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The TENS, also known as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator, is what anybody wants to have, especially those who are in pain. With the size like that of a cell phone, the TENS unit works by delivering mild electric signals through the skin to the nerves and muscles into specific areas where someone experiences pain. All around the world, this type of treatment has become more popular. Some units may be purchased directly over the counter, while some would not a prescription from your physician.
By using the TENS unit, you will be able to ease fatigue syndrome, muscle pain, depression and many more. For sure, this unit will not let you down because even the Food and Drug Administration has approved it to help relieve pain in the arms, lower back, hips and legs.
Test the TENS Unit
You need to test your TENS unit to determine the level of charge that it contains. Before you test your unit, you must make sure that the unit's 2 knobs are turned off. The first knob is used to control the signals that are sent to your nerves, and the other one is the one responsible for changing the speed of the signals.
Clean the Area for the Electrode Pads
Cleaning is very important to ensure that your TENS unit is functioning very well. The electric pulses tend to be weaker once they get in contact with greasy or oily skin. Other than that, cleaning and sterilizing the area also makes the electrode pads placed very well.
Place the Electrode Patches
The TENS units are battery-operated and use small sticky patches called the electrodes. Because of their small size, they are easy and portable for use anywhere you go. You need to determine the specific areas where the pain is located and stick the electrode patches. For a start, you can use the unit for about 30 minutes at a time thrice or four times a day. Using the unit as often as you like is possible, but remember to take breaks. Aside from that, you should not use it when sleeping during the night.
In treating pain, devices such as the TENS units have already been recognized to be safe. However, you still need to make sure to visit your physician before buying your own unit. Moreover, they will be able to teach you where to particularly place the patches and which settings you must use. It is very important that you know how to properly operate the unit to make sure that it will not cause you any more trouble.
Before placing an electrode patch on your skin, you should coat its bottom with a thin layer of gel. By doing so, it is easier to help the unit's signals get into your skin and be delivered to your nerve properly. After putting some gel, then the patch is ready to be applied to your body. Place them in specific areas where you feel pain and use medical tape to keep it in place. If you want to stick an electrode in an area that is difficult to reach, it would be better to ask someone to place it for you to make sure that it is placed correctly.
If you have already successfully placed the electrode patches, they can now be hooked to the pin connectors and then hook the pin connectors to the TENS unit. As you turn on the machine, you just have to adjust the knobs slowly and settle on what feels right for you. You may feel a tingling sensation while using the unit, but this is completely normal. It just means that the pulses are on their way to your nerves. If you are going to have another TENS treatment soon, you can just leave the electrodes on your skin. Otherwise, remove them by washing your skin with soap and water. Remember not to use alcohol because it can damage the electrode's rubber.
Store the Unit in a Safe Place
When your TENS unit is not in use, you have to store it in a safe place so that your electrodes will be safe and will not get easily damaged. However, you cannot expect your unit to last a long time, especially if you have multiple TENS treatments. Over time, it may need additional care, or it could need replacement. Aside from the unit itself, the electrode pads could also need replacement such as when they do not stick very well anymore. To increase the lifeline of your unit, you can store it in a place where it will not be sat on or bumped over. One way of securing the TENS unit is to put it in a case to prevent the occurrence of unnecessary damage.


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Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #9 (Preview)
in Comic Previews Comment
- Story by
- Jason Ciaramella
- Art by
- Victor Santos
- Colors by
- Ronda Pattison
- Letters by
- Chris Mowry
- Cover by
- David Messina
- Publisher
As the dust settles on last issue's epic monster battle, humanity finds a silver lining among all the destruction, and things quiet down. But just because some of the monsters have retreated doesn't mean the rampage has ended… after all, there may be more gargantuan threats right around the corner. Whatever may be next, mankind may finally be ready to put up a fight!

