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For centuries, states have raised militaries to defend themselves against external forces and provide security for their citizens. However, over the last decade, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have grown in scope and importance to the extent that they have become a full-fledged industry, carrying out nearly all the functions and roles that militaries of some of the most advanced states perform. The dramatic rise of PMSCs has, however, raised issues pertaining to their regulation, control and accountability and the book entitled, War by Contract: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Private Contractors successfully tackles the intractable subject in almost all of its varied aspects.
In the introductory chapter entitled: "Policy Prospects for Regulating Private Military and Security Companies," the writer Eugenio Cusmano accepts that the private military and security industry (PMSI) is not properly regulated, and even cites critics who say it is "less regulated than the cheese industry." To him, the reason for the lack of regulation is that 'market for force,' in which the PMSCs operate, is huge and fragmented and has an inherently transnational nature which challenges conventional state regulation. In order to properly understand regulation one must look into the nature, evolution and the growth of the PMSI.
Although private military companies have been in existence for a long time, the so-called 'market for force' transformed and grew worldwide only after the Cold War. There are a variety of reasons for this change. First, the downsizing of major armies increased the demand for external contractors, as the strain on financial and human resources encouraged the outsourcing of functions. On the other hand, the growing use and need of advanced weaponry and equipment facilitated the rise of PMSCs. Then in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, the US Department of Defense (DoD) planned the gradual privatization of all activities not 'directly linked to war fighting.'
The need for PMSCs also increased with the rise in number of international organizations (IOs) and NGOs working in weak and failed states. As local and international forces became increasingly incapable of supplying the security needs and logistical support for IOs and NGOs, the importance and use of PMSCs gained in importance. Today, even foreign aid and humanitarian relief are increasingly provided by private businesses and non-government entities.
The rise of PMSCs was also in sync with the ideological shift produced by the 'privatization revolution,' following the rise of neo-liberalism. Thus, writes Cusmano: "The new ideological environment appears to have triggered a trend towards the commoditization of security, which is no longer a public good; security is increasingly conceived of as a commodity to be sold and purchased on the market rather than being exclusively supplied by public actors." It is noteworthy that the Iraq War of 2003, was famously defined as the first privatized conflict. As of September 2009, there were 119,706 DoD contractors in Iraq compared to 134,571 uniformed personnel.
However, the increase in private military and security activities has seen a rise in cases of human rights violations. Problems related to functional effectiveness of PMSCs in theatres of operations have raised a unique set of concerns. Firstly, PMSC personnel are only bound by the terms of their contract and not by the patriotic and humanitarian principles that bind soldiers of a conventional military. As these contracts are rigid legal tools they cannot be adjusted to meet the unforeseen operational requirements caused by abrupt changes in war-torn environments. PMSCs have often been found to provide personnel without the requisite qualification to perform their contractual obligations. These personnel function outside military chains of command which lead to problems of communication, command and control. In Iraq, this lack of coordination led to cases of 'blue-to-white fire' (friendly fire between uniformed and contracted personnel).
In addition, the author states that outsourcing has placed the success of military operations at the mercy of personnel outside the ranks, who have quit their jobs on many occasions without being prosecuted for desertion. In Iraq, some logistics firms suspended their activities because they found the local environment 'too dangerous'. Recent enquiries raise even more alarming concerns over the reliability of contractors: a US Senate Armed Services Committee—still partially classified—found warlords involved in illegal activities and some Taliban insurgents having ties with security guards, some of whom were using their access to coalition military bases to steal weapons and had planned attacks against employers. Thus, the PMSC personnel have often been found wanting in discipline and using excessive force, for they are not well-trained soldiers of conventional militaries. In fact, the US plan to win hearts and minds of the Iraqi people and to rebuild the nation faced difficulties. In the words of President Obama, the US "cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions to unaccountable contractors."
Cusmano also fears that "with their consultancy, training and lobbying activities, PMSCs may play a role in shaping the security perceptions and strategic priorities of governmental agencies, thereby gaining excessive epistemic influence over the making of foreign policy."
However, the expert proposes a multilayered approach to future regulation for the simple reason that a large percentage of PMSCs are not involved in combat functions, but deal with logistics as they cannot be brought under the existing legislation on mercenaries.
The second chapter by Nataliono Ronzini takes up the highly relevant issue of piracy and the way PMSCs could be used to fight against this "renewed plague of maritime commerce." The author argues that although international law prohibits the arming of private vessels for pirate hunting, there are no specific prohibitions against the use of security guards for protecting private shipping. Therefore, the expert avers that their use should be reconciled with the laws of the sea.
Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive survey of the applicable treaties and laws, as well as the main obligations that can be derived from there, particularly for states involved in the use of PMSCs. The following chapter focuses specifically on the role of the EU, especially in the light of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and in conjunction with the human rights jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. A keener and more incisive legal analysis follows in Chapter 5, where Francisco Francioni addresses the role of the PMSC's 'home state,' i.e. the state where the company was constituted. The main argument developed by the author is that the "nature of human rights obligations permits the construction of a general duty of 'due diligence' in the constitution and licensing of the company and its employees, as well as the licensing of commercial exports of military and security services to prevent and protect against abuses."
While Chapter 6 analyses the human rights obligations of the 'hiring state,' i.e. the state that contractually engages the PMSC for the provision of services, most of the times abroad, the following chapter deals with the issue of human rights obligations from the perspective of the 'host state,' i.e. the state in whose territory the private security or military services are performed. In a subsequent chapter, Guilani Pinzuata addresses the challenges posed by the increasing reliance on PMSCs for the supervision and adjudication of human rights violations committed in times of armed conflicts, and focuses on the potential role of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).
Chapter 13 of the book discusses whether PMSCs can be held accountable for recruiting children or for using them to participate actively in hostilities. Another chapter focuses on gender-related issues, especially women employees of PMSCs that have recently brought actions against their employers for sexual assault. The chapter also covers recent cases of female civilian victims of contractors operating forced prostitution rings.
The concluding section of the book delves into sundry legal issues and also proposes 'essential' changes. However, the book turns into a veritable tome of casuistry, to be perused strictly by legal experts. Although it is true that this technical tour-de-force presents a systematic analysis of the way in which international law may be interpreted and implemented to fill possible accountability gaps when it comes to the functions of the PMSI, its sheer brilliance would make it the sole labor of love for scholars and students of international human rights law.


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Nursing Careers Beyond the Bedside
Cindy Mehallow | Monster Contributing Writer
Quality Improvement
"Is there a better way of doing this?" Nurses involved in quality improvement constantly ask that question as they review a health care institution's methods and processes. Their work is evidence-based and outcome-focused. By studying patient populations, they analyze systems to determine how to correct problems and improve quality of care. In short, they strive to prevent future problems by studying past mistakes.
Employers commonly look for a bachelor's degree in a health care field and possibly a master's. "Many facilities don't require certification or even realize that it's available," says Joan Boldrey, RN, MEd, MS, a certified professional in health care quality (CPHQ). Employers that do know about certification consider it "the gold standard," says Boldrey, senior market medical expense management specialist for UnitedHealthcare in Urbandale, Iowa, and a board member of the Healthcare Quality Certification Board, which oversees CPHQ testing.
Risk Managers
Closely tied to quality improvement, risk managers also search for the root causes of mistakes to help improve systems and processes. With the upsurge in medical malpractice suits, opportunities for risk managers are increasing at hospitals, insurance companies, ambulatory-care surgical centers, long-term-care facilities and home-care companies.
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Working with top medical and administrative staff members, risk-management nurses review patient records before and after lawsuits are filed. These pressure-cooker jobs require immense patience, tact and political savvy plus excellent communication and writing skills. "Risk managers need to be leaders with good conflict-resolution skills," says Kenneth Nanni, PhD, program director of the health care risk-management certification program at the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center.
Most risk-management nurses hold at least a bachelor's degree and risk-management certification, which is available from the American Hospital Association Certification Center, the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians and colleges, such as the University of South Florida.
Other Options
Experienced nurses can fill these other nonclinical positions typically found in hospitals:
• Chart Auditors: Financial chart auditors review patient charts after discharge to ensure appropriate documentation for proper billing and coding. Others work in quality management.
• Patient Advocates: Working on the customer-service front lines, patient advocates handle patient complaints.
• Mentors or Preceptors: More and more hospitals are creating formal positions for experienced nurses to guide new nurses through that critical first year on the job.
This article was originally published on Monster.com.

