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Members' Newsletter - December 2006
2007 Workshops
30 January, "The Future of
10-11 May, "Getting Customers to Understand the Value of Training"
Recent Articles
from the Education and Training Press:
Reviews and Current Trends
Manager/Director Development
Selling and Marketing
Learning Media and Methods
Case Studies and Reports
Measuring Education Value
Processes/Managing Costs/Outsourcing
Training Professional
Education Administration
Gap/Technical Certification
And, Finally.....
Feedback, please!
Welcome to the twelfth CEdMA-Europe Members' Monthly Newsletter
of 2006,
which will be sent out at the end of December to CEdMA Europe
members and to European colleagues of CEdMA USA members.
As usual, you will learn about updates to our
forthcoming programme of events, and there is
the collection of recent
articles whose content is consistent with the important topics
that you our members voted to cover in our recent Conferences.
The News section contains not only articles with the whole
month's news but also individually dated press releases.
In Reviews and Current Trends, we have
13 articles including two
Industry Reports from Training and ASTD plus a
comment on both, a 2006-11 forecast and analysis on e-Learning, a
survey on learning integration, two articles on the SkillSoft
acquisition of NETg, and a UK Government study on long-term skill
The Training Manager/Director Development articles follow
the usual theme of providing useful support to you, so
among other things the eight articles cover areas such as trainer
development, tools to help leaders, working with Business Units,
evaluating potential new hires, and how to find IT Training
consultants (which mentions CEdMA!).
Selling and Marketing Education
has a single article on
selling training and development in the organisation.
As usual, the Learning Media and Methods (note new
heading which better describes this section) articles are many and varied
(21 in total), with five on e-Learning, one on writing
culturally-generic materials, four on wikis, blogs and mobile
learning, five on LMSs (including three from the e-Learning Guild
on tips from members), one on delivering webinars, and one on
serious games.
Case Studies and Projects
has descriptions of projects from four different organisations.
Measuring Education Value
has three articles, one giving 10 tactics on how to approach it,
one on interpreting "numbers", and one on measuring the impact of
informal learning.
Processes/Managing Costs/Outsourcing has a single article
on outsourcing e-Learning.
There are seven articles in Training Professional Topics,
including one on interactive whiteboards, and three on preparing,
designing and delivering presentations,
Finally, in Skills Gap/Technical Certification there are
six articles on how to curb cheating, two on hot jobs and in
demand skills for 2007, with the others on what CRM is all about,
Microsoft Updates, and SANS GIAC.
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2007 Workshops
The following (in
most cases, revised)
dates and topics have been agreed:
30 January, "The
future of learning" (see below)
13 March, "How do we measure the true cost of delivering
12 June, "Working with partners, including
18 September, "Localisation of content"
Please mark
these dates in your diary now.
30 January, "The
Future of Learning"
The winter CEdMA Europe Workshop
will take place on 30 January 2007 at
IBM Bedfont,
led by Wayne Hodgins.
0930 Coffee and Networking
1000 Introduction
Readiness for the Unexpected: Theres no
future if the past is present
1200 Lunch and Networking
1300 "C-ing the Future": convergence of Content,
Competencies and Context
1430 Break and Networking
1500 Collaborative Session - All
1630 Summary
1645 Close
Click to get a
printable agenda complete with
descriptions of the three sessions..
Please let
know if you or any of your colleagues will be
attending, so that we can make sure we have enough seats,
coffee, biscuits, and so on.
Hodgins is uniquely qualified to lead this workshop as he
is afforded an unusual vantage point by virtue of his
insatiable curiosity, endless energy and his full-time job as
"Strategic Futurist" at Autodesk Inc. In this role, Wayne has
travelled the globe quite literally and figuratively in the
past 20 years, logging 3 million air miles alone, delivering
over one hundred keynotes annually and working daily with an
eclectic range of leaders and groups around the world from
government to business to academia to military to non-profits
and NGOs. Just as one can see greater distances and larger
patterns from a higher altitude,
Wayne is able to see patterns and perspectives that are not seen
by most or which wont become clear for years. Visit his
As some of
you would know, Wayne was also one of the original "founders"
of CEdMA in the US, served as President of CEdMA for several
years and was instrumental in the original creation of CEdMA
Europe. This as well as his long term work at Autodesk Inc.
will enable him to put all of this within the context of the
CEdMA profile of people working in senior management positions
in learning and training for hardware and software companies
and ensure that this workshop offers both a unique and highly
relevant session of great value to all CEdMA members.
Come well
rested and with an open mind, check your assumptions and ego
at the door, fasten your seat belt low and tight across your
lap, take a deep breath, and be ready to challenge everything
you hear in this energizing and eventful day. You will not be
there just to listen and learn about others, but to
participate in a guided discovery process aimed to help you
design your own future. You are sure to leave with a much
clearer view of the future along with new perspectives, new
ideas, new models and new strategies that that will help you
to make better decisions today and enable you to successfully
survive and thrive in the unpredictable future.
I look forward to seeing
you there!
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10-11 May "Getting Customers to Understand the Value of Training"
The November attendees
voted strongly on bringing the focus back to the customer, whether
external or internal, by asking the question "How do we get the
customer to understand better the value of training?" Other
connected ideas were "Creating the value proposition for different
audiences" and "Building Customer Case Studies".
The Board will work
with this input to produce a programme, but if you have any
further ideas, please let me
know. We plan to have the venue and outline programme by the end
of January.
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Articles from the Education and Training Press
Training Business News in Brief from TrainingZONE (Nov 06)
Industry News from IT Skills Research (Dec 06)
E-Learning Market Briefing from
Kineo (Dec 06)
The e-Learning Marketplace Update from Just Learn
(Dec 06)
IT Training Press Releases (Dec 06)
Grapevine Talk Radio Network Offers Free iPod Training from Makau in
January (Dec 26)
GeoLearning Ranked Among Top 500 U.S. Small Businesses (Dec 21)
Learning Tree International Launches RealityPlus (Dec 14)
KnowledgePlanet Announces Next Generation of On-Demand Learning
Suite (Dec 12)
Survey - Companies See LMS Consolidation as Way to Centralize
Learner Data (Dec 6)
Survey - Few Employees Turn to Boss for Advice (Dec 5)
Oracle Product Achieves SCORM Version 1.2 Certification (Dec 5)
Office of Personnel Management Leverages GeoLearning Blended
Learning Suite (Dec 5)
Survey - Half of Employers to Hike Supervisory, Executive Training
in 2007 (Dec 5)
WebEx and GeoLearning Target Learning Management Systems Market (Dec
Planet Productions Creates Scenario-Based E-Learning Program (Dec 4)
Meridian's LMS Supports Advanced Distributed Learning Service (Dec
Learn.Com Releases Mentor for Windows Vista (Dec 1)
Horizon Wimba Closes $10M Equity Financing Led by Tudor Ventures
(Dec 1)
New Twist on Children's Game Turns Mouse Trap into Adult Learning
Tool (Nov 30)
VTN Continues Expansion with New U.K. Office (Nov 30)
Study - Middle Managers Lack Leadership Skills (Nov 28)
Reviews and Current Trends
2006 Industry Report from Training (Dec 06)
Get insider facts, figures and analysis on the training and HR
industries with Training's annual survey.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Investing in Learning
- Looking for Performance (Dec 06)
According to the soon-to-be-released
2006 ASTD State of
the Industry, $109.25
billion is spent annually on workplace learning and performance.
