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Globalization101 > News Analyses > Ten Years Later: The Global Impact of the 9.11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out on United States soil that would forever change the landscape of the international community. Osama bin Laden, a member of a wealthy Saudi family network, facilitated attacks in which 19 assailants, affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.1 Two crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan and one into the Pentagon. The fourth plane was believed to be headed to the US Capital or White House, but was diverted into a rural field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where it ultimately crashed.2 These tragic events took the lives of nearly 3,000 individuals that day; however, the effect that these devastating actions have had on the global scale continues to be felt to this day.3
The repercussions reverberated on a global scale, destabilizing economies' worldwide and leading to immediate changes in U.S. and U.K. foreign policy. Other problems arose in the aftermath of the attacks. This news analysis covers the immediate response of the global community, the fiscal implications of the attacks, foreign policy and security policy changes in information sharing, as well as human rights and civil rights violations. This coverage will display not only how debilitating such an attack can be to the short term capabilities of a country, but also how a decade later the ripple effects are still being felt around the globe.
The Immediate Response around the Globe
Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a "War on Terrorism" with the goal of bringing bin Laden to justice and preventing future terrorist activities. Countries around the globe were shocked and offended by the attacks, from long standing American allies to its greatest detractors. German chancellor Gerhard Schröder described the attacks as "a declaration of war against the civilized world", and the Cuban government offered its deepest condolences, as well as offering air and medical assistance to its longtime critic.4
The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1368 just 24 hours after the devastating terrorist attacks. The UN stated they "unequivocally condemned those [terrorist] acts, and expressed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims and their families."5 The Security Council was ready to take "all necessary steps…to combat all forms of terrorism," which eventually led to friction in the years to come as the Global War on Terror took full affect.6
In October 2001, The United States, with the assistance of the United Kingdom and other NATO allies, invaded Afghanistan in what would begin the official global 'War on Terror'. While these actions were generally seen to be warranted in the eyes of the international community, the next United States endeavor would prove to be highly provocative. It reflected how 9/11 would shape U.S. foreign policy.
The subsequent phase of this global campaign was to seek out proof that showed Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). When the ensuing 2002 UN searches produced no evidence, the United States continued to vehemently insist that they must disarm the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. After it was made clear that the United Nations Security Council would veto any use of force in Iraq, a "coalition of the willing" was formed by the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. The intent was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's alleged support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people."7
This seemingly unilateral decision spearheaded by the United States was the beginning of increased tensions between the U.S. and other countries around the world.Belgium, France, and Germany sought to develop their own European Union military apparatus to counter such heavy-handed U.S. diplomatic actions.
Other major global superpowers, such as Russia and China, used entities like the 'Shanghai Cooperation Organization" to thwart growing US presence in the Central Asian economies.8 Economic stability has always been a major factor in maintaining a nation's power and prominence, and the events, policies, and legislation that followed the 9/11 attacks would go on to test the fiscal solvency of the world's greatest superpowers.
Economic Costs
The September 11th attacks produced both short-term and long-term economic consequences that proved to be quite costly for many nations. The initial shock of these aggressions panicked investors worldwide and led global stock markets to plummet drastically. The U.S. Congressional Research Services declared that attacks alone cost nearly $40 billion in insurance losses, warranting it to be labeled one of the largest insured events in history.9
The long term costs of these attacks have been even more devastating to the United States economy, as well as to other countries that participated in the War on Terror. As of 2011, it is estimated that the cost of involvement in the war in Afghanistan is roughly $440 billion, while the Iraq war comes to an even larger sum of nearly $790 billion.10 Additionally, the United Kingdom spent nearly £18 billion ($30 billion USD) in Afghanistan alone, as of March 2011.11
In 2002, the United States created an entire new cabinet department, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to prevent and thwart further terrorist attacks on American soil. The creation of yet another entity within an already crowded bureaucracy has caused much criticism. DHS has already wasted roughly $15 billion in failed contracts. Their employee morale and satisfaction is often ranked last in surveys of various United States agencies.12 13
In addition to the aforementioned costs, in 2005 the United Nations formed the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) to, "enhance coordination and coherence of counter-terrorism efforts of the United Nations system."14 While initially operating on a budget of voluntary contributions, in 2009, member states suggested operational costs should be secured through the regular UN budget.15 This led to further strain on an already tight UN budget. While the fiscal effects of the War on Terror can be quantified with dollars and cents, there are other changes that have altered the lives of everyday citizens world-wide.
Technology & Civil Rights
As the global war on terror commenced, countries around the world enacted legislation that progressively granted more and more secretive rights to the government to help 'protect its citizens.' Many individuals felt that their civil liberties and rights were being infringed upon.