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This arose from a challenge from CelticFrog to use within the same story three elements: a clown, an elderly Russian spy, a bar of soap
In the barren back lands of Australia, many years ago, an outback community was buzzing with talk of a circus coming to town in a few months. Sited in the middle of desert land, serving cattle stations that were bigger than Texas, the little town (which refused to be considered a mere village) was a focal point for gossip, ordering supplies, and the outback radio network. Four main buildings made up the "town" – a blacksmith and hardware store, a general store and postal station, a school house, and the pub. Lining the dirt track through the town and out into the desert were about eight or nine houses – seven if you only counted those in which someone actually lived.
The maiden-aunt figure of the school teacher (Miss Nadia Vokova) was given distractions by questions about circuses, as they'd never been to one nor even seen one. In the dusty dry book shelves in the back room she found a story book with pictures showing a circus, and she made sure the class learned what to expect when the circus came to town.
She arranged for the educational school's airwaves host to cover the circus as a topic. Children living 'way too far to come into town for school would hear of the circus through the radio grapevine, and want to know more about it too, before deciding if it would be worth calling the plane in to bring them to its performance.
Early on a typically dry morning, as Miss Vokova crossed the road from her school house to the general store, she saw the jeep drive away towards the landing strip, having just dropped off the weekly mail. She opened the store's door and went to the stationery area, seeking large paper sheets and powder-mix paint for the school.
"Hey there, Miss Vokova, you just call if you need any help there," the store keeper Blue Jackson, greeted her as he hauled packages and envelopes from the green canvas mailbag.
"Thanks, Blue, I will need help later with delivery of a few things," she answered "Carry on with the mail, don't mind me."
"Righty-oh, Miss," and he began piling, sifting and sorting. Soon the mail was sorted: one pile to be delivered by his black boy to the town addresses, one pile of envelopes that would wait for near farmers to collect on their weekly ride into town for supplies, and one pile for the local airplane to drop off at the distant stations.
She moved on towards the fabrics at the back. She wanted to sew a new dress for summer, and started pulling cloth bolts partially from the stacks.
"D'you need the missus, there?" called Blue.
"Is she busy? I'd like some advice from your wife."
"Sweet-'eart? Sweet heart! Customer in dressmaking, love," he hollered.
Mrs Jackson bustled through the curtain hanging across the doorway into the back half of the store, where their living quarters were. The women were busily comparing patterns, measuring Nadia, comparing fabrics, selecting, matching and gathering the notions – buttons, threads, lace trim – when Blue's voice (always rather loud) roared even louder.
"Ya-bloody-hoo! They're here! The tickets are here!" he held up a cardboard packet. "And posters too! And give-away balloons! It's really on. It's on, alright!"
"Ah, you're a big kid yourself, Blue!" his wife called to his retreating back. He was off to tape a poster onto the store's window, then the pub, the blacksmith's, the horse trough … anything vertical.
"As soon as he's back, he'll be on the air telling everyone the tickets are in. He's worked so hard to get that circus to agree to come out all this way, he has to sell every ticket, Daft bugger," she said lovingly to Nadia.
Nadia wandered the store, collecting a few household items: a can of Brasso, a pack of two bars of Sunlight, two new dusting cloths and another kitchen knife – one with a long, thin blade for cutting easily through the Cheddar. She paid and carried the household items back home. Blue's boy, Arunta, would deliver the school and dressmaking items, neatly wrapped in brown paper and string tied, later in the cool evening.
Just as the kids were ready to come inside again as lunch break ended, Arunta came jogging over the road, carrying a rolled tube of paper.
"Missy Vok! Missy Vok!" he called.
"Hi there, Arunta," she greeted the lad.
"Mr Blue, he says your school kiddies can have a poster too, Missy," and Arunta held out the tube. As she took it and thanked him, he continued "And don't worry about this morning's shopping, Missy. I'll be coming by at end of the day, like always." He grinned broadly, and scampered back to the shop.
'For a lad of only eleven, he's a good kid,' thought Nadia. 'No parents, lives alone in Blue's spare house, and works hard all day for anyone with a job for him. Pity he hasn't a chance of coming to school.' She meant that at his age, he would not be able to catch up with the farming children already in school. If he were younger and had a sponsor instead of parents who'd left him behind when they went walk-about, there'd be no problem.
She unrolled the poster inside the classroom after making space on the pin-board by moving other pictures. She stood back and read it:
Caged Lions, Tigers –
And, New To The Country's Circus Circuit
– The Asian Tree Leopard!
Clowns! Trick and Show Ponies!
Jockey Races Around The Ringside!
Fire-Eater Feroni! The Incredible Smithson's' Stilt Team!
Trapeze Artistes Monica And Michael!
And Did We Say Clowns?
The Mechanical Car! The Fire Truck!
BLINKY THE CLOWN, With BONEY, The BRAINY BEAGLE!
Blinky? Her heart skipped a beat. Surely, not her Blinky, still chasing her after all these years? It couldn't be – after so long, he'd be dead by now. She peered at the art work of Blinky the Clown. No, it wasn't her Blinky – the makeup was wrong; she knew a clown's makeup was registered and never changed.
But she didn't look at that poster again unless she had to.
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Blue had sold every ticket there was by the time the road-train arrived with the circus. Blue suggested a patch of ground behind the pub, but the circus owner refused, and so they set up the tents behind the blacksmith's. Nadia allowed the school children to watch them finish setting up in the morning after they'd almost completed everything during the night. Of course, the kids all had to write a report on what they'd seen, just to keep it "educational" as an experience. The children were all disappointed, and felt sorry for Miss Vokova – she was the only person they knew who'd missed out on buying a ticket, so she wouldn't be going.
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At home during the evening of the circus's single performance, Nadia listened to the traditional circus music and the excited cheers of the crowd. She felt restless, and left her seat by the open window, went into her back room and pulled a large trunk from beneath the spare bed. She dusted it off then went to her room to find the keys to the locks: two different keys, to confuse anyone trying to get inside without her okay.
She flipped back the lid, and carefully unfolded the tissue layered over the contents. Her formal evening gown, worn in London. Her sensual cocktail dress and sandals, worn in Prague. Assorted business suits and elegant casual clothing, plus the black closely fitting body suit and nylon boots, perfect for night stealth. The alligator skin clutch purse, in which her fake passports were tucked (the currently 'real' one was in her top drawer of her china cupboard), along with small wads of banknotes from each country in which she'd ever worked. No Roubles of course. Her orders had always been never to try to go home again. She lifted out the cardboard shelf that held all the innocuous clothing.
Below was another set of memories. The gun she'd been issued by the KGB – useless now that bullets for it couldn't be bought in Australia for neither love nor money. The Glock she'd lifted from the New York police station front desk, and the box of bullets. The New Zealand Police 590A1 model Mossberg shotgun with 16 inch barrel, and the boxes of cartridges. Three kongos. The shiv she'd had to make from a six-inch shard of broken glass slotted into an eight-inch handle of bamboo, in Vietnam. She took one kongo, and used it to twist her hair up on top of her head. She pulled the Mossberg and cartridges out, repacked the trunk and slid it back away out of sight.
In her sitting room she fetched the silencer she'd made years ago, from its place in the pantry, and checked the Mossberg's action, loaded it and fitted the silencer. She slid it under her two-seater couch and sat listening to the National ABC radio broadcast, although her ears were alert for sounds from the circus site and the perimeter of her house.
The show ended, and there was a seemingly endless parade of people, buggies, carts and tractors hauling sleds past the house. Then, only the sound of the roustabouts packing the trunks of the troupe and pulling down the tents. The performers would have headed straight to their compartments in one of the road train trailers.
As she expected, before long after silence fell, there was a tap at the window – timid, but audible above the chirruping night crickets. She walked to the window and opened it wider, nearly taking off the head of the figure crouched under the swinging frame.
The moonlight was bright enough to show her it was indeed Blinky. He'd have been aged about sixty-five, by now. He was balding (so perhaps that explained the new makeup clown face), slightly stooped, but as always elegantly dressed, in a sports jacket and trousers – though still wearing clown-face.
"Come in, Blinky," she offered, and stepped back to give him room to use the window, which faced away from the road. He reached up to the sill, and somersaulted into the room over it. He stood brushing imaginary creases out of the clothing.
"A drink together, Miss Nadezhda Sergeyevna, for old times' sake?" he offered as he drew his hip flask from his inside jacket pocket. He flipped off the two tin cups covering the lid, unscrewed the lid and poured a generous nip for them both.
"Za vashe zdorovye!" they toasted in unison. The vodka was a good Stolichnaya, and Nadezhda held out her cup for another.
"So, you are still chasing me," said Nadezhda. "Even now, when neither of us could harm a living soul, nor each other. And still after all these years, I do not know why. So, it's time to tell me." She gestured they should sit, and carefully manoeuvred him to the one seat that did not directly face the two-seater.
"It's simple. I've been trying to stop you," he said.
"From doing what?" she pretended innocence, knowing it would infuriate him.
"From chasing around the world, adding to its troubles by following directions from an agency that is now impotent and no longer has a hold over you."
"I know the KGB is only a shadow now. But its replacement still forbids me from going home. So, I live here now. I am not an active agent any longer. I'm a fair-dinkum Aussie after fourteen years here. I teach children, I grow vegetables, I cook and clean for myself. The only difference between here and Russia is – I'm free here. No one knows what I have done. And Australia is much warmer than Russia."
She paused and accepted a third cup of Stolichnaya.
"And why does it matter to you, what I do and where I live?" she asked, and eased her position on the couch, closer to the edge as if to listen carefully.
"To me, it does not personally matter. But to others, your existence is still a threat to their political or financial welfare. And they are my friends. I help my friends, Nadezhda. After these years of no contact, we can forget our past conflicts. I can be your friend, and you can be mine."
"And these other friends of yours. They are…?"
"Austrian, Kurkhistani, Algerian, Palestinian … places –"
"- places all over central Europe, the Middle East and old Russia," Nadia finished for him. "And how close to correct would I be if I guessed … old KGB?" She saw his tell – the twitch in the corner of his mouth. Blinky was there for only one reason.
She raised her hand casually to her hair, and removed the kongo. It was a small but heavy one; she could hide it in her hand. He realised her next move a split second after she made it. As the kongo spun through the air to crack his temple open, he reached into his pocket for the stiletto he always carried. But she already had the shotgun out, and was moving in closer.
('The longer barrel and getting in close makes for a narrower scatter,' the voice of her instructor came back to her from years ago.)
Standing over Blinky as he scrambled up to his feet to face her, she fired directly at him. Two shots – one to make him hurt, one to finish him.
She felt his carotid pulse – not a twitch. Taking his stiletto – a fine Italian silver engraved ebony handle – and the Mossman back to her back room, she stowed everything away in the trunk.
She tipped Blinky's body out the window, into the flower bed below. She fetched a bucket, a rag, and a new bar of Sunlight all-purpose soap, and removed all signs of the little bleeding from Blinky – most of his blood was soaked into his suit.
Outside, she washed all the clown-face from him. She stripped him down to his singlet and boxer shorts, and stuffed his clothes and leather shoes into an old hessian sack, which had last carried potatoes.
Blinky's body she then dragged across to the circus cavalcade, where, beside the caged wild cats, she cut up and fed him to the lions, tigers and the tree leopard – a pretty wild cat, that one.
Over the next couple of days after the circus road-train had left – the owner annoyed by Blinky being missing – Nadia spring-cleaned her house, for the first time since buying it years ago fetching old junk from the ceiling crawl space, from under the house, from the back of old closets. Blue obliged by letting her have some large cardboard banana boxes. One of the school pupils' Dad offered to come and haul away her rubbish, and drop it into a deep pit he wanted filled in, before he lost cattle or a child down the natural shaft.
Nothing was going to interrupt her retirement now. Not while she could help it.
nahDYEHZHdah for woman spy = Nadezhda
Sergeyevna = middle patronymic name with feminine ending
Vokova – = wolf's; surname with feminine ending
vodka brand = Stolichnaya vodka


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Graphic design
The graphic design of the website and the concept design was designed by Superhuit.
Debiopharm Group logo (2013) adapted by fgdesign.
Photographs of models by Sebastien Staub.
Photographs of mountains & lake on home page by Jacques Straesslé.
Photograph of Dr Mauvernay & Thierry Mauvernay by Jacques Straesslé (copyright Debiopharm).
Other portraits by Roberto Ackermann.
The technological integration was realized by inetis.


