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Growing up in California, photographer Stuart Palley has spent a lifetime both fascinated by and well-accustomed to wildfires—a captivation that he has kindled through his career.
Based in Southern California, Palley has spent the past five years photographing wildland fires in the state, capturing a vast array of stunning images from Orange Country to Yosemite.
This year, with raging wildfires throughout California burning hundreds of thousands of acres, Palley has had no shortage of opportunities to continue his ongoing project. "I thought since we had a wet winter the fire activity would be mitigated," Palley says, "but grasses and dead trees impacted by the bark beetle have caught fire."
Up-close photographic access to these fires can be hard to come by; only specially credentialed media are allowed in the fire zones. But Palley says that even this access can be insufficient: "The opportunity to hike around with the crew, though—that takes time and experience."
As it happens, Palley is uniquely suited to enter the blazes. Not only is he a photographer interested in fire, he is also a qualified base-level wildland firefighter. Because of this, the firefighters aren't as worried about Palley's safety when he is right alongside them.
Beyond expertise, photographing fires requires a steady resupply of equipment, as evidenced by Palley's melted lenses and broken camera parts. "Normal weather sealing is not preventive against fire damage," he says.
Despite his personal relationship with California wildfires, Palley prefers viewing these natural disasters from a distance, as emblems of humans' fraught relationship with the environment.
The Border Fire burns near Campo and Potrero in San Diego County, California on June 22, 2016. The fire was 15% contained and had burned approximately 6,500 acres.
"Fire is critical to the health and maintenance of the ecosystem," says Palley. "However, we've suppressed these fires so much there is now a massive fuel overgrowth."
But even as the flames remind Palley of humans' toll on the environment, he remains painfully aware that wildfires pose their own devastating toll as well.
"I see people who don't know whether their house has burnt down, and they are in limbo," he says. "It's hard to watch."
A night-flying aircraft flies over the Shirley Fire in the Sequoia National forest near Lake Isabella, California on June 14, 2014.
The Sand Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest Saturday July 23rd, 2016 under triple digit heat. The fire had burned 20,000 acres by that evening and was 10% contained as firefighters battled low humidity, shifting wind, and high temperatures.
See more of Stuart Palley's work on his website and follow him on Instagram.
Header Image: The Meadow Fire burns overnight near Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on September 8, 2014. The Meadow Fire was one of thousands of fires to burn in California in 2014, from the Mexican border to the border with Oregon in a deadly wildland fire season. PHOTOGRAPH BY STUART PALLEY


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Donostia (San Sebastian):
Hundreds surrounded the Spanish government delegation in solidarity with the prisoners of conscience arrested yesterday in Donostia because of their peaceful political activities:
Source: Ateak Ireki[es].
Iruñea (Pamplona):
Hundreds marched in support of politically persecuted class pickets:
Source: Ateak Ireki[es].
Hundreds marched in San Inazio neighborhood against the harsh penalties imposed to political prisoners Ibai Beobide, Eider Zurriariain, Euri Albisu, Xabier Atristain, Juan María Maizkurrena, Miren Josune Balda and Jose Agustin Camacho. They denounced this persecution as war strategy, i.e. opposed to the peace process unilaterally impelled by the Basque Nationalist Left and ETA.
Source: Bilboko Branka[eu].
Update: In Iruñea-Pamplona there was also another demonstration, gathering some 3000 people in demand of social rights and against poverty.
They spoke against the "government of bankers and capitalists" and in favor of "a government that ends with poverty and not with the poor as they are doing now". One of the main demands present was the right to a decent home because there are many empty homes which are not being rented to the people who need them.
Source: Naiz Info[es].


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Category: Diabetes/Prediabetes/Hypoglycemia
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Objective : Prevalence of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is roughly 20–30% in the general population, but it reaches 50% in patients affected by Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). We sought to evaluate the effect of GLP-1 agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors on NAFLD by measurement of "Fatty Liver Index" (FLI) in T2DM patients.
Methods : 58 patients treated with metformin, with or without insulin, were added with GLP-1 agonists or SGLT-2 inhibitors for poorly controlled diabetes (HbA1c >7.0%). Personal, bio-humoral data and FLI were assessed at baseline and 12 month later. FLI was calculated by the formula ey / (1 + ey) × 100, where y = 0.953 × ln(triglycerides, mg/dL) + 0.139 × BMI, kg/m2 + 0.718 × ln (GGT, U/L) + 0.053 × waist circumference, cm – 15.745.
Results : After 12 months of treatment both GLP-1 agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors groups showed significantly lower BMI (-3.9% and -2.7%, respectively), waist circumference (-2.8% and -1.7%, respectively), fasting blood glucose (-14.3% and -18.3%, respectively), HbA1c (-12.8% and -13.2%, respectively), triglycerides (-18% and -15%, respectively) and FLI (-9-3% and -8.7%, respectively). SGLT-2 inhibitors also showed significant reduction of ALT (-15.1%) and total cholesterol (-12.5%). No differences were detected at follow up between the two groups. .
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Several studies demonstrated positive effects of GLP-1 agonists on NAFLD of type 2 diabetic patients expressed by reduction of ALT and AST, intrahepatic lipids and histological resolution of NAFLD. The expression of GLP-1R in hepatocytes is still controversial, then, it is uncertain whether GLP-1 agonists act directly through hepatic GLP-1 receptor or indirectly via metabolic amelioration.
SGLT-2 inhibitors too have been demonstrated to reduce liver fat, improve ALT levels, reduce hepatocyte injury biomarkers and FLI. Positive effects on liver fat were also demonstrated both by CT scan and histological findings.
This is the first study that compared the effect of SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists on FLI. Both drugs, at a similar extent, were able to reduce FLI. As expected, they induced a reduction of BMI, waist circumference, fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, and triglycerides. The amelioration of FLI seemed to be dependent by the metabolic improvement, and independent by the mechanism of action, as no difference could be detected between the two drugs.
Conclusion : The study showed that in patients with T2DM and NAFLD, the addition of SGLT-2 inhibitors or GLP-1 agonists to metformin, with or without insulin, hesitated in a significant amelioration of FLI.
Roberto Negro– Consultant, Division of Endocrinology,, Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Veronica Chiri– autor, University of Salento in Lecce
Division of Endocrinology,
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Roberto Negro, MD, FACE, is Senior Assistant Physician at Endocrine Unit of "V. Fazzi" Hospital in Lecce (Italy) since 2005. Professor of Endocrinology at University of Parma, Italy (2007-2009). Reviewing Editor of Journal of Endocrinological Investigations (2009-2012). Fellow American College of Endocrinology (2011). Reviewing Editor of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (2012-2016). He is author and co-author of more than 60 published papers, having Thyroid and Pregnancy as main field of interest. He has been part of the panel of experts appointed by the American Thyroid Association for the compilation of the Guidelines for the "Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease during Pregnancy and Postpartum", and by the European Thyroid Association for the compilation of the "Guidelines for Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy and Childhood".