On October 26, 2001, the United States passed the "PATRIOT Act" [Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT)]. This act dramatically enhanced the ability for law enforcement to search email, telephone, medical, and financial records on American citizens.16 It also allowed a procedure known as roving wire taps to take place, essentially allowing the target individual under surveillance to be tracked wherever they travel, no longer confining surveillance to particular phones or computers.17
These actions have caused a great deal of controversy. Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) claimed that the Patriot Act was unconstitutional, especially since there was a chance that law abiding, non threatening citizens might have their communications accidentally intercepted.18 Many critics feel that their concerns have gone unheeded. In May 2011, President Barack Obama signed extensions on various parts of the PATRIOT Act, continuing these highly controversial policies for another four years.19
The United States was not the only country to take precautionary actions against future terrorist threats. Countries around the globe enacted similar measures that also received with lukewarm responses. The United Kingdom and France both extended the length of time a web users' data can be held by an ISP. Germany passed a bill forcing communication companies to install surveillance software to ease the interception by authorities, if the need arose. Additionally, Canadian authorities no longer deemed it necessary to inform individuals that they were being investigated or under surveillance. Opponents of these Acts, such as 'Reporters Sans Frontieres (without borders)' have deemed these measures as "serious attacks on freedom of expression", and rebuked such actions as being overbearing on civilians.20
Human Rights
On September 14, 2001, Congress granted President Bush the power "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determined planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11."21The latitude allotted to the United States to carry out their 'war on terror' has caused great anxiety for human rights groups, which are concerned with the possibilities of torture and mistreatment of individuals.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, located within the United States Naval base in Cuba, became an international symbol for the war on terror, as countless alleged-terrorists were housed there over the course of the past decade.In 2003, 'Human Rights Watch declared, "Washington has ignored human rights standards in its own treatment of terrorism suspects [and] it has refused to apply the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war from Afghanistan."22 This information coincided with the release of data in August 2003 stating that 350 'self-harm' gestures, along with 120 'hanging-gestures' were recorded among inmates, including ten simultaneous attempts in one day.23 Amnesty International reported that sleep deprivation, coupled with physical and psychological abuse are routine actions at Guantanamo. Additionally, individuals as young as 13 years old have been housed there indefinitely for alleged terrorist activity.24
Polling conducted by BBC and 'GlobeScan' found that 69 percent of respondents around the world disapproved of the Guantanamo prison and the treatment of its prisoners.25 As of March 2011, President Barack Obama has continued the legacy put forth by his predecessor, calling for military tribunals for accused terrorist suspects and indefinite detainment for individuals at Guantanamo Bay.26
The impacts that the terrorist attacks of September 11th had on the international community have been profound, and are reflected in a myriad of ways. U.S. foreign policy has undoubtedly become more preemptive and aggressive. This affects individuals living in the U.S., as well as people living in allied countries and countries deemed hostile. Furthermore, global entities such as the UN have created new divisions for counter-terrorism operations. Human rights organizations continue to have a growing number of aggressions to investigate and report on, in the ongoing international 'war on terror'.
1 Evans, Gareth. "The Global Response to Terrorism." Sept. 2005.
2 The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report, 2002. Washington DC: United States Congress, 2004.
3 Glazier, Liz. "Lost lives remembered during 9/11 ceremony." The Rocket, September, 12, 2008.
4 "Reactions From Around the World." The New York Times. September 12, 2001.
5 United Nations Security Council. (UN Security Council Resolution 1368).
6 Ibid
7 Office of the Press Secretary. President Discusses Beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Washington DC: The White House, 2003.
8 McCarthy, Mike. "US foreign policy post 9/11: "We have an outstanding hammer"." GlobalSecurity.Org. 2006.
9 Library of Congress. The Economic Effects of 9/11: A Retrospective Assessment. Congressional Research Servces. 2002.
10 United States Congress. The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11. Congressional Research Services. 2011.
11 Harding, Thomas. "Britain spent £18 billion on war in Afghanistan, figures show." The Telegraph, July 28, 2011.
12 Hedgpeth, Dana. "Congress Says DHS Oversaw $15 Billion in Failed Contracts." The Washington Post. Sept. 17, 2008.
13 "Homeland Security employees rank last in job satisfaction survey." ABC News. February 8, 2007.
14 "Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force." United Nations.
15 "UN counter-terrorism task force shifts into new operational phase." UN News Centre. March 4 2009.
16 United States Congress. UNITING AND STRENGTHENING AMERICA BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE TOOLSREQUIRED TO INTERCEPT AND OBSTRUCT TERRORISM (USA PATRIOT ACT) ACT OF 2001, 2001. US Government Printing Office, 2001.
17 Hamilton, Stuart. "September 11th, the Internet, and the affects on information provision in Libraries." 68th IFLA Council and General Conference: August 18-24, 2002. 079, (2002): International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
18 "USA Patriot Act." Epic.Org. Electronic Privacy Information Center.
19 "Obama Signs Last-Minute Patriot Act Extension." Fox News. May 27, 2011.
20 Hamilton, Stuart. "September 11th, the Internet, and the affects on information provision in Libraries." 68th IFLA Council and General Conference: August 18-24, 2002. 079, (2002): International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
21 9-11 Research. Human Rights Abuses Abound Post 9/11/01.
22 "Amnesty International: Human Rights Report." 2005.
23 9-11 Research. Human Rights Abuses Abound Post 9/11/01.
24 "Guantanamo Bay: An Abuse of Power and a Violation of Human Rights." Peaces of the World, 2009
25 United States House of Representatives. GLOBAL POLLING DATA ON OPINION OFAMERICAN POLICIES, VALUES AND PEOPLE, 2007. Committe on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 2007.
26 Pilkington, Ed. "Obama lifts suspension on military terror trials at Guantánamo Bay." The Guardian. March 7, 2011.


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Lydia Loverin, winner of the Capital Region Spelling Bee, made it to the semifinals of the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
On Wednesday, Lydia, 12, a sixth-grade student at Mountain Road School in New Lebanon, Columbia County, successfully spelled "galjoen" (a type of fish) and "lipophilic" (able to dissolve in lipids).
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Katie Ammann, 13, a seventh-grader at Knox Junior High School in Johnstown, Fulton County, correctly spelled "mistletoe," but misspelled "oppugn" (to dispute).
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MONTEBELLO >> This city has become the latest municipality to sue the state over disputed redevelopment money.
In Montebellos case, the dispute is over $4.3 million, which state Department of Finance officials believe is owed to the local property taxing authorities such as the county and school districts.
They say the money was a loan from city to the city Redevelopment Agency and thus shouldnt have been paid back.
But city officials disagree.
We believe the Department of Finances findings are incorrect and by filing this lawsuit we intend to ensure that our local dollars stay local, said Montebello City Manager Francesca Tucker-Schuyler.
The $4.3 million was paid back to the city as a result of a legally binding and enforceable agreement between the parties and a contract necessary for the continued administration of the redevelopment for facilities, equipment and pay-related expenses, stated Christopher G. Cardinale in the lawsuit.
H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state Department of Finance, said the lawsuit was still being reviewed and thus he couldnt comment.
However in a letter to the city earlier this year, Steve Szalay, local government consultant for the state Department of Finance, stated, (The law) states that agreements, contractors or arrangements between the city that created the redevelopment agency and the former (redevelopment agencies) are not enforceable, unless issued within two years of (the agencys) creation date or the issuance of indebtedness to third-party investors or bondholders.
