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ESPN Fantasy Football Commercial: Personal Intros & Great Volcano Dip
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This is the second Fantasy Football commercial aired by ESPN this year with the theme of Fantasy Football surviving worse than the NFL lockout. The Karaoke Draft Commercial was laugh out loud funny, and this one is no slouch either. I've already emailed the rest of my league insisting that we need a smoke machine and a nacho cheese volcano at this year's draft.by


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NORWEGIAN WOOD No 117 - May 2009
Page 2: Photos: George gets a star in Hollywood
Page 3: Contents page
Page 4-5: Dear Sir or Madam. By editor Ole-Andreas Refsnes.
Page 6-7: From Me To You. President Linda talks about The Beatles as a study in musicology and encourages further reading.
Page 8-9: Joakim Krane Bech reviews two Beatle-related songs with involvement from Yusuf Islam.
Page 10: What Goes On? A diary of forthcoming events
Page 11-19: The Beatles Remasters. The full Apple press release in english
Page 20: A photo of The Beatles 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 combined.
Page 21: A look at the boxes and guitars for The Beatles:RockBand
Page 22-34: On Tour with The Beatles: The Roy Orbison tour 1963 by Roger Stormo
Page 35-55: Sigbjørn Stabursvik ends his presentation of norwegian Beatles single-releases and their release dates (part 3 of 3).
Page 56-57: A look at the newly discovered Quarrymen photo
Page 58-61: Paul and Ringo together for meditation by Linda
Page 62-68: The Beatles and Phil Spector. Ole explores the ties between the recently convicted Spector and The Beatles
Page 69-70: Yellow Submarine: The Beatles' input by Roger Stormo
Page 71-74: A report from Hamburg - Kenneth Sevland has visited the Beatles city of Hamburg
Page 75-80: I read the news today, oh boy by Martin Aasen Wright
Page 81: Album cover Quiz by Joakim.
Page 82: Adresses
Page 83 (inner cover back) The Change Begins Within poster
Back cover: Photos: Ringo and Paul reunion in New York

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The Museum of London recently released a free iPhone app called Streetmuseum which incorporates their extensive art and photographic collections with augmented reality. According to the museum, the application would be providing users a window through time. The app leads you to various locations around London using either the map or GPS. Once you're there, click the "3D View" button, and the app will recognize the location and overlay the historical photograph over the live video feed of the real world, giving you a brief glimpse into how the past looked - just like in the image above. More images after the jump!
"This app allows the present and the past to collide and share their secrets. Streetmuseum opens up the city in new and exciting ways. The launch of the Streetmuseum app is an exciting development for the Museum of London." – Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London.
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The following organizations provide education and/or certification for a variety of childbirth professions. Check the conference calendar for additional educational opportunities.
Academy of Certified Birth Educators and Labor Support Professionals
Provides training and certification for doulas and childbirth educators.
Training in accupressure for natural childbirth.
Active Birth Center
Offers training in Active Birth to childbirth professionals. Those not currently professionals are able to become Active Birth Yoga Instructors.
American Academy of Husband Coached Childbirth
Training and affiliation for childbirth educators with the Bradley Method ®
American Aquanatal
Training and certification to be a prenatal water fitness instructor.
Apple Tree Family Ministries
Provides training and certification in Christian childbirth education.
Australian Doula College
Training and certification for doula and childbirth education.
Aware Parenting Institute
Offers workshops for instructors of the Aware Parenting philosophy.
Baby's First Massage
Training for instructors of infant massage.
Bellydance for Birth
Training is available for practitioners.
Training for childbirth educators is available.
Birth Arts International
Trains doulas, childbirth educators, midwife assistants and breastfeeding educators.
Birth Works
Training and certification for childbirth educators and doulas.
Birthing From Within
Training and certification for mentors and doulas.
Training and certification in prenatal, postnatal and baby yoga.
British Doulas
Doula training in the UK.
Charis Childbirth
Training and certification for doulas, childbirth educators and midwives.
Childbirth Connection
Offers a series of webinars on Transforming Maternity Care and a resource directory for evidence based midwifery.
Childbirth International
Training and certification for doula, childbirth educator and breastfeeding educator.
Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association
Training and certification for doula, childbirth educator, breastfeeding educator and teen educator.
College of the Rockies: Birth Doula Studies Online
Online training and certification for doulas.
Couple to Couple League
Training to teach natural family planning.
Doulas of North America (DONA)
Training and certification for doulas.
The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Childbirth and Pregnancy
Debra Betts has provided an education resource with references. Online classes with CEUs are available.
FertilityCare Centers of America
Education programs to teach the Creighton Model FertilityCare system.
Foundation for Infant Massage and Family Bonding
Training as infant massage bonding educator.
Golden Bridge
Offers training and certification in prenatal yoga instruction.
The Happiest Baby Education Association
Certifies educators in the parenting techniques of Happiest Baby on the Block.
Healthy Teen Network
Provides evidence based resources and training for workign with teens.
The House of La Matrona
Provides holistic doula training and certification.
H.U.G. Your Baby
Offers certification for teaching the H.U.G. program.
Training in hypnobirthing for all birth professionals. Certification for fertility consultant, infant massage and labor support.
Hypnobabies Network
Training and certification for instructors.
Infant Massage USA®
Certification as Educator of Infant Massage.
The International Center for Traditional Childbearing
Training and certification for doulas.
International Childbirth Education Association
Training and certification for childbirth educator, perinatal fitness educator and doula.
International Institute of Infant Massage
Offers training for infant massage instructors.
International Lactation Consultant Association
Training and certification for lactation consultants.
International Maternity Institute
Offering a variety of courses such as baby planner, child safety instructor and GreenBirth Educator.
La Leche League
Offers education for healthcare professionals and training as peer support.
Lamaze International
Training and certification for childbirth educators.
Master Travel
Escorted study tours, including midiwifery and obstetrics study tours.
Mother Love Doula Training
Online training for bereavement, birth, postpartum and special needs.
Naturally Healthy
Certification and training in herbs.
Natural Family Planning International, Inc.
Instruction to teach natural family planning.
Nurturing Birth
Training and certification for doulas
Nurturing Parenting
Training in parenting skills for at-risk families and infant massage.
Pacific Association for Labor Support (PALS)
Training and certification for doulas.
Paramana Doula
Training for doulas in the UK.
Prenatal Plus – Yoga
Training and certification for instructors of prenatal yoga.
Prenatal Yoga Center
Training in prenatal yoga.
Prepared Childbirth Educators, Inc.
Certification for breastfeeding counselor, childbirth educator, prenatal fitness instructor, infant massage and labor doula.
Spinning Babies
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Training and certification in bereavement support
Provides training and certification for doulas.
Urban Yoga
Prenatal yoga teacher training & certification for Conscious Birthing.
Waterbirth International
Certification in waterbirth techniques for all childbirth professionals.
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Training in Whole Birth Yoga and Whole Birth counseling.
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Conservation in the Amazon
Marc Dourojeanni
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
In 1945, the Amazon biome was still mostly intact. The scars of ancient cultural developments in Andean and lowland Amazon had healed, and the impacts of rubber and other resource exploitation were reversible. Very few roads existed, and only in its periphery. In the 1950s and especially in the 1960s, Brazil and other Andean countries launched ambitious road building and colonization projects, largely driven by Brazilian geopolitical concerns. Interest in the Amazon became much more intense in the 1970s as forest loss began to raise worldwide concern. Construction of more and better roads continued at an exponentially growing pace in each following decade, multiplying correlated deforestation and forest degradation everywhere in the Amazon. A point of no return was reached when interoceanic roads crossed the borders of Brazilian-Andean countries in the 2000s, exposing the remaining safe havens for indigenous people and nature. It is commonly estimated that today no less than 18% of the forest has been replaced with agriculture and that more than 50% of the remaining forests are significantly degraded. Most deforested land, especially in Andean countries, is wasted or scarcely used. Oil, mining, and intense urban development, as well as intensive agriculture, spread serious water and soil contamination throughout the region. Logging, fisheries, and hunting gave rise to the successive commercial extinction of valuable species.
