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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Please Permit Me...
37 comments:
- TexWisGirl said...
i really thought the last one was a reflection shot! cool!
and so, so beautiful! good luck with everything!
when do you start the new school year?
- August 14, 2013 at 6:01 PM
- Beth @ E. lizard Breath Speaks said...
i love how you said that eerie ... so true. nice Mother Nature. she is so cool. keep up the good work. ( :
- August 14, 2013 at 6:15 PM
- Chris Rohrer said...
I love those moments. Perfection!!!I'm back at work again and would really like to be back outside:)
- August 14, 2013 at 6:21 PM
- Lisa @ Two Bears Farm said...
Wow how pretty. How are you holding up with the house?
- August 14, 2013 at 6:37 PM
- Lynne said...
Oh my . . . great pics . . . puts me in the mood for the upcoming season for sure! I think I will call these pics Jill's Halloween Skies!
- August 14, 2013 at 7:04 PM
- CDH said...
Way cool colors!
- August 14, 2013 at 7:38 PM
- Scrappy Pink Corner said...
Super cool pictures. Beautiful. Ana
- August 14, 2013 at 8:03 PM
- Paula said...
Pretty enough to frame. Really pretty!
- August 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM
- Jackie said...
Beautiful Jill, thanks for sharing
- August 14, 2013 at 8:54 PM
- Susan said...
These are beautiful. Glad you didn't miss them! Nature is amazing isn't it?
- August 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM
- andy said...
Oh Jill !!! What gorgeous pictures !!!
- August 15, 2013 at 5:10 AM
- Paula said...
I'm glad you didn't miss it either! Thank you for sharing those beautiful shots with us!
- August 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM
- Bonnie said...
Beautiful Jill. I love the purple blending into the pink. Thanks!
- August 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM
- Rae said...
Love the colors. I always enjoy sunset photos.
- August 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM
- Tina Fariss Barbour said...
You did a great job in capturing Mother Nature's beauty!
- August 15, 2013 at 8:01 PM
- Catherine said...
Dear Jill, I am so glad that you noticed the beauty around you in all that is going on. I shall keep you in my prayers that all shall fall into place for you. You are a lovely person with humor and spirit.
Blessings dearest. Catherine xo
- August 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM
- Optimistic Existentialist said...
You really capture some amazing beauty in your pics Jill. Is this dusk or dawn??
- August 16, 2013 at 7:58 AM
- EG CameraGirl said...
It's true that Mother Nature knows how to express herself with colour. Lovely photos, Jill.
- August 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM
- Donna said...
You did a Great job on these Jill!!! Beautiful indeed!
- August 16, 2013 at 1:17 PM
- Debbie said...
awwww so pretty jill!! i'm not sure if i could go any slower today....you know what i mean!! hehehe
- August 16, 2013 at 3:59 PM
- bettyj said...
Thanks for the reminder and the pictures. Good luck on your move.And your new school year.
- August 16, 2013 at 4:17 PM
- Eva Ason said...
These pictures are beautiful!
- August 17, 2013 at 12:43 AM
- pembrokeshire lass said...
Just lovely colours. I am so glad that you did see it and also, that you took the time to share it with us. Thanks Joan
- August 17, 2013 at 1:45 AM
- Chatty Crone said...
I really do love the colors out there - so soft and beautiful.
- August 17, 2013 at 12:26 PM
- Michaele said...
Oh my gosh those shots are amazing. Thanks for the reminder, but on the farm I always slow down and look around me. Who knows what I might step on/in.
- August 17, 2013 at 5:57 PM
- Ellie said...
Hi Jill, these are lovely shots and you are right when you say Mother Nature makes lovely colours. You just can't beat it for beauty :))
I have had a look through you blog at posts I've missed - congratulations on selling you home. I hope you new move goes smoothly for you!!!
I also the the shots of the Canada geese at the waterside - lovely.
Hope you have had a good weekend.Take care :)
- August 18, 2013 at 5:53 AM
- Nancy said...
Fantastic captures of that evolving sky Jill. Hope things are going well for you. xo
- August 24, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- Samantha said...
gorgeous colors..love that last one the best! :)
- August 25, 2013 at 7:11 AM
- Madi and Mom said...
Absolutely gorgeous Jill Originals....we hope all is well with you!
Hugs madi your bfff
- August 26, 2013 at 5:02 AM
- Bee Lady said...
Gorgeous pictures and you are so right. We have to slow down so we don't miss out on the sunsets and nature. Yesterday I took our dog for a walk and saw two deer. Later in the day, I saw the most gorgeous sunset.
Cindy Bee
- August 27, 2013 at 5:18 AM
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- August 27, 2013 at 5:19 AM
- Bee Lady said...
Good grief! My computer hung up on me! Didn't mean to post that three times! sorry...
Cindy Bee
- August 27, 2013 at 5:20 AM
- At Home in English Valley said...
Dear Jill, I hope where ever life takes you you'll have a view of the sunset, the rising moon, a gaggle of geese...the beauty of nature. You capture it so well, and make us all appreciate those moments that are so easily lost. Love, Penny
- August 28, 2013 at 6:17 AM
- Catherine said...
Dearest Jill,
I am stopping by to say hello and how are you?
I hope that all is well. I am sure you are busy with your move.
I hope everything is o.k..
Take it easy and one day at a time.
I keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Blessings dearest and hugs, Catherine xoxo
- August 31, 2013 at 9:49 PM
- Madi and Mom said...
Hey Jill
Mom and I are popping over to say howdy and hope all is well.
She knows all about packing and moving and how time consuming it is.
Just wanted you to know you are being thought of by Madi and Mom
- September 5, 2013 at 8:56 AM
- Terri said...
Beautiful capture. How is everything going? Hope all is well!
- September 6, 2013 at 3:58 AM


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In my opinion the computer hardware industry is being pushed around by the gamers and multimedia markets. I have a TV for watching video content and a radio for music. I do not NEED a multimedia computer at home, (but it is nice if I can) but it is certainly not necessary in the office environment.
Why are there no computers made for the business environment? Thin clients are an alternative. Marcel Gagne has written an excellent chapter about thin clients in his book "Moving to the Linux Business Desktop". There is also an article he wrote about a specific installation of thin clients but I can't find it now.
It would be refreshing to hear that some key players in industry took Intel and AMD plus DELL and Lenovo to task and told them that industry needs a sub $150.00 workstation. They can do it. Just keep producing P3 750 MHZ boxes. The R&D has been paid for on this equipment, just keep cranking them out. I have one of these and it runs Linux and lots of apps just fine (including video)
I can hear the "it is not that much argument" now. My reply to that is "we have not that muched" ourselves into national debts that we have no idea how big they are. So come to think of it, all agencies that are supported by tax dollars need sub $150.00 workstations as well.
To get an idea of how much a company can save by using older less powerful equipment go to: http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
The businessman in this article found some real advantages in supplying his workforce with the equipment and software that they needed to get their jobs done.
I am not criticizing the purchasing choices made today by anyone in IT. I believe that for the most part they do not have much choice. They are boxed in by the offerings of the computer equipment companies.
I wonder if a few CEO's of some large corporations can make the sub $150.00 workstation happen? Depends, if they get ticked off enough about their IT equipment expenses.

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The teens were taken to different hospitals, where doctors scrambled to save their lives. But two of the young men, including 17-year-old Ameen Lacy of Dorchester, died.