Awards and Honors
2007 The Endocrine Society and Pfizer, Inc. International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
2008 The Endocrine Society and Pfizer, Inc. International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.


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Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced Friday that he's agreed to fight Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight bout May 2 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. It's a bout the public has been calling for since late 2009 and pits the two finest boxers of their generation in a historic event.
"I am glad my decision to meet with Manny and discuss making this fight happen helped get the deal done," said Mayweather. "Giving the fans what they want to see is always my main focus.
This will be the biggest event in the history of the sport. Boxing fans and sports fans around the world will witness greatness on May 2.
"I am the best ever, TBE, and this fight will be another opportunity to showcase my skills and do what I do best, which is win. Manny is going to try to do what 47 before him failed to do, but he won't be successful. He will be number 48."
The bout is expected to set numerous records, including purse size, live paid gate and pay-per-view sales. The cost of the pay-per-view has yet to be determined and won't be until there are deals with the distributors.
Formal details on the agreement have yet to be announced, but it's expected that Mayweather will have a 60-40 split advantage on revenues, with Mayweather making at least $120 million and Pacquiao, who signed the contract for the bout Thursday, earning $80 million.
"Floyd should enjoy being the A-side while he can," Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer, said. "Because on May 2, Manny is going to put him on his backside."
Mayweather is the brilliant tactician and one of the finest defensive fighters in the sport's history. He has an innate sense of timing and can see punches coming that others can't.
Pacquiao, a left-hander, is a powerhouse offensive fighter who has the speed and quickness to deal with Mayweather.


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HUD updated its National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on December 30, 2015 to clarify that NHTF money may be used for installing broadband infrastructure. On the same day, HUD also issued a similar FAQ for the HOME program. On January 7, HUD issued CDBG broadband FAQs.
As part of NHTF-assisted new construction or rehabilitation, the existing NHTF regulations allow NHTF money to be used to make utility connections from the property line to the adjacent street. In the new FAQ, HUD interprets internet connectivity to fit the regulatory definition of "utility connections." The FAQ states that NHTF money may not be used for off-site improvements, including running broadband internet cable or wires to the project site.
The existing regulations allow NHTF money to be used at multifamily projects to construct or rehabilitate community facilities that are located in the same building as the NHTF-assisted housing and that are for the use of project residents. The FAQ states that NHTF money may be used to provide a computer room or a multi-purpose room that could serve as a computer room in a multifamily rental project, but cannot be used to pay for a computer room located in separate building. NHTF money also may not be used to purchase computer equipment or other computer-related furniture.
The uses of HOME and CDBG for broadband are more varied and include services such as digital literacy classes.
The NHTF FAQ regarding broadband infrastructure is on page 9 of the December 30, 2015 FAQ at https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/HTF-FAQs.pdf
The HOME broadband infrastructure FAQ is at https://www.hudexchange.info/onecpd/assets/File/HOME-FAQs-Broadband.pdf
The CDBG broadband infrastructure FAQs are at https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4891/cdbg-broadband-infrastructure-faqs/


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Did you see the clip on the news the other night about the so-called "crisis in the computer industry?" According to the hype, laid-back programmers in the 60s (probably under the influence of psychedelics) made a big coding error. Never suspecting that they were writing code for the millennium, they entered two-digit dates instead of four into the internal system-operating instructions of computers. This was thought to be a really groovy digital compression idea at the time. Until, that is, cyber-culture slammed into the vector wall of the Year 2000. As the TV doomsday anchor explained with smiling teeth: "Make a long-distance phone call one minute before the millennium and hang up one minute after, and receive for your two minute phone call a 99 year telephone bill." Unable to recognize the four digits in the 3d millennium, computers will do the next best thing. When in doubt, go remake and head straight back for the Year 1900 and do the 20th century (digitally) all over again. And it's kind of perfect. Just listen to all those bankers and computer CEO's who flash onto the screen, talking in earnest cyber-Red Scare terms about the "potential" 600 billion dollar cost to business to change a few digits, or the "I dunno, don't blame me" government spokesman who says that we're cyber-sunk as a nation: it's four digits or bust; or the insurance executives with worried faces who speak of changing 1.6 million dates in time for the millennium. But we're TV news scare-proofed. We know that this is all fake, that coding today is all auto-pilot stuff, that there is some hacker somewhere, probably inspired by this news report and with digital dreams galore of Netscape and Yahoo! in her mind, who is already putting down code to bring the lost in space cyber-millennium safely back to earth.
But maybe it's something else. Perhaps this news report doesn't have anything to do with money at all, but is a powerful metaphor for fear of the millennium. Confronted by all the structural changes and seismic shifts brought on by the digital 90s, the fearful computer has an anxiety attack, quickly flipping from a cyber-aggressor of time to an historian of time past. Remake coding for a remake culture for a remake millennium. And why not? Computers have feelings too and, like a kitten that fails to make a jump, falls back to earth with a crash, and starts to lick itself furiously because it's embarrassed, computers sometimes go to ground in the past as a way of distracting attention from future fear. And so do we.
That's why it's the remake millennium. As the Year 2000 gets closer, the recycle cycle is more intense. Remake cinema, remake songs, remake music eras, remake Martini lunches and cocktail chatter, remake cigars, remake fashion, remake faces, remake politics, remake suburbia. The more things are front-loaded by future pressure, the more society reaches into the grab-bag of the past, and spews out lame remakes and flat-line memes and mutant recombinant images. Under the hyper-stress of a future of seismic shifts and radical structural changes and new technologies and new ways of digital understanding, culture retreats to the remake bunker. Not as McLuhan predicted when he said that old technologies have one last function as content for the invisible form of new technologies, but something much more politically perverse. The remake millennium is closer to Nietzsche's aphorism "Let the Dead Bury the Living." New technologies seem to entail a big drop in human creativity, and a vast increase in the pleasure of mass repetition. The "maggot man" is everywhere.
And it's killing us: 50s suburbs become the racially- and class-segregated privatized gated communities of the 90s; American rugged individualism comes back as Montana Freemen and private right-wing, gun-toting militias; First Amendment rights are recycled as libertarian squeals of total non-interference by government in private life; the 50s organization man disciplinary ideology returns under the mantra of "tough love". Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Tony Bennett, Sgt. Bilko, Mod fashion, Bob Dole: 90s culture becomes a mortuary of the dead past and creepy images and resurrected effects and 3d generation TV series with TV hits as cinema blockbusters and repeat politics - recycled, recombined, reworked, respewed.
