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François Girards production of Wagners Parsifal - Watch the Met Opera Stage a Sea of Blood
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January 2012 Integrator Round-up on Integrative Care Delivery: Lori Knutson, leader of the nation's most significant inpatient integrative care initiative, leaves Allina for new position
Lori Knutson, leader of the nation's most significant inpatient integrative care initiative, leaves Allina for new position
"I am just starting to realize all that has occurred." So reflected Lori Knutson, RN, BC-HN in late December 2011 on her 9-year run as the leader of the nation's most significant integrative care delivery initiative. The work began with creation of an outpatient integrative center, the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing. Shortly thereafter, Knutson led efforts to initiate care in Abbott Northwestern Hospital, with which the Institute was affiliated. Analysis of outcomes on the over 7000 inpatient visits found, among other things, over $2000 savings per inpatient. Findings from a pilot project led to a major NIH grant. These data helped lead Allina Hospitals & Clinics, of which Abbott is part, to announce a system-wide integrative medicine initiative. Knutson took on the role as director of integrative health care.
In this ever-expanding process, Knutson and Allina became the nation's single biggest employer of licensed acupuncturists and most significant health system employer of massage therapists. To maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates for these inpatient positions, Knutson and her team developed unique educational intensives programs (see short article here) to train-up these practitioners for an optimal role in the inpatient environment. The team began a program to train integrative nurse leaders. Throughout, Knutson, her team, and Allina have made these advances through the generous support of psychologist and philanthropist Penny George, her spouse Bill George, and their family foundation. The Institute's 2010 Outcomes Report gives a much more detailed look at the remarkable clinical, educational and research work Knutson led. Via these combined initiatives, Knutson's group began to build the case for the transformational pilot project for the nation that the Georges seek to make of the Allina initiative. Knutson will take a new position as president of The Marsh, A Center for Balance and Fitness.
Comment: Normally an article like this would be under People. Yet Knutson's exit from the Institute and Allina is news of a different order. As a long-time observer of the challenges integrative initiatives face inside resistant systems, I marvel at how Knutson has continuously moved this work. Her leadership violates the core adage in hierarchical medicine that "physicians only listen to physicians." Knutson never bought that. Thus integrative medicine's most significant and influential initiative has been guided not by a medical doctor but by a board certified holistic nurse. Knutson grew to favor the term "integrative health care" over "integrative medicine" as a more appropriate and inclusive description of both the movement and of where the work should be headed. Now in moving to the Marsh, she is headed "upsteam," as she put it in a recent interview — away from all the morbidity in the disease care system into the health and wellness world. Her exit is a huge loss for Allina. What mix of personnel will replace her? And what Knutson's fertile spirit will co-create with her new team at The Marsh? Thanks, Lori, for your many contributions!


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UT athletics official under investigation of missing $60,000
Published 6:00 pm, Thursday, February 14, 2008
AP Sports Writer
University of Texas police and Travis County prosecutors are investigating former Longhorns associate athletic director Douglas George Wilson in connection with up to $60,000 missing from accounts he oversaw.
According to a search warrant for his office, money was missing from accounts related to entrance fees for the annual Texas Relays track meet.
UT athletics spokesman Nick Voinis said Wilson is no longer on the job but would not say when Wilson left or why. A telephone message left at Wilson's home Friday was not immediately returned.
Beverly Mathews, a prosecutor in the district attorney's public integrity unit, declined comment on the investigation but said Wilson has not been formally charged with a crime.
Wilson had been in charge of the Texas Relays since 1992.
According to the warrant affidavit by university police Det. Michael Riojas, Wilson was responsible for depositing race entry fees, and an audit going back to 2001 revealed that $50,000-$60,000 was missing.
During the internal investigation, UT staff told auditors that checks and currency were given to Wilson to be deposited. Wilson told school auditors that in 2006 he changed policy on what form of payment would be accepted and that "I realize it's pointing to me," the affidavit said.
School officials twice searched a campus room known as the "Relay Room," first finding a box with $6,240 in cash along with several checks and money orders dated in 2006. In the second search, a locksmith opened a safe holding "a large amount" of checks, cashier's checks, and money orders dated between 2003-2007, the affidavit said.
Police searched Wilson's office on Feb. 8 and found dozens of checks, many from high schools and colleges that participated in the meet in 2006 and 2007, according to an evidence list of what was found.
Voinis said the school could not comment on a pending investigation.
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Mergers forcing more system integration, CSIA study finds
With consolidation on the rise, ability to put systems together a key expectation for end users.
More clients served by industrial automation are integrating automation equipment from several different vendors. This follows a third straight year of increased activity in mergers and acquisitions in North America. Members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) specialize in combining processes to ensure that those systems function properly.
"Our CSIA members are increasingly providing solutions to clients involved in mergers and acquisitions," said Bob Lowe, executive director of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA). "It's the technology—what we call business intelligence—that our members help plan and implement for their clients so they can enjoy greater understanding and peace of mind."
A 2012 survey conducted by Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries shows close to half of the business executives queried expect an upsurge in mergers and acquisitions. Higher growth is forecast in manufacturing where 62% of business leaders believe the number of M&A transactions will climb through 2014. Increased opportunities in emerging markets are credited for advancing this trend.
Lowe added that during mergers and acquisitions, automation initiatives result in system consolidations, waste reduction and improved yields. In addition, companies are increasingly realizing the value of control system integration because they want to manage the risk associated with multiple automation systems.
"Directors of quality, plant superintendents and many others are discovering that automation upgrades provided by CSIA are necessary to compete," said Lowe. "Integrated automation systems make them more accountable to their customers and can help drive cost out of their product."
Control system integrators provide best practice solutions through general management, quality assurance management, system development lifecycle, and service and support. To learn more about CSIA, visit www.controlsys.org.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
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What does concern me, however, is the emphasis that I think is shifting in these ministries from the true victim of abortion, the unborn child, to the second victim of abortion, the woman. Numerous studies are revealing that women who have abortions are suffering from many after-effects: physical, psychological, and spiritual. Physical effects range from scarring of the uterus that can cause infertility to damage so severe that a hysterectomy is required. Psychological effects can be anything from sleep disorders to eating disorders to full blown depression and suicidal tendencies, along with alcohol and drug abuse. Spiritual effects are much harder to pin down and are tied to psychological ones. Many women experience deep grief that cannot be expressed since abortion is a hidden component of our society; the unborn child cannot be grieved as a child that was known about. Not to mention guilt and the inability to forgive oneself which is intricately bound up with the ability to experience the love of God.
I don't deny that women who have had abortions need help, whether they admit it or not; for a woman to take part in a procedure that killed her own child has to have deep ramifications and abortion is not just something you can "get over".
Abortion has two victims: the child and the mother. But we must never forget that the child loses its life; the mother does not. Mom has a chance to seek healing in the future; the child doesn't have a future. Mom has possibilities open to her; the child has no possibilities whatsoever.
Many post-abortive ministries are Christian in their mandate; experiencing the forgiveness of God is an essential element of this ministry. But forgiveness is only necessary when one has done something wrong. And that wrong must not be diminished or reduced to make the hurting more tolerable. John Newton experienced profound guilt and repentance once he recognized what he had done as a slave-trader. That kind of experience should not be underplayed, as it brings home the reality of what has happened, not just to the person directly involved but to many others as well.
The newsletter I received concentrated on statements expressing concern by the women about where their babies are: are they in heaven? are they with Jesus now? for Catholics, the necessity of baptism to enter the kingdom of heaven becomes an issue -is the aborted baby a member of the heavenly kingdom or is he/she in some kind of limbo?
I am no theologian but I think that attempts to answer these questions by writing letters from the child to the mother are completely out of place. That is what was in the newsletter I received. A letter to "dear mommy, dear daddy" from the baby who was aborted, reassuring them that he/she was in heaven, that he/she was happy and that he/she was waiting for them to come as well. And a statement that mom and dad are not to dwell on their mistake too much, their error that sent this little one to heaven prematurely.
As well-intentioned as such a letter is, it is presumptuous. Consider this example: someone kills their toddler who is two years old, because they just couldn't control their temper anymore and dealt the child a blow that killed him/her. Or perhaps they were even abusive and the child died as the result of long-term abuse. Now imagine a letter written from this murdered child to its parents, reassuring them that he is alright, that they are not to worry or to dwell on their "sin" too much, that the child has forgiven them and is awaiting them in this place of happiness. The majority of us would cringe at the audacity of anyone who wrote such a letter.
Or imagine a letter from a victim of homicide to their killer on death row. Same thing, a letter of forgiveness and of reassurance to the person who caused their death. Or a fictional letter from a woman who was raped to her rapist, expressing forgiveness and reconciliation - not a real letter, but a fictional one.
It would be perfectly acceptable if such a letter actually came from the victim but it doesn't. It is imagined by a third party who is trying to make someone feel better about what they did, that someone being the perpetrator of the victim's death or injury. This just doesn't sit well with me at all. It is a subtle perversion of the truth about real forgiveness. If one admits to such a sin and experiences true forgiveness, there is no need for a sentimental concocted letter from the victim.
This kind of empathy trivializes the unborn child. It makes that child less than a full person; we would never allow such a letter to be written on behalf of someone who was born and then killed; why should we allow it to be written on behalf of someone who didn't get to be born? I am sure that if the person who wrote this letter were to be confronted by the mixed message it gives, he would express dismay that it was understood this way. But ask the question "would you write a letter from a Jew in a concentration camp to a Nazi guard?" or "would you write a letter from a raped woman to her rapist?" and I would not be surprised if the response might be that somehow those people are different from the unborn. Something such as "well the baby in the womb can't express itself" or "if it had thoughts, I am sure that this is what he would want to say to his mother". What such thoughts reveal, whether expressed or simply kept to oneself, is that somehow the unborn are not persons in the same way that these others are persons, i.e. they are "persons in the making" or "potential persons". It is thoughts such as those that allow people to choose abortion in the first place. As sympathetic as such people are, they do not understand that the unborn are truly entitled to their lives just as any other person on this earth is. The unborn child has been trivialized by this thinking. One would never ask the mother of a teenager killed by a drunk driver to accept such a letter in order to help her with her grief. This kind of fictional attempt at healing does not measure up to the reality of what happened and should never be used.
This kind of logic about the unborn, that they are better off now even though they have been aborted, can be used as an argument for abortion. One could even reason that abortion isn't so bad, since the baby is in heaven now. This thinking goes far beyond the abortion issue; heck, if everyone goes to heaven, you don't really have to be concerned about any wrongs that you do. Thinking in this vein brings one so close to pro-choice logic that warning bells need to be sounded loud and clear. Whenever the woman is placed before the child, abortion is not seen for the evil that it is. We must never underplay the fact that, in every abortion, someone loses their life.
Ministries that offer help to post-abortive women are necessary and extremely valuable; psychiatrists cannot offer women this help because true help relies on admitting that one committed a wrong and psychiatry does not deal in rights and wrongs. It side-steps moral judgments. So these ministries are the only real help that post-abortive women are going to find. But offering them help in the form of sentimental letters and statements about where their child is now, that their child is happy, that their child forgives them falls far short of what will really heal. No healing can occur without truth and, in the case of abortion, the truth is going to hurt. That hurt should never be dealt with lightly or superficially or sentimentally. An abscess has to be lanced and brought into the air for healing to occur; so too with abortion, it has to be given the word of God which cuts like a knife, and then brought to the healing heart of the Lord who can forgive all our sins and make us as white as snow.
Abortion is not wrong because it hurts women. Abortion is wrong because it intentionally kills an innocent human being. That is why it hurts women both psychologically and physically. The pro-life message must not confuse the reason abortion is wrong with the effects abortion has on women. Testimonies and personal appeal are powerful - and important - but they shouldn't replace the foundational message about what abortion does to the unborn.- Stephanie Gray, Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
In all our attempts to help women who have been hurt by abortion, we must never lose sight of the fact that it is the child who lost its life in this abortion. The woman may feel psychologically or spiritually dead because of her abortion, but she does still have her life and the opportunity to heal; the child does not. That human being was robbed of all the possibilities and opportunities that should have been hers; let's not trivialize her shortened life by sentimentalizing it.


