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My thoughts raced through wondering how and why I had even gone into labor. After all, it was 6.5 weeks early. My body should not have gone into labor. Violet "should" have died in utero. But she didn't. She came out and lived for 28 hours to say "hi" to so many people.
Chalise came today to visit and we walked in the terrible, scorching Memphis heat and she listened while I ran through the garble in my head. It helps so much to talk and sort out the mess, the confusion in my brain and my heart. When we got back to the house there was a box on the porch – labeled "Fragile." We inspected it and saw it was addressed to the Yeouze Family from LeBonheur Children's Hospital. My heart sank into my toes. Chalise offered to open it with me. She carefully carried the box into the house and began pulling at the tape. I gingerly took the envelope off the top of the packing peanuts, opened it, and read, "… Your deep love for your daughters and your family touched many people during Violet's short stay at LeBonheur …" Maybe Child Life Specialists write that to every family who loses a loved one. Or perhaps God was using Violet - even then.
I dug into the box and found the carefully bubble wrapped mold of Violet's hand and foot. Once I saw the molds, I disintegrated into tears. They were perfect little representations of the hands and feet I got to see for too short a time – that I would never get to see again. All this little lines and creases – detail I hadn't had the time to trace with my mind – captured in this white plaster. For a moment, Violet was right there. I could touch her.
Chalise pointed out that the mold was a little bit of the closure from the hospital I so desperately longed for.
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The conceptual background for the film concerns a struggle for psychic control of the population in the post-apocalyptic technoscape of "YKHM City" in the wake of a global nuclear disaster. For the authoritarian government, everything must return to normal, despite the chaos and destruction that rages through the city. Most of the population has already forgotten, except for those imprisoned in the pyscho ward; one resident develops a miniature reactor, which suffers a mini-meltdown, as the other inmates debate the safety of reinstating nuclear power. The ongoing effects of the 3.11.11 triple disaster are clearly on your mind, and embedded in the film. What is your sense of the current moment in Japan, politically and artistically, in regards to nuclear policy and the ongoing effects of the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi?
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Survivors of disaster try to overcome their reality. There are so many supporters, and people going on with their lives. Others who have not faced such a devastating situation will forget with time about traumatic events and lose their memories. I'm the same myself. On the other hand, there are some people who deliberately set out to erase this disaster from people's memory. Although the situation of nuclear contamination, and the possibilities of a similar disaster happening in Japan are definitely not ZERO, some keep saying this is nothing or that it could never happen again. I made a short film called "Echo Never Goes Out": as this title reflect, the effects of things that happened before are never erased, and their impact is neverending. But the worst thing is that our government is actively trying to erase the fact that these things happened in the past, just so we can attract the Olympics to Tokyo. But even before that event can even take place, war or terrorism could happen at any time.
A month after 3.11, I went to Fukushima with friends, to visit to places and people related to Abraxas. Then we went towards Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant. I was shocked to see the destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami. And as we come closer to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there are fewer and fewer people, and the scene I face becomes extremely unusual. Invisible radiation is scattered all around, and we cannot detect it. I feel a fear that never experienced before. Even if I start a camera to shoot the scene, I cannot capture anything of the radioactivity. The things we cannot see, the fears we can feel – I thought these things could not be taken into the film. This simple thought overwhelmed me. At that time, I felt that I could not create a film. Then the "2045" project was started in 2012. I started thinking through the outlines, and the story in Spring 2012, and created the screenplay in Fall. We shot most of scenes in between the winter of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. So it was this film that reflected my thoughts and feelings from 2011, the year of the 3.11 disaster. It was very hard to change my feeling from "I won't be able to make films anymore" to "I will try again."– I think I can shoot a film again if it's about Noise.
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PTV Group's CEO says his company's acquisition of British company Distribution Planning Software International (DPS) will double revenue for its logistics software business in the UK, Sweden and South Africa.
It's announced the acquisition of the Birmingham-based company saying its DPS Route Optimiser product enhances the existing PTV product range by adding trip optimisation to its cloud solutions. Logistics companies now have easier access to powerful technology in today's connected environments.
Vincent Kobesen, CEO of the PTV Group, explained, "the integration of DPS, with all its employees, products and offices, into our group of companies has come at exactly the right time. It enables us to further extend the geographical coverage for our logistics software business in the UK, Sweden and South Africa, gaining new planning and optimisation products at the same time."
Both companies own international sales units which they say are mutually complementary. PTV has had its own office in Birmingham since 2013 and has set itself the objective of further growth, not only in the traffic sector, but also in transport logistics. To achieve this goal, the local sales and marketing presence in the UK and Scandinavia will undergo further expansion.
