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The University of Oregon Applied Information Management Program (AIM) is establishing a pool of applicants for part-time, temporary, limited duration teaching appointments in various areas of information management. The Program is offered fully online. Applicants will be accepted on a continuous basis, and the pool will remain active through June 30, 2011. Screening of applicants will take place as positions become available and will continue until positions are filled. A doctoral degree is preferred; a master's degree with appropriate practical experience may be acceptable.
A list for online adjunct faculty to share job opportunity locations and information. Each organization, college or service is listed only once (over 700 now!). The job listed is usually not the only opening, just representative of the postings.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
University of Oregon
Friday, September 24, 2010
College of the Desert
Teach a variety of sociology courses days, evenings, and/or online. Spring semester courses may be available on the Palm Desert campus, Eastern Valley Center, or West Valley locations.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
MUST Univeristy
If you are a teacher, professor, industry expert or a thought leader, and would like to take up an additional teaching responsibility, consider becoming an adjunct faculty member at MUST University. MUST Univeristy provides you a highly rewarding academic career that allows you to teach students from more than 188 countries, by leveraging MUST's global best educational platform. To become an adjunct faculty member, simply fill our application form. If you are approved, you will be provided with complete information and assistance on using MUST's platform of online education.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Ball State
Preferred qualifications: teaching experience at the post-secondary level; experience teaching online and/or blended courses (face to face and online).
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Indiana University East
....experience developing and teaching online courses (or a strong desire to learn) is a plus.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
International Hispanic Online University
Course Developers and Instructors Job Description
The International Hispanic Online University (IHOU) invites applications for course developers and instructors in the Arts and Sciences. Qualified Spanish-speaking applicants in all fields are encouraged to apply.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Stevens Institute of Technology
Successful candidates must be proficient in the tools and techniques utilized by Stevens Institute of Technology for the conduct classes via the Internet.
The tools include but are not limited to:
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Newbury College
We currently have the following adjunct openings available for our fall semester 2010:
Online Marketing Instructor beginning 10/27/10 - 12/17/10
Candidates should have minimum of a Master's degree in Marketing (Ph.D. preferred) and prior teaching experience in higher education. Position is online but candidates should be able to visit campus as needed for meetings and re-training in Newbury's course management system, provided by the College.
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Hampton University Online
Hampton U Online offers certificates, associate and bachelor degrees, and graduate degrees to meet the busy needs of an online student.
Hampton U Online is currently seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:
English, History, Mathematics, Paralegal Studies, Foreign Language, Physical Science, Humanities, Communication, Computer Science, Biology, Accounting, Sociology, Finance, Philosophy, Business Management, Public Safety, Economics, Criminal Justice, Education , Religious studies and Psychology.
Candidates must hold Master's Degree with 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline or terminal degree in the relevant discipline. Previous experience in teaching online and familiarity with the Blackboard learning management system is preferred.
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Blog Archives
Structure of Indian Government and Elections 2014 Update
2014 Elections are going on! And almost 27% adult population of the nation is still not aware of the basic structure of their government which is really alarming. It is sad that the subject of CIVIC SCIENCE been taught in 10th grade never comes up individual's mind
What do you mean by Democracy?
India is known as the world's largest democracy. Well I'm no Civic's professor or do not intent to bore you, but let me just define Democracy for those who still don't know. Democracy is a form of government, where the people choose their representatives who will govern their state (Nation). The key behind success of a democratic republic is the distribution of power. Power is given to every individual to choose a representative among them. This power is really big in true sense. Then why this democracy is failing since decades after the independence?
Expectations from the Leaders
Blaming the system, blaming the politicians, blaming everything else other than yourself is what we Indians are good at. When asked about the system or an individual's role, they don't even know the number of states India has! Read the rest of this entry

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Hello everyone
I know it's been awhile since I've posted, but I've been really busy as of late with Art/photography sites. I've never really been a great blogger, it definitely gave me the stepping stones that I needed to get started with my photography and I have all of you to Thank for that.
So this is officially my last post here on Blogger and for those of you who want to see what I'm up too here are a few links you can access:
Both of these sites are the ones I use the most and where you can come and look through my galleries.
Thank you everyone for all of your support!
Sincerly Crista Cowan


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MIA lately because of exams, will be back very soon for another outfit post with Bryan!
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- 'Travel is a minor percentage of government expenditure, but every little drop helps, but has a special austerity fund been created to collect the money saved?'
- 'The cost of MPs' tickets, as well as for pricey hotels when Parliament committees go on tour, is paid by Parliament. Have the chairman of Rajya Sabha and speaker of Lok Sabha placed the unspent cash in escrow, reserved for the families of farmers still committing suicide in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh?'
- 'Throwing ministers out of hotels might send the right signals, but are they spending they spending their money by adopting a village'
- 'The big ticket in travel costs is not high in the sky but closer to the ground. Somebody should tot up the fuel costs of the thousands of very austere cars allotted to ministers, MPs and bureaucrats.'
- 'Talking about the austerity measures on travels, it needs to be asked as to what is the actual amount of savings expected to be achieved which would be meaningful to relieve pressure on finances due to drought, which is supposedly the reason for the Austerity. In the first place, the instructions issued last year in June 2008 were expected to be followed with proper monitoring. If the Government claims to be at all serious, it ought to have first told the people in a transparent manner the achievements from the previous austerity instructions. According to Budget estimates for 2009-2010, the travel expenses under the Head Establishment are Rs. 2,506.67 crores, a jump from Rs. 1860.26 crores in the previous year. Of this, the travel expenses of the Ministry of Home Affairs have jumped from Rs. 25.99 crores to Rs. 82.62 crores. The travel expenses estimates of The Cabinet are Rs. 179.22 crores which for some strange reason were only Rs. 17.82 crores in the previous year. (see here) It must also not be forgotten that the Government had ordered in 2005 not one but three aircraft for the travel by the President and the Prime Minister, at a cost of Rs. 937 crores. The first aircraft was delivered in August 2008 followed by the other two and the maiden flight was inaugurated by the President on 1st April 2009. One aircraft is understandable, even two, because we want to project ourselvs as a superpower with such show. But three?'
- 'It is very clear to those who are well versed in the ways of the Congress party that the benefits of any such austerity drive are only incidental and the real motivation is provided by other factors. Last year, it was to divert the attention of the people from the uncontrolled inflation and the unpleasant increase in fuel prices announced by Government. This year, it is not due to the drought, but to take the focus away from the the intolerable increases in the prices of all essential food products including dal and sugar brought about largely by the successful mismanagement of the Agriculture Ministry by Sharad Pawar, even before the effects of the drought on the coming crop.'
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|Bernadotte and Soult encounter the enemy (right) while Lannes and Murat encounter each other (left). Meanwhile the Prussians seem to be spreading out.
On the second day of the campaign the French forces continued to sort themselves out in conformance with the campaign plan.
Over on the left, or northwest flank there was apparently some confusion as Lannes and Murat closed on the town of Meiningen. Evidently a lack of clarity in my orders caused Lannes and Murat to think I had some information that Meiningen was occupied by a substantial enemy force and they approached the town in battle order. There were no Prussians there, and I had no notion there would be, but that's not what they thought I said.
The confusion at Meiningen is prominently featured in Harve's PowerPoint briefing and apparently it seemed like a big deal to the commanders involved, but from my point of view it appears to be a fairly minor episode in the scheme of things. There were several instances of columns of troops running into each other and disputes over road space. None of these ended up being especially significant and were not entirely unexpected. I tried to steer the various corps along parallel routes but there were spots where the road net was inadequate and I was still learning, myself, how much space the corps took up while marching and the rates of progress to be expected.
In any case, Lannes and Murat soon sorted things out and continued North. Around this time they started lobbying Davout to hasten to join them as well, a plea that he didn't heed, to his credit. Lannes and Murat showed a commendable fieriness, but I reiterated to Davout that my plan was to bring him back East. If Lannes and Murat had been hard pressed, Davout and Ney were in position to come to their support. This might have happened if Brunswick had gone west and reinforced Ruchel as part of an offensive. If that had happened I might have been forced to adjust my plans.
One of my solutions for the problem of command and control under the circumstances of 19th Century campaigning was to allow, indeed, encourage, the corps commanders to communicate and coordinate with each other. I think many commanders might have been uncomfortable giving up so much control -- and there certainly were risks in this policy. A weak or obdurate subordinate could have caused havoc. Still, I felt the risk was worth running. Trying to run some strict top-down chain of command would have been too inflexible given the time delays in communication. The campaigning on the left flank over the ensuing week would be very fluid and was generally too far away from my location to keep up with. As it turned out, Lannes, Murat and Ney were able to work together very well with little direct supervision on my part. This was extremely helpful because it meant I was able to allow this secondary portion of the front to take care of itself. for the most part.
I think this was even more realistic than a more formal military style approach would have been. Military professionalism was still evolving in the early 1800s. While modern military men have formal training, common doctrines, large staffs and swift and regularized communication protocols, these were generally lacking. Napoleon's famed staff was barely adequate to run a division or a brigade by modern standards. And then, of course, you had egos to contend with and even as emperor, Napoleon didn't have the tools of state that 20th century dictators had at their beck and call. Reading accounts of Napoleon's campaign sounds a lot like herding cats -- or wargamers! No, it seemed wiser to let the corps commanders have considerable flexibility to deal with their local circumstances without attempting to provide detailed instructions. They didn't always do as I might have wished, but I wasn't going to upbraid anyone for acting as they saw fit. Overall this approach was successful.
Meanwhile, as the rest of the army marched to and fro, the significant action was occurring on the right flank as Bernadotte and Soult ran into elements of Hohenlohe's forces. It appears from Harve's map and from the reports I eventually got from the two corps leaders that they were each able to concentrate their corps against one division of the enemy and drive them back. I don't know the details of the fighting, but it seems like it was more heavy skirmishing than a full-sized battle. Maybe the leaders involved can elaborate.
In any case, during the night the Prussian troops fell back, so Bernadotte and Soult accomplished their initial mission of securing the passes so the rest of the army could deploy on the other side of the hills instead of fighting their way through. This was a key element in my entire campaign plan and I was quite pleased the next day as it became evident things were going according to plan.
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|Need to get out of the house on a Sunday night? There's a voice from the past calling out to you. It's saying, come to Pleasure Island!
|A chilly night, a Sunday night, a holiday weekend finished night = light crowd on hand.
|A beautiful lighted Christmas tree has been installed at the Lily Pad on the Island. And yes, that's Mickey at the top! Note those two kiosks on the other side of the tree.
|Apparently a holdover from the Food & Wine Festival at EPCOT, Amuse Bouche serves grilled beef skewers, pork sliders and shrimp ceviche which can be washed down with a cold Stella.
|Meanwhile Cheese & Sweets has cheese fondue, desserts and hard apple cider.
|Nova Era performing Classical at the Lily Pad.
|Splitsville construction is moving rapidly. We'll have a full update tomorrow on the Blog!
|Spotted: DJ Andrew Michael. He'll be alternating between sets of the Andre Caram Band on NYE at the Waterside Stage spinning Top 40/Dance/EDM.
|House of Blues on a Sunday night; it's an institution!
|Service Industry Night (SIN) at House Of Blues means EDM with DJ Magic Mike alternating weekends with DJ Richie Rich and other guests.
|Anyone in any "service industry" job gets in free here. And it's not limited to just the "hospitality industry". Consequently, the place gets packed! Although I've seen it more packed.
|Always a fine looking crowd!
|And you can never go wrong with Go Go girls!


