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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Mike Mosca, a rising sophomore on the men's swimming and diving team, placed sixth in the three-meter synchronized diving competition at the 2012 Olympic Team Trials – Diving and later spoke at the inaugural USA Diving Rings of Honor Induction Ceremony.
Mosca and his partner, Toby Stanley from Conway, Ark., sat in sixth place with a score of 703.56 through the preliminary and semifinal rounds on Monday with the top eight teams advancing to Friday night's finals. The duo posted a score of 339.21 in the finals to finish sixth overall with a total score of 1,042.77. The winning team of Kristen Ipsen and Troy Dumais (1,296.21) will represent the US at the London Olympics.
Mosca also advanced to the semifinals of the three-meter individual competition earlier in the week, and finished in 18th place with a score of 636.05 points. For complete results from the trials, click here.
On Saturday, Mosca spoke at the inaugural USA Diving Rings of Honor Induction Ceremony about the many learning disabilities he overcame as a child on his path to Harvard. In this editorial piece published by The Crimson in December, Mosca describes the challenges of his youth:
"Although I have become a decent diver, I didn't win—or even place—in my first U.S. diving competition; in fact, I had the dubious distinction of coming in dead last. Unlike my classmates and teammates who may have spent much of their youth trying to stand out, I spent most of mine trying to fit in. An inventory of accomplishments is not what garnered me a coveted spot at Harvard or the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in diving. Quite the opposite, a lengthy list of failures paved my way." CONTINUE READING
Despite those adversities, Mosca enjoyed a successful freshman year in Cambridge which included winning the Ivy League Championship on the one meter, placing second on the three meter, and setting new school records on both boards.
In its inaugural year, the USA Diving Rings of Honor was created to honor those who have achieved excellence and contributed to the success and notoriety of the sport of diving. The USA Diving Rings of Honor committee selected six individuals for the inaugural class; Dr. Sammy Lee (Lifetime Achievement Award), Greg Louganis (USA Diving Legend), Pat McCormick (USA Diving Legend), Hobie Billingsley (Distinguished Coach), Lyle Draves (Distinguished Coach) and Jan Rude (Honor Contributor).


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Forty-five years after then U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry declared that smoking causes cancer, we are finally poised to see the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assume regulatory authority over products containing tobacco. And while any legislation that has taken this long to come to pass will be seen by many as too little, too late, most would agree it's a step in the right direction. The bill, called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was more than ten years in the making and represents the first big federal step against smoking since the 1971 ban on TV and radio advertising and the 1988 ban on smoking on commercial airplanes. As Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, so aptly put it, "[Now] the most deadly product sold in America will no longer be the least regulated product sold in America."
If you are either a long-time smoker or a committed nonsmoker, you are unlikely to see any dramatic effects of the new legislation, which is primarily designed to reduce smoking among young people, especially those yet to start. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation will reduce youth smoking by 11 percent and adult smoking by only 2 percent over the next decade. In fact, it's likely that the recently raised federal tax increase on cigarettes will more directly lower smoking rates, by increasing the price of a pack by 62 cents. Some estimates predicted as much as a 10-percent decline in cigarette sales because of that tax.
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The legislation also empowers the FDA to mandate changes in the composition of tobacco products including the reduction, but not elimination, of the dangerously addictive chemical nicotine. In addition, tobacco companies will be required to disclose the chemical contents of their products as well as any changes they make and any research into the health effects of tobacco.
Here's a timeline created by the USA Today on when you can expect to see the changes:
- Immediately, tobacco makers can no longer make claims that their products pose fewer health risks.
- Within three months, candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes are banned, and the FDA can extend that ban to cigars and moist snuff, where such flavorings are more common. Menthol is exempt.
- Within nine months, the FDA must publish marketing restrictions that will take effect six months later.
- Within 12 months, new warning labels will be placed on smokeless tobacco products.
- Within 15 months, tobacco companies must disclose the ingredients in their products.
- Within two years, the FDA must issue rules on graphic warnings for cigarettes that will cover half the pack. The labels will take effect 15 months later.
The new regulatory authority for the FDA will be funded by fees paid by the tobacco product manufacturers. These include Phillip Morris, the nation's largest tobacco company, which was the only such company to actually support the new legislation. Of course, no company would do this unless they felt it was in their best interests. And Phillip Morris had a variety of cynical reasons to support the legislation. First, their support allowed them to be involved in crafting the bill, the passage of which they likely saw as an inevitability anyway. Second, much of their profits come from overseas, where the law has no effect. Third, with the various restrictions on marketing, it is likely that the current division of market share will remain constant because it will be difficult to reach new smokers through advertising. And because of this, Phillip Morris will continue to lead the pack with its number-one selling Marlboro franchise. Needless to say, the other tobacco manufacturers are complaining bitterly about this turn of events and will be the ones leading the court challenges against the marketing limitations
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- PalmsRV said...
Some of my relatives want me to identify the "Cherokee princess" in our family but so far my research has disappointed them! Why let facts get in the way of a good family narrative. In fairness to them, there is one long shot in the family tree. Giggle.
- December 30, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Greta Koehl said...
So glad to see that someone can keep tongue in check in listing their resolutions - it brought a smile to my face! (But now I feel like such a wet rag for telling my relatives that our "part-Indian" great-grandmother looks very Scots-Irish to me.)
- December 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome said...
I think we genealogists sometimes take ourselves much too seriously. Good luck breaking the news to your relatives!
- December 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Terri said...
Love your list. I'll second numbers 1,2 and 5!
- December 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- Mavis said...
I love your list especially #5. Reminds me of all the friends who are always asking "Have you tried looking on Ancestry?"
- January 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Kim said...
Does this mean my already filled out tree back to Charlemagne(?) could have a few errors? And my Indian relatives are from a princess? I thought a palm reader who read tarot cards was the answer to #3.
I would write more, but the collectors are here and I must empty my round stacks for more room. Til later!
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Kirsten is the author of Like Mandarin, Wanderlove, and the middle grade novel Watch the Sky.