So, here's one more recycle. The TV report on the crisis in the computer industry said that the millennium "could be a big 0."
"Could be?" The remake millennium already is a "big 0." For remake culture, that's the point.


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Table of ContentsDefinition / general | Cytology description | Cytology images
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Definition / general
- Predominate in luteal phase
- Presence of nuclear grooves is not associated with inflammation; in smears with neoplastic changes, is associated with HSIL (Acta Cytol 2003;47:421)
Cytology description
- Cytoplasm is polygonal, transparent, basophilic, flat / thin
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- Edition 2, Chapter 2.1 -
Silver Linings
by Alexander Brebner
Gray. It's controversial, even its spelling: gray or grey?* Some who have it cover it; some who don't ask colorists to create it, including women decades away from its natural occurrence. Does it make you look cool or aged? Is it a badge of honor or a stigma? A color or the lack of one?
It's a personal subject for me. My mother started to whiten at eighteen, and I hoped I would too (no such luck). Now in my fifties, salt is overtaking pepper in defined streaks, and I wouldn't dream of coloring it. But I'm a man, and as with most issues related to appearance, it's far more complex for women, and so I spoke with several who have very diverse gray hair stories.
Art Director Kate Pelc started graying as a teen, as did her father, and she has been hiding it under color ever since. Now in her mid-thirties and weary of chemical addiction – both in terms of the high maintenance and the health of her scalp – she was ready to embrace her natural white. But, she laments, "When I tried to explain to hairdressers what I want to do, I encountered a lot of judgement and general confusion." She came to Hairstory Studio "looking for an open-minded stylist to help me with the process of becoming a silver fox."
So, Mila, Hairstory color assistant, used a strong oil-based bleach (twice) to remove the box-dyed brown (rarely a good idea) and neutralized the remaining warmth with a blue-violet toner. The intersection of the two was a happy accident – a soft, fawn tint – and the result offered the perfect transition from solid brown to pure white with one future haircut. Kate sent us a picture of herself with her Dad afterward and wrote, "We match now and I love it!"
More typically ambivalent is elementary school teacher Lina Makdisi from Berkeley, California who was raised "around natural everything, which had an effect on me. My mother and grandma never pierced their ears, never even tried nail polish." Consequently, she never covered the gray that started to come in when she was barely 30. It's the first thing friends who haven't seen her in a while comment on: "Whoa! You've got a Susan Sontag thing going on!"
Some women in Lina's life approve; others wonder why she wouldn't color it. Men's reactions are equally mixed, including her boyfriend who feels, "It would be so pretty if you dyed it!" Even though he's into feminist theory, he has pretty traditional ideas of beauty and loves lipstick, nail polish, and long hair. "I imagine a partner who says things like, 'You're beautiful just the way you are.' I'm not used to such honest disapproval," Lina admits. A male friend's backhanded compliment: "It's so cool! From behind you look 60, but when you turn around you're so young!"
"Accepting gray could be empowering; maybe it's claiming my feminine self; maybe I like it because it's natural," Lina explained with an attempt at conviction. In the end, Roxie made the choice not to touch it. "I thought the cut was so strong that coloring would only distract from it. This is another example of less is more – it's as important what you choose not to do as what you do."
Design maven and curator of the online showcase Object Lesson, Carol Fertig has entrusted her hair to Roxie and Wes after many years as one of Michael's select clients. Hers is an unusual case of adding gray strands where there are few. "I confess. I suffer from SHE: Silver Hair Envy. The first time I recognized it was when I was 18 years old and I saw Norma Shearer play Marie Antoinette; there is a particular scene where her intricate silver updo is studded with diamond stars. I pinpoint that moment to my preoccupation with the color that represented the ultimate chic to me; I figured it would come naturally by the time I turned 30 – I couldn't wait!" she writes.
But, Carol continues, "Sadly my locks remained brown… that would be a boring shade of Pantone 448 B-R-O-W-N. I became so frustrated that time was not helping me reach my goal of dramatic, sophisticated, and special. I longed to join the growing list of the silver haired beauties I was collecting (Polly Mellon, Joyce Bryant, Marie Seznec, Kristin McMenamy, Tavi Gevinson – who at 15 had managed to get exactly the color I longed for)."
Finally Michael suggested she consult Roxie, who now regularly creates tiny highlights alongside the silver, and sends Carol home with a bottle of New Wash custom tinted with violet to preserve the cool tones and counteract yellowing. "Everyone thinks my silver is natural. When I explain that without her genius I would just be another Pantone 448 with (finally) some strands of grey, they tend not to believe me. What? Do they think I got here on my own? Hardly!"
Seasoned event planner Susan Holland is similarly accepting of the gray hair that began appearing in her late thirties. "There are things much more debilitating about aging than hair getting gray, and unless I'm in some enormous denial, none of it has disarmed me. So I have, in that sense, embraced it." In fact, when she was younger she wanted to appear older, "so that professionally I could be taken more seriously."
And even though she was a purist for 20 or so years, she is no stranger to color – quite the opposite as she visits Roxie regularly for sublime tints from rose to blue, and her white hair is an ideal canvas. "One of the things that you do here a lot is give more depth to hair by coloring it, to make it more rich and interesting as opposed to masking something. Maybe that's really the difference: it was never about masking. It was about enhancing. My husband was talking about the distinction between humans and animals: humans decorate themselves and animals don't. So we add things, just because we can. So, that's the way I've felt about coloring my hair. It's 'cause we can."
And while Susan has a consistent personal style, she enthusiastically embraces change. "I'm very comfortable with the notion. The crazy thing is when people cut or color their hair they think it's going to stay that way. I love ice sculpture, and people say, 'Well, isn't it going to melt?' Yes! Of course! It's ice! It's the same thing here – hair grows! There's a problem with the idea of trying to stop something as opposed to engaging in an ongoing process. People tell me my hair has changed since the last time that they saw me. But of course it changes. That's the fun part."
Clearly, this issue isn't black or white, as Lina's young students describe it. Rather, gray areas belong to the realm of individual choice. The use of color can both slow the appearance of age and accelerate it, but we all agree that there's something sad about denying silver into the so-called golden years in a misguided attempt to keep time from marching on.
