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Adult Protective Services
Patricia Brownell and Joanne Marlatt Otto
Adult Protective Services (APS) are empowered by states and local communities to respond to reports and cases of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and self-neglect. While incorporating legal, medical, and mental health services, APS programs are part of the social services delivery system and incorporate principles and practices of the social work profession.
Advance Care Planning
Meredith Stensland, Sara Sanders, and Marla Berg-Weger
Advance care planning (ACP) is the process of determining and documenting desired wishes for the end of one's life. Referred to by such terms as end-of-life planning, advance (health) directives, and living wills, ACP is a relatively new concept within our society, having emerged as a social, political, and ethical issue in the United States only since the 1960s. Researchers and legislators have been challenged in their efforts to examine healthcare decision-making and design appropriate policy to guide practice. This article will define ACP, provide an overview of the history and evolution of the process and the associated legal and ethical issues, and describe the process with three specific populations. In addition, it examines the role of the social work profession in working with individuals and families on planning for the end of one's life.
Robert L. Schneider, Lori Lester, and Julia Ochieng
Social work advocacy is "the exclusive and mutual representation of a client(s) or a cause in a forum, attempting to systematically influence decision-making in an unjust or unresponsive system(s)." Advocacy was identified as a professional role as far back as 1887, and social workers consider client advocacy an ethical responsibility. Social workers are increasing the use of electronic advocacy to influence client issues and policy development. As client and societal needs evolve, universities should emphasize advocacy in their curricula, and the National Association of Social Workers should promote electoral and legislative initiatives that reflect an emphasis on social and economic injustices.
Affordable Care Act
Stephen H. Gorin, Julie S. Darnell, and Heidi L. Allen
This entry describes the development and key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which instituted a major overhaul of the U.S. health system, much of which took effect in 2014. The key provisions of the ACA included an individual mandate to purchase insurance, an employer mandate to offer coverage to most workers, an expansion of Medicaid to all persons below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), minimum benefit standards, elimination of preexisting condition exclusions, and reforms to improve health-care quality and lower costs. This historic legislation has deep roots in U.S. history and represents the culmination of a century-long effort to expand health care and mental health coverage to all citizens.
African Americans: Overview
Larry E. Davis, John M. Wallace Jr., and Trina R. Williams Shanks
African Americans have been a part of the nation's history for nearly four hundred years. Although their history includes the forced imposition of chattel slavery, the strict enforcement of legal segregation, and a tenuous acceptance as equal citizens, African Americans have been, and continue to be, major contributors, creators, investors, and builders of America. In this article we summarize briefly the history of African Americans, we examine racial disparities in key indicators of social, mental, and physical well-being, and we highlight persistent strengths that can be built upon and areas that provide hope for the future. The challenge for social work is to simultaneously celebrate the historical successes and ongoing contributions of African Americans to this country while also recognizing the vestiges of structural racism and fighting for greater civil rights and social and economic justice.
African American Social Welfare History
Iris Carlton-LaNey
This article discusses the African American social welfare system that began to develop during the early 20th century. This social welfare system, designed by African Americans to serve African Americans, addressed needs that were not being met by any other formal social services while the nascent social work profession was emerging. The myriad programs included settlement houses, boys and girls programs, training schools, and day nurseries. The women's club movement played a critical role in the development of this social welfare system and provided much of the impetus for change and inclusion. Through formal organizations, including the National Urban League (NUL) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an array of clubs and social groups, social services were extended to urban and rural communities throughout the United States.
Ageism in the Workplace
Patricia Brownell
Older workers make important contributions to the workplace, its productivity, and its culture. Work remains important for older adults for financial security, to give meaning to later life, to maintain social networks, and to promote lifelong learning. However, ageist beliefs about the capacity of older adults to remain productive and contributing workers in the workforce can create barriers for older workers. Understanding how older workers experience ageist behavior in the workplace can help employers, policy makers, and social workers learn more about how to address this social problem. Organizations can become more age friendly through enabling workplace programs, supportive management, and proactive human resource managers. Social workers serving older adults in employee assistance programs and in private practice can help them to challenge ageism in the workplace. Finally, legislation such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects the rights of older workers; however, more legislation is needed to address bullying and harassment of older adults in the workplace.
Aging: Overview
Nancy R. Hooyman and Amanda Barusch
The rapidly growing older population is more heterogeneous than any other age group. Although many face vulnerabilities and inequities as they age, most are resilient. This entry explores the "greying of America," examines the definition and measurement of aging, reviews the diversity among older adults in the United States, discusses productive, successful, and active aging, and suggests leadership roles for social workers in enhancing the well-being of elders and their families.
Aging: Public Policy
Jeanette C. Takamura
Public policy advances in the field of aging in the United States have lagged compared to the growth of the older adult population. Policy adjustments have been driven by ideological perspectives and have been largely incremental. In recent years, conservative policy makers have sought through various legislative vehicles to eliminate or curb entitlement programs, proposing private sector solutions and touting the importance of an "ownership society" in which individual citizens assume personal responsibility for their economic and health security. The election of a Democratic majority in the U.S. House and the slim margin of votes held by Democrats in the U.S. Senate may mean a shift in aging policy directions that strengthens Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, if the newly elected members are able to maintain their seats over time. The results of the 2008 presidential election will also determine how the social, economic, and other policy concerns will be addressed as the baby boomers join the ranks of older Americans.
Alaska Natives
Sarah (Hicks) Kastelic
Alaska Natives represent less than 1% of the U.S. population but reside in more than 229 Native villages and account for 40% of federally recognized tribes. Most Alaska Native communities shared common Euro-American contact experiences: exposure to western religions, education, and disease. Historical trauma contributes to many of the social welfare problems Natives experience today: low educational attainment, unemployment, inadequate health care, substance abuse, and violence. Service delivery mechanisms, lack of cultural appropriateness, and isolation compound these pressing issues. Locally delivered social welfare services that take into account traditional Native worldviews, values, languages, and intergenerational relationships are effective in addressing many of these issues.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale remains one of the dwindling number of teams still playing as the month of March nears its end. The Bulldogs hope to extend their season for another week when they play at Columbia in the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) on Wednesday. Tipoff at Levien Gym is slated for 7 p.m.
The tournament has served as a bit of redemption for a Yale team that was disappointed in how it finished the regular season. The Bulldogs (17-13) knocked off a talented Quinnipiac squad 69-68 in the first round at Lee Amphitheater and then went on the road and won 71-66 at Holy Cross on Saturday. Wednesday's game will give Yale the chance to exact a bit of revenge for a 62-46 loss to the Lions at Levien late in the regular season.
The Bulldogs have been getting contributions from a number of players during their tournament run. There are three players – Javier Duren (15.0 ppg.), Justin Sears (14.5 ppg.) and Matt Townsend (10.0 ppg.) – averaging double figures in the two games. In addition, Yale's bench has contributed 44 points. That should serve the team well as it looks forward to next season. There are only two seniors currently on the active roster, and Yale's top eight scorers all return.
The tournament also gave James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball, the opportunity to reach a significant milestone. Jones became the winningest men's basketball coach in school history after Saturday's victory over Holy Cross. Jones, in his 15th season, has 207 wins, one more than Hall of Fame coach Joe Vancisin, who guided the Bulldogs from 1956 to 1975.
Watch The Fouls – Columbia is fourth in the nation in free throw shooting, so the Bulldogs need to limit the Lions' attempts at the line.
Perimeter Defense – The Lions have made 263 three-pointers on the season and have four players with at least 38 treys. Javier Duren leads Yale with 35 three-pointers.
Control The Post– Yale got to the free throw line 47 times and had a 32-23 edge in rebounding in the 69-59 victory over Columbia at Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs would love for Wednesday's game to be a similar physical affair.
Wednesday will serve as the rubber match in the season series between Yale and Columbia. Each team won on its home floor during the regular season. At Lee Amphitheater, Justin Sears scored 22 points as the Bulldogs powered their way to a 69-59 win. In New York, Alex Rosenberg led three Columbia players in double figures with 18 points, Steve Frankoski added 17 and Maodo Lo had 16 in a 62-46 win. The two teams have had some intense battles at Levien Gym in recent years. Two years ago, Yale trailed by 21 with 11:30 left in the second half before rallying for a 59-58 victory, and three years ago, the Bulldogs needed double overtime to knock off the Lions, 87-81. Columbia, though, has won straight in the arena.
