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Have your guy sit against the side of a small boat. He should lean back and keep his knees bent and legs apart while resting his arms on the edge of the boat. Straddle his lap and take him inside you. Carefully lean away from him and place your legs over his shoulders. Then slowly rock back and forth until you both fall into a randy rhythm.
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Why You'll Love It
With the boat rocking beneath you and the water splashing, every move you two make will be magnified. For some, the potential for tipping over will up the thrill factor.
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Reaching the third round of the US Open is rarely considered a problem for a teenager with a WTA ranking in the 300s. But Beatrice Capra's success last year in New York presented her with an obvious opportunity to reconsider her commitment to attending college.
A 6-0, 6-0 loss to Maria Sharapova on Arthur Ashe Stadium in the next round ended her run before it reached Melanie Oudin-like dimensions, and shortly thereafter, Capra took an official visit to Duke University. In November, she signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Blue Devils in the fall of 2011, where she aims to polish her game while preparing for a career in pro tennis.
"It was a tough decision," admits Capra, who is called Trice by her friends and family. "My parents really helped me stay focused on what I needed to do. I need to go to college, at least for a year, so I'm sure that I can have that education, and can come back. I want to go pro when I know that I can do what I did at the Open on a consistent level, and I'm earning enough money to make a living."
Capra's mother Laurie, a two-time All-American at the University of South Florida, recalls the pressure to change her daughter's plans after the win over Rezai.
"People were just thinking we were nuts. It's not easy when you go up into the lunchroom at the US Open and they're saying, 'You're not turning pro? You're not taking that money? Are you crazy?' You start to feel like maybe everybody knows something more than you know, because everybody is thinking you should go pro, that there's no other way. I still have people, very well-known coaches, saying it's a different mindset to be on the pro tour, and if she doesn't go now she's going to lose that."
But Laurie and her husband Giovanni looked at everything an educational institution like Duke could offer their daughter over the course of her adult life and decided to stay the course.
"I think you can never regret having an education," says Laurie Capra. "It's one thing to have passion, and you love the game and that's what you want to do. But the reality is, can you make a living at it? After the endorsements run out, can you go out there, week to week, and support yourself?"
Capra experienced one of the impediments to that consistent success shortly after the US Open, when she suffered an off-court injury while competing in a Pro Circuit event in Kansas City.
"I was walking across the street from lunch and I fell off the curb," Capra says. "I sliced my ankle on some glass and had to get stitches on my ankle, and then I sprained the whole bottom of my foot. I didn't start playing tennis again until the beginning of December."
Capra was invited to play in the USTA's tournament for the 2011 Australian Open wild card held later that month, where she lost in the semifinals to CoCo Vandeweghe. She has struggled in her first few events of 2011, and losing early in the pros means fewer opportunities to test improvements made in practice. Capra believes the time spent in college, where she is guaranteed competitive matches while working on her game, will help her in the long run.
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With these VOTC figures hitting, it just got me to thinking about this again. Although some of them might have some flaws, this figure line overall seems to represent the best of what Hasbro is capable of. After the final movie rush is said and done, and since we don't know whether or not the television series will happen or not, what would you like to see happen post Episode III? Would you be happy with a line along the lines of the VOTC, with figures that are done very, very well...with a lot of time put into the sculpt, articulation, etc....even if the line was limited to say 20 figures or so a year? Many toy lines seem to have a much smaller release schedule (20-25 figures per year as opposed to 50+ that we normally get from Star Wars), and for some it is must easier to keep up (especially when collecting other lines).Sometimes I'm not sure what i want, because while I feel "the more figures/ships, the better", I do sometimes feel a little overwhelmed (finances wise) when there is a lot to buy. I know there are a lot of background characters left to be done (and hopefully finishing out the vintage line)...so maybe the more limited line isn't the best answer in those situations. Anyways, would you be happy with a line that continued...but in a little more limited fashion...maybe 20-25 collector-oriented, VOTC-style figures per year, even if at a little higher pricepoint (although $7 would be easier to stomach than $10 or $11). Any other thoughts on what you'd like to (realistically) see the line do after the movie?
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Kaepernick won't continue his national anthem protest in 2017, according to USA TODAY Sports' Tom Pelissero. USA TODAY Sports
Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest won't carry over into next season, USA TODAY Sports confirmed Thursday.
Kaepernick, who is expected to opt out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers, either sat or kneeled while The Star-Spangled Banner was played before Niners games last season, a protest meant to draw attention to racial inequality and police brutality. He will discontinue his public protest in 2017, wherever he plays next season, a person with knowledge of Kaepernick's plans told USA TODAY Sports' Tom Pelissero.
The person requested anonymity because Kaepernick has not yet made his decision public.
Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the anthem was adopted by several other NFL players and athletes in other professional sports leagues. It led some to boycott the NFL, which potentially contributed to the league's 8% decline in ratings last year.
Kaepernick said last September that he had received death threats in the days after he began his protest in the preseason.
ESPN was the first to report that Kaepernick would end his national anthem boycott.
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Great, finally reliable subroutine attributes!
JSON::Syck is nice, if you need a compact serialization and you will always only use JSON::Syck do actually deserialize your data, but it will not properly work with other JSON decoders and can sometimes generate faulty JavaScript, too.
This is clearly a tweaked YAML encoder and it will generate serializations which are not valid JSON and sometimes, in edge cases, not even valid JavaScript.
Some things you have to look-out for which are still unfixed in the latest version (I have not reported these as bugs anymore as the author now also recommends another module):
- Randomly changes which quotes it outputs - sometimes seems to use " (which is correct JSON), sometimes it uses ' (which is not correct JSON but at least correct JavaScript)
- Will sometimes wrongly escape ' characters and then output '' (that's two apostrophes) instead of \' - this breaks the syntax of your JavaScripts, should you directly include JSON::Syck results into your scripts
- The handling of 8-bit characters is wildly inconsistent. Sometimes they'll be inserted as-is, sometimes it will wrongly escape them with \x - which is valid Perl but not valid JavaScript
As the author said: For true JSON encoding you should probably better use JSON::XS. I, by the way, wildly appreciate that the author recommends a better module - I first found JSON::XS through the hint in the documentation here.


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"Marley" (2012)
What comes to mind when you think about the music of Bob Marley? Is it a scene reminiscent of "That '70s Show" (1998-2006) where Steven, Fez, Forman and Kelso are sitting around the table 'thinking' and stuff? For many people (ourselves included), Bob Marley is immediately associated with marijuana.
After seeing the recently released documentary film "Marley" (2012), we realized that was a limited impression to have of the great mind and spirit that was Bob Nesta Marley. Obviously, he was a marijuana enthusiast going even so far as to grow in Delaware in late 1960s, according to the movie. Also, the film was released on 4/20 but shortly into this informative movie a deeper character emerges.
Both intimate and inspiring "Marley" is brimming with close friends, relatives and lovers of the late international reggae icon. Warmly put together by director Kevin Macdonald ("The Last King of Scotland" 2006, "State of Play" 2009), this film avoids handholding narration and instead tells the story of the most famous reggae musician ever through rare photos, original film clips, firsthand accounts and music. The lyrical Patois is a delight.
This concoction of direct sources renders an experience for the audience more as a firsthand witness than as a passive historian. Macdonald's use of some wonderful black-and-white photographs flows tastefully and never feels stilted.