The key seems to be – as for many things in life – refusing to measure oneself in comparison to others, and seeking a colorist willing to listen and consider all the modern possibilities. "I have always admired the experience that comes with earning silver hair," says Roxie. "I also believe in the power of tastefully and appropriately creating silver for men and women – and the surging trend of young people doing it has made it more acceptable for people of all ages, which ultimately helps make the world a less judgemental place. And that makes me very, very happy. "
*Americans spell it with 'a', whilst 'e' is the british preference.


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With President Trump talking about tax reform, is there a chance that Apple will be able to get out of its €13 billion Irish tax bill altogether?
The short answer from the EU is: no.
In August 2016, Apple was hit with a €13 billion tax bill by the European Commission, payable to Ireland. The Commission alleges that Apple's tax arrangements in Ireland, where it has its European headquarters, amount to unfair "state aid," and are illegal under law.
As such, it has been ordered to pay the huge bill for unpaid taxes — something that both Apple and Ireland are appealing.
On Wednesday, European Commission competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager was asked at a press conference what potential reform of the American tax code by Trump could mean for the Ireland tax bill.
If a tax cut meant Apple "ends up paying its taxes in the US," a journalist asked, "would that ... eradicate the need for any Apple payments back to Ireland or to any other EU member state?"
Vestager indicated that Apple's arrangement would still be considered "selective advantages" that "[unlevelled] the playing field."
"The Apple decision is based on our findings that Apple have organised themselves in such a way that profits from the sales in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and one more market are recorded in Cork, in Ireland, which is why these profits are also to be taxed in Ireland. Because you know, we work in the principle that profits should be taxed where they are generated."
She continued: "Whatever US tax reform they may pass is, of course, for them. What is important for us is the very sort of basic ... that if any company or group of companies gets selective advantages by member states and thereby unlevelling the playing field, and obviously we do respect that we will have to figure out where profits are generated and recorded before you can actually tax them."
That's not to say that Apple isn't able to lessen the €13 billion bill, however. Back in August 2016, Vestager said that Apple sending more cash back to the US could reduce it.
"The amount to be paid back to Ireland would also be reduced if the two [Apple subsidiaries] were required to pay larger amounts of money to their US parent company to fund the research and development efforts, in addition to the annual payments they have made," she said, according to Independent.ie.
Other countries might also be able to claim a chunk of it if they think they're owed — potentially reducing the amount paid to Ireland (but not the amount owed altogether).
"Other countries, in the EU or elsewhere, can look at our investigation," Vestager said last year. "If they conclude that Apple should have recorded its sales in those countries instead of Ireland, they could require Apple to pay more tax locally. That would reduce the amount to be paid back to Ireland."
In September 2016, prior to the US election, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company planned to repatriate "several billion dollars" of cash held overseas to the US in 2017. "We paid $400 million to Ireland, we paid $400 (million) to the US and we provisioned several billion dollars for the US for payment as soon as we repatriate it and right now I forecast that repatriation to occur next year," he told RTE.
Cook has been highly critical of the European Commission ruling, telling Independent.ie that it is "total political crap."
President Trump has promised to cut taxes on businesses and slash regulation, and Cook cited tax reform as a reason why he attended a meeting with the then-president-elect in December 2016.


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[Poetry] makes a lot happen in terms of the reflection of the order or the agency or the, quote, experience it gives people involved with it. People who are affected by it are paradoxically affected forever. It brings relief or a recognition in situations where almost nothing else can. It reveals aspects of language that, again, nothing else quite serves to measure or even to apprehend. So it's powerful.
Robert Creeley, Interview With Robert Creeley (by Brent Cunningham) Hooke Press 2007
Early on, I thought that whatever constituted one's art practice – words, lines, images -- emerged as the result of something like fate, rather than because of the will of the artist. Your life (I thought) made your writing inevitable. To some degree, I still think so. The challenges of how to do the work, get it out and allow other people to get to it in the context of this fated, difficult life are the problems to be solved. The activity of coming up with these solutions is what I am calling logogistics -- what it takes to write and live in a world where a writing practice can be nurtured and sustained.
When I was in Tom Parkinson's class as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, he brought in Robert Duncan who took that opportunity to rail passionately against academia in a typically wide-ranging talk about poetry, the war in Vietnam , the government, one's ways of life and how to write. Parkinson just laughed off the attack, not bothering to argue. Duncan went on, drawing on the board, talking about "the field," military strategy and poetics. This tiny exposure to the Spicer/ Duncan Circle was transformative for me, causing me to make decisions -- like not pursuing any formal graduate studies -- whose implications would ripple through my life forever. Here was a real poet – this was during the time of Duncan wearing a black cape – stating very clearly that the academy was anathema to poets. Duncan identified problems in one's own life and the life of the state and found solutions to these problems in the activity of the writing and thinking about writing. I resolved to do the same.
At this point I hadn't heard of the Death of the Author or Language writing and didn't know I wasn't supposed to tell little stories -- which I occasionally did and occasionally still do or now they are bigger stories – but I was very interested in how what I did would determine what I wrote.
I wanted to be independent or, more precisely, I wanted to have independence of mind. Autonomy. My idea was that I would have this independence of mind if I took a part-time job that consisted of mainly physical work. (Bare with me here.) Such a job, I reasoned, would not require me to think a certain way. It wouldn't be an identity, leaving my only identity to be that of "writer." I didn't have any money and few resources in the form of family or contacts who could find me a job or, at least, wise me up to the ways of the world. I didn't feel entitled, inclined or able to be supported by anyone else. I wanted to come up with the nut, the cost of doing business, every day of my life and did. I wanted this even though I was bad at it. It is possible that I believed I needed to be an "outlaw." Actual crime seemed counter-indicated because then any storekeeper or cop had the right to interfere with my autonomy. However, I did want to be outside of the academy and I was. At the time, there were a lot of people out there with me. My anti-academic notions were common.
Events were occurring all around. Readings, publications, talks, performances, goings to the bar after. Eventually I became aware of New College of California and the classes in the Poetics Program there, none of which (blessedly) were workshops. You could go without signing up. I thought I might eventually earn my keep by teaching in such a place. Sometimes, I still think so.
Meanwhile the service industry jobs I was doing wore me out. I admitted to myself that they were boring and that I wanted a job with more meaning. I liked the random personal interaction and the practical physicality of what I was doing and the money wasn't bad. Still, I decided to quit and, fortuitously, got a job that had been passed among various poets running a rug business. This "management experience" allowed me to get hired at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University to manage the video archives. I almost quit when I got my first paycheck because it was so ridiculous but then my salary was adjusted slightly upward so I stayed. It was still ridiculous but at least I had benefits for the first time in my working life. I was 34.
