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It's important to know why you want to become financially free. This may seem like a "no brainer." After all, why would you want to be in financial bondage because of debt? Freedom from debt looks like the logical choice.
Nevertheless, your motivation or becoming debt free is important. Being released from the tension and anxiety of debt and being able to do what you want, when you want, might be high on a priority list.
But for the Christian, learning God's biblical principles of finances and practicing them in order to become debt free is actually a path to know Christ more intimately and be financially free to serve Him. This means, however, that you must trust God and be willing to submit to His will and direction.
We say we trust God, but there's a great difference between saying and trusting. Often we trust if it's convienient or necessary as a last resort. God expects us to trust Him daily, in all things.
If you're serious about becoming financially free, take these action steps:
Transfer ownership to God.
Recognize that God really owns what you have and that includes your family as well as your time and things. Recognize this biblical principle, or it will be impossible to free yourself financially. "The earth is the Lord's, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it" (Psalm 24:1, NASB).
Get out of Debt.
Break the habits that keep you in debt - like spending more than you earn and borrowing. Save so you don't have to borrow. "Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and turmoil wiht it" (Proverbs 15:16, NASB).
Accept God's provision for you.
God is wiser than you are, and He will provide fory our needs just as He promise. "Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?'" (Matthew 6:31, NASB).
Refuse temptations to make hasty financial descisions.
Don't buy into get-rich-quick schemes or be pressured to make quick decisions based on incomplete information. "The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, but everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty" (Proverbs 21:5, NASB).
Strive for excellence in all you do.
Set high standards for yourself and your family. Humility doesn't mean second best. "Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the utterance of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever" (1 Peter 4:11, NASB).
Seek contentment through your relationship with God.
A disconnected spirit produces greed and covetness. Contentment results from a proper relationship with God based on accepting the lifestyle that He has made provision for in your life. "I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both having abundance and suffering need" (Philippians 4:11-12, NASB).
Believe God's promise that your needs will be met.
Sometimes He'll do this through the abundance of others; however, He never promises to provide equally for everyone. As a Christian, learn to accept God's provision for you, because it is clear evidence of the role He has designed for you in His plan. Accept His provision without resentment because, "At this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality" (2 Corinthians 8:14, NASB).
(C) This was written by Harvery Nowland, a former senior staff writer with Larry Burkett and Christian Financial Concepts.


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I recently came into possession of 5 vintage baseball gloves through family. I loved playing baseball in high school and as a fan of the game in general, I want to know more about what I have here. Plus, I think they are pretty cool looking and would like to display them!
Other than what I can glean from what stamped on the gloves I am completely ignorant to what time period(s) these 5 gloves came from, what condition they would be considered to be in, if they are of any significant value and should be insured, etc.
Internet research has yielded widely varying info. Below is the information I can gather myself from physical inspection. I made an album on imgur.com, with and without flashes. Here is the link to the album - http://imgur.com/a/9lGVh (edit, updated album with missing photos of other gloves)
If you guys could share any knowledge, information and/or opinions on these 5 gloves, I would really appreciate it!
#1 - Appears to have been manufactured by Stall & Dean in Brockton, Massachusetts. The glove is stamped at the base of the palm with the number "8032". The backside strap has "Raymond Neil, 429 S. Grant 4369" handwritten in black ink on it. A possible relationship between the glove and an individual was brought to my attention; "Raymond Neil" could have a possible connection to Ray Neil (Sabr ID: 279a7333) who played for the Cincinnati Clowns in the Independent Negro League from 1941 to 1942 and for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro American League from 1946 to 1948.
#2 - I can see faded word and "Walnut" below handwritten black ink on the inside pinky.
#3 - "Grease-treated genuine horse hide", "GK MFG.CO.", "Ada, Ohio", and is stamped with the number "752".
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There's One In Every Family
Initially I had trouble trying to decide who to write about for this topic. After considering the options, I finally decided to write about my grandmother, Antonina (Bulak) Szerejko. My grandmother is the person responsible for sparking my interest in family history and genealogy. When I was little my grandmother would tell me stories about her parents, about the grandfather I never knew, about life in the Polish community on Vernon Hill in Worcester, MA, and about Poland.
A Very Brief Biography
My grandmother was born in a village in the former Lomza province of Poland in 1896. She was the second and last child of Antoni Bulak and Ewa (Kowalewska) Bulak. She came to the United States in 1897 with her mother and sister Helen. They met Antoni, who was already working in the states, and settled in the Chicago area. In 1900 the family moved to Worcester, MA where my grandmother spent the next 90 years of her life. She married my grandfather Adolf on February 11, 1920. My mother, their first child, was born at home in July of 1921. Two more children followed. In 1940 my grandparents moved from their Polish neighborhood on Vernon Hill to the rural outskirts of the city. Tragically my grandparents' middle child died in 1955 leaving three young children behind, and my grandfather died at the age of 64 four years later. My grandmother lived for another 31 years after the death of her husband and died at the age of 94 in 1990. At the time of her death she left two children, six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.
These are the facts, the important "when and where" bits of information we genealogists collect to piece together the details of a person's life. Pretty dry reading, at least to me. While the dates provide basic information they don't tell you anything about who she was as a person. They don't adequately describe the grandmother I knew--the vibrant, funny woman who loved gardening, was a superb seamstress, had a beautiful contralto singing voice, and was totally devoted to her family. Even though she died in 1990 I still miss her and think about her almost every day. My grandmother Antonina, or Anna as everyone called her, lived two houses away from where I grew up in Worcester. I spent a significant amount of time at her house throughout my childhood and teen years. During our time together, my grandmother would talk about her parents, about coming to America, about her youth, and about her life with my grandfather and their three children.
Family Stories Provide Clues to the Past
So much of what I've been able to figure out about our family history is thanks to her. The bits and pieces of information she included in her family stories have been important to me and to my research. Even when she was in her nineties she remembered life events in great detail. She didn't embellish. She pretty much told things how she remembered them.
One of her often repeated stories was how my great-grandparents, Ewa and Antoni, met while they worked on an estate owned by the Glinka family in the Ostroleka area of Poland. According to my grandmother, Ewa was chosen to live and work at the local manor house as a seamstress because of her talent for sewing. (For examples of her work see here and here.) The Countess Glinka liked my great-grandmother and taught her how to read and write which was unusual for a peasant girl in late nineteenth-century rural Poland. My great-grandfather Antoni worked in the stables on the estate. Ewa and Antoni met and eventually married. According to my grandmother the countess was godmother to their first child, my grandmother's sister Helen.
A couple of years ago, after several years of trying, I finally discovered the name and location of the estate where my great-grandparents met. I found an entry in my Aunt Helen's travel diary from her trip to Poland in 1937 that mentions the village of Govorovo. The name of the village, combined with the details of my grandmother's stories, led me to the Palac w Szczawinie in Szczawin, Poland. Szczawin is located south of Ostroleka and neighbors the village of Goworowo.
I initially looked up Govorovo on the Internet without luck. I eventually remembered that w sounds like v in Polish, so I tried Goworowo. I found a website which mentioned Goworowo, northeast of Warsaw. One of the nearby attractions listed on the website was the Palac w Szczawinie, the former estate of the Glinka family. I clicked, and there it was. I cried. I couldn't believe it. I actually found the estate my grandmother told me about all those years ago. One hundred years, two world wars, a Soviet occupation, and it is still there. Apparently the the manor house was taken from the Glinka family by the Germans during World War II. After the war the house fell into disrepair but has recently been restored and now serves as a bed and breakfast.
My grandmother's story about the Palac w Szczawine is just one example of how her stories gave me the information I needed to puzzle together the pieces of our family's history. I wish I thought to formally interview her before she died, but I didn't. My grandmother's stories are her legacy to me, to my son, and to our family. When I think about who I am today, I know a large part of my personality, interests, and joys in life come from her. My grandmother's stories keep not only her memory alive, but the memory of those who came before her alive as well.
So thanks Gram. Thanks for sharing your memories, your love, and your stories. Your legacy lives on...
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~ Bulak, Antoni (1868-19 Feb 1940)
~ Bulak, Ewa (Kowalewska) (1873-20 Mar 1924)
~ Bulak, Helen (21 Oct 1894-09 Feb 1985)
~ Szerejko, Adolf (11 Apr 1895-19 Dec 1959)
~ Szerejko, Antonina (Bulak) (30 May 1896-22 Sep 1990)
Photograph: Antonina (Bulak) Szerejko at age 21 (taken about 1917)
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The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics suggests that chronic low back pain is a leading cause of chronic pain. The total cost of low back pain is estimated to be between $100 billion and $200 billion annually. Much of this cost is related to decreased wages and productivity.
Studies suggest that discogenic pain, a painful degenerative disc, is the most common source of chronic low back pain. Unfortunately, there is no great treatment for painful degenerative discs and both conservative and surgical options often fall short in helping people with this issue.
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The early interim analysis of this study is promising. At six months out, a single low dose injection of stem cells led to an average reduction in back pain of 69%. Additionally, 71% were considered to be a "treatment success" as defined by clinically significant improvement in pain and function. Both of these findings were significantly better than controls.
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How would you say that a small additive category $C$ embedds (contravariantly) into the category of exact functors from a 'large' abelian $C'$ into abelian groups (this is something like Yoneda's embedding, but $C$ does not map canonically into $C'$)? My problem is that I do not want to consider all functors from $C'$ into abelian groups since this functor category it 'very large' (and I do not want to consider a 'larger universe'). Certainly, I can try to consider a limit of the corresponding functors from small subcategories of $C'$; yet is there a better way to deal with this matters?
Upd. Actually, my $C'$ is just isomorphic to the category of additive functors from $C^{op}$ to abelian groups (though this is not the way how it is defined).


