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WBU SIFE team works in area schools
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University's Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team is wrapping up a month of working with elementary students in area schools.
Several business students at Wayland have been working at schools in Lorenzo, Crosbyton, Lockney and Estacado Junior High in Plainview and will be heading to Crowell, Hale Center and Tulia, implementing a curriculum that teaches elementary students about business and entrepreneurship.
"We feel very strongly that these kids are our future business leaders," said Amber Barrera, a junior from Crowell, who is heading the project. "If we are not going to teach them about business and ethics, then nobody is going to teach them."
The team's curriculum is designed to meet specifications for the TAKS test which has elementary schools all over the state scrambling to meet education standards.
"This hits one of the business components of TAKS," Barrera said. "We teach them about supply and demand. We teach them about advertising and why it is so important to advertise your business. We teach them what an entrepreneur is and why it is important to become an entrepreneur."
The group gives students a pre-test to determine where they stand in their business knowledge. After working through the curriculum, the students are tested again to see what they have learned. Barrera said this is also done so the team can measure its results.
Once the teaching is done, team members introduce students to an interactive entrepreneur game at www.disney.com called Hot Shot Business. Students get to chose between running a pet spa or comic shop. Using what they have learned, they develop their own business. The program runs for six weeks.
"At the end of each week, it gives you a run down of how much you gained that week and how much you lost," Barrera explained. "It kind of outlines weekly goals for them. We discuss that with them then they use what they have learned to make a bigger profit."
Barrera said the SIFE team also develops different projects for the students, including things such as check writing.
"We tell them a little bit about bank statements and how important they are," Barrera said. "We give them deposit slips and they get to deposit some play money. Then we teach them about financial management."
The SIFE team has spent all of February working on the volunteer project which will stretch into March, hoping to promote business education.
"We want to help our communities gain a little more understanding about what entrepreneurship is and why it is so important," she said.


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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Coker's Bryce Arnott (Melbourne, Australia) scored a season high 13 points, but it was not enough to lead the Cobras to victory as they lost to Mount Olive 68-62. The Conference Carolinas loss drops the men's basketball team to 6-4 overall and 0-1 in conference play.
Mount Olive outscored Coker 39-30 in the opening half, with the Cobras holding a 32-29 advantage in the second half. However, the second half outpouring was not enough for the Cobras to pick up a win.
Coker trimmed the Trojan lead to just four points with only a minute remaining, but free throws by Craig Hayes and Jordan McCain down the stretch put the game out of Coker's reach.
Along with Arnott's 13 points, Andrew Morris (Melbourne, Australia) added 11 points and Julian Nelson (Irmo, S.C.) chipped in 10.
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A declining tax base has left Detroit in a deep fiscal hole and at risk of a state takeover.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Detroit has pulled itself back off the ledge.
The city council narrowly approved a deal Wednesday night that grants the city the power to void contracts and slash costs amid looming financial insolvency.
The deal, which provides no state funding or loans, was backed by Mayor Dave Bing and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.
Snyder issued a statement shortly after the 5-4 vote commending the council for acting "responsibly," but said there is still work to be done.
"The magnitude of the city's financial challenges means that many difficult decisions lie ahead," Snyder said. "We must build on this spirit of cooperation and be willing to act in the city's long-term interests."
The city council vote avoids a more controversial step: Snyder was poised to invoke Michigan law and appoint an "emergency manager" to assume the powers of the mayor and council to run Detroit's day-to-day operations.
He had until Thursday to take such action.
The possibililty of a state takeover drew fierce opposition from unions -- in a city that remains a bastion of labor power.
The city council was under pressure from the public and unions to reject the deal with the state. At the same time, it would have lost its powers if Snyder went ahead and named an emergency manager.
Detroit still faces some tough fiscal decisions.
Years of decline in population and businesses and a shrinking of the tax base have pushed Detroit into a deep financial hole despite a recent resurgence in the U.S. auto industry.
Without more cost cutting, the city won't be able to pay its bills come June. An estimate in January, the most recently available, was that the city would be down to $20.9 million in the bank by the end of this week.
While Detroit's own finances continue to struggle, the U.S. automakers based in or near the city have enjoyed a financial resurgence.
General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) reported a record profit in 2011. And a pick-up in auto sales and hiring has led to a nearly two-point drop in Michigan's unemployment over the last 12 months, the biggest improvement of any state.
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The British Government's recent reaction in the Tzipi Livni case is only just the latest episodes in a series of shameful European surrenderings against the mighty power of Israel and its lobbies. Belgium succumbed to Israel in 2003 in nearly the same conditions when a case was lodged against Ariel Sharon in its courts. Sharon has under his belt the masterminding of Sabra and Shatila amongst the mildest of his atrocities. Later described by Bush II as a "man of peace", the man is now in a coma on his way to death, denying thousands of people their right to justice with the full complicity of Europe. Spain followed suit earlier this year and amended its laws to make it impossible to put Israeli subjects to trial on war crimes. This week, Britain's Miliband apologises: "The Government is looking urgently at ways in which the UK system might be changed in order to avoid this sort of situation arising again ".
Evident is the fact that Israel and its lobbies in European countries have for long known that a proper court is no venue for propaganda. The standard arsenal of deceit and bold lies cannot navigate the rough landscape of evidence, reason and the law. One would think that a reasonable legal system would hold every defendant to the same law and the same treatment. One would believe that accused defendants clear themselves in court. Not in Europe.
Netanyahu charges: "We will not accept a situation in which [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Olmert, [Defence Minister] Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni will be summoned to the defendants' chair", publicly declaring that any Israeli politician is beyond the law, beyond questioning for any war crimes or crimes against humanity. Such a nefarious statement comes from the same man who continues, just as arrogantly and shamelessly, to license building settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, to order routine raids on the Palestinian territories and to effectively give the peace process the death sentence at a time when an American administration just might be looking for a real end to the conflict.
Europe and America cannot expect Israel to work for peace while pretending that she is beyond the law. Europe and Obama are being humiliated by Netanyahu who refuses to react positively to their calls for a solution, appearing powerless without anything to bargain for. But now British politicians would rather castrate any power that could hold sway over Israel, even the law itself. Israel will again give them the same treatment that can be expected from a nation that doesn't stand to lose anything by doing as she wishes, from building more settlements to murdering thousands of civilians and anything in between.
Israel sympathisers speak of Palestinians and people working for their cause "hijacking the courts" for their own gains. What they really mean is that the Palestinians do not deserve justice and that the courts should by default not uphold them as equal humans. The self-evident fact that the law is the text and the text is nonnegotiable for anyone is suddenly forgotten. Benedict Brogan in the Indepedant does one step better and singles out all muslims who sought justice in British courts as unworthy of it. "Britain's judicial system is being used to help the bad guys" he thinks. To him, any muslim victim is a bad guy by nature. Nothing will appease these guys apart from codifying into law the exclusion of Muslims from any right to justice. Anyone seeking justice for these "bad guys" is a terrorist sympathiser or an anti-Semite, words that for all intents have long been emptied of any meaning.
