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Late last week, I got a pretty disturbing news alert from CNN. Here's the email, which links to the main story: "The NAACP issued its first-ever state travel advisory — for Missouri. The organization's warning sends a strong message to people of color traveling through the state: Go at your own risk.
The travel advisory comes after the state passed a law that Missouri's NAACP conference says allows for legal discrimination. The warning cites several discriminatory incidents in Missouri, included as examples of 'looming danger' in the state.
'Individuals traveling in the state are advised to travel with extreme CAUTION,' the advisory warns. 'Race, gender and color based crimes have a long history in Missouri.'
Here's hoping everyone stays safe. Here's more on the news:
- Here's why the NAACP says Missouri is unsafe for minorities
- NAACP Warns Black Travelers To Use 'Extreme Caution' When Visiting Missouri
- NAACP issues official statewide travel warning for 'racist' Missouri
- NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri
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Seventeen years. It took seventeen years for me to be obedient. Seventeen years to ask for forgiveness. Seventeen years is a long time. A long time for bitterness to grow.
I had wronged her. My friend. My roommate. My sorority sister. Not just an acquaintance. Rather a soul-sister, one who knew my heart.
At first, I blamed her. She was the reason I was angry. The reason bitterness had seeped into the corners of my emotions—taking root. But in reality, I was the one to blame. And for 17 years my feet were mired in the swamp-like muck found in Florida backyards.
Until now. Like a rose unfurling from its tight-wrapped petals, I unraveled. I finally reached toward obedience.
A private message on Facebook–Will you forgive me? I was wrong.
It had been so long. How would she respond? Would she forgive me? Would grace find its way into her heart?
The words on the screen stared at me—You had my forgiveness, love, but you had that many years ago.
And suddenly I was swimming in an ocean of grace.
When I try to wrap my mind around grace, the word mystifies me. To receive a gift when you are unworthy. To be handed rubies after a life spent stealing garnets. To be loved by a king when you are but a lowly pauper.
Who lives like this? Who gives gifts to the unworthy? Who turns to hand the thief even more? Who loves the unlovable?
My Jesus does. And no matter what I do, what I say, I could never earn the love He has in His heart to give. Because it's free. And this is grace.
Grace is not an excuse to do what is wrong. Grace is the reason we should do what is right. So what should we do with this beautiful grace—this second chance—we each have been given?
Paul reveals this truth: "Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, 'Don't receive God's grace in vain,'" 2 Corinthians 6:1.
The words shout at me—Don't squander! Don't waste! Don't throw away the grace you've been given.
To waste grace is to let freedom slip through my fingers and allow the poison of bitterness to seep into my secret hiding places. Because holding tight to a grudge, harboring hate, grows the bitter seed that destroys our hearts. I squander the grace I have been freely given when I fail to give grace to others.
You see, when we begin to understand the free gift of grace in our own lives, it should pour out from the depths of our souls and splash into the lives of others.
Drenching another's soul in grace drowns out the bitter pieces of our hearts. When we extend grace, we extinguish the fire bitterness burns. We dive into the cool deep. We slip beneath gentle waves and float in the languid waters.
Oh, my friends. This is no easy task. However, don't mistake grace for justice. Grace does not make a wrong right. Still, to forgive some is to move a mountain. Trust me. I know. A thousand reasons not to forgive are whispered in my ears. My response is often, "But they don't deserve my forgiveness…"
And then my stomach hits the ground. In that one statement is my profound answer to the question, why give grace to the very worst? Because I will never deserve God's forgiveness. But I have it. And so do you. It is freely given.
That is Grace—floating in an ocean of His love when we've done nothing to earn His adoration.
So we have a monumental task. A requirement to ensure we never receive God's grace vain. We are never promised an easy journey. Not once. The call to pour grace into the hearts of others may very well take every ounce of courage we have. Still, it is not a call to be ignored.
Who might be in need of your grace today? A friend? A parent? Your spouse? Your child? The rude stranger in the grocery store? Is there someone in your circle of influence who needs a swim in an ocean of grace? Because I promise, when we refuse to squander God's grace in our lives, our oceans only deepen.