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Our goal is to develop a pediatric combination vaccine to protect the vulnerable infant population against HIV-1 and tuberculosis (TB) infections. The vaccine consists of an auxotroph Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strain that co-expresses HIV antigens. Utilizing an infant rhesus macaque model, we have previously shown that this AMtb-SIV vaccine is immunogenic, and, although the vaccine did not prevent oral SIV infection, a subset of vaccinated animals was able to partially control virus replication. However, unexpectedly, vaccinated infants required fewer SIV exposures to become infected when compared to naïve controls.Considering that the current TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), can induce potent innate immune responses and confer pathogen-unspecific trained immunity, we hypothesized that an imbalance between enhanced myeloid cell function and immune activation might have influenced the outcome of oral SIV challenge in AMtb-SIV-vaccinated infants. To address this question, we used archived samples from unchallenged animals from our previous AMtb-SIV vaccine studies and vaccinated additional infant macaques with BCG or AMtb only. Our results show that vaccinated infants, regardless of vaccine strain or regimen, had enhanced myeloid cell responses. However, CD4(+) T cells were concurrently activated and the persistence of these activated target cells in oral and/or gastrointestinal tissues may have facilitated oral SIV infection. Immune activation was more pronounced in BCG than in AMtb-vaccinated infant macaques, indicating a role for vaccine attenuation. These findings underline the importance of understanding the interplay of vaccine-induced immunity and immune activation and its effect on HIV acquisition risk and outcome in infants.


