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- pl. -·pis or -·pi a member of a North American Indian people living in NE Arizona
- the Uto-Aztecan language of this people
Origin of HopiHopi Hópitu, literally , good, peaceful
of the Hopis or their language or culture
nounpl. Hopi, or Ho·pis
- A member of a Pueblo people occupying a number of mesa-top pueblos on reservation land in northeast Arizona. The Hopi are noted for their dry-farming techniques, rich ceremonial life, and craftsmanship in basketry, pottery, silverwork, and weaving.
- The Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi.
Origin of HopiHopi hópi peaceable, a Hopi
Proper noun
- A tribe of North American natives.
- The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by this North American native American tribe.
Hopi hópi ("Hopi, good in every respect, be wise/knowing") (as in hopísinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi móóki "dies, be dead".


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The Indienne sailed gaily on with as fair a wind as could blow for her.
La belle Indienne, as the cripple styled her, soon became a favourite at his parties, and lost her shyness by degrees.
It was then clearly discernible that she was a larger ship than the Indienne, and that she carried thirty-six guns.
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Opening comments:
"For those of you that are here, great to be back in the Championship Game again. We've got a tough opponent. You don't get here by accident. So, love how our players are preparing this week and the task is very simple. Any questions?"
Head coach Jim Harbaugh has had tremendous success in three seasons. What makes him special as a coach? You're around him every day.
"I just think Jim's a great football coach. I think to be a great football coach, you have to be yourself first and foremost and I think that's with Jim. He comes in everyday with great enthusiasm. I think a great concern for his players, their health and welfare on a daily basis and just comes in everyday with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind."
Do you talk to him every day?
"Yes, I do."
And would you say that working with him, is he high standards? Is he demanding of you personally?
"I think he's demanding of everybody, but not in a way that is hard to be around. Pretty easy person to be around. Kind of person you like to work with because it's all about winning and that's all that really matters when you look at it."
There have been a number of players that have switched teams during the offseason and into the season. Is that because these teams are essentially very similar and that they look for the same types of players?
"I can't answer that. You'd have to ask them. But, we're always trying to get the best football players we can and we've got a bunch of them."
When you were at Stanford, did you find yourselves recruiting the same guys that Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was at USC over there? Any kind of recruiting battles over the same players?
"There's a couple. You've got to have pretty good SAT scores to get into Stanford."
But not at USC?
"Those are your words, not mine. But, really, not a whole lot. Maybe a guy here or there."
They led the NFL in takeaways, obviously. Is that just a function of them having a lot of talented defensive players or do they do something unique to force turnovers?
"Well, I think it starts with their speed. A lot of their interceptions come off deflected passes. These guys cover a lot of ground. They're very talented and fast at the linebacker position and at the safety position as well. I think it's really nothing magical other than they disperse and cover the field really well and have really good speed and awareness."
You guys, since you got here in 2011, you've had had the fewest turnovers in the NFL, it's actually very close. Is this, playing Seattle, the biggest challenge you face as far as making sure you keep the ball?
"Well, they do a great job of taking the ball away. Number one, their defense has been really good since we got here and it didn't take me long to figure that out in that offseason leading up to our first season that these guys had a very talented defense man for man. I think they're very well coached and I think the consistency of which they do things, they don't do a whole lot on defense, but what they do they do very well, leads to turnovers when people get impulsive."
What are you telling your quarterback,
"Well, I think it goes without saying, I think there's a myriad of examples where teams have not given the game away, but really made some poor decisions or loose with the football, and it really was the difference in the game. The Arizona game, where Arizona beat Seattle a couple weeks ago, was such a unique game. How often does a team turn the ball over, what was it four times, on the road and win? Just doesn't happen very often, but that is definitely an outlier."
Can you take us back to March when you got news that WR
"I've always been a big fan of Anquan Boldin and the thought of him and [WR] Michael [Crabtree] playing together at receiver, I couldn't be any more excited about that. I've always felt like Anquan was one of those guys that for whatever reason, people just didn't give him his due, but when you really look at the production and what he does day in and day out, I'm talking his whole career here, that he's one of the best receivers in the National Football League. He's a guy that I think when it's all said and done, will be a strong Hall of Fame consideration. I think he's that kind of player and has been his whole career. So, I just think he's just a guy that for whatever reason, maybe it was not enough bang or flash, whatever that is, people just haven't given him enough due over the years. We, however, have noticed for quite a while that he's one of the best players in the NFL."
What kind of challenge is T
"Well, they're good. They're good. I think Anthony's has competed against those guys numerous times with different teams and they're good players. Fortunately for us, Anthony's a very good player. So, feel good about that."
During that process of waiting to finally see Crabtree and Boldin on the field together, did you just tell yourself to be patient and it would happen eventually? Michael was certainly doing everything he could to get back.
"Oh, no question. I think Mike is one of the tougher guys you'll find at the receiver position and again he doesn't walk around and talk about it, he just does it. The way he approached his rehab was nothing short of exemplary. So, yes, we were hoping that he'd be available at the end of this year. But I'll be honest with you, I had my doubts until I saw him pushing a sled about a month and a half ago out here, I realized it was reality. I think everybody in his absence did a great job and it's great to have him back and he's doing a great job."
Can you describe how he opens up the offense?
"Well, I think people have to account for him and bottom line is, he's going to make plays. A great, wise coach once told me, 'You either make plays or you don't,' and he makes plays. You've got guys like [TE]
When you look at Seattle's secondary and the physical nature of which they play, how much of this game will be shaped on what's being called back there and what's not?
"I just think the rules are the rules and whatever the rules are, I'm sure they'll be officiated according to the rules. It's that simple, really. If there's a penalty, it'll get called. If there's not, it won't and we play."
Do you sense that the game is called a little bit different in the postseason? For instance, that first playoff game you played, it seemed like there were a lot of things not being called that maybe would get called at other times.
"That's in the eye of the beholder. You would have to ask the people officiating, really. The rules are the rules, we abide by them at every level and I'm sure the game will be officiated in that manner."
You guys put a lot on TE
"Oh, he's getting a lot better without question. All the little things, the nuances. The things, the nuances, all the little tricks of the trade, he's starting to get a little bit more comfortable with. He's developing nicely into the player that we really felt he would be. He's been a very valuable asset for us this year."
Another turnover question. Jim said that you coach guys not to turn the ball over by telling them not to turn the ball over. That seems like a pretty good way to do it, but are there things within your scheme that you can prevent turnovers because obviously you've got it very consistently? People seem to think it's kind of fluke-ish, turnovers year-to-year.
