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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
A Video: On My Haiti Experience and Brokenness
Instead I've decided, after much debate, to post the video of a presentation I gave over the weekend on my experience in Haiti last year. If you've followed my blog for a while, you know I went to Haiti last year with Mission Haiti Medical and a medical team comprised of (about) thirty people from all over Indiana, and that I kind of fell apart afterwards and hesitated to really discuss this trip with many.
But I was asked recently to talk about my experience at my church. They gave me a great amount of support last year, so, yeah. I couldn't put it off any longer. It was time to give back, if you want to call this presentation that. There were several remarkable presentations that day, but I went last, which, thank goodness because I turned into a blubbering mess all of the four times I spoke. I got so much support from so many of you, too, but I had come to the conclusion that posting this video would make me feel too vulnerable. The Internet is just so...huge. But then I received a card in the mail from a lady who was overwhelmed by my talk, moved to such a degree she took the time to send me a letter. And that was that. I was reminded of my own call to action despite vulnerability. If you watch this through to the end, you'll see what I mean. Sometimes things are really hard, but you do them anyway.
It's kind of long, though. You don't have to watch it. But it's here. Because I got a card in the mail.
Thank you to Joe and Bill and the amazing crew who made this video and to the missions team who invited me to speak.
Also? Thank you.
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You are a beautiful person. Thank you for going to Haiti. Thank you for bringing comfort to those wonderful people. Thank you for sharing your story. :) Absolutely, stunningly beautiful.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Kim. That's very kind of you. In so many ways, it feels so small, what I did. The doctors actually provided a quantifiable service, you know? But I like to think I made a difference, even if only in a small way. It made a difference for me anyway...Delete
Thank you for sharing this and for your willingness to go back. We do need to break, because if we don't break, we can't fully live in love, I don't think. I experienced something very similar to what you have when I went on a mission outreach into Mexico. But brokenness is here in the U.S. too; maybe manifested in different ways, but we're all broken and searching...ReplyDeleteReplies
I'd love to hear more about your trip to Mexico, Barbara. I'm sure it had a great impact on you. And yes, there's so much pain everywhere. All kinds of need. We don't have to go far from home to find it.Delete
You are so brave and beautiful. I feel so blessed to have you in my life. I don't have the words to describe what you made me feel watching this. I just love you so much. <3ReplyDeleteReplies
I love you too, E. I'm so, so happy you're in my life.Delete
I'm so very proud of you, Carol. Thanks for going on that mission, and thanks for sharing this.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Brad. That means so much. <3 <3Delete
I'm not watching this because it will make me cry and I am at the office.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha! No problem. You don't have to watch it at all, dude. It's just there. It was such a cathartic thing, I'm glad I did it.Delete
LOL! Matt said the exact same thing i was thinking! Can't watch it until i'm done with my meetings today. But i willReplyDelete
Okay i took a break and watched it. It was lovely and wonderful.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Sarah! I don't know about wonderful...I was so embarrassed. LOL But thank you.Delete
You are so wonderful to have done this. I cried too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Many thanks, Anne! I appreciate you coming by and taking a look <3Delete
Awww Carolina! First it was lovely to see and hear you!! Second - you star!! Awwww I was tearing up listening to the tremors in your voice while you recounted you very personal and harrowing experiences. Take careReplyDelete
You sweet, beautiful you. Thank you for coming by. Always a pleasure to see you pop in. Thank you for your kind words. I'm touched...Delete
More than a band-aid. Better than a band-aid.ReplyDelete
I am so proud to know you, and proud of you. You are so right, it is because you can feel, because you break, that makes the difference.ReplyDelete
So proud of you for going, so proud of you for sharing. You are so beautiful inside and out, Carol. Your presentation was eloquent and compassionate.ReplyDelete
You are amazing, and I'm incredibly proud to know you! Bless you, Carolina.ReplyDelete
Oh Carolina. (All teary-eyed here.) There is so much beauty in all that pain. There are people in Haiti whom you touched and they will not forget you or the kindness/love you showed. It may not be enough, but it will never be in vain. From personal experience I can say, it is when you stop feeling that it is time to quit. Until then, pour yourself into their lives as much as you can. Laugh, coo, rub shoulders, weep... because it is not in vain. You can never know how one small kind act may affect one person's life. You may save the life of Nobel Prize winner, a great writer, a doctor, nurse. You can never know, and so, pour yourself into their lives. God bless you.ReplyDelete
It's not easy to speak in front of an audience! Its a wonderful, moving thing you did!ReplyDelete
My Sister in law and Mother in law went to Haiti. They came back with some pretty incredible stories, and while I'd love to go one day, it's not going to happen while I have littles. One day.ReplyDelete
There are no words. You are a brave and beautiful person inside and out.ReplyDelete
This was beautiful, Carol, and you are such a beautiful tender, loving person to have gone to Haiti and given comfort in such dire circumstances - and to be willing to break your heart and body for them. You are also brave and selfless. You've filled my heart today. Thank you for sharing this. I love you.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Carol, for being who you are and sharing your beautiful spirit. Lives have been touched for good because of you. I must tell you that even when you're feeling broken your light is shining bright.ReplyDelete
Oh wow. Wow wow wow.ReplyDelete
I remember well your original posts about this trip, about your brokenness.
You are so brave to share this now. Your description of being not whole, but somehow full of hope - I don't have words for how moved I am.
"I will break for you."
Don't ever doubt how great a gift you are.
That was gut wrenching. Ugh.ReplyDelete
I cannot even fathom being so desperate that I felt like I needed to give my baby away. Just heart breaking.
That was stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking, Carol. I am still crying. Thank you for being so brave, thank you for feeling so much. <3ReplyDelete
To not help because we cannot cure them all is to leave those we could help hurting without hope, without relief. Those who come to Haiti take it back with them in haunting images. Those who go know that they will leave. Those who are born there know that they will only escape it through death.ReplyDelete
Once there we must show compassion but not be consumed with our own reactions. Relieving the hurt of those in front of us must be forefront.
Be careful. If the experience shatters you, you will be no good to those in your life who need you. Drowning to save a drowning person helps neither of you and robs your family and friends of the person who they also need.
A rare blood run calls me to drive the roads again, so I must leave. You and those in Haiti are in my prayers.
Just stopping by to say hi. KthxbaiReplyDelete
listening and reading an interesting article and a lot of helpful info I really like blogs like thisReplyDelete


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During a keynote at the small unmanned systems business expo in San Francisco, Calif., the CEO of Alta Devices, Christopher Norris, explained that small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are no longer constrained to short-range or limited flight times and are now able to fly as long as the sun is shining.
A solar solution for powering UAVs is expected to have tremendous economic value for agricultural, public safety, wildfire mapping, search and rescue, law enforcement, industrial applications, and many others.
In the past, solar solutions weren't feasible for powering these vehicles because the solar power systems were either too heavy or could not produce enough power for long-range flight, or both. However, a small UAV outfitted with Alta Devices' mobile power technology can produce enough power, while adding practically no weight, to fly indefinitely under the sun, Norris announced.
Alta Devices manufactures the world's thinnest, most flexible, and most efficient solar material, the company contends. It can be used on anything that moves, can be carried, or worn, to generate substantial power from light. In the case of a typical small UAV with a nine-foot wingspan, Alta's material can generate roughly 125W of power and weighs about 125 grams (about 4.5 ounces). In many cases, this is enough power to sustain flight and keep an on-board power source fully charged, the company explained.
Norris said, "A broad range of civil unmanned systems will benefit from extended range and endurance. For example, when a UAV is used to map a wildfire, or on a human search and rescue mission, it is critical to have flight times that are as long as possible."
And for agricultural use, the ability to extend the range of a UAV and shorten the task of monitoring a large area by avoiding stops to recharge, has significant economic benefit for farm uses.
According to a report published by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), precision agriculture and public safety represent more than 90 percent of the potential for civil UAS use and will result in an economic benefit to the United States of $82 billion between 2015 and 2025.
The year 2015 is significant because that is the year anticipated for the Federal Aviation Administration to approve wide-spread private use of UVS. Research and manufacturer of UVS are proceeding in leading up to 2015 as universities recognize the ag potential of UVS. Additionally, some UVS are being flown under hobbyist rules.
Gretchen West, executive vice president, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), said, "Efficiency and endurance are the holy grail for unmanned systems. Enabling all-day flight times for small UAVs will change the game for civil use and represents a significant market opportunity."