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The bootstrap is a folder in Creatures 3 and Docking Station that includes CAOS scripts to be executed upon startup. This includes nearly all scripts for CAOS-based game elements, including the world map, the agents that populate a default world (such as toys and ecology), and the game interface. By replacing or modifying these scripts, one can affect the setup of new game worlds. For example, MNBs' 'Please buy...' disabler works by replacing that script on startup of a new world. Bootstrap scripts are executed only once when a new world is created.
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Facts show electric competition works in Texas
Updated 7:10 pm, Friday, January 25, 2013
The Chronicle's editorial of Jan. 20, "Not so shocking," charges that "electric deregulation isn't working in Texas," that consumers have not benefited from lower prices from the deregulated - or "competitive" - market as promised. But a close look at the numbers shows consumers actually are doing very well.
The fact is that Texas electric consumers in competitive areas who are willing to shop among retail providers are paying prices well below the regulated prices from a decade ago when consumers were still paying retail rates set by the state. The comparison is even starker if you factor in inflation.
Here are some numbers for those who buy electricity in CenterPoint Energy's service area: Last year it was common to find a one-year fixed price offer for electricity from a retail provider at 9 cents per kilowatt hour; variable price offers were as low as 5.2 cents per kilowatt hour.
Do you think consumers were better off in 2001, before the competitive market? Well, the regulated price per kilowatt hour in CenterPoint's service area was 10.4 cents then. Factoring in inflation, the equivalent today would be 13.6 cents. Essentially, consumers today can buy electricity on a fixed-term contract for 44 percent less than the prices of 2001. Since 2001, has your cable bill gone down? Your phone bill? How about groceries? Taxes?
The fact is that retail electric prices in Texas have dropped steadily over the past few years even as the prices of other commodities, such as gasoline, crude oil and coal, have risen. While natural gas prices are currently low relative to recent years, the low electric prices in Texas' competitive market are not just the result of falling natural gas prices. Prices are low in Texas' competitive market even though the Henry Hub spot price for natural gas is about 40 percent higher in January 2013 than it was in December 2001.
The Chronicle editorial claimed that municipally owned utilities in Austin and San Antonio have lower rates. Yet there are offers in competitive areas of the state that are lower than what Austin Energy and CPS customers in San Antonio pay. This is despite the fact that these municipally owned utilities avoid many of the costs that the competitive suppliers face. Additionally, numerous municipal utilities are currently implementing rate increases.
Furthermore, critics of competition seem to assume that had the electric industry not been restructured, prices would have somehow remained the same. This is extremely unlikely, especially when you consider that utilities would have been entitled to rate increases to build new power plants, upgrade and extend transmission lines, and reflect operating cost increases like health care costs and pensions. Meanwhile, no doubt the critics - perhaps the Houston Chronicle among them - would be complaining that rates were going too high, that the Public Utilities Commission worried too much about the industry and too little about consumers.
Also, the Chronicle editorial cites California's bungled restructuring in 2001. But the California experience showed Texas what not to do, and our competitive market is very different from what California tried. Texas legislative and regulatory leaders - as well as an independent market monitor overseen by the PUC and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas - have proved effective at policing our competitive electricity market.
In short, I respectfully submit that returning to a regulated system would not benefit consumers. Electric competition, in fact, is working in Texas, and the numbers show it.
Fainter is president and CEO of the Association of Electric Companies of Texas.


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So I've been trying to customize the Black Letterhead theme by process of elimination and my very thin grasp on css. I've almost got it to where I want it, but in the comments section there is this beige-y color that I would like to get rid of and replace with: 993399. There is also a dashed line in the archives section that I can't seem to "find" either.
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could my husband be a pedophile?
i came home from staying the night at a girlfriend's house out of town and couln't find my husband. he knew i was headed home. the house was quiet, so i finally figured he must have fallen asleep in the girls' room when he tried to get the to sleep.
i found him between my two year old and six year old, uncovered and completely naked!! i smacked him and told him to get out. he was "shocked" that i was mad about that silly trivial thing after he cleaned the house for me! after him accusing me of being molested as a child, because that is the only reasonable explanation as to why i am this upset, and several other horrible insults, i told him i wanted to separate.
he can't be here with my children if he thinks that is okay behavior. by the way, i have made it very clear, i am not okay with him being nude around my older daughter. After this incident, the same goes for both.
he said he was half asleep, wasn't thinking. but, why be naked at all when you know you have to take care of the kids!! id have never thought he could do anything wrong to the girls, but he planted that doubt.. these are my children. i would rather him hate me for thinking such things than be someone who looks back and realizes that all the signs were riht there.
i cant believe this is my life now...
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Seriously dude if your not a caring enough mother to wake your baby girl up and rush her to the hospital to make sure no on has fondled or god forbid penatrated her..I mean she could have internal damage! Then I hate to say it but you dont need custody of your daughters..Yes its incovient to wake her up but Id rather inconvience myself then let my baby girl just lay their not knowing..Poor kid..Luckily I dont know you personally or you have the cops a ambulance and cps there as we speak!
It'd be pretty easy to see it on the sheet if he had penetrated or if she had internal damage. Children that young can't really take a lot. My niece has trouble going number 2 every once in a while.
Honestly OP you need to suck it up and take them to the ER. Just deal with waking them.
D: I donno what to say hun, I'm sorry that must be really creepy. Hope everything turns out alright for you and your kids. Good luck
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That's frightening. I'd definitely freak out. Especially since he was so defensive about it. I'm sorry.
I agree, except he is defensive about everything, I can;t ever bring up an issue. And I'd be defensive if someone implied I might be a pervert. But, I know he is full of it when he acts like he doesn't see why it's a problem. He knew he was in trouble!
And yes, there are families who are comfortable with being nude around their children. Fine for them. But, not for us. Not for me. I have always been extremely clear about my feelings on that. He wears his underwear all day around the house. I have clearly not been tough enough about it, but he knows I think it's not appropriate.
Regardless of wether nudity is seen as okay around the children or not, lying in the children's bed in the nude... that's taking it a HUGE step further.
Good god you people are ridiculous.
My 6.5 yo son is nude quite often. I'm nude regularly. In the summer I sleep nude, and sometimes he sleeps with me (night terrors). I don't put clothes on.
Does this mean I molest my son?
Oh lord. My son wets the bed some nights. But I know why. He's in a deep fucking sleep. When he's crashed, he's crashed. This actually isn't too uncommon for 6 and 7 yos who are potty trained for waking hours.
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Well i'm concerned about her being 6 and still not being completely potty trained.... Especially recently, since he's been sleeping in the nude recently......catch my drift? Anyway, I wouldn't wake them, but you should go to the hospital asap
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ewww i'd freak out too. I dont see a reason as to why he would be naked between them..........
Time for you to have that talk with your older daughter...i'd be freaked and he would have had to get his ass out my house!
I am naked around my kids all the time. If he sleeps naked and they called him the room he could have very easily gone in there without grabbing some shorts. Just because the OP isn't comfortable with her husband's nudity doesn't mean he's not.
OP. chill out and talk to your daughter in the morning. I can't believe people think you should rush them to ER in the middle of the night. Talk about traumatizing them!


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For the past ten years Anthony J. Kaiser has been engaged in the leather manufacturing business in Gloversville and has risen to a prominent position in that industry, having a trade that reaches the consumers of buckskin all over the United States and Canada. Like many another man who has developed a prosperous business enterprise through his own efforts, Mr. Kaiser started from humble beginnings. Born in Fonda, Montgomery county, New York, December 29, 1870, he is the son of Anthony and Mary (Acker) Kaiser, both of whom are deceased. His parents were born in Germany, but came to America at an early age. When he was about eighteen or nineteen years of age Anthony Kaiser, Sr., settled in Gloversville, where he conducted a successful contracting and building business for a good many years, continuing actively in this line of work until his death. Many of the prominent buildings in the city today were erected by him and stand as permanent monuments to his ability and enterprise.
Anthony J. Kaiser was reared in Gloversville, where he obtained an education in the public schools. At the age of twelve, however, he put aside his textbooks and went to work in one of the local meat markets, being employed there for about a year. Subsequently he found a position with Mills Brothers, shoe leather manufacturers, where he first came into contact with the industry that has since engaged his entire attention. From Mills Brothers he went to Wood, Burton & Company, dealers in raw skins, who later took up the manufacture of leather. There he rose to a high position and became so thoroughly familiar with the business that he was retained as manager of the business for the estate four years after the death of the two partners. Ten years ago Mr. Kaiser went into the leather manufacturing business for himself at No. 57 South Main street. As his trade increased and his business prospered, Mr. Kaiser increased the facilities of his plant until it became necessary for him to have larger quarters. Accordingly, in January, 1920, he bought the fine, three-story building at the corner of Vine and Cayadutta streets, which now houses his establishment, a brick structure equipped with all the modern machinery in use in the industry. By making a specialty of buckskin he has developed a high grade product whose superior qualities have gained general recognition among manufacturers using leather of this type. He sells directly to consumers in all parts of this country and Canada and also does a large business through jobbing houses. The deer-skins for his work come from Mexico and Africa and are imported especially for the purpose.
Mr. Kaiser was married to Miss Juliet Flansberg, a daughter of Henry and Jane Flansberg, both of whom are deceased. During the Civil war her father served in the Union army, sustaining severe wounds that left him with an arm practically useless the rest of his life. Upon his return to the occupations of peace, however, he took up farming and was successfully engaged therein at Johnsburg, Warren county, New York, for the rest of his long and useful life. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser: Evelyn Mary and Anthony, Jr.
In addition to the leather business Mr. Kaiser has extensive farming interests in this vicinity, owning three fine farms to whose operation he gives much personal care and attention. Mr. Kaiser spends much time in the Adirondack mountains, as he is passionately devoted to both fishing and hunting, and rarely misses an opportunity to indulge in these sports. He is prominent in the fraternal and club life of the city as a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk and member of the Eccentric and Chatiemac Clubs, and is president in the last mentioned club. His Masonic affiliations are with the following bodies of that order: Johnstown Chapter, No. 78, R. A. M.; Holy Cross Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templars; Cyprus Temple, of the Mystic Shrine of Albany; the Albany Consistory and Scottish Rite bodies. Mr. Kaiser's religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and politically he ranks as a republican. While he never seeks nor desires office he is always loyal to the cause which he espouses and ever stands for progressive citizenship. Mr. Kaiser is typical of the successful business man of today — wide-awake, energetic and resourceful, finding his opportunities in prevailing conditions which he utilizes wisely in the upbuilding of his prosperous industry — a citizen of whom Gloversville has good right to be proud.


