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Thank you for your informative video. Is there a way to use TreeConnect to show the actual source record when the url to the site brings up a search form and additional steps must be taken to reach the desired record? My research is primarily in the Danish Archives on the arkivalieronline.dk website. These records are not indexed by name of person, but by record type (parish records or census), county, parish, and time period. When the correct parish register is identified and shows on screen, a manual search is required to find the desired person. Once the correct record is found, I have not been able to figure out how to reference that particular record with TreeConnect, except, perhaps, to include instructions with the source. I will appreciate any suggestions.The comment raises a basic issue concerning the use of online sources. The issue is the use of documents embedded in digitized sources online where there may be no direct link to the actual record.
Fortunately, this issue is not new. It is essentially the same issue faced for many years in citing to a microfilmed record of the same documents. The commentator is apparently concerned, in part, with the use of an automated sourcing utility, i.e. Tree Connect, and how to specify the exact document searched. This becomes a problem when, as the commentator has noted, the URL of the source is the entire document, not the page being viewed.
The general purpose of a citation to a source is to provide a way for subsequent researchers to view the record to verify the accuracy of the conclusions drawn from the record or to find additional information not extracted by the original researcher. This purpose is served by specifying the source as nearly as possible. This type of record is covered in the book,
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2007.
The specific example, from the Mills book is at page 555. Basically, the idea is to be as complete as possible. Whether or not you choose to follow Mills or use your own system of citation is entirely up to you, but the basic information should be conveyed to those who will view and use your information.
The form used by FamilySearch Family Tree and incorporated into Tree Connect, certainly does not reflect all of the nuances of the vast number of different citations contained in the Mills book. This alone should tell you that some adaptation is and will be necessary. The fact that there would be any citation is a dramatically valuable step in the process of genealogical research, quibbling about the form of the citation only leads to discouragement on the part of researchers.
I suggest that the commentator has already devised a solution to the problem posed, that is to explain how the record was found in the source cited.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (November 6, 2005) - The ETSU women's tennis team wrapped up their fall competition schedule over the weekend at the second annual Kitty Harrison Invitational at the University of North Carolina. ETSU was represented by Sandie Knight (
"This is the first time we have had individual wins against top 20 teams and previous All Americans," said head women's tennis coach Steve Brooks. "This is definitely a step in the right direction for ETSU women's tennis and a great way to end our fall competition."
On Friday, Knight took on the No. 44 ranked Ashley Davis of
Byrne took on Sierra Poske of Wake Forest in her first match on Friday and lost, 6-2, 6-4, before facing off against Inga Beerman of Virginia Tech and falling 6-3, 6-1. On Saturday Byrne came out strong and got the victory over
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Keeping the Warblers alive.
According to TVLine, there's a battle for Blaine (Darren Criss) brewing when Nolan Gerard Funk's character Hunter hits the seventh episode titled "Dynamic Duets." It seems Hunter is the new lead singer for The Dalton Academy's Warblers - You know, Blaine's old stomping grounds – and he wants Blaine back in the fold.
Word is, Hunter is straight, so it won't be a battle for his heart, but the newbie does want Blaine's vocal talents for a national championship. Blaine was just lamenting to Sam (Chord Overstreet) about transferring to McKinley solely for Kurt. Now that he's gone, will Blaine return to his roots, or will Sam's friendship and his newly elected position as Student Council president be enough to keep him around?
Funk has previously appeared on "Warehouse 13" and "Angels in America." He was also seen in the movie "House at the End of the Street."
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This section summarizes the potential effects of climate change on the components
of the water balance and their variability over time.
Precipitation is the main driver of variability in the water balance over space
and time, and changes in precipitation have very important implications for
hydrology and water resources. Hydrological variability over time in a catchment
is influenced by variations in precipitation over daily, seasonal, annual, and
decadal time scales. Flood frequency is affected by changes in the year-to-year
variability in precipitation and by changes in short-term rainfall properties
(such as storm rainfall intensity). The frequency of low or drought flows is
affected primarily by changes in the seasonal distribution of precipitation,
year-to-year variability, and the occurrence of prolonged droughts.
TAR WGI Section 2.5 summarizes
studies into trends in precipitation. There are different trends in different
parts of the world, with a general increase in Northern Hemisphere mid- and
high latitudes (particularly in autumn and winter) and a decrease in the tropics
and subtropics in both hemispheres. There is evidence that the frequency of
extreme rainfall has increased in the United States (Karl and Knight, 1998)
and in the UK (Osborn et al., 2000); in both countries, a greater proportion
of precipitation is falling in large events than in earlier decades.
Current climate models simulate a climate change-induced increase in annual
precipitation in high and mid-latitudes and most equatorial regions but a general
decrease in the subtropics (Carter and Hulme, 1999), although across large parts
of the world the changes associated with global warming are small compared to
those resulting from natural multi-decadal variability, even by the 2080s. Changes
in seasonal precipitation are even more spatially variable and depend on changes
in the climatology of a region. In general, the largest percentage precipitation
changes over land are found in high latitudes, some equatorial regions, and
southeast Asia, although there are large differences between climate models.
Until recently, very few projections of possible changes in year-to-year variability
as simulated by climate models have been published, reflecting both the (until
recently) short model runs available and the recognition that climate models
do not necessarily reproduce observed patterns of climatic variability. Recent
developments, however, include the increasing ability of some global climate
models to reproduce features such as El Niño (e.g., Meehl and Washington,
1996) and open up the possibility that it may be feasible to estimate changes
in year-to-year variability. Recent scenarios for the UK, derived from HadCM2
experiments, indicate an increase in the relative variability of seasonal and
annual rainfall totals resulting from global warming (Hulme and Jenkins, 1998).
Potential changes in intense rainfall frequency are difficult to infer from
global climate models, largely because of coarse spatial resolution. However,
there are indications (e.g., Hennessy et al., 1997; McGuffie et al., 1999) that
the frequency of heavy rainfall events generally is likely to increase with
global warming. Confidence in this assertion depends on the confidence with
which global climate models are held. More generally, uncertainty in GCM projections
of precipitation largely determines the uncertainty in estimated impacts on
hydrological systems and water resources.
Increasing temperatures mean that a smaller proportion of precipitation may
fall as snow. In areas where snowfall currently is marginal, snow may cease
to occurwith consequent, very significant, implications (discussed below)
for hydrological regimes. This projection is considerably less uncertain than
possible changes in the magnitude of precipitation.
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Under most circumstances, teams have a hard time matching up well against Naperville Central. On Monday the deck was especially stacked against Waubonsie Valley.
An inexperienced two-win Warriors squad welcomed the talented Redhawks to Aurora Monday night fresh off Naperville Central's heartbreaking loss to Wheaton North on Saturday. The Redhawks (17-3) wasted no time dominating the boards, causing turnovers and storming ahead 35-15 at the half on their way to a 68-35 nonconference road win.
"A game like that can turn into something ugly," Redhawks coach Andy Nussbaum said referring to Saturday's key DVC game that slipped away. "It was nice to get back right away and play."
Naperville Central wasn't at its best shooting in the first half, missing all nine 3-point attempts and shooting 15 of 38 from the floor, but Victoria Trowbridge and Laura Dierking controlled the boards and the Redhawks used second and third chances to build a 17-9 lead after one quarter and a 20-point advantage at the break.