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Archive: March, 2017
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BikeSmart Returns for Third, Extended Season
March 22, 2017 (Canton, Ohio) – Stark County's award-winning free bike sharing program, BikeSmart, is back for a third season beginning March 20.
Library Names New Development Director
March 20, 2017 (Canton, Ohio) – Stark County District Library is pleased to announce that Robyn Steinmetz has been named the new Development Director.
2017 March Board Packet
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NY Times Bestselling Author Garth Stein Visits Stark County
March 16, 2017 (Canton, Ohio) – Join Stark County District Library for the next installment of the new Dr. Audrey Lavin Speaking of Books Author Series, which brings acclaimed writers...
Library Seeks Exhibitors to Participate in 2nd Annual Mini Maker Faire ®
March 9, 2017 (Canton, Ohio) – Stark County District Library is hosting the second annual Stark Mini Maker Faire® on May 5 from 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Main Library.
Library Announces 2017 Local Authors Week Events
March 7, 2017 (Canton, Ohio) –This spring, local authors take the spotlight as Stark County District Library celebrates the third annual Local Authors Week from March 18-25.


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Populist and Progressive Caucuses
The U.S. Congress is organized by caucuses: groups of Representatives and Senators that meet together to work for legislative agendas. Even the two major political parties, in the person of their elected members of Congress, are referred to as the Democratic caucus and the Republican caucus. But there are numerous other caucuses: The Congressional Black Caucus is composed of African-American Representatives and Senators. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is similar for Hispanic members (although much smaller), a caucus to address the specific concerns of minority constituents. But most caucuses are ideological: The "centrist" Democratic Leadership Caucus (DLC) which produced Bill Clinton (and I tend to look askance at as the "corporate Democrats); the "Out of Iraq" caucus formed to put pressure on the Bush administration to end the Iraq War (and now on the Obama admin. to speed up the troop removal); the "Blue Dog" Democratic caucus (which is composed of fiscally conservative budget hawks). The largest caucus, believe it or not, is the Progressive Caucus(71 members)–but they are stronger in the House of Representatives than in the Senate.
Well, now there is a brand new caucus, the Populist Caucus. So far, only Democrats have joined, but the caucus is open to all who seek to advance an economically populist agenda. "Populism" is a pragmatic ideology (or impulse–it may not be well enough defined to be an ideology) that stands up for "the little guy (or gal)" against elites or entrenched interests, especially economic elites. There can be dangerous dimensions to populism since it stays close to the concerns of ordinary people: In the past progressive populist movements have been divided by racism and "nativism," the anti-immigrant prejudice.
But progressive economic populism has taken on a resurgence in our day. The resurgence began in the U.S. in 2005–as an angry reaction to the government's poor response to Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of the revelations concerning Abu Ghraib (and, later, concerning Guantanemo Bay) and of the missing WMD, the American public began to feel deceived about the war in Iraq. Thus, a populist anti-war movement, involving soldiers and veterans and family members of the military, combined with the traditional peace movement. It was this populist uprising that led to the Democrats reclaiming the majority in Congress in 2006—even though most of the elected Democrats were not (then) populists and most of the mainstream media and the political classes did not understand the populist nature of the uprising. Consider three Democratic Senators that were elected for the first time in '06 in races they were not expected to win: Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA). All three were in states thought to be Republican strongholds: Montana was part of the West that is turning Democratic, but in '06 it still looked pretty Republican. Tester was not a politician, but a wind farmer who sought to revitalize Montana through green energy–a populist environmentalism that worked to combine unlikely allies: ranchers and environmentalists against rich developers destroying the land. Jim Webb was a former independent (who had served as Reagan's Secretary of the Navy) who had often voted Republican in a traditional Republican southern state. A fiscal conservative who is pro-military (though not a hawk and a fierce opponent of the Iraq war) and a conservative on gun issues–but he ran as a Democrat for the Senate because of the exploitation of the poor. Economic justice for ordinary people, says Webb, should be the heart and soul of the Democratic people. (His strong passion for prison reform is rooted in this economic populism, too, since we are wasting an entire generation.) Sherrod Brown was already a Democratic Congressman and a progressive–but Ohio in '06 was still considered friendlier to Republicans than Democrats–certainly than progressive Democrats. Yet Brown won by sticking close to economic populist issues.