With the principle of Universal Jurisdiction now dead, buried and forgotten next to the tomb of the separation of powers the war criminals of Israel and the world, with blood still fresh on their hands, can rejoice and party with the forgotten rights of those they oppress and the glory of the friendship and approval of western powers.


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Old Dominion Field Hockey to Join the BIG EAST in 2013
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Dec. 5, 2012
NORFOLK, Va. - The Old Dominion University field hockey program will join the BIG EAST Conference as an associate member on July 1, 2013, as announced on Wednesday by athletic director Dr. Wood Selig.
"We are grateful to BIG EAST commissioner Mike Aresco, associate commissioner Jim Siedliski and the BIG EAST membership for inviting us to join an elite group of academic institutions and provide our field hockey student-athletes with a high level of competition," said Selig. "There is no question that the success of our field hockey program over the last 30 years with nine NCAA titles and 15 conference titles as a CAA member will add value to the BIG EAST's success and national recognition. The BIG EAST, in turn, will enhance ODU's opportunity to qualify and advance in the NCAA tournament."
The addition of Old Dominion provides the BIG EAST with eight field hockey members and an automatic qualifier for the league champion to the NCAA tournament. Member schools include Louisville, Rutgers, Connecticut, Georgetown, Temple, Providence and Villanova. Syracuse, who advanced to this year's national semifinals, will depart the BIG EAST this year to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.
"Old Dominion is an excellent addition to the BIG EAST for field hockey," said Aresco. "They will help BIG EAST field hockey maintain its elite, national status."
Old Dominion University announced in May that it would join Conference USA effective July 1, 2013. The sport of field hockey is not offered as a C-USA championship sport, along with wrestling and women's lacrosse. ODU announced in September that the wrestling program will join the Mid- American Conference as an associate member in 2013.
Old Dominion University has competed as a field hockey member of the CAA since 1992, winning the regular season title 14 times and tournament title 15 times. This past fall the Lady Monarchs posted a perfect 7-0 record in the conference, however like other ODU teams they were not eligible to compete for the CAA tournament championship due to ODU's announcement to join Conference USA. The Lady Monarchs earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals, falling to NCAA runner-up North Carolina.
The BIG EAST has claimed two NCAA titles, both by Connecticut, in 1981 and 1985. Member schools have made 30 appearances in the NCAA championship tournament, nine since 2008 and a BIG EAST team has advanced to the national semifinals seven times.
ODU hosted the NCAA Division I national championship on Nov. 16 and 18 this year, and will host the tournament again next year on Nov. 22 and 24. Next year's event will also include the championship games of Division II and III, in addition to the Division I final on Sunday, Nov. 24.
Old Dominion head coach Beth Anders retired at the end of the 2012 season as the winningest all-time coach in Division I with 561wins over 30 seasons with the Lady Monarchs. Under her leadership, ODU advanced to the NCAA tournament a record 30 times, 17 times to the championship round, and the nine NCAA titles also remains an NCAA record by one school. The University is currently conducting a national search for Anders' replacement.


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The new Kindle Fire HDX tablet is giving Microsoft's Surface 2 a run for its money as a business device even though the Surface 2 won't be available until next month.
Kindle HDX can view Microsoft Office applications via OfficeSuite Viewer, can grab emails from a corporate Exchange server via ActiveSync, prints wirelessly and supports Bluetooth keyboards and mice.
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It supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and LTE (from AT&T or Verizon).
The company promises more: hardware device encryption, VPN support, single sign-on via the Amazon Silk browser that comes with the device and support for digital certificates.
Amazon provides Whispercast, a Web tool for distributing apps and documents.
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The price for the 64GB Kindle with LTE is $579, and without LTE it's $479. The 64GB Kindle without LTE is $549, and no word on what the version with LTE will cost when it comes out next year.
Depending on how well the Android-based Kindles sell this holiday season, IT departments with BYOD policies could start seeing them show up in the office. Android-based tablets sell much better than Windows RT tablets.
Has the Surface 2 Mini been announced already?
CNET reports that based on analysts' information, Microsoft is working on a 7.5-inch Surface 2 due out next year. It ties that together with an earlier Microsoft statement that Windows RT is based on ARM processors for their built-in mobile broadband support, indicating the Mini might have broadband.
This week Microsoft promised a Surface tablet next year with mobile broadband. Perhaps this is the Mini. What the company said doesn't rule it out: "We didn't talk about it today, but Surface 2 will be launching an awesome LTE SKU early next year!" says Microsoft's Surface vice president Panos Panay in a Reddit chat.
Microsoft sews up the Windows RT market
Now that Dell has dumped its own XPS Windows RT tablet, Microsoft is the only hardware vendor using the platform, which is a bundled hardware-software package based on ARM chips that hasn't seen much uptake in its first year of existence.
That means that if Microsoft hadn't decided to make its own hardware, likely nobody would be selling Windows RT right now. Given that pure hardware vendors know a thing or two about what sells, Windows RT has received a resounding thumbs-down.
Microsoft announced a blade cover/keyboard this week when it unveiled its upgraded Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets that could offer some interesting possibilities for programmers.
The blade shown off by Microsoft is a snap on touchpad very much like a Touch Cover 2 keyboard only it's embossed with a 16-key number pad and three sliders for mixing music.
But given that the Remix Project is based on the basic keyboard hardware, it seems programmers could write code for it that would do something else besides typing characters and mixing music perhaps drawing and painting, controlling industrial equipment, whatever.Opening up an API for the keyboards and turning it loose on developers would no doubt generate a lot more possibilities.
The color purple
The Verge recalled that last year just after Windows 8 launched a Microsoft ad showed a hypothetical Bill Gates text to Steve Ballmer, suggesting a purple Type Cover keyboard for Surface tablets. This week, Microsoft announced a purple Type Cover.
Gates still has clout.
Here's the ad, with Gates's text shown at 13 sec.
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Activity picking up across the economy
The last few years have been difficult for business, but companies in most sectors are expecting significantly better sales and earnings this year. Financial services, telecoms, pharmaceuticals and capital goods industries are set to lead the sector advance in 2004, whereas the construction and watchmaking sectors are still suffering from contracting demand and earnings. These are the results of a broad-based UBS survey of 4300 companies in 27 main sectors and 95 sub-sectors of the economy.
In 2003, sales of the companies participating in the UBS survey were close to flat on aggregate. Trends varied greatly from one sector to another, however. Eleven sectors saw an increase in business volume, while fifteen registered a decline. The weak economy left an even bigger dent in earnings than in sales, with only ten sectors reporting higher profits and seventeen a downturn. The industries reporting the heftiest drops were watchmaking and tourism, which both felt the full effect of the decline in international travel due to the sluggish economy, the war in Iraq and, in the first half of the year, the SARS virus. At the other end of the spectrum were firms in the financial services sector, which reported a strong rebound from the extremely depressed or even negative levels of the previous year. The pharmaceutical industry was able to lift its earning power yet again with impressive consistency.
Sales growth in 2004
In view of the brighter economic prospects worldwide, the companies surveyed are strikingly unanimous in their optimism for the current year. Only the construction sector fears that it could see a renewed drop in business volume and despite signs of a recovery, watchmakers are not convinced that sales will rise. Apart from this, sector expectations are predominantly optimistic. The turnaround should be most apparent in the capital goods, commerce & logistics, consultancy & communications sectors, the consumer goods industries and tourism. Banks, insurance companies and pharmaceuticals continue to be growth leaders, joined this time by the telecommunications and electrical engineering industries.