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Rimantas Koncevicious, 48, of Creswell Road, admitted driving a Vauxhall Vectra down Retford Road with too much alcohol in his system on 7th June. Appearing before Worksop Magistrates on 12th September, the court heard how Koncevicious was driving at 3am after drinking three to four drinks when police officers saw him pull off quickly. They stopped him when they smelled alcohol on his breath.
The Solway Foods worker, who has been in the UK for six years, was banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay a total of £400.


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Overture: as I look over at the MLB network set on my left, I see that Peter Gammons has moved over to make room for Harold Reynolds. No matter how far you run, Peter, you cannot get away.
As Satchel Paige noted, the social ramble ain't restful. If the purpose of these meetings is for general managers to meet and make deals, they fail woefully. There is also a great deal of redundancy in the media coverage: the same stories echo and repeat and there is no utility to it. Realistically, John Heyman and Ken Rosenthal could be sent here by subscription and the rest of us could stay home and follow them on Twitter.
Intermission: as I type these words, Jose Reyes is being introduced as a member of the Miami Marlins, AKA the Team Nobody Could Love (Because They Don't Deserve It). I had wondered if Reyes would get a haircut for the occasion. A: Are you kidding? The Marlins are the essence of screw-you capitalism. They are far from unique in this, but that doesn't mean I have to like them or fall for the sucker punch that is their current ostentatious build-up, a shopping spree that cannot and will not be sustained. On a pure baseball level, however, I am impressed by their resolve to not be satisfied with Hanley Ramirez's defense at shortstop. I also wonder at the apparent lack of communication with Ramirez, although perhaps that was purposeful.
On a similar note, Jim Bowden just asked Reyes if he had reached out to Ramirez. Reyes: "We have not had time to talk yet." Jose, when you are about to take someone's job, the classy thing to do is to reach out and give them a heads up, maybe ask them how they might feel about that.
Back to the social ramble: As you can see from the picture at right, the real purpose of these meetings is to forge relationships. The crowd depicted includes writers, broadcasters, job-seekers, scouts, managers, and general managers (the latter two fleetingly for the most part). They are talking, laughing, and drinking—mostly drinking—together, and the connections they forge here will facilitate communication within and around the game for the next year. That is the whole purpose, and has been for as long as baseball has had winter meetings—look at old issues of The Sporting News and you can see these same pictures, albeit on a smaller scale and populated by men now in the Hall of Fame (and, I imagine, a lot fewer women, more's the pity).
Note: John Heyman approacheth. He is tweeting things, resplendent in his spectacles.
Finale: Last night, the Mets picked up two relievers and this morning the Padres acquired Huston Street for a player to be named later, possibly Canal Street or Tenth Avenue. It seems as if when these meetings are not consumed with Albert Pujols—and kids, the impossible has happened, Pujols is now an overrated player—they are obsessed with closers. As I get older, crankier, and ever more attractive, I am becoming increasingly disgusted with the Cult of the Closer. I venerate Mariano Rivera as much as any baseball fan should, but damn it, we're talking about 60 innings a year out of a total of 1450. I don't care how important you think those innings are, that is four percent of the total. Four. Percent. The obsessive focus on the ninth inning is purely psychological; a team can lose games in any other inning, and often do, in part because they're devoting a disproportionate amount of resources to this almost entirely fictional Cadillac role.


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Landing in Lukla is often thought to be one of the most dangerous aspects of the trip; you land on the side of a mountain on this tiny run which gets away with being only about 1/4th the size of a "normal" runway due to the fact that its end is much higher than its start: planes can stop way quicker when they're heading up a steep incline.
The portion of the trek from Jiri to Lukla is often uncrowded, and therefore much better trekking country.
We arrived in Lukla this morning at about 9: 00AM after a short period of uncertainty in the Kathmandu Airport (Lukla flights are notorious for being cancelled due to the fact that its runway is about the same elevation as the clouds, which means you need ideal conditions to land); our safe landing in many ways marked the real start to our journey – as we would no longer be dreaming about seeing the Himalaya, no longer be wondering about how prepared our bodies are for the rigors of high altitude trekking, but actually doing and seeing and experiencing.
Sporadic visibility due to an almost always-present blanket of cloud cover only increases the "excitement factor" of landing in Lukla.
Katmandu and was attempting to land at Lukla, which is at an elevation of 9,200 feet (2,800 meters), and has a sheer drop at the runway's end.
From Namche the trek follows the Lukla to Everest base camp route and then flies out from Lukla.
If your time is limited, you can fly in to the remote mountain airstrip at Lukla and trek to the Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar, the monastery at Tengpoche and the high yak pasture of Dingboche.
The return route leads through Dingboche and the monastery of Tengpoche before descending the Khumbu Valley to Lukla.
To get near Everest, you must either walk for 10 days or fly to Lukla, a remote mountain airstrip where flights are notoriously unreliable.
If Lukla took my breath away sitting amidst terraced hills and high peaks (still "babies" compared with what was yet to come), once the trek began I found myself speechless at almost every turn.


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Let's set the scene...it is the summertime, and you are alone in a swimming pool in the middle of the day. The water is a clear turquoise visually, and the permeating scent is somewhere in between suntan lotion and chlorine. Your hair is actually still warm and dry from not having totally submerged- until now- as you have made the split second decision to ease down under the water until you are completely below the surface. Now, listen...do you hear it? Can you hear the magically distorted sounds of the air above of and it's atmospheric activities creating a natural symphony, filtered though your aquatic haze?
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If you can, you will have just experienced a taste of the new album by Fenster. Their Velvet Underground influence is there, (ultimately how could it not be with their members being from New York City and Berlin, I mean, come on!) but their creative personal license is valid. Let's say that they are more of a Velvet Underwater, if you know what I mean. Fenster's new release "Bones" is a scrapbook of articles, objects, and transparencies rolled together into a single object of art which was solely created for you to not just listen to, but experience.
You can also catch them on the road. Note their schedule below, including a stint at SXSW. Oh, and before I forget, you can come back up for air now.
Fenster US Tour Dates
03-05 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
03-07 - New York, NY- Pianos
03-13-18 - Austin, TX - SXSW
03-25 - Cleveland, OH - The Happy Dog
03-27 - Pittsburgh, PA - Howlers Coyote Café
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United Hunt Barcelona Ace!
Sir Alex Ferguson`s statement that he`ll not be buying in the transfer window has stifled any anticipated January transfer talk.
January is a month we all look forward to, it`s a month that has a certain buzz about it, especially when the aforementioned window is on the verge of slamming shut.
But, with Sir Alex decreeing that is what shall be, we can only pick up on transfer rumours that relate to players joining us in the summer.
Today, one news source has us linked with a move for the exciting twenty-two year old defensive midfielder on the books of Barcelona, Sergio Busquets.
The source suggests that United are planning a £25 million move which represents big bucks!
Is there nay truth in it? I guess well only find out once the summer comes and that is something that remains a long way off!
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I'm just doing a construct2 course by John Bura so I am quite new to this.
I would like to make a Game that will sound music notes when certain conditions occur.
On the web page it states that it comes with 124 sound files and wondering if I can use my own files and if so is the limit 124.
Construct2 does seem like an easy programme to produce games
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Sometimes Germany just wants to shout, "Hey world, you're absolutely right about us!"
It must be hard out there for an animal pimp, especially when you can't wear an ankle length fur coat without absolutely terrifying your prostitutes. We applaud Germany's effort to ban this practice and reinforce their traditional belief that sex should be a sick, disgusting, often degrading, and completely unsanitary act between two consenting humans. If you ever visit Germany, be warned, their version of Cute Overload is very different from ours.