"In our game on Saturday, everything did not click," said Dierking, who led all scorers with all 11 of her points in the first half and also had 6 offensive rebounds in the first half. "We wanted to focus on each part of our game for this game and this helped us come back together after that loss."
Naperville Central was focused Monday, especially on the glass, where Dierking and Trowbridge combined for 15 rebounds and the Redhawks held a 19-7 edge on the offensive end.
"I just always try and go for the ball and do whatever I can," said the 5-foot-11 senior forward. "We do our best when everyone rebounds and we have second and third shots. We feel more in control."
Waubonsie Valley coach Dave Owles was frustrated that the Redhawks seemed to want those rebounds a little more in the first half.
"At the half we were frustrated," he said. "We were down 20 not because they outexecuted us but because they outworked us. They played Saturday and I think they were probably a little ticked off. We bared the brunt of it tonight."
The Warriors, who were led by 7 points apiece from Morgan Grastorf and Elexus Brownlee, did a better job on the boards in the second half but that's when the visitors used defense and some 3-pointers to stay in command.
Naperville Central's Cierra Stanciel had three baskets in the third quarter including a pair of steals that she converted into back-to-back layups on her way to a game high 14 points and 5 steals. Emily Kraft and Madison O'Flynn each added a pair of 3-pointers off the bench for the Redhawks, who emptied their bench in the second half but kept up scoring points in bunches.
"In the first half they outworked us and in the second half they made their shots," Owles said of the Redhawks. "They're a good team. They're talented in the backcourt and the frontcourt."


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During this past Monday's Bachelorette show – The Men Tell All episode, both Jason Mesnick and Molly Melaney declared their love for one another on national television. Even though it's only been about six months, Mesnick said, "I'm really in love with Molly. She's completely different from anybody else I've ever dated."
Molly also added, "I would marry Jason tomorrow. I'm so crazy about him. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him."
Even though Jason and Molly both reside in different states, Jason is certain that wedding bells are in their future. The duo manage to see each other at least every other weekend. According to Jason, the plan is for Molly to relocate from Milwaukee to Seattle eventually.
Chris Harrison, host of last spring's Bachelor finale where Mesnick dumped ex Melissa Rycroft, mentioned that it was "the most controversial moment in this show's history." "Was all that heartache worthwhile", he then asked.
"What we have gone through … just absolutely ripped to shreds…" replied Molly "It was definitely tough on me." Mesnick added that "it was a bigger backlash than I thought." But he said he would endure even more scrutiny if that was what it took to be with Molly.
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Jack S. Futterman Oral History
Part IV- Back To Candler & New Duties
Q: One thing I noticed, when you first came back from the war, before you took that job as chief of the Control Branch, they had you in another job for about three months called Procedural Consultant, and I was wondering what that was?
Oh yes, I had forgotten about that. As I said, during the war and before we went away, we were assured by Tom McDonald-- he used to write me occasionally when I was in the service-- that the personnel office and the top staff had worked out this promotion in absentia policy. The theory was that individuals wouldn't suffer because of their service. They would be considered in the same way as if they had been here. And so it turned out that George Leibowitz, who had always been my assistant when I went up and down, took my place. He didn't go into the service, he was married and they had children. Anyway, he took my job. And then when Lou Baker was moved up to Procedures, he took Lou Baker's spot; I wasn't there. But he took it on a permanent basis. When I got back, they did not have an appropriate slot, so they temporarily had me in Procedures. I wrote procedures. I was very specific in the procedures. I would say, pick up your pen with your left hand so that you make sure there's ink in it and then the right hand for a while. Do it just like you spell out a program for a computer so that the computer knows what it's supposed to do as a result of these series of actions and there are no questions that the computer has to deal with.
Then I got this job and it was kind of interesting. The Production and Control Branch, as I said, had been maintained by a fellow named Ed Whitney. I knew him, but I didn't know much about him because he was that kind of a guy. He seemed to be an intellectual type, not our kind, exactly. He was an Englishman. I knew he lived for a long time in England. He was a stick-in-the-mud. Anyway, he resided in this office and he had to submit whatever budget was required. He had no interest in anybody else. Joe Kreps used to say, "he made our budget, but he didn't want to ask me about what we needed." He did not want to contaminate it. I visualized him with a slide rule. Just sitting at his desk working with a slide rule and figuring all kinds of figures. This was before adding machines and computers and all that. He delivered the DAO's budget to the financial office, of which I later became the head. But he left in 1941.
When I got there, it was a dormant organization. The only function that it had was a nominal office of Production and Control, which was that simple making out a dozen cards for each block, and they used to take the card out each time they completed that operation and send it up so that it could be reported on the Production Report that showed so many blocks through operations, three, four, five, etc. This was the production report and that was the sole function of that unit as far as I know.
So it was a dormant unit and whatever needed to be done in the way of necessary paperwork for budgeting purposes was handled in the way Whitney handled it. Without regard to the actual productivity record, etc. Now I'm overstating that a little. Because when I got there, they had a rudimentary approach to the production control system in which we would get production reports on the operations which could be reported. I forget what they were, but all the manual operations. We had assigned workloads that reflected each step in the manual process of handling the work that was controlled by the system. You know, how many hours and minutes for the total production and how many people and how many hours and minutes for this step and that step. So we had a long list of operations on which we ostensibly knew how many people worked on it and what they produced so we could develop a relationship between the workload and the manpower.
Q: Is that something you introduced then, basically?
I don't recall my introducing it, particularly. What I do take credit for is greatly improving it, I greatly improved it--orders of magnitude. It became a real diagnostic tool of our requirements. So much so that Mr. Kreps did not have the occasion to complain about not being able to make reports. But he would come and argue with me about whether the data truly reflected the workloads. We did not have any basic problem in that. It became the basis for our production report for our budget. But much more than that, it became an analytical way of seeing where problems existed and seeing where methods and opportunities were to get greater utilization of our manpower.
Q: You began to use it as a workload management tool?
Yes, and to tie in with methods, the input of management was where I began to feel I made a contribution.
I was a specialist in taking over jobs that had been vacant for a while. This is a job that technically was occupied by Charlie Erisman who I mentioned earlier in the example of replacing McElvain who was then on leave to SSA. Roy Wynkoop, was sort of an Executive Officer to Arthur Altmeyer and Bill Mitchell and the Commissioner's Office. They had very little staff. Roy was way up, overseeing BOASI, and he practically was the staff for Welfare and for the Children's Bureau and Public Assistance, which were the other parts of SSA at that time. Wynkoop was seriously ill several times and he was out for an extended period of time, several years. Erisman took over that job. When he came back from this, he went to DAO, which was the first time he had ever been in DAO. He was an accountant, a lawyer and an operator.
Q: Was this kind of like workload reporting?
No, no, it wasn't. I did establish the workload reporting myself. This was to establish the controls to balance the work as it went through.
The way you did it was, let's say you had a section of General Motors reports, you would take General Motors' total on the block and you would punch up a card which would indicate how many items were in that block and what the total of wages should be. As you processed that work after punching and verifying into tabulating, you were testing whether the punch cards actually added up to the same totals. If they did not add to the same totals, then their function was to find out which cards were wrong. If the total of that employer was out of wack, you offset it and would try to identify it or you would correct it. They identified which card, if it was only one card, you would look to see whether the Production Control operator miskeyed it, or the punch card operator and the verifier had read it wrong. You set those things up for correction. And so you went through the block, established a new total, made your corrections and ran them again.