There was a lot about working at the Poetry Center I liked. It became the thing I was doing for the community besides my writing. It was illuminating to meet writers from many communities. I helped to run, record and catalog Poetry Center readings, sold the video and audiotapes, edited a newsletter, and put together a catalog. The videographer, Jiri Veskrna, and I, produced several videotaped anthologies of readings. We made a short tape ourselves called Before the War. I enjoyed saying I was an archivist. The job appeared in some of my poems, especially L'Archivist. A cacophony of voices and an array of talking heads surrounded me every day in the archives. The sense of what was left of the performances of writers who were dead and what comprised the history of their times was important to my work and to my thinking.
When my job as Archives Director was defunded I was intentionally unemployed for about eight months. It remains the longest period of not having a job in my adult life. I got a lot of writing done but was surprised to find I wasn't that happy. Later when I began at Small Press Distribution and was working very hard, as often happens at the beginning of a job, I realized in retrospect that I had been happy but just didn't know it.
My job as Assistant Director, Sales & Marketing Director and finally Deputy Director of SPD has been chock full of logistics from the get-go. After all, it is all about distribution. The position has been rife with logogistics as well. Following the book from the first idea to the final product and then being aware of the life of the book once it is produced, including all of the economic aspects, has been illuminating. I am happy to be working with readers, writers and producers of books, along with those who facilitate access to books whether they are booksellers, librarians, teachers or programmers. I am lucky to be very fond of the people I work with. However, sometimes the job is repetitive and exhausting. I find most of my intellectual satisfaction in writing itself and in related activities like writing essays, reading, blogging, founding literary movements etc. I have retained, in all this, a fair amount of independence of mind and have written a few books. How poetry can be used to carry ideas, things and people forward is the focus of my science fiction novel Ultravioleta, a book which can be said to be very much informed by my experiences at SPD.
What it takes to write and live in a world where a writing practice "can be nurtured and sustained" (the last part is a steal from SPD's mission statement) is the opportunity and then the determination to make work and the desire to find or create a structure, frame, stage, launching point, context, conduit, platform and/or a power supply that allows you to get the work out, share your ideas and find readers. Lacking the built-in structures that exist in the academic world -- which can, should be and are, occasionally, but not always successfully, appropriated on behalf of writers -- we must (and do) create our own structures. Small presses, including print and on-line journals, are excellent examples of such structures. Classes outside of the academy are another. They can be hard to find unless you are already in the know but many of us have taken and taught them. They are not better in any way than college classes, the point being simply that they exist. Convocations occur less frequently but are occurring now (thank you) and could usefully occur more.
It's part of our independent thought, part of our autonomy, that we can characterize the work we make and these presenting structures as important and central -- "powerful," as Creeley said. This action of taking them seriously helps to mitigate the problem of non-institutional achievement being seen as having less value than achievement within the academy or any other part of the mainstream. You could worry here about exploiting yourself and others with a culture of volunteerism that takes advantage of those who participate, who are often those who can afford to. Or you could go out there and do it without whining.
But why do it? What's the point? What do you do with all this expensive, difficult to maintain, laborious autonomy? " According to Bob Creeley, in the passage quoted above, poetry (we could call it writing) "makes," "gives," "brings" and "reveals." The most important part of the logistics I have been talking about, the logogistics, is what the writing does for both writer and reader. The wildy speculative dissonant thought engaged in by our community questions many systems on many levels. The work we do enacts this questioning in the writing and in the actions we take to make and support the writing. The work works. All we have to do, and this is a problem that has to be continually figured out and refigured out, is to find a way to do it.
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Cape Town - Cricket South Africa (CSA) has congratulated the Proteas on winning the T20 International series against Sri Lanka with a match to spare.
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Lots of sites are now built with the "Panels everywhere" method, using Panels and Panelizer to configure modular layouts in the Drupal GUI. These modules come with lots of great default Panes, and create even more defaults based on your existing Blocks and Views. But there's always a case for a custom Pane.
As usual, I'll assume that you have an empty custom module called mymodule, with only a .info and a .module file to its name.
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Ctools, like Views, needs a hook to declare the fact that you have custom code. To do this we'll use hook_ctools_plugin_directory. This hook is invoked for all Ctools plugin types, and includes the module name as a variable. This way you can avoid eating up memory for anything except the targeted module. You also have to declare where your custom code will live. So here's the complete content of mymodule.module:
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Note: Do not confuse Ctools "Content Types" with the "Content Type" entity used elsewhere in Drupal. This is just confusing naming, but they're totally different things. Actually the most common usage for a Ctools Content Type is a pane, just like what we're doing now. There are other plugin types, but none that interest us in this post.
2) Add your custom pane
Oh, did you think this would be more difficult? Now that we've told Ctools to look for Content Type plugins in our module's plugins/content_types subdirectory, we just add a .inc file for each "Content Type" (aka Pane) that we want to add. Let's do a simple one, which returns the root term of a given taxonomy term. All the following code will go in plugins/content_types/taxonomy_root_term.inc (a name I chose arbitrarily).
Right at the top of the file, we provide a $plugin array which defines the basic information about our
Pane Ctools Content Type. This doesn't go into a function or anything, it just sits at the top of the .inc file:
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As you can see, this array defines a category, title, and description for the Panels admin interface. It also declares the names of the callbacks which provide the pane's edit form, rendered form, and admin info. "Single" means that this type has no sub-types. This is the case in every single custom pane I've ever seen, so it's probably the case for yours as well.
Now we write the callbacks we named in that array. We'll start with the edit form.
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This is a fairly standard Drupal form. It also goes through typical form validation and submission functions, so you can provide a pretty complete experience for the administrator. In our case, we just want to get the term ID of the term whose root parent should be displayed. We let the administrator enter the term ID, and the view mode which should be used to display it. We won't worry about form validation in our example. Let's move on to the Submit function:
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Again, pretty simple stuff. We just make sure that the $form_state['conf'] has the values entered. Now, the next callback we defined in $plugin is for rendering the pane:
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First we make sure there is information – ie the taxonomy term ID we need – in the pane's context. Then we get the root term object and render it in the requested display mode. The only requirement for the return here is that it be a Drupal render array. So depending on your use case, you can return an image, a field… whatever you like. In most cases a block is a convenient wrapper for whatever you have to return, which is what I did here.
This is as far as you have to go. The admin info callback isn't actually required, just don't include it in the $plugin array and you'll be fine. But if you want to make your life easier as a site admin, it's definitely a nice to have.
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This just provides the administrative summary which you can see in the Panels UI. Again, Panels will be happy with any render array return you throw at it, so I use a block.
