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SALT LAKE CITY — Elder Jack H. Goaslind Jr., 83, an emeritus general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Wednesday, April 27, 2011, in Salt Lake City.
He served as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy for two decades, twice as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy and as counselor in the LDS Church's Aaronic Priesthood MIA general presidency and later as the general Young Men president.
He is survived by his wife, Gwen Caroline Bradford Goaslind, and their six children. Funeral services are pending.
A prominent Salt Lake businessman before his call to full-time church service, Elder Goaslind was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy at the fall 1978 general conference. He served in the Presidency of the Seventy twice — from October 1985 to August 1987 and again from August 1995 through August 1998. He received emeritus status at the October 1998 general conference.
In October 1990, he also was sustained as Young Men general president. He was second counselor in the Sunday School general presidency from October 1979 through July 1981. Prior to his call to the Seventy, he served as second counselor in the Aaronic Priesthood MIA general presidency from 1972 to 1974.
Other church assignments included managing director of the Priesthood and Missionary departments; member of the Priesthood Executive Council; executive administrator of the New Zealand/South Pacific Area; counselor in the Asia, Utah South and North America West area presidencies; and president of the North America Northwest Area, then later the British Isles/Africa Area.
He was called as president of the Manti Utah Temple in the summer of 2000.
He was born April 18, 1928, in Salt Lake City to Jack H. Goaslind and Anita Jack Goaslind. While Elder Goaslind was growing up, his father was bishop of the Ivins Ward and encouraged all the young men to go on missions. He graduated from South High School in 1945 and received a bachelor of science in business management from the University of Utah in 1954.
Elder Goaslind served in the Western Canadian Mission from January 1949 through March 1951, working in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. One assignment was district president. "That mission really laid a foundation in my life," he said later in a Church News interview.
He married Gwen Caroline Bradford in the Salt Lake Temple on Aug. 19, 1953. They had six children.
He served in the Air Force as a second lieutenant from 1954 to 1957 and was president of the branch at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Professionally, he worked with his father managing the office of Carver's Sheet Metal Works. He later worked for Affiliated Metals and was vice president there when he was called as president of the Arizona Tempe Mission in April 1975.
He twice served as bishop of the Holladay 13th Ward and was bishop there at the same time his father was bishop of the East Mill Creek 5th Ward.
Later father and son were presidents of neighboring stakes, Elder Goaslind leading the Olympus Stake from 1970 to 1972 and his father the Mount Olympus Stake for eight years.
"I think it's great," the elder Goaslind told the Church News when his son was called as stake president. "He's had every office I've had — bishop twice, counselor in a stake presidency. … A father can't wish for anything better than that for his son."
One responsibility as a stake president was supervising the Salt Lake Valley young adults and special interests when those programs were just getting started.
Elder Goaslind also served twice on the Olympus Stake's high council.
Before his call as mission president, Elder Goaslind was second counselor in the Aaronic Priesthood MIA presidency in which the president, Elder Robert L. Backman, later served in the Seventy. He also was a regional representative to the Provo and Midvale regions.
His first assignment as a general authority took him back to his first mission field, where he assisted in the reorganization of the Calgary Alberta North Stake presidency. He also was able to talk to some people from Vernon, British Columbia, where he had helped start the first missionary work.
Elder Goaslind spoke seven times in general conference and organized some new stakes.
In his last conference address, given at the priesthood session of the April 1997 general conference, Elder Goaslind said that ordinary men, blessed with holding the priesthood of God, may be called on to do extraordinary tasks.
He is a recipient of the Master M-Men Award and also received Scouting's Silver Buffalo.
In 2007, Elder Goaslind was inducted into the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing at the Catholic Church's Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. He was honored because of his humanitarian efforts in the former Portuguese colony of Sao Tome off the coast of West Africa while serving as president of the British Isles/Africa Area from 1987 to 1990.
In 1998, he was named technical counselor in Beneficial Life's agency operations department.
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This section will help you determine which different media types you can use to install Debian. For example, if you have a floppy disk drive on your machine, it can be used to install Debian. There is a whole chapter devoted media, Chapter 4, Obtaining System Installation Media, which lists the advantages and disadvantages of each media type. You may want to refer back to this page once you reach that section.
Whenever you see "CD-ROM" in this manual, it applies to both CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, because both technologies are really the same from the operating system's point of view, except for some very old nonstandard CD-ROM drives which are neither SCSI nor IDE/ATAPI.
CD-ROM based installation is supported for some architectures. On machines which support bootable CD-ROMs, you should be able to do a completely floppy-less installation. Even if your system doesn't support booting from a CD-ROM, you can use the CD-ROM in conjunction with the other techniques to install your system, once you've booted up by other means; see Chapter 5, Booting the Installation System.
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs are supported on all ARM machines. On RiscPCs, SCSI CD-ROMs are also supported.
Booting the installation system directly from a hard disk is another option for many architectures. This will require some other operating system to load the installer onto the hard disk.
You can also boot your system over the network.
Diskless installation, using network booting from a local area network and NFS-mounting of all local filesystems, is another option.
After the operating system kernel is installed, you can install the rest of your system via any sort of network connection (including PPP after installation of the base system), via FTP or HTTP.
If you are running another Unix-like system, you could use it to install
Debian GNU/Linux without using the
debian-installer described in the rest of the
manual. This kind of install may be useful for users with otherwise
unsupported hardware or on hosts which can't afford downtime. If you
are interested in this technique, skip to the Section C.4, "Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System".
The Debian boot disks contain a kernel which is built to maximize the number of systems it runs on. Unfortunately, this makes for a larger kernel, which includes many drivers that won't be used for your machine (see Section 8.4, "Compiling a New Kernel" to learn how to build your own kernel). Support for the widest possible range of devices is desirable in general, to ensure that Debian can be installed on the widest array of hardware.

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Online degree programs are sweeping the nation, and for those currently studying at, or for those interested in, junior colleges, there are plenty of programs out there for you, too.
In fact, two-year associate degrees, diplomas, and certificates are some of the most common online programs offered today. Many students find that completing a brief training course and getting right to work is a great option for them, and now with online programs so easily accessible, continuing to work while pursuing additional credentials is an easy choice.
Those interested in a brief, career-oriented training program offered at a junior college will find many similar offerings online. Associate degrees, certificates, and diplomas are offered online in majors such as business administration, design, hospitality management, information technology, and criminal justice.
For those already in possession of a junior college degree, or for those nearing completion, studying online is a convenient way to hold both a full-time job in your career field while still pursuing an advanced degree. Bachelor's, master's, and even doctoral degrees are very popular offerings from a variety of schools across the country.
Nurses, for example, may earn a nursing degree and an RN license from a junior college, start working an exciting job in a healthcare at a hospital, and then balance varying shift work with coursework in an online RN-to-BSN program. An online program allows one to listen to an audio broadcast of a lecture at two in the morning or turn in a paper via email on a Saturday afternoon. The scheduling flexibility is one of the most appealing aspects of an online program for some, especially those who want to hold on to their full-time jobs.
Many online programs are designed expressly for students with junior college experience and offer accelerated degree programs that apply previous credits earned toward bachelor degree requirements. Using an online program to complete a degree is an excellent option for anyone interested in the convenience of studying at home and the flexibility of maintaining an independent schedule.


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Brussels, 25 March 2013
Clearer and more consistent rules for non-EU nationals coming to the EU for studies, scientific research and other exchanges
What are the current rules?
The overall objective of the current EU legislative framework is to promote Europe as a world centre of excellence for studies, scientific research and other exchanges. This framework consists of:
These EU rules allow non-EU nationals to acquire skills and knowledge and contribute to Europe's competitiveness. They encourage mutual enrichment between different actors and better familiarity among cultures.
Why does the Commission propose to amend these rules?
In 2011 the Commission presented implementation reports on these Directives1, which identified a number of weaknesses.
In 2012 the Commission launched a series of different stakeholders' consultations, including an on-line public consultation. The results of the consultation clearly demonstrated that non-EU national students, researchers and the other groups covered by the current Directives often do encounter difficulties when they want to move to the EU, such as:
Why do we need students and researchers from third countries to come to the EU?