That was Production Control. They ran a daily report for the front office. And Sol Kreps would read it. The report would merely show how many blocks were sent in to process. They knew what operation they were at because after each operation the Production Control card was sent back up to this unit. They could tell you at what operation the block was, and they would also have a record of the production control report from their control files, which would show how many millions of dollars of earnings had been processed so far for the same quarter or whatever.
As I said, they would make subtractions to show how much was in suspense. And so theoretically, they knew over the years how many billions of dollars of earnings had been reported, processed and posted, and what percentage and what amount of the dollars were in suspense. Because at one time they were making all kinds of misinformation and distortions about suspensions. Obviously at the beginning there were a lot wrong numbers, reporting with wrong numbers and wrong names. And so we had a lot of blanks, we called them John Doe's, and the rejects were reported under a name or number that didn't match, that was the distinction. We knew what percent and it usually was a small percent, especially after we had processed it. We would make sure that we had what the employer reported. If that was not enough, we went back to the employer with the information and we asked them for whatever information they had. It took a long time for this process to work itself out. But Social Security was attacked because of errors in these old records. It was without regard to the real effect it would have on someone's benefits. A small error in the amount of earnings for any given year normally would have very little effect on the benefit when you did calculations over a number of years. That kind of attack came on in later years.
So I think that we made a lot of progress in terms of beginning to establish our recordkeeping; to make more rational the procedures that came out of the Methods Branch, which I'm not sure I mentioned before. Although remember I did say Warren Ives became the head, the first head of the Methods Branch. You did ask me about that little thing in my record that showed that I spent a couple of months in the Methods Branch.
Q: Right.
The Methods Branch, in effect, was for spelling out the procedures; because, you know we wanted uniformity. Not so much uniformity that they picked things up with their left hand, but precisely what to enter on each line so that whoever did the entry was not using subjective judgment when objective judgments were required.
Control Branch
Q: You want to talk about your work in the Control Branch?
We did go through the early days and in the process of trying to name names that you may or may not have benchmarks on or have heard of before, and it may open that which you may want to explore.
I had mentioned to you my early days in Social Security, 1936, when I came as a Grade 2 Statistical Clerk. How I became an acting Group Leader at Grade 4, but actually Grade 2. And how I became acting Grade 5 as a supervisor after five weeks, and how I became a Grade 9 or acting Grade 9, or a Grade 11 in establishing the first Region, with Leo Synder as the Chief and I was the Assistant Chief. And how I had to move back to Review when in 1938 Sol Kreps, whose name I mentioned, who later became head of the mechanical sections in the Division of Accounting Operations, and a fellow by the name of George Smith, came in.
Now, Sol Kreps was a member of a group that included Joe Fay, Tom McDonald and others high in DAO at that time. George Smith was not. He was sort of a bookkeeper type, and he did not make any great mark that I recollect. He was a efficient, decent person. Tried to do his job, but I don't think he ever became intimately involved with this so-called group at the top, which was Joe Fay, Tom McDonald, Lew Sheild, Glen Duey, Warren Irons, Lou Baker, George Moriarity and Barney Nolan. That's what I've covered so far.
And I was sort of bumped down to the chief of the Review and Adjustment of the General Files, which was sort of the major unit within Region II, which also had a machine unit, and a receiving and control unit. And under Adjustments, were the files, correspondence, all kinds of adjustments, and everything in fact, but the purely receiving function of receiving returns, wage returns, and establishing controls, and the machine section, which was then IBM tabulating equipment. There were punchers, verifiers, and tabulators and the earliest collator that existed.
Q: That was really a Grade 9 job wasn't it?
A nine or eleven I think it was. An eleven. And by this time they brought in Joe Kreps in 1938 and another guy named Schmitts, who was from that kind of background, but not from this group that had been together in prior government service.
So I had two assistants to Leo Synder and, I'm a little hazy about how Leo Synder left, he got out of the picture, but I know Kreps came in and I was superseded. I was pushed down from this position and I moved into the next important job, which was Chief of Review, Adjustment and General Files. So I had all of the uncharted areas. What remained in the regions was receiving. They would get the mail and get the applications. Punching and tabulating was the Machine Unit. I had Review, Adjustment and General Files. I had the Correspondence Unit. I had all of the adjustments that needed to be made. And the review functions really was the heart of the regional operations.
I can only describe this in terms of what happened to me. I became kind of well-known in a growing organization, not because I was that prominent, because there are people hidden in organizations like that who either by designation or otherwise take it upon themselves to seek "comers."
Anyway we did adopt the 12 regions. And then they abandoned that concept. Who I don't know, Joe Fay and above. And they established a simplified system. Lou Baker was the Chief of the Review and Adjustment Section. He had essentially the functions of the combined regions that I had in the region. He had general files, review and adjustments, which included running down suspensions and rejections and all of that stuff and also writing manuals and handling correspondence. And that was one of the major groupings of the new records division for DAO. The next one was Machine Section. The Machine Section was the one that punched up the cards, tabulated the earnings records, and balanced the blocks of earnings records. And they had the Registration Section. Lou Baker was the head of all the review adjustments and there were problems with it.
Promotion In Absentia During The War
Q: There was the issue about the policy being that while you were away in the service, you would be eligible for regular promotions and you would come back to the job that you were due to have. But that didn't happen. The policy didn't get followed. I want you to tell me that story.
Well, I think early in the War even before I entered it, I could be wrong about that part of it, in DAO we established a promotion policy that was in a sense idealistic. It was one that the longer it went on, the more impractical it became. Give them credit, the intentions were right. I don't know whether they, they being whoever was the one who could make the decisions in these promotional matters, was confident that if there was a need for deviation, they'd find a basis for it. After all, there was no hard and fast rules that would govern who you would select, but in general it was known as the "promotion in absentia process." The obvious thing was they were trying to assure the veterans, those who went into service, that they would not lose anything. There was not a great deal of discussion about it except within the group that had to put it out in words when describing the policy. That was widely distributed in terms of knowledge to all people at all levels.
Now you are referring to some remarks that I made, that when I got back, it was invoked at times, but very erratically. I think my service terminated December 31, 1945. My last actual service date with was the end of November. I think it was the last bit of my service at Fort Skyler, which was where I went to from overseas. This was part of the procedure, at least for the officers. They got 30 days paid leave at the end of their actual discharge. Then add 30 days and that was the date your service ended. During that period of December, or maybe in the last part of November, I just dropped by to talk to Tom McDonald. He told me: "Why of course, you will get this job." The job in question was the one I had set up with Lou Baker after the reorganization of about 1939. I had set up the Wage Records Branch.
In that reorganization we went functional. The Machine Division where the cards were punched and tabulated and all the machine operations, were one in the Machine Division. All the higher-grade major clerical and correspondence and that kind of thing was in the Wage Records Branch. Then there was a minor operating function connected with the Control Branch, which I later headed. All the clerical operations: filing, scouting, resolving issues, making adjustments, handling John Doe's, and answering all the correspondence, was in the Wage Records Branch. I set that up with Lou Baker. Lou Baker was the chief. I was the Assistant Chief, and each of us had two assistant chiefs. They worked on days and I, technically, was on nights, and I had two assistant chiefs. One was for Files, and the other one was for Adjustments. In that setup, I can't give you all four now, but my former assistant, George Leibowitz, who was a lifelong friend from then, and died earlier this year, who had all along been in my . . .