Very different states and very different people–but united by a concern for economic populism. Since '06, the populist movement has grown. And the economic crisis has increased it. The anger that ordinary people feel toward the rich (especially the rich who created the mess and then use our money for their selfish ends) is a populist anger. The grilling of the Bank CEOs in Congress yesterday is a result of that rising populist tide. (The CEOs now understand THAT the public is furious–but they have lived for so long in their own world that they still seem not to understand WHY. Like the 2 Wall Street firms that were caught on tape still giving out cash awards–but no longer calling them bonuses! As if "re-branding" will stave off populist anger.)
Well, now this rising populism has resulted in at least one organization: The Congressional Populist Caucus. It will give voice to the populist anger at the economic crisis and the opaque bank bailout. It tried to put a "Buy American" provision into the stimulus package (cut out by the 3 Senate Republicans as part of their price for voting for it–very patriotic). They will still try some form of encouraging "Buy American" policies while hoping to avoid longterm protectionist tariffs that have negative longterm economic consequences. They want to revisit trade policies with a focus on Fair Trade in place of "free trade." Universal healthcare and middle-class tax reform (and closing tax loopholes for rich people and corporations) will also dominate the agenda. I am contacting them to promote the Employee Free Choice Act and Mass Transit. I am very glad to see my own Congressman (elected in that populist year, 'o6), John Yarmuth (D-KY), among its first members. Here are the initial 21 members of the new caucus:
Reps. Michael Arcun (D-NY); Peter DeFazio (D-OR); Betty Sutton (D-OH); Bruce Braley (D-IA), who will chair the caucus; Leonard Boswell (D-IA); Steve Cohen (D-TN); Joe Courtney (D-CT); Keith Ellison (D-MN), elected in '06 as the first Muslim U.S. Congressman (now there are 2); Bob Filner (D-CA); Phil Hare (D-IL); Mazie Hirono (D-HI); Hank Johnson (D-GA); Steve Kagan (D-WI); David Loebsak (D-IA); Eric Massa (D-NY); Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Jan Schackowsky (D-IL), who may challenge Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) in '10 for Obama's old Senate seat; Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH); Peter Welch (D-VT), and John Yarmuth (D-KY). I expect more to join, including the aforementioned 3 Senators.
There is some overlap with the Progressive Caucus, but not all Populists would identify as Progressive (or liberal) and vice versa. ( The late Molly Ivins would be a great example of a progressive populist. Ted Kennedy, while certainly a progressive, is not really populist, coming from such "blue-blood" stock. Sarah Palin is populist, but NOT progressive at all. John McCain attempted to fake populism with his "Joe the Plumber" idiocy–but when Samuel Joseph Wurzelburger turned out not to be a plumber–to be fake about everything, the tactic blew up in McCain's face. Most Republicans do "faux populism" well–but I think Palin truly is a populist–though a conservative or even reactionary one.) See how many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus below you find also in the new Populist Caucus:
Senate member: Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tom Udall (D-NM) were Progressive members before being elected to the Senate, but the Senate doesn't work in caucuses as much as the House. The late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) was a member until his 2002 death in a plane crash. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was a member until being elected House Minority Leader in '04. As Minority Leader and then as Speaker, she has recused herself from membership in any of the ideological caucuses.