DPS is based in Birmingham, with additional offices in Sweden and South Africa. In future, these offices will market the range of solutions offered by both companies under the PTV Group flag.
"This takeover allows us to continue to strengthen our market position, especially in the UK, and double our existing revenue in this region," Kobesen added. DPS is now 100% owned by the PTV Group. All staff have been retained. We even plan to take on additional personnel. We guarantee to all customers that existing contracts and product service agreements will be continued. Later changes are possible but are not foreseen in the near future.
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In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimedUndaunted Courage,which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.Nothing Like It in the Worldis the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life.The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomo-tives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains.At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas "Doc" Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's "Big Four": Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
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Common Estate Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Remember that there are several purposes to estate planning: to assure that your assets are distributed according to your wishes, and to make sure that your wishes are followed, in the event that you are unable to communicate because of illness or injury.
There are many mistakes made in estate planning, but some of them crop up more often than others, as reported in a useful article from WMUR, "Estate planning mistakes."
Delay. The easiest mistake to avoid, and probably the biggest, is procrastination. Just doing nothing at all in your estate planning is a common mistake. If you fail to create a plan for yourself, the state may apply the intestacy laws and determine who will receive your assets and how they'll acquire them. This might not be the plan you wanted.
Review. You should conduct a periodic review of your estate planning documents to be certain they still match your current wishes. There are changes that occur over time, like life circumstances and the estate tax laws. Be sure your chosen executor is still able to take on the responsibility.
Titles and Beneficiary Designations. The correct titling of your assets and up-to-date beneficiary designations are also areas where people commonly make mistakes. Update your retirement plan and life insurance policy beneficiaries, so these proceeds pass to the correct beneficiaries. An asset owned in joint tenancy with rights of survivorship will pass directly to the surviving joint tenant.
Trust Funding. Another common mistake is not funding your revocable trust. Perhaps you have a trust that accomplishes all that you wish. If you don't fund the trust with assets, it's of no use to you or your beneficiaries. Trusts are helpful when dealing with younger heirs, because a trust can control when the income can be received and for what purposes, until the beneficiary reaches a certain age or other milestone.
The Barry Manilow Records. Think about the disposition of family heirlooms, collectibles, and other items of sentimental value. You'd be surprised what siblings fight over, and sometimes the squabbles grow into all out fractures for families.
Passwords. Create a master document that has all your social media, online accounts, and passwords, allowing your heirs ready access to them to close them.
Accessibility Tell one or two trusted family members where your estate planning documents and any other important papers are located. If no one knows that these documents exist, or knows where they are, it's highly unlikely your wishes will be followed. You should also provide them with contact information for your estate planning attorney, CPA and financial advisor.
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English Speaking Songs vs Their Brazilian Versions
Last weekend I invited some friends over for an impromptu dinner party at my place. Before eating, I hit shuffle on my media player so that as we drank wine and caught up over a lot of pasta, it would randomly pick songs from my music library. This seemed like a such good idea at the time!
But I'd completely forgotten that a couple of months ago I'd downloaded a 'Best of Power Ballads' album; an album that was keen to make a reappearance for my friends! So halfway through the meal, Jennifer Rush started belting out The Power of Love.
"The whispers in the morning, of lovers sleeping tight." As soon as I heard these opening lines I looked over at my computer in surprise.
"Oh God, no!" I thought. I was at a loss as to what to say next.
"Are rolling by like thunder now, as I look in your eyes!"
Why did hearing this make me feel uncomfortable? Well power ballads are my (now not so) guilty pleasure, a guilty pleasure I certainly never thought I'd have to admit to over a bowl of half eaten ravioli. And I hesitated. Should I defiantly tell my friends I was a fan of The Rush? Should I fake a surprise and say, "oh wow! How did that song get onto my computer?" Or should I attempt to continue the conversation we'd been having before the electronic beats of Hardwell had been replaced with this 80's classic?
Well, I didn't do any of these things because, whilst I was hesitating, my friend Carlos spoke up.
"Really?" he laughed, "They sing this song in English too?"
"Wait? Has someone sung it in Portuguese?" I asked.
"Andrew, the version by the Brazilian singer Rosana is much better than this one!"
In an unexpected turn of events, a temporary firmness took over and that initial embarrassment had been replaced by a need to argue that this couldn't possibly be the case…that there can't possibly be a version of Power of Love better than the original!