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text: Coming-of-age tales are a Hollywood standard, so why not kick up some dust in the dramatic subgenre with a little magic? The sophomore feature film from writer and director J.D. Dillard tells the story of a young street magician named Bo whose side hustle is selling drugs so he can earn enough money to take care of his little sister (played by Storm Reid, whom we will soon see a lot more of in A Wrinkle in Time). But when Bo decides he wants to leave the life of crime behind, his dealer doesn't take kindly to the news and things turn violent, leaving the young illusionist to use his unique set of skills to protect himself and his loved ones. Sleight premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival, and has been receiving strong praise, not least of all for the great lead turn by Jacob Latimore, and the impressive way Dillard pulled off the visual effects on a tight budget. The movie has been getting compared to Josh Trank's excellent lo-fi superhero movie Chronicle from 2012, and we suspect that has to do with cool tricks like this.


text: SAWYER - Lorraine Narcissa Nelson, 81, died at 8 p.m. Sunday in Lakeland Specialty Hospital, Berrien Center, after an illness. Survivors include a daughter, Susanne Heumann of Park City, Utah; a son, Roger Lovett of Sawyer; a stepdaughter, Rose Zielke of Bridgman; a stepson, Richard Nelson of Carol Stream, Ill.; and a brother, Wallace Berg of St. Paul, Minn. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Feb. 25 in First Church of God, St. Joseph. There will be no visitation. Boyd-Pike Funeral Home, Bridgman, is handling arrangements.


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My kidney stone seeking surgeon went in through my out door yesterday, but was unable to get the scope all the way into the target zone, and so I am left with a stent in place for a week that will open things up and give him a clean shot at these mini asteroids.
In the meantime it seems that I'm fine, but I'm not going to be good for much more than lying around stinging and aching. At least for awhile…
And for the record the outpatient folks at St. Lukes Hospital were just great, and I loved having family all around before and after. Rev. Do-on is doing an amazing job taking care of me AND Isabella today as they both make their way to Cleveland for what I think is the final infusion for the next 6 months.
And Do-on has a strained ankle in the mix! No fair…
Each Sunday we recite the 5 remembrances, one of which is:
"I am of the nature to have ill health, there is no way to avoid having ill health."
This can seem a bit pessimistic, or obvious, or many other things to visitors I'm sure, but for me it is an inoculation against unnecessary bruising of myself and others caused by unhelpful twists and turns in reaction to reality.
The pain in the side is at this point unavoidable, but mentally twisting myself in knots on account of it is not. We experience ill health, it happens – to ALL of us.
Another thing that this remembrance affords is a corrective to the 'blame the victim' response.
In the wake of difficulty, helpful advice is always helpful and generally welcome, and that's not the same thing as the egos subtle inclination to wrap up the difficult aspects of reality in a pretty bow with the tag on it saying something to the effect of 'this illness is their fault, nothing like this can happen to me because I know better."
As best I can tell, illness comes from genetics, lifestyle, and chance, in a more or less equal mix.
So, of course its wise to educate ourselves as best we can, and take whatever steps make the most sense to us with our health. And if we've learned a helpful thing it can be life improving to pass it that knowledge along to be sure.
But, all the right foods, mind body process and hospital procedures going won't bend reality to our will. Not really.
The cosmos is filled with beginnings, maturings, wanings and endings. The trees, my farmhouse, the cloud beaming in the middle of the perfectly blue sky out the window right now. Even planets and stars, and galaxies and the universe itself as far as we can tell (I love all we are discovering about the past of Mars, don't you?).
So perhaps at odds with our first glance take with the line "I am of the nature to have ill health, there is no way to avoid having ill health" this remembrance of the Buddha is not at all encouraging us to just give up.
It is not the cop out of "we are all gonna get sick so who cares."
Instead I find in this remembrance an invitation to intimacy.
Intimacy with life, with reality.
My life and reality.
Your life and reality.
The life and reality of the cosmos itself actually.
And within this intimacy – with all of its light and dark – there is the possibility of true freedom, and true joy, and the possibility of living ones life in a way that is of some use in the world that we live in everyday. Including that sudden diagnosis and its most unwelcome consequences.
So lets deeply listen to and really play our lives as they really are.
Play our illnesses and our deaths, as well as our triumphs and victories, light and dark, great and small, as well as that life of no life, the illness of no illness and death of no death.
Let us lean into them and feel whats there, and not be afraid.
But if we are afraid that's ok too…
And with that, I can no longer put off the call to make yet another dreaded trip to the potty – this stings! Ouch!


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A WELSH student was still fighting for his life in hospital last night after he became trapped in a lift shaft in a "tragic accident" at a university hall of residence.
The family of Andrew Tucker, 19, a first year undergraduate at Reading University, were said to be at his bedside.
His father Patrick, from Penylan, Cardiff, is an inspector with South Wales Police
The accident happened at Sibly Hall - an isolated hall of residence in Redhatch Drive, Reading, around 10 minutes' walk from the university's main campus, at 11pm on Saturday night.
Andrew suffered multiple injuries to his shoulders and upper body and was rushed to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are leading an investigation into the accident, with the support of Thames Valley Police.
Tony MacFadyen, the warden of Sibly Hall, said the accident was not the result of a student prank nor was there any "foul play" involved.
He said he could not comment on exactly what had happened until the HSE had finished its investigation, but described it as a "tragic accident".
"The university takes safety very seriously indeed and we have a very good safety record," he said.
"We are therefore taking this matter very seriously and our thoughts are with the student and his family.
"We are co-operating fully with the police and the HSE to ensure that something like this can never happen again."
Mr MacFadyen said the hall's 300 student residents were very upset at what had happened.
"The students are very concerned for their friend. Some of them are clearly upset but they are coping very well," he said.
"They are being a great support to each other and the university is offering them counselling to help."
The lifts at the hall have been sealed off while the HSE carries out its investigation, which is expected to last several weeks.
A spokesman for the HSE said a mechanical engineer would be visiting the site this week.
"We have started our investigation," he said.


text: BAGHDAD, Iraq -- With the trial of Saddam Hussein set to begin in earnest today under extraordinary security, police said Sunday that they had foiled a plot to kill the chief investigating judge in the case. The proceedings against Saddam, which started Oct. 19 and were suspended the same day, will go forward amid daily reminders of the turmoil that has followed his removal. Four aid workers, including two Canadians, have been kidnapped, the Canadian government announced Sunday. The Canadian Foreign Ministry did not identify the two or give any details of the kidnapping. The other two victims were widely reported to be an American and a Briton, but U.S. military officials said they had no reports of an American being kidnapped. Police in the northern city of Kirkuk said they had arrested 10 men who had prepared car bombs and had written instructions from a former top deputy to Saddam to kill the judge who led the preparation of charges against the former dictator. The arrests were made Saturday in a pre-dawn raid on a house near Kirkuk. Plainclothes policemen who stormed the house found a link between Saddam's former security apparatus -- the arrested men were identified as agents in the former government -- and al-Qaida in Iraq, the insurgent group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to police Col. Anwar Qader Mohammed in Kirkuk. One of the arrested men was the son of a al-Zarqawi deputy. Among literature and instructions from al-Zarqawi's group, Mohammed said, police also found a letter and statements apparently prepared by Izzat Ibrahim Douri, Saddam's former vice president. Ibrahim is said to be leading resistance to Iraq's new government by Saddam loyalists. He ordered the group to kill the trial's chief investigating judge, Raeed Juhi, according to Mohammed. The group also planned to set off bombs at crowded traffic circles in Kirkuk to distract from the opening of the trial, according to Mohammed. Today, Saddam and seven co-defendants will be brought to a secret courtroom inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad to hear the first testimony against them five weeks after their initial appearances in court. They are charged with ordering the executions of 148 men from the Shiite town of Dujail, where Saddam's motorcade came under fire from a grove of trees near the town in 1982. The trial has been jeopardized by threats and attacks. Two attorneys for Saddam's co-defendants have been killed and another fled Iraq for his safety. The defense attorneys agreed to resume work only after the U.S. and Iraqi governments promised to increase security around them. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Najeeb Nauimi, a former justice minister of Qatar, announced Sunday that they were going to Baghdad to help in the defense of Saddam.