Q: Shadow?
Not my shadow.
Q: One step behind you.
Yes, just one step behind me. George Leibowitz, was Assistant Chief for Adjustments, not for Review Adjustment and General Files, but just for Adjustments, under Baker in the morning, but under both of us. I don't know who was filling it at this time; I'm confused about the time. Well the job which I would have gotten, because I was the Assistant, the job in Review Adjustment and General Files, opened while I was in the service and he got it.
Q: Leibowitz got it?
Yes. When I came back, I was told I would get that job because Leibowitz had left to get a promotion, I guess it was a promotion, with Alvin David in Program Analysis. I was told when I checked in November with McDonald: "Of course, you get that job." I should have gotten it immediately when I came back, but I didn't. As a matter of fact, I know why. As I told you, Lew Sheild, who was in the service too, came back and he wanted that job after I had . . .
Q: Talked to McDonald about it?
Yes, and I was assured: "Sure, you get that." He told me later that Lew Sheild came in and talked to Joe Fay who knew Sheild from way back as they were brought in together. Sheild was not a strong man by any means. I'm not being unfair. So he got it. They had installed him when I came back, without telling me.
Then they opened this job which had been dormant for three years. There was no job there, head of the Control Branch. That wasn't the prime consideration to promotion in absentia. If you are going to truly have this, you document it. Even though it's a phantom body, you now say when this job became vacant, this is where it theoretically is. If you want to move him out of there, you have to put him someplace else to free that up. It wasn't that kind of thing, and I think they made sort of an effort. If I was in on any debate on this thing, I certainly would have supported the idea. I hope I would have indicated that this kind of arrangement could only stand for a very short period, because you then begin to erect an edifice on top of a lot of conjectures which gets you in the land of never-never before very long because you're moving phantom bodies around and you just never can merely do it. Besides, think of the kind of problem one would have with somebody who did not get into the service, like George Leibowitz, who moved up into places I would have been, including the Alvin David job, incidentally, compared to Lew Sheild who was in the service. It's all well and good to promise people who went into the service that they would get the promotions they would have gotten, but then how do you make these decisions? At some point you're letting your heart get in the way of your brain. Obviously after three or four years this becomes hard to do when Leibowitz who has been on the job, he was a competent, able person, has been functioning and getting all of this experience. Then you're taking somebody who theoretically four years earlier was capable of a certain job, who is not particularly able, but moves ahead basically on seniority and so forth. After a while knowledge becomes important and basic ability which is not always apparent early on.
I know that's not what you asked me. So I would grade it this way. I would say A for ideals, C-minus for follow-through to really understand the kind of commitment they made in terms of designing a system, and probably D for actually doing it at individual levels. In mass levels maybe. I don't recollect myself how it worked out on just ordinary Joe's who went into the service and came back as a 2 and when they came back whether they got a 3 or not or 4 or whatever. I suspect that it was more effective at that level where one could make that commitment. And probably if one thinks about it and one realizes that such a system cannot be perfect, that's the place where you would want it to be at least better. I think on the whole, it was a desirable thing to announce one's intentions and to really put yourself in the position where if somebody felt that you did not do that, he could come back and say: "you promised, you promised." It's not going to happen too often at the higher levels. It happened with Lew Sheild, but that was his lifestyle. I hate to speak about the dead. In a way I'm not praising him, but I'm really running him down a little.
Lou Baker became the Methods Chief during that time. He had moved up to the chief of the Wage Records Branch, or section, or whatever, and that was one of the three major organizations in the Division of Accounting Operations, the operating sector. The Methods Section was located next to the offices of Tom McDonald and Joe Fay, the heads of the organization. I told you about Lew Sheild who got it.
But about the time I came back, I think George Leibowitz, my deputy, was occupying that job. Up to the point when I went in the service, he had gone in my wake. And when I came back, he was sitting in that job. And they had a problem where to put me. And they put me in the job that had existed for a certain guy (I forget his name now); it will come to me. But he was the control officer for the Division of Accounting Operations, called the Control Branch. It was empty; they hadn't filled it for 4 years, indicating their assessment of it. But it had a higher grade, I think a GS-12, or something like that.
Q: So you moved into that job?
Yes. But I would have rather had the other job, the Wage Records Branch was several thousand people. And I was both a good supervisor and administrative type, in terms of operating, but also a first-rate staff person. And I liked both. Anyway, I made quite a bit out of this. And we became sort of a model organization. Not widely known thoughout the Government, but whenever it was exposed to people, their eyes really popped.
Q: The control thing?
The control thing. You know, the way we priced out budgets, and the background. We had a production-control system, and we had a unit-price system.
Q: Which were innovations, in many ways?
Well, there was a movement toward budgeting in a certain way. A functional budget.
Q: So you introduced it at DAO?
I applied it. It was there in a very broad way in SSA's budget. But we had it down so that it could be done today, calculated today; almost wholly the method that I used could have been put right on the computer today. Because we established unit costs from prior years experience. We defined what the elements were; we got reporting on how many hours went into that element, and we had the grades of the people involved, not only the hours, but the elements of pay. And so we could put a unit cost on it, and then made a subjective judgment about whether it was going to be less or more for the current year, defining the elements that would make for a difference, and always projecting in it some element of improved efficiency and lower cost. But offsetting sometimes a higher cost because of certain other factors.
That job had been vacant, we're talking about the budget job at SSA, and it had been operated by a committee that operated by either consensus or by individual action. There were three people there under Charlie Erisman who was responsible for parts of the SSA budget. One was Hank Brooks who was responsible for the field offices, making out the budget for them, drafting it. Lou Jones was responsible for the DAO. Cliff Gross was responsible for the area offices. Although we had an integrated budget, we certainly did not have an integrated budget operation. These were three very unlike characters. Only one of them is still alive, Cliff Gross. And I won't go into that, but they operated as a triumvirate, in effect dividing the territory into three and they operated as if the budget was for three different organizations. I'm exaggerating, but sometimes to make a point, he carried it to its extreme. And Charlie Erisman was the one who would have, I assume, when he was there, brought things together and decided on the unified total.
Although I was no accountant, I could keep my own books if I had to. I was well acquainted with the law in general. I sure did not have technical understanding of the claims process, or the technical aspects of the law and all the inside stuff one would acquire in translating the requirements into a budget. I operated from the first day simply by listening. I listened and made them explain it. None of it was ever that hard, I was not too dumb to know it.
I became known, I think, as one of the very best budget analysts in government, and for budgets based on production figures. But the field also had a production record that was maintained by how many cases we turned in and how many employees, etc. The area offices were an easy candidate for the major requirements of the staff, and we had what we called the workload budget. It was all built up on this time series so that one could make the case for the workload. We had composite workload figures, and we would simplify things for the Congress. We calculated workload increases, manpower requirements, productivity increases, etc.
And we had a lickety-split operation that pretty soon became very useful to people making public policy. At least 90 percent had come to me and wanted me to help them through a provision to put such and such a requirement upon the agency. And increasingly, very slowly, we would be involved in getting a feeling for what they were leaning to in the way of provisions.


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Friday, May 21, 2010
Can't stop the cat cleaning
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So, you want a cat that does your cleaning? Good luck with that. I share an apartment with two cats and I've yet to bust them with a handkerchief and mop. But I have busted them doing.... other things. Like ralphing on my door jamb and dragging their rear across the freshly mopped floor. Maybe I just need a little more brandy? Then I suppose I'll be seeing all kinds of stuff!