Montebello is one of more than an estimated 200 cities, including Santa Fe Springs, suing the state over redevelopment money.
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Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael P. Kenny ruled the state cant take sales tax money from cities that dont pay the money it thinks is owed.
What (the state) was saying is that if we didnt agree to pay back the money, they will take the money from other sources, Mayor Bill Molinari said.
However, theres a conflicting ruling from Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley in a case involving the city of Bellflower giving the state the right to take back money it thinks its owed.
Given this kind of unique situation, we believe its prudent to put any sales tax issues on hold while we examine the rulings, Palmer said.


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But Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan says that as the economy improves, people become more optimistic and start looking for work, which can cause an increase in the state's unemployment rate.
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September unemployment in Vermont's 17 labor market areas ranged from 3.5 percent in Hartford to 6.7 percent in Newport.
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It features a lot of jump scares, like for example that zombie in the window that really scared the hell out of me in the beginning of the game. Another aspect I loved is the whole atmosphere the game creates. Dark, full of horror aspects but everything has such a unique feeling at the same time. Moreover, another aspect worth mentioning is that I liked the balance between stealth, FPS and horror. Basically it is up to you to choose how you are going to play the game! Are going all stealth? Avoiding your enemies and try to hide in the darkness or just kill everyone? It up to you!
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- Bugs (due to the early beta version I tested that I am sure they will or have already been crashed)
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Maurice Ascalon hammering "The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil" for the 1939 New York World's Fair
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Pal-Bell Company's well-known "oil lamp" menorah is decorated with twin olive leaf branches, the symbol of the new state of Israel. It has become one of their most iconic pieces, with one residing in the permanent collection of New York's Jewish Museum. Maurice also developed a chemical process to mimic the green patina that art objects traditionally only got with age. This chemically induced look, known as "verdigris", became a trademark of the company and an important stylistic look in the modern Israeli decorative art movement.
Verdigris Bronze Snail Ashtray available at manoftheworld.com
Verdigris Bronze Collection available at manoftheworld.com
After two decades in Israel producing designs for Pal-Bell as well as participating in the Israeli War effort by having his factory both design and produce munitions, Maurice and his family immigrated to the United States in 1956. Maurice became a master silversmith over the next twenty years while living in New York and Los Angeles, creating Torah crowns and other objects for synagogues. During this time Maurice also passed down his design knowledge both to students at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University) in Los Angeles as well as his two sons.
Holocaust Memorial by David Ascalon for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, PA
Maurice's elder son Adir was a well-respected surrealist painter and sculptor who collaborated with the famed Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Maurice's younger son David followed in his father's footsteps, creating sculptures, mosaics, and stained glass for houses of worship and other public institutions. Together Maurice and David founded Ascalon Studios in 1977. David has created both small tabletop objects and larger pieces, including his well-known Holocaust memorial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This 15-foot sculpture was installed next to the Susquehanna River in 1994 and is made up of a series of stainless steel poles wrapped in a rusty-looking serpentine shaped form, reminiscent of barbed wire.
David's sons, Eric and Brad, have continued in the family business. Eric works with his father David at Ascalon Studios, whereas Brad has formed his own eponymous studio with a commitment to contemporary furniture design. Brad Ascalon has made his own name in the contemporary industrial design scene, being one of only two Americans to have designed for the upscale French furniture brand Ligne Roset. Design Within Reach also produces Brad's "Atlas" tables and his Carrara marble menorah, a modernist nod to the legacy of his grandfather Maurice who died in 2003.
Lincoln Square Synagogue's Sanctuary Ark by David, Eric, and Brad Ascalon in New York City
In January 2013, New York's Lincoln Square Synagogue transferred their sacred scrolls of the Torah from their old Amsterdam Avenue location one block south into a newly built synagogue. The family design team chosen to design the ark these scrolls would sit in was David Ascalon and his sons Eric and Brad. The stunning bronze doors of the ark are sculpted in the shape of an olive tree, which harkens back to the olive branch motif of Ascalon family patriarch Maurice. Though generations of Ascalons men have produced distinctive design styles, it is clear that great design is a family trait.
Written by Jordan Martin
Source: Ladin, M. (2013, February). Three Generations of Industrial Designers Bridge Their Vision From Art Deco to The Contemporary. Aufbau.


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Determined to rid the streets of Kano metropolis of beggars and other destitute that state officials said constitute nuisance, the Kano State government has mapped out skill acquisition programmes that will help in developing their innate potential.
Special Adviser to Governor Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso on Disabled Persons, Alhaji Usman Yusuf Usman revealed that "already, over 500 beggars have been taken off the streets of Kano. They have been duly registered and accredited for the new empowerment scheme designed to give hope to the hopeless."
Alhaji Usman, who disclosed this to reporters in Kano, said the registration exercise was going on at various road junctions, roundabouts, and traffic-control lights where disabled persons and other destitute have remained common sight.
According to him, those already at the centre are elated; and they have demonstrated their happiness in participating in the skill acquisition programme.
"They will also undergo training in elementary businesses like selling of recharge cards, and essential commodities. They will also be trained in mechanic work, handset repairs, tailoring and welding," he said.
The Special Adviser stated that most of the beggars, especially the physically-challenged indulged in begging because of hardship. They had to find a way to survive.
Usman further said that those who have been evacuated from the streets for the purpose of the training programme were the cripple, lepers, the blind, the deaf and dumb.
He stated that the measure is part of government's efforts to eradicate street-begging in order to dignify humanity, even as he said that the present administration of Governor Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso is sensitive to the plights of people with disabilities.
"Governor Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso has, to this end, directed the Office of Disabled Matters to conduct statistics of destitute on the streets to enable the government to work out a programme that will cater for their needs," he said.
Usman appealed to the beggars and destitute to avail themselves of this opportunity by registering at centres of their choice, so as to make a decent living.
The Special Adviser, however, commended the Disabled Persons Association (DPA) for their continued support to the state government.


