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The jury must die, by Carol O'Connell [audiobook]. Read by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis. Rearsby, Leics.: W F Howes, 2005.
I got about half a disk into this and realised I'd had it out of the library before, remembered all the characters - but then had no idea what happened in the end! I'm hoping it was one I couldn't renew and had to return unfinished! I gather this one is also known as Dead famous in the US. There are some fascinating characters in this, including Johanna Apollo, a psychiatrist and hunchback, in witness protection since she was part of a jury which found a radio shock-jock not guilty for a crime he almost certainly committed, and since the jury members began being systematically murdered.
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. Kindle edition.
This is a completely fascinating and frequently quite gruesome account of Shackleton's ultimately failed journey to the Antarctic, frostbite and all. Although not one you're likely to want to read while you're eating - too much mention of eating partially-cooked seal blubber for that... Shackleton first covers the part of the expedition he was on, including the loss of the Endurance to the ice, and then takes his men's accounts of the other aspects of the expedition (there was the exploring party, and another party at the other side of Antarctica charged with providing supplies for the exploring party when they got to their goal). The first part of the book is absolutely riveting, as the climate ultimately becomes the winner and the goal becomes survival. However, Shackleton is unstinting in criticism of the landing party at the other side, who waited much longer to be rescued and lost three men - you do get the impression that he's unwilling to give the credit for good management to anyone else. There's a great deal of pathos, too, in the fact that when the explorers finally reach land in South Georgia in late 1916, they want to know who has won the war, and have no clue that it's still going on; and also in the fact that they all signed up, and lost as many men in the last year and a half of the war as they did in three years of endurance on the ice.
I went for the free Kindle edition, but there are many of these at different prices - I'm assuming the more expensive ones have maps.
The darkness of bones, by Sam Millar. Kindle edition.
Sometimes you get a book which is just awful on many levels. I kept on with this with a sense of horrified fascination. It purports to be set in Northern Ireland (and is based on a child sex scandal there) but apart from mentions of Dublin, Belfast and so on, it may as well be set in Joe Pickett's Wyoming or Charlie Parker's Maine woods. The spelling veers wildly between British and US usage - "the colour of the center", for instance - and there are some quite weird malapropisms - "voyageur" for "voyeur" - and many uses of homophones (the usuals, reign/rein, breaks/brakes, tire/tyre but also some bizarre ones like begin/begging). The plot is also pretty distasteful with a lot of badly-written graphic violence which seems to be included for effect, and no sympathetic characters. Not recommended. I would say 'you get what you pay for, and it was only 70p' but actually, you usually get an awful lot more than you pay for!
Silver, by Steven Savile. [S.l.]: Bad Press, 2011. Kindle edition.
This, on the other hand, was 70p extremely well spent!
Thirteen people burn themselves to death simultaneously in public squares across the world, while announcing forty days and nights of plague and terror on the world. Shortly afterwards in Berlin, there's a sarin attack on the underground. The shadowy Ogmios unit, an ultra-secret Special Ops team, go in pursuit of the Disciples of Judas, who have declared war on the West. The action concentrates on Berlin and Rome, with a very nicely- (and geographically-accurately)-written short episode in Newcastle. Highly recommended to anyone who would have liked The Da Vinci code to have been written with skill and imagination. The heresy at the heart of this one is original and fascinating, unlike the tired old "sensation" Dan Brown doled out, and the writing is taut and well-crafted with some interesting and likeable characters. Oh, and the word "symbology" isn't mentioned once...
Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín. London: Penguin 2009.
A Kniterati book - not one I'd have picked up otherwise, but this time that's not necessarily a good thing. Eilis, an innocent in her early 20s, leaves her home in Ireland for a job in New York organised by a friendly priest. It's a fascinating look into New York in the 1950s, and a window into a different world of constraint, and standards of behaviour, and so on - ultimately I didn't enjoy it because the great "choice" Eilis has to make is largely determined for her - she's almost a cypher, and a bystander in her own life.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
E is for... many things; and F is for Feast
Well, bizarrely enough, the theme for this year's Feast was "E is for..." So I'm combining two letters here... If I'd kept up with the programme, Saturday would have been J and I'd have gone for "Jolly", which would also have worked.
We were unthemed, sadly; but as our main organiser was told to rest up about 10 days beforehand, getting a stand together was OK in and of itself...
Now. Nothing says "Feast" like "construction of temporary bridge". At least, it doesn't in our village. We have enough 39 Engineer Regiment at home, after Iraq and Afghanistan, to do this sort of thing. Here they are delivering the equipment.
Snakes were also present. I couldn't quite believe the colour (and size) of this one. (Yes, it is real.)
Dragging us back into the Usual, Waterbeach Brass played, and I knitted... it was lovely. Lots of people commented on the knitting. I should have had a little placard for WWKIPD, but I didn't.
Then there was the parade... This year, instead of the Arco Iris Samba Band, we had a Cadets band - pipe and drum band. The uniforms were certainly impressive. There was a short embarrassing pause as this lot, followed by most of the children in the village, confronted the number 9 bus to March at the corner. (The number 9 bus lost.)
There were Explorers.
The big ones had plastic pith helmets. The little ones had fabulous wild animal costumes. They did their best not to skid on the huge slough of detergent "snow" left by the Everesters while they were standing in one place during the Great Bus Confrontation of 2011.
And, just because NO village procession around Cambridge is complete without a samba band - the Arco Iris conductor had evidently been working with the school...
So, it all started: the view from outside my front door on Friday night at about 8pm... The Bug was unimpressed. [Quick Amelia update: vet was very pleased on Saturday morning, and she can now go out, which she's loving. I loved it slightly less yesterday afternoon when she came in, leapt up onto the table and plonked her wet self down on my inkjet-printed, rather complicated, knitting pattern...]
I am a veteran. I know this is the Thomas the Tank Engine Train, as ever; while I'd rather the commercial stalls were elsewhere on the Green because of the canned music, my nephew is a Thomas fanatic so these days, I think of him while they're unpacking it...
The next morning at 9:30am when I started over to find the stall I was volunteering on, the Es were in evidence. The English Country Gardenists were next to the school's Ecowarriors
We were unthemed, sadly; but as our main organiser was told to rest up about 10 days beforehand, getting a stand together was OK in and of itself...
Now. Nothing says "Feast" like "construction of temporary bridge". At least, it doesn't in our village. We have enough 39 Engineer Regiment at home, after Iraq and Afghanistan, to do this sort of thing. Here they are delivering the equipment.
He wasn't armed or anything, and I'd have loved to have seen the people who dared to steal several tons of military equipment in front of a thousand or so people including large numbers of Army personnel, but there was probably some sort of Elf and Safety ruling which meant that if someone tried to make off with the odd huge chunk of steel and dropped it on his/her foot... (I'm actually a big fan of people not being killed at work, having been a H&S rep in my previous job and a fire marshal in this one, but the risk assessment form does seem to have gone over the top this year!)
I don't have pictures of the bridge construction, or the children running up and down and all around it afterwards; I was helping to pack our stuff away at the time. But I've seen it all done once before, and I saw bits of it this time; and my God, they're good. I realised they're trained for it, and they're meant to be some of the best in the world; but about a dozen of them take all that stuff and make a working bridge which will carry a tank in almost exactly 10 minutes flat. It's astonishing.