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Geometry Jeopardy
Lesson 15 of 19
Objective: SWBAT: • Calculate the perimeter, circumference, and area of figures. • Classify two- and three-dimensional figures. • Calculate surface area and volume of cubes and rectangular prisms. • Use nets to identify 3D figures and calculate surface area.
Big Idea: What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? Students play the Geometry Jeopardy review game.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to reflect on what they have learned during our geometry unit. I call on a student to share one reflection. That student then calls on the next student to share his/her idea. I encourage students to build on what their classmates have said by using sentence starters like, "I agree/disagree with __________ because…" and "My idea connects with ____________'s idea…" Students are engaging in MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
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Geometry Jeopardy
- Before this lesson, I use students' work from the previous lesson and quiz data to Create Homogeneous Groups. Students work in groups of 3-4.
- I have one laptop available for each group. I post the Geometry Jeopardy powerpoint on www.edmodo.com . This way each group can play at their own pace.
- I give each group a Group Work Rubric.
I explain how groups will play Geometry Jeopardy. I show students how to access it from www.edmodo.com. I explain that they need to show their work and keep track of questions they get correct on the game board on their packet. I emphasize that they are working on honesty and integrity. They are only going to learn something if they acknowledge they do not know it and ask for help.
I have a few students model an example problem together in a group. If they do not have the work to show for it (if required) they do not get the question correct. The way I have students play Jeopardy is a bit different than the TV show. Everyone must show work. They need to wait a reasonable amount of time, so students have time to complete their answers. Once the time is up, students reveal their work to each other and then check the answer. Any student who gets the correct answer gets the points. I have found that students are more engaged when they play this way, since they always have an opportunity to earn points. I do not have students subtract points for an incorrect answer.
As students work I walk around to monitor student progress and behavior. Students are engaging in MP6: Attend to precision.
If students are struggling, I may ask them one or more of the following questions:
- What do you know? What are you trying to figure out?
- What does it mean when it says to calculate _________________ ?
- What strategies do you have for calculating ________________ ?
- Does your answer make sense?
If students successfully complete the game, they can move onto the challenge problems.
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Closure and Ticket to Go
For the Closure, I have groups share out problems that stumped them. I call a few students up to the board to select the question, explain why it was difficult, and explain the correct answer. If the student cannot explain how to get the answer, he/she calls on a classmate for help. I encourage students to use this as a time to ask questions and eliminate confusion. If there is a particular question that I observed many students struggling with, I select it and ask students to explain it.
I pass out the Ticket to Go.


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Consecration of the Archdiocese of MontrealIn a letter addressed to the faithful, Msgr Parent, vicar general, invited us to celebrate the concluding celebration of the Year of Faith which was held at the Cathedral on Saturday, November 23, 2013.
Through the initiative of the Archbishop, this was an opportunity to solemnly proclaim our faith in our baptism as part of the consecration of the diocese to the Sacred Heart through the maternal mediation of Mary.
The closing of the Year of Faith was also a new opportunity to testify to God's love at the heart of the world, with an ever greater faith that livens our hope and charity.
Here is a Dossier about this historic moment of the Archdiocese.


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Thinking of homemade laundry detergent, reminds me of creating my own dishwashing soap and general purpose household cleaner. I found a great recipe that's also easy and inexpensive. Now I have a better use for those plastic dish soap and laundry detergent bottles!
Try this recipe from NaturalHomeMagazine.com (one of my most favorite magazines for finding DIY ideas and greening my daily routine).
This eco-friendly dishwashing soap can be used for dishes, handwashing, floors, stoves, refrigerators, and sinks. The eucalyptus and mint provide a disinfecting quality as well as a fresh scent.
5 cups grated castile soap
1/2 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon borax
6 cups hot peppermint tea
1 teaspoon eucalyptus essential oil
Put grated soap into a three-quart stainless-steel saucepan and add hot mint tea. Simmer for 15 minutes on low heat. Add baking soda, borax, and eucalyptus oil and remove from heat. Allow to cool, then store in a labeled plastic jug or squirt bottle. Shake before using.


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The company's real-time, API-driven loyalty engine uniquely positions SparkBase to integrate with the payment and marketing tools businesses already use to interact with customers, including: payment gateways, POS systems, e-commerce shopping carts, CRMs, email service providers, marketing databases and social media outlets.
SparkBase is currently integrated with more than 40 POS systems, multiple payment gateways, and ExactTarget, one of the leading email providers.
SparkBase combines best-in-class, proprietary technology with nearly a decade of experience in the loyalty industry. Thousands of businesses in the US and internationally trust SparkBase to power their gift cards and loyalty program and more than 100 resellers choose SparkBase as their preferred loyalty provider.
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Pemberton, NJ Area Scholarships
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Pemberton is a borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 1,409. reflecting an increase of 199 (+16.4%) from the 1,210 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 157 (-11.5%) from the 1,367 counted in the 1990 Census.
Pemberton was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 15, 1826, within portions of New Hanover Township and Northampton Township (now known as Mount Holly Township). Pemberton became an independent borough c. 1894.
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Pemberton, NJ Scholarships
|Caroline Thorn Kissel Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
|February 05, 2019
|NACA Mid Atlantic Undergraduate Scholarship for Student Leaders
|September 30, 2018
Schools in and around Pemberton, NJ
Burlington County College
At least 2 but less than 4 years; Public; $5,190 average out-state tuition; $3,240 average in-state tuition
Pennco Tech-Bristol
At least 2 but less than 4 years; Private for profit
Empire Beauty School-Bordentown
Less than 2 years (below associate); Private for profit
Lincoln Technical Institute-Moorestown
Less than 2 years (below associate); Private for profit
Levittown Beauty Academy
Less than 2 years (below associate); Private for profit
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At least 2 but less than 4 years; Private for profit
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Less than 2 years (below associate); Private for profit
Popular Majors in Pemberton
- Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Nursing - Registered Nurse Training (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
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- Dental Hygienist
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- Medical Radiologic Technology -- Radiation Therapist
- Business Administration and Management
- Graphic Design
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician
- Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technician
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- CAD/CADD Drafting and Design Technician
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- Photography
- Restaurant/Food Services Management
- Sign Language Interpretation and Translation
- Fire Science/Firefighting
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The Group 64 Team
Group 64 has a wonderful team of Theatre Education Professionals, who between them bring an excellent mix of skills and experience. Nicola Sterry, who has been the full time Youth Director since January 2009, and has now taken on the role of Young Company and Education Director. Kate Pasco who has been at Group 64 since 2010 is now the Youth Director.
All staff are DSB checked and have a full interview process and trial period.
Nicola Sterry - Young Company and Education Director (Maternity Leave)
Nicola has been Group 64's Youth Director since January 2009, since then Group 64 has continued to grow and develop, particuarly with the expansion of an older age group. Since June 2016 Nicola has taken on the new role of Education and Young Company Director.
Nicola has also worked for Playbox Theatre for Young People, Chicken Shed Theatre Company and London Bubble. She has taught English through drama in South Africa, Italy and Japan. She has a degree in Theatre, Film and Television and a Masters Distinction in Theatre Education.
To contact Nicola please e-mail - [email protected]
Kate Pasco - Youth Director
Kate joined Group 64 in September 2010 and has since enjoyed directing productions, teaching Drama and Musical Theatre classes, and running holiday projects. In September 2014 Kate set up Little Echo Theatre Company which gives Group 64 Members an opportunity to make theatre for Young Audiences. Kate has a Drama degree from the University of Exeter. Kate has also worked for Theatre Tots, Bigfoot Arts Education as well as various dance schools
To contact Kate please email - [email protected]
Amy Insole - Education Director (Maternity Cover) and Assistant Youth Director
Amy joined Group 64 in September 2015, as an Assistant Youth Director. Amy graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013 and since then has worked at Queens Theatre Hornchurch across their youth theatre
As well as working with young people in theatre Amy has directed professional productions at Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Etcetera Theatre, Vaults Festival, Roundhouse Studio and Tristan Bates Theatre
Matt Robinson - Drama Tutor
Matt has worked as a tutor at Group 64 since September 2007. He graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2013 where he trained on the acting course and has since worked on stage and screen.
Matt runs many of our classes and holiday projects...
Amie Taylor - Musical Theatre Tutor
Amie trained at Dartington College of Arts, graduating with BA hons in Theatre with Community Practices.She has worked for Playbox Theatre Company, Half Moon Theatre, Little Angel Theatre, Studio Film School and Harrow Arts Centre Youth Theatre.
As well as working with children and young people in theatre, she performs in and directs her own comedy show: Rudie and Red. As well as founding and facilitating the 10-33 Collective; a collective of professional actors, singers, musicians, choreographers and designers working in London
Amber-Rose May - Musical Theatre Tutor
Amber-Rose May started working at Group 64 in April 2012. She has graduated with a BA hons Performing Arts Degree and has an MA in Theatre for Young Audiences at Rose Bruford College. As well as working with young people she performs, produces and writes for 'Floods of Ink' Theatre Company.
Leon Puplett - Photographer
Leon has been Group 64's photographer since 2011. He's shot nearly 20 shows with Group64 ranging from holiday projects to summer and winter productions. Leon has previously worked as a drama tutor and as a multimedia creative at a number of organisations across the Arts and has a BA in Drama from Exeter University
G64 Assistants
In all of our younger classes we have older G64 members acting as Assistants and Mentors, they work with the younger children, to encourage positive group work and to help new or shy members to join in and have fun! Group 64's assistants are an invaluable member of out team and have often been coming to Group 64 for years themselves!