After hearing Rosana's interpreataion we then spent the next twenty minutes playing other songs that had been covered by Brazilian artists, comparing them to their English versions. This fascinated me!
What I will do in this post is pit three English versions of songs against their Brazilian covers and argue which one is the better song. If you disagree with any of these, feel free to let me know in the comments below. So let's start with the song that inspired this post…..
The Power of Love is a song ANY self respecting power ballad should include. It is the song many a drunk Aunt has attempted to tackle at karaoke and the video is about as 80s as you can get. In the clip below you will see Jennifer walking around the streets of New York with amazingly backcombed hair, occasionally stopping to look emotionally into the camera.
She also spends a huge chunk of the song going up in an elevator that has no back to it. #safetyrisk.
"No Andrew, this song is too slow!" Argued my friends, "And what the hell is she wearing?"
Trying to explain 80s fashion is no easy task, especially when you're doing it to people who clearly never went on a family outing in matching tracksuits.
"Lets watch the Rosana version!"
I wanted to hate it, I really did! But this video is so camp that I couldn't help but be captivated by it. They lyrics have been changed and instead of it being a love song, Rosana sings about goddesses…which gives her the opportunity to dance alongside deadly cats, burning fires and to pretend to be an exotic woman from a 1980s Fry's Turkish Delight advert (Here is a link to that advert, for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about!). As much as I like Jennifer's original version I couldn't help but be fascinated by Rosana's interpretation, making her the surprise winner of the first round!
Winner: Rosana
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Take That were a big deal in the 90s back in my native UK. I remember hearing about them splitting up on the national news, where images of inconsolable teens were shown amongst the evenings top news stories. There was even a helpline for those who just couldn't deal with the idea these lads were never going to be performing together again.
Back for Good is arguably the band's signature song.
When I heard the Pepe and Nenem version, well I have to admit, I wasn't a fan. There isn't an official music video on youtube but my friends and I managed to track down two versions (Dinner parties at mine sound so much fun, right!?!). First we found a slow one that kind of sounds similar to the original, but with different lyrics, and then the faster one that I've included here. In this TV show performance the two girls enjoy some pretty ill-advised line dancing (check out the dancer with the sunglasses!). Whilst I was impressed by the undiminished speed of their choreography,I wasn't really convinced the dancing complemented the songs original sentiment!
So the best of these two versions, in my humble opinion, belongs to Take That.
Winner: Take That
English Versions: 1 Brazilian Versions: 1
Admittedly the music video to the classic All-4-One song I Swear isn't great. According to the Wikipedia page:
"The video shows the band members kicking a cardboard box through a puddle and bantering with {a woman} until she drives off on a public bus".
I'm sure you'll agree this isn't the most interesting concept for a music video, but the song is undeniably a solid TUNE!
To hear this cover by Leandro and Leonardo after the All-4-One version…well, it didn't really fall too kindly on my ears In comparison the duos interpretation just seems lacking personality….so the winner of this round is definitely All 4 One.
Winner: All-4-One
English Versions: 2 Brazilian Versions: 1
What do you think to this list? Are there any other Brazilian covers I could have included against their original English language versions?


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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump on Tuesday took to the social media during a Twitter spat with CNN to lambast popular media houses in the country of publishing fake News.
Trump attacked the CNN first for its recently retracted story about a congressional Russia investigation, which led to three editorial resignations.
The President said: "Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!" Trump tweeted, following a series of retweets for "Fox & Friends" on the rival Fox News network.
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
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The latest squabble is centred on a CNN story from last week that said the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating Trump campaign adviser Anthony Scaramucci for allegedly meeting with a Russian investor days before Trump's inauguration.
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With teams of 4: Two men and Two Women
For time:
75 Back squats (95 lbs)
50 Pull-ups
25 Shoulder-to-overhead (95 lbs)
75 Front squats (65 lbs)
50 Pull-ups
25 Shoulder-to-overhead (65 lbs)
75 Overhead squats (45 lbs)
50 Pull-ups
25 Shoulder-to-overhead (45 lbs)
75 Back squats (135 lbs)
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25 Shoulder-to-overhead (135 lbs)
75 Front squats (85 lbs)
50 Pull-ups
25 Shoulder-to-overhead (85 lbs)
75 Overhead squats (65 lbs)
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25 Shoulder to overhead (65 lbs)
**Modify as necessary for your particular team's ability levels. Make it a challenge as this is a competition level workout.
