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My husband finds it incredibly frustrating that I will keep open a gazillion tabs or browser windows open for days . . . errrr . . . weeks at a time. Here's a taste of what's hanging around my browser these days:
- Are 94% of births really complicated? (Transforming Maternity Care)
- What to do when you're unable to birth at home (Bring Birth Home)
- RCOG proposes restructuring of women's health services (Royal College of Midwives)
- Induction: a step by step guide (Midwife Thinking)
- Harvard-MIT Team's New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel . . . (Popular Science)
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov launches FIDE Online Arena Officially
Friday, 04 April 2014 06:35
It is with great pride that I announce the formal launch of FIDE online arena on April the 4th – a truly historic day for the world of chess.
Thanks to the latest technology, chess players from every federation in the world will now have the opportunity to come together and play in official FIDE events
for official FIDE ratings
, unimpeded by distance, physical disability, shortage of available time, or any of the other obstacles that make attending official tournaments or match play difficult or impossible for many players.
Moreover, FIDE online arena creates new opportunities that in the past were only a dream, and the arena is certain to bring chess to millions of new players in the years ahead, as well as serving as an invaluable tool for education, broadcasting , chess in schools and many other crucial chess activities. The only limit for what is possible is our imagination.
Since the test version of FIDE online arena started, the project has generated enormous enthusiasm and interest, and we have been extremely grateful for the many messages of support for this initiative that FIDE has received from around the world.
As with other major sports, effective anti-cheating measures are crucial for guaranteeing the integrity of the game with players, the public , the media and sponsors alike. FIDE online arena truly excels in this regard as it is equipped with a highly sophisticated anti-cheating system that monitors all official games. This detailed monitoring is supplemented by a team of anti-cheating specialists and stringent FIDE anti-cheating procedures so that the maximum protection possible is provided.
Each arena member will have official FIDE Online Ratings for rapid, blitz and bullet chess.
Upon registration, a new member with an existing FIDE ID will be assigned initial ratings for rapid, blitz and bullet in accordance with his/her published over-the-board ratings. After every game played, these ratings will be updated, employing the same system used for official FIDE over-the-board ratings. After the establishment of an initial rating, unrated players' ratings shall be processed as per this system.
Upon the decision of the FIDE General Assembly at a date to be announced soon, FIDE over-the-board and online ratings for rapid and blitz will be merged into a single rating for each time control and published on the official FIDE website,
Gens una sumus is FIDE's guiding principal and for this reason I am particularly excited by the introduction of FIDE online arena. Its unique ability to bring together chess players within and from every nation in the world can only strengthen the strong bonds that we share and that continue to unite us.
I am very pleased to announce that in celebration of FIDE online arena's official launch all chess players with a FIDE rating and ID number are eligible for one month's free membership.
Enjoy it!
I look forward to seeing you online.
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov
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Fall Career Fair Features 43 Exhibitors
SOCORRO, N.M. September 4, 2013 – The Fall 2013 Career and Graduate School Fair is shaping up to be among the biggest ever, with several new recruiters attending. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the MaceyCenter.
Lillian Armijo, Director of Student Services, said she's expecting a large turnout of students and exhibitors. With two weeks remaining until the event, 43 exhibitors have signed up, including several new companies and government agencies. For more information, click here for the website.
"Our students are in high demand," Armijo said. "Tech grads stand out compared to students from other universities. We have an extensive and diverse group of exhibitors who have a variety of opportunities for students in every academic discipline."
The Career Services Office again is offering workshops to help students prepare for the Career Fair. The Career Services Office will host a resumé-writing workshop on September 10, a general workshop on preparing for the Career Fair on September 16, and an interviewing workshop on September 17, featuring Theresa Hollis, formerly of Amazon. Each workshop is from 4 to 5 p.m. in Fidel 262. Students must RSVP by calling 835-5060 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Pizza will be served at each workshop.
Career Services staff will also host five-minute flash resumé reviews over the lunch hour Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 16 and 17. Students can bring a printed resumé to the FidelCenter atrium between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to get some quick pointers about resumé preparation.
Once again, Tech staff will host a Career Cab (based on the TV show Cash Cab), offering golf-cart rides across campus. Students who answer basic questions about the careers will win small giveaways.
"These workshops help students prepare," Armijo said. "There are always things you can do to improve yourself and stand out. Students can be uncomfortable with walking up to a recruiter and speaking to them."
The Career Fair is not just for upperclassmen; freshmen and sophomores will find internship and co-op opportunities as well.
The Career Fair booklet and the website include a section that lists exhibitors by the type of opportunities available – from internships through post-docs and full-time career-track employment.
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HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Remember when Steph Curry got the All-Star snub? Charles Barkley was darn well hacked off: "For them to leave Steph Curry off that team, it's a joke; it's a flat-out joke."
Curry's coach Mark Jackson also wasn't amused by "them," his Western Conference peers who pick the reserves, even with Golden State Warriors forward David Lee getting the nod:
"We know who the jurors are," Jackson told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I think you have to question the process. I'm not going to go all Dr. King on us, but you've got to stand for what's right, man. These guys have changed this whole organization. They have led. They have sacrificed. They have defended. They have competed."
West coaches really might need to take cover this year. Barring injuries or unforeseen awful seasons, those 15 coaches will be locked in a no-win pickle to select the backup "backcourt" players.
Maybe this year Lee gets the snub, or some other "frontcourt" player like Zach Randolph or Tim Duncan (everyone thought he was done after his 2012 omission anyway, right?) to make room for an extra guard or two because there is going to be an absolutely outrageously long list of sure-fire or close-to-it All-Star guards.
The 2013 All-Star team featured five guards on the 12-man roster: Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant as the fan-voted starters, with Tony Parker, Russell Westbrook and first-timer James Harden as the coach-selected reserves.
Which one of those guys slides and doesn't make the 2014 team? Kobe's coming off Achilles surgery and his return date remains uncertain. Still, he's expected back well before the All-Star Game and no matter how he fares it's far-fetched to think fans won't vote him in for a 16th consecutive start. Just go ahead and pencil in the L.A. boys as starters again.
Will Westbrook falter coming off his knee surgery? Doubtful. Could Parker, a five-time All-Star who has played his best ball over the last two seasons, slip? Possible, I suppose, if Spurs coach Gregg Popovich rests him from Christmas Day to MLK Day.
Here's the thing: Even if one of those guys slide, the list of replacements is excessive, starting with the Warriors' Curry, whose trajectory is just now starting to mirror that of the space shuttle upon liftoff. Seven of the West's eight playoff teams from last season boast an All-Star-caliber point guard or shooting guard. Memphis point Mike Conley is gaining steam and it's possible his 2012-13 numbers, a career-best of 14.6 pgg (and 2.2 spg, third overall) and 6.1 apg, could rise in a faster-paced offense under first-year coach Dave Joerger. Denver's speed merchant Ty Lawson was a bubble guy in '12, but he might be in for quite the transition with blow-it-out George Karl's departure probably ushering in more traditional sets under rookie coach Brian Shaw.
Still, the list rolls on…
Three West lottery teams offer undeniable candidates: Minnesota's Ricky Rubio, who is poised for a breakout after last season's tough return from ACL surgery; Portland's Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard, who has reinforcements this year that should help him get even better; and West newcomer and Pelicans point guard Jrue Holiday, who, oh yeah, was a first-time All-Star last season in that other conference with the 76ers.
