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DOVER — New Durham School staff members testified Wednesday that despite Christina Thomas being charged with starving a young boy under her care, she seemed to show concern for the well-being of the alleged victim.
Despite this, the teacher and the speech/language assistant who testified for the prosecution Wednesday said they felt uncomfortable withholding food from the boy at the request of Thomas, and were concerned about the boy's energy levels.
Thomas, 34, of 214 Birch Hill Road in New Durham, is accused of first-degree assault for allegedly starving a boy in her care between 2006 and 2010. The boy is now 9 years old, and is in an open adoptive relationship with his biological mother.
Susan Wood, the school nurse for New Durham School, which the boy attended, said the boy weighed 23 pounds when he started preschool in September 2008. She said while the boy attended the school for about a year and a half, Thomas, who was viewed as his caretaker, showed frustration that he wasn't gaining weight despite her efforts.
At the same time, staff members were told by Thomas to take away some of his food if he became too emotional or was experiencing rumination — a condition in which a person vomits into his or her mouth and then swallows.
In October 2009, Wood said she received a report from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital, stating the rumination was not caused by an illness, and that "he should be fed whenever he is hungry," because "he still has growing to do."
Wood said that the boy's Individualized Education Program (IEP), in which Thomas told staff to take away some of his carrot sticks as a form of punishment, was contrary to the note from the hospital.
Nancy Haseltine, kindergarten teacher at New Durham School, said she saw the boy eating cereal, carrot sticks, and peanut butter sandwiches at school, but she felt uncomfortable with the notion of taking the boy's food away, especially with the boy's small size.
"We've never done that in the past," said Haseltine about the tactic requested by Thomas. "There was talk going on throughout the school about (the boy) and how small he was."
She said that in her interaction with Thomas, the topic of the boy's health would come up quite often, and Thomas' tone in those discussions showed nothing but concern.
At times, the young boy came to school with no lunch in hand, and Haseltine said she was told he ate his lunch on the bus on his way to school. Haseltine said she tried to address the issue with Thomas and her mother Peggy Starr, who has also been charged in the case. Haseltine suggested giving the boy additional food during lunchtime so he wouldn't go hungry. She said Thomas and Starr told her not to feed the boy — that way he would learn not to eat his lunch on the way to school.
Thomas and Starr also reported to Haseltine that the boy ate breakfast each morning, as well as dinner, but Haseltine had told them that with no lunch, the child had very low energy levels in the afternoon.
In the fall of 2009, despite the objections by Thomas and Starr, the young boy was fed by school officials during lunch, even if he reportedly ate his own lunch on the bus.
Shortly after, Haseltine was informed by the family the boy was being taken out of school, and would be home-schooled.
"We were heartbroken," said Haseltine, who said school officials were concerned home-schooling would not be enough to provide the boy an adequate education.
According to Deputy County Attorney Alysia Cassotis, the prosecution has no evidence the boy was being home-schooled after leaving New Durham School in December 2009.
Susan Delaney, a speech/language assistant at New Durham School, began working with the young boy in September 2009. She described the boy as being "extremely small for his age," and said his language skills were delayed to the point where he was unintelligible, only speaking two- to three-word sentences when she initially met him.
Despite his delay in speech, Delaney said the boy was outgoing, and tended to seek affection from staff members at the school.
"He came across as a very happy kid," said Delaney.
Still, she said the boy seemed to always talk about wanting food. Delaney said she was under the impression that the boy had an "undiagnosed bizarre eating disorder" and she was told not to give the boy snacks.
Wood said because of the boy's small stature, she monitored the boy's weight about once a week, since he began attending preschool at New Durham School. In September 2008, he weighed 23 pounds, and his weight was fluctuating throughout the school year. By the time he left the school in December 2009, he weighed 26 pounds.
After the boy was placed in Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) custody in 2010, Wood said she saw the boy when he visited the school, and she weighed him again. At that time, his weight was approximately 36 pounds.
Delaney and Haseltine said they, too, saw the boy during that visit, and they testified that he looked much healthier.
"He'd gained a lot of weight, he looked like a totally different child," Delaney testified.
Looking back, Delaney said she wished the community as a whole could have done more for the child.
Dr. James Halla, a clinical psychologist, testified Wednesday he was asked to evaluate Thomas and the boy's mother after physicians' determination that the boy underwent "severe neglect and abuse."
The boy's mother, whose identity is not being revealed by Foster's, has a developmental disability. She and her son had been living at Thomas' home for several years. Last week the boy's mother testified that she was also abused by Thomas, and that she participated in abusing the young boy under the direction of Thomas and Starr. She also testified that her son was at times put in a dog kennel or tied to his bunk bed by a dog leash, as punishment for getting too emotional or crying about being hungry.
At Strafford County Superior Court on Wednesday, Halla testified that during the forensic evaluation, the boy's mother was strikingly nonemotional when discussing the alleged abuse of her young son.
"She was talking as if she was talking about the weather to me," said Halla, who had concluded the mother had limited or nonexistent attachment to her son. "She spoke very matter-of-factly."
Halla said that based on his psychological evaluations, he concluded the boy's mother was immature, and tended to choose her own self interests over those of others.
He said he also concluded the boy's biological mother has "fundamentally failed this child over and over ... and over again."
In administering psychological tests on Thomas, Halla said Thomas failed to validly complete three of the tests, in that the way she answered the questions, it was determined she was "making herself look good," and the tests could not be verified, because the results weren't valid.
Halla said in his 20 years conducting evaluations for DCYF, he has not had anyone's test results come in as "not valid" on three tests.
During the forensic interview, Halla said, there were times when Thomas was "inappropriately familiar with me" acting as though they had been friends for a long time. He said she also seemed unwilling to accept responsibility for what happened to the boy, or to what her own biological five children had been exposed to while living with her.
Halla said Thomas denied abusing the child or depriving him of food. But he also said her failure to truthfully complete three psychological tests can suggest that she wasn't been honest during other parts of the evaluations, such as the interview.