I've stitched two of these "lucky" kittens - the Monday and Tuesday designs. There are 7 large kitten patterns for each day of the week - their bodies are comprised of big cross-stitches. There are two smaller patterns that work well as potholders, and another rectangular image with two kittens that says good luck that would be cute as a framed sampler. My set is 1 complete, uncut sheet.
Posted by floresita at 5/21/2010 06:30:00 AM
Labels: cats, cross-stitch, days of the week, DOW, friday, kittens
4 comments:
- janet said...
I bought a set of towels on Ebay several years ago that were made from this pattern, but without the words. Very sweet! And, my cats won't clean either :)
- June 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Debi said...
Love it!
- July 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- cheryl said...
LOVE transfer embroidery, and had to laugh when I saw this one.
I thought to myself, "Good Luck on Friday... cuz I'm gonna need it on Monday!"
Very cute pattern.
- February 15, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- Rent server said...
Loved it!
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Activision is pitching its latest Bond adventure as an immersive, 007 movie-like experience, and it brought in the big guns to make it happen. Along with Craig and Stone, Judi Dench is getting digitized and lending her voice for the role of M, and screenwriter Bruce Feirstein, the man who wrote the screenplays for GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, created an original story for the game.
"James Bond 007: Blood Stone captures the cinematic intensity of a Bond film by immersing players in an intriguing conspiracy that will require them to think and act like James Bond," said David Pokress, Head of Marketing for Licensed Properties, Activision Publishing. "In addition, the game will feature a diverse array of multi-player modes and debut strategic objective-based gameplay that will allow Xbox 360, PS3, and PC players to battle as teams of spies and mercenaries through authentic Bond locales."
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Players can engage in cover-based firefights, lethal hand-to-hand combat and speed their way through explosive adrenaline-fueled driving sequences as they embark on a global chase leading to action on land and sea through Athens, Istanbul, Monaco and Bangkok. Gamers can also feel what it is like to be a 00 agent, as they take the battle online in several robust 16-person multi-player modes that require skill, teamwork and strategy as players compete in matches that will have spies battling mercenaries.In addition to becoming a Bond girl for the game, Joss Stone also provides an original soundtrack for Blood Stone. The game is being developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PCs by Bizarre Creations, makers of Blur and Project Gotham Racing. A release window has not been announced.
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Sumney came through in a big way as she set a personal-best time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase to finish fifth in the third section of the race. She posted a time of 10:18.13, which at the time of the first race ending was 18th in the region. The top 48 times qualify for the regional race, but there are still meets to be run but her time puts her in contention for a coveted spot. Pippa Wolven of Florida State won the section with a time of 10:06.45.
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A state appeals court has ruled in The Blade's favor and ordered the City of Toledo to release a police department gang-turf map, but a top Bell administration official promised an appeal.
In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth District Court of Appeals in Toledo concluded that the gang map was not exempt from disclosure under Ohio public-records law. The court ordered the city to turn it over to The Blade within 10 days of its decision, which was dated Friday, but not posted on the court's Web site until this week.
Judges Mark Pietrykowski and Thomas Osowik — both Democrats — voted to release the map. A dissenting vote was cast by Stephen Yarbrough, a Republican.
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The Toledo Police Department had refused the newspaper's July, 2012, request for a copy of the map on the grounds that the map "is a confidential law-enforcement investigatory record," protected under state law, the release of which could interfere with investigation efforts and thus is protected under the state law.
John Robinson Block, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Blade, said Wednesday night that it is time that Mayor Mike Bell and city police officials make the gang map public and inform Toledoans about the extent of the city's gang problem.
"We're gratified that two appeals court judges overruled the faulty legal reasoning of their colleague, a man whom The Blade did not endorse for election," Mr. Block said. "Openness in government, essential for democracy, has been eroded in Toledo the past four years. We hope that will now change."
Meanwhile, the three top challengers trying to replace Mayor Bell on election day later this year used the decision as a means to paint the mayor as nontransparent with the public.
Mr. Bell, a political independent, said he withheld the document and has decided to appeal the court decision to protect the public and police.
"We really do believe this particular document is protected because of what it does for the police," the mayor said. "I don't work off the politics. I work off of what's right for the citizens, and if this causes me political complications, so be it."
Toledo spokesman Jen Sorgenfrei said the city would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Ohio, which is composed of six Republicans and one Democrat.
"Accordingly, we consider this to be pending litigation and those will be all the comments at this time," Ms. Sorgenfrei said.
"The mayor has made many decisions over the course of his administration that were in the best interest of the community and the best interest of public safety," she said. "It would be hard to argue that they were politically convenient decisions."
Under Ohio public-records law, confidential law-enforcement investigatory records are exempt from disclosure, but in this case the appeals court held that the gang map did not fall into that category because the map did not reveal any confidential investigatory technique or procedure, and it was not created as work product for a pending or highly probable criminal prosecution.
The court relied heavily on testimony from Toledo police Officer William Noon, a member of the department's Gang Task Force, who said he created the map based on information from confidential informants, surveillance, crime reports, field interviews, and other investigative work.
"Other than revealing that the police department knows where the gangs operate, Officer Noon stated that nothing on the map identifies any location that the Toledo Police Department is surveilling," stated the opinion written by Judge Pietrykowski. "Accordingly, it is undisputed from the record that release of the map would not reveal any specific confidential investigatory technique or procedure."
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The map was created "to be used as a tool or reference," the judges said. "It does not record actual crimes or note the addresses of locations believed to be associated with criminal activity. It has never been used as an exhibit or evidence in any case, although it was shown to a U.S. attorney in connection with a case."
In a dissenting opinion twice as long as the majority decision, Judge Yarbrough wrote that he believed the gang map was a "paradigm example" of "specific investigatory work product" exempt from disclosure.
"…Any judicial construction [of the public records law] must be balanced against the compelling need to let police investigators do their jobs effectively," Judge Yarbrough wrote in his 20-page dissent. "Given the reality of violent street crime, public safety requires it." He said the map may not appear to contain information that needs to be kept confidential, but that may not be the case.
"The map, to our eyes, may seem 'unremarkable,' but we should not so lightly depreciate the value of an investigative asset that took 15 months of intelligence work to complete," Judge Yarbrough wrote. "Worse, of course, is what a determined gang member might glean from the map, or some marking on it, if it is reproduced in the newspaper."
David Marburger, a partner in the Cleveland law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP, who co-authored Access with Attitude, a 350-page "advocate's guide to freedom of information in Ohio," said the newspaper might have difficulty winning in the Supreme Court of Ohio, given the court's make-up and its record in other law-enforcement cases.
"I agree with the majority in your case and I think to some extent this is unlikely to pose a threat to the city's ability to impose the law against gang members where the law would need to be enforced," Mr. Marburger said. "I really doubt it would tip off the gang members to behave in some way that would allow them to evade arrest or prosecution. At the same time, the dissent and the majority each have strong points."
While finding in favor of The Blade, Judges Pietrykowski and Osowik declined to award the newspaper attorney's fees or damages it had sought, saying in part that the police department's argument that the map was exempt from disclosure "was not unreasonable. … That is, the only police records that are clearly subject to immediate release as public records are ongoing routine offense and incident reports."
In late April, The Blade published its own gang map, created with the assistance of active and former gang members, as part of a four-day series of stories.