This year, there were also Interesting Animals. (Not saying that the Dog Obedience in previous years was dull... well, yes, I am.) The library stand was right next to a little cage of meerkats. A couple of times, stroking of meerkats happened.
Snakes were also present. I couldn't quite believe the colour (and size) of this one. (Yes, it is real.)
Dragging us back into the Usual, Waterbeach Brass played, and I knitted... it was lovely. Lots of people commented on the knitting. I should have had a little placard for WWKIPD, but I didn't.
Then there was the parade... This year, instead of the Arco Iris Samba Band, we had a Cadets band - pipe and drum band. The uniforms were certainly impressive. There was a short embarrassing pause as this lot, followed by most of the children in the village, confronted the number 9 bus to March at the corner. (The number 9 bus lost.)
There were Rangers, being an Everest expedition. (I hope that if they ever do make the trip, someone points out that shorts might not be quite the thing, but some of them had an impressive number of badges.)
There were Explorers.
The big ones had plastic pith helmets. The little ones had fabulous wild animal costumes. They did their best not to skid on the huge slough of detergent "snow" left by the Everesters while they were standing in one place during the Great Bus Confrontation of 2011.
I love the way some people go for complete historical accuracy, and some go for 'I'm sure I have a bridesmaid's dress somewhere'... that's the spirit!
And, just because NO village procession around Cambridge is complete without a samba band - the Arco Iris conductor had evidently been working with the school...
The weather, as you can see from these, was fine. Not as warm as it might have been, but the forecast had been astonishingly horrible; and in the end, the rain didn't fall until Sunday, which was dreadful; but as we're officially in drought, I probably shouldn't mind getting a little bit soaked going to a friend's for dinner last night...
I love the Feast. Cottenham/Rampton are having a Big Family Festival next month, with fanciness including Bob Flowerdew; but we're not so shabby; and I'm moved to tears by the parade every year because so many people put so much effort into it...
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Monday, June 06, 2011
D is for... DPNs
As you can see - the 30 day blogging challenge has become somewhat theoretical. I am going to carry on with the A-Z thing though, because it's fun, and why not. With interspersed book reviews... and I'm going to try to make it semi-regular...
I like wooden needles, because I'm a looser knitter and I like the grabbiness of wood. My favourite DPNs are a set of 3 (formerly 5) Colonial Rosewoods from Wibbo several years ago - I broke one, and left one on a table at work while knitting at lunch... I supplement these with KnitPro Harmony wooden needles, which aren't quite the same (and are half an inch longer) but do the job.
So - DPNs.
There are almost as many ways of knitting socks as there are people, I think. I'm in a knit-along (KAL) for Cookie A.'s book knit. sock.love. and there are people knitting on 4 DPNs, 5DPNs, one circular, two circulars, two at a time on two circulars, two at a time on one circular. Some are adapting the patterns to knit toe-up, and there are as many methods of knitting toe-up socks as there are top-downs...
I also remember being at the (sadly now closed) Stash Yarns in London when there were 7 knitters there, using 7 different methods of knitting socks, and a lady came into the shop and said "what's the best way to knit socks?" How we laughed. (And then explained why we were laughing and invited her to watch us all knitting and work out which might be best. Obviously.)
Me, I'm a fan of double-pointed needles in a set of 4 for socks. I like the triangle formation, and how stable it is.
I like wooden needles, because I'm a looser knitter and I like the grabbiness of wood. My favourite DPNs are a set of 3 (formerly 5) Colonial Rosewoods from Wibbo several years ago - I broke one, and left one on a table at work while knitting at lunch... I supplement these with KnitPro Harmony wooden needles, which aren't quite the same (and are half an inch longer) but do the job.
The only book I could find which made sense to me while I was trying to learn how to knit with DPNs was called America's Knitting Book by Gertrude Taylor (found in Oxfam in Ely, but I gather it's back in print at Amazon.com) . I warmed to this book on the bus home, when it said "If you are left-handed, you should not knit from left to right. Left-handed people write in the same direction as right-handed people do, so too, you should knit in the same direction as other knitters do, so that others will be able to help you." My grandma tried to teach me by getting me to sit opposite her and knit in the opposite direction, and it just didn't work - in the end I taught myself from a (right-handed) Ladybird book. I would love to find a copy of that book again. I have met a couple of truly left-handed knitters over the last couple of years and they do brilliant work; but I'm not sure I'd have carried on in the 1970s climate if I'd knitted entirely left-handed.
One of the legacies of Gertrude Taylor, though, is that she does say breezily "If you are going to knit socks without seams you will be using the four-needle method", and additionally shows all of her diagrams for both circular and DPNs with the knitter working from the back of the triangle, looking at the right side but with the wrong side facing, thus:
(This was a test knit for Erssie Major last summer; a lovely Christmas stocking in colourwork).
(This was a test knit for Erssie Major last summer; a lovely Christmas stocking in colourwork).
One of the good things about knitting "inside out" in colourwork is that the "floats" (lengths of yarn between one use of a colour and the next) are on the outside, so you're less likely to get all tightened-up...
The other thing I like about using DPNs for any circular stuff is their compactness.
Knitting is totally a matter of preference - and this is mine.
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C is for... Cricket
Not very impressive, getting two days into a month's blogging every day and then stalling, but I'd originally picked C for Colour, and got overwhelmed choosing photos. So I thought I'd go for something more manageable, and topical, on this 4th day of a murky Test at Lords after the umpires have just pulled the teams off for bad light yet again.
One of my first memories of family holidays is listening to Test Match Special (quietly, so as not to disturb the neighbours) on the beach. As most of the beaches we went to tended to be in Northumberland, there weren't many neighbours. I suppose the earliest one might have been the 1975 Ashes series; but I remember Botham, Gower et al against Richards, Holding and the fabulous West Indies side which is being commemorated in the new film Fire in Babylon (link to trailer).
I'm not that technically knowledgeable about cricket - I know where the fielding positions are, and the difference between the types of delivery. I'm a big fan of Test cricket as the purest form of the art; but the World Cup was pretty exciting this time round, and as someone who grew up about half a mile from the current Durham ground, following County cricket is pretty rewarding too. But mostly, I love the fact that a sometimes slow-paced game can give such excitement, that games which ought to go one way suddenly go another and that articulate people can be so utterly passionate about it. You could probably say most of these things about any sport, but mine's cricket.
To an extent, this is actually rather like knitting, or any form of craft. You graft on, sometimes without an end or any discernible result in sight, and then have the excitement of a finish; sometimes something you start very tentatively turns out to be exactly the right thing; and then sometimes you think you've picked the perfect yarn and needles for a project and it all goes horribly wrong. And knitters and cricketers all do seem to enjoy a good tea, with cake.
I really, really wish there was the knitting equivalent of Test Match Special. Even if there's no play, sometimes especially if there's no play, the commentators are wonderful. It's almost the original of blogging or podcasting - people sitting and talking about what they're passionate about. Oh, and then you get someone like Heston Blumenthal filling in the gap this morning with his recipe for roast potatoes. Or Imelda Staunton hoving into view at teatime with a home-made lemon drizzle cake. Or Scouting for Girls coming in to do a version of She's so lovely for Mrs Aggers because she has it has her ringtone...