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The islander Nightwish Track 10 From the Album: Dark Passion Play (2007) Music & Lyrics: Marco Hietala Tabbed by: Mariano Arnaiz Anything to: firstname.lastname@example.com Tunning: 1 & 1/2 Step down On acoustic guitar with metal strings, Use a pick (folk guitar) So. This song has been in my mind for a while and i learned it like all of us from the tabs. But the licks and chords they didnt feel right. There was some mandolin kind of thin on guitar But i just guess it was the 2 guitars and the piano and all that sh*t. I saw a video in internet From a dude that recorded Marco playing ut live, i had the chance to see a little bit i figure out From there the tuning and fact that the guitar lick has a top line and a bottom line in high strings. It aint that hard but it takes time. I hope you like it Intro and Main riff c#||-------------------------------|--------------------------------|| G#||--10-10-10-10-10-----8--10-----|--------------10-10-8-6-8-------|| E ||--7--9--10-9--9h10p9-5--7--7---|--5--7-7------10-9--5-3-5-------|| B ||---------------------------7---|--3./5-5h6p5---------------3/5--|| F#||--------------------------(5)--|--------------------------------|| C#||-------------------------------|---------------------------1/3--|| Verse Example: Verses all the same (Dm Dsus2 Bb Bb Csus2 F C D5) Dm Dsus2 Bb An old man by a seashore at the end of days Csus2 F C D5 Gazes the horizon with sea wind in his face Dm Dsus2 Bb Tempest-tossed island, seasons all the same Csus2 F C D5 Anchorage unpainted and a ship without a name Chorus D5 Bb F C Dm Bb F Csus2 This is the long for-got-ten light at the end of the world D5 Bd F C Dm Bd F Csus2 D5 Ho-ri-zon cry-ing the tears we left behind long ago Chords Dm Dsus2 Bb Csus2 F D5 c#||--5----5-----6---3-----1--5---|| G#||--6----5-----6---3-----1--3---|| E ||--7----7-----7---5-----2--2---|| B ||--7----7-----8---5-----3--0---|| F#||--5----5-----8---3-----3--0---|| C#||-------------6---------1------||


text: This planter is a walking turtle in a desert handpainted theme, it certainly will make a beautiful adition to your garden landscape, specially for desert-themed gardens. The background is desert orange/light brown and the painting is a guy walking his donkey through the desert soil. Talavera Ceramic planters have a drilled hole at the bottom, which will drain the water out of it. This ceramic planter is handcrafted and handpainted, which leads to a unique planter! There might be small differences in size, weight and the paintings. If you want to delight somebody special with an unique handcrafted gift, this might be something you are looking for!