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"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere."
Ignore the feel-good boilerplate about green energy in the quote above, delivered in a $225,000 speech to the Brazilian Banco Itau in New York City in May 2013. E-mails from mid-2015 show her trying to defend her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership but ultimately rejecting it publicly for populist political reasons — for now.
In short, don't expect any mea culpas when the time is right for a 180-degree spin. For a Clinton is never wrong, merely evolving.
The distinction between the public and private Hillary is masked partly via her cozy relationships with reporters -— whether her aides are planting stories with sympathetic journalists, sneaking a peek at debate questions in advance or just keeping their ear to the ground: "I just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name will be in a story concerning the White House's ethics policy, which could run on Monday," wrote Washington Post White House bureau chief Juliet Eilperin in a March 21, 2015, e-mail to an Obama staffer.
In the public eye since 1992, the Clintons have long memories, rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies, swatting away annoying flies like Bill de Blasio — "Should we care about this?" wondered Podesta privately in response to policy suggestions from the mayor — whose aid they don't need. Like the Bourbon monarchy, they've learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Unsuccessfully floating the idea in late 2014 of changing the date of Illinois' 2016 primary, current campaign manager Robby Mook wrote to Podesta, "This is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won't forget what their friends have done for them." Nor, it goes without saying, what their enemies have done to them. And certainly not what they're going to do to us, should they win next month. But that's private — for now.
The Clintons never forget
In November 2014, Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook e-mailed Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about the urgency of pushing a bill to move the Illinois primary out of March, to stop momentum for a moderate Republican candidate.
Illinois was offered "a bonus of 10 percent extra delegates if they move to April and 20 percent if they move to May" but didn't change the date as it had already done so in 2008.
"Our preference would be for them to move all the way to May, but if they at least move to April 12 or April 19 they will have the day to themselves and presumably garner a lot of coverage," wrote Mook. "They will also be influencing a big northeast primary day on April 26."
"They don't really care about being helpful and feel forgotten and neglected by POTUS," Mook wrote. "The key point is that this is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won't forget what their friends have done for them."
On having two personas
"You just have to sort of figure out how to . . . balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today . . . I mean, politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."
— Hillary Clinton in a leaked speech to the National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013
On favors
"[Qatar] would like to see WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] 'for five minutes' in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011."
— Ami Desai, director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation, wrote in a 2012 e-mail.
On de Blasio
Early in 2015, when Mayor Bill de Blasio contacted the campaign about his Progressive Agenda plan "to organize progressives nationally to take on income inequality," he wrote: "I believe you will agree with much of this content. Please let me know if you want to discuss."
The e-mail response from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta was: "Should we care about this?"
"I'm not sweating it," replied Neera Tanden, the president and chief executive of the Center for American Progress, who explained to Podesta that: "Politically, we are not getting any pressure to join this from our end."
The dream of open borders
"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere."
— Hillary in her remarks from a leaked speech to Banco Itau in May 2013
Needy Latinos
"A few calls you might consider making," John Podesta wrote to Clinton in an e-mail with the subject line "Needy Latinos and 1 easy call."
On Catholics
Referring to a New Yorker article about News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch (who owns The Post), which stated he is raising his kids Catholic, Clinton aide John Halpin wrote in an e-mail:
"Friggin' Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
"Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC [Supreme Court] and think tanks to media and social groups.
"It's an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy."
Palmieri, director of communications for the Clinton campaign, responds:
"I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became Evangelicals."
On Putin
"I would love it if we could continue to build a more positive relationship with Russia," Clinton said during a speech to Goldman Sachs on June 4, 2013. In the same speech, Clinton said, "Obviously we would very much like to have a positive relationship with Russia and we would like to see Putin be less defensive toward a relationship with the United States, so that we could work together on some issues."
"One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States," Clinton said. "I said, 'You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.' I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, 'You care about the tiger?' "
Out of touch
"I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never. I mean, were there really rich people, of course there were. My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care . . . And now, obviously, I'm kind of far removed because the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven't forgotten it."
— Hillary Clinton remarks in a leaked speech to Goldman-BlackRock in February 2014.
Collusion with the media…
. . . on TV
CNBC host John Harwood to Podesta in an e-mail about a Clinton interview on CNN:
"She looks so much more comfortable talking to Andrea [Mitchell] today than to Brianna [Keilar] a few weeks ago."
Podesta was thankful for the journalist's opinion, responding, "I think she's over the hump."
Clinton's director of communications Jennifer Palmieri also "appreciated" Harwood's help when he emailed her the suggestion to look up a certain video dating back to the Nixon presidency that could be beneficial to their efforts.
. . . in print
"I just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name will be in a story concerning the White House's ethics policy, which could run on Monday," WaPo White House Bureau Chief Juliet Eilperin told then-Obama White House Assistant Press Secretary Frank Benenati in a March 21, 2015, e-mail.
The story appeared March 22, 2015, under the headline, "Obama promised to curb the influence of lobbyists. Has he succeeded?"
. . . and with that "leaked" CNN question
On March 12, Donna Brazile, then vice chair of the DNC and a CNN and ABC contributor, allegedly wrote an email to the Clinton campaign with the subject line "From time to time I get the questions in advance."
It continues:
"Here's one that worries me about HRC…
"Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?"
Palmieri wrote back within three hours, seemingly not as worried:
"Hi. Yes, it is one she gets asked about. Not everyone likes her answer but can share it."
She then instructs a copied employee to share the campaign's standard answer to the question to Brazile.Follow enlightenedlbrl


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Happy holiday guys,gals...its me..Tetzzz..u know who right....cherish ur life on this holiday k???im going to miss all of my friends, ex raihan(tett),mira,alin.....cant wait to meet u again(really??)..anyway..just to create a scene....mY bedroom HAD TURNED INTO Pink!!!!say wut??PINK...aNd the bed already been changed into fluffy one....feel like not going back..but,again..i still miss gaya...nope gaya kutty,but ipg gaya(teettttt)..for those who r not comin home,sorry guys,enjoy ur holiday there k???
selamat berpuasa n salam ramadhan..
miss Ena(tetttz)..