It is crucial to bear in mind that the EU is facing important structural challenges. Despite the current economic downturn and the rising unemployment levels, many EU Member States still struggle to fill many skilled labour positions. There is evidence that this struggle is going to persist during the decade ahead for both economic and demographic reasons. As an example, according to the Commission's Agenda for new skills and job, it is estimated that by 2015 shortages of ICT practitioners will be between 384 000 and 700 000 jobs, whereas in the health sector there will be a shortage of about 1 million professionals in the by 2020 - and up to 2 million if ancillary healthcare professions are taken into account.
One of the problems is that the EU is not able to attract the workforce it needs while other countries worldwide are doing much better when it comes to making it more appealing for these talents to join them at the earlier stage of universities studies and research projects. The U.S., Australia and Japan, for example, have better incentives to attract talents and to convince them to join their job market, in turn benefitting from the skills and knowledge they have acquired. It is therefore in the EU's own interest to become more attractive for foreign students and researchers and to increase its appeal as a world centre for excellence. More exchange students and international scholars will lead to economic growth, spur innovation and lead to more jobs in the long run.
What will change?
An efficient migratory system that attracts talents from abroad requires one common set of admission conditions and requirements, as well as clear rights and opportunities. Moreover, intra-EU mobility, due to its cross-border character, can only be achieved by common rules at EU level.
The objective is to improve the legal framework applied to non-EU nationals willing to come and temporarily stay in the EU for more than three months for specific purposes.
This entails an increased level of harmonisation through a single and more coherent legislative instrument in the form of a proposal for a recast Directive2 with a broader scope, which will modify and replace the existing Directives on Students and Researchers.
Concretely, the recast Directive will ensure:
Clearer procedural safeguards regarding the assessment of applications
With the introduction of time limits the application process will become more straight-forward and transparent, also facilitating non-EU nationals' mobility.
While some parts of the EU immigration acquis already provides for time limits (for example the Blue Card Directive), the proposed Directive lays down a time-limit of 60 days for Member States' authorities to decide on an application. The proposed time limit is further reduced to 30 days in the case of non-EU national students and researchers who come to the EU under Union mobility programmes such as Erasmus Mundus and Marie Curie Actions and their successors.
Increased mobility between Member States
This will allow non-EU national students and researchers, as well as the researcher's family members to circulate between Member States on the basis of the initial authorisation for a given period of six up to twelve months. This is in line with the approach taken under the EU Blue Directive3.
Currently, in particular for students, the intra-EU mobility provisions are relatively weak, when non-EU national students should be able to reap the benefits of being mobile within the European Higher Education Area. The new mobility provisions will also cover remunerated trainees.
For Erasmus Mundus students and Marie Curie researchers (and successor programmes), the initial authorisation will cover the whole period of study, no matter how many Member States are involved. No new application or specific information will be needed, when the information on those Member States where the student or researcher intends to go is known in advance. This will avoid situations when a non-EU national may have succeeded in applying for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, but he or she may have been refused entry into the EU on the basis of immigration rules.
In order to facilitate mobility, Member States will need to set up contact points for receiving and transmitting information needed to implement intra-EU mobility. This would follow the example of the contact points already established under existing migration acquis, such as the Blue Card Directive and the proposal for a Directive on intra-corporate transferees.
Increased access to the job-seeking markets
Students during their studies will obtain the right to work for a minimum period of 20 hours per week, allowing for more possibilities to be autonomous and fund themselves (under the current Students Directive this right is limited to minimum 10 hours). Yet, their access to the labour market may be restricted by Member States depending on the situation of the labour market.
Both students and researchers after graduation or after their research contract comes to an end could be granted the possibility to remain under certain conditions on the territory of the respective Member State for a period of 12 months to identify job opportunities or set up a business. In a period of more than 3 and less than 6 months, Member States could ask the non-EU nationals to provide documentation that they are genuinely looking for a job (for example, copies of the letters and CVs sent to employers) or are in the process of setting up a business. After 6 months, they could also ask the non-EU nationals to provide evidence that they have a genuine chance of being hired or of launching a business. In order to be able to make use of this possibility, non-EU national students and researchers have to comply with the general conditions for admission of the Directive, notably by proving that they have sickness insurance for all the risks normally covered by the host Member State and that they are not considered a threat to public policy, public security or public health.
This would not amount to an automatic right to work, as, granting a work permit remains a national responsibility.
Who is concerned?
Under the existing Student Visa Directive rules for non-EU national schools pupils, volunteers and unremunerated trainees were optional. Some countries applied these rules whereas others did not, as evidenced in the implementation report. Today's proposal makes the provisions for these groups mandatory, which will increase the EU attractiveness as a destination for them.
The scope of the proposal is broadened to cover also au-pairs and remunerated trainees.
Au pairs are not covered by any EU legislation despite their specific vulnerability which is linked to the family context in which they work (which cannot be subject to regular controls). There is evidence that au-pairs can be exploited by host families in terms of long hours or underpayment. In order to address their specific needs, the proposal gives a common definition to this group and provides for specific conditions for admission, in particular regarding: the age range (i.e. not less than 17 but not more than 30 with possibility for 'justified exceptions' regarding the upper age limit) and evidence that the host family undertakes responsibility for them as regards subsistence, accommodation and social security risks.
Similarly, remunerated trainees face challenges comparable to those met by unpaid trainees (such as underpaid forced labour work or disguised employment). As they fall outside the scope of the proposal on intra-corporate transferees (ICTs), and would therefore risk not to be covered by any type of EU legislation, their protection is now foreseen under the recast.
Number of residence permits to non-EU national students and researchers:
Students: All educational reasons
The available information shows that the widest number of non-EU national students for 2011 in Member States covered by the 'Students Directive'4 reside in: France (64,794), Spain (35,037), Italy (30,260) and Germany (27,568).
Remunerated activities reasons: Researchers – first permits
Non-EU national remunerated trainees, volunteers, school pupils or unremunerated trainees
Here are some examples on the basis of available information for 2011:
Non-EU national au pairs
Many au pairs are not counted in the figures as their registration is not compulsory or a work permit is not needed. The available information shows for 2011 that: 5,080 au pairs coming from outside the EU were residing in DE; 1,181 in NL; 134 in SE for example.
Denmark and United Kingdom did not take part in the existing Directives and are therefore not bound to apply them. Ireland took part in the Researchers Directive but not in the Students Directive. For the new Directive, DK has an opt out; UK and IE have the possibility to opt in. If IE does not opt in, a legal solution will have to be found in relation to their 'old' opt in for the Researchers Directive.
Council Directive 2009/50/EC, on the conditions of entry and residence of third country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment.
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Delhi is an ancient city and there are plenty of thinsg worth of watching. The Lotus Temple is a Bahai prayer hows. Jantar Mantar observatory, Gandhi Smarak, Mughal monuments and of course footpath markets such as Janpath and Sarojini Nagar are really treat. Red fort is located in the heart of the capital. The fort coupled with lighting and sound arrangements seems to be really nice. And in front of it lies worlds one of the oldest market—Chandni Chowk. Do not forget to eat delicios parathas from Parathewali gali. Snacks of old Delhi are very popular. Among other tourist spots are Qutab Minar, Bangla Sahib and Humayun Tomb.
Agra simply needs no introduction to you. You know this place for Taj Mahal, the truest epitome of love. The marble made marvel is must watch for tourists. For years Taj has remained as the representative of India abroad. But there are lot of things other than Taj in Agra. We can begin with Petha, which is tasty sweet dish. Here you can find great variety of pethas. Do not forget to purchase goodies from the local markets of Agra, including miniatures of Taj. Delhi Agra Tour is one of the best tours you can have around Delhi.
Jaipur is no less than other world class travel destinations such as Paris or Venice. The pink city of India is known for its glorious past, monuments and forts. The Amer and Jaigarh forts are greatest example of the unique blend of Rajput and Mughal styles. The forts are attached with several amazing relics which you love to learn about. The local food is another do-not-miss thing. The local markets are simply amazing. Apart from Jaipur, you can also visit Ranthambore, which is yet another gem destination in Rajasthan. Ranthambore tour is simply an amazing experiences as you relish a wide gamut of attractions such as wildlife viewing. ranthambore is popular for its famous national park, which is endowed with wide gamut of bird, mammals species.