Want more? Eric Bledsoe, stashed behind CP3 these last two seasons in Clipperland, is primed to bust out in the Valley of the Suns; Andre Iguodala, a 2012 All-Star, can't be counted out with the Warriors, unless sharpshooter Klay Thompson beats him out; and Monta Ellis, an All-Star in his own mind even if he's yet to wear the uniform, could be in for a big year in Dallas feeding off 11-time All-Star Dirk Nowitzki (who just might want his "frontcourt" spot back).
Oh wait, did I mention that eight-time All-Star Steve Nash, who turns 40 a week before the All-Star Game, made the team in 2008, '10 and '12?
Obviously he's due in '14. Right?
Best of luck, coaches. And be prepared to duck.


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Find Out What Song Charted at No. 1 on Your Birthday
If you have some time to kill and think your birthday should be a national holiday, well, let us introduce you to a widget that generates the songs that charted No. 1 on your birthday from the year you were born, before, after and beyond. It's like you can create the soundtrack to your personal history by checking out with songs topped the charts on YOUR special day!
Click on the blue button bellow and enter in your birthday via the simple directions and it will generate the biggest songs on the radio for any given year on your special day. You also have the option to listen and purchase the song. How nifty. It's puts the "fun" in "functional."
See how fun this is?! You can look up your favorite pop star's birthday and see what was No. 1 and postulate whether or not that cosmically affected the pop star's future music. We looked up Lady Gaga's birthday, which is March 28, 1986. Falco's nu wave hit 'Rock Me Amadeus' was numero uno when she entered the world, so no immediate or obvious cosmic connection presented itself. However, Madonna's ballad 'Take a Bow' was No. 1 in 1995, when Gaga was 9!
You don't have to stop at your birthday, either. You can put in any date you'd like and find out what was ruling the charts on your boyfriend's birthday, your child's birthday, your anniversary or other landmark dates in your life.


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December 23, 2011 was the day Governor Snyder signed into a law that stripped the domestic partners of many public employees of their health benefits. It was also the day I finally lost patience with Gov. Snyder. I've appreciated the Governor's reluctance to pander to the bottom feeders known as 'social conservatives' that dominate his Republican majorities in the legislature. But in signing this bill the Governor finally gave in to his party's worst instincts, revealing that he's just been paying lip service all along, happy to discard his veneer of tolerance when it became politically inconvenient.
Why they are doing this? We're an easy target, and making our lives difficult is an easy way to score points with the vocal & significant percentage of the Republican base that hates us. They can't undo Lawrence v. Texas, they can't ban us from serving in uniform any longer, & they can't round us up & put us in concentration camps. This seemed like the easiest way to put us in our place. This has zero to do with saving money, by the way. That excuse is a fig leaf for Republicans like Snyder, who know that outright bigotry no longer plays as well with the public at large.
(I focus specifically on Republicans because on the domestic partner benefits issue there were exactly one Democrat apiece in the House & Senate who voted for the domestic partner benefits issue: Sen. Tupac Hunter & Rep. Richard LeBlanc. No Republicans in either house voted against.)
Republican voters, and the leaders they elect, like to paint themselves as defenders of marriage and of the family. I think we are getting better at emphasizing that 'social conservative' leaders don't give a damn about saving marriages or families, they just want to punish people like me for the unforgivable sin of finding romantic happiness. Our task is to heighten the cognitive dissonance experienced by Republicans like my cousins on one side of the family, who love watching shows like Glee and have never made me or my partner feel unwelcome, but who want to sidestep the consequences of the votes they cast.
Our ability to fight back is further constrained by Michigan's political dynamics. We are clustered in safe Democratic districts so Republican legislators have no reason to even acknowledge our existence. They have nothing to lose – certainly not our votes.
In this we have a lot in common with black Michiganders, though I know a lot of black people bristle when sexual minorities draw comparisons between our situations. Like black Michiganders, we are almost entirely a Democratic constituency. The rage at PA 4 that has erupted in majority-black communities reflects their realization that with all three branches of state government in Republican control, they are effectively powerless. When the anti-PA 4 activists complain that the act subverts the democratic process, they forget that the democratic process is no friend to them, either: Majoritarian democracy has no inherent protection for minorities.
And we accept it. The political impotence of Michigan's sexual minorities is partly a function of our learned helplessness. But it's also partly due to our own apathy. For lots of us, especially when we're young and uncommitted and have so many other pressing concerns, marriage equality and the family are abstract concepts. And it can seem frivolous to donate money for causes like marriage equality when sexual minorities in so much of the non-Western world face more severe challenges in their own societies.
I myself have been guilty of apathy. While I supported marriage and adoption equality, neither was much of a priority to me until I finally ended up in a committed long-term relationship & started to have something economic at stake. Once I began to face decisions about health insurance, tax deductions, estate planning, I began to understand why I could no longer sit on the sidelines.
Last Wednesday two examples of grassroots political activism were juxtaposed in a way that I found both illustrative and frustrating. One was, of course, the SOPA/PIPA blackouts. My Facebook feed erupted in a way I don't think I'd ever seen before, with anti-SOPA/PIPA posts from what seemed like half of my contacts. Not since the Obama campaign had my Millenial peers, in particular, seemed so politically engaged.
The day of action at the state Capitol protesting the domestic partner benefits ban, in contrast, seemed to get hardly any attention at all except from certain LGBT organizations like Equality Michigan & Affirmations. Even the gay football team the Michigan Panthers, who I follow on Facebook, didn't make a peep.
I felt a wee bit guilty for not taking the day off work to join the protest. That feeling grew stronger when at the day's end, I read the post* by autBar's owner Keith Orr reporting back on the event:
(I)f we are going to make an impact, we need more than the 250 people who showed up to work for the cause… (W)e need our straight allies to "come out of the closet". They need to be active and vocal about our civil rights.
But we can't expect it of them if we don't do it ourselves… (I)t felt very real chanting "Gay Families Matter".
But we need a bigger "family"…
We have to make them care.
And we have to get our friends and family to care.
I agree with Keith Orr that we can do better. Today, we're getting another chance to get it right, as a lesbian couple in Hazel Park sued to overturn the state's ban on adoption by unmarried couples. You know Attorney General Bill Schuette, whose hatred and contempt for people who aren't straight is unsurpassed among state elected officials, will fight this suit every step of the way.
If you're upset by this post and starting to feel a bit guilty yourself, head over to one of the following websites and donate to one or more of the organizations who are fighting hard against the Republican legislature's agenda of hate:
And if you live in a state legislative district represented by a Republican, or you yourself are a Republican, it's even more important that you contact your Republican legislator or your party leadership to let them know that what they are doing is not OK. It's time to stop systematically undermining families and condoning hate. The Party has to do better.


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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
transFORM Gallery welcomes 12 artists from the Piermont Flywheel Gallery of Piermont, N.Y. The exhibit will include paintings, photography, collage, sculptures and mixed media from artists Ron Wohlgemuth, Elaine Greene, Christine Averill-Greene, Catherine Wagner Minnery, Fernande Lipton, Jeannie Choe, Pasquale Leuzzi, Sally Schaedler, Rachele Unter, Sueim Koo, Serban Chelariu, and Julie Scholz.
Come experience the variety of art that Piermont's artists have to offer, without paying the bridge toll. The opening reception will be held Thursday, February 6, 2014 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm and the artwork will be on display at transFORM Gallery from February 6 – April 26th, 2014.
Times: Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturdays 10 AM to 4 PM.