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Anyone who's worked with me knows that I'm not a huge fan of the panels everywhere approach. But I use it often, simply because it makes custom layouts and totally custom page pieces so easy to do. Duplicating even this very simple functionality in a block is actually harder than this. You're still using about 3 functions, but you'd have to determine in advance where that TID will come from. It would certainly come out less flexible, and actually probably harder to maintain. With Ctools all your related code sits in one place, and your module structure actually helps you see what's going on where.
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*the US case for Assad's responsibility for the chemical attack rests on foreign source intel, primarily Israel's Mossad agency, which has some credibility problems itself
*reports from Ghouta, Syria, indicate rebel activity with chemical weapons at the same time (August 21)
*rebels were found responsible for chemical weapons attacks this past March
*Assad had just invited UN inspectors into the region very close to where the attacks took place and besides has been winning the conflict with the rebels
*the rebels are mostly infested with militant jihadi extremists previously the enemy of the US
*UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has warned against an attack as violation of international law
Group dynamics on the White House walk with the President then took a sharp turn toward: delay the strike.
Credibility patching might be possible by urging the Congress to back the President, indicating the President would consider the people's wishes, currently against the strike.
Credibility resurrecting would also be possible by using talking points that an attack on Syria was vital to maintaining US credibility and interests in global affairs more generally.
Enthusiastic support could be garnered for this credibility buttressing from reliable war supporters such as John McCain, Lindsay Graham, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and others with similar viewpoints.
The President's credibility blues at this point seemed lightened, he himself heartened.
He was heard humming a tune from a blues number, possibly related to whether or not to order a strike: "Sometimes, you've just got to let it go! Let it go!"
Contacting a spokesperson for a White House spokesperson for this important conferencing in the White House gardens has brought the following explanation:
The Obama Administration is very certain and sure of itself on this matter. There is NO credibility problem.
The highest duty of the President is to the American people and what they think.
And no matter what the debate in Congress leads to, Mr. Obama will certainly bear in mind the nation's wishes when he returns from the G-20 summit meetings next week and orders up the attack.


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2014 Emerging Artist of the Year Flatt Lonesome will be the featured entertainment at this year's City of Burnet Bluegrass Festival. Named one of the "Five Rising Roots Acts to Watch in 2015" by CMT Edge, Flatt Lonesome made their Texas debut last year at Haley Nelson Park. Also entertaining will be the Sieker Band and Dueling Hearts.
A major change to the event this year is the addition of The Burnet Old Time Fiddler's Contest. The Fiddler's Contest will be held earlier in the day, followed by open mic (assuming time allows) and then followed by the Bluegrass concerts beginning at 4 pm.
The event will be held at Haley Nelson Park, 301 Garden Trails Drive (Just off Highway 29 West) in Burnet. Vendors and food will be available on site but coolers and lawn chairs are welcome. Admission to the festival is free.
The Bluegrass Festival and Fiddler's Contest is the final event in the Burnet 2015 Summer Concert Series which includes entertainers such as Cory Morrow, Whiskey Myers and Wade Bowen. For more information on the events go online to www.cityofburnet.com and click on Bluegrass Festival and Summer Music Series or contact Crista Bromley at (512) 715-3217 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gates Open at 9 a.m.
Fiddlers Contest starts at 10 a.m. (Sign ups 30 minutes before division)
Sieker Band - 4:00 p.m.
Dueling Hearts - 5:15 p.m.
Flatt Lonesome - 7:30 p.m.
The Fiddler's Contest will offer a total purse of over $4,000 in cash prizes as follows:
The events are sponsored by the Burnet Parks and Recreation Department and the Burnet Economic Development Corporation with cooperation from KBEY Radio and Double Eagle Entertainment.
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text: Bardot is continuing their love affair with DFA Records, and we're not complaining. YACHT will be making their way back to Miami on June 2nd. If you don't already know, YACHT name is an acronym for Young Americans Challenging High Technology. YACHT's heart is in these live presentations: uncluttered, inspiring sessions of damaged dance moves and coded ritualism, backed by constantly changing elements — Power Point presentations, audience Q&A sessions, and shamanistic video environments. We're hoping with the intimate setting of Bardot, maybe we'll get some Q&A's from the crowd. One can only hope.


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Mike Nicholas & company once again came through for Shelby Iron by providing two days of great muaic during festival. Mike is shown here at the microphone on our bandstand, along with Cecilia Perkins at the keyboard.
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Mauricio Galguera
Lives in Mexico City
Mauricio Galguera (b. Mexico City) is director of Hilario Galguera gallery since 2013 and co-founder and co-director of El cuarto de máquinas. Founded in 2006, Hilario Galguera Gallery is hosted in an early 20th Century manor from the times of Porfirio Díaz in one of Mexico City's oldest neighbourhoods, San Rafael. From 2008 to 2011 the gallery opened a space in Leipzig, Germany, in a 19th Century yarn factory, thus becoming the first Mexican gallery with a space in Europe. Since 2012 it keeps an office in Berlin. El cuarto de máquinas is a space for experimentation through art projects. Since 2015 it has focused on the production and promotion of exhibitions of young or emerging artists, experimental projects and the development of a program of curated samples.


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It gets more and more difficult to get music appreciation students to even try to understand Beethoven. Year after year I find fewer and fewer students really care to engage in Beethoven beyond a melody or two. In Daniel Barenboim's "Beethoven and the Quality of Courage" that just appeared in the New York Review of Books, he mentions that Beethoven was unable to write anything superficial. Perhaps the problem lies in the undeniable fact that our young people are being bombarded with so much superficiality in their lives (much of it technologically produced) that some of them never learn to separate the superficial from the essential. Perhaps Beethoven's "in your face" substantialness is too much for many of them to deal with.
I fear that the gradual and deliberate "on-lining" of education will not teach students how to separate the essential from the superficial. After learning how to separate the superficial from the non-superficial the old-fashioned way, it is possible to derive value from anything, but people first need to learn how to learn in order to be able to do the self-directed type of learning that is necessary when studying something solely by way of a computer. That kind of learning is certainly not being taught in the high schools that are suffering from years and years of teaching "to the test."
When it is difficult to engage people in learning material that isn't necessarily going to be "on the test," how can you expect them to move forward and become truly educated.
I have never been able to "do" being superficial with any degree authenticity (irony intended). I also don't recognize superficiality until after the fact.
Now it's time to share a poem by Hughes Mearns:
Yesterday, up on the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd stay away . . .
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door . . . (Slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Lure of the Superficial
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Is Financial Independence a Realistic Goal for Pinoys?