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10 looks for casual coats or jackets
10 looks for casual coats or jackets
Coats and jackets might keep you covered in the name of keeping you warm and dry, but they don't have to hide your style as well. Knowing which jackets pair well with which clothes and accessories is key to looking great whilst you keep the cold at bay, whether you're kicking through leaves on a woodland walk or strolling through town.
Rain, rain, go away
For women, raincoats have gone from being plain to perfectly pretty. Instead of looking like practical necessities, you'll find sunny brights, fabulous florals and flattering shapes that still have all the necessary zips, flaps and taped seams to keep you protected from the elements.
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Raincoats can be worn with oh-so-comfortable pull-on cord trousers or jogging pants, a fleece top and walking shoes; a great combination for strolling with the dog.
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It doesn't only have to be about the great outdoors. Even if it's just for shopping, a raincoat also works with jeans, a shirt, a knitted jumper and a pair of fashion-forward pumps.
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Long padded jackets are gloriously cosy in winter, but they don't have to be confined to the coat rack during the spring. Look for one that has princess seams (curved stitching that flatters your shape) and waist details so your femininity shows through.
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Combining a lightweight padded coat with casual chino trousers, pumps and a mock shirt cable jumper makes for a casual yet stylish layered look that's ready for a post-lunch walk with the family.
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Try it with jeans, ankle boots and a T-shirt during the spring when the winds aren't quite so chilly. It's great look for a day out in town.
Quilted comfort
The same stitching detail that gives quilted jackets their charm can mean they're not appropriate for every occasion, but they are a great way of adding a touch of country charm to your outfits. Get one with princess seams, a mock belt tabbed to the waistband and a contemporary printed lining for a fitted and feminine look.
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For a slightly more formal occasion, such as meeting for a meal, a cord skirt, knee-high boots and a printed shirt go great with a quilted coat. Opt for a bright colour for a fresh take on a true classic.
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It can also be worn with coloured jeans, a piece of knitwear and some fleece-lined boots for a casual look on cooler days.
Trail blazer
Everyone should have a blazer in their wardrobe for when they want to make a formal outfit more casual, or vice versa. Outside of the traditional materials, going for a linen blend or lightweight jersey is ideal for a casual summer look.
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Try a blazer with a mock shirt jumper, a silk scarf neatly tied at the neck, jeans and ankle boots for a casual pub lunch with friends.
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Pair your blazer with a roll neck tucked into cord trousers and belt for a simple, classic look.
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Whilst the flowers might not be in full bloom just yet, give spring a warm welcome with a fresh and feminine floral print waterproof it's an easy way to brighten any grey days and chase away lingering chills. Consider what other prints you wear at the same time and, if your jacket is very bold, you can keep your outfit simple and wear plain coloured bottoms.
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A printed coat can be worn with a roll-neck top, jeans and knee-high boots when winter finally gives way to spring.
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Team with a piece of cosy knitwear and cord trousers, tucked into fleece-lined ankle boots for those particularly chilly days.
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Every year we gamers look forward to one of the biggest events in gaming, E3, and every year we are hoping to see the games that WE want. The last couple of years have been a couple of the best E3's, in my opinion. This is a list of FIVE games that I would like to see this E3.
Kingdom Hearts 3
Any of you who know me knows that I am one of the biggest Kingdom Hearts fans, so of course I am hoping to see some more of Kingdom Hearts 3 and how the Unreal Engine is shaping up. I am not one who wants to know all of the worlds that will be on this game, because I love the surprise while I play it, but I do want to see more gameplay and hope to hear a release window. My prediction is September of 2016 but I hope I am wrong and by some miracle it comes out sooner. I want to see Kairi with her keyblade... I want too much this E3 but we deserve some Kingdom Hearts this year.
Final Fantasy 15
Even though we just got a 5+ hour demo with Type 0 I want to see more! This game is shaping up very nicely and looks to be the best Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy X. The demo is amazing, however I want to know more about this story. I want to get to know the characters more. I also want a release date!!! I don't want a release window, like Kingdom Hearts, but I want the actual month or day. If they don't put out a release date than it would be a huge mistake for Square Enix due to the fact that they put out this demo... too soon. People/fans can't wait any longer. Sure, we want this game to be flawless and we want them to take their time, but let's all face it... they have had years! My prediction is that Final Fantasy XV comes out April or May of 2016, however, it is safe to say I am way off. It just makes since to me in some ways... If they want to make an impact and put square back on the market they will push as hard as they can to put this game on the shelves by 2 QTR 2016 and KH3 Qtr 4. I guess we will just have to wait and see if it's going to last another year... by that time I may not give a sh** though...
Gears of War
After Judgment many fans were highly disappointed. I felt the game was terrible! I have my reasons... When I first heard about the Master Chief collection, I thought why not Gears of War collection!? XBOX One is a great system. I do prefer the PS4 but the sooner they bring back Gears on a high scale the more I believe people will see XBOX as the dominate system. Halo and Gears of War sold Xbox's throughout the last gen. Whether it's a Gears 4, a prequel to the first Gears, or a Remaster... I'd be happy. They would be crazy to wait another year... Give us a teaser at least.
Some of the best times I have had online. Creating my own levels and a fast shooter was so much fun. Now, this was before forge in Halo, which I still think needs work. Timesplitters, to me, did this right. Sure Halo is an amazing game but when it comes to creating levels... The characters in Timesplitters were awesome and unique, the campaign was solid and funny, and the gameplay was almost flawless. Bring this series back!
Fallout 4
Fallout 4! It is time! I have not been a fan of Fallout as long as some but I enjoyed the third game on my 360. This is a game that needs to come out next year and needs to be shown to the fans this year at E3. A vast world with unique gameplay. We all know this game is coming, but when is it exactly? Hopefully we get a taste at this years big event.
So, there are my 5 games that I would like to see at this years E3. What are some games that you all would like to see? Are you excited for any of the ones I have mentioned or do you have your own list?
Some that didn't make the list that I also would love to see are:
Vita Games!
Titanfall 2
Persona 5
New Secret of Mana
Friday the 13th
and so much more!!!
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DENVER (AP) -- Troy Tulowitzki hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Friday night.
With runners on second and third and no outs, Kameron Loe (2-3) relieved starter Yovani Gallardo and Tulowitzki hit an 0-1 pitch off the glove of a leaping Ryan Braun at the left-field wall. Tulowitzki stood near first base before resuming his home-run trot after it was clear Braun was unable to catch the ball.
Todd Helton drew a leadoff walk and Carlos Gonzalez doubled down the left-field line before Tulowitzki's 11th homer.
Taylor Buchholz (1-0) picked up his first win in nearly two years and Huston Street worked the ninth for his eighth save.
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The Chattachoochee River separates Columbus from Alabama's eastern borders and fed the textile industry that thrived early on. Nestled just over one hundred miles southwest of Atlanta, Columbus is the largest city in Muscogee County.
From Horace King, supervisor of the building of Columbus's Dillingham Bridge in 1832, to the installment of the city's first black police—Freddie Brown, Paul Odom, Fred Spencer, and Clarence White—on January 1, 1951, the city has nurtured and shaped many pioneers in the struggle for the recognition of black civil rights. The city has also produced musical legends like Thomas "Blind Tom" Bethune, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, or the more recent Marilyn McCoo, a rhythm and blues singer. Fewer have heard about Eugene Bullard, the first African American aviator and the sole black pilot in the Great War, who also hailed from Columbus.
Columbus residents witnessed battles against Jim Crow first-hand. The close proximity of Fort Benning, an Army base ten miles south of Columbus, added fuel to arguments against segregation. During World War II, many noted the irony of the U.S.'s fight against racism and white supremacy abroad while the nation's African American population faced open discrimination and violence at the hands of American citizens.
Not until President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 in 1948, three years after the end of WWII, would blacks and whites be legally sanctioned to fraternize openly on military bases. Although historians noted a decrease in racial tensions among military personnel during the Korean War, the first war after Executive Order 9981, most southern whites would work to circumvent the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court ruling that called for the integration of public schools.
Columbusites proved no different. The wide range of activities aimed at countering black civil rights such as the formation of Citizen's Councils, the use of violence, and the cooperation of local and state governments—now called massive resistance—played out in Columbus as it had in most of the cities and towns featured on the Freedom on Film web site.
The violence of massive resistance reached Dr. Thomas "Chief" Brewer, one star in Columbus's battle for black civil rights, in 1956. In 1944, Brewer's fundraising efforts proved integral to Primus King's challenge to the all-white Democratic primary of the state. Their labors led two Georgia courts to rule in favor of the constitutional right of black enfranchisement. After the rulings, Brewer would increase African American representation in Columbus's political affairs by organizing voter registration campaigns. In August 1951, Brewer campaigned for the hiring of black law enforcement officials. He also drew the ire of the white population, who remained resistant to social change.
Just two weeks after Autherine Lucy made headlines as the first African American admitted to the University of Alabama, and ten weeks into the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, Lucio Flowers killed Brewer, who worked as a medical doctor, in alleged self-defense. Few blacks actually believed that Brewer provoked Flowers. Rather they pointed to Brewer's activism as the motive behind his murder. Brewer's murder traumatized the black community and fed the flight of black professionals, including Brewer's own family, from the city. Although it did stifle the Civil Rights Movement in Columbus, this tragedy did not end civil rights activism in the city, nor did it ease white resistance.
Black high-school and college students continued to stage protests against the racism of the city. In 1971, Coretta Scott King visited Ft. Benning and reaffirmed her commitment to nonviolent resistance after Columbus witnessed a less-than-harmonious week of school integration efforts. The 1977 conviction of a black man for a spree of murders in the posh, residentially segregated Wynnton Neighborhood, described in the Stocking Strangler story on the Freedom on Film Columbus pages, laid bare the racial anxieties that persisted in the city.
Since then, there has been increased black representation in the city's political affairs: Jerry Barnes now serves as a council member and residents have sent Sanford Bishop to Congress eight times. Still, racial inequalities persist. In an eight-part series on race relations in Columbus, journalist Richard Hyatt concluded by questioning levels of understanding, trust, and even fear among blacks and whites.
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Former WWE Wrestler Ken Anderson Parts Ways with TNASeptember 24, 2013
It looks like TNA has lost yet another wrestler, with former WWE guy Ken Anderson being removed from the company's official roster.
Ex-Diva Mickie James' name was also removed.
As wrestling site Lords of Pain notes, America's troubled No. 2 wrestling promotion had been in contract negotiations with the pair, with apparently little success: "TNA has removed the profiles of Mickie James and Ken Anderson from the roster section on their official website...Both stars had contracts getting ready to expire and it was believed they were negotiating new deals but this is a sign they have parted ways with TNA."
Similar to James' future, Anderson's future in wrestling, assuming he even has one, is very much up in the air right now. It's hard to see the wrestler moving to Japan to reinvent his career or going to Ring of Honor. (Ring of Honor probably wouldn't want to meet his price tag, either.)
So that leaves only one option: WWE.
Anderson did, of course, work for the company between 2005 and 2009 under the name "Mr. Kennedy."
As the brash, loudmouth wannabe announcer, Kennedy initially looked to be going places.
He won the coveted Money in the Bank title shot at WrestleMania 23, feuded with the likes of The Undertaker and Dave Batista and got to be the lead in the WWE Studios flick Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia. He was even penciled in to be Vince McMahon's illegitimate son at one point.
Alas, the guy was plagued by bad luck and his own stupidity. He got injured at inopportune times, said extremely stupid things in interviews and got suspended for violating the wellness policy.
Of course, the turning point came in May 2009 when he famously infuriated Randy Orton by accidentally botching a back suplex during a match on Raw. He was released only days later. The star would later complain in a lengthy shoot interview with Pro Wrestling Report that he felt Orton and others had sabotaged his career.
So it wasn't exactly an amicable parting of ways.
Would WWE take him back? Well, he's not exactly a young guy anymore (he turned 37 earlier this year), and it's not like he showed much during his rather unremarkable run with TNA.
There would also presumably still be problems with Orton that could serve as a hindrance in negotiations.
Of course, Anderson is charismatic and remains a very good talker. Even his worst critics would have to admit his potential to be someone special. He just needs to be properly utilized. (It would also help if he was banned from doing media interviews.)
What do you think? Will Vince McMahon and WWE decide to give him another shot in the future? Or has that ship sailed?