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You mention stable channel for chrome for android. Are there other channels that we can try with chrome for android? If so, I where can I access them? Thanks.
Still has this bug:
Going to google voice page, http://voice.google.com on Chrome browser on android (Samsung galaxy S3,SCH-1535, Android 4.0.4) phone and try to type phone number "1234...", it comes up as" 11223344...". Please fix this
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Still so buggy on Asus Prime =( Scrolling is still choppy, rendering is slooow, have to see white screen for long time. Browsing The Verge site is the pain... Even opening new emty Tab is slow! Standard browser is much better (but sync not works on it from June), even Firefox better and more fluid on tablets. Situation has not changed since the first release. What's happend, Chrome team?!
I agree with Pedro Madeira. the stable channel has been mentioned regarding chrome for android. Are there other channels that we can try with chrome for android? how do I change to the beta/dev channel?
It work. chrome://history/
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Logo must be vector format in .ai file.
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- You can try all CAPS for the text and all lowercase too, not sure what we will want yet.
*Also another idea is try putting some sort of a red rope (typical for the front of clubs entrances) around the text that might work too. It's just an idea so we want to see logos without the rope first, then you can try adding if it looks good.
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Sometimes petitions and letters do make a difference.
When Walton County's Coastal Branch Library began closing on Saturdays, those who use it regularly were sorely disappointed.
Members of the Friends of the Library group questioned the closing and complained to no avail. They were told the funds were not there to support staying open but five days a week and cutbacks had to be made to make budget.
Believing funds could be found somewhere in the budget, library lovers were urged to send letters to County Commissioners and the local newspaper. Then a petition started to circulate.
Miraculously, somewhere in that budget, the funds have been found to keep the library open on Saturdays, if it passes a vote of the County Commissioners, said District 5 Commissioner Cindy Meadows.
"We moved money around and added money to the library's budget to keep them open six days a week," said Meadows. "We have been working on it since the first draft meeting and we had (financial director) Rhonda Quimby come up with the money amount, added it back in, recalculated, and moved some numbers around. The board still needs to vote on it and approve it, but I haven't heard anything said to indicate it won't be approved."
Meadows said if the Saturday opening is approved, there will still be money for buying books.
Even though the commissioners were looking at the possibility of reopening the library prior to the letters and petition, Meadows said they did make a difference.
"The money was not in the budget to begin with, but through moving things around, we found enough," she said. "The people have spoken."
Library Director Dan Owens said the Saturday closings occurred during the budget hearing at the first County Commission meeting of September 2009, when all libraries began operating five days a week.
"I was given the impression it was to save money," said Owens. "At the same time we started experiencing a decline in people using library, but we have seen a decline since 1999. In 2011, there were no funds for books and materials."
Coastal Branch Library is located at 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach, just off U.S. Highway 331S. Phone 267-2809 for information. Its current hours of operation are Mondays from 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Tuesday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and closed Saturday and Sunday.
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Rush, according to a source within the Pac-12 officiating group, told a group of referees on the Thursday of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas that he would give them $5,000 or a trip to Cancun if they either "rang him up" or "ran him," meaning hit Miller with a technical or toss him out of the game. Rush then reiterated during a Friday morning meeting, according to one referee in attendance, that officials should take similar action against Miller if he did anything on Friday in the Pac-12 semifinals against UCLA.
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dearprakash necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Our brand name is Applified Ideas AB. As you can guess the name is coined with intention of conveying the message that "we transform ideas to Apps". So we like the Logo to convey this message as much as possible!
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Like a "Lightning" or "head" and could cover just "A" and "I" in a subtle way.
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Summer is just around the corner, and that means the peak wedding season is too. If you or your child is planning a wedding, get your checkbook ready.
After plummeting in the wake of the financial crisis, spending on nuptials resumed its rise in 2010, and is once again approaching record levels.
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By Cynthia McMurry, KF8 Ecuador
Time and cost are enormous disincentives for the working poor when it comes to getting medical treatment. Time spent visiting the doctor is time you're not at work generating income, and money spent on these visits is money that could otherwise be spent on your children's education or reinvested in your business. These disincentives are strong enough that relatively minor, treatable ailments often go untreated and eventually develop into much more complicated, serious conditions that require more intensive treatments and can even be incapacitating.
To mitigate this problem, medical care must be made cheaper and more convenient, and this is exactly what's being done at the Cuenca branch office of Fundación Espoir. The office has an on-site doctor's office. Each client pays $4.50 per 6-month loan cycle, for which she is entitled to unlimited free doctor's visits for herself, her husband and her children. Women can get Pap tests, pre- and post-natal care and birth control counseling, in addition to a wide variety of treatments for common ailments. The clinic, which is always staffed by one of two doctors, serves 250-280 women and their family members each month. Dr. Maria Eulalia Robles says that most clients, whether women, men or children, come in for three reasons: dermatological problems, respiratory ailments, and diarrhea. Treatment is key, especially for children: left untreated, respiratory ailments and diarrheal diseases are responsible for almost 40% of mortality in Ecuadorian children ages 1-4 (as of 1999).
The clinic is understandably limited in terms of the services it can provide, since there's no on-site laboratory or sophisticated machinery for taking x-rays or performing mammograms. For more specialized services like these, Espoir's doctors refer clients to low-cost local specialists like gynecologists, optometrists, dentists, and chiropractors. One of branch manager Eulogio Rojas' goals is to acquire a mammography machine for the clinic, though he says that at the moment he can't justify the cost of such a machine ($40,000+) for the less than 2,000 clients the office serves.
Dr. Robles says that more than half the clients she sees come in before or after their group meetings at Espoir's office. In a sense, this is a good thing, since it means that clients will seek medical care when it's made more convenient for them. It's also troubling, though, since about half the clients served by the Cuenca branch office hold their meetings in the field, closer to home. Rural clients visit the clinic much less frequently because of the opportunity cost implicit in each trip to the city.
Another challenge she faces is cultural. Getting an annual Pap test is a foreign concept for most clients, and for many it goes beyond being merely uncomfortable. Dr. Robles says some clients consider the test on par with rape. Many women's husbands are against the idea, so the small percentage of clients who do come in for Pap tests often do so secretly.
Both Dr. Robles and Eulogio Rojas hope that the clinic will offer a wider range of services in the future; the office has already shown impressive progress and growth over its short life. The clinic opened six years ago, and in its first years treated a maximum of 90 clients per month. Today, it sometimes treats that many patients in one week. The clinic has also had electronic medical records for all patients for the past three years (which is more than many clinics in the US can say!).
Dr. Robles tells me of a patient she treated just a couple of weeks ago. The client, a 36-year-old, overweight woman with hypertension, came in for a basic gynecological exam, in which the doctor found a uterine polyp that could develop into cancer if left untreated. She referred the client to a gynecologist, who found that the patient had incipient uterine cancer and operated immediately to remove the polyp. The operation appears to have been successful! If this young mother hadn't had convenient, low-cost access to medical care, this close call might have turned into a tragic ending.
The innovative medical care facility offered by Fundación Espoir is one of a whole slew of reasons why I'm excited to help them get started as a brand new Kiva field partner (and its only active Ecuadorian partner)! In my first two weeks working with the institution, I've been consistently impressed by its staff's dedication to improving clients' lives through savings accounts, loans, and business training and health education services. Eulogio Rojas sees Espoir's partnership with Kiva as a great opportunity to get to know his own clients a little better, an attitude I applaud. Personally, I can't wait for Kiva lenders to get to know Espoir's clients!
To search for currently fundraising Espoir loans on Kiva, click here. No currently fundraising clients? Please check back soon! In the meantime, you can join Espoir's Kiva Lending Team here.
Cynthia McMurry is a fourth-time Kiva fellow working with brand new Kiva field partner Fundación Espoir in Cuenca, Ecuador. Previously she worked with Fundación AgroCapital in Bolivia and FINCA Peru and Asociación Arariwa in Peru./>