From humble beginnings in a rural Jamaican village that had no electricity to days of performing for sold-out stadiums internationally, Bob Marley consistently delivered a simple yet powerful message: Unity.
Born to a teenage mother and a much older absentee father, Marley grew up as a bit of an outsider. The remoteness of the place of his birth takes on a mystic quality as the cinematography takes us there in a leisurely aerial shot of steep, wooded hills as far as the eye can see.
When Marley moved to the Trench Town slums of Kingston at age 12, a shy but observant nature seemed to develop in him. Through exquisite imagery the audience is taken on a journey, both back in time and to distant lands.
Included in the film is archival footage of Marley interviews, including one in which he was asked about an assassination attempt made on his life two days before he performed at the politically charged 'Smile Jamaica' concert in 1976. The question of who had tried to kill him was posed to which he replied, "I think it was the devil." Marley's pervasive spirituality was fascinating as he was seemingly a man who actually practiced what he preached.
When Jamaican ambassadors persuaded him to return from a self-imposed exile in London to Jamaica in order to help end the factitious violence flooding the streets, one of the most powerful scenes of the film ensues. We doubt there was a dry eye in the theater. It felt right shedding happy tears for this unique musician's mystical ways before the sadder tone of the closing scenes.
For us, documentaries often deliver a mixed bag of emotions with moments of novel insight interspersed by stretches of fact-filled drudgery that can make you rue entering the theater. This was not the case with "Marley." This documentary conveys the spirit of Marley through beautiful imagery and was both entertaining and informative.
Macdonald casts Marley amidst a larger narrative. Namely, the story of Jamaica itself as the country strove to find its way amidst colonialism and internal violence. We walked away more appreciative of Bob Marley's legacy. His universal appeal is unparalleled.
Rating: $$$$$
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Newbie River North bottles Belgians a month ahead of schedule
Expect to see bottles from one of Denver's newest kid on the block on store shelves in the next few days.
When the all Belgian-inspired River North Brewery opened its doors Feb. 18, Matthew and Jessica Hess said they hoped to be bottling by May.
A month ahead of schedule, the duo is in the middle of sending out bombers of their J. Marie Saison — named for Jessica — to five Denver-area liquor stores.
Their new six-bottle machine, which processes about 35 cases an hour, looks tiny standing in the middle of the couple's cavernous brew house, but it marks a big achievement for the upstart brewery.
"It's just amazing to see the thing in action," Matthew Hess said.
And Matthew Hess said he hopes to soon fill that large empty space in Denver's Ballpark neighborhood with barrels of beer.
Expect to see River North's offering at Argonaut Liquor; Mr. B's; Mile High Wine and Spirits; and Lloyd & Maxwell, he said.
Those watching closely may have already spotted bottles from a 20-case test run the microbrewery did of their Hypothesis Belgian-style IPA earlier this month.


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This tutorial for Adobe Photoshop is ideal for anybody looking at the real advantages of using this Adobe software in order to edit your digital photos and images. If you are looking for a variety of tutorials for Adobe Photoshop, you way get overwhelmed by the millions of pages offered by Google search results. If you want a more defined Google search results for any tutorial for Adobe Photoshop, then use "" – for example "Tutorial For Adobe Photoshop CS5/CS4/CS3/CS2" etc. This way you will find what you are looking for a lot easier.
Photoshop is an amazing piece of computer software that allows its users to manipulate and create images. The use of Photoshop is pervasive throughout the professional worlds of photography and graphic design. The first version of Photoshop hit the market in 1990 as a Macintosh product; it is now on its eleventh release and compatible with any system. Why should you use Photoshop?
Photoshop gives you an enormous advantage over designing with a paper and pen. You can easily fix your mistakes without any messy erasing. There are a variety of templates for the less artistically inclined to choose from. Also, a finished Photoshop product invariably looks more professional than a hand-drawn product.
Once you have decided to invest in image editing software, you may notice that Photoshop is a very costly product. Current versions of Photoshop CS4 run between $500 and $600. It is possible to find much cheaper image editing software and some computers even come with a factory-installed program. However, there are four broad reasons why you should use Photoshop over other cheaper or free image editing software. These four reasons are: versatility, a user-friendly interface, easy access to training, and a variety of functions.
Versatility: There is very little that Photoshop is not able to accomplish for you. It doesn't matter if you're an amateur photographer who wants to do some simple cropping to family snapshots. Conversely, top photographers and graphic design professionals use Photoshop for image creation and editing.
User-friendly interface: Photoshop was designed with the consumer in mind. No specialized programming skills are needed and its drawing canvas, where images are created, is WYSIWYG – what you see is what you get. Many elements of Photoshop are similar to other computer programs. For example, the menu bar has the same file, edit, view, and help options as Microsoft Word. The tools in the toolbox modify your pointer so that you will remember what tool you are using.
Easy access to training: Because Photoshop is an immensely popular software tool, there are a plethora of books, online tutorials, and college courses available to train the new user in the workings of Photoshop. You can not only find information suitable for a beginner, but also a detailed description of some of Photoshop's most advanced tools.
Variety of functions: Photoshop is able to perform an almost endless variety of image edit and creation functions.
Photo manipulation – take a downloaded or scanned photo and reduce red-eye and other imperfections, crop the photo, or change the sharpness or contrast of the image
Painting and drawing – use the drawing canvas and toolbox to create new images
Graphic design – take scanned artwork or artwork created in Photoshop itself and add layers, gradients, and much more to create graphic art that sells.
Typography and page layout – Photoshop allows you to manipulate both text and image on the same drawing canvas but in different layers. This allows you to create presentations and other projects that require a juxtaposition of text and image.


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For Immediate ReleaseAugust 16, 2011
UPCOMING WORKIn Franklin County
The following work is planned in the Franklin County area on the specified dates and times. All work is weather dependent; it may be postponed or cancelled without prior notice.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16Interstate 270 (East Side) – (NEW) I-270 north will be reduced to two lanes between SR 317 and Broad Street from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. for bridge work. Completion date: August 20.
US Route 23 (South Side) – (NEW) The ramps from US 23 north to I-270 east and west will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for pavement repair. The detours are SR 104 to I-71 to I-270 east or west.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17State Route 317 (Southeast side) – (NEW) SR 317 will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Groves Road and Eastpoint Drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for surveying. Completion date: September 10.
ONGOING WORKInterstate 71 (North Side) – I-71 will be reduced to two lanes in each direction between East North Broadway Street and I-670 from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. for electrical work. Completion date: August 19.
US Route 33 (Northwest Side) – US 33 will be reduced to one lane in each direction at Lane Avenue for utility work. Completion date: August 31.State Route 605 (Northeast Side) – SR 605 will be closed in both directions between Walnut Street and Fancher Road for culvert replacement. Detour: SR 605 to US 62 to SR 37 to SR 604. Completion date: August 31.
Dempsey Road (Northeast Side) – Dempsey Road is closed between SR 3 and Arnett to allow ODOT to begin work on realigning the intersection of Dempsey Road and Emrick Road at SR 3. There are at least two detours for motorists. One is SR 3 to Huber Village Drive to South Hempstead Road to Dempsey Road or reverse. Another detour route is SR 3 to SR 161 to Sunbury Road to Dempsey Road or reverse. ODOT will also begin work to rebuild New Emrick Road. Completion date: August 31. Interstate 70 (Downtown) –The ramp from SR 315 south to I-70 east will be closed for bridge work. The detour is SR 315 south to I-670 east to I-71 south to I-70 east. Drivers can also take SR 315 south to Greenlawn Avenue to SR 315 north to I-70 east. Completion date: September 2011.