Most companies expect better earnings
Earnings forecasts for 2004 are also positive, even if they do not quite match sales predictions. Nevertheless, most companies in as many as 20 sectors expect to see an improvement in their results and, with the exception of health and social services as well as architecture and engineering, the other seven should now be over the worst. Companies in the financial services and capital goods sectors as well as consultancy & communications are also particularly confident.
Ongoing price erosion
After coming under widespread pressure from competition and sluggish demand in the past year, prices will only begin to firm again gradually in some areas next year. On aggregate for all the companies surveyed, the erosion of prices is continuing at only a slightly diminished pace, with only seven of the 27 sectors surveyed reporting an improvement. This was most noticeable in the insurance sector where another rise in premiums is expected across all lines. Whereas prices in other sectors seem to have bottomed out, companies in the pharmaceuticals industry and the health and social services sector are expecting increased downward pressure on prices.
Recruitment is lagging behind
As can be seen in every phase of the business cycle, the job market initially tends to react with some delay to an emerging upturn. Overall, only seven sectors hired additional staff in 2003, with employment levels declining everywhere else. For the current financial year, eight sectors report that they need to recruit more staff and five confirm they can manage with current staffing levels. Our survey reveals that the pharmaceuticals industry, IT services, telecommunications and real estate show the greatest potential, but on balance the picture is one of a slight reduction in workforce.
Stabilizing effect of SMEs
Breaking our survey down by company size reveals that large companies experience the greatest fluctuations in economic growth. In fact, in terms of sales and earnings growth, the former saw the largest falls in the past financial year of all sectors, but conversely, they are now the most optimistic on both counts for 2004. The comparatively steadier performance of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) is also reflected in virtually unchanged staff numbers.
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TORONTO - An exhibition celebrating the late British fashion trailblazer who helped launch the career of renowned designer Alexander McQueen is coming to Canada.
Famed fashion editor and stylist Isabella Blow will be the focus of "Fashion Blows." The fundraising event and exhibit co-presented by The Isabella Blow Foundation and Hudson's Bay is slated to kick off in Toronto next month.
This will be the first international audience for the exhibit which opened at Somerset House in London last fall. The showcase featured Blow's personal collection of more than 100 designer garments, including some of the late McQueen's earliest designs and many of royal milliner Philip Treacy's most dramatic hats.
Before Blow committed suicide in 2007 at age 48, she was one of the most influential personalities in fashion. Her career began in the early 1980s as an assistant to U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, followed by stints in London at Tatler and British Vogue. She became fashion director of the Sunday Times Style and later returned to Tatler as a fashion director.
She is widely credited for discovering McQueen at his graduate fashion show, purchasing his entire collection and then promoting him long before he became internationally known. McQueen committed suicide in 2010.
Funds raised at the Toronto event will sponsor a Canadian fashion student to join the MA program at Central Saint Martins in London and will also support Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
"Fashion Blows" will open to the public at The Room at Hudson's Bay on Queen Street in downtown Toronto on Oct. 23 and will feature a number of significant pieces from Blow's collection, such as items from McQueen, Treacy and designer Hussein Chalayan. Admission is free for the capsule exhibit which will run for 16 days.
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This provides a structured way to enter and edit your information for display within the site. Using these fields as they are intended is beneficial for the website because it makes it possible to selectively display a faculty member's first name, last name, title, photo, bio, etc.
Website news items associated with you are dynamically displayed (you don't have to add them, the system does) within your profile.
Any fields that you leave blank won't display on your profile, though we recommend you make use of as many as make sense for you since there are character limits for each field, and loading all of your information into one field could create problems. If the title of an empty field does display, place your cursor in the box and hit delete or backspace to get rid of any inadvertent (and invisible) characters.
First Steps
Enter first name, last name and title.
In the Title area, enter any roles you have with the College. Be sure to note an endowed chair. With your cursor in that line, go to the "Format" drop down box and select "Heading 2".
Upload your profile photo. Click Select media, go to the Upload tab, click in the box or the Browse button and navigate to your photo (from your desktop or a folder on your machine), select and upload. If it is larger than the sidebar area, it will be scaled to fit. If it is a very large file to begin with, it might help to first resize it smaller and save it with a new name.
Set your department(s). This enables the profile to appear within the department site as well as keeps it from inadvertently showing up in the wrong department.
Topics: Ignore these as they are not currently being used in relation to profiles.
Entering & Formatting Content
Areas where you can put in free-formatted content have windows with editing toolbars. The label above the editing window will display as a header for that content, except for Title, Bio, and Other.
There are a number of fields for content which provides two benefits:
- More room for content.
Each field has a 5000 character limit, including code, so it's in best interests to split information up according to the provided structure. Long bios can be spread between the Title, Bio and Other fields.
- Display of select content.
This allows the site to show selected bits of a profile in appropriate spots, like just name, title and photo for listings. So when splitting up information, definitely make use of the Bio and Publications areas and use Other for extra information.
The Toolbar:
The first formatting options are fairly self-explanatory - bold, italic, left-justified, centered, right-justified, bulleted list and numbered list.
Add Link – highlight the text to be linked and click this icon to open the link interface.
Remove Link – put your cursor in linked text and click this to remove the link.
Image editor – select an image and click on this icon (or double click an image) to open this interface. Here you can resize an image. Be sure to set text format (see below) to "Full HTML".
Blockquote – indents a paragraph on the left and right, and gives a little more space above and below. There is also an option to simply indent a paragraph.
Styles – this dropdown box is contextual, the options it shows depends on where you are:
- links - options to add icons for links as seen at left.
- images - options to place it to the left or right while text wraps around it.
- tables - option for striped rows. (Set text format to "Full HTML".)
Tables – Use this to add tables to your page. See Editing an Article for more on table properties.
Text Format – This dropdown box below your editing window offers a few different choices. Whenever you are doing more than formatting text, like adding tables or images, switch it to Full HTML.
To add images, files, or embedded video or audio to your page:
- Put (click) your cursor in the location where you would like the image or linked file to appear
- Select the media icon in the toolbar of that content field
- Select an existing image, file or video, or upload your own.
Go to Uploading Media and Files for more in-depth guidance.
If the original image is quite large, it may need to be resized and saved for use on the web. We recommend 1200-1600 pixels wide.
Once inserted, you may go back to your image, click on it to select it, and continue formatting as needed. Use the styles to place it to the right or left of the text, the image editor to resize, or add a link. Set text format to "Full HTML".
Best Practices
The ideal browser to use is Firefox.
There are quirky behaviors when using IE, Safari or Chrome.
Copying & Pasting Text
Ideally, we want to bring over the cleanest text possible and do all formatting within the site's editor. This prevents bringing over unwanted code or formatting and saves frustration when the editor is not able to format copy as expected. The paste-from-word tool is the best way to achieve this whether copying and pasting from Word, another type of document or a web page.