Go England. At the moment, it looks as if we might be heading for an honourable draw and that'd be just fine...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
B is for... Books
(Before I go on about the actual theme, B is also for Bug - aka Amelia [Mealy-Bug], mentioned in the last post. She came home last night, about 24 hours before I expected her to, and seems pretty cheerful for a cat with a 5" incision in her belly. She's also, so far and touch wood, been very good about not attacking the stitches. We get the results of the biopsies sometime next week. She's sulking in the back bedroom, mainly because a) she can't go out and b) I attack her twice a day with painkillers and antibiotics, which are obviously The Enemy and I am Horrid Person. She has just come down and devoured half a very nice line-caught posh haddock fillet I'd originally put in the freezer for myself, though. [I'm sure she'd have had the other half if I'd let her.] I've been working from home today, will go in for the usual shorter Friday tomorrow, and am off on Monday - next appointment is Saturday for a quick once-over...
Thanks for everyone's good wishes.)
OK. Books.
As anyone who's read this blog over the last year and a half or so (since I started listing the books I've read) will know, I'm a bit of a reader. I cannot imagine a life without a heap of books to read. Sometimes this is slightly oppressive - even if I wished to play my severely out-of-tune piano, I can't because it has my "unread books" stacks all over it - but it offers a world of possibilities. So I thought I might give you my top 5 non-knitting books, and my top knitting book.
5. The silver pigs, by Lindsey Davis. 1989.
The first of the Marcus Didius Falco novels, and arguably the best - this sets up the series but is a wonderful historical/romantic/detective novel on its own. There are 20 in the series now and I wish continued health and inspiration to Ms Davis for many more.
4. TS Eliot: the complete poems and plays, by TS Eliot. 1969.
There's just something about Eliot. It might be his Catholicism and the use of biblical language to address modern subjects; it may just be his use of language, but I find myself dipping into this collection
3. Gaudy night, by Dorothy L Sayers. 1935.
For me, the best romantic novel ever written, and the detection isn't bad, too. Sayers cracks the ice on the Wimsey/Vane relationship quite wonderfully.
2. Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson. 2004.
Jackson is just amazing. Every book she brings out is a tour de force of Southern fiction. I think probably the best thing I can do to describe this book is to give you the first paragraph. "There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. I left one back there myself, back in Possett. I kicked it under the kudzu and left it to the roaches."
1. To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee. 1960.
I can't explain why my top two books are set in the American South, but there you are. I re-read this book every couple of years or so. The combination of innocence and knowingness, and a society which is so different and so much the same, always enthrals me. I don't know whether I read the book or saw the film first, but I love both equally, for entirely different ways.
This was a difficult one. So many books have excellent techniques, and beautiful photos. But the top one, just for the eye-opener and a personal connection, has to be
Unexpected knitting, by Debbie New. [Can't find original date, in print again though]
Not the cheapest of books - but it will get you thinking about knitting as the creation of a fabric, if you don't already. This book was written by a woman with 8 children who regards knitting a log-cabin quilt using a photo of her mother, which ends up the size of a barn, as an entirely reasonable activity. There are some recipes for knitting here, and the odd pattern, but really, it's the inspiration which is the key. I've never had such an eye-opener.
The strange thing was that I first saw it the day I met Rosie/caughtknitting, on a chance meeting at the Mill Pond when we were both waiting to go somewhere else and I was knitting. She came over and introduced herself and showed me the book; and I was pretty standoffish because I was waiting for friends to turn up, and thank goodness, she gave me her e-mail address and the rest is history. Joining the Cambridge knitting group was a bit of a lifesaver at the time, and has been lovely ever since. April 24, 2004. Not difficult to remember as it was also my birthday! Nowadays, of course, I'd know what to do if approached by a fellow knitter in a public place, but it was the first time it had happened to me...
I am sure that even without that, it would be my top knitting book...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
A is for... Animals
I'm doing something a bit different this month, pinching an idea pitched on Ravelry by Tinks - she's going to be taking up a challenge of blogging all the letters of the alphabet this month on her blog. Some of the letters are going to be easier than others!
This one, however, has come to mind because of a couple of events this week. First, the little Circus Tyanna has come to live on the Green this week. For a spinner, the most exciting ones are obviously the llamas - wouldn't these two make a great sweater?
I'm sort of glad to have animal distractions out there at the moment, as the Bug is in the veterinary hospital until at least Thursday - she had an enormous pancreatic cyst removed yesterday and they've sent off various bits of her for biopsies. I imagine she is not amused at the moment.
There's also this extremely cute white goat which is tethered just opposite my house
and a slightly less cute goat - there are quite a few ponies but this miniature one is probably the sweetest-looking...
and a slightly less cute goat - there are quite a few ponies but this miniature one is probably the sweetest-looking...
I'm sort of glad to have animal distractions out there at the moment, as the Bug is in the veterinary hospital until at least Thursday - she had an enormous pancreatic cyst removed yesterday and they've sent off various bits of her for biopsies. I imagine she is not amused at the moment.
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WBU Nurse takes healthcare expertise, servant's heart to Brazil
PLAINVIEW – Though she normally sees dozens of Wayland Baptist University students and employees in a typical week, Josie Gomez recently had a rash of patients to treat. Thankfully she wasn't alone.
The university's full-time registered nurse, Gomez recently took a week off from her job at Wayland to travel to Brazil for a medical mission trip with other area medical professionals. A member of the First Baptist Church in Hale Center, Josie found out about the coming trip through a presentation by Dr. Gene Meacham, director of missions for the Caprock-Plains Baptist Area based in Plainview.
"I felt like this would be where I could use the talents God gave me for Him," said Gomez, who has been at Wayland nine years. Though mission trips were nothing new to Gomez – she has been to Mexico and even Brazil on medical missions – this trip held a new twist for the longtime nurse.
The mission was conducted almost exclusively aboard a boat as part of the Evangelistic Mission Assistance to Fishermen project. The team of 12 short-term missionaries – which included Lubbock physician Dr. Hugh Wilson, formerly of Hale Center, dentist Donna Winchester of Slaton, two other nurses, a speech therapist, a physical therapist and several others who came for support and assistance – traveled each day from Isla Grande off the coast of central Brazil to remote villages where no medical assistance is regularly available. Luiz Alcantara, a physician from Brazil, traveled with them to provide translation and additional medical help.
Docked a short ways from the shore, the boat would become a clinic for the villagers who traveled to wait for help. The lines formed quickly and stayed long for most of the day.
"It was very busy. People were in and out all day long for four days straight," Gomez said. "We used every part of that boat to see people and treat them. We treated lots of intestinal worms, anemia and some scabies, and the dentist pulled teeth left and right because their dental hygiene was not good."
Gomez noted that while the medical team stayed on board to run the clinic, others traveled into the villages to meet people and share the gospel message in various ways. Flexibility and creativity would prove to be valuable for the team.
"One day the wind was too high and we had to move the clinic into an elementary school on the island," Gomez recalled. "When we heard that morning we might not get to stay on the boat, we prayed and prayed for God to calm the storm. But we ended up in the school anyway, and it was such a blessing.
"I think God had already planned this ahead for us."
While the clinic continued on more solid ground, the rest of the team made good use of their time closer to the villagers. Ron Hanby of Plainview, a CPA, did a paint talk for a gathered group, using an illustration on large canvas to share the gospel story.
Though it was a whirlwind trip with lots of long days and hard work, Gomez said the time was an amazing experience and she was humbled to be part of God's work using her nursing skills.