"No, it's a little bit of everything. But, it's all about the players respecting what we're trying to get done and it's something we emphasize. But it can also be a function of where you're at in the game and risk management as well. But, it doesn't matter, it's all about the players. The bottom line is the players must protect the football and they've done better than anybody in the league at doing it. So, all the credit goes to them."
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
The Last Stand Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn Nathaniel Philbrick * * * * * The Bodley Head 466pp £20 ISBN 978 1847920096
On July 4th, 1876, the citizens of the United States of America began celebrating their Republic's centennial. Within three days euphoria changed to anger as shocking news was telegraphed from the West: on June 25th the nation's foremost Indian fighter, the Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer, with more than 200 of his men, had been slaughtered by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
The bloody encounter on the Little Big Horn River swiftly captured the public imagination. That fascination has endured, generating hundreds of books and articles and a crop of feature films. Verdicts have fluctuated wildly over the years, influenced as much by prevailing sentiments as by the events themselves. As a high-school freshman in 1970, Nathaniel Philbrick watched the movie Little Big Man, which transformed Thomas Berger's brilliant novel about a reclusive survivor of Custer's Last Stand into a bitter allegory on the Vietnam War: reversing the scenario familiar to previous generations, the Plains Indians were now the victims, Custer and his cavalrymen the villains.
Philbrick's own account in The Last Stand is commendably even-handed. Underpinned by a palpable sense of impending doom, it is concerned less with political correctness than with making sense of a tragic and dramatic story for which much of the evidence is wildly conflicting, posing what he likens to a 'great unsolved cross-word puzzle'.
Despite the on-going debate, Philbrick identifies significant factors that sealed Custer's fate. Poor intelligence failed to reveal the daunting size of the target village: Custer accordingly gambled by dividing his command in three before attacking. Yet, as Indian participants testified in oral accounts, the outcome might have been different had Custer received determined support from his subordinates. Instead, both became bogged down in defensive actions: Major Marcus Reno, who was seen swigging a bottle of whisky, clearly lost his nerve; Captain Frederick Benteen fought bravely but without any sense of urgency. Both officers distrusted each other and loathed Custer, prejudices that had disastrous consequences.
By contrast, the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors under Sitting Bull, Gall and other leaders fought with unity and purpose. In addition, they not only outnumbered their assailants by perhaps ten to one, but also outgunned them: while the Seventh Cavalry were armed with single-shot Springfield carbines, many Indian warriors carried quick-firing Henry and Winchester repeaters.
Philbrick readily acknowledges Evan S. Connell's lyrical, meandering classic Son of the Morning Star (1984) as a key inspiration. The Last Stand takes a more direct approach, mostly setting a pace worthy of 'hard ass' Custer himself. Ironically, Philbrick only draws rein when he reaches the bluffs above the Little Bighorn, opting to follow the fortunes of the beleaguered Reno and Benteen before turning back the clock and exploring the fate of Custer's command.
Realistic assessments by combat veterans, bolstered by archeological evidence from the battlefield itself, argue against any 'last stand' in the traditional sense of a dwindling knot of stoical bluecoats, surrounding a buckskin-clad Custer. But Philbrick's title reflects other meanings. Above all, Sitting Bull's triumph was the swansong of the Plains Indians, a final victory won in the teeth of the USA's remorseless westward expansion.


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Team | MIT Center for Civic Media
Director and Associate Professor of the Practice
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center, is cofounder of the citizen media community of Global Voices.
Prior to MIT, Ethan worked with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University on projects focused on civic media, freedom of speech online, and understanding media ecosystems. He led a team focused on Media Cloud, a project that builds an archive of news stories and blog posts applies language processing and presents ways to analyze and visualize the resulting data. Zuckerman also founded Geekcorp, a non-profit technology volunteer corps that has done work in over a dozen countries, and helped found Tripod, an early participatory media company.
Assistant Director
Lorrie LeJeune is Assistant Director of the Center, to which she brings a diverse background in science, technology, and publishing. Lorrie began her career in pharmaceutical development, but her fascination with writing, editing, illustration and Macintosh computers eventually led her into a career in publishing at the MIT Press, the University of Michigan Press, and O'Reilly Media, where she spent nearly nine years as a product manager, editor, and cover illustrator. In past incarnations Lorrie was the program manager at France Telecom's R&D lab in Cambridge, MA; the managing director of OpenWetWare, a wiki dedicated to open sharing of information in science; and most recently, senior editor at Scitable, Nature Publishing Group's online library for science education.
Associate Professor of Civic Media, MIT Comparative Media Studies
Twittter: @schock
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and mediamaker who works on social movement media, co-design, media justice, and communication rights. He is currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT's Comparative Media Studies program (http://cmsw.mit.edu), and is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He sits on the board of Allied Media Projects (http://alliedmedia.org), and is a cofounder of Research Action Design (http://rad.cat). For more info see http://schock.cc.
Alum, MIT Media Lab
I am a designer and researcher originally from Seattle, WA. I'm interested in participatory design methods, and excited to work on projects related to education, community spaces, learning through play, and public health.
Researcher/ Community Manager
Anushka Shah is a researcher on the Media Cloud project at the Center for Civic Media. Originally from Mumbai, India, her focus is on using data to map the focus, tone, and frames of news conversations in India and Africa. She hopes to use the insights from the news analysis research here at the Media Lab as a way to reverse engineer fictional and popular media aimed at addressing social perceptions. She has a background in governance and applied statistics for language analysis, and has also previously worked with non-profits and political parties in Western and Northern India.
Email: email@example.com
Twitter: @anushka1991
Research Affiliate
Catherine D'Ignazio is the person behind that really cute baby. She is an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization and Civic Media at Emerson College who investigates how data visualization, technology and new forms of storytelling can be used for civic engagement.
Professor D'Ignazio has conducted research on geographic bias in the news media, developed custom software to geolocate news articles and designed an application, "Terra Incognita", to promote global news discovery. She is working on sensor journalism around water quality with PublicLab, data literacy projects and various community-educational partnerships with her journalism students. Notably, she co-organized a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab called "The Make the Breast Pump Not Suck!" Hackathon.
Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org, the LEF Foundation, and Dream It, Code It, Win It. In 2009, she was a finalist for the Foster Prize at the ICA Boston. Her work has been exhibited at the Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, Museo d'Antiochia of Medellin, and the Venice Biennial.