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========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2178-1 April 26, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 12.10 Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software Description: - linux: Linux kernel Details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host OS. (CVE-2014-0049) Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles uncached write operations. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, or possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2014-0069) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.10: linux-image-3.5.0-49-generic 3.5.0-49.73 linux-image-3.5.0-49-highbank 3.5.0-49.73 linux-image-3.5.0-49-omap 3.5.0-49.73 linux-image-3.5.0-49-powerpc-smp 3.5.0-49.73 linux-image-3.5.0-49-powerpc64-smp 3.5.0-49.73 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2178-1 CVE-2014-0049, CVE-2014-0069 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.5.0-49.73
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Kristen Bell was born on July 18, 1980. She got the acting and singing bugs in high school when she joined the drama club and performed in class musicals. Bell even secured an agent, as a teen, for local work in the Detroit area. She went on to major in musical theater at NYU before dropping out in 2001 when she landed a role in a Broadway production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
Bell then made her way to Los Angeles, where she scored bit parts in television and film productions before winning the title role in the UPN series "Veronica Mars." Both Bell and the series received critical acclaim, though it was repeatedly overlooked at awards shows. The show eventually transferred to The CW, and was canceled in 2007 after four seasons. Bell continued to work with the network, however, going on to voice the titular "Gossip Girl" for the drama's entire run.
Bell played the lead in 2008's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which was her biggest movie role to date, at the time. Additional films that followed included "When In Rome," "Couples Retreat," "You Again," and "Burlesque." In 2012, Bell was cast as the female lead on Showtime's "House of Lies," which is currently in its fourth season. The following year, she and the "Veronica Mars" crew launched a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to fund a movie sequel, which was released in theaters in 2014. She also voiced the role of Anna in the universally-loved "Frozen" movie.
Bell was engaged to producer Kevin Mann before they split in 2007, the same year she began dating eventual husband Dax Shepard. The stars became engaged in 2010, but famously refused to wed until gay marriage was legalized. In 2013, a few months after the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down, Bell and Shepard got married. They welcomed daughter Lincoln earlier that year, and a second daughter, Delta, in December 2014. Bell is well-known for her activism, and started the #NoKidsPolicy with her husband to boycott media outlets that use photos of children taken by paparazzi.


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BTE TRYOUT THREAD #1You awaken feeling strangled, coughing and choking as you fall to your hands and knees. Your eyes open wearily - and you see nothing. Gasping for air, you glance about wildly, disoriented, and realize to your horror that you're in the middle of a vast, black emptiness. Terrified, you instinctively grasp at the void about you for something - anything - solid. You realize that despite the enveloping darkness, your arms glow with a strange light - suddenly you pause and rack your brain for any hint as to what's going on. The last you remember clearly is being sold to Tartarus Inc. You remember them strip-searching you, your last possessions taken away before the coarse-mannered guards threw you into an empty cell. Everything about it seems a struggle to recall - clouded and fogged as though a distant memory.
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Welcome, a cold, hard voice speaks. It's not the infamous SCAMPS of Tartarus - it's a woman's voice: cruel, hard, and utterly devoid of sympathy. You're wondering what you're doing here. Try not to trouble yourself about it.
A glow brightens to your right - in surprise and slight fear, you scoot back across the floor as you try to assess the new threat. A human form, dressed in a Tartarus jumpsuit, appears and crumples to the floor, choking and gasping for breath.
I'm so sorry, the voice says with an air that makes it clear her words are merely a formality. I understand that this experience is mentally agonizing. We're far from perfecting cryotech, you see, but you are here to help us correct that. You are our test subjects. If you ever want to awaken, both of you will cooperate. You've always cooperated with us before, so I have no doubt you'll do so now.
Your mind whirls. You vaguely remember being pulled from your isolation cell - you remember being marched down a hallway, blindfolded, cuffed and gagged - something injected into your arm. That's all you remember. Cryotech? That doesn't even exist...
Then it sinks in: You've always cooperated with us before. "Before???"
It's "brain maintenance," the voice explains in a resigned, curt tone, as though she's said it a hundred times. Cryotech has a tendency to leave one vegetative. Now, the both of you... make your decision, and we will begin.
The void hums, and shivers to life - six pale, golden hexagons of light appear pm the floor around you, spaced well apart. On each: a short paragraph of text.
You feel like you've done this before.
But which to stand upon? And who is this person next to you?
Illegal rescue
One of your best friends and accomplices is being held captive on a federal defense outpost in orbit around the moon Jimis A to await the arrival of a Mimir vessel. You've managed to get past the hangars - now do whatever it takes to rescue your pal. Your identities won't stay hidden for long.
Fleeing suspect
A major suspect in one of your recent investigations has figured out you were tailing him and fled into "the bad side of town" on Orthus Etienne V - specifically, a hideout for a major local gang, the Black Serpents. You're left with no choice but to follow him through and hope you emerge unscathed.
Terrorist attack
Walking through a busy town, you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a mass terrorist attack. Do you assist the terrorists, the townsfolk, or just walk away without choosing sides?
Fleeing vigilantes
Your small vigilante team has just finished tracking down a group of supposed terrorists... only to realize they were actually undercover government plants, and their backup was on the way. Surrounded, you need to escape - and will probably have no choice but to kill some of the cops to do it.
Governmental espionage
You're part of a rebel faction seeking to overthrow the government on a midworld planet - Elbacrow 8 - for unfair treatment of its citizens. You've learned that the government plans to purge a smaller district to send a message to the rebels, and have obtained disguises and entered a core government facility. Now you must learn of their plans - before it's too late.
Something different
You are thrown into a random mission without any idea of what you're up against. It may or may not suit your abilities and loadout.
A question mark dominates this particular hexagon.
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- This is canon, but your character does not necessarily need to remember it. You have the OOC option to have a mindwipe of the experience post-tryout/pre-campaign. Whether your teammate's character remembers the experience is up to them.
- This is VR. You know this, but your character does not necessarily know this. Whether your character can figure it out is up to your discretion.
- A spaceship silhouette means the mission is CASKET-based.
- Your mission selection is quasi-randomly assigned with a weighted algorithm that takes your personalities, stats, skills, and official loudout into account.
- On average, half your tryout points will come from the tryout mission itself. You are being judged from the moment the thread is posted.
- Each team will have their own tryout thread. Do not post in someone else's thread.
- Type in ((out of character parentheses)) in the tryout thread if you feel it necessary. No need to post elsewhere - it's your thread and no one else's, so you needn't feel bad about cluttering it up.
- There are no maps. As this is VR, it uses "fluid space" as REKT VR traditionally has - that is to say, if you imagine something is there, it may well be there (unless I say it isn't). In a forest and need cover? Say there's a tree next to you and duck behind it. This will probably work. Want a bigger weapon? Say you pick up your death ray from behind the counter - but don't be surprised if I say there's nothing there. Use common sense and don't try to cheat the system - and above all, ignore nothing that I say.
- To activate your choice, both of you must stand on your golden hexagon.
- If you die, that's okay. If you die within the first turn or two, that's not okay.
- Don't be surprised if I cut the mission short. I almost certainly will. These are not meant to be full missions - it is merely a sample to judge from.
- Asking for ideas from other people is completely permitted. Offering ideas is completely permitted as well - as long as you don't do it in someone else's thread.
- Poor performance of your teammate does not mean you do any more poorly in the tryout. You are judged separately.
- I will be judging a number of things, but can't give specifics without compromising the judging process.
- Have fun! If it's not fun for you, let me know, and I'll try to switch things around.