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A Developer.com Site
An Eweek.com Site
Sorry Nihil,
Just quickly, is there a firefox extension or some tool for quickly scanning something with all those different AVs?
Cereal: Eaten at all times of the day.
Simply go to www.virustotal.com and upload a sample. They run it against a handfull of vender signatures and the output is what Nihil has posted.
Our scars have the power to remind us that our past was real. -- Hannibal Lecter.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden
Hi there wheaty_bytes
TH13 is quite right. I use virus total (he has given you the link) and Jotti, which is here:
The both do as he says but use slightly different mixtures of AVs, so you get a broader cover if you use both. I tend to use them as a "first pass" just to see if something has already been discovered or if it looks like a generic malware
As this has been resolved, I won't add that much other than ntscan, ipcscan, and sqlscan have been the most popular tools I have seen in windows honeynet research. They all function as TH13 has noted; by grinding against a box with a list of passwords. Typically the password that got them in to your box will be at the top of the list if you find it on your box. An attacker typically will break in to a box and start trying to spread their sphere of influence in a matter of moments.
These are pretty much a part of the standard l337 h4x0r toolkit containing things like fport, psinfo and the like(usually a kit of 8 executables).
Antionline in a nutshell
\"You\'re putting the fate of the world in the hands of a bunch of idiots I wouldn\'t trust with a potato gun\"
Trust your Technolust
where can I downlod this FTP & Nt Scanner by lomax
Your probably lucky that it was only some "young'en" that rooted you, who by the sounds of it didn't really know what he was doing - password grinding remote domain machines is the action of someone who has either tried everything else and has run out of options, or someone who doesn't really understand what they are doing. Although personally I would still change any cached domain credentials and all local credentials if I was you.
If you had been rooted by someone who had half a clue, they would have left something a tad more advanced running, such as whosthere from the Pass the Hash toolkit - as this is not a virus it won't show up as such - and if they exploited you by a method that left them with a bind shell or similar, then it is possible some actions they performed would not show up in your eventvwr.
Personally I would perform a close inspection of everything on the server/work station. Don't presume that because you have plugged the original fault that allowed you to be rooted in the first place, that you are secure...if it was me I would take for granted that you would find the original attack vector that may even result in the server beeing removed/reformatted and would have provided myself with some other method to retain the access I have to your server and/or network...chances are they did not confine themselves to one server; unless you have good security practices/policies in place..which folks rarely do.
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June 2006???????????????
Thread closed............... it cannot be relevant today.
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(CNN) -- At least four people were killed and hundreds more were injured in fresh clashes in the volatile city of Port Said, Egypt's health ministry said Monday.
More than 150 of those hurt were still in the hospital as of noon local time, ministry spokesman Dr. Yehya Moussa said.
A government security building was set ablaze as police and protesters clashed, witnesses said.
The violence snowballed throughout the weekend, as a March 9 verdict date neared for 52 defendants involved in a deadly riot at a soccer game in February 2012.
Fear and loathing in Egypt: The fallout from Port Said
Twenty-one defendants already have been sentenced to death for their alleged roles in the so-called "massacre at Port Said," when 74 people were killed and 1,000 injured after the Port Said-based al-Masry team defeated Cairo's al-Ahry 13 months ago.
Soccer fans in the restive Egyptian city also clashed with security forces and torched a police station Saturday, according to the interior ministry. The Green Ultras, fans of al-Masry, are often in the middle of political violence.
Egypt's football season opens -- with no fans in the stands
Reports surfaced that amid the weekend tumult, soldiers fought with police. And the state-run MENA news agency reported two of the those killed Monday were army conscripts. But a spokesman for Egypt's armed forces denied any conflict between the uniformed personnel.
"It is completely untrue that armed forces units in Port Said exchanged fire with police forces during the clashes," Col. Ahmed Ali posted on his Facebook page Sunday night.
Port Said, in northeastern Egypt, near the Sinai Peninsula, has had a tense relationship with Cairo dating back about 60 years.
Many residents of Port Said felt Egyptian security forces didn't adequately defend the city during the series of wars with Israel that began with the Jewish state's creation in 1948 and ended after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
In addition, some Port Said residents say the central government doesn't invest enough of the tax dollars it reaps from international ships traveling through the Suez Canal back into in Port Said.
Journalist Sarah Sirgany and CNN's Reza Sayah, Amir Ahmed and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report.


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AT PILGRIM CHURCH: Tremont History Project presents: A VISUAL HISTORY OF TREMONT, from birth to rebirth. This Tremont history timeline will be on display at Pilgrim Church beginning on Art Walk Friday, April 13 from 6 to 9 pm at Pilgrim Church located at the southwest corner of W. 14th St. and Starkweather Ave. The display will also be available to view each Sunday after liturgy, approximately 11am through 12:30 – 1:00 pm, and during normal business hours, through the moth of April (April 29). Go to Pilgrim's website: http://pilgrimalive.org
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Katie, Take A Cue From Suri! She's Totally Put Together & You're Looking Super Schlubby!
No offense Katie, but Joey Potter cleaned up nicer on prom night than you did for the Tony Awards!
Katie Holmes, I know you're a multi-tasking mom on the go and it's totally fine to look frazzled from time to time — but there's no excuse to show up for a glam night out looking the way you did at the Tony Awards in NYC on Jun. 14! I have no doubt little Suri wouldn't approve of your schlub style — even when she's going out to play or just strolling around during the day, the mini fashionista is always accessorizing, and even puts on some lip gloss for added omph.
Don't get me wrong — I liked the strapless Armani Prive get-up, (it's hard to make those gorgeous gowns look bad on the red carpet), however, the star was far from glam! With minimal accessories, very light makeup, and a total bed head, she looked like she threw on the dress without even looking in the mirror, making the fabulous frock look ill-fitting and drab. The top did nothing for her chest — I was just waiting for Katie to spill out. And, to make matters worse, the awkward length revealed a poor choice of footwear, too! Katie, if you had added some statement jewelry and glammed up your beauty routine you would have given the gorg gals in attendance a run for their money — instead you looked more plain jane than sleek and chic!
You may think I'm being hard on the A-lister, but I wouldn't be so tough on the star if I didn't think she had to potential to wow! I wish Katie would take a cue from stylish little Suri — she mixes prints, has an affinity for hair wear, and a covetable shoe collection. Every time she steps out she's getting noticed and turning heads, while her mom just blends in to the background. Considering Suri storms the streets like they're her own personal runway, I hope Katie shows up ready to rock the red carpet the next time she steps out! What do you think? Do you agree with me and think Suri way more stylish than Katie, or am I being too harsh on the multi-tasking mom?