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Seattle v. Denver: Who's Got the Better Job Market?
Two days before the Super Bowl, Simply Hired is comparing Sunday's gridiron rivals with search data from the employment website. Apparently everyone loves a winner: Both cities saw interest from job-seekers pick up after their playoff victories this month. The number of seekers for Denver climbed 3% while those for Seattle surged 29%.
More striking than the differences between the two rivals are their similarities in online job searches as well as employment opportunities. In fact, weather aside (Seattle has 71 sunny days a year compared with Denver's 115), workers in certain fields will find high-tech and design opportunities in both places, according to Simply Hired.com's analysis. In the past year, Denver notched higher gains in its fastest-growing positions, which for both cities include graphic designers, internet developers and search-marketing strategists. The unemployment rate -- 5.7% in Seattle and 5.8% in Denver in November -- is below the comparable 7% for the nation as a whole that month.
The Super Bowl rivals both have attracted somewhat similar worker pools, and now have too many copywriters and too few teachers of English and literature. (Denver also has a glut of interior designers and physicians assistants; Seattle has more than its fill of photographers and environmental engineers.)
Both places also have loyal workers, who don't appear interested in relocating for a new job: 67% of Denver job-seekers and 63% of Seattle ones are scouting in their home metro area. There also doesn't seem much love lost, professionally, between the two: Just 7% of Denver job-seekers are looking for work in Seattle while 4% of Seattle hunters are checking out opportunities in Denver.
The two cities are neck and neck in their appeal to job-seekers from elsewhere, with both drawing notable interest from New York City, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Denver and Seattle job-seekers returned the favor, directing their online employment searches to New York, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles.
All told, Simply Hired gives the edge to Seattle, based on its employment metrics. It notes that Seattle's average annual salary -- $65,823 -- is higher than Denver's ($60,957.) However, Denver's average home price -- $239,000 -- is well below Seattle's $416,000.
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Medic First Aid Basic International training set for May 16 and June 15
The Office of Regulatory Compliance & Safety and Human Resources Management are partnering to bring Medic First Aid International training to the MSU campus. After participating in the three-hour interactive session, attendees will be certified to administer an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
This program will help MSU employees in responding to and caring for medical emergencies at work. Topics covered in the program include: basic AED operation and basic maintenance of an AED. The AED used in this training is the Philips Onsite Heartstart, the only AED that can be purchased without a medical prescription.
Only MSU employees that hold a current certification from the Medic Basic CPR and First Aid may participate in the AED training.
Each class is limited to 12 participants and a minimum of 7 attendees must be present to hold the class. Please wear comfortable clothes to the session. Training sessions and locations are:
Monday, May 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Room 231, Colvard Student Union
Wednesday, June 15, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Room 231, Colvard Student Union
If you are interested in attending, please follow the steps listed below to register:
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The White House Flickr account just posted this photo of President Barack Obama receiving a phone briefing from FBI Director Robert Mueller on the investigation and response to the Boston Marathon explosions Monday afternoon.
Sitting with the President are White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Lisa Monaco, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
According to a White House pool report, Obama has also been briefed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the situation in Boston.


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Cesarean Scar: Graziela
While researching on the internet about post pregnancy body I ended up finding this webpage. It called a lot my attention and I was touched by some of the stories. Why not to share mine as well?
My daughter was a premature baby (7 and 1/2 months) and the cesarean was a choice of mine. It was actually planned from the beginning on, but my little girl was not so patient and the water broke on week 35.
I carried her for months inside of my belly, felt her moving when she was growing and loved her from the moment I got the positive result of the pregnancy test. Being a mother is much more than pregnancy, labor or delivery. Being a mom is pure miracle. It is genuine and unconditional love. After all, mothers of adopted kids are no different than us.
My cesarean scar is far from being beautiful, but it does not bother me that much. It is just a scar. What do I think or feel when I look at it in the mirror? That I am a very proud mom of a beautiful and healthy little girl.


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Ray Romano, the stand-up comedian and star of the wildly popular family sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has left the building. But Ray Romano, the co-creator, executive producer, writer and star of the drama Men of a Certain Age, is just getting started.
"That ended too soon," Romano tells TVGuide.com of the TNT series, which got the axe after two critically acclaimed but woefully underrated seasons. "I still have the affinity towards that type of show and towards that type of performing and that's what they do great here on Parenthood."
Parenthood scoop: Sarah's love triangle, Julia's juggling act and Amber's big romance
In the Season 4 premiere (Tuesday, 10/9c) of the NBC family drama, Romano kicks off a multi-episode arc as Sarah's new boss, photography studio owner Hank Rizzoli. "Creatively, it's kind of a dead end for him. He used to be a photo journalist so he doesn't feel fulfilled at all. He's kind of got a chip on his shoulder."
Although the antisocial Hank may seem light years away from the character he's best known for — Ray Barone — Romano says he had no desire to return to the world of half-hour sitcoms after TNT pulled the plug on Men of a Certain Age last summer. "I got my fill of doing a sitcom in front of a live audience. I did it. I'm happy with what we did. I'm happy that that's my legacy if you will," he says. "I like the idea of doing comedy where you don't have to be big and broad and you can play subtle, and I like the fact that you can also do drama the same way. ... That's what Men of a Certain Age was —it had a lot of comedic moments and some real emotional moments too."
Ray Romano joins Parenthood for multi-episode arc
On Parenthood, those emotional moments may come from Hank's growing relationship with Sarah (Lauren Graham). "She is something that he's not. She can relate to customers and talk to customers," he says. "Little by little, I think they're starting to connect, and she's starting to see him for what he truly is and she's starting to see a real person."
Although Romano has been billed as someone who would "complicate" Sarah's relationship with her now-fiancé Mark (Jason Ritter), Graham insists not all is as it seems. "It's an interesting chemistry," she says. "It's another person who makes her think, 'Oh well, here's another way I could have gone. Here's someone who's had the experiences I've had and who also has a child.'"
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She continues: "Also she's learning a lot from him and kind of excited. Sarah has really struggled to find work that is interesting so it's all mixed up in somebody whose talent she really admires."
Like her character, Graham has valued the opportunity to work with Romano. "We're similarly insecure and neurotic and so that's a really fun competition to see who really has lower self-esteem," she quips. "I just really value the experience."
To hear more about how Romano got his role on Parenthood, Graham's first brush with Romano during his Improv Club days and more, check out TVGuide.com's behind-the-scenes video from the set of Parenthood:
The new season of Parenthood premieres on Tuesday at 10/9c on NBC. Are you excited for Romano to meet the Bravermans?


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The Planets and Beyond in Dante's Paradiso
Saturday, November 2 beginning at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Join Joseph Crane on a journey through Dante, Astrology and the Soul's Immortality .... Spiritual cosmology has been with us from the distant past and will always be of interest. From the early fourteenth century, Dante's Divine Comedy traces a spiritual journey with a cosmology that should be appealing and provocative to modern astrologers who are interested in spiritual dimensions of astrology. In this webinar we will explore cantos of the Divine comedy that take place high in the heavens and proceed from planetary time through trans-planetary time to timelessness. We will explore the spiritual significance of astrology's planets, the ecliptic and celestial equator and what lies beyond the stars. We will also see some fascinating parallels to the spiritual cosmology of twentieth-century astrologer Dane Rudhyar. No prior familiarity with Dante is necessary to join in the discussion.