**This WOD had a 25 minute cutoff at the regionals, I will give us a 40 minute cutoff, with two sections – then women have a 20 minute cutoff and the men have a 20 minute cutoff. If the women finish before 20 minutes is over, awesome, the men can start immediately. Score is total time to completion…so as soon as the men are done.
**The women will go first and then men will act as a human "rack" for the bar while they are working. For example….the women pick up the bar for their back squats and the first women does 10 reps and needs a break. The men will hold the bar in the air so that the next women can do her set. The men must still hold the bar in the air while the women do their pull-ups and shoulder to overheads. When it comes time for a weight change, the bar must still remain in the air while weights are being switched out. After the women are completely done, the bar can touch the ground and the men will begin. Same rules apply as the women must hold their bar throughout their workout. If the bar touches the ground before it is supposed to, there will be a one minute burpee penalty for all teammates on the spot.
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Backstory… I was coming home three weeks ago on Route 219 when I hit a patch of black ice and lost control of my car. The car flipped over in a ditch, leaving me trapped inside.
Once the firemen and police and ambulance got to me, I figured I was saved. However, I didn't realize that I would have to depend on my wits and my physical prowess to get out of that car.
Gloved hands and advice were being extended in every direction.
"Just take my hand. I'll help you out."
"Stand up, use the steering wheel to help you."
Ahhh. At last, something my befuddled brain could grasp. "Grab onto his hand and my hand so we can help you stand up."
I couldn't do it. I couldn't move. I started to struggle. Maybe I was paralyzed. I continued to thrash around until one of the fellows said, "Ummm, ahhh, maybe you should unbuckle your seat belt first."
I grabbed both hands from two different directions and stood up behind the steering wheel. So far, so good.
"Now, step up on arm rest, use the cup holder." I couldn't use the cup holder because it contained a minor miracle – a sweet tea.
I had started the trip with two sweet teas. One for me, one for my husband. My sweet tea succumbed to gravity when the car flipped and was all over the car and my pant legs – but my husband's was still full to the brim with ice and tea.
"Here, I'll take that," one of the fellows said to me, motioning with his head to my husband's sweet tea. I remember thinking, "what a nice fellow" and without a drop of apprehension, I handed him my husband's full cup of sweet tea.
And then, against all logic, he tilted the cup and all of the sweet tea emptied out of it.
I could barely find my voice, I was so horrified. "Hey, what in the world are you doing? That was sweet tea." And then, in case he didn't know where sweet tea came from, I added, "McDonald's. Sweet. Tea."
He laughed. I know you will think that I made that up for dramatic purposes but I swear it is true. He laughed.
I could feel myself start to go limp with disillusionment. This was a fireman. He should know better than to do something like that with a sweet tea. What kind of world did he live in?
I shook my head to get rid of the horrible sight I had just witnessed. There would be plenty of time to try to rationalize why he poured out that tea.
Right now, I needed to buck up. Not for me, but for the sake of the sea of firemen who had left their homes on a Wednesday night to come and stand around in the freezing cold and make sure I got out of my tilted car.
I owed them.
Despite what I later learned was a torn rotator cuff, I held on to the extended hands as I managed to hike my foot up to the cup holder, then on to the passenger's seat. I continued to follow the firemen's instructions until I eventually ended up twisting and turning my way to sit on the outside of the car on the back passenger's door.
The firemen's idea of getting me to that height was so that I could sit there and easily swing my legs out to a ladder that was sitting beside the car.
That idea was their idea, for me to sit on the outside of the frozen back passenger door which was sticking 10-feet up in the air, not mine.
To be continued.
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|Reviews for Before The Dawn
| jj chapter 1 . 7/16
So beautiful but toooooooo short
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| Death marininja chapter 1 . 11/10/2011
Awww soo cute love the ending the most :D
| Lozenger12 chapter 1 . 1/9/2011
i love it! it's short and very sweet, u should write more kagome/gaara pairing fics, ur really good at it _ whereas i failed miserably T_T
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Could you please send me what song that was?
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Op amp Ul and its associated components comprise the 67-kHz bandpass filter. A twin-T network, comprised of four 1100-12 resistors and four 0.0022- capacitors, is connected in the feedback network of the op amp. That gives some gain at 67 kHz and heavy attenuation for frequencies above and below that frequency. An additional passive filter at the input to the twin-T network (containing a 220-pF capacitor and a 10,000- resistor) provides some additional roll-off for frequencies below 67 kHz. In practice, the bandpass-filter action covers a frequency range of about 10 kHz above and below the 67-kHz center frequency.