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- Fixed gyro interrupt.
- Able to single with gyro ISR callback using epoll, and GPIO. Need to merge into the flight controller loop.
- Started moving code for GPS parsing using C++/ boost ASIO
Here is the parts list:
Opted to use a OrangePI Zero over the Neo AIR. The goal is to get something in the air and then move to using a camera OSD/OpenCV.
Still can use a USB camera for a simple test.
Here is a trace of the flight controller loop at 8Khz. What is interesting is the I2C poll for the baro/Mag.


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Samba in the South-East: A Brazilian in the League of Ireland
In January 1986, Waterford United signed 26-year-old Sebastiao Elias de Freitas Filho, believed to be the first Brazilian to grace the League of Ireland. His time was brief but eventful if not always for what he did on the pitch. Continue reading →


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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) investigation into AOL Time Warner's (AOLTW) business dealings has reportedly focused on swapping transactions akin to those that have come under heavy scrutiny in the energy and telecom industries.
SEC lawyers and federal prosecutors are reviewing instances where the company's America Online Inc. (AOL) Internet unit performed practices known as "round-tripping" and "back-to-back" transactions, according to Monday's online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Round tripping has traditionally been used to describe instances where telecom and energy companies sell unused assets of their business to another company while simultaneously agreeing to buy back those or similar assets at roughly the same price. Back-to-back transactions are essentially the same as round-tripping, except that there can be a delay between transactions. Both practices can be used to artificially prop up both the buyer's and seller's revenues. No one from AOLTW was immediately available to comment Monday morning. The SEC declined to comment on the report.
News that the government probe has narrowed in on AOL's possible exchange transactions could spell even more trouble for the beleaguered company given that downfall of Global Crossing Holdings Ltd. and Enron Corp. were in part pinned on similar sorts of deals.
Telecom giant Global Crossing was accused of improperly inflating its revenues through "capacity swaps," for instance, buying fiber-optic capacity from one customer while selling nearly the same capacity.
However, it is too early to say whether the AOLTW transactions in question were illegal. Federal prosecutors will have to prove that AOLTW was intentionally trying to deceive or defraud investors with the deals to have a case, according to the Journal.
AOLTW not only faces a SEC probe, but is also under a parallel investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for possible criminal offenses. The investigations were sparked by articles in the Washington Post last month, alleging that the company performed a series of unusual transactions in an effort to prop up its AOL Internet unit.
AOLTW acknowledged last week that it had discovered three transactions in which it may have misbooked revenue for its Dulles, Virginia, Internet unit totalling US$49 million. The company said that the revelation came as it was reviewing its financial records in preparation for a SEC deadline requiring company officials to sign off on their financial results. The company squeaked in just under last Wednesday's deadline, and an SEC spokeswoman said Monday that the agency is still reviewing the company's certification.
Meanwhile, the government investigations are reportedly centering on the former head of AOL's business unit, David Colburn. Colburn, who helped forge many of the transactions that are now in question, left the company earlier this month, under unclear circumstances.
Stock in the company (AOL) slumped .8 percent to US$12.46 a share in trading Monday morning, following the latest news in the investigation.


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Are You Addicted To Facebook?
The Article: Can These 6 Questions Tell You If You're Clinically Addicted to Facebook? by Brian Fung in The Atlantic.
The Text: American medical discourse is chock full of addictions these days. There's video game addiction. Porn addiction. Gambling addiction. Internet addiction.
And of course: Facebook addiction. At least, that's according to Norwegian researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen, who says people who can't get enough of the social network show many of the same signs of withdrawal and mood swings associated with gambling junkies.
Although Facebook is not a chemical like alcohol or cocaine, she said in an email to The Atlantic, Facebook users can fit the criteria for addiction that are applied to other things.
All addictions, chemical and non-chemical, appear to comprise six core components: (1) salience (the activity dominates thinking and behaviour), (2) mood modification (the activity modifies/improves mood), (3) tolerance (increasing amounts of the activity are required to achieve initial effects), (4) withdrawal (occurrence of unpleasant feelings when the activity is discontinued or suddenly reduced), (5) conflict (the activity causes conflicts in social relationships and other activities), and (6) relapse (tendency for reversion to earlier patterns of the activity after abstinence or control).
The problem, however, is this: how do you measure addiction to a website? Her attempt, which was published earlier this year in Psychological Reports, is called the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. Originally, participants were asked 18 questions and those answers were correlated with a variety of other psychological tests and measures of problematic media usage.
Six of the initial 18 questions have been kept by the researchers as the most predictive of Facebook addiction. To a first approximation, these questions are a way of measuring whether you have a problem with Facebook. Each of them correlates with one of the six components listed above and can be answered: very rarely, rarely, sometimes, often, or very often. Here they are (we've listed the component of addiction the question addresses in parentheses after it).
How often during the last year have you…
-spent a lot of time thinking about Facebook or planned use of Facebook? (Salience)
-used Facebook in order to forget about personal problems? (Mood modification)
-felt an urge to use Facebook more and more? (Tolerance)
-become restless or troubled if you have been prohibited from using Facebook? (Withdrawal)
-used Facebook so much that it has had a negative impact on your job/studies? (Conflict)
-tried to cut down on the use of Facebook without success? (Relapse)
Not everyone is sold on the idea, though. Mark Griffiths, a British psychologist at Nottingham Trent University, says the notion of Facebook addiction actually obscures more than it reveals.
"The real issue here concerns […] what people are actually addicted [to]," Griffiths writes in the latest issue of Psychological Reports. "Facebook addiction as a term may already be obsolete because there are many activities that a person can engage in on the medium." In other words, to say that we're addicted to "Facebook" doesn't really accomplish very much when the service's value derives from what people do with it.
Griffiths adds that if the concept of Facebook addiction isn't quite specific enough, it could also be attacked on the grounds of being too narrow. There's no reason to think you wouldn't find the same habits and attitudes on other social networks that Andreassen discovered with respect to Facebook.