Joseph Crane's latest book, Between Fortune and Providence: Astrology and the Universe in Dante's Divine Comedy, looks at Dante's Divine Comedy from an astrological perspective. Joseph uses Dante's work to discusses the relationship of astrological practice to that of divination, magic, and prophecy.
Joseph studied philosophy at Brandeis University in 1976 and received his M.A. from Lesley University in integrated psychotherapy with an Independent Study degree. Joseph is a consulting astrologer, teacher, and author. He is the author of A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology (1997), Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy (2007) and a number of published articles. He has taught philosophy, ancient mythology, and Hellenistic astrology at Kepler College. As cofounder of the Astrology Institute, Joseph has trained many people in modern and traditional astrology. He is also a psychotherapist and a Buddhist practitioner in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition. Joseph is currently teaching the first in a series of workshops entitled Character, Calling and Karma: Astrology and the Soul (E520) with Enid Newberg.


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Tyler says: Admittedly, I'm not a big horror movie fan, and -- by extension -- nor am I a fan of the "Resident Evil" movies. But as a fan of the games I actually wanted to see the first movie in theaters.
I thought it was terrible. Everything from casting decisions (I can barely stomach Michelle Rodriguez in "Lost," let alone a campy horror film) to the special effects were pedestrian at best. I'm not one to enjoy bad movies just because they're bad, so I hope that with a new direction Anderson can make a film that doesn't fall back on the "it's good because it's bad" excuse.


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We're seeing more and more YouTube video of hostile constituents berating members of Congress to kill health care reform. Last month was the infamous Rep. Mike Castle town hall where the crowd demanded the congressman say that President Obama was not born in the USA, but also featured rants against "socialized medicine." Then this past Saturday the online hub of the "Birther" conspiracy theorists, WorldNetDaily, compiled more video of angry disrespectful outbursts deriding pending health care legislation at events featuring Sen. Arlen Specter, Sen. Carl Levin and Rep, Lloyd Doggett, under the puffed-up header "See rebellion at grass roots [sic]."
Is this a bona fide grassroots rebellion? Not exactly. As ThinkProgress' Lee Fang uncovered on Friday, the lobbyist-run national conservative group FreedomWorks is promoting an instructional memo titled "Rocking The Town Halls" which advises right-wing activists to "Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half … Be Disruptive Early And Often … Try To 'Rattle Him,' Not Have An Intelligent Debate…"
Bloggers were quick to call this childish tactic out. Washington Monthly's Steve Benen said, "Who needs civility and intelligent discourse when we have confused mobs of far-right activists organized by corporate lobbyists?" D-Day dubbed it, "The Sticking Fingers In Ears And Yelling 'La-La-La' Strategy." Digby astutely noted this is merely recently history repeating: "This is predictable. After all, they are following the 1994 playbook and they did the same thing then [to kill health care reform]."
Where did conservative leaders come up with such a strategy? From one of those dastardly Chicago community organizers, Saul Alinsky, who famously wrote in "Rules For Radicals:" (emphasis added)
…if you have organized a vast, mass-based people's organization, you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show your power … if your organization is small in numbers, then…conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does … if your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.
The right-wingers certainly don't have the numbers. Poll after poll after poll shows strong support for the main planks in the health care legislation pending in House and Senate: the choice of a public plan, the requirement for employers to provide insurance or help pay for a public plan, and the surtax on the very wealthiest to also help pay for reform.
But conspiracy-minded right-wingers certainly have fury and commitment, and clearly want a few YouTube videos to distort the perception of public opinion.
As citizens (I admit it, they are citizens!), they have every right to speak their mind and try to persuade and attempt to create any perception they choose.
But we also have the right to prove they don't have the numbers to back up their noise.
Rep Doggett handled it just right today, releasing a statement that recognized he did not face anything remotely like an authentic representation of grassroots opinion:
This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties, did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard. And this appears to be part of a coordinated, nationwide effort. What could be more appropriate for the "party of no" than having its stalwarts drowning out the voices of their neighbors by screaming "just say no!"
One reporter properly put the anger in context, Politico's Glenn Thrush: "At this point, these protests appear to be relatively small yet vocal, organized and encouraged by larger national conservative organizations. Like the tea parties, they feed on themselves, and benefit from the omnipresent video cameras and easy YouTube links that make the rounds in blogs (including ours). Democrats believe some of these tactics could backfire, especially when protesters start hanging members of Congress in effigy."
This is not the heartland of America. This is not the political center. This is not the reachable swing vote.
These are the bitter dead-enders, the half of the Republican electorate who does not accept President Obama's citizenship and legitimacy, led by lobbyists and Birthers.
They do not have serious critiques or constructive suggestions.
They have run-of-the-mill distortions like the false claim that President said he will end private insurance and the ludicrous smears like the government will kill your grandma,
This is a mob, not a majority.
And it doesn't take much to get the right-wing mob foaming at the mouth. In fact, it's the best way to know you're doing something right.


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Tech Teams "Clean Up" in Environmental Design Contest, April 26, 1999
LAS CRUCES, N.M., April 26, 1999 -- Three teams comprised of New Mexico Tech environmental engineering students each won second place honors in three separate environmental cleanup tasks at the Ninth Annual Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) International Environmental Design Contest, which recently was held at New Mexico State University.
The New Mexico Tech seniors also took home a total of $6,000 in cash prizes for their team's second-place finishes in the design contest's Task I, Task II, and Task III categories.
This year, WERC presented six tasks which accurately simulated pollution problems which occur in real-life situations in public and private sites throughout the United States.
The teams competing in Task I were charged with remediating an environmental problem which stemmed from a mine tailings pile that was leaching heavy metals into surrounding groundwater and an adjacent river.
The innovative design presented by the Tech team involved treating the contaminated groundwater by using two permeable reactive walls. The first wall was composed a mixture of compost and zero-valent iron to promote the growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria, which would create sulfide and precipitate metal sulfides from the water. The second permeable reactive wall was constructed of clinoptilolite zeolite (mined in New Mexico) and zero-valent iron, which worked to remove metals from water through surface interactions.
The New Mexico Tech team members involved with solving the Task I problem were Patrice Brun, Kelly Houston, Jerome Marez, and Matthew Prange. Faculty advisors were Tech professors Baolin Deng and Cathy Aimone-Martin.
The Task II team from New Mexico Tech consisted of Ian Sutton and Nathan Meese. The duo also placed second in addressing a problem involving "Suppression and Immobilization of Radioactive Airborne Particulates." Faculty advisor for the team was environmental engineering professor Randy Martin.
Tech's Task III team designed an ingenious landfill closure cap for arid and semi-arid climates, which employed a passive dry barrier using solar-induced natural convection to provide circulation drying within the cover. The passive dry barrier was created using three sequenced layers of soil, while the induced convection was achieved by using parallel-plate solar collectors to increase the collection of solar heat and facilitate overall circulation.
"I thought the WERC competition was interesting and hard work," says Task III team member Beryl Barnes. "We did have a good time there, but the road leading up to that was long and strenuous. . . . It was an experience that I definitely learned from and can be proud of."
Barnes was joined on the Task III team by fellow Tech students Legena Briest, Cris Carson, Joe Fleming, and Leah Stapp. Faculty advisor was Clint Richardson, chairman of Tech's mineral and environmental engineering department.
"Overall, I think the WERC contest is a lot of fun," adds Task III team member Fleming. "The work was hard, but the actual competition was well worth all the work."