Advanced method: change Text format to Filtered HTML and paste. This format strips all formatting but basic paragraphs.
Editing Copy
Studies show that online readers tend to quickly scan web pages for vital pieces of information rather than read text completely from top to bottom.
In answer to this, web copy should be in short chunks separated by sub-headers. Bulleted and numbered lists are also very web-friendly. Upload a CV for those requiring more detailed information.
Avoid using the words "click here" for links within your text. Visually-impaired visitors using screen readers can selectively read links within a page. Instead, use descriptive text that will tell a visitor clearly where the link will take them. When linking to a document, make use of the icons to provide a visual distinction between links to a web page or site and links to download a document.


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The court is located in four facilities on or near Foley Square in lower Manhattan. Foley Square is situated approximately two blocks north of the entrance ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge. The main courthouse is located on Foley Square at 60 Centre Street. There is a satellite facility at 80 Centre Street (across Worth Street), where courtrooms of several Justices and other segments of the court are located. A number of Justices have Chambers and courtrooms at 111 Centre Street. Finally, 71 Thomas Street, which is several blocks west of Foley Square, at the corner of West Broadway, houses courtrooms and Chambers for several Justices. Determine the precise location of a Justice, Part or courtroom.
Our facilities can be reached easily by public transportation:
On the East side of Manhattan, take the Lexington Avenue line (Nos. 4, 5, 6) and get off at "BROOKLYN BRIDGE/CITY HALL". On the West side, take the IRT Broadway line (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 9) and get off at "CHAMBERS STREET"; then walk four blocks east to Centre Street and turn left into Foley Square to reach the Centre Street facilities. To reach 71 Thomas Street, walk north from Chambers Street on Church Street and turn left on Thomas Street and proceed to the corner of West Broadway.
Take the M 101 or the M 102 down Lexington Avenue to City Hall, the M 15 down Second Avenue, or the M 5 to Broadway and Thomas Street.


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By Gordon Hewitt, sustainability advisor, ACCA
The COP18 climate negotiations came to a close in Doha on 8 December, a day later than scheduled and following an all-night final negotiation session.
The two-week conference resulted in nations signing the Doha Climate Gateway. This outcome document makes modest progress in addressing the risks associated with climate change, with the main points including a continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, reiteration of commitments on long-term climate finance and the inclusion of 'loss and damage' in a conference outcome document for the first time. The conference also saw progress on the Durban Platform (ADP) towards an agreement covering all countries by 2015.
The Kyoto Protocol, which is currently the only binding agreement under which developed countries have committed to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, has been extended for a period of eight years from 1 January 2013. Whilst the continuation does maintain some degree of forward momentum, it will not result in a major reduction in emissions, as many developed countries have not signed up to the second commitment period. Countries that have signed up include the EU, Norway and Australia; whilst those who have not include the US, Japan, Canada and Russia.
As the Protocol only covers around 15 per cent of emissions, forging an agreement that encompasses a much greater proportion of emissions will be a key focus of future negotiations. A critical challenge will be the distinction between developed and developing countries, as the world has changed enormously since the UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992, yet the classification of countries has remained the same.
Developed countries have reiterated their commitment to scale up climate finance, mobilising US$100bn per year by 2020, but practical commitments were scarce and few nations made any pledges that cover the period between 2013–2020. A number of European countries, including the UK, Germany, France and Denmark announced concrete finance pledges for the period up to 2015, totalling approximately US$6bn. The lack of further finance commitments was seen as a major disappointment from developing countries.
Much of the negotiation focused on the inclusion of 'loss and damage' proposals within the outcome document. This term refers to the dispersion of funds to vulnerable communities for the loss and damage caused by climate change. A particular opponent of this term was the US, who did not want any language connoting legal liability to be included in the text, as this could result in unlimited amounts of litigation. Whilst no international mechanism on loss and damage was set up in Doha, the possibility of setting one up in the future has been included in the agreement, a point that will undoubtedly be a major focus of COP19 in Poland next year.
A common criticism of UNFCCC negotiations has been the decision making process, which relies upon consensus between all parties. This has allowed nations to veto and block policies that are against national interest and resulted in many stalled negotiations and missed opportunities over the years. In order to address this issue, Mexico and Papua New Guinea have proposed to introduce majority voting to the COP process. This was not discussed officially in Doha, but will likely be included on the agenda of COP19.
Whilst some progress was made at COP18, it is widely regarded that the commitments made by governments to date are failing to address the risks posed by climate change and if emission levels are not curtailed soon, we will experience a level of warming that will have widespread negative consequences. The next two years leading up to 2015 are critical if governments are going to reach an agreement that will limit warming to 2C – the commonly agreed limit to avoid dangerous climate change.


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Tunisia defends 'provocative adverts' to woo tourists
Tunisia has defended a controversial advertising campaign to attract tourists who deserted the country after its revolution in January.
It includes billboards in London of a woman getting a massage, next to the words: "They say that in Tunisia some people receive heavy-handed treatment."
At least 200 people were killed during the Tunisian uprising which began in December.
It led to the collapse of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's regime.
Tourism is crucial to Tunisia's economy. With a population of little more than 10 million people, the industry provides about 400,000 jobs and is worth about $2.5bn (£1.5bn) to the economy.
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Syrine Cherif, whose advertising agency Memac Ogilvy came up with the campaign for the Tunisian Tourism Board, said it was intended to create a "buzz" among potential tourists in the UK and other countries.
"The idea was to be provocative to address possible fears around the issue of the Arab spring," she told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Other advertisements show ancient Roman ruins next to the words: "They say Tunisia is nothing but ruins."
She denied the campaign showed insensitivity towards Tunisians who had been jailed, tortured or killed during Mr Ben Ali's rule of 23 years.
"This unfair treatment was done by people who were in the dictatorship and now the dictatorship has gone. It's over. Today it's a new Tunisia," she said.
"The campaign is for foreigners, not targeting Tunisian people," she added.
Tunisia was the first country to be hit by the popular uprisings which have swept across North Africa and the Middle East.
Mr Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia in January after losing the support of the military.
His trial in absentia, for charges ranging from conspiring against the state to drug trafficking, starts on Monday.


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I recently was asked by some guys on my team if it was possible to get email notifications for every commit to svn with a description of what was removed, what was committed and a diff if possible. Now it seems like this would be easy and maybe even built into subversion so I checked into that first. There was a ruby script which can be made as a hook-script which is supposed to send email notifications. I spent quite some time trying to get it to work and didn't have much luck so I decided to research some other options. I ran across a python program which was written specifically for this task called svnmailer.
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The Horn of Valere
Setup rules:
- Speed: 5-7 day Days. 2-3 day Nights. Days will not end on weekend, and nights will include at least 24 hours of weekday (i.e. a Friday start will see a Monday finish). Deadline extensions given when needed. Lurkers will be replaced after modprod.
- Bastardry: May include alignment or win-condition changing roles. Some hidden mechanics may be present. The mod will speak no word that is not true. What conclusions you draw from that is up to you. Unlike Aes Sedai, the mod will not deliberately try to mislead you though!
- This game has one town faction. The town faction wins when all anti-town factions are eliminated. Their win condition is "You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated."