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I've had the same thoughts about some of the ones you mentioned (especially Shut Out and Wither). Take a look at Shatter Me - the girl on the cover could be Kim Kardashian's body double.ReplyDelete
Whoooooooa, that's so interesting! I never noticed before, but I will now... But I have to say, some of the photos even look supremely photoshopped around the areas where the features look like the celebrity's. THIRST's "Anna Paquin", for example... Could be my imagination, but her mouth looks tweaked.ReplyDeleteReplies
could be. Anna Paquin has such a unique mouth, I thought it was startling they found a girl with a similar one -- unless it was 'shopped. she looks like Anna P on the other book, too:Delete
Shatter Me's model could be Kim Kardasian.ReplyDelete
What do publishers do in the cases where the model for their last book is unavailable.Replies
I was staring at that cover for about 15 minutes last night trying to place it. Kim is soooo right! :DDelete
Every time I see the cover for THE WATER WARS (http://www.amazon.com/The-Water-Wars-Cameron-Stracher/dp/1402243693), I do a double-take and think I'm seeing Katee Sackhoff, or Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. It actually kind of works for me; I love Starbuck enough that that resemblance is what first made me notice the book.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh my word! You are so right about that one :DDelete
Some of those I totally never noticed before! However, I did notice the Wanderlove- Keira Knightley thing when I was reading it. ;) I've heard a couple people say that they think the girl on the cover of Unearthly by Cynthia Hand looks kind of like Natalie Portman, and I do kind of see that one.ReplyDelete
Such a fun post!
oh, I forgot about Unearthly! I've always thought Natalie Portman, too.Delete
Oh how funny! I've noticed a few before (the Cher one, and the Moore one), but not the others. I'm going to look for more, now! (Also, because I'm a dork, I think the PIke book actually came out in the mid-90s, but was just re-released with the new Sookie cover to capitalize on the vampire trend. I remember reading his Last Vampire series, which I believe is the same series.)ReplyDelete
This one is absolutely terrible, but have a look at Ophelia by Lisa Klein (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293583.Ophelia. I dare you not to see Michael Cera (Juno, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World) when you look at it. I have my sister to thank for ruining this cover for me :DReplyDeleteReplies
Oh I can't think of who they reminded me of when I first saw them but covers like the House of Night books, and Hush,Hush series, even the Vampire Diaries, The Fallen series, and Immortals (Alyson Noel).ReplyDelete
I'd seen a few of these covers before, but I'd never noticed the resemblances until now, except for Ally Carter's cover looking like Cher. Wow. I've never seen Wanderlove but it totally looks like Kiera Knightly. I'm going to be on the look out now for celebrity look-alike covers. Very interesting post Kristen. Loved it!ReplyDelete
Escept for Milo Ventimiglia, I agree. (Possibly because I'm a Milo-aholic since Gilmore Girls - lol.)ReplyDelete
I also wonder what conver faces do for movies. I mean I'm totally not a visual person, but for those who are, they get that image in their head and then they have to get it out.Replies
I agree with you..Milo is a total hottie and that model just scares me lol..Delete
I've never given much thought to this, but it's so true! The model on the cover of VAMPIRE ACADEMY looks just like Angelina.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of having a face on the cover, but like you said--it can mess with the reader's perception of what the character actually looks like.
Man ... every one of those girls are white. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
you're right; & it's telling that a random sample of YA covers -- which is what this is, basically the celeb lookalikes Twitter suggested to me -- is all-white. there aren't enough non-white characters on covers, and more importantly, there aren't enough non-white characters in general.Delete
This is one reason why the protagonist of my novel is male...and I'm still not sure what race he is.Delete
If the girl in the book is white, I'm OK with that.Delete
But as Kirsten said, we need more books with more non-white characters so we can get the covers with non-white photos.
That means I need to focus on writing.....
Melinda--ditto. I wonder how many YA covers feature non-white models on the covers. New post idea, YA Highway!! (btw, this is a startling and dismaying realization, considering I just read the post about racist reactions to Rue here: http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made.)ReplyDeleteReplies
very true, problematic and something we discuss a ton, though I'm not sure if we've blogged about it specifically -- I'll check with the girls.Delete
saw the jezebel piece yesterday and facebook ranted about it. disgusting. most of my thoughts include curse words.
our Kate Hart made up some interesting charts about it on her blog, and will be doing the same soon for 2011 covers (race-specific stuff is near the bottom)Delete
You know what I like about YA folks? So many of them want to help make things better in the world. I've been listening to the damndest comments here at work about Treyvon Martin and I try to talk to folks, but I'm about to beat a hole in my proofreading desk with my head. So yes, let's do discuss this too. Thanks for being cool with my comment, I know it was a bit of a looper.Delete
I didn't read the comments, so I don't know if anyone else said this... but Julia Karr's XVI model looks like Rachel Leigh Cook!ReplyDelete
I think the guy on the cover of Nevermore looks like Orin from Parks and Recreation : http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/OrinReplyDeleteReplies
LOL. LOVE Parks & Rec -- Orin's scenes are hilarious.Delete
I always thought the girl on the cover of Wither looked like Lauren Conrad. Never would have gotten Mandy Moore if people hadn't mentioned it.ReplyDelete
Those Ashton Kutcher ones are uncanny.ReplyDelete
I'm sure, like you say, that sometimes it's done on purpose...Our brains make so many connections we're often not even aware of, and marketing people take advantage of that more than any other group of professionals...maybe even more than therapists/psychologists do.
Actually I think the girl on the cover of the mythos academy series by Jennifer Estep looks a LOT like Scarlett Johansson but that the girl on the cover of Paranormalcy looks like Emma Roberts :-)ReplyDelete
I think the girl on the cover of Thirst looks like January Jones.ReplyDelete
I totally agree with all of these especially the first four examples. And I've always thought the guy on Nevermore looked like Milo. I love these kinds of posts!ReplyDelete
Look at all those doppelgangers! I've thought the same thing for Wither, VP Acadamy, The Name of the Star, and I'd Tell You I love You But, Then I'd Have to Kill You. Every time I look at the Bloodlines and/or the The Golden Lily cover, all I see is Giuliana Rancic!!! I also wonder how much these are photoshoped to look like celebrities.ReplyDelete
See, for The Pledge, I'm seeing Taylor Swift.ReplyDelete
I see Taylor Swift on THE PLEDGE, too. I also see Avril Lavigne on the cover of Fever, and Ashlee Simpson on the cover of the paperback of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and Blake Lively on the cover of my book, ASCENDANT. I've often been asked if it's ME on the cover of my book RAMPANT.ReplyDeleteReplies
okay, LOL -- I've had people say the same thing about me and the girl on Like Mandarin. (as has Kody Keplinger re: The Duff; we were just discussing this.) I don't think I look a thing like her, but I suppose it's a (strange) compliment...Delete
This is brilliant, definitely agree with most of these. I often think that the girl on the cover of By Midnight by Mia James looks like Mila Kunis! However when I mentioned it to my OH he laughed at me... :(ReplyDelete
Actually, Thirst (then titled "The Last Vampire")was originally published in 1993.ReplyDelete
The male model from book Mad for you looks like Robert Pattinson..and if someone know the name of the model could you please, reply to this comment.ReplyDelete


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It isn't easy to develop a biblical imagination that takes in the comprehensive and eternal work of Christ . . . Rob Bell goes a long way in helping us acquire just such an imagination--without a trace of soft sentimentality and without compromising an inch of evangelical conviction.