Last week I shared to you my goal of becoming a financially independent Pinay. How I want to live a life where I am entitled to more than I can actually afford. That I want to live a life where I can pursue a career of my choice and still get a grip on my finances. And that I want to live a life where I can easily give and share my blessings to others without worrying what will happen next to my funds.
My post opened a number of questions from curious readers whether financial freedom is really possible. Today I'd like to give you a clear road map on how early financial independence can be a doable goal and why you owe it to yourself to be one day financially free.
The Journey to Financial Independence
Financial Independence is defined as a state of having sufficient personal wealth to live, without having to work actively for basic necessities. It means you accumulate greater passive income that can cover your expenses even without you working for it. Personal financial independence is a life long process. And it's something you can only achieve if you start now.
If you read my About Page you'll know that my magic number in terms of retirement and achieving total financial independence has been 30 years old. I know it sounds too ambitious and I am still currently far from that state to be honest. But I am working on it every day. And nothings gonna stop me from my quest to financial freedom. Even if I don't hit my target retired at 30 know that everything I do today will help me be still in a way better financial life by that age rather than doing nothing at all.
Is Financial Independence possible?
I've read countless of blogs and articles of people who have achieved financial freedom in life. They were able to create the life they want without stopping. How? Below are the main factors that play a lot of role to make the impossible possible and one day be financially free.
You Need to Really Want It
Your desire to be financially free is important to help you go from zero to hero in less time. You can only do something you really want, right? Spend a day to really sort things out in your financial life and set your heart, mind and soul to the idea of becoming financially independent.
- Create a personal definition of "financial independence" for you.
- Find out your current financial status through calculating your net worth.
- List your goals that will help you achieve total financial independence.
You Have To Continuously Work For It
Financial independence is the end-goal and it consists of short-term and long-term goals in between. This means you need to be ready to work hard for it to reach your overall freedom to money issues.
- Stay on Track of Your Finances.
The first sure way that you can work for your financial freedom is by being on top of how your money moves. From how much income comes to how much money goes out of your system.
Where Does Your Income Go?
4 Useful Tips to Live Within Your Means
Do This, Note That When It Comes to Your Finances
4 Useful Tips to Live Within Your Means
Do This, Note That When It Comes to Your Finances
- Have a Budget
We often take budget for granted. We only create one once we are already running out of money to spend. Budgets comes as an option rather than a necessity. This mindset should be changed. A good budget can make you rich in the long run. It could give you a blueprint for a stronger financial foundation.
- Maximize Your Income
Let's face it, more income means more money you can save, invest or use to sustain your living expenses. Do not be satisfied with a single source of money try your very hard to open other income streams that will help you get to closer to your dream.
- Be Debt-free
Debt will be a big hindrance for you to achieve financial independence. As much as possible try to avoid debt or pay it off as early as possible. When paying off debt it's better to do the snowball method or focusing on those that have higher interest rate then moving on the low-interest rate debt. Below is a before, during and after debt tip you can use:
Before making a debt
- Assess whether it's a need or a want.
- Find possible alternative that can cost you less.
- Find possible creditor/loan solution have no/less interest rate.
- Create an agreement (possibly written) on the payment method as well asthe deadline.
During the debt
- Avoid making additional debt.
- Create a good creditor-debtor relationship.
- Have an open communication with your creditor.
- Pay on time the whole amount with interest(if any).
- If you can't pay the debt on time, let the creditor know as soon as possible. Let him/her know the honest reason why and ask for an allowance.
- If it's a credit card delay then talk to your bank and ask for possible solution that you can pay. I know one who wrote a letter to the leading bank and was given a payment method that is so much easier to do thought takes longer time. Still he is responsible enough to pay.
After the debt
- Appreciate your creditor by thanking him/her for the financial help.
- Don't make another debt just when your current debt ended.
- Still have an open communication to your creditor.
- Start saving money
The earlier you save money the better it would be for your finances. Make sure that you automatically save a portion of your income as cash reserve for future or emergency use. How do you save? Start small. Do not over commit on the percentage of your income that goes to saving. If you still can't do the 50% of your salary on savings then don't. It is way better to start with 10% to 20% of your income then go higher as your source increases. What matters most is you save consistently.
- Learn to Invest
Saving won't make your money work for you. That's why as early as today you need to learn how to invest. There are a number of investment vehicles available for you to choose. Be wise on what vehicle will satisfy you as an investor. Why Should You Invest Your Money?
– If you care about your future then you should invest.
– If you want financial peace…invest.
– If you want your money to generate income to earn interest…invest.
– If you want your money to work for you aka passive income…invest.
– If you have long term goals that will need a higher amount of money…invest.
– If you want to amplify your current life…invest.
– If you want to learn more about how money how money works…invest.
You Have to Build Your Own System to Success
It is important to remember that only you can define whether the financial independence is really a realistic goal you can achieve in 10-20 years from now. You need to establish the system that will get you there. From what budget will enable you to so to what investment will give you the right number to retire at peace.
Everything starts with you and ends with you so only YOU have the power to change your current state. Recognize the need to implement change in your habits and routines so you can start working on your financial freedom system. I think what I notice the most is that people who want to retire young and achieve financial independence are reading and learning a lot but do not act.
You have to build you own system to success. No self-help books can build the road for you. If you don't act on it then everything will be put to waste. So try to start and learn how… NOW.
Final Notes from SavingsPinay
So if you ask me if Financial Independence a Realistic Goal for Pinoys, my answer is short and simple — YES!!! As long as you want it, work for it and build a system that will work for you. Again as I've always mentioned it is indeed a life-long journey and everything you do today matter. Every decision you make can contribute to your financial success.
PS. I created today's post as a primer on the eBook that I'll be releasing before 2016 ends. One of my to do list before 2017 is provide a quality reading guide for every SavingsPinay reader. It would be FREE and will include far more pages and learning from last year's Making Your 2015 The Best Year Ever eBook.
"How to Be A Financially Independent Pinay : A Step by Step Guide for Every Juana". Release date will be posted soon.
Is Financial Independence Your Goal Too? What Age Do You Want to Achieve It?