Fourth Street (Downtown) – There will be a barrier wall down the middle of Fourth Street between Nationwide Boulevard and Goodale Boulevard which will divide traffic as ODOT works to replace the Fourth Street bridge deck. Two lanes of traffic in each direction plus a pedestrian walkway will be maintained. Access to I-670 east and west will also be maintained.
State Route 665 (South Side) – I-71/SR 665 (Grove City) – Beginning August 3, motorists will be using the newly constructed entrance ramp to access Interstate 71 north from both directions of State Route 665. The switch to the new ramp will occur between the morning and afternoon commutes.
If you are east of the interchange, there will now be two lanes as you approach the entrance ramp, one for thru traffic on SR 665 and a right turn lane for I-71 north traffic. With two lanes, traffic will move more efficiently through the interchange.
If you are west of the interchange, you will notice that the entrance ramp to I-71 north is a few hundred feet east from its previous location. Temporary pavement has been set up to help vehicles make the left turn from SR 665 onto the ramp as smooth as possible.
Wendy's and Tim Horton's traffic will no longer be able to exit directly onto SR 665. Instead of making a right turn out of the businesses, you will be re-routed to N. Meadows Drive/Seeds Road at the back of their facilities to SR 665.
Motorists travelling east on SR 665 will still be able to make a right turn into Wendy's and Tim Horton's. The new traffic pattern change only affects motorists leaving the businesses.
Hilliard-Rome Road (West Side) – Hilliard-Rome Road is reduced to one lane in each direction using temporary pavement between Westchester Woods Boulevard and Roberts Road for widening.
Left hand turns are allowed at the following locations:Traveling both northbound and southbound on Hilliard-Rome Road at Westchester Woods Boulevard.Traveling southbound on Hilliard-Rome Road at the service drive by Chick-Fil-A (opposite of Tanglewood Park Boulevard).Traveling both northbound and southbound on Hilliard-Rome Road at Nike Drive.
Southbound traffic trying to access The Market at Hilliard should use the service drive opposite Tanglewood Park Boulevard or continue south to Westchester Woods Boulevard.
Northbound traffic trying to access Tanglewood Park Boulevard or the Tanglewood Plaza shopping area should use Westchester Woods Boulevard.
This traffic pattern will remain in effect until November.
Drivers are reminded to stay alert since heavy construction equipment will be moving in and out of the work zone.
For up-to-date traffic information, construction information and road conditions, 24-hours a day, visit www.BuckeyeTraffic.org.


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If you have been watching TV over the past few weeks — particularly, if you spent all of Saturday watching a Harry Potter marathon on ABC Family because it was on and you like wizards whatever don't judge — you've probably seen a commercial or two for the Wii U.
Designed to help raise public awareness of the struggling console, these new Wii U ads are pretty corny, yet charming in that inimitable Nintendo way. Here's the whole slate of commercials that started airing this November/December:
Cool. Problem is, not a single one of these ads shows off or even mentions the Wii U's best feature: off-TV play. The coolest thing about the Wii U — particularly for people who share their televisions with family/roommates/stray cats — is the fact that you can play games without using your television, whether you're in your living room, your bedroom, or an airport. You don't even need a TV — you can play pretty much anything on the controller's screen.
What's the deal, Nintendo? You're underselling one of the console's most appealing features.
Here's what I want to see in a commercial: a little girl sits on the couch, playing Super Mario 3D World on the family's TV. Her dad comes in and tells her to stop playing so he can watch football. She quickly and immediately switches to the GamePad's screen and keeps playing where she left off.
Maybe some guy wants to cram in a few minutes of Earthbound before he goes to bed, so he switches from the TV to the GamePad and brings the game to his room.
Games like Wind Waker HD and Super Mario 3D World are must-plays, but they haven't sold people on the GamePad, which for many gamers still feels vestigial. You know what can sell people on the GamePad? Off-TV play. Nintendo just has to figure out the whole "selling" part.


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John Walsh is a senior managing director at Accenture leading the Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) business across North America. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the full P&L, market growth, business strategy and end-to-end client management and delivery across the CMT industries.
Based in Silicon Valley, John also serves as office managing director for Accenture's San Francisco office, driving Accenture's NorCal market growth, developing talent, building community relations and promoting Accenture's brand across Northern California.
With more than 29 years of experience, John completed two, four-year international assignments—one in Argentina and Canada—and served on Accenture's CEO Leadership Council and Partner Advisory Council.
John serves as Chairman of the Board of the Churchill Club, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent non-profit organizations. He also served on the board of Adchemy, an Accenture investment portfolio company, which he successfully sold to Walmart.com.
A graduate of Accenture's Executive Management program at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, John completed his undergraduate studies at Iowa State University.
John lives in Los Altos Hills California, with his wife and four daughters. During his spare time, he enjoys skiing, surfing and reading.


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The Yes Men Fix the World :: Film Trailer
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno take on the world.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno have been impersonating executives and spokesmen for major corporations since the mid 1990s.
"The Yes Men Fix the World" follows the Yes Men as they bluff their way into press conferences and nationally televised interviews, where the duo draw attention to corporate shortcomings.


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Ordering pizza ain't what it used to be, it ain't what it used to be, oh wait… well, if you go to City Pizza in West Palm Beach Florida that is. That's because SoftTouch has just finished installing a self-service RFID point-of-sale (POS) system where diners pay for orders without ever showing anyone in the restaurant their credit card number.
Waiters and Waitresses are assigned an RFID wristband. Employees cannot place an order without first logging into the system using the unique tag ID on the wristband. Each tag uniquely identifies each employee. Each table is assigned an RFID Thin Card which is essentially a "live check" which uniquely identifies the customer and all of the accumulated items ordered. As the customer orders various items off the menu, the employee then walks up to the kiosk, swipes both the customer thin card and RFID wristband and places the order which is then relayed to the cook:
After each swipe of the customer card, the wait staff returns the card to the customer table. Once the customer(s) are ready to leave, they take their card to a self-service kiosk, select their method of payment, add gratuity, and viola! No more waiting around for the waiter/waitress to bring the damn check:)
The cards and readers the SoftTouch system uses are the Phidget RFID reader, the 125kHz Thin Card, and the 125kHz Wristband
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how are you guys? great? happy? sad? message me to tell your stories. :)
well, during the unblogging period..i've managed to make my heart broken twice by two guys. oh yeah, i'm no longer with F, the guy from penang. let's just say he doesnt love me anymore. his choice. but somehow..after 6 months breaking up, we decided to be friends. i'm not sure why but i cant make my exes to be my enemies. weird huh? somehow i will be their friends. without the love of course. there's no hope if you think i'm hoping. NO HOPE. hahaha.
i thought the second one after F was the real one. but nah, it was a false alarm. and the third one was someone else's boyfriend..so i decided to go FAR FAR FAR away from that guy. but actually he's my classmate. -_- so we tend to see each other everyday. but no worries. there's another 1 month to go for me to finish my classes and start with the practical and by december, WALAH! i'll finish my degree insyaAllah. first class yaw! :D
i've decided to NOT eat. starve my self until my i reach my ideal weight. wait! no! dont ask me to eat or advice me to eat. because i wont. you dont know my body. my weight can go up and down easily. so when i stop eating, walah. thin. come to mommy!
so i think i better sleep now..i'm starting to sound crappier every minute. i hope every reader i had before will come back and read all my crap i write in my blog. :p
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The Campbell County High School boys and girls golf teams picked up a pair of victories this past week.