"I don't know exactly what happened,'' said his still-grieving mother, Alexis Smith. "I don't know who is supposed to reach out to a parent whose son gets murdered."
Smith is among Boston's walking wounded — mostly black and brown mothers, friends, and witnesses left traumatized in sections of the city rattled by episodic gun violence. Their grief is often hard to detect or see. And efforts to assist them do not seem enough.
Their stories will be the focus of a meeting Saturday titled #WeNeedtoKnow at Freedom House in Grove Hall. The meeting's goal is to compel elected officials to listen to residents from communities affected by gun violence, provide information on help that is available, and demand "effective resources," said James Hills, a community activist who organized the meeting.
Hills, who is often called upon by families reeling from gun violence, said he organized the meeting after Lacy's Dec. 6 shooting. Lacy wasn't just another of the city's victims. He was Hills's nephew.
Though Hills has connections in City Hall, he said he struggled to get an official on the phone to answer a simple question: Who from the city was helping Lacy's family with their trauma? (The city, as a policy, does not address specific cases.)
It's an issue that Hills has been attempting to resolve over the years, he said, but this experience — so close to home — was a breaking point. "It caused me to say that we need to know what is going on as far as the plan the city has to engage the community, as well as what we need to do as a community when it comes to trauma,'' Hills said.
Saturday's meeting marks one year since Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the establishment of five new neighborhood trauma response and recovery teams, in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, and East Boston.
The teams, which include clinicians, representatives of health centers, advocates, and public health workers, are meant to sweep in after a violent episode to help families through a crisis. The Justice Resource Institute's SMART Team provides a 24-hour hot line for residents and staff to assist mourners.
The Boston Public Health Commission, which manages the teams, said its workers responded to 81 trauma incidents last year through the end of August, according to recent data.
The city's trauma response is tailored to each incident and could include support for a victim, family resident, or community, said Marty Martinez, the city's new health and human services chief.
Trauma team members, officials said, show up at crime scenes and visit hospitals, offering one-on-one or family support. They offer a shoulder at funerals, vigils, and coping groups.
Since 2013, Martinez said, the commission has trained over 5,000 "front-line providers,'' and the city said it has invested more than $3.5 million in trauma prevention for the fiscal year 2018. But Martinez acknowledged trauma services could use more funding.
"It's true in Boston. It's true in all big urban cities,'' Martinez said. "No matter what we are spending, we will still need to put in more resources and more opportunities to ensure that . . . we are creating a safety net."
But some community advocates, including Hills, have said there are major gaps in city trauma services. Families are often confused about whom to call or where to get help, and there is little long-term follow-through. These advocates said they have had to dig into their own wallets to offer assistance or find safe havens for people who have been shot or witnessed a shooting. Sometimes they battle with health care officials for after-care services for shooting victims, they said.
Lacy was leaving a basketball game at the Tobin Community Center when shots rang out. The three victims were taken to Boston Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, each of which has its own team of specialists who deal with trauma victims.
On the phone with a detective, Smith, who is 35, was trying to find out if her son was hit, she said. She described the clothes he was wearing: a burgundy jacket and burgundy Nike sneakers. She said the detective told her to go to Brigham & Women's Hospital. But her son was at Beth Israel. Family members filled the hospital, uncertain what to do with their pain. Some called the city's 311 hot line — usually used to report problems with street lights and potholes — because they were not aware there is a trauma hot line, according to people familiar with the sequence of events.
Lacy was unresponsive, his injuries too severe, Smith recalled. Eventually, city workers arrived with food and support.
"They did a good job trying to save him," she said of the doctors. "They were very compassionate. They were very understanding of the love we have for him."
Martinez and the health commission said they do not comment on individual cases. Police would not comment on Lacy's shooting because of the ongoing criminal investigation.
One morning recently, Smith pulled out items from a bag that marked her son's shortened life: trophies for playing basketball, jerseys with his number, a picture of him at a football camp run by former New England Patriot Wes Welker. There were awards from school, including one declaring "You are a star'' and another honoring him for being a gentleman.
"He was a gentleman,'' his mother said.
In between tears, she recounted how, at age 12, she was shot in the back after going trick-or- treating in her old neighborhood at the Bromley Heath housing development in Jamaica Plain. Police never found her shooter, and she lived in fear that she would be shot again.
After she had Lacy at age 17, she found happiness. He was full of energy, but she enrolled him in programs, got him counseling, and found ways to keep him calm. He loved basketball and spending time with his mentor in the Big Brothers program.
But her son also was targeted by bullies, and emotionally he was hurting. As he got older, he grew more reserved, she said. "My son was shutting down,'' she said.
She worried about him. Last summer, she said, someone texted him a picture of their home and threatened to kill Smith.
On Halloween, his close friend, 16-year-old Gerrod Brown, was gunned down on Parker Street.
After a traffic stop one day, a police officer told her that her son "was active" on the streets. Smith said she did not know what "active" meant and that police had not previously contacted her about any issues with her son so she could address them.
In November, Lacy wrote an essay describing his dreams of graduating, going to college, and one day making it to the National Basketball Association.
He wrote about being bullied and described the perils of being a young black man. He said his mother got him back on track.
"I used to get jumped by other kids,'' he wrote in an essay his mother shared with the Globe. "By the time I got older, that all stop. I couldn't fight back cause I didn't know how to fight for myself and stand up to what they was doing."
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Federal Budget Update: Good News for HIV & AIDS Programs
This morning President Obama released his administration's budget for Fiscal Year 2014 (starting October 1, 2013), with welcome news for people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies: The budget restores millions of dollars earmarked for the lifesaving AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and Ryan White Part C–funded HIV clinics and increases funding in other areas vital to the health of people living with or at high risk for HIV.
"The administration has sent a strong and clear signal to the Congress that it continues to prioritize HIV/AIDS and is committed to realizing the AIDS-free generation envisioned by President Obama and Secretary Clinton in a series of speeches over the last two years," notes Ernest Hopkins, San Francisco AIDS Foundation's director of legislative affairs.
The President's Budget: By the Numbers
Here's how the budget numbers break down for HIV/AIDS programs and services:
- $10 million in new funding to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
- $10 million in new funding to the Ryan White Part C early intervention medical clinics.
- $50 million in World AIDS Day 2011 Emergency Funds built into the Ryan White FY 2014 baseline.
- $10 million increase to HIV-specific prevention services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) targeted to expanding surveillance and facilitating insurance reimbursement by public health systems for sexually transmitted infection screenings.
- $1.2 billion for domestic HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and tuberculosis (TB) services in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget, a $14 million increase over FY 2012 levels.
- $40 million earmarked for the HHS Community High-Impact Prevention Initiative, focused largely on improving HIV testing programs, linking people with HIV to care and services, and supporting effective behavioral interventions and public health strategies for at-risk populations.
- 6% increase to the Veterans Administration's HIV budget, to $1.1 billion.
- $322 million in Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) and a modernized funding formula that targets resources to low-income individuals in high-cost areas.
"The administration's budget also redirects $40 million from 'less effective activities' to support a new $40 million initiative to improve systems that link individuals recently diagnosed with HIV to care," Hopkins observes. According to administration briefings, he explains, "these resources will be used to address the challenges tied to the 'treatment cascade' and therefore focused on high-incidence urban areas and black Americans."