Recently Peterson spoke to Timothy Dalrymple of patheos about his endorsement and the controversy that has erupted over the book. When asked why Peterson endorsed the book, he said:
Rob Bell and anyone else who is baptized is my brother or my sister. We have different ways of looking at things, but we are all a part of the kingdom of God. And I don't think that brothers and sisters in the kingdom of God should fight. I think that's bad family manners.
I don't agree with everything Rob Bell says. But I think they're worth saying. I think he puts a voice into the whole evangelical world which, if people will listen to it, will put you on your guard against judging people too quickly, making rapid dogmatic judgments on people. I don't like it when people use hell and the wrath of God as weaponry against one another.
I knew that people would jump on me for writing the endorsement. I wrote the endorsement because I would like people to listen to him. He may not be right. But he's doing something worth doing. There's so much polarization in the evangelical church that it's a true scandal. We've got to learn how to talk to each other and listen to each other in a civil way.
There is much in Peterson's statement with which we could disagree. In fact, I would disagree with almost all of it. But I think it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how we as believers are taught to confront error in the Bible. Before I get there, Peterson was asked the follow-up question, "Do evangelicals need to reexamine our doctrines of hell and damnation?" and he replied:
Yes, I guess I do think they ought to reexamine. They ought to be a good bit more biblical, not taking things out of context.
But the people who are against Rob Bell are not going to reexamine anything. They have a litmus test for who is a Christian and who is not. But that's not what it means to live in community.
Luther said that we should read the entire Bible in terms of what drives toward Christ. Everything has to be interpreted through Christ. Well, if you do that, you're going to end up with this religion of grace and forgiveness. The only people Jesus threatens are the Pharisees. But everybody else gets pretty generous treatment. There's very little Christ, very little Jesus, in these people who are fighting Rob Bell.
Again, Peterson sounds like a man who both doesn't understand the significance of the Doctrine of Hell and hasn't read the parts of the Bible where false doctrine is confronted and condemned. And interestingly he includes in his defense against arguments in the Church a quote by Martin Luther, a man who saw no small amount of criticism levied against him for his overly sharp tongue.
Let's take a minute here, though, and examine what Peterson actually says about Bell and about the criticism directed towards him. First, he starts out by saying, "Rob Bell and anyone else who is baptized is my brother or my sister." Now, I am going to give Peterson the benefit of the doubt here and assume that he is referring to the "baptism of the Holy Spirit" (i.e., regeneration through the gift of the Holy Spirit). I shudder to think that Peterson would believe that the act of baptism either saves or confirms that one is truly a born-again believer of Jesus Christ.
But then he builds on that statement and claims that he doesn't "think that brothers and sisters in the kingdom of God should fight", that doing so is to practice "bad family manners." I hate to tell Peterson this, but Jesus argued with His disciples. Paul argued with Peter. The Apostles argued with one another at the Council of Jerusalem. Members of the Kingdom argue. And often times it is quite beneficial. In Church History, debate has not always been kind, but very often it has been healthy. To claim that we shouldn't argue over doctrine because it's "bad family manners" is Biblically and historically ignorant.
Peterson adds further down, "I don't like it when people use hell and the wrath of God as weaponry against one another." I agree wholeheartedly with Peterson here, but is this really what is happening? Are people using the issues over the Doctrine of Hell as weapons against Bell? Of course not! In the ironic words of Billy Joel, "we didn't start the fire". The Doctrine of Hell has invoked heated arguments in the Church for centuries. And Bell threw himself into the line of fire by writing a book which advocates for a position against the one universally agreed upon by the Church for 2000 years. "Hell and the wrath of God" isn't a weapon being wielded against Bell, but rather are the objects of the firestorm that Bell ignited by writing a book on these subjects.
Now, from there I believe Peterson's words better represent a man who hasn't read the Bible, not one who wrote a bestselling paraphrase of the Bible and who taught classes on the Word of God and spirituality for decades. Two statements Peterson makes lead me to this criticism. First, he says, "...the people who are against Rob Bell are not going to reexamine anything. They have a litmus test for who is a Christian and who is not. But that's not what it means to live in community." Then he says, "The only people Jesus threatens are the Pharisees. But everybody else gets pretty generous treatment. There's very little Christ, very little Jesus, in these people who are fighting Rob Bell."
Has Peterson read Galatians lately? How about 1 John? Maybe he needs to reread the Gospels, particularly John 8. And heaven forbid he stumbles upon 1 Corinthians 5 or Matthew 18, where confrontation is not only spoken of, but encouraged by both Paul and Jesus, respectively.
Both Paul and John advocate for litmus tests for Christians. Jesus, Himself, does the same thing. Living in community means precisely that we confront one another for not only sin, but false doctrine as well. Paul tells the Corinthians to cast people out of the community for sin and in Galatians he pronounces curses on those who advocate for a different Gospel. And I'm guessing that all of those he was speaking of were probably thought to have been baptized by the Holy Spirit. The fruit of their actions and beliefs, however, communicated otherwise.
Finally, Peterson saves his most damning words for the end. He claims that that the "only people Jesus threatens are the Pharisees" and based on that he concludes that "there's very little Jesus, in these people who are fighting Rob Bell." Not only is Peterson making a huge assumption about the spiritual lives of those "who are fighting Rob Bell" (notice how Peterson personalizes it, instead of relegating it to theological debate), but he is also completely wrong about Jesus.
In John 7:45, prior to the passage on the adulterous woman, we see that Jesus is speaking to the Chief Priests and the Pharisees. After v.11 of Chapter 8, Jesus picks up his conversation with the Jews (many have rightly concluded that 7:52-8:11 is out of place here in John and is not original to this Gospel, but rather represents good oral tradition which eventually found a home here). But in v.21, it appears that Jesus' conversation with the Pharisees is overheard by other Jews and they begin to talk among themselves in v.22. Jesus answers these Jews in v.23. Then further down in v.31, John identifies another group to whom Jesus is speaking as "the Jews who had believed in Him." Peterson identifies these in his Message as, "the Jews who had claimed to believe in Him."