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Dellorto VHSD and VHSG Carburetor Parts
On this page you will find all currently available parts for the Dellorto VHSD and VHSG range carburettors.
Click HERE for an exploded view drawing of the Dellorto VHSD and VHSG.
The numbers in the drawing correspond to the numbers in brackets at the beginning of the article description.
Click HERE for the specifications of the K series needles used on these carburettors.
We are still very much expanding our parts offerings for these carburettors so please contact us by email if the part that you are looking for is not yet listed.
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TechnologyStudio needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Logo needed software company targeting financial service products. Will require editable source file like layered PNG or PSD.
Technology Studio, LLC
Desired Color Scheme:
open to suggestions
Desired Style:
Contemporary, sophisticated
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Should be stylish, distinct, cutting edge, and professional in appearance.
The logo will need to be resized down pretty small in some locations and still be legible.
Since the name is linear you may have to possibly stack the words.
- Website, Trademark or Brand Name:Â Technology Studio, LLCÂ
- Desired Color Scheme: we open to color schemes
- Accepted File Formats: Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
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We have a couple of skylights in our bedroom, and as I woke up Saturday morning, out into the barely lit clear early morning winter sky, through the leaveless trees, I saw a single bright star.
Not another one anywhere. Maybe it was a supernova.
What is a supernova? Well, according to an article in "Universe Today" (yes, there is a magazine for just about everything), "nova" means "new star", and "super" means "really big," such as supermarket. So a supernova is a really bright new star. That's where the word comes from, but today it has a rather more precise meaning, namely a once-off variable star that has a peak brightness similar to, or greater than, that of a typical galaxy.
Now everybody knows there are millions, maybe billions, of shining stars out there. Who knows how many supernovas there are. Really great employees are like supernovas. Let's call them "Super Employees."
In an article, Jon Olsen writes about recognizing the potential and creating employees he calls "super employees":
"Super employees are a combination of an employee wanting to perform and our recognizing this and acting on it. Too often, valued employees are not recognized for their many skills. Sometimes, we just aren't observant enough to see what we have in front of us. The most important assets we have may be right under our noses."
Olsen writes how employers can help make sure that any employee who wants to can be a "super employee." How?
1. Stimulate productivity. "Let's start with being productive. So many people hate the start of the work week. You know the Monday morning blues. In reality, most of your workers show up because they need a paycheck; not necessarily because they love their job. If work becomes stale or boring, we run the risk of our employees becoming nonproductive.
"What can be done? The first step to making a super employee is to let them know you appreciate their efforts. Let them know what their hard work has accomplished. Give them scenarios of what you see happening if all do their part. Communication plays a huge role in employees being productive."
2. Establish an identity. "Developing an identity helps employees keep focused. What is your company about? Do you care what others think about you? What do your industry counterparts think about you? If your company has a good reputation, your employees are going to feel good about that. Having an identify starts with you. Do you work hard? How do you respond to crisis? How do you treat customers? Your employees feed off of this. Who wants to be part of a company that doesn't care how they are perceived? Not many super employees will be found that way."
3. Goal Development. "Lastly, goals are so important. Giving goals that matter to employees is another building block when developing super employees. Remember, it should be goals that are important to them. It could be giving assignments that, if accomplished, will lead to a raise. Or maybe they would be a great manager in the shop, but there are areas you would like to see improvement."
The basic fundamentals Olsen recognizes in a potential super employee are that they are driven: they show a desire to work hard; attentive: they listen to direction; responsible: they have a good attendance record; positive: they aren't openly critical of the company; flexible: they find a way to do what they are asked to do.
So as we approach the new year, let's pledge to do what we can to turn our people into those bright, shining stars. Let's make 2014 the year of the "super employee."
Join us Tuesday night as Dalman's Evergreens Landscaping, 7417 W. Hillside Road, Crystal Lake, hosts an afterhours mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. Chamber members are encouraged to attend for great relationship building opportunities.
Beginning Jan. 9, the Crystal Lake Chamber's Leaders in Action program, now in its 38th consecutive year, will provide world-class training by eight presenters each of which are dynamic experts in their respective fields. Worth more than $5,000, the Chamber is proud to be able to present Leaders for $195 for Chamber members (scholarships available from the Chamber Foundation) and $245 for nonmembers. Your investment includes breakfast each week and all materials. Class size is limited to 50 people, so get signed up today at www.clchamber.com.
• Gary Reece is president of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. Email him at email@example.com.


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Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture
ISBN: 978-1-405-10576-7 April 2010 Wiley-Blackwell 402 Pages
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- Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures
- Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology
- Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology
- Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change
Table of contents
Part I Constructing a Paradigm, 1917–55.
Introduction – Invisible Pioneers: "Culture and Personality" Reconsidered.
1 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki).
2 The Psychology of Culture (Edward Sapir).
3 Culture and Experience (A. Irving Hallowell).
Part II Emotion and Morality in Diverse Cultures.
Introduction – Human Variations: A Population Perspective on Psychological Processes.
4 Emotions Have Many Faces: Inuit Lessons (Jean Briggs).
5 Moral Discourse and the Rhetoric of Emotion (Geoffrey M. White).
6 Kali's Tongue (Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder).
7 Shame and Guilt in Japan (Takie Lebra).
8 Introduction to Culture and Depression (Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good).
Part III Psychoanalytic Explorations through Fieldwork.
Introduction – After Freud: Dramas of the Psyche in Cultural Context.
9 Psychoanalytic Anthropology (Robert A. Paul).
10 Is the Oedipus Complex Universal? (Anne Parsons).
11 Kagwahiv Mourning I: Dreams of a Bereaved Father (Waud H. Kracke).
12 Kagwahiv Mourning II: Ghosts, Grief, and Reminiscences (Waud H. Kracke).
Part IV Childhood: Internalizing Cultural Schemas.
Introduction – Childhood Experience: The Role of Communication.
13 Cultural and Educational Variations in Maternal Responsiveness (Amy L. Richman, Patrice M. Miller, and Robert A. LeVine).
14 Self-Construction through Narrative Practices: A Chinese and American Comparison of Early Socialization (Peggy J. Miller, Heidi Fung, and Judith Mintz).
15 Parent–Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only Children (Vanessa L. Fong).
Part V The Self in Everyday Life, Ritual, and Healing.
Introduction – Cultural Narratives of Self: Strategies, Defenses, and Identities.
16 The Self in Daily Dramas (Thomas Gregor).
17 Sambia Nose-Bleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women (Gilbert H. Herdt).
18 Cross-Cultural Differences in the Self (Douglas Hollan).
19 Clinical Paradigm Clashes (Joseph D. Calabrese).
Part VI Psychosocial Processes in History and Social Transformation.
Introduction – Culture Change: Psychosocial Processes in Social Transformation.