Columbia (21-12) is making its fourth postseason appearance and its first since 1968. This is the first non-NCAA Tournament the Lions are participating in. With the two victories in the CIT, the Lions have improved to 4-4 in postseason games. Columbia's 21 wins are the most since the 1967-68 team went 23-5 and won the Ivy League title. The Lions were 8-6 in Ivy play, their first better than .500 league record since 1992-93. Like Yale, Columbia won its CIT first round game in dramatic fashion. Maodo Lo hit a step-back jumper as time expired to knock off Valparaiso, 58-56. The Lions then cruised to a second-round win over Eastern Michigan. Columbia had two players earn All-Ivy recognition. Alex Rosenberg (15.9 ppg.) was a first team selection, while Lo (14.5 ppg.) earned second team recognition.
The sixth annual CIT features a 32-team field made up of non-BCS programs not participating in the NCAA or NIT. All 31 games are played on campus sites. Future round opponents are determined after the results of the previous round. The second round is slated for Mar. 21-22, the quarterfinals are Mar. 25-27, the semifinals are Apr. 1 and the championship game is Apr. 3. Both the semifinals and the championship game will be televised on the CBS Sports Network.
Yale (17-13) @ Columbia (21-12) 7:00 pm
VMI (21-12) @ Ohio (25-11) 7:00 pm
San Diego (18-16) @ Pacific (17-15) 10:00 pm
Towson (25-10) @ Murray State (20-11) 8:00 pm
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity

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Once, Jo Grant travelled in Space and Time with the Doctor. Now, she is travelling with trans-temporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme.
Arriving in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Jo and Iris are caught up in the glamour of Hollywood.
Monster movies are all the rage.
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Written By: Paul Magrs
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Parents need to know that Tom Cruise stars as the title character in Jack Reacher, an adaptation of Lee Child's novel One Shot. Reacher is a former military police offer who's enlisted to find a sniper who fired six shots into a crowd, killing five people. This thriller is violent, and vigilante Reacher shows no qualms breaking the law to make sure justice is done -- at least his version of justice. There's some swearing (including "f--k" and "s--t") and a bit of sexual tension between Reacher and co-star Rosamund Pike, but no actual sex and very little drinking. Still, there are allusions to torture, and the fight scenes are sometimes brutal; a few are very tough to stomach. Even though there's little blood or gore on screen, the film is more appropriate for older teens and up.
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Thought this was a good deal for Wimbledon 2011 as usually ends up costing me quite a bit to go! But always worth it! Could be a good Christmas present as well!?
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JUNIOR 2007-08: Posted a 8-14 singles record ... advanced to the quarterfinals at the Fresno State Bulldog Classic in Fall 2007 ... advanced to the Round of 32 at the ITA Northwest Regionals ... posted a 3-2 fall record ... played primarily at the No. 2 singles position ... had a 4-12 dual singles record ... went 9-11 in doubles, seeing time at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions ... at the No. 1 spot with partner Jay Wong posted a 5-7 overall record.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2007-08: Singles: posted a 3-2 record in the fall, defeating Ronan Conlon of Sacramento State 6-2, 6-2 and Alex Rosiniski of the University of Washington, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the semifinals at the Bulldog Classic and beating Nevada's Benjamin David 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 at the ITA Regionals.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2006-07: Posted 9-3 singles record (1-0 in duals) and a 5-5 doubles record (1-2 in duals) ... Doubles: went 4-3 in the fall with Aneal Vallurupalli at Bronco Classic, Bulldog Classic and ITA Regionals ... reached Bulldog Classic semifinals with wins over Amaroli and Elefant of UC Davis, 8-1 and Ching and Chu of Washington, 8-6 ... won first round match at ITA Regionals, beating Dojcak and Womack of Gonzaga 8-4 ... lost first dual match with Steven Benvenuto, 8-7 (3) vs. Gonzaga on Feb. 16 at No. 3 ... fell 9-8 (1) to Goldstein and Nichols of Cornell on Mar. 23 with Jay Wong ... won final dual match alongside Jan Macek at No. 2, defeating Montana State's Kovas and Vuckovic 8-2 ... Singles: reached quarterfinals of Bronco Classic Flight "C", beating Greg Jackson of Fresno State 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 and Ramesh Thondapu of UC San Diego 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on Oct. 6 and 7 ... won two consolation matches at the Bulldog Classic over Tyler Lee of UC Davis 6-3, 6-3 and Ramon Perez of Sac. State 6-2, 6-7 (4), 1-0 (8) ... won three consolation bracket matches at ITA Regionals on Oct. 21 and 22, beating Daniel Elefant of UC Davis 7-6 (1), 3-6, 1-0 (8), Vaclav Burger of Cal 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (6) and Tyler Lee of UC Davis 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (8) ... won only dual match of the year on Apr. 5 vs. San Francisco, defeating Mitch Del Rosario 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) at No. 6.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2005-06: Posted an overall singles record of 5-5, playing a match a piece at the No. 5 and 6 positions... advanced to the Round of 32 at the Wilson/ITA Northwest Regional Championships... reached the Round of 16 at the Santa Clara Bronco Classic... paired with Tommy Hicks to go 1-1 at the No. 3 spot during the dual season... compiled an overall doubles mark of 3-3... advanced to the semifinals of the Santa Clara Bronco Classic with Brian Brogan.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2005 graduate of Lowell High School in San Francisco, Calif...played for coach Terrance Doherty...also played basketball...a High School All-American in tennis...ranked as high as No. 2 in NCTA Boys 18's rankings...achieved Top-100 national ranking in Boys 16's and 18's...represented the Northern California Tennis Association at the USTA Zonal, Intersectional, and Junior Davis Cup championships...was the first four-time All-City winner in San Francisco...four-year team MVP...lead his team to four consecutive AAA championships...earned two sportsmanship awards.
PERSONAL: Parents are Gary Wong and Rui Hirakawa-Wong...has one sibling, Michi, who ran cross country and track and field at the University of Arizona...enjoys music...hopes to have a career as a dentist.
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When it comes to parenting, many of us often lament how we wish the job came with a rule book. Wouldn't it be nice if all you had to do was follow a set of rules, and you'd automatically produce nice, loving, productive members of society?
Unfortunately the gig isn't quite that simple. Sure, there are "rules" that are just understood, or passed down from generation to generation as to what "good parents" are supposed to do. But even those aren't right in every situation, and as the saying goes, "rules are meant to be broken." Here are 10 parenting rules every mom should break at some point.
1. Always set a good example
It's okay for you to make mistakes, and it's, in fact, helpful for kids to see that you do. They learn it's okay not to be perfect.
2. Kids need their sleep
Sleep is important, but some random late night snacks or midnight dances in the moonlight on occasion will forever be memories.
3. More than 30 minutes of television a day will rot their brains
Not every day, but sometimes on a cold, rainy day, there's nothing wrong with snuggling up on the couch and vegging for hours in front of the TV.
More from The Stir: 5 Times I'll Parent Your Kid My Way
4. Your children's needs should always come first
A hard one for most moms, but it's really okay once in awhile that you don't want to play Candy Land for the bazillionth time because you just need to relax and collect your thoughts for a few minutes.
5. School attendance is a must
Again, not regularly, but every once in awhile, keeping them home or signing them out early to spend a carefree day with you can be just what you both need in the midst of a busy year.
6. Don't give them junk food
If most of their diet is healthy, every once in awhile, a big ice cream splurge or fast food meal isn't going to kill them. It can also help them from feeling so deprived and binging on all of the bad stuff when they're able.
7. Don't let them talk back to you
They need to learn to do so in a polite way, but they shouldn't just have to accept what you say at face value. You want them to challenge and think for themselves, and if you're always throwing "because I said so!" at them, that's not nurturing those skills.
8. Potty mouths aren't allowed
If you have open and honest discussions with them about such "bad" words, they'll become less alluring. Let them know there's a time and a place for such words, and if they want to go scream them in the bedroom, then they can (as long as grandma isn't visiting).
9. Don't compare them to other children
Not in a bragging, obnoxious way, or to make them feel inferior to their friends, but I find it incredibly helpful to talk to other moms with children the same ages as mine and discuss various developmental and emotional issues they're going through. It helps me know where my kids are in relation to others and sometimes gives me ideas on what we need to work on.