Attorney Fritz Byers, The Blade's counsel in open government cases, said it was regrettable that the Bell administration resisted The Blade's efforts to obtain the map on behalf of the public, but also gratifying to have confirmation that the resistance was illegal.
"The Court of Appeals decision reflects and serves both the essential legal principles of open government that are reflected in Ohio's public-records laws and the substantial public interest in being informed, not only of the realities of life in our city, but also the wisdom and soundness of the city's assessments about how to deploy its resources," Mr. Byers said.
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Toledo City Councilmen Joe McNamara and D. Michael Collins, and Lucas County Auditor Anita Lopez — the main candidates running for mayor along with Mr. Bell — each praised the appellate court's decision.
Mr. McNamara, a Democrat, said the majority opinion was well-written and he does not support an appeal.
"It's past time we have a mayor who is open and transparent with the public," he said. "We can't stop crime by pretending it's not there. Based on the description of the gang map from this decision, it doesn't put anyone at risk and it is something people in the neighborhoods already know, so I think more information is good because gangs are a community problem that need a community solution."
"Taxpayers and Toledoans should know where the major areas of crime are taking place in our community," said Ms. Lopez, also a Democrat. "This is about the mayor's responsibility to protect citizens. If you are unwilling to share where the problems are, then how are we going to hold you accountable?"
Mr. Collins, a political independent like the mayor and a former Toledo police officer, said it was wrong of Mr. Bell and Toledo Police Chief Derrick Diggs to deny the newspaper's request.
"I would sincerely hope that this administration and future administrations will have learned a lesson," he said. "The public has a right to know and the media plays a legitimate role in sharing that information, and anything less is unacceptable, and clearly, this defines Mayor Bell and the police department's disregard for legitimate transparency."
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Happy Movember! It's the delightful month when we celebrate all things mustache. And you thought November was all about turkeys -- heck no. It's about facial hair, too. This year I'm finally ready to get on board. I mean in appreciating mustaches, not growing one myself. I wasn't always into mustaches, but over the years they've grown on me. (Ha! Wish you were laughing as hard as I am over that one.) And now it's hard to find a male celeb whose mug isn't improved by a 'stache. It's so cheeky! Let's have a gander at some of the sexiest mustachioed men we've seen lately.
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Whoever, having been sentenced to pay a fine, willfully fails to pay the fine, shall be fined not more than twice the amount of the unpaid balance of the fine or $10,000, whichever is greater, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(2), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2006.)
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To really blend and unify a building with its closer environment, local materials and local people are needed to make it happen. When Vin Varavarn Architects were called to design the Botanica Offices & Showroom right next to Kao Yai National Park in Tailand that was the guiding concept. Made from locally available materials like stone, wood, and bamboo, the architects decided to create two long opposite buildings that bring nature inside and create a cool and relaxing working atmosphere.
The Botanica Office & Showroom is located very close to Khao Yai National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in the Pakchong District of Thailand. The area is famous for its luscious forests and waterfalls, outdoor activities like trekking or bird watching, and Thai Elephants Research and Conservation Centers that reflect a deeply rooted respect for the environment. Simple but astonishing, Botanica's design was constructed using local materials and employing local craftsmanship.
Vin Varavarn Architects decided to create two simple building spaces, one for the sales offices and another to house a showroom, divided by a luscious green space and back stone wall that allows nature to flow across and in between them. The two showroom box-spaces were built with bamboo walls painted in shiny black to create a stark contrast with the local grey stones and concrete floors. Contrasting with the latter, the sales offices' building is airy and full of natural light, which lends itself to good relationships between customers and the company.
Its floor to ceiling windows were built from long lasting steel frames and offer astonishing views of the luscious Thai National Park. In order to keep a cool and breezy building in the subtropical weather, the windows were designed to open wide and the outside bamboo shutters block the heat from the sun. To make the most of the natural light, Vin Varavarn architects placed a big skylight to ease electric consumption and allow clients and employees fantastic tree tops view.
The grass in between buildings has been left long and wild, letting it move with the wind's rythm, attract local wildlife, and contrast with the Asian Moulmein Lancewood tree line in the middle. A wooden platform swirls across this outdoor space, allowing people to get different views and walk through the site, enjoying a relaxing precious time. Local stone, sustainable wood, and bamboo are the main materials chosen and they were all found nearby to build this fantastic architectural piece.


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Caron Butler scored 17 of his 19 points in the opening quarter when the Clippers shot 77 percent and Los Angeles led all the way in beating the Houston Rockets 106-96 on Wednesday night for their third win in a row.
Blake Griffin had 20 points and 11 rebounds, Chauncey Billups had 19 points, Jamal Crawford scored 13 points and Chris Paul had 10 points and 11 assists as the Clippers started all their regulars after the lineup had been hit by injuries during their recent Grammy road trip.
Chandler Parsons scored 17 points, Jeremy Lin added 14 points and James Anderson had a season-high 14 for the Rockets, who have lost five straight to the Clippers and three of five overall.
James Harden missed the game with a sprained right ankle and sore left knee after stepping on David Lee's left shoe in the fourth quarter against Golden State. Harden is the Rockets' lone All-Star selection.
With the Clippers' powerful starters reunited and shooting their highest percentage in a quarter this season, it wasn't enough that the Rockets shot 50 percent in the first. They still trailed 46-28 as the Clippers scored their most points in a period since 1986.
Los Angeles cooled off in the second but still led 69-49 at the break.
Crawford's 3-pointer pushed the Clippers' lead to 23 points early in the second before the Rockets cut it to 11 points on a basket by Lin. Then Los Angeles closed on a 10-2 run to end the half, punctuated by DeAndre Jordan's one-handed dunk off Paul's alley-oop pass.
Griffin's hook put the Clippers ahead by 22 points early in the third and the Rockets trailed 88-72 heading into the fourth.
The Rockets got within 11 points on two free throws by Anderson early in the fourth before the Clippers' starters returned and stretched their lead.
Butler and Billups were game-time decisions after both had sore lower backs. Paul recently returned after missing 12 games with a bruised right knee cap, while Griffin came back after missing a couple games with a strained left hamstring.
NOTES: The Clippers went 4-4 on their recent Grammy road trip, third-best in 13 seasons of making the annual February trek. Their best record of 4-2 came last year and in 2006. ... The Clippers scored 47 points in a quarter on March 7, 1986, against San Antonio. ... The Rockets fell to 11-18 on the road. ... The Clippers improved to 21-5 at home. They are the designated visiting team for Thursday's game against the Lakers.


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A House Republican delegation visited Afghanistan, Speaker John Boehner's office said Monday, to assess the country's security situation.
Here's Boehner's statement:
"Since shortly after 9/11," the Ohio Republican said, "our troops have fought to bring peace and security to Afghanistan and to ensure it can never again be used as a safe haven for terrorists to attack the United States.
"Many Americans have sacrificed to secure these goals, and far too many have made the ultimate sacrifice or suffered life-changing wounds in the past twelve years of fighting. Now, the Afghans are poised to elect a new government for the first time in their history. We must honor the sacrifices of the Americans and Afghans who have given so much to reach this point and continue our work together."
Boehner's group received high level briefings, and was included Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., Natural Resources Committee Chairman 'Doc' Hastings, R-Wash., Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R- Mich., Tom Latham, R-Iowa, Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Steve Womack, R-Ark.
The group met with American troops and Ambassador James B. Cunningham and General Joseph F. Dunford.