Hopkins also reports a 7.46% boost to the Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights, an increased designed to establish a position that will focus on "eliminating stigma-based discrimination in the workplace, as well as establishing a partnership with state prosecutors and state legislators to review and update HIV criminalization laws to reflect current scientific knowledge about HIV treatment advances, HIV risk, and mortality and morbidity."
What's Next?
President Obama's budget sets a "high-water mark" for HIV/AIDS funding and reflects the tireless work of HIV/AIDS advocates across the country, but San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Hopkins stresses that the fight is far from over: "We're tremendously excited about the Obama administration's budget and its targeted increases for HIV/AIDS services and programs, but this is the beginning of the process, not the end."
The president's budget next informs the budget negotiations between the Congress and the administration, as the Congress attempts to craft a comprehensive budget agreement that eliminates the sequester and provides budget caps for the appropriations process (launching soon in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees). In short, this is just the beginning of a long process of negotiations to fund the federal government for Fiscal Year 2014.
What can advocates do to keep up the momentum and support federal funding for these lifesaving HIV/AIDS programs and services? Pick up the phone or open your email and contact your members of Congress! They need to hear that, as Hopkins puts it, "at the end of the congressional negotiations, we want to achieve or come as close as possible to the funding levels set out in the Obama budget."
San Francisco AIDS Foundation will also continue to advocate for the highest possible federal funding for programs and services that protect the health of people living with or at risk for HIV. Stay tuned for more updates as the budget process continues on Capitol Hill.
Reilly O'Neal is a freelance writer and former editor of BETA.
Selected Sources
Department of Health and Human Services. FY 2014 Budget in Brief: Strengthening Health and Opportunity for All Americans. http://www.hhs.gov/budget/index.html
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget. Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2014. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview


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Hazardous Ride
Cathy Jeffery
I was inspired by a tumble that I took on my great nephew's skateboard, thinking I could still ride it at the age of 62!
Donna Olson
I took this name from the movie "Avitar" where the form of transportation was gigantic winged creatures. I would just settle on a Crow.
Go Mama
Emmie Seaman
Babies in a backpack get a warm, cuddly, smooth ride.
Bike Ride Across the Danube
Lucy Silliman
Lucy is a world traveler who rides out of the ordinary modes of transportation.
U Turn
Diane Steffen
California Freeway
Vivian Terbeek
Gassing Up At Phillips 66 on Route 66
Carol Bormann
The 1957 Ford (my first "ride" in a Mid-Century Modern setting was machine embroidered using rayon thread on black polished cotton.
The 1957 Ford (my first "ride" in a Mid-Century Modern setting was machine embroidered using rayon thread on black polished cotton.
I Love New York Taxis
Merrilee Tieche
I visited the Eastern Seaboard from October 2 through October 14. Ten days later, Hurrican Sandy swept toward New York. I had planned to use busy New York City somehow in the representation of the Transportation theme of this little quilt, but seeing the photographs of the beautiful bright gold NYC taxis submerged in hurricane driven waters really focused that idea. This was my first trip to New York and I fell in love with the city, it's energy, and beauty.
After the Rain
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Archie Powell & The Exports' first two albums -- 2010's Skip Work and 2012's Great Ideas in Action -- were among my favourites of their respective years, so the new Back in Black was eagerly anticipated.
I was a little unsure after the first listen since it veers away somewhat from the previously established blueprint, but repeated plays have pretty much assured this record of a similarly exalted status.
"Everything's Fucked" opens with a Powell scream and sets the tone for an album that's more aggressive and ragged than the past two power pop thrillers and bears more of a resemblance to the Chicago quartet's high-energy performances.
"Tattoo on My Brain" is more like the earlier more hook-laden material and reminds me of another favourite modern power pop purveyor: Gentleman Jesse.
There are more screams and Powell's strained voice sounds so strained that it could give way at any time on the Nirvana-ish "Lean."
"Scary Dream" is heavy and discordant, while the melodic guitar riffs and sing-along chorus of "Holes" are offset by a harsher synthesizer sound.
"Electrocute My Heart" starts quietly and builds, with piano, guitar, synth and drums all playing key roles in pushing things along.
"Rodeo Crush" is softer and more sparse and sticks out from the rest of album.
"I'm Gonna Lose It," a song of lost love and yearning with doo-wop vocals, sounds like a rougher-edged Weezer cut.
The lyrics are more spoken than sung on the dark "Jump Off a Bridge," which comes across as the Butthole Surfers trying to make a dance record.
Just as you shouldn't confuse this album with AC/DC's biggest seller, even though they share the same title, the incomprehensible words and musical chaos of "Mambo No. 9" are a clear indication that it's definitely not Lou Bega's claim to fame.
Back in Black ends with the five-minute "Everything's Cool," a mid-tempo, melodic pop-rock number that shows Archie Powell & The Exports are still willing and able to return to their roots.
The intent of the group and producer Jonathan Alvin (Surfer Blood) was to capture the sound and spirit of a live performance. They achieved it, and I recommend that you see their great ideas in action for yourself if Archie Powell & The Exports play anywhere near you.


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COOLIDGE, Ariz. — The four-story Casa Grande Ruins, the hand-built centerpiece of a prehistoric Hohokam Indian village, have baked under Arizona's desert sun and withstood its rains for perhaps seven centuries.
But now, even as the ruin made of concrete-like clay becomes an island surrounded by urban development, those walls face an unlikely threat from the air and ground: birds and squirrels.
Cooing pigeons roost in round holes that once held the stout wooden ceiling and floor beams, which were hauled at least 30 miles from the nearest mountaintops.
The birds peck at the hardened clay and foul the ruins with droppings, while underground burrows dug by the native ground squirrels hold water that undermines some of the low-lying perimeter walls in the compound surrounding the Great House.


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March 19 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in the New York Times business pages on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
* The U.S. Federal Reserve sharply stepped up its efforts to bolster the economy, announcing that it would pump an extra $1 trillion into the financial system by purchasing Treasury bonds and mortgage securities.
* At a highly charged Congressional hearing, Edward Liddy of American International Group Inc (AIG.N) said he had asked employees making more than $100,000 a year who just shared in a $165 million bonus payout to give half the money back, reflecting the public and political disgust at the idea of rewarding the same people who had helped drive the company and the economy into distress.
* Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, won a legal battle to compel Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), which bought Merrill in December, to provide his office with the names of the Merrill employees with the 200 largest bonuses. Cuomo said he would make the names public as early as Thursday.
* The federal investigation into Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme widened with the arrest of an accountant who had audited Madoff's investment advisory business for more than a decade.
* IBM's (IBM.N) interest in acquiring the server computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc JAVA.O for nearly $7 billion may seem at first to be a reversal of its recent efforts to move away from the hardware business. But analysts say there is more to Sun than servers, which are used in corporate data centers.
* A private equity firm has bought The San Diego Union-Tribune, the two sides said, ending eight decades of Copley family dominance of that city's news media.


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The European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards (ECCCSAs) are the largest and longest running awards in the customer contact industry.
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European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards (ECCCSA 2017)
The European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards (ECCCSAs) are the largest and longest running awards in the customer contact industry.
Their great 2017 finals were celebrated with 1,100 participants on Tuesday 28th November in London.
For more information about the winners, the event and, your chances for 2018 follow this link or go to www.ecccsa.com
ECCCSA 2018 will be open for entries in May.