The three New Mexico Tech teams competed against teams from much larger schools such as Clarkson University, Tufts University, Oklahoma State University, Purdue University, United Arab Emirates University, University of Arkansas, and University of California at Riverside.
Over 350 student participants were asked to present design proposals, oral and poster presentations, and working bench-scale models to verify the design, functionality, and cost- effectiveness of their proposed solutions.
The winners of the cleanup contest then were determined by "success" ratings scored by a panel of judges made up of over 70 professionals from academia, government, and industry.
Although WERC granted only one first place overall award during the competition (which went to Purdue University), Richardson says he felt the strong showings by Tech's three teams would have garnered the university a strong second place overall had such an honor been awarded this year.
Richardson also points out that New Mexico Tech environmental design teams always have fared well in past WERC Environmental Design Contest: last year's sole Tech team, for instance, took second place and "best team work" honors in the 1998 design competition.
WERC was established in 1990 in New Mexico under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy as a educational partnership to conduct programs and provide technology development projects on better ways to address issues related to the management, minimization, and prevention of all forms of waste through education, technology development, information transfer, and public outreach. In addition to New Mexico Tech, WERC members include New Mexico State University, the University of New Mexico, and Díne College, in collaboration with Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-10-710. Mon May 10 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 10.710, Sum: Teaching blind student Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org> Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org> Associate Editors: Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org> Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org> Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org> Assistant Editors: Scott Fults <scott at linguistlist.org> Jody Huellmantel <jody at linguistlist.org> Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org> Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu> Chris Brown <chris at linguistlist.org> Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org> =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 19:56:13 +0200 From: "DAVE GOUGH" <mcgee at netactive.co.za> Subject: teaching blind student -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 19:56:13 +0200 From: "DAVE GOUGH" <mcgee at netactive.co.za> Subject: teaching blind student Dear linguistlist a while back you kindly posted a request i had for advice in teaching blind students linguistics. i had a number of responses - people really were helpful. I was wondering whether this could somehow be used as a resource on your list. i have responses from people who have taught blind students and students with visual impairement, as well as from blind linguistics students and linguists i have not contacted the authors about using their information, but don't see too many hassles about this. all the best, and thanks for the great work. the best newsgroup by far!! dave gough mcgee at hotmail.co.za university of the western cape. south africa. ************************************************ Though I have no first hand information to help you with your problem, I am a subscriber to the "Teach-Ling" list where this issue came up recently. I saved a few of these messages, having just had a deaf woman in my intro to linguistics class. I will forward them to you and hope they are helpful. Below is the first one. Two more will follow. Good luck. Aloha, Susan Banner Inouye, PhD Kapi'olani Community College 4303 Diamond Head Road Honolulu, HI 96816 - -------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:11:05 -1000 >From: s farwaneh <s.farwaneh at m.cc.utah.edu> >Reply-To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >Subject: Re: teaching blind student Concerning accommodating a blind student in a linguistics class, the main key is to find out what the student's needs are, and what thir skills and experiences are. I am a professor of linguistics and I'm also blind. In my experience, the main conventions that need to be accessed were the IPA nonlinear representations, and OT tableaus. The choice of strategies to access these conventions depends on the students skills and level of linguistic knowledge. One of the best devices for producing tactile graphics to help a blind student with phonetic symbols is the raised line kit, which consists of a rubber board and transparencies. The sighted reader or instructor can draw the symbol on the transparency with a pen or a stylus and that produces a tactile image which the student can detect easily with her hands. If you use an overhead, give the student the transparencies after class, her reader can trace the lines with a tracing wheel to form raised graphs. It is very easy to get used to verbalizing what one writes on the blackboard, and the concepts can be easily communicated to the blind student if the instructor and student meet beforehand and agree on terms to use for different symbols and diagrams. The student should memorize the names of the phonetic symbols such as theta, engma, etc. Illustrative terms can also be used like "tailed n" for engma or upside down v for wedge. I find the most effective way to describe a phrase marker is to read the tree from top to bottom and left to right. For example, the tree is headed by the node S which dominates NP, AUX, and VP. The NP node dominates . . . Contrary to what some profs think, giving verbal input does not have to be time-consuming if there is adequate communication between instructor and student outside class. OT tableaus are best read in rows beginning with the set of ranked constraints. Each candidate output is then read with its evaluation results. Please _do not_ wave any portion of a linguistics course on account of blindness. This is not fair to the blind student who has to compete equally for assistantships, scholarships, and future employment. Concerning tests, if the student is proficient in braille, the test questions should be sent to the library or the Disabled Student Office for braille transcription. They are required by law to do that. The student can type her answers on a computer with speech or braille output. If the student prefers to record the test, it is her responsibility to provide the instructor with a tape and recorder before the designated test time. Finally, it is the student's responsibility to initiate the request for accommodation and to determine e exactly what her needs are. It is the responsibility of the instructor to provide accommodation in the form of in-class verbal input, information about the available facilities on campus, extra time for tests if needed, special room for taking tests, etc. Reasonable accommodation does not include exemptions, special grades, task reduction, or task substitution. Sorry for the long post, and please feel free to e-mail me privately if you have further questions. Samira Farwaneh - -------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:50:34 -1000 >From: Geoffrey S. Nathan <geoffn at siu.edu> >Reply-To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >Subject: Re: teaching blind student Samira Farwaneh's comments on teaching a blind student mirrored our experience with a blind woman who did an MA in Linguistics with us several years ago. It took a bit of getting used to before we remembered (in phonology and historical linguistics) to read the data off the blackboard and not to point to material on the board instead of referring to it verbally. But it is absolutely true that the enterprise is collaborative; our student had to work with us, explaining what she needed. Tinker toys worked to illustrate three-dimensionally non-linear phonology and everything else could be said out loud as Samira Farwaneh said. As far as the testing center giving exams, since this student was computer literate, we would dictate questions which she took down in braille and then went away to write answers we could read. A side note: we always had feedback about how interesting our lectures were (or weren't) since note taking in braille is not entirely silent and this student would write faster - and therefore more loudly - when the material got her excited! Best, Geoff Nathan and Margaret Winters Geoff Nathan 420 Heritage Rd., Carbondale, IL, 62901 (618) 549-0106 (Home) (618) 453-3421 (Office) - -------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:26:04 -1000 >From: Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at facstaff.wisc.edu> >Reply-To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >To: TEACH-LING at qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu >Subject: Re: teaching blind student I also had a blind student in an intro to linguistics. The only area that was really a problem was phonetics, because of the transcription. I was prepared to let her out of that, but she wanted to try. She had a helper who came to class, and the helper and I both explained the shape of the symbols to her. She would actually write out her transcriptions for homeworks & exams - the symbols were very large and sometimes a little hard to decipher, but really, she did fine. She was a *very* determined young woman, though! There are all sorts of things to get used to that are really obvious, but we sighted people just don't think of them. She taped all lectures, and listened to them at home a second time. I tried to remember to read out everything I wrote on the board (instead of saying, e.g. "it can be like this"). Actually, I can't remember if we did this, but it might help to have the helper write down what gets written on the board, so that she could read it to the blind student later. Of course, the student and the helper made it very clear that the helper was not taking the class, and was not there to help the student study or learn, only to assist with the visual parts. They were careful to impress upon me that the student was doing this on her