Jesus then begins to speak to these Jews and they don't seem to like what He's saying. By the time the conversation is over, Jesus has told them that they are not children of Abraham or children of God, but rather they are children of their father, the devil. In v.47, Jesus says, "Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God." Now, I don't know about you, but it seems clear her that Peterson's claim that "the only people Jesus threatens are the Pharisees" is not only terribly incorrect, but a false basis for his further claim that "there's very little Christ, very little Jesus, in these people who are fighting Rob Bell."
I've always respected Eugene Peterson, but in this case he's wrong. He's wrong on Rob Bell, he's wrong on the significance of the Doctrine of Hell, he's wrong on how to live in community, and more importantly, he's wrong on Jesus and on what the Bible teaches about confronting those teaching false doctrine. I get why Peterson doesn't like controversy in the Church and why he believes it is "bad family manners". None of us find it comfortable to confront sin or enjoyable to correct false teaching. But unfortunately, Peterson's attitude doesn't line up with the Bible and consequently it is him and not Bell's critics in whom one can find "very little Jesus."


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Hey, sometimes when i log out/ refresh when i come back on my production rate is set at 0... Its really annoying especially when retiring 4 the night. that long with 0 production, hinders my game. Pleeeeasssse look into it....
Hey, sometimes when i log out/ refresh when i come back on my production rate is set at 0... Its really annoying especially when retiring 4 the night. that long with 0 production, hinders my game. Pleeeeasssse look into it....
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Nope all 5 accounts are on the same server.
The game rules.
Pay very close attention to this part:
"Account Use
Each player is allowed to hold 1, and only 1, account per server.
If a player or players wish to play two or more accounts from the same network, a Game Operator must be notified without exception. In these cases, the accounts will not be able to have military contact while on the same connection.
The e-mail address used for the registration of an account must be under the personal and exclusive control of the person who registered the account.
There is no compensation for damage done by someone logging onto your account, no matter how they got your password, so keep it safe! This leads to the next point.
Evony Team members and staff will NEVER ask for your password. If anyone claiming to work with the company ever asks for your personal account information, please report them immediately and do not give them your password.
Commercial account exchanges are not allowed. This includes buying or selling accounts for money or in-game currency. We will monitor such transaction and block accounts that participate in such unfair commercial account trading."
Lol wow.
So the guy admits to multi-accounting, then publicly brags about it in a place where his IP can be snagged and submitted to the game admins who can then track down and ban/delete the accounts. Nice work
This is actually so amusing that I will make mention of it on Evony Radio tonight when I do the News Show.
Easy enough. I do know how to delete accounts :P I know I am not the only 1 that plays more than 1 account and did not mean to break the rules so I will fix it.
Lol what?
I have a post going advertising the show, but this thread is stealing all the users! Everyone is coming here and thats it
So I have to find SOME way to keep the word spreading about the Show on Evony Radio @ 7PM EST...


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Impact of Workplace Bullying
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Despite the rare success story in coworkers joined the bullied target to confront the bully and jointly testified to the employer about what was done to their injured colleague, most coworkers are notorious for not helping bullied targets. It is hurtful to expect that level of support. From a 2008 WBI study, we know that that rare collaboration happens in less than 1% of cases.
Here we want to discuss how witnesses to bullying in their workplace can be adversely affected. From the WBI 2014 U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, we know that 21% of adult Americans have been indirect, or vicarious, victims of bullying. Just as families are affected without being the direct targets of bullying, so are coworkers."Icing Out" Targets
Research by others has shown that altruistic individuals are ostracized by groups because the high moral standard they set by exemplary do-good-for-others conduct is considered threatening because it is unattainable by most group members. WBI studies have repeatedly shown that bullied targets possess more technical skill and likability than their perpetrators. They are kinder and more empathic, too. Given this profile of a prosocial and positive target, bullies often command coworkers to isolate the target. Coworkers are often prohibited from helping on work-related tasks, fraternizing socially, or even taking breaks at the same time. Thus, the kindest most productive worker is ostracized by the group.
Another study found that coworkers condemn their bullied colleagues who do not actively fight their bullying. Remarkably, those coworkers have the hubris to claim that they would never let bullying happen to them — clearly a double standard. It is so easy to imagine our future brave action until bullying circumstances overwhelm and surprise us personally. It is humbling to see that we did not act as predicted. Many of us cower instead, jaw dropped, deer-in-the-headlights paralysis onset. Then, we have the audacity to blame the target for something she or he neither invited nor desired.
Social inclusion, belonging to a group, is a fundamental human need. When coworkers are driven to ostracize one or more of their own, they are cutting out part of their own soul. In the long run, despite rationalizations to defend the anti-social acts, the team is less cohesive, more a collection of individuals.Fear
One might agree that we would like to think we all would jump up to help our bullied friends when they emerge from a closed-door meeting obviously slump shouldered and defeated after 30 min. of denigration and humiliation. We don't. The research shows it. The extensive literature on the bystander effect demonstrates that all generations of witnesses to emergencies and crises do little to help.
The reasons are varied for not intervening, of not helping more than is done. The reasons are all related to the "F word" — fear. Fear of being the next target; fear of not helping correctly and botching it; fear of being the only one from a group to act; fear of retaliation by the bully; fear of loss of one's job and income.
Thus, for coworkers as well as targets themselves, the workplace becomes a fear-plagued environment. Employers should hate this because it freezes everyone. When too afraid to act, workers are also rendered less capable of being productive.Guilt
Coworkers with a strong sense of duty or responsibility to help others in need may feel personal guilt of having not taken immediate helpful action. Coworker guilt revolves around their behavior or lack thereof; shame, a sense of personal worthlessness, is the primary emotion felt by targets. Guilt can gnaw at coworkers and erode their confidence over time.Depression & Trauma
The vicarious experience of bullying, as lived by witnessing coworkers, has been shown to trigger the same emotional injuries as experienced by individuals directly bullied. Witnesses suffer anxiety, depression and, in worst cases, PTSD-like symptoms of trauma. Depressed coworkers have sleep problems (disorders involving difficulty falling asleep and sleep of shorter duration with reduced REM time) just like targets who manifest sleep disorders, according to recent research. Depressed workers have trouble concentrating. Bullies falsely claim that their targets are stupid. Over time, with prolonged exposure to stress, anyone's ability to memorize new things or to retrieve facts, can be impaired. Thus, the stress response that accompanies depression tends to make the bullies lie appear true to the naive observer or investigator.