20 The Psychosocial Experience of Immigration (Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco).
21 The Schooling of Women: Maternal Behavior and Child Environments (Robert A. LeVine and Sarah A. LeVine).
22 Revitalization Movements (Anthony F. C. Wallace).
23 Culture, Charisma, and Consciousness (Charles Lindholm).


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The World Conservation Union (IUCN) convenes a new independent scientific advisory panel to monitor the impact of the Sakhalin II offshore oil and gas development on critically endangered Western Gray Whale population
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Gland, Switzerland, 2 October 2006 (IUCN) – Ten prominent international scientists will monitor the status of the critically endangered Western Gray Whale population in the Northwest Pacific and provide ongoing independent advice to a consortium of companies developing oil and gas reserves in the whale's summer feeding grounds, off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.
The new long-term Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) brings together independent scientific expertise to inform the decisions of oil and gas companies operating in the marine waters off Sakhalin Island and other interested stakeholders. In particular, the Panel will focus on the Sakhalin II oil and gas project being developed by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited (Sakhalin Energy) and due to commence in spring 2007. Sakhalin Energy is a consortium of companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Japanese companies Mitsui and Mitsubishi Corporation.
The World Conservation Union is convening the Panel in response to the findings of an independent report, published in 2005, on the impacts of the Sakhalin II project on the whale population and following consultation with the oil industry and the conservation community.
"This Panel will help to incorporate long-term scientific findings into the design and management of oil and gas operations in the region, thereby contributing to the conservation and recovery of one of the world's critically endangered giants," said Carl Gustaf Lundin, Head of the IUCN Global Marine Programme.
Western Gray Whales are listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Thought to be extinct as recently as 1972, this remnant subpopulation living in the north-western Pacific Ocean includes only 20-25 reproductively active females. Its only known feeding grounds lie along the coast of Sakhalin Island where existing and planned large-scale gas and oil activities represent a potentially serious threat to the population's survival.
"The Panel is a vehicle to provide useful scientific information and recommendations for the ongoing protection of the Western Gray Whale population, supporting industry best practice into the future and giving greater security to the companies involved. It puts non-governmental organizations, scientific institutions and the private sector on a level playing field, providing relevant, timely and accurate scientific knowledge to help each party make well-informed decisions, in the best interest of all," said Ibrahim Thiaw, Acting Director General of IUCN.
The Panel is established for a period of five years and will hold the first of a series of regular meetings in Switzerland from 9-11 November 2006. Panel members come from Canada , Russia , the United Kingdom , Germany and the United States.
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- Julian Roberts, IUCN Marine Programme Officer, Tel. +41 22 999 0291; Fax +41 22 999 0025;[email protected],
- Carolin Wahnbaeck, IUCN Media Relations Officer, Tel: +41 22 999 0127; Fax: +41 22 999 0020; [email protected] ; +41.79.417.4049
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The Union is the world's largest environmental knowledge network and has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. The Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1,000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland .


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United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable disease prevention and control
NCD summit to shape the international agenda
Date: 19-20 September 2011
Place: New York, USA
Noncommunicable diseases - or NCDs - like heart attacks and strokes, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease account for over 63% of deaths in the world today. Every year, NCDs kill 9 million people under 60. The socio-economic impact is staggering. Global leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York from 19-20 September 2011 to set a new international agenda on NCDs.
This is only the second time in the history of the UN that the General Assembly meets on a health issue (the last issue was AIDS). The aim is for countries to adopt a concise, action-oriented outcome document that will shape the global agendas for generations to come.
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Political declaration adopted at the UN General Assembly
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WHO discussion paper: The Solidarity Tobacco Contribution
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WHO Report
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Outline of the report of WHO on progress achieved until November 2013 in realizing the commitments made in the UN Political Declaration on NCDs
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Lawrence Norden
Lawrence Norden is Director of the Brennan Center's Election Reform Program. He works on a variety of issues related to American elections, from money in politics to voting technology to election security. During his time at the Brennan Center, he has authored several nationally recognized reports and articles related to law and democracy, including Securing Elections From Foreign Interference (June 2017), Five to Four (January 2016) and America's Voting Machines at Risk (September 2015). His work has been featured in media outlets across the country, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. He has testified before Congress and several state legislatures on numerous occasions.
In 2009, Mr. Norden served as Chair of the Ohio Secretary of State's bipartisan Election Summit and Conference, authoring a report to the State of Ohio for the purpose of improving that state's election laws. The report was endorsed by the bipartisan Ohio Association of Election Officials and the Columbus Dispatch, which praised him for "following an independent path" in developing the report and recommendations.
Mr. Norden was the Keynote Speaker at the Sixth Annual Votobit International Conference on Electronic Voting (Buenos Aires, 2008), and the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (Montreal, 2009). In June 2009, he received the Usability Professional Association's Usability In Civic Life Award for his "pioneering work to improve elections."
Mr. Norden is the lead author of the book The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World (Academy Chicago Press) and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge). He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Board of Advisors, where he currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board's Election Security Committee. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU School of Law.
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The Secret Power Behind Local Elections, The New York Times (06/25/16)
Money ≠ Winning, On the Media/National Public Radio (03/04/16)
The Influence of "Dark Money", Tavis Smiley Radio (10/31/14)
Right to Vote, The Daily Rundown/MSNBC (01/16/12)
Discussing experiences at the polls, Talk of the Nation/NPR (11/4/08)
Discussing potential problems in Florida, All Things Considered/NPR (10/27/08)
Discussing voting software flaws in Ohio, Lou Dobbs/CNN (08/21/08)
"A Look Under the Hood at Democracy's Engine", The New York Times (09/01/06)
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Two New Bern aldermen are now calling for a special Board of Aldermen meeting to discuss Mayor Lee Bettis.
Two New Bern aldermen are now calling for a special Board of Aldermen meeting to discuss Mayor Lee Bettis.
Alderman Dana Outlaw first asked for a special meeting Wednesday. Thursday night Alderman Victor Taylor called him, saying he also wanted a meeting.
Outlaw said he wanted to use the opportunity to discuss the leadership of the city and where it is going and to discuss if Bettis should resign.
Alderman Sabrina Bengel, who as mayor pro tem will take over during Bettis� absence, said she talked with Bettis Wednesday and asked him if he was going to resign, but he told her he did nothing wrong and would continue his role as mayor.
Susan Nanowicz, Bettis� office manager, said Friday Bettis was not making any more comments to the news media.
Publicity swarmed around Bettis this week after he was charged with driving while impaired and a 911 call alleging he pushed his wife down stairs at a rental home in Carteret County. His father-in-law and Nanowicz held a news conference Thursday to support the mayor. Then it was announced Bettis was taking a two-month leave of absence.
Outlaw asked for a special meeting after the two alleged incidents occurred to discuss the leadership of the city but he needed a second alderman to agree to the meeting. None of them did until Thursday night when Taylor called him.
Calls to Taylor from the Sun Journal Thursday and Friday were not returned.
Outlaw said they initially set the special meeting for 5 p.m. Monday but there were conflicting schedules so it will have to be done at a later date.
When it is held, the meeting will be public, Outlaw said, but he could not guarantee the possibility of a closed session if someone on the board made a motion to go behind closed doors.
�It should be very public, is my thought,� Outlaw said.
By Friday none of the other aldermen had contacted Outlaw, he said.
�My constituents are very concerned about the leadership of this city through the rest of our term,� he said. �What I want to see is a clear course ahead of us and I don�t see it that way � I would like for the majority of the board or unanimously request that the mayor resign from office and let�s move forward. � There is a void in leadership right now and the city can do better than this. It is putting us on hold for 60 days and that is not good for the city.�
Mike Epperson, New Bern city manager, said on Friday Bettis sent him a clarification of his length of absence that is less than the two months he initially said he would be out.