Professor D'Ignazio is a Fellow at the Emerson Engagement Lab and a Research Affiliate at (and alumna of) the MIT Center for Civic Media.
Administrative Assistant
Daniel Minty splits his time at the Media Lab between Civic Media and the Director's Office, where he supports the groups as an Administrative Assistant. Before his time in Cambridge, he completed his studies at the Indiana University MFA-Poetry program, where he taught Creative Writing and Basic Composition. His poetry can be found in BLOOM and in the Poet's Weave radio archive.
Head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Edward Schiappa conducts research in argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory. His current research explores the scope and function of rhetorical studies, including the relationship between rhetorical theory and critical media studies.
He has published 10 books and his research has appeared in such journals as Philosophy & Rhetoric, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Review, Argumentation, Communication Monographs, and Communication Theory.
He has served as editor of Argumentation and Advocacy and received NCA's Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award in 2000 and the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Distinguished Scholar Award in 2006. He was named a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar in 2009. He now holds the Paul W. Frenzel Chair of Liberal Arts in the University of Minnesota's Department of Communications Studies, where he teaches graduate courses on contemporary rhetorical theory, critical communication studies, rhetorical criticism, and popular culture criticism.
Project Lead
Emilie is a developer and project lead at the Center for Civic Media, heading up the development and implementation of Promise Tracker.
Passionate about facilitating community engagement with technology to promote learning, participation and more resilient networks, Emilie has worked on the collaborative design and implementation of tech & media programs in the US, Haiti, Brazil and Sierra Leone.
Prior to joining the Civic team, Emilie spent 3 years in Port-au-Prince working with Digital Democracy, the UN Refugee Agency and Humanitarian OpenStreetMapTeam to integrate technology tools into local initiatives to address gender-based violence and promote community development in Haiti.
PhD Researcher
Erhardt Graeff is a sociologist, designer, and entrepreneur. His work explores creative uses of media and technology for civic engagement and learning.
His latest project is Action Path, a location-based app for civic reflection and engagement. He also works with Media Cloud, a joint project of the Berkman Center and the MIT Center for Civic Media, using which he led research on the impact of media activism around the death of Trayvon Martin. Additionally, Erhardt has written about designing drones to be more civic, bots and information privacy, cyberbullying, and political memes. He regularly leads workshops on civic media and participatory design for students, teachers, and social entrepreneurs.
Erhardt is a PhD Researcher in the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. He is also a founding trustee of The Awesome Foundation, which gives small grants to innovative and promising projects.
Ian Condry is a cultural anthropologist interested in globalization from below, that is, cultural movements that go global without the push of major corporations or governments. He has written books on hip-hop as it developed in Japan (Hip-Hop Japan, 2006) and Japanese animation as a global force (The Soul of Anime). His current research explores social media in Japan and the US and its uses for activism, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. Condry teaches courses that emphasize ethnographic approaches to media and culture, including Japanese popular culture, anime and cinema, as well as a graduate level seminar in media theory and methods. He founded and organizes the MIT Cool Japan research project which uses scholarly seminars, interdisciplinary conferences and artistic events to examine the cultural connections, dangerous distortions, and critical potential of popular culture.
PhD, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media
Nathan, who completed a PhD at the MIT Media Lab and Center for Civic Media, researches factors that contribute to flourishing participation online, developing tested ideas for safe, fair, creative, and effective societies. Starting in September 2017, Nathan will be a post-doctoral researcher at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, as well as the Paluck Lab in psychology and the sociology department.
Nathan's current projects (C.V.) include large scale experiments on reducing discrimination and harassment online, as well as observational studies on social movements, civic participation, and social change. Nathan regularly liveblogs talks and events and has published journalism in the Atlantic, Guardian, and PBS IdeaLab. He coordinated the Media Lab Festival of Learning in 2012 and 2013.
Before MIT, Nathan completed an MA in English literature at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Davies Jackson scholar. In earlier years, he was Riddick Scholar and Hugh Cannon Memorial Scholar at the American Institute of Parliamentarians. He won the Ted Nelson award at ACM Hypertext 2005 with a work of tangible scholarly hypermedia. He facilitated #1book140, The Atlantic's Twitter book club from 2012-2014, and was an intern at Microsoft Research Fuse Labs in the summer of 2013.
Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies
Professor Jing Wang received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Soon to join MIT's Comparative Media Studies, she also serves as the Director of the Institute of Civic Media and Communication at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Wang is the founder and organizer of New Media Action Lab (NMAL) and serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of while sitting on the Advisory Board of Wikimedia Foundation. In spring 2009 she launched an NGO 2.0 project ("Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0 Environment") undertaken in collaboration with two Chinese universities, Ogilvy & Mather China, and three Chinese NGO partner organizations.
Professor Wang published several books and articles, among them, the award-winning The Story of Stone, High Culture Fever, and the editor of Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture, Popular Culture and the Chinese State, China's Avant-Garde Fiction, Cinema and Desire (with Tani Barlow). Her current research interests include advertising and marketing, civic media and communication, social media action research, pop culture, and nonprofit technology, with an area focus on the People's Republic of China. Her book Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture is available from Harvard University Press.
Visiting Professor
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media and a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU. Over the last ten years she has researched the social, political and cultural contexts of networked technologies. Her current work focuses on a range of data practices, from the ethics of big data, crisis informatics, networked journalism, and the everyday uses of mobile and social media. She has conducted large and small-scale ethnographic studies in Australia, India and the US. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and a founding member of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney.
Research Affiliate
Leo Burd is a researcher with the Center for Civic Media, where he is developing novel technologies and approaches to bridge the digital divide and foster social empowerment. Leo is particularly interested in the design of innovative phone, web and mapping applications to support youth participation, social inclusion and local civic engagement. Prior to joining the Center, Leo was part of Microsoft's Global Learning Research team, directed a non-profit organization that built "computer and citizenship schools" in Sao Paulo slums and was involved in a variety of projects that used technology to improve quality of life in different parts of the world.
Luisa loves stories. Stories conveyed through words, numbers, audio and visuals. She likes to think about how those stories are told and how to involve more people in the process. She grew up in Germany and California. During and after her undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, she worked in Chennai, Goettingen, Munich, Duesseldorf and New York. She's most recently made her home in Somerville and you can find her studying and making maps, audio documentaries, designing workshops, asking Python questions on Stackoverflow or scoping out community art projects.