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Izza of SavingsPinay helps Filipinos bridge the financial literacy gap one content at a time by providing insights and tips on budgeting, saving, investing, side hustle and growing your net worth. Aside from this blog she also writes at www.izzaglinofull.com, a beauty and lifestyle blog for frugal Pinays and manages, www.izzagevents.com, a wedding and event business since 2011. For inquiries, topic suggestions or future collaborations email her at email@example.com
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My name is Jacqui Atchison, and I'm a Baylor intern working at TSTC Publishing for the summer. I come from the far corner of the world called the Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as Washington State. Contrary to popular belief, it is not constantly overcast and rainy; only about one fourth of the state actually is. The rest of the state, what we affectionately call the middle of nowhere, is all desert and farmland, where wine-tasting is a hobby, and the smell of cows doesn't wrinkle any noses. Continue reading


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Fairfield family wins shopping spree
LUFKIN – Who says grocery shopping isn't fun? Just ask Antonia Slaughter. Slaughter won a free shopping spree at her Fairfield Brookshire Brothers. It's all part of the grocer's CELEBRATE Summer Rewards program. Brookshire Brothers is drawing a winner every two weeks to take part in a one-minute shopping spree. Slaughter joins customers from Trinity, Giddings, and Huntington who have gotten to fill up their grocery cart for 'free' thanks to their community grocer. On Thursday, Aug. 2, Slaughter had one minute, with music blasting across the store, to fill up her buggy. She opted for the high ticket items – like meat. Store Director Brian Ingram was cheering her on. "Everybody needs to sign up to Celebrate," says Ingram.
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Under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 employers, educational authorities and goods and services providers are required to make changes so that a person with disability can safely and productively:
- perform the genuine and reasonable requirements of employment
- participate in an education program
- access a service, or derive a substantial benefit from a service.
These changes are known as reasonable adjustments.
Making reasonable adjustments requires an employer, educational authority or service provider to balance the need for change with the expense or effort involved in making this change. If an adjustment requires a disproportionately high expenditure or disruption it is not likely to be reasonable.
The reasonable adjustments obligations directly address systemic discrimination experienced by people with disability in the workplace, in education, and when they use goods and services.
Examples of reasonable adjustments
A bank provides flexible 'at home' services for people with disability
A school makes a voice recognition software package for computers available to assist students with learning or physical disabilities
A factory provides widened doorways and ramp access to all common areas for employees with disability.
Are there any exceptions to the law?
There are limited exceptions to the obligation to make reasonable adjustments, which allow employers, educational authorities and providers of goods and services to discriminate on the basis of disability if:
- the adjustments are not reasonable
- the person with the disability could not perform the genuine and reasonable requirements of the employment, participate in education, or access services even if the adjustments were made
- the activities comply with or are exempted from a relevant Commonwealth Disability Standard made under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Commonwealth)
- a determination has been made under Victoria's Building Act 1993.
Find out more
The obligation to provide reasonable adjustments for people with disability is discussed in more detail on these pages:
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"BusinessWeek" Ranks USD's Business Program 29th in the Nation
USD's Undergrad Program Is Biggest Gainer on Annual List
The University of San Diego now ranks 29th in the nation on BusinessWeek's 2009 list of the top 50 undergraduate business programs. USD, which has ranked in the top 50 for three years in a row, rose 18 spots this year, the largest jump on the magazine's list.
USD's undergrad program is now one of the top three in the state of California along with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California. BusinessWeek released the list late Thursday afternoon. USD was the highest-ranked school in the West Coast Conference of athletic teams.
Last year USD ranked 47th on the list. USD's rise, was due in part to its ranking of 11th this year in corporate recruiter satisfaction with students. For the second year in a row, USD students also gave faculty an A+ for their teaching efforts.
According to BusinessWeek, "institutions that succeeded in helping students navigate the difficult job market improved their standings the most" and that USD saw its "fortunes rise due to a strong focus on accounting, where jobs are still plentiful." The magazine also said that the view from USD students is that "a close-knit program helps students feel at home (and that) improved recruiting efforts are starting to pay off."
"It is very satisfying to have the hard work we have put into building a world-class business school recognized by BusinessWeek," said USD School of Business Administration Dean David Pyke. "The jump in our ranking reflects the tireless efforts of the entire faculty and staff to deliver on the School of Business Administration's dual promise of academic excellence and outstanding student service."
Stephen Standifird, associate dean of the business school, said "We are thrilled that BusinessWeek has recognized our program as one of the best in the country. It's a testament to the quality of both our students and faculty. We continue to make major strides in a variety of areas, including improvement to facilities, increased focus on career services and continued commitment to excellence in teaching. This ranking by BusinessWeek is a strong endorsement of our efforts to make our undergraduate program one of the premier programs in the country."
The ranking comes as USD is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2009. "To receive this honor during our anniversary year only adds to the joy and pride we feel in the university's tremendous accomplishments in such a short period of time," said USD President Mary E. Lyons.
At USD, more than 850 undergraduate business students can choose from bachelor's degrees in accountancy, economics and business administration with majors in business administration, business economics, marketing and finance.
The hallmarks of USD's undergraduate business program are rigor, relevance, and personalized service that complement the liberal arts, values-based education that USD students receive. USD also offers a full and part-time MBA and international MBA program as well as master's degrees in accountancy, leadership, real estate and supply supply chain management, and taxation.
USD's rise was not the only notable change on this year's list. The University of Virginia is now number one and the University of Note Dame, number two. Last year's top-ranked school, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is now number three.
While there are more than 1,600 business schools in the United States, BusinessWeek only considered schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for inclusion in the ranking. From the list of more than 500 undergraduate business programs with AACSB accreditation, they narrowed the list down to the top 101 schools for inclusion in the ranking.
To rank these programs, BusinessWeek uses nine distinct measures, including surveys of some 85,000 business majors and nearly 600 corporate recruiters, the median starting salaries for graduates, and the number of graduates each program sends on to the preeminent MBA programs. BusinessWeek also calculated an academic quality score for the undergraduate schools by combining SAT scores, faculty-student ratios, class size, the percentage of students with internships, and the number of hours students spend on class work each week.
For more information on the list go to http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/09_10/B4122undergrad_business.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis.
The University of San Diego School of Business Administration is committed to developing socially responsible leaders and improving global business practice through innovative, personalized education and applied research. Go to www.sandiego.edu/business.
The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution of higher learning chartered in 1949; the school enrolls some 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The inauguration of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies brings the University's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Leadership and Education Sciences, Law and Nursing and Health Sciences.
About the University of San Diego
The University of San Diego sets the standard for an engaged, contemporary Catholic university where innovative Changemakers confront humanity's urgent challenges. With more than 8,000 students from 75 countries and 44 states, USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. USD's eight academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education. USD recently concluded our successful $317M Leading Change: The Campaign for USD, which represented the most ambitious fundraising effort in the history of the university. In September 2016, USD introduced Envisioning 2024, a strategic plan that capitalizes on the university's recent progress and aligns new strategic goals with current strengths to help shape a vision for the future as the university looks ahead to its 75th anniversary in the year 2024.