Trauma symptoms include intrusive negative fearful thoughts at inopportune times that interfere with normal cognition. Flashbacks and replaying of horrific incidents invade routine days and nights. A sense of apprehension over future negative events — hypervigiilance — leads traumatized individuals to lash out at others with anger or suspended living waiting for the "other shoe to drop." Finally, trauma leads to avoidance behavior. People can no longer approach locations, tasks and people who remind them of their traumatizing incidents. Bullies are the human source of work trauma. It is trauma by intentional human design, unlike PTSD from surviving natural disasters and accidents. The severity of trauma from personalized assaults is stronger than for trauma from impersonal events.Disillusionment
As stated above, group members who betrayed the target within their team, inflicted wounds on themselves by depriving themselves of satisfying the strong inclusionary need.
In other ways, the witnessing of the abuse of the target speaks volumes about employer credibility. There is always lofty language in the company statements about its mission, vision and values. Phrases such as "Respect for all individuals," "Dignity for all," "We care about everyone" are proudly printed, framed and hung in prominent places throughout the building. Unfortunately for most employers, those phrases ring hollow.
The employer's response to bullying is a litmus test of its ethicality. If the bullied target is persecuted but no action is ever taken to stop the bully and the target is most likely disappeared, then witnessing coworkers see that their employer is not honest. Dishonest unethical employers do not bother to provide safe workplaces. Coworkers start to fear for their own safety if such horrific treatment of the target was possible. Time to look for a job elsewhere.
Pity the employer that allows bullies to drive out countless targets that then launches "Employee Engagement" programs to compel employee loyalty. Good luck. HR faces a resistant and cynical employee pool. Nothing will be accepted again by the disingenuous employer.
If employers want loyal trusting workers, drive out abusive conduct, banish the bullies and employees will repay tenfold.


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Sandra Fluke: The Hobby Lobby case is an attack on women
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in the nationally followed Hobby Lobby case. The for-profit corporations that brought these cases to the Supreme Court — a craft store and a cabinet manufacturer — argued that the corporations' religious convictions should excuse them from compensating their employees through the comprehensive health insurance required by law. Specifically, these private employers sought to exclude insurance coverage of several forms of birth control because, contrary to medical and scientific evidence, the corporations' owners believe some birth control causes abortions.
The Affordable Care Act already includes special arrangements for houses of worship and religious nonprofits, like schools and hospitals. Houses of worship are exempted. Employees of religious nonprofits receive their birth control coverage directly from their insurance company. The nonprofit employer is not required to pay or be involved in any way.
Monday's cases weren't about those types of religious organizations. They were about privately owned, closely held, for-profit corporations. Monday, the court ruled that such corporations have religious rights under federal statute, just as individuals do. Corporations are not people. Corporations cannot have religious views. And this decision sends us in a dangerous direction.
Some imagine closely held corporations as family-run small business. Actually, closely held corporations make up more than 90 percent of the businesses in this country. They employ 52 percent of the labor force, and the 224 largest closely held corporations had combined revenues of $1.6 trillion in 2013. Some of these companies include Dell, Toys 'R' Us, Heinz, Dole Foods, Petco, Stater Bros and yes, even Koch Industries. Under Monday's decision, employees (and their dependents) at all of those corporations may lose their insurance coverage of birth control if their employers choose to deny it.
The court framed its decision as one of limited scope, applying it only to the contraception requirement and basing it upon a specific federal statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, rather than the First Amendment. However, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg convincingly demonstrates in her dissent, this decision opens the door for future cases with numerous far-reaching implications. As the court adds to its precedent, it increases the likelihood of corporations of all kinds being granted additional rights previously reserved only for individuals.
In the area of health care alone, the court's decision allows companies to deny coverage of numerous health-care services. The majority opinion barely addresses this concern. Why is birth control — an uncontroversial form of care used by an astonishing number of women — different from blood transfusions and vaccines, which many individuals have religious objections to? The fact is, it's not. This case sets a dangerous precedent and can be used in the future to go far past birth control.
The court cited the government's ability to meet women's need for affordable access to contraception in other ways, specifically pointing to government provision of birth control as an option. But in the current reproductive rights environment, that will never happen. Opponents of reproductive rights are trying to limit access to comprehensive women's health care from all directions. At the federal level, they have attempted to defund Title X, which provides funding for family planning for our poorest sisters in community clinics. At the state level, in Texas for example, there are attacks on government money for contraception and clinics that offer abortion care. There is a movement to prohibit government support not only for abortion services — which, with a few exceptions, has existed for three decades — but also for emergency contraception and certain forms of birth control. Even a woman's ability to pay for her own coverage is under attack: Some states' exchanges and the federal exchange are prohibited from providing insurance that covers abortion care.
In sum, the anti-choice movement wants to limit not just affordable access, but all access to abortion and birth control, whether it is backed by the government, by employers or purchased by private citizens. It is an attack at all levels, and Monday's decision is just another success in these efforts.
The task now is to determine how best to meet the reproductive health-care needs of millions of women who could be affected by this decision. The court says that the White House could expand the program for employees of religiously affiliated nonprofits to these employees as well. That won't undo the long-term damage that the court began Monday, but it will go a long way in ensuring health-care access for millions of women. The Obama administration should act.
Fluke is a social justice attorney who testified before Congress in 2012 about the importance of contraception coverage in health insurance. She is currently running for the California State Senate.


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Solitaire Coffee was roasted and packed by Morey Mercantile Co. of Denver. This may be why they chose the cowboy theme in this 1932 ad.
There were other Solitaire label products as well. Calamity mentions Solitaire honey to go with his "biskits" in the ad.
Morey Mercantile was one of Denver's oldest and largest grocery wholesaler and manufacturers. It was founded in 1884 as a branch of Sprague Warner & Co. of Chicago. C.S. Morey and Associates purchased the Denver branch a few years later.
Originally at 19th and Blake Streets, Morey Mercantile quickly outgrew that location and moved to 16th and Wyncoop.
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Seriously, though. 17 & GONE has blown my mind. Stick around and see why.
17 & Gone
My Review
So. This book was not about what I thought it was about. I mean, YES, there are seventeen-year-old girls and they've gone missing and they're talking to seventeen-year-old Lauren. But this isn't a paranormal, per se. Well, it could be. But it's so much more than that with it's tangled web of genres and directional possibilities. This is, in fact, my very favorite kind of book. And 17 & GONE is officially one of my favorite books ever.