"There is a fundamental difference between addictions to the Internet and addictions on the Internet," Griffiths writes. So, by analogy, you wouldn't say that you were addicted to going to bars if you were an alcoholic. Griffiths argues that there are specific activities on the Internet that one could be addicted to, but measuring Facebook itself is not the right level of analysis. "The field needs a psychometrically validated scale that specifically assesses social networking addiction rather than Facebook use," he concluded.
In other words, Andreassen's research appears to have kicked off a debate in addiction research that won't be settled soon.
But here's one parting thought: even as we begin talking more about this thing we call "addiction" to digital media, attitudes toward the technology are still evolving. It's not unimaginable that what we consider unnatural today will eventually lose its cultural stigma down the road. After all, you don't see many people talking about being addicted to talking on the telephone. But go back to the 1970s and you see plenty of headlines like this one: "Younger Generation Has Phone Addiction" and "Telephone Addiction Problem for Parents."


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I played Division I basketball at the University of San Francisco from 1995-2000 and lived a dream, making it all the way to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen in 1996. Easter Sunday of my senior year, when all the games were over and the crowds of fans were gone, I decided to venture off campus in order to find a familiar place of worship. Just south of the Haight-Ashbury district I found a church, which on the outside seemed familiar enough: a sign read "United Methodist," the church I grew up in. However, on the inside, in the people, I found something completely unexpected. The church was alive with vibrant flowers, baskets of fruit, bamboo mats on the altar, bamboo skirts on the men and women, and brightly dressed children. I soon learned that ninety-five percent of this church's congregation had immigrated to San Francisco from the small South Pacific island of Tonga. I was a complete stranger, yet they welcomed me with warm hugs, and their Polynesian songs washed over me like a tidal wave. With compassionate tears streaming down her face, Pastor Anna read scripture in both Tongan and English. Music, language, and passion combined to help me understand that Christ lived a passionate life of justice. In one swift heartbeat, I let go of basketball and knew I wanted to live that kind of life.
After college, I became a young adult volunteer for the United Methodist Church and served as a youth minister in Adderbury, England. In the course of that year, I learned to pray, to let go of my pride, and to be vulnerable with disinterested teenagers. I returned to the States and to inner-city Seattle, where I lived with five other young adults in an intentional community program sponsored by University Presbyterian Church. To earn a living, I joined Americorps and ran after-school programs in a low-income neighborhood in the Rainier Valley. In the evenings, I volunteered at a drop-in center for street kids in downtown Seattle. I went full steam like it was pre-season training, only this time I told myself I was "getting in shape for God." My goal was to be a superstar servant, a 110% volunteer, like an athlete that wanted to start on God's winning team. Impressing others through competition was the only solid framework I had to build on. It distracted me from the emptiness and uncertainty I felt, threw my life into imbalance, and led to an eating disorder.
Because of my health, I stopped volunteering and found a family to live with in a new part of Seattle. In return for a place to live, I provided respite care for their developmentally disabled daughter. While there, I volunteered at the S&S Service Compost Homestead Farm and Educational Center on Lopez Island, a tiny island north of Seattle in the San Juans. Eventually, I served as their intern for six months and brought a high school student with a developmental disability to help with work on the farm. I had gone from five years of Division I basketball in San Francisco to a year in rural England, to inner city Seattle for two years, and then to a farm on Lopez Island. When my season of service came to an end, I had a lot of leftovers.
My service leftovers sat stacked on every available counter space, waiting to be changed from a polluting presence into a rich, life-altering, and nourishing resource. At times, I wanted to throw my leftovers away, to forget the experiences that were difficult and hard to explain. The quick fix would be to stuff them in a bag and let the garbage man haul them to the landfill. The problem with the "throwaway" option is that leftovers never leave. No matter how lined and lidded I think I am, eventually experiences leak out to cause soul and soil pollution.
I needed a transformation, and that required two things. The first was to create time and space to consider a different option. The second, when I stopped serving, was the time I now had to be still and ask, "What is missing?"
Part of my answer came during a volunteer week in El Salvador. Each day we rode to the work site in the back of a truck. One evening, when asked what the most joyful part of the day was, I spoke about the dust-filled, bump-ridden, noisy pick-up ride and tears began to flow and then to gush. I had rediscovered an old joy. Growing up in a rural town, I helped to change irrigation lines for my Uncle Jim. Riding in the back of the truck was my favorite part of the day. With the wind blowing in my face and the sky wide open above my head, I could sing at the top of my lungs and no one but the dog, her ears and lips flapping in the wind, could hear me. That was freedom. Then I went to San Francisco to pursue basketball, England and inner-city Seattle to pursue God, and forgot that I came from five generations of farmers. Tending the soil is woven into my design. The rhythms of digging, releasing, placing, firming, watering, and tending give my hands and mind a peaceful occupation. Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote that, "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Transformation began during my year-long pause between Seattle and Lopez when I signed up to take Master Composter/Soil Builder courses at Seattle Tilth. After forty hours of instruction, I was equipped with more knowledge on composting than I thought possible. The more I learned, the more I wanted to tell others about compost. I volunteered to teach composting at Seattle's farmers' markets, and was heavily involved in compost during my time of service on the S&S Homestead farm. Every week I gathered the organic manifestations of farm life-dairy cow manure, old lettuce, straw, chicken feathers, egg shells, coffee grounds, stale bread-all smelling awful and looking rotten, and piled them on a giant concrete slab. Amazingly and delightfully, it only took one week for moldy, rotten garbage to become deep brown and sweet smelling. As I witnessed the cleansing transformation of a compost pile, I began to do the same with my leftover service experience. Instead of holding my leftovers inside where they polluted my body and spirit, I allowed them to surface. I uncovered the leftovers that paralyzed me-the overwhelming future, the youth program in England that I had left unfinished, the fading faces and forgotten names, the hopelessness I felt while walking the streets of Seattle at night, the frustrations of running an after-school program, my eating disorder, questions about my images of God-and threw them into the accepting, forgiving, hungry compost pile with reckless glee. In the act of composting, there is no right or wrong; there is only every person's unique combination of service experience and future hope. As with all composting, the more diverse and smellier the material, the better. All of it goes on the compost pile to heat up, stew, and be digested by the tiniest forms of life as they work their miraculous, earthy transformations.