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By Steve Biko Abuya with Ogova Ondego
Published June 21, 2014
Did you know that the frequency you use your cell-phone affects how you interact with the people in real life situation?
Many of us spend so much time on our cell-phones chatting on social media that these gadgets have become a part of our lives. You will see us chatting on our devices along the streets or even giggling in sacred, academic and work places as if they were social areas. But just how well do we know that person sitting next to us in that matatu, theare or rally?
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Human Communication Research, an international journal that presents contemporary communication studies, states that frequent cell-phone users would be less likely to converse with strangers in public; that heavy users of social media like us seem to be involved in our own 'world' and rarely pay attention to issues outside our virtual realm; that we ignore anyone close to us as we concentrate on our gadgets.
Have you noticed that sometimes we become so caught up in capturing an event like a birthday party on our cells that we forget to enjoy the actual moment itself? Such is what technological advancement has turned us into; losing touch with the real self.
To make matters worse, we the social media 'champs' have become so addicted to our gadgets that we don't know how to communicate in a face-to-face situation. We hardly ever have the time to engage in formal greetings and conversations. For instance, when was the last time we began our conversation via proper conventional greetings?
We may be living in the age that that eminent physicist Albert Einstein foretold: "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots†for indeed the 21st Century technology has bred idiots.
Many people hold the view that the meaning of 'friendship' lost its weight and relevance with the onset of a few clicks of 'Add Friend', 'Like', 'Follow' and 'Share' on social media. This is because we may have hundreds or even thousands of 'friends' on social media yet we hardly ever interact with them. Sometimes we meet some of them along the streets and don't recognise them!
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We have forgotten the art of letter-writing to the extent that some organisations are today demanding that job applicants write application letters, resumes and motivation in their own handwriting to gauge who to hire.
Alongside letter-writing and sentence-construction, grammar and punctuation have suffered from our so-called technological advancement. There is always a feeling among us that long paragraphs are boring and tiresome to read hence the need for shortcuts which eventually downplay correct use of grammar.
As you interact face to face with others, you get to learn of new vocabulary and their pronunciations. This opportunity is often unavailable to most of us on social media.
Worse still, if there are children in the family, the addiction to social media by the parents is most likely to result in erosion of family ties.
Technology is also making us live a 'lie'; we use social media as an escape to be what we wish we were in real life, be it financially, romantically, academically or even in terms of beauty. Some of us sound so clever, romantic, smart, rich or whatever else one fancies but we disappoint those our interaction has impressed when we finally meet them outside platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter.
This 'social media bondage' has found its way into our work place. We chat with our 'friends' during working hours, something that leads to our being less productive as we waste lots of time on chats that could be pursued after work.