10. Always be their biggest cheerleader
They're not always going to be right, plain and simple, and to take your kid's side just because it's your kid doesn't teach them anything. Telling them when they're wrong and when you're disappointed with them is okay. Also, everything they do doesn't have to be the most amazing, special thing ever.
What parenting rules do you break?
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(Mar. 11, 2005) - Entering the top of the seventh down 4-3, the East Tennessee State baseball team sent 12 batters to the plate, scoring seven runs. The Bucs then held on for a 10-8 victory over Furman in ETSU's Southern Conference opener Friday night from Furman Stadium in
With the win, the Bucs move to 10-1, 1-0 in Southern Conference play while Furman falls to 6-7, 2-2 in conference games.
The Bucs jumped on Furman starter Sam Perry early, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning. Senior second baseman Nick Crowe (
Furman came back in the top of the second, scoring two runs to tie the game. Matthew Betsill singled to left to lead off the inning and Sam McLain followed with a two-run homer to left-center.
The Paladins tied the game with a single run in the bottom of the fifth. Nick Wajda walked to lead off the inning and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Andrew Greene. Wadja stole third base with one out and crossed the plate on a throwing error.
Furman took a 4-3 lead with a run in the bottom of the sixth. McLain singled through the right side with one out and later crossed the plate as Tony Maccani reached on an error.
The Bucs took the lead for good with their furious rally in the seventh. Hargis, Crowe, Byrne and Moore began the frame with consecutive singles, with
Furman scored another run in the bottom of the eighth as McLain connected for his second home run of the day, hitting a solo shot over the right field wall.
The Paladins made the game interesting in the bottom of the ninth, Betsill hit a three-run homer to bring the Paladins to within two. But freshman lefty Joey McCown (
The Bucs were led at the plate by Crowe and Hargis. Crowe went 4-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI while Hargis was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI. Byrne, Moore and Russell also had two hits each in the win.
McLain had a stellar performance for the Paladins, going 3-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBIs.
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Once again, a key factor in me joining LoE was the September Blues. I originally applied in August, but was turned down due them already having a moonkin and not needing a lot of people. Less then a month later they lost a few people including a GM and another officer and drama ensues. So, in September they had a spot for me.
What I find most spectacular about the situation is that LoE has been a very stable guild for the year that I've played with them. Much more stable then my other guilds. We lost people here and there but the core remained strong and we never needed to recruit more then a couple of people at a time. However, in the last 2 months we've lost 9 core raiders for various reasons. The September Blues strike again and our progression slows.
The Systemic Problems:
September is like the Monday of the year. We are just coming out of the Summer (the weekend) and it is time to buckle down and do the normal things in life. Kids have to go back to school. Work generally slows down a little in the Summer, and now it is picking back up. Not to mention all of the other distractions that come back into play, like new TV shows and sporting events.
This is a time of year when people reevaluate there lives and reset their priorities. Therefore, I think it is somewhat unavoidable that guilds go through a rough patch at this time of year. You can't fault someone for rededicating themselves to the things I think we all feel are more important then WoW: Family, School, Work.
However, is it all Systemic?
Blizzard's Part:
Last night our raid was very frustrating, at least for me. Due to a series of player and technical issues we had a little more down time then usual. During one of those down times our Raid Leader decided to make a mini State of the Guild Address. He talked about a couple of different things but I thought one of them was very insightful.
Most of our recent losses aren't people leaving the guild, but people leaving the game. A couple have expressed their dissatisfaction with the game in general, but most of them have sited personal reasons for the departure like work and family. Once again, I won't fault them for those reasons, but I think most of us have personal reasons why we could leave the game. The point was that some of those personal reasons while important and real, are to some extent being used to cover up some level of dissatisfaction with the game, and that if the game was more compelling that some of those people may not be stepping away.
Let's look at the current state of raiding. Honestly, Tier 7 was a joke when it was released. Ulduar was fun and exciting when released, but it has lost its luster like all instance due after repeated clears. The Ulduar Hard Modes still hold some interest for me due to the Achievements, but the once uber gear is now just so so, compared to the better gear you can get from the Loot Pinata that is ToC normal. I don't think Loot is the main reason any of us play, but it is extremely dissatisfying to know that Firefighter is one of the hardest achievements in game, but has lesser rewards then a boss like Northrend Beasts that we could one shot without ever seeing before and reading half formulated strats.
The Quality of ToC:
ToC is the most bipolar instance ever created. First look at ToC normal mode. My guild one shot or two shot every boss in there the first time we saw it. In the 6 or 7 weeks that it has been available 10,055 guilds have cleared it according to WoWProgress.com. By comparison, in the 5 MONTHS Ulduar has been available 8,017 guilds have cleared it on normal after several nerfs. Sorry, but numbers don't lie. Either ToC normal is to easy or Ulduar normal is to hard. I think ToC is to easy, and the fact that you can get 245 ilevel gear for basically just showing up makes it really hard to get motivated for wiping in Ulduar on hard modes.
Heroic, ToC on the other hand is very tough. Only 13 guilds have cleared the instance which is to be expected only a couple of weeks after the instance is available. About 1500 guilds have killed Heroic Beasts. That doesn't seem that out of wack (though I would have thought it would be higher) for what I think hard modes should be, but I have other issues with the instance.
My guilds experience may be exceptional, but judging from the forums and such it isn't that unusual. One of the main problems we've had with Northrend Beasts heroic has been technical issues. Last night, one of our Tanks would DC every time the Snobolds would spawn, making the tank transitions impossible. Other guildies had similar DC issues, and just for the record, there were no commonalities between them. They had different ISPs, lived in different parts of the country, there hardware was different, and none of them have severe DC issues in other instances. I hate to blame the DCs on the instance, but at some point it becomes to much to be a coincidence.
The most frustrating aspect of the Northrend Beasts encounter is despawns. You don't know how many times we've started to make a good transition from Gormok to the Wyrms with everyone alive to have the wyrms freaken despawn. It makes me want to punch babies.
Again, I hate to blame our lack of progress on ToC heroic on technical issues, but how can we work the kinks out of our strategy if technical issues prevent us from playing normally?
My Thoughts:
I think several of Blizzard experiments have failed miserably.
- Having 4 versions of the same instance is way to much. I sometimes forget which version I'm in. When we did Beasts on Wednesday I started to get excited by how well it was going after wiping on it all Monday and the previous Thursday, then I remembered "oh yea, this is the normal version." On top of that I have been running both the 10man versions as well.
- Emblems for Tier Loot: I liked how I could complete my tier set with badges in Naxx and Ulduar if I got unlucky with drops, but the new system in ToC completely sucks. If your looking to build a set of T9.245 it will take you a minimum of 5 raid lockouts to complete it, and that assumes that your clearing all 4 versions of ToC every week and doing the Heroic daily every day.
Lets look at it from a more realistic point of view. Currently I'm clearing both versions of normal ToC each week, and kill 3 bosses in the heroic version of the 10man. I also do the daily about 3 times a week for 45 Emblems a week. At this pace it will take me 7 raid lockouts to complete my Tier set. That may not sound that bad, but remember that requires me to run the same instance at least 3 times a week and to do 3 5mans that aren't a challenge either.
What if I can't or don't want to run 10mans? All of a sudden I'm down to 20 or 30 Emblems per week and it takes me 10-12 weeks to complete a set, and this is without picking up any of the other Emblem loot you might want like the Idols.
The new Tier loot system encourages you to do busy work and instance below your level that have no value to you other then the emblems. Blizzard has sold the concepts of 10man vs 25man and normal vs heroic by saying it gives players options to play the way they want to play and see content. Well this system takes those options away by rewarding Quantity of play rather then quality of play.
- I think Blizzard has put together a strong system for inducing burnout. ToC was released to quick before most players were ready to leave Ulduar. The normal version is to easy, devalues the Ulduar experience, and makes guild management more challenging. Heroic ToC seems to have several technical issues and is probably a little hard for being the first boss in an instance.
So players are now put in a strange situation. We have Ulduar which is well designed and balanced, but the rewards for your accomplishments are minimal now. We then have Normal ToC which is a cake walk with great rewards but can be cleared in under an hour easy. Finally we have Heroic ToC which is a little buggy and a little hard, but has great rewards. Basically we are being encouraged to clear a set of bosses in under an hour and then wipe on the same set of bosses for the next 8 hours, while ignoring a good instance because of its lesser rewards.