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Friday, August 28, 2009
Sailing the Open Sea
Sea of Poppies by Indian author Amitov Ghosh is a very weird and wonderful book--weird because this epic saga spends most of its pages building a cast of oddly interconnected characters, and wonderful because these numerous characters are the most colorful and intriguing ones I have ever met. I will admit that it is difficult to keep them all straight. There are many, and they have unusual names (to this American, English-speaking reader anyway) that simply do not roll off the tongue. But they are incredibly well drawn, unique, endearing (some), and appalling (others). The language had me laughing out loud at times--some of the characters speak a language that is a rough combination of English, shipboard slang, and probably some Farsi or Bengali or Bhurundi thrown in. Even if you don't understand the exact words, you know exactly what they meant to say by the context. This author is very skilled at dialogue and at helping you understand what is going on, even if the character is speaking nonsense. The story begins upriver from Calcutta, at the beginning of a journey of the sailing ship the Ibis and takes us down the Ganges and out to the open sea. The Opium Wars have begun, so the Ibis is substituting its normal load of opium with a different cargo this time--coolies to work the plantations on the Mauritius Islands, and convicts to be interred at the prison at Port Louis. I waited to read this book for a long time, because apparently the publisher could not keep up with the demand. The author intends this to be the first in a trilogy, the Ibis trilogy, and I simply can't wait for the next one. I won't give away the ending, but when it comes, you will slam the book shut and immediately call your local librarian to see when the second in the series is coming out. I'll save you that step and tell you: October 2010.
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The mathematicians—5,130 of them, at last report—are in New Orleans this weekend. The occasion is the annual joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (with participation from several other organizations). When the same group met here six years ago, the influx of 5,000 mathematicians added 1 percent to the city's population. Now it's probably about 2 percent.
Over the next few days I'm going to write up some brief notes about a few of the talks I've heard here, and post some observations on the city itself. I've also set up a Flickr stream for photographs made on this trip, both in New Orleans and on the road to and from. See the pictures here.
For now, just one quick note on city geography.
The founders of New Orleans laid out a rectilinear grid of streets aligned parallel and perpendicular to the Mississippi River; in the map above the original grid is the section marked Vieux Carré. As the city expanded both upriver and downriver, the planners had a problem: The river is anything but straight. The solution they chose was a patchwork of locally rectilinear lattices with discontinuities between them. I am particularly conscious of the discontinuities because the route from my hotel to the meeting site crosses one of them, between the Vieux Carré and the Faubourg Marigny. (In the map above, my hotel is at the position of the green marker, and most of the meeting events are at the red marker; the route shown is the one suggested by Google Maps.) When I first looked at the map, I thought the street pattern offered me a stroke of good fortune. If the entire city had been ruled according to the grid in the neighborhood of my hotel, I would have had a much longer walk; the 45-degree bend at Kerlerec Street allows me to take a diagonal shortcut for much of the trip. But then I reflected that if the Vieux Carré grid had been adopted everywhere, my walk would have been even shorter.
In this particular case, the route proposed by Google looks like an optimal one; that is, if we ignore certain oddities induced by one-way streets, there is no other path that would be significantly shorter. But, more generally, how does one find the best route through a grid with discontinuities? Within any one section of the grid, distance is measured by the Manhattan metric (s = x + y), and all reasonable paths are equivalent. (A path is reasonable if it stays within the smallest rectangle enclosing the origin and destination and if it never moves away from the destination.) Thus the problem comes down to choosing the point along the line of discontinuity where you cross over from one grid to the other. What is the rule for choosing the best crossover point? Is it unique or are there multiple equivalent points?
Update 2007-01-09. This is in response to Stephan Mertens' suggestion in the comment below. His proposal to choose the crossing point nearest to where a straight line intersects the boundary is doubtless excellent practical advice, useful for navigating in the real world. But we're talking mathematics here, and usefulness in the real world has nothing to do with it. Does Mertens' method always produce the mathematically optimal path?
Consider the continuous case—the limit you reach as the lattice spacing goes to zero. What you have then are two anisotropic media where speed varies with direction; in the worst case you are slowed down by a factor of √2. Does the straight-line heuristic work in this case? I think not. The situation is similar to (but a little more complicated than) the description of a light ray traversing a boundary between two media that differ in index of refraction. Light bends at such a boundary, following the path that minimizes the total travel time.
Going back to the discrete-lattice case, it's not quite clear (to me, at least) how to apply the continuum solution, because the problem itself is not very clearly stated. If the two lattices have the same spacing but different orientations, then they are incommensurable, and adjustments of some kind have to be made all along the boundary. In the real New Orleans street grid, this is done in an ad hoc way; note, for example, that Bourbon Street disappears when you leave the Vieux Carré. Any precise statement of the problem would have to say just how the grids are joined, and that gets messy. Nevertheless, I offer the example below for consideration.
Here we want to navigate between the red points. The straight-line heuristic appears to recommend crossing the boundary at the blue point, but there are shorter paths via the green point.
Update 2007-01-12. After further forthing and backing, Stephan Mertens and I have agreed not to disagree about this issue. In order to avoid the messy problem of drawing streets to connect unaligned lattices, Mertens makes the civilized suggestion that we build a park in the interstices, like so:
Within the park, a walker is freed from the constraints of the lattice and can follow any Euclidean path. In the case shown above, either the green or the yellow path (or many others) would be allowed. Mertens writes:
For this simple model one can write down the distance between a point in the left and a point in the right grid, as a function of the transition points where the walker enters or leaves the transition region. It is most convenient to use different coordinate system in the grids: Both have (0,0) at the point where the grids touch and increase y moving upward and x moving away from the crack. Note that the y coordinate of the transition point can vary continously since the walker may decide to leave the grid everywhere on the street that runs along the crack.
The resulting function can be plotted with Mathematica; apparently the minimum is unique, and a strategy that seems to be not too far off (this time I am cautious with my claims!) is to pass the through the park using the two gateways that have the y coordinates of source and target. In other words: Run all the way straight in each grid to reach the transition region.
There are cases where the run-straight-to-the-park strategy differs substantially from the procedure of drawing a straight line from origin to destination. The example below (where the yellow path is shorter than the red one) offers a template for generating street grids in which the penalty for choosing the straight-line path becomes arbitrarily large.