Resistor R18 sets the gain of the bandpass-filter stage. Integrated-circuit U2 is a National LM565 phase-locked loop that modulates the 67-kHz fre-quency-modulated (FM) signal from Ul. The LM565 PLL consists of a voltage- controlled oscillator (VCO) set to 67 kHz, and a comparator that compares the incoming frequency-modulated 67-kHz signal at pin 2 with the VCO signal that is fed into pin 5. The output of the comparator represents the phase difference between the incoming signal and the VCO signal. Therefore, the output is the audio modulated by the subcarrier. A treble deemphasis of 150 is provided by a 0.033- capacitor (at pin 7). The free-miming VCO frequency is determined by the 0.001- capacitor at pin 9 and by the resistance between the positive rail and pin 8 (100 in series with R19). Variable-resistor R19 adjusts the oscillator frequency (also known as the center frequency`) so that the incoming signal is within the lock range of the PLL.
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Fighter jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition launched strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen on Tuesday, just one day after a five-day truce between the two parties expired.
The jets struck Houthi missile sites on Faj Attan mountain, located on the western end of the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, much of which is now controlled by the Iran-backed group, locals told Xinhua.
The Associated Press described the new bombing runs as the "heaviest airstrikes near the Yemeni capital" since the expiration of the truce.
The Houthi militants near Sanaa are believed to be in possession of a stockpile of missiles, along with tanks and artillery, residents told the AP.
Airstrikes also reportedly destroyed the house of pro-Houthi former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose loyalists recently threw their weight behind the Houthis. The Saleh-Houthi alliance has been described as crucial to the Houthis' success in overtaking Sanaa.
Houthi fighters responded to the attacks by firing Katyusha into the Saudi side of the border region of Najran, locals told the AP.
United Nations special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has pleaded with both parties to agree to a long-term humanitarian truce. While at a conference in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, he hoped that a truce could turn into a permanent ceasefire with a political solution attached. The five-day initial ceasefire was brokered to allow the United Nations to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the war-torn country.
But even the five-day ceasefire was rife with accusations from both sides that their enemy had violated the measure. On Sunday, fighting broke out in the southern province of Taiz, killing over a dozen.
The Saudi-led coalition, which has garnered the support of nine countries, has been targeting Houthi positions since March 26, in hopes of restoring the government led by Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, the internationally recognized President of Yemen. Hadi, a Sunni, was forced to flee Yemen as the Houthi insurgency took over the government by force.
Since the clashes began between the Houthis and pro-Hadi forces, the conflict has resulted in the deaths of 1,800 and has wounded over 7,000. Tens-of-thousands more have been displaced as a result of the war.


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Next step in getting the car the way I want...
Callipers were red, now "Tangerine Scream", a nice rich flaked golden yellow that really catches the sun.
Car still has the chunky winter tyres on in these photos, need to get the slicks on for the summer.
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Alaska Association of Harbormasters and Port Administrators (AAHPA)
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My HS German has served me well enough. I am not fluent nor conversational at all. But I can usually figure a few things out and I know how to ask for things. It is much better than my French. I travel a lot and spend time in French speaking countries (France and Swtizerland). My French is getting better with practice. Right now I am in Scotland and my Scottish is very much stale as I am out of practice! ;-) It has been a few years since I was here. The last time was just before my company took the largest layoff of Scottish workers record away from British Leyland. I remember being in my VPs office the day the PM called to try and convince him to not do it. That was a fun call to listen into.


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Is Early Education too Early for Some? Assessing the Impact of Preschool on Learning and Achievement Outcomes in Peru
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The Education for All initiative was developed to increase coordination between aid agencies investing in international education. One of the consequences of this global movement is that its focus on increasing access to early childhood and primary school programs has crowded out investments in later stages of education, including secondary education and other programs targeted at youth. To evaluate the impact of investing in one aspect of the EFA goals - early childhood education - this paper uses a sample of children from Peru to assess the effect of attending preschool on learning and achievement outcomes. The data comes from the Young Lives Project at Oxford University. The results of this study suggest that, for the case of Peru, while attending preschool does lead to learning and achievement gains for the children within the sample, these gains fade away substantially by the time they are in secondary school. Instead, educational resources available to the child prove to be a consistently stronger determinant of success in primary and secondary school.
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May 28 , 2014
People wonder if going to college is worth it, considering that its costs are continuously increasing. However, David Leonhardt of the New York Times says the answer is a simple "Yes."
A recent study showed statistics, which prove that a four-year college graduate makes 98 percent more money an hour as compared to those who never went to college.