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RezScore's 4 Favorite Resume Hacks
By Sean Weinberg
Believe it or not, but the entire team at RezScoreloves resumes. We love their usefulness, their flexible nature, and the fact a resume gets you hired. (Who doesn't love that?).
Since we're all about resumes and we're just a smidge nerdy, we've naturally come up with our very own set of resume hacks that are handy to just about anyone who has submitted a resume online.
Why would I hack my resume?
A person doesn't initially review your resume when you submit it to a company. (Eyes on you, big, scary companies!) Chances are, some type of HR software, affectionately known as an "applicant tracking system," reviews it. This system is usually what sorts large quantities of applications into the initial "yes" and "no" categories. While they are designed to prioritize the most qualified applicants, the system is still flawed. Here are four ways you can help your resume into the "yes" pile:
1. Link it up.
Any online resume should take advantage of Web-tastic tools like hyperlinks. Using hyperlinks allows you to cheat the one-page rule by giving employers access to even more content than what meets the eye. Use bit.ly to create an embedded link so it's parsable for software.
2. Count on it.
Just like our favorite vampire, we love using numbers in our resumes. Numbers give an undisputed account of a certain accomplishment and are attractive to HR software. Put a number in your first bullet point under any position you held. Phrases such as "saved $1 million" and "closed 13 new accounts" are golden.
3. Work the search terms.
Out of work? Get your resume to the top of the stack by including "in work" search terms. It's not lying, fibbing, or even fudging if you include phrases such as "analyzed current events" or "presented to management," but it will get on the right side of any HR software.
4. De-routine.
When people ask you about notable points in your job, you probably neglect to mention the more routine parts of your position. Just because you do it every day doesn't mean that it's not notable to other people. A little self-aggrandizement can go a long way.
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What do you think? What other resume hacks can you think of? How helpful do you find resume hacks? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Well the English cricket season is drawing to a close, and as usual my game has peaked with few games left. It got me thinking what do the pros do during the winter, ignore ones that go overseas, what do the ones that stay at home do? Do they work out? Do they still work in the nets, and have throwdowns?
I was thinking what can I do over the winter to make sure I can go into next season with the biggest advantage over other players. I know that I could improve fitness, but would building muscle also help? What muscles should I work on if so? What type of training should I do to get my body into good, shap because to be honest I am a bit of a twig.
ALSO, do you think working on technique over the winter with throwdown etc. would beninfit my game, or are all these things just as useful if you start a month before the new season?


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I want to be given correction suggestions while setting a text in LibreOffice to English-UK.
Now it works for English-US, French and Romanian, as these are the languages that I have installed in Language Support. I cannot seem to have a setting to differentiate US/UK English as I was able in Xubuntu.
In LibreOffice English-UK is absent. How to add it?
Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages I get to the image above, but how to make English UK present there? it lacks that 'ABC-V' sign that is present for English USA, although in
Tools/Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids an 'English-uk' IS PRESENT. But that is not enough for the corrector to function for English-UK.


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Scientists Losing Orbital Eyes on Earth
As hurricane season gathered force, the main U.S. weather satellite watching the eastern seaboard failed last month for the second time in a year. The difficulties with the seven-year-old weather satellite are a symptom of a broader problem: Scientists are losing their orbital eyes on Earth. Lee Hotz reports. Photo: AP.
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For the second time this year, Anton Tanumihardja, an Indonesian citizen, and his American husband, Brian Andersen, face the terrifying prospect of a deportation that will destroy their marriage. After losing a nine-year legal battle for asylum, Anton was given a "final order of removal" that may be executed on October 7.
Although this administration recently announced a "kinder, gentler" deportation policy with "prosecutorial discretion" guidelines that include same-sex binational couples, Brian & Anton will still wait anxiously for another month to learn whether this policy will be properly applied in Anton's case.
Brian and Anton's case will be the first real test of the administration's commitment to stop deportations involving same-sex binational couples since the August 18 announcement by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, promising to set-aside low-priority deportation cases. It will also give us a first opportunity to confirm whether individual ICE Deportation Officers implement the LGBT-inclusive prosecutorial discretion guidelines for an individual with a final order of removal.
Unlike the two history-making cases (Henry & Josh, Doug & Alex) in which Stop The Deportations has won "administrative closure" this year, Anton's case is significantly further along in the legal process. Anton has exhausted all his appeals and recently received a final denial of his last appeal. Because Anton has a "final order of removal" ICE has the power to put him on a plane and deport him at any time.
Will ICE Deportations and Removals Officers apply the prosecutorial discretion guidelines to protect this married gay couple from being torn apart? As part of the Stop The Deportations campaign, Brian and Anton will use every day that remains to ensure that Anton is granted "deferred action" and to ensure that the Obama administration's commitment to same-sex binational couples facing deportation has tangible results.
Just three hours before Anton's flight to Jakarta was scheduled to take off, ICE finally agreed to postpone the deportation. Anton was put under an order of supervision and was not held in ICE custody. At regular intervals he was required to check in with his Deportation Officer at the local Deportations and Removals Operations office of ICE. Officially, ICE allowed Anton to stay until a final decision was made by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) on a Motion to Reopen that had been filed in 2010. In fact, deportations are routinely carried out even in cases where there such motions are pending, so it seemed likely that ICE was, at least in part, responding to the specific humanitarian circumstances faced by Brian and Anton. This gave them hope that they would have a future together.
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On August 25, Anton went to see his Deportation Officer for his first supervised check-in since the BIA denial prepared to submit a request for "deferred action." It had only been a few days since Secretary Napolitano announced that the administration would review all pending deportation cases, including those with final orders of removal. Still, Brian & Anton could not sleep the night before; they worried that ICE in Philadelphia would not know how to apply the prosecutorial discretion rules to gay couples. Their fears turned out to be well-founded. The officer was kind and co-operative, but he was not sure how to proceed given that these guidelines were new.
After conferring with his supervisor for 45 minutes, the officer returned to tell them that no decision could be made on that day. He instructed Anton to return on October 7 and advised him that there was a strong chance that on that day he would informing him that he deportation would proceed.
Once again, the clock is ticking on Brian and Anton's marriage. It does not have to be this way.
|Anton & Brian on their wedding day
Brian and Anton should not have to wait until October 7 to learn whether their lives will be torn apart. We urge the administration to make good on their promise to exercise discretion and stop deportations that tear apart LGBT families. The Department of Homeland Security can do this today by directing the Philadelphia ICE office to make a decision on Anton's request for deferred action now.