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Happy Sunday!
Hope everyone had a great weekend! I went to the movies yesterday to see the Conjuring 2. Anyone else like scary movies? I love them! I don't do roller coasters or things like that so I guess scary movies are my way of seeking a thrill.
Today my family and I went out to dinner to celebrate the June birthdays of my two uncles and half-brother. I wore a new outfit so that will posted this week!
So for this post it was a night out after work with a co-worker, hence the very few pics. We went out to a place called CowFish in Hampton Bays, NY. The view is beautiful! You can sit inside or on top of one of the decks or you can sit at the full bar outside. There is seating everywhere and they have live music. The first three photos are taken here. The last three are actually taken at another place we stopped at called Rumba. This place is a lot of fun also!
So I went with the hot pink and black again. I had actually bought this shirt a couple months ago and was waiting to wear it when it got warmer. Then I had found this clutch shortly after and thought it matched perfectly! If you are wondering what the shirt means, here's a little fun fact about me. I love cars...and by cars I mean old classic/hot rods/muscle cars...however you want to name it. My father has always been into cars and so is my uncle (trucks too but that will be a story for another time). So I took after my dad and have a love for cars as well. I go to a lot of car shows over the summer and fall. Hopefully one day I will have my own 69 Camaro and/or 71 Chevelle. The shirt is actually from a show I went to last October in NC. Goodguys is the name of the association and I love that it says established in 1983 because that is the year I was born which made me want it even more, plus I just love the hot pink!
Shirt ~ Goodguys ~ size medium (they run small so I went up)
Clutch ~ Aldo (comes in 5 other colors!)
Jeans ~ Citizens of Humanity ~ wearing size 27
Shoes ~ Aldo ~ I'm wearing size 7 (usually a 7.5 so they seem to run big)
Watch ~ DKNY
Sunglasses ~ Ray-Ban
Thanks for reading!!
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CosmoGIRL! story
Do you know a successful woman under the age of 21 with a net worth of $1 million? Anna Stanley, author of Going Up? Generation Y's Elevator to Financial Success, is writing an article for CosmoGIRL! magazine. The woman's total net worth could comprise of personal and business investments, stock options, equipment, inventory products, financial backing or even a projected income. If you think you or someone you know might qualify, please contact Anna at email@example.com. Be sure to leave your contact information, including e-mail address, home phone number, cell phone number, etc. Stories that don't make it into CosmoGIRL! might be used in Anna's upcoming book, Going Up? A Woman's Elevator to Financial Success.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
CosmoGIRL! Story - 10 Successful Young Women - Net Worth $1 Million
CosmoGIRL! story
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
African American Christmas Guide
Friday, November 23, 2007
Black Freebies on Black Friday
- Carol's Daughter - Share the Love Sweepstakes
Enter to Win Mary J Blige Cds, Carol's Daughter Gift Baskets, Rocawear T Shirts and more.
- Free Lip Gloss from Queen Latifah's Cover Girl Collection
- Essence Magazines Get Even Contest
Win Free Cosmetics for Your Skin
- 75% Off Black Business Marketing Guide
- Mahogany Momma's Fabulous Fall Sale: eMagazine for Black Moms
- Aretha Franklin CD Contest
- Visit Giveaway of the Day.com
- Free College Cds, Scholarships and Application Waivers for Black Students
- Get Free Black Clipart for Your website of myspace page!
- Join the Black Freebies Email List: It's Free!
African American Christmas
Holiday Movies, Books, and Gift Ideas
Urban Gift Guide
Monday, November 19, 2007
Black Hair Website Recommendations
I've put together a collection of my websites that focus on African American Haircare, these pages include info about a range of hair topics from Natural Hair Care, Locs, Perms, Extensions, Braids, African American Children's Haircare, and more. Enjoy. Share. Add your site to the Search Urban Directory. -lh.
These Black Hair Sites Include:
Friday, October 19, 2007
New Site Featuring Urban Boutiques
Urban Chique Afro E-Boutiques
A Collection of Black Owned or Operated Shops
Clothing. Beauty. Gifts. Cosmetics
Visit the Site. Add Your Shops. Enjoy.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
A Web Guide for African American Homeschoolers
Afrocentric Learning Tools presents ....
A Web Guide for Black Parents by LaShanda Henry
Currently on sale: Only $7.95
This e-book includes an extensive listing of over 200 Afrocentric / Multicultural Websites for Black Parents, Students, Children, and Educators. To Purchase this e-Book visit www.lulu.com/content/459061. The Chapters include: Black Parenting Online Guides, Black Homeschooling Information, Teaching Black Students, Teaching Black History, Teaching about Africa, All About Kwanzaa, Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Games, Activities, and Resources, Black Movies for Families and Kids, Black Bookstores, College Preparation of Minority Students, Black Teenpreneurs and Career Planning for Minority Students, African - African American Folktales, Genernal Black Resources Online, and Black Freebies Online.
Chapter Details:
- Black Parenting Online: This section includes information about websites that focus on Black Parenting, Raising Black Children, Black Mothers, Black Fathers, and Black Maternity.
- Black Homeschoolers: This section includes information about websites that focus on Black / African American Homeschoolers, their support groups, online resources, and literary publications.
- Teaching Black Students: This section includes information about websites that focus on Afrocentric Educational Materials and lesson plans for Black Homeschoolers and Educators of Black Students.
- Teaching Black History: This section includes information about websites that focus on educating others about Black / African American History.
- Teaching about Africa: This section includes information about websites that focus on educating others about Africa, African Culture, and Historical African Events.
- All about Kwanzaa: This section includes information about websites that focus on Kwanzaa information, resources, products, and online activities.
- African and African American Folktales Online: This section includes information about websites that focus on collecting and displaying African / African American Folktales.
- Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Games and Activities: This section includes information about websites that focus on hosting online games and activities with Afrocentric or Multicultural themes.
- Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Resources: This section includes information about websites that focus on promoting or selling Afrocentric / Multicultural products, services, and resources.
- Blicks: Black Flicks for Families & Kids: This section includes information about websites that feature quality Black Movies, Short films and Animated Cartoons for Black Families to enjoy online or purchase in DVD and/or VHS format.
- Black Bookstores: Find Afrocentric Literature for Kids and Teens Online: This section includes information about websites that feature black books, specifically those for young children and teens.
- College Preparation for Minority Students: This section includes information about websites that feature books, scholarships, and other resources for minority students preparing for college.
- Black Teenpreneurs & Career Planning for Minority Students: This section includes information about websites that foster teen entrepreneurship among black youth and provide career planning resources and opportunities for minority students.
- General Black Resources Online: This section includes information about websites that offer black resources in general, with a particular focus on youth orientated content.
- Black Freebies Online for Families and Children: This section includes information about websites that offer freebies to Black Online Viewers.
A Few Words from the author:
I designed this particular guide for Black Parents who are interested in making Afrocentric Learning and exposure to Black Culture an integral part of their children's development. From support groups to online activities, within this book is an extensive list of over 200 links created just for you and your children. Though it's often times hard to tell, the internet is actually filled with an increasing number of positive, multicultural web pages. Some are a little harder to find than others, but that's why you have me to do the searching so all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the sites!
~LaShanda Henry
*This e-Book includes the following type of cultural web links: Black, African, African American, Afrocentric, Africentric, Multicultural.
Also available at lulu.com: www.lulu.com/content/459061
Monday, March 12, 2007
Black Art Websites
|Black Arts
Find websites that showcase Black Artwork, and Artists.
|Jazz Land Scapes
Rating: *****
"The online art portfolio of Kevin Neireiter
|Imo Ime Studios
Rating: *****
Imo Nse Imeh is a Nigerian-American visual artist, vocalist, academic/song writer, and poet.
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Rating: *****
A wonderful place to keep black history alive and visual for all to see and remember.
Broooklyn Academy of Music
Rating: *****
Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Rating: *****
African American Men Series
Rating: *****
These beautiful posters were created in celebration of African-American men who have truly made a difference in the way people think and feel about the world
Black Photos
Rating: ****
This is a website dedicated to blacks that have taken the time to display their photos on the wwweb.
|The Community Writers Project
Rating: **
Resources for African (Diaspora) Writers, links to The African Store and affiliate programs
|Brian Owens Art
Rating: ****
Bronze sculpture, paintings, fine oil portraits and interesting articles about art.
|Black History Month Graphics Design
Rating: ****
Links to African American Art and famed African American designers. Includes links to fine art galleries, murals, artifacts, and the Black Alliance.
|Art By Andre
Rating: ****
Home of inspirational, Christian artist Andre Thompson. Featured collection on display in the online art gallery.
|Jahligator's Gallery for Comics and Caricature
Rating: **
A Website dedicated to producing comics reflecting America's cultural diversity with an accent on the Black experience as well as promote the Fine Arts that come out of the African...
|Black Arts
Rating: *****
Find an extensive listing of search results for Black Arts on Google.com.
Searches related to Black Arts:
Artwork · Artists · Clipart · Paintings · Photography · Sculptures · Musicians · Renaissance · Culture · more Black Websites > A Black Search Directory
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Tuesday Tempest in a Teapot
Pretty much all theater and film productions of any given Shakespeare text cut and adapt the text in some way. In our production, the director does the cutting. Basically, the idea is to shorten the play a bit, since our theater practices lengthen playing times dramatically by doing scenery stuff and having scenery changes, moving curtains up and down, and having an intermission. It's a trade off, maybe not my ideal choice, but there you are. (And some companies work very hard to get the feel of an early modern production; if you haven't seen the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, and get a chance, DO!)
So, I'm not having my little personal tempest about the fact that the play's going to be cut in some way.
As far as textual problems, The Tempest is lots less difficult than lots of Shakespeare's plays. The text is first printed in the First Folio (Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, printed 1623), and doesn't have a separate quarto edition early on. Still, modern editors make decisions about uncertain line readings, and prose lineation varies considerably in different editions (that is, the number of lines a section of prose occupies on a page differs. A broad page of print uses far fewer lines than a thin column does.) Lineation differences aren't a huge tragedy, of course.
So, here's my little tempest for the morning. I've emailed the director (a couple of weeks ago) asking which edition she's using for her text. And I've gotten no response.
I need to get hold of the playtext she's using, and the edition she's taken it from!
I've been prepping with my old Oxford, which is a nice, useful text with good notes and plenty of margin space for layers of my own notes.
But if lineation's way off with the players' text, it's going to be a real pain.
Okay, I originally was going to rant for a while, but what I really need to do is call the theater and see if they've got copies of the playtext (oh, I guess I COULD be all modern and call it a script!), right? /nod
So, talk amongst yourselves while I try to take a little personal responsibility for a change.
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No comment on your text woes other than to say I'm sure it must be frustrating to have to prepare without knowing which text you'll be using. But, I did want to say thank you for the link to Shenandoah Shakespeare's American Shakespeare Center. I was not aware of it's existence. I try to get to that area of Virginia every year or so for two wonderful reasons: great hikes in Shenandoah Nat'l Park and the Green Valley Book Fair. Now I'll have something else to check out while there and maybe add to my list of reasons to make a 500+ mile road trip!ReplyDelete
I am thrilled that you mentioned SSE, because it gives me an excuse to gush about them. I am so very not a Shakespeare person _except_ for SSE productions. I tell everyone I meet that they must see SSE sometime in their lifetime. Of course, trips to California are few and far between, so my friends just think I'm a big liar that there's this amazing group in some podunk town in Virginia.ReplyDelete
I get to call it "podunk" because that's where I went to school and therefore I know firsthand the podunkiness. :) I must have seen a gazillion SSE performances in 89-92 (ok, maybe 20). Then I graduated and moved away and what do they do? Build Blackfriars Playhouse there. Sheesh.
Best SSE moment: theme music for a production of Macbeth included a lone acoustic guitarist doing "Wave of Mutilation" by The Pixies. :)
What fun! I did the Tempest in 8th grade, and still have a soft spot for it.ReplyDelete
And again, props for your SSE mention--I saw a Twelfth Night and Knight of the Burning Pestle there a few years back, and have been itching to get there again for a bit...