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Every writer needs writing help at some point, whether it be for ideas, grammatically, inspiration, etc. This article will deal with how to become inspired and how to create new ideas and fresh perspectives from everyday life. As a freelance writer for a major newspaper and a blogger I need to constantly be coming up with 4-6 new article ideas each week. Over the years I have learned many ways to ensure I will be inspired enough to get my creative juices rolling, and I would like to share these ideas with you.
One of the things I have learned over the years is that in order to become inspired, you need to step outside of your routine and/or your comfort zone. Here are some ways to do this:
- Visit the bookstore and bring a small notepad and pencil. Begin in a section that has nothing to do with what you write about. This could be the children's section or science fiction. Stretch your mind by perusing several books that catch your eye. Check out the beginning of the store with all of the new books and authors; get yourself in touch with what people are publishing today, and what the hot topics are. Then visit the section of the bookstore that has to do with your subject matter.
- Do a subject area search on Amazon.com or at a bookstore, and read the titles of books in your industry. This is sure to get your juices rolling.
- Pick a few random words out of the dictionary, and write them on a whiteboard or blank sheet of paper (one per page). Free Associate with these words: whatever enters your mind first, write it down. Then write the next thought down, and the next thought, and keep going until you have no idea how you got to that point. It is important to be non-judgmental when doing this activity, and to literally write down wherever your mind takes you.
- Search for any new white papers or studies in your area of writing. What are the trends? What did the author leave out? Is there an area in the article that was out of the scope for that article, but that could branch off and become an article on its own?
- Websites that spit out random writing prompts are useful to stretch your mind and creativity.
- Visit an art museum, a place that has nothing to do with words but tells a story visually alone. Make sure to bring a notepad and pen for when your ideas and associations come flying out.
- Read the blogs and articles of your colleagues and other people in the area you want to write. You will undoubtedly come up with a few ideas.
- Write somewhere out of your routine. If you typically write at home, go to a coffee shop, a library, the park, or in a different room. Change the angle of your desk or location so that you have a different view. Change the time of day that you normally write from morning to the nighttime, or vice versa.
- Keep a pad of paper and a pencil with you at all times, even while going to the movies or watching television. You'll be amazed at the thoughts and ideas that you have while watching other things.
- State a problem outloud, and wait for your subconscious to come up with a solution. For instance, if you don't know what to write next, or where to go in your story next, state that outloud. Your new idea could come at anytime, like in the shower, or even in your dreams (I always sleep with a pad of paper next to my bed).
- Go to an author's reading, or a lecture.
- Sign up for a writer's group.
- Travel.
- Exercise.
- Experiment in your life, and write about your experiments. Decide to use only coupons for a month and write about this experience. Decide to live like a hermit for six months and write some articles about this. The sky is the limit, and the more creative, the more passionate you will be about it and the more interesting it will be to others.


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The NewsHour Health team recently looked at the challenges students with learning differences face as part of our ongoing American Graduate series.
Join us for a live chat Friday, March 30, at 2 p.m. ET right here with some of the people featured in our reports (participants subject to change):
– LeDerick Horne, who struggled with a vaguely diagnosed "neurological impairment" for much of his education until college. Now, Horne is a poet and motivational speaker. He also sits on the board of Project Eye-to-Eye, a nonprofit that connects students with LD/ADHD to mentors who have been in their shoes.
- Daniel Paris, who dropped out of the tenth grade with a 1.1 GPA, frustrated, unevaluated and undiagnosed. After a rough time with the wrong crowd, Paris began to take one class per semester for three years at four different community colleges. Now, Paris attends the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also shared "Six Tips for Parents of Students with Learning Differences."
Tricia Lampron, who is the current principal at the Henderson Inclusion Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, where one-third of the student body is disabled. Also at Henderson, arts is used to educate students in an inclusive setting.
Bill Henderson, who is an advocate for early intervention and started the Henderson Inclusion Elementary School more than 20 years ago. At the time, he was going blind and had to learn braille from scratch, which led him to look into technology as a tool to engage and help students.
- Sheldon Horowitz, who is the director of resources and essential information at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. He clarifies the 5 Misconceptions about Learning Differences.
Feel free to submit your questions beforehand in the comments section below.
American Graduate is a public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities across America find solutions to address the dropout crisis.


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In year 2008, Shri Yogindra Sagar Institute of Technology & Science was established in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh state India. It is the first Engineering & MBA College of Ratlam-Jhabua parliamentary seat. This institute is also known as SYS institute of Technology & Science. This institute is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidalaya (RGPV), Bhopal. Offered engineering courses by this colleges is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi (Statutory body of Government of India) and Department of Technical Education (DTE), Bhopal, Govt.of M.P.
Institute campus is spread over an 16 acres of Land. The environment of this institute is noise & Pollution free and cmapus has the WI-FI campus facility. Research & Innovation, News Club, English Club, Movie Club, Sports Club also arranged by this college. SYSITS also has the active training and placement cell.
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New Delhi: ICC President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Yuvraj Singh, who is recuperating from a rare germ cell cancer, and offered the cricketer "some inspiring words".
Pawar, also the Union Agriculture Minister, met Yuvraj at his residence in Gurgaon.
"Was great to meet mr n srinivasan yesterday and some inspiring words from mr sharad pawar today, and great support from mr badal in the news," Yuvraj wrote on his `Twitter` page.
He also thanked his India team-mate Virender Sehwag, Englishman Kevin Pietersen and Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene for their goodwill messages.
"And lovely messages from the master blaster, kp, viru and mahela and of course all the love of the fans and the heros welcome by the media," tweeted Yuvraj.
Yuvraj returned to the country on Monday after spending more than two months in the United States and London to recuperate from a malignant tumour between his lungs and today addressed the media at his cricket academy at Gurgaon.
Lauding Yuvraj for his fighting abilities, Pawar, said he expects the left-hander to return to the cricket field sooner.
"With a strong will power he is fighting. He is a fighter. I am confident that he will overcome (the cancer)," Pawar said.
"I have seen him in Johannesburg where he hit six sixes in one over against England. Defnitely, I will again get an opportunity to see similar performances from him in the future," he added.