Bettis said he would not be able to attend the aldermen board meetings for several weeks or possibly six weeks, Epperson said.
As mayor, Epperson said, Bettis doesn�t have day-to-day activities, other than presiding over Board of Aldermen meetings and in ceremonial roles. Bengel will preside over the Board of Aldermen meetings and attend any ceremonial roles or delegate them to other board members, he said.
Running the city is the responsibility of Epperson and his management staff, he said.
Epperson said details of a schedule for the special meeting have not been worked out. By Friday afternoon, none of the other aldermen had informed him they wish to hold a special meeting, he said.
All of the publicity for the past week surrounding Bettis has not disrupted city staff, Epperson said.
However, city staff has received media calls and has tried to direct them in the right direction, Epperson said.
�It didn�t distract us too much,� he said.
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Tank putter from Odyssey promotes stability
One of the things golfers like most about long putters is that they're heavier than standard-length models, and that extra weight tends to make them more stable during the stroke. The future of long putters might be in doubt, but that stability is a trait golfers will seek no matter the length of the shaft.
The new Tank putter from Odyssey is, as its name suggests, heavier than your average flatstick – its head weighs 400 grams, while its shaft weighs 150 grams. This extra weight, plus a counterbalance weight (weighing 30 to 40 grams, depending on the individual model, at the top of the shaft) helps to keep the Tank stable through impact and to quiet the hands during the stroke. In addition, the added weight engages the big muscles to promote a pendulum stroke that helps keep the wrists from breaking down.
''With Tank, we wanted to enhance the stability of the putter by increasing the Moment of Inertia of the entire club,'' said Odyssey Golf Principle Designer Austie Rollinson. ''We feel this achieves most of the benefits of anchoring without actually touching the body.''
In redistributing weight to enhance the Tank's stability, Odyssey focused on placing the balance point in each shaft in relatively the same position as in a conventional putter. So at each length, the balance point is in a slightly different place on the shaft. And because of their extra weight (19 percent heavier than a standard putter), the conventional-length Tank putters have a total club MOI that is 34 percent higher than a standard putter, while the longer options (32 percent heavier than standard) have a total club MOI that is 109 percent higher than a standard putter.
"At every golf club in the world, we've heard golfers say, 'I just want something a little heavier,'" said Odyssey Golf Global Director Chris Koske. ''With the proposed anchoring ban in discussions, we thought it was the right time to service golfers with an alternative and stability-focused method to putting and putter design.
''We didn't just do heavy – each component is carefully weighed to ensure a proper balance point and ultimate stability,'' he added. ''We brought two prototypes out to Riviera and one went in play immediately."
The Tank's head, with its two wings flanking a big cutout in the middle, looks a bit like the reverse of Odyssey's famous 2-Ball models. A string of small red dots on the crown provides an alignment aid, and the face contains Odyssey's popular White Hot insert, which claimed more than 30 victories across the worldwide tours in 2012. For 2013, Odyssey developed a new laser milling cutting process that better matches the insert shapes to the various head shapes.
Tank putters will be available at retail starting on April 12. They, along with the Metal-X Arm Lock putters that Odyssey unveiled in November, should attract serious looks from golfers either considering long putters or weaning themselves off of long putters.


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SAN DIEGO, CA, July 14, 2005 -- A new report issued today by the World Privacy Forum shows that many consumers may still be better off calling or mailing in for their federally mandated free credit reports instead of accessing the reports online. Although the official Annualcreditreport.com site has improved since its launch in December 2004, there are continuing hazards posed by imposter Web domains, some of which have been aggressively attempting to misdirect and in some cases deceive consumers.
In its first report on this subject published in February 2005, the World Privacy Forum documented that 96 known imposter domains existed, with 50 of those domains active and online. In its new study, "Call Don't Click Update: Still be Smart about Ordering Federally Mandated Free Credit Reports," the World Privacy Forum has found that 233 known imposter sites now exist, with 112 of the imposter domains active and online. This marks a 124 percent increase in known, active imposter domains since February.
One imposter site researchers found was missing the period between "www" and "annual." The site, "wwwannualcreditreport.com," which has now been taken offline -- was requesting consumers' SSNs and according to its privacy policy was sharing those numbers with car dealerships. Another imposter site was sending consumers directly to Intelius, a commercial data broker. Yet another imposter site gathered consumers' email addresses to share as "fresh, real-time, Internet mortgage leads" for mortgage and debt consolidation loan pitches. These last two imposter sites, like the majority of the others, were still online at the conclusion of the research for the current report.
New report findings include:
-At least 233 imposter domains with close or nearly identical spellings of www.annualcreditreport.com have been registered.
-At least 112 known and confirmed imposter domains were "live" during the research period for the new report. That is, the domains were online and actively leading consumers away from the official site. This marks a 124 percent increase in live imposter sites from the first report, or an increase of 62 live imposter domains.
-7 of the 112 live imposter domains posted a privacy policy.
-4 of the imposter sites led directly to Intelius, a commercial data broker that at the time of research did not offer any links to the official www.annualcreditreport.com site.
-Many of the imposter sites contained affiliate links or advertisements that led consumers to Experian, TransUnion and other commercial credit-related sites.
-None of the imposter sites provided links to the official www.annualcreditreport.com site during the research period.
Positive changes from the first report include:
-The credit bureaus now allow Web linking to the official www.annualcreditreport.com site.
-TransUnion has halted its practice of pre-selecting consumers to receive marketing materials via a small checkbox at the bottom of its registration page at the www.annualcreditreport.com site.
"The good news is that the official Annualcreditreport.com site now allows news organizations and consumer groups to link to it, which should reduce the number of consumers landing on typo domains," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum and a principal investigator for the report. "The bad news is that the imposter sites have more than doubled, and some of these sites are showing up in search engine results, sometimes as paid listings that appear ahead of the official site. The credit bureaus and the FTC must take immediate action to clean up all of the imposter domains prior to the September 1 rollout to consumers in the Northeast."
The new Call Don't Click report lists each imposter site that was found, as well as feedback the World Privacy Forum received from consumers about accessing federally mandated credit reports.
Updated Consumer Tips:
-When phoning the toll free number (877-322-8228) for a free credit report, ask that only the last four digits of your SSN be displayed when it is sent to you.
-If you use the toll free number above to access your free credit report, be aware that if you have a strong accent or a complex last name, the automated phone system may not work.
-If you call for your report or have it mailed to you, ensure that your credit report is mailed to a secure mailbox.
-Know that you are not required to give out your email address in order to obtain a federally mandated free credit report.
-If you order a free annual credit report online, take basic computer safety precautions. For example, ensure that your computer is virus-free and don't order your reports from a public computer or from work.
-If you do choose to go online to www.annualcreditreport.com to access your free credit report, be absolutely certain that you have not mistyped in the www.annualcreditreport.com address. If you see pop-up ads, or if you notice that the site is not a secure site, close your browser and start over. (Secure sites will have a padlock logo in the corner, and the address will read https:// instead of just http://). Please note, though, that some clever imposter sites are providing https:// secure site access, so just a padlock alone is not a guarantee that you are on the right site.