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Of the three upper-echelon police characters appearing in Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Inspector Bertozzo spends the least amount of time on stage. He has a role at the play's beginning, as the policeman interviewing the Maniac for impersonating a psychiatrist. He sees that the Maniac has been arrested many times for impersonation and does not believe the Maniac's claim that he is mad and therefore not responsible for his actions. He seems intent on finding a way to make a charge against the Maniac stick. However, after enduring enough of the Maniac's double-talk, he becomes utterly exasperated and tells him to leave the station.
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Honda CR-Z and Peugeot RCZ which one is better?
Honda CR-Z and Peugeot RCZ which one is better?
To answer this question, British magazine Auto Express took both sports cars and tested them to see which one comes on top in typical everyday use.
If you read between the lines - or
in this case, the tester's words, the RCZ is a better car picking up the title in fuel economy, performance, interior styling and quality, as well as exterior looks. But -there's always a but, isn't there?- the entry-level RCZ Diesel costs £5,251 [about US$7,900 or €6,500] more than the basic CR-Z, which ultimately makes the comparison unjust.
Video and some quick facts we gathered on both cars after the jump.
HONDA CR-Z: The CR-Z comes with a 1.5-liter petrol engine coupled to a small electric motor producing a combined output of 124-horsepower at 6,100 rpm and 174Nm / 128 lb-ft of peak torque from 1,000 to 1,500 rpm.
With the 6-speed manual, Honda UK claims that the CR-Z in basic 'S' trim sprints to 62mph (100km/h) in 9.9 seconds [10.1 seconds for the better equipped GT model] and tops out at 124mph (199 km/h).
According to the manufacturer, the hybrid sports car, which tips the scales at 1,198 kg / 2,641 lbs, returns a combined fuel economy of 56.5mpg UK [5.0lt/100km or 47.0mpg US] with CO2 emissions of 117g/km.
Auto Express said that in a mixture of conditions as well as some hot laps on the test track, the CR-Z's trip computer recorded an average of 39.5 mpg UK [7.1 lt/100km or 32.9 mpg US].
In the UK, the CR-Z is offered in three trim levels - S, Sport and GT, with prices set at £16,999, £17,999 and £19,999 respectively.
PEUGEOT RCZ: Along with the 1.6-liter turbocharged petrol engines producing 156HP and 200HP, the RCZ is also offered with a 2.0-liter turbo diesel hooked up to a six-speed manual gearbox.
It delivers 163-horsepower at 3,750 rpm and a maximum torque of 340Nm / 251 lb ft at 2,000 rpm and returns a combined fuel consumption of 53.2 mpg UK (5.3 lt /100km or 44.3 mpg US) with CO2 emissions of 139 g/km.
In AE's test, the RCZ returned an average of 41.4mpg UK [6.8lt/100km or 34.5mpg US].
Weighing in at 1,474 kg / 3,250 lbs, the diesel-powered RCZ goes from zero to 62mph (100km/h) in 8.7 seconds and reaches a top speed of 137mph (220km/h).
The Peugeot RCZ 2.0 HDi is available in two grades, Sport and GT, with OTR pricing set at £22,250 and £24,550 respectively.
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What is the role of Agile Program Management function in these two areas – 'Awareness Building and Knowledge Management'? These two areas go beyond generic training on new joiner induction or on-boarding. I am writing this post to explain how these two areas go beyond the normal on-boarding or induction process and why those two are important drivers in Agile Program Management.
Typically we get trained or certified team members to form cross-functional teams or we induct skilled team members and put them through appropriate additional training and/or certification programs. Once this happens, team members get into main stream iterative/incremental delivery. Teams that are self-enabled and high-performing experience perpetual learning that happens all the time. In small projects that involve one or two such teams, awareness building and knowledge management are intrinsic. Those who have been through this or those who imagine standalone or small teams may even wonder why someone would even worry about these two areas! This is because Agile is about team learning and continuous improvement.
Well. That happens. That happens in small projects – projects that involve one or two or three cross-functional teams. How about large projects or programs? – for example, programs that involve multiple hundreds of team members – 400 to 1000 team members with 40 to 100 cross-functional teams that are geographically distributed?
I am sure you got the context. In most cases Agile Program Management involves complexity in terms of team size, variety of projects, geographical distribution and so on. This is when Agile Program Managers cannot afford to ignore 'Awareness Building and Knowledge Management'.
Awareness Building and Knowledge Management are continuous activities. There have to be multiple mechanisms to promote or implement these two areas. There can be mechanism such as visual posters, lightening talks, regular or periodic sessions that involve topics related to technologies, domain concepts, and so on. Gamification is worth considering in large teams to ensure continuous awareness building and knowledge management.
Unlike small projects that involve one or two cross-functional teams that last for about nine to twelve months, large programs involve tens or hundreds of cross-functional teams and last for multiple years. Continuous focus on awareness building and knowledge management becomes a necessity to sustainable rigor in execution. Remember, a 10 percent attrition in program of 500 team members is nothing but 50 people moving out and moving in year on year. When there is a churn of this magnitude or higher, on-boarding or induction may become individual based but not team based because you don't get to induct a team or train a group of individuals all the time. With consistent pressure on sustaining velocity trends or meeting release timelines, the focus on delivering would supersede everything else. This is where a continuous focus on awareness building and knowledge management can strengthen the ecosystem.
How can we going about this? Form a team of motivated individuals who want to contribute to this area. Focus on a) creating an infrastructure that radiates knowledge and improves awareness – these can be posters, email flyers, knowledge management portal, etc. b) budgeting time for periodic knowledge sharing sessions facilitated by team members for team members, c) involving geographically distributed teams by sharing content or inviting them to participate. Also, include these in your program management radar or dashboard. Do you have any additional ideas? Please share.
Have you seen a new project team in your program repeating the same mistakes that one of the mature teams came across couple of years ago? Have you seen the same types of issues and conflicts happening in new teams year after year? Have you seen a newly inducted developer doing a wrong bug-fix most probably the same way someone did years ago and learned a better way through experience? If yes, I am sure you will understand how these incidents can be better understood and handled, and minimized - if applicable, through consistent focus on awareness building and knowledge sharing sessions. Also, I am sure you don't assume that the initial induction program or training or certification can do the magic to stop these!
Tell me now. Don't Agile Program Managers need to keep track of these two areas or have them represented in some form (probably through a measure or metric) on their program management dashboard?


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This is an illustration that I made as a gift for my friend Charles of his beloved dog Ella. Isn't she cute? Charles is program leader of SEED Wayne at Wayne State University in Detroit. SEED Wayne is the agriculture program at Wayne State University that works with community based organizations to promote food planning and policy development which allows urban areas better access to fresh, healthy produce. Here Charles talks with Youth Neighborhood News about the various programs that SEED Wayne sponsors.
The fruit and vegetable cornucopia is something my editor wanted for a Thanksgiving article in the November issue of CMP magazine. The cornucopia is unrelated to Ella but I just thought it was fitting to include it in this blog post that mentioned SEED Wayne. I would like to wish all my blog readers and their families a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?
Ella and Cornucopia by Gary Bedard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.


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I don't really have anything funny, cute or silly to say about this cake. Just that it's yummy, tasty, and delicious and I was pleased at how it turned out. I'm usually very skeptical about trying a new recipe to bring to a party without making a "test batch" to taste first. But alas, I did the unimaginable, and made a cake that I'd never tried before. And hallelujah, it was lovely. As I said to Scott, "this is a re-make cake", meaning, this cake is good enough to make again. Soon. Ahhh, I love the on-set of summer!
Cherry Cake barely adapted from The Provence Cookbook by Patricia Wells
I often make cakes a day ahead, wrap them tightly in plastic and keep them on the counter to be eaten the next day. I find that a lot of cakes become more moist this way, and this was certainly the case with this cake. Also, Scott suggested that it'd be fun to brush the top with a little kirsch or cherry brandy. Perhaps I'll try that next time when there aren't a bunch of 1-year-olds partaking in the "adult" desserts! I did, however substitute cherry brandy for the vanilla that she calls for. In addition, I think this cake would be wonderful with a 1/2 teaspoon or so of ground cardamom- but you know me!!
Also, I used a 10-inch spring-form pan, rather than a 9-inch, as is called for in the recipe. It worked beautifully- I simply baked the cake a few minutes less.
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 2/3 cups white sugar
- 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon cherry brandy or kirsch
- 1-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of kosher salt
- grated zest of 1 lemon
- grated zest of 1 orange
- 1 pound fresh red cherries, rinsed, stemmed and pitted, divided
Place oven rack in the center-most position and preheat oven to 425º. Butter and flour a 9-inch springform pan. Set aside.
Prepare the cherries and cut 3/4 of them in half. Leave the remaining 1/4 whole.
In the bowl of a kitchen-aid fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the eggs and sugar on high-speed until they become thick and lemon-colored, about 2 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and add the melted butter, olive oil, milk and cherry brandy. Mix just to blend.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the lemon and orange zests and stir to coat. Spoon the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until thoroughly combined. Do not over mix. Set aside for 10 minutes to allow the flour to absorb the liquids. Stir the halved cherries into the batter and pour the batter into the prepared pan, using a spatula to smooth out the top.
Place the pan in the center of the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle the remaining whole cherries on the top of the cake and continue baking for about 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Place on a cooling rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Run a knife around the sides of the pan to help it release and then remove the side of the springform pan. Leave the cake on the pan base until it is completely cool.