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A jewel from Pathfinder miniatures for every DDM collector
While I have little need for Pathfinder miniatures after collecting a large amount of D&D miniatures, I found one diamond from the collection that every DDM collector should be aware of - Medusa. D&D monster design decisions have moved away from classic themes since the late releases of 3E line, and I haven't been happy most of these changes. What I did like is what they did to Lamia. But medusa, just like dryad, were transformed into something that wasn't so main stream.


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Marilyn Von Seggern is the Government Information Librarian at Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, Washington. Her job includes oversight of the international, federal, state, and local documents collections. Washington State University is a full depository for state documents and also a member of the Federal Depository Library Program as selective depository 0643.


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A while ago, I saw some postings on FaceBook from an old customer about the Big Green Egg.http://biggreenegg.com/ For those that own one, or those who chose not to own one, a few questions.What makes it so special/pricey? Food taste any different than any other charcoal type grill? Thumbs up or thumbs down on your purchase?
Interesting about searing steaks first to "lock in the flavor" not being the best way to go. I always thought that was the way to go. Will try it the reverse way next time. Well, how hard is it to change temps quickly on the BGE to accomplish that?
Allow me to chime in here. I have just a bit of experience with the Big Green Egg, the Weber 22" Kettle, the Weber Smoky Mountain, and a Weber propane.First I find it more than a bit hypocritical for anyone on this forum, of all places, to denounce the BGE for its price. I guess if that's your reason for knocking it down you should sell your Festools and save some money and pickup DeWalt, Makita, etc.I paid $400 4 years ago for my Weber propane. Fast forward to today and the original grate is gone, rusted through. The flavorizer bars need replaced, rusted through. The outside is in need of love. The door is rusted. I don't enjoy using it but it's a necessary evil when I need something cooked in under 20 minutes.I branched out to the Weber kettle a year after the propane. I fought with it for two years maintaining 225-275 for cooking ribs, pork butt, you name it I probably tried it. Raining? Forget about it. Cold? Nope. And you have to use a water pan that acts as a grease catcher. Have fun disposing of that after every cook.I now own a large Big Green Egg along with the kettle and propane. The kettle is dedicated to rotisserie duty which it excels at. If I have the choice I cook on the Big Green Egg. I've regretted a lot of purchases over the years but this is not one of them. And if it breaks in 10 years guess what, I won't spend any money. Lifetime warranty. Over the past two weeks I cooked a 12lb packer brisket on it maintaining 275 for 10 hours without adding any lump charcoal or really doing anything and a 7lb pork butt at 250 with the same experience. Because it has very little airflow during long cooks the food stays more moist and you don't need to mess with a water pan. For steaks I don't do high heat until the end. Reverse sear is the only way to go. Buy 1" thick well marbled ribeyes and cook them 225 until they're near desired temp. Then open the vents and let the egg get up to 600 or more and sear it for ~30s per side. If you haven't tried it this way you need to.Like any tool you get what you pay for. It has a learning curve like anything else but I couldn't do without mine.
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Here is some Festool and BGE porn mixed togeather for what it's worth. Best grills around...
Bob, I have a large sized BGE and am a huge proponent. It is a kamado type grill and there are other cheaper alternatives as the same there are for Festool tools. I have zero regrets buying one. The great thing about the BGE is that it is very easy to maintain a low-slow cook temperature by regulating the air intake/ outtake vents. Once you get the temperature just right for a slow cook, say 250 degrees, it is very easy to maintain this temperature, just like a kitchen oven. I haven't tried it, but you can actually bake cookies on it. The second great part of the BGE, or any other kamado, is that is uses lump charcoal which is carbonized wood. There is nothing like the taste of meat cooked on a wood fire. As I mentioned before, I have the large size. (18" grill). They make an XL and even an XXL grill but I've read the large size is easiest to regulate the temperature. Egghead Forum is a good source for ideas and answers.Edit: I believe those bashing the BGE are like guys in other WW forums saying don't waste your money on Festool, Dewalt is better. I'd also recommend arranging delivery and setup, the large weighs nearly 200 lbs. ---worth the extra coin.


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PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) is a private, non-profit corporation that offers all Americans a wide variety of educational and entertainment programming through television and online content. PBS programming is delivered to individual communities through its nearly 360 member stations throughout the United States. In addition to television programs, PBS also provides content through mobile applications and several websites, including PBS.org, PBSKIDS.org and PBS Video. Founded in 1969, PBS has transformed itself from a solely broadcast organization to a multi-platform leader that serves Americans through television, mobile TV, the Web, interactive whiteboards in the classroom and more.
Drew Engelson is Chief Architect and Senior Director of Platform Development for PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS' Internet and mobile presence. Initially, Engelson and his team employed a content delivery network that did not fully meet their needs for delivering streamed media files. This led to the periodic failure of streamed videos to start playing, as well as the chance that some video streams would freeze and not restart.
Because there was no method of measuring performance degradation through PBS' existing content delivery network, Engelson and his team had difficulty identifying the source of these video streaming issues. To improve the system and prevent these types of issues, PBS Interactive implemented a monitoring tool that could also be used to test other content delivery networks, including Amazon Web Services (AWS). Already familiar with AWS, the PBS Interactive team was already using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
After monitoring multiple CDNs for a few weeks, PBS Interactive found that CloudFront had a significantly lower error rate than the incumbent CDN. As a result, they migrated the majority of PBS videos to Amazon S3 storage and delivered them via Amazon CloudFront. PBS Interactive completed the migration of its content into Amazon S3 within a matter of weeks and subsequently began delivering that content via Amazon CloudFront.
Since the migration, PBS Interactive says it has experienced fifty percent fewer errors in its video streaming performance. The department also conducts testing more quickly with the help of Amazon CloudFront's invalidation request feature and by analyzing CloudFront logfiles. This feature improves PBS Interactive's testing by rapidly removing bad files and quickly refreshing its cache.
Engelson believes that "Amazon CloudFront fits well with the other AWS services used by PBS. The team members have enjoyed their conversations with the AWS team as they have migrated to Amazon CloudFront, and they were pleased when the Amazon CloudFront invalidation feature was released shortly after they needed that feature."
Today, PBS Interactive is delivering nearly all of its streaming video through Amazon CloudFront. This equates to more than one petabyte of video content delivered every month. In addition, PBS Interactive uses multiple third-party providers to transcode and segment mobile video assets, which are then delivered through Amazon CloudFront to PBS' mobile apps for the Apple iPhone and iPad. Engelson says, "As with all the AWS services we leverage, using Amazon CloudFront is so simple and reliable that the team doesn't have to think about it. It all just works, freeing us to focus on building cool applications." He concludes, "We are extremely pleased with the performance and ease of use that CloudFront offers for streaming videos to different devices. With fewer errors, CloudFront delivers a great experience to our viewers, and that's very important for the success of our business."
To learn more about how AWS can help your web application needs, visit our Web Applications details page: http://aws.amazon.com/web-mobile-social.