I don't really want to use my blog for guild recruitment, but a small blurb won't hurt. We run highly focused raids 3 times a week for a total of 9 hours, but have success similar to guilds that raid twice as much as we do. We are currently looking for Ranged DPS and Healers but will consider applicants in other rolls as well. If you want more info you can find our recruitment forum here. Our application is here.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures trimmed losses on Monday ahead of the market open, after an upbeat report on manufacturing activity in New York region.
However, mood among global equity investors was subdued as a weekend of violence in Iraq pitched investors toward less risky assets.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJU4 fell 29 points, or 0.2%, to 16,668, while those for the S&P 500 index US:SPU4 fell 3.5 points, or 0.2%, to 1,924.80. Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index US:NDM4 dropped 6.75 points, or 0.2%, to 3,762.25.
Manufacturing activity in the New York region held steady in June after hitting an almost four-year high in May, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday. The regional bank's "Empire State" general business conditions index inched up to 19.3 in June from 19.0 in May. The increase was unexpected.
An industrial production report will be released at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time, while the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market index for June is due at 10 a.m. Eastern. In May, the NAHB reported that home builders were the most pessimistic they've been in a year. The index is expected to rebound somewhat in June.
The big event of the week, though, will be a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which begins Tuesday and ends with a decision on Wednesday. Most expect the Fed will keep trimming its asset-purchase program by an additional $10 billion a month, to $35 billion. Fed officials will also update their economic forecasts and provide new projections for interest rates.
But geopolitical events may continue to occupy investors. European stocks SXXP, -0.63% fell after a weekend of increasing violence in Iraq. Media reports said the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar was captured early Monday, while over the weekend, militants tweeted out images supporting a claim they had executed hundreds of Shiite Iraqi soldiers, and the U.S. Embassy evacuated some of its staff from the capital of Baghdad.
Oil prices CLN4, +0.00% pulled back from stronger, earlier gains, while gold US:GCQ4 was higher, though not by a huge amount. Japanese stocks fell in a mixed session for Asia as Iraq worries pushed the Japanese yen USDJPY, -0.29% higher against the dollar. The British pound tapped $1.70 against the dollar for the first time in five years on speculation the Bank of England could be one of the first major central banks to break away from ultra-easy monetary policy.
Medtronic Inc. MDT, -2.31% announced Sunday that it plans to buy Ireland-based Covidien PLC US:COV in a $42.9 billion deal. The cash-and-stock offer would be valued at $93.22 per Covidien share. Shares of Covidien soared 30%, while Medtronic rose 6.3%. Medtronic, big health companies look to dodge U.S. taxes
Shares of Bluebird Bio Inc. BLUE, +0.14% soared 69% in premarket after the company reported promising preliminary data on experimental gene therapy for patients with inherited blood disorders.
German engineering group Siemens AG SIE, -0.42% and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. 7011, -0.12% were nearing an offer for Alstom SA's ALO, +0.60% energy business, which could set up a bidding war with General Electric Co. GE, -1.74%
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Scripture: Psalm (NIV) 98:4 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
5 make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn—shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let mountains sing together for joy;
9 let them sing before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in equity.
Observation: In this psalm we are encouraged to join with all nature in giving jubilant praise to the Lord. This is not quiet praise, but LOUD praise. It is like standing near a great water fall; it is like standing on the shore of the ocean as the breaking waves make it hard to hear the one standing at your side. This praise is from people not concerned about offending other people nearby. This praise is totally for Him!
Application: Many times I hear people nearby cursing without a concern about offending people nearby. How much more should I talk about Jesus and give Him praise. I should not lower my voice when talking about Jesus.
Prayer: Lord, may those nearby listening in on my conversation easily hear my love and appreciation for you! Amen
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Charles Randall 'Randy' Aldous, 68
Charles Randall "Randy" Aldous, 68, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 at Bingham Memorial Hospital.
He was born Oct.15, 1944 in Blackfoot, the son of Charles Lynn Aldous and Mabel Frew Aldous.
He attended school in Grandview and graduated from Aberdeen High School.
He has been a lifetime resident of Blackfoot except for time he spent on a mission in Sweden and the military. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Randy was a member of the Gold Panning Club and Model Railroaders.
He worked for Chet Wahlen Farms, Twentieth Century Ford, True Value, Milestone and as a realtor.
He enjoyed four-wheeling, camping, metal detecting and model railroads.
He is survived by his mother, Mabel Aldous of Blackfoot; brother, Ronald Aldous and sisters, Roxie Monroe and Ricki (Vernon) Sandoval, all of Blackfoot; 5 nieces and 1 nephew.
He was preceded in death by his father, Charles and one nephew, David.
A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 at the Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave.
The family will meet with friends on Sunday from 6-8 p.m. and for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the Springfield Cemetery.
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A spokesman said: "A non-emergency call could be to someone who is locked outside their house or someone who is stuck in a lift. There are other agencies and organisations that can help in this instance."


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FedEx Corp. this morning reported revenue rose 5 percent to $11.1 billion for its fiscal second quarter, compared to $10.6 billion during the same period in 2011. Operating income dropped $718 million, 8 percent from $780 million last year.
"Operating income for the quarter improved at FedEx Freight and FedEx Ground due to increased volumes and higher yields, while persistent weakness in the global economy and increased demand for lower-yielding international services limited profits at FedEx Express," said Frederick W. Smith, FedEx chairman, president and CEO, in a statement. "Earnings also were negatively impacted by disruptions caused by Superstorm Sandy."
The company's operating margin was 6.5 percent, down from 7.4 percent the previous year, and net income totaled $438 million, down 12 percent from last year's $497 million.
The earnings report comes as the Memphis-based shipping giant buys four Boeing 767 freighters to replace older workhorses with more fuel-efficient planes.
Financial terms of the Boeing purchase weren't disclosed. The sticker price on a 767 freighter is about $182.8 million, but discounts are commonplace.
The planes will allow the world's second-largest package delivery company to dump some of its MD-10 aircraft, many of which are more than 30 years old. The new planes are also larger and can carry more on fewer flights.
The planes will be delivered in 2015. As part of the deal, FedEx pushed back delivery of two 777 freighters to 2016 from 2015.
FedEx is currently experiencing another record-setting holiday shipping season, driven by the continued growth of e-commerce. On Dec. 17, the company set a new daily record by moving approximately 19.8 million shipments.
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Former U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon was laid to rest Monday after being eulogized by his son and former colleagues as a devoted public servant savvy about brokering deals and unwilling to compromise his principles, even if it maybe cost him his seat.
Dixon died July 6 at age 86, a day before his birthday. More than a week later, hundreds of mourners gathered for Dixon's services at Lindenwood University's Belleville campus, including Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, former Republican Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson and Dixon's former chief of staff Gene Callahan.
As a Democrat, Dixon's political career spanned more than 40 years. He was in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1993, serving as the third-ranking Democrat, whom Durbin said earned bipartisan respect. Dixon also chaired a subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee.
But Durbin suggested that perhaps the way Dixon left office said the most about him, the Belleville News-Democrat reported. In early 1992, while in a tight race with Carol Moseley Braun in the run-up to the Democratic primary election, Dixon rejected his political consultant's insistence that he run negative attack ads against Braun, Durbin recalled during the funeral where many wore Dixon campaign buttons.
Dixon refused to play dirty politics, Durbin said, opting to lose instead of compromising his principles.
"'If people of Illinois dump me, I'll pick myself up, dust myself off and say thanks for the memories.'" Durbin, standing near Dixon's flag-draped casket, recalled Dixon as saying.
Dixon lost to Braun and never returned to politics again, eventually returning to a law career and publishing his autobiography, "The Gentleman from Illinois: Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public Service."
A day after his 1992 election loss, Dixon's son Jeff Dixon tearfully told mourners, his dad told him there was no reason to dwell on or complain about it, firm in that tomorrow was another day.
Yet while in office, Callahan said, Dixon never forgot for whom he worked — and made sure his staffers also knew: "He said we worked for the people of Illinois, just like he did."
Away from the job, eulogists remembered, Dixon enjoyed having a cold Budweiser with friends at drinking spots he called "saloons" or "watering holes," along with watching St. Louis Cardinals baseball.
A private burial for family and close friends followed at Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Fairview Heights.


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Vitor Belfort has had an amazing career comprised of thrilling performances, stunning knockouts and substance abuse, which he's parlayed into an improbable title shot at 36 years of age and after 17 competitive years in the sport. And for that proposed title shot, which will be against incumbent champ Chris Weidman at a UFC whose date has yet to be determined but will likely take place in Las Vegas, N.V., the Brazilian plans to do what he does best when he sets foot in the cage: testosterone replacement therapy.