T+D Magazine,
How to Measure the Corporate Training Industry (Dec 06)
Perhaps you received, as I recently did, the December issues of two
prominent industry publications, T+D and Training
magazines. If so, you probably noticed that the cover stories for
both magazines featured respective annual research reports that
estimate the amount spent by U.S. organizations on workplace
training and development during the preceding year.
Training Industry, Inc.
Editors' Picks Awards (Dec 06)
editors of Training magazine showcased the best of the best
at the Training Solutions Conference and Expo in Denver in October.
We asked companies to submit best practices in a variety of areas,
and then we selected the top programs. The 15 winners shared their
secrets with attendees first in a general session, then on a more
individual basis at a reception later in the day. This is a brief
recap of each of the category winners.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
The US Market for Self-paced e-Learning Products and Services:
2006-2011 Forecast and Analysis (Jun 06)
Open Source solutions like Moodle, competition and inexpensive
hosted services are among the factors cited for falling prices in
the report from Ambient Insight, which focuses on the US market.
Ambient Insight says the e-learning industry has begun to grow again
after several years of stagnation and is now worth $10 billion.
©2006 Ambient Insight
Workplace Trends and Leadership Resolutions for 2007
(Dec 06)
Organizations must continue to focus on
growing global operating capabilities, requiring the workforce to
learn and perform without walls.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
What is Your Vision for the Training Industry? (Dec 06)
What is your vision for the training industry? While I hope you find
my vision interesting, perspectives can differ and are often
relative. Some of you are standing on a mountain above the clouds,
and others are still walking up the mountain through the fog.
Similarly, whats new for one person in his or her vision for
training might be yesterdays news to another. I would like to know
how far ahead you can see from your perspective.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Global Integration of
Learning Evolves (Dec 06)
It is clear from an ASTD-Raytheon
Professional Services survey that learning integration is in its
T+D Magazine,
Reflections on SkillSofts Acquisition of NETg (Oct 06)
On October 26, SkillSoft announced the acquisition of rival NETg,
creating a single company with dominant market share in online IT
and soft skills training, online references, and a variety of other
professional training resources and supporting technologies. This
acquisition will ultimately impact every buyer and supplier in the
corporate learning market.
©2006 Bersin and Associates
Skillsoft, NETg Need to Migrate Tools, Customers (Dec 06)
In a deal sealed for approximately $285 million, Nashua, NH-based
SkillSoft, a provider of content resources and complementary
technologies, acquired on-demand learning provider NETg on Oct. 25,
a subsidiary of Stamford, CT.-based The Thompson Corp. That was the
easy part. Now, the two companies will begin the process of pooling
their resources to create better products.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills (Dec
Review and
Full Report
This UK Government report
examines the UK's long-term skills needs. It recommends that
the UK commits to a new vision - to become a world leader in skills
by 2020. ©Training Reference 2003-2006 (Summary) and ©Crown
Copyright 2006 (Final Report)
Wanted: CFOs With Communications Skills (Dec 06)
With increasing scrutiny on company finances, accountants must be
able to explain to their colleagues what all the numbers mean in
layman's terms.
T+D Magazine,
Training Designers Use Gaming to Entice Kids into Professional World
(Dec 06)
With declining interest in math and science among kids these days
and with it, a declining interest in accounting many training
designers and their clients are searching for ways to build a
consistent stable of new employees over the next decade.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Manager/Director Development
Trainers Need Learning Too (Dec 06)
The way new hires are trained can
determine how quickly they adapt to their new work environment and
how productive they become. How well leaders are trained can
determine the level of success an organization achieves. Because
productivity and financial achievement rely on high-quality
training, corporations need their trainers to be the best they can
be. To ensure this high standard is met, many companies opt to
enroll their learning leaders in train-the-trainer programs.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Motivational Tools for Non-charismatic Leaders (Dec 06)
can be excellent motivators even if they are shy or unable to give
inspiring speeches.
ASTD Links,
Will Companies Ever Learn?
(Dec 06)
If you think about learning as a capability, you can see the factors
that go together to make learning a corporate priority.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Building Bridges: Lessons in Working with Business
(Dec 06)
When working with business unites, the main function of the learning
department is to best serve the needs of learners and the overall
organization. To accomplish this, many learning organizations employ
one of three strategies: centralized learning, decentralized
learning, and hub-and-spoke learning.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Learners as Co-Innovators (Dec 06)
Open source innovation is moving beyond the consumer world to the
high technology arena.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
From Millstones to Milestones (Dec 06)
Hanif Sazen shows you how to write plans for learning projects that
win commitment and achieve results.
Inside Learning
Technologies Magazine,
©2006 Principal
Media Ltd
Behavioral Assessments: Evaluating Potential New Hires (Dec 06)
For a prospective employee, hearing the
expression behavioral assessment during the hiring process can be
scary. Often, peoples habits and manners are so ingrained, its
nearly impossible to comprehend what the result would be, which
creates a fear of behavioral assessment. According to the Harvard
Business Review, however, 61 percent of new employees at companies
that use behavioral assessment tools become top performers within 14
months versus just 7 percent of new hires who were hired by
companies that did not use such tools.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
How to Find IT Training Consultants - the Shortlist (Dec 06)
Whether its a 3am emergency or a
routine year end check up, companies often find themselves in the
market for additional consultants. A simple Google search can turn
into hours of weeding through infinite lists of consultants, not
knowing who to trust.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Selling and Marketing
Selling T&D in the Organization (Dec 06)
Only after we build strong inroads with
people and establish our credibility will people proactively seek
our help.
ASTD Links,
Learning Media and Methods
Rapid E-Learning Grows Up (Dec 06)
If you were disappointed with rapid
e-learning tools in the past, it's worth taking a second look. We've
seen some subtle enhancements and twist-the-box thinking that have
had a dramatic impact.
LC Express,
Engage Rapid e-Learning (Dec 06)
In our experience, there
are some key e-learning interactions you want to produce time and
time again. These include FAQs, Glossaries, Timelines etc which
usually entail some bespoke development. Wouldnt it be great if you
could create these simply and quickly with a rapid authoring tool?
Thats Articulates thought too. Their new tool
allows you to do just that.
©2006 Kineo.co.uk
Affordance in E-Learning (Dec 06)
The absence of affordance in e-learning
can mislead learners and keep them from achieving their learning
LC Express,
Seven Steps to Better E-learning (Dec 06)
Why do so many
online courses seem to fall short when it comes to real-world
application of learners' newly acquired skills? According to regular
eLearn Magazine contributor Clark Quinn, it's because we
seldom focus on what we actually know about how people retain and
apply practical knowledge. For this article Quinn has distilled the
basics down to seven areas of emphasis that can be used to generate
uniquely effective e-learning.