20th CCC Convention
CCC is pleased to celebrate a very special anniversary with you in 2017. The CCC Convention takes place for the 20th time – it is the Top Event for experts in the customer care industry and business decision-makers.
On Thursday, June 22, 2017, CCC will present international speakers at Tagungswerk Berlin, as well as providing an environment for networking and exchange on exciting service topics and business trends.
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Join us and celebrate with us 20 successful years of CCC Conventions!
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Cordula Winter-Schweizer, Head CX, Zürich Insurance Switzerland
During the breaks you will have the opportunity to interact with our speakers and around 150 international guests in a pleasant atmosphere.
Following the presentations, a person will be awarded the CCC Special Award for their achievements and commitment to the Customer Care and BPO Industry.
You will find further information on the CCC Convention
CCC would be very pleased to welcome you to both – the jubilee 20th CCC Convention and our CCC Anniversary which will be held in the evening of the 22nd of June.
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If you're likely to enter multiple times, make sure you pay for your entries before the end of June to get Early Bird pricing.
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"Let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are." -- St. John Paul II
Welcome to the UWGB Catholic Campus Ministry Community! Campus Ministry provides numerous opportunities throughout the year for the students of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ through opportunities to pray, serve, learn more about your faith, and to share the Gospel with others!
College can be challenging; however, it can also be a fantastic time full of numerous opportunities to grow as an individual, to consider your calling in life, and, of course, to meet others and develop life-long friendships! Campus Ministry therefore hopes to be an integral part of your experience at UWGB.
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A domestic abuse charity is gearing up to make sure Christmas is still fun for youngsters who have been forced to flee their homes.
Options - run by Impact Family Services - has been running its Christmas Present Programme for a number of years.
With children having to leave toys behind, we feel that this is an essential part of the service.Julie Robinson
The scheme aims to ensure youngsters each receive something from Santa for Christmas through the kindness of donations.
Options manager Julie Robinson said: "We have noticed in this current financial climate more families are struggling and given that a lot of victims are forced to flee their homes and start again with children having to leave toys behind, we feel that this is an essential part of the service."
This year will also see the departure of CEO of the charity Hazel Hedley as she hands over the reigns to new CEO Nikki Turnbull.
Nikki has spent the last 20 years building experience in the health and social care sector as well as sitting on trustee boards and holding director positions in various charities.
She has worked closely with domestic violence programmes and also has experience in sustaining and growing both businesses and charities.
She said: "I was looking for my next challenge as I was stepping down from my ten year tenure as a board director with Involve North East. My aims for Impact Family Services is to continue the great work that Hazel has been delivering, and that in itself is big shoes to step into.
"Our service users and the needs of the whole family will remain at the heart of everything we do. Starting with the Christmas Present Programme."


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*When I was a kid, I used to do something that I occasionally do today: I'd cast my eyes on something–a table lamp, a hillside, a wristwatch, jar of food, a collection of clouds in the sky, an automobile–it could be anything, really–and just stare at it for several minutes.
If you gaze at something long enough, with minimal blinking and trancelike concentration, it begins to appear surreal, as if otherworldly.
That's what happened the other day when my eyes fell upon a commemorative Michael Jackson magazine lying on the floor of my office with the cover line, MICHAEL JACKSON, 1958-2009. I stared at that line, trying, as the phrase goes, to wrap my brain around the concept. The more I stared at those words and dates, the more freakish they appeared.
Almost a year after his death, I wrestle with the reality that Michael Jackson is no longer here. There are days when I accept it. Other times, the idea of his death seems like a "Twilight Zone" episode I can't escape.
Michael Jackson dead? Really? It still just doesn't seem true.
It's not like I can't handle death. When I lost my mother suddenly at age fifteen, the pain and sense of loss seemed unbearable. But I also remember that as a child, when mama was alive and well, I'd ask myself, "What if mama ever died?"
It was one of those morbid, forbidden pubescent musings I'd privately dare consider, between wishing I owned an ice cream truck and imagining having the ability to fly. In retrospect, I believe thinking about mama's death before it actually occurred in some way prepared me for the inconceivable. Because I'd thought about it, maybe her passing didn't completely blindside my young emotions.
As late as a couple years ago, that kind of infrequent meditation of the unfathomable would prepare me for the unlikely death of Michael Jackson. Or so I thought. I used to wonder what it would be like if he went early–how he would go and what kind of reception the world would give his passing.
Ghoulishly, my friends and I would really go at it: if it ever happened, we asked, would Mike's death and the public's subsequent mourning outsize the world's grief for, say, Elvis? Martin Luther King, Jr.? John Lennon? Lady Di?
It all depended, we concluded, on Michael's impact and popularity as an entertainer at the time of his death vs. his assorted weirdness and damning court cases. Of course, now we know the truth–that for nearly a month after his death, Michael Jackson dominated the global media, if not the earth's collective consciousness.
Nevertheless, despite what he himself predicted would be a tragically early, sudden and clichéd death befitting cultural icons, I actually envisioned Michael Jackson living a long life. I imagined him existing in old age pretty much as he had in the years before his death, in relative seclusion.
I saw an elderly Michael publicly resembling his friend Elizabeth Taylor: proud, rickety and mostly good natured, dressed up and made up, always looking, as his idol James Brown insisted a true star should, "like somebody people would pay money to see," creating a paparazzi stir anytime he ventured out for something to eat or to shop.
So sure was I that Michael wasn't going anywhere, I chose instead to contemplate what the ultimate passing of his mother would do to him. I know. I think too much. But just as his kids appeared to redefine the pop star's life, I was sure losing his mother, whom he loved dearly, would have torn Michael to shreds. I wondered what kind of Michael would eventually emerge from such sorrow. Would he have been moved to create music again, or become even more reclusive?
The days I truly know Michael is gone are those that I tune into "E.T." or TMZ or flip through a "People" magazine or glimpse an Enquirer cover and ask myself Who are these people? Indeed, Michael's departure left a raging lacuna in the strange and perverted culture of celebrity the size of the milky way. With one of most famous men of all time gone, even the biggest stars suddenly seem like B-listers.
Sure, toward the end of his life, before the "This Is It" rehearsals, we'd nearly become immune to the annual rumors of yet another come back. Word that Michael was in the recording studio with any number of hit songwriters and producers certifiably unqualified for the task of directing Jackson, was downright depressing.
However, as long as he was alive, we could still engage in the nagging hope that he'd again do something great. Plus, it was entertaining to simply watch Michael be the magnitude of star he was. The last time I witnessed that phenomenon in person was last year at the lavish, invitation-only 50th birthday party of Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier.
The ever audacious Audigier had taken over Los Angeles' four-story Peterson Automotive Museum, transforming one floor into "Heaven," and the floor below it into "Hell," complete with clouds, scantily clad roaming angels and devils, magicians, acrobats, two D.J.-powered dance floors, truckloads of gourmet cuisine and free-flowing alcohol. Fergie and Snoop Dogg performed short sets each, while the likes of Britney Spears looked on.
The whole thing resembled Fellini's cinematic interpretation of a Salvador Dali painting, at the chaotic height of which I turned to a party guest and quipped sarcastically, "All that's missing now is Michael Jackson."
And as if on spooky cue, Audigier took the stage and announced to the drunken revelers, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd now like to introduce you to my good friend, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson."
A D.J. cranked up "Thriller," and out from backstage, in a blue sequin shirt, black pants and shades, strolled none other than Jackson. Flanked by four beefy bodyguards in black, he casually walked the fashion runway stage out over the stunned audience, now going positively insane as they held up cell phones to visually capture the moment.