Belfort, you see, hasn't fought in the United States since 2011, and as a result hasn't been subjected to the same level of hormonal scrutiny he'd face in places with actual athletic commissions. But looking like a caricature of a fighter and fighting like an anime version of what some Tokyo University of the Arts student would doodle in his spare time comes with limitations, and it was assumed that Belfort was going to have to ease up on the artificial testosterone injections if he was going to be able to get a match-up with the all-natural all-American in America. Not so, though!
Said Ariel Helwani on UFC Tonight last night: "I spoke with Vitor yesterday and he said he's on TRT and that his doctors said he has to be on it. This has been prescribed and he's planning on applying to be on a TUE for the next fight."
Weidman doesn't seem to be bothered by the prospect of having to face a Vitor Belfort that is more chemical than human (a sentiment shared by members of his camp as well – they're confident he'll beat Belfort anyway). But it should certainly bother the fans. Because if Weidman loses, so what? He lost to someone on the Super Soldier Serum. And if he wins, he just beat some 'roided-out pile of bad choices and needles marks.
No, there's a place for people like Belfort, and it's not where commissions screen fighters for elevated testosterone throughout their training camps. Belfort's place is in the wilds of Brazil, where they don't need a regulated sport as much as they just need a reason for fans to go bonkers over the local guy winning.


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Close, minimize, and maximize are now close, minimize, and full screen, eliminating the extra full-screen control and consolidating the window controls in one place. Streamlining these and other elements of the interface means you can navigate the desktop more efficiently.
OS X' idea of "maximise" was "some random window resizing nobody really used anyway", so I'm glad Apple finally replaced it with something else. Too bad OS X' fullscreen view is way too disruptive for my tastes to be of any practical use.


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tl;dr: Setting the WorkItemPriority in ThreadPool.RunAsync actually changes the thread priority the code runs on, not just the position in the pending work queue.
It's been a while since I've blogged, but this entry has been a finding that had long eluded me and this was a good chance to blog again. If you're still reading, thanks :)
In the Plain Old (or might I say, complete) .NET framework, there was a pretty useful property named Thread.Priority, which gave a lot of control to app developers. This allowed a very control of what would run, where, and how.
Using this API, you could have CPU bound (hence blocking) code that could run at a very low priority, without the need to be yielded somehow, like it's suggested now with async and Task.Yield().
I was under the impression, since Windows Phone 8.0 and WinRT 8.0 have been introduced, that there was no available way to control the actual thread priority, since either the property does not exist, or even Thread does not exist anymore.
The suggested counterpart, Task, does not provide such a feature, leaving developers no choice but chunking the work, by using clever tricks or work item priority scheduling.
tl;dr: Memoization can be associated with the ConditionalWeakTable class, which allows the addition of memoized computation results to immutable types. This makes the memoized results live as long as the instances that was used to create it.
In the first part of this article, we discussed a bit the Memoization pattern in C#. In this second part, we will discuss how to alleviate the memory management issue for memoized computation results.
In .NET 4.0 – quite a while ago now – a new class was added, the ConditionalWeakTable, to help in the creation of dynamic languages based on the DLR, where there was a need to be able to attach data to existing type instances, much like a fictional extension property could be. This topic is not covered much, and since it has to do with the GC, it is often misunderstood.
The idea is pretty simple: It is a dictionary that takes an type instance as a key, and a value associated to it. The key is stored as a weak reference, meaning that the data is held as a hard-reference as long as the key lives. When the key is collected by the GC, the hard-link is removed, making the data available for collection if it's not referenced anywhere else.
Here's how to use it:
TL;DR: Immutable data and memoization are functional programming concepts that can be applied to C# programming. These patterns have their strengths and weaknesses, discussed a bit in this article.
I've grown to not being a great fan a data mutability.
Data mutability can introduce a lot of side effects in the code, and it can be pretty complex to go back in time to know what a specific state was before the code failed. This gets worse when multiple threads are involved, and that tends to happen a lot more these days, now that even phones have multiple cores.
Sure, we can use IntelliTrace to ease that kind of debugging, but that's pretty much limited to issues you already know about. That means you're reacting to issues that already happened, you're not proactively preventing those issues from happening.
So, to address this more reliably, there's the concept of immutability. When a set of data is built, it cannot change anymore. This means that you can pass it around, do computation with it, use it any place you want, there's not going to be any subtle concurrency issues because the data changed under your feet.
TL;DR: C# 5.0 async/await does not include the implicit support for cancellation, and needs to pass CancellationToken instances to every async method. F# and the Reactive Extensions offer solutions to this problem, with both implicit and explicit support for cancellation.
My development style has slowly shifted to a more functional approach, during the past year. I've been peeking a F# for a while and that shift to a more functional mindset in C# lends me toward understanding a lot better the concepts behind core features of F#, and more specifically the async "support" in F#.
It's known that F# inspired a lot the implementation of C# async, but having looked at the way it's been implemented in F# gives me some more points against the "unfinished" implementation in C#.
Recently, now that people are effectively using async, in real-world scenarios, problems are starting to bubble up, and some to giggle. Async void, async void lambdas, the fact that continuations run mostly on the UI thread when not taken care of properly, obscure exception handling scenarios, the "magic" relation to the SynchronizationContext, that it does not address parallelism, and one that's been pretty low-key, cancellation.
TL;DR: Using an upgraded (and fixed) Parallel Build Process Template allows to use multiple TFS2012 build agents simultaneously, which can be more than welcome when building metro apps that target all three supported platforms. A build that took 11 minutes can go down to 3.5 minutes.
Download the Parallel Build Process Template for TFS2012 here.
CI is a wonderful feature, especially when associated with Gated Checkins.
You're certain that what's in your source control is in line with your build definition and constraints, and that there is always a binary that respects a minimum set of rules. This does not ensure that your app is bug free, but still, that's a minimum.
The downside of this validation is that there cannot be multiple builds running at the same time. This can become a bottleneck when multiple developers checkin within the duration of a single build run.
This means that the longer your build gets, the longer a developer might wait for its task completion because of a long build queue, and increase its task switching cost. If a build fails, the developer needs to unshelve its changes, make the necessary adjustments, then check-in again.
Below 4 minutes of build time, this stays in the acceptable range where the developer's task context may not be lost if the build fails.
TL;DR: Writing Xaml/C++ attached properties sometimes gives a 30% improvement over the C# version, which can be caused by the use of events. This article shows code sample for both versions.
Since it is possible to write a XAML application entirely in C++/CX, I decided to give a try to the performance of some simple code.
There is, after all, some marshaling involved when communicating from C# to native code, particularly with events.
WinRT's BitmapImage class supports, as does WPF and Silverlight, the DecodePixelWidth and DecodePixelHeight properties.
These are very useful properties that forces the memory surface to store the image to fit a certain size, and avoid the waste of memory induced by large downscaled images. This is a very common performance issue for applications that display variable sized images, where the memory can grow very quickly.
TL;DR: Expanding data-bound item templates in Xaml/WinRT in Windows 8 is about a hundred times slower than with Xaml/WPF. This article details how this was measured and a possible explanation.
In Windows 8, Microsoft has a introduced a whole new Xaml stack, codenamed Jupiter, completely re-written to be native only.
This allows the creation of Xaml controls using C++ as well as C#.
I will not discuss the philosophical choice of ditching managed WPF in favor of a native rewrite, but make a simple comparison of the performance between the two.
I worked on a project that had performance issues for a UI-Virtualized control, where the initial binding of data as well as the realization of item templates, was having a significant impact on the fluidity of the scrolling of a GridView control.
To isolate this, I created a simple UI: More...
tl;dr: JavaScript can call C# code in Metro apps, and allows for C# code to observe notifications coming from JavaScript, using the Reactive Extensions grammar.
Javascript is (almost) everywhere, literally.
Not in everyone's minds though, which is only around 7% according to the PYPL index.
Yet, Microsoft is pushing a lot on that front, particularly in Metro apps where the documentation shows JavaScript examples first. Subjectively, I'm not a big fan of the decision, because it pushes us back a few years and not simply because of the language, but because state of the full JavaScript ecosystem, compared to the .NET counterpart.