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Anti-Social Investing
Investing is not about making popular, socially approved choices. It is about allocating capital from a less efficient use to more efficient use.
We live in the society where, to our detriment, being politically correct is often more important than being correct. So I am going to come out and make a politically incorrect statement - social investing is an oxymoron.
There is nothing social about investing. Investing is not about making popular, socially approved choices. It is about allocating capital from a less efficient use to more efficient use. Touchy-feely types of choices make us feel good about ourselves… well, until we have to retire and have to start paying for things.
It is hard enough finding good investments, and adding more very subjective criteria to the mix only makes it more difficult. In fact, if you scrutinize any company long enough it won't pass the "social" test.
- Political donations: A company is giving money to the wrong (another very subjective criteria, unless it is something black-and-white like Al Qaeda) cause or party.
- Treatment of employees (very subjective): Does Wal-Mart (WMT) treat its employees fairly? Do you start looking at employee compensation of every company you invest in? One should only care about how well a company pays its people if it impacts company's fundamentals.
- Labor practices (for example, use of child labor): Do you avoid companies that use parts made in China or manufactured in China? If you did this in your personal life, you'd be walking around naked as textile manufacturing for the most part has migrated to China and other low wage countries where labor practices may not meet your standards.
- Charge too much – this is a big category, ranging from pharmaceutical companies (companies that save millions of lives a year) to payday loan companies, college loan providers and so on.
- Environmental citizenship – Do you avoid oil companies and refineries? What about auto companies who make gas-guzzling SUVs?
Some companies are trying to capitalize on the social investing idea to make you feel good about their "socially conscious" businesses. British Petroleum changed its name to BP (BP) and advertises on CNBC with a slogan "BP – Beyond Petroleum".
So you don't have any illusions about BP, it is only 4% beyond the petroleum. 96% of its sales come from petroleum products. If BP focused instead on running its business, its stock would perform a lot better than "petroleum-behind" Exxon Mobil (XOM).
I probably missed a dozen categories, but you get the idea. When social investing is taken to the extreme it turns into a very taxing exercise and substantially limits the 'investable' universe.
Avoiding sin – socially irresponsible - stocks (i.e. defense, tobacco, gambling and alcohol) doesn't severely limit an investor's stock universe and is not very taxing on time and effort, as sin stocks are easily identifiable. However, this may prevent you from following attractive opportunities.
In fact, I'd argue that this is the time to own these anti-social sin stocks as demand for their products is not closely tied to economic prosperity (they have a cycle of their own) and they'll be a place to hide if the economy takes a turn for the worse.
Neither my company nor I own many anti-social stocks. I wish we owned more. We own Diageo (DEO) – the largest spirits maker in the world, that owns brands from Johnnie Walker to Bailey's. As baby boomers age, they switch to higher grade liquors – higher margins for Diageo.
Also, liquor has got to be one of the most exportable goods after bubble gum. As the developing world develops – yes, you guessed it right - it'll speak Johnnie Walker's language. Also, as we get older we tend to drink more hard liquor and less beer – this is main reason why I own Diageo instead of Budweiser (BUD), not because drinking hard liquor is more socially responsible than drinking beer.
Adam Smith's invisible hand did not wear a social glove and for a good reason: social criterions only add inefficiency to the system of capitalism.
I'd like to conclude by quoting Larry the Liquidator, a character from my favorite movie, "Other People's Money":
"Take the money. Invest it somewhere else. Maybe, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be used productively. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves..."
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dutch researchers have created a carbon nanotube transistor that switches between on and off with the use of a single electron. the invention is the first to operate efficiently at room temperature and was featured in the june 29 issue of science. transistors in "conventional microelectronics" are said to use millions of electrons to switch between on and off states. unfortunately, there is no description of what conventional microelectronics are (.25 micron tech, .13 micron tech?), but getting the switching down to a single electron is pretty amazing. the hard part now is putting a bunch of the carbon nanotubes together and making a chip out of them. after that, the next big breakthrough may be subatomic particle computing. thanks to sander o. for the heads up on the link.
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|rob is a little off the wall today (3:10pm est fri jul 06 2001)
electrons are sub-atomic paricles, and they are the last shot for computing. a single electron tranistor, is as small as it gets. there are smaller partivles in molecules, but they don't follow the laws of physics that current chips do. they don' switch, they are always on, and always off, at the same time, they also can occupy two places at once, and the noise is more powerful than any signal at that point. as soon as computers are built with that technology, it is the end of the road for preformance. multi spacial quantum physics is a real bitch. – by quantum boy
|to paraphrase quantum boy (7:47pm est fri jul 06 2001)
further reductions in size – past the electron level – aren't all they're quarked up to be. – by r.d. numbahs
|r.d. numbahs (10:19pm est fri jul 06 2001)
oh it hurts! that shouldn't be that funny, i really am a geek… ouch i have to lay down for a while. – by mightyatom
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gotcha! – by r.d.n.
|ibm will bank on this.. (5:03am est sun jul 08 2001)
doesn't ibm own every quantium mechanism that these companies use? i believe the end of the road stops there still.. – by gottaluvem
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if you make a ref for people who want to know more about this stuff make sure it is correct.
the article is published in science by postma et al, vol 293, p 76-79 (july 6, 2001)
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|quantum boy (12:28pm est mon jul 09 2001)
you sound down on quantum computing, let me humbly offer you this: a quantum system's ability to assume simultaneous logic states is part of its power. it can essentially model every solution to a problem and present the solution(s) of interest in one fell swoop when the system is collapsed by a given algorithm. it is true right now that a big limiting factor in performance is noise, but noise also has and will continue to limit the performance of conventional electronics, and that has not stoppped them from being used.
– by dave jordan
|doh (2:44pm est mon jul 09 2001)
i certainly was off the wall on that one. of course electrons are sub-atomic particles, like neutrons and protons they all make up the atom. sometimes i don't know where my mind wanders off to on fridays…
as for the science reference, thanks for the correction. i was relying on the linked news source to get that one correct. – by robgeek