"A four-year-degree has probably never been more valuable," Leonhardt writes, noting that it still doesn't guarantee success. On the other hand, Matthew Yglesias of Vox said that we need more research to know if going to college pays off.
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No problems - we don't care where the Shire says we are physically located. But the mailing address is a different thing. The Shire started sending things like Rates Notices to us at Glen Forbes. The problem with that is that access to Stanley Road is from Grantville, not from Glen Forbes - so the mail was seldom (if ever) delivered if it was addressed to us at Glen Forbes. Our Bank also sent statements etc to us at Glen Forbes - none of them reached us - until we convinced the bank to change our postal address back to Grantville.
We have no idea how much mail has gone astray in the past couple of years thanks to the combined bungling of Bass Coast Shire and Australia Post !
We suggested the solution to Bass Coast Shire when this issue first arose because of their incompetence – leave our location address as Glen Forbes if that's how they get their jollies, but change our postal address back to Grantville - as that's the only way we get mail delivered.
They couldn't have cared less, even when I advised that if we didn't receive rates notices we obviously couldn't pay them. Staff weren't interested and the Shire Mayor (who happens to be our local councillor) was less than helpful.
Bureaucracy sucks.
Here's an email received today from Australia Post:
I am contacting you as a result of difficulties you have experienced lately in having your mail delivered in a timely manner to your property. I have visited the local area in an effort to establish a resolution to this issue. As you are aware, Rural Road Numbering was implemented in your area some time ago in accordance with the state-wide Rural Addressing System. Using your address greatly assists emergency services and other utilities to find your property efficiently, including Australia Post. Although your property is within the Glen Forbes Locality it cannot be accessed by the contractor who services the Glen Forbes area. For this reason and to help us deliver your mail on time to the correct destination, it is necessary to change your postal address to a Private Bag address. This will enable our operations to be more efficient and prevent your mail being delayed.
This is the solution we suggested to Shire ages ago. Leave our residential address as Glen Forbes but continue sending our mail to us at Grantville, as that is the only way it gets delivered.
It's nice to have a win now and then – but lets hope this works!!!
As for the comments about the Rural Addressing System making it easier for emergency services to find our property – how can it be more efficient to tell them that our address is Glen Forbes when the only access to the property is from Grantville? Our local CFA guys know that Stanley Road is in Grantville, not Glen Forbes, but brigades from further away wouldn't have a clue neither would the State Emergency Service, Police or Ambulance crews. So presumably they would head to Glen Forbes and then ask for directions from locals ..... so much for efficiency.
Thank you Bass Coast Shire.
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At London Leadership Strategy, we have just launched a new events section on the LondonEd website, which lists current education sector events across the UK.
If you're running an event that is focussed on education, then you can also upload your events to the calendar too.
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You could also use the event calendar before you even start your planning to check busy times in case this affects how many people may be available. Or you could use it to see events for LSEF projects to attend or if you're a speaker there may be events you would like to approach.
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I've been so busy this week and haven't had much time to spend outside or post anything on the blog. The weather has certainly cooled off. Within a couple of days we went from 91 degrees with gorgeous blue skies and the purest white clouds to highs around 60 and ugly gray skies that make it look like winter already. We are even expecting patchy frosts over the weekend.
With possible frost in mind, I went out this evening and gathered seeds from the salvia, balloon flowers, purple fountain grass, and dug up the sweet potato vines and its tubers to bring inside. I have been scattering the seeds of other plants like cosmos and echinacea in areas where I need new plants. They seem to come up every year by themselves so I'm hoping new plants will sprout up along the side yard. The liatris, (pictured above), doesn't volunteer as freely for me, but I have had a couple that did, so I am scattering some of that as well and will also collect seeds tomorrow for winter sowing since I forgot to do that today.
I also got a few cuttings of some shrubs that I want to try and root, just for fun. The butterfly bush that I rooted several weeks ago seems to be doing well and is beginning to grow, so I thought I'd try to root two cuttings of lantana and two of the viburnum. A piece of azalea had broken off and I tried to root it, but didn't water it faithfully and it died. I may try another cutting of it too. I'm not sure where I will put all of the things I want to grow and over winter, since I have limited space, but I'll squeeze in as much as I can. I love gardening in the winter as I anticipate spring.
