being used in unrest, which has led to civilian deaths there.
"We will not grant export licenses where we judge there is a clear risk the goods might be used for internal repression, provoke or prolong conflict within a country," Business Secretary Vince Cable said.
He added in a statement that there were no reports of British equipment having been used in the unrest.
The goods covered by the agreements include components for armored fighting infantry vehicles, communication equipment for tanks and machine gun parts. The revoked licenses were for goods sent between British exporters and the Egyptian military and police.
Export licenses are issued to companies or individuals, and Britain now has 212 such licenses left for exports to Egypt.
On Wednesday, parliament's Committees on Arms Export Controls said Britain had granted billions of pounds' worth of military export licenses for countries such as Syria, Iran and Libya despite questions over those countries' human rights records.
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Obeying Church and State
The nation's Catholic bishops recently "urged resistance to laws that church officials consider unjust." They encouraged "fellow Catholics and fellow Americans to be on guard, for religious liberty is under attack, both at home and abroad." The Obama administration and Catholic leaders clashed earlier this year over requiring most employers to cover birth control costs for their employees; this conflict has not yet been resolved.
I write each week for the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. This week we were asked to respond to this timely question: "How far should people of faith go in resisting laws they consider unjust?" Here's my response:
Scripture commands loyalty both to secular laws and to biblical principles.
Paul taught that "everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities" (Romans 13:1), for "the authorities are God's servants" (v. 6). Peter agreed: "Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men" (1 Peter 2:13).
Yet Paul was beheaded by Nero because he would not obey Rome's command to stop preaching the gospel. When the supreme legal authority in Israel ordered Peter to stop preaching the Christian message, he responded: "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:19-20).
How are we to resolve this apparent conflict between secular and spiritual compliance? By obeying our highest authority.
Insofar as we can submit to secular laws, we must do so. But if we are faced with laws that cannot be obeyed without violating clear biblical mandates, Christians must obey God rather than men. Peter taught us to "show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king" (1 Peter 2:17). Our culture fears the king and honors God, but Scripture teaches the reverse.
A free church in a free state is best for both. John Leland, one of the most important Baptists in colonial history, stated in 1791: "Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men, than it has with the principles of mathematics. Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, or no God, or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in so doing."
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In game one the Cobras could not get their bats going, as they only managed to get two hits of
Coker's Amanda Shelton (5-3) took the loss, allowing three runs on eight hits in four innings worth of work.
Jamie Horton and Marie Mascio collected Coker's two hits and Jessica Blackwell had three walks in the game.
Game Two saw a renewed Cobra softball team take the field, as Coker came out swinging and scored a run in the first and four more in the second to take an early 5-0 lead. The Toppers cut into the lead with a run in the fifth and another in the sixth, but Coker added a run of their own in the fifth as well, to take a 6-2 lead. Coker would add an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth for a 7-2 victory.
Coker pitcher Somer Bigham (8-3) earned the win throwing a complete game eight hitter, allowing two runs and striking out 10
Gina Kokoskie took the loss after allowing five runs on seven hits in an inning worth of work.
For Coker offensively Anna Lucas was 3-for-3 with and RBI and three runs scored, while Marie Mascio was 1-for-2 with a home run an RBI and a run scored. Amy Shelley was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs for the Cobras as well.
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People can listen to it live each Friday, but it is archived so that they can listen to it afterwards (we recently topped 2,000 weekly listens in the archives). Interviews of special note are exported to YouTube, giving them greater visibility.
It has provided an additional outlet for our elected officials to engage the residents of Woodhaven. For example, Councilman Eric Ulrich recently called in and detailed his proposals to improve traffic on Woodhaven Boulevard.
State Senator Joseph Addabbo and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley have also been regular callers, and Assemblyman Mike Miller touches base with us every week. (Not only does Mike call in regularly, he is also one of the sponsors that helps keeps us on the air.)
It also allows us to get in-depth information about major projects of interest. We recently spoke to Jen Manley, director of Community Affairs for the Queens Public Library, and she gave us the rundown on what changes and renovations are on tap for our library.
We've also spoken to many other interesting guests, such as Nick Hirshon, author of Images of America: Forest Hills, Carl Ballenas, president of The Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery, and Ami Abramson of the Forest Park Carousel.
It has also provided the occasional moment of drama, such as the call we received during a blizzard from a resident who was stuck on her block. It hadn't been plowed in days, and she needed to get out the next morning to take her young daughter for desperately needed medical treatment.