Jackson, who looked to be in a playful mood, glanced down into the mad crowd as if he wanted to risk shaking a couple of hands before briefly taking the mic with Audigier and declaring the giddy designer "King of Fashion."
Jackson might have been there for all of 15 minutes. He didn't sing, dance or initiate a single rhythmic gesture, knowing it could have caused a riot. Plus, that would have cost extra: according to an associate of the designer, for his brief appearance Audigier paid MJ $250,000.
If Jackson never did anything else with the rest of his life, I'd have been amused watching him create traffic jams.
Instead, I'm trying to gaze at MICHAEL JACKSON, 1958–2009 from an angle that makes sense.
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Hey everybody! How was your weekend?
We spent ours mostly outside since the weather was so nice and I actually had Saturday and Sunday off for once (whoa!). One thing we didn't do outside was finish "closing in" the kitchen ceiling. My mom and dad came up on Saturday and while my mom and I planted irises and bought the aforementioned mulch (with which to mulch it good) my dad finished closing in the spaces between the beams along the dining room/kitchen wall.
Now to paint it. Today. I swear. Everything gets painted today.
Funny story:
Me: "So dad, did you hear what I wanted to do to the floor?"
Dad: "Yeah, you want to tear up all of the linoleum then paint it to look like linoleum."
Me: "Pretty much."
Moving along.
On Sunday Conan and I tackled a few things that have been sitting on the to-do list shelf, getting dusty.
Thing one:
Mulch around the roses in the front yard (so Conan doesn't have to try to mow around them, poor guy.)
Excuse the bad picture and the bad yard, we haven't overseeded it yet. The bad picture, you can just blame on me and my poor camera operating skills, okay? Okay.
Now normally, we had been using edging around flowers and then mulching in but after taking a few walks in the "fancy schmancy" neighborhood up the hill and admiring their professionally done landscaping I figured, "I can do that!" and so we skipped the edging in favor of just digging down an inch or so beneath the grass line and mulching in, like this
Conan started by making an outline around the flowers. Hey, you gotta' have a plan!
Then we dug down about an inch or two and loosened up the dirt in the center, taking out what little grass and what bunch of weeds that were there. We didn't dig down two inches all the way back, just near the front so the mulch wouldn't spill out into the yard.
Oh, my poor headless tulips. They were pretty a few days ago, I swear!
Then you just mulch it up! We shopped around for the best price on this dark brown mulch and got it at Menard's for $2.99 a bag. It took about three bags.
I'd like to do something similar around the tulips and some other flowers in the backyard. And so, on the to-do list it goes.
While we're here, let's just stop and smell the roses, shall we? Mmmmm rose smells...
While we were out and about, Conan got me this neat little Jade Plant to add to my ever growing collection of succulents. He spent the afternoon outside, soaking up the sun but now he's indoors, on the bookshelves.
Conan mowed the yard something fierce. It's amazing to me that even without overseeding it still looks this nice! It's also amazing that it has been three years since it looked like this.
Then Conan grilled up some dinner while I admired his perfectly manicured lawn and his ability to not singe his arm hairs off.
Man make fire, mow lawn. Woman like.


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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) set up to unveil her new and improved "Assault Weapons Ban" bill today in Washington, D.C. With a display of 10 semi-automatic weapons, which she did obtain permission from both D.C. police and Capitol Hill police, Feinstein promoted her bill.
Obviously she did something that David Gregory didn't do and that was obtain permission from the police to display items that are banned by law in D.C., though quite honestly it made no difference in Gregory's case because he was not arrested or prosecuted for his blatant violation of the law. But keep in mind veterans are thrown in jail for violating similar laws.
Notice that the CNN host calls this "theatrics." This is nothing more than appeal to emotion. It is not an appeal to the mind and that is what liberals have picked up on.
I would like to know where Sen. Feinstein obtained these weapons. Who was the person or persons that provided them to her for display? One thing to demonstrate the utter ridiculousness of even the permission given by police was a flimsy theater-style railing that was put up to keep people back from the display of weapons as part of the permission granted.
Today at her press conference to introduce the bill, Feinstein said, "The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time."
Feinstein said that she was "incensed that our weak gun laws allowed these mass killings to be carried out again and again and again in our country." Yes, we'll not that gun control laws like "Gun Free Zones" are a directly related to this issue, but we don't have weak gun laws.
"Weapons, designed originally for the military to kill large numbers of people in close combat, are replicated for civilian use," she blathered. "They fall into the hands, one way or another, of grievance killers, or gangs, or those who are mentally unstable or ill. They are sold out of trunks and backseats of automobiles in cities (and we might add sometimes with the federal government's approval and watchful eye as they pass into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and Al-Qaeda in Libya and Syria)."
Feinstein also attempted to say this happens at gun shows as well, "with no questions asked." Considering that prosecution doesn't follow through I would ask her what difference does it make?
While she listed several places where mass shootings have taken place, she wrongly stated that in each the shooter used a semi-automatic assault weapon or large capacity ammunition magazine. Friends, pay close attention here. This is the heart of the matter. The incident in Tucson was with a semi-automatic handgun, not a rifle. The weapons that are on the market in gun stores are simply firearms. They are not military weapons and they are not assault weapons.
"Military style assault weapons have but one purpose, and in my view, that is a military purpose, to hold at the hip, if possible, to spray fire, to be able to kill large numbers of people," she said, demonstrating her utter ignorance. First you don't hold the weapon at your hip. It is held up at the shoulder. We are a moral people so quite often our strikes are surgical and we attempt to minimize casualties by being very accurate. Thus, why weapons, such as the AR-15, were manufactured.
Now she claims that more than 350 people have been killed and 450 injured since her first assault weapons ban expired in 2004. She doesn't cite any source for her numbers and since her definition of "assault weapons" has increased to include semi-automatic handguns and shotguns, we should be suspicious of the Senator's comments here.
"Today," she said, "my colleagues and I are introducing a bill to prohibit the sale, transfer, manufacture, importation of 'assault weapons' and large capacity ammunition feeding devices that can accept more than ten rounds." With this legislation Sen. Feinstein is, in effect, doing just what the British did to the our Founding Fathers.
While she talks about the new weapons that have come out being more "lethal" and "technologically advanced" than previous models, what she fails to account for if the fact that is a good thing. It is good because the Second Amendment is about the people having arms to create a militia and you don't create militia with BB guns and .22 caliber weapons, but with similar arms to that of your opposition, which in the case of the Second Amendment, assumes that your opposition is an oppressive and tyrannical government. The reason it assumes that is because it includes the reason for the militia, "being necessary to the security of a free state."
She said that her previous bill limited rifles, handguns and shotguns to two military characteristics. However, in this legislation it has been limited to one.
On top of that, she is targeting the "slide iron stock," which makes the AR-15 mimic an automatic weapon. We commonly refer to it as a "bump stock." However, no worries, I'm currently developing a device to add that will not change or alter the stock, but provide the same results at a fraction of the price, giving you even greater control of the weapon. This and "thumb hold stocks" and "bullet buttons" are some of the "loopholes" she seeks to close in the bill.
This legislation also eliminates a 10 year sunset, which means it will be in effect perpetually.