In Windows Phone 8, things got better of the front of reading the file system. It's actually gotten closer to the Windows 8 with the inclusion of WinRT, and it now possible to read the content of files that were pretty hard (or impossible) to access directly before.
There are some times when you need to access the content of the xap directly, and in Windows Phone 7, you were pretty limited to the use of the IsolatedStorage, but really did not have access to the content of the Xap, except for some location such as images or XmlDocument and the SQL CE engine using the appdata:/ scheme.
Things have changed in Windows Phone 8, and here's how to read the WMAppManifest.xml file by yourself :
tl;dr: The Bindable attribute can be placed on standard C# classes in Metro Apps to make them appear in the generated IXamlMetadataProvider class, to create static metadata. This technique allows for a 10% increase in data-binding performance over reflection based binding, but also adds a temporary cost in JITting, until Windows generates native images 24 hours later.
Databinding in WPF/WinRT is very easy to use. Just put the name of the field you want to bind, set the DataContext, and voila, it is displayed on screen. Yet, this is a tricky feature under the hood. It relies on the presence of an arbitrary string that may exist in the current DataContext to get the data to be displayed.
In WPF and Silverlight, this is fairly easy to do because everything is in managed code. Resolving that data member was performed using a bit of type Reflection, where the string "{Binding SomeValue}" would result in a sequence of Type.GetProperty to get a PropertyInfo instance, then call GetValue to get the actual value.
But in WinRT, all this is a lot different, mainly because WinRT is purely native and there is no reflection or metadata there.
My name is Jerome Laban, I am a Software Architect, C# MVP and .NET enthustiast from Montréal, QC. You will find my blog on this site, where I'm adding my thoughts on current events, or the things I'm working on, such as the Remote Control for Windows Phone.
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I can't beleive nobody's uploading people shots, so here goes:
this one is called "the musician" ok, the fable goes like this: one day i happended to be wandering around with a P&S wth no batteries, and happend to find this chap. so i payed him ten bucks to hold the pose, powered up my camera, and found batts dead. seeing how desperate (and stinko rich) i was to get the shot, i was mobbed by hawkers who tried to sell batteries to me. i borrowed twenty bucks from a freind, bought a pair of cheap chinese batteries, took one frame, when they died, leaving me eith just one shot. i reworked it a million times, finally ending up with this:


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Traditional & Classic Bathrooms from Around the Web
In this week's post Style Guide: Characteristics of Traditional Bathrooms House Tour Round-up, we explained that it is hard to define exactly what makes a bathroom "traditional", a blanket term that often overlaps with retro, vintage and eclectic styles.
Traditional bathrooms are dominated by classic elements that transcend contemporary trends, including "spa-like" features and sleek minimalism. But traditional doesn't mean unstylish. Rather, beautifully designed new traditional bathrooms will often incorporate the best of modernity, including eco-friendly materials, neutral colors, and state-of-the-art toilets and fixtures. The key is that the overall aesthetic will not scream "2011" but will instead be more classic and timeless.
What are some characteristics of traditional bathrooms?
1) Natural stone or porcelain subway or hex tiles
2) Natural stone countertops (e.g. marble) in neutral colors
3) White cotton towels and bath mats
4) Freestanding bathtubs, especially claw foot tubs
5) Pedestal and console sinks or sinks with a traditional cabinet base
6) Hinged mirrored medicine cabinets
7) Vintage or antique fixtures and accessories
8) Chrome or nickel-plated fixtures
9) A lot of neutral color and/or white, including a black-and-white combination
10) Wainscoting and wallpaper
Here are some examples from all around the web to help illustrate the style:
• 1 Brabourne Farm.
• 2 Shop Gramercy.
• 3 House Beautiful.
• 4 Brabourne Farm.
• 5 Bradbourne Farm.
• 6 This is Glamorous.
• 7 Absolutely Beautiful Things.
• 8 Lonny.
• 9 Things That Inspire.
• 10 Everything LEB.
• 11 Brooklyn Limestone.
• 12 Material Girls.
• 13 This is Glamourous.
• 14 Beach Bungalow 8.
• 15 House Beautiful.


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A selection of tunes with a hint of spring and summer, holidays and happy times…
There are a selection of styles; from classical to cinematic as well as some more upbeat tracks to represent a happy, springlike vibe!
1. Stroll: 1:44
2. Windmills x2 (one without flute, one with): 0:50
3. Down the Beach: 0:46
4. Intro One: 0:13
5. Intro Two: 0:13
6. Happy Days: 0:40
I hope you will find these tracks useful, if you do decide to purchase the pack please do let me know what you are doing with it and then we can help to promote each others work. Please visit my website if you would like to hear more and find out more about any bespoke work I can do for you.


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Vigil in solidarity with rape survivors, 27th November: CANCELLEDPosted: 25 November 2012 Filed under: Events, Uncategorized | Tags: activism, Cambridge University, solidarity Leave a comment
CUSU Women's campaign have organised a candlelight vigil in solidarity with rape survivors this Tuesday from 6.30pm in Cambridge Market Square – facebook event here .
UPDATE: Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
FreebiesPosted: 19 June 2012 Filed under: Art, Class, Economics, Money, Poverty, Wage-Slave, Work | Tags: activism, ambition, art, class, economics, Feminism, gender-strike, money, oppression politics, poverty, wages, women's work Leave a comment
Patriarchy says: Little girlies who want big grown up people-jobs instead of women's work, will only succeed in downgrading people-work into women's work. As such they will have to take the wage offered for women's work. Which is nothing.
Why Academic Feminism is Full of ShitPosted: 1 April 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: academic feminism, activism, Feminism, feminist theory, patriarchy, second wave, third wave 21 Comments
Feminism is not an academic theory. Feminism is a grassroots movement of women.
Universities, like all institutions in society, are patriarchal – they are run by men, for men, to further the interests of men and to oppress women. This means feminism and academia are opposites in every way. Trying to bring feminism into academia is like capturing a beautiful, vibrant butterfly, putting a pin through her heart and putting her on display in a museum. She will look pretty impressive and lots of people will marvel at her, but she is also dead.
Feminism is a war on patriarchy not a war between women
Academia is based on competition. The aim is to win, to outwit your opponents, to overturn past theories and come up with new bigger better shinier ones.
Academics love to divide feminists into competing theories – radical feminists, liberal feminists, Marxist feminists, post-deconstructivist-neo-radical-genderqueer-antediluvian feminists… and then set these theories arguing against one another. We are too clever to fall for these divide and rule tactics.
Academics love to divide feminists into 'waves' – first, second, third, fourth… as if each generation overthrows the last. Young feminist students are encouraged to write essays mocking feminist ideas from the past, seeing 'second wave feminists' as the enemy or patronising them – they had a few good ideas, bless them, but we've moved on now. How dare they try to turn us against our own feminist foremothers? How dare they try to turn our role models into our enemies? Feminism is not like water, it does not come in 'waves', each one washing over the debris and wreckage of the last. Feminism is a fire, passed down by generations of women for thousands of years, and sometimes it's a tiny little ember and sometimes it rages so powerfully that whole countries are set alight but it's the same fire and it never goes out.
Feminism is Real
You don't need to read books to be a feminist. You don't need to be able to read at all. If you go looking for feminism in lecture halls and academic journals and books you won't find it there, because that isn't where it lives. Feminism is in you. It IS you. And every other woman and girl who ever lived, or is living, or will live… feminism is born from us women, from our life experiences, from our feelings, from our experiences of sexism and oppression, some of which are shared with millions of women and some of which are unique to us. If what you are told to read does not either speak directly to you as a woman, or teach you about the life experiences of other women, or give practical and workable ideas for destroying patriarchy, it is not feminist. Unlike academics, feminists are not interested in questions like "To what extent does 'queering' theory deconstruct feminist conceptions of agency?" A feminist exam paper would ask "How can we destroy patriarchy?" and the correct answer would be for all the women to simultaneously storm out of the room, occupy the University buildings and call a global woman-strike.
Feminism rejects authority
Academia is built on the idea of expertise, of all-knowing authority figures educating the next generation of bright young things. This is because patriarchy needs hierarchies, it needs to tell young women that their thoughts and feelings and intuitions are not enough, that they need to be quiet and obey and learn from their superiors. No woman needs an expert to teach her how to be a feminist, what feminism is, or which feminist ideas are the 'right' ideas. Feminism is about women's lives. Every woman is the expert on her own life. Every woman's knowledge and experience is valuable in its own right. All women are sisters and we listen to one another and respect one another and celebrate our shared experiences and celebrate our differences in a way that all the theories and academics and 'experts' in the world could analyse for one thousand years and still never begin to understand.