Theories regarding the importance of biogeochemical cycles had already been in development since the 1970s, however, in the late 1980s the dominant popular view on the environmental value of the Amazon "lungs of the planet" emerged. The confirmation of the role of the Amazon as a carbon sink added some international pressure for its protection. But, in general, the many scientific discoveries regarding the Amazon have not been helpful in improving its conservation. Instead, a combination of new agricultural technologies, anthropocentric philosophies, and economic changes has strongly promoted forest clearing.
From the 1980s to the present day, Amazon conservation efforts have increasingly diversified, and now consist of five theoretically complementary strategies: (1) the creation of more, larger and better managed protected areas, including biological corridors; (2) the protection of more and larger indigenous territories; (3) the promotion of a series of "sustainable use" options such as "community based conservation," sustainable forestry, and agroforestry; (4) the financing of conservation through debt swaps and related financial mechanisms for mitigating climate change and; (5) the use of better legislation, monitoring, and control. Five small protected areas have existed in the Amazon since the early 1960s but, in response to the road building boom of the 1970s, several larger patches of forests were set aside with the aim of conserving viable samples of biological diversity. Today, around 25 % of the Amazon is designated as protected areas, but almost half of these areas are categorized in a way that allows human presence and resource exploitation, and there is no effective management. Another 25.3% is designated to indigenous people who may or not conserve the forest. Excluding areas of overlap, both types of protected areas cover 41.2% of the Amazon. Neither strategy has fully achieved its objective, alone or together, and development pressures and threats grow as road construction and deforestation continue relentlessly with increasing funding by multilateral and national banks and pressure from transnational enterprises.
The future will be directed by unprecedented agricultural expansion and the corresponding intensification of deforestation and forest degradation. Additionally, the Amazon basin will be impacted by new, larger hydraulic works. Mining will increase and spread. Policy makers of Amazon countries still view the region as the future for expanding conventional development, and the population continues to be indifferent.
Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawaiʻi
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Peter Vitousek
Agriculture in Hawaiʻi was developed in response to the high spatial heterogeneity of climate and landscape of the archipelago, resulting in a broad range of agricultural strategies. Over time, highly intensive irrigated and rainfed systems emerged, supplemented by extensive use of more marginal lands that supported considerable populations. Due to the late colonization of the islands, the pathways of development are fairly well reconstructed in Hawaiʻi. The earliest agricultural developments took advantage of highly fertile areas with abundant freshwater, utilizing relatively simple techniques such as gardening and shifting cultivation. Over time, investments into land-based infrastructure led to the emergence of irrigated pondfield agriculture found elsewhere in Polynesia. This agricultural form was confined by climatic and geomorphological parameters, and typically occurred in wetter, older landscapes that had developed deep river valleys and alluvial plains. Once initiated, these wetland systems saw regular, continuous development and redevelopment. As populations expanded into areas unable to support irrigated agriculture, highly diverse rainfed agricultural systems emerged that were adapted to local environmental and climatic variables. Development of simple infrastructure over vast areas created intensive rainfed agricultural systems that were unique in Polynesia. Intensification of rainfed agriculture was confined to areas of naturally occurring soil fertility that typically occurred in drier and younger landscapes in the southern end of the archipelago. Both irrigated and rainfed agricultural areas applied supplementary agricultural strategies in surrounding areas such as agroforestry, home gardens, and built soils. Differences in yield, labor, surplus, and resilience of agricultural forms helped shape differentiated political economies, hierarchies, and motivations that played a key role in the development of sociopolitical complexity in the islands.


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A big tax refund may feel like free money, but it is not. As of March 17, the Internal Earnings Service has issued 62.5 million refunds, averaging out to $2,931. The federal government agency expects to receive more than 153 million tax profits this season. Don't rejoice that massive tax refund 9:19 AM ET Wed, 29 March 2017 | 00:58
Many tax refund recipients are putting that money to work. In regards to a third of taxpayers getting a refund expect to save or make investments the money, while almost three in 10 can pay down debt, relating to Bankrate.com.
Here's the bad reports:
In case the IRS supplies you with a huge check this spring, this means you've likely overpaid on fees over summer and winter. A large tax refund from the IRS may seem like an benefit, but it is not the best or most reliable use of your cash flow. You're quite simply supplying the IRS an interest-free loan.
Know your withholding
If you're a worker, your employer provided you a Form W-4 when you were appointed, which you can adjust to ensure the right amount of income tax is withheld from your salary. On the proper execution, you'll make take note of of your partner, your dependents as well as your filing status; they are your "personal allowances." The greater allowances you have, the less tax refund will be withheld.
Some people read the form and think, 'I'm wedded and also have three kids. They end up with five allowances and owe considerable taxes by the end of the entire year.
The IRS has a calculator to help you figure out the right withholding.
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This page provides links to useful job aids, articles and white papers on various valuation topics. The items contained herein are offered for reference purposes only and do not represent or suggest official IRS positions. They may not be used or cited as authority for setting any legal position.
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25 September 2014
Increasing interest in the policies, research and practices surrounding the prevention and detection of crime has helped prompt the University of the Sunshine Coast to offer a Bachelor degree focused on criminology.
From 2015, USC's Bachelor of Criminology and Justice will feature new courses in homicide, criminal profiling and youth justice, among others.
Lecturer in Justice and Legal Studies Anna Bishop, a solicitor and academic who is coordinating the program, attributed some of the student and community interest to "the CSI factor", referring to popular American television crime shows.
"Criminology is largely concerned with social harm and is broader than just dealing with crime," Ms Bishop said. "It's based on a combination of disciplines including law, sociology and psychology.
"This degree can still be used as an entrance into policing or corrective services, like our previous degree in Justice and Legal Studies, but it's also a stepping stone to career options in forensics, specialist law enforcement agencies, customs and border protection, youth justice, and research and policy."
She said students in the third and final year of the degree would have opportunities for professional placements or research projects.
USC will introduce 18 new undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in 2015. For details go to the USC Rise, and Shine web page.
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Tips on how to size charts for the perfect ChartBook.
ChartBooks – available to iCharts Gold and Platinum plan users – are a great way to create stories with charts through an online, interactive presentation. What's that? You've never seen one before?
Below are a few guidelines on how to size up your charts to make the most of your data (bite-size) stories.
The Basics
Charts can be arranged into a grid-like composition on each page. When you create or edit a page, determine the number of columns each page will have. Choosing to have two columns for a page that will contain four charts, for example, will arrange the first two charts into the first row, and the second set of two will be in the second row. If you have decided to have a three-column spread, then only the last chart will be bumped into the second row. Or, if you choose to have a one-column spread, then your four charts will never be on the same row; viewers will use the vertical scrollbar in order to view the remaining charts.
The key to coordinating a clean ChartBook page is sizing; it quickly becomes a width and height game.
Here are a few general things to consider when determining the heights:
- The sharpest ChartBooks have charts whose heights are equal.
- Because the height of the chart is more or less determined by your data and the amount of extra information you wish to add (comments, annotations), play around with how much content you will more or less have to determine a go-to height for the charts.
- If keeping the entire chart or first row of charts within the field of view is important to you, then try to keep your charts under 500 px in height.