India is really a treasure house for tourism. There is a lot you can learn and experience. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, the three states, are also known for their overwhelming hospitality. There are lot of other things, which you shall experience only when you come here. The Golden Triangle Tour gives the best glimpse of incredible India. Welcome to worlds best travel corridor— The Golden Triangle Tour
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William Blitz
William Blitz, a 22-year summer resident of Montauk, died on Sept. 19 at Southampton Hospital. He was 82. A cause of death was not provided.
A Bronx native, he was born to Sam and Sadie Blitz on March 6, 1929. He met his future wife, Myrtle Seltzer, in 1948 at Rockaway Beach in Queens. They were married four years later in the midst of the Korean War, in which Mr. Blitz served from 1951 to 1953.
In 1972, Mr. Blitz, a certified court reporter, opened his own business in New York City, Blitz Reporting. He and his wife ran the business, which had 12 full-time reporters, until retiring in 1995 to Key West, Fla.
"Our clients were attorneys," said Mrs. Blitz. "We took arbitrations, depositions, everything. The reporters in our office we sent all over the world."
Mr. Blitz had a passion for fishing off the coasts of Montauk and Key West, taking family and friends aboard his boat, Off the Record.
"Weather permitting, that's all he did," Mrs. Blitz said. "He was a commercial fisherman, but he did it for pleasure."
In addition to his wife, to whom he was married for 59 years, Mr. Blitz is survived by his daughters Sharon Jones of Victor, N.Y., and Sandra Stern of Pittsford, N.Y., and by six grandchildren and a twin sister, Laura Bien of Manhattan.
Two other sisters, Ruth Greenberg and Rosaline Forgash, died before him.
Services will be private.
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Kerry races against deadlines for Mideast peace
ROME (AP) — Hoping to salvage foundering Mideast peace negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is interrupting a trip to Europe with President Barack Obama to press Israeli and Palestinian leaders to stick with the talks beyond an April deadline.
The meetings come at a critical time in the peace talks and against a looming April 30 deadline for a settlement. But the Palestinians have threatened to walk away before then unless Israel releases a batch of prisoners as it agreed to by March 29.
The State Department announced Tuesday that Kerry will travel to Amman, Jordan, to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. Kerry also will talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, likely either by telephone or videoconference, in the next few days, said deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf. Kerry is currently in Rome to join Obama at a meeting Thursday with Pope Francis.
Secretary of State John Kerry is greeted by the US Ambassador to the Vatican Ken Hackett, left, and US Ambassador to Italy John R. Phillip, upon his arrival in Rome, Tuesday March 25, 2014. On Wednesday Kerry will interrupt his trip to Europe to travel to Amman, Jordan to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
Israel previously has released three groups of prisoners during the negotiations, moves that have been deeply unpopular with the Israeli public because the inmates were convicted of bloody crimes. But Israel has not said whether it will carry out the final release, which includes 14 Israeli Arabs, and is seeking assurances that the Palestinians will extend talks beyond April before doing so.
The Palestinians say Israel already pledged to carry out the release and are seeking additional gestures, such as the release of high-profile prisoners or a settlement freeze before extending the talks. The U.S. has said it supports the prisoner release since it previously was agreed to between the two sides.
Harf said she did not immediately know Tuesday whether the U.S. believes the Israeli Arabs should be released, as the Palestinians have demanded. Asked if the peace talks could fail if the prisoners are not released, she noted that both Israel and Palestinian officials agreed at the outset to negotiate through April.
"I think we're still certainly operating under that basis, and they're still negotiating in good faith under that basis," Harf told reporters. "Obviously we've said both parties have had to make courageous decisions throughout this process to keep the negotiations going, and we certainly hope that will continue."
It's all but certain that no resolution will be reached in the peace process by the deadline that was set last July. Beyond the dispute over the prisoner release, both sides are still trying to settle sharp differences at the heart of their decades-long conflict, including disputes over territorial borders, security, refugees, the fate of east Jerusalem and whether Palestinians will recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
The Arab League, meeting in Kuwait, is expected on Wednesday to reject Israel's demand for recognition as a Jewish state, according to a draft of the statement obtained by The Associated Press.
Jakes reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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For years now, the tech industry has seen unemployment rates lower than the national average. Given the bullish nature of the field, many states are positioning themselves so that they can attract business and cash in on this lucrative market. That being the case, while it's home to Silicon Valley's legion of startups and well-establish tech giants, California was still only 10th on a list of fastest-growing states for tech jobs over the last six months.
Surprisingly, Minnesota saw the biggest percentage increase in tech job growth, at 8.36 percent. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Minnesota's tech workforce has increased by 37,600 workers so far this year.
Dice.com observes:
"On the flipside, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Carolina and Alabama actually saw their tech workforce decline – by 0.61 percent, 0.63 percent, 2.36 percent, and 3.52 percent, respectively – during the first half of 2015. The dip in North Carolina's numbers is especially surprising, as the state has positioned Raleigh as an up-and-coming tech hub. But if history has shown anything, it's that tech employment in a particular state can just as quickly spring back.
Overall, the unemployment rate for tech professionals averaged 2.1 percent in the second quarter, down a bit from 2.3 percent in the first quarter. That's good news for tech pros, no matter which state they live in; lower unemployment can drive employers to offer better salaries and perks in order to attract and retain top talent."
This slideshow features the 17 fastest-growing states for tech jobs as identified by Dice.com.
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Your Work Shift Could Be Affecting Your Health
Have you ever considered that the hours you work at your job can actually make you sick?
Researchers at PLoS Medicine have found a connection between work patterns and good health. In a new editorial published in the December issue of the journal, it is revealed that there is a clear association between people who work a rotating schedule and them having a higher potential of getting type 2 diabetes or becoming obese.
Shift work is defined as an employment practice designed to provide services 24 hours of the clock every day of the week. Shift workers include nurses and factory or warehouse workers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15 million Americans work full time on evening shift, night shift, rotating shifts, or other employer arranged irregular schedules.
Due to the inconsistent nature of shift work, it is believed that it is easier and more convenient for workers to access junk food or select unhealthier diet options, which can lead to serious health issues.
Editors argue this is the reason that work patterns should be an official occupational hazard, and be considered a direct link to having unhealthy sugar levels and excessive weight gain. They also believe that the Government should become actively involved in spreading the link between work style and health.
TheCheckup spoke to one of the lead authors of the editorial, Virginia Barbour of PloS Medicine, to learn more about the relationship between work practices, diet and health.
Why do you believe the link between shift work and health hasn't been heavily examined in the past?
Although there has been anecdotal evidence of the health effects of shift work, much of the best evidence needs to come in the form of epidemiological studies that look at cohorts of workers over many years – for example the Nurses' Health studies which we cite as the reason for writing this editorial and which we published a paper from earlier this month started collecting data in the 1970s. It therefore takes time to collect and analyze high quality, hard evidence on the risks of shift work in these cohorts and to come up with reliable conclusions.
What do you believe it's going to take for the government to one day create legislation that improves the health of consumers, and makes it easier for shift workers to eat healthier?
We think there is a need for a change in thinking – for governments to recognize that shift work is, for many workers, essentially their normal pattern of working. For example in one of the cohorts in the paper by Frank Hu and colleagues, 11.3 percent of nurses reported doing shift work for greater that 10 years. Hence, any advice given to the population in general on healthy eating and lifestyles needs to accept that a substantial proportion of the workforce will be working in shifts, and advice and legislative action from governments needs to reflect that.
What are some of the things shift workers can do to improve their eating habits?
Shift workers need to understand that their work patterns are a substantial risk factor for poor health outcomes, ie that shiftwork is not just inconvenient and anti-social. Hence, they need to make a positive effort to ensure they incorporate a balanced diet and exercise into their lifestyle, despite the hours, and ideally discuss these needs with their employers.
What role should employers play in ensuring that their shift workers are eating healthy?
Employers need to take unhealthy eating very seriously, and look at unhealthy foods in the same way that they would other environmental hazards. They should consider what the implications are of exposing their employees to high levels of such hazards. For example vending machines and fast food restaurants are very common in the foyers of hospitals everywhere, whereas healthy eating options are often scarce. It is possible to make a change if there is a will. The example, the Cleveland Clinic, which we cite, has made a positive effort to help their employees by making it easier to behave healthier than not.