- This game has at least one anti-town faction. Anti-town factions win when town and all rival anti-town factions are defeated.
- This game may or may not have third-party factions. Their win conditions may or may not coincide with town/anti-town win conditions. A third-party faction win does not prevent a win for one of the other factions.
- There are no spoiler-reading or PM-listening type roles.
- No role is guaranteed to be sane.
- No role may self-target or target dead players unless otherwise specified.
- Role reveals are made the morning following death.
Voting rules:
- Votes and questions must be posted in bold and on a new line, like this:
Vote: jimbobmacdoodle
You must unvote to change votes, in bold and on a new line, like this:
Vote: Suzaku
- When someone gains a majority of the votes, they are automatically lynched, and daytime automatically ends whether or not the mod or co-mod is online to declare day-end. Posting after the hammer vote is not allowed, even if the hammer-vote was accidental. If you see that a hammer vote has been placed, please delete any post you were going to post. It is ok to post simply to indicate that a hammer vote was placed.
- If deadline is reached and no player has a majority of the votes, then the person with the most votes is lynched. If the votals are tied, then the player with the most who reached that total first will be lynched, unless all players have voted and exactly 2 people have been voted for. In that special case, there will be no lynch. If you don't understand this, please ask for clarification.
- You can vote to "NL" (no lynch). If "NL" gets the majority of the votes (or wins a tied votal), no one will be lynched.
Posting rules:
- No posting in this thread unless you are playing in it.
- No talking about this game except in this thread or in an appropriately titled spoiler in the discussion thread.
- No editing your posts. For any reason, at any time unless explicitly told to do so by the mod or co-mod.
- Do not lurk! Lurkers risk being replaced.
- You may post in thread until a hammer vote is placed or the mod or co-mod declare the day over. The mod will not declare day over until after the deadline.
- If all players explicit say they are happy to end the day early, e.g. because of an unbreakable tie, the mod may end the day before the deadline.
- You may not quote directly from your role PM or anything else from the mod or co-mod. Paraphrasing is fine.
- Only use bold text for voting, unvoting, asking the mod questions or stating important information (e.g. being away for 2-3 days). FoSses and similar may also be in bold.
- No reading spoilered posts for this game in the discussion thread.
- Mod statements (apart from these rules) will be posted in bold.
Death rules:
- You're alive until the mod tells you that you're dead, by PM or in thread.
- Once you die, you may no longer post in this thread, but you may read spoilers in the discussion thread. That is your consolation prize.
- Any exceptions to these rules will be explicitly stated in a player's role PM.
Private Message rules:
- You can ask the mod questions by PM if you'd rather not ask in thread.
- No PMing other players concerning this game unless your role specifically allows it and you CC the mod and co-mod in every
- If the game lasts to this year's Madness/Reckoning/Random Other Name the game may be paused. This will be discussed with the players and announced nearer the time.
- Flavour will be posted in italics.
- As lynching wasn't a particularly common thing in the Wheel of Time universe, a lynched or otherwise killed player may for purposes of flavour not be killed, but may be thrown into a dark cell, exiled, or otherwise removed from the scene of action. In any case, the mod will refer to them as being "dead" for clarity in bold.
- Characters mentioned in flavour may not be present in the game.
- The mod may include hints as to night actions in the flavour text, but then again may not.
- The game is set at the start of the second book in the series, The Great Hunt.
- The mod reserves the right to use characters who are not actually present in the book (or even the series), but this will be done sparingly.
Player list:
Diemo MadgeLynched D1 ChaneModkilled end of D2 mpoloDied N1 emlightenedMadge SabrarDied N2 crucialityfactorDied N2 kaliraLynched D2
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bessieLynched D3 SnarkDied N1
Co-mod: Suzaku
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The life story of Mr Harry Gesner, whose 88 years have packed in three times the action of most ordinary high achievers, is so fabled that if it were not true, you'd suspect it had been fabricated by the author of a classic Boy's Own yarn. Mr Gesner is primarily an architect, whose work over six decades has defined many of Southern California's most sought-after bluffs, coves and hillsides... But that only scratches the surface.
MR PORTER has been invited to meet Mr Gesner at his home, Sandcastle, a remarkable circular construction of stucco, salvaged brick and repurposed wood set flush to the beach at the western end of Malibu, California. The building next door is also a Gesner structure: The Wave House (completed in 1956), much admired by Mr Jørn Utzon (who channelled some of that admiration into his design for the Sydney Opera House) and formerly owned by rock'n'roll legend Mr Rod Stewart.
"I thought that the best education I could possibly get would be to see the world. ''
MR PORTER was joined by model and actor Mr Zen Gesner, 42, the youngest of Harry's offspring, whose credits include a fistful of Farrelly brothers comedies and the TV series The Adventures of Sinbad, in which he played the title character. On looks alone, both father and son qualify as archetypal Southern Californian supermen: they are lords of the longboard, buffed to a state of golden wellbeing by the ocean and the sun.
If Game of Thrones happened to be set in modern Malibu, the House of Gesner would be a dominant dynasty, fortified by its youngest generation, which includes Mr Zen Gesner's three sons, Finn (15), Rory (12) and Tuck (9). It has become a family tradition that fathers instil in their offspring a love of creativity, a close bond with the natural world and an appreciation for ancient weaponry. "My dad is the ultimate renaissance man," says Mr Zen Gesner. "He trained me how to use a sword, and a bow and arrow, and he taught me how to dance. I'm an actor, and I love that walk of life, but I have a great appreciation for what my father does as well. Dad was always a constant source of inspiration."
The roots of that inspiration are, it turns out, deeply ancestral. Sixteenth-century Swiss naturalist Mr Conrad Gesner - the father of modern zoology - pioneered mountaineering, bibliography and the use of the pencil. Further along that line, the Gesner spirit of invention shaped the electrical generator, the repeating Winchester rifle and the automotive supercharger. Harry's uncle, Mr Jack Northrop, invented the flying wing, which in turn led to the B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber".
On Mr Gesner's maternal side, the bloodline runs back to Spanish commandant Mr José de la Guerra, who owned a vast expanse of land in California ("all the distance he could ride in one day, from sunrise to sunset"), and more recently to Mr Alexander Harmer, the "Artist of the Apaches", whose subjects included Geronimo. From both sides of the family, Mr Gesner appears to have distilled just the right amounts of technical and artistic talent, but when asked to pin down the true source of his success as an architect, the answer is simple: observation of the world around him.
"I'm nurtured by nature," he says, with a smile. "I would wonder where these ideas came from and then I would sit out there on a surfboard and I would dream up all kinds of interesting things. I designed The Wave House sitting on a surfboard." He points towards the Pacific. "Out there beyond the rocks, with a grease pencil, drawing it on the board. The boards were bigger in those days. I have a great feeling for nature: the way a tree grows, the way rock formations erupt from the earth, the way a wave hits the beach, the way birds fly."
The remarkable thing about Mr Gesner is that he is, for the most part, self-taught - and here's where the uncommonly interesting parts of his life start to unfold. After WWII, during which he came within a whisker of losing both legs (he chose a therapeutic regime of olive oil massages over amputation), he was offered the chance to study under the great Mr Frank Lloyd Wright, for most architecture students the golden ticket to a solid career. "I admired his work, at Yale University, but I decided after two sessions with him that he was the last person on earth I wanted to study under. I would have just been another little Frank Lloyd Wright."