Widths can be tricky to wrap your head around if you intend to have a collection of pages with differing column arrangements. Aim to have charts of equal widths.
But which width should you decide on? Well, you can have charts at any width of your choice, up to a certain point. Here is simple table of the maximum widths your chart can have per your column selection to guide you as you organize your charting process:
*While it is absolutely possible to create layouts with 5 or more columns of charts to a page, the widths you would need to make your page orderly would render your charts almost impossibly too narrow to make the data legible.
We trust these quick pointers will get you well on your way to building your first of many Chartbooks.
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I am a fixer.
For years, I have worked as part of a 'clean-up' process within McDonald's Corporation. I am brought in to fix stores that have management issues such as inventory problems, customer service retention and service times. It is my job to ensure that the stores that have these issues are brought up to company standards and that protocols are put into place to ensure continued success in the future. I accomplish this by utilizing these seven principles:
Interviewing and Hiring Process
Part of the hiring process at McDonald's includes identifying potential management candidates. I am pleased to say that as a manager, I have helped many different employees move up the corporate ladder. Most of them then go on to management careers in other fields, but it brings me satisfaction to know that I helped develop their skills so they can have successful careers.
Food Prep and Presentation
In the course of my management training, I have often needed to work entire areas of the store alone, such as in the grill area. As such, my food prep skills have to be top notch under tremendous pressure while maintaining the presentation quality standards.
Inventory Management
I am responsible for ordering and maintaining all inventory levels of product at the store.
Interpreting and Creating P&Ls
I can correctly analyze P&Ls and make necessary adjustments to help my store be more profitable.
Customer Service
I know my customers by name, and make an effort to get to know details about their lives. This makes them feel important, and results in many return visits to my store.
Budget analysis
In the time that I have worked for McDonald's, I was moved to four different stores to help clean up their budgets and make them more profitable.
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If your teachers have told you several times that you express great ideas but that your essay writing needs polishing, do not panic. Here are some examples of techniques, best essays help that will definitely help you take your writing style to the next level and turn you into a great writer.
Avoid repetition
When you have to write a five-page term paper on a single character or idea, it might seem impossible to avoid repetition. But when you use the same ideas over and over again the reader will consider it a sign of laziness. What you can do, is replace a specific word of phrase that you have already used with something similar, but avoid using words you are unfamiliar with just because they sound good.
You can also try to cross out the repetition. You can do this by circling only the important words that you want to keep and skipping those such as a 'while, of, it' etc. Now create another sentence in which to use only the circled words.
Active voice
The active voice breathes life into your essay. To find the passive voice in your essay use for the verb 'to be' followed by a past participle, which is usually a verb ending in -ed. For example, "You wrote the article" is active voice, while 'The article was written by you' is passive voice. You just have to ask yourself who performs the action, move that person in front of the verb and make the other necessary grammatical changes.
Use transitional phrases, such as "moreover", "furthermore", "on the other hand", or "by contrast" to show the reader that a section of the essay ends, and the other starts. It might be helpful for you if you consider them as equivalents of the spoken cues found mainly in formal speeches. They are very useful as they lead the reader from one paragraph to the other, without losing the main idea.
Avoid the ordinary
Avoid all clichés and idioms and replace them with original thoughts and clever ideas. Leave out the metaphors and similes, especially if they are familiar ones. There might be situations when you consider you have come up with the perfect comparison that highlights the main idea of your essay, but an experienced reader might consider it just ordinary. Although there are some types of writing, such as speeches and advertising, that may call for this, in formal writing, they should have no place.
Choose the literary present
Instead of 'The forest symbolized the freedom of choice' writer 'The forest symbolizes the freedom of choice.' Write everything in the present tense, no matter if you read the book last month or if the author wrote it 50 years ago. Write about the events and characters as if they still exist.
It goes without saying that you always proofread your essay to make it best or anything that you write. It takes only a moment to run a spell check, but this moment will save you from getting a small mark. Read it carefully and find any error before your teacher does. No matter how brilliant your paper might be, spelling mistakes will make it seem junk.
Second opinion
A fresh set of eyes can find flaws that you have missed, from spelling and grammar mistakes to inconsistency in your presentation or the lack of fluidity. Ask someone else to read it and just give their opinion on your essay. It might help you add a new idea or maybe take out some information that was not useful.
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Isabel Lester scaled a nearly 30-foot wall within seconds on her second day of camp at Vertex Climbing Center — an ascent that had terrified the 6-year-old experienced tree climber just a day earlier.
"I made it all the way to the top," she boasted after climbing the wall.
Lester was timid and hesitant when she first arrived at Camp Vertical, but the Santa Rosa first-grader opened up and quickly found the courage to reach the top of the wall, said Aly Alvarez, youth coordinator at Vertex.
"She blossomed. She totally came out of her shell," Alvarez said. "It's amazing to see that in one day."
Aside from knot and climbing techniques, children work on social skills and develop confidence at the camp, Alvarez said. They also learn about the importance of trusting partners, including the instructors attached to the other end of the rope, and test their limits, she said.
Vertex will offer similar camps for children ages 7 to 14 from June 6 to Aug. 12. The cost is $195 per weeklong session.
Camp Vertical will be one of 26 camps offered this summer through Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks, said Adriane Mertens, the department's marketing and outreach coordinator. The camps fill up each year, which speaks to the need in the community, she said.
"Parents are looking for ways to keep their children engaged in health, wellness and creative enrichment opportunities during the long summer months," Mertens said in an email. "It's important to our department to meet that need and to provide a diverse range of offerings to satisfy the interests of every child."
The Camp Vertical summer sessions typically run from 9 a.m. to noon. Class is extended to 4 p.m. on Thursdays when organizers take the kids to Goat Rock on the Sonoma Coast to climb, said Kevin Radle, general manager at Vertex, which has been holding the day camps since 1995.
Many children are scared of heights when they arrive, Radle said. For a lot of them, he said, it's their first time climbing.
"It's a natural fear," Radle said.
The instructors provide pointers as to which foot or hand the kid should use or where to shift his or her weight to get to the next rock peg, he said. They also encourage the kids to push past their fears, without inciting panic or tears, Radle said.
"It really promotes mental and physical health," he said. "It's a full-body workout from your fingers to your toes — and it's a mental challenge."
Anna Zahner, a 9-year-old Windsor girl who used to practice gymnastics, said she's become more flexible since she started rock climbing.
"It's scary," she admitted. However, Zahner said she would tell herself to "keep on going, don't be scared" when inching up the walls during the spring camp, where she learned to make figure-eight and double fisherman's knots.
As she climbed, Alvarez offered encouraging words from below.
"Push up. You're almost there. … You got two more (pegs) to go," she shouted before the Cali Calmecac Language Academy third-grader reached the top and gracefully rappelled down the wall, pushing off with her thin legs.


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We must remain focused and stay engaged.
Last week felt like a whirlwind that wouldn't die down. Sunday, I drove to Austin to attend the Wear Red for Public Ed rally Monday, the day before the start of the Special Session of the 75th Legislature. Troy Reynolds, founder of Texans for Public Education (T4PE) and the director of curriculum and federal programs for Splendora ISD, organized the rally. When I interviewed him a few weeks ago, Troy told me the plan was for the rally to last 60-90 minutes and then for everyone in attendance to "storm the capitol," visiting as many legislators as possible to express our support for public education and for Texas students and teachers.
I decided to "storm the capitol" in the morning so I could jump in my car right after the rally and make it back to the Valley before dark. I walked into the capitol shortly after 8 a.m., and by 1 p.m., I had visited the offices of approximately 40 legislators. That's the good news. The bad news is that I only got to actually see and speak to three of them, Rep. Todd Hunter (R-Corpus Christi), Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Canton), and Rep. Armando "Mando" Martinez (D-Weslaco).