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The Office of Technology Transfer
The Office of Technology Transfer serves as a point of contact for business, promoting outreach and economic development in the Akron area. The technology transfer staff coordinates invention disclosures, reviews inventions for marketability, applies for and maintains patents, provides for commercialization through local businesses, assists startup companies and arranges for the licensing of University technology and inventions to independent businesses.
The work of The University of Akron Office of Technology Transfer has gained national recognition. In connection with the efforts of OTT and the University of Akron Research Foundation, UA was:
- Ranked #1 in the country for tech transfer and licensing efficiency in 2007, when compared to U.S. universities without medical schools, according to the Association of University Technology Managers
- Named an "exemplary institution" for advanced innovation partnerships despite modest research expenditures and other challenges in a study conducted for the National Science Foundation by Innovation Associates
- Ranked #1 in patents issued per million dollars in research expenditures, 2000-2004, by the Milken Institute
- #1 in Ohio in highest rate of return per research dollar in technology commercialization, according to the Ohio Board of Regents
- Recipient of the University Economic Development Association's 2007 Award of Excellence in Technology Commercialization
Hear the June 10, 2010 Congressional Testimony of Wayne Watkins to the U.S. House of Representatives on "From the Lab Bench to the Marketplace: Improving Technology Transfer". To read the full text, click here.
To learn more about UA's licensing process, visit our Patents & Licensing page.
For more information on UA's tech transfer expertise, check out this September 2007 article from Technology Transfer Tactics.
Frequently requested forms and documents:
Invention Disclosure Form
UA Research, Copyright and Patent Policy
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What makes someone a good raider?
There is a lot that goes into it. There's performance – using the right spells at the right time, not standing in bad, doing well on meters, having good reaction time. There's preparation – knowing the boss fights ahead of time, having proper enchants and consumables, having the best gear possible. There's personality, which may be more of a concern to some people than others – people who are pleasant to be in a raid/on Mumble with generally make for a better raiding experience, and people who can constructively problem solve when things go wrong are appreciated.
There has been a lot of discussion through this expansion about how much should be expected of raiders. There was the debate about effort vs. reward for 300 stat food. There has been debate on the requirement of doing LFR. There's been debate about dailies, rep grinds and valor capping.
Today I read a post by my friend Stormy, who was talking about how annoyed he was by the continual daily and rep grinds. Here's the quote that inspired my post (which is specifically addressing mandatory faction grinds) :
If you're in a raiding guild and you're not doing the most you can to maximize your gear, enchants, valor points, etc., you are not pulling your weight. You can call them "optional" all you want, but if you're a raider and you're not doing them, you're bad and you should feel bad.
(Note: This actually wasn't the main point of his post, and my quoting it is not an invitation for you to go tell him he's wrong if you disagree).
Confession time!
Dailies and rep have not been a priority for me this expansion. I just got exalted with Shadow Pan this week. I've only been exalted with Golden Lotus for a few weeks, and I'm not even Revered with August Celestials yet. Operation Shieldwall? I think I just hit honored. The first two reps I got exalted with were Tillers and Cloud Serpents, the two factions that give me nothing to assist me in raiding, but whose dailies I found the most fun. And this from someone who considers themselves, above all, a raider.
Maybe this makes me bad, but honestly, I don't feel bad at all. In fact, not burning myself out doing things I consider chores in a game that's supposed to entertain me makes me feel pretty good.
I do think personal experience (and luck) had something to do with my apathy towards dailies. Sha and Garalon were very good to me. So were raid bosses. A week or two into raiding I think I had 2 pieces of gear that could be upgraded by rep rewards. For those two pieces I would rather wait and hope for boss drops than spend an hour (likely more since I'm a healer who is terrible at killing quest mobs) every day for a few weeks doing something I didn't enjoy. I also have a bit of a mental block about buying gear – I want to tear my spoils from the claws of an enemy I've vanquished, not purchase them from a cuddly panda vendor. But that's another story.
So I return to the original question. What makes a good raider?
To me, gear is the last thing on the list of what makes a good raider – within reason of course, someone in greens would not likely be of much help to their raid team on heroic boss progression – and the thing I'm least concerned about (not unconcerned, just least concerned).
The performance someone puts into the actual raid is what I consider most important. I try to stand in as few fires as I can, I try to keep everyone alive, and when I heal a raid I strive to make everyone else's job easier. The best gear in the world isn't going to help me if I have no skill. Of course I'm not perfect – sometimes I heal x when I should heal y, or I stand in front of Garalon's swipe because I'm trying to be in range of the kiter and the rest of the raid so I can heal all the things. I think my energy is better spent trying to improve on those things than a piece or two of gear.
If I ever felt that I (or my raid) was being held back by this view, I would change my tune. But I think I'm doing just fine (truth? a symptom of me suffering from high self esteem? who knows!) I'm pretty sure no one in my raid has ever thought to themselves (or said to me) "Gee, I wish Jasyla had better gear, she needs all the help she can get."
The fact is, there are only so many hours in the day. And despite much evidence to the contrary, WoW is not a job (at least not until someone starts paying me). I put a lot of time and effort into this game. I raid 9 hours a week, I'm GM of a guild, I'm a healing lead, I write raider reviews, I do log dives of my own performance, I interview potential recruits, I do guild bank stuff, I spend a lot of time trying to optimize my healing, I write guides on this blog that I hope are helpful to other players… Plus, sometimes I like to just play and do things in game that have nothing to do with raid prep or guild management.
Some people can do it all, but for others, the question of effort vs. reward arises.
I have a choice (really, it is a choice). I can cram dailies and valor capping – things I do not enjoy – into my schedule and slowly but surely become burnt out and start hating the game. Or I can just not do them if I don't feel like it. I can accept that being 2 ilvls lower than I could be or getting the extra socket in my Sha-Touched weapon 2 weeks later that most is an acceptable trade-off for maintaining my sanity and desire to play. I also suspect people perform better when they actually want to be in a raid than they do when they're sick of the game. Seems like a pretty easy decision to me.
Does this make me a bad raider? Well, maybe. But I'm cool with that.