Beyond E-Learning - an Interview with Marc Rosenberg (Dec 06)
Karl Kapp talks to Marc
Rosenberg about his new book.
©2002-2006 e-LearningGuru.com
Writing Culturally Generic Online Lessons (Dec 06)
"Is there a way to write online lessons for a global audience so
that the lessons do not look and feel like authors from a particular
country or culture wrote them? My department will soon begin writing
simulation training for a global audience, and we do not want to
offend or confuse any of our learners. I am interested in tips,
techniques, best practices, and so forth that will help our team of
instructional designers in this endeavor." Here are some
more answers.
Online Learning News and Reviews,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Corporate Compliance: Learnings Mission-Critical Role (Dec 06)
Historically, only highly regulated industries such as health care
and utilities had stringent compliance requirements for learning
management. Today, these requirements touch nearly every industry.
With corporate compliance growing in scope and impact, CLOs need to
find ways to leverage their learning management systems to meet
ever-changing - and increasing - regulatory mandates.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Why Wiki? (Dec 06)
Wikis encourage
collaboration, and collaboration is the secret sauce (sic!) of
innovation and effectiveness.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Dont Get Blogged Down: Blogging in the USA (Nov 06)
Once the stomping
grounds of the radically political or celebrity obsessed, the blog
has proved useful for companies to diversify training and increase
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Blogging to Learn and Learning to Blog (Dec 06)
Most learning in
organizations is informal, yet the majority of learning dollars are
spent on formal courses. If organizations are going to successfully
transfer knowledge between employees, they must tap into informal
learning. One approach that has been used successfully is the
corporate blog.
eLearn Magazine,
Mobile Learning is on the Move (Dec 06)
Clive Shepherd looks at m-learning and the potential benefits the
new wave of technology can bring to the process of learning.
Inside Learning
Technologies Magazine,
©2006 Principal
Media Ltd
Learning Tools: New Tricks for Non-Technical Learners
(Dec 06)
Blended learning can be a no-brainer for many companies: It's fast,
flexible and often affordable. However, blended learning also can
prove to be a difficult method for some non-technical learners. To
increase effectiveness, blended learning should be both practical
and usable.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
LMS Consolidation Survey Results (Nov 06)
The third survey in the
Training Challenges Survey Series, conducted by Expertus and
TrainingOutsourcing.com, focused on LMS consolidation defined as
the tendency of organizations using more than one learning
management system to standardize on a single system.
©2006 Expertus/TrainingOutsourcing.com
What You Still
Need to Know About LMSes (Dec 06)
Facts and figures on learning management systems in the workplace.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
eBooks on LMS Selection, Implementation, and
The eLearningGuild just
published three eBooks that include more than 1,000 tips from your
industry colleagues on the selection, implementation, and management
of LMS and LCMS systems,
©2006 eLearningGuild 2005-2006:
382 Tips on the Selection of an LMS or LCMS (Dec 06)
This is an awesome
collection of tips from hundreds of your professional colleagues.
These tips will help you navigate the LMS minefield, streamline your
selection process, and help you save money! Nowhere will you find a
more comprehensive set of tips that you can use to improve your LMS
and LCMS selection efforts.
339 Tips on the Implementation of an LMS or LCMS (Nov 06)
This is an amazing
collection of tips from hundreds of your professional colleagues.
Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive set of tips that you can
use to improve your LMS and LCMS implementation efforts.
311 Tips on the Management of an LMS or LCMS (Dec 06)
This is an incredible
collection of tips from hundreds of your professional colleagues.
Why reinvent the wheel when you can learn from these tips on the
management of your LMS or LCMS system! Nowhere will you find a more
comprehensive set of tips that you can use to improve your LMS and
LCMS management efforts.
There is
also the companion volume which has appeared previously:
834 Tips for Successful Online Instruction (Dec 05)
This is a wonderful
collection of tips from 336 of your professional colleagues. Nowhere
will you find a more comprehensive set of tips that you can use to
improve your knowledge and skills in online instruction.
Five Lessons on Delivering Information Through "Webinar" Technology
(Dec 06)
types of organizations are making presentations, as well as
associations who require members to take continuing education or
offer seminars are turning to web delivery of training as a way to
reduce participant costs, reduce meeting costs and offer more
courses that are of interest to the members. Here are some lessons
learned from experiences of running web based training as public
courses and association hosted events.
PresentationXpert Newsletter,
©2006 David Paradi
Serious Games Fad or Opportunity? (Oct 06)
The subject of serious games in learning
seems to be everywhere at the moment.
Inside Learning
Technologies Magazine,
© Principal Media
Ltd 2006
Case Studies and Projects
Best Practices in Channel and Customer Training (Oct 06)
This case study examines how a leading supplier of enterprise
information system solutions delivers customer training through a
variety of free and pay-for-service models, allowing the company to
offer a three-tier remote learning program.
©2006 Bersin and Associates
Crediting MasterCard Learning with Business Success (Dec 06)
When Rebecca Ray became the senior vice president of global learning
and organizational development at MasterCard Worldwide in 2005, she
brought with her a diverse career ranging from high school education
to consulting to Wall Street. This diversity helped Ray as she
navigated MasterCard's "RoadMap to the Future."
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Virtual Sales Training Scores a Hit (Dec 06)
Global Crossing found a creative training solution for its
T+D Magazine,
Airline Soars with New E-learning Environment (Dec 06)
NetDimensions creates an innovative online learning module.
Measuring Education Value
Ten Tactics for Highly Effective Evaluators (Dec 06)
Implementing results-based evaluation
strategies requires support from an infrastructure of diverse
stakeholders with complex interactions and reporting
ASTD Links,
What the Numbers Say (Dec 06)
Measurement means numbers, yet there are many learning
professionals who would rather change careers than deal with these
pesky digits. But you don't need to be a mathematician to be
successful in a world of numbers - it's not about how to "do" the
numbers but rather knowing what they say.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Measuring the Impact of Informal Learning (Dec 06)
While the
importance of informal training is widely recognised, methods for
measuring its impact are far from established. Dawn Smith looks at
the challenges involved in evaluating informal learning in the
E-Learning Outsourcing: Go with Your Eyes Wide Open
(Jan 07)
Outsourcing design and development of e-learning has become a key
strategic initiative for many organizations because of the obvious
benefits of receiving specialized services. But how do you select
the "right" outsourcing partner when there are so many options?