According to a statement from Boehner's office, "The delegation sent a strong, unequivocal message that the House of Representatives wants to maintain a right-sized presence in Afghanistan to successfully complete the work that has been done to date, and to honor the sacrifice of thousands of troops and civilians, as well as their families.
"Discussions focused on the impact of the election, the role of American troops going forward, and the continuing economic development of Afghanistan. The visit to Afghanistan is one stop on a trip that focuses on national security, as well as American jobs."


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Let's Peruse All These New Arrested Development Character Posters
A month-early glimpse at how the Bluths are looking these days.
Meet the new Bluths, not quite the same as the old Bluths. Here you see Jason Bateman looking starkly un-Michael-like in one of nine new character posters for Netflix's Arrested Development revival. It'll be a full month before all fifteen new episodes are unleashed on us, but luckily there's plenty in these posters to kindle nostalgic smiles on the faces of casual Arrested fans and even some nuggets to appease the scavenger-hunting obsessives. First off, Michael is not wearing a suit. His hair is really short. He's apparently responsible for reuniting the tribe of self-absorption-made-flesh known as the Bluths. And he looks as unimpressed as ever. Now let's catch up with the rest of the fam.
Someone clearly once told G.O.B. to never change, and he didn't screw something up for once. He seems identical, down to his affinity for magician jargon. Buster, still a behooked manchild, is suddenly wearing shorts and looking vaguely mischievous. Mean shoe/sock game, though, li'l Busty.
Alia Shawkat is a frontrunner for Most Changed Since We Last Hung Out Seven Years Ago, but Maeby's surly exhaustion with her family is intact. Much to our dismay, George Michael has neglected to don a floral button-up shirt two sizes too big for him. Is everything okay, Mr. Manager?
Lucille's quote is far and away the best of all these posters. She's still drinking, and she's wearing an ankle monitor, so maybe she's been back to rehab, with more serious results this time. George Sr. isn't wearing his son's dead wife's maternity clothes, so it appears no one has Pop-Pop in the attic anymore.
Tobias has notably abstained from blueing himself. Lindsay is glamorous and fancy enough that we have to wonder, could she be — gasp! — employed?


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Being then Doing
By Mary Isaacson, RN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Nursing
"Mom, you HAVE to DO something!" Six simple words from my sensitive, 16-year-old daughter initiated my journey toward appreciating who I am. As a nursing professional, I have born witness to the joys and sufferings of humankind. Joy in sharing with a family that a biopsy was negative for cancer; and suffering as another family says good-bye to a loved one. These encounters with joy and suffering occurred within an environment and with a population that I considered familiar; when at the end of the day I simply returned to the safety and security of my private life.
My daughter, Anna, wanted me to venture into the unfamiliar, the unknown; she was urging me to enter the abyss. Doing so required that I relinquish my preconceived notions about others, recognizing that I was no longer the expert. Crossing the chasm demanded that I leave the safety and security of the familiar and establish relationships with strangers. It necessitated that I become the other.
Becoming the other and entering a stranger's world entailed contemplating my personal and historical horizons. My personal horizon recognized that I am a white, middle class female, as well as a wife, mother, and a pediatric nurse educator. My historical horizon elicited childhood experiences of poverty and loss of a father. Yet these historical experiences paled in comparison to the tragedies that the Lakota experienced at the hands of people that looked just like me. My past was a petty mark in the shadow of the current abject poverty of the Lakota community.
The more I learned about the Lakota, the greater my sense of urgency became to DO something. And yet, with this urgency I continued to be plagued with doubts and questions about my ability to DO anything. Would my East River otherness prevent me from being accepted? Would the Lakota see me as another curious white stranger coming to "DO good?"
Wrestling with how the Lakota might view me increased my self-awareness and was essential to keeping my horizon of understanding open to new possibilities. Before jumping into the abyss and becoming the other, it was paramount to consider how many in contemporary society view the Lakota. This acknowledgement of our otherness according to Gadamer (2004) would facilitate my ability "to look beyond what is close at hand — not in order to look away from it but to see it better, within a larger whole and in truer proportion" (p. 304). I felt I was now ready to see.
Deeply etched in my memory is my first journey onto the Pine Ridge Reservation. Shrouded with doubts of acceptance, I did not notice when we officially entered the reservation. However, as I became aware of my surroundings, my fears began to subside. Many of the news articles about the reservation depicted an awful place — full of trash, broken down or abandoned vehicles, and unkempt homes. Did I see these concerns? Yes. Yet, in spite of the unmistakable signatures of poverty, the vast openness and changing topography filled me with an overwhelming sense of serenity. I felt at home.
This feeling of coming home continued throughout my visit. The other, the Lakota, welcomed me, the stranger. Even then, my initial encounters were awkward. I had to temper my normally warm, two-handed, hand "grasp" and be content with a brief, impersonal touching of hands. I needed to consciously mitigate my talkative nature and actively listen to their stories about living on the reservation. I began to listen "not with a sense of personal power to 'straighten things out' but with a sense of God's presence which alone can heal" (Palmer, 1994, p. 134).
By replacing my need to DO something to simply BEING, I balanced my earlier sense of urgency with patience (Johnson, 2000). I reflected on the many stories — about struggles to stay sober, to feed families, to keep their children safe. I marveled at their delightful sense of humor and questioned how they could laugh when faced with such adversity. I realized that the Lakota weren't asking me to DO anything. They simply wanted me to hear and to appreciate what life is like on the reservation.
That epiphany left me wondering if I would have the fortitude to continue if I were in these same circumstances. I wondered why we allowed people to live like this in the United States. I wondered: Would I have the courage to act upon the horrific situations that I had just discovered?
My time to leave the reservation arrived before I was ready. I came as a fearful stranger and learned how it felt to be different; to be vulnerable. I learned the meaning of being the other. I discovered that facing the stranger means coming to know who you are — seeing your weaknesses, your scars laid bare. As I faced the stranger it was no longer about DOING something, it was about BEING. It was about developing relationships and acknowledging on a personal level that others exist. I knew that I needed to translate this experience of becoming other to nursing students.
As nurse educators, we teach our students about vulnerable populations. We describe to our students the powerlessness that exists within these populations; but do they ever truly understand what it means? How must those that we consider as strangers feel when they walk into our healthcare system and we do not acknowledge or appreciate their uniqueness; instead we try to mold them to fit into our cookie cutter models of practice? How do I teach students the importance of seeking the relationship first? How do I model authentic presence? How do I teach the importance of BEING then DOING?
Teaching BEING then DOING came with the help of many members of the Lakota community. One memorable occasion occurred when our hosts told us to "Bring the nursing students to the church to eat and enjoy the conversation." The dinner was held in a pastoral church setting, nestled on one of the many vistas overlooking the Badlands. As we neared the church, the van that moments earlier had been buzzing with conversation was now still. Causing the angst was the scene before us — a pasture, now turned parking lot, filled with vehicles. I remember looking in the rearview mirror and smiling at the group, trying to send nonverbal cues of reassurance. We walked into the guild hall, filled to capacity with Lakota from the area. The delicious aroma of soup, chicken, and fry bread filled the air. One student writes,
I felt vulnerable when we first entered the building near the Episcopal Church to share our midday meal with the church members. All of a sudden, we were surrounded by all of these Lakota people, a people of a different culture, and we were not able to sit next to one another … I was nervous about how I really needed to focus on demonstrating proper respect … I felt my actions would be more noticeable in such a small space. I then was struck by the thought that this must be the way they felt off the reservation. They must feel like the stranger, awkward and out of place, afraid of making a move that the local people might see as offensive. Then I reflected on the warmth and kindness that I had so far experienced … and realized that I just needed to relax. I was able to cope after thinking about this … to become completely comfortable … Part of me knew that people appreciate consideration of their own unique needs and background, but the way that the Lakota people reached out to make us comfortable in their homes made me realize just how comforting even small gestures of familiarity and acceptance are.