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Charges dismissed against P.J. Hairston
UNC star faced marijuana, license charges
Authorities have dismissed charges against North Carolina basketball leading scorer P.J. Hairston from a traffic stop last month.
Hairston was arrested June 5 and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving without a license at a checkpoint in Durham. But the Durham County clerk of court's office said Monday those charges were dismissed Friday after Hairston produced proof he had a driver's license and had completed a drug assessment program.
Two passengers - Elizabeth City State player Miykael Faulcon and former college basketball player Carlos Sanford - were also charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. Their cases are pending with an Aug. 6 court date.
That traffic stop was the second time in a month that Hairston had been cited while driving a rental vehicle linked to a convicted felon.


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In our graduate level communication studies language class we studied narratives and how we use these in everyday conversations. We often narrate when we don't realize we are doing so. One way to think of it is storytelling and some of us have better skills than others. It depends really on the 'language' we use — words that describe, words that put us in a different time, place, experience. Here is an example that will put a smile on your face:
The link was posted by one of my friends on facebook. I decided to use this link as a post this week, allowing me to practice the structures of a narrative. It is of a child who narrates his day at the zoo. His use of language — description, sequence, feelings — allow us to empathize with him in his angry situation. Better than me and than most adults, this child, despite his very young age, also managed to create narrative that is complex, using all of the following structures of a narrative:
1. Abstract: Summary of story
Example: He basically tells us his trip didn't go well
2. Orientation: Time, place, persons, activity, situation
Example: It's his daily trip to the zoo with friends but they only saw the gentle
3. Complicating action: Found in Temporally sequenced clauses
Example: See what he says about Harmony (and what dad writes…)
4. Evaluation: The point of the narrative
Example: He really wanted it to be a terrific day. He wanted to see the otters.
5. Result or resolution: Termination of temporarily sequenced clauses
Example: Dad offers a revisit another day to which he agrees.
6. Coda: Found at the end of the narrative
Example: His final comment "I don't like it. Let's go."
Perhaps we can learn something from this child and his parent's prompts for information. These prompts shaped the perfect narrative, and allowed for a two-way communication between adult and child that honors affect from start to finish. Not only is this the type of parent I want to develop into — but it's the type of therapist I hope to be one day.
Liz Guerrini has been a K-12 and college teacher for the past 18 years and is entering her final graduate year in Communicative Disorders at CSUN. She's an Olympian who finds many applications of her sport world to the teaching and therapy worlds. She home-schools her bright and beautiful son who lives with trisomy 2, severe dysarthria, severe CAS, hearing loss, ASD and hypotonia. She is a member of ASHA's Minority Student Leadership Program. Liz blogs at Christopher Days, SLP to-Be and the Signing Time Academy.


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Student or Learner
I often see the phrase 'the captioned' (e.g. with regard to the captioned...)
Is it used correctly and does it just mean 'the title' or 'the subject'?
Is it commonly used in email writing?
I could only find three hits on Google for it in that usage and they were all on Chinese language websites. "I refer to the captioned matter" was given as "I refer to the information under the title" on one.
I wouldn't use it in English though. It's not a natural usage for us.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Oh my god! I thought this is a very popular set phrase in Business English. I can't believe it's not common and it's not natural to native speakers' ears.