Let me backtrack a minute. Think about all those paranormal/supernatural books you've read (or at least heard about). Now imagine, if you will, what would happen if the freaky things that happened in those books happened in real life. You'd probably be freaking out, and you may never fully recover from those experiences, right? Say word got out that you claimed to be dating a vegetarian vampire. Maybe you'd be dragged off in a straightjacket, yeah? At the very least people might cross the street when they saw you coming, because you, my dear, would be considered certifiable. And on top of that, you might start wondering if maybe you weren't, in fact, losing your mind.
Well, that's the realistic sort of path 17 & GONE takes us on while treading on the edges of a very magical one. 17 & GONE is part psychological, part magic, and in every way a mystery you simply must unravel, no matter how unnerving it is. And it is at times ridiculously unnerving. Nova Ren Suma immerses you so completely into Lauren's character that you begin to forget she's not real--and that you're not her. You get turned upside down, seeing and feeling the world as she's seeing and feeling it, so that when she's certain she's inside the magic, you're certain of it, and when she questions her own sanity, you begin to question it. When she's curious, no matter how scary the situation might be to an outsider, you feel curiosity more than fear. When she's terrified, no matter how normal a situation might seem to an outsider, you feel the prickle of goosebumps and the intense need to turn the page to find a way out. And when she's with her boyfriend...ah well, you doubt, you wish, you push away, you want.
And while you're feeling so much through Lauren, you're just as invested in all of Lauren's lost girls as she is, and you begin to want desperately for them to be found. All of these girls with their distinct personalities and stories worm under your skin and make you feel so much, and draw you to the pleas of other lost girls. And when the danger turns on Lauren and it becomes clear she may also disappear, you find yourself completely incapable of setting down the book until you know exactly what's to become of her.
17 & GONE takes you on a remarkable journey through magic and psychosis and fearful possibility; through desperate longings and the twists and turns our brains will take to find fulfillment of those longings. A work of consummate skill, 17 & GONE is a beautiful, chilling story filled with evocative imagery and thought-provoking, often rhythmic prose. Its arrestive voice and masterful use of dialogue captures the complexity of human interaction and need and leaves no doubt you're entirely inside the mind of a seventeen-year-old girl who's experiencing something truly extraordinary and terrifying. Altogether, 17 & GONE redefines what it means to be lost and will leave you questioning what it means to be found.
If you can't tell, I'm recommending you read this. So, yeah.
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ILM product initiatives today generally amount to little more than repackaging old products with new names, says Stephen Foskett. But you can still get ready for real ILM with tiered storage, consolidation and a service-oriented approach.
Analysts tell us that the root problem in IT today is a disconnect between actual business requirements and the services provided by the IT infrastructure. Everyone in IT knows that they don't know much about the content of their systems or how to treat it. Called "governance" in business texts, this alignment between high-level business goals and tactical operations is critical and tremendously lacking in many firms. A conversation on information lifecycle management (ILM) is a way to address this chasm of understanding.
ILM is a conceptual state in which data is stored in accordance to its changing business value. Even though there are serious technical and process gaps for this advanced, aligned storage to be realized, you can begin preparations for its use today.
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Conceptually, ILM requires three elements: value, alignment and change. Each element is critical to the overall vision of ILM, and each will prove vexing to address, especially in computer technology.
First, ILM needs objective metrics of data value. This is harder than it sounds—value goes beyond the simple age and access metrics used by hierarchical storage management (HSM) applications. Value metrics have to take into account relevance to the organization's core business, risk of unavailability and other factors that aren't easy to quantify. Many storage resource management products are beginning to include ad hoc, user-entered value metrics, Boolean matching and similar rudimentary systems to calculate value, but this technology is still in its infancy.
ILM also requires the protection of information aligned with its value. Data is normally stored in large chunks (think LUNs) rather than in the fine records to which the metrics are relevant, and it's difficult to move a piece of data even if greater granularity is there. Again, many companies are working on the alignment issue, with virtualization technology providing the ability to move tiny blocks of data from one storage medium to another. In addition, application-integrated software allows stubs to take the place of records in databases and e-mail systems.
The third element of ILM is the idea that the value, and thus the alignment, of a piece of information can change over time. This requires an application-linked system of metrics and movement, which has proved elusive up to this point.
ILM today
Today's ILM product initiatives generally amount to little more than repackaging old products with new names. But with so many companies investing in ILM technologies—a concept that's fundamentally sound and necessary—it's a foregone conclusion that all data will be managed with ILM in the future. When that will happen is a matter of debate, but the essential concepts are on the way and some basic products are here.
It will be extremely difficult to meet all three ILM requirements for the vast pools of unstructured data that make up most deployed storage today. But all three are available for some applications. E-mail systems, document repositories and databases, for example, contain the essential meta data to feed an ILM system. And new "extender" products, from EMC/Legato, KVS and others, enable the essential mobility element for these systems. If you have an automated e-mail archiving and retrieval system, you have ILM for at least one application.
HSM software can be considered simple-minded ILM for file systems. It typically monitors the only metric available for files—age—and realigns data protection by selectively moving files from one type of storage to another. But HSM has shortcomings in all three areas. First, file creation or the modification date isn't really a valid metric for data value. Another problem is the file-level granularity of HSM; many applications store data elements inside files, but HSM can't reach into a file and move just one record. Finally, moving a file to a different storage system might not change its essential protection attributes—there's more to storage alignment than reducing the cost of the underlying storage system.
Perhaps the most intriguing alignment technology is content-addressable storage (CAS). By breaking the bonds of physical connectivity (think SAN) and file-system layout (think NAS), CAS would theoretically allow an entirely virtualized pool of objects, complete with the ad hoc metrics of value and data movement. While today's CAS systems are fairly basic, vendors are likely to catch on and begin offering CAS networks with tiers of storage, per-record data protection and automated movement on changes.
The biggest hurdle to CAS, however, is beyond the realm of hardware vendors. Applications must be ready to address data as CAS records rather than as files or blocks, and precious few have this ability. But again, there's a technology fix on the horizon. Most operating system vendors have been laboring to build new database-type file systems. But these keep getting pushed to the next generation or remain obscure—such as the Apple Newton's "soup," Windows Cairo OFS, BeOS BFS and Windows Longhorn WinFS. However, it's likely that a database-enabled file system will eventually allow an operating system to interact with a CAS network directly. This will be as big an enabler of ILM as any yet seen, as applications will quickly take advantage of the new technology.