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University Hall Move-In Under Way
Posted: May 16, 2011 at 1:03 am, Last Updated: May 13, 2011 at 8:00 pm
By Dave Andrews
Construction is finished. Inspections are complete. It's time to move.
University Hall is move-in ready after nearly a year and a half of construction. Administrative offices from across campus will find a new home in the $45 million building that stands at the corner of University Drive and George Mason Boulevard.
For months, Facilities project managers have been carefully orchestrating what will be Mason's largest office shuffle to date. At least 14 offices and dozens of smaller units will move into the building between now and June 8, including:
- Alumni Affairs
- Auxiliary Enterprises and University Services
- Budget
- Fiscal Services
- George Mason University Foundation
- Human Resources and Payroll
- Institutional Assessment
- Institutional Research and Reporting
- Intercollegiate Athletics and Patriot Club
- Information Technology Unit
- Risk Management
- Sponsored Programs
- University Relations
- University Development
First Tenant: HR and Payroll
The Office of Human Resources and Payroll is the first office to move into the new digs. From now until May 20, HR will offer limited services as the staff tackles moving thousands of files, materials and equipment out of the Commerce Building and into the fourth floor of University Hall.
"We're very excited to finally, finally, finally get to be on campus," says Linda Harber, associate vice president of Human Resources and Payroll. "The new location should make it much easier for our customers to drop by and see us, and that will make for a much warmer and friendlier atmosphere."
HR's New Employee Welcome Center will also find a new home in University Hall. The center will be larger than it was in the Commerce Building, making life more comfortable for new Mason employees, especially during the busy seasons at the beginning of each semester.
Harber acknowledges that it's been hectic as HR moves to a new building after so many years in Commerce. But she and her staff have a positive outlook.
"Such a large-scale move has its share of challenges, but the long-term positives certainly outweigh any frustrations we'll likely encounter in the next couple of weeks," she says.
Harber jokingly compares the moving process to planning a wedding.
"It's both exciting and stressful at the same time. You just hope everyone still likes each other when it's all over."
Retailers Lining Up
The top four floors of the five-story University Hall will be primarily multi-unit administrative suites. The first floor has nearly 10,000 square feet of academic classroom space and more than 7,800 square feet of retail space.
The university is finalizing a list of retailers who will best fit the building and its location. Currently, only Einstein Bagel Bros. has signed a lease for retail space. Other prospective tenants with signed letters of intent to lease space include UPS, an organic food restaurant and Panda Express, a fast-food chain serving Chinese fare.
Most of the retail spaces will be accessible even when the building is closed after normal business hours.
Architecturally, the building is slightly different and much more modern than most other buildings on campus. Though not certified, the building was built to LEED standards and boasts various sustainable features.
One of the most noticeable features — from both the interior and exterior — is the south façade, which is mostly glass. The floor-to-ceiling windows allow a majority of the work spaces to be naturally illuminated, making the building not only eco-friendly but also visually appealing.
As a result of so many offices moving into University Hall, many more offices will be shifting into the vacated spaces. What will happen to the Commerce Building, which the university leases, has not yet been determined. The lease expires in October.
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Samsung and T-Mobile Ready for Behold II Event on Nov 12
I've always been intrigued by companies that like to announce that they will have an announcement. Especially in this case where Samsung and T-Mobile are partnering together to hold a press event on November 12 in which the Behold II will be the star of the show.
There have been enough leaked pics and videos of the Behold II that its overall look and feel are no longer in question, and certainly no longer a mystery. And we've already heard nearly-confirmed rumors that the device will officially be on sale beginning November 18. So now all that's left is an official proclamation that the Behold II exists and really is coming out when we all expect it to.
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The Today Show is nowadays one of the most popular television shows in the United States. The Today Show was first aired in January, 1952, and more than 50 years after that moment, it is still the most watched morning show in the United States. People seem to just love watching The Today Show, as they can find out some important information, including the latest news, lifestyle tips and also the weather prognosis. The Today Show airs on NBC and because of the great success it had during the years, competitor networks have also lunched similar morning shows, although they still have not managed to overpass the success of The Today Show.
At first, The Today Show was a two hours morning television series. Starting with October, 2000, the producers of the show decided to expand its duration to three hours. And the change was so well received by the public that seven years later, The Today Show producers made the decision to expand once again the duration of The Today Show. Since then, The Today Show airs on a period of four hours, each morning. You can enjoy watching The Today Show every day, before going to work and you are surely going to find the latest news.
The Today Show current cast includes Matt Lauer and Ann Curry, but also Natalie Morales and Savannah Guthie. The first anchor of The Today Show was Dave Garoway, who hosted the show between 1952 and 1961. The first Sunday edition of the The Today Show debuted in 1987. However, although similar television shows were created by ABC and CBS, The Today Show remains the first show of this type to ever been aired in America. Ratings indicate that The Today Show is still the most viewed morning show in the United States. In April 2011 the show was watched by more than 5.6 million viewers, compared to ABC's Good Morning America, which was viewed by about 4.8 million viewers, and CBS's The Early Show, which was watched by 2.6 million people. When making their choice about a morning show, people still seem to opt for The Today Show.


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Sarah Goldmuntz, daughter of Leesa Wilson-Goldmuntz and David Goldmuntz of Santa Barbara, has been named to the Dean's List at Hamilton College for the 2012 fall semester.
To be named to the Dean's List, a student must have carried throughout the semester a course load of four or more graded credits with an average of 3.5 or above.
Goldmuntz, a junior majoring in world politics, is a graduate of Laguna Blanca School.
Hamilton College is a highly selective residential college offering a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. Students are challenged to think, write and speak critically, creatively and analytically, so that upon graduation they may distinguish themselves in both their professions and their communities.


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Local Black Stars coacch Maxwell Konadu confident DR Congo will fall
Ghana coach Maxwell Konadu has no doubts about his side's capabilities of beating DR Congo to reach the semi-final of the African Nations Championship.Â
Konadu's troops have been unimpressive despite topping Group C with seven points after beating Congo, Ethiopia and drawing with Libya.
The Local Black Stars are seeking to avenge the 2-0 defeat suffered to the Leopards in the final of the maiden edition of the tournament in 2009 Ivory Coast.
Ghana will be bolstered by the return of Yahaya Mohammed, who was suspended for their last match against Ethiopia.
Konadu claims his players have hit top form and ready to scale over the DR Congo hurdle.
"This team can beat DR Congo as we've worked hard to improve our tactical play,†Konadu is quoted by 90 Minutes.
"The team is gelling at the right time and hopefully we will carry our momentum into game to help us qualify for the semis.â€
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Boro says:January 24, 2014 06:59 pmWhich tactical play are you talking about? Your team's performance has moved from bad to worst since the start of this tournament if you are not aware, ok!. Please, stop running your mouth and focus on the preparation and stop deceiving yourself. The match against Ethiopia we lost most of our possession through Mpong but you never saw the need to substitute him. It even appeared you got your team call up wrong because with only two players missing and your team begins to suck, so what are you talking about. I still maintained that with what i have seen so far i don't think you deserve a place in the technical team to Brazil.