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Upon leaving office in 2004, Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings said what many of his colleagues surely felt: "You can't have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here." Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of a new lobbying group, J Street, plans to change that.
Ben-Ami told reporters during J Street's launch, "The term, 'pro-Israel' has been hijacked by those who hold views that a majority of Americans—Jews and non-Jews alike—oppose, whether supporting the war in Iraq, beating the drums for war with Iran, or putting obstacles in the path to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Once dedicated to the goal of strengthening the relationship between the United States and Israel, groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have lately seemed more interested in strengthening the hand of Likud in Israel while advancing the arguments of neoconservatives in Washington.
David Kimche, a former director general of the Israeli foreign ministry and a supporter of J Street, outlined the need for an alternative in the Jerusalem Post: "AIPAC has become more militant than the Israeli government. Its messages reflect more the oppositionist Likud doctrine than the moderate stance of Prime Minister Olmert. Moreover, whereas … some 80 percent of the Jewish voters traditionally cast their votes for the Democrats, AIPAC is geared to an extreme-right-wing agenda, often more in line with the Jewish neo-cons than with the majority of American Jews."
"They have come to promote another agenda," Ben-Ami says, "Our agenda is that we believe the security of Israel, the survival of Israel, depends in large measure on whether or not it can resolve these conflicts peacefully with its neighbors. This is also in America's best interest."
J Street has two components: an advocacy group that will try to open America's debate about Israel and a PAC that will be able to make political donations. Of course, the "J" in the name evokes the predominantly Jewish character of the organization, but it has other connotations. "J" is missing from the alphabetically named streets of D.C.—the city's planner, Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, omitted it from his design as an insult to Supreme Court Justice John Jay. If such an avenue did exist, it would run parallel to K Street, the address that is synonymous with the federal city's most powerful lobbies.
Billionaire George Soros was briefly associated with the project but pulled out before the launch so that the new group would not be saddled with his controversial, and left-wing, associations. Still, J Street has raised nearly $1.9 million for its first year—impressive for a start-up. More impressive is the list of prominent Israelis who have signed a letter of support. The roster includes military men like Maj. Gen. Amos Lapidot, former head of the Israeli Air Force, and Maj. Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former chief of staff of the IDF; politicians like Amran Mitzna, former head of the Labor Party; and religious figures like Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman of Kehilat Kol haNeshama in Jerusalem.
Another signatory, Daniel Levy, is a member of J Street's advisory council and was part of the Israeli delegation to the Taba Summit with the Palestinians in January 2001. Levy says, "The easiest thing the J Street people found in the lead up to the launch was getting that list of top-notch Israelis in support."
But that doesn't guarantee that they will be able to effect a revolution in American politics. AIPAC's operating budget is 50 times larger than J Street's, and it has a formidable reputation to match. One senator anonymously told a Washington Post reporter in 1991, "My colleagues think AIPAC is a very, very powerful organization that is ruthless, and very, very alert." In 2002, Morris Amitay, a former director of AIPAC, expressed perfect confidence in his group's position on Capitol Hill: "I don't see any prospect that any member of the U.S. Congress, the House or Senate, would say, 'Let's take a balanced position between Israel and the Palestinians and negotiate a peace agreement.'" Crossing the Israel lobby, Amitay continued, would be "politically suicidal."
Ben-Ami laughs at the outsized nature of his task, "No question it's a David versus Goliath situation. … [J Street] will be outmanned, outgunned, and outfunded."
An obvious question arises: Since AIPAC's leadership has historically reflected the interests of the Israeli government and then pitched its policies in terms that are ideologically compatible with the White House, wouldn't the election of a Labor government in Tel Aviv and a Democratic one in Washington steer AIPAC away from its hawkish position? Critics of the powerful lobby say no, contending that AIPAC's leaders are too paranoid about the future security of Israel and have committed themselves to an ideology that abhors peacemaking.
M.J. Rosenberg, director of policy analysis at the Israel Policy Forum, points to a generation gap among the traditional Jewish American lobbying groups. "AIPAC and ZOA [Zionist Organization of America] mostly represent older Jews, who live in a world where Israel is very fragile and is always afraid for its life," he says. "It's an old paradigm for an old generation." This leads these groups to separate themselves from the bulk of American Jews and embrace extremist Christians: "The AIPAC side is way, way out of step with Jewish opinion. And that is why they've turned so heavily to the Christian Right. Who is both pro-Israel and against the two-state solution? John Hagee. That's why he was at their conference last year."
Levy agrees that a fundamental change in direction of Jewish lobbying groups makes other voices necessary. "The mainstream pro-Israel camp has decided so brazenly to throw its lot in with neoconservative ideologues within this administration and with the far Right dispensationalist Christian Zionists, and this unholy triangle has pulled things so much to the right-wing direction that we are desperately in need of a corrective. And we're in a time when the Middle East is not some low-level priority that the United States can delve into or not. This is affecting Iran policy, Iraq exit-strategy—it affects how you look at the entire Muslim world and political Islam."
Further, Levy argues that a new voice is vital in America because the debate in Israel is changing. "Looking at it from an Israeli perspective, it's very difficult to trot out that line, 'Whatever is good for the Israeli government of the day, that's what American Jews, or Israel's friends in America, should be supporting.' The fact is, Israelis are divided today. If you stick to that old line, on one day you'll say, 'Settle the land, maintain the occupation.' And the next day, 'Settlements are bad, we need a two-state solution or Israel is finished.'" When everything in Israeli politics is up for grabs, Levy says, it's not good enough to say, "Look, you've just got to be pro-Israel."
The starting point, he adds, is understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the context of an occupation—one that places tremendous financial, military, and moral burdens on the occupier, Israel, and incites hatred and terrorism against America. Levy's critics respond that the fault is not with Israelis who are trying to maintain security but with Arabs who reject the existence of Israel altogether.
Morton Klein is one of those critics. The president of the Zionist Organization of America believes J Street is just another group ready to sell out Israel's interests. He asks rhetorically why they exist at all, when AIPAC "already says that Abbas is a voice for peace and already advocates for a two-state solution. What exactly makes them different? They won't tell you that they want one-sided concessions [from Israel]. That is clearly what they support. … We gave them Gaza, and what did we get in return? More rockets fired into Israel." Klein points to continued intransigence on the part of Palestinian leadership, noting that the Oslo Accords require the PLO to discontinue its incitement of terror. "Look at what they teach their children, in the textbooks." Klein chastises J Street for not recognizing that Palestinian political leaders hang posters that explicitly refer to the destruction of Israel: "Why don't they denounce this? It's every appeasement play in the book." He refers to one of J Street's supporters, Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Knessett, as a "traitor to Israel."
Rosenberg counters that smear tactics don't work anymore: "The AIPAC side has never met Palestinian leadership that they consider credible. Period. They always say, 'Well, what about the textbooks—that they're anti-Semitic.' What about this preacher who said this or that?' The Israelis have their crazies, too. But peace is made by the moderates."
Levy, who made his reputation trying to negotiate peace, also dismisses the call to panic at the appearance of each hostile poster or preacher. "The idea that an occupied people must first provide security to the occupier and then under those conditions you do de-occupation doesn't exist in the real world. That's being unserious about Israeli security. Yes, there is incitement. And yes, something should be done about it on all sides. But if you think that 580 obstacles to freedom of movement in the West Bank, the humiliation of checkpoints, and the expansion of settlements are not factors that incite Palestinians to consider violent approaches, but something shown on a TV station that almost no one watches is, then you are just not serious." Referring to Al Aqsa's children's program about a jihadi mouse, Levy calls this "the Mickey Mouse approach to fighting terrorism."
Ben-Ami is confident that J Street won't be smeared as "an enemy of Israel" composed of "self-hating Jews," noting that his grandparents were a founding family of Tel Aviv, that his relatives suffered in the Holocaust, and that while living in Israel he was almost killed in a terror attack. "Of course, Marty Peretz, Alan Dershowitz, the folks at Commentary and The Weekly Standard are going to take their shots," he admits, "but they're not going to be able to shout us down." Levy believes that confidence will be contagious. "I think other groups that care about this issue feel more comfortable expressing a sensible position on the Middle East when there is also a very credible and hopefully very loud Jewish voice saying, 'This is the most pro-American and pro-Israeli position you can take'… just like you can be a pro-American patriot and be against bombing Iran and staying in Iraq for 100 years."
But changing policies and a political culture that shivers at the word "evenhanded" will take more than confidence. One senate staffer who wished to remain anonymous pointed to the real clout of groups like AIPAC: "Look at John Sununu's race in New Hampshire." Pro-Israel PACs lavished $44,000 on his would-be opponent Katrina Swett, the daughter of Tom Lantos, a hawkish supporter of Israel. Now that Swett has dropped out, they will probably back Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who received over $72,000 from these same organizations to oppose Sununu in 2002. AIPAC also gave embattled Republican Norm Coleman $31,000 last year. If money talks, J Street will make its first peep when it writes a check to Coleman's pro-peace opponent, Al Franken.
One Middle East adviser to a GOP senator told TAC that J Street can make a difference even while it's underfunded. "If you are a junior staff member for a member of Congress or a senator and someone hands you something and says, 'This is good, and it will pass, and we'd like to have your support,' and it's a resolution that says the Six Day War was a great thing, it will suddenly have 60 cosponsors. J Street can be the group to make the other call and say, 'We can reword this to honor the soldiers who died, but also the people who died on the other side as well and mention that the issues in that conflict are still unresolved.'" These gestures may seem like a small thing to the average congressman, but "the people in the region see them as important signs of America's attitude."
Despite Ben-Ami's confidence that his background and the credibility of J Street's supporters insulate his group from the worst smears, it has already been called anti-Israel. Commentary referred to its policies as "paternalism" and charged it with "diplomatic fetishism." But Ben-Ami is unfazed: "We want to talk about the issues and a have a reality-based discussion. If you want to answer our arguments by calling us names, that's fine. But we're going to win the argument."