Rep. Hunter warmly welcomed me, telling me his mother is a retired teacher, "so I have a built-in lobbyist." He then told me, "You let all those retired teachers know I'm behind them 100 percent!" He then had to step into a meeting.
I had a much more lengthy conversation with Rep. Flynn, as he and I debated whether or not teachers are state employees (him saying we're not and me asking why the legislature controls what we teach, our certifications, our minimum salary schedule, our pensions, and our healthcare if we're not) and the status of TRS-Care (him saying we have good insurance and me saying going from a $400 deductible to a $3000 deductible with no co-pay and very little prescription coverage is not something to celebrate). It sounds heated, but it was actually a healthy and productive conversation. Kelli Linza, Rep. Flynn's legislative and committee director, provided me with a bit of constructive criticism. She said active and retired teachers need to come together with a clear and concise message as to what exactly it is we want as the messages they receive from teachers and teachers' organizations are often conflicting.
My longest meeting was with Rep. Mando Martinez, who warmly welcomed me and my friends Linda and Pete Smith (former McAllen educators who now live and teach in the Houston area) into his office. Rep. Martinez, whose wife is a teacher, assured us he wholeheartedly supports restoring much of what we lost during the regular session.
Over 2500 people attended the rally that afternoon. Powerful speakers rallied the troops with messages of staying engaged and fighting relentlessly for public education, students, and teachers. Troy told the crowd we must remain focused and join T4PE in "block voting," supporting candidates throughout the state who the organization is rating according to their votes on education issues.
More than one speaker talked about "The Power of 10," telling 10 friends which candidates were rated favorably and asking them to tell 10 friends, who will tell 10 friends…
Louis Malfaro, president of Texas AFT, told the crowd, "Less than 40 percent of what is spent in schools is funded by the state." (Later in the week, I read an op-ed by Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin). She wrote that when you remove charter schools from the funding equation, "the state's share of funding for local school districts, which educate 94 percent of Texas students, drops to 32 percent, leaving property taxpayers to pick up the rest." She also wrote, "The Texas Education Code explicitly says that public education is to be 'substantially financed through state revenue sources.' Most would agree that 32 percent is nowhere near substantial.")
Several other notable speakers spoke at the rally. A small group of legislators took the time to attend the rally and to show their support for public education and for teachers, including two Valley legislators, Rep. Martinez and Rep. Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville).
At the rally and the next day, we learned of legislators who filed bills to restore some of the healthcare benefits Texas' retired teachers lost during the regular session; however, none of that would matter unless Gov. Abbott called for TRS-Care to be addressed during the Special Session.
We received news last Thursday morning that the governor did just that. He added this item to the call for the Special Session: "Legislation to increase the average salary and benefits (including TRS-Care) of Texas teachers; and legislation to provide a more flexible and rewarding salary and benefit system for Texas teachers."
Bills to watch during this Special Session:
1. HB 151 by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Terrell), the most sweeping of all of the bills filed, calls for the state to take $1 billion ($250 million per year over the next four years) from the Economic Stabilization Fund (aka Rainy Day Fund) to reduce the premiums and deductibles for retired public educators that were dramatically raised during the regular session. (Remember, it's not just teachers. All retired public school employees are covered under TRS-Care.)
"I don't want my retired teachers back home to think we failed them," Gooden said. Gooden is also insisting that TRS keep the Texas Legislature more informed about the status of TRS-Care, as well as program drivers and medical trend data.
2. HB 76 by Rep. Drew Darby (R-San Angelo) authorizes TRS to provide a COLA for all retirees who did not get one in 2013. That year, only retirees who retired on or before August 31, 2004, received a COLA, the first increase for TRS retirees since 2001.
3. HB 80 by Darby moves $100 million more into TRS-Care for this biennium.
4. July 13, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for additional funding for TRS-Care and a bonus for retirees, as well as lowering prescription costs for pre-65 retirees and the premium cost for dependents of retirees who are 65 and over.
5. HB 20 by Rep. Trent Ashby (R-Lufkin) calls for $150 million to be taken out of the ESF to decrease premiums and deductibles for retirees under the age of 65. Ashby said he heard from "thousands of teachers across Texas."
It's obvious that they are hearing us in Austin; however, in order to use ESF monies, a two-thirds majority in both chambers must vote to approve. This is no time to sit back and relax. We must stay focused and stay engaged and heed the "calls to action" we are receiving from the Texas Retired Teachers Association as we continue to fight to have benefits much closer to those received by retirees in ERS.
Chris Ardis retired in May of 2013 following a 29-year teaching career. She now helps companies with business communications and social media and works as a sales coordinator for Tony Roma's and Macaroni Grill. Chris can be reached at email@example.com.


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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Putting fluoride in public water supplies – some call it "preventive medicine," others call it "forced medication."
It's a debate that's been raging throughout Western Washington for years.
Skagit County commissioners got an earful Tuesday.
In a room that usually sees but a handful of people during county commission meetings, there was standing room only. Almost everyone was there to talk about fluoridating Skagit County's water supply.
"This is one of the ten most effective public health actions in the last century," said Dr. Harold Clure.
An advisory vote in November proved people wanted to fluoridate a reservoir, but by a narrow margin of only 4 percent.
Taking that vote and this testimony into consideration, county commissioners will make the final decision.
Tuesday, they got an earful.
"There is absolutely no reason, no sanity for fluoridating," said Dr. Bill Osmundsen.
"It makes all the sense in the world because it prevents disease and that's what we want to do, we want to prevent disease for our patients," said Dr. Christine Johnson.
There are countless studies touting the effectiveness of fluoride in preventing tooth decay, especially in children.
Other studies suggest it can over time lead to other health problems.
"Obesity, heart disease, cancer," said Dr. Jess Groesbeck.
The debate happening in Skagit County is not unique. In past few years, some cities in Pierce County decided to add fluoride to their water systems, whereas the City of Bellingham decided against it.
As of now, a little more than half of the state's water supply has fluoride.
Where there is no fluoride in the water, some parents give their children fluoride drops. Some said that's the way it should be where people not politicians decide what's best for their health.
It could be several weeks before commissioners make a decision on fluoridation.


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ROI Advisor is designed to help advertisers track "what's going on beyond the click, to see the ultimate result," Mr. Mrazek explains. "In many cases a click-through rate isn't an accurate predictor of conversion," usually meaning a sale.
ROI Advisor provides information to advertisers to let them switch from ads that just get clicked on to ads that actually yield sales.
But for Sarah Fay, exec VP-managing director at Carat Freeman, Newton, Mass., it's the thought behind ROI Advisor that counts.
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Ms. Fay also likes the way AdKnowledge is integrating Millward Brown Interactive's Voyager technology into the software, offering syndicated research alongside its straight serving model.
Proving ROI is also key for Terry Young, interactive management supervisor at Custom Production Services, an Irving, Texas, unit of True North Communications, which counts the U.S. Air Force, American Airlines and Subaru of America among its clients.
Mr. Young says ROI means different things to different clients. The Air Force counts recruitment lead forms. Subaru counts hits at its dealer search page. "American Air might look at their travel planning tool or the page with a specific fare mentioned in the banner," he says. AdKnowledge tags target pages, which the server counts and adds to Mr. Young's reports.
Once target pages were identified, implementing this post-click analysis took AdKnowledge just a week, Mr. Young says. "This gives us an ROI we can compare to that of other media."
Thomas Hespos, media director for K2 Design, New York, says the tags will provide information to his clients, who will use their own databases to analyze it.