Research assistant
Mariel Garcia-Montes, @faeriedevilish, is a CMS graduate student and research assistant at the Center of Civic Media, and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center. She is pondering the questions she asked herself (without the chances to formally explore) throughout her work in tech capacity building in civil society in Mexico and Latin America – especially those around youth, media, civic/moral education and digital literacies. Previously, she worked for UNICEF (HQ), SocialTIC (Mexico), and has been involved in over 100 tech for change projects in the last decade.
Research Affiliate
Natalie conducts research with our partners and develops research agendas using our tools, drawing on her experience in digital epidemiology and public health.
Research Scientist
Rahul Bhargava is a researcher and technologist specializing in civic technology and data literacy. He creates interactive websites used by hundreds of thousands, playful educational experiences across the globe, and award-winning visualizations for museum settings. As a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Civic Media, Rahul leads technical development on projects ranging from interfaces for quantitative news analysis, to platforms for crowd-sourced sensing. He has a special interest in how new technologies are introduced to people in settings focused on learning. Rahul is a drummer and father based in Somerville, MA.
Professor of Comparative Media Studies
William Uricchio is Professor and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has held visiting professorships at Stockholm University, the Freie Universität Berlin, and Philips Universität Marburg; and Guggenheim, Fulbright and Humboldt fellowships have supported his research. Uricchio considers the interplay of media technologies and cultural practices, and their role in (re-) constructing representation, knowledge and publics. In part, he researches and develops new histories of 'old' media (early photography, telephony, film, broadcasting, and new media) when they were new. And in part, he investigates the interactions of media cultures and their audiences through research into such areas as peer-to-peer communities and cultural citizenship, media and cultural identity, and historical representation in computer games and reenactments.
Research Affiliate
Willow Brugh, known as willowbl00, works with digital tools to enable coordination between response agencies and emergent response groups in areas affected by fast and slow crisis. She studies citizen engagement and combining distributed and centralized decision making structures at the Center for Civic Media at MIT's Media Lab. Previously she's been a Professor of Practice at Brown University, an affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and a fellow at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Moderating transumanist discussion groups lacked direct action, so she cofounded a makerspace in Seattle. Those lacked scale, so she cofounded the Space Federation to legitimize and link hacker, maker, and coworking spaces across the US. Those lacked impact on inequality, so Willow cofounded Geeks Without Bounds as an organizer and host of social good hackathons. Those lacked sustainability, so Geeks Without Bounds shifted into an accelerator for humanitarian projects. The capacity to use those tools and methods was lacking in the larger response space, so Willow became the Community Leadership Strategist at Aspiration to increase capacity in digital response.
In brief, Willow looks at connections, systems, empowerment, and powerlessness and strives to both understand and improve whatever she finds. Sometimes that's with the Occupy Sandy Movement, sometimes it's with the Naval Defense University.
She has transcendance tattoos that are impressive enough to be photographed for a National Geographic blog, and has keynoted the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. Willow has successfully worked with FEMA Field Innovation Team for Hurricane Sandy, and was awarded a ceremony at the White House for her contribution.


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Biographical Information
Yates was born in Chicago, Illinois and he graduated from the University of Chicago. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. From 1949 to 1963 and 1965 to 1999, Yates served in the House of Representatives as a Democrat. Yates was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1962. At his retirement, he was the oldest person ever to serve in the House.
The Rooster is a Yang,
and is the Tenth sign of the Chinese horoscope.
CockinessBoastfulnessBlind FaithPedantryBossinessDissipation
Birthday: August 27, 1909
A time for soul searching and meditation; a need for patience and solitude.
Birthday: August 27, 2017
A time for soul searching and meditation; a need for patience and solitude.


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At times I can be as cynical as the next guy. We have all witnessed examples of cowardice, laziness, selfishness, and evil intent wrt our fellow man. Maybe this is why when nobleness of character, integrity and heroism manifest itself in front of us, it's contrast so easily commands our attention. But in times of need, when circumstances dictate an honorable response, I think most folks will do what's right, so in this instance, there is the potential for heroism in all of us.
Despite the fact the it is narrated by that Hollywood lefty Tom Hanks, check out this little bit of Americana that I was not aware of of, I promise you, it will make your day and redden your eyes:
Hundreds of boats, going towards the danger, as sure as those cops and firemen entering the burning buildings, but what makes these guys extra special is that they were ordinary people not charged with any particular authority except that which their conscience dictated. The human spirit, at times, is a marvelous thing.


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Catherine de Lange, contributor
Life on Earth is complex and contradictory. Artist Trevor Paglen's project The Last Pictures sends into orbit a time capsule of photographs capturing just that
Also see our gallery: "Photo time capsule aiming for orbit"
IT WAS September 1940. Four teenagers were walking a dog when they stumbled into a cave holding Palaeolithic paintings, a depiction of a time long forgotten. To this day these images, the famous Lascaux cave paintings remain enigmatic, with some historians suggesting that they were created deep underground as a kind of message for the future.
If we were to leave a similar gift for future civilisations, what would it be, and where would we hide it? After years of deliberation, artist Trevor Paglen has arrived at his own answer.
Paglen, who is also a keen amateur astronomer, is fascinated by the idea that about 36,000 kilometres above Earth is a ring of communication satellites that experience no atmospheric drag. In other words, these satellites can keep going in orbit for eternity. "If we take that seriously," says Paglen, "it means these are the longest lasting things we've ever made."
These satellites also speak volumes about the beings that created them, us. "To me they have come to represent a culture that can do extraordinary things - put things in space, explore questions about the beginning of time." But we also use this knowledge to destroy ourselves and the planet, he says.
In The Last Pictures, Paglen combines these ideas, creating his own Lascaux paintings - a series of 100 images that capture the contradictions and paradoxes of human nature, engraved on a communications satellite, in a format that could survive for billions of years.
It took Paglen several years to complete this challenge, seeking input from academics and other thinkers. A discussion with biologist Ignacio Chapela led the pair to overturn the over-simplistic DNA double helix as the image for life. Their counter-image of wild foliage draws on Darwin's anecdote at the end of On the Origin of Species, in which he describes how a tangled bank prompted him to reflect on the complexities of life. Other images are less literal, but together they portray the conflicts inherent to humanity.
Collectively, the mood of the pictures is melancholy; the work is a warning. "Particularly with the Mars landings right now, the mood of outer space has been very celebratory, but I think in some ways you could read this as the warning of celebration," says Nato Thompson, project curator from Creative Time, the organisation in New York that commissioned the work. There is a scepticism here that reflects our relationship with exploration and science, he says.