In order for compost to come alive, it needs water. I can pile up all the organic material I can find, but without moisture it will dry out, shrivel up, and do nothing. Watering plants on the farm, providing the animals with plenty of fresh water, and staying hydrated myself helped me to see that God never desires for us to suffer, for our mouths to be parched, or for our hearts to be like a dry well that no one can draw from. Water has the ability to carry guilt, old habits, and pride down into the earth where instead of staining life, they are washed into the beginnings of new life.
One example of water's ability to wash and rejuvenate me came while helping to supervise a youth group on a farm in Wapato, Washington. Our last night there, the youth minister led us in a foot washing ceremony. My whole body rejected the idea. I was only with this group of young people for one week to "help out" and did not want to become vulnerable with anyone. Although I did not realize it at the time, this week was a microcosm of my longer time of service. I was convinced that the only way to please God was to serve others until it hurt. "No pain, no gain," as my coaches always said. This approach prevented me from being truly present with the people I lived with and places I lived. But on this farm in Wapato, I was caught off guard with my feet in a tub of cool water. Teenagers I had only just met offered graceful words of encouragement and thanks that flowed from their hands to my feet, broke down my "helper only" barrier, and left me feeling clean, centered, and, most of all, loved. Water reminds me to nourish myself and to receive gifts of grace. It carries away guilt and pride so that I can look people in the eye and be present with them.
The simple act of making compost and giving it water brings immediate and enormous change to incongruous layers of "garbage." Overnight, what was once dead organic matter comes alive. Millions of microorganisms (there are more living things in one teaspoon of healthy compost than there are people on the earth!) metabolize the organic material and exhale carbon dioxide. They breathe. While on the farm, I would go out early in the morning and watch the compost pile steam into the chilly morning air. Organic matter passes through microscopic intestines millions upon millions of times, like a giant stomach, becoming more elemental with every pass of life and death. This is hot work, and in the first week of a compost pile's life, it can reach temperatures of up to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
This sudden burst of heat parallels the way I felt immediately after my time of service. I had a burning desire to continue to serve God with all that I had. Like the disciples who were with Jesus on the road to Damascus, I had walked some distance doing my best to listen to Jesus' teachings and had returned with a fire in my belly. Fire is a great cleanser that reduces compost piles, nature, and people to elemental truths, clearing out what inhibits life from moving forward and making room for abundant growth. We are left standing in the ashes of our old skin and asking elemental questions that, like nitrogen in a compost pile, flame experiences to life. Here are some of the questions with which I was left: How and with whom can I share what I have done, seen, and learned? How can I continue to show extravagant love in my ordinary life? How can I live in a way that brings good food, good work, health, and social justice to myself and to others? How can I prevent the cultural, social, and religious experiences that hummed on a sensitive edge for so long, hot and moldable, from turning into a cold lump?
Burning can be good, but if a compost pile burns too hot for too long, it can destroy itself. Anything above 165 degrees will not only kill weed seeds and harmful bacteria, but all of the good, life-supporting bacteria as well. In order to temper the heat, compost must be turned. Turning has the opposite effect on a cold pile. Together with water, it brings the material buried in the heart of the pile to the outside, and puts any dry, inactive material into the middle where it can heat up and decompose. Turning sustains the balance between complacency and burning out.
Two years after completing my internship on the farm, I thought that my experiences had gone cold. Then I attended a debriefing workshop at the Hearth, the physical gathering place for Krista Colleagues in Spokane, Washington, that gave me an opportunity to turn my pile of service compost. I found embers waiting to be stoked into life again through conversation and reflection. Ideas and beliefs I had forgotten resurfaced, and I sent convictions and stale dreams back into the heart of my experiences to re-ignite. Returning to the Krista conference each year has become my annual pilgrimage, a way to reconsider, clarify, and recharge my life.
All the work involved in creating a compost pile-gathering material, making a pile, watering, burning, and fermenting-are steps that lead to the creation of humus. Humus is the most renewable, stable form of plant food in the world. Scientists are baffled by its formation, but they know that it acts like a plant buffet. In exchange for hydrogen atoms, root hairs can take away vital nutrients from nearby humus whenever they need it. The key to good humus is time. Like good wine and good bread, compost needs time to be with bacteria and fungus and to cure. If drawn from too soon, humus development will be incomplete and its richness will be lost to soil and plants. Compost needs at least a year of curing before humus appears. This may seem like a long time, but it can take hundreds of years for humus to form naturally on a forest floor. During this stage, compost shows no visible signs of activity, but the pile is far from dormant. In fact, this is the most vital and mysterious part of a compost pile's life. This is a quiet time, and it takes patience. As I passed a well-turned pile on my way to my family's garden, I said a patient prayer, put my hand on top of the blue tarp that protected it from rain, snow, and wind, and felt the ripe stillness there, like a womb with hidden life growing inside.
After my seasons of service ended, everyday routines reduced that initial fire in my belly to embers. The monthly stipend was replaced by job hunts, rent, grocery bills, and searching for a place to live. I took substitute teaching jobs and coached high school girls' basketball. I worked as a barista at a coffee shop in Lincoln, Nebraska. One Krista Foundation speaker described this phase as living on a Saturday. When service ends, whether it has been a week or three years, Saturdays begin. After the overwhelming emotions of Good Friday and before being surprised by joy on Sunday, days stretch out into many Saturdays of confusion, restless normalcy, loneliness, and even fear. It was tempting for me to dig back into service without waiting for my experiences to cure. When I volunteered at the drop-in shelter for homeless teens in Seattle, I dug into my compost too soon. The fire in my heart was hot, but I had no humus to sustain me. Without a reliable source of nourishment, I wilted on the vine.