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Well, our lives are about to get significantly different once again – we're pregnant! I'm wonderfully excited and hoping for a girl to match my boy. Hey, our three cats are boys – I'm really quite outnumbered here! I'm due in mid-September, so we have plenty of time to get ready.
I think the best part about having a second (or third, or fourth…) child is that we already have a lot of what we need. We saved a lot of our first son's things, so if we have a boy, we have lots of clothes. We have a crib, changing pad, pack 'n' play, and pretty much everything else. If we have a girl, we'll need some clothes. Either way we'll need diapers, but I'll be looking for cheap used cloth diapers at diaperswappers.com so we should be set by the time baby comes!
Thankfully, my husband has really excellent medical insurance that covers the whole family. Our church (my husband is a music minister) also provides the full amount of allowed contributions for a Health Savings Account each year. This has been such a blessing. After three years of really having to consider if we could come up with $200 to go to the urgent care for a strep test it's an incredible feeling to just be able to go and know it's covered, one way or another. (I was on Medicaid while pregnant with my son, and he was on Medicaid until we moved up here.)
So there are lots of new things to think about, but our main focus is still going to be paying down the debt. \
We have to figure out how to afford new windows upstairs as well. The original 1940's single-pane painted-shut windows do not make a comfortable bedroom, and our son will be moving up there to make room in the nursery. With the cold snap this past week, the windows actually had ice on the inside. We generally keep the room closed off, and the oil heat is pretty much ineffective against the cold coming in the windows.
We don't want to go into more debt, but if we can't figure out a way to make this work, we may have to. So far, our plan is to buy them at the local home improvement store and install them ourselves. We have a few months to save up. Well, okay, my husband and a friend will be installing them! I'm not going up a ladder at 6 or 7 months pregnant!
My car is also going to need an expensive repair in the new few months. It's the supercharger, so it's necessary. We'll be figuring that out, too.
Selling our business on Ebay has actually done really well, so we'll have some money to snowflake this month! It's not lucrative, but we're getting enough to cover the original costs of the jewelry after paying shipping and fees, which was our original intent. Hopefully, as we gain feedback, we'll sell faster. 🙂 Thank you if any of you have patronized our Ebay auctions. We still have about 2/3 of our products on Ebay now – only 2000 more to go. Wow. Yes, it's a lot!
So…give me tips – I need ideas for cheap, good windows!
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So in September of 2004 we signed on a chance at a new chapter in our lives. We had made the decision to move out to a small tiny dinky town of Coolidge, AZ. We were excited since the house would be almost twice the size of our first home. The drive we convinced ourselves was not that far. Besides Brian was working at the Fry's in Johnson Ranch. Teagan was 5 months old and needed growing room and hopefully we would add to our family. We came out practically every weekend to check up on our home. I know we were nuts, but gas was not almost $3 a gallon and we had not upgraded to a gas hog yet. So here is what Heartland Ranch looked like when we came around!
We signed in September of 2005 and Mertiage did not start our home until Dec 31st!
OOOHHHAAAAHHH look some sticks!
OOOHHHAAAAHHH look some sticks!
AH Teagan was so little!
They poured concrete and it sat, and sat, and sat some more!
Finally they started framing, make sure you leave some holes we enjoy our mice friends!
Great way to hold a house up, by the way if you put a ball on our bathroom
Okay it is moving along. This must be where the mice holes occur.
it will roll at a steady pace. I love fast shoty construction don't you?
Okay it is moving along. This must be where the mice holes occur.
Okay the outside looks good, what's going on inside?
Here it is with the fence up and the outside painted, almost ready to take us in for 3 1/2 years. After we moved in on April 21, 2005 we did a lot very quickly. Our first house we did not enjoy but we just lived in it. So we painted the walls and put in a backyard. It was fun doing it, but if I had, had the chance to see what 3 years would have been like, I would have run the other way! So am I ready to leave all of this?


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Phu is the home planet of the Phuii species of aliens.
Phu was located near the Aur system.[3]
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In the revised first draft of The Phantom Menace this planet was called Ophuchi, a name dating back to the earliest incarnations of the script to the original movie. The name "Phu" was created by deleting a few letters.[4]
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- Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
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It's New Year's Eve. A time of Endings. A time of New Beginnings. A time to blog about resolutions, but I would like to talk about letting go of the past fully so we can allow the new to usher in. This can be bring about great sorrow and regret, because we like to hold onto our pain. Pain can be a comfort. Pain can become a place to lapse back to when moving ahead makes us afraid. I think we grow accustomed to pain, like a little friend we can call up when we want to assure ourselves we are still feeling. Pain is the bastard we are used to and joy is the one who got away.
Joy is the one we can never get our arms around. We dwell in the past ruminating on how we could of, should of done things differently even though we know we can't change anything now. We hold on instead of accepting what is. We, all of us, have an inner control freak who thinks it can change circumstances, change other people's minds, make someone love us, even if they don't, and it is the control freak who gets us into trouble because it won't let go. I say don't listen to it anymore! Not just as a New Year's Resolution, because we all know how long they last, but as a life long dialogue you have with yourself whenever you think you can change another person's mind or behavior. Remember it is just a voice in your head!
Can you relate to this?
Do you think that you can make someone else love you?
If you do, just think about a time when someone loved you and wanted you back, but you were no longer into the relationship was there anything they could do to make you love them?
Sometimes we just have to accept that we can't make someone love us, if they don't!
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With all the gluten intolerance in the air, I have been experimenting with polenta. Its fun cause it takes on whatever flavor you cook it with, it is easy to mold in different shapes, and its versatile (tastes great in Italian, Mexican, & Indian food).
I love the idea of doing a fun app before the meal & my kids love the idea of cupcakes.
I tried an Italian cupcake (Polenta Lasagna) and a Mexican cupcake (Green Chili Casserole). My kids and my man preferred the Italian. I like em both. So, I will give you both recipes. They both use the same major ingredients- so save $ and make them both in the same week. The recipes can be prepared in a casserole dish, ramekins ~fancy fun~, or cupcake tins.
The cottage cheese and eggs make this dish creamy and full of protein. They are a good sub for a full fat cheese or meat.
If you are a meat eater~ be efficient & broil the chicken for both meals at once. Make the Italian Cupcakes on Monday and the Mexi as a casserole on Friday!
Broiled Chicken
Add Raw or Frozen Chicken Breasts Chicken and a 2-3 cups of chicken stock or water, salt, garlic salt, pepper, & 1/2 chopped onion on the stove top, covered, on MEDIUM-LOW heat till it is cooked thru. Try and cook it as slow as possible- this is what makes the chicken moist and "shreddy. Busy? Throw ingredients in a crock pot in the am and come home to warm shredded chicken in the pm.
Mexican Ingredients
1 small can of Green Chilis
1/2 tube of Trader Joes Polenta
1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 eggs
1/4 cup cooked spinach
1/8 tsp cumin
1/2 diced onion
1/2 cup mexican cheese
Broiled Chicken or black beans
Combine Cottage Cheese and eggs. Whip. Add Cumin (If you don't like the way cumin smells, don't use it! It tastes how it smells). Spray muffin cups, ramekins or casserole dish. I am not going to give exact measurements for the layers. Experiment. You can play around cause your not "baking" (baking is non-forgiving cause ratios are really important). I personally like lots of green chili's and jalapenos! Top with fresh salsa/pico. :)
Layer 1- Sliced polenta.
Layer 2- Cottage cheese mix. Add a green chilis (to your liking).
Layer 3- Cooked spinach
Layer 4- Chicken and/or beans. Add onions to your liking.
Layer 5- Sprinkle with Mexi-cheese and add jalapenos to your liking. Cook for =/- 20 mins.
In a rush? Microwave. Then brown cheese in oven under broiler for 2 minutes. Top with fresh salsa/pico
Italian Ingredients
1/2 tube TJ's polenta
1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 eggs
Garlic Salt
1/4 cup Cooked Spinach
1/4 diced onion
1 cup marinara sauce
Broiled Chicken
Parmesan Cheese (or parm reggi)
Combine cottage cheese and eggs. Add garlic salt and pepper to your liking. Spray muffin cups, ramekin or casserole dish.
Layer 1- Sliced polenta
Layer 2- cottage cheese mix
Layer 3- 50% of your marinara sauce
Layer 4- Spinach
Layer 5- Broiled chicken and onion to your liking
Layer 6- Rest of marinara (other 50%) and sprinkle with parm cheese.
Having a party? Serve these savory cupcakes on a cupcake stand for your app hour, then change out your stand for the sweeter stuff after dinner.
Adios & Mangia!
Health Benefits of Spinach- BTW, I am gonna eat more of this stuff after reading what is below!!!!
Spinach has many important roles to play in maintaining a healthy body and various health benefits of spinach include:
- Good Eyesight: Spinach is a rich source of beta carotene, lutein and xanthene, all of which are beneficial for eyesight. Beta carotene is supplied to the eyes by cooked spinach. It can prevent one from vitamin A deficiency disease, itching eyes, eye ulcers and dry eyes.
- Age-related Macula Degeneration (AMD): AMD or Retinitis pigmentosa is responsible for causing blindness. It is due to the degeneration of lutein and xanthene which form central part of the retina. According to research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, consumption of spinach can result in regaining of the two pigments and preventing AMD effectively.
- Blood Pressure: Spinach has high content of potassium and low content of sodium. This composition of minerals is very beneficial for high blood pressure patients as potassium lowers and sodium raises the blood pressure. Folate present in spinach contributes in reducing hypertension and relaxes blood vessels, maintaining proper blood flow.
- Strengthens Muscles: A component of spinach, factor C0-Q10 which is an anti-oxidant, plays important role in strengthening muscles especially heart muscle which continuously pumps blood to all parts of the body. As per the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, C0-Q10 can be used to prevent and treat many cardiovascular diseases like hyperlipidemia, heart failure, hypertension and coronary heart diseases.
- Cataract: Lutein and zeaxanthin present in spinach act as strong antioxidants thus preventing the eyes from harsh effects of UV rays that lead to cataract.
- Atherosclerosis and Heart Attack: Atherosclerosis is caused due to hardening of arteries. A pigment named lutein found in spinach has been shown to reduce the occurrence atherosclerosis, heart attack as well as stroke. This is due to the fact that spinach proteins tend to reduce the cholesterol and other fat deposits in the blood vessels.
- Neurological Benefits: Several components of spinach like potassium, folate, and various antioxidants are known to provide neurological benefits. According to Neurology, folate which reduces due to occurrence of Alzheimer's disease can be revived by spinach.
- Bone Mineralization: Spinach is a good source of Viatmin K, which functions in retaining calcium in the bone matrix thereby leading to bone mineralization. Apart from this, other minerals like manganese, copper, magnesium, zinc and phosphorus also help in building up of strong bones. This in turn can prevent an individual from osteoporosis of bones.
- Anti-Ulcerative: It has been found that spinach and some other vegetables have the ability to protect the mucous membrane of stomach thereby decreasing the occurrence of gastric ulcers.
- Anti-Cancerous Property: Spinach made up of various important constituents has been found to be promising in various kinds of cancer. These include bladder, prostate, liver and lung cancer. Different constituents in spinach like folate, tocopherol, chlorophyllin act via different mechanisms to treat and protect patients suffering from cancer.
- Skin Protection: Different phytonutrients and pigments have been shown to protect the skin from harmful rays of sun including the UV rays. These not only protect but also repair the damaged genes to some extent thereby preventing skin cancer in long run.
- Foetus Development: Folate found in spinach is needed by the growing foetus for proper development of new nervous system. Defects like cleft palate or spina bifida may occur due to deficiency of folate. Vitamin A offered by spinach is advised to be consumed in more quantities by the mother. Vitamin A is required in lung development of foetus as well as during breast feeding.
- Protein Rich for Infant's Proper Growth: 'Popeye', the sailor man is known for his obsession for spinach. The cartoon was deliberately shown to eat spinach and get strong. Infants are advised to be fed with spinach which is a rich in protein, vitamins minerals and phytonutrients. These will result in proportionate development in there growing stages.
Thank you ---> http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vegetable/health-benefits-of-spinach.html