Teaching students to BE so that they can DO is not something I can show them with a textbook. Learning to face the stranger teaches students the importance of BEING then DOING.
Gadamer, H.-G. (2004). Truth and method (J. Weinsheimer & D. G. Marshall, Trans.). (Rev., 2nd ed.). London: Continuum. (Original work published in 1960.)
Johnson, G. S. (2000). Beyond guilt: Christian response to suffering. Cambridge, MA: Adventure Publications.
Palmer, P. J. (1994). The company of strangers: Christians and the renewal of America's public life. New York, NY: The Crossroad Publishing Company.


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Finland beats Austria 8-4 in Olympic hockey
Finland beats Austria 8-4 in Olympic hockey
Feb. 13, 2014
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Finland had more than enough offensive talent to overcome its slow start against Austria, even with Teemu Selanne back in the dressing room.
Jarkko Immonen and Mikael Granlund scored two goals apiece as Finland opened preliminary-round Olympic play with an 8-4 victory over Austria on Thursday.
Jussi Jokinen and Petri Kontiola each had a goal and an assist for the Finns, who put 52 shots on beleaguered Austria goalie Bernhard Starkbaum despite playing the final two periods without Selanne, their captain and the leading scorer in Olympic history.
The 43-year-old 'Finnish Flash' had an assist in the first period of his record-equaling sixth Olympics before sitting out with an upper-body injury. Selanne should be fine for the Finns' next game, team spokesman Janne Lahti said.
"He's an old man, so he needs some rest, more than the other guys," Kontiola said.
Sami Lepisto and Olli Maatta also scored for Finland, which has never lost to Austria at the Olympics. Granlund had a three-point game and defenseman Sami Vatanen had three assists in their Olympic debuts.
Selanne got just eight shifts before apparently having problems with his neck or shoulders. Finland's trainers massaged Selanne on the bench late in the first period, and he didn't return from the first break.
"Maybe he got the bad pillow!" said Sami Vatanen, Selanne's teammate with the Anaheim Ducks.
Even with Selanne ailing, Finland took control with two goals in 8 seconds during the final minute of the first before taking a four-goal lead in the second.
"It's tough to see him get injured, but he'll be OK," Olli Jokinen said of Selanne. "He's a big part of this team, and he's our leader. It's never easy when you lose a guy like him."
The Finns also survived a shaky Olympic debut from Tuukka Rask, the vaunted Boston Bruins goalie who yielded four goals on just 20 shots.
"The first goal, everybody was caught sleeping there," Rask said. "After that second goal, everybody kind of woke up and got back to playing again."
Michael Grabner had three goals in his Olympic debut for Austria. The New York Islanders forward scored 36 seconds into the first period, and Austria had two early leads before Finland took control.
"In case we didn't know what we were up against, we got a reality check," Austrian forward Thomas Vanek said. "You've got to play a certain way, and I think we didn't do it. Our goalie needs to be our best player, and we need to help him more."
Finland is the most consistently successful Olympic nation of the NHL era while winning medals in four of the last five Olympics overall. The Finns have a solid shot at medals again despite placement in Canada's preliminary-round group, and an eight-goal performance in their opener will help their cause.
Austria, which qualified for its first Olympics since 2002, surprised the Finns in the opening minute when Grabner converted a cross-ice pass from Michael Raffl.
Granlund got Finland's first goal on a play set up by Selanne, who took Vatanen's outlet pass and fed Granlund while screening Starkbaum.
Austria went back ahead when Thomas Hundertpfund's shot from behind the net went off Maatta's skate in front and beat Rask, but Lepisto equalized 2:04 later. Maatta put the Finns ahead with a vicious slap shot from the blue line with 35 seconds left in the first period — and Immonen scored 8 seconds later.
Six Austrians are back from their Salt Lake City team along with the Olympic debuts of Grabner and Vanek, his Islanders teammate. Grabner added two goals in the third period for his hat trick.
"I like the big ice, and I just tried to get into open space for my teammates," Grabner said. "Against a good team like Finland, it's tough to come back."


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When it comes to starting your own holiday tradition, there are many ideas out there you can choose. For some it is decorating a tree, sharing a special meal or volunteering. But as Regan McCarthy reports a group of runners is putting a whole new spin on the words "dashing through the snow."


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1. Re: Profilling JBoss with VisualVMPeter Johnson Aug 30, 2011 10:09 AM (in response to Arka Sharma)
VisualVM is not a good tool to use to monitor JBoss AS. VisualVM places a load on JBoss AS and generates a lot of garbage (causing strain on the garbage collector). You would be better off using either JConsole or jstat, or look into Jopr.
2. Re: Profilling JBoss with VisualVMArka Sharma Sep 2, 2011 2:12 AM (in response to Peter Johnson)
Hi Peter,
As you said I have used JConsole to monitor JBoss but now I need to profile JBoss.JProfiler is a commercial tool.I am using VisualVM because it is free.Is there any other free profiler ?
3. Re: Profilling JBoss with VisualVMWolf-Dieter Fink Sep 2, 2011 4:27 AM (in response to Arka Sharma)
Do you check that your JBoss app is running under the same condition as you monitored without whatching VisualVM?
I agree to Peter that VisualVM will weight the results (but BTW every measurement will do this).
You must have clear expectations what you want.
Are you looking for a bug or a special problem, e.g. concurency problems of threads under heavy load will not happen if you use a profiler.
I start with JConsole or jstat to get a picture of memory consumption.
Use a (AOP) Interceptor or special log statements to log duration of calls.
And, if I suppose locking contention, a thread dump.
Profiling will cost a lot of performance, it will be helpful to get snapshots to compare (e.g. memory leaks).
AFAIK Netbeans IDE will have a free profiling tool, maybe the trial version of JProfiler (I'm not sure whether there one still available) will help.
I use a paid version of JProfiler in my last company and it save more money than it costs
Also I would recomend to use the latest JDK version
If you have more informations and special questions your welcome


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Beans, Lentils, Chickpeas & More: 10 Hearty Soups Made with Beans & Legumes
Where would we be without hearty, healthy beans and legumes? They're an essential part of the following 10 soups, offering flavor, texture, and a good dose of fiber. We've got chicken stew with kale and cannellini beans, black-eyed pea soup with collards, lentil soup with lemon yogurt, and more!
• 1 Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Andouille & Collards
• 2 Bean, Bacon and Butternut Squash Soup with Swiss Chard
• 3 Chicken Stew with Kale and Cannellini Beans
• 4 Cuban Black Bean Soup
• 5 Ham Bone, Greens, and Bean Soup
• 6 White Bean and Roasted Squash Soup with Pistou
• 7 Lentil Soup with Lemon Yogurt Cream
• 8 Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew
• 9 Creamy Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Cumin
• 10 Vietnamese Dessert Soup With Mung Beans
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