She then tells us what it will not effect and note, the things she cites has absolutely nothing to do with the Second Amendment. "It (the bill) will not effect hunting or sporting firearms. Instead the bill protects hunters and sportsmen by protecting 2,200 specifically named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes. They are by make and model exempted from the legislation."
Again, nothing in the Second Amendment about hunting and sports shooting. What the legislation should be about is protecting all arms, not some.
Finally she said that the bill will "subject existing or grandfathered weapons (these are weapons you already own) to a background check in the event the weapon is sold or transferred."
She doesn't tell you about the mandatory registration in a national database for those weapons and the additional $200 tax per weapon on those you already own, for obvious reasons.
While she talks about trying to recognize certain rights, none of those rights she spoke of are in the context of the Second Amendment. She says that "No weapon is taken from anyone." However, she makes clear what her intentions are, "The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time."
Senator Feinstein should be treated as a traitor by introducing this legislation as it violates her oath of office to support the Constitution and the Second Amendment. This is as direct an attack on the Second Amendment as the British were imposing upon our Founding Fathers and their arms prior to the War for Independence. Let's seek to solve this peacefully by flooding our Congressmen and Senators' offices demanding that they strike this legislation down and that they hold Senator Feinstein accountable for her actions. Here's a link to contact your representatives.
The NRA has responded to her legislation:
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Senator Feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades. It's disappointing but not surprising that she is once again focused on curtailing the Constitution instead of prosecuting criminals or fixing our broken mental health system. The American people know gun bans do not work and we are confident Congress will reject Senator Feinstein's wrong-headed approach.


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Terrorism: The Global Picture
The Index is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) - the most comprehensive dataset on terrorist activity with over 104,000 cases of terrorist attacks codified.
The Index ranks countries based on the following four indicators weighted over five years: Total number of terrorist incidents; Total number of fatalities from terrorism; Total number of injuries from terrorism, and; Estimated property damage from terrorism. Each of the factors is weighted between zero and three, with fatalities having the highest weighting, and a five year weighted average is applied to reflect the lasting psychological effect of terrorist acts over time.
Defining Terrorism
Defining terrorism is not a straightforward matter. There is no single internationally accepted definition of what constitutes terrorism, and the terrorism literature abounds with competing definitions and typologies. The GTI accepts the terminology and definitions agreed to by START researchers and its advisory panel. The GTI therefore defines terrorism as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation". This definition recognises that terrorism is not only the direct physical act of an attack, but also the psychological impact it has on a society, sometimes for many years after.
The biggest rise in global terrorism took place over the period from 2005 to 2007 and was driven by events in Iraq. Four other countries also significantly contributed to the global rise with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and the Philippines all experiencing increases, especially between 2007 and 2009. Only 20 nations scored a zero for terrorist impact over the 2002-2011 period, indicating the impact of terror, while heavily concentrated in some places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, is nonetheless widely distributed around the world. There has been a significant increase in the total number of terrorist incidents over the ten year period with the number of terrorist incidents increasing by 464 per cent. The most significant jump was from 2007 to 2008 with incidents rising from 2520 to over 4000. Since then the number of incidents has plateaued. The success rate of these attacks remained very high, ranging between 89 per cent and 97 per cent. In 2011 the average rate of success was 91 per cent. From 2004 there has been an increase in the total global number of injuries from terrorist incidents which reached its peak in 2009, while the number of fatalities peaked in 2007 and by 2011 were back to a similar level to 2006. The results for 2011 show Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan were the three countries most affected by terrorism that year. Of the 158 nations included in the GTI, 84 did not suffer a terrorist incident in 2011.
Weapons and Targets
According to the report, the most common type of weapons used in terrorist attacks are explosive devices. Attacks with firearms have increased steadily over the last decade while suicide bombings have become more prevalent in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. At over four and a half times their 2002 levels, global trends for suicide attacks peaked in 2007 at 288, however once again these trends are dominated by Iraq.
US, UK and Europe
The attacks in the US during the 2002‑2011 period were predominately of a 'domestic' nature and mainly committed by environmentalists, animal activists, racists, and anti-abortion activists. In the US, most terrorist attacks were aimed at buildings and businesses, with minimal attacks on private citizens. In 2009, a spike in US terrorism was the result of the Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opening fire on fellow soldiers at a military facility where he killed 13 soldiers and injured 19.
In spite of the persistent number of relatively small and medium sized incidents in the US, from 2002 to 2011 North America was the region with the least number of terrorist attacks, followed by Western Europe. When combining Western and Eastern Europe as one region and aggregating all the countries, it can be seen that Europe experiences many more incidents of terrorism than the US.
Since 2002, Europe has had 2,341 incidents with 1,431 occurring in Central and Eastern Europe and the other 910 incidents occurring in Western Europe, 25 per cent of which took place in the UK. Of these attacks, two thirds were committed by unknown perpetrators. Where the perpetuators were known, attacks have centered on nationalist separatist objectives. In Central and Eastern Europe, Chechen Rebels and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who have been fighting for independence from Russia and Turkey respectively, were the most active. The Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA) were the most active in Spain. As with other parts of the world, bombings/explosions are the most common type of terrorist attack in Europe. The majority of terrorist incidents in Europe were domestic. That is to say, the raison d'etre seems to be focused on national issues as in Greece with its austerity measures or Spain with its nationalist/separatist discontent.
Incidents in Europe increased drastically in 2007, primarily due to Russia which suffered 140 attacks in 2008. Chechen Rebels and the Caucasus Emirate are known to have each committed around 7 per cent of these attacks. Georgia was also the victim of increased attacks, going from not being targeted once in 2007 to suffering 31 attacks in 2008. While the majority of these attackers remain unknown, South Ossetian separatists account for around a third of all incidents. A second increase in incidents occurred in 2009 and 2010 which again can be attributed to rising attacks in Russia.
In Western Europe, the increase observed in 2007-2009 can be largely attributed to increased activity in Greece that rose from 14 incidents in 2007 to 115 in 2009. Since 2009 however, incidents have decreased in Western Europe to around 2002 levels. The US had a lower number of terrorist attacks than the UK with 127 incidents being recorded from 2002 to 2011, compared to 236 in the UK, the majority of which occurred in Northern Ireland. On the whole, the numbers of fatalities in Europe have decreased since 2002.
Corruption and Terrorism
Although the correlation between corruption and terrorism is not strong, a deeper investigation highlights that those countries with the highest levels of terrorist activity also score poorly on corruption measures. Four of the 15 countries with the highest level of activity are ranked in the bottom ten on the Corruption Perception Index, with the rest being in bottom third and only Thailand and India having mid-ranking scores on corruption.
There are many countries which are 'corrupt' but do not have terrorism, indicating that corruption on its own does not necessarily lead to terrorism. However, nations severely affected by terrorism share high levels of corruption. As corruption increases it has little effect on peace until a tipping point is reached, after which very small increases in corruption result in very large decreases in peacefulness.
To further understand what types of corruption were associated with low levels of peacefulness, the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) from Transparency International was correlated against the GPI. Changing levels of corruption in the police, military and judiciary were found to be most closely aligned with changes in peace. This demonstrates the link between corruption and the breakdown of rule of law, and would indicate that measures aimed at reducing corruption within the law enforcement agencies would go a long way to improving their legitimacy and undercutting societal discontent.