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Discussion in 'Social Networking Sites' started by wordgeist, Oct 19, 2011.
What is the best way/tool to remove all the people I'm following and is not following me ?
try tweetattack its free . its good for unfollowing people who does not follow you back. i have tried it.
( i dont have any affiliation or whatsoever with this software, it is just that i found this a good tool for unfollowing. )
+1 for tweetattack free version. Its not like the full version, but its perfect for follow/unfollow tasks. Also you can use the option: "Unfollow users followed at least xxx days ago", which is very important in my opinion. Take a look.
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Once upon a time, a magical adventure awaited you. Oh, hold on—that time is right now!
Explore a world of fashion and romance in this MMO game. Customize hundreds of outfits and accessories while you search for the love of your life and work to become the ultimate fashionista.
Become a knight and champion all the others or become a lady and ensure that your estate remains well kept.
It's a level playing field when everyone has the same lucky number!
Chillax with a cutting-edge look as you explore this cool world of chat, music, games, quizzes, and more!
This strategic multiplayer Match-3 game is fertile grounds for cultivating your competitive spirit!
This lovely farm was hit hard by a recent storm. Can you help the young couple that owns it get everything repaired in this simulation game? They want to fix up their farmhouse before they buy livestock, explore a nearby forest, get to know their neighbors, and much more.
Find your adventures in Cloud Kingdom! World of fairy tale is waiting for you!
Uncle George left you his rundown farm, but it's a bit of a mess. While the farm has a lot of character, it really needs some TLC. Prove to your family and neighbors you've got what it takes to manage the place. Use your business skills and the help of friends to turn your overgrown barnyard into a thriving farm again. Plant and harvest crops, care for your animals, and make sure your workers are happy—you'll be back in business in no time. Let's toast to that with a glass of beetroot juice!
A fierce storm broke the support line for this brave scientist's DSV. Now he's stuck at the bottom of the ocean in this point and click adventure game. Can you help him gather the supplies he'll need in order to get back to his ship?
It was just another day at the library when a gateway opened in a magical book left forgotten on one of the shelves. Now you've entered a magical realm. Can you find a way to return home in this MMO game?
Welcome to your new farm. The barn needs some repairs before you can start planting crops but don't worry. Mary, your neighbor, is willing to help you out in this online game.
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Gold is shrouded in mystery and legends. And, probably, everyone dreams about incredible adventures. You'll find them in the game "Golden Frontier"! Searching of a gold mine, interesting acquaintances and unique atmosphere of the Gold Rush are waiting for you. You can feel like a real gold seeker, plunge into a unique world. But don`t worry, you won`t be alone with the difficulties and dangers, brave Clyde and charming Mary will help you. You will explore lands in search of gold with new friends. Even though the path will be difficult, it leads to untold wealth!
What would happen if we all turned into animals? And how can you run a restaurant in a world full of animals? Find out for yourself in free- to-play Dining Zoo!
Everyone of us, deep inside, is eager for adventures. So do our young friends-archaeologists Martin and Jane! Accompanied by professor, they went to the excavation site to investigate mysteries of formerly unknown civilization. As soon as they started their exploration, our young friends found a strong artifact. While studying it, they activated the artifact and were transported to ancient times. When the dust faded, they saw a settlement that had been located here for a long time. Unfortunately, they discovered that professor disappeared. And our friends decided to go to the village and ask for help. There they have met tribal chief - Zikimo! Help our heroes find professor and their way back home. Discover new, even more powerful artifacts and use them for good!
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Dante Rises is a match 3 puzzle and adventure game inspired by the hugely successful Puzzle and Dragons. It takes place in the universe of Dante's Inferno. You can collect hundreds of monsters and experience, firsthand, what it takes to fight evil in their realm. With the help of your minions, enter the Circles of Hell to fight the ultimate foe, Satan himself!
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What is IGZO screen technology?
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After we heard the LCD display technology, LED screen, IPS screen, Retina Display now we hear the IGZO display technology, what is it?
IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) promising performance that captivated the touch screen, where the image quality will be higher than normal LCD, but has a low power consumption OLED screen approach but with lower cost and thicker thickness only 25% of the OLED . The first device is a smartphone that use Sharp Aquos Phone SH-02E Zeta.
IGZO is developed by Sharp, this screen technology is a promising technology and represents a breakthrough for the screen with efficient energy consumption. But the Sharp as the one of Japanese electronic manufacturer is currently experiencing financial difficulties and need help. Fortunately, Qualcomm will invest 61 million dollars to Sharp, gain share of 2.6 percent.
If IGZO has a good progress, Qualcomm will provide additional funding to the same value, so that their share of over 5 percent. Total funds worth 120 million dollars more this approach the total loss suffered by Sharp when their joint venture with Sony did not develop and break up in the middle of the road.


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Why 'putting up with' an injury could be a bad idea
If you've ever been injured, you'll know it's all you can think about.
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Well, according to a study in mice carried out by researchers at Stanford University, it seems long-term pain can alter the part of your brain that controls motivation – which could explain why those who suffer from chronic pain become less active and often feel unmotivated. Formerly fit bods can become crisp-eating couch potatoes in a the blink of an eye when motivation hits a real low!
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Olive Corbett is not crazy. Not anymore.
She obediently takes her meds and stays under the radar at school. After "the incident," Olive just wants to avoid any more trouble, so she knows the smartest thing is to stay clear of the new girl who is rumored to have quite the creepy past.
But there's no avoiding Miranda Vaile. As mousy Miranda edges her way into the popular group, right up to the side of queen bee Katie – and pushes the others right out – only Olive seems to notice that something strange is going on. Something almost . . . parasitic. Either Olive is losing her grip on reality, or Miranda Vaile is stealing Katie's life.
But who would ever believe crazy Olive, the girl who has a habit of letting her imagination run away with her? And what if Olive is the next target?
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I'm so far behind on reading my review books. :( I can't wait for this semester to be finished so I can get back to it for real!


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text: Went to see French outfit Vialka (http://www.vialka.com) at Mir (http://www.lufthavna.no) last night. Fusion of operatic vocals ala Brecht/Weil, African Maskanda guitars, poignant lyrics ("There is no Love," "Unreliable Narrators"), unusual vocal harmonies and a distinct stage presence. It was part of their Northern Winter Beat Tour, an express series of appearances in Scandinavia, Germany, BeNeLux, etc. The tour has limited dates as band members are rushing to return to their infant baby in Nice. Music samples, photos etc. on their web sight.