"Our clients want to know exactly what the advertising is getting them, and this solution gives them information they need," he adds. "We have costs associated with maintaining our database and don't want to be in the software development business."
Brian Monahan, associate media director for Left Field, a San Francisco Web ad shop, uses AdKnowledge for all his serving. He relies on it to enable pull-downs, search-enabled banners and other rich media.
Click-through rates continue to deteriorate and putting technology inside the banners can raise those rates, at least in the short term. Pull-downs can also prequalify a click, says Mr. Monahan, collecting data on prospects before they're pitched.
Peter Brine, director of online marketing at eToys, Santa Monica, Calif., has worked with AdKnowledge since last summer, and counts on customer service as much as technology. "I have a contact at AdKnowledge that's on my speed dial and I know she's always there" to quickly answer questions.
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The staff members of O'Brien Funeral Home are very active in charitable groups, service organizations, and professional associations. Here is just a short list of the local, regional and national groups where we put our time and energy.
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Jawed Anwar, a name familiar to readers of this blog, is noted for publishing the local Muslim hate rag, TheMuslim.ca. Jawed has written extensively on Islamic spiritual issues, such as his defense of killing of homosexuals per Sharia law.
Jawed has a new project: "The building of new school (KG only) in Thorncliffe Park is in progress. The Kindergarten School Naming Committee invites submissions from students, staff, parents, and the local community. They will accept submission until the end of December 2012.
I, as a parent activist of Thorncliffe Park, and as an Ex- Chair of Thorncliffe Park Public School propose the name of the school; Fatimah Kindergarten Public School (FKPS)
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New York: To enable researchers to quickly and easily visualise and compare large amounts of genomic information resulting from high-throughput sequencing experiments, scientists have now developed a new free web-based tool called Epiviz.
"Epiviz helps biomedical scientists meet the challenge of visualizing large genomic data sets while supporting creative data analysis in a collaborative environment," said Hector Corrada Bravo, an assistant professor in computer science at University of Maryland in the US.
Next-generation sequencing techniques are key to understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying cell function in healthy and diseased individuals and the development of diseases like cancer.
Data from multiple experiments need to be integrated, but the growing number of data sets makes a thorough comparison and analysis of results challenging.
To visualise and browse entire genomes, graphical interfaces that display information from a database of genomic data - called "genome browsers" - were created.
According to the researchers, Epiviz offers a major advantage over browsers currently available.
Epiviz seamlessly integrates with the open-source Bioconductor analysis software widely used by genomic scientists, through its Epivizr Bioconductor package.
"Prior tools limited visualisation to presentation and dissemination, rather than a hybrid tool integrating interactive visualisation with algorithmic analysis," says Corrada Bravo.
Because Epiviz is based on the Bioconductor infrastructure, the tool supports many popular next-generation sequencing techniques, such as ChIP-seq, which is used to analyse protein interactions with DNA; RNA-seq, which reveals a comprehensive snapshot of the abundance of RNAs in cells; and DNA methylation analyses.
The new tool implements multiple visualisation methods for location-based data (such as genomic regions of interest) and feature-based data (such as gene expression), using interactive data visualisation techniques not available in web-based genome browsers.
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Pocket Tanks ReviewThis is the fastest game of artillery you will ever play. Pocket Tanks is streamlined to be easy to learn and fun for all ages. Select your angle, power, and fire over 30 distinct weapons at your opponent. Games are won based on points for good aiming and is lighthearted fun. There is an innovative Weapon Shop to keep the game moving fast and a Target Practice mode for experimenting with all the weapons no holds barred.
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LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech men's basketball head coach Tubby Smith has added Alvin "Pooh" Williamson as the first assistant coach to his Red Raider coaching staff.
"It is a real blessing to have Pooh here," said Smith. "Alvin has been the best thing to happen for us. He was the key to our success from 1991 to 1995 at Tulsa as a leader and as a student-athlete. He is so well respected as a coach. He is one of the best hires I have made in a long time.
"He is a point guard and former player that players relate too and that is so important when you are out there recruiting. He has the ability to be a floor coach, teacher and develop players and that stems from the fact the he was a player who had to work hard and earn everything he has gotten. Pooh enhances every aspect of our program."
It is a coming home of sorts, as Smith is reuniting with his point guard and his first recruit at the University of Tulsa, who led the Golden Hurricane to a pair of NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances.
Williamson comes to the South Plains after spending one season at TCU under head coach Trent Johnson.
Williamson has been a part of coaching staffs that have guided teams to seven NCAA Tournament bids in the last 11 years. In addition to his time at SMU (2011-12), he also has served stints at Texas A&M (2007-11), Wichita State (2005-07), Tulsa (2001-05), Tulane (2000-01), Illinois State (1998-00) and Washington State (1996-98). He received head coaching experience with Tulsa during the 2004-05 campaign, when he served as the team's interim head coach for the second half of the season.
Williamson aided in TCU's transition to the Big 12 Conference in his first year on campus in 2012-13, a season that saw the program record four wins over teams that advanced to postseason play. Included among the victories was the school's first-ever against a top-5 opponent, a 62-55 decision against No. 5 Kansas on Feb. 6.
Along with TCU's move to the Big 12 came an added importance of being able to sway top national recruits, a task Johnson's staff has embraced in its short time in Fort Worth. Williamson helped the Frogs land the top early signing class in school history in November, 2012 featuring three nationally-rated commits in Texas prep commits Karviar Shepherd, Brandon Parrish and Michael Williams. The class, ranked among the nation's top 25 by some outlets, included one signee listed among the nation's top-50 players (Shepherd) and another among the top-150 (Parrish).
Williamson was part of a highly successful run at Texas A&M that saw the Aggies earn four consecutive at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament under former head coach Mark Turgeon between 2007 and 2011. He helped the program compile a 97-40 overall record an at least 24 victories each season, while the Aggies advanced to the NCAA Tournament second round three times during the run. During the last two seasons, Texas A&M finished tied for second (11-5) and third (10-6) in the Big 12 Conference standings.
During his stint at Texas A&M, Williamson coached a pair of future NBA talents in Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donald Sloan. Sloan attended Seagoville High School in Dallas.
Williamson followed Turgeon to College Station from Wichita State, where he helped the Shockers win a Missouri Valley Conference championship and advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2006.
Prior to his time on Turgeon's Wichita State staff, Williamson was an assistant coach at Tulsa for four years before serving as the Golden Hurricane's interim head coach midway through 2004-05 season. The Hurricane went 68-57 overall during his four seasons on campus, winning the 2002 WAC title and advancing to the NCAA second round twice. As the interim head coach, he posted his first career victory against New Mexico State (83-63) on Jan. 10, 2005, before finishing the season with a 7-15 record.
Williamson served as an assistant at Tulane for one season in 2000-01 following two seasons at Illinois State, where he tutored guards Victor Williams and Tarise Bryson, the MVC's Freshman and Newcomer of the Year, respectively. He earned his start in the college coaching world with two seasons at Washington State, where he was instrumental in the development of starting point guard Blake Pengally, who posted 120 assists as a freshman.
A four-year letterwinner at Tulsa, Williamson played in 118 career games and was one of the driving forces behind Tulsa's back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 1994 and 1995. As the Golden Hurricane's point guard, he averaged 38 minutes per game in six career NCAA Tournament contests. He started 63 games in his final two seasons and earned first-team All-MVC and all-defensive team honors after averaging 12.8 points as a senior in 1995. Williamson completed his Tulsa career ranked No. 7 on the school's career assists chart and No. 10 on the career steals list.