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The rules for this award are to pass it on to people who have been following you for a long time and then a new follower from another country.
There are quite a few of you who just provide such encouraging comments on a regular basis, so this is really hard. What I've decided to do is bend the rules a little and focus on a few newer commenters who I really appreciate.
So the awards this time go to:
- Kori at See Kori Rant. She's got a lot of drama going on in her life and kids keeping her plenty busy, yet she still regularly finds time to stop by and chat about my posts. Thank you!
- Sarah at Tales from Oakbriar Farm. Her little girl E is just a little older than my E, so it's fun to compare stories as we watch them grow up.
- DysFUNctional Mom at Putting the FUN in DysFUNctional. Another great commenter and fellow mommy blogger of sorts.
- Donna at Cottage Days and Journeys. She's got a blog full of great photos of traveling adventures, and she joins the Mozambique journey via my blog, too!
- And the other country award goes to ZJ at The Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia. She's a fellow PhotoHunt participant, and if you want a list of international blogs, check out her blogroll! (The fact that my sister lives in Cambodia has nothing to do with the honoring of this award...)
We're saving up some awards for next Sunday - see you then!


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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg flew to Israel Sunday for a daylong trip to express solidarity with Israelis threatened by Hamas rockets and back the strikes against the militant group.
Bloomberg, accompanied by Congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, visited the southern Israeli towns of Ashkelon and Sderot, both of which have been targeted by Hamas rockets over the past several weeks, and met with New Yorkers who had immigrated.
Israel is in the ninth day of its strikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which have killed more than 500 Palestinians. Ground forces pushed into Gaza Saturday night amid widespread world condemnation.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel's actions. "You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD (New York police) would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians," Bloomberg said.
"I think as a New Yorker, we've been attacked twice by al-Qaida itself," said the mayor, who is Jewish. "We've seen enormous devastation and courage and after that you sort of feel you have a bond, if you will, for those who live in a dangerous world and are subject to someone trying to kill them."
Bloomberg blamed the current situation entirely on the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and began launching rockets against Israeli towns in the south after its six-month truce with Israel lapsed last month.
"All Hamas has to do is stop sending rockets over to kill people and agree on the accords that were negotiated earlier and come to an agreement that is verifiable, durable and effective to stop people from being killed," he added.
During the visit to the embattled town of Sderot, Bloomberg and his party briefly had to be hustled to a bomb shelter when a missile warning went off.
International criticism of Israel has centered on the civilian deaths that have accompanied the attacks on Hamas and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where food, water and electricity are in short supply.
Ackerman, a powerful member of the House of Representatives who chairs the subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, said the onus of the civilian deaths was on Hamas for using them as human shields.
"They have been the main victimizers of the innocent Palestinian people by inviting these kinds of attacks," he said.