Instead, Mr Gesner decided to search for buried treasure in Ecuador. "I thought that the best education I could possibly get would be to see the world. So that's what I did - I travelled to South America on archaeological expeditions, a place called Manabi, south of Esmeraldas. The artwork that I found in the burial mounds was very much like that which they found on Easter Island: very unique."
"Dad was always thinking ahead."
On his return to the US, he gave himself 10 years to establish his reputation as an architect, and succeeded in half that time. "I worked as a carpenter, a brick mason, a plumber: everything I could get my hands on," he says of his self-guided apprenticeship. Mr Gesner quickly carved out his own niche, working apart from the roll call of usual suspects in the California modern architecture movement - he belonged to no "school" and, for the bulk of his early career, was unlicensed. "I was doing it the hard way. And probably it was not acceptable at the time."
The hard way clearly suited Mr Gesner, who describes himself as a "revolutionist or a maverick" and shows no sign of losing his appetite for invention. In his garage is a silver 1957 Mercedes-Benz 190SL that he converted to run on electricity, while he's currently working on two further projects intended to tackle pressing environmental problems including overpopulation, overconsumption and natural disasters. The first of them is architectural ("It's going to change the way we live," he says, keeping specific details close to his chest) and the second is an automotive engineering challenge. "It's a whole different kind of motor. We cannot do it with fossil fuels any more," he says, before breaking into a broad smile. "It's very, very exciting."
As Mr Gesner heads towards the beach for his daily dose of nature-infused inspiration, his son reflects on the influence - and the sheer dudeness - of his father. "My father and I have a profound connection. His houses, artwork and inventions inspire me. He's constantly exploring new ways to improve our world and the way we live, and I think it's had an impact on how my sons view the world."
He squints toward the horizon: "Dad was always thinking ahead."


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ANAHEIM – This city, hoping to crack down on residents routinely using their yards as flea markets, has approved a new ordinance that will limit garage sales to four designated weekends each year.
Under the new city law that takes effect Jan. 1, garage sales can only be held on the first full weekends of March, June, September and December.
The law is intended to push down on garage sales held weekly – and in some cases every day – at homes that sometimes sell new products or re-sell used items acquired only to sell for profit.
"These types of sales compromise the enjoyment of neighborhoods by generating litter, traffic, trampling of landscape areas, blockage of public (areas) and illegal signage," Sheri Vander Dussen, the city's planning director, said in a report to City Council members.
Violators will receive a courtesy notice, followed by a civil citation and fines for repeat offenders. Residents could face a $200 fine for the first violation, up to a $500 for the third violation within a year.
A six-member committee of residents, selected from across the various regions of Anaheim, studied the issue and made recommendations.
Some think the city law goes too far.
"It just seems unnecessary to limit it to four weekends a year for everybody," said Carol Andersen, who said she typically holds eight to 10 sales a year, mostly to sell baby clothes and toys. "As long as people are being respectful of their neighbors – it just seems too Big Brother-y, too restrictive."
City leaders say residents can apply for an exemption – for instance to accommodate somebody looking to sell items before moving out.
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Todd and Patty Adams of Eminence and Anthony Reynolds of Shelbyville announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Trish Medlin of Shelbyville to Glenn Simpson of Eminence.
The groom-elect is the son Charlotte and Charles (Sonny) Simpson of Eminence.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Bill O'reilly Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Bill O'reilly" mickememberMember #Joined: 19 Jan 2000Posts: 1666Location: Oslo/Norway Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:57 am Been facinated by this ignorant man for a long time now. What an "#¤%#¤&" I need to practice more because most of my caricatures end up with an almost normal face in a big face. But atleast it looks like him a little. Obviously not digital. It's a pen drawing. Shown in it's original size. What do you think? Crits please Back to top SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2896Location: Australia Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:25 am It's good. It looks like him and it's exaggerated, which ticks both boxes for a caricature. And if you want to learn the finer side of serious exaggeration, you could do worse than study this fellow: http://www.opdebeeck.com/_________________Art Links Archive -- Artists and Tutorials Back to top mickememberMember #Joined: 19 Jan 2000Posts: 1666Location: Oslo/Norway Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:32 am Hey, thanks! Cool link! Especially liked the pope. Nice one! I might continue to post more caricatures here. Got inspired now Back to top AlanmemberMember #Joined: 05 Apr 2000Posts: 157Location: California Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:30 pm Good caricature! It can be tricky to do those, it requires a certain touch, as they tend not to work so well if you go tooo far or don't go far enough. I think this is a good middle ground Back to top mickememberMember #Joined: 19 Jan 2000Posts: 1666Location: Oslo/Norway Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:29 pm Yeah, thats what it is..Middle ground I will definitive do more! Thanks for the response Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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I have a friend...well i've talked with him in the same forum for YRS. He used his bbm the first time the other day msg'n me. He said he mainly uses his for texting and obviously phone calls. I told him id email him some info. Can he do anything on that phone? as in browser,apps,etc,,etc?
A small descripstion with some links would be great. He isn't even on any BB forums. he said he has "crappy t mobile and his calls are always dropped". So, i have no clue where he lives in the usa. Maybe out in the sticks or somewhere where has no signal.


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I have been fortunate in not having been approached by evangelists saving souls anytime recently, but if I ever am, I';m inclined to ask the following questions (needless to say, this will not work with Mormons):
1. Do you believe in the Book of Mormon -- Angelo Moroni, Golden Tablets, Lost Tribe of Jews settled America, etc.?
Presuming the answer is "no":
2. But will you acknowledge that millions of educated, successful Americans do believe in it?
Presuming the answer is "yes":
3. If a false religious text can become widely accepted by in the recent past, during a time of relative peace, prosperity, democracy and education, why is it unreasonable to expect that 2,000 years ago, in a time of poverty, ignorance and political oppression an equally false religious text would also become widely accepted?
Has anyone ever tried this line of reasoning?
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Reasoning with the unreasonable?
I'm going to try that, just to see the gob-smacked expression on their face.
Thank you.
Warped Minded Christian – "It is unreasonable because that would mean I have wasted my life worshiping Jesus and when I die I will no longer exist…. And I just can't accept that".
I love it, but I have doubts that it would work. The types of people who proselytize seem to equate strong feelings with knowledge; they just know that they are right, otherwise why would they feel so deeply in their hearts that their beliefs are true? You can't reason with someone's feelings.
that's a great line of reasoning I'm going to try that one day.
My method is to strip down and answer the door naked. I'm NOT joking, by the way. Ironically, it has been a long since they have knocked on my door either.
Unfortunately when someone believes in a religion, such a person has already shown either an inability or unwillingness to concede to logic and reasoning on the issue, no matter what facts and logical arguments are brought to the table.