A native of Beggs, Okla., Williamson led Beggs High School to two Oklahoma Class 2A state championships. He earned his bachelor's degree in business management from Tulsa in 1995.
Williamson and his wife, Rosemary, have two sons, Jamal and Joshua.
Birth Date: Sept. 5, 1973
Age: 39
Hometown: Beggs, Okla.
College: Tulsa, 1995
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2000-01: Tulane (Assistant Coach)
2001-04: Tulsa (Assistant Coach)
2004-05: Tulsa (Interim Head Coach)
2005-07: Wichita State (Assistant Coach)
2007-11: Texas A&M (Assistant Coach)
2011-12: SMU (Assistant Coach)
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Still life painting developed in the seventeenth century in Protestant Northern Europe. No longer obliged by church hegemony to make their works serve sacred, codified ends, painters turned their attention to the unsignifying reality of mundane things. The fascination of pictorial illusion was no longer necessarily subordinate to religious or other edifying purposes, and began to become something of a theme in itself.
Things seen in paintings could now be taken simply as what they appeared to be: a knife became a common kitchen tool instead of a reference to the martyrdom of St. Bartholomew. A demand for the matter-of-fact vision common to Dutch still life paintings emerged from the newly prosperous middle classes of the Netherlands, with their unabashed interest in worldly things. Partly in an effort to enliven a format that might easily become banal, still life painters imposed new meanings on their compositions, designating them allegories of the senses or of mortality.
In America at the turn of the nineteenth century, painters found themselves in a position curiously parallel to that of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist. The first two generations of American artists had tried imitating the conventions received from the European tradition, but those conventions had been sustained by the patronage of court and aristocracy, social institutions that had no real counterparts in the New World. The generation of artists to which Charles Bird King belonged was spurred to try to reconcile the European artistic heritage with the American context in which the social basis for art was still forming.
King made his reputation as a painter of portraits of Indians for the government. The irony of his specialization was not lost on him, and he painted two still life pictures that comment humorously on the situation of the artist in the new nation. One of these is ''The Anatomy of Art Appreciation'' (also titled ''The Vanity of the Artist's Dream''). In this work, King made the most of his prerogative of putting anything he chose into a still life context. He contrived the work so that it would have at least a double meaning. Any nineteenth-century spectator who saw the work might understand even by its title a rebuke to the artist's vanity of thinking that his work will win him a kind of immortality. His artist contemporaries would have understood as well that he intended to comment upon the vanity in hoping for recognition from his living countrymen who understand little or nothing of artists' motives and reward them accordingly.
Purporting to be a view directly into an artist's storage cabinet, King's picture is crammed with items hinting at his view of the fate of fine art in America. In a satire upon the convention of the ''memento mori,'' the reminder of mortality, he has attached a list headed ''Sheriff's Sale'' detailing the effects of a deceased artist. The list includes several paintings, one described as ''Roast Turkey and Beef (painted from recollection),'' and a bushel of potatoes. The crust of bread in King's composition, juxtaposed with high-flown volumes such as Pleasures of Imaginationm and The Vanity of Wealth,m suggest the difference between the literary and culinary diets of the artist.
King's picture is also memorable for being one of the earliest examples of trompe l'oeil still life in American art, a mode that would become fashionable later in the nineteenth century. Characteristic of this mode is the rendering of objects' actual size and their apparent protrusion forward of the canvas into real space. King seems to have meant us to understand the heightened illusion of painted things as yet another facet of the artist's vain ambitions.


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[Editor's Note: Here you will find the other Watching the Future columns.]
Inclusion stands among science fiction's chief virtues. While infighting breaks out, often about where the center presently resides, fans and critics think nothing of accepting works outside the genre into the pulp folds. Occasionally creators of such works howl with outrage both P.D. James and Cormac McCarthy expressed shock and anger when the community embracedĀThe Children of MenĀ (and its film adaptation by Alfonso Cuarón) andĀThe RoadĀas classics -- but such responses have seen a thaw uncharacteristic and even impossible fifty years ago. Nobel Prize¢winner Doris Lessing, after writing herĀCanopus in Argos sequence, donned a Worldcon badge in the 80s without reservation. When an obviously befuddled reporter asked Michael Chabon howĀThe Yiddish Policeman's UnionĀwas science fiction, the subtext underlying Chabon's response was his own surprise that such a question even needed to be asked. Whether taking place in apocalyptic futures, on other planets, or in a different time stream, all possess the furniture and even underlying themes described by Brian W. Aldiss inĀBillion Year Spree, even if the authors don't know it.
Ā Despite all of this, despite the warm welcome many works outside the genre receive, I admit to balking when it comes to extending the James Bond series, either in print or on screen, the same courtesy. It's not that I dislike Bond -- I learned three-act structure by watching and re-watching Goldfinger, and cut my critical teeth by writing Bond criticism; indeed, I am one of only a handful in the state of Texas who speaks Bond with alarming fluency -- but even with Q Branch's gadgets and the superweapons wielded by macabre villains, the adventures featuring Ian Fleming's famous secret agent fit uncomfortably with science fiction, like a Savile Row suit not tailored for Bond's Walther PPK.
Ā The apparatus seems right. Though in the books Bond frequently battles smugglers as well as SMERSH agents attempting to strike a blow to the West, he also finds himself against scientific masterminds building advanced nuclear rockets, toppling test launches of American missiles, and threatening to sterilizes entire strains of crops and livestock with mutated viruses (spread by women brainwashed using high-tech Pavlovian techniques).
Ā The movies pushed those boundaries even further, from Blofeld's plot to steal American and Soviet space capsules from the comfort of his volcano lair inĀYou Only Live TwiceĀto Hugo Drax's scheme to kill all humans while sitting comfortably in orbit in Moonraker.ĀĀAs the schemes became more fantastic, so too did Bond's arsenal: jetpacks (Thunderball); miniature helicopters (Little Nellie inĀYou Only Live Twice); wearable fingerprints (Diamonds Are Forever); watches fitted with high-power magnets (Live and Let Die), explosives (Moonraker), television monitors (Octopussy), and lasers (GoldenEye); submersible cars (The Spy Who Loved Me); rocket-propelled motorcycles (Never Say Never Again); stun gas¢emitting key rings (The Living Daylights); and, in perhaps the series' nadir, an Aston Martin equipped with a cloaking device (Die Another Day).ĀĀ(Not surprising, then, that when I was growing up reporters referenced any odd piece of weaponry and technology sheened with futurism as "James Bondian.")ĀĀAnd, on one occasion, Bond even visits the Future: the pervasive television sets, surveillance cameras, and portable phones crowding the Tokyo streets ofĀYou Only Live TwiceĀonly differ from the Chiba City of William Gibson's NeuromancerĀ(or, even more eerily prescient, the Tokyo ofĀPattern Recognition) in the technology platforming them.ĀĀ(Note too that Gibson namechecks Bond inĀPattern Recognition, when Cayce Pollard considers how to burglar-proof a friend's London flat.)ĀĀGive Aki an iPhone and Tiger Tanaka a Skype account and one would need to change very little of Roald Dahl's screenplay in order to remake it.Ā
Ā Bond himself, as presented in the movies, appears cut from Heinleinean cloth, a kind of Jubal Harshaw in Tom Ford suits and a shoulder holster.ĀĀHis knowledge extends from solar power (The Man With the Golden Gun) and ICBM tracking systems (For Your Eyes Only) to microchips impervious to electromagnetic pulse weapons (A View to a Kill) and the weapons themselves (GoldenEye).ĀĀIndeed, in Moonraker alone he identifies the molecular makeup of orchids and a high comfort level with space shuttle laser turrets.ĀĀ(Extensive, but not complete; I had to smile when Roger Moore's Bond picks up an operating manual in order to work Stromberg's submarine tracking system inĀThe Spy Who Loved Me, proving that, at times, even 007 has to read the directions.)ĀĀLanguage poses no barrier; in the course of 22 movies he speaks French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and Egyptian Arabic, and demonstrates an understanding of Czech, Russian, and Korean, all unaided by a Babel fish.ĀManuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, and other, more dubious Competent Men should be such polymaths.