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Information: This hand colored engraving is from a set published in London in the 1860s by Fullarton and Company of London and Edinburgh. They were made to educate the general population in natural history. The Victorians were very interested in natural history and indeed many pursued it as hobby, for example collecting and studying butterflies, beetles and wild flowers.
Date: This is an original antique print dates ranging from the 1860s.
Print method: Steel plate engraving with original, hand painted coloring.
Size: Approximately 10 by 6½ inches (25 by 16cm)
Condition: Very good condition. The paper is creamy white and the hand coloring is well done and uses a beautiful range of colors. There a few faint specks of foxing on some of the prints.
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Eastbourne Sovereign Sailing Club is in the beautiful seaside town of Eastbourne on the East Sussex coast and is a family club, run by its members. Situated right on the promenade on the seafront, it is in an idyllic location and the sailing conditions are unrivaled.
The club is well known in the dinghy sailing world for its friendliness and for its strong organisation. We welcome new members and work hard to make them feel part of the club as soon as possible. We cater for experienced sailors and beginners alike and our members sail a variety of classes, including Laser, RS800, Spitfire, Internation Moth, A-class, RS400, Contender, Topper, RS600, Dart 16, and Pico. There are examples of a number of other classes as well and our club racing is very well attended.
The club operates a Training Academy which offers a number of RYA courses for both adults and juniors and across the ability range. We own our own training fleet, which consists of Picos, Laser's, Toppers and a Laser Vago, and our courses prove to be very popular. We welcome visitors to the club and have hosted numerous national championships and open meetings over the years. The clubhouse provides very good facilities, including a galley, bar, lounge area and changing rooms with hot showers.
Members enjoy numerous social events throughout the season, including our very popular "Sea Week" during August, when lots of people take some time off work and spend long days at the club enjoying some sailing or relaxing on the beach and in the bar!
We hope you enjoy looking at our website. Feel free to send us a message via the contact page if you would like any further information. Better still, come and visit us at the club! You'll be assured of a warm welcome!


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Charlie Gasparino reports that Morgan Stanley is in for some deep cuts on Monday.
Bloomberg is reporting 1600 job cuts at the bank next week as well.
None of this should come as a surprise. Morgan Stanley's CEO James Gorman has always made it clear that Wall Street had to downsize and that he wasn't afraid to have his own employees feel the pain.
That goes for compensation (down 9% since last year) and layoffs. The truly ugly year was 2011, when the firm was running layoff scenarios in the several thousands. At the beginning of last year, Gasparino (again) reported that by June 5,000 more people would be gone.
This falls in line with some dark predictions about what would happen all over the Street that we've been tracking for some time. When Detusche Bank announced 1900 layoffs this summer, Meredith Whitney swooped in and said it was just the beginning.
She predicted 50,000 job cuts and lower compensation across the board even though the financial meltdown was, at that point, 4 years in the past.
In the long run this is a good thing for the Street, according to Whitney. Banks simply aren't making enough cash to support the staffs they used to have, and shareholders aren't going to stand for banks that "over capitalized and sluggish."
That's what's causing the voluntary downsizing you see here (from Whitney, this summer):
"You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done. The basic bank model has, is, and will be attractive. It's just you're combining everything and undercutting pricing in one place and trying to make up for it, effectively having loss leading businesses... it's not a business that works."
Strong words — and then she really dug in.
"You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business."
When Detusche Bank made its announcement this summer, the company's stock jumped. Morgan Stanley's is creeping up as well.
The news from Gasparino's Twitter feed:


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Juvenaly of Alaska
The holy, glorious, right-victorious hieromartyr Juvenaly of Alaska, Protomartyr of America, was a member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries who came from the monastery of Valaam to preach the Word of God to the native inhabitants of Alaska. He was martyred while evangelizing among the Eskimos on the mainland of Alaska in 1796. His feast day is celebrated on July 2, and he is also commemorated with all the saints of Alaska (September 24), and with the first martyrs of the American land (December 12).
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He was born in 1761 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was named Jacob Govouchkin. In his monastic life he was tonsured and given the name Juvenaly in memory of St. Juvenal, fifth century Patriarch of Jerusalem. After becoming a monk he was successively ordained deacon and then priest, becoming a hieromonk. He lived much of his early monastic life in the area around Lake Ladoga in northern Russia near Finland at the Konyavesky and Valaam Monasteries.
In 1793, a missionary group eight of monastics was organized at the Monastery of Valaam, near Lake Ladoga, to preach the Word of God to the natives of Alaska. This group of missionaries was led by Archimandrite Joseph (Bolotov), and included four hieromonks including Juvenaly and Makary, one hierodeacon, Steven, and two lay monks including Herman. Their destination was the Russian settlement on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, some 8,000 miles away across the length of Asia through Siberia and then the cold Bering Sea of the northern Pacific Ocean. The group arrived on Kodiak Island on September 24, 1794, to an unexpected scene. The settlement was primitive beyond what they were told, and violence was commonplace. The promised church was not there, and the promised supplies for three years were absent.
While Archimandrite Joseph dealt with the leadership issues with Baranov, the leader of the settlement, Hieromonk Juvenaly and the others in their party began their missionary work. Within two years their zeal had brought more than 12,000 Alaskans to the Orthodox Christian faith. They did this not by degrading their former shaman based faith but by showing them that Christianity was the fulfillment of that faith.
As the group continued preaching further away from the settlement on Kodiak, Hieromonk Juvenaly began missionary work on the mainland of Alaska 1796. Here he continued the success of the past two years as he baptized hundreds of Chugach Sugpiag and Athabaskan Indians. But as his mission continued along northwest toward the Bering Sea, he disappeared. No material evidence of his disappearance has been found, but among the Alaskan people oral tradition relates of his martyrdom. The tradition is that as he moved into territory inhabited by Eskimos, some Eskimos did not understand some of his gesturing while making the sign of the cross. Disturbed, a Yupiat shaman ordered an attack upon the hieromonk, and he was killed by spears and arrows. Thus, Juvenaly became the first Orthodox martyr in the Americas, giving him the title Protomartyr of America.
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by Erik Hubbard
Milestones are something all people, especially athletes, would like to accomplish in their lives. Malik Garner, a 6′ 5″ junior for the CHA Blue Devils, reached the 1,000 point milestone on Feb. 11 against Penn Charter.
Garner joins the likes of Tim and Tom Whitworth, Paul Burke, Mike Gizzi, Nick Levine, Julian McFadden and more recently Gary Lawrence '09 in the 1,000 point club of Chestnut Hill Academy.
Malik, who transfered from The George School, where he played two seasons (he had freshman and sophomore seasons at George, and transferred into CHA as a repeat sophomore), scored 457 points at George and, through the final Inter-Ac game of the 2010-2011 season, has 567 in his CHA career, totaling to 1,024 points.
When asked about what this milestone means to him, Garner said it was an honor.
"It's a great milestone in any career," he said, "It's no easy feat, so to have accomplished it makes me feel like all of my hard-work is paying off."
Of course all the great athletes have had help along the way to shape their successful careers. To Malik, it's his father and his teammates.
"My dad spent hours teaching me the game, so I give him a lot of credit, " said Garner, "But I also know that I am nowhere without the guys by my side each time I step on the court."
While this is a huge accomplishment, he knows it is just a pit stop in what he hopes will be a long career.
"I feel like it's just the start of things for my career," said Garner, "I know I haven't reached my potential yet, but this milestone lets me know that I am on the right path, hopefully one paved with success and longevity."
Why shouldn't he feel that way? With a whole senior season ahead of him, there's no reason he can't reach the 1,500 club and other milestones beyond his high school career.


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EVENT DATE: Oct 16, 2011
Stroll, roll and help raise money for under-served kids in our neighborhood!
JOIN THE TEAM and help support The JCC in Manhattan's Stroll & Roll taking place on Sunday, October 16th in Riverside Park!
Funds raised from the Stroll & Roll will benefit the JCC's ACES (Academics + Community Equal Success) Program, through which the JCC provides full tuition assistance for after school classes to students who demonstrate economic need and show effort and improvement in school.
The first 50 people to raise $500 will receive a Britax B-Agile stroller, with additional prizes being awarded to the top three fundraisers!
To register your family for the Stroll and Roll click here: www.jccmanhattan.org/stroll.
The Stroll & Roll will be the FIRST-EVER stroller-encouraged charity walk in New York City consisting of a two-mile, non-competitive family stroll through Riverside Park.
The JCC's wide range of after school classes include sports, ceramics and robotics, just to name a few, and enrich the lives of the students who attend them. Guidance counselors and principals from the local public school with which we partner select the students who participate in the ACES program.
This event has been generously sponsored by Britax and Fidelity Investments.
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Michael Musser / Biola University
The emergence of an underground gay group at Biola University has led to a wide-ranging debate about Christianity and homosexuality.
LA MIRADA, Calif. -- On the same day President Obama became the first U.S. president to come out in support of same-sex marriage, a group of students announced the presence of the "Biola Queer Underground" at this small evangelical university, touching off a highly-charged debate about Christianity and homosexuality.
The group launched a website and posted flyers around the Biola University campus May 9 with the following message: "We want to bring to light the presence of the LGBTQ community at Biola. Despite what some may assume, there are Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender, and Queers at Biola. We are Biola's students, alumni, employees, and fellow followers of Christ. We want to be treated with equality and respected as another facet of Biola's diversity."
The emergence of the group, whose members remain anonymous, has shaken this 104-year-old Christian college in Southern California. Like many schools rooted in evangelical Christianity, Biola has a code of standards that includes prohibitions on sex outside of marriage and same-sex relationships: Sex is "designed by God to be expressed solely within a marriage between a husband and wife," according to Biola's student handbook, which goes on to say that "sexual misconduct, depending on the facts and circumstances of each case will result in disciplinary action."
With debate raging over the group and its aims, Biola President Barry Corey told students that the school has no intention of changing its policy to "fit increasingly accepted ethical or moral norms. In particular, we don't need to modernize or bend our biblically based position on sexual ethics."
The school also issued a new statement on "human sexuality" which calls same-sex relationships "illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian." The statement was in the works before the gay group announced itself, but BQU said it showed the "one-sided" nature of the conversation, with no room for those who believe homosexuality isn't sinful.
Chris Grace, vice president for student development at Biola, said the school would like to engage in conversation with the underground group but has been stymied by the members' anonymity. "We really are at a disadvantage here because we don't know who these people are," Grace said, adding that the university would "love and welcome a conversation with them and that's what we are hoping for."
But members of BQU, who would only comment for this story anonymously, fear that by "coming out" they would be punished and possibly expelled. They said they consider themselves Christians "first and foremost" and love Biola, and are not looking to create "a war" on campus, but they are looking to have an open discussion about what it means to be Christian and gay.
Eventually, Members of the group would like to "come out" and be open about their sexuality. "It's important to our integrity to not have parts of us be hidden even among the Christian community," a member said.
One of the members said there is a lot of guilt in the Christian community over homosexuality, but wonders if that guilt is coming from "God, the Holy Spirit or is that guilt coming from sections of the Christian society?"
Visit "Biola Queer Underground" to read members' stories
"Biola is probably not going to change their doctrinal stance for a while; they are going to have their theological stance being against homosexuality for quite some time, that doesn't mean the culture, doesn't mean they have to discipline openly gay students," said one of the group's leaders.
Grace dismissed the notion that students who are "struggling with homosexuality" would face expulsion. "I guess you'd almost call that a myth that students would get expelled for that," Grace said. Instead, Biola offers students an "open-door policy" to talk about their struggles and receive spiritual counseling. But he makes it clear that for a student who identifies as gay and is engaging in "gay behavior and unwilling to uphold our community standards we would initiate the dismissal process."
Debate about the group has raged among students and in the campus newspaper.
Samuel Smith, a cinema and media arts major, objected to the fact the members won't come forward. "If you want an honest and true discussion about what they're going through, I feel they shouldn't be anonymous."
Alexis Hughes, a biblical studies major, said the gay group's anonymity is telling. "Obviously, if it's underground, they know it's wrong and on some level they know they shouldn't be doing it"
Gabriela Cacanindin, a business major, was hopeful the wider campus would be open to hearing what the group has to say. "I hope that we are open to the dialogue that needs to happen... ."
But a female underground member says a true conversation is difficult. "I have sat in so many classes where we would have a conversation about homosexuality and I can't tell my story because I am too afraid of getting in trouble, so how is that a conversation at all?"
The group said they have received hate mail and they call some of the comments expressed in the school newspaper so painful that they had to quit reading it. One of them read, "If you embrace the lifestyle, you are at odds with God and scripture, and it is extremely doubtful that you are a Christian."
"We get questions, 'Why are you even in school, Why are you causing a ruckus, Why don't you just leave?'" one of the members told us.
Not discouraged, the members of the gay group say they are here to stay. And, they added, they have received plenty of support in the community and around the country.
"In some ways I'm shocked at how horrible people can be, but I'm also shocked at how wonderful people are too," said one.
They draw comfort in the fact that more Americans now support than oppose same-sex marriage, according to a recent Gallup poll, and are convinced that Biola will eventually "come around."
School officials already are looking ahead to next year, when Biola celebrates its 105th anniversary, and they said plans are in the works to facilitate an "ongoing conversation" with students about homosexuality.
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See salary rankings for leaders of Big Ten universities
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently approved to pay its next chancellor up to $522,000 a year, which would move the university from near-lowest to the middle of the pack among what other Big Ten public institutions pay their leaders.
Below is a list of what schools pay their highest officials, along with perks, when applicable. Northwestern University is private.
1. Ohio State University
President E. Gordon Gee
$834,530.04 base pay in 2011-2012 (Approved next year at nearly $860,000)
$1,992,221 in total compensation (next year will be $2.15 million, an increase in line with faculty and staff raises)
Has also expensed a number of pricey perks, such as tailgating events, parties at the president's mansion, and limo travel.
SOURCES: Columbus DataCenter, Dayton Daily News, Chronicle of Higher Education
2. University of Minnesota
President Eric Kaler
$610,000 base salary beginning in 2011
$50,000 in retirement funds annually
SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
3. University of Michigan
President Mary Sue Coleman
$585.782.89 base pay in 2011-2012
Coleman's total compensation package, however, exceeds $910,700. In addition to $175,000 in deferred compensation, a $100,000 yearly retention bonus and more than $50,000 in annual retirement pay; Coleman also gets the use of a car and U-M president's house.
SOURCES: University of Michigan salary database, AnnArbor.com
4. Indiana University
President Michael McRobbie
$533,120 base salary
$625,000 with bonuses
SOURCES: Indianapolis Business Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education
5. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leader: Ongoing search
Up to $522,000 base salary (current Interim Chancellor David Ward makes $437,000 and would not be affected by approved increase)
Perks include the use of a car, mandatory cost-free living in Olin House, health and retirement packages comparable to UW employees. The chancellor does not get a deferred compensation package that many other university presidents get because it's not allowed by state law.
SOURCE: University of Wisconsin System
6. Michigan State University
President Lou Anna K. Simon
$520,000 base pay in 2011-2012
She receives a car, country club membership, lifetime health care benefits for her and her husband, complimentary sporting event and performance tickets. No bonuses.
SOURCES: Michigan State University salary database, The State News
7. Penn State University
President Rodney Erickson
$515,000 base salary
Use of university car, standard benefits.
SOURCE: The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pa.)
8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chancellor Phyllis Wise (incoming chancellor)
$500,000 base pay
Standard benefits, eligible for $500,000 retention bonus after five years
SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, The Daily Illini
9. University of Iowa
President Sally K. Mason
$493,272 in base salary
Total compensation is near $650,000. Mason earns a $150,000 annual deferred compensation package.
SOURCES: University of Iowa salary database, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
10. Purdue University
Leader: Outgoing President France Cordova (current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to take over in 2013)
$475,997 base salary
Daniels' agreed-to benefit package includes unspecified retirement contributions, use of a car, cost-free living at Westwood House. Daniels has asked for a performance-based contract.
SOURCES: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Ind.), Chronicle of Higher Education
11. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Harvey Perlman
$341,053 base pay
SOURCE: Kearney Hub
Northwestern University (private)
President Morton Schapiro
$1,255,653 in 2010 (no publicly available records)