I returned home after three years of service and gave myself time to cool from the initial burn of service. Like compost, I did not cure overnight. My experiences fermented around me, and I came to realize that my passions were planted by God. God wove into my heart all of the things that made it skip, swell, ache, and beat. Following my innermost desires is not a betrayal of faith, but rather a germinating expression of the person God designed me to be. The Krista Foundation offers me a time, place, and community that encourages me to write, speak, sing, and pray about my experiences, turning leftovers into rich insights and self-wisdom. Service is humus for life.
To me, composting is a way of life. It is a process of gracefully considering all the parts of ourselves, in light of the deep and life-changing experiences of service, and letting them change us over time. Humus, the invaluable result of composting, is the miracle of each person's leftovers piled, watered, turned, and cured. This is a way of life, and a way to love. I believe that soil, water, people, flowers, animals, vegetables, and compost were created to teach us about the nature of love.
I hope to live justly and with love where my roots are deepest. I have come home to enter joyfully into the seasons of life in Goldendale, Washington, and to a life of marriage with my fiancé, Adam. I hope to grow and compost food in a sustainable, thankful, and joyful way, without waste. I have learned that when people break bread together in a Tongan church in San Francisco, during an Anglican service in a medieval cathedral, at night on the streets in Seattle, in the back of a pickup truck in El Salvador, at a table in the barn kitchen, or at home surrounded by family, they recognize their common need for nourishment and companionship and are doing their part to fulfill that need. When I dig into the rich, earthy pile of humus that used to be only leftovers, I come to the core of my values and can live into the next part of my life with the deep greens and rich, dark browns of humus to color my decisions and direct how I live. In this way of life, nothing is left over, and my part is to hold the miraculous cycle intact with a loving act of composting.
Curriculum Questions
1. Sarah identifies three elements necessary to create a healthy compost pile: water, heat, and time to cure. What analogy or analogies to service does she draw to each component?
2. Think back to your own season of service: as you process your service experiences, which stage do you think you are in? Are you thirsty for encouragement? Fired up and excited to serve? Waiting to figure out what's next?
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Last year Sarah Wanless Zwickle, Krista Colleague class of 2003, moved to Columbus, OH with her husband Adam and found plenty of people eager to learn about the healing act of composting. She taught "Compost 101" for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association and worked as a farmhand at Shepherd's Corner, an organic farm and ecological center owned by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. Sarah and her husband are now both enrolled as graduate students in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University where she is studying the values, knowledge, and sustainable practices of organic farmers.


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Winds reached nearly 60 mph in some places and, according to the National Weather Service, 1 to 2 inches of rain fell in downtown Phoenix in less than 30 minutes.
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I have two main approaches to classroom behavior. The first behavior plan is quite regimented and is only used in school environments where discipline challenges where quite high. It has been adapted from the clinical faculty that I have worked with and is supported by many of the most recent studies in classroom management. Although it seems confining, it is utilized for classes with students with low self-esteem who have only been taught to be followers…students who were accustomed to being told what to do instead of making their own choices. However, through this plan, students learn how to make choices that are good for them and how to be in control of their own education. Essentially, I see this behavior plan as a foundation building tool. Students who already have a sense of control over their actions and learning would not need such a regimented system. Instead I would implement a second strategy that was based on mutual respect, but still reliant on sharing power with the students, enabling them to make choices not just about their behavior but also about their learning process.
The following is a more detailed outline of my strategies. While the first approach would adhere more closely to the following, the second approach would only use these processes as periodic maintenance.
My behavior plan has been adapted from the clinical faculty that I have worked with and is supported by many of the most recent studies in classroom management. It was used successfully in a school with a higher than average amount of behavioral difficulty during my elementary practicum experience, and can be adapted to any age range or behavioral need.
The single most important element in this plan is remaining consistent and fair, and reminding students that when a consequence is issued, it is not the student that is being viewed negatively, but the behavior. I feel the best way to gain respect and desirable behavior from students is to show that they are respected as individuals and to offer a safe and caring environment.
The plan is structured around a list of behaviors that students are to avoid, short enough to be easily remembered, and general enough to encompass the majority of possible behavior problems. They are primarily based on respect for the teacher and classmates. For example, some behaviors to avoid include being messy on purpose, being defiant, or being disruptive. Students are allotted two reminders of appropriate behavior during each class period, and upon receiving the third they fill out a behavior form. This form includes spaces where the student can indicate all of the behaviors that he or she was responsible for. This gives the student time to calm down, reflect on what they did, and relate the consequence to their actions.
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Right now I am working a crazy shift at work where I don't get off work until 8:30 pm on the weekends and 10:30 through the week. Needless to say I haven't been doing much cooking (or blogging either). I have decided to spend a day doing some oamc so that my poor husband won't have to live off of Ramen noodles.
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There's no doubt more frigid temperatures and snow storms are still ahead in the New Year, and what better way to shake off the chills than with cuddly pajamas covering all extremities. However, it seems I missed the memo that women's pajama sets, on average, were selling upward of $50. To see a pair of women's pajamas selling for $78 at an everyday retailer was sticker shock!
Just before Christmas, prices for women's pajamas were cut sharply, but some have edged up to nearly half of their previously lofty prices.
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In flannel, fleece or cotton, PJs with long sleeves, matching tops and pats pants with notched collars (the original menswear look) have style. They can capture the look of innocence of a child wearing the pajamas set. On women, they can look real sexy with a little swagger of the pants and with the matching top unbuttoned down to as far as desired.
Joe Boxer Women's Pajamas were reduced 50% to $15 at Sears.
Jacyln Smith Pajamas for Kmart are among the top bargains at $10.00.
Kohl's has pajamas on sale, including a pair by Jennifer Lopez for $22.40, reduced from over-the 50-bucks mark of $56.
Most of JCP's pajamas for women were cut in half to 24.99. A few in plus or petite sizes were down to $19.99
Victoria's Secret has cut brought quite a few of its pajamas down to $29.99, including this pair, worn with a little skin showing.
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