own and wasn't getting an unfair advantage or cheating by using the helper. (I never would have thought of that, myself, but they were at pains to convince me of this. Maybe they had had some problem in the past.) I guess we had some of the same problems with drawing trees when we got to syntax; I can't really remember that part. We must have used the same approach. And then for exams, I read the questions onto a tape, and she took the exams apart from the other students, in a room where she could listen to the tapes. I gave her as long as she wanted, but I don't think she really took a lot of extra time. Altogether I found it a very interesting and fulfilling experience. Don't be shy to talk to the student about what would help - she's the best one to tell you. My student got an A in the class, I'm happy to report. Good luck! Monica ************************************************************************* Hi, I, too, once had a blind student. It was in a formal syntax class some years ago (intro to GB theory). The student was congenitally blind and had absolutely no concept of treehood (for syntax trees). HOWEVER, she had a very, very enhanced feeling for [bracketed [representations]] and could put the really complicated ones together faster than any of the others of us, including me. (she was also very, very smart!) I don't know if her case would represent anything more general or not ... later, Lynn Lynn Eubank Division of Linguistics Department of English Univ of North Texas Denton, TX 76203 USA eubank at unt.edu http://www.engl.unt.edu/~leubank **************************************************************************** *** Hi, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at U.C. Santa Barbara, and am blind. I'm not exactly sure what kind of help/advice you're wanting, but would be happy to assist in any way I can. Really the only issue here, in my opinion, is that the student needs to get the textbook and other course materials read on tape or put in Braille. There's a Braille version of the IPA out there, and it shouldn't be any problem for the student to type things up on a computer. There's certainly nothing intrincic about blindness that would need any special adaptation for a Linguistics course, except for getting the material in a format the student can access. Best, Robert Englebretson, UC Santa Barbara ******************************************************************** hi, i'm a blind linguistics student attending the university of binghamton or should i say binghamton university in new york; northern united states. please excuse the way i'm writing this email because i don't have much time on my hands. but, i am willing to answer any questions you may have about blind linguistics students. i was sent an email by professor Steven Straight at Binghamton University to answer any of your questions or to help you in any way that i can. i have my own talking computer given to me from the local state government and this is the tool that i use to do all my work. it costs about $4000-$5000 for a laptop of this sort. i also use state money to pay readers to read linguistics books for me. at first i started out by asking people or classmates to read my books for me seeing the fact that they have to read the books anyway and they didn't mind reading it out outloud. all my linguistics classes were relatively good except for a few that were exceptionally difficult: 1. phonology and phonetics, 2. syntax, 3. structure of ukatek maya. these courses were hard because i had to work with symbols that i could not see and tree diagrams and such. but, i used grade 2 braille and made up my own equivalents for these symbols when i had to speak about them in front of anyone. otherwise, i would just have the people who are reading to me be very discriptive about the topics and i would go over it until i understood; sometimes they would have to draw the symbols in my hands with a finger or they would use elmer's glue on a piece of paper and when it dried i was able to feel the symbol and store them. i think the best keys to getting through linguistics as a blind student are: 1. knowing how to type 2. try always to understand the basic concepts 3. always make those who are reading for you describe the concepts and symbols until you understand 4. always improvise using the skills you already have if you have any more questions or you want to know more about how i get things done please email me and i'll get back to you as soon as possible. this week is difficult for me because i'm trying to graduate. but after the 10th of may i can answer all your questions in full detail step by step.... i see no obstacle in linguistics for a blind student; one must just know how to use the right tools.... michael villafane bf80721 at binghamton.edu linguistics major french literature major **************************************************************************** * We had a blind student studying French/German/linguistics, and I was his supervisor for three years. \140A lot of our coping with him relied on his computer, but sometimes that was over-sophisticated (in my opinion!) In phonetics we got by using a transcription system developed by a colleague where place of articulation was represented numerically, voicing by a preceding point vs no point, manner/aperture by a following letter. So /p/ is "1"; /b/ is ".1"; /f/ is "2b"; /v/ is ".2b" etc. Vowels are also represented by numbers, but preceded and followed by "-", semivowels preceded and followed by "=". Laborious to read (and write!), but since braille allows no non-alphabetic characters, no distinguishing between lower and upper case, no diacritics, it had to do! Syntax was a nightmare - someone in the computing service was writing a tree-generating program at the time, but the student couldn't get on with it, so my colleagues relied on brackets, which got exceedingly complicated and meant that the student could only take it so far. He ended up having to do options which didn't entail this sort of representation (eg sociology of language). We had also tried paper on which a heated pen produces bumps in the hope that he'd be able to read diagrams (e.g. simple sociolinguistic networks), but since he'd been blind from birth he had very poor spatial awareness and was unable to make sense of them. Another blind student who was here at the same time,and who had not been born blind fared better with that. Hope this is helpful. I vaguely remember contact with someone (poss at University College London?) who was developing an alternative phonetic script, but I'm afraid I can't remember the details, or who it was! Ros Temple ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ros(alind) A. M. Temple, Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, ramt1 at york.ac.uk Heslington, direct: + 44.1904.432671 York YO1 5DD dept sec: + 44.1904.432650 England / Lloegr fax: + 44.1904.432673 **************************************************************************** * read your appeal for ideas to help in the teaching of a blind student on the Linguist net. Our experience here is different, as teaching a degree in English Language and Literature makes different demands, but since this university also has no means for dealing with this kind of student (we have had two in the last six years) and only occasional support was offered by the ONCE (Spanish organization for the blind) perhaps the following observations may be of help. - In large classes (we have over 150 in badly designed rooms, poor acoustics) it is important that the student should be sitting somewhere that ensures s/he will hear everything clearly. If the blind student is using a braille typewriter to take notes, teachers have to remember that the time it takes to take notes is longer, and make allowances accordingly. Having helpful students sitting beside him/her will provide support. In an EFL course, where lectures were given in English, our blind students frequently had to have words spelt out, and novice teachers had to remember that visual supports (OHP, blackboard) were not available to the blind, and again, had to make allowances for this. - Exams and term papers. We had two alternative procedures. One was an oral interview/exam, and the other was computer-based. Our blind candidates were provided with software to convert the normal keyboard to braille, and allowed teachers to read it back alphabetically. If you don't know where to get hold of this software, I suppose a local organization for the blind can help. If not, I can find out for you locally. - Background readings were not a problem in this kind of degree as a lot of the set texts are available either in braille or in Penguin talking-books version. In Phonetics, when using the IPA, I "invented" transcription procedures , eg , EV1 for English vowel number one and "alphabetical" representations for consonant phonemes such as "sh" for voiceless affricate consonant, etc. As the kind of transcriptions required were relatively unsophisticated, and few allophonic variants needed to be recorded, again we were able to agree on ways of transcribing ( for example, upper case or lower case for "dark" or "light" /l/). As you can see, most solutions are "home-made". Some teachers found time to learn braille, but most of us relied on exchange of floppy disks which could be converted to/from braille. In retrospect, I feel that we could have done a lot better, but with such enormous numbers of students it was difficult to find time. I hope you get better ideas from other centres. Good luck! Fiona MacArthur University of Extremadura ******************************************************** But first let me tell you our own (not very encouraging) experience with a blind Egyptian student in Vienna. This was about 10-15 years ago. The only extra equipment he had was a walkman with which he recorded all the classes he attended. At a departmental meeting we decided to give him carte blanche to tape anything he wanted anywhere in the department without asking (an important point psychologically, I think). Fortunately he was interested in computers and in time managed to type up all his own notes (before that he had help from his brother, who also studied linguistics). He also had general help from other students, especially in getting around the building. He finished up running his own software