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"Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods…." -Genesis 3:4-5
Todd Friel is one of the staff members of Wretched, an evangelical radio and TV ministry.
FYI, televangelist and pastor Joel Osteen has a net worth of $40 million.
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So much has been said about taxes over the years, most of it negative. After all, who really likes taxes, necessary as they are? Everyone has an opinion, which usually boils down to the following: taxes are no fun. It's kind of telling that the most famous quote on the subject ("The only two certainties in life are death and taxes.") pairs it with death. Let's take a closer look at a few more quotes from some of history's most-quoted people, on a topic we don't usually associate with them.
Albert Einstein:
(on filing for tax returns) "This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher."
The man who came up with the theory of relativity (E=mc2), whose name is synonymous with intelligence, struggled with filling out his taxes. So you shouldn't feel too bad when asking for help. I can align with Albert on this one, as I went for assistance preparing my taxes, and my helper pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil to do a little math. Needless to say, that worried me a bit.
Mark Twain:
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
Mark Twain made his living through words. And like many people, he often felt that the government had its hand deep in his pocket. The tax man will take every last thing from you, at least the taxidermist leaves the outer layer for people to admire. Always the eminent humorist, Twain takes a shot at the tax man, who, I hope, in this case, is metaphorical. Arming the IRS with knives would make for some interesting audits.
Barry Goldwater:
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act."
I'm not sure if I've ever cheated on my taxes, since I don't really know what cheating on my taxes would entail. I'm allowed to write off my rent every month as a business expense, right? What about all those boxes of Twinkies that sustain me in my writerly pursuits? All kidding aside, Senator Barry Goldwater is implying that more people cheat on their taxes than commit any other crime. And since he has a really good politician name, and since I've lived with two different people who have never filed taxes, I am inclined to agree with him.
Benjamin Franklin:
"It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income."
It's nice to see that our nation is upholding the ideals of our founding fathers. Last time I checked, 10% would undershoot what I spend every two weeks (by a few percentage points). Taxes — then and now — pay for a lot of things we take for granted. So perhaps there was a reason Franklin was never president. Maybe his 9% tax plan didn't include police officers or public schools or anything.
Given these quotes, I bet that more people prefer death to taxes, especially teenage boys playing Call of Duty who have never paid taxes. At least it's a close race between the two.
Everyone ever has wanted smaller taxes, but everyone may not want to lose all the things those taxes pay for. I tend to agree with Einstein, and the others, on this one. Taxes can be super complicated. They cut into your earnings, turning those who avoid the inevitable into criminals. But in the end, taxes pay for the society we live in.
Here's hoping you don't get audited!
Kyle Ayers is a writer for CBS Local and KorkedBats.com, as well as a stand up comedian living in New York, Earth. Follow Kyle on Twitter @kyleayers.