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Training Professional
Interactive Whiteboards Make Storing, Sending Data a Breeze (Nov 06)
Theres something satisfying about
working with whiteboards. The smell of the pens, the easy cleanup
and the pretty colors all make these alabaster beauties a joy to
use. Yet, their surfaces are limited, and once diagrams and
annotations have covered every last inch, frustrated users have only
one choice: to pause and write down all the data by hand.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Prepare Any Presentation in Ten Minutes (Dec 06)
Over the years we have coached people throughout the world to be
their best in front of an audience and to get people to take action
when they talk. The number one challenge we have discovered links
back to the lack of preparation due to pain avoidance or plain old
procrastination. In response, we created a way to help our clients
streamline the preparation of any presentation whether it be long or
©2006 Presentation-Pointers.com
5 Easy Steps to Bring Your Presentation to Life (Dec 06)
Business people are perpetually faced with the challenge of one of
life's greatest burdens: presenting number slides without numbing
their audiences into a soporific stupor. This narcoleptic effect is
the result of four common missteps perpetrated by most presenters.
©2006 Presentations.com
The 7 Basic Rules of Proper Presentation Design (Dec 06)
This article explains the rules of presentation visual design that,
if heeded, will almost always assure that your audiences will be
able to follow your ideas every step of the way. Of course, you must
keep in mind that visual design is only one-third of the package
required for a successful presentation, the other two being content
and delivery. Like a fine dining experience that requires equal
parts food, service and atmosphere to really work, the visual design
part of the presentation process is every bit as necessary as the
others to achieve the desired result in this case, true knowledge
©2006 articledashboard.com
For Adults Only (Dec 06)
I recently talked with a friend who is a secondary education school
teacher by trade and an outstanding instructional designer in a
Fortune 500 company by profession. The conversation centered on
choices he had made during his career. He had graduated from college
at a time when there were few teaching jobs available and instead of
holding out for a teaching job, he moved into industry and began
what turned out to be a 40-year career in corporate America...
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
New Years Resolutions for Smart Consultants (Jan 07)
Each time the New Year rolls around, Im reminded, none too gently,
of last years resolutions, half of which never made it past the
paper on which they were written.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Web 2.0 - What it means for you (Jan 07)
A near-deafening
buzz surrounds Web 2.0 these days, but it's difficult to determine
whether it's a legitimate concept or just a categorization of Web
services. What are the implications of Web 2.0 for IT professionals?
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Education Administration
No articles this month.
Skills Gap/Technical
Digital Technologies and Dishonesty in Examinations and Tests (Dec
This 26-page report
reviews the problems of cheating and suggests a number of methods to
curb cheating including biometric identification verification
equipment and even cell phone signal blocking devices.
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
The In-Demand Skills for IT Pros (Jan 07)
For job seekers and individuals looking to get ahead in IT, one
question always seems to be top of mind: What skill sets do
employers value most in todays market?
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Hot Jobs & Skills for 2007 (Jan 07)
The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock of your
industry and place within it. Find out which skills and niches
likely will reach a boiling point in '07 and which might melt away
by spring.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Microsoft Updates - Vista, Office and Exchange Exams and
Certifications (Jan 07)
As Microsoft gears
up to release Vista in late January, Microsoft Learning has been
busy preparing certifications and exams for the new operating
system. Find out how the folks in Redmond, Wash., are planning to
incorporate the release into its certification programs.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
SANS GIAC - Real-World Expertise Security Professionals (Jan 07)
SANS Institute's
Global Information Assurance Certification takes care to test the
most important skills necessary for protecting computers and
networks. Learn how this certification carefully sets priorities in
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
CRM Specialists - Building Relationships and Bottom Lines (Jan 07)
The phrase
customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the myriad
interactions between organizations and their customers in sales,
marketing, support and other areas. Through the solutions theyve
developed, IT professionals who specialize in CRM have virtually
elevated it to a science.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
And, Finally.....
A soldier tended his
horse well during the wars and the horse served him well. At the end
of the wars the soldier treated the horse badly, with little food,
no shelter and heavy drudging work. War broke out again and the
soldier went to use the horse as before, but the wretched beast
collapsed, saying that the poor treatment had turned him into an
ass, and he would not be restored to a trusty steed in just a
Feedback, please!
I would really like to get input from you, the readers. Please
give me your feedback and point me towards any article or source
that you think the rest of the membership might enjoy. Thank you.
Mike Dowsey
Development Manager


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By LITO RULONA
VICE Mayor Raineir Joaquin Uy on Monday told Councilor Leon Gan to allow a court to decide on whether or not he (Uy) should assume as mayor of the city even as he told the lawyer-councilor that his legal opinion is just among the many clashing views about the interior department's Feb. 5 service of a dismissal order against Mayor Oscar Moreno.
Uy said this even as he explained why he decided to preside over the Feb. 12 regular session of the city council.
He said he would continue serving as vice mayor of the city until a court decides otherwise.
The vice mayor said this after Councilor Gan asked him about his status in city hall. "I will not go into the details but the order was properly served by the DILG," he said.
Gan earlier called on Uy to assume as mayor, warning that he could be charged with dereliction of duty if he did not. He argued that Moreno failed to secure a temporary restraining order and a writ of preliminary injunction against the most recent dismissal order that was served in Feb. 5.
But Uy responded by saying that there were numerous interpretations of the Moreno case, and Gan's opinion is just one of them.
"There is a decision, and there is a resolution coming from the Court of Appeals," said Uy.
Moreno and his lawyer said the CA resolution last week was clear that the case in which the most recent dismissal order sprang from is among the 24 cases consolidated by the appellate court late last year. They argued that like the 23 cases, the 24th case is "under the umbrella" of a 2017 writ of preliminary injunction.
Uy told Gan: "Everybody has an opinion… your opinion… other lawyers' opinion… my opinion. What about the opinion of our very own mayor? So we all have our opinion… It is up to the proper court to resolve everything."
After the city council session, Gan said: "Dili na ko modugang. Basta kung dunay moreklamo, ila na kana nga tulobagon."


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Wendy was so welcoming and really put us at ease. We were motivated by her obvious enthusiasm for hypno-birthing and her genuine interest in our learning how to have an empowered and peaceful birth.
The combination of the book to read at home and the opportunity to hear it from our instructor, in her own words and using examples from her experience, with the opportunity to ask questions. I read weeks 3 and 4 ahead of the final class and actually preferred having done the reading first, as it allowed me to absorb the information in my own time and be prepared to consolidate it further in the class. The fact that the book is so well-written really helps!
The birth films – having been a previous addict to 'one born every minute' (sorry!) it was amazing to see women having a completely different experience – giving birth in such a calm, relaxed way. It's clear how the power of suggestion has an impact on our subconscious minds in every reference to birth we are exposed to, and it was helpful learning techniques to block out negatives and focus on positives.
Wendy has a relaxed way of teaching and draws on both her own experiences professionally and personally which really helped me to understand the course fully. Her welcoming attitude put me at ease straight away and I have felt I could ask anything I wanted both before the course, during and also after.
With Wendy's help I have gone from having a racing mind, not sure how to deal with my emotions about labour, often feeling overwhelmed and teary at the prospect of giving birth and ready to passively let the professionals take control and she has turned me into someone who is incredibly calm, confident and informed about what I want.