I have so much to do to prepare for winter. I didn't finish the mulching and hope to get that done tomorrow. We have a hole in the front yard where we have had two large Colorado Blue spruces to die. The nursery guaranteed and replaced the first one but they didn't replace the second. That was a huge disappointment to me not only because I love those trees, but it was quite an expensive tree especially since we payed half of the cost of the tree for delivery and planting charges. That one hurts when I think about it. Anyway, I have been waiting until it cooled off to plant another tree. Hopefully that will be done tomorrow if I can find a tree small enough to fit in my SUV that I like. We talked about renting a truck for the day, and may have to do that to get a larger tree that we like. We have decided that we will not plant any more really large trees from nurseries, because not one of the ten we bought have done well. I think the smaller trees have an easier time acclimating and adjusting to the root disturbance, at least this has been our experience.
I'm not sure what kind of tree to get. I know I don't want one that the Japanese beetles like, (crabapple or birch). I don't want another Colorado blue spruce since they obviously don't like that location. I have several maples for fall color already, and I have several ornamental pears, (Cleveland and Bradford). Maybe I'll find something different at the nursery, or more likely than not, I'll find another Bradford pear tree. They grow fast, have nice flowers in the spring, and I like their shape, which will fit nicely in that spot.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Seed collecting
Posted by Robin's Nesting Place at 9:51 PM
Labels: Fall, Seed collecting, Trees
1 comment:
- Kylee said...
I always cut my liatris and now I wish I hadn't!
Seed collecting has been going on here, too. I may not plant all that I've collected, but now I have the option. I sprinkle echinacea around, too, like you do.
Good luck with the tree situation. If you want a fast grower that has beautiful white blooms in the spring, gorgeous red berries in the fall and winter (which the birds LOVE!) and beautiful red fall color to the leaves, you can't beat a Washington Hawthorn. We have several and love them. They've got nasty thorns, though, but that's not a problem for us.
- October 13, 2007 at 10:39 AM
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YouTrain are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by GP Strategies Training Limited, part of the GP Strategies Corporation, a global training and performance improvement provider of training, eLearning solutions, management consulting and engineering services, headquartered in Maryland, USA.
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CIC hosts an Orientation for all new students attending the College, which is held one week prior to each term course commencement.
The orientation date is indicated on your Written Agreement, however 2 weeks prior to Orientation you will be notified via e-mail when, where and what time the Orientation is to be held.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — There is a convincing consensus among consumers when it comes to defining a "quality meal" – 75 percent say taste and flavor are key, 55 percent are looking for well-balanced and healthy options, and 41 percent feel quality means time spent at the table with family and friends, according to a Quality Meal Survey* conducted the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA).
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- Spend extra family time together in the kitchen by involving kids in the meal preparation. The added bonus – they will be more likely to eat the food they make!
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* 2014 NFRA Quality Meals Consumer Survey
**Cook, Eliza and Rachel Dunifon. (2012). "Do Family Meals Really Make a Difference?" Parenting in Context.Cornell University College of Human Ecology: Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Web. 17 April, 2014. – PRNewswire


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[revisions by Mr. Andrew William Smith, Dr. Patrick Reagan, and Ms. Chandra Griffith Elkins, Ad Hoc Constitution Committee, October 2008—March 29, 2010 and presented to the members for a vote on April 16, 2010]
The name of this association shall be the Tennessee Tech Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). This chapter shall be affiliated with the national organization and the Tennessee Conference of the American Association of University Professors.
The mission of the Tennessee Tech Chapter of the AAUP shall be the same as that of the national organization:
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. As a non-profit organization, we serve the profession, rather than individual members, and our services are available to all members of the profession, regardless of membership status.
The principal functions of this chapter shall be: (1) to consider questions of general interest to the professoriate; (2) to consider current local questions of academic method or policy, or of professional obligation and privilege; (3) to serve as a nucleus in initiating faculty action; (4) to take action upon specific matters of association business submitted to the chapter by the Council or the officers of the national or state organizations; (5) to cooperate with the officers of the national and state organizations in dealing with professional problems, in order that the AAUP may be as representative of the profession as possible.
To be eligible for active membership in the Tennessee Tech Chapter of AAUP, one must be a member of the national organization. The types of memberships and the process for joining are as follows:
There shall be four classes of members:
- Active Members. Any person who holds a professional position of teacher or researcher or related professional appointment, including any member of an
- AAUP-represented bargaining unit in a college, university, or professional school of similar grade accredited in the United States or Canada, may be admitted to active membership in the Association.
- b. Graduate Student Members. Any person who is, or within the past five years has been, a graduate student may be admitted to graduate student membership. Graduate student members shall have all rights and privileges accorded to active members under this Constitution, including the right to hold office and to vote in national elections. Graduate student members shall be transferred to active membership as soon as they become eligible.