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The stadium made its debut in baseball in 1968. It was built circular, with three decks and no roof. This very plain and drab stadium underwent a $120 million renovation in 1995 that added 22,000 new seats, 90 luxury suites, two private clubs and two state-of-the-art scoreboards. The first crowd filled the stadium on Sept. 8, 1966, when the AFL's Raiders played the Kansas City Chiefs. The A's, who had moved from Kansas City, followed suit on April 17, 1968. Also see the Pilgrimage to the coliseum.
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The Carlisle Partnership brings together stakeholders from across the district to work more effectively together, agree a shared vision for the area, and ways of delivering that vision.
We have included organisations from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors. All our partners are members of the Partnership Forum which meets annually at our forum event / Annual General Meeting. At the AGM, the Partnership elects a Chair and Vice Chair and reviews the progress we are making towards our aims.
The Partnership has an Executive tasked with making sure we deliver our aims and providing direction and decision making across the wider Partnership.
Carlisle City Council is responsible for providing support to allow the Partnership to meet. The Partnership has a number of sub-groups, with each one helping to deliver the Partnership's activities and to make sure all the important aspects of life get their share of attention. These priority area subgroups are listed below the Partnerships tab.
The Carlisle Partnership is independently chaired by Sandra Booth (Pro Vice Chancellor Enterprise, University of Cumbria) and Phil Houghton (Consultant Director, Throughstone). Its membership includes over 80 organisations, all of which have an interest in improving the area and the quality of life of residents.
A booklet designed and made by members of the Carlisle Youth Council containing useful information and guidance to help young people throughout their lives.
Primary Schools from across the Carlisle district have formed a partnership and are working alongside Carlisle City Council and Carlisle Partnership to put forward ideas, present and debate on key topics relevant locally.
Carlisle College media students have created a short educational documentary highlighting the effects of sugar, focusing on the issues in Carlisle District. This was an independant project students worked on with some support from tutors, Carlisle Partnership and Carlisle City Council.
Can any Partners help? We're looking for businesses or organisations who would like to be involved in helping to celebrate the graduation within Carlisle city centre, 22nd to 24th November 2017.
Don't miss out on our FREE Guided Summer Walks; 22nd July - 24th August 2017.
SUGAR SMART Carlisle has begun and we need you! We hope to make our city a healthier place for all by spreading awarness on Sugar. Get in touch today to be part of this community project!
On 23rd March 2017 we held the first Local Food Show. With over 40 local businesses showing off their produce, we displayed the amazing food and drink our local area has to offer.
A sensory garden for patients and family at Carleton Clinic within Hadrian Unit. Funded by Jane Anderson through Lisa's Legacy.
This event promises to be a friendly festival with entertainment and activities for all ages. People will be able to have basic health checks undertaken in a relaxed environment and take the opportunity to find out about practical and / or alternative ways in which they can improve lifestyles and health. Rotarians in the Carlisle area and Sustainable Carlisle, are pleased to have support from several local organisations including Carlisle City Council, Cumbria County Council and the Cumbria Community Foundation. Support for the health checks is being provided by Lloyds Pharmacy and colleagues from the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing.
For more information, click 'read more'.
The Local Healthy Options Award scheme is an initiative that has been developed by Carlisle City Council, Cumbria County Council and Healthy City Carlisle. It was formed to encourage local cafes, restaurants and takeaways to provide healthier food options, whilst supporting the local economy and showcasing fantastic local food.
Carlisle City Council have been working with various local companies to administer grants of £5000 to households and businesses that were affected by flooding in December 2015
Lovers' Lane Community Garden is a community project run by volunteers in Brampton, Cumbria. Originally, under the auspices of Sustainable Brampton, the garden started in 2012 when a member of Brampton Food Network was making enquiries locally for land that could be used to grow vegetables on. The garden, once a horses field, is situated very close to the town centre It is remarkably productive being completely organic and sheltered. We have a large poly tunnel so that gardening and food production is all year round.
It has taken over from Cumbria County Council's 'Meals on Wheels' service and hopes to expand to the wider district if it proves to be successful.
Since 2014, funded by Nestlé Healthy Kids UK, and rolled out locally with support from the Carlisle Partnership (Food Carlisle and the Healthy City Steering Group), the PhunkyFoods Programme has been working with 22 Carlisle primary schools to help educate children and their families on living a healthier lifestyle. As part of the Nestlé Healthy Kids funding a local PhunkyFoods Engagement and Development Coordinator (EDC) has been employed in Carlisle. The EDC has been able to work closely with each school to help create a culture and ethos of healthy living by embedding the PhunkyFoods Programme throughout the school.
Sustainable Carlisle runs a community garden at the rear of the Women's and Family Hostel in Water Street, Carlisle
The Sustainable Food Cities approach involves developing a cross-sector partnership of local public agencies, businesses and NGOs committed to working together to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where they live.
Carlisle Youth Council allows young people to have their say on what issues really matter to them. To find out more please watch a video created Carlisle Youth Council and a local young person who studied at Carlisle College (Digital and Creative Centre).
Carlisle Youth Council is made up of Youth Councillors aged 11-18 and has an objective to represent the voices of Carlisle's youth. They represent all young people of all backgrounds and create awareness of both local issues and local opportunities for young people - whilst engaging young people in policies and decision making that is likely to affect them.
Homelife Carlisle have offers and grants available for heating, energy efficiency measures and to help you make repairs to your home, as well as assist with jobs within the home.
Community Neighbours is a volunteer befriending project run by Carlisle City Council & covers Carlisle & District area. Our volunteers support elderly people in their own homes & local community. Volunteers are linked to an elderly person aged 55 & upwards. Older people are welcome to join the project and can also be referred by other agencies. By offering neighbourly support, we do the small things that make a big difference in helping people improve their health & quality of life.
Our volunteers can give support in a number of ways, Companionship, Transport, Accompanied Walks, Help with Correspondence, Dog Walking, Shopping & Supporting people to access social & leisure activities.
Once you have completed the application process, which includes a DBS check. We would link you to an elderly person who lives within 1.5 miles of where you live; this could be further if you live in a rural area. You can then arrange to visit that person at mutually agreed times. This flexible approach enables people to fit their volunteering into most lifestyles.
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When listing attributes that would make the perfect horror movie villain, there are several ways one could go. Do you want menace, danger, creepiness, psychosis, or just plain terrifying-ness? Let's say a movie wanted to combine all of these; how would it do it? For starters, he'd have to be in a creepy profession, like a landlord. A landlord who spies on his tenants, how about? And in his spare time, he keeps rats and kills kittens. And he wears makeup while watching old film footage of Hitler. Because he's a Nazi. And he uses torture devices. And he travels through a complex duct system in the building and has put in booby traps to keep people from leaving. And he keeps a tongueless woman in a cage. What if all of these things were in one person? Who could possibly play such a fiend? Klaus Kinski? Perfect.
All of this really happened in a movie called Crawlspace.
It's not a big stretch for a film director to want to use possibly the scariest and craziest actor to ever live as the creepiest murderer they could think of. German actor Klaus Kinski had a wide and varied career, dating all the way back to the late '40s, and made a name for himself in dozens of Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and '70s. He's perhaps best known for being Werner Herzog's best friend, the only person who out-creepied the renegade director, and the pair collaborated on a handful of fantastic movies, including Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo. Klaus Kinski was also out of his goddamn mind and was notoriously difficult to work with. He said he was Jesus in front of a live audience at one point. This is all to say that, in 1986, when writer/director David Schmoeller needed a disgusting villain, Kinski was the choice to make.
The entire film takes place in and around an apartment house of which Dr. Karl Gunther (Kinski) is the proprietor. Other than his own rooms upstairs, the house holds only four quite-large apartments, which Gunther rents exclusively to attractive young women. I ain't mad at him for that. However, he has the strange desire to murder these young ladies if they discover anything unsavory about him. That I'm not so hot on. His only "friends" are the dozen or so fat, grey rats and the poor young girl with her tongue cut out he keeps in cages. When he's not making metal implements of suffering and death, or writing in his extremely extensive journals, he crawls around the building's elaborate and quite spacious duct work to spy through the vents at his unsuspecting ladies, including a soap opera star, an aspiring musician, and a woman with the worst faux-Southern Belle accent I've ever heard. Not to split hairs, but the movie should be called Vents, not Crawlspace.
If all of his ridiculous traits weren't enough, Dr. Gunther is also the son of a Nazi doctor and is constantly being dogged by a strange chain-smoking man named Josef Steiner (Kenneth Robert Shippy), who is convinced Gunther killed his brother. Near the beginning of the film, a new prospective tenant, grad student Lori (Talia Balsam), inquires about the room for rent. Gunther makes, you guessed it, creepy, unwanted advances toward her, which she somewhat politel, yturns down. Lori becomes Gunther's main fixation, though he still finds time to kill the boyfriends of the other girls. This dude can multitask. He takes to tapping a switchblade on a ball bearing, which he tells his tenants is just the sound of mice. JUST. And if THAT weren't enough, every time he kills a person, which he claims is like taking opiates to him, he sits in a perfectly white room with a white table and chair and plays Russian roulette. He never wins, of course. Or loses. I don't actually know the point of the game; is it to die or not die? Whatever the case, he doesn't die.
This is the main problem with the movie: Gunther's got too many things. He's easily got the most quirks of any killer in any movie ever. Does he really need to be a Nazi AND a peeping tom? Does he need to play Russian roulette AND create torture devices? Does he need to be in the ducts at all? This certainly gives him a lot of character and makes him memorable, yes, but it's at the expense of plot and story. The movie is only 80 minutes long, and about half of it involves Kinski just sitting on his own doing something creepy. And it's a shame, because Kinski is actually giving a somewhat subtle and nuanced performance under the circumstances. It's just all bad guy and nothing for him to really do, the weirdest character study in history.
Perhaps strangest of all are the string of sequences which make up our final act. About 20 minutes from the end, we get a scene of Kinski putting on makeup in a close-up (thanks for that by the way, movie) and then putting on a film of Adolf Hitler addressing the Nazi party. At the end of this scene, he puts on a Gestapo hat, "heil"s himself, and says that he's a god. Then we cut to Lori returning home to find rats in her fridge and a dead guy in her tub. Gunther is very clearly standing at the window wearing a black double-breasted coat. Lori runs around the building while gates slam shut, keeping her in. She finds each of the other three poor girls murdered in various, horrible ways. Eventually, she makes it upstairs to Gunther's attic lair, to which he has chased her, and she gets into the ducts. After crawling around, she gets back up in a different hole to the attic to find Gunther, watching Nazi films, in the same outfit and smeared makeup as the earlier scene. All of this is a lead-up to the big through-the-ducts chase finale.
So much of this doesn't make sense. First: why did Gunther decide to go proper nuts and make a house of horrors for Lori? At this point, she didn't know anything about his ways other than him simply being creepy. Second: how did Lori effectively go back in time to when Gunther was wearing makeup and watching films? He looks totally surprised that someone is up there, even though he'd just chased her to that exact spot. I think there was another scene (or several) that were cut in favor of the Halloween-style scary house sequence. The editing and continuity are so bad, though, that it actually made me think the reels were out of order on the streaming service on which I watched it.
So, regardless, Crawlspace is a very strange, unpleasant film that is worth a watch simply for Kinski's terrifying face and mannered/whacko performance. It was one of the last movies he made and he was at his nuttiest here. It's a shame the filmmaker felt he had to give the character so many evil traits. He cast Klaus Kinski. Kinski's face does the job.