Because, of course, this project isn't just designed for alien populations of the deep future, but also for people who view the collection on Earth today. "We are making cave paintings for the future," says Paglen, "and I hope that sending this series of cave paintings into the vastness of time will allow us to see ourselves with a bit of distance, and to see where we are going."
The Echostar XVI satellite carrying The Last Pictures is due to be launched later this year
Book information
The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen
University of California Press and Creative Time Books


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|Reviews for A Soldier's March
| LuckycoolHawk9 chapter 1 . 10/14/2012
I liked how innocent the narrator is presented because despite a war ending she believes her brother is fine because it reminds the older readers of a simpler time when they were young and naive. I also liked how she compares herself to her brother because it is proof that she understands the difference between her brother, the solider and herself, an innocent. This review is for the Review Marathon(linked in my profile)
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| AlexesMarie chapter 1 . 4/2/2011
As a boy from my town was just killed in the military, I found this and appropriate thing to read. Our soldiers don't get the appreciation the deserve.
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Punya Mishra, associate dean of scholarship and innovation at Arizona State University, will give the 2017 E. Paul Torrance Lecture April 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Room S151 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Mishra, who also is a professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation in ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, will give a lecture titled "From the Swampy Lowlands of Practice to Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Navigating Creativity, Technology and Teaching." The lecture is open free to the public.
Mishra, who additionally holds an affiliate faculty position in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, is nationally and internationally recognized for his work on the theoretical, cognitive and social aspects related to the design and use of educational technologies.
Sponsored by the College of Education's Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, the Torrance Lecture brings scholars to UGA to discuss research and issues concerned with creativity. It was established in 1985 in honor of the native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential. He is most noted for the development of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, which are used worldwide.


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SDN startup Big Switch Networks has poached yet another Juniper Networks executive to add to its own executive ranks.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Big Switch confirmed to CRN Thursday that Rajeev Gupta, former director of worldwide partner development and investment strategies at Juniper Networks, has joined Big Switch as its first-ever global channel chief. He had been with Juniper for eight years.
Looking ahead, Gupta said he's excited about the opportunity to build Big Switch's channel strategy from the ground up.
[Related: New Big Switch CEO: Channel To Play Key Role In Our 'SDN 2.0' Strategy]
"Opportunities that come along that really can help further and leverage my experience selling to partners, selling through partners, setting up channel programs, setting up channel strategy and driving toward ROI factors that make sense for partners -- they are very rare," Gupta said. "I'm absolutely excited to join [CEO] Douglas [Murray] and the team and to take our partner-centric message worldwide."
Gupta's move comes just five months after Big Switch tapped Murray, also a former Juniper executive, as its new CEO. Murray himself had a five-year run at Juniper, where he most recently served as senior vice president of Juniper's Asia-Pacific, Japan and Greater China business and, before that, as senior vice president and general manager of Juniper's security unit.
According to Murray, hiring Gupta is one of several steps Big Switch will take to build out a global channel footprint. He said the company is in the negotiation phase with a handful of U.S. solution providers today, and that Big Switch in January signed on Synnex as its first U.S. distribution partner.
"We want to be in a position where we can get closer to the channel and really start to more effectively ramp up," Murray said.
That's familiar territory for Gupta, who at Juniper helped drive the networking vendor's partner enablement efforts, along with partner incentive programs such as MDF.
Gupta's departure from Juniper is one of several executive exits the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has seen in its channel organization over the past year. Most recently, Luanne Tierney, vice president of global partner marketing at Juniper, told CRN she was leaving the company to write a book.
Gupta is joining Big Switch as the company transitions to a new era that Murray calls "SDN 2.0." As part of the shift, Big Switch is focusing less on its traditional network overlay approach to SDN -- something Murray considers "first-generation" SDN technology -- and instead on a new strategy that involves bare metal switches running Big Switch's network orchestration software.
Big Switch's new focus on software coupled with bare metal, or commoditized, networking gear -- a model deployed today by tech giants including Google and Facebook -- will be a big part of the company's message to potential partners, Gupta said.
"Invariably, partners will see increased margins when they get at the forefront of leading technology shifts," he said. "But it's also when they lead technology shifts that offer high efficiencies and features that offer compelling ROI and TCO for their customers."


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Medical board says it'll try to improve relations with doctors
Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Associated Press Writer
Legislators questioned Texas Medical Board officials Wednesday about why complaints against doctors take so long to resolve and what can be done to reassure physicians who consider the agency vengeful.
"What I would like to see is some healing and bringing together," said Rep. Debbie Riddle, a Tomball Republican. "Right now there's a huge chasm."
Lawmakers and board officials also discussed anecdotal information that the number of complaints against doctors may be rising because the Legislature restricted medical malpractice lawsuits in 2003, prompting attorneys to refer patients to the Texas Medical Board instead of taking cases to court.
The board reported 1,894 active investigations as of late February. That number has been growing the past few years, and before 2003 it hovered around 600 to 800 active cases, said Mari Robinson, director of investigations and compliance for the medical board.
The consumer group Texas Watch says it would not be surprised if plaintiffs' lawyers are referring patients to the board. Texas Watch says it's sending patients there, too, if they have grievances.
Riddle and Rep. Geanie Morrison, R-Victoria, said they have heard from physicians who view the medical board as adversarial and retaliatory.
"These are not fringe area weird folks we're talking about. These are well-respected people that heads of state from all over the world would go see, and they have very serious genuine concerns about what is going on," Riddle said.
Texas Medical Board officials appeared before the House Appropriations Committee regulatory subcommittee Wednesday as part of routine hearings as lawmakers prepare to write the state budget in 2009.
Rep. Fred Brown, a Bryan Republican who chairs the subcommittee, said in trying to improve "public relations" with doctors, the medical board needs to address the perceived problems of manipulation of anonymous complaints, conflict of interest, violation of due process, breach of privacy and retaliation against those who speak out.
Legislators questioned the length of time the complaint process takes _ sometimes as much as a year _ and how medical specialists are selected for review panels.
Medical board leaders are starting a fast-track process that will reduce the time of some complaint cases from around 180 days to 60 or 90 days, Robinson said.
Robinson also said the board is trying to communicate with doctors to clear up "a lot of misinformation that's out there."
Rep. Eddie Lucio III, a Brownsville Democrat, invited agency officials to meet with doctors in his area soon. Riddle said she thought that would be a good idea for her district, too, though she said some physicians may be resistant because they don't trust the board.