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Ron Paul at Cato: 'Audit the Fed'
When Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul speaks about transparency in the Federal Reserve, he sums up his argument with one simple question. Why not?
"Why in the world should this much power be given to a Federal Reserve that has the authority to create $1 trillion secretly?" Ron Paul asked a standing room‐only crowd today at the Cato Institute.
Paul was on a panel of speakers, including Gilbert Schwartz, former associate general counsel to the Federal Reserve, to discuss a new bill that will audit the Fed for the first time in its history. This comes at a time when the Fed's balance sheet has almost tripled, from just over $800 billion before the financial crisis to almost $2.3 trillion now.
"We will only win when the people wake up and realize that transparency is what we need," said Paul. "When we know exactly what's happening, there will be monetary reform."
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orthern New Mexico boasts river valleys surrounded by snow-covered mountains. But it was also harsh and unforgiving; one early settler called it a "glorious hell." The Spanish, who came to this area in the late 16th century, found that the valleys near the Rio Grande could be farmed when streams were channeled into irrigation systems. More than two centuries later, they moved east across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains into new, greener valleys. They took their century's old traditions with them, but soon encountered new influences from the rapidly expanding United States.
Some of the small subsistence farms, or ranchos, created in the mid-19th century survive in the mountain valleys of the Pecos and Mora rivers. The irrigation ditches that water the fields are regulated by rules dating back centuries. The houses are built of the same adobe used to construct Indian pueblos and Spanish missions. But the houses also feature decorative details based on architectural fashions brought to New Mexico after it became a U.S. territory in 1851.
The Hispanos, as the early Spanish settlers of New Mexico and their descendants are called, and the Anglos, the immigrants from the east, were often in conflict. The physical fabric of these early ranchos, which combines the traditions of both, testifies to the Hispanos' age-old cultural heritage and to their ability to adapt to change.
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WHAT'S the real fight in the Middle East today? Is it just sectarian (Sunnis versus Shiites) and national (Israelis versus Palestinians and Arabs versus Persians)? Or is it something deeper? I was discussing this core question with Nader Mousavizadeh, a former senior United Nations official and the co-founder of Macro Advisory Partners, a geopolitical advisory firm, and he offered another framework: "The real struggle in the region," he said, "is between arsonists and firefighters."
There is a lot of truth in that. The sectarian and nationalist fires you see burning around the Middle East are not as natural and inevitable as you may think.
"These are deliberate acts of arson," argues Mousavizadeh, "set by different leaders to advance their narrow and shortsighted political, economic and security objectives." In the West, he warns, "a mix of fatigue and fatalism is in danger of creating a narrative of irreversible Sunni-Shia conflict. This is historically false and releases the region's leaders from their responsibility to wield power in a legitimate and accountable way."
To be sure, he added, the sectarian divides are real, but it is "not inevitable" that the region erupt in sectarian conflagration. It takes arsonists to really get these sectarian fires blazing, and, "unless they set them and fan them and give them fuel," they will more often than not die out.
How so? Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, is an arsonist. When confronted with a nonviolent, grass-roots protest against his tyrannical rule, he opened fire on the demonstrators, hoping that would provoke Syria's Sunni majority to respond with violence against his Alawite/Shiite minority regime. It worked, and now Assad presents himself as the defender of a secular Syria against Sunni fanatics.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is an arsonist. The minute America left Iraq, he deliberately arrested Sunni leaders, deprived them of budgets and stopped paying the Sunni tribesmen who rose up against Al Qaeda. When this eventually triggered a Sunni response, Maliki ran in the last election as the defender of the Shiite majority against Sunni "terrorists." It worked.
Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt launched a violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, killing, wounding and arresting many hundreds, and then he ran for president as the defender of Egypt against Muslim Brotherhood "terrorists."
The Palestinian extremists who recently kidnapped three Israeli youths were arsonists, aiming to blow up any hope of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and to embarrass Palestinian moderates. But they had help. Radical Jewish settler supporters in the Israeli cabinet, like Naftali Bennett and housing minister Uri Ariel, are arsonists. Ariel deliberately announced plans to build 700 new housing units for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem — timed to torpedo Secretary of State John Kerry's shuttle diplomacy. And they did.
There are firefighters in all these places — people like Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres in Israel, former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Mohammad Javad Zarif in Iran and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Iraq — but they are now overwhelmed by the passions set loose by the arsonists.
It is hard for people who have not lived in the Arab world to appreciate that Shiites and Sunnis in places like Iraq, Lebanon or Bahrain often intermarry. Those that do are jokingly called "Sushi." Sectarian massacres are not the norm. A poll just released by Zogby Research Services, conducted in seven Arab countries, found that "strong majorities in every country favor U.S. policies that support a negotiated solution to the conflict [in Syria], coupled with more support for Syrian refugees. Majorities in all countries oppose any form of U.S. military engagement" or arming of opposition groups.
I recently gave the commencement address at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, in Kurdistan. Its student body is 70 percent Kurdish, and the rest are mostly Shiites and Sunnis from across Iraq. With the right leadership, people in the region can and do get along. It is why for all the talk of breaking Iraq into three parts, it is has never been the preferred choice of most Iraqis.
As one of my Kurdish hosts remarked to me, "The Shiites of Basra still long for the famous yoghurt of Erbil," Kurdistan's largest city. "When Ramadan comes, the Kurds will feel deprived if they cannot break the daily fast with the famous dates of Basra." And Kurds have come to enjoy "shisha," smoking water pipes, which are a tradition they got from the Arabs. There are more ties that bind than don't. You actually have to work at burning them up.
To be sure, harmony between different sects requires order, but it does not have to be iron-fisted. Iraqis just last April held fair elections on their own. They can do it. These societies need to go from being governed by iron fists "to iron institutions that are legitimate, inclusive and accountable, and strong enough to hold the frame of society together," argued Mousavizadeh.
That requires the right leadership. "So when the region's leaders come to Washington to plead for engagement and intervention, ask for money or ask for arms," he added, "Let them first answer the question: Are you an arsonist or are you a firefighter?"


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The state ethics case against former Worcester County Sheriff Guy W. Glodis opened yesterday with testimony from five witnesses, including three current and former employees of the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction.
Commerce Bank and Trust Chairman David G. �Duddie� Massad also testified, as did his longtime friend Joseph T. Duggan III of Shrewsbury, a former inmate at the jail whose placement in a work release program is at the heart of the case against Mr. Glodis.
The Ethics Commission�s Enforcement Division filed an order in June alleging that Mr. Glodis violated two sections of the state conflict of interest law when he was sheriff by allegedly arranging for Mr. Duggan to be placed on work release as a favor to his wealthy friend and campaign donor, Mr. Massad.
Candies Pruitt-Doncaster, a lawyer for the Enforcement Division, sought to establish that Mr. Duggan�s placement in the program within a day of arriving at the jail to serve a four-month sentence for larceny was unusual and violated a written policy.
�Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis broke the rules for prominent, well-known businessman David Massad,� Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster said in her opening statement. �He was out of jail the next day. This was fast. This was unusual.�
During his cross examination of the witnesses, Mr. Glodis� lawyer, Thomas R. Kiley, focused on the role of jail overcrowding in work release decisions. He also asked the current and former jail employees who testified if they were ever told how to classify any inmate by the former sheriff.
All three men said Mr. Glodis never spoke to them about such matters.
The two-day adjudicatory hearing is scheduled to resume this morning. It is being presided over by Ethics Commission Chairman Charles B. Swartwood, a former state judge, and will be decided by the full commission. Mr. Glodis could be fined up to $10,000, officials said.
Mr. Massad testified that he had been friends with Mr. Duggan for decades and lately had been using him as a project manager for construction jobs for his car dealerships in Auburn and a condominium development in Ashland.
When he was a state senator, Mr. Glodis worked as a business development officer for Mr. Massad�s Commerce Bank for about 18 months in 2005, before taking over as sheriff. Mr. Massad and members of his family also have been campaign donors to Mr. Glodis.
Mr. Massad said he called Mr. Glodis in October 2009 to see if Mr. Duggan could be let out of jail on work release.
�He said, �I�ll have somebody call you back.� And that�s what happened,� Mr. Massad said.
Cell phone call logs showed Mr. Massad spoke to Mr. Glodis and Mr. Duggan several times throughout the day on Oct. 28, 2009, the day before the latter man was scheduled to begin his sentence.
Mr. Kiley asked if the bank chairman had asked the sheriff to do anything improper.
�Of course not,� Mr. Massad said. �I told him the situation. I said the guy didn�t hurt anybody or do anything really wrong,� Mr. Massad said. �He said it wasn�t his thing to do, but he�d see if he could have somebody help me. He said somebody would call me.�
Mr. Duggan was placed in the work release program the next day despite a written sheriff�s department policy barring inmates with �warrants or cases pending� from participating in the program. At the time, Mr. Duggan had two criminal cases pending in Westboro District Court.
The decision to release Mr. Duggan to work for Mr. Massad was made by a three-member classification board at the jail. All sentenced inmates get a classification hearing to determine if they should be placed in maximum security, medium security or the work release program within two weeks of beginning their sentences, according to testimony.
The chairman of the classification board was Marc Keddy, who has since retired from the department.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked him if it was atypical for a classification hearing to be arranged within hours of an inmate�s arrival at the jail.
�It was quick,� Mr. Keddy said.
�Was it unusually quick?� she asked.
�Yes,� Mr. Keddy responded.
Another jail employee, social worker Jeffrey Heenan, who was a member of the classification board, testified that he couldn�t recall who instructed him to set up a classification hearing for Mr. Duggan.
Mr. Keddy, Mr. Heenan and the director of classification, Michael Landgren, all testified that they recommended Mr. Duggan be released to Mr. Massad for work because he was a nonviolent offender and doing so would free up a bed in the crowded medium security building.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked Mr. Landgren what specific exception to the classification policy allowed Mr. Duggan to be released despite his pending cases.
�There is none,� Mr. Landgren said.
Mr. Keddy said the board made the call to put Mr. Duggan on work release because he didn�t present a threat to the community.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked him where in the policy it said nonviolent offenders are exempted from the requirement that work release inmates not have any pending criminal cases.
�It doesn�t,� Mr. Keddy said.
Mr. Kiley asked Mr. Keddy about other factors that play into classification decisions, such as objections to work release from victims.
�Are there other things taken into consideration that aren�t in the policy?� he asked.
�Yes,� Mr. Keddy said.
During Mr. Duggan�s testimony he described himself as Mr. Massad�s project manager on all construction work.
�I build all his buildings. If something breaks, I fix it,� Mr. Duggan said.
A former home improvement contractor who has been stripped of his state construction supervisor licenses by state regulators for repeated misconduct, Mr. Duggan was the subject of a series of stories in the Telegram & Gazette three years ago detailing complaints from customers that he pocketed money intended for building supplies and then walked away from projects leaving them unfinished.
He was sentenced to four months in jail for a larceny conviction in one of those cases.
Mr. Duggan previously has served more than four years in federal prison for bank fraud and money laundering.
In the days before he was to report to the Worcester Country jail to serve his sentence, Mr. Duggan said he called every influential friend he had � including Mr. Massad.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster later returned to the point again, asking, �When you needed something done with the sheriff, you called Duddie?�
�Yes,� Mr. Duggan said.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster concluded her case yesterday afternoon.
The hearing is scheduled to continue this morning with Mr. Kiley calling his witnesses.