"The biggest blessing for me came from giving a shot to one lady who could barely walk from painful arthritis and had been that way for eight months," she recalled. "She said through the interpreter that it was the first shot she'd had that didn't hurt, and the next day she came up to me and was saying, 'Thank you' and hugging me and telling me how she didn't hurt anymore.
She also noted one woman who brought her 14-year-old daughter to see the speech therapist, saying she had never spoken. Within a few hours of therapy, the girl was making simple noises and moving toward speech for the first time, a miracle to behold for the visiting Americans.
The incident, along with the whole trip, made an impact on Gomez.
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…Often when someone throws a rock at a dog rather than rushing at the person who threw the stone, the dog will run and bite the stone. We do the same thing. The tempter uses someone else to tempt us, either in word or deed, and rather than deal with the tempter who threw the stone, we bite the rock, our fellow man that the hater of the good used against us.


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Let's look to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' (NACE) "Job Outlook 2012" survey for clues. The annual survey is a forecast of employers' intentions to hire new college graduates.
Each year, many of the same degrees - business, engineering, and computer science - make it to the top of the hiring list. But why?
"In some cases companies are looking for a specific skill set unique to a position," says Andrea Koncz, employment information manager at NACE. "Computer science, for example, requires a specific technical knowledge."
Want to ensure you earn an in-demand degree? Keep reading to see which degrees are standing out to employers this year.
Degree #1 - Business Administration
If you're interested in earning an in-demand degree that can help you learn about business policy and strategy, a bachelor's degree in business administration could be a great option.
NACE's Job Outlook 2012 survey found that 48.5 percent of employers who responded to the survey plan to hire business majors, many of whom might study topics like accounting, marketing, human resources, and law.
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Why it's in demand: According to the Job Outlook survey, employers prefer candidates who have problem solving and leadership skills, which could potentially be acquired or honed through a business program, notes the Colleges Board, an organization that administers academic aptitude tests like the SAT. Business classes could also give students a broad understanding of business practices that might be used in industries ranging from finance to health care.
Potential careers:*
- Human Resources Manager
- Financial Analyst
- Financial Manager
Degree #2 - Engineering
Do you like to figure out how things are built and what makes certain things run? Consider pursuing an engineering bachelor's degree, which is a hot hiring field, according to NACE's Job Outlook survey.
Of the surveyed employers, 51.5 percent plan to hire electrical engineering grads; 50 percent anticipate hiring mechanical engineering grads; and 43.3 percent have plans to hire computer engineering grads.
Why it's in demand: Graduates in all engineering fields acquire in-demand skills such as problem solving and analysis according to the U.S. Department of Labor. These sought-after skills could transfer to a range of careers.
Potential careers:*
- Environmental Engineer
- Petroleum Engineer
- Biomedical Engineer
Degree #3 - Computer and Information Sciences
Computer science bachelor's degree graduates are in luck. Their tech-savvy skills are appealing to many employers, according to the Job Outlook survey.
Computer science majors, who usually study technical subjects like computer programming, operating systems, and database or software engineering, are expected to have a great hiring year, with 59.3 percent of surveyed employers planning to hire them.
Click to Find the Right Computer and Information Systems Program.
Why it's in demand: As Koncz says, computer science graduates have a particular technical skill set that is unique to that position. What's more, the U.S. Department of Labor also notes that "as technology advances, employers will need workers with the latest skills," and a computer and information sciences degree could help provide students the skill-set they want.
- Software Engineering
- Computer Programmer
- Computer Systems Analyst
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Degree #4 - Accounting
Do you want to pursue an in-demand degree that can help hone your all-about-numbers talents? If so, consider earning a bachelor's degree in accounting.
Accounting majors, who usually study topics like accounting basics, computer skills, and document processing, have a bright 2012 outlook, with 59.3 percent of surveyed employers planning to take on these graduates this year.
Click to Find the Right Accounting Program.
Why it's in demand: One reason for the demand, according to Koncz, is that accounting majors develop strong analytical skills that employers seek. The U.S. Department of Labor also notes that accounting and auditing hopefuls "should have an aptitude for mathematics and be able to analyze, compare, and interpret facts and figures quickly," which are skills that could be acquired in earning a degree in this area.
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- Accountant
- Budget Analyst
- Financial Manager
Degree #5 - Economics
Want to figure out why the economy is in such a rut? A bachelor's degree in economics might help you form some hypotheses. And to top it off, it's also a popular degree among employers.
In fact, according to the Job Outlook survey, economics degree grads have the attention of some 34 percent of surveyed employers who plan to hire them in 2012.
Why it's in demand: Economics majors generally take classes in mathematics, statistics, and finance, learning to "analyze how the seemingly simple acts of buying and selling can be complicated by factors such as taxes, interest rates," says the College Board. Through such a program, students could acquire abilities in data analysis, which places high in the desirable skills employers are looking for, according to the Job Outlook survey.
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- Personal Financial Advisor
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Aka corporate coup
What if our national leaders told us that communities across America had to eliminate such local programs as Buy Local, Buy American, Buy Green, etc. to allow foreign corporations to have the right to make the sale on any products purchased with our tax dollars? This nullification of our people's right to direct expenditures is just one of the horror stories in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
This is a super-sized NAFTA, the 1994 trade scam rammed through Congress by the entire corporate establishment. NAFTA promised the "glories of globalization": prosperity across our land. Unfortunately, corporations got the gold. We got the shaft – thousands of factories closed, millions of middle-class jobs went south, and the economies of hundreds of towns and cities were shattered.
Twenty years later, the gang that gave us NAFTA is back with the TPP, a "trade deal" that mostly does not deal with trade. Of the 29 chapters in this document, only five cover traditional trade matters! The other chapters amount to a devilish "partnership" for corporate protectionism:
• Food safety. Any of our government's food safety regulations (on pesticide levels, bacterial contamination, fecal exposure, toxic additives, etc.) and food labeling laws (organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, GMO-free, etc.) that are stricter than "international standards" could be ruled as "illegal trade barriers."
• Fracking. Our Department of Energy would lose its authority to regulate exports of natural gas to any TPP nation.
• Jobs. U.S. corporations would get special foreign-investor protections to limit the cost and risk of relocating their factories to low-wage nations that sign onto this agreement. So, an American corporation thinking about moving a factory would know it is guaranteed a sweetheart deal if it moves operations to a TPP nation like Vietnam.
• Drug prices. Big Pharma would be given more years of monopoly pricing on each of their patents and be empowered to block distribution of cheaper generic drugs.
• Banksters. Wall Street and the financial giants in other TPP countries would make out like bandits. The deal explicitly prohibits transaction taxes (such as the proposed Robin Hood Tax here) that would shut down speculators who have repeatedly triggered financial crises and economic crashes around the world. It restricts "firewall" reforms that separate consumer banking from risky investment banking. It could roll back reforms that governments adopted to fix the extreme bank-deregulation regimen that caused Wall Street's 2007 crash. And it provides an escape from national rules that would limit the size of "too-big-to-fail" behemoths.
• Internet freedom. Corporations hoping to lock up and monopolize the Internet failed in Congress last year to pass their repressive "Stop Online Piracy Act." However, they've slipped SOPA's most pernicious provisions into TPP.
• Public services. TPP rules would limit how governments regulate such public services as utilities, transportation and education – including restricting policies meant to ensure broad or universal access to those essential needs.
Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch, correctly calls the Trans-Pacific Partnership "a corporate coup d'etat." Nations that join must conform their laws and rules to TPP's strictures, effectively supplanting U.S. sovereignty and canceling our people's right to be self-governing. Worse, it creates virtually permanent corporate rule over us.
Is it impossible to stop? Nope. There is also a broad, well-organized and politically experienced coalition of grassroots groups, which has stopped other deals and will do it again. We the people can protect our democratic rights from this threat of corporate usurpation. Check out globaltradewatch.org.
Jim Hightower is national radio commentator, columnist and author.


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A few reminders to winterize your cars (where it applies). Once Christmas preparations begin you may not think of these things until January.
Have good Anti-Freeze, Add De-Icer windshield washer fluid, Check wiper blades and tread on tires for wear. Check battery. Cold weather is hard on batteries. Put a protective coat of wax on car to protect from salt.
Make sure each car has an ice scraper. I've had to use my credit card many times, cause one of the boys was in a hurry, needed a scraper, and took it out of my car. I've been grocery shopping, come out to snow or ice. After loading the van, I hunt the scraper!!!!! Then I start a mumbling tirade pulling out the credit card. The ice scraper has some length at the handle, not the credit card. At five foot, I had to lean over, hop up, scrape, and mumble. Then, run around to the other side for a repeat. When I got home, vengeance. All were sent outside to unload, happy to be out of my way.
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The public hearing on the assisted living facility proposed to be built at 304 Knox Marsh Road will be held on May 2 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall.
While the Planning Board considered the application on April 18, it was deemed incomplete, hence the delay.
The board went on to re-elect its officers for the coming year: chairman, Bob Sterndale; vice-chair, Fritz Green; secretary, Tom Burbank.
When the Madbury Community Club met on April 19, Don and Elaine Sylvester showed their pictures and told the group about their 20-day trip West. They went as far as Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, viewed the Grand Tetons, and then Mt. Rushmore on their return. They have pictures of prairie dogs, wolves, bears, elk, goats, wild donkeys, buffalo, bison and grouse. They dodged tornadoes and floods and experienced huge hail.
The club met at Joan Sundberg's home. During the business meeting new officers were recruited: Joan Valentine' president; Dianne Mrak, vice-president; Shaune Mccarthy, secretary; Priscilla Polichronopoulis, treasurer. Nancy Pape will continue as chair of the Madbury Day planning. Janet Wall and Vicky Myers will arrange the programs. Noreen Gaetjens will arrange for ads for the community calendar, while Don Sylvester will coordinate the calendar production.
It was agreed to have the May 17 meeting at the Fish Shanty in Dover. Each person will select her meal from the menu, but Kitty Cornwell would appreciate hearing (866-0465) from those who plan to attend in order to be able to reserve space.
Martha Mercer is willing to lead a quilting/knitting/crafts group, which would nmeet at the library. Those interested should call Martha at 742-5426. Time and frequency will be determined by the wish of participants.
It's time to think of the week-long Bob Connors Picture-Writing Camp for children grades 3 through 6 which the Friends of Madbury Libraary will again sponsor. It will take place in July. Those registering children will be expected to present a $50 check which will be refunded if the child actually attends the camp. The only charge will be $10 for supplies. Michele Fitzshenry will be the instructor. To register, call 743-1400.
On May 6 the Madbury Volunteer Fire department will serve a Pancake Breakfast at the Public Safety Complex from 7 to ll a.m. There will be a Silent Auction, too. Suggested donation for the breakfast is $4.
On May 8 the Madbury Historical Society will host Dr. Neill DePaoli, whose topic will be " Astride Two Worlds: The Odd Adventures of John Gyles." Gyles was an interpreter and a player in the negotiations between the English and the Indians in Maine and New Hampshire. He is seen as having been a "culture broker," parlaying his knowledge of his own and other cultures as Europeans and Native Americans struggled to bridge the culture divide that existed between them.
DePaoli is an Adjunct Professor at Southern Maine Community College who lives in Portsmouth. He has been involved in "digs" in South Berwick, Maine, as well as in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has 35 years of experience in the history and historical archaeology of early New England.
The meeting will take place in the Town Hall, beginning at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
May 2 hearing on proposed assisted living facility
The public hearing on the assisted living facility proposed to be built at 304 Knox Marsh Road will be held on May 2 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall.


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Ian Howell
Praised by the New York Times for his "clear voice and attractive timbre," San Francisco Classical Voice for the "heart at the core of his soulful sound," and Classical Voice of North Carolina for his "lovely, supple and crystal clear" voice, Grammy Award Winner Ian Howell sings with a warm and seamless tone rarely heard from countertenors. In 2006, Mr. Howell won First Prize at The American Bach Soloists International Solo Competition with an acclaimed performance of Bach's Cantata BWV 170, Vergnügte Ruh, and Third Prize at the Oratorio Society of New York's Vocal Competition. Ian Howell's début solo CD, 1685 and the Art of Ian Howell with The American Bach Soloists was released in March 2009 and features repertory by Domenico Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, and Handel. He can also be heard with the all male chamber choir Chanticleer on one DVD and eight CDs, including the GRAMMY AWARD winningLamentations and Praises and the GRAMMY nominated Our American Journey.
Mr. Howell's 2010-11 season includes performances with Seattle Baroque (Pergolesi's Stabat Mater), Chatham Baroque (Bach's St. John Passion), The American Bach Soloists (music of Purcell and Handel), St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City (Handel's Jephtha (Hamor)) under the direction of Ken Tritle, the U.C. Davis Choirs (Bernstein Missa Brevis and Chichester Psalms), and a commercial recording of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Chatham Baroque.
In his 2009-2010 season, Mr. Howell débuted with Canada's Orchestra London as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare. He also appeared as guest soloist at the Ravinia Festival (Beginner's Ear), with The Handel Choir of Baltimore (Messiah), The Hudson Valley Singers (Handel's Susanna – Joacim), Chatham Baroque (Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and J.C. Bach's Lamento), Musica Angelica (Bach St. John Passion), and in recital with the Columbus Guitar Society in Ohio. This season he returns for performances with The American Bach Soloists (Messiah) and The Staunton Music Festival.
Mr. Howell has appeared with ensembles and orchestras across the USA and Canada, including The American Bach Soloists, The Oratorio Society of New York, Musica Sacra, The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, The Vancouver Chamber Choir, The Portland Baroque Orchestra, The Berkshire Choral Festival, The Princeton Glee Club, Tableau Baroque, and The Choir of St Thomas Fifth Ave (NYC).
Ian Howell holds a Master of Music Degree in Voice conferred jointly by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale School of Music.
This appearance marks Mr. Howell's début with Florentine Opera.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks put in a day of broad gains Tuesday, with Oracle Corp. among the advancers ahead of the business-software giant's quarterly results, and Apple gaining back some of the ground its lost over the last week.
Oracle ORCL, -0.26% shares rose 1.7% to close at $32.88, with the company's fiscal second-quarter results on tap. Analysts surveyed by FactSet estimate Oracle will report a profit of 61 cents a share on revenue of $9.01 billion. During the same period a year ago, Oracle earned 54 cents a share on $8.81 billion in sales.
Much of the focus of the report is expected to be on Oracle showing improvements in its foray into enterprise-hardware and cloud-computing sectors. Read: Oracle expected to post higher profit and sales.
Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.94% shares climbed almost 3%, to end the day at $533.90, even though a U.S. District Court judge on Monday denied Apple's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung Electronics' smartphones. Apple had been trying to get the sale of some Samsung devices halted in the United States as the company hashes out a continuing patent dispute.
In addition, Samsung said it was withdrawing its injunction requests against Apple on the basis of some it its standard-essential patents that are pending in courts in Europe. Some Wall Street analysts also issued notes on Apple on Tuesday, calling the recent sell-off on the stock "overdone." Read: Apple wins more support - and a draw with Samsung.
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.23% shares also rose, climbing by 2.6%, to $260.40. RBC Capital Markets analyst Sean Kim raised his price target on the online mega-retailer's stock to $300 a share from $250, saying in a research note that Amazon's investments in order-fulfillment centers may slow down in 2013 and lead to more profits.
Gains also came from Seagate Technology PLC STX, -0.27%, up 4.7%, and Netflix Inc. NFLX, +1.83%, which rose almost 1%, along with Dell Inc. DELL, -1.18%, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.15% and eBay Inc. EBAY, +0.20%
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.22% rose almost 44 points to close at 3,054, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -0.32% added 1.6% and the Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index US:MSH added almost 2%.
Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, +1.76% shares rose 2.3%, to close at $14.53 after Topeka Capital analyst Brian White cut his rating on H-P to sell from hold, and wrote in a research note: "We believe H-P is becoming a less relevant force in the IT world."
Online-review and recommendation company Yelp Inc. YELP, +2.52% saw its shares give up 4.6% and close at $18.06. On Monday, Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt started his coverage of Yelp with a neutral rating, becoming the latest in a string of Wall Street analysts to initiate coverage on Yelp over the past week. See: Yelp's potential has analysts a bit starry-eyed.
Research In Motion Ltd. US:RIMM was off by 1.5% to close at $13.72. Toronto-based National Bank analyst Kris Thompson cut his rating on the stock to sector perform, or hold. Thompson noted the sharp rise in RIM's shares, which have nearly doubled over the last three months, and said that short interest on the stock is at an all-time high, with questions about RIM's ability to sustain its subscriber base and cash levels.


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Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories
Kino Coursey, Rada Mihalcea and William Moen
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
The paper describes experiments in metadata generation for learning object repositories. Specifically, we present several methods for automatic keyword extraction, and evaluate them on a collection of learning objects from an undergraduate history course. The results suggest that automatic keyword extraction is a viable solution for suggesting terms and phrases for metadata annotation.
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Opinion: Bibi and Barack's Tete-a-Tete
Columnist Bret Stephens on President Obama's trip to Israel. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... prison Obama starts his first tour of Israel tomorrow ... is this the beginning of a new administration approach to the country or is it just a PR ... exercise ... global view calmness Bret Stephens joins me now and Brett ... I ... what is the importance of the symbolism of having present Obama finely and take a trip ... to Israel ... you don't actually there isn't much um ... oh we've had presidents and Syngenta sister we've had presidents who have been and there ... of policy toward Israel is not really contingent on whether they show up and to ... um go to the Western wall I don't think I actually think ... Obama is going to the Western wall to ... make the appropriate time adjusters ... my guess is Mary that this is basically a symbolic ... visit because the president has been attacked Akshay be unfairly for not having done says rule so far his presidency George W Bush we went ... in the last year was presidency ... in remains to be seen what he's going to do on substance but I'd like to hear a lot like him say something ... serious about Iran not just ... you know we're not bluffing ... I'd love to have them tell the Palestinians one on your own house in order and then maybe you can expect this to ... of real peace deal ... and he's going to Jordan which is very important country well before before we get to Jordan's put little chart up on the screen about what the Israeli people themselves think about President ... Obama thirty eight percent see him as hostile towards Israel ... thirty three percent support a fourteen percent ... in different so that's a pretty big percentage of that that means is numbers are better are better ... than ... Infantry that ... um so he effectively just just to wrap up on Israel's CEO see him changing the policy towards Iran ... more of a showbiz anything else look that's my guess Nintendo was be a surprise you never know um but I don't see much substance coming out of ... out of this particular trip ... and in Italy it's a pity because they're the two countries of the port of things to discuss ... it's not just the issue for rent of about a minute ... it's Syrian at some point of collapse if reports about chemical weapons being used ... an entire region in turmoil the relationship of really nice to get a better footing then where was the last four years well let's turn to Jordan because that's ... part of his trip is getting ... a lot less media coverage that is very important ... you've argued why ... I'm ... Jordan is that grey or moderate Arab state ... run by a king who was not a ... despot ... it's it's it's the kind of a key state between various ... actors Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia and Israel the Palestinians ... aam and ... it's in a lot of trouble it has a major economic crisis on its hands ... there is a great political turmoil the Arab Spring hasn't yet come to Jordan but threatens succumb to the presence to come to shorten the Muslim Brotherhood there's very rested ... we spent seven hundred and thirty million dollars a year total in foreign aid ... I think we could quadruple that and still good value for money if we make sure that the hash my Kingdom of Jordan survive smoke a global view calmness Bret Stephens the last word on Obama strict Israel ... may be headed back down ...


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Welcome to the Community Paramedic Program Web site. We hope you take time to learn more about an innovative program with the potential to improve the health of millions living in rural and remote regions of the United States and around the world.
It's a simple concept: Connect underutilized resources to underserved populations. In this case, we're expanding the roles of EMS workers to provide health services where access to physicians, clinics and/or hospitals is difficult or may not exist.
The Community Paramedic Program is organic. It exists for the sole purpose of serving the needs of a particular community. Its success relies heavily on collaboration among local stakeholders:
Last but not least, colleges and universities that train our nation's first responders are core to the Community Paramedic Program.
Similar initiatives in the United States and around the world have generated remarkable results. We visited many of them. Today's Community Paramedic Program combines all of the best practices and lessons learned from these programs.
Once you've had a chance to learn more about the Community Paramedic Program, we'd like to hear your thoughts. If you are interested in finding out how you can initiate a Community Paramedic program where you are, or have questions about the program, please e-mail me.
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For nearly 75 million people living in rural areas of the United States, health care needs far outnumber health care options. These communities already include disproportionate numbers of elderly citizens, immigrants, impoverished families and those in poor health.
Residents often must travel great distances—incurring great expenses—to receive even the most basic care. Or worse, they receive no care at all.
The Community Paramedic Program closes the gap by expanding the role of EMS personnel . Through a standardized curriculum, accredited colleges and universities will train first responders at the appropriate level to serve communities more broadly in the areas of:
The Community Paramedic Program adapts to the specific needs and resources of each community. It will succeed through the combined efforts of those that have a stake in maintaining the health and well-being of its residents.


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|April 2008
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Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
Oklahoma Ethics Commission Launches New Web site
"Our new Web site gives us the opportunity to communicate more effectively with public officers and employees, lobbyists, political candidates, and the media. We strive to provide rules of ethical conduct for state officers and employees and campaigns and provide all visitors to our site with easy access to state disclosure information," said Marilyn Hughes, OEC Executive Director.
The Web site is designed to meets Oklahoma's web accessibility standards and was built utilizing OK.gov's Content Management System. The system also allows the Ethics Commission's staff to provide the most up-to-date information quickly and efficiently. �OEC invites Oklahoma citizens to visit their new Web site and learn more about Oklahoma's ethical practices.