Dr. Tom Garcia, a Houston cardiologist and president of the Harris County Medical Society, said he wants a strong Texas Medical Board to protect patients, along with a fair and consistent investigation process.
"We want our patients to be empowered. We want them to have freedom of choice. And we want them to be able to complain," Garcia said. "The public has every right to complain."
He said he knows of some physicians' cases that get bogged down in the complaint system without prompt resolutions. Those problems need to be examined so the state's oversight system can become a national leader, said Garcia, a member of the Texas Medical Association board of trustees.
Texas Watch executive director Alex Winslow said only a small number of doctors are the subjects of complaints filed with the board.
The board must work effectively to keep patients safe, Winslow said.
"Since patients have largely lost their access to the legal system, it is incumbent upon the medical board to vigorously oversee the medical profession," Winslow said. "If that inconveniences a few doctors, so be it."
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Studies show that 73 percent of consumers use the same password for multiple accounts, and at least 80 percent of security incidents are due to weak passwords. Effective passwords are a key part of keeping your personal information safe online, but many people have trouble creating one that is unique and secure – and even more trouble remembering them for various digital accounts.
With IDShield Vault, members will be able to access a separate, secure online dashboard where they can manage their passwords, while also generating new ones. IDShield Vault uses a browser plug-in to auto-fill known passwords while browsing on the web; it also syncs across all devices and provides a secure automatic backup feature.
"Most passwords are tied to personal identity information. When they are compromised, this can lead to identity theft," said Jennifer Stueckler, IDShield Senior Manager. "IDShield Vault eliminates those concerns by storing passwords in a secure dashboard, and provides an extra layer of security by generating unique passwords. There is no excuse for using '123456' as a password to your bank account, simply because it's easy to remember. IDShield Vault is the solution."
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Why might these much-admired women have greater difficulty in sustaining their marriages than their male counterparts?
Best Actress Oscar winners are more likely to divorce than Best Actor winners
There's also Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear winner "The Forgiveness of Blood," director Joshua Marston's follow-up to his much-admired "Maria Full of Grace," about young Albanian brothers caught up in a centuries-old blood feud.
Comparing her to the much-admired wife of a friend, he wrote, Many of her phrases and attitudes are exactly those of Margaret Gerard.
A double-dealing manager appears, as well as a disgruntled grandfather, and, in a sly, special appearance, the much-admired Mario Lopez adds a veneer of polish to the whole affair.
Besides, the first Speaker, the much-admired Baroness Hayman, was Labour, so it's a Tory's turn.
BBC iPlayerStand-up Marc Maron's much-admired podcast is going from strength to strength, consistently pulling in comedy A-listers for lengthy, smart and often deeply personal interviews.
Stuart Heritage: Jonathan Swift's satire has been much-admired over the centuries.
Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt
On New Year's Eve, the much-admired Rubaiyat restaurant in scenic Marquette, Michigan held its last supper, complete with live music and a custom menu to commemorate the closing.
And in a world of grades, none shines more brightly than the much-admired A, against which its seemingly hapless cousins -- the B, C, D and, dare we say, the F -- are rendered relatively mute, if not symbols of failure.
Leslie King, LCSW: Should You Pressure Your Child To Get As?
The 16th novel by the much-admired author, who is also producer and writer of The Wire.


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NF Energy Saving Corporation Announces 2013 Second Quarter Financial Results
Aug 14, 2013, 10:47 ET from NF Energy Saving Corporation
SHENYANG, China, Aug. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NF Energy Saving Corporation (NASDAQ: NFEC) ("NF Energy" or the "Company"), a leading energy saving services and solutions provider for China's power, petrochemical, coal, metallurgy, construction, and municipal infrastructure development industries, today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013.
2013 First Quarter Results Highlight:
- Total revenues were $1.47 million and $2.77 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively.
- Gross profit was $0.43 million and $0.84 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively.
- Net income was $52,017 and $61,782 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively.
The decrease in total revenues for the second quarter as compared with the corresponding period last year was primarily was due to the decrease in service revenues, however, net profit increased as compared with the corresponding period last year based upon a decrease in total cost and expense. On the other hand, for the three month period ended June 30, 2013, net profit showed a significant increase of $9,765 from the three month period ended March 31, 2013, as a result of the increase in production capacity as the new manufacturing facility approached completion. The Company anticipates that both revenue and profit will continue to increase in the future as a result of both the gradual increase of orders and the resumption of normal production.
About NF Energy Saving Corporation
NF Energy Saving Corporation (NASDAQ: NFEC) is a China-based provider of integrated energy conservation solutions utilizing energy-saving equipment, technical services and energy management re-engineering project operations to provide energy saving services to clients. The Company's customers are mainly concentrated in the electrical generation (large-scale thermal power generation, hydroelectric power, and nuclear power), water supply, and heat supply industries. The majority of revenues are from energy efficient flow control solutions including equipment and energy efficiency project services. For more information, visit http://www.nfenergy.com
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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — There are more than 30 acres of waste area at the Ocean Course, host to this week's P.G.A. Championship, and although much of those areas is made of sand, none of it will be considered a bunker.
Even the sandy pits and bowls near the greens will not be called bunkers. For the purposes of the tournament, there are no bunkers.
Players will be able to ground their clubs in the sand, take practice swings in it and are not compelled to rake the sand afterward either. All sandy areas, whether natural, prepared or enclosed with grass, are deemed to be "though the green," according to tournament rules.
It is a ruling that will prevent the situation that cost Dustin Johnson two strokes, and a spot in a playoff, at the 2010 P.G.A. Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, a course like the Ocean Course that was built by the golf architect Pete Dye with abundant sand.


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TORONTO, March 18, 2013 /CNW/ - On Friday, March 15, Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) received clearance from the Competition Bureau, with the issuance of the appropriate no action letter, to proceed with the transactions between Corus and Bell. Pursuant to these transactions, Corus will acquire the 50% remaining ownership interest in TELETOON which includes the services TELETOON, Télétoon (French), TELETOON Retro, Télétoon Rétro (French) and Cartoon Network (Canada), as well as the 50% ownership interests in the French-language specialty channels, Historia and Séries+, that Bell will acquire as part of the acquisition of Astral Media Inc.
Corus has also entered into an agreement with Bell to acquire the two Ottawa radio stations, CKQB-FM and CJOT-FM, that Bell will own upon the completion of the Astral transaction. In separate agreements between Corus and Shaw Media, Corus will acquire Shaw Media's 50% interest in Historia and Séries+, which will result in both services being wholly owned by Corus. All of the foregoing transactions require approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Corus will also acquire from Shaw Media the remaining 49% interest in the successful specialty service ABC Spark and Corus will sell its 20% interest in Food Network Canada to Shaw Media.