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This month, readers chime in on Microsoft and open source, and sound off about the Office UI.
With that track record, Microsoft will have an extremely hard time convincing
anyone that it intends to cooperate. The company belatedly begins to use open
source, but only to strengthen its grip on its customers.
Jean-Marc Liotier
Paris, France
Microsoft has gotten itself into a few comfortable niche markets -- the office
desktop and the home computer appliance-and is trying for some other equally
comfortable niches -- the "enterprise" back office and the cell phone,
for example.
Microsoft's major problem is that its traditional method -- allow the pioneers
to innovate and develop a market, then step in and take it off them -- doesn't
work any longer. There are two reasons for this: Redmond goes to sleep once
it gains a monopoly, and the Free and Open Source Software [FOSS] development
process and people do better work than Microsoft does and are eating its lunch
slowly but surely.
Microsoft's actions are perfectly understandable -- even to a certain degree
reasonable. But IBM for one has found that the only way to gain respectability
in the FOSS circles is to become an active contributor-and Ballmer's rumblings
indicate that Microsoft's head honchos aren't comfortable with that.
How it will all pan out, I don't know -- but I have thought that SQL Server
could be a real market leader if it dropped the religious "Microsoft-only"
stance and got ported to Linux and Solaris. But Microsoft would need a management
buy-out to do that -- Ballmer doesn't have the guts to do it, that's for certain.
Wesley Parish
Christchurch, New Zealand
I run a software company and our goal, too, is to make money. However, we don't
illegally abuse a monopoly (as Microsoft was convicted of doing). We don't try
to shove Digital Rights Management down our customers' throats. We don't impose
onerous end user license agreements on our customers. (Our proprietary software
ships with source, and customers are permitted to modify it.) We don't send
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license compliance. In short, it is possible for software companies to
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David Skoll
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The UI -- as discussed in Barney's
Rubble, February 2007 -- is like a work of art that has been touted as a
masterful work of color and grace when all it is, is three squares of different
sizes, painted imperfectly and stuck in a gallery to be sold for $12,000. Why
is this humble effort at being remarkable so admired? Who decided to call it
a ribbon anyway? I'll cease my attempts at wit and get to the point. I don't
care who owns it because I can't afford it. I'm going to install Linux on the
three PCs I have at home (with GNUCash and OpenOffice) and when (and if)
I get Vista and Office 2007 at work I'll dance and sing songs of joy.
Randall Frye
Cleveland, Ohio
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Oct 7, 2013
Discovering bacteria on Mars would be big news. But nothing would scratch our alien itch like making contact with intelligent life. Hear why one man is impatient for the discovery, and also about the new tools that may speed up the "eureka" moment. One novel telescope may help us find E.T. at home, by detecting the heat of his cities.
Also, the father of modern SETI research and how decoding the squeals of dolphins could teach us how to communicate with aliens.
- Lee Billings – Journalist and author of Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
- Olivier Guyon – Optical physicist, astronomer, University of Arizona and Suburu telescope; 2012 McArthur Genius award winner
- Jeff Kuhn – Physicist, Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Colossus Telescope
- Frank Drake – Astronomer, SETI Institute
- Denise Herzing – Behavioral biologist and research director of the Wild Dolphin Project


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Vice President Joe Biden administers the ceremonial swearing for the newly-elected Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) as his mother Carolyn Booker holds a Bible at the U.S. Captiol. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan in a special election to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in June at the age of 89.
Booker's election has returned the Democratic Senate majority to 55-45, notes Reuters.
And it puts them a bit closer to the 60 votes that are routinely needed to clear Republican procedural roadblocks against much of the president's agenda. Minutes after being sworn in, Booker cast his first vote - to end one of these roadblocks against Obama's nomination of Melvin Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Democrats fell short, 56-42.
Booker becomes the first Black U.S. senator from New Jersey and the first Black elected to statewide office from that state. The pro-labor and pro-LGBT Booker now joins extremist and anti-gay Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina as the nation's only two Black senators. Only nine Blacks have served in the Senate. Booker is only the fourth to have been elected to office.
"I urge my fellow senators, Democrats and Republicans, to get to know this good man," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). "We are fortunate to have him here."
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His rebellion will soon turn to hope...
When Chris Buckley first encountered the mysteries of creepy Solitary, North Carolina, he had little idea how far he would fall into the town's shadows. After losing the love of his life, Chris tried to do things his way. He hunted for answers. And then he gave up trying to find them. But now Chris comes back to Solitary, knowing there's a purpose for his being there. As he watches his place in a twisted and evil bloodline become clear, Chris waits for the last battle - and wonders who will be left when he finally makes his stand.
The fourth and final audiobook in The Solitary Tales series shines light into deep darkness as Chris's journey to Solitary comes to a dramatic close.
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- Lizzystick
- 10/10/2013
Intense series, Great conclusion
Chris moves to solitary NC with his recently divorced alcoholic mother in the beginning of his junior year of High school. He quickly realizes all is not kosher in the backwoods town. The town is ruled and manipulated by and overbearing thug type character who in turn is ultimately ruled by a creepy old man being kept alive by evil supernatural circumstances.
Through the series Chris begins to see that it is no accident he and his mom, who grew up in solitary , Moved back to town. There is a battle over Chris soul and to continue solitary's place as a gateway for evil to enter the world. Chris is an unlikely hero, the best kind...He never knows where to turn and who to trust. People around him betray him, others are threatened and even killed. In this series he goes through a spiritual transformation that helps in his battle against evil forces.
I went through all four books in a row. At first I was not sure about the narration but by the end of the first book I thought Heyborne was perfect for the voice of Chris.
. I am an adult an this is a series based on the last two years of high school for a teenage boy. However there is enough meat for adults and Chris goes through some very adult struggles during his journey.
I very much appreciated the sarcasm in times of trouble that went through Chris' mind. And some of the just funny scenes...Chris getting his license for one.
This series is creepy, spooky and intensely scary all while being funny, a little sappy and spiritual.
The religious theme is throughout the series but in my opinion is never hokey. I thought the author did a great job in using secular themes such as songs and song lyrics and also spiritual themes, especially verses from the Bible that were completely appropriate to the circumstances. Psalms for comfort in times of fear and trouble and Words from Paul about putting on the full armor of God to face an epic spiritual battle.
There are great characters in this book: the creepy pastor, the geeky friend, all the girls Chris gets involved with some more likable than others, the high school bully, the ever smoking unlikely friend "Brick" who shows up when needed most, the strange and troubled Aunt, The Jittery Alcoholic Uncle, The old lady who may be an angel, The hound from hell and the wolves...to name a few.
The only criticisms I have, The author basically made every Girl and woman in the series "hot" and made many weight comments that I done think teenagers need to dwell on anymore than they already do. Also as an adult the many loves of Chris and how quickly he fell "in love" was a pill hard to swallow...sometimes I was like come on enough already.
But all in all I would recommend this series to anyone 15 to 100, I thoroughly enjoyed it and will now explore other Thrasher novels.
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- 11/09/2016
Great read.
This was a great series. The first two books left me a little baffled. It all works out in the end. Nicely done.