Ā For all of that, the film series never impressed me as sharing the concerns of science fiction.ĀĀMaybe I've drunk too deeply from the well of genre criticism, but even the most overtly science fictional entries always struck me as aloof members of this particular club. Sure, a skiffy sheen may coat the Ken Adams¢designed lairs and Richard Maibaum's convoluted plots, but they never genuinely feel like they actually belong to part of the sf canon. Part of it is that the conventions of the thriller seldom play well with the conventions of science fictionŚthrillers rely on an air of paranoia and consequently fear, while science fiction is about discovery. But part of it, too, is that they simply do not meet much of the basic criteria set forth by many genre critics.
If science fiction is, as Brian Aldiss writes in Trillion Year Spree, "the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science) and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode," then James Bond simply doesn't qualify. Certainly the Gothic infuses much of the series' sensibilities, but neither Bond nor his allies (be they Felix Leiter or Major Geoffrey Boothroyd) nor nemeses (be they Dr. Julius No or Gustav Graves) ever attempt to define humankind and its place in the universe. Nor does the series ever really attempt to deal "with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology," as Isaac Asimov described it. Bond may have the gadgets, and he may know how to use them, but his relationship with the tools is never a chief concern. They're not even published as science fiction (which would meet Norman Spinrad's definition), which makes classification all the more difficult. That early pictures fit heavily in the mold of Alfred Hitchcock (notably North by Northwest) only drives a deeper wedge between them and the genre.
And yet one cannot divorce James Bond from science fiction completely. Like Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes or Kenneth Roberson's Doc Savage, the world created by Ian Fleming and, later, Albert R. Broccoli's EON productions, evokes a sense of danger, romance, and wonder than appeals to science fiction fans, regardless of how much genre content they contain or even how the times may change; born of the Cold War, Bond celebrates his fiftieth anniversary with Skyfall, inaugurating him (if advance word is accurate) fully into the post-9/11 world. It doesn't matter if Bond recognizes the genre, because the genre, as it did with P.D. James and Cormac McCarthy, recognizes him.
Derek Johnson's critical work has appeared on SF Site, SF Signal, and Revolution SF. His first novel, the erotic thriller, Murder, Most Likely, written in collaboration with SammyJo Hunt, is forthcoming from Rebel Ink Press. He lives in Central Texas with the Goddess.
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TUNKERS GmbH has developed the Alpha series of power clamps for welding fixtures, available from Romheld Australia . The Alpha series has evolved from the encapsulated flat clamp which is specified in automotive plants worldwide.
Incorporating an integrated pneumatic cylinder to reduce size and weight, the new clamp design also features "curve mechanics" to provide a wider full power clamping range and higher clamp forces from the same size of cylinder. In many fixture applications it is possible to reduce the number of clamps, obtain superior performance and lower the cost of production.
The clamps also include simple field adjustment of the clamp arm opening angle, similar to the Vario-Clamp range. This allows for optimum setting of the opening angle to provide the shortest cycle times without interference during load/unload. A linear encoder with teach function is used to establish the clamp closed position where there is a variation in material thickness to be clamped.
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Tunkers also manufactures a complete range of underbody clamps, retract and expanding pin cylinders, plus clinching, forming and riveting units for use in automated lines. A modular robot gripper system utilising the Tunkers clamping technology is also available.


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Photography is a hobby that can be very pleasant and rewarding hobby. There is something magical about taking photographs that capture a memory that you can keep forever. It captures all the youth and innocence in each person before they have long grown old. This article is here to help renew your love for photography. Continue reading for tips that will help you to creatively capture future memories.
Use speed when capturing your pictures. If you wait too long, you risk losing your shot due to changing scenery. The quicker you can take photos, the better.
Don't dilly-dally when taking photographs. If you take a long time, your subject could move, the lighting might change or something else may ruin the shot that you have worked so hard to frame.
Simplicity is often the key to snapping that great photograph. More often than not, you will find that you can drastically alter the look and feel of a photograph by tweaking different levels and settings.
A lot of people think beautiful, but in reality, shooting directly into bright sunlight is a guaranteed way to wreck almost any photograph. It casts strange shadows and creates glare, causes subjects to squint, but subjects squint when looking at the camera. Early mornings or twilight are ideal when doing an outdoor shoot.
Keep your arms close to your sides when you are holding the camera, and hold on to the bottom of your camera. Doing so should reduce shaking and lead to clear images. Having your hands and arms placed like this also reduces the chances that you will get bumped or drop the camera.
Keep your arms in close to your body while holding your camera, and position your hands on each side and the bottom of the camera. This keeps the camera steady and prevent blurry shots. Putting your hands underneath the camera and lens, instead of having them on top, will also prevent you from accidentally dropping your camera.
Often during a landscape shot, photographers will focus on the background, However, the foreground is what critics and viewers alike will focus on. Compose the frame in such a way as to make the foreground as important to the image as the background is to create a truly striking photo.
Here is a handy photo hint! Learn as much as you can about the shutter speeds. There are P, M, A,and A settings on your camera. The label "P" is the setting is your program mode. This mode will completely automate the shutter speed ad aperture already set. If you don't know what you're shooting, this is often the best setting.
First and foremost photography should be enjoyable. Your photos should be a capsule of a particular time and place in your life. You should be able to look at these photos and instantly remember where you were and what you were thinking when you shot them. Just remember to have fun while taking photos, you will be much happier and want to learn additional skills.
As explained in the introduction, photography is about capturing fleeting moments and turning them into tangible memories for the future. Even though a photograph is a simple thing, it can mean a lot to you. Use all the tips you find in this article and elsewhere to become the kind of photographer you've always wanted to be.
Try taking photos of people. You must always seek permission first. Pictures like these help you to find more vivid memories when you look back, even if at the time the people seemed unremarkable. Always try to get candid photos of your subjects for a natural feeling.


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How Did Megan Fox Get Her Sexy 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Body in Top Shape?
- How did Megan Fox get her amazing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles body? Her secrets revealed here – US Weekly
- Did Robin Williams' rehab stint come too late? – TMZ
- Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse are heating things up – Just Jared Jr
- Comedy Central has renewed @midnight for a second season – Entertainment Weekly
- What do you think of James Franco's blonde hair – Lainey Gossip
- There was a mini The Hills reunion! – TooFab
- Jessica Simpson looks amazing in a swimsuit – MTV
- Do you believe the Beyonce and Jay Z divorce rumors – Popsugar
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Can Airport be fixed,? LCD came loose from cover.
The lcd screen came loose from the cover, that I can fix but the Airport isn't working too. Is their a relationship with the cover being detached ? If Airport has to be repaired, where can I find parts as i don't see them on this site.
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The Hjärta has landed! Anders Jonasson of the Box Whisky, the Swedish malt whisky company hands over the bottle of Highland Park "Hjärta" to Cim in Östersund. This special bottle of whisky is a gift from Cim and me to Cim's brother Jonas, to ceebrate the five years since Jonas donated a kidney to Cim.