Through this course I have changed my mind about everything from where I want to give birth, the type of birth I want and I have even decided to go to the MLU in the New Forest where they do not offer the type of interventions I wanted to be so close to 'just in case' beforehand. I only hope that the midwives there will have the kind of outlook on birth as Wendy does although I am confident in both myself (physically and mentally) and what the course has taught my birthing partner so together we can enjoy the experience.


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Things were different now, in many ways. Aerrissa slipped through the thick underbrush lining one of the steeper hills between Stonetalon and Ashenvale. The last time she had fully served in the sentinels was well over 300 years ago, and in Feralas. While she had held a higher rank back then, she found herself doing much of the same things. Patrols, cleaning armor, sharpening weapons, etc. were all part of her routine again. What was different was the constant threat of the orcs.
The people were different as well. She hadn't made much progress in making new friends yet, and had spent little time in Ashenvale before now. She had made some efforts, but had been kept busy with her work. She veered off the path and began climbing up the hill. Recently, there had been a push to check on the elves that stayed deeper in the forest, and higher up on the hills. The orc activity had lessened, which made it more feasible to keep watch over the more remote areas. She knew where many of them lived already. Some would move around from time to time, but they never strayed too far.
The sentinel captain at the spire had also warned that criminals could be hiding in the hills. There was a list, some with drawings, most without. All of them had a basic description, which was never very helpful. Any number of elves could fit the descriptions.
She checked on the Temil family first. They had never moved from their spot since she had started her patrols, and as expected, they were still in the same camp. A young boy, no older than 20, greeted her as she approached. She met with his mother, uncle and aunt inside the camp. Everything was fine here. She continued along her patrol route.
At the top of the hill, she waded across a small river to an island that sat in the middle of it. A bear resting near an old stump raised it's head. "Hello Norr." She reached down and rubbed behind the bear's ears.
"The sentinels have come to check on me again?" A male voice called out. Moment's later, he appeared from the other side of his tent.
"We check on everyone we can, Bear. Everything's been fine, I trust?"
Beroleth, whom everyone called Bear, nodded. "Norr was acting funny the other night. I thought he saw something in the forest, but there was nothing there. It might have been a bird or something small."
Aerrissa smiled, "I'm glad all is well." She bent one last time to pat Norr before heading off into the woods along the stream.
She hadn't went more than 20 yards when she stopped. She had heard something behind her. She turned to look, but nothing was there. She looked around at the surrounding trees before twitching an ear and continuing on her patrol.


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Chloe & Andrea
This Article is from Chloe's monthly blog for The Carolinas Equestrian Magazine. Click HERE to learn more about this fabulous local publication.
It is recommended to bathe your human the day before the horse show, clinic or other big event because you want your human to represent you in the best possible light. Typically this goal cannot be accomplished with a mere spa day, but every little bit helps. The amount of our hair they accumulate on themselves is unsightly. Have they ever heard of a curry comb or a vacuum?
When Andrea appears with her bucket of bath products and begins to unravel the green water snake curled up in the corner of the wash stall, it is my cue to initiate my services. I'd like to mention that this is a free service that I offer out of the kindness of my heart, something Andrea continuously fails to appreciate. Anyway, your first goal when bathing your human should be to redirect the water snake. Your human should always be on the receiving end of the spray. As soon as you feel the spray hit your legs, immediately dance to the other side of the wash stall, away from the spray. In all my years, I have yet to understand why they point the spray at us. For maximum results, you can even dance directly towards them, into the spray, and catch them off guard. Continue to repeat your dance moves until your human is soaked.
Next, your human should be preparing to sponge you with soapy water. You want to wait until the bucket is near full, with the suds overflowing, and then casually knock the bucket over. I like to act like I hear an alarming noise behind me and quickly turn to investigate, swinging my back leg against the bucket and sending the soapy water all over the place. If you can manage to get your hoof inside the bucket, you get bonus points! Another key moment to take advantage of is when your human is scrubbing your tail. When my tail is all lathered, I like to whip that sucker around like a swarm of horse flies has descended on the wash stall. Suds go flying and your human is clean!
Make sure to rinse your human well, as they are weak creatures, and are prone to skin sensitivities. I generally repeat the dance method above, but when I am feeling lazy I like to step on the water snake like a ninja. I do this covertly every time and still each time Andrea looks at the end of the water snake in surprise, then all over the ground searching for the answer. "Why isn't it working?" When she finally realizes what I have done, I like to play dumb. She pushes me, I lean back into her, lovingly. She tries to lift my hoof, I lift the wrong one. My personal favorite is to remove my hoof, letting a good 3 seconds of spray hit the ground, before stepping again on the water snake with another hoof. Once I managed to get 3 hooves on the water snake, but like I said, I am a ninja and these sort of things should not be tried at home.
Lastly, the trick to drying your human is to run around your field and roll in multiple spots. This will cause them to chase you, flapping their arms like a lunatic and they will dry in no time. Hopefully you will end up with a cleaner human than when you started, but it does take practice. Please note that dapples are not guaranteed. Good luck, friends.
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Green Tea Extract Interferes With the Formation of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease
Mar. 5, 2013 — Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain.
A paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explained how U-M Life Sciences Institute faculty member Mi Hee Lim and an interdisciplinary team of researchers used green tea extract to control the generation of metal-associated amyloid-β aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease in the lab.
The specific molecule in green tea, ( -- )-epigallocatechin-3-gallate, also known as EGCG, prevented aggregate formation and broke down existing aggregate structures in the proteins that contained metals -- specifically copper, iron and zinc.
"A lot of people are very excited about this molecule," said Lim, noting that the EGCG and other flavonoids in natural products have long been established as powerful antioxidants. "We used a multidisciplinary approach. This is the first example of structure-centric, multidisciplinary investigations by three principal investigators with three different areas of expertise."
The research team included chemists, biochemists and biophysicists.
While many researchers are investigating small molecules and metal-associated amyloids, most are looking from a limited perspective, said Lim, assistant professor of chemistry and research assistant professor at the Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located and her research is conducted.
"But we believe you have to have a lot of approaches working together, because the brain is very complex," she said.
The PNAS paper was a starting point, Lim said, and her team's next step is to "tweak" the molecule and then test its ability to interfere with plaque formation in fruit flies.
"We want to modify them for the brain, specifically to interfere with the plaques associated with Alzheimer's," she said.
Lim plans to collaborate with Bing Ye, a neurobiologist in the LSI. Together, the researchers will test the new molecule's power to inhibit potential toxicity of aggregates containing proteins and metals in fruit flies.
Other authors of the paper, all from U-M, are: Sanghyun Lee and Jung-Suk Choi of the Life Sciences Institute; Alaina DeToma, Suk-Joon Hyung, Akiko Kochi and Brandon Ruotoloa of the Department of Chemistry; and Jeffrey Brender, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy and Subramanian Vivekanandan of the Department of Chemistry and Biophysics.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, American Heart Association, and a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation Study.