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Responding to a decision you don't agree with that affects you
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. Unknown
Like it or not, people make decisions that affect us every day. The government of the country, the CEO of the company you're working for, your manager, your local council, your bus or train driver, your partner… it's just a fact of life we're forced to deal with. But how do you cope when you really don't agree with the decision that has been made?
1. Think about it
Take a step back from the frustration and panic that is overcoming you and don't react. Be open to the decision that has been made: just because it's not your decision, or your choice in decision, does not necessarily make it wrong. Consider why you don't agree with it, why the decision was made, why the person may have made this decision, and what benefits could come from this decision?
2. Talk about it
It's important to communicate. Find out if the decision is final or if there is any way you could influence it with your opinion by telling the person in charge your thoughts. Once you offer your ideas, opinions and perspective, the decision maker may take it into consideration. It may also get you included in the decision making process in future – you don't know until you try!
3. Accept the decision
Everyone has the right to make their own decisions. You don't have to agree with the decision made, but for your own peace of mind, you need to accept it. To put your mind at ease, trust that the person making the decision is making it the best way they can, in their situation, with their experience. This person will need to accept responsibility for their decision later on, so the best thing you can do is accept their decision and support it as best you can. Start taking action to support their decision to help you to feel empowered.
4. Respond
Many decisions aren't yours to make – this is a fact of life. However, you do have the opportunity to respond and can make another decision that gives you power in the situation you have found yourself in. If someone else's decision endangers your life or is seriously against your values, the final option is this: you can stay or you can go.
How to have a "Can Do" attitude
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington
When applying for a job, we must all magically inherit a "can do" attitude. What on earth is that? Is that just enthusiasm? But what if you actually CAN'T do it? Are you just not meant to say anything and fake it and hope you don't blow something up? Whatever it is, a positive attitude is vital for any successful journey.
So how do you get this positive "can do" attitude that gets you charged up and ready to tackle anything? Here are some simple tips that will help you build the attitude everyone wants, make you feel like there's more hours in the day and give you the energy that everyone wants to be around:
Be confident
Success depends heavily in believe in your ability to succeed and having a strong sense of self-worth. You can develop your self-confidence by learning and growing at every opportunity and being aware of yourself and those around you.
Show enthusiasm
Be enthusiastic about life and all that it brings – including challenges! Think of it as an adventure and stay focussed on your goals to keep the motivation flowing.
Don't compare
Don't put yourself down – sometimes doing it your way will be just as good as doing it any other way! Try to learn from people around you to bring yourself up to a higher level, than be jealous. What is it they do that you could copy in order to attract the same success that they have?
Revisit your achievements
List your achievements and consider how you felt when you made that achievement, find a way to achieve something again and get that feeling back. Be aware of your values, strengths and skills and also how others view you. Seek feedback as often as you can, listen to it and focus on improving where you can.
Project your image
Select positive role models and learn from what they do. Project a confident image. Remember, negativity is like a boomerang, it always comes back to you.
Watch your appearance
Take care of yourself with a flattering haircut, manicure or maintain a healthy skin care regime. Take time with your clothes and shoes. Dress professionally.
Think positive
Focus on the things that are working well in your life and your strengths, rather than what is not working. Research has shown that 75-80% of daily communication is negative. Concentrate your energies on positive aspects of your life and move away from problems and fears.
Avoid self-criticism
Let go of the inner voice that criticises you when things don't go well. Analyse the situation and learn from it, this will help you learn, grow and move ahead. Look at setbacks as opportunities to grow.
Challenge yourself
Step outside your comfort zone and stretch yourself to boost your confidence. Think creatively.
Chill out
Learn to relax and unwind after a potentially stressful day, with challenges that have you wound up. Meditation helps get into a relaxed state quickly.
Watch what you say
Language colours experience – speak positively because it reflects on you. Take responsibility and ownership where you can. When you start saying or even thinking you can't do something, stop and ask yourself: what would it take to change that to can do? Focus on your answer and making it happen.
Develop your mindset
Develop a problem-solving mind-set. Challenge yourself when you think you can't and prove why you actually can.
Motivate yourself
Look for positive past experiences when you successfully solved the same or a similar sort of problem and remember what worked for you. Solve problems by playing to your strengths.
Do something different
'If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always got.' There's always more than one way to solve a problem.
A smile not only brightens your day, but it will brighten the day of those around you. It also changes your brain chemistry and makes for a brighter day.
Be professional
Use tact and diplomacy in the workplace and put any feelings of frustration, anger and disappointment aside. State facts before feelings and find ways to get jobs done even when it's uncomfortable. The show must go on.
Set goals
Set goals that drive you towards results. Focus on what you want to happen ahead, not what you're worried will happen. Set S-M-A-R-T-E-R (specific, measureable, attainable, realistic, timely, encouraging and rewarding) goals. Concentrate on getting win-win situations.
Reframe communication
If a conversation is going negatively, reframe it with a positive spin. Help the person seek solutions to their problems, avoid negative media and try to stay optimistic.
Fake it til you make it
Act like you are already achieving your goals, and you will rise to a higher level. Others will see you as achieving and interact with you accordingly.
Learn to let go
"Let it go and let go. Most of our problems and fears and worries and doubts come from clinging to people and objects and ideals and expectations and the need to control situations. Just let them be. You will clearly see things change just as quickly by being patient. Trust life's flow sometimes. Don't keep fighting it. Oh and let others shine and be right sometimes," said news.com.au editor, Andrew Banks 2012.


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For years, they (whoever "they" are, we're still are not sure who these people are), have been telling us that laughter is the best medicine. This past weekend, I discovered that not only is this true, but that I will be incorporating this into my everyday life. I woke up on Saturday morning to watch Dave Chappelle's, "For What It's Worth", recorded live from The Fillmore in San Fransico. While drinking my morning coffee, I was laughing so hard, that I almost wet my drawers. I think, I even spit out my coffee a couple of times. I noticed that this sort of silliness set my mood for the rest of the day. In fact, I can't remember the last time I felt this good. At first I thought maybe this was just a coincidence, that maybe my mood was due to something else…..maybe I was being possessed, or maybe someone laced my coffee with something. I then tried it the next day, on Sunday, and the results were the same. My advice, for anyone, that is suffering from depression, or even if you are not, try to incorporate comedy and laughter into your life. If you can, go out and buy yourself a DVD player, and buy up a bunch of comedy DVD's. Play them every morning with your coffee, or better yet go to a comedy club.
Yes….Laughter Is The Best Medicine