- Retired Members. An active member who retires may choose to be transferred to retired membership. Retired members retain all rights and privileges accorded to active members under this Constitution, including the right to hold office and to vote in national elections.
- Associate Members. Any active member of this chapter whose work is or becomes primarily administrative shall be eligible for associate membership. Any person not eligible for one of the other three classes of membership may be admitted as an associate member, including members of the general public.
The admission of members shall require two steps:
- Application.
- Acceptance and Notification.
Chapter membership shall be for the academic year.
The officers of this organization shall be a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. These officers shall be elected annually at the last regular meeting in the spring and shall take office at the close of the meeting at which elected. All officers serve one year terms, with no term limits.
There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the president as presiding officer, the vice-president, the secretary, and the treasurer.
This chapter shall maintain a standing committee on membership recruitment and retention. Other standing committees may be created by the positive action of the chapter at a regular meeting, provided the establishment of such a committee has been discussed at least one previous meeting in the same academic year.
Ad hoc committees may be established by the chapter or the president at a regular meeting, or by the Executive Committee in session.
Regular chapter meetings shall be held three times per semester during the academic year. Special meetings may be called by the Executive Committee, provided written notice has been extended to the membership at least four days prior to the meeting.
The rules of order contained in the latest edition of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised shall govern the parliamentary procedure of this organization whenever applicable, except that the constitution and by-laws of this chapter and the constitution of the national AAUP shall take precedence in the event of any inconsistency.
By-laws to this constitution may be adopted as needed for the effective implementation of the provisions of this document.
This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the chapter by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, provided that a copy of the proposed amendment has been sent to all members at least two weeks prior to the meeting at which the vote will take place, and further provided that the proposed amendment has been discussed at the previous regular meeting.
- The duties of the president shall be to preside at the meetings of the chapter and the Executive Committee. The president shall call meetings of the Executive Committee and special meetings of the chapter at the direction of the Executive Committee. With the advice of the Executive Committee, the president shall appoint members to standing committees and shall designate chairpersons. With the advice and consent of the Executive Committee, the president shall appoint a member to complete the unexpired term of office should a vacancy occur among the officers or members of the Executive Committee.
- The duties of the vice-president shall be to preside at meetings of the chapter and of the Executive Committee in the absence of the president. The vice-president shall arrange public programs with the advice and consent of chapter members. In the event of a vacancy in the office of president, the vice-president shall succeed to the unexpired portion of the president's term of office.
- The duties of the secretary shall be to keep an accurate record of the meetings of the chapter and the Executive Committee and to conduct all correspondence of the chapter. Notices shall be sent to all members of meetings of the chapter and of any proposed amendments to the constitution or by-laws of the chapter.
- The treasurer shall receive all dues and assessments from the members, conduct other aspects of the financial affairs of the chapter, and make a report of the finances of the chapter at each regular meeting or at the request of the Executive Committee.
- The Executive Committee shall advise the president on all matters of concern to the chapter. In particular, the committee shall advise the president on appointments to standing committees, on appointments to vacant positions among the officers or on the Executive Committee, and on all public announcements and publications of the chapter.
- At the first meeting of the spring semester, the membership of the AAUP chapter shall elect a Nominating Committee of three members who are not officers or members of the Executive Committee. At least two weeks prior to the final meeting of the spring semester, this Nominating Committee shall prepare a slate consisting of candidates for each of the offices of the chapter and shall submit this slate to the membership, along with the notice of the meeting at which the election of officers shall take place.
- Nominations may be made from the floor.
- Terms are for one year, with no limit on number of terms the can be served.
- The officers elected by the chapter shall assume their responsibilities at the close of the meeting at which they were elected.
Each member shall pay annual dues to the national, state, and local organization of AAUP. Members who are full- time faculty may elect to pay dues by payroll deduction. For members who do not elect to pay dues by payroll deduction, chapter dues are payable at the first meeting of each academic year. Chapter dues are $10.00 for the academic year.
- Regular meetings of the Tennessee Tech Chapter of AAUP shall be held three times each semester, on the first Thursday of September, October, February, and March and on the first Friday of November and April, except when other times and days are authorized by the Executive Committee.
- A quorum for the conduct of business shall consist of a minimum of eight members in good standing.
By-laws to the Constitution of the Tennessee Tech Chapter of AAUP may be adopted, or existing by-laws amended, at any regular meeting of the chapter by a majority vote of those members present and voting, provided that a copy of the proposed by-laws or amendments has been sent to the members at least two weeks prior to the meeting at which such action is proposed to be taken.