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Shedding Light on Psychology's Dark Triad
A dirty dozen test to detect narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
Posted Jan 26, 2013
Lurking beneath the surface of people who use others to their own advantage is psychology's "Dark Triad." Defined as a set of traits that include the tendency to seek admiration and special treatment (otherwise known as narcissism), to be callous and insensitive (psychopathy) and to manipulate others (Machiavellianism), the Dark Triad is rapidly becoming a new focus of personality psychology.
Researchers are finding that the Dark Triad underlies a host of undesirable behaviors including aggressiveness, sexual opportunism, and impulsivity. Until recently, the only way to capture the Dark Triad in the lab was to administer lengthy tests measuring each personality trait separately. With the development of the "Dirty Dozen" scale, however, psychologists Peter Jonason and Gregory Webster (2010) are now making it possible to spot these potentially troublesome traits with a simple 12-item rating scale.
The technical definition of the Dark Triad, as stated in Jonason and Webster's article, is rather daunting: "the Dark Triad as a whole can be thought of as a short-term, agentic, exploitative social strategy..." (p. 420). This means, in simpler terms, that people who show these qualities are trying to get away with acting out against others in order to achieve their own ends. Each of the individual qualities alone can make life difficult for those who know people like this. Combined, the Dark Triad traits in another person close to you can be detrimental to your mental health.
People who score high on the traditional Dark Triad measures that test each of the three qualities separately show a pattern of behavior that in fact combines the worst of all worlds. They seek out multiple, casual sex partners. When someone gets in their way, they act out aggressively to take what they want. Oddly enough, although their self-esteem doesn't seem to be either higher or lower than others, people who score high on the Dark Triad qualities have an unstable view of themselves. Perhaps reflecting the aggressiveness inherent in the Dark Triad, these tendencies are more likely to be shown by men, particularly those who are high on psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
Psychologists are just beginning to discover the darkest sides of the Dark Triad, and there will certainly be more that we learn about the problems they create for others (and themselves) in the very near future. In the meantime, Jonason and Webster's Dirty Dozen scale can give you a quick way to spot the Dark Triad individual in your midst. Rate each item on a 7-point scale as you think it applies to this person. Of course, you can also rate yourself on these qualities to see how you measure up:
- I tend to manipulate others to get my way.
- I tend to lack remorse.
- I tend to want others to admire me.
- I tend to be unconcerned with the morality of my actions.
- I have used deceit or lied to get my way.
- I tend to be callous or insensitive.
- I have used flattery to get my way.
- I tend to seek prestige or status.
- I tend to be cynical.
- I tend to exploit others toward my own end.
- I tend to expect special favors from others.
- I want others to pay attention to me.
The total score can range from 12 to 84, but you can also break down the scales into the three traits as follows: Machiavellianism= 1, 5, 7, 10; Psychopathy= 2, 4, 6, 9; Narcissism= 3, 8, 11, 12.
Among the college students tested in a later, validational, study Webster and Jonason (2013) report an average of about 36, with most people scoring between 33 and 39, meaning that anyone scoring upwards of 45 would be considered very high on the Dark Triad total.
What does it mean, then, to possess high levels of the Dark Triad qualities? In an investigation of how others perceive the Dark Triad traits, Austrian psychologists John Rauthmann and Gerald Kolar (2010) asked non-university adults ranging from 18 to 75 years of age to judge the perceived "darkness" of each Dark Triad quality.
Of the three, narcissism was judged to be the "brightest." People who are high on psychopathy and Machiavellianism can cause you harm but many narcissists only harm themselves. The argument can even be made that narcissists possess qualities that others find desirable, such as being more physically attractive, charming, conscientious, and achievement-oriented. Rauthmann and Kolar suggest that perhaps narcissism should be seen as distinct from the other, which they renamed the "Malicious Two." However, other studies suggest that over time, the initial glow of the narcissist's bright qualities does tend to fade. People who interact with narcissists like them less and less the more time they spend with them.
It may be difficult for us to rate ourselves on the Dark Triad traits and to see how our behavior affects those of the people we know. Rauthmann and Kolar found that people rated the consequences for others of these qualities to be worse when committed by others than by oneself. In other words, we don't see the harmful results of our own harmful behavior when directed at others. We are able to see the harm that others inflict by their own hurtful actions.
As we know from other research, psychopathy and narcissism aren't single, unitary traits. It may not even be possible to the self-ratings of people on psychopathy scales, given the propensity of psychopaths to lie. Furthermore, there's more than one kind of narcissist- the grandiose and the vulnerable. The Dirty Dozen scale clearly doesn't capture these subtleties.
To sum up, the Dirty Dozen scale is – just that— a little dirty.It's main advantage is that it's quick and easy to complete. If you sense that someone (or you) might have the Dark Triad traits, consider yourself warned.
Follow me on Twitter @swhitbo for daily updates on psychology, health, and aging. Feel free to join my Facebook group, "Fulfillment at Any Age," to discuss today's blog, or to ask further questions about this posting.
Copyright Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. 2013
Jonason, P. K., & Webster, G. D. (2010). The dirty dozen: A concise measure of the dark triad. Psychological Assessment, 22(2), 420-432. doi:10.1037/a0019265
Rauthmann, J. F., & Kolar, G. P. (2012). How "dark" are the Dark Triad traits? Examining the perceived darkness of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Personality And Individual Differences, 53(7), 884-889. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.06.020
Webster, G. D., & Jonason, P. K. (2013). Putting the 'irt' in 'dirty': Item response theory analyses of the dark triad dirty dozen—an efficient measure of narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism. Personality And Individual Differences, 54(2), 302-306. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.08.027


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Lenovo T430, Win 10 Pro 64.
Previously installed BIBM and Win10 [several] to SSD, no issue with EMBR. Works fine.
Want to do same with a larger standard SATA HD. Get message with install "Disk has a MBR partition table, on EFI systems Win can only be installed on a GPT disk." If I change to GPT it installs, but then BIBM does not work as boot system.
Why is this happening to this disk but not the other disk? No changes to BIOS/UEFI.
Anyway to get around this?


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Halfway through and 2014 Hottest Year Prediction coming very close to Truth
Okay, disclaimer first: there may be a bit of a climate ego involved in this post. So therefore it is probably best to start with where we were wrong(ish). Based on some rather extensive monitoring of climate models over several … Continue reading


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Tigers Take to the Turf at AT&T Stadium for Initial Cotton Bowl Practice
Arlington – The No. 8 Missouri Tigers shook off the rust of the holidays with a spirited 90-minute practice in the team's first workout at AT&T Stadium for the 78th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic.
Mizzou (11-2, 7-1 Southeastern Conference) worked on all three phases in short and shoulder pads as the team continued to narrow its focus towards its post-New Year's date with the No. 13 Oklahoma State Cowboys (10-2, 7-2 Big 12 Conference). Head coach Gary Pinkel said the Tigers' attention to detail will need to be sharp as his squad gets ready for a primetime showdown in front of a capacity crowd.
"It's a big stage here," said Pinkel. "Obviously AT&T Stadium is certainly a big exclamation mark about how awesome this place really is. The bowl is as first class as any I have been associated with and I've been to many, many bowls over the years. They do a great job."
In order for Mizzou to continue to do the great job it has all season and cap its year with its second-straight bowl victory, Pinkel said his Tigers need to continue to rely on the availability of the lion's share of its roster to stifle an opportunistic team in Oklahoma State.