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so here is my half of the edward gorey story that we did for the calart gallery show... mr. miranda should have the other half on his blog soon... if he doesn't comment constantly until he does
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wow... haven't done this in a while.... this week is the calart character animation show. me and fellow cubemate mario "peyton manning is my hero" miranda are doing a little combo deal. we took the awesome work of Edward Gorey's "The Gashley Crumb Tinies" and threw our own spin on it. i'll throw the rest up a little bit later.
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Vocabulary Word
Word: gentry
Definition: people of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility
Definition: people of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility
Sentences Containing 'gentry'
When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it, when it ceased to be the necessary residence of the principal nobility and gentry of Scotland, it became a city of some trade and industry.
But where the sovereign is himself the general, and the principal nobility and gentry of the country the chief officers of the army; where the military force is placed under the command of those who have the greatest interest in the support of the civil authority, because they have themselves the greatest share of that authority, a standing army can never be dangerous to liberty.
Under such a government, the clergy naturally endeavour to recommend themselves to the sovereign, to the court, and to the nobility and gentry of the country, by whose influence they chiefly expect to obtain preferment.
These tender-hearted gentry should consider that it's not merely a squire, but a governor they are asking to whip himself; just as if it was 'drink with cherries.'
Maha Bandula was born Maung Yit ( ) on 6 November 1782 (Wednesday, 2nd waxing of Tazaungmon 1144 ME) in Dabayin, the firstborn son of a minor gentry family of Pauk Taw () and his wife, Nyein (, as in "calm"; not the more common as in "finality/completed").
His speed in producing portraits stemmed from his painting his own twin daughters every morning for an hour and his career began with child portraiture and his painting the Hertfordshire gentry and members of the Harpenden Methodist Church.
In the Late Medieval period, such newly perceived requirements for privacy had been served by the solar of the English gentry house, and a similar, less secular purpose had been served by a private oratory.
Along with Rob Feinstein and Doug Gentry, Gargiulo helped innovate the professional wrestling shoot interview concept.
As the Habsburgs sought to consolidate their position in the Thurgau, they granted the castle to one of the most important families of the Habsburg gentry, the Landsbergers.
In October 2006, Vice Mayor Howard Gentry picked Rip Ryman to be Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee.
The Academy's opera season became the center of social life for New York's wealthy gentry.
Eden was born at Windlestone Hall, County Durham, England, into a very conservative landed gentry family.
Jane came from a family of English gentry who claimed descent from the sister of William of Wykeham, and her grandfather, Sir Antony Colley, had been a prominent Cavalier during the English Civil War.
More than the health benefits, Old Blount became known for its social scene as the gentry of the Black Belt and later the City of Birmingham took advantage of the cooler temperatures of the area during the heat and malarial conditions of late summer.
Suns head coach Alvin Gentry implemented a zone defense to slow the Lakers offense.
During and after the English Reformation the Stonor family and many other local gentry were recusants.
Jacob R. Gentry, 27; Jarrod C. Gentry, 20, of Port Jervis, New York and Emily M. Henry, 24, of Plymouth, Michigan, were arrested in Port Jervis on August 17 in connection with the homicide.
The Gentry brothers were charged with first-degree murder and endangering an injured victim.
Defense attorneys said Jarrod Gentry jumped in to defend his brother after Haulmark and Jacob Gentry got into a fight.
Gentry family members said Jacob Gentry had previously lived in Legends and moved out due to prior physical altercations with Haulmark over Henry, who was Jacob's girlfriend.
Jacob Gentry also worked as a contract laborer with Precision Pipeline, the same Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based company where Haulmark worked.
The Gentry brothers and Henry, all previously lived in Michigan (the Gentry brothers are originally from Tennessee), waived their extraditions from Orange County, New York on August 19 and will be tried in Vernon.
All three suspects were incarcerated in Sussex County Jail, but Jarrod Gentry was released in 2011, having been sentenced to time served.
Jacob Gentry was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his primary role in the murder.
In 1483, a conspiracy arose among a number of disaffected gentry, many of whom were supporters of Edward IV.
Gambling that motion furniture was a strong growth area, Ashley acquired Gentry Furniture, of Ripley, Mississippi in 1999.
Its origins date back to the formation of the régiment de Nemond in 1604 by a member of the gentry from Lorraine whose surname was Némond.
The senior English branch is thus the Tindal (now Tindal-Carill-Worsley) family, whose history is related in the 1973 volume of Burke's Landed Gentry.
In addition, the album's cover of Bobbie Gentry's 1969 hit "Fancy" and a new track, "Fallin' Out of Love", became Top 10 hits on the same "Billboard" country chart.
Mazil is the name of a boyar of the landed gentry in Wallachia and Moldavia, having no state or court function.
It also contains a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," whose original recording kept the single #2 "Reflections" from peaking at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1967, although it hit #1 on "Cashbox".
Chinese literati and gentry produced a pamphlet attacking Christian beliefs as socially subversive and irrational. Incendiary handbills and fliers distributed to crowds were also produced, and were linked to outbreaks of violence against Christians.
Label mates include country singer/songwriter Colt Ford, American Idol finalist Josh Gracin, and award winning country duo Montgomery Gentry.
He claimed that this was the first time the landed gentry had tried to organize a mass movement in order to counter their opponents.
The younger sons of the gentry traditionally entered the military at that time.
John and the Lamb," which showed such precocious talent that a group of local gentry provided funds for him to move to London and study for William Woollett, one of the leading engravers of the time.
In 1505 the neighbouring village of Wysoka Wielka was exchanged for the town of Wysoka, which was owned by the "Szlachta" or landed gentry (particularly the Kościelskich and Tuczyńskich families).
The hip flask began to appear in the form recognized today in the 18th century, initially used by members of the gentry.
Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell is the tenth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, a collaborative album with Bobbie Gentry, released in 1968 by Capitol Records.
Campbell and Gentry earned a gold record and three hit singles, including a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream", which rose to #3 on the U.K. Top 40 and #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969.
Gentry toured briefly with Campbell and performed on a number of U.S. and British television programs and specials.
In 1983 the album was reissued as "Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell: All I Have To Do Is Dream" with a different track order and the extra title track Charts.
Any necessary alterations in these articles were only to be made with the common consent of the king, Duke Charles, the Estates and the gentry of Sweden.
In Lancashire, before the start of the Civil War, there was social and economic tension between towns which generally supported Parliament, and the landowning gentry and aristocracy who controlled the rural areas and mostly supported the king as Royalists.
In 1296, along with the other Scots gentry and landowners, John de Monypenny of Pitmilly signed the so-called Ragman Rolls by which he swore fealty solely to Edward I of England.
The Provincial Council complained that Everard had set up a sort of Inquisition in which the servants of the gentry were questioned under oath about whether their masters had made private disrespectful remarks about the Governor.
The Catholic gentry briefly ruled the country as Confederate Ireland (1642–1649) against the background of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms until Oliver Cromwell reconquered Ireland in 1649–1653 on behalf of the English Commonwealth.
Members of the landed gentry, with their seat just across the county boundary, in Derbyshire, it was they who, in 1618, installed the distinctive Jacobean cage newel staircase, from which the house takes its modern name.
Iceburn, known later as the Iceburn Collective, was a musical group formed in 1991 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, by guitarist/vocalist/composer Gentry Densley, the sole constant member through multiple personnel changes.
In 1785, Quesnel was born at Montreal into a family well known in Canadien gentry society.
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More Vocab Wordsatone - make amends for; pay for; Ex. atone for
contaminate - pollute
transpire - (of a fact) become known; be revealed; happen; give off (watery waste matter) through pores
refute - disprove; prove to be false; N. refutation
outwit - outsmart; defeat by behaving more cleverly
episodic - (of a story or play) loosely connected; made up of separate and loosely connected parts; N. episode: incident in the course of an experience
adventitious - accidental; casual; happening by chance
chaffing - bantering; joking
entice - lure; persuade to do (something wrong); attract; tempt
eulogistic - praising; full of eulogy