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What do squids and wind turbines have in common? More than you think if you ask Louisa Ulrich-Verderber, a sophomore majoring in engineering & management at Clarkson University. Ulrich-Verderber has developed a wind turbine prototype that captures energy through an undulating motion — similar to a squid's tentacles — rather than the traditional rotating movement. The turbine, which mounts directly onto a roof, uses length instead of height to capture energy from the surrounding — and often turbulent — air.
"I was appalled by how expensive traditional wind turbines or solar panels are," says Ulrich-Verderber. "If we're ever going to get more people into green energy for their homes, it can't take 14 years to pay it off. While solar panels seemed out of my realm, wind turbines seemed slightly more accessible."
Because traditional, rotary wind turbines cannot operate in turbulent or disruptive air, they must be built high above roof tops and, often, timber lines. Constructing the tower that the wind turbine unit is attached to is both expensive to build and to maintain.
"So I thought, what if you just got rid of the tower?" says Ulrich-Verderber. "Of course, that means that it couldn't be a rotary turbine anymore because the physics of a rotary turbine dictate that it has to have a tower. It would have to look completely different."
It took a few weeks for the idea to percolate before Ulrich-Verderber was struck with inspiration, during AP Biology. "I doodled, on the back of my paper, what became my first sketch of the wind turbine design, along with some ideas — and I've been running from there ever since."
The design was already under provisional patent before she attended her high school graduation. Ulrich-Verderber chose Clarkson University after discovering its willingness to help her build her business model and also propel her design forward.
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"When I was looking at colleges I really wanted a school that could give me the resources to further this project and eventually to start a business around it," says Ulrich-Verderber. "When I came to Clarkson, I was astounded by how wiling people were to help me with this project. For the past year, I've been working with the Shipley Center for Innovation, particularly with Jamey Hoose. They've helped me set up as a company. I'm now officially CEO of Undula Tech, which is exciting."
Through contacts orchestrated by the Shipley staff, Ulrich-Verderber has expanded her Clarkson circle to include a team of professors and others interested in her pursuit. The next step of her project includes a bit of re-design and plenty of testing, as well as "all the other very technical stuff that goes with inventing," notes Ulrich-Verderber.
While her innovative design eliminates the costs associated with building a tower and, hopefully, makes green energy a more accessible option for those who want it, it also sets Ulrich-Verderber up for her end goal: graduating from Clarkson University and stepping into the office of her newly created wind turbine business.
"I believe to be a truly creative entrepreneur you need to soak up knowledge from any strange or obscure places you can, because you never know how it's going to help you," says Ulrich-Verderber. "I thought of my idea because I was thinking about wind turbines, and I'd just watched a documentary about squids. Why not find ways to marry various things together to create something amazing?"


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Even before confirmation hearings for the next Attorney General were scheduled, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave signs that Bush's nominee–former federal Judge Michael Mukasey–would sail through the process. "My view [is] that Judge Mukasey has the potential to be a consensus nominee," said Senator Charles Schumer. Mukasey may have more of an independent streak than former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but the Senate cannot afford to treat Mukasey's nomination as a done deal. The next Attorney General will inherit a severly damaged Justice Department, embroiled in the Attorneygate scandal and controversies over torture, rendition, wiretapping and other "war on terror" tactics.
With these concerns in mind, The Nation asked ten of the country's leading legal minds what they would ask Mukasey during his confirmation hearings.
1. As Attorney General, will you independently review the constitutionality of ongoing programs, such as electronic eavesdropping and CIA rendition camps? If so, what will you do if you conclude that they are unconstitutional?
Erwin Chemerinsky, professor of law and political science at Duke University
2. At the present time, the Justice Department's Inspector General has commenced several investigations into the conduct of the former Attorney General of United States Alberto Gonzales and others with respect to testimony given before the US Senate and the firing of US Attorneys. With respect to these investigations, would you promise (a) that you would not in any way interfere with, hinder or obstruct these investigations–including promising not to fire or remove the present inspector general until he completes these investigations–even if you were so instructed by the President of the United States or anyone acting at his behest, and (b) would you promise to appoint a special prosecutor who is a nonpartisan and well respected law enforcement official to handle any finding by the inspector general or any other office in the Justice Department of possible criminal conduct by Mr. Gonzales?
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, author of The Impeachment of George W. Bush.
3. Will you insist on enforcement of subpoenas issued by Congress?
Herman Schwartz, professor of law at American University and author of Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts.
4. During your conversations with administration officials, did they indicate that you would have the ability to make personnel decisions free from White House interference?
Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice


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Top 5 Wildest Sports Callers Of The Week: May 16th-May 20thThe Top 5 Sports Callers of the week is a weekly installment from CBS Local Sports that will bring you the wildest callers from across the nation.
Palladino: Rangers-Jays Brawl Nothing More Than Old-School PaybackBaseball has always been a self-policing sport, and that element of player-to-player enforcement should not be eliminated from the game.
Rangers' Odor Suspended 8 Games For Punching Blue Jays' Bautista On JawTexas second baseman Rougned Odor was suspended for eight games and fined $5,000 by Major League Baseball on Tuesday for punching Toronto's Jose Bautista on the jaw.
Keidel: Baseball's Position On Retaliation Sends Mixed SignalsBaseball also takes great pride in monitoring itself. It doesn't need excessive regulations because all spats are adjudicated on the field, where judge, jury and executioner all dwell between the lines.
Goose Gossage Meets With Cashman, Girardi Over Bat-Flip CommentGossage called Jose Bautista a "disgrace to the game" during a profanity-laced interview in Tampa on Thursday.
Goose Gossage Goes On Wild Rant, Bashes Cespedes And 'Nerds' Ruining BaseballThe Yankee great and MLB Hall of Famer went on a profanity-laced tirade about the current state of baseball.
Bautista Homer Pushes Blue Jays Past Yanks, 2-1Jose Bautista homered with one out in the 10th inning after two of the top slugging teams in the major leagues engaged in a tense pitchers' duel.
Yoenis Cespedes Tops Todd Frazier In Final, Wins 2nd Straight HR DerbyCespedes became the first repeat winner of the All-Star skills contest in 15 years, powering his way past Cincinnati's Todd Frazier 9-1 in the final round Monday night.
Sims: Breaking Down Mark Teixeira's Latest Wrist InjuryThe role of the sheath is to stabilize the tendon within, enabling it to function more effectively, and minimize the likelihood it would sustain degenerative wear and tear and any resultant inflammation.
Hafner Lifts Yankees Over Jays, Chamberlain Nails Down SaveTravis Hafner had a monster day at the plate as the Yankees edged the Blue Jays, 5-4.
Reyes, Johnson Among Pieces To Blue Jays In Stunning Miami Salary DumpReacting to the Marlins' latest payroll purge on Twitter, slugger Giancarlo Stanton gave it three exclamation marks. Didn't we all?


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Today let's review what needs to be done before leaving on vacation to make sure we leave our homes properly secure.
Let's start with our mail and newspapers. If possible, have a neighbor pick them up. Most people call to suspend delivery, but when you call, do you really know to whom you are speaking? If your papers pile up in your yard, you are advertising your absence.
Have a neighbor take your trash bin to the curb on collection days and then return it afterward. This will be consistent what people passing by usually see.
Don't let your kids post on Facebook you are traveling. There are people out there checking this time of the year.
Turn on a radio. Remember to leave lights on in the front and rear of the house. Get a timer or use solar-powered lights. Trim hedges, especially if they are near your windows. Overgrown bushes can cover windows, giving a burglar a hiding place and blocking your neighbors' view of the house. Check windows and other areas that may be vulnerable. If you have a window air conditioner, secure it with brackets and screws.
I always tell people to make believe you got locked out, and then try to get in. That's what a burglar would do.
Do not leave a message on your phone or answering machine saying that you are gone. Give a neighbor or a family member your contact information in case he or she needs to reach you. In some areas, you can contact your police department to request a vacation watch.
And please, if you go to the bank to withdraw money, be vigilant and don't make stops on the way home. If you are withdrawing large amount, don't do it alone — have someone with you. Remember, there are predators out there waiting for you.
If you're driving on your vacation, when you need gas select stations that are well-lit and, if possible, that have video-surveillance cameras at the pumps.
When purchasing gas, use the pump that is closest to the station building. Credit-card theft happens a lot at gas stations. Crooks will pull the credit card slot out and replace it with a skimmer. They use the pumps that are farthest from the station so they won't be seen by the attendant.
Before you insert your credit card, grab the slot and give it a pull to make sure it's secure. If it has been tampered with, you will know it. Always remove your keys and lock your car doors while pumping gas; do not leave your purse or other items out in the open. Pay attention to your surroundings, and please don't talk on your cellphone while pumping gas.
If you are traveling with someone, make sure they stay in the car if you have to use the restroom. If traveling alone, after you pump the gas, move the car to the front of the building, lock the doors and don't leave your purse behind.
Have a safe and fun vacation.


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21st > May > 2012 Archive
Noise can improve quantum computing, says ANU scientist
Here's a nice paradox: since noise gets in the way of quantum computing, cure it by adding more noise.
iinet poaches Internode CTO
High profile internet industry CTO John Lindsay is moving from his role as chief technologist at Internode to running the CTO function at parent company iiNet.
Alain de Botton wants better online smut
Clearly not satisfied with being the thinking woman's sex symbol, philosopher Alain De Botton is taking on sex in a new digital venture that will attempt to position pornography – mostly the online iteration- as a therapeutic tool rather than a grubby thrill. De Botton issued a press release from his philosopher think tank The School of Life extolling the virtues of porn if executed in the right fashion. "No longer would sexuality have to be lumped together with stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation. It could instead be harnessed to what is noblest in us."
Cloud mega-uploads aren't easy
Google and Microsoft don't offer formal data ingestion services to help users get lots of data into the cloud, and neither seems set to do so anytime soon. Quite how would-be users take advantage of the hundreds of terabytes both offer in the cloud is therefore a bit of a mystery.
Anonymous takes out Indian CERT as attacks continue
Hacktivist group Anonymous continued its attacks on the Indian government and creative industries at the weekend by taking out the web sites of the national CERT and the country's President in retaliation for widespread blocks on video and file sharing sites.
Microsoft, NetApp, Citrix, team for FreeBSD on Hyper-V
NetApp, Microsoft and Citrix have teamed up to let Free BSD run natively in Hyper-V.
China blesses Google's Moto buy, patent problems persist
Analysis Google has finally won approval from Chinese anti-trust authorities for its $12.5bn takeover of handset maker Motorola Mobility, removing the final major obstacle to the deal, but analysts believe the securing the long-term success of Android will be the Chocolate Factory's priority, rather than producing hardware.
Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China
Microsoft is claiming something of a PR win over arch rival Apple, after a senior exec reportedly revealed that its Windows Phone devices are outselling the iPhone in China after just two months.
Creatives spin copyright licence that sticks to web
A range of organisations from across the global creative industries have formed a coalition with the aim of developing a universal standard framework for licensing out use of their copyrighted material.
Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command
VidChinese flash biz Runcore has built a self-destructing solid-state drive.
NHS car-crash spatters CSC accounts with red ink
The CEO of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) said that his company's performance in the last year had been "very poor", as he announced a staggering yearly loss of $4.2 billion.
Facebook and IM apps abused to spread social-climbing worm
Security watchers are warning users about a new worm that spreads via Facebook's instant messaging feature and also inserts itself under the guise of misleading messages on other social networking websites and IM services.
New Oyster online service goes live at TfL
Transport for London (TfL) has launched an online service for Oyster card holders, which allows them to look back over their journey history and fares paid.
Brit knits jumper for NASA space chicken
A British woman has enjoyed the peculiar honour of knitting a jumper for Camilla the rubber chicken – the mascot of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Yahoo! gets! $7.1bn! injection! from! Alibaba! stake! sale!
Chinese e-commerce biz Alibaba has signed a deal to buy back half of Yahoo!'s 40 per cent stake in the company, marking the beginning of the end of their partnership.
Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes
The Metropolitan Police is deploying mobile phone forensic systems in 16 boroughs, allowing ordinary coppers to play their favourite CSI character with wrong 'uns' handsets.
Zuck weds self to lady friend in surprise ceremony
Moneybags Mark Zuckerberg updated his relationship status to "married" on Saturday - just one day after floating Facebook on Nasdaq.
Sony starts taking advance orders for PSN titles
Gamers can now pre-order upcoming titles through the PlayStation Store and have content downloaded automatically on release - or ahead of it, with the activation code coming through on the big day.
Raspberry Pi gets snappy with camera add-on
While the the Raspberry Pi foundation continues to struggle to meet the demand for its £16 Linux machine, it has already revealed improvements. The latest: a prototype camera add-on.
Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12
Geek Treat of the WeekThere are AirPlay speakers and there are AirPlay speakers. This unit from Danish hi-fi gods Bang & Olufsen is eye-wateringly expensive but has plenty of features, including a built-in re-chargeable battery which, B&O says, will give you eight hours play time on one charge.
Acer crosses Ivy Bridge with latest laptops
Acer has revealed a pair of Ivy Bridgers through a new addition to its TravelMate laptop range and another Aspire M-series Ultrabook with dedicated graphics and an optical drive.
T-Mobile slip exposes 1,100 punters' email addresses
Subscribers to T-Mobile's Hothouse - a focus group-like mailing list - got an added benefit this morning: the email addresses of everyone else on the list. The gaffe was swiftly followed by an apology and a request to delete the offending information.
Waterstones stores surrender to Amazonian invaders
UK bookshop chain Waterstones will start stocking Amazon's Kindle ereaders in an attempt to revamp its stores for the digital age.
Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts
The taxpayer-backed NHS has suffered another fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for outing patients' private information to the wrong people.
Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips
Cheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London.
Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google
Google has been given the chance to settle an antitrust investigation of the company's business practices in Europe, competition officials in Brussels confirmed today.
What's copying your music really worth to you?
How much would your iPhone be worth to you if the only music it could play had been bought on the device itself, from Apple? If your answer is "a lot less" or "not very much", then you're not alone. New empirical research has attempted to measure how much we value the ability to copy our music across formats and devices – and it's a significant sum.
Ouch! Facebook slumps below IPO value on day 2
UpdatedFacebook's stock tumbled below its initial public offering valuation to $37.46 per share in pre-trading figures on Wall Street this morning.
Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA
GPU Technology ConferenceIntel and NVIDIA are battling for the hearts and minds of developers in massively parallel computing.
Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO
Nasdaq OMX chief Robert Greifeld has said he is "humbly embarrassed" by the technical glitch that held up Facebook's IPO on Friday.
IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke
AnalysisThere's an elephant in the room as Parliament's informal inquiry into intellectual property policy rolls on. In the foreground, there's the role of the officials who are supposed to support it. In the background, there's something more troubling.
Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears
AnalysisThe mobile device data extraction system that has just been rolled out by the Metropolitan Police is designed to provide an easier way to slurp evidence from the mobile phones of suspects brought into custody. But some argue that the move is likely to change how crimes are investigated while it raises several data retention and privacy concerns in the process.
Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes
Audi has revealed what it believes to be the future of e-bikes: the Wörthersee, a electric bicycle that features smartphone connectivity and a built-in computer system.
NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash?
HPC blogMy article about NVIDIA's new VGX virtualised GPU being a potential holy grail for task- and power-user desktop virtualisation inspired reader comments that are well worth addressing. They also brought out a few details that I didn't cover in the article. First, let's address a few of the specific comments.
IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn
The IT universe is seeing a massive collision taking place as the worlds of high-performance computing, big data and warehousing intermingle. IBM is pushing its General Parallel File System (GPFS) further to broaden its footprint in this space, with the 3.5 release adding big data and async replication features as well as customer metadata and more performance.
ALL NHS patient records online by 2015
The nation's medical records are going online by 2015 as part of a consumerisation of the NHS under a digital strategy unveiled today.
Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims
Google remains at loggerheads with anti-competition officials in Brussels, who today went public for the first time with concerns about the search giant's "abuses of dominance".
'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8
Microsoft must really love Windows 8, or hate its legacy install base.
Tech Data still feeling the burn from Brazilian shave
Tech Data Corporation, the IT distie giant and parent of Computer 2000 and Azlan in the UK, has seen net income rise to $51.7m in the first quarter of the year, despite a fall in revenue.
Backdoor sniffed in ZTE's US Android smartphones
Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE has confirmed the presence of a backdoor in one of its Android smartphones.
Oracle juices homegrown Xen to match own-brand Linux
System maker Oracle has upgraded its version of the Xen server virtualization hypervisor with its own variant of the Linux kernel to bring it in synch with its Enterprise Linux server operating system distro.
Mindspeed gets China Mobile femto gig
Mindspeed, sugar daddy to the UK-based Picochip, will be setting up a development lab with China Mobile to deploy cells using TD-LTE tech, but also supporting TD-SCDMA – as politics, rather than technology, demands.
IBM to park mainframes on the cloud
IBM is gussying up its SmartCloud public cloud to make it more useful for enterprise-class customers, in the hope it can lure them away from Amazon Web Services, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others. Big Blue is also promising to put its System z mainframes on its cloud.
Cloaked light detector sees without being seen
Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University have created a nearly-invisible photodetector, by exploiting the different ways that silicon and gold scatter light.
Microsoft launches its own 'so.cl' network
On the off chance that you have spare moment left in your life after checking Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, your email and your SMS inbox, Microsoft has launched its very own social network, so.cl. The site's name is pronounced "social".