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The beach is safe. At least from radiation.
A YouTube video, seen by over 750,000 people, shot by an anonymous man holding a Geiger counter that captured readings of radiation on a San Mateo County beach stoked fears among the excitable that "Fukushima is here."
But the radiation detected by the hand-held device has nothing to do with the faraway nuclear meltdown. In fact, it's nothing to worry about at all, according to the California Department of Public Health.
What the man found on Miramar Beach near Half Moon Bay is "mundane": naturally-occurring radioactive elements -- uranium, thorium and potassium -- present in the strips of black sand near the water's edge, the Contra Costa Times reported.
Scientists told the newspaper that the radiation is normal, natural and nothing to be upset about.
That's exactly the same message scientists gave the public in January, when the video first made the rounds.
To put it in perspective, taking an overseas flight exposes someone to about 25 times the dose of radiation seen on the beach, the newspaper reported.
The radioactive elements emitted following the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi power station in 2011 -- including cesium 134 and 137 -- peaked at levels far below the limit of safe exposure before declining again to normal "background" levels, scientists said.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers, Wisconsin Badgers Know All About Close Games
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The opponents for the Big Ten championship game met not all that long ago.
Nebraska came back from a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to beat Wisconsin 30-27 in the conference opener back in September.
The 14th-ranked Cornhuskers continued to win close games. The Badgers kept losing them.
Another tight game is expected when Nebraska (10-2, 7-1 Big Ten) and Wisconsin (7-5, 4-4) get together again Saturday night in Indianapolis. The winner goes to the Rose Bowl to play Stanford or UCLA.
Wisconsin, trying for a third straight trip to Pasadena, is coming off overtime losses in three of its past four games. Nebraska has come from behind in the second half in five of its seven Big Ten wins.
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Hello Everyone!!
Just wanted to give you all a head's up on some of USA Musume's plans
for Animagic this coming weekend!
UM will be having scheduled photoshoots where all of the girls from each UM cosplay project, who are attending Animagic, will be wearing their costumes all together, in one place at one time! This will give people a chance to take group shots as well as individuals! Photo-sessions will probably last around ½ an hour, however this will depend on the group size and the number of people who want pics! Some could go longer or shorter, however we will be available as a group for at least ½ an hour per appearance if the demand is there. =) The schedule so far goes as follows –
Friday –
Pre-opening Ceremonies : Tiffany will be debuting her Aya Matsuura,
"Momoiro Kataomoi" costume! Cute cute! (this will be your only
chance to get pics of this costume as she'll be changing during the
A couple members from Mini Moni "AIIN Dance no Uta" will also be walking around and available for pics.
Post-Karaoke Revue : Immediately following the Karaoke revue – the
*new* Pucchi Moni "Chokotto Love" group!
Saturday –
11:30am – Morning Coffee. This will not be a full group but a few of
the members will be available for photos!
3:30 – The Peace! This is a big group and almost complete! Lots of
girls, lots of gold sequins and lots of yellow feathers!
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SOCORRO, N.M. July 31, 2012 – Civil engineering student Gwen Brown might not finish her degree in four years, but she will finish her studies with an international experience that she'll never forget.
The rising junior from Los Alamos spent the spring 2012 semester in Botswana on an international exchange program, studying along side native African students and other international exchange students.
Gwen Brown, rising junior at New Mexico Tech, works a Mokoro boat while on a semester abroad in Botswana. Brown said she the international experience was invaluable.
Below, Gwen Brown (center, back) and her fellow students have a mud fight after getting lessons in steering a Mokoro in the Okavango Delta.
"Studying abroad is a great experience that anyone would be lucky to take part in," Brown said via email from Botswana. "You get a new perspective on life by experiencing new customs and learning how to communicate with different kinds of people."
"Your perspective of home changes by appreciating knowing how things work and the safety you feel with familiarity," she wrote. "Being abroad also highlights who you are because you will find the activities that bring you joy and comfort abroad are the same as those at home."
Sharon Spurgeon, the director of international programs, said exchange programs provide Tech students with invaluable experiences.
"The biggest reason for doing an exchange program is that Tech's specialties – science and engineering – are all international," she said. "Science and research aren't locked into this tiny area. The experience students get from going abroad and living in a different culture is a great advantage."
Tech has several options for students interested in an exchange program. Tech has official agreements with universities in China, Colombia, Norway, Egypt and Sweden. Tech also has cooperative agreements with UNM and NMSU that offer connections to a wide array of universities in many countries. Spurgeon said she is trying to reinvigorate Tech's exchange program and get more students involved in international studies.
Spurgeon's office has many resources available to students interested in studying abroad, including catalogs, brochures and other information about finding the right university. Students must be degree-seeking, full-time students with at least 30 credit hours, and a minimum GPA of 2.5. The International and Exchange Program office has a check list for students interested in pursuing an international experience.
Brown connected with the NMSU Study Abroad Program to arrange her stay in Botswana. She considered Finland and Scotland, but she wanted to have an experience completely different from America. She selected Botswana because she wanted to study in English, but not in a European country.
"Plus I thought later in life I might never make it to Africa, but I have been to Europe and will again," she wrote. "Africa has always been on my list of places to see in the world. Growing up I went through a phase were my room was African themed and my favorite animal was the giraffe."
Her class work was much less rigorous and less structured than at New Mexico Tech.
Gwen Brown poses with an elephant skull while on a field trip in Chobe National Park. Photos courtesy of Gwen Brown
Gwen Brown poses with an elephant skull while on a field trip in Chobe National Park.
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"Basically, my days here are less full than my days back home," she wrote. "Simple tasks take longer and relationships are valued more. Therefore I spend more time with friends. Plus teachers do not give homework here, so I have more time to devote to friends."
In most of Brown's classes, the final exam was worth more than 50 percent of the grade. She had very few assignments throughout the semester and only two tests in each class. She learned a lot from her experience in another culture – from the food and the people and patience – or what she called "African time."
"There is only one thing that still shocks me: African time," she wrote. "African time is step beyond fashionably late. If a taxi says 20 minutes, expect them in 40. When a friends says see you in 10, wait at least 30 minutes. And when class starts at 9 a.m., wait until 9:30 a.m. for the teacher."
Brown said that Africa has charms that she will miss.
"I will always remember the first elephant I saw in the wild and the first African sunset I watched on top of the roof," she wrote. "The feeling of calm when I hand wash my clothes as if I have all the time in the world and the night the dorms had no power so we played silly camp games and all the great people I grew close to in such a short time! I am coming home with some amazing stories that still feel surreal to me.
She and fellow students went on a game drive at Chobe National Park in Northern Botswana where they saw a baby buffalo following a large elephant.
"This was obviously irritating the elephant because the elephant kept turning around lightly pushing the buffalo away. But every time the elephant tried to walk away the baby buffalo would follow, thinking it was all a game. Finally the elephant turned a round and trumpeted loudly right in the baby buffalo's face; I could even see the air cloud exiting the elephant's trunk. After that the baby buffalo ran back to its mommy, never to play with elephants again."
Those are the sorts of memories that last a lifetime.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:18 pm
Post subject: Question on Fifth/Madison '2' Routes, 1966-1969
The question has to do with the one-way conversions of Fifth Avenue to southbound, and Madison Avenue to northbound, on Jan. 14, 1966, and particularly the two Route 2's - ex-NYCO Madison and Lenox Avenues and ex-FACCo Fifth and Seventh Avenues - each of which routes' opposite paths were set at the other avenues.
This is due to the
Wikipedia page
suggesting the two routes were combined into different branches a la the Convent and St. Nicholas branches of ex-FACCO Rt. 3 - one via Lenox (designated 2) and the other via Seventh (designated 2A). This supposition was based largely on a passage in a Jan. 17, 1966 New York Times article dealing with Traffic Commissioner Henry Barnes' suggestion for express bus routes along Fifth and Madison. The quote is as follows:
The designation is changed from "168th Street-Edgecombe Avenue-Washington Square" to "Fifth and Madison Avenues via Seventh and Lenox Avenues." Southbound the only change will be that the buses will join Lenox Avenue at West 147th Street and turn east on 116th Street to Fifth Avenue for the straight run south. The buses will turn east on Eighth Street for a final stop just east of Fifth Avenue, then continue east to Astor Place for the turnaround.