"Clearance from the Competition Bureau is very positive news and is the first step in the completion of these transformational transactions for Corus," said John Cassaday, President and Chief Executive Officer, Corus Entertainment. "These acquisitions give Corus the scale to expand into the growing French-language television market, providing greater diversity and more choice in the system. As well, it consolidates the ownership of TELETOON and ABC Spark within Corus' portfolio of branded specialty channels and provides entry into another major Canadian radio market."
About Corus Entertainment Inc.
Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's animation. The Company's multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon (Canada), ABC Spark, W Network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada), CosmoTV, Sundance Channel (Canada), Movie Central, HBO Canada, Nelvana, Kids Can Press, Toon Boom and 37 radio stations including CKNW AM 980, 99.3 The FOX, Country 105, 630 CHED, Q107 and 102.1 the Edge. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms. A publicly traded company, Corus is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CJR.B). Experience Corus on the web at www.corusent.com.
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Russian Orthodox leader calls upon international community to work for religious freedom in Syria
January 22, 2014
On the eve of the Geneva II Middle East peace conference, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church pleaded for peace in Syria and urged the nations taking part in the conference to protect the religious freedom of Christians there.
"Security and religious freedom of Christians, who have lived in the Middle East for over two thousand years and who are an integral part of the Syrian society, must be ensured along with the security and religious freedom of all other citizens," said Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow.
"As the first and foremost step towards peace and stability, the hostages must be released and the desecration of religious shrines and objects of historical and cultural heritage must be stopped," he continued. "So far, nothing has been known about the fate of two Christian hierarchs – Metropolitans Paul and Youhanna Ibrahim – who were abducted near Aleppo in April 2013. The mother superior and sisters of the Convent of St. Thecla in Maalula are still held captive. Their immediate release will be visible evidence that the opposition is ready to work in the search for peace and accord in the Syrian land."
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Jan. 24, 2014 11:08 AM ET USA
Quite right, Dutch, but he never mentions their persecutors by name; he speaks in broad generalities and doesn't even name the country where the persecution is happening. Here, for example, is an AP report of 12/26, 2013: "He said some countries guarantee human rights "on paper" but not in practice, leaving Christians subject to "limitations and discrimination." Which countries? Why not mention Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Egypt, etc., just as he did Lampedusa?
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Jan. 23, 2014 3:08 PM ET USA
A quick google search shows that Pope Francis has addressed this issue many times.
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Jan. 22, 2014 1:45 PM ET USA
Pope Francis needs to speak forcefully about the persecution of Christians by Muslims in Syria and around the world. He speaks boldly -- rightly so -- about the fate of refugees in Lampedusa, but many more are losing their land and even their lives at the hands of anti-Christian thugs in Muslim lands. Where are his ringing words on behalf of these victims? Where his strident condemnation of their persecutors?


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Illegal Mining
Illegal Mining
Natural resources are sometimes exploited beyond a sustainable level, spoiling natural habitats, affecting people's livelihoods and even fuelling armed conflicts.
The lack of precise geographic information is a critical limitation on the design of appropriate provisions for prevention and response to ongoing crises related to natural resources exploitation. Vast territories have to be observed within a narrow time frame as exploitation activities can easily shift from one area to another. The areas are difficult to access because they are widely dispersed, too remote or too insecure. The Illegal Mining pilot service can provide users with relevant information to contribute to focused reactions during conflicts and to support rapid identification of affected areas.
Core products
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Information Dossier describing briefly how to interpret the map and summarizing the analysis steps and major results
Geographic Reference Map
For regions such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), vector data are hardly available and often not reliable. Due to the lack of geo-data most of the vector data has been derived from visual interpretation and manual digitization of the satellite imagery in order to support the satellite based image analyses. The feature extraction process benefits from the multitemporal data acquisition plan. Thus, the impact of seasonal or even daily variations due to factors such as rainfall or biological growth can be overcome and the range of detectable features extended.
The Geographic Reference Map (GRM) provides basic geo-information such as road network, river network, settlements. The reference maps are provided at a scale of 1:100.000 for high resolution imagery and at a scale of 1:18.000 for Very High Resolution (VHR) imagery, respectively
Potential Mining Map
Potential Mining Maps (PMM) provide an indication of those areas where informal mining activities may potentially take place. The method used for extracting potential mining sites combines object-based image and geographic information system (GIS) analyses.
The workflow concentrates on two levels, built on: (1) a transferable feature extraction scheme in an object-based image analysis environment for the extraction of bare soil areas using very high spatial resolution satellite images, and on (2) GIS analyses using relevant ancillary information (e.g. vector data such as roads, rivers and settlements) to further cut down the number of potential mining sites.
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Port Operations
The Dunbar Habour Management are responsible for the day-to-day management of the harbour and its operations. The Dunbar Harbour Management Committee is a sub-committee of the Harbour Trust and exists for the purpose of overseeing the day to day running of the harbour. The following is information concerning the operation of Dunbar Harbour:
Dunbar Harbour Trust
Safety Review
Dunbar Harbour Trust formally reviews its safety record at the first Board Meeting after the end of the year as part of its commitment to the Port Marine Safety Code. The aim of this review is to identify any trends that may guide the Trust to find new ways to improve the safety of the harbour.
2016 Safety Review
The incident log for 2016 shows –
|Boat cradle collapses
|Boat drifts from mooring chain
|Dive boat sinks in the harbour
|Weed killer sprayed on visitor
|Attempted Theft of Outboards
|Climbing on the castle
|Swimmers in the harbour
|Tender capsize with 1 person boarding
|Fishermen's stores fire
|Slipway launches RNLI rescue
|Tender capsize with 3 people boarding
There were 13 incidents in the year (2015 -13)
There were no RIDDOR reportable incidents ( 2015 – 1)
The greatest risks centred round the behaviour of the young people of the town, mainly in the summer months. The number of incident reports does not reflect the occasions when children were tombstoning, jumping off the North Wall or swimming in a harbour used by commercial fishermen. The decision to ask the harbourmaster to address the schoolchildren before the summer holidays may make a difference in 2017.
There is concern at the facilities that are provided for the elderly sailors in the harbour. Action will be taken to repair the North Wall steps before the 2017 Craning In Day.
The most serious incident was the sinking of the dive boat. Greater vigilance at low water to spot and remove potential hazards will reduce this risk area.