University of Michigan (2013, March 5). Green tea extract interferes with the formation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 6, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2013/03/130305145137.htm


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HOUSTON — If the Houston Astrodome was the brainchild of flamboyant Judge Roy Hofheinz, the 40,000-light scoreboard that spanned nearly 500 feet of the stadium's back wall could be seen as the twinkle in his eye.
The judge is long gone -- banished from the dome by financial problems and felled by illnesses that eventually cost him his life.
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As part of a two-year renovation that will add some 10,000 seats, the scoreboard spectacular is being removed after 23 years of being triggered by Houston Astro home runs.


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Bahadur Shah Zafar and His Contemporaries: Zauq, Ghalib, Momin, Shefta : Selected Poetry : Text, Translation, and Transliteration
K. C. Kanda
Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2007 - Poetry - 425 pages
Though known as the ruler of the Moghul Empire during its time of decay and decline, Bahadur Shah Zafar and much of his court were poets of ample merit, as demonstrated by this compendium of Urdu masterpieces. Featuring the best ghazals and other works of Zafar and his contemporaries -- including Ghalib, Zauq, Momin, Shefta, and Azurda -- the anthology offers simple and appropriate English translations presented in eloquent rhymed verse, as well as transliterations of the original Urdu into the Roman script.
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Before going any further, I should probably point out that tactically I support the BDS movement. Indeed, a decade ago I was heavily invested in solidarity organizations that were responsible for developing what would become the apartheid analysis of Israel and the BDS tactic. I was involved in groups that eventually produced (though with the sadly typical activist falling-outs and ego clashes) the first Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Canada; I was on the executive of the union local that brought the first anti-apartheid BDS resolution to its provincial convention and succeeded (due to the speeches delivered there by CAIA activists) in getting passed. [I am speaking here of the monumental and controversial "Resolution 50" of CUPE Ontario.]
Moreover, I recall the rightist back-lash the BDS tactic caused amongst the left… It was a line of demarcation which was denounced by some socialist organizations (such as the SWP/IS) as "ultra-left" since it alienated [racist and zionist] workers––and I always did find it amusing that a tactical appeal to the mechanisms of bourgeois legality could be called "ultra-left". It was also a line that was rejected by those theoretically impoverished marxists who imagined that the only solution to Israeli Apartheid was a unity between the proletarian colonized with their colonizing counterparts (or even worse, and extremely chauvinist, that a "backwards" Palestinian felaheen needed to be led by an advanced Israeli working-class), the kind of analysis typical of people who are unable to provide a concrete analysis of a concrete situation and treat historical materialism like it is Plato's theory of forms.
In any case, I think it is very important to balance the following critique with the qualification that the BDS movement remains tactically important and that, despite of its liberal limitations, its significance in exposing opportunism, chauvinism, euro-communist foolishness, and straight-out racism should not be forgotten. The very fact that speaking about boycotting Israel will drive zionist reactionaries into a furious rage is worthy of approval. Nor do I have much patience for those "critiques" of BDS that pretend to be left but in fact are nothing more than chauvinist excuses to back away from supporting anti-colonial self-determination. Thus, my critique here should not be mistaken as an argument for the abandonment of BDS as a tactic.
When the possibility of BDS was first proposed in the Palestinian solidarity movement in North America and Europe, it was done so in the context of an emerging apartheid analysis and, by comparing Palestine to South Africa, the tactic of BDS logically followed. At this period in Palestinian solidarity history a demarcation line was drawn between those who believed in a "two state solution"––which at that time was the most common perspective in this activist context––and those who (like myself and my then comrades) who believed in a "one state solution". Groups like Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) fell apart because of this line-struggle. Groups like Al-Awda emerged to represent an anti-colonial version of the one state solution. Eventually, after teach-ins and "Israeli Apartheid" events, the one state line was victorious, CAIA was founded, and the BDS tactic became hegemonic in the pro-Palestinian left.
Unfortunately, the hegemony of BDS was a moment of two-steps-forward-one-step-back. For in order to become relevant and possess political force at the centres of global capitalism, it had to capture the imagination of the pre-dominant labour aristocracy and liberal human rights activists. That is, BDS is precisely a tactic designed to produce a broad-based coalition amongst leftists and left-liberals. Arguably this is its strength––and it has done a lot to make Palestinian self-determination more palatable for a public that has generally evinced a lot of anti-Palestinian chauvinism––but it also produced a tendency amongst the left to think of Palestinian solidarity only according to these tactical terms.
But we need to take a step back and examine the originary ideology of BDS, the way in which the one state solution was seen by these organizations, though admittedly incoherently, that preceded the development of the BDS tactic. First of all, organizations such as the defunct Al-Awda generally believed in a one state solution that was socialist. Secondly, these organizations often adhered to an unapologetic anti-colonial line culled from Fanan and the analysis of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). When the two state solidarity activists were speaking of Hanan Ahsrawi and Yasser Arafat, we were speaking of Leila Khaled and George Habash; when the two state solidarity activists were quoting Noam Chomsky and Edward Said, we were quoting Ilan Pappe and Adel Samara. Again, there was an incoherence to our understanding of politics here, which was what prevented a revolutionary internationalist understanding of the one state solution from being clearly articulated, but these were the set politics of the original understanding of the one state solution. (As an aside I consider it rather amusing when some activists who once called us "ultra-left" and "against what the Palestinians really want" are now BDS spokespeople who cannot stop talking about the importance of a one state solution.)
When the one state solution became popular––or when, as my partner has joked, "we [Palestinians] started being honest and openly speaking about what we'd all believed for years"––and Israel was conceived of as an "apartheid state" then, based on this apartheid model and the fact that South African self-determination was popularized through BDS, groups such as CAIA produced a similar approach to Palestinian solidarity… something to produce a real effect in Palestine was the hope, just as it had seemed to produce a real effect in South Africa. Here is where the first erroneous way of understanding the tactic of BDS emerged: the mistaken belief that boycott activism around South Africa caused apartheid to fall, hence the corollary assumption that BDS could become the strategic means for ending Israeli colonialism.
Aside from being an imperialist logic sublimated in an anti-imperialist politics, the idea that a solidarity movement based on economic sanctions within the mechanism of international law and human rights––a mechanism that emerged through imperialism and is connected to the daily working of imperialism––can liberate people elsewhere is historically dubious. Afrikaaner Apartheid did not fall because of the world-wide boycott movement but because of the actions of the ANC within South Africa. Granted, the anti-apartheid movement gave the ANC some breathing room but it was not, in the final instance, the reason for this apartheid's dissolution. Nations are not liberated by humanitarians in imperialist nations, though arguably the internationalist activities of progressives in these nations are extremely helpful; national liberation stands or falls based on the revolutionary movement within the country under consideration.