For the complete "Call Don't Click" report and the updated consumer tip sheet, see:
CALL DON'T CLICK UPDATE: Still be smart about ordering federally mandated free credit reports
CONSUMER TIPS: www.worldprivacyforum.org/consumertips_calldontclick.html
Resources for Consumers:
-To request a credit report by mail:
Print out the request form. The form is available at: www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/credit/ycr_free_reports.htm
Fill out the form and mail it to:
Annual Credit Report Request Service
P.O. Box 105281
Atlanta, GA 30348-5281
-To request a credit report by phone:
Call 877-322-8228
-To request a credit report online:
Visit www.annualcreditreport.com
About the World Privacy Forum:
The World Privacy Forum is a nonprofit, non-partisan public interest research organization focused on conducting in-depth research and consumer education in the intersecting areas of technology and privacy. The WPF is based in San Diego, California.


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Fox's Juan Williams Decries Politicization Of Fast And Furious As Network Continues To Hype Conspiracy
In a May 14 op-ed for The Hill, Fox News correspondent Juan Williams decried politicization of the investigation of the ATF's botched Operation Fast and Furious and labeled House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's inquiry into Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice (DOJ) a "monstrous witch hunt."
Williams' comments are in stark contrast to his network's coverage of the issue, which over the past year has promoted Issa's investigation at every turn while also giving airtime to those who would peddle conspiracy theories about the failed operation.
In his op-ed, Williams describes Issa as a modern day Captain Ahab, hell-bent on finding fault in Holder for Fast and Furious no matter how thin the evidence is suggesting that he had any involvement in the operation. According to Williams, the ultimate goal of Issa's inquiry is to "defame Holder and hurt the president." Warning about the potential consequences of Issa's contempt proceeding endgame, he concluded:
At the moment more than 100 House Republicans have already signed on to a resolution expressing no confidence in Holder.
That kind of politics is acceptable.
But a contempt citation for the top law enforcement official is a monstrosity breaking apart public trust and dragging the nation's already polarized politics to the bottom of the sea.
While Williams may be disturbed by the direction in which Issa's investigation is going, the truth is that his employer, Fox News, has served as a clearinghouse for politicized statements about Fast and Furious for over a year. In the last month alone, Issa and two of his lieutenants (Reps. Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz) have appeared on Fox News at least nine times to promote their investigation into Fast and Furious.
Beyond elected figures, since February of this year, Fox News has given airtime to four different guests who all have suggested that the real purpose behind Fast and Furious was an Obama administration conspiracy to attack Second Amendment rights.
National Rifle Association CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre was given a free pass on the February 10 edition of Fox & Friends to allege the existence of this scheme. After host Steve Doocy bragged that "nobody in the mainstream media except Fox" was covering Fast and Furious, LaPierre stated, "It's a shameful day for most of the American media because they are part of the cover-up. What this administration did is they concocted a scheme to make what is not true, appear to be true. Namely that the Mexican drug cartels were being armed from firearms from American gun dealers because they wanted to seek political advantage in the United States."
During a March 12 appearance on Fox's America's Newsroom, controversial Tea Party figure Judson Phillips made the claim that Fast and Furious was "purely a political operation" designed to bring about "draconian gun control laws here in America."
On April 16, Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to praise Issa's investigation and claim that "the political agenda behind this entire thing was to blame American gun shops for cartel violence in America in order to push an anti-Second Amendment, more regulations on these gun shops." An ambivalent Bill O'Reilly called Pavlich's claims a "conspiracy thing" while at the same time reserving comment on the veracity of her "provocative" claims.
Finally, former South Carolina Governor and current Fox News contributor Mark Sanford appeared on the May 10 edition of America's Newsroom to claim that "a lot of people" want to know if Fast and Furious was a plot hatched by Attorney General Eric Holder to curb gun rights in the United States.
Fox News has also provided a platform for alternate theories concerning culpability of Holder and the Obama administration for supposed involvement in Fast and Furious. During a December 2011 edition of Fox's On the Record Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) claimed that Fast and Furious, an ATF operation, had to be authorized by "the highest level of DOJ." Host Greta van Susteren failed to mention that then acting ATF director Michael Sullivan had appeared on Fox News in September of that year and clearly stated that top-level DOJ authorization was not needed for ATF to initiate Fast and Furious.
Certainly one of the most explicit attempts to politicize Fast and Furious occurred during a November 2011 segment on America's Newsroom. Fox "straight news" anchor Bill Hemmer read a viewer's question about whether Fast and Furious "constitute[s] a treasonous act." He then asked Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), "is this treason, what's the definition?" The fact that even Rep. Gosar, a strident supporter of Rep. Issa's investigation, declined to indulge Hemmer on this question certainly speaks to Fox's Fast and Furious agenda.


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If you just can't handle any more annoying trashy drama concerning Jenelle Evans don't read on!
Apparently the anger management-challenged Teen Mom was involved in another physical altercation. This time with her mom, Barbara Evans. The two have always had a tense relationship to say the least, but the latest incident warranted police intervention.
On September 6th Barbara called the police over Jenelle's aggressive behavior. According to police dispatch, Barbara told officers that Jenelle "started cursing at her, calling her names, and was destroying the residence."
Barbara reported that Jenelle "went into Barbara's room and knocked her things off her dresser to the ground," following an argument.
Well, Jenelle has a different version of the events! Jenelle blamed her mother for starting the fight and making her angry! Right, Jenelle – you were completely innocent (eye roll). Jenelle maintains "she was washing her clothes when her mother came into the laundry room and was arguing with her," and then "knocked over a shelf spilling bleach in the washing machine with her clothes." No clothes were ruined in the incident in case, you were wondering.
Jenelle also claims that she went into her mom's room to get some items off the floor and she accidentally knocked her things on the floor when she accidentally bumped into the dresser.
The fight continued in the kitchen where Jenelle was "working on her laptop" (working on what, I wonder… ) and her mother came into the kitchen to give Jenelle's son, Jace some medicine. Jenelle alleges her mother "threw the medicine on her, her laptop and then threw the bottle at her." Luckily Jenelle was able to salvage her laptop by cleaning up the medicine before any damage occurred.
Possibly poking holes in Jenelle's story, the officer reports he did not see any medicine on her or the computer.
While Barbara told police she did not want to press charges against her daughter, Jenelle wasn't feeling so charitable and "swore she would file a simple assault charge against Barbara." In the end – after wasting law enforcement's time – Jenelle decided she wouldn't file charges after all and no arrests were made. Yeah, if Barbara had been arrested who would take care of Jace?
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Young men and women visiting each other in a dorm will hardly be viewed as an "intimate revolution" when college begins this fall for millions of American students. But not all that long ago, co-ed dorms were viewed as a dramatic, and even a potentially dangerous, innovation. A November 1970 issue of LIFE magazine detailed the novel experiment as enacted by Oberlin College in Ohio — then in its second year of co-ed dorms and 24-hour visiting between men and women. LIFE's managing editor at the time, Ralph Graves, knew what was coming when the piece published:
"This week's cover of a boy and girl living in a co-ed dorm at Oberlin College will, I know from experience, bring anguished letters from some readers," he wrote. "Although co-ed dorms are a major phenomenon on the American campus … some readers will protest that we are 'celebrating' or 'endorsing' or 'glorifying' a controversial situation by putting it on LIFE's cover."
Nothing in the piece explicitly demonstrates LIFE's support for co-ed living. But the photographs depict a kind of ease and camaraderie within the co-ed dorms that suggest a definite uptick in quality of life for the beneficiaries of Oberlin's new system. The shared living space bred a communal spirit, rather than promiscuity, according to men and women quoted in LIFE.