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Brittany Kokoszka, a sophomore from Franklin, MA, meets a red-and-white milk cow in the herd at Saturday's open house for CREAM, a class of 25 UNH students who spend an academic year managing the 25-head dairy herd.
If there's one thing visitors to the CREAM open house learned on Saturday, it's that cows never take a day off – and neither do the hard-working UNH students who take care of them. Not for holidays. Not for snow. And certainly not because they feel like sleeping in.
But the students do know how to entertain, even in a dairy barn packed with cows.
CREAM (Cooperative Real Education in Agriculture Management) invited students, faculty, staff and the public to the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center for its open house on Saturday. About 150 people attended, and CREAM raised more than $250 for future events by selling burgers, hot dogs and baked goods.
Max Winn, 4, declared he wanted to attend after seeing a poster advertising the day. He likes watching the cows in the field near his home in Dover, but the open house promised a closer view.
"He's been talking about it all week," said his dad, Carl Winn. So Carl, Max and Max's twin sister, Kate, drove over from Dover.
After being greeted in the parking lot by Jasmine the barn cat, they grabbed passports from the CREAM students at the welcome table and began winding their way through the barns. A facility of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA), the Fairchild Center is known for its research as well as a popular place for teaching the public about dairy farming and agriculture.
The CREAM students wrote posters explaining facts about cows: that gestation is nine months, and that babies are kept in a separate room so the mothers can rest before returning to milking. Reading the posters and answering a question from the CREAM student earned kids stickers for their passports, and a full passport earned them a prize.
Kate and Max got their questions right, with a little help from dad, but they were skittish of the massive cows, even the resting new mothers.
Many of the CREAM students were perfectly positioned to help shy toddlers approach the animals. "Some of us were afraid of the cows, too," said Hana Krauss, a junior from Woodsville who wants to be a veterinarian.
Before joining CREAM, Krauss said, "I didn't know how to milk them, I didn't know how to feed them...It was really scary in the beginning. It's a really big responsibility, and it's just astonishing to me, I'm really happy with how our class has turned out."
Several other students said they signed up for CREAM knowing it would help make them desirable candidates for veterinary schools if they could say they gained experience milking and caring for an entire herd of cows.
Others, like Jake Harris, have more practical reasons. Harris will be graduating this month from the Thompson School's integrated agriculture program and going back to his family's farm in Dayton, Maine.
The program gave him new perspectives beyond what he learned at home. He learned as much about working with other people as he did about cows, he said.
"I got to go really in depth with the dairy industry, into the finances, breeding. It puts me right in to the middle of that. And it was really interesting getting other people's take, being able to work with a diverse group of people with a lot of different backgrounds," Harris said.
In addition to managing the family dairy herd, Harris will be leading his farm's education and outreach when the gates open to the public.
"It's shocking, but a lot of kids grow up not knowing their milk comes from a cow. If I can give people new perspectives on what agriculture is, then that is an amazing feeling," Harris said.
Mickey Cotter, 8, and Ben Abbott, 10, both from Dover, NH, practice milking a model udder at the CREAM open house on Saturday. CREAM students planned the open house to educate their peers and the public about farming and dairy practices. Mickey and Ben thought the practice udder was "cool," but quickly got tired of milking by hand.
Alex Abbott '96, grew up in Newmarket and often visited the dairy cows at UNH with his family, long before he ever thought about attending the university.
He now lives in Dover, and brought his 10-year-old son, Ben, to the open house Saturday.
Ben and Alex's girlfriend's son, Mickey Cotter, 8, also got to learn how to milk by hand at one of the demonstrations. Bending under the warm spring sun, they tugged and squeezed, squeezed and tugged on an artificial cow's udder as water splashed into a metal pail below the miniature wooden cow.
It was "cool" but really exhausting, they said.
That's the lesson Abbott hoped they'd learn. "It was always so fascinating for me, and I wanted them to have more appreciation of the hard work that farmers do, and a taste that milk comes from a cow, not just the dairy freezer at the supermarket," he said.
CREAM is a full-year class for about 25 students, who assume responsibility for a 25-head herd of dairy cows. The students attend lectures and work about four hours each week in the barn. It's one of only two such programs in the country.
Just a few minutes practicing milking in the sun was hard work, but it's not even close the work CREAM students do all year. Every day -- regardless of rain or snow, sleet or term papers due at noon – students trek to the dairy center to care for the cows. The first shift starts at about 4 a.m., with feeding and milking and mucking out the barn.
"I've given the students a lot of responsibility, and I find they really step up to the plate and thrive," said Drew Conroy, CREAM advisor and professor of Applied Animal Science at the Thompson School of Applied Science.
Taking on responsibility was part of the draw for Abby Geick of Bow, a pre-veterinary student majoring in biomedical science.
"Everything we do has a direct result in how successful our herd is. If you mess up, you don't get a bad grade – well, you might, but that's not the part we care about. We might hurt an animal, or the business, and that's what we feel more strongly about," Geick said.
The Fairchild Dairy Center, which owns the cows and has hosted the class as part of the NHAES/COLSA research and teaching mission, has benefitted from the students' labor for 17 years. The Fairchild Dairy develops new methods for dairy herd management through practical research. Some of the cows have special, surgically attached ports into their rumen so that researchers can reach in and take samples, monitoring how well the cows digest different feeds.
Other members of the herd are monitored for their milk output and genetic traits. All of the milk the herd produces is sold to Hood and processed in Concord, NH.
In addition to several hours a week of lectures and their chores in the barn, the CREAM students form committees to take on special projects. One group monitors feed costs, another maintains the facility and another tracks milk production, while an outreach and education committee planned and advertised the open house.
"We were afraid no one would show up, but there were a lot of people and they asked us great questions and were generally really interested," Geick said, resting in the barn's kitchen after the event.
The day was far from over, though.
Leah Caverly, a CREAM-er and second-year Thompson School student from Clinton, Maine, clanked open gates and clucked her tongue at the cows as she coaxed them into the milking room for their second milking of the day.
Cows, after all, never take a day off. And neither do the CREAM students.
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The Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, MI, has awarded its Certified Robot Integrator designation to Lincoln Electric, Cleveland, OH. Certified integrators (there are 15 to date) undergo a rigorous process that includes an onsite audit, safety training and hands-on testing of key personnel.
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The Best PG-13 Action Movies
List Rules Add your favorite PG-13 action movie to the list if it's missing, but only if it's the correct rating.
A list of PG-13 action movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers or clips when available. These action movies are rated PG-13, so if you want to take a more broad look at the genre, including all ratings, then check out the Best Action Movies of All Time. You can also find your favorite action movies that are streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
PG-13 action movies are basically your average blockbuster action movie at this point. These action movies are all cleaned up and usually fine for the whole family to watch. The "13" part of the good PG-13 movie is really dying because a lot of these movies, most of them now, are marketed directly to kids. But sometimes there's blood and people get hurt and here we are.
Anyway, this list takes the best PG-13 action movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG13 Action movie of all time is. This list of popular PG-13 action movies includes who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think your top PG-13 Action movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG-13 Action films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG-13 Action film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for. Maybe you're looking for a different movie. That's the great thing about PG-13 Actioners... they're great for (almost) the whole family!
If you're trying to find out "What are some good PG-13 action movies?" and "What are the most famous PG-13 action movies?" then this list is the perfect resource for you. Use this list if you're looking for some new action movies that are rated PG-13. Between Netflix, Hulu and other services there are thousands of great action movies rated PG-13, so get out there and start watching.
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Among those that have directed a Action PG-13 movie are Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner.