Northbound, they will form up at East Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue, go west on Ninth, north on University Place, east on 14th Street, then north on Union Square East and Park Avenue South to 25th Street. There they will turn west to Madison Avenue, then north on Madison to 110th Street. The main route then goes west to Seventh Avenue and north to the West 115th
[sic - should be 155th]
Street viaduct, joining Edgecombe Avenue to continue north to 167th Street and the turnaround at 168th and Broadway.
Some No. 2 buses will continue north on Madison to 116th Street, then west to Lenox Avenue and north on the avenue to 147th Street. Others will start north on Fourth Avenue from Ninth Street and rejoin the main route at Union Square East.
Which raises more questions than answers. Did the southbound route run differently from the northbound? Did both 2's have their northern terminus at 168th and Broadway, with the southbound 2 turning at Seventh onto 146th Street (147th is one-way westbound) towards Lenox and then to 116th onto Fifth, and 2A running straight along Seventh to 110th onto Fifth, and northbound the 2, after reaching 147th and Lenox, turning onto Seventh towards the 168th terminus? Or was it that the 2 always terminated at 147th and Lenox while the 2A (today's M2) did likewise at 168th? And finally, which 2 "branch," past 9th Street, turn west to University Place up to 14th, and which ran straight along Fourth Avenue to 14th?
Also, would anyone be in possession of pictures along the northbound routes of both 2 and 2A taken between 1966 and 1969 which would answer such questions viz their front roll signs? We know that all this came to an end on March 2, 1969 with the 'via Lenox' 2's route, below 116th Street, moved further east to Third Avenue northbound and Lexington Avenue southbound, and rebranded M-101A (today's M102).
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After consulting the May 1972 issue of Motor Coach Age, MaBSTOA The First 10 Years by Bernard Linder I have the following information that I hope it answer your question(s)
There were two route 2...
One was ex-Fifth Avenue Coach, 5th and 7th Avenues
The other was ex-New York City Omnibus, 4th and Madison via Park Avenue
The Fifth Avenue route 2 was renumbered to 2A on January 14, 1966
The New York City Omnibus route 2 was re-routed southbound on Fifth Avenue on January 14, 1966 and it was discontinued on March 2, 1969. It was replaced by route 101A north of 116 Street on Lenox Ave.
The map that accompanies the articles shows the following routing for the 2A
(Remember the article is from 1972)
Route 2A southbound:
East on 167 St; south on Edgecombe Ave; east on 155 St; south on 7 Ave; east on 110 St; south on Fifth Ave; east on 8 St till Lafayette St - layover
Route 2A northbound:
West on 9 St; north on University; east on 14 St; north on Park Ave South; west on 25 St; north on Madison Ave; west on 110 St; north on 7 Ave; west on 155 St; north on Edgecombe Ave; 168 St; south on St. Nicholas; east on 167 St - layover
It appears that MaBSTOA kept most of the southbound routing of Fifth Avenue Coach and combined the layover on 8 St with the northbound routing of New York City Omnibus at least till 110 St.
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:53 pm
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Well . . . thanks for the tip, I knew that was ex-FACCo 2A's route all throughout. But if Farnsworth Fowle (the writer of that Times article from which that passage was quoted) was suggesting that ex-NYCO 2 likewise terminated at 167th, albeit via Lenox to 147th, evidently he wouldn't have known what he was writing about, I guess. I presume that it wouldn't have made sense for ex-NYCO 2 to have followed this route in the 1966-69 period:
- East on 167th Street, south on Edgecombe Avenue, east on 155th Street, south on 7th Avenue, east on 146th Street, south on Lenox Avenue, east on 116th Street, south on 5th Avenue, east on 8th Street till Lafayette Street - layover
- North on 4th Avenue (or west on 9th Street, north on University, east on 14th Street), north on Union Square East and then Park Avenue South, west on 25th Street, north on Madison Avenue, west on 116th Street, north on Lenox Avenue, west on 147th Street, north on 7th Avenue, west on 155th Street, north on Edgecombe Avenue, 168th Street, south on St. Nicholas, east on 167th Street - layover
. . . now, would it? Because that's what Mr. Fowle, in that Times article, seemed to imply what happened. Clearly he didn't distinguish the two Route 2's if his coverage is any indication. "The buses will join Lenox Avenue at 147th Street" passage about ex-NYCO 2's southbound route, and the "via Seventh and Lenox Avenues" designation he wrote, seems to suggest, north of 147th and Lenox, a parallel routing to ex-FACCo 2A, contrary to what evidence we know of.
Oh, and the 1969 creation of the Third/Lexington/Lenox route 101A, besides being a wholesale rerouting of ex-NYCO 2 below 116th at Lenox, was by all indications (if that 1972 Motor Coach Age look of MaBSTOA's first 10 years is a guide) a de facto revival of the old Lexington-Lenox route 4 that NYCO and then the "Omnibus Division of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines" ran up to the 1960 one-way conversions of Lexington and Third (which led to NYCO's 1 and 2 being extended up to Lenox - the 1 via 135th, the 2 via 116th - in the first place).
It's been awhile since I've last been to the Transit Museum, which has a map of Manhattan (and key MaBSTOA and TA Manhattan Bus Division routes) as of 1968, the year before the discontinuance of ex-NYCO 2 and the launching of 101A. (They also have maps of the other four boroughs from that same period, but that's irrelevant to the answer to this mystery as I'm searching for.) I suppose I should go there one day and find out exactly what was what just before that switcheroo, to get a clearer picture. The Times did tend to be wanting in terms of accuracy in matters relating to NYC buses. And Wikipedia has copied this muddying of such waters.
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:32 am
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I was perusing through eBay and saw on a subway and bus map issued by The Chase Manhattan Bank in 1966-67, that the Fifth/Madison/Lenox (ex-NYCO) #2, sure enough, terminated north at 147th and Lenox (#1 and #7 were next to it on that northernmost stub). Alas, the preparation of that map must've been before the TA and MaBSTOA reclassified the same-numbered ex-FACCo Fifth/Madison/Seventh route as 2A, as both routes are referred to as 2. (That alpha suffix was applied around summer 1966 to the ex-FACCo route, given the confusion between the two lines that'd existed, especially along Madison and even from a New York Times reporter, from the point Madison and Fifth were converted to one-way.) On the cover of that map were illustrations approximating the R38 (the first of which entered service in the latter part of '66) and a GM TDH-5303 with a bus number from one of the 1962 5301's ordered by the TA.
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I finally managed to go to the Transit Museum today to unravel all this. They have vintage dispatchers' maps for all five boroughs' bus routes. For Manhattan, they have one from April 1968 - 11 months before the ex-NYCO 2 was ixnayed and the 3rd/Lexington/Lenox 101A started up.
Reading the map, it would appear based on how everything is mapped out, only 2A and 3, north of 9th Street, traveled west on 9th Street, north on University Place and east on 14th Street to Union Square West. It seems the 2, like the 1, traveled straight north on Fourth Avenue between 9th and 14th Streets. (As well, the 1, on weekends, in its southbound route, turned east on 4th Street then north on 4th Avenue towards its 8th Street terminus - as the 2 had prior to the 1966 Fifth and Madison one-way conversions.) The 2 did indeed terminate north at 147th and Lenox, along with the 1 and 7; while 2A went their own merry way towards 168th.
On a tangent - there is proof that the old FACCo 19, back in '62, was absorbed into the 5, as the map shows the 5 along Riverside both up to 135th Street and up to 157th (the latter route the 19 had gone).