firm for blind people, specializing in multilingual applications. That would have been a nice ending for the story, but when I met him about 3 months ago he said that MS Windows had put him out of business with its Accessibility utilities. ************************************************************* I have experience teaching the blind and visually challenged. I used a scanner to scan texts and then converted the texts to braille with a software package in MS DOS. This was not wholly successful. The students often complained of abreviated forms of words which forced them to guess what they were reading(I imagine as a badly photocopied text would be the same for us). The immediate and best way of getting the students to assimulate information and to enjoy doing so was to have them do tasks in small groups so that a sighted learner could read or present new information. My non -sighted learners either had a machine known as a "Perkins" machine, (a kind of braille typewriter(pretty noisy)) or a sort of clip board on which they fastened a piece of paper (heavy paper) so that they could then punch holes in it with a small tool. The paper is then reversed and the learner reads the "bumps". My recommendation to you given the cost effective means that you require would be to plan the lessons with all of the learners in mind, putting an emphasis on small group work. Make the groups yourself so that each group can help explain and present new information to the non sighted learner. If you do this from the beginning of the semester then the class won't resent it. They'll treat it as part of your particular class and be prepared to split into different groups. If you can have the non -sighted learner present one day -- all the better for the group! In situations where you need to convey large amounts of information - lectures etc. Have the lesson tape recorded so that the student can work privately and independently. My best wishes, Angela Evans. *************************************** Angela Evans MS Program in Computational Linguistics Georgetown University evansa at gusun.georgetown.edu http://www.georgetown.edu/users/evansa/ **************************************************************************** ******* ) The website www.taevisionline.purdue.edu has scientific things available in Braille, but not linguistics There is a technology called 'capsule paper' which you use to copy the image and then when you heat the paper, the image and Braille dots raise!! 2) But no linguistics, so the professor who 'developed a way to automate transcription of mathematical and scientific formulas into Braille' is: Fred E. Lytle Professor, chemistry Purdue - West Lafayette Purdue WL 765-494-5261; home: 765-743-3224 Internet: lytle at chem.purdue.edu 3) And from a newsclipping: "Within the past year, a new medium, capsule paper, has made it possible to create tactile graphics from a computer file. After an image is copied onto it, the capsule paper is heated, making the areas covered with copier toner expand and rise. A special heating unit, which costs less than $1500, is needed to produce the tactile images." I wonder if a hair dryer would work??? Anyway, I suggest you contact Prof. Lytle and find out what translation programs are available. Good luck. Ronnie I noticed your posting to LINGUIST. I currently have a visually impaired graduate student in linguistics and have had one as an undergraduate also. Both students had some vision but could not read normal type, see the blackboard or overhead projector. In the U.S., disabled students at universities are entitled to "reasonable accommodations" and are further assisted by the university. Given the limited resources you describe, I'll mention what I have done which may be possible for you to adapt to your situation. In each case, any materials that I provided (syllabus, handouts, material on overhead transparencies, exams, etc.) were produced in a large font (18 pt. for these students) or enlarged on a photocopier. These students also had a strategy for note-taking. In the case of the graduate student, Disabled Student Services provided an hourly wage for another student in the class to take the notes. The undergraduate audio-recorded the class sessions - a much better approach I think because otherwise the student who is taking notes is too pre-occupied with the task and it is distracting to his/her own learning process. Dealing with published materials is more difficult. Both students had individuals read for them. The higher the level of student, the greater the number of articles, chapters etc. that have to be read. It is important for the teacher to adjust the presentation of material so that everything that is said does not rely on the ability to see. For example, one cannot say "consider the third point on the list" - rather one has to mention exactly what it is. Expressions such as "here" "there" "that one" are meaningless to the visually impaired. If the student has no visual ability, then aural presentation of material and recording of lectures/class discussions are the only approaches. A mentor serves a valuable role provided the student and mentor have a good rapport. Another student or group of students willing to help out is also valuable for general assistance and study purposes. Students are less reluctant to pose questions to one another. If I can provide any further information, please let me know. ******************************** Debra M. Hardison, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics/ESL University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 <dmhardison at ucdavis.edu> I had a blind student last year, and I found that I struggled to get across at one on one tutorials. Then I came right - I was not making "eye-contact". Once I realised that and adjusted, our relationship and the quality of our tuts blossomed! She clearly had sensed my unease, but became receptive and participatory once I realised that she was a normal person with a disadvantage! A bit like asking a blind persons's friend at tea time "does she take sugar?" Hope this little touch (no pun!) helps! Dear Dave Gough I have a little experience, having taught beginners Russian to a group including a blind student some years ago. One thing we got right was having a conversation before classes began in which I asked the student what she would expect from me as a teacher, and in which I said how I thought I should modify my teaching. There were great misconceptions on both sides (the student had been to a special school before university, and assumed that things that specialist teachers did as a matter of course would be second nature to university lecturers too). The student was the inspiration of the department for four years, and left to take up a good job in Paris. Good luck, I hope things go well Greville G. Corbett Linguistic and International Studies University of Surrey Guildford email: g.corbett at surrey.ac.uk Surrey, GU2 5XH FAX: +44 1483 259527 Great Britain phone: +44 1483 300800 ext 2849 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-10-710


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You already know in many ways how your checking account works. You write paper checks, withdraw money from an automated teller machine (ATM), or pay with a check card. Your paycheck might go by "direct deposit" into your account, or you might deposit checks at a bank's teller window or ATM.
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Checks are being handled in some new ways these days and those changes can affect how you handle your money.
Electronic processing may be even more common in the future, but one thing will not change: You will continue to have the right to dispute any mistakes and clear up problems with your account, whether or not you have the original check.
Does it matter if my check is processed more quickly?
Traditionally, when you wrote a check, the paper check was transported from bank to bank before the money was taken out of your account. Now that many checks are being processed electronically, money may be taken out of your account more quickly. To avoid bounced checks and related fees, you must be sure you have enough money available in your account to cover each check when you write it (and when you withdraw funds at an ATM).
What are the different ways my check can be processed now?
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Can I tell how my check is being processed?
You probably will be able to tell how your check was processed, after the fact, by looking at your bank statement. Your bank is required to list every EFT transaction in your monthly bank statement, including the dollar amount, the date the transaction cleared, and the name of the recipient. Electronic transactions may be grouped together, apart from your regular check transactions.
May I choose the processing method for my check?
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Can I get my cancelled checks with my bank statement?
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Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom is set to join Derby on loan for the remainder of the season, Press Association Sport understands.
Steve McClaren has wanted to bring in a new defender since becoming head coach at the Sky Bet Championship club at the beginning of this month and the former England manager made an approach for the versatile Wisdom, who can play at both right-back and central defence, over the weekend.
McClaren made his move after seeing Zak Whitbread, on loan from Leicester, suffer a calf strain during the first half of the Rams' 3-2 league win at Watford on Saturday.
Despite initially forcing his way into Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers's team, Wisdom has seen his first-team opportunities at Anfield limited this season.
The summer acquisitions of Aly Cissokho, Mamadou Sakho, Kolo Toure and Tiago Ilori have pushed him down the pecking order.
The England Under-21 international has made a total of 22 appearances for the Reds but during the current campaign has played only two Barclays Premier League games, including a solitary start at Swansea, and a Capital One Cup outing.
Wisdom, 20, joined Liverpool's youth set up from Bradford in 2008.
Meanwhile, Derby are also thought to be interested in West Brom midfielder George Thorne.