"You gain so many brothers," said one sophomore woman. "Platonic relationships come so easily." Freshman David Jensen, meanwhile, noted with surprise that he found himself "taking [his women classmates] more for granted as people, something I'd never done before."
Self-consciousness about things like exposing one's Medusan bedhead to members of the opposite sex first thing in the morning was evidently a non-issue, and grades remained stable.
Still, not everyone was pleased with the burgeoning co-ed experiment around the country. Nineteen-year-old Peter Jay Ehlendt, for example, "a veteran of a year's residence in a mixed dorm at Michigan State University," gladly moved into an apartment far from "the broads."
"You couldn't relax, or take to the halls in your skivvies," he told LIFE of his time in a co-ed dorm. "You couldn't swear or slop down a meal with the guys because there were always a bunch of girls hanging around." Freshmen, he argued, couldn't handle the overwhelming freedom that the living arrangements afforded them. There's no discussion in the article, meanwhile, of whether gay men and women in wholly same-sex dorms might suffer a similar sexual vertigo upon being surrounded by constant temptation. (One might also assume, from these pictures, that there were no men or women of color on the Oberlin campus in 1970 — which is especially strange in light of the fact that Oberlin, founded by Presbyterian ministers in 1833, was the first American college to admit both women and African Americans.)
Half a century later, living-arrangement innovations in college life have broadened and deepened. Gender-neutral rooms at places like the California Institute of Technology, Clark University and the University of Pennsylvania allow male and female students to live together in the same rooms, as opposed to the Oberlin system depicted here that featured separate quarters for men and women within the same dorm, while students who identify outside of "traditional" parameters (LGBT youth, for example) increasingly find safe and welcoming environments on campuses around the country.
The final word, though, belongs to Bill McIlrath, then the associate admissions director at Oberlin, who addressed prevalent concerns that co-ed dorms — and similar variations of old-school themes — were simply the most obvious emblems of the decline of moral and ethical standards on campuses everywhere.
"Some parents expect the Oberlin campus to be full of bomb-throwers, perverts and free-lovers," McIlrath pointed out. "It's not."
Tara Thean is a freelance writer and graduate student in biological sciences at Cambridge University. Follow her on Twitter @tarathean.


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| Aspects of Leadership Applicable to This Course
Whether you're a new leader or an experienced one, it helps to articulate your own set of personal leadership maxims. These maxims provide you a touchstone you can refer to every day to remind yourself how you want to show up as a leader.
One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Mike Figliuolo's book, is the basis for this method. All our courses are encompassed in this "umbrella" framework for the four aspects of leadership. During the course, you'll experience and discuss:
- A model for the examination of self
- An articulation of what you stand for
- An appreciation of where you're going
- An understanding of how you want to lead
- A creation of your own practical "maxims" that you can start using immediately
We will explore four aspects of leadership which include:
- Leading Yourself
- Leading the Thinking
- Leading Your People
- Leading a Balanced Life
During the session, you will have in-depth discussions on these aspects of leadership. You'll also create your own set of maxims you can apply the minute you leave the room. The target audience for this course is anyone in a leadership role no matter how large or small. Participants must have a desire to understand themselves as a leader and must want to better define and create consistency around their leadership style.
Please contact us to arrange for this course to be trained at your organization or to have Mike Figliuolo come deliver a keynote presentation on the topic at your event.
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Pack up and go with a portable checkerboard and pouch. It's functional and fun for a road trip, picnic or backyard game night.
Use 1/4" seam allowances unless otherwise noted.
Checkerboard Piecing
Position the fabric rectangles in two rows, alternating the printed fabrics with the linen (1). Align one cotton print rectangle with one linen rectangle with right sides facing; stitch one long edge. Continue pairing the cotton rectangles and linen rectangles, stitching the strip long edges to form two rectangles of eight strips each. Press all seams in one direction.
Cut the two pieced rectangles into eight 1 3/4"x10 1/2" rectangles, using a rotary cutter, mat and acrylic ruler. Alternate the strip colors, aligning the long edges (2). Stitch the rectangle long edges together with right sides facing to form one 10 1/2" square; press all seams in one direction.
Lay the backing fabric right side down over a flat work surface. Position the batting over the backing, then position the checkerboard right side up, aligning all corners and edges. Baste the perimeter through all layers.
Stitch in the ditch through all layers. Remove the basting stitches.
With right sides facing, align the two binding strip short ends on the diagonal. Stitch the ends together; trim the seam allowance to 1/4" (3). Press open the seam.
Press one binding short end 1" to the fabric wrong side. Fold the binding in half lengthwise with wrong sides facing.
Position the binding strip end along one checkerboard edge center with right sides facing and raw edges aligned. Begin stitching 2" from the strip folded short edge, stitching through all layers.
At each corner, raise the needle, turn the fabric, and fold the binding up and back down over itself to form a mitered corner (4). Lower the needle and continue to sew.
End the stitching 1" before the binding beginning. Trim the binding end so it fits inside the beginning fold. Insert the short raw edge into the beginning fold and continue stitching to finish the binding (5).
Fold the loose binding edges to the checkerboard back. Slipstitch the binding to the checkerboard back side, mitering each corner and covering the machine stitching.
Cut the fabric and linen rectangles into twelve 1 1/2" squares each.
Cover each button with one fabric square, following the covered button kit manufacturer's instructions.
From the linen, cut one 5"x12 1/2" rectangle, one 7"x12 1/2" rectangle and one 12 1/2"x10 1/2" rectangle.
Position the patterned strips, alternating the patterns and aligning the long edges (6). Stitch each strip long edge with right sides facing to form a 12 1/2"x10 1/2" panel. This is the outer pouch piece.
Position the fusible fleece over the pouch piece, with the fusible side facing the fabric wrong side; fuse following the manufacturer's instructions.
Stitch in the ditch to quilt the outer pouch piece.
Experiment by using different quilting stitches and techniques to achieve unique looks and expand your quilting skills.
Position the small linen rectangle on a flat work surface. Fold under one long edge 1/2"; finger-press. Center the fold on one right side of the closed zipper, so 1/4" of excess zipper extends beyond each fabric edge. Stitch 1/4" from the folded edge. Repeat to stitch the large linen rectangle on the opposite zipper side (7). Press the pieces flat.
Align the linen lower edges with wrong sides facing, leaving 3/4" of fabric beyond the zipper (8). Press the upper fold and pin the sides.
Pouch Assembly
Position the outer pouch right side down with one cording end centered along the upper edge. Position the zippered linen panel right side up along the outer pouch lower and side edges. Position the remaining linen rectangle over the stack, aligning all edges; pin (9).
Stitch the perimeter through all layers, beginning by backstitching slightly above the zipper beginning. End with a backstitch, leaving a 4" opening for turning along one pouch side edge.
Stitch the pouch upper corners at a slight angle for diagonal corners.
Clip the corners and turn the pouch right side out. Push out the corners and press the pouch.
Fold under the opening raw edge; press. Slipstitch the opening closed. Knot the thread ends; press.
Rashida Coleman-Hale studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and rediscovered her love of patchwork when she became a stay-at-home mom. Her first book, I Love Patchwork, is available in fall 2009. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Visit her blog, iheartlinen.typepad.com, to read about her crafty life.
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