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Hi everyone! Quick card to share with you today. :)
I cut all of the above shapes (except the large brown circle) from the Tiny Doilies Metal Dies. Love this set! The circle sentiment and the ice cream cone are all from the Stampin' Around Spring stamp set.
The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Birthday Wishes stamp set.
I inked the edges with Walnut ink and did a little pen stitching.
I added lots of dimensionals - so fun with these dies!!
The jute twine is threaded through a small eyelet and wrapped around the striped piece twice.
There are a lot of everyday sentiments on this set that can be used all year round!
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Published at Thursday, July 25th, 2019 - 16:47:10 PM. Wedding Venue. By Adalhard Hofmann.
Selecting Wedding Venue Location. Bride and groom must ensure the best and healthy venue location that is full of green vegetation and located near the city. Wedding reception place should be near to the city in order to conveniently transport the necessary wedding accessories, guests, bride and groom and other wedding related things to the wedding destination. It is also important to choose a place near the vibrant city so that maximum number of guest can attend and enjoy the ceremony.
There are several websites dedicated solely to the promotion of wedding venues. Whilst most feature dozens of venues in a wide range of styles of varying quality, one or two go a step further by assessing the quality of the venues featured.
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Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
The practice of pharmacy is an integral part of total health care. The pharmacist serves as a vital source of drug use information for other health care professionals and members of the community. The special knowledge of the pharmacist can maximize the effectiveness of disease treatment and minimize the possibility of adverse effects that could develop during drug therapy of diseases.
Pharmacy practice environments are diverse and challenging. While many graduates pursue careers in community and hospital pharmacy, others choose careers in the pharmaceutical industry, research, government service, consultant pharmacy or other diverse professional specialties.
The principal goal of the pharmacy program, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, is to provide an educational experience that prepares graduates for careers in pharmacy. The curriculum provides a balance between theoretical principles, practical applications and structured practice experience. Since 1984, pharmacy graduates have enjoyed a placement rate near 100%.
The first college of pharmacy in Des Moines was the Iowa College of Pharmacy. It was organized in 1882. This college affiliated with Drake University in 1887 and operated as one of the colleges of the University until 1906 when it was discontinued.
The Highland Park College of Pharmacy was organized in Des Moines in 1889. Highland Park College, in 1918, changed its name to Des Moines University, with the college of pharmacy continuing as an integral part of the university.
In 1927, the faculty of the College of Pharmacy of Des Moines University organized an independent college of pharmacy, the Des Moines College of Pharmacy. This college operated as an independent institution from 1927 until 1939, when the Des Moines College of Pharmacy Corporation was dissolved and the college's staff and facilities became part of Drake University.
The purpose of the Pharmacy Professional Program is to provide the graduate with the relevant knowledge base, skills, attitudes, ethics and values to engage in the entry-level practice of pharmacy. The curriculum is designed to provide the graduate with competence in these areas:
Upon graduation from the Drake University pharmacy program, the graduate also shall fulfill the outcomes of the Drake Curriculum.
211 semester credit hours required.
The four-year professional program is preceded by two years of pre-professional coursework. The curriculum for the pre-pharmacy and professional programs can be viewed at: http://www.drake.edu/cphs/programs/doctorofpharmacypharmd/. Please note that courses in the professional program may change.
Students may apply to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences as pre-pharmacy students. Students admitted to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences as pre-pharmacy students are selected from a pool of applicants who have met the Dec. 1 application deadline. Students admitted into Drake's pre-pharmacy program are offered the Drake Pharm.D. Difference, through which students receive full consideration for the professional program. In addition, they are assigned a pharmacy faculty advisor, are able to belong to professional student organizations, and participate in orientation courses and interview preparation activities. The PCAT is not required for students who are part of Drake's Pharm.D. Difference. Additional information is available at http://www.drake.edu/cphs/admission/pre-pharmacy/.
Students who are not selected for pre-pharmacy admission to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences may be admitted to their second choice program. These students may apply for admission to the professional level of the pharmacy program once all prerequisites are completed. The PCAT is required for any student who was not admitted to into Drake's pre-pharmacy program.
Students who have completed the pre-pharmacy course requirements at other institutions may also apply to the professional program.
All students desiring to enter the professional program must complete the Pharmacy Centralized Application Services (www.PharmCAS.org) application and the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Supplemental Application Form.
Additional information regarding the admission process for pre-pharmacy and professional programs can be viewed at http://www.drake.edu/cphs/admission/pre-pharmacy/.
Pharmacy students should become familiar with the General Information section of this catalog, which covers many regulations that affect all Drake University students. The College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences also has a number of specific regulations and requirements that must be met to progress through the pharmacy curriculum. Some of these are listed below; others are available in the Pharmacy Student Handbook http://www.drake.edu/cphs/handbookspolicies/.
Many pharmacy courses have prerequisite requirements. Admission to a course is denied if prerequisite courses have not been successfully completed. Therefore, deviations from the curriculum as it is structured require careful consideration. Course prerequisites may be found in the course descriptions, as listed in blueView, located at my.drake.edu.
Pharmacy students may apply a maximum of 9 hours of elective coursework on a credit/no credit basis toward graduation. Courses regularly graded on a credit/no credit basis are not included within the 9 hours maximum. The student must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 before registering in a course on a credit/no credit basis.
Candidates qualifying for the degree must complete the required credit hours for graduation and have at least a 2.00 cumulative GPA. The standard grading scale for pharmacy students enrolled in pharmacy-labeled courses is "A", "B", "C", "D" or "F". All courses in the pre-pharmacy curriculum and the first three years of the professional curriculum must be successfully completed before a student enrolls in fourth-year (final year) coursework.
Students may not progress onto rotations unless a "C" or better is earned in each required course. Students are permitted to retake a pharmacy required course for a passing grade (2.0 GPA or "C") one time only. Students who do not obtain a 2.0 (or "C") in a pharmacy required course after two attempts will be dropped from the Pharm.D. program. Once a student enters the professional program, all didactic coursework must be completed in four years. Students who are unable to complete the didactic course work in this time period will be dropped from the program.
All fourth-year pharmacy students are required to complete 40 weeks of experiential rotations (PHAR 285) prior to graduation. During these experiential rotations, students apply pharmaceutical principles related to diagnosis, treatment and patient care; monitor drug utilization and drug therapy and interact with patients, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. Due to regulations at many of the experiential sites, the college will complete a criminal background check and drug screen prior to admission into the professional program and again prior to entering the experiential year. Students who have a history of a felony are referred to the State Board of Pharmacy where they plan to practice pharmacy to determine if their record would prohibit licensure. Experiential sites have the right to refuse to accept a student for rotations based on the results of the criminal background check even if the history would not prohibit licensure as a pharmacist. Many of these sites also require that a copy of the background check is forwarded to them. Students who have positive drug screens and will be entering rotations will be referred to the Chemical Dependency Policy.
Candidates for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree are required to be in residence in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for at least the last 30 credit hours before becoming eligible for graduation. Credit earned by examination may not be counted toward fulfillment of the last 30 credit hours.
Pre-pharmacy and pharmacy students are assigned a pharmacy faculty member as their academic adviser. Faculty advisers help students:
The Academic and Student Affairs Office is responsible for coordinating the registration process, verifying appropriate registration of courses, approving educational plan waivers and transfer credit requests, updating degree audits with regard to substitutions, waivers and transfer courses, answering student questions regarding registration, credit completion, course transfer process and study-abroad opportunities, serving as a resource for students in combined degree programs (M.B.A., M.P.A., Law) and coordinating and communicating opportunities for internship, study abroad, research and postgraduate study. The final responsibility for completion of graduation requirements, however, belongs to the student and, accordingly, each student should become familiar not only with the curriculum but also with the academic regulations of the college.
Students may earn a Master in Business Administration in conjunction with the Pharm.D. Students who pursue this combination have opportunities in management and administrative positions. This program requires a careful selection of prerequisite courses for the M.B.A. degree as electives in the pharmacy curriculum. Students start at Drake in pharmacy and apply to the College of Business and Public Administration after completing the foundation courses. The combined degree program typically takes an extra semester to complete beyond the pharmacy degree, rather than an extra two years.
Students may earn a Master in Public Administration through a joint program established in cooperation with the College of Business and Public Administration. Students are admitted to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and during their first professional year may seek admission to the M.P.A. program. Students who pursue this option have management and administrative opportunities in the public sector.
Students may elect to earn both a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (law) degree in a joint degree program offered in cooperation with the Drake Law School. The program allows students to focus their education on legal and health care issues. Participating students are admitted first to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. A student pursuing this program should plan to take the LSAT and formally apply to the Law School during the spring semester of the first professional year. Each student's schedule is tailored individually in consultation with the joint degree adviser.
Please visit http://www.drake.edu/cphs for additional information on these joint degree programs.
Students may use electives to pursue a second major, a minor, or a concentration. The college currently offers a Diabetes Care Concentration. Please visit http://www.drake.edu/cphs for additional information on these options.