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DUBLIN, Ohio, December 14, 2011—FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), is now available as an experimental Linked Data service (http://id.worldcat.org/fast/) and is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
The FAST authority file, which underlies the FAST Linked Data release, has been created through a multi-year collaboration of OCLC Research and the Library of Congress. Specifically, it is designed to make the rich LCSH vocabulary available as a post-coordinate system in a Web environment.
"Linked Data" is an approach to publishing data on the Web which enhances its utility by making references to persons, places, things, etc. more consistent and linkable across domains.
The release of FAST as Linked Data provides FAST headings that support both human and machine access. FAST incorporates links to corresponding LCSH authorities. In addition, many of the geographic headings have links to the GeoNames geographic database (http://www.geonames.org/).
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With the addition of FAST, the universe of library-oriented controlled vocabularies available as Linked Data is notably expanded. OCLC has previously released Dewey.info (http://dewey.info/), an experimental space for linked Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) data, and also made available as Linked Data the VIAF (http://viaf.org/), a joint project that explores combining the name authority files of participating institutions into a single name authority service. Furthermore, the Library of Congress (see for example, http://id.loc.gov/) and several other custodians of important controlled vocabularies have released Linked Data versions of their schemes.
This release of FAST is the latest in a series of activities by OCLC to make FAST more accessible and useful. OCLC Research released mapFAST (http://experimental.worldcat.org/mapfast/ ), a map-oriented interface that leverages FAST to present library resources based on the geographic focus of the content of material and made available the FAST Converter (http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/fastconverter/), a demonstration LCSH-to-FAST conversion tool. Most recently, OCLC Research has updated its web search interface to FAST (http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/).
More information about FAST Linked Data is at http://id.worldcat.org/fast/. A sample record can be found at http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1112076. See the FAST activity page at http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/.
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- Slide show covering many of the requirements for the Inventing Merit Badge. Great for a Merit Badge clinic, or someone wanting to study for the Merit Badge or Inventing - PDF SlideShare
1. Definition of "Inventing" – Websters Dictionary -Wikipedia
1.a. Intellectual Property & Economic Growth
- Famous Inventions By Kids
- Native American Inventions: Adobe - Chewing Gum - Chocolate - Corn (maize) - Cornmeal - Hammocks - Hockey - Igloos - Kayak- Maracas - Moccasins - Popcorn - Potato chips - Salsa - Spinning Top - Tortillas
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- Famous Inventors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors
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- US Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov/
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3.c. Google Patent Search (keep hitting Refresh to see many famous patents)
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External links
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- Inventors Digest: http://www.inventorsdigest.com
- Free Patents Online: http://www.freepatentsonline.com
- Howtoons: http://www.howtoons.com
- MIT Invention Program: http://web.mit.edu/invent
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov
- Slide show covering many of the requirements for the Inventing Merit Badge. Great for a Merit Badge clinic, or someone wanting to study for the Merit Badge or Inventing - PDF SlideShare
Official References
- Scouting Magazine, Cracker Barrel article — June 17, 2010
- Scouting.Org, Inventing Merit Badge — June 17, 2010


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Ivory Coast: the fall of Laurent Gbagbo (part 2)
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Laurent Gbagbo has been captured but passions are still at fever pitch over the circumstances of his arrest, over whether he should be tried, and over the size of the task that lies ahead for his rival Alassane Ouattara.
- Mark HUBAND. Livingstone & Company Managing Director. Former journalist.
- Bernard MARK. France 24 journalist.
- Elizabeth DICKINSON. Projects Editor, Foreign Policy magazine.
- François NDENGWE. Founder, African advisory board.
- Germain YAO. RHDP Supporter.
- Corinne DUFKA. Senior Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch.