Black Swans and Burstiness
The GPI features a contribution entitled Black Swans and Burstiness: Countering Myths about Terrorism by Gary La Free, director of the START Consortium at the University of Maryland. He writes: "Terrorism has two characteristics that make it prone to myth-making - It's 'Black Swan Nature' and its 'Burstiness'
"Essayist Nassim Taleb defines a black swan incident as one that falls outside the realm of regular expectations, has a high impact, and defies predictions. The term is based on the observation that before they visited Australia, Europeans had assumed that all swans were white; an assumption that at the time was supported (for Europeans at least) by their own experience.
Taleb claims that the coordinated terrorist attacks of 9/11 are a perfect example of a black swan event because they were unexpected, had a huge impact on policy and were difficult to predict. One of the major challenges in responding to terrorism is that a handful of very rare cases can have a disproportionate effect on setting the agenda for the phenomena more generally.
"But terrorism also tends to be bursty. Bursty distributions are those that are highly concentrated in time and space. Recent research has shown that diverse phenomena are bursty, including streams of e-mail messages; traffic on crowded freeways; the frequency of forest fires and the global distribution of terrorism. These two qualities – its black swan character and its burstiness – make responding to terrorism challenging. On the one hand, terrorism is relatively infrequent and hard to predict; on the other hand, when it starts to happen there is a tendency for it to happen in the same place a lot.
Beyond al-Qaeda
Bill Braniff, executive director of the START Consortium, contributes a chapter entitled 'Beyond al-Qaeda' which examines the ten most lethal organisations in the timeframe of the report. These include the Taliban, the Islamic State of Iraq and its two precursor organisations (al-Qaeda in Iraq and Tawhid wal Jihad – which make the top ten on their own record), Tehrik‑i‑Taliban Pakistan, and Boko Haram.
Braniff states: "Four of the five most lethal‑single attacks of 2011 were conducted by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (110 killed), the Tehriki-Taliban Pakistan (80 killed), al-Shabaab (70 killed), and al-Qaeda in Iraq (65 killed). According to GTD data, however, the al-Qaeda organisation itself was responsible for only one incident – a kidnapping – out of the 5000 terrorist incidents in 2011, while 11 of the most 20 active groups globally were al-Qaeda linked. As a result, the al-Qaeda organisation does not currently claim the majority of our attention, except when another important cadre member is killed or captured. Instead, observers ponder the meaning of the continuous or frequently increasing levels of violence from other jihadist groups in the context of a post Arab-Spring world, despite the fact that the various narratives of the Arab Spring seem to undermine al-Qaeda's reliance on violence and its call to reestablish the caliphate as the governing structure for the Muslim nation.
"Additionally, individuals continue to join jihadist groups or plot violent attacks of their own volition. What should we take from these seemingly contradictory developments? Did al-Qaeda succeed by inspiring widespread jihadism, or has it lost to a variety of more popular, parochial actors? To address these questions, it is essential to understand al‑Qaeda's origins and its place in the broader Islamist landscape; only in context can the decline of the al‑Qaeda organisation and the persistence of violent jihadism be understood and can governments formulate policy for a threat environment beyond al-Qaeda."
Youth unemployment and terrorism
Professor Raul Caruso of the Institute for Economic Policy in Milan elaborates some points on future aspects of terrorism on a global scale. Caruso highlights trends and aspects that would make terrorism and political violence a serious threat.
"What inflames terrorism? No clear-cut answers exist in this respect. However, there is a growing consensus on the positive association between declining economic opportunities and the emergence of violence. In particular, there are several studies analysing the causal relationship between economic conditions and antisocial behaviors, political violence and terrorism. In this vein, a particular aspect which has been often underestimated, namely the relationship between youth unemployment and emergence of terrorism.
"Youth unemployment is a particular aspect of economic environment. Youth unemployment in many countries is currently a growing phenomenon. According to the figures released by the ILO in May 2012, 12.7 per cent of the global youth labour force will be unemployed in 2012. If we take into account the global numbers, there will be nearly 75 million unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 in 2012. This constitutes an increase of nearly 4 million since 2007. In fact, the global economic distress worsened the youth unemployment rates across the world. In fact, it is widely acknowledged that youth employment is more sensitive than adult employment.
Swing sensitive
"Young workers are supposed to be vulnerable because of their lack of seniority and their skills are low. That is, in times of economic sluggishness, employers would hire workers with superior experience and competences, namely adults unemployed. Therefore, youth unemployment is expected to be more sensitive to the swings of the business cycle. However, the rise of youth unemployment has been asymmetric across regions. In 2011, in North Africa, the 27.9 per cent of young people was unemployed 2011. In the Middle East the rate was of 26.5 per cent. In Latin America and the Caribbean the figure peaked to 15.6 in 2009 and eventually decreased to 14.3 per cent in 2011. In developed economies in 2012, the figure is expected to be around 18 per cent. In my view, the dramatic rise of youth unemployment is likely to constitute the fundamental engine of political violence and terrorism."
Further information
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a non-profit research organisation dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. To download the full Global Terrorism Index report, and to see interactive maps based on the data its uses, visit tinyurl.com/d5hf6fm


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THQ released their financial figures for the end of fiscal year 2011 yesterday. Among the highlights (all numbers in USD):
* Q4 GAAP sales (I.E.: accepted revenue) were down from Q4 of FY10, coming in at $124.2m versus $197.7m for last year. However, THQ made a note of stating that non-GAAP figures of $248.6m was consistent with guidance. The company lost $44.1m for Q4 of FY11, compared with $10.4m for FY10.
* Four quarter results for FY11 were also poor for the company. THQ lost $136.1m on GAAP sales of $665.3m, up from a $9m loss on $899.1m revenues from FY10.
* Despite the bad news, THQ CEO Brian Farrell was bullish on the success of Homefront and the uDraw tablet. Homefront – which received mixed reviews from the press – has shipped 2.6m units, which Mr. Farrell called "a solid start for this new franchise". Mr. Farrell also announced that exclusively designed uDraw tablets would be available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles in time for the holidays.
* Other franchises sold well. The WWE branded games Smackdown vs. Raw and All Stars shipped a combined 4m units, though sales for each individual game are unavailable at this time. UFC Undisputed '10 shipped 3m copies.
* It was announced that the company would be bringing games built around Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville to Facebook and iOS in FY12.
* Mr. Farrell made it clear that he expected FY12 to perform much better than FY11 did:
"We expect to generate significant growth, profitability and cash in fiscal 2012, driven by the latest installments of multi-million unit selling franchises, Saints Row, Red Faction, Warhammer 40,000, MX vs. ATV, UFC, WWE, and uDraw. We are creating a digital ecosystem for each of these games that will continue to keep consumers engaged and generate additional revenue opportunities beyond the initial retail sale. We also continue to aggressively invest in our digital initiatives, including online social and mobile offerings as well as our Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online MMO."
* In a conference call after the financial data was released, THQ executives talked up the company's growth strategy for FY12, talking up core franchise updates for Saints Row 3, Red Faction, Warhammer 40,000 and the UFC and WWE franchises among others, as well as casual content on their uDraw devices. They also discussed a "digital ecosystem" which incorporates paid downloadable content, online passes for pre-owned purchasers, and in-game stores and avatars. Said ecosystem will generate 25 to 40 percent of a game's revenue. Finally, it was noted that the license for Warhammer 40K was extended past 2013, though it wasn't stated how long the deal was extended.
The full statement to investors can be seen at the THQ Corporate site here.