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(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N) agreed to buy the rest of a brokerage joint venture from Citigroup Inc (C.N) at a lower-than-expected price valuing the business at $13.5 billion, a win for Morgan Stanley although it faces challenges to boost the operation's profits.
The brokerage business was meant to stabilize Morgan Stanley's revenue during economic cycles but has not been nearly as profitable as the investment bank had hoped. Costs have run over and technology problems have dogged the joint venture since its inception.
"Morgan Stanley has fabulously disappointed investors with the execution of its integration plans," said Brad Hintz, a former Morgan Stanley treasurer who is now a bank analyst at Bernstein Research.
The banks restructured the deal so Morgan Stanley can buy Citigroup's 49 percent stake faster than previously planned. The price they agreed to will trigger a $2.9 billion after-tax charge for Citigroup, which was holding the business on its books at a much higher value. That charge would wipe out analysts' third-quarter profit forecast for the bank.
But it will also allow the banks to move past the negotiating table and focus on plans to fix their businesses.
Morgan Stanley's wealth management business is a key component of its strategy to smooth out earnings, which have been highly volatile over the past several years, and to delve deeper into more reliable revenue streams.
Its wealth and asset management revenue now represents half of net revenue, up from 31 percent in 2007, and its wealth management division has been delivering quarterly revenue in a range of $3 billion to $3.4 billion, even in a flat interest rate environment.
But to achieve its goal of boosting wealth management pretax profit margins to a "midteens" range by June from the current 12 percent, Morgan Stanley will have to deliver on aggressive cost-cutting targets.
At a Barclays conference on Tuesday, Morgan Stanley Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said that she and other senior executives "remain resolute" on meeting their profit goals by mid-2013. Eventually, when market conditions improve, management expects the business to deliver margins of 20 percent or more.
"The business provides a stable revenue stream with margin upside," Porat said.
The CFO detailed plans to cut expenses by $300 million a year to reach profit targets, and noted that Morgan Stanley's return on equity will increase as it buys a greater stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, since the bank is already holding capital against 100 percent of the business, but had only been taking in 51 percent of its profits.
However, Porat also said the bank expects to take a charge this quarter to reflect the declining value of old software, as well as expenses related to staff cuts and office consolidation.
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup agreed to the joint venture in 2009 in the wake of the financial crisis. Morgan Stanley, the majority owner, had always expected to buy out Citigroup, but it was unclear how much it would have to pay.
The two parties had brought the matter to an independent arbitrator for an appraisal when they could not agree on a price. But the decision announced on Tuesday was made by the two banks and not the arbitrator, Perella Weinberg Partners, a source familiar with the matter said.
Under terms of the agreement, Morgan Stanley will buy another 14 percent of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney now and will buy Citigroup's remaining 35 percent stake by June 1, 2015. Each transaction will be based on the $13.5 billion valuation, and client deposits will be transferred to Morgan Stanley at no premium. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
For Citigroup, the sale is another step in Chief Executive Vikram Pandit's campaign to bolster capital levels and shed assets that are not part of a long-term business plan. Those assets, known as Citi Holdings, have declined from a height of $898 billion in the first quarter of 2009 to $191 billion at the end of June.
"As we have shown, the more we put the past behind us, the more we can focus on our future, which is in the core businesses in Citicorp," Pandit said in a statement.
The charge that Citi will have to take amounts to about 99 cents a share, which would wipe out the 99 cents a share of earnings that analysts, on average, had estimated Citigroup would report for the third quarter.
However, the charge will not affect Citigroup's capital levels under Basel III regulatory measures, the bank said in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley's forthcoming $1.89 billion cash payment to increase its stake will also boost Citi's estimated Tier 1 common regulatory capital ratio by about 14 basis points under Basel III.
The outcome of the dispute was keenly awaited by Wall Street because it could offer clues on expectations of future profitability in the brokerage sector, which has been suffering through low interest rates and weak trading activity for several years.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is the biggest brokerage in the United States with nearly 17,000 financial advisers and $1.71 trillion in assets, so its value is seen as a barometer for the industry.
The deal was seen as a win for Morgan Stanley because the final value came in closer to its initial $9 billion valuation of the business than to Citi's $23 billion balance-sheet valuation.
"It was a bad transaction for Citi, but the market has known it was probably going to go against them for awhile, so at least it brings closure," said David Trone, a bank analyst with JMP Securities. "Sometimes you just want to sell something and you'll take whatever price you can get."
Both companies' stock prices rose on the news. Citigroup shares were up 2.61 percent at $32.66, and Morgan Stanley shares were up 3.85 percent at $17.25 at the close of trading on Tuesday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has made the case that the sheer scale and breadth of the business, combined with overlaps in lending, investment banking and trading, will give the firm an edge and allow it to meet its profit targets.
But after a dozen quarters of lackluster performance, investors have become impatient. Mike Mayo, a CLSA analyst, recently upgraded Morgan Stanley shares to "buy" partly because of shareholder pressure on management to deliver better returns.
At the conference on Tuesday, an investor poll said Morgan Stanley Smith Barney reaching its profit target next year was a "very important" factor in whether to own Morgan Stanley shares.
Although the company's low appraisal for the value of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was largely viewed as a negotiating tactic, it also raised additional questions about how profitable the business can be over the long term, analysts said.
"Morgan Stanley got a great bargain here in the transactional sense," said Trone. "The problem is, this is a key unit for them, and now they're going to have to spend the next several years convincing the Street that it's worth more than ($13.5 billion)."
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Today was a hard day at work.
I was working with the 'Mini-Kidz' today which means that their ages could be 3-5 years old. We were also under staffed, and had twenty-two children! I had also only had seven hours of sleep and it took me hours to get fully awake this morning.
I worked for 9 hours straight, i missed my lunch break (oops)
It was exhausting, but good in the end.
I got home and called this lady I babysit for that asked me if I could babysit all saturday and stay the night and watch them Sunday as well. I agreed, and just said that I had to work Saturday night, for a few hours. Right after I hung up the phone with her I checked my e-mail and got an oppurtunity to be a missionary advisor on a trip to Alaska leaving Saturday.
I have gotten one of my jobs to let me off for three weeks, and I am calling my other job tomorrow morning…please pray for me! Pray that God will close the door if it is not what I should do, and open it wide if it is…and that I can get out of the babysitting job as well.
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Today I felt like blogging. So here I go.
I was in church today thinking about a million other things that what my sunday school teacher was talking about it. One thing that was on my mind was having a 'mentor'.
Currently life is overwhelming, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but I feel like there is a lot on my plate emotionally that I have to deal with.
-saying goodbye to a family of twelve who has lived with us for 6 months.
-saying hello to having my sister and her husband move in with us indefinitely.
-coming to terms with staying at home this fall.
-a boyfriend?!
-What in the world am I doing when January comes?!
I am overwhelmed and am remembering what some wise people once told, 'you need a mentor in your life'
My question is how? How do you 'pick' a mentor? How do you 'trust' and 'respect' them?
Do you have a mentor?
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I have some exciting news.
I am moving to Thunder Bay, Canada!
I am turning a page in the 'book' of life. I have chosen a path less traveled, and also not the easiest. I love to have fun, but through the choices I've made and I believe that God wants me to make and things that I have been forced to do, I have had to 'grow up' at a early age.
I have chosen to stay on that path by taking this job. I have chosen this job first because I believe that God wants me to take this job and also to save money as much as humanly possible, to go to school, and continue in the maturing process by moving away from home.
I will be gone (again) for 6-8 months. I am hoping to save up around 6-8 thousand dollars depending on how long I will be there.
I am excited to go and be able to help this family, and to be able to go to their church (which sounds fantastic!)
It is hard to be excited while I am at home, because I am hurting my parents and friends again by leaving. I will be leaving in a little over two weeks (Feb. 15th.)
This week is a tough one. I will be telling all of my friends that I am leaving, packing and trying to spend as much time with my family as possible.
Please pray for me as I transition into this new phase of life.
Thank you!!
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Now don't worry I am not getting married (or am anywhere close) I just thought it would be neat to think of things that have recently happened or that you have gotten that are significant to you that fall into these four categories. Here we go!
Something New: I recently drove to Virginia, it was the first time I did the trek by myself (new!) and I looked at (with my good friend and her family) last years resolutions that we all had made and made new ones for 2009.
Something Old: While I was in Virginia I was looking for a shirt to wear in my bag (which I haven't used since I visited her last year) and I found my favorite shirt that I had thought was lost forever!
Something Borrowed: I had recently been falling asleep each night to the 'August Rush' soundtrack, it is the perfect blend of instrumental and singing. I borrowed the CD from my friend Heather.
Something Blue: I have a turquoise (does that count as blue?) hat that is sitting next to my computer, that is my favorite hat! I got it with my good friend Mandie Sodoma last time I visited her in Washington state (mine is turquoise her's is purple!) I will be visiting her for the first time in two years, on the 15th!
Well those are mine, what are some of yours? 🙂
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I have been searching for a job on and off since I have gotten home.
My ideal job is anywhere from receptionist to au pair/nanny.
Now this job is short term (about 6 months) till I raise enough money to get back out onto the missions field (details yet to be determined.)
But job searching sucks. For the past two weeks I have been searching for a job almost non-stop.
It started out by only picking to apply to jobs that I really wanted to do, now it has come to applying for any job in my field.
In my e-mail I have two folders, one called 'Jobs' and one called 'Reject Jobs'
In the 'reject' folder, is ones that I have thought looked sketchy, or ones that have rejected me. My reject folder is twice as big as my 'jobs' folder.
I had the 'perfect' job, but because of my traveling in January, the person needed me sooner, and picked someone else.
Job searching is definatly, no fun. Yet God has got a job for me somewhere. I just need now. Now, now (please!)
What have been your experiences 'job searching' good or bad?
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"At the start
he was there, he was there
In the end,
he'll be there, he'll be there
And After all our hands have wrought
He forgives."
David Crowder Band 'The Glory Of It All'
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I spent all day in my Pj's (granted they were sweat pants and a sweat shirt, but still)
I slept in.
Had time with God.
Watched a movie
Learned the basics of driving stick.
Laid around and chatted on the computer.
It was a very lazy day and I loved and needed it!


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Florida has ranked its school districts from best to worst based on FCAT scores, and the release of the new listing Monday drew immediate criticism from many educators.
The ranking, a first of its kind, was the idea of Gov. Rick Scott and Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson. They aim to provide a "user friendly" way for the public to gauge school success and to "broaden the conversation about education in Florida," Robinson said during a telephone call with reporters.


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MOSCOW, Russia--Brittney Reese (left/photo by Paul Merca) won her sixth international title since 2009 and Team USA brought home gold in the decathlon for the eighth time in World Championships history as Ashton Eaton maintained his title as World's Greatest Athlete, winning with 8809 points on the second day of competition Sunday at the 2013 World Outdoor Championships at Luzhniki Stadium.
Reese, who resides at the US Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, became one of Team USA's most-decorated athletes, continuing her undefeated championships streak in the women's long jump.
Reese, who competed this winter at the University of Washington's Dempsey Indoor facility, moved into first for good on her second jump, breaking the seven-meter barrier with a leap of 7.01m/23-0.
After good performances earlier in the day in the hurdles and discus, Eaton, the University of Oregon grad jumped a season best 5.20m/17-0.75 in the pole vault and extended his lead to 181 points. His third-round javelin throw of 64.83m/212-8, a decathlon PR, virtually assured him of gold, carrying a 168-point lead into the 1500m. A leisurely and careful 4:29.80 gave Eaton a world title to go with his Olympic gold and world record.
Shalane Flanagan was Team USA's best finisher in the women's 10,000m placing eighth at 31:34.83. Flanagan took off after 250 meters and led the pack during the first 3600m, but fell off the pace and drifted back when the tempo picked up. Jordan Hasay, the University of Oregon grad, ran 32:17.93 to finish 12th and Arizona State alum Amy Hastings was 14th in 32:51.19.
Despite a thunderstorm that surrounded the skies around Luzhniki moments before the featured men's 100 meter race, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won yet another world title, scooting across the track in a Russian all-comers record of 9.77 seconds to hold off the challenge of US veteran Justin Gatlin, who ran a season best 9.85.
Bolt put behind him the nightmare false-start in the final in Daegu two years ago which saw him default his title to teammate Yohan Blake. Blake was absent injured from Moscow, but there is little doubt the result would have been the same had he been here.
He has now extended his span of domination in the 100m to five years, a match for pretty well any other sprinter in history. Carl Lewis did better in one aspect, winning every global title at 100m from the first World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 through to Tokyo in 1991, but Bolt has an edge for impact. His 9.69 in Beijing and 9.58 in Berlin took the event to a new dimension.
Monday night, University of Washington alum Brad Walker, who won a world title in 2007 in Osaka, but hasn't appeared in the world championships since, looks to find the magic in the pole vault finals, which begins at 7 pm local time (8 am in Seattle).
Complete day 2 results are available here.
Monday night, University of Washington alum Brad Walker, who won a world title in 2007 in Osaka, but hasn't appeared in the world championships since, looks to find the magic in the pole vault finals, which begins at 7 pm local time (8 am in Seattle).
Complete day 2 results are available here.
NOTE: USA Track & Field and the IAAF contributed to this report.