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Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers is a group exhibition featuring diverse visual art media that explore the intimate and exotic realm of surface texture which evokes visceral, multi-sensory responses. Throughout the history of art making, the artist's relationship with surface has been a serious consideration. Renaissance artists, striving for illusion, expected the viewer to ignore the surface. Modernists embraced the surface and made it a primary consideration. Postmodernity does whatever it feels like with surface. Now, the digital revolution has allowed viewers to "interact with" the surfaces of gadgets; but still, an illusion is all that is ultimately permitted. This leaves the curious soul of the viewer with the desire to touch, connect, cut, penetrate, peel away and expose layers. As artists, we are aware that surface is ours to manipulate, whether it is a mask of superficiality, a final layer of honesty or a cloak of mystery. The book Flatland, written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, is loosely referenced in the exhibition, as it provides a philosophical look at a two-dimensional world, exploring abstract concepts of shape, line and point, and highlighting "a world within the surface." This exhibition is curated by Lea Anderson, and artists were selected by both invitation and a call for submissions.
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|Marie-Michèle Jasmin-Bélisle
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Experimental Ceramic Monoprinting
SCREENING: Wednesday, April 3, 7:30pm
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ARTIST TALK: Wednesday, April 17, 6pm (at CNM)
Melissa Gwyn: Fabergenic
WORKSHOP: Sunday, April 28, 9am-4pm
Wax/Image/Surface: Possibilities in Encaustic Collage
ARTIST TALK/DEMO: Saturday, May 11, 3pm
Nicole Dextras: Urban Forages {house of eco-drifters}
read: Beyond the Surface at 516 ARTS, by Eva Avenue, Pyragraph Online Magazine, March 2013
Special thanks to Basement Films, Bella Roma B&B, Elia's Kitchen, KUNM Radio 89.9 FM, Don Mickey Designs, National Hispanic Cultural Center and Stubblefield Screenprint. This exhibition is made possible in part by McCune Charitable Foundation and The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation.


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All-Time Record
The teams have never met in the U.S. Open Cup.
Game Info
When: 10 p.m. ET, Wed., April 14
Where: Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Eventually, a berth in the U.S. Open Cup. The winner of this match will face the winner of FC Dallas-D.C. United for a spot in the full field. The Quakes have failed to advance that far in their two seasons since being re-formed in 2008. RSL last qualified for the field in 2006, when they were knocked out in the round of 16 by the Colorado Rapids.
Last meeting
Real Salt Lake blasted San Jose 3-0 on March 27 in the teams' MLS regular-season opener. Javier Morales jump-started the campaign with a 35-yard blast to open the scoring. Fabián Espíndola blocked an attempted clearance with his chest to pot the second goal, then drew a free kick at the edge of the box to set up Morales, who scored again on a gorgeously curled kick to the far post.
Heroes and villains
Jon Busch vs. Pablo Campos: Busch, the 2008 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year, hasn't played since landing in San Jose after his surprising dismissal from Chicago just before the season began. This is a perfect spot for him to make his Quakes debut, even if it is with a defense that will definitely be replacing Ike Opara (at school) and probably Jason Hernandez, who should get a rest leading into the weekend. Campos is no guarantee for RSL, having been sidelined all season by a pesky calf injury, but going up against his old side -- San Jose traded Campos to RSL in July -- would be a good way to ease the Brazilian striker back onto the field.
Ramón Sánchez vs. Will Johnson: Sánchez, captain of the El Salvador national team, played a fairly big part in the Quakes' late-season surge last year, but he's barely been able to get off the bench for San Jose this season, clocking only 11 minutes late in the win over Chicago. Sánchez is expected to start Wednesday, giving him a chance to make a good impression. Johnson, meanwhile, will have to shoulder more of the load in the midfield. RSL clearly outshone San Jose in that area during their earlier victory, but starters Javier Morales and Ned Grabavoy will miss the contest due to injury.
Stat that makes you go, "Hmmm"
The Quakes have never beaten an MLS team in U.S. Open Cup play, going 0-6 in full-field matches and 0-2 in play-in matches – including a 4-0 defeat to RSL in 2008.
He said it
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Weaknesses in the architecture behind the Internet mean that surfing can sometimes lead to slow speeds and a tiresome wait for a video to load. Redeveloping the whole architecture of the Internet is an option recently discussed even by the Fathers of the Internet. However, a group of European engineers decided to go the opposite way and to monitor traffic and tailor services to meet demand.
There is no single entity behind the Internet. It is made up of different networks that are managed by service providers. These service providers — or operators — manage what data is being sent and monitor the amount of traffic being used in terms of simple web browsing, multimedia streaming, or peer-to-peer file sharing. When the data traffic on a network is too dense, bottlenecks can occur, slowing the delivery of information to your computer, which can result in a slower Internet experience. A European EUREKA-backed project entitled Traffic Measurements and Models in Multi-Service (TRAMMS) networks, incorporating teams from Sweden, Hungary, and Spain, aimed to solve this issue by gaining access to Internet networks run by operators in both Sweden and Spain and monitoring traffic over a period of three years. This gave them an excellent insight into user behavior, enabling them to accurately measure network traffic so that in the future, service providers know how much capacity is needed and can avoid bottlenecks.
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The particularity of this research project is that the team of experts taking part in it was given access to very sensitive data on Internet traffic measurements. Operators normally tend to guard this information jealously as it constitutes their core business. "Internet traffic measurements are very difficult to find if you are not an operator," said Andreas Aurelius, coordinator of the project and senior scientist at Acreo AB, one of the project partners. Previous research in this field has normally been limited to campus networks, and limited to a geographical area. "That is one of the unique things about this project," he says. "We were using data in access networks, not campus networks as most researchers do."
The type of information the project monitored were designed to get an overall view of traffic passing through the networks. This included IP traffic (the flow of data on the Internet), routing decisions (the selection of which path to send network traffic), quality of service (giving priority to certain applications, such as multimedia), and available bandwidth. This was innovative as the partners developed new tools that measured traffic that gave a complete picture of a network. These tools, already targeted for use by many operators will make web browsing considerably faster.
"For everyday users, this means better quality for multimedia services over the Internet, like streaming for example" said Aurelius.
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Another question to be answered was how the team was able to acquire all of this information without flouting any privacy laws. The answer is that through agreements with the operators, the partners had access to certain information, but not all of it. "The information was post-processed, so it only contained data. It wasn't linked to any customers or IP addresses. We could see what type of application was being used, for example if it was peer-to-peer, but we couldn't see what file was downloaded," said Aurelius.
The team managed to collect an astonishing 3,000 terabytes of data over the three years of the project, which allowed them to study trends and changes over an extended period of time amid a continuous influx of information.
The project was also notable for the fact that a number of the processes that were carried out are under consideration by the International Telecommunication Union to become standardized forms of measurement. An example of these standards is Bandwidth Available in Real Time (BART), which monitors available bandwidth between a sender and a receiver in a network such as the Internet.
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Aurelius is now working on a follow-up project entitled IPNQSIS. This project deals with quality of experience in network services, such as voice over IP (VoIP), video on demand (VoD), IPTV, and so on. These are sectors where network service providers are expecting huge revenue opportunities and need to improve the quality of the offered services as perceived by the users. This makes the topic an ideal follow-up project for the team that already worked on TRAMMS.
The TRAMMS project came to a conclusion at the end of 2009 and the first results are impressive. No less than five companies have taken up the methodology used for traffic measurements: Ericsson, Procera, Telnet-RI, NAUDIT, and GCM Communications Technology.