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Portrait & Studio
in the UK:
19th & early 20th
Dating a photograph
At some time we've all been faced with a photograph of our ancestors but were unsure whether it showed our great grandparents or our 2xgreat grandparents. Fortunately there are several reasonably reliable methods for working this out.
Characteristics of the photo:
An assessment of a few simple features can give a surprisingly good indication of the date of some types of photograph. The calculator on this site currently handles only two types: the
, which was very popular during the second half of the 19th century; and the
postcard print
, which was very common in the first half of the 20th century. The results given by the calculator can only be indicative but they should be useful for guiding your assessment of fashions or narrowing down your searches for photographers in directories.
Several of the links below give guidance on how to judge roughly when a photograph was taken by examining the style of clothes and comparing them with the fashions of the times.
Trade directories:
The databases on this and other sites list information from trade directories which give the years in which a photographer was in business at a particular address.
Useful books:
A Victorian Portrait: Victorian Life and Values As Seen Through the Work of Studio Photographers
by Asa Briggs
Victorian Photographers at Work
by John Hannavy
Looking at Old Photographs
by Robert Pols
Family Photographs
by Robert Pols
Unlocking the Secrets in Old Photographs
by Karen Frisch-Ripley
Dating Old Photographs
by Halvor Moorshead
Photographing Your Heritage
by Wilma Sadler Shull
Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums
by Martha Langford
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion : A Photographic Survey
by Alison Gernsheim
Links to other sites:
How to understand and interpret your old family photos"
by Jayne Shrimpton
Information and discussion on all aspects of
British Photographic history
Date a carte de visite photograph
by Roger F. Vaughan.
Nineteenth century photography - a timeline
History of photography & dating 19th century card mounted portraits
by Andrew J. Morris


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Wong Kar-wai's 'The Grandmaster' Leads Golden Horse Nominations
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's martial-arts drama "The Grandmaster" tops this year's Golden Horse Awards nominations with 11 nods, including best feature film and best director.
Tony Leung Chiu-wai was nominated for best actor for his portrayal of legendary wing chun kung-fu master Ip Man, while Zhang Ziyi picked up a best actress nomination for her role as Gong Er, a kung-fu expert and the daughter of another powerful martial-arts master. The nominations were announced Tuesday.
"The Grandmaster" takes place in a turbulent and transitional period in China, from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. Packed with artistic and theatrical fight scenes, the movie explores the intricate relationship between teachers and students against the backdrop of a changing China.
The Singaporean film "Ilo Ilo," directed by newcomer Anthony Chen, received six nominations, including best feature, best new director, as well as best supporting actor and actress. Set during the Asian financial crisis in the 1990s, the film focuses on the lives of a Filipina domestic helper and a Singaporean family. It won the Camera d'Or for best first feature film at Cannes this year and is the first Singaporean film to be nominated in this category at the Golden Horse Awards.
Rounding out the nominees for best feature film are Hong Kong director's Johnnie To's gangster movie "Drug War," his first production for a mainland Chinese company; "A Touch of Sin" about the struggles of ordinary people in China from director Jia Zhang-ke, who won best screenplay for the film at Cannes; and the drama "Stray Dogs" from Malaysian-born Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang, who, along with Messrs. To and Jia, is nominated for best director.
Also nominated for best director is Chung Mong-hong of Taiwan for "Soul," a dark psychological thriller about a quiet sushi chef who becomes a serial killer. "Soul" nabbed four other nominations, including best leading actor for veteran Chinese actor Jimmy Wang Yu.
The Golden Horse Awards, now in its 50th year, are one of Asia's most-prominent film events and focus specifically on Chinese-language movies. While the majority of the nominated films come from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, any Chinese-language film is eligible to enter. This year's ceremony will be held in Taipei on Nov. 23, with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee heading the jury.
Click here to see the full list of this year's nominees.
-- Jenny W. Hsu. Follow her on Twitter @jen1113
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Vita-mix Professional 500 Series Product Information:
Awarded: Reviewboard Perfect 10 Award
Launched Late 4th Quarter 2009
Original MSRP at Launch: $699.99
Average Price On The Internet (9/1/10): $574.99 (shipped)
Average Competitor Price Point: $394 (2 HP Blender, Not necessarily matching other attributes)
Average Used Price on eBay: $485 + shipping
Contents of Box:
- Blender Base Unit
- 64 oz Blending Container & Lid
- Blade
- New "Create Recipes" Vita-mix 3-Ring Binder Cookbook
- "Let's Get Started" Instructional DVD
- Accelerator Tool
Advertised Features From Vita-mix:
The unique features of our new Professional 500 Series promise results that are restaurant-quality, no matter how you choose to mix it up! Enjoy pre-programmed convenience on the most popular processes along with the culinary creativity that comes with our popular variable speed and pulse features!
- Three convenient Pre-Programmed Settings
Smoothies, Hot Soups, Frozen Desserts
Consistent results for every process, every time
Settings are time-saving and easy-to-use
- All new Pulse Feature
Offers greater control in processing
Refines texture to your taste
- Variable Speed Control
Unlimited versatility in the home kitchen
Go from Low to High in one smooth motion
- Brushed Stainless Finish
Elegant, fashion-forward gourmet look
Fingerprint-resistant and easy-to-clean
- "Create" Recipe Book with Easel-back Design
More than 300 gourmet chef-inspired recipes
- "Let's Get Started" DVD Instructional Video
Features bonus recipes and operating techniques.
Signature Vita-Mix features that are part
of this all-new machine:
- Commercial-grade 2+ Peak Horsepower Motor
- Large-capacity 64-ounce BPA-free Eastman Tritan
copolyester container
- Spill-proof vented lid with removable plug
- Patented Tamper for processing thicker mixtures
- Full 7-Year Warranty
Manufacturer also claims you can mill grain into flour, and knead bread dough in this blender.
Actual Operation & Use:
Using the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series was very straight forward. There is a power button underneath a small 'shelf'-like space in the front of the machine. Toggling the switch powers the unit on (there is a blue indicator light so you don't have to wonder if the power is actually on). You select the speed setting; there are 10 manual speed selections and 3 pre-programmed variable speed selections labeled Smoothies, Hot Soups, and Frozen Desserts. If you select the manual speed setting you can toggle the start switch on the right side and let it go, or use the pulse button on the left side to do your own version of 'variable speed' blending.
The pre-programmed settings are very useful and we were able to use them with a number of unrelated recipes once we became familiar with what they did. We were able to verify and perform each and every one of the manufacturer's advertised features. Moreover, we were able to conclude that the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series operated at or above the performance range specified in the manufacturer's claims.
We found the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series was incredibly versatile and able to perform all the tasks we threw at it with ease and efficiency. We tested the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series in the following areas we felt were key to determining the units performance and ability to achieve "Restaurant Quality" results:
- Milling grains into flour (tested with Tapioca, barley and oats). The result was outstanding the machine produced flour that we were able to use and test in the next phase.
- Kneading dough. We took the flour we able to mill from various grains in phase one and made some very tasty breads. We were able to mix ingredients into dough and then knead the dough using the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series.
- Soup Puree – The Pre-programmed speed selection was used to create several puree's our staff used to make some incredible tasting soups. The unit was able to create a smooth and creamy textured puree that really made a difference in the final product.
- Smoothies – The preprogrammed speed selection for Smoothie is spot on. It makes Smoothies creamy… even if you are only adding water and ice to the fruit mixture.
- Frozen deserts – While the Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series is capable of doing a lot more in this area we tested it with hard ice cream, milk, Hershey's chocolate syrup, a splash of vanilla, a secret ingredient (which we can't reveal that comes from a 50 year old concoction at an old farm stand in Maine) and 1 egg. The result was an outstanding old fashioned chocolate milk shake that had everyone in the office wanting to test it personally.
We take warranty checks pretty seriously and this is where a lot of companies have lost points since we started this new review model. We called technical support (anonymously) on 3 separate occasions. We have 3 issues we cover from 3 different personality types:
- Angry Customer
- The "I don't understand"… ANYTHING customer.
- The knowledgeable prosumer (an enthusiast that knows almost everything about the product).
We take points if the support staff speak with an accent that is thick enough that we can't understand what they said and are forced to ask them to repeat themselves. Our findings where as follows:
- Vita-Mix support staff are English speaking
- Vita-Mix support staff are knowledgeable about their product lines and are able to convey that knowledge quickly and effectively.
- Vita-Mix offers a 7 year FULL Warranty. In the call with customer profile #3 they offered to issue a call tag (pay for and arrange the pick-up of our Vita-Mix Blender so they could repair it and return it at their expense).
** To make it clear we had no problems with the Vita-Mix blender that we received for review (Actually the first unit we got was damaged in shipping but they replaced it immediately). We had to make up reasons to call the support staff to evaluate their abilities.
Company Background:
In 1937 W.G. Barnard (Papa) introduced the 1st Vita-Mix machine. Over the years the company has seen growth and been able to ride a solid reputation for quality and power. It is not uncommon for someone to own a 25 year old Vita-Mix machine and have no plans to upgrade. The current leadership at Vita-Mix came on in 2009. Jodi (Barnard) Berg is the President, and John Barnard is the Executive Chairman and CEO. Together they make a tag team duo that will continue to bring the Vita-Mix brand forward.
Summary & Conclusion:
The Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series blender performed better than advertised in every test we put it through. We beat on it, worked it above capacity, and it kept on chugging along. We actually tried to bog it down, hoping we could stress it out to the point where it didn't operate well and we failed. (Within reason, under what we felt were normal consumer demands on a machine like this)
We completely retooled our product review process 2 months ago in order to provide the best possible 2010 Holiday Buyer's Guide. One of the goals we set out was to make our testing process incredibly rigorous. We expect that .001% of every product we review will get a perfect 10. The Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series blender outperformed every test bed we had, and is the first machine to get a Perfect 10 rating from us on our new scaling platform. When we looked at the results of this review we actually went back to our process and re-evaluated it to see if we were being too easy. We were not.
Out of the 400 or so products we have reviewed for possible inclusion in our 2010 Holiday Buyer's Guide The Vita-Mix Professional 500 Series blender is the only product to date that received this score. They are the first product to receive our 2010 Perfect 10 Award. This was so unexpected we don't even have a logo for the new award made up yet.
Congratulations to Vita-Mix for making one heck of a good product.