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It is a well-acknowledged fact that Orlando, Florida is the center of amusement and theme parks, however Orlando is definitely a good deal more. And having visitors from everywher around the world pouring into the city attending conventions, those who will be there for business might not be interested in everything amusement attractions offer. So although you will discover a great deal regarding the Best Theme Parks in Orlando on our website, on this article we'll talk of some of the additional numerous opportunities offered.
First, a few words about the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC): operating only 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport, it is located in the hub within the theme park area of Orlando on International Drive. There are in excess of 32000 hotel rooms in the area which are quickly within reach to the I-RIDE Trolley Service, that is International Drive's own transportation system. The OCCC is the second biggest conference and convention facility within the country and is situated in the center of what the Best in Orlando has to offer.
1. Kennedy Space Center. It is only 45 minutes east of Orlando and will be straightforwardly accessible from Florida's Central Interstate highways. You can reserve round-trip transportation with trip operators beginning at select Orlando hotels in addition to plaza areas. There are more than a few things you can do here associated with the space program, because they continue to make it exceptionally holiday tourist-friendly.
2. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Getting rated 50 out of 155 attractions within Orlando by TripAdvisor, it is located a little off International Drive. Here they celebrate the fascinating to the bazaar with 16 distinctive galleries of wierd artifacts and displays coming from around the world.
3. Orlando Magic NBA Basketball. If you're keen on sports entertainment or simply would like an enjoyable night watching some basketball wrapped around dinner and enjoyment on Church Street, this can be a whole lot of fun. Considering just how challenging travel on Interstate 4 is in many cases, It was nice to see how briskly we could get into and then out of the arena, that is located in city center of Orlando however close to parking.
4. Leu Botanical Gardens. Ranked 20 in their 155 points of interest within Orlando, this is a peaceful refuge from the hectic Orlando pace. It is just about 50 acres containing lakes plus landscaped areas set surrounded by 200 year old oaks.
5. Cirque du Soleil La Nouba. This had a 19 rank by TripAdvisor, it is found by the end of Downtown Disney. The performances are very stunning, and is in fact a visual display. It relates to the narrative of two worlds clashing: the brightly colored show people and the dark urbanites. It's a one-of-a-kind event.
6. Shopping. Orlando has a fantastic variety of shopping, however to shop for deals at high-end stores, the Orlando Premium Outlets located on Vineland Road not far from International Drive is the spot to shop. Savings of from 25% to 65% may be found on daily basis at 150 various stores including Armani, Ferragamo, Lauren and many additional well-branded names. The shopping mall is set within an open air Mediterranean style, so even when it's busy, and that is most of the time, it does not seem crowded.
Obviously this short article just touches on a handful of the numerous attractions in this famous area. We hope this offers you a glimpse of some you likely have not noticed.
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© Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Queen Rania appointed as Honorary Global Chair of UNGEI
The United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) is pleased to announce that Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, a tireless and impassioned advocate for the worlds children, has been appointed as its Honorary Global Chair. Queen Rania is renowned for her abiding commitment to the well-being of children, and the cause of girls education in particular. She has traveled widely, spoken passionately and advocated tirelessly for providing all children, especially girls, with quality education.
As Honorary Chair, Queen Rania will advocate on behalf of girls who are denied an education, and support efforts of UNGEI, which works for a world where all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realize their full potential and contribute to transforming societies where gender equality becomes a reality.
Her Majesty, who shares in UNGEIs vision, has called education more than a basic human right. She has also noted that girls throughout the world lose out to poverty and cultural biases because families invest in sons over daughters when they struggle to survive. They leave education early because many schools fail to provide sanitation facilities that give girls the privacy and dignity they deserve. They lack female role models to emulate, to inspire them, to help them imagine what they can become.
Queen Rania is herself a role model for millions of girls and young women. She provides an inspirational and powerful voice for the voiceless, and consistently highlights issues that require the urgent attention of the international community.
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This past year I had the amazing opportunity to teach a graduate student some R. On the first day, I had planned on covering the basics of the interactive environment, vectors, and built-in functions. Shortly after beginning, I got off track and told her a personal story - one that defines me as a statistical programmer.
When I was in 6th grade, our class was given the routine middle school assignment to carry out a science experiment and present it at the school's science fair. I loved science (much thanks to my father, who every Easter purchased me a science text, including Linus Pauling's General Chemistry when I was 10, Kline's Mathematics for the Non-Mathematician when I was 11, and so on...), but I had never carried out a full experiment.
I decided to test which brand of athlete's foot medicine killed the most athlete's foot fungus cultured in an agar plate. Gross I know; however I was determined to do the experiment correctly. The SF Library had some dermatology reference books that would help me identify athlete's foot, which then allowed me to swab the infected feet of unsuspecting peers. Again, gross, I know.
I cultured the fungi, treated different groups with different medicines, and had a control. Later, I pasted various writeup sections on my poster board and packed up my petri dishes for curious types to see during presentation night. I set up my board, placed my petri dishes around the table, and began to wait for passers-by to ask me questions.
The first person to stop by was intrigued - she quickly identified herself
as a dermatologist. I was excited: maybe she had done similar work? As I
answered her first question, she began looking at all the petri dishes.
"Are these your cultured petri dishes from the experiment?"
"Yes!" I responded eagerly, "This one here was treated with the generic Walgreens bran-"
"Hmm, actually none of these fungi appear to be the same fungus that causes athlete's foot"
My stomach sank. I thought immediately "...but I identified
it - those people had athlete's foot"
"Yea, none of these dishes have it. Oh, wait, this one has a bit of it - see this orange bit here? That's it"
"Oh," my body started heating up and my leg began to quiver.
"Well, good try!" and she walked off.
That was a defining moment. I got it all wrong. No control, accurate measurement, or dedication (hell, I swabbed people's feet for this project!) matters when something so basic is flawed. I was so distraught that my first encounter with experimental science had ended this way that I ran out and sat on the steps of the school for the next hour.
My experiment failed because I wasn't careful in eliminating the early danger of contamination. Furthermore, the control was coincidentally more contaminated than other dishes, making it look like there was a treatment effect.
As I work on increasingly many scientific projects (through my job at the Bioinformatics Core, and helping friends on the side), I still dedicate a lot of thought to this idea of contamination. Statistics is becoming indifferentiable from statistical programming. And as in all programming, contamination is a huge risk; rather than airborne pathogens landing on agar plates, the contaminant of the statistical programmer is the bug hiding in one's code.
I can't emphasize how important it is to code carefully. A scientist could conduct an experiment perfectly, but in the hands of a rushed or clumsy statistical programmer all their efforts could go to waste. This is what I emphasized to the graduate student I was teaching R: as a student of the R language, you will make errors. You must stack the deck in your favor so that you see them.
If you're reading this, I imagine you work with, code in, or have some interest in the R language. Do you unit test? Have you ever used a stopifnot() call in your code? How do you ensure what you do is correct? What's at stake if your code is incorrect?
None of us can guarantee our code 100%. But we should all strive to put as many checks in our code as possible. Most of the data I get at work comes from a "nearly opaque box" - either from an outside researcher, or someone in my group upstream of the analysis. In future (hopefully shorter) posts, I will try to illustrate some of the ways in which we can minimize potentially project-shattering bugs.