Analysis: You have to give a bit of credit to THQ for being financially rewarded for taking a chance on a brand new IP like Homefront. Though critics weren't high on it – I personally thought it a middling shooter in a sea of superior products, and that the premise was done better by Half Life 2 – it managed to sell high numbers and was extremely profitable. You don't see Activision taking these kind of chances nowadays.
On the negative side of things, it's depressing to see that virtually every major publisher now has online passes incorporated into their earnings statements, and see them as a critical driver of revenues. It's not so painful for games like Saints Row 3, which have enough playability to last people years, but it's less acceptable to see them applied to yearly franchises like the WWE brand games, which are made around the ideal of planned obsolescence. On the positive side of that token, THQ has historically been the least painful of the major companies, as they've been very upfront and have tackled the issue head on. Sony – the company that routinely puts $20 online passes on PSP games without even announcing them beforehand – should take some notes.
Overall, the next year will be absolutely critical for THQ. It's unclear how the stock market will react to these results at this time – more will be known on that once the markets close later on today – but investors don't like seeing red numbers, and $136.1m is a very red number. Brian Farrell's put his chips onto the table here: he's calling for FY2012 to be profitable, after years of losses while THQ has built themselves into a premier publisher. If he's wrong, it likely means he's out, and it could have an impact on THQ's status as a AAA publisher, much in the way Disney Interactive's focus shifted hard.


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OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE KOBE- Student Poster Program
The twenty second Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference series was held in Kobe, Japan as a part of OCEANS'08MTS/IEEE KOBE – TECHNO-OCEANS'08 (OTO'08). The program was organized by Dr Susumu Araki of Osaka University assisted by COL Norman D. Miller IEEE/OES. Sixty three poster abstracts were received and twenty were selected to attend the conference and display their poster. Eighteen students were able to attend the conference. Support for the students was provided by the conference with a generous contribution from the Office of Naval Research. The posters were displayed in the Poster Section of the Exhibition Area. The students made five minute oral presentations about their posters to fellow students and judges on Wednesday afternoon, April 9th, and then stood with their poster during the Organized Poster Session on Thursday, April 10th. While the majority of the posters were from universities in Japan and China, abstracts were received from African, European, Canadian and United States universities as well. The program culminated in the presentation of awards at the Gala on Thursday evening, April 10th in the Kobe Kacho-En (Bird and Flower Garden). Dr. Araki opened the presentation ceremony and Colonel Miller gave a brief overview and history of the Student Poster Program. He then introduced Dr, Walter Jones, Executive Director of ONR, USA, who presented in turn the awards to the prize winning students. The students and their posters were:
Norm Miller introduces the Student Poster Program at the OTO '08 Gala
Yoko Shibutani – Tottori University, Japan
"N-Line Model for Predicting Beach Evolution"
Schei Okamoto – Tottori University, Japan
"A Facility Composed by Oyster Shell Filters for Purifying Contaminated Water in Closed Water Area"
Daochen Zhu – Kobe University, Japan
"Physiological role of compatible solute hydroxyectoine synthesized in halophilic Halomonas ventosae DL7"
Aki Miyagi – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
"Receiving Distance of Stationary Ultrasonic Biotelemetry Receiver in the Temperate Ocean"
Hongyan Zhang – Kobe University, Japan
"Cultivation and Characterization of Microorganisms in Antarctic Lakes"
Ying-Yuen Su – National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
"Spatial Cluster Detection for Fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems"
Atsuhiko Yumine – Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology,
"Establishment of N2O simulation in Yodo River estuary"
OTO '08 Student Poster Competition Winners with Susumu Araki, Norm Miller, Walter Jones, and Ken Takagi
Hideaki Nozato – Graduate School of Marine Science, Kobe University, Japan
"A simulation study of the growth and spatial distribution of plankton in the estuary of the Yodo River Osaka Bay, Japan"
Xiaoyi Hu – Xiamen University, China
"A novel scheme of Timing Synchronization for OFDM Underwater Communication System"
Shyam Kumar Madhusudhan – San Diego State University, USA
"Frequency Based Robust Contour Extraction of Blue Whale B and D Calls"
Ningning Wang – Harbin University, China
"Tunnel effect in multibeam bathymetric system and its canceling with error feedback least square lattice algorithm"
Rei Arai – Osaka Prefecture University, Marine System Engineering, Japan
"Measurement Method of suspended solids using ADCP"
Karim Ouertani – GET/ENST Bretagne, France
"Toward Performance Improvements of RAKE Receiver with Pilot Signal Cancellation, Power Allocation and Lagrange Filtering"
Weidong Gong – School of electronic & Computer Science, University of Southampton
"Oceanographic Sensor for in-situ temperature and conductivity monitoring"
Yusuke Aoki, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
"Development of "IISA-ATP" system for in situ microbial assessment in deep-sea environment"
Phan Tuan – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
"Response of roll damping on Anti-rolling Tank devices"
Quiang Li – ShenYang Institute of Automation, CAS, China
"Research on Dynamic Simulation of Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems"
Junichi Inadomi - Saga University, Japan
"Weighting of the characteristic of the cycle on the OTEC system using ammonia/water mixture as working fluid"
Following the oral presentations by the students, the judges set to work evaluating the posters. Once again it was a daunting task as the posters were all well done. The students receiving awards were:
Ms. Hongyan Zhang receives her First Place Award from Dr. Walter Jones
1st Place – Hongyan Zhang – Kobe University
2nd Place – Shyam Kumar Madhusudhan – San Diego State University
- Karim Quertani – GET/ENST Bretagne
3rd Place – Aki Miyagi – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
- Rei Arai – Osaka Prefecture University, Marine Systems Engineering
- Weidong Gong – School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
At the conclusion of the Awards Ceremony, suitable pictures were taken and the students were given a round of applause .
Norman D. Miller
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Saliya Ekanayake 1:27 AM 1 commentInnovative Tools
Did you ever think about automatic level tools. Hmm, Black and Decker has thought about it and has given this wonderful laser level, Bulls Eye. The demo is really cool. I also like their Handisaw. I've used several Black and Decker products (can opener, vacuum cleaner, iron and toaster) and all of them were of great quality. Hmm I wish I could buy one of those Handisaws from Sri Lanka :)
Saliya Ekanayake 6:57 AM 2 commentsCSE Formula
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering organizes a toy car race each year for the new comers. The first year entrants to the department are grouped and given the task of creating a remote controlled (not RF controlled actually, hmm I wonder why it is ?) toy vehicle which is to be powered by a 12V DC power source. Eventual grading (not GPA) includes a test run of each vehicle on a track made with few obstacles.
This event is really cool. Bad thing I miss this chance since this event with the batch junior to us. Anyway I'm really interested in such events because I personally believe that students should have some skills to build things rather to design them in papers. Yet it is little bit pathetic to see the construction of vehicles of some groups. One student has tried to give the power of the motor directly to the wheel. I wonder why such situations arise because even they know that it is not the case in any toy. They need to use gear wheels. I hope things would get corrected with time as students begin to like the event.
Good work CSE :)
Saliya Ekanayake 11:02 AM ecny , steganography 2 commentsI have developed a little tool to embed text messages inside image files using Java called Ency. I'm really interested in this steganography and security stuff. Ency is in its primary stage. It needs more modifications to step into maturity. I found this nice link explaining about steganography while trying to improve Ency. Enjoy hidden messaging with Java ;-)
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