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Sauvignon Blanc and Marlborough
Located at the top of New Zealand's South Island, Marlborough is home to the Kiwi's largest wine growing region. Its international reputation has been cemented with the production of some excellent Sauvignon Blanc, along with some very nice Chardonnay and Riesling, and it is now flirting with Pinot Noir. However, fully one-third of the region is planted to Sauvignon Blanc, making it akin to the national grape. And, it's no wonder – with plenty of sun, cool nights, and very little autumn rain, the well-drained gravel-laced alluvial soils make a comfortable home to the grape.
So, it should come as no surprise that a new Marlborough producer, Long Boat, is also concentrating on Savignon Blanc ("Savi" in Kiwi). However, they've decided to push the envelope and grow the wine at an elevation of 400-1,000 feet in the more remote Awatere and Waihopai Valleys, rather than on the flatlands of the Wairau. They feel the added stress of the vines should produce wines with more intense flavors.
Join us as we talk with Craig Murphy, winemaker and winery manager for Long Boat, about the country, the region, and Long Boat's own unique style of "Savi."
Sponsor- The Office of Champagne USA: www.champagne.us
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Jesse James has broken his silence, issuing an apology to his famous wife Sandra Bullock, amid allegations that he cheated on the Oscar winning actress with a tattooed temptress, People.com reported.
The statement, released to People by James, is vague. It denies "the vast majority of allegations" against him but goes on to concede that "poor judgment" has "caused my wife and kids pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension."
"The vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded. Beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public comment," the statement reads. "There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me. It's because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way.
U.S. & World
"This has caused my wife and kids pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension and I am extremely saddened to have brought this on them. I am truly very sorry for the grief I have caused them. I hope one day they can find it in their hearts to forgive me."
James' mea culpa comes after revelations surfaced that Bullock had canceled a planned red carpet appearance in London next week for "The Blind Side."
Bullock, whose wholesome image has always contrasted sharply with that of husband James, a motorcycle mechanic and reality TV regular who was previously married to a porn star, made no mention of any possible domestic discord in begging out of the appearance.
"Due to unforeseen personal reasons, a trip abroad to support 'The Blind Side' has been deemed impossible at this time," Bullock said in a statement released Wednesday by Warner Brothers U.K. "I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued support of the film."
The pullout by Bullock, 45, who earlier this month won a Best Actress Oscar for "The Blind Side," came hours after tattoo model Michelle "Bombshell" McGee claimed to have had an 11-month affair with James.
Speaking to In Touch Weekly, McGee claimed the affair began while Bullock was away in Georgia filming the role of her lifetime. People magazine, citing a confidential source, reported late Wednesday that Bullock bailed on the Southern California home she shares with James on Monday, days before McGee's tabloid allegations hit the web.
James, 40, is a prolific Twitterer but he has deleted his account in the scandal's aftermath, according to Usmagazine.com.
Last January, Bullock raved about her marriage to James while accepting a Screen Actors Guild Award.
"I love you so much and you are really hot. I want you so much," she said then.
But the actress notably snubbed her hubby in last week's Oscar acceptance speech, the New York Daily News points out.
Bullock and James married in July 2005 after having met a year earlier on the set of Discovery Channel's "Monster Garage," according to People.


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I've travelled to Europe and Asia quite a bit with iPhones with no problems (I live in the US), except for the fact that making calls anywhere outside the US is crazy expensive and of course I wouldn't dare turn on data roaming for fear of the thousand-dollar bill.
These days, though, is there not a better way? Can I not go into a shop in the UK and buy a pay-as-you-go micro-sim for 30GBP and call/data away? Is my iPhone (3GS and 4) permanently and forever locked to AT&T unless I jailbreak it, even with a different sim card?
I'm willing to jailbreak my 3GS to accomplish this mission, but I'd like to hear from someone with real-world experience before doing so.