Assemblyman Miller was listening at the time and was able to make the call that made sure she was able to get out and get her daughter the treatment she needed.
We also talk about current events and history. We talk about the issues that impact us now and we often read newspaper articles from Woodhaven's past and reminisce about the old days If you would like to give the show a try, visit projectwoodhaven.com and look for the link to Radio Free Woodhaven.
We also encourage residents to call in and speak about whatever is on their mind. While the show is live, dial 646-378-1612. (One caveat: if your number is blocked we are unable to take your call, you must dial *82 before dialing.)
Currently, we are in the midst of a string of episodes interviewing candidates for Queens borough president. Last week, we were joined by State Senator Tony Avella, who spoke to us about issues impacting the city in general and Woodhaven in particular.
We spoke about the QueensWay vs. Railway debate (he says the community should get to decide), and we spoke about the recent corruption scandals.
We have the rest of the candidates scheduled over the next few weeks: Councilman Peter Vallone will be calling in this Friday, April 12; State Senator Jose Peralta will be on the line with us on April 19; Councilman Leroy Comrie is scheduled for April 26; Barry Grodenchik is slated for May 3; and Melinda Katz will join us on May 10.
We are doing our best to ensure that Woodhaven is part of the process. Soon, we will begin reaching out to the mayoral candidates to see if we can get them to call in to speak directly to the residents of Woodhaven.
Again, we're live every Friday night at 10 p.m. Hope you'll tune in and maybe give us a call.


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Date and time
22nd June, 2012 from 6 pm
Brandon Ulrich, B2i Healthcare Ltd.
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
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- Brandon Ulrich, B2i Healthcare
- Balázs Bánfai, B2i Healthcare
- Zsolt Török, B2i Healthcare
- Béla Vizer, B2i Healthcare
- Endre Kovács B2i Healthcare
- András Péteri B2i Healthcare
- Ákos Kitta B2i Healthcare
- Orsolya Bali, B2i Healthcare
- Zoltán Ujhelyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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The number of hardwood choices, patterns, colors, textures and price points can intimidate even the most experienced shopper. Knowing the basic styles can provide you with a firm foundation upon which to begin your hardwood-shopping journey. Choosing your ideal hardwood style is all about knowing the right combination of aesthetics, performance and budget that meets the needs of your lifestyle.
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Red Oak
Red Oak is the most abundant growing species in the United States. The sapwood of Red Oak is white to light brown while the heartwood has a pinkish reddish brown tone. It comes in four different grades:
highest quality with almost no knotholes or color deviation.
Smooth Finish suggested.
Second highest quality with few knotholes and very slight color deviations. Smooth finish suggested.
#1 Common
Third highest quality with more pronounced knotholes and color
deviations. Suggest hand scraped or smooth.
#2 Common
Lowest quality with many knotholes and color deviations. Suggest hand scrape only.
American Cherry grows primarily in the Midwestern and Eastern United States and is very hard and dense. The sapwood varies from a rich red to reddish brown and will darken with age. The sapwood tends to be a creamy white.
Hickory is the hardest, heaviest, and strongest American wood. The sapwood of hickory is white and the heartwood is pale to reddish brown. It can be finished smooth or hand scraped.
Growing in the Pacific Northwest, maple tends to be light but a very dense wood. Generally there is no marked difference between the sapwood and heartwood. Because of its density, maple is not recommended for high humidity areas. Smooth Finish suggested.
Tends to be a soft wood that absorbs moisture very well and is recommended for high humidity areas. The sapwood in pine is usually light yellowish-white while the heartwood tends to be yellowish-orange. Can be finished smooth or hand scraped.
Reclaimed Pine
Same characteristics as Pine, however it is recycled from old buildings (usually barns).
Walnut grows primarily in the Eastern United states. The sapwood tends to be white while the heartwood ranges from a deep chocolate to purplish black. Walnut is great for borders and is finished smooth.
Mesquite grows primarily in the Southern United states and is known for being a very hard and durable wood. The sapwood tends to be pale while the heartwood is reddish brown. Mesquite usually contains lots of knotholes and a smooth finish is recommended.