As of April 1968, the route assignments by depot/garage in Manhattan were (all MaBSTOA except where noted):
- 12th Street (405 East 11th Street) - 12, 14 (Ave A), 14 (Ave D)
- 54th Street (806 Ninth Avenue) - 6 (Bway/Ave of Americas), 13, 15 (Fifth Avenue/Jackson Heights), 15 (23rd Street Crosstown), 16 (Elmhurst Crosstown), 16 (34th Street Crosstown), 20 (57th Street Crosstown), 21 (Houston Street & Avenue C Crosstown), M-103, M-106
- 100th Street (1550 Lexington Avenue) - 6 (72nd Street Crosstown), 17, 18, 19, 20 (116th Street Crosstown), M-101, M-107, TB (M-101A would have been assigned here after 1969)
- Amsterdam (1381 Amsterdam Avenue) - Bx-30, M-100, M-104
- 132nd Street (605 West 132nd Street) - 3, 4, 5, 11 (Ninth & Amsterdam Avenues), probably 10 (Broadway; pull-in and pull-out line only)
- 146th Street (101 West 146th Street) - 1, 2, 2A, 7, 10 (8th Avenue/Central Park West) - (take out 2 after 3/2/69)
- 126th Street (NYCTA Manhattan Bus Division, 2460 Second Avenue) - M-1 (Madison/Chambers), M-3 (49th & 50th Streets), M-7 (65th Street), M-11 (York Avenue), M-15 (1st & 2nd Avenues)
This should be handy in identifying which depot would have stored certain buses as per the routes they traveled in old photos.
As well, at the time the SB route 4 - Fifth Ave.-Ft. Washington, turned west on 33rd Street towards Penn Station; at what point would its WB turn have been moved to 34th?
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It also occurred to me, noticing old pics: At the time of the 1966 conversions, the 146th Street depot was home to both '2' routes. And an increasing number of buses stationed there were 'New Look' TDH-5303's, from the 1964 and 1965 (batwing) orders, with side roll signs that became automatically obsolete once Fifth and Madison became one-way. Some 1973 pics of northbound 2A's at 8th and Fourth Avenue clearly indicated '2 - Madison Ave via 116 St' on their sides despite their transitioning to Seventh Avenue (now Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard) at 110th/Central Park North. And these were 1964 non-batwings. Most 1965 batwings, on southbound 2A runs, blared '2 - 5th & 7th Avenues' on their sides; very few had more up-to-date side signs which indicated '2A - 5th & Madison via Seventh Ave' (as all 1966-67 batwinged 5303A's assigned to 146th had - but they didn't arrive until almost a year after the conversions, and several months after the ex-FACCo route became 2A). This begs the question: If such buses with out-of-date side signs had '2 - Madison Ave via 116 St' for northbound 2A's, then wouldn't the ex-NYCO 2, on downtown runs, in the years leading up to its 1969 demise, have incorrectly read '2 - 5th & 7th Avenues' on the sides of batwing and non-batwing buses, with only a few correctly mentioning '2 - 5th & Madison via Lenox'? And would all that have explained, at least in part, the mistaken belief that both lines were "combined" with the one-way avenue conversions?
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:29 pm
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Checking in Google Books through snippets of Vols. 1 - 3 (1962-66) of MaBSTOA proceedings "Relating to Matters Other Than Operation and Control," it appears that with the Fifth and Madison one-way conversions of 1966, the FACCo and NYCO 2's
been merged and combined into one singular route, with two branches - a Seventh Avenue branch (summarily designated 2A) that had been the FACCo 2, and a Lenox Avenue branch which was NYCO's 2. MaBSTOA documents themselves, after 1966, referred to "Fifth and Madison Avenues via Seventh and Lenox Avenues," not too dissimilarly to referring to the 3 route as "via St. Nicholas and Convent Avenues" although those too were different branches. They were cited, in one-way, thus: 9.48 route miles for the Seventh Avenue 2A, 7.5 route miles for the Lenox Avenue 2.
Keep in mind, one month before Fifth became one-way SB and Madison one-way NB, the long-defunct (since March 1962) 19 Fifth Avenue-Riverside Drive via 157th Street route had been resurrected, on Dec. 6, 1965 - as a rush-hours-only branch of the 5 Fifth-Riverside route. It makes one wonder if FACO Rt. 1 - discontinued in March 1962 upon the TWU strike against Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and Surface Transit - were somehow quietly merged with and absorbed into the same-numbered NYCO route, and its SB path arranged in such a way as not to arouse suspicion amongst FACL which still had pending legal action with the city over the 1962 seizure by condemnation of all properties (that is, only going through Fifth up to 40th Street when it turned towards Park Avenue; and on return trips from 8th and Fourth Avenue, staying north on Fourth between 9th and 14th rather than the circuitous west on 9th Street, north on University Place and east on 14th to Union Square East and Park Avenue South as followed by 2A and 3).
Those MaBSTOA proceedings also show that 18 months into the one-way conversions of Fifth and Madison, the Lenox Avenue 2's days were numbered. At a meeting on July 14, 1967, they had floated the possibility of eliminating said route, and then taking the portion of the route from 116th and Lenox up north and making it a "new" branch of the M-101 Third and Lexington Avenues line (which, on March 2, 1969, finally happened, with the startup of M-101A which is today M102). That was ironic, not to mention coming full circle, as 2 owed their being extended to 146th and Lenox via 116th in 1960 to the demise of the ex-NYCO 4 - Lexington and Lenox Avenues line upon Lex and Third themselves being made one-way. (However, the 1 - 4th and Madison route didn't go up to 146th and Lenox via 135th Street until after March 1, 1964.)
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McCLENNAN: I'd be happy to. When you're talking about growing the talent from within, there's really three fundamental things you need to make sure you do. From point one, you need to make sure you establish buy-in to the company vision and the power of folklore from day one. Make sure people understand where your company is, where they fit within the company and how they can grow within the company.
Point two is you need to make sure you're constantly giving them opportunities to fail. I mean, fundamentally, the only way to grow your supervisors, your vice presidents, is you encourage people to make mistakes and learn from them. You know, give them the maximum responsibility at the earliest possible moment. Eighty percent of the time it's going to work well for you, 20 percent of the time it's not necessarily going to work as well, and those are the learning experiences. And you need to make that commitment because short term there may be an impact, long term you're going to get a significant ROI. And that's how you're going to grow the people that know your company, know what you need to succeed, and they can help drive things forward.
And finally, you need to make sure, when it comes to training, that you don't do the work for your employees. You need to give them the opportunities to begin the discussion. You need to–when you get a horrible press release, you can't rewrite it. What you need to fundamentally do is figure out ways to help them through an…(unintelligible)…process to fix it. Ask them during every team meeting, `What do you see as the trends? What do you think we should do?' When they come to you with questions, don't answer the question. The first thing you should say is, `What do you think? How do you think we shoot–we should do that?' And by doing that, you're going to have people aligned with the company vision, you're going to give them the confidence they need to succeed, and you're going to really help develop the future leaders that will help your agency grow.
BURKE: Mark, that's great. Thank you so much.
McCLENNAN: Thanks so much.
BURKE: And where can people find you on the web and in social media?
McCLENNAN: Sure. Well, there's a lot of places there, but basically schwartz-pr.com, and our blog is Crossroads, so schwartz-pr.com/crossroads. And you can find me at @mcclennan at Twitter.
BURKE: Great. Thank you so much, Mark.
McCLENNAN: Thanks.


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Family photos…the perfect example of a love/ hate relationship. As any parent knows, the preparation of finding the perfect outfits and trying to get those perfect smiles is a daunting task. I will admit that I spent years and many frustrating hours always trying to get that "perfect" family photo. You know the picture I'm talking about. The one with the perfect kids, flawless smiles, and perfectly patient parents. Everyone looks so happy and like they are enjoying every second of that wonderfully joyous time in front of the camera. I mean really? We all know "that" family doesn't really exist. In my experiences, this quest of trying to obtain the perfect and amazing family image, turned me into a 1st class Mom-zilla. I don't need to disclose anymore. Bottom line it was stressful, ugly, and painful. But hey, I lived by the rule that as long as we get that one perfect photo (even with hours of photo shop) the mission was accomplished.