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Brazil's Census is way more technologically advanced than ours. This is pathetic.Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
It is a pretty pathetic and sad story when a developing nation's ability to integrate technology with governance far exceeds our own. Brazil's strategy saves massive amounts of both time and money. Yet, this is something that I've discussed for quite some time with regard to other nations, like Australia. Here's some news from Brazil which makes you wonder why more people who made decisions about the 2010 Census in the mid 2000s weren't fired on the spot:
The Harvard Business Review's Daily Stat for Tuesday, April 6, 2010, highlighted a disruptive innovation in, of all things, census-taking. According to the publication:
It's a national census of hundreds of millions of people across 8 million square kilometers, using a workforce of 230,000 and budget of $1.4 billion. The 2010 U.S. Census? No, it's Brazil's 2010 census. The current U.S. headcount, by contrast, requires 3.8 million workers and $14 billion. Census takers in Brazil use PDAs and laptops; those in the U.S. still rely mainly on paper. – Source: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatístic
While the United States tends to be seen as the technology innovation capital of the world, it seems we're falling down in "government services innovation." Doesn't the US Census fall under the administration's social innovation program? What other program is intended to have an impact on every single citizen of the US, if not this one?
On any corner of a typical US city, one can buy GPS-enabled, off-the-shelf, 3G-powered mobile devices, with local storage for data collection and Web-enabled connections to the back office. In short, the perfect mobile device for census collections is almost a commodity.
But it seems the US Census Bureau made the classic Innovator's Dilemma mistake of choosing the slow, safe (and expensive) player, while the consumer mobile world blew by.
The supplier in question is Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS), which started work on the mobile census project in 2006. It turns out that four years is an eternity in the modern mobile world, and Harris simply couldn't match the speed of the market with its own proprietary, custom-built devices.
In contrast to the US approach to having custom devices built, Brazil partnered with LG Electronics Inc. (London: LGLD; Korea: 6657.KS) , as noted in TechTicker: "Brazil will start taking its population census in the second half of this year and to ensure a smooth and efficient counting, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) has roped in LG to supply 150,000 GM750 phones."
The GM750 is ruggedized and comes with its own application; but otherwise, the core phone itself is a device anyone with $100 or less could buy at the corner mobile store.
You may be thinking, who really cares? Perhaps we all should. According to CNN, Hermann Habermann, a former deputy director of the Census Bureau, thinks that without handheld data collection via mobile phone, the government is missing out on a chance to get information more quickly and cheaply than through the mail.
The technology would also help to better identify which Census tract a home is in, which determines an area's representation in Congress and the distribution of more than $435 billion in federal funds every year. With GPS, according to CNN, the Census Bureau's Daniel Weinberg, assistant director for the decennial census, anticipated placing residences within a 0.5 percent error rate into the correct tract. Without GPS, the Census Bureau places approximately 5 percent of residences in the wrong tract.
Unfortunately, with the fallback to paper, the error rate is likely to remain, as is the (inadvertent) mis-distribution of funds. While a 4.5 percent error differential may not seem like much, when you're distributing billions of dollars each percentage point is quite significant in its effect on the local and state economies.
Lessons learned? Pay attention to the trends happening in parallel to your "normal" business and technology world — or you may find that your technological innovation has been disrupted by the fast movers you couldn't be bothered to notice.
Whether in private, public, government, or other spaces, look around, and you'll see disruption creeping up on you. Be aware of the technology environment and evolve! Or suffer the costs.
— Dan Keldsen is a Principal and Strategic Advisor at Information Architected.


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Fantasy creatures are not always the typical animal, or person that you associate fantasy beings to be. I know many of you have heard about almost every fantasy creature out there and then there are some of you that have not. You remember that lesson I did on how to draw a Cyclops right? Well how about I show you "how to draw lizardmen step by step". Now lizardmen are reptilian humanoids that are talked about with folklore, mythology, science fiction stories, fantasy stories and so on. Not only are these creatures called lizardmen, they are called reptoids, snakeoids, lizardfolk etc. In Greek mythology the first King of Athens was Cecrops I, which was half human and half snake. Not too much is known about these creatures all I know is that they are a part of the fantasy world. In the game "Warhammer" there are lizardmen that were used as slaves from the beginning of their time. So as you can see these amphibious creatures of old tales and folklore are always different for every creator of lizardmen. This tutorial will show you how to draw Lizardmen step by step and I guarantee that you will be happy with your results when you are done with your drawing. I made this character so awesome and lifelike it's not even funny. I definitely conveyed power and strength by sketching out such a strong looking, bold body. I still have to upload one more tutorial which means I have to go for now. I will be back so stay tuned. Peace out peeps and stay creative.
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I don't know how it happened.
I tried to prepare myself, I really did.
But I just don't know if a mom's heart is ready for this transformation:
Little girl, first day of school 2010:
Young lady, first day of school 2011
She's a foot taller, curvy and check out those killer shoes.
It happened before my eyes, but it still took my by surprise. I love this smart, fun girl who keeps me on my toes, challenges me to be a better mom and doesn't accept anything less. She's my first born and I'm falling in love with her all over again.
Sure, we still have our battles–mainly about her room, her room and her room.
But we're doing the tween dance: I'm learning to let go and she's gaining more privileges and we're both learning a lot.
We just shared the most incredible weekend together and while I won't go into details to protect her privacy, I wanted to share the curriculum we used, Passport to Purity.
It's an affordable curriculum (less than $20 for the whole thing!) that encourages a weekend getaway plan for moms/dads of kids ages 11-14 to talk about purity. It's a weekend of object lessons, long talks, and commitments.
We stayed in a really nice hotel, splashed around in the hot tub late at night, ate candy in bed and giggled. We ended our weekend with a (first-ever) fancy manicure (the girls got style) and a purity ring.
I know we live busy lives. I know that there isn't extra money lying around for weekend getaways. But I encourage you now, make this a priority.
It doesn't have to look like ours. But talk to your kids about purity.
You can bet, someone else will.


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One of the major complaints among those still enraged over the cryptic ending to Mass Effect 3 is that EA and Bioware essentially pulled a bait and switch. The company promised that players would be able to shape the story's conclusion to a degree that wasn't borne out by the final product. A blogger at the Better Business Bureau has now taken a look at those claims and determined that they actually have some merit.
BBB Northern Indiana Director of Communications Marjorie Stephens writes that statements written on the MassEffect3.com website "technically" meet the group's definition for false advertising. She focuses specifically on the claim that the game would let players "experience the beginning, middle, and end of an emotional story unlike any other, where the decisions you make completely shape your experience and outcome."
As Stephens explains it, the word "completely" in that statement turns in into an absolute, objective claim, leaving little wiggle room for interpretation. It pushes the claim into the realm of false advertising. She points to the group's code of advertising, which includes this admonition against superlative claims and puffery:
"Objective claims relate to tangible qualities and performance values of a product or service which can be measured against accepted standards or tests. As statements of fact, such claims can be proved or disproved and the advertiser should possess substantiation."
Over the line?
If this is indeed the issue (Stephens doesn't point to this rule specifically), I'm not sure that I agree EA or Bioware crossed the line on this one. For one thing, player actions throughout the series do shape which conclusion those players get to experience. Even if those conclusions are largely similar (Warning: video spoilers), there are some important differences in precisely how things wrap up.
For another, I'm not sure what "accepted standard or test" you'd use to measure this supposedly objective claim about the game's ending. I suppose you could argue this player control over the story isn't "complete" because the player can't stop certain key events from taking place, but the player also can't change the ending so that it involves Shepard riding a rainbow-colored unicorn while swinging a lightsaber at the Reapers. Truly "complete" control over the conclusion was only ever going to apply to the realm of fan fiction anyway.
While I sympathize with those upset by the narrative choices Bioware made regarding the ending to Mass Effect 3, I think it's a little disingenuous to suggest that players were actively misled about the game they were buying. Most of the supposed lies about the ending that fans have gathered from pre-release interviews are either subjective statements about the relative importance of certain events and the player's level of control, or the kind of "How awesome? So awesome" superlatives that marketing folk always throw out when talking about games pre-release. (The BBB's advertising code does suggest that "subjective superlatives which tend to mislead should be avoided," but try telling that to every developer or publisher that's ever talked about a game during a preview event).
The closest the quotes come to an objective lie, as far as I can tell, is Executive Producer Casey Hudson's claim that "it's not even in any way like the traditional game endings, where you can say how many endings there are or whether you got ending A, B, or C." Even here, though, you could argue that the wider ending, including the entire final battle with the Reapers, is dotted with little moments shaped by earlier choices throughout the series. You could also argue that community manager Mike Gamble's statement that "you'll get answers to everything" is a lie, but it's one that Bioware is already working one remedying.
In any case, a mature gamer should know that statements made about a game that's still in development are often aspirational and should always be taken with a grain of salt. The best laid development plans often have to be revised and thrown out as the actual street date for a game approaches. Being optimistic about how the final product will come together is not the same as outright lying about your goals.
In other words, smart readers should add the clause "We plan to..." in front of any statement a developer or publisher makes about a game that's still in development. Trust me, you'll be a lot less disappointed in your games if you do.