Feminism rejects academic privilege
Academic training is training in how to use privilege to oppress and dominate others. Academia uses specialist language that the vast majority of women do not understand. This is not because women are stupid. This is a deliberate tactic to exclude us, to ensure that we do not know what is being said about us, to silence and humiliate us in discussion. No matter how hard we try to learn the language, we will never be good enough, we will never quite understand, we will never win the arguments. Patriarchy depends on women never being good enough, always being to blame for their own oppression.
It is not women's responsibility to learn academic jargon. It is feminist academics' responsibility to communicate to us in language we can understand. If you are a woman who has been subjected to academic training you need to recognise the tactics you have been trained in. By learning how to use inaccessible academic jargon in conversation and refer to books you have read and theories you have learnt, you have been given the tools to enable you to defeat other women, to make them feel stupid, to come out on top not because you are right and they are wrong but because you have academic privilege and they do not. It is your responsibility to work on yourself to undo this training. Stop assuming everyone has read the books you've read. Stop assuming everyone became a feminist because they read a load of books rather than because they were sexually abused and feminism helped them to understand their experience, or because they have a new baby girl and don't want her to grow up in a world full of shitty misogynistic crap, or one thousand other reasons that have everything to do with experiencing oppression and nothing to do with the University Library. Stop starting sentences with "We all know…" "We've all read…" "We all agree that…" You cannot read other women's minds or know their lives – don't assume anything about other women and what they know, think or read.
Deeds Not Words
Academia values theory over practice. The more abstract and detached from real life your work is, the better. The more inaccessible your ideas and the less likely the woman who's been cleaning your lecture theatre every day for the last ten years whose name you don't even know could understand a word of it, the better. The aim is to create exclusivity in order to acquire and maintain power.
The end result or goal in academia is theory. Fieldwork or research is done in order to produce theory. In feminism, theory is written in order to produce action. Writing a book about rape culture is good, but organising a protest against a notorious rapist is better, volunteering at your local Rape Crisis Centre is better, boycotting corporations that use rape jokes to generate 'controversy' and sell their products is better. The best feminist academics are those who work for the grassroots, who ask activists, survivors and women's organisations what they need and then put the needs of those women on the ground before their own careers and egos. They produce studies that will convince the government to fund more women's shelters, or research that will help dispel rape myths. Feminism isn't just something we are or something we have, it's something we DO, every day. When feminists are concerned about an issue, we don't write a paper or organise a conference. We get out there and campaign for change and don't stop until we get it.
Academia encourages inaction. Social justice movements are either ignored completely or else analysed, criticised and sneered at by middle class white academics. Our own concepts and language are appropriated by academics and used against us, used to criticise feminism not in order to improve it but in order to paralyse it, to kill it off before it becomes too big and threatening. Too late. Feminism is big, it is threatening. We will continue standing together and fighting for freedom from male violence and oppression. It must hurt to watch from the sidelines, writing your snide pompous articles that most of us will never read and knowing that you can't keep us down.
Academia oppresses women. Feminism liberates us!


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I am a sophomore in high school and my ultimate dream is to be an imagineer for the Walt Disney World resort. I am interested in being the guy that comes up with the ideas and tries to put them all together, like X. Atencio. I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could contact an imagineer and ask some questions and if anyone could give me advice to help me achieve my dream. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I don't know the answer to your question. I don't know of any imagineers that give personal interviews but you could always do some research and ask some questions to see if someone might give you half an hour... It might also be useful to call other design studios in the industry. There are plenty of people who hop between Disney and other companies around town, and some of them might be willing to tell you more about the industry. Research the term "informational interview" on Google. It is a technique for finding out more about an industry or job field.
X Atencio apparently started as an animator, and also did music and scripts:
I don't know anyone in the industry who simply thinks of ideas, but there are designers, project managers, art directors, show directors, etc. Everyone has a specialty that they fill their day with. In my experience and from what I have heard, ideas often come from both brainstorms, which involve people from different disciplines, and from people working in their specialty (whether they are a musician, writer, designer, engineer, business manager, etc.). Ask youself what real world job you think you would enjoy doing. These jobs usually exist in imagineering as well... and imagineering jobs are not always long-term, so you also want something you can "fall back" to that you wouldn't mind doing for a day job... Designing rides can be fun, but it takes a lot of people using all sorts of talents in order to make it work... Everyone has great ideas, and then it takes a team in order to make it work! If you like the "putting it all together" aspect, you might like Art Direction or Project Management, but I would recommend researching these as job fields before deciding how you want to move forward...
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To get an informal interview with a random Imagineer (but it's not free or anywhere near inexpensive), try the "Dining With an Imagineer" at WDW. They offer them quite a bit at the Brown Derby and started a few at The Flying Fish.
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Lazarovicedo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 314 diseños de 78 diseñadores freelance.
Alertia is an start-up founded by the creators of Gravitynet and smsbox. We have an extended technical background in the hosting business and domain registration in the spanish market.
Alertia monitoring services are intended for technical and non-technical users. Business users working on executive positions that require instant information on different fields from telecommunications to finance.
The logo will contain the word "Alertia" as the main object. It will be used on website headers and email signatures. It could contain a distinctive object with an underlaying meaning related to the functions of Alertia (monitoring servers and sensors worldwide).
The logo would suggest a mix of technology and nature, trust and ease of use. Could suggest also a mesh of sensors.
Some combination of colors that could match our idea are:
- blue and green as in http://www.ca.com
- multiple colors as PalmTV in:
The logo will not only be visually attractive but also mentally. It should evoke the nature of the Alertia service: monitoring groups of services or servers, always on alert, it will keep you informed.
Alertia will analyze thousands of sensors and public data and will give you that information at a glance.
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With Kevin Bacon, a ton of creepy Edgar Allen Poe imagery and twists and turns that rival "24," "The Following" quickly became one of our favorite guilty pleasures of 2013.
But where does it go now?
toofab's Brian Particelli sat down with the cast and creator Kevin Williamson at Comic-Con, where they revealed a few secrets about Season 2, and talked about living in fear of being killed off the show and facing death threats from fans.
Keep reading for 10 Things You Should Know About "The Following":
1.) Poor Valorie Curry has it rough
James Purefoy's Joe Carroll may be the horrible mastermind behind the show's murders, but it's Valorie Curry that gets most of the hate mail.
"People would turn to me in the elevator and go 'I want to kill you,'" says Curry of playing the devious and deadly Emma. "I never understand why people think that she's the worst character while Joe Carroll is literally carving numerous women up, taking out their eyes!"
Despite the fan backlash, Curry says playing Emma is "the best job in the world" and she hopes viewers "continue to dislike me for years to come."
2.) Get ready to flash forward!
"We're pushing forward a year later," Kevin Williamson says of Season 2.
"Where's Ryan Hardy? He's no longer with the FBI. The grand jury has probed the events of last season because a lot of mistakes were made," he adds. "The FBI didn't behave as well as they could have. They have some explaining to do. Ryan Hardy survived the investigation, he's in another place, he's trying to rebuild his life and pick up the pieces of the horrible events of that last night."
3.) Joe Carroll will be back ... and potentially hairy.
Purefoy was very grizzly in San Diego, sporting a beard he says he's growing out for the show.
"He's gonna be somewhere in the United States, he's gonna have rethought the plan," Purefoy says of his character, who was presumed dead at the end of Season 1.
"He's gonna be learning from his mistakes and he's gonna be learning to love his followers again," James adds -- before saying "I'm just talking rubbish, don't believe me."
So, what can we believe? Williamson confirms "He's back," adding "He had a trick up his sleeve. What was that body? How did he pull it off? We'll answer that in the first three episodes."
4.) Fans love a bad guy!
"I get very little hate mail or hate tweets, which is interesting considering how diabolical he is," says Purefoy.
As for why he gets love while Valorie gets nothin' but disdain: "He has a certain charm, he also seems to care."
5.) Kevin Bacon has come to terms with "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."
"I think that if it wasn't me, I would probably be very irritated about it," Kevin told the press. "Like if I kept hearing about the Six Degrees of Kevin Costner."
"It's fine," he adds. "I didn't get it at first, but it hung around for so long, I'm good with it."
6.) Everyone fears the Reaper ... even Kevin!