When looking back at my photo memories of my "perfect" family photo days, all I can think about was what a liar I was. Really, we looked perfect, but all I could remember was what a nightmare it was to get that one perfect picture. Oh, the hours of preparation, the tears, and the tantrums. Did I mention the hours of photoshop? Really, WTH? Anyone who had ever met my kids knew the truth anyway…
So, I decided at that moment that I was done with the perfect family shenanigan and it was time to show the world what we are really about…wild & crazy chaos. I decided that if I was going to take the time and spend the money on a professional photographer, it needed to be about capturing the real life of my "real" family. We are not perfect (actually not even close). Each of my kids have different personalities and unique expressions. I wanted that to be captured, not some perfect family that doesn't exist. I wanted fun and crazy, and it had to reflect who we are and what we are really about. Since my happy place is being on vacation, I decided that a great time to attempt this new revelation, was while vacationing in Southern California. My boys grabbed their favorite board shorts of the season, my daughter and I grabbed our favorite sundresses, and my Hubby & I had a glass of wine to start the adventure. We were relaxed, had minimal bickering between the kids, and were ready to have some fun. We met up with Eva from Eva Lempert Photography and just asked her to snap away. We let the kids help pick the poses (including awkward family photo style) and had an absolute blast. The best part was that we had some great memories, fabulous photos, and I can honestly look back and see who my kids really were in Summer 2012! Love them!
To check out more of our wild and crazy photo shoot check out Eva Lempert's blog!
Disclaimer: Any photos that even slightly resemble that perfect family… we were most likely bribing our children, allowing them to use potty language, they were teasing each other, or we just got lucky.


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April is National Poetry Month!
Do you like poetry? What are some of your favorite poems or poets? Do you write your own poetry? I'd love to hear about them!
April is National Poetry Month!
Do you like poetry? What are some of your favorite poems or poets? Do you write your own poetry? I'd love to hear about them!
I simply love Ogden Nash. He's best know for his light verse and "pun-like" rhymes. My favorite is "I Did Not Go to Church Today"...
I didn't go to church today,
I trust the Lord to understand.
The surf was swirling blue and white,
The children swirling on the sand.
He knows, He knows how brief my stay,
How brief this spell of summer weather,
He knows when I am said and done
We'll have plenty of time together.
I like poetry. It´s difficult to say what´s my favorite of all time, because I like tings coming from Ancient Grece to today. Also, I am not really sure if some of the great poets who write in Portuguese have a good translation, and I don´t have english level to dare to translate poetry. Fernando Pessoa, for example, is a brilliant Portuguese poet.
I love poetry. I use to write when I was younger. I had an Uncle that I was very close to die of AIDS a week before my birthday it was a good coping thing for me. I wonder if I can find any of my poems............. to the storage unit I go this weekend!
@Lorien: Not related to poetry except that this novel by Laurie King has a fictionalized Fernando Pessoa.
Wow Marisa, sounds fun! I need to see if I can find a cheap copy in Brazil, or put in my wishlist for when I finally get my e-book reader (hope to get it for my b-day in June)
I have lots of favorite poems, but my blurted answer is Invictus. I don't know why I would choose it over the others, but as a true favorite, it's the first one I want to say. Most know it, but I don't think everyone knows it by the title, so ...
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Have loved this since I first read it in high school...
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I wrote poetry like a mad woman in high school, have a whole notebook full...most love related but some were fun a quirky too! I wish i could get back into it but I lost that kind of creativity....
@Jodi: I was going to post that one! LOL (great minds think alike) Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets...
I wrote poetry like a mad person in high school also - notebooks and notebooks and notebooks of it! I still have some of them here in my garage somewhere, I'll have to see what I can find!
Thanks for sharing your favorite poems with me everyone!
My favourite poem is "Somebody should have taught him" from chicken soup for the teenage soul as retold by Jane Watkins.
Its sad but super powerful.
I went to a birthday party
But I remembered what you said.
You told me not to drink at all,
So I had a Sprite instead.
I felt proud of myself,
The way you said I would,
That I didn't choose to drink and drive,
Though some friends said I should.
I knew I made a healthy choice
And your advice to me was right
As the party finally ended
And the kids drove out of sight.
I got into my car,
Sure to get home in one piece,
Never knowing what was coming,
Something I expected least.
Now I'm lying on the pavement,
I can hear the policeman say
"The kid that caused this wreck was drunk".
His voice seems far away.
My own blood is all around me,
As I try hard not to cry.
I can hear the paramedic say,
"This girl is going to die."
I'm sure the guy had no idea,
While he was flying high,
Because he chose to drink and
Drive that I would have to die.
So why do people do it,
Knowing that it ruins lives?
But now the pain is cutting me like
A hundred stabbing knives.
Tell my sister not to be afraid,
Tell daddy to be brave,
And when I go to heaven to put
"Daddy's Girl" on my grave.
Someone should have taught him
That it is wrong to drink and drive.
Maybe if his mom and dad had
I'd still be alive.
My breath is getting shorter,
I'm getting really scared.
These are my final moments,
And I'm so unprepared.
I wish that you could hold me mom,
As I lie here and die.
I wish that I could say I love you
And good-bye.
Is it cheating if I say that my favorite poem is one I wrote? It's from January 2000, a couple of weeks after my daughter was born. Here it is...
Like the crashing waves on the beach
the crescendo of rushes waits
for nothing
as I silently implore them --
"I'm not ready! It's too soon!"
But, of course, it isn't.
Marking their own time,
demanding that I
Overwhelming in their ferocity,
these rushes inspire such strength
as I have rarely drawn from...
COLLEEN will be here soon
Colleen WILL BE here soon
Colleen will be HERE soon
Colleen will be here SOON
HEAR the children playing in the park,
laughing in their innocence,
to the seriousness of events
unfolding here.
IT will be over soon
It WILL BE over soon
It will be OVER soon
It will be over SOON
LOOK at the wallpaper border
peeling in the corner.
FEEL the warm water
I can do this
i CAN do this
i can DO this
i can do THIS
Urgency necessitates the Wild Woman,
the Birth Warrior,
emerge from her dwelling place.
She rises from my psyche
Keeping me going when
I think I am done.
"The cord is around her neck.
This must be over now."
This bit of wisdom whispers from...
I don't know where...
Bearing down
Drawing on the Wild Woman within
...the dignity of sharing life
with one who will break
my heart
and mend it in so many ways.
Little big head
Shoulders one day
carrying the weight of the world
Struggling to be free --
the first of many struggles
to be free of me.
I did it!
She's here!
I did it!
So blue...
But a fire from within
gasps for air...
Eyes wide open
after the shock of it all.
All is quiet...
the Birth Warrior
and her little girl
drink each other in.
~LWZ (c) 2000
There are tons of them I love on my native. But hard to translate to English But in English, I love the poem Annabel Lee from Edgar Allan Poe. It has also an unbelievable Turkish translate which written down by a gigantic Turkish poet. And this translate is more beautiful the original poem.
I carry your heart by E.E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
I am an Alice in Wonderland fanatic so mine is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
by Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
We gave you a chance
To water the plants.
We didn't mean that way --
Now zip up your pants.
Shel Silverstein


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Muppet Balls
5 comments:
I know what you mean! I'm on opposite David Black! What a bummer!ReplyDelete
- george att benevolentcode dott comSeptember 18, 2007 at 7:26:00 PM PDT
Sounds as if the schedule isn't what some of us were looking for. The last four presentations were exactly why I registered for the conference. Bummer.ReplyDelete
If either of you, Mike or Giles, will be practicing your presentation earlier in the day and would like a simulated audience, I'm your man. That would really boost the value of the conference for me.
There are a lot of good presentations going on all day, so I'll be in there, instead of practicing, but if you want to buy me beer I won't say no.ReplyDelete
Hey, I'd so be in your session. ActiveRecord and Rails? Meh!ReplyDelete
Giles "Dildo" Bowkett sharing cool things you can do with an often ignored but way powerful tool? Count me in.
Except I'll be in Newcastle, but, you know.
Hold on. Just because I wore a dildo on my head one time doesn't make my middle name Dildo. I mean that seems a bit unappealing.ReplyDelete


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Jose Lambiet of the Palm Beach Post broke the story this morning. Lambiet says a local paparazzo was on the lookout for Jennifer Lopez, who was in town for her concert when he bumped into Rourke and an unidentified woman around 2:00 AM walking into a nightclub.
"They came back out two hours later and crossed Washington Avenue to go to his scooter," the photog said. "They both got on it, and he did a U-turn to go north. He was pulled over within a block. "The cop says to him: 'You swerved right in front of me.' And Mickey answered: 'No, no, dude, I'm all right.'"