Be prepared
The shortcomings of HSM also highlight the limitations of ILM: For the foreseeable future, most corporate data will continue to lack at least one of the three elements listed here. But all isn't lost: Preparation for ILM will yield many benefits, even if the whole system can't be brought together. Let's start with alignment. Tiered storage can be considered a limited (and manual) form of ILM. Tiering requires grouping corporate data into a few categories and migrating it to different types of storage. It's neither automated nor granular, but tiering storage can yield cost savings and service-level improvements.
Data classification is another hot topic related to ILM. Understanding data requirements is key to the ILM concept, and the process of identifying data, classifying it and developing appropriate protection policies will uncover the true value metrics needed by an automated ILM product.
In short, you have to have a tiered, service-focused infrastructure and a good understanding of data value to enable any ILM product in the future. But how do you get started?
Begin by taking a long hard look at your infrastructure. Are you ready to implement basic ILM-type functionality like "extender" archiving systems or HSM products? Do you have storage tiers that can accept different classes of data? Can you map storage from the arrays back to the application? Do you have an accounting of all of your data sources and a business impact assessment that defines the real value of the applications? All of these issues must be addressed before moving on with any real ILM initiative.
ILM is bigger than IT
There's one other massive limitation to ILM beyond the technical issues. Data management is a far bigger topic than any IT infrastructure group, let alone a storage infrastructure group, can handle. It's bigger, in fact, than IT itself. ILM is nothing less than a new paradigm for business-focused information services.
Think of this as an opportunity to bridge the chasm that divides IT from the business. Ask the business-side folks in your organization if they feel that IT is providing services that map to their needs, and if they're comfortable with the protection you're currently providing for their data. Use this as an opportunity to break the techie bonds that keep most IT professionals in the weeds of technical details.
ILM can be an opportunity to elevate all of IT and to bring it to the corporate table in a way it hasn't been since the 1960s. We're all businesspeople at heart, though our Dilbert mugs and Star Wars posters might suggest otherwise. So begin the conversation about ILM by focusing on what the business needs rather than on how to deliver it. Prepare your foundation with tiered storage, consolidation and a service-oriented approach, and you'll be ready when real ILM products hit the market.


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These students are extremely vulnerable to economic conditions, and the current recession has hit them hard. Any change in their finances, whether it is something major such as the loss of a parent's job, or something as simple as an increase in the cost of food, utilities or gasoline can push successful students to the verge of having to withdraw from the University and put their dreams of earning a college degree on hold.
We started the Student Relief Fund in 2009 in response to the sharp increase in the number of talented, successful, and committed students who were coming to us because they had stretched their financial aid and personal financial options to the limit and were still unable to pay for school. Statistics show that even students who leave school with the best intentions of returning rarely do so. Therefore, it is critical to make sure that they can remain enrolled.
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Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach uses a role – db_Executor – to which users are given membership. The execute permission is granted to the role.
I am using this approach to control access to stored procedures. Some developers started to complain that they could not execute their stored procedures. The first thing that I did was to check if their user was a member of the db_Executor role. It was, which was a surprise. I then started to check that the role had executor permissions. This was not so easy to do.
After a little digging, I used sp_helpprotect as follows.
In SQL Server Management studio, I ran:
sp_helprotect 'execute'
This returns the following:
Msg 15330, Level 11, State 1, Procedure sp_helprotect, Line 291
There are no matching rows on which to report.
OK – now I know that the problem is because the database role does not have execute permissions. So all I need to do is run:
GRANT EXECUTE TO [db_executor]
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db_executor dbo Grant Execute .
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Can you find a kind feeling?
This is Ashton Kutcher arriving at Letterman presumably to promote his new starring role on Two and a Half Men. When Ashton obscures his looks, and he's a very good looking man, there are very few kind things I can find to say about him. Look at him. He looks like a smug douche. With his try to be cheeky bowtie and his try to be I just grabbed these wrinkled pants pants and his I'm so much smarter and techier than you expression...He. Is. A. Douche. And he acts like a douche.
Did you read the profile on him in the New York Times via Gawker? Click here if you missed it. What is real about Ashton Kutcher? Even if you're already starting from the position that no celebrity is really real Ashton Kutcher's capacity for un-realness exceeds them all. There's never been any hint of passion in anything he does or integrity. It's either a cash grab like his movies or not so subtle opportunism like his claims to be some kind of technology expert. Kutcher is a fraud. So I will throw this to you to help me understand – what does Ashton Kutcher actually have to offer?
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Everything went to script Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards until the end — when Luke Bryan pulled off an amazing upset and won entertainer of the year.
Bryan beat out some of country music's top stars, including two-time winner Taylor Swift and overall award leader Miranda Lambert, in an upset that few would have predicted. The 36-year-old Georgia native recently began headlining his first arena tour and was the co-host of this year's show.
After an emotional speech, co-host and fellow nominee Blake Shelton held Bryan up and joked that he won in his "first and last year as co-host" of the awards.
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Shelton shared one award with Lambert, his wife, for "Over You," the deeply personal song they co-wrote. With three other wins — including her fourth straight as female vocalist of the year — Lambert was the night's most-honored star.
"Over You," written by the couple about Shelton's late brother, won song of the year at the Country Music Association Awards last November as well.
"As a songwriter, having your song and your lyrics recognized by your peers is pretty much as good as it gets," Lambert said. "And I'm so thankful for being in this genre of country music, every single time someone's nominated, I just cheer, because I love everybody to death. So thank you for accepting me as a song writer, not just as a singer, because that means the world to me."
Eric Church won two awards, including album of the year, and was tied with Jason Aldean, Little Big Town and Florida Georgia Line.
Church, this year's top nominee, also won vocal event of the year for his collaboration with Aldean and Luke Bryan for their collaboration on "The Only Way I Know" and performed his somber but powerful song "Like Jesus Does" with only an acoustic guitar and a backup singer.
"I can't believe I just met John Fogerty," Church said as he accepted the album award from the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and Lambert. "We should hang out later."
Aldean, country's top-selling male act, won male vocalist of the year. Little Big Town had wins for vocal group and video of the year. Florida Georgia Line won for new artist and were previous winners in the new vocal duo/group category.
Bryan is the first male winner of the entertainer of the year award since 2007 when Kenny Chesney won the first fan-voted award. Swift and Carrie Underwood have won two apiece since then.