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If you pre-ordered a Nokia Lumia 822 from Verizon Wireless, rejoice! According to screenshots from Verizon's website, your phone will be shipping out tomorrow ... that is, unless you ordered a red HTC 8X. In that case, you can expect it in another week or so, on November 21. None of this is set in stone, however, so don't go blaming us if it takes a little longer. I went through the steps of choosing a HTC 8X in my region, Massachusetts, and got shipping dates ranging from November 15 to November 21. All of the Nokia Lumia 822s showed up as immediately available.
Verizon will be offering a pretty good assortment of colors for both phones. Both come in three colors: The Lumia 822 in black, grey and white, and the 8X in black, blue and red. Both are 4G and feature Data Sense software, which "tracks how much data you've used, how much you have left, optimizes your web browser, and helps you find nearby Wi-Fi hotspots."
Nokia's mid-range Lumia 822 can be had for $99 with a two-year contract and the flagship HTC 8X will run you twice that, $199, with the same two-year agreement.
Source: Verizon; Thanks for the tip, Julio!
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Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States, 90 miles by sea from Cuba.
I know this because I just came back from Key West and everywhere you go on that spit of land, signs remind you of how far south it is.
Strange, because it really isn't southern. At least, not what we know as southern.
Never heard the first "y'all."
Never saw grits on any menu and never heard anyone ask for sweet tea.
It had been 43 years since I was last in Key West.
It has changed.
Well, I take that back. Maybe, way down deep, beyond the shopping centers, condos and low-income housing, it is the same spirited, "anything goes" sort of town of long ago.
But, there is a definite touristy gloss and desire to accommodate the AARP species these days, an upstairs and back garden immorality available, but trying not to offend.
The afternoon we arrived, we went straight to our hotel, La Concha, down on the end of Duval Street. It is an old hotel with new plumbing and plush mattresses, seven stories tall with a roof-top terrace that offers a fabulous view and restaurant that enjoys delayed service. Lucky for my aged feet, it is not far from Mallory Square on the waterfront where like ibis coming to nest at the end of the day, tourists and locals gather to watch street performers untangle themselves from chains, twirl fire batons and generally do anything else they can think of to wrest a few dollars for their antics.
There are food and drink wagons at Mallory Square which to a Savannahian doesn't even vaguely resemble what we call a "square."
Freshwater Conchs, a name reserved for those who are virtual newcomers to the city sell genuine conch fritters and dispense exotic drinks usually found on Carribean cruise ships. One vendor brandished a machete to wop off the top of a fresh coconut for a natural culinary delight and lined in an uneven row were booths of homemade, handmade jewelry, photographs, paintings and assorted doodads.
Nearby a group wearing identical yellow T-shirts proclaimed they were members of a bridal party and the young ladies were encouraged to come to the microphone to sing the chorus "Daylight come and I 'wan' go home" as the dread-locked musician sang the verse.
One of those enormous cruise ships docked alongside the quay, spewed a steady stream of passengers.
It was a noisy, happy crowd of people, all ages, casually dressed, some pushing baby buggies, some sitting where ever they could find a place to plop down, some being ushered by a hostess to a reserved seat in a roped off area to be served hors d'ouvres and an expensive libation.
And everyone faced West, watching the sun as it slowly began its descent into the sea.
We edged closer and closer to the concrete railing at the edge of the water.
I'm not sure why. If you stood farther back, you could still see the sun set, and not be at all crowded.
Eyes glued to the horizon, I stood squeezed between a couple from Nuremberg on the right and a couple from Minneapolis on my left.
I aimed my camera hoping to catch a picture of the silhouetted sailboats and catamaran black against the orange and red sky. Would I see the famous green flash at the very last minute of the sun's gentle sliding away?
I dare not blink.
We have prettier sunsets here in Bluffton over the May River, but there is really is something magical about the soft and salty air of Key West, filled with the music of Buffet and Belafonte played on steel drums.
To all those Parrot Heads the world over, I raise my glass and celebrate that kingdom known as the Conch Republic and on occasion Margaritaville.
Annelore Harrell lives in Bluffton and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Two of the NFL's quarterback competitions have unexpectedly led to a pair of unemployed quarterbacks.
In Buffalo, Matt Leinart and John Beck emerged on the radar screen after injuries to rookie EJ Manuel (knee) and veteran Kevin Kolb (concussion-like symptoms). Now, Gil Brandt of SiriusXM NFL Radio reports that Leinart and Beck have landed on the Jets' radar following a shoulder injury to Mark Sanchez and an abysmal night from rookie Geno Smith.
Via Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, the Jets are bringing in both Leinart and Beck for a look-see.
Leinart, the 2004 Heisman winner, was the 10th overall pick in the 2006 draft. He finished 2012 as a backup in Oakland.
Beck entered the league in 2007 as a second-round pick of the Dolphins. He last played in 2011, with the Redskins; he spent time in 2012 with the Texans.
Buffalo's interest in both players means that JaMarcus Russell, the No. 1 overall pick in 2007 who has been making a much-hyped comeback effort, sits even lower on the call list for both teams.
In January 2013, a report surfaced that the Jets are interested in JaMarcus. The team quickly shot that possibility down. At some point, he could be their best available option.


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Quiet day today, getting ready for explosive news activity tonight.
Once the election ends, what will we write about?
To fill the void, here's the on-deck list for David's Book Club, in no particular order:
Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats
Michael Grunwald, The New Deal Deal
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Marcel Proust, The Fugitive
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain


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5 Essential Lessons for Recruiters Who are Eager to Fill More Positions
Struggling to fill those empty positions? A new report by Aerotek offers some helpful advice for recruiters.
Are you a recruiter who's battling to find new employees to fill position after position?
A staggering 3.8 million open jobs are up for grabs, yet 70 percent of hiring decision-makers say it now takes longer to find a qualified candidate to fill these roles, according to a new Aerotek report, Retain or Recruit. In July 2009, it took an average time of 15.4 days to fill a position, and by December 2012, the average had risen to 23 days.
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Retain or Recruit found three out of five employees would leave their current role for a competitive offer.
That doesn't necessarily mean offering more money, although that definitely makes an offer competitive. It could also mean offering wider and more comprehensive benefits, more vacation leave or opportunities for travel abroad. It's worth taking the time to find out exactly what job candidates are looking for.
2. Tempt candidates with training
Of the employees who were not likely to be tempted by a more competitive offer, the prospect of employee training and development was enough to make them consider the option.
It's not always about more money in the bank; young professionals in particular often prioritize their long-term personal and professional growth. That's why another way of hooking them is putting your money where your mouth is and offering to…
3. Provide the training
While every single one of the hiring decision-makers surveyed agreed training is important, only half have a formal employee engagement program focused on employee development. Worse, a third don't have a training program and don't plan to have one.
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You can't have it both ways! Yes, you should expect your new recruits to be ready for action, but if you don't invest in developing their skills and inspiring them professionally, you can't expect this to happen overnight, if at all.
Bear in mind that graduates may not have extensive experience in the workplace, but they are fresh, hungry and keen to learn, so capitalize on this enthusiasm and make use of it!
Amy Noble is a freelance writer, copy editor, proofreader and general grammar-obsessive living in London, England.
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Good post! I'd also suggest showing the value of your organization. What should employees expect? What are the perks of your company over others? Is there room for advancement or growth? These can all show why you're a great company — and a great company often receives great applicants.
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Sant Kirpal Singh liked to remind, "Men are related to each other like the different parts of the body. If there is pain in one part of the body, then the whole body seems to suffer. Man is the very image of Love; and a true man is he who lives for others."
From the very beginning of the project Kirpal Sagar, humanitarian help has been provided to needy people of the surroundings. In the course of thirty years, these activities have been extended to remote and deprived areas in the north of India. Parallel to the practical contributions, the understanding of the ideal of unity can help to remedy the situation from the roots.
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BASIC SUPPORT OF PEOPLE IN NEED – such as widows, orphans and couples from needy families


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It's late here on the East Coast. The day grows long into night, and I'm unwinding with a nostalgic, slow song that reminds me of college.
For me, Dispatch was and always will be a band that existed only in the early 2000s. The General, Out Loud, Bang Bang and a select few other tracks from their popular Bang Bang album are pretty much where my fierce, near-daily affair with the band began and ended.
Kind of like any college relationship, I suppose, but nevertheless it's always fun to jump in the wayback machine from time-to-time and reflect. [iTunes]
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