According to the police report, Rourke asked the cop, "What the f*** did I do?!" Cops say the actor's "face" was flushed, his eyes were bloodshot and watery and his speech was slurred. "I'm not drunk, I didn't even drink that much," Rourke said, according to the report. Barfly!
He was booked into the Miami-Dade Pre-trial Detention Center around 9:30 AM and is being held on $1,000 bond.
Let's hope he doesn't get sentenced to 9 1/2 weeks!
More Today in TMZ History
- Dr. Conrad Murray Verdict -- GUILTY
- JLo Sues Ex-Husband Over Tell-All Movie


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Does Vedic Astrology Solve the Question on the Birth of President Barack Obama?
When faced with real issues in life astrology is only the last resort to many people. Yet for millions around the world, it is what gives hope and support to carry on from day to day. Astrology doesn't stand on firm grounds when questioned based on logic and hard scientific principles, but thanks to modern computing software, subjectivity of astrology pundits at least is removed.
It is quite easy for anyone to be an astrologer these days. All you need to do is to download and install a free piece ofsoftware written by Narasimha Rao, an ex software engineer from PictureTel Corporation and feed some basic information like a place, date and time of birth of a person in to it. If you have some basic understanding of the tenants of Vedic Astrology, it could really add to the fun.
So pondering on the question of the birth of Barack Obama, which has been a matter of controversy in the past and which is recently resurrected, it was intriguing to see what the software will produce. The personal details of celebrities were always difficult to obtain, but thanks to the controversy, the long form birth certificate President Obama was published and is available on the US President's website for anyone interested. According to this document also available here he was born in Honolulu on the 4th of august 1961 at 7.24 PM., which is the basic data used to give it a whirl for the fun of it.
A lot of what the software output is really for the expert astrologer but there is also some plain English which states the qualities and positions in life the person will achieve.
Now Barack Obama might have been born or not as stated in the certificate, but the results certainly reveal a lucky individual with some qualities worthy of a president of the United States.
For a discerning believer in vedic astrology, there are also some important and obvious indications in his birth chart like the excellent positions of the planets, enough to explain why he has become the first Black President of the US or why he succeeded in bringing justice to the victims of a great US tragedy.
Obviously for those clamouring about his worthiness to be a US president, despite being born and delivered to a white female citizen of the United States of America, this is no answer, but for lovers of astrology, there is enough evidence.
Article first published as Does Vedic Astrology Solve the Question of the Birth of President Barack Obama? on Technorati.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Tag : #lrose, Barack Obama, Celebrity, Date Of Birth, Our World, vedic astrology
Do You Think Lady Gaga is Changing the Face of Celebrity Culture?
Can Lady Gaga make a difference and change the world for a better place when celebrities of our times from Lady Diana to Whitney Houston have been down the road, without much success? Perhaps, with the power of the social web behind them, Lady Gaga and other young celebrities can make a difference.
First sign that they may be able to make any positive change, is in this recognition by the establishment that it is time the enormous clout of social web, supported by modern technology, is reckoned with.
There is no other plausible reason to explain the acceptance of the top most educational institution of the world to act as the spring board for the Born This Way Foundation of Lady Gaga, named after her 2011 album and hit song, which promotes self-empowerment and has become an anthem for gay pride.
With 20 million followers on Twitter and sophisticated web technology enabling her to feel the pulse of her followers, Lady Gaga who had her own bitter experience and the support of other celebrities like Oprah Winery, could persuade Harvard to lent its name and backing to her cause and thereby gaining strong conviction among her millions of followers
Lady Gaga's new foundation is aimed at empowering young people to fight bullying
by promoting tolerance and acceptance and will be working with a new media agency to create a social media environment that fosters the foundation's goals.
Gaga spoke to more than 1,100 students from several states, faculty and invited guests at Harvard, urging the young audience to "challenge meanness and cruelty."
"I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it," she said.
She reminded them that there is no law to make people be kind to one another and added: "I wish there was because, you know, I'd be chained naked to a fence somewhere trying to pass it."
Not surprisingly, the ideas of Lady Gaga resonate with more mature thinking and trends elsewhere like the acceptance of vulnerability in addressing the social issues, giving much hope that they are likely to strike a chord with the youth of the world.
For instance, Brené Brown, a research professor at the University Of Houston Graduate College Of Social Work, who spent years studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame addresses empowerment by posing the questions:
How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough - that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
For the Harvard University, the ultimate custodian of propriety, the enormous popularity alone is no reason to recognise and welcome a pop singer like Lady Gaga; the event has attracted criticism as a marriage of strangest of bed fellows.
But the willingness of the prestigious university to get involved with Lady Gaga has to with being in line with a new trend of including the phenomenon of the social web in to the knowledge base and accepting its social engineering clout, more than the brownie points it can add to its collection by associating with a very noble cause.
The invitation of another young artist to share his viral marketing success on the web with its faculty and students of another top notch business school, the IIM of Ahmedabad, where leading corporations of the world queue up to recruit the best business brains, is indicative of the trend and an example of the new found clout celebrities are acquiring from the social web.
With such active interest being taken by such leading institutions on the social engineering potentials of the social web and the support they are willing to lent to a new generation of coconscious achievers in the arts and sports, who are willing to extend a helping hand, there is hope that the celebrity culture, which revels in narcissistic and destructive escapades, will have a newer and kinder face.
There is evidence that as the notion and adulation of celebrities and the celebrity culture spread beyond the Oscars, Grammys and Hollywood in to the world outside, so do the new trends and values.
This has been demonstrated by Vidya Balan, a film actor from Bollywood who won the National award for the best actress of the year but chose to celebrate her success by visiting and addressing an unfortunate group of women who are victims of human trafficking.
Lady Gaga deserves to be applauded to be the one to show the way by putting her clout on the social web to promote her profession and a good cause.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Tag : #lrose, Celebrity, Lady Gaga, Vidya Balan
Please, For God's Sake Don't Call Engelbert Humperdinck Engelbert Hyperlink!
Mobile phones may have a problem in predicatively suggesting the name of Engelbert Humperdinck in text messages, but for millions who will miss Whitney Houston and her music, the name Engelbert spells magic and nostalgia.
The BBC has announced this morning that 75 year old Engelbert Humperdinck, once the heart throb of women around the world, will represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision song contest, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May. Engelbert has stated that
"It's an absolute honour to be representing my country for this year's Eurovision Song Contest." "When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision. I'm excited and raring to go and want the nation to get behind me!"
Engelbert Humperdinck, dubbed the "King of Romance", is best known for his 1967 hit Release Me, which kept The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever off the number one spot.
For those who haven't herd of this legendary singer who became famous for his crooning, Engelbert Humperdinck has received four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for Entertainer of the Year and is one of only a handful of artists with a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Las Vegas Walk of Fame.
"Release Me", his 1967 smash hit version of the 1950s country song was the one that started it all for Engelbert. "Release Me" was succeeded by two more hit ballads, "There Goes My Everything" and "The Last Waltz," earning him a reputation as a crooner.
As per the BBC, the song Humperdinck will perform for the Eurovision contest is yet to be announced but will be recorded in London, Los Angeles and Nashville.
It will be written by Grammy award-winning producer Martin Terefe and Ivor Novello winner Sacha Skarbek, who co-wrote James Blunt hit You're Beautiful.
Arnold Dorsey who was born in Chennai, India to a British army officer, took his stage name Engelbert Humperdinck from a German composer best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.
"I have such wonderful childhood memories of Madras. I like the sun, and my 10 siblings and I went from a big home in India to relatively modest surroundings in England, which can be so cold and grey. Life in England was tough initially, but then we settled down."
Engelbert is equally popular in India and a generation of Indians have reciprocal feelings about him. Engelbert was worshipped to the extent that the Konkani singers, Alfred and Rita Rose, named an offspring after him.
No Goan and Parsi event was complete without Engelbert's music. It was perfectly in sync for our weddings, dances, village socials and Sunday morning hops for the waltz, fox trot or dancing.
There is no doubt that even the "digital" generation around the world, especially in India will be thrilled to hear the "King of Romance" croon again even if they can't get his name right!
Article first published as Please, For God's Sake Don't Call Engelbert Humperdinck Engelbert Hyperlink! on Technorati.
Saturday, March 03, 2012
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