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NYTimes Ethicist: Not Unethical To Download Unauthorized Copy Of Physical Book You Own
from the illegal,-but-not-unethical dept
An illegal download is -- to use an ugly word -- illegal. But in this case, it is not unethical. Author and publisher are entitled to be paid for their work, and by purchasing the hardcover, you did so. Your subsequent downloading is akin to buying a CD, then copying it to your iPod.He goes on to quote a publishing exec who disagrees, insisting that any unauthorized download is "stealing" and warns Cohen: "to condone this is to condone theft." But, of course, that's ridiculous. It is not theft at all. Nothing is missing. No one has lost out on anything. The publisher already got its money from this guy. To have a publisher make a statement that is clearly false makes you wonder what sort of strategic direction that publisher is heading in. If they can't understand the difference between someone who already paid just downloading a digital copy, and someone "stealing" a book, they're never going to understand how to compete in a digital world.
Buying a book or a piece of music should be regarded as a license to enjoy it on any platform. Sadly, the anachronistic conventions of bookselling and copyright law lag the technology. Thus you've violated the publishing company's legal right to control the distribution of its intellectual property, but you've done no harm or so little as to meet my threshold of acceptability.
Thankfully, Cohen makes this same point, in noting (in response to the publisher): "it is a curious sort of theft that involves actually paying for a book."


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Aviso de Reunión - 28 de Noviembre de 2001
A special meeting of the San Francisco Public Library Commission called by the Commission President will be held as follows: Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 Time: 1:00 PM Note Different Time Place: Koret Auditorium, Main Library, lower level The meeting will be called to order. 1. DISCUSSION - MISSION BAY BRANCH LIBRARY: LETTER OF INTENT OUTLINING TERMS FOR ACQUISITION Presentation on and discussion of authorizing the City Librarian to sign a letter of intent from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (the "Agency") setting forth the major terms and conditions to the City's acquisition of a public branch library in the Mission Bay North Redevelopment Project Area and authorizing the City Librarian, in consultation with the City Attorney's Office and the Director of Property, to negotiate the final purchase and sale agreement with the Agency in substantially the form of the letter attached to the agenda. Explanatory document: draft letter of intent 2. DISCUSSION - PUBLIC COMMENT (This item to allow members of the public to comment on matters within the committee's purview as well as introduce new agenda for the committee's consideration.) 3. ACTION - ADJOURNMENT (requires motion and public comment) * Public comment will be taken before or during the Library Commission's consideration of each agenda item. ** Explanatory documents: Copies of explanatory documents listed in this agenda, and other related materials received by the Library Commission after the posting of this agenda, can be obtained from the Office of the Library Commission, Main Library, 6th Floor and also, to the extent possible, will be available on the Library's website at http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/. 11/21/01 - M.Housh, Commission Secretary
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Song: "You're A Mean One, Harry Reid"
Sung to the tune of: "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" by Dr. Seuss
By: W. E. Messamore (The amazing thing is I didn't
even have to change that many of the words!)
You're a mean one, Harry Reid.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
But you love to cut a deal.
Harry Reid.
You're a greasy, bad Senator
Who loves backroom deals.
You're a monster, Harry Reid.
You've spent us into a hole.
Your healthcare bill will only,
Put more people on the dole.
Harry Reid.
No wonder it's doing so bad
At only 39% in the polls!
You're a vile one, Harry Reid.
And the lobbyists love your smile.
You make all our tender worthless,
Printing dollars by the pile.
Harry Reid.
Given the choice between you and Danny Tarkanian,
I'd take Danny by a mile!
You're a foul one, Harry Reid.
You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your bill is full of rotting pork
Your sleeve is full of bribes.
Harry Reid.
The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Lies. Lies. Lies!"
You're a rotter, Harry Reid.
You're the king of sinful plots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Harry Reid.
Your health bill is an apalling dump heap
overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment
of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Harry Reid.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you run a crooked house.
Harry Reid.
You made us eat a three-decker crap sandwich
But in 2010, it will be your loss!


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Nearly 800,000 people requested background checks so they could buy guns in Florida in 2012 — far more than in any recent year.
Statistics from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show 797,970 background checks were requested last year — nearly 200,000 more than were requested in 2011 and more than double the number for 2004, the earliest year for which statistics were provided.
The numbers were already higher than usual in the first 10 months of 2012, but surged after President Barack Obama won re-election in November and skyrocketed in the days after the Dec. 14 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six adults.
The dramatic spike is likely fueled by fear that greater gun control laws may be passed after the Connecticut shooting.
"I don't think it has anything to do with the national tragedy. It's not the direct cause," said Marion Hammer, the chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association in Florida. "The direct cause is when politicians call for gun bans, that creates fear."-- Aaron Sharockman