"We stayed very, very healthy, which helped us," said Pinkel. "We were a lot better football team in October than in the beginning of September and, in November, we were a lot better team.
"To become a better team, you have to be healthy. If you go out there and you're limping around just to make it through practice and just make it to the next game, it's very difficult to improve on offense and defense. Fortunately, this year we've been very healthy and we've gotten better as team as the season went on."
Following practice, the team enjoyed the afternoon off and then traveled back to AT&T Stadium in the evening for the Classic's official welcome dinner and party, courtesy of the Dallas Cowboys.
Mizzou will step away from the practice field on Sunday and resume its bowl preparation on Monday morning with a scheduled 90-minute practice prior to its official Media Day session with Pinkel and selected players.
The 78th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic is Friday, Jan. 3 on FOX. Airtime is set for 6:30 p.m. CST with kickoff scheduled for 7:10 p.m. Making their fourth appearances as members of FOX's broadcast crew, Gus Johnson and Charles Davis will describe all the action and will be joined by Kristina Pink reporting from the sideline. FOX is broadcasting the Classic for the 16th consecutive year.
ESPN Radio returns as the Classic's national radio partner for a second-straight year. Brad Sham, the "Voice of the Dallas Cowboys," will partner with Ed Cunningham offering color commentary and Ian Fitzsimmons adding analysis from the sideline to provide the call of the 78th Classic to hundreds of affiliate stations around the country as well as subscribers of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio in the United States and Canada.


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Perhaps returning the favor Broadway did for tennis earlier this year, two-time Paralympic Quad Doubles Gold Medalist David Wagner and three-time Paralympic Gold Medalist Esther Vergeer met the cast of Spider-man: Turn off The Dark last night. Here they are with Reeve Carney. (Bonus: A photo of Carney getting ready for work!)
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Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen
Genealogists make requests for government documents under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). The Government has proposed amendments to their
FOIA process.
The US Department of Commerce announced in the February 27 Federal Register
proposed rulemaking notice on updated and revised FOIA rules, which includes
methods of submitting requests and appeals. The notice also updates privacy
rules and requests. Comments must be submitted on or before March 31, 2014
and must include the agency name [Department of Commerce] and docket number
[Docket No. 140127076-4076-01] or RIN [RIN 0605-AA33] for this rulemaking.
The methods of submission and to where they go are included in the notice
which may be read at:
Records under the FOIA include all Government records, regardless of
format, medium or physical characteristics, and electronic records and
information, audiotapes, videotapes, Compact Disks, DVDs, and photographs.
A request should include specific information about each record sought, such
as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter of the
record, and the name and location of the office where the record might be
Twenty (20) working days (i.e., excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
public holidays) from date of receipt of the request is the amount of time
the regulation proposes to make a determination whether to comply with a
FOIA request . Whether the request is approved or not, the requestor must be
notified of the decision in writing. If the decision is to approve, payment
must be made before the information is provided.
The fees to be charged are based on the cost of the search and the salary
rate plus 16 percent for the researcher's time and any copies at $0.16 USD
per page.
Details are included in the proposed regulation that can be found at the
above-mentioned url.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
[US] National Archives March Genealogy Programs and Women's' History Month
Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen
The National Archives (US) genealogy programs for the month of March have been announced. The focus will be on Women's history as March is Women's History Month. All programs at the National Archives are free and open to the public. The programs will be held at the National Archives in Washington DC at will be held in the National Archives Building Research Center (Room G-25), in Washington, DC. Several programs will be repeated at the College Park, MD facility—they are marked with an asterisk (*).
These are several of the programs that might be of interest:
Tuesday, March 4, at 11 a.m. Our Ancestors are Hiding on the World Wide Web * March 6, 11 AM at College Park
Wednesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. Introduction to Genealogy at the National Archives
Wednesday, March 12, at 9:30 a.m. Genealogy Lecture: National Archives Online Resources
Saturday, March 15, noon-4 p.m. "Help! I'm Stuck" Genealogy Consultation
Wednesday, March 26, at 9:30 a.m. Genealogy Lecture: Using National Archives Online Resources
To see a list of all March programs, go to: http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2014/nr14-36.html
The National Archives regional branch in Kansas City, MO also has several genealogy programs during March which may be found at: http://www.archives.gov/kansas-city/public/genealogy-programs-january-june-2014.pdf
Other branches also have some programs of interest and they may be found at: http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/events/
The National Archives Live streams and archives their book reviews and evening programs and some of the daytime programs. This is free. Go to: http://www.ustream.tv/usnationalarchives to check if any of the above may be live streamed or archived.
To learn more about National Women's History Month whose theme for 2014 is: Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment Go to: http://www.nwhp.org/
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
[Canada] LIbrary and Archives Canada Series on Immigration and Citizenship
Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen
The Library and Archives Canada [LAC] Blog published their second in a series on immigration and citizenship sources that they holds. This second part explains how to find arrivals between 1865 and 1935. Passenger lists include such information as the country your ancestor came from, his or her occupation and the intended destination in Canada. To view this blog go to: http://tinyurl.com/leoksbm Original url: http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/02/20/immigration-and-citizenship-records-at-lac-did-your-ancestor-arrive-in-canada-between-1865-and-1935/
The first blog post in the series on validating arrivals pre 1865 may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/mr9z67j Original url:
For information on the immigration and citizenship resources at LAC go to : http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.002-e.html
Canadian arrivals after 1935 are in the custody of the immigration and citizenship located at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
Roger Lustig Speaker at JGS of Conejo Valley and Ventura County March 2, 2-14
Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen
The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV) will hold a general meeting, co–sponsored with Temple Adat Elohim, on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at Temple Adat Elohim 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
The Topic: A Hundred Germanies A Hundred Jewish Histories
The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor German.—Voltaire
Yet the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" was German, and it defined what "German" meant. It was also the home of an ancient Jewish culture—dating back to the real Romans—and hundreds of Jewish communities, large and small.
Until 1871 Germany's Jews were subjects of dozens of different states, each with different laws and attitudes toward its Jewish population. Napoleon emancipated most of Germany's Jews and led Prussia to do likewise for almost all the rest; but as soon as he was gone, the many German states—most with new boundaries—returned their Jews to one or another special legal status.
Those legal statuses, make the researcher's job more complicated, because the same type of information—birth, change of residence, etc.—might be kept by different authorities and in different ways. Roger will review where the larger Jewish congregations and rural communities lived in Germany, and how to determine which states ruled over them at a given time using examples of how family histories are recorded across longer periods and crossing boundaries.
Speaker: Roger Lustig is a genealogical researcher based in Princeton, NJ. Since 2002 he has specialized in the Jewish families of Prussian Poland, especially Upper Silesia and West Prussia. He has worked in archives in the US, Germany and Poland He is the research coordinator for GerSIG .
The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County is dedicated to sharing genealogical information, techniques and research tools with anyone interested in Jewish genealogy and family history.
There is no charge to attend the meeting.
For more information contact firstname.lastname@example.com or see our website at www.jgscv.org
Jan Meisels Allen
President, JGSCV
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