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Justin Bieber: 'Beauty And A Beat' Video - WATCH NOW!
Check out the just released video for Justin Bieber's song "Beauty And A Beat" featuring Nicki Minaj!
Earlier this week, the 18-year-old singer said he had personal footage stolen from his laptop � and at the beginning of the video, a message pops up and says: "In October of 2012, three hours of personal footage was stolen from musician Justin Bieber. The following footage was illegally uploaded by an anonymous blogger." Could this all have been a big prank by Justin!?
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
45 rpm records
One summer day I was at the Modell's record department and I noticed something new. Plastic bags containing singles were on sale for three for a dollar or thirty nine cents. The records varied and contained different artists with hits and almost hits of the past year or so. You might find "I got you babe" or "Sweet talking guy" or a Solomon Burke single. Or Mary Welles, Petula Clark and the Kinks. The artists were very varied, but except for the one time I found "Ain't she sweet" they contained no Beatles, Stones, or Dylan. You never found a Capitol recording but otherwise I remember seeing all the labels. I even discovered three Jimi Hendrix records together.
The other day I spent an hour or so playing old singles. They still sounded good but getting up every three minutes to change the record is hard on the back. A lazy man's way of listening to old records is searching for the titles through You Tube. It's amazing how many records from that era are available there.
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16 January 2012
Stand Tall
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- Athanasius contra mundum said...
This reminds me of a song that my daughter sings a lot, "They are red and black and white. They are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world." I don't know the name of the song or the rest of it because that's all of it that she sings.
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If you like Patrick's other dance workouts, you'll like this one too. It's chock full of Patrick's fun, complex choreography. He has a fabulous rapport with his background exercisers and genuinely seems to be having fun. I did not get everything the 1st time through, but I actually like the fact that it's an ongoing process. I was so thrilled when I FINALLY could do all of Dance Moves. I'm ready to take Patrick's next challenge! I had a blast!! It's not much of a space hog side to side, maybe 2 grapevines worth. Front to back felt like I needed more space, but that may have been because there are some moves where I'm moving backwards. When I objectively think over the actual choreography, I don't think it was more than 2 grapevines front to back either, maybe less. There are mambos, chasays, twists, and turns, everything we've come to expect from our Patrick. It's not very high impact at all. I'm actually considering doing this barefoot all the time, since I work out on carpet, and my bare feet made the turns easier. Because I was having such a great time, I really worked up a sweat. I wasn't wearing my HRM since it wasn't an official workout, but I would estimate that I was easily in my low to mid aerobic range, even without catching all of the choreography this time through. I think it will be amazing once I can do everything! It's because it's so much fun that you really put your all into it. The amount of TIFT felt about right to me. When we got farther into the workout, he didn't go back to the very beginning every time. Usually it was back to the beginning of the combo you're building, or maybe the combo that came before that one. At the end you go thought the WHOLE thing 3 times! YEAH!! The warmup is very dancy, while the cooldown gives your brain a break while retaining a dancy feel.
If you didn't like his dance workouts, you won't like this one either, because it's very similar in format. Moves are taught in complete 8 counts, a couple of times slow and then full speed. They did seem much easier for me to catch onto than some of the combos in Dance Moves. As you get farther into the workout Patrick sometimes neglects to cue, just as he did in Dance Moves. This is NOT for the choreography impaired!
There are a couple of bonus learning sections, one where you see them from behind doing the WHOLE routine at tempo ( no cues or anything, just the music and watching them from behind ), and one slower with Patrick counting out the moves as he goes through, but again, there aren't cues to go with the moves. In addition there is an inset on the bottom left of the screen each time he introduces a new sequence, showing it from the rear view. I found it confusing to switch my viewpoint back and forth, so I stuck with the front view.
The music was all instrumental, with a really good beat in the background. I didn't recognize any of it, and none of it is anything that I will be humming all day, but I enjoyed it during the wokrout. It fit very well.
The same set is used for all 3 workouts in this series. I found the set to be very tasteful and relaxing took at. There are no glaring lights or strange camera angles that we saw in BEST Step or the ABC Workout. There is a TV screen in the middle rear with Patrick's name on it. Curtains hang ceiling to floor in the back which are lit from behind in a soothing blue. Then there are a couple of large columns, lit in a soft white light. A couple of screen with white panels and cutouts that let the blue curtains show through arc around the sides. It has a geometric feel.
This one is a winner in my book! Patrick really knows how to bring out my inner dancer!
Instructor comments:
Patrick is the best! He's fun and upbeat, and yes, even a little goofy sometimes. Working out with him always feels like you're working out with a buddy, who is having a great time and wants you to come along for the ride.
July 7, 2005
I'm reviewing this workout after doing it a few times.
General workout breakdown: This DVD contains one 60-min. dance aerobics workout. Patrick says he remixes aerobic choreography with dance (drawing from disco, jazz, hip hop, Latin, and cheerleading / dance teams). Erin has already described this workout well; I'm just going to add some details in case you possibly want more info after reading her review.
The warm-up (8.5 min.) teaches a basic combo; after some dynamic and static stretches for the upper and lower body, you repeat the combo one more time.
In the main workout (19 min. for the first part, 27 min. for the second) Patrick teaches 4 assymetrical combos (meaning they're not repeated on the other side), which are built into one big routine. Patrick teaches each 8-count separately (and each combo has 3-4 8-counts), first at half speed, then at tempo. You run through each new 8-count 2-3x slow, 2-3x at tempo, 2-3x with the previous combo, 2-3x with the whole combo (if you've learned enough of it), and 2x from the very beginning (TIFT, or taking it from the top). For the most part Patrick teaches the combos as they appear in the final, although he waits until after you learn all of combos 1 and 2 to add the turns to the first 8-count of combo 1. I appreciate that Patrick picks up the previous combo when TIFTing, as that helps smooth the transitions between moves, keeps combos fresh in your mind, and keeps you from getting as sick of the earlier combos. Step touches, crosses, chasses, brushes, hip shakes or pops, box steps, cha chas, mambos, body rolls, runs, lunges, and other common steps are combined creatively into moves like Disco Down, the Paula (Abdul) Move, a new Laker Girl move, African Tribal Dance, Las Vegas, and Latino. There are moments when you're marching in place waiting for Patrick to finish explaining things or get back onto the beat, so this workout isn't non-stop movement.
The cool-down (4.5 min.) has a few simple moves to break your heartrate down, then ends with some stretches, mostly for the lower body, including a few yoga-inspired moves (like revolved lunge and triangle).
Level: I'd recommend this to experienced exercisers, perhaps around the intermediate to intermediate plus level, who are comfortable with complex choreography. This isn't an intense workout, but it's not supposed to be, as shown by the perceived exertion chart which recommends working around a moderate level; it's more about making exercise fun than burning the maximum amount of calories. The workout has a few hops and a pretty good number of pivots and full turns.
I consider myself an intermediate + to intermediate / advanced in cardio, and I have little trouble with all but the most complex (or poorly cued) choreography. It took me several times through to get some of the choreography, especially since, this being a Patrick workout, there are numerous directional changes (I took some of the spins out) and some moves done with your back to the TV. Plus I'm not as used to this style of dance and instruction.
Class: 2 women join Patrick, who instructs live.
Production: the picture and sound are both clear, although Patrick doesn't seem to have needed the microphone (as he says, once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader) – someone probably should have turned it down a bit. The camera angles overall are helpful, with only a few that cut off feet or upper body, although they only come later or in between combos. One quibble: the main view is just a hair far away for details to be clear in the split screen moments when viewed on a smaller TV.
The split screen appears during the first run through of each 8-count. In the upper right the video continues, with Patrick and the two background exercisers facing you, while in the lower left Patrick appears alone with his back to you. I agree with Erin that the insert of Patrick with his back to me was a little confusing, although if you're used to learning dance in live classes I think you'll find this more helpful than someone who's more used to workout videos.
Equipment: sneakers that can turn on your workout surface. If you have carpet like me, you may find dance sneakers / dansneakers (like those sold by Bloch or Capezio) helpful; the cheap alternative is to put a piece of slick tape over the toebox of an old pair of crosstrainers.
Space Requirements: you should be able to take a few steps in each direction. It's possible to reduce the footprint in spots by not traveling as much, but the more room you have the better.
DVD Notes: After the series intro plays, the main menu offers you the options of Play Workout and Customize Workout (warmup; workout 1 = first 2 combos; workout 2 = second 2 combos; cool down; break it down, repeated 3x; learn it with music, repeated 3x). It's too bad the combos aren't chaptered separately. Note that as with all Patrick videos you first get a montage of clips from the workout before Patrick introduces the workout and presents safety tips, and then the workout itself starts. After the warm-up, you have the options of previewing the entire routine at tempo or the routine slow with counts; you can also choose to continue with the workout or go to the bonus learning section.
Comments: It's been a while since I've done the two other Patrick dance aerobics videos I had: Aerobic Dance Workout and Dance Moves. This isn't as much of a space hog (I remember having trouble fitting the previous two into my workout space at the time). I agree with the VFers who say this is the easiest of Patrick's dance aerobics routines to learn, although all but the absolute queens and kings of complex dance choreo shouldn't expect to be able to pop this in and do it perfectly the first time through. (Even after several times through I still wouldn't want Patrick to see me butchering his routine.) For me, the relative ease in learning is due to in part to the fact that the choreography seems a little simpler (it's still complex, though) with fewer turns (and more obvious ways to leave out the turns), plus Patrick's instruction methods, complemented by the camera angles and breakdown extras on the DVD. Except for Patrick's shouting into the microphone, some of the other production issues seen in the other two videos (such as the glaring lights on Aerobic Dance) have been improved. Also, I agree with Erin that the amount of TIFTing is just about right, maybe a bit on the high side but still within my realm of tolerance (unlike Dance Moves, which seemed to spend the last 10 min. doing nothing but repeating the entire routine over and over and over).
Instructor Comments: Patrick is his usual energetic, enthusiastic, and encouraging self. He's very relaxed in front of the camera here, definitely having a lot of fun, yet never losing sight of the routine. He's taken out the "oh my goshes," but he still cracks jokes, chats with his background exercisers, and laughs infectiously. He mirror cues and cues moves well enough, although he eases up on cuing the more times you do a combo.