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New State Web Site Helps Oklahomans Choose Nursing Facilities
With a click of the mouse, consumers can visit a new Web site to access current information about nursing facilities that contract with the state's SoonerCare (Medicaid) program. Called Focus on Excellence, the program is designed to encourage quality improvements in long-term care services through public accountability.
"Selecting a nursing home for a loved one is a critical and often emotional decision for Oklahoma families," Gov. Henry said. "We're trying to make the decision process a little less difficult by giving consumers easy access to detailed information about long-term care facilities.� This program is also encouraging nursing homes to go the extra mile to provide more and even better services to their residents."
Nursing facilities voluntarily participate in the program to earn financial bonuses from the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) for their performance on 10 rating factors. The Web site also provides information about each of the rating factors that include categories such as quality of care; employee, resident and family satisfaction; and compliance with state and federal requirements.
The OHCA contracted with a national health care data management firm, My InnerView Inc., to provide independent validation of each nursing home's performance under the program. Using this information, the facilities are awarded a "star rating" based on their scores on these factors with one star being the lowest and five the highest.
"An average 70 percent of nursing facility residents in Oklahoma have their care paid for through the SoonerCare program," said OHCA CEO Mike Fogarty. "The program is designed to drive measurable improvements in the quality of life, care and services for these Oklahomans. But at the same time, it allows the facilities to set and meet performance improvement targets and see how they compare with other facilities in the state." Fogarty noted that the program assures state leaders and taxpayers that funds spent on nursing home care distinguish among facilities based on their performance at the same time it provides information for consumers. The program carries out a provision enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature as part of the Oklahoma's Medicaid Reform Act of 2006.
Initially, 265 facilities, or 85 percent of the nursing facilities in the state, signed up for the program. Of that number, 133 facilities received from two to 10 additional bonus points for performing well on the 10 quality measures. As of March 31, 24 facilities had earned the top rating of five stars.
Nursing facilities are also able to post additional information, such as special services, activities or therapies they offer to the site. Long-term care facilities that are not contracted with the SoonerCare program are eligible to participate in the program rating system but are not eligible for the financial incentives.
The Web site also features a quick search option that provides a list of all nursing homes. Searches can be made by city and zip code or rating factor criteria.
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Launches New Service to Automatically E-mail, Instant Message Safety Recall Information
Consumers will be able to get important safety updates about child seats and tire recalls automatically e-mailed or sent to their PDA devices as part of a new federal government notification service, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced today.
�"Signing up for this service is one of the easiest things you can do to help protect yourself and the lives of your children," said Secretary Peters. "We can't afford to let safety get lost in the mail."�
The Secretary noted that the new system focuses on safety seat and tire recall information because fewer consumers have historically responded to these important safety updates. For example, less than one-third of affected consumers respond to the tire recalls, while less than half of affected consumers respond to child seat recalls.
"When a product is defective, we want to do everything to get those unsafe products off the market," said National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Deputy Administrator James F. Ports, Jr.�
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The Cleveland Browns have been scoffed at for their heavy-handed insistence that Johnny Manziel is -- for now, at least -- nothing more than a backup quarterback.
Meritocracy, after all, rarely applies to first-round signal-callers anymore, but NFL Media's Mike Mayock agrees with the approach.
"I love the way they are handling him right now," Mayock told Tom Reed of The Plain Dealer over the weekend. "I'm happy they didn't hand it to him. The kid has had too much handed to him in life already. Let him work for something here."
By all accounts, the Browns are doing just that.
Refusing to purchase a ticket for the Brian Hoyer Hype Train, however, we fully expect Manziel to begin the season as Cleveland's starter. That has less to do with his Q Rating and more to do with the offense coordinator Kyle Shanahan is implementing.
Cleveland's recent rash of offseason practices left one Plain Dealer scribe to say of a playbook overtly designed for a mobile passer: "It's for Johnny Manziel."
As NFL Media's Bucky Brooks noted on the latest Around The League Podcast, Steelers coordinator Dick LeBeau has made a career of feasting on rookie passers. Manziel, though, will need to fall flat on his face before September to find himself on the bench when the Browns roll into Pittsburgh in Week 1.
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Even the Gringos know and love José Feliciano's Christmas tune, which gets just as much love and radio air play as Frank Sinatra's Let it Snow, and Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Feliz Navidad can be sung by old and young, Spanish speakers, and English speakers. The simple lyrics, a mix of the two languages, are easily remembered and repeated over and over:
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Año y Felicidad.
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.
-José Feliciano/Feliz Navidad
But despite Señor Feliciano's success, and certain permanence, he's feeling a bit insecure. The new kid on the block, Reggaeton star Tito El Bambino, has come out with his own Christmas song also called "Feliz Navidad", and José Feliciano is not happy at all. When interviewed on El Gordo y La Flaca, Feliciano said:
"Why didn't he do something original? I am not resentful but it's a shame because I would never do this to another composer…it is not going to be as successful as mine because only I did it in Spanish and the melody is different. It's not my fault that people copy me."
He says he's not resentful, but it's obvious from what he's said, that's exactly what he is. If you have heard Tito El Bambino's new song, you would know the songs are not similar at all. And, Señor Feliciano, I would like to remind you that you do not own Christmas or the common phrase, "Feliz Navidad".
As for Tito El Bambino's potential for success – saying that he won't be as successful as you are, is egotistical, and quite possibly wrong. As is the case with fashion, language, and art, music is an ever-changing world where youth seek something new to make their own. Being so mean-spirited towards a young, well-respected Latino musician is a sure way to alienate yourself further from today's youth. Had you embraced Tito El Bambino, perhaps suggested a duet, (as Madonna has cleverly done with Britney Spears for example), you would have solidified your reputation as King of Christmas, Rey de Navidad, passed the torch, and your song's popularity ensured for generations to come. Instead, you decided to be bitter and now you will be remembered as a Grinch.
You had your time in the limelight, you don't have to step off the stage completely, but you should at least be gracious enough to step aside and make room for others.


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My 25 year old son likes to make cheesecakes. He decided to make a pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving. I found a recipe and some "helpful" tips. One of the tips was to wrap the spring form pan in foil, add filling, place in roasting pan, and pour boiling water into roasting pan to make a water bath. It took a long time to bake. The pan leaked and the bottom half was water-logged. It was ugly.
Anyway, the top part was baked and very tasty. I scraped it off with the crust and smoothed it on gingersnap cookies and added white cheesecake topping.
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For those who don't know, "chanclas" are house sandals in most Latin American homes, (those are my husband's favorite pair pictured at left.) Most Latinos I've met wear them in the house at all times, (quite often with socks, even in the summer.) Suegra still finds my tendency to be barefoot quite abnormal but maybe it's the difference between growing up with a dirt floor as she did, and wall-to-wall carpet as I did – that's the most logical reason I can come up with for chancla cultures versus non-chancla cultures.
If you already know what "chanclas" are, you may be rubbing your nalgas which are stinging with memories, because you know that chanclas are quite versatile. Here are some of their many uses.
The Many Uses of Chanclas
* disciplinary device – When an Anglo kid see's their parent reaching for their feet, they might assume their mother or father is simply removing their sandals and nothing more, pero niños Latinos make a run for their bedroom (¡Corre! ¡Corre!) and start apologizing, "I'm sorry! I won't do it again!"