Interestingly enough, this same imperialist logic about how boycott activism caused Afrikaaner Apartheid to fall is replicated by some of the supposedly "left" critics of BDS in order to mock Palestinian solidarity activism. The argument goes something like this: 1) BDS activism surrounding South Africa was responsible for the end of colonial apartheid in South Africa; 2) South Africa post-apartheid is a neo-colonial state with a comprador bourgeois class in command; 3) Therefore, BDS activism is counter-revolutionary since it can only produce neo-colonial regimes. Indeed, organizations such as the International Bolshevik Tendency, Spartacist League, and International Marxist Tendency have made much ado of this argument, obsessively pointing out point (2) and claiming point (3) due to the erroneous presupposition of point (1). Such a critique is utterly off-base, and just as ahistorical as the claims made by those who imagine that boycott activism can end oppression elsewhere.
Obviously the state of South Africa following the end of Afrikaaner colonial hegemony ended up being little more than a comprador-capitalist regime where the former leaders of the ANC became a new ruling class and were more than willing to accept the dictates of the IMF and the WTO. This imperial collaboration, however, has little to do with the boycott movement and everything to do with the composition of the ANC as a revolutionary organization. The opportunist line won out in this organization, mainly because it was never a socialist organization to begin with. None of this meant that the ANC was not an anti-colonial movement worthy of support, worthy of being treated as objectively anti-imperialist, when the main contradictions in South Africa were between the colonizer and the colonized. What it does mean, however, was that the ANC could not transcend a basic level of anti-colonial politics and become truly revolutionary in the communist sense. But this is not unique to the ANC; it has been the fate of other anti-colonial organizations since the 1950s, a possible fate examined by Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth as a "pit-fall" that every anti-colonial movement will encounter. Even without a boycott movement the ANC would encounter this "pit-fall", as other organizations had, and hence the political degeneration of its cadre post-apartheid should not be seen as the product of anti-apartheid activism. It's a bit like saying that, if the US was to pull out of Afghanistan due to the actions of an anti-imperialist front there, and this front eventually decided to plug Afghanistan back into the world market, that anti-occupation demonstrations and activities in the US and other imperialist nations were at fault: it's a ludicrous proposition. But then again, such a ludicrous proposition follows from the well-meaning belief that our activism here will liberate people elsewhere.
Beyond this problem, however, is the problem of the logic behind conceiving of BDS as a revolutionary strategy rather than a tactic based upon historically contingent circumstances. It must be pointed out that, unlike the case of South Africa, the revolutionary self-determination movements in Palestine are currently disarticulated due to decades of counter-insurgency and counter-revolution. In the 1960s and 1970s, at the height of the last great period of anti-imperialist internationalism, organizations such as the PFLP succeeded in putting Palestine on the map with a variety of actions, some of which were carried out in connection with armed solidarity organizations in the first world. For a variety of reasons, which I will not get into here, these movements collapsed––and this despite a level of revolutionary internationalism that was far beyond the internationalism of the BDS movement––and decades of disorganization followed. Despite this disorganization there were moments of great rebellion (the first and second intifada, for example), but there was still an absence of a revolutionary resistant organization capable of overthrowing Israeli colonialism.
It was within the above context that BDS was demanded by Palestinian intellectuals active in Palestine and in the diaspora; it emerged from a demand made by the oppressed, a way to support their self-determination, for a variety of reasons, some of which were in contradiction (i.e. some groups believed in the liberal discourse of international human rights, other groups thought that this discourse could be used to give them breathing room to rebuild, etc.). Generally speaking, however, the core of the Palestinian solidarity movement active at the centres of imperialism, in answer to this demand, conceived of BDS as a tactic to bring Palestinian self-determination back into the political lime-light, to rehumanize the Palestinian subject that had been made invisible by zionist ideology, and to force the mainstream left into recognizing Palestinians in the same way that they had recognized the victims of South African Apartheid.
But if we misunderstand this tactical approach as a universal anti-imperialist strategy, then we have to ask, as pseudo-leftists who despise pro-Palestinian solidarity dishonestly ask, why we are not supporting the boycott of other imperialist satellite states, if not a boycott of the US, Canada, and every colonial/imperial nation. For if we treat the BDS approach as the key to liberating Palestine rather than a tactical practice based on the particular circumstances of the Palestinian self-determination movement, then we have to ask why we are not boycotting ourselves as well. And maybe we should boycott-divest-sanction ourselves, but then if we do this then how can we have the power to "liberate" nations on the other side of the world through the boycotting powers we believe we possess?
Finally, treating the BDS approach as the height of revolutionary internationalism leads to a confusion of liberal politics––international law, bourgeois "human rights"––with revolutionary politics. It is very hard for me to take a well-meaning young leftist at an Israeli Apartheid Week event seriously when they deliver a speech about how Palestinian rights are essential human rights codified by international law––this is not an explanation of the BDS line as a tactic within a revolutionary understanding of internationalist strategy; it's the a priori assumption that the bourgeois rights intrinsic to international law are somehow the key to liberation!
The strategic revolutionary approach should be to use bourgeois rights in non-bourgeois manner when it is tactically convenient, but to always understand this is a temporary means and not a revolutionary ends. We should be aware that bourgeois rights have nothing to do with revolutionary necessity, with the fundamental need to transgress the limits of capitalism. Here we should recall what the PCP [the so-called "Shining Path"] said about human rights during the height of their peoples' war in Peru:
"We start by not ascribing to either the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the Costa Rica, but we have used their legal devices to unmask and denounce the old Peruvian state. […] For us, human rights are contradictory to the rights of the people, because we base rights in the human as a social product, not the human as an abstract entity with innate rights. 'Human rights' do not exist except for the bourgeois human, a position that was at the forefront of feudalism, like liberty, equality, and fraternity were advanced for the bourgeoisie [fighting against this feudalism] of the past. But today, since the appearance of the proletariat as an organized class… with the experience of triumphant revolutions, with the construction of socialism, new democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat, it has been proven that human rights serve the oppressor class and the exploiters who run the imperialist and landowner-bureaucratic states. Bourgeois states in general… Our position is very clear. We reject and condemn human rights because they are bourgeois, reactionary, counterrevolutionary rights, and are today a weapon of revisionists and imperialists, principally Yankee imperialists."So while we need to still endorse struggles such as the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement in support of Palestinian self-determination, we also have to understand that this is simply a tactical way of using "legal devices to unmask and denounce" Israeli Apartheid here at the centres of capitalism. At the most it will provide breathing room for the next round of Palestinian revolution. It is not by itself revolutionary; it is not by itself even close to the pro-Palestinian internationalism of yesteryear. And it won't at all succeed in making revolution at the centres of capitalism––something that, though clearly distant and requiring years and years of struggle, will do far more to support Palestinian self-determination than a boycott movement.


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Yesterday we spent the day at Rainbow Springs. It was amazing. I have never been in such clear water. The place was beautiful but scary at the same time. I am not very fond of swimming in areas where my feet cannot touch the ground. Unfortunately, Rainbow Springs can be as deep at 15 feet. At first I was more than a little scared to get in. I am not a strong swimmer, and get tired very quickly. But I did it! I jumped off of the steps right into the freezing cold water and swam out pretty far. Went in three times as a matter of fact. Have to admit that I am pretty proud I was able to do it despite my fear.Next time I will definitely take floats with me or pool noodles. It should help a lot with keeping me afloat when I get tired.