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by Richard D J J Bowdery
Yesterday (2 March) Manchester City won the League Cup for the third time in four final appearances when they beat Sunderland 3-1. But if you cast your mind back to 1970 you will notice a startling difference between the City team then and now.
All England…almost
On 7 March, 44 years ago, Manchester City took to the field at Wembley against West Bromwich Albion in the 10th League Cup Final.
City won that match 2-1 with goals scored by Mike Doyle and Glyn Pardoe; West Brom's consolation came from Jeff Astle.
But it was City's line up that day which proved the greatest contrast to the team that took to the lush turf of Wembley for yesterday's final.
Back in 1970 the team that lined up for the kick-off comprised off 10 Englishmen and only one 'Johnny' foreigner, well Scottish actually so I guess that would make him 'Jocky' foreigner. Even the substitute (only one per team back then) and manager were English.
The eleven who lifted the cup that day, managed by Joe Mercer, were:
Joe Corrigan (in goal)
Tony Book (c)
Arthur Mann (Scotland)
Mike Doyle
Tommy Booth
Alan Oakes
George Heslop
Colin Bell
Mike Summerbee
Francis Lee
Glyn Pardoe
Ian Bowyer
Interestingly there were four Scotsmen in West Brom's side that day, with a Welshman as substitute.
Four years after their first win they faced Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final. They could not match their heroics of 1970 and went down 2-1. Hibbitt scored for Wolves in the first half. City's Bell drew the team's level with a goal in the 59th minute. But John Richards sealed a Wolves victory, scoring the winner five minutes from time.
This time there were three 'foreigners' in an otherwise all England City side. Ron Saunders from Cheshire was City's manager.
In 1976 Manchester City once again found themselves in the final, this time up against Newcastle United with Malcolm McDonald spearheading the Magpies attack.
City won 2-1, the same final score as their previous two appearances. A goal from number 7 Barnes and a wonderful overhead effort from Dennis Tueart in the second half, sealed the match, with Gowling getting Newcastle's solitary reply.
Only two 'foreigners' made the starting eleven that day.
In the boardroom
During City's League Cup appearances in the 70's the predominately English boardroom reflected the team on the pitch.
Albert Alexander was the chairman as the sixties turned into the seventies. Around this time the board faced a power struggle, ignited by deputy-chairman Frank Johnson's decision to sell most of his shareholding.
The tussle that followed convinced Johnson not to sell and the status quo resumed; that is until ill-health force Albert to relinquish the reins. His son Eric replaced him as chairman.
By the time City lost at Wembley to Wolves a new face lead the business side of the club: Peter Swales. This change was brought about by Eric's decision to step-down.
Throughout the time of these League Cup appearances the City boardroom was largely English. But it was their lack of success on the pitch under Swales tenure as chairman which led to a revolt by the fans who wanted Swales out. They duly got their wish in 1994 when former City forward Francis Lee, self-made millionaire, purchased £3 million of shares. Swales was ousted, never to return.
In hindsight that revolt could be seen as the catalyst that took Manchester City from being a British run, predominantly English team to the club that now graces the Premiership.
By September 2008 the club was bought by Sheikh Mansour, who has pumped millions into Manchester City that has seen an upturn in the club's fortunes.
Fast-forward to 2014
Today Manchester City has undergone a massive facelift and is, in many respects, unrecognisable from the club that last reached a Wembley League Cup Final.
Not only has it relocated from its spiritual home at Maine Road, the make-up of the boardroom, dugout and team is dominated by foreign imports.
In City's starting eleven yesterday there was not one Englishman. The team City fielded was:
Pantilimon (in goal)
Yaya Touré
Three of the six substitutes (only one allowed in the 70's remember) were English but manager Manuel Pellegrini didn't involve any of them in his three second half substituions.
Who benefits?
Is this good for the game? I guess it depends upon your point of view. I'm sure most City fans to a man would say it is, following their Premiership title, FA Cup win and now their third League Cup success. So, I suspect, would the fans of Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester United.
But those battling for Premiership survival without the millions to invest in top class players would probably disagree.
And if you are playing below the top tier of English football how can you get to the top table and stay there longer than the aperitif?
You could ask that cash-in-hand plasterer, Loadsamoney for a wad. Or find yourself a billionaire looking for a new toy to play with.
But what about the England national team. There is an argument that with so many foreign players plying their trade in the English game it hampers local talent.
Maybe, maybe not. Personally I don't think England has ever fully recovered from the footballing lesson the Hungarians taught us at Wembley in November 1953.
Older readers may recall we were soundly beaten 6-3 even though Walter Winterbottom put out a decent side that day which included Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortensen, Alf Ramsey and Billy Wright.
The style of the Hungarians cultured play left those watching the game mesmerised.
Some say that was the day England's dominance of the game crumbled, apart from the little matter of a tournament in 1966.
What is the solution?
I think it is too simplistic to say limit each club to a set number of foreign players. That in itself will not provide the skillful players England needs.
And don't forget, the game is no longer about 'bums on seats'. It's about TV revenue, branding and global markets.
It is a world apart from the game that as it was in the 70's.
A final thought…Just think, if Jesús Navas hadn't scored in the 90th minute all of Manchester City's four League Cup Final appearances would have finished with the same scoreline, 2-1.


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text: Clinical Focus | January 01, 2013A Social Communication Intervention to Increase Validating Comments by Children With Language Impairment Martin Fujiki, Bonnie Brinton, Chelsea P. McCleave, Valyne W. Anderson, and Janet P. Chamberlain Author Affiliations & Notes Martin Fujiki Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Bonnie Brinton Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Chelsea P. McCleave Alpine School District, American Fork, UT Valyne W. Anderson Children's Therapy Connection, Indianapolis, IN Janet P. Chamberlain Las Vegas, NV Correspondence to Martin Fujiki: firstname.lastname@example.com Editor: Janna OettingEditor: Janna Oetting× Associate Editor: Victoria JoffeAssociate Editor: Victoria Joffe× Copyright © 2013 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Article Information School-Based Settings / Language Disorders / Social Communication & Pragmatics Disorders Clinical Focus | January 01, 2013 A Social Communication Intervention to Increase Validating Comments by Children With Language Impairment Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2013, Vol. 44, 3-19. doi:10.1044/0161-1461(2012/11-103) History: Received December 20, 2011 , Accepted May 31, 2012 Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2013, Vol. 44, 3-19. doi:10.1044/0161-1461(2012/11-103) History: Received December 20, 2011; Accepted May 31, 2012 Web of Science® Times Cited: 6 View Article Figures Tables PDF PDF Supplemental Data Supplements Multimedia Share Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tools Get Citation Citation Fujiki, M., Brinton, B., McCleave, C. P., Anderson, V. W., & Chamberlain, J. P. (2013). A Social Communication Intervention to Increase Validating Comments by Children With Language Impairment. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch, 44(1), 3-19. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2012/11-103). Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association × Alerts User Alerts You are adding an alert for: A Social Communication Intervention to Increase Validating Comments by Children With Language Impairment You will receive an email whenever this article is corrected, updated, or cited in the literature. You can manage this and all other alerts in My Account The alert will be sent to: Confirm × Sign In or Create a free account to receive alerts. × Purpose Four children identified with language impairment (LI) participated in a social communication intervention to increase the production of validating comments, including making positive statements, sharing information, and asking peers questions about themselves. Method A case study design was used. Baseline measures were collected from 3 cooperative learning sessions for each participant. The intervention lasted 10 weeks, with 40 (15-min) sessions for 3 of the children and 20 (30-min) sessions for the remaining child. Each week, participants took part in sessions of group instruction, novel peer play, and review with the clinician. Data monitoring the production of validating comments were taken from the novel peer play interactions. Results One child produced a notable increase in validating comments during intervention, and 2 other participants produced more modest improvement. All 3 maintained these gains in the follow-up sessions. The remaining participant produced little change from baseline during the intervention. With respect to social outcomes, changes were not noted in peer acceptance and friendship. Teachers reported notable improvement in the sociable behavior of 2 of the children. Conclusion The 4 participants showed varied increases in the production of validating comments. Possible factors influencing the successful application of the intervention are discussed. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was supported in part by grants from the McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University. The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Janet Howe, Lee Robinson, Elizabeth M. Skinner, JoLyn Carter, Lucy Brimhall, and April Fitzgerald. 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