* fly swatter – I hear it multiple times per week in the summertime: "There's a fly in the house! Get a chancla!" … Maybe my husband and kids are weird, but they go fly hunting. They wait until it goes into a bedroom and then the commotion starts, "She's in your room! Close the door! Quick!" (For some reason my husband always refers to flies as "she". I guess because the word for fly, "mosca", is feminine.) … Sometimes the hunt can go on for a good 20 minutes. I'll hear the chancla hit the wall with varying degrees of force. Sometimes the fly's escape will be blamed on one of the children, ("You were in my way! I almost got it that time! Move!) and finally, the much awaited killing occurs with much celebration.
* hammer – Not for real home improvement jobs, pero, it's good for a quick fix when a baseboard is loose.
* weapon/home security – Hear a noise downstairs in the middle of the night? Carry your chancla high in the air as you walk into the darkness, ready to sandal slap a ladrón. (This will only work against softer criminals, perhaps a Latino who has been traumatized by the chancla as a child and knows its power. For more hardcore criminals we have a baseball bat and machete as back up.)
* cobweb remover – Gets those hard to reach spots on the ceiling.
* door stopper – Not advised if you have a dog that likes to escape.
* foot covering – But only when it's not being used for something else, of course.


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In drilling a small hole into bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater and tucking the sample into a scoop, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has made space-exploration history and passed a significant mission milestone.
It's the first time any rover has done more than scratch the surface of rocks on the red planet. And it's the first time a robotic craft has drilled on any planet other than Earth since the then-Soviet Union put two landers on the surface of Venus in 1981, each of which drilled into soils and returned data during their brief operation on the planet's harsh surface.
The test represented the final step in the rover's commissioning period, which began shortly after landing last August. As Curiosity slowly exercised its robotic arm and each of the other nine science packages it carries, researchers grew increasingly excited by the results – not just as confirmation that the experiments and tools were working, but that the evidence these tests gathered pointed to a landing zone where water once flowed.
The drilling "is a real big turning point for us," says John Grotzinger, a planetary geologist at the California Institute of Technology and the mission's lead scientist.
Like a teenager eager to slip behind the wheel of her first car, the scientists received the figurative keys to the rover last week from controllers overseeing these initial months of systems tests. Unless problems arise, destinations will now be picked more for their scientific interest than their value as a spot to test hardware.
"We're excited because from here on out what we're going to do is a repeat of something we've done before," Dr. Grotzinger says. "With that comes more confidence, a chance for fewer surprises, and increased efficiency."
Yet even the tests were a bit like movie trailers, giving researchers hints of discoveries to come – yielding evidence for an ancient stream bed and rock types paving parts of the crater floor that appear to have formed in the presence of water.
Geological models of the surface, based on data from Mars orbiters, pointed to Gale Crater's floor as a once-watery site.
"But we had no idea that we were going to find the rest of this stuff," he says, referring to the types of rocks and their flagstone-path-type layout at Curiosity's current location – a zone on the crater floor the team has dubbed Yellowknife.
If Curiosity had "gone long" and landed on the flank of Mt. Sharp instead of its planned landing site, "and we would have found stuff like this, we could have considered it to be very much the stuff we chose the landing site to go find," Grotzinger says.
Mt. Sharp is a towering summit inside Gale Crater. Its strikingly layered slopes hold the promise of revealing much about the early history of Mars's climate and the geological forces that built the mountain. Near the base, Curiosity will be hunting for signs that the crater might have been a suitable place for life to emerge shortly after Mars formed and its climate – it is believed – was warmer and much wetter.
The test hole is modest, even by Curiosity's standards. It measures about 0.6 inches across and is about 2.5 inches deep – roughly half the depth it's capable of reaching. The drill actually sank its first test hole on Feb. 9, but Wednesday's briefing confirmed that the rover had succeeded in transferring the soil into a scoop that delivers the samples to a pair of chemistry labs inside the rover's chassis.
Past rovers have scrapped beneath the dusty veneer on Mars to reveal water ice or have used a rasp to scrape the surface layers of a rock to get at more-pristine layers. But the drill represents a veritable time machine.
"We're able to get into the interior of these materials ... and really understand the environment these rocks were formed in" without the confounding effects of surface weathering, says Joel Hurowitz, Curiosity's sampling-system scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Already the researchers are seeing color differences between the reddish dust that covers everything on Mars; the light, sandstone-toned rock that appears after the dust is swept away; and the gray, fine-grained material the drill brought to the surface.
At first blush, the rock appears to be siltstone or mudstone, Dr. Hurowitz says. The test rock, with the drill site prosaically labeled "Drill," sits nestled among other flat specimens that together resemble garden flagstones whose gaps are filled with silt. Over the next couple of weeks, the team aims to drill into adjacent rocks at locations dubbed Thundercloud, Werneke, and Brock Inlier.
The science team "is grappling with the explanation for why these are fractured in the way that they are," Hurowitz says.
The gaps could represent fractures triggered by water pressure, he says, or perhaps they represent once-moist areas that shrank as they dried – much like the cracking between plates of dried mud in a drought-dessicated lake bed.
As researchers puzzle over Curiosity's latest data, engineers are dealing with two glitches with the drill and sampling system that for now don't represent show-stoppers but may call for extra care in using the systems.
The drilling process ran more slowly than anticipated because of software glitches. But engineers were able to devise work-arounds. Potentially more troubling is the partial separation of a membrane welded to the top of a sieve on CHIMRA, the sample-delivery system on the end of Curiosity's robotic arm. Soil or drill samples pass through the membrane to ensure the grains are small enough for ChemIn, one of the rover's two internal chemistry labs, to ingest and analyze.
One of two test rovers at JPL also exhibited the separation, which appeared "well into the testing program," says Daniel Limonadi, JPL's lead systems engineer for the sampling and science gear.
"We got extensive use of the sieve even after the fault started all the way through what we would expect" during the length of the missions nominal research program and beyond, he says.
The second test device at JPL showed no signs of the problem after undergoing the same wear and tear as the other test unit.
During an upcoming drill session at the rock area, known as John Klein, the team will shorten the time the sieve runs and reduce "how many times we thwack the hardware" as part of the sieve process, he says.


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Ellie's Story and Weight Watchers Promotion Deals
Obesity is a tough thing to deal with. Every day we are hammered with images of skinny, beautiful women - in fact, our standards of beauty often revolve around skinniness - the skinnier the woman, the better. It doesn't matter whether the condition is caused by an eating disorder, or if genetics are to blame. We all have stories (or know someone who has stories) about wanting to lose those extra holiday pounds, or "mommy fat". As for me, I recent read about the experience of a woman named Ellie, who, with the help of Weight Watchers, achieved her weight loss goals and feels much better about herself today than she used to.
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Ellie had quite a lot to deal with: Having given birth to twins, and diabetic, she'd always had to watch her weight, keep track of her health, and so on. By the time she joined Weight Watchers, she'd been warned that her health was at risk if she didn't do something.
Going to Weight Watchers - one of the most well-known firms in the world for this kind of thing - must have been intimidating, to say the least. Ellie admits as much, but then goes on to share how being in a room full of people with some of the same problems, and some of the same goals, made her feel totally comfortable and reassured that she was on the right path to better health.
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