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The 4-5-1 formation: It's a tricky set-up. With two wingers playing a little higher than they would in a traditional 4-4-2 arrangement, the 4-5-1 allows teams to go down the sidelines with greater ease. This gives way to more crosses from the wingers.
Normally, a larger amount of crosses is a very good thing, but when there is only one forward on the field to receive the crosses, things become a little muddled. Should a team sacrifice a body in the box to create more time on the ball for its wingers? Or should it run a more traditional set-up, dropping the outside midfielders back a bit and playing the match with two forwards?
The Fire tried the second alternative in their first three games of the season. After posting a 0-2-1 record in those three games, head coach Carlos de los Cobos decided to switch things up for the team's fourth game. He moved from the 4-4-2 to the 4-5-1 in the Fire's Saturday night fixture at D.C. United and it worked for Chicago, which registered a 2-0 victory over their Eastern Conference rivals.
The formation change paid off in great part due to the play of outside midfielders Justin Mapp and Patrick Nyarko. Nyarko was a menace on the wing for the Fire, as he has been all season. He set up numerous chances—including the Fire's first goal—before going off injured late in the second half.
Mapp, who made his first start since Oct. 2 of last year, also looked good. He worked hard offensively and defensively, and his play led to multiple corner kicks for the Fire. Both players kept possession nicely and got up the field every chance they got. It was a positive aspect of a positive result for the Fire.
But before anyone gets carried away with grand notions of the 4-5-1 leading the Fire to future glory, it's important to remember a few things. First, it took the Fire 80 minutes to score on Saturday. And while goals—regardless of when they come—are effective, scoring them that late isn't ideal.
Sure, the team created chances in the opening hour and 20 minutes of the match, but they had nothing to show for them until Marco Pappa broke the tie. In the future, they'll need to improve upon their finishing if they want to repeat Saturday night's result.
Second (and most important), we must remember that the Fire's victory this weekend came against a very weak D.C. United team. United, who dropped to a league-worst 0-4-0 with the loss, had only three shots on goal in the entire match and looked shaky in the back. It looks like United are a team that will lose quite a few more games this season. Defeating them shouldn't—and won't—turn the Fire into world-beaters. Nonetheless, a win is a positive step.
We'll see if the Fire can repeat that result this coming Saturday when they take on Houston, which is a much stronger opponent than D.C. If they pull off a victory then, a real discussion about the Fire's chances at contending should begin to unfold.


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Hybrid Rice Helps Improve Rice Production in High Salinity Conditions
- CHALLENGE: Food
- INDUSTRY: Agriculture
- LOCATION: Mekong Delta, Vietnam
This two minute film looks at how a new hybrid seed is helping farmers in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam produce high-yielding rice crops in support of the regionally unique farming system know as the rice-after-shrimp method. By rotating their land between rice and shrimp, farmers are making more money and providing stability for their families and local communities.
The complication comes during the post-shrimp harvest, when rice yields are reduced to high salinity levels in the soil left by the salt water used to produce shrimp. Open Pollinated Varietal rice seed (OPV) are particularly affected by these unfavorable pH conditions.
We reveal how DuPont Pioneer worked with local farmers to introduce the PHB71 hybrid seed as a workable solution to the challenges thrown up by the rice-after-shrimp farming method. Pioneer® brand PHB71 seed is proven to have a high tolerance to high salinity levels in soil – even increasing yield per hectare by 30% - 40% compared to the OPV rice seed.
DuPont Pioneer
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d3web necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
An existing golf course web site is getting a much needed face lift. We have some ideas but need the design sharpened up.
Tioga Country Club
The Tioga Country Club is finally getting an updated web site. The existing site can be found at http://www.tiogacc.com.
They describe themselves as a "blue collar" golf course and are pretty laid back. This is not a course for the high society to hang out at, but more of a place for the average, everyday golfer.
A list of available photos to use in the design is available at http://www.d3web.com/tiogacc.
The client has a logo they already use (file available at the above site). It's not much, it's not pretty but hey, it's what they want.
The client has supplied a list of competing sites they like the look of:
- http://www.fallsvillagegolf.com/
- http://www.wildwoodgreen.com/
- http://www.millcreekgc.com/The client especially liked the look of the Mill Creek site above. We do not wish to totally emulate the design of that site or its rustic look but they do like the over-all look.
There is an existing main navigation architecture:
Rates/Tee Times
The Course
Specials and News
The Pro Shop
Golf Outings
I realize that is a lot for a horizontal navigation. Home and Contact can be moved to some other location if necessary.
No coding needed. You do the PhotoShop magic, I'll do the chopping.
- Deliverables will be in a layered PSD file.
- Clients are particular to a blue and white color scheme.
- Existing logo in the upper left of the header with a photo in the upper right.
- Horizontal navigation bar
- 790px content width, centered design (not centered content!), background can expand beyond on the left and right
- Page height will be variable. Remember that when putting in backgrounds.
- Semi-textured background
- No flash or flash suggestions
- No golf ball icons like on the existing site.


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They actually had it open on Sunday to climb up. There were a number of people climbing up and this guy with a fear of heights had help in getting the nerve to climb it. It was one of my highlights of the year since they closed it the next day. It was pretty wobbly up there on the top spire, but safe as those decorative wood was actually quite supportive.MacGlenver wrote:The naked guy that climbed to the top/center of the base of The Man on maybe Thursday. Totally harshed my mellow, yo. Everyone was screaming at him to stop. Thank god for quality construction -- he was literally hanging off a single piece of decorative wood at the very top. Would have fallen if it'd broken. We GFTO cause we didnt feel like seeing someone die, but we stayed outside long enough to see that they'd talked him down and someone was checking his vitals.
As far as asshats of the year, that guy who said he'd bring wine to the M & G and was a complete no-show. Oh wait that was me. Sorry kids, I'll have to meet y'all next year!! I'll skip the roller derby next time.