I'm also proud that we drove my car all the way there and back again and it did not break down on us. Its first long trip with me and it survived. Yay!


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Have I ever mentioned how badly I have have been wanting to take the girls to the zoo? Like, since I first got pregnant I have
harassed pestered enthused Ken to death talking about when the girls will be old enough to go to the zoo. I have been obsessed.
A mom from my twin group was coming up to Portland for spring break with her family and we have been talking about meeting each other and our twins for months and it was all really just a thinly veiled excuse to go to the zoo! (sorry, Julie.)
So the zoo during spring break is packed! The parking lot at the zoo is pretty tiny and it is shared between the zoo, the children's museum, and the forestry center. When it gets too packed then you have to drive to a different parking lot and take a shuttle to get to the zoo. It's ridiculous! Ken and I ended up parking at a nearby park and walking across the park to get to the zoo. I guess in a world where karma can get you this isn't the best idea, but we did it anyways. We ended up having time to kill at the zoo entrance because Julie's family and my mom had to deal with the shuttle, but the girls didn't seem to care.
They could have watched this stupid duck in the mountain goat enclosure the entire day. Who cares about the rest of the animal kingdom. Ducks rule!
But then everyone else showed up and Julie and I finally got to meet each other! My twin group is pretty unique (I think) in that it's all online. We have a Facebook group page that's private, but there's about 60 of us and we're scattered all over the county and some in Canada, and all of our twins were born within 2ish months of each other. It's a great support system and I love it, but since we are all from all over the place very few of us have actually met. Meeting Julie was like reuniting with a dear friend, not like meeting a new one. I also jokingly (
kinda not really who am I kidding?) refer to her sons as my future sons-in-law. 🙂 We quickly camped out on the lawn in front of amphitheater for lunch and then went to go see the new baby elephant, Lily.
The mama elephant, I think her name is Rose, had only just gotten pregnant with Lily the November before the girls were born and she was born in February, I think. Can you imagine?!?! So glad I am not an elephant.
This was the coolest thing that happened at the zoo.
So cool! Also a little scary that there was only some glass separating my children from one of the worlds fastest predators.
But still pretty neat, even if the cheetahs were pacing back and forth like a starving person in front of bakery display window.
She's still not walking, but she's so cute and she crawls really fast and sways her head back and forth and shouts "da-do, da-do!" as loud as she can.
Gramma brought cheese crackers (fatty fat ass crackers) to the zoo. The girls were obsessed. Especially Hazel. Every time she saw that red lid she started shouting "cracka cracka!" until she got one. It's the same when she sees the bag of pretzel sticks.
I love this picture. I love the absolute delight in Hazel's smile and the absolute disapproval on Haley's face. I imagine this will happen a lot as the grow up and get excited about different things.
Overall, I was really happy with the trip to the zoo. I'm seriously contemplating getting a family membership which would pay for itself if we only went once a month and I would love to go every weekend. Seriously. We only saw maybe a quarter of the zoo between moving strollers through the crowds, lunch, and needing to leave for naps. And as the weather gets nicer it would be great to have some place outdoorsy to go.
And yes, I did totally cave into the "first trip to the zoo" craziness and make Ken stop in the gift shop on the way out. I bought Hazel a stuffed otter and Haley a stuffed hippo. They are adorable and Hazel fell asleep cuddling hers on the way home.


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Decision is the 47th chapter of Taamo's Taiyou no Ie.
|Character(s) Shown on Cover
|Motomiya Mao
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Chapter 48
When Sugimoto comes to work, everyone is all depressed and worried because the system crashed and they lost all their data. All the workers are trying to fix the problem and are most likely going to stay late at night. Worried, Sugimoto told them if they need any help, they could ask her. Although she wanted to talk to Hiro about Mao, there wouldn't be any time. She also wants to meet and talk to Mao, so she sends her a message.
At school, Mao receives her message along with a message from her birth-mother wanting to meet her. Chihiro comments that she has "a lot on [her] plate" and asks Mao if she made her mind about her mother. She answers yes, and Chihiro wonders what Sugimoto wants to tell her. Mao, then gets a image of Radical and Hiro talking to each other and becomes anxious that they had gotten closer since Mao hasn't talked to Hiro in a while.
She decides to meet with Radical, and asks her directly if anything happened between her and Hiro. She denies it, and tells her instead Hiro has been worried about her. After a moment of silence, Radical informs her that she read her novel from the beginning and understands that her story was about her feelings toward Hiro. She apologizes for stealing an important thing away from her, and notifies her that she will be telling Hiro that she lied about reading the novel. She also wanted to know one thing, and asked Mao why she didn't tell Hiro about it. "Friends" was Mao's reply, and she explains to Radical that she wanted to be friends with her, since she did not have many friends. Radical was surprised, then invites her to Maa-kun's birthday party even though she knows that there isn't any reason for Mao to trust her again. She still likes the novel Mao wrote and looks foward to Kaoru's happiness. Mao believes that Kaoru has enough happiness already, but Radical denies it, explaining that she has worked and suffered for a long time and she deserves to be much happier. Radical excuses herself saying her break from work is almost. Mao stops her and says she will definitely go to Maa-kun's birthday party. Radical smiles, and leaves.
Mao meets with her excited mother. Her mother talks about how excited she is to finally be able to live with Mao, and starts to make lots of promises. Mao cuts her off, and tells her mom that she can't go with her. And her mom stops from shock. Mao explains that she has lots of special people at the place she lives now, and she can't leave them. Mao promises that she will wish for her mom's happiness. Her mother accepts Mao's decision, and she resolves to find a good man and be happy herself. Her mom goes over to give Mao a hug.
Mao walks home to find her dad waiting outside his house. They both walk inside to eat dinner.
Mao lies down on her bed and ponders about what happened. She texts Hiro "I miss you, Hiro".
Boss tells the exhausted Hiro to take a break to get some food for others. Sugimoto walks with Hiro to get the food. Sugimoto tells Hiro that the author of House of the Sun is actually Kuukai, not Sorami. She tells Hiro that she isn't Kuukai, the writer of the novel, and explains that she lied just to get Hiro's attention. Sugimoto requests Hiro to reread the novel from beginning and pay close attention to Kaoru.
Hiro goes back to work after his break, and he receives Mao's text message. He is annoyed about the timing of the message.
Characters in Order of AppearanceEdit
Mao [thoughts]: Radical-san's smile warmed my heart. It gave me hope that the day we can face each other will come again. The day we can smile together will come again.
Mao's mother: Mao. You've grown up into a fine young woman. But it looks like I still have a lot of growing up to do. To be honest, I didn't think you'd turn me down. I'm surprised. But I understand. You're happy now.
Mao [thoughts about mom]: It'd been so long since I'd smelled her sweet scent, heard her warm voice... Somewhere, deep down, it was something I had longed for.
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