Most likely to cause serious damage to persons or property:
Falls from climbing
Run down by vessel entering harbour while diving or swimming
Trips on uneven surfaces
Looking at the maritime hazards only these were ranked:
Operational planning error – grounding (especially when moving from Victoria Harbour into the Broadhaven)
Unplanned movement of berthed vessel resulting in collision or sinking.
Unexpected tidal conditions, including swell – collision with quayside (especially in the harbour entrance)
Better reporting will result in better analysis of the root cause of any problem and thence better action plans, so this remains a key objective.
The Directors of Dunbar Harbour Trust have drawn up a three year harbour improvement plan to cover the years 2015 to 2017 after consulting with various key harbour user groups.
The consultation has been used to try to capture all of the users' desired improvements at the end of 2014, irrespective of whether these improvements are affordable or not. These user needs will evolve over time, and this document will evolve as new needs are identified.
The improvement plan identifies the funding opportunities that are currently available to the Harbour Trust. These opportunities also will change over time.
Dunbar Harbour Trust have a meeting room available at McArthur's Store, the fishermen's store building at Cromwell Harbour.
The facility is available for groups, organisations, and companies interested in meeting in a unique and memorable atmosphere.
The room has seating capacity for 12/15 people.
Fortunately theft is unusual in Dunbar Harbour but some attempts have been made recently to steal small tenders and outboard motors. What can you do to help prevent this?
The only market for stolen propellers, anchors and outboards is likely to be selling them on to the boating public. If you are offered any of the above which you suspect to be stolen please report this matter to the Police. Anyone buying good equipment at low prices is almost certainly encouraging marine theft.
The use of CCTV cameras by the Harbour Trust will be limited to the property of the Harbour Trust and stakeholder's property ie boats creels etc. Any peripheral coverage of adjacent buildings will be incidental and from such a distance as to not interfere with privacy.
Dunbar Harbour Trust is working hard to improve the harbours. Its staff (and volunteers giving of their time) have the right to do this without experiencing abuse of any kind.
Dunbar Harbour follows the Port & Marine Safety Code which applies to all harbour authorities in the UK that have statutory powers. The code establishes the principle of a national standard for every aspect of port marine safety. Dunbar Harbour Trust follow this code and by doing so are promoting a policy of good management and governance of Dunbar Harbour.
The Harbour Trust is proud of its safety record.
You can download a copy of the Safety Management System in the Downloads section on the right.
February 2015
Dunbar Harbour Trust is seeking applications for food outlets to be situated at the harbour.
The pitches would be approximately 16ft by 8ft and would need to be portable as the season would be 1st April to 31st October.
What are they?
The Harbours Act 1964, as amended by the Marine Navigation Act 2013, provides a mechanism by which the Secretary of State may by Order designate harbour authorities with a power to make harbour directions to better regulate shipping and improve safety within their harbour area. Such harbour authorities are called "designated harbour authorities". (new sections 40A to 40D of the Harbours Act 1964, inserted by section 5 of the marine Navigation Act 2013).
Owners of vessels who do not have a fuel agreement with Dunbar Harbour Trust should contact the Harbour Master if they require fuel from the harbour tank.
Oil distributors are permitted to sell fuel across the quayside provided that they comply with the following regulations:
1. Any company, agency or individual wishing to use Dunbar Harbour property for the transfer of petroleum products to and from vessels or other fuel containers must first apply and receive written permission from the Dunbar Harbour Trust. Any company, agency or individual who has not obtained written permission will not be allowed to undertake any transfer of petroleum products.
2. All approved companies, agencies or individuals supplying fuels and other oils in Dunbar Harbour, other than to the Harbour Trust's bulk fuels tank, must account monthly to Dunbar Harbour Trust for the total amount of oils which have been delivered across the quay together with the payment of the Harbour Trust's fuel charge.
3. Failure to comply with the above will result in the consent being withdrawn.
These guidelines apply to all lifting operations within Dunbar Harbour that require the use of mechanised hoists, winches or cranes. Operations using a vessel's own lifting equipment, tail gate lift platforms or the powered davit on the Victoria Harbour are excluded. The Harbour Master has the authority to stop any activity in the harbour, including lifting operations, if that activity presents a risk to harbour users or the general public.
The narrow entrance to the Victoria Harbour can be tricky and is not advised in strong winds from the north to the east. Entry is only possible around 2.5 hours before or after high water for deeper draught vessels. The entrance dries at LW Springs as some unwary yachtsmen have found to their cost over the years! It is important that strangers consult an almanac before approaching, making sure that there is sufficient water for a safe entry.


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The Mission of the Office of Disability Services (ODS)
The Office of Disability Services (ODS) and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Compliance strive to ensure that the dignity of students, employees and campus visitors is upheld when equal access to education and employment is guaranteed, respectful treatment is assured, and an appreciation of differences is fostered for all members of the university community.
ODS works diligently to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided equal access at ASU by broadening disability awareness, removing barriers to provide an inclusive environment, and providing reasonable accommodations.
The Role of the Office of Disability Services (ODS)
Consistent with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is the policy of Appalachian State University that no qualified individual with a disability in the United States shall be excluded from, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that receives federal financial assistance. ODS works diligently to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided equal access at Appalachian State University.
ODS assists eligible students, faculty, staff and visitors with disabilities by determining and coordinating academic adjustments or workplace accommodations. Under Section 504 and the ADA, accommodations are determined individually and are intended to minimize the effects of the impact of specific limitations caused by a disability in order for a qualified individual to have equal access to programs, services and activities.


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Our English courses cover a variety of levels and disciplines. We teach general English, business English and academic English, and give background courses in areas such as British politics and society, the UK's international image, film, media, the economy, and the world of work. The language centre's staff are highly experienced and well-qualified. Together with the international students who join us from different countries and cultures across the world, we aim to create a lively and friendly atmosphere.
This programme is designed for international students who need to improve their level of English before starting their degree at Southampton Solent University.
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The International Foundation Year (IFY) aims to develop your English language skills from IELTS 4.5 (with 4.0 in writing) or equivalent to the level required for continued undergraduate study (the equivalent of IELTS 6.0) on your chosen degree course at Southampton Solent University. It also aims to develop the required academic skills and subject knowledge. You'll be taught in the schools of the University so that you are well prepared to succeed.
The International Foundation Certificate (IFC) is a similar course, but it's not attached to a specific degree programme, and is designed for students who are only able to study for one year at Solent University.
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