Husband and wife Shawna and Keifer Thompson continued their feel-good story as Thompson Square won its second straight vocal duo of the year award.
Shawna Thompson gave a shoutout to her mother from stage.
Tears came to her eyes backstage as she explained that her father had recently passed away and she wanted to acknowledge her mother during her acceptance speech to support her.
"She's just having a really hard time," she said.
The night was full of colorful performances, but the anticipation of Garth Brooks and George Strait performing together overshadowed almost everything else. The two paid tribute to the late Dick Clark, the executive producer of the show since 1979 who passed away a year ago.
Brooks appeared on stage in flannel shirt and black cowboy hat with a Fu Manchu to perform his hit "The Dance" before Strait joined him for "The Cowboy Rides Away."
Reba McEntire introduced the two and paid tribute to Clark, momentarily breaking down as tears appeared in her eyes.
"He would slap me if he saw me crying up here," she said.
Shelton kicked the show off with his new single "Boys 'Round Here," a hip-hop-flavored ode to redneck swag. He was joined by Bryan, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow and Pistol Annies, a trio that includes his wife.
Strait made his first appearance of the night earlier, singing "Give It All We Got Tonight." Lady Antebellum debuted new song "Downtown" and Charles Kelley finished off the song by rubbing pregnant trio-mate Hillary Scott's belly. Carrie Underwood stepped out of a black Cadillac parked on stage as she started her song, "Two Black Cadillacs."
Lambert appeared later with a fiery, diamond-studded rendition of her recent hit "Mama's Broken Heart."
John Mayer joined Paisley for a guitar summit on "Beat This Summer" and Taylor Swift and Keith Urban joined Tim McGraw on stage for "Highway Don't Care," which Urban finished off with a scorching guitar solo.


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Tips for Hosting Last-Minute Big Game Gatherings
There's a good chance you'll be hosting a couple of game-watching events at your house over the next several weeks. Here are some tips to help you get ready for entertaining hungry crowds – big or small.
* Stock up on easy-to-serve and delicious foods. This is especially important if a last-minute party unexpectedly pops up. In this scenario, you might not have time to whip up a plate of desserts or don't have any dip to serve with the chips. Instead, be sure to have a package or two of Farm Rich Stuffed Pretzel Bites or other snacks stored in the freezer. When guests descend upon your house, it's an easy task to heat the Pretzel Bites in the oven, toaster oven or microwave and serve hungry folks in your house. And these soft pretzels filled with delicious cheddar cheese are sure to be a hit for all the sports fans at your house.
* Store a wide selection of drinks. Soda pop tends to be a top choice for party attendees, but you can also encourage other drink choices with a selection of juices, milk and even sports drinks to help establish the perfect atmosphere for the game. Be sure to have plenty of ice as well as space in the refrigerator to chill drinks before everyone grabs them as refreshment.
* Keep team apparel handy. No matter if it's hats, jerseys or pennants, the fans in your house will need to have the sports apparel out for the game to do a proper job of cheering the team on. So make certain you time your laundry loads perfectly to have all apparel items fresh and clean prior to kick off, tip off or face off. Also plan on storing these items in a closet or drawer close to the TV for the entire season, just to make certain nothing gets lost in the excitement of the games.
* Make it a family event. Create additional fun with mini family competitions. If the guests are knowledgeable about the teams, set up a trivia game including stats for the teams, players and even the history of the sport. Or make it a tradition for everyone to do something unusual every time the home team scores – like 20 pushups or running around the house cheering on the team vocally for example.
Seems like championship games are happening right and left, so be ready for the fun of friends and family descending upon your house to catch a game. And with these tips, you'll be as ready as possible, even if the party is a last-minute decision.


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The Animals Committee is made up of experts representing each of the six geographical regions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). It focuses on animals in trade and considers the impacts of trade and capacities to regulate and conserve the wild animal populations. The committee meets twice before each Conference of the Parties.
For more information on the Animals Committee, visit the CITES website.
To read the specific terms on the committee's formation, view the CITES resolution.
Learn how a non-government organization (NGO) can become an observer to a meeting, click here or view our factsheet found on the left.
Recent Meetings
The 26th meeting of the Animals Committee occurred in March, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland and Geneva, Switzerland. Below are documents detailing the United States' submissions to the Committee.
- Report on the Implementation of Resolution Conf. 12.6 (Rev. CoP15) on Conservation and management of sharks (Class Chondrichthyes)
- Publication on Iguanas (CITES Document AC26 Inf. 4)
- Extract from the preliminary report with recommendations and conclusions from the Singapore Workshop on Asian Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles (CITES Document AC26 Inf. 5)
- Conservation of Asian Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles: Setting Priorities for the Next Ten Years
For additional information on the meeting, please visit the CITES website.
In addition, a joint Animals and Plants Committee meeting was held in Dublin during the same time period. For additional information on the meeting, please visit the CITES website.


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Severely developmentally disabled residents of state-owned facilities were put in jeopardy by poor oversight, a lack of specialized training and mismanaged investigations into possible crimes, according to a state audit released Tuesday.
The Department of Developmental Services must improve oversight of resident safety in its developmental centers, the audit concluded. It found that health care staff did not always provide timely notification of incidents to the department's Office of Protective Services and that state law-enforcement personnel did not consistently follow proper procedures when probing allegations of resident abuse.
"Specifically, (protective services) often failed to collect written declarations from suspects and witnesses, take photographs of crime scenes or alleged victims, and attempt to interview alleged victims, particularly residents said to be nonverbal," Chief Deputy State Auditor Doug Cordiner wrote in a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown.
Auditors said many of the issues raised by their office more than a decade ago were not sufficiently addressed within the protective services division. Among the issues were a lack of specialized training, high turnover rates among staff and the division's lack of a cohesive recruiting plan. It pointed to an increased reliance on overtime to fill staffing needs.
The state review also found that public health officials responsible for oversight do not always perform all of their required duties, including follow ups on certification and state licensing surveys, as well as conducting prompt investigations for incidents regarded as less serious.
In a response, developmental services officials conceded that the audit was consistent with past reviews and agreed that more could be done to improve the safety of individuals living at the facilities.
Recommendations in the report included revising training policies, adding a formal recruiting program and evaluating the effectiveness of enforcement systems across all types of health facilities. The state review stemmed from a series of stories by the Center for Investigative Reporting, a media partner of U-T San Diego. The series led off with the story of Van Ingraham of La Mesa, whose suspicious death was mishandled by the department.


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