The Hjärta, which means "heart" in Swedish, is a limited edition bottling for the Nordic market and seemed like the perfect choice for Jonas. You'd think, being made for Swedes it would be easy to get hold of in Sweden. Oh no…
In fact, this bottle was imported to Norway by the drinks company Maxxium, and bought for us by Jonathan di Blasi of Leikanger, Norway. Jonathan's colleague Thomas drove it to Stockholm, handed it over to Angela d'Orazio of Mackmyra Whisky. She gave it to Tore Forsgren, who was driving north for Christmas, however, not to Östersund.
Luckily, through Angela's whisky connections, she contacted Anders Jonasson who's mum lives in the same street as Jonas, and he was driving up from Kramfors to Östersund, just at the point where he could make the pick-up from Tore. So, finally on 29 December, the prized, and much-driven bottle eventually finds its way to Jonas, who promptly declared it was too precious to drink. Of course, I was not going to listen to that!
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Mick Jagger to become great-grandfather
Sir Mick Jagger is to become a great-grandfather at the ripe old age of 70, after his granddaughter Assisi announced her pregnancy in Hello! magazine.
Assisi, 21, is the daughter of Jagger's second oldest child, Jade, who he had with his first wife Bianca. She is due to give birth in April next year.


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Was it arrogance or plain foolishness on part of Afridi?
During the course of the fifth match of the one day series between Pakistan and Australia, Afridi was caught on camera having the ball in his mouth on more than one occasion. The fact that there were 27 cameras on the ground did not help Afridi.
After the match, Afridi who was standing in as captain in place of Mohammad Yousuf appeared unrepentant. He claimed that all teams were tampering with the ball and he only did that to help his team.
Within 24 hours, Afridi changed his version and now claims he was just 'smelling' the ball.Wonder what the Kookaburra ball is made up of that attracted Afridi! Was some pheromone the cause of all the trouble?
It is a really preposterous claim since Afridi had the ball in his mouth.
The followers of Pakistan cricket promptly came up with the allegation-unfounded that Indian players including the likes of Sachin had also tampered with the ball.
The cricketing world was busy with the antics of Afridi.Some mention was made of the 'dirt in the pocket' episode relating to former England captain Mike Atherton. Atherton, the self appointed critic of all things connected with Indian cricket, did not find anything illegal by applying dirt to the ball during the course of a test match.
It is time people like Afridi should be taken to task and an example needs to be set.


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Previously I taught media law and ethics at Louisiana State University, the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, Baruch College (CUNY), and the University of Nevada, Reno. I was also co-director of the Press Law and Democracy Project at Louisiana State University, and deputy director of the National Center for Courts and Media at the University of Nevada, Reno.
I was also of counsel to First Amendment attorney Cynthia Counts; an affiliate scholar with the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society; a staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center; and a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. I have also worked as an attorney and policy aide for federal, state and local government officials.
Besides my teaching and professional experience in media law, I also have an active research agenda on media and internet and social media law issues. My work and research has focused on the intersection of law and new technology, including the legal and social impact of social media policies; access and impact of the internet and social media on court processes and proceedings, and Federal Trade Commission and other regulation of commercial speech on social media.
I have published articles in several academic, legal and professional journals, as well as several books and encyclopedias; a complete list of my publications is available here. I also maintain my own blog, bloglawonline.com, and am the media law columnist for the South Carolina Press Association. Previosuly, I blogged for Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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For the third straight year, United Way of Long Island has been named the Grand Winner in the Affordable Homes Category of the U.S. Department of Energy's Housing Innovation Awards. On November 13, United Way held a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate this achievement, and celebrated the veterans graduating from our VetsBuild program who received their certificates and commemorative coins.
Special guests included Frank Petrone, Town of Huntington Supervisor, Tracey Edwards, United Way of Long Island Board Member and Town of Huntington Councilwoman, Charles J. Sevola Jr., U.S. Army Veteran, Head of Prudential Veterans Initiatives at Prudential Insurance Company of America, Jim Beamesderfer, Vice President of Veterans Initiatives at Prudential Insurance Company of America, Frank Amalfitano, U.S. Air Force Veteran and President & CEO of United Veterans Beacon House, Chad Lupinacci, Town of Huntington Assemblyman, United Way of Long Island Board Members Alexander Bateman, Katherine Heaviside and Nancy Larson.


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"In terms of technical workloads, the demands being placed on IT by the business are growing exponentially—despite the fact that IT resources are growing slowly if at all," said Ron Indeck, President and CTO of VelociData.
St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) August 28, 2013
VelociData, provider of the world's fastest Big Data operations appliance (combining software, firmware and massively parallel hardware) for data transformation and data quality, announced today that VelociData has been invited to present at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo 2013. The conference is considered the "world's largest gathering of CIO's and senior IT executives."
VelociData's President and CTO, Dr. Ron Indeck, Ph.D., will give a presentation entitled "Wire-speed Data Transformation: Competitive Necessity for Breaking Up Big Data Bottlenecks. Dr. Indeck, a well-known pioneer of hybrid, heterogeneous computing, has founded two technology companies dedicated to delivering world-class computing performance. Among his distinguished professional achievements, Dr. Indeck is the former President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Magnetics Society. Dr. Indeck has also been named the Bar Association Inventor of the Year.
In his presentation, Dr. Indeck will feature VelociData's innovative solution for ingesting and transforming EBCDIC, ASCII, and unstructured data into a Big Data target at wire speed. Without adding measurable latency, inbound data will be cleansed, conformed, normalized, and secured to provide valuable pre-processed data on its way into Hadoop with results displayed in Tableau. Dr. Indeck will describe how customers are benefitting from offloading transformations from: mainframes, MPP platforms (including Netezza and Teradata), Hadoop, and ETL tools. These benefits include significantly improved price-performance over other alternatives. VelociData speeds are typically in the range of hundreds of thousands to millions of records per second, depending on the exact transformation. It is estimated the "live" demonstration at the Emerging Technology booth will achieve performance of about 10 million rows in less than 30 seconds.
With data volume growing and budgets limited, IT organizations struggle to meet the demand of the business for fast, accurate answers while meeting time-bound service levels. Solution approaches have included capital-intensive investments in additional infrastructure and adoption of new technologies that require entirely new skill-sets while only partially addressing speed and scale.
VelociData overcomes these technical and financial obstacles to Big Data performance by:
1) Providing a Big Data operation appliance for offloading and accelerating ingest processing by 1000x
2) Allowing customers to acquire the solution on a monthly subscription basis
Those familiar with conventional ETL tools will appreciate how the VelociData solution snaps into existing architecture, accelerating time-to-benefit, while avoiding the cost and risk associated with more disruptive approaches.
The VelociData solution delivers massive gains in speed and scale, while ensuring data integrity.
"In terms of technical workloads, the demands being placed on IT by the business are growing exponentially—despite the fact that IT resources are growing slowly if at all," said Ron Indeck, President and CTO of VelociData.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference in Orlando. Please stop by and see us in the VelociData booth at the Emerging Technology Pavilion located in passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Halls. The presentation on "Wire-speed Data Transformation" by Dr. Indeck will be at the Walt Disney World Dolphin – ITxpo Show Floor – Emerging Technology Pavilion Theater on Wednesday, October 9th at 3:55 pm - 4:05 pm.
About the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013
As the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo offers more than 500+ analyst sessions, workshops, roundtables and mastermind keynotes across five full days. With 10 role-based tracks and 11 industry tracks, the agenda targets specific title responsibilities and ways to adapt new ideas and strategy to different industries, along with insight on what's next in IT.
About VelociData
VelociData delivers the world's fastest data transformation solutions. Its purpose-built, engineered systems radically alter the performance and economics of ETL, ELT, and other data integration processes essential to analytics and Big Data processing—empowering customers to achieve answers in seconds.
For more information, visit http://www.velocidata.com.