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Week two! Our garden is kicking into high gear (finally) and so with the CSA and garden we are starting to ferment, can, freeze and dehydrate. I love having a full pantry and freezer!
in the box:: beets, spring onions, zucchini, snow peas, kohlrabi, asparagus, lavender, strawberries, two types of lettuce, kale, and fennel
extras:: chives, dill, sage, and snow peas
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The Chinese bloggers featured in the new documentary High Tech, Low Life insist they are not breaking any laws. The reaction to their New Media reporting, however, casts a light on the country's distrust of freedom as well as social and political injustices.
Director Stephen Maing's film, available now via iTunes and slated for a July 22 broadcast via PBS's POV documentary series, follows two bloggers whose work fills in the gaps left by the state-controlled media. The pair expose government malfeasance, exploited workers and other issues ignored by the country's mainstream journalists.
Maing says he knew right away after meeting "Zola," a 20-something blogger with a charming smile and zest for publicity, he had found a ripe subject for a documentary.
"I was surprised that no one was making something about him," Maing tells Big Hollywood.
For both Zola and "Tiger Temple," a 57-year-old blogger with a strong connection to China's history, the documentary offered a chance to garner more international support. Maing says local officials operate in an understated manner when it comes to questioning those who share information online, pressuring such bloggers to back off on certain sensitive topics while sharing tea in some instances.
"In some situations like last year's high speed railway tragedy, the Chinese Communist Party understands that to maintain their control of power, they must also occasionally let citizens believe they are expressing themselves freely online," he says.
In the film, Zola insists he is not a journalist even though he helps break news.
"It's a system they don't want to associate with … what they're doing is telling a counter-narrative," he says.
Maing says the High Tech subjects are affecting change in China, albeit one small story at a time. They also want to change their fellow citizens.
"Everyone has a responsibility to speak out against injustice whenever they see it," he says. "This is a new era, and the technology of social media and the internet are new kinds of tools."
In a New Media age, people in countries where freedoms are closely monitored are finding ways to report on censored news as best they can, but not without some degree of risk and personal sacrifice. It's a message the High Tech bloggers want the world to know.
"One of the biggest forms of censorship is self-censorship," he says. "People can speak out more than they realize."


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At Naomi Elementary School, we feel very strongly that students need to be engaged and feel they belong. Because of this conviction, we emphasize the importance of forming a family connection with our students and work hard to provide students with clubs, teams, and activities in which they can be involved.
Our teachers get students engaged by planning hands-on activities, many of which involve STEM themes that challenge students to think outside the box with their knowledge of math and science concepts while applying their creativity. We have a beautiful nature trail that our classrooms can take advantage of to take their learning outdoors. A few of our STEM projects include a blueberry garden outside that we care for and should be able to begin harvesting in a year. We also have two hydroponics garden towers and one soil garden tower that our students grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers in all school year long.
We offer our students a wide variety of technology to enhance their learning. Every classroom has a SmartBoard for instruction along with desktop computers, iPods and iPads, and a document camera. We also have a large computer lab that classrooms can visit for whole-class technology lessons and time to spend on the wide variety of purchased educational website accounts, such as Raz-Kids, Head Sprout, Moby Max, More Starfall, and SumDog
Naomi students also have the opportunity to join several teams and/or clubs each year. Students in third through fifth grade can apply to join the Naomi Chorus and the Naomi Dance Team. Our fourth through fifth grade students have the opportunity to be a part of the Naomi Rambots LEGO Robotics Team or the Naomi Competitive Storytelling Team. We are currently working on forming some new clubs for the 2016-2017 school year that will be offered to our younger elementary students. Being a part of one of these groups enhances the learning experience of our students and gives them the feeling of being a part of something special.
By offering these experiences to our students, we give them a school family of which they can be proud and a sense of belonging. We feel that these two things are crucial to helping our students stay in school and be ready for college, work, and life. We want to thank all our stakeholders for investing their time and donations to help make these learning experiences a possibility for our students; we truly appreciate you!