"I don't think anyone has job security on this show, I really don't," Kevin tells toofab. "That's one of the things when you think about it, is one of the more interesting things about television now. You look at the first season of 'Game of Thrones' and there are often major, major characters that just go away."
"They would give you a heads up if you were gonna die," Shawn Ashmore adds. "You would get the phone call a couple weeks ahead of time and say 'Listen, it's been great, you gotta go.' It happened to a lot of great actors and people we liked working with."
"After I survived so many times it would be anticlimactic to kill me off," Ashmore jokes.
7.) We'll see Claire again
When we last saw Natalie Zea's Claire Matthews, she had a knife in her back. So, will she return?
Williamson says Zea will be return "in a limited capacity," adding that "She was gracious to come back and finish up her storyline."
Sorry, that's all we got there, but it leads us to ...
8.) Ryan Hardy will be happy
"I think we're gonna see him at a better, happier place in his life, at least on the surface," Bacon says ... possibly meaning Claire survived her attack.
"His heart is better, he's running, he's not drinking. He's sobered up and he's feeling sort of hopeful and that is the first impression that we get of him," adds Kevin.
Of course, we don't expect that to last too long.
9.) Ryan & Westin's relationship will be strained
"I walked up and shot a guy in cold blood who had handcuffs on, so what was the fallout from that and how did that affect my relationship with Westin?" asks Bacon.
"Let's not forget that Ryan and Mike basically tortured and killed a prisoner, there are definitely repercussions," Ashmore says of Season 2.
10. Kevin's just glad you're watching
When asked about his favorite moment of filming Season 1, Kevin offered up a very fan friendly answer.
"It's such a ride and it happens so quickly and you work so hard and you do so many pages, it just kind of washes over you," he said.
His favorite thing: "The feeling that we realized there were people that liked the show and were coming back to watch it again and the feeling that we were connecting."
Season Two kicks up again in January 2014.


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Presentation on Social Media in Schools
Many people have asked for information following the "Social Media in Schools" session that Marialice Curran and I lead for an educational event, EdCampCT.
Given, I used the Periscope app to livestream the session and archived the stream, I'm able to share out the video and texted in comments.
Beside face-to-face attendees, about 125 people watched and interacted virtually. We projected the live broadcast (using Apple TV) for in-person attendees who didn't have a chance to download the Periscope app.
Session Questions
Prior to the session, we tweeted discussion questions:
Replay of Periscope "Social Media in Schools"
To find the replay of the Periscope on Katch.em, click on image.
To find the replay of the Periscope on Katch.em, click on image.
Here are two screen captures from the broadcast showing a few text comments.
Additional Resources About Periscope
For the session, I shared in Google Document prior blog posts I wrote abut the app.
1) "Around the World in 24 Hours with Periscope" on Integrating Technology and Literacy Blog :http://buff.ly/1EqoF2F
2) "New Spin on Mystery Location Game with Periscope" on Integrating Technology & Literacy Blog http://buff.ly/1Poj0R6
"New Spin on Mystery Location Game with Periscope" on Technology & Learning Blog http://buff.ly/1UGoj1r
3) "Blabbing About Periscope: Community Building and More" on Integrating Technology & Literacy Blog http://buff.ly/1J7xyDI
"Blabbing about Periscope with Colleagues" on Technology for Learning: Blog
4) "Move Over Twitter: Periscope Chats Have Arrived" on Integrating & Technology Blog http://buff.ly/1Pb8UCr
"How Periscope is Adding a New Twist to Twitter Chats" on Technology for Learning Blog http://buff.ly/1L9YaU9
For more information, contact me on Twitter at @JudyArzt, and try the Twitter hashtags #PeriscopeEDU and #PeriscopeTeachers.
Follow-up Discussion
We had a lively discussion of educational applications of the Periscope app and came up with these ideas.
- Virtual field trips
- Mystery Locations (comparable to Mystery Skypes or Mystery Google Hangouts)
- Bringing experts into the classroom such as National Park Rangers, NASA astronauts, weather reporters, and authors
- Immediate access to breaking news stories
- Cultural tours from places around the world
- Class cultural and geography exchanges
- Access to hearing world languages and reading comments texted in the languages
- Watching an artist or scientist at work
- Attending professional events (as we modeled by Periscoping our session)
- Doing Periscope Chats instead of Twitter chats (as some educators have already done)
With app being new (released in late March 2015 with updates since), educators will continue to seek ways to use it. For use in K-12 classrooms, we suggested broadcasters set the stream so only specified viewers can join.
Other Thoughts
What are your views on the use of social media in schools?
What social media do you find effective for school use?
Would you use an app like Periscope in school, and if so, how?


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Dialogue "Good Summer Reading 2012" Marcia Franklin interviews authors Kim Barnes and Tim Cahill, who discuss their own work and writing styles, and recommend books for long summer days. Other favorite reading choices for summer have been submitted by viewers. Barnes is a University of Idaho English professor and author of five books. Cahill is a founding editor of Outside Magazine and author of 10 books.G
9:00 pm
America ReFramed "La Americana" When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter's life. Working in New York to support Carla's medical needs, Carmen struggles in vain to legalize her immigration status, and wrestles with the prospect of never seeing her daughter again. D
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Model Minority: Do The Math Model Minority: Do the Math reveals the impact of the model minority myth on the experiences and perspectives of Asian American college students. The myth is a complex and contradictory stereotype of Asian Americans as academic over-achievers. As a result, many struggle with personal goals and mental health, leading to racial resentment, discrimination, and suicide. D
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Global Voices "Unmistaken Child" When one of Tibet's greatest monks passes away, his shy, gifted disciple must complete a monumental task assigned by the Dalai Lama: to find the child who is the reincarnation of his master. D


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Goodfellows continues to make the holiday season brighter for Spartanburg-area families in need of a helping hand.
Goodfellows continues to make the holiday season brighter for Spartanburg-area families in need of a helping hand.
It is a tradition, begun by the Herald-Journal in 1947 and continued with the help of a generous community, that has touched the lives of tens of thousands of people since that first effort to put food on the tables of families struggling to make ends meet.
Many families are financially strapped, some without jobs and others with government assistance that often falls short of providing all of their needs, including life's greatest necessity — food. Their stories of misfortune have touched the hearts of the Spartanburg community, and with continued support, Goodfellows again will help hundreds of families during the upcoming holidays.
The warmth the Goodfellows mission brings to these hurting families would be missed by many if not for gifts from the heart — gifts that come from all walks of life, including many caring individuals, churches, businesses and civic groups.
It is Goodfellows' goal during the current campaign to again bring holiday cheer to 1,600 families by providing a week's worth of groceries for their tables at Christmastime.
If you would like to join in this community effort, send a tax-deductible donation to Goodfellows, P.O. Box 6237, Spartanburg, 29304. Donations also may be made online at www.goupstate.com/goodfellows and at the Herald-Journal's office at 189 W. Main St.
Here are the latest contributors:
Nancy Gage, in memory of Theodore W. Gage — $44
Buddy Timmons — $100
Margaret and Bill Hunsucker — $25
Robin and Sharon Alexander — $25
Gene Baker — $100
Kitty Silverman, in memory of Charles R. Silverman Sr. and Charles "Richard" Silverman Jr. — $1,000
Kim Strong — $25
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Gary S. Blasi, 59 died Monday, Sept. 2, 2013 at Pratt Regional Medical Center in Pratt. He was born June 9, 1954 in Pratt, the son of Richard A. and Lorraine (Straub) Blasi. He was a carpenter.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Pratt.
On Jan. 16, 1974, he marred Jan E. Lawrenz at Isabel. She survives.
He is also survived by four sons, Nicholas S. and wife Lori, Patrick E. and wife Jenny, and Ryan R., all of Pratt, and Aaron R. and fiancée Renee, Sharon; two brothers, Don (Karen) Blasi and Bob (Susie) Blasi all of Pratt; five grandchildren, Lane, Lexi, Makenna, Jeffery, Blake, and Cole; four nieces and two nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. - 8 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at Larrison Mortuary 300 Country Club Rd., Pratt.
Funeral services will be held 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 6, at the First United Methodist Church, Pratt, with Dr. Dan Ferguson officiating. Burial will be in the Ellenwood Cemetery, Sawyer.
Memorials may be made to Blasi Grandchildren Education Fund, in care of the mortuary.
Condolences may be left at www.larrisonmortuary.com