Current House members: Neil Abercrombie (D-HI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Xavier Bacerra (D-CA); Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL), at-large, nonvoting member from Guam; Robert Brady (D-PA); Corrine Brown (D-FL); Michael Capuano (D-MA); Andre Carson (D-IN) (2nd Muslim Congressperson); Donna Christensen (VI-AL), at-large, nonvoting member from the U.S. Virgin Islands; Yvette Clarke (D-NY); William "Lacy" Clay (D-MO); Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO); Steve Cohen (D-TN); John Conyers (D-MI); Danny Davis (D-IL); Peter DeFazio (D-OR); Rosa DeLauro (D-CT); Donna Edwards (D-MD); Keith Ellison (D-MN); Sam Farr (D-CA); Chaka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Filner (D-CA); Barnie Frank (D-MA); Marcia Fudge (D-OH); Alan Grayson (D-FL); Luis Gutierrez (D-IL); John Hall (D-NY); Phil Hare (D-IL); Maurice Hinchey (D-NY); Michael Honda (D-CA); Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL); Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX); Hank Johnson (D-GA); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH); Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI); Barbara Lee (D-CA), formerly co-chair, now the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus; John Lewis (D-GA); David Loebsak (D-IA); Carolyn Maloney (D-NY); Ed Markey (D-MA); Jim McDermott (D-WA); James McGovern (D-MA); George Miller (D-CA); Gwen Moore (D-WI); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY); Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC), nonvoting delegate; John Olver (D-MA); Ed Pastor (D-AZ); Donald Payne (D-NJ); Chellie Pingree (D-ME); Charles Rangel (D-NY); Laura Richardson (D-CA); Bobby Rush (D-IL); Linda Sanchez (D-CA); Jan Schakowsky (D-IL); Jose Serrano (D-NY); Pete Stark (D-CA); Louise Slaughter (D-NY); Bennie Thompson (D-MS); John Tierney (D-MA); Nydia Velasquez (D-NY); Maxine Waters (D-CA); Mel Watt (D-NC); Henry Waxman (D-CA); Peter Welch (D-VT); Robert Wexler (D-FL).
But as important as I think the Progressive and Populist caucuses are in Congress, I think it is far more important for there to be a progressive populist MOVEMENT throughout the country.
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Michael — Nice to make your acquaintance through this blog. It is indeed exciting to witness the revival of progressive populism (PP) and to be a part of it. After 14 years in the Iowa Legislature and a campaign for governor (never hiding my PP colors), I ran for U.S. Congress last year against Leonard Boswell. He's Blue Dog to the core, and his decision to join the Populist Caucus is entirely political.
Comment by Ed Fallon | February 14, 2009
It is time for a populist caucus in Congress and also a grassroots movement supporting economic justice for working families. There are a lot of individuals who are socially traditionalist and/or pro-military and yet oppose big business domination of our government.
Populism and progressivism certainly can overlap but as you point out are often two different things. Populist or progressive, the most important priority is to move this nation away from the failed free market policies that have been so destructive to working Americans. Especially during hard economic times, we need to focus on the pocketbook issues.
Comment by RD | February 15, 2009
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Denali National Park and Preserve is Alaska's most visited attraction for many reasons. The most accessible of Alaska's national parks and one of only three connected to the state's highway system, the 6-million-acre wilderness offers views of mountains so big they seem like a wall on the horizon; endless wildlife, from cinnamon-color Toklat grizzlies to herds of caribou, to moose with antlers the size of coffee tables; glaciers with forests growing on them; autumn tundra the color of a kid's breakfast cereal.
The keystone of the park is Denali. The mountain was named Mt. McKinley from 1917 to 2015, but President Obama changed the name of this peak back to Denali, an Athabascan name meaning "the High One." It is often referred to by Alaskans simply as "the Mountain." The peak measures in at 20,310 feet, the highest point on the continent. Denali is also the tallest mountain in the world—yes, Mt. Everest is higher, but it sits on the Tibetan plateau, as if it was standing on a chair to rise above Denali, which starts barely above sea level.
Unfortunately for visitors on a tight schedule, Denali, like big mountains everywhere, makes its own weather systems, and the simple truth is that the mountain really, really likes clouds: the peaks are wreathed in clouds an average of two out of three days in summer. You can increase your odds of glimpsing Denali's peak by venturing into the heart of the park or staying at a wilderness lodge at the western park boundary. Or get really ambitious: more than 1,000 adventurers climb the mountain's slopes each summer. On average, of those who take the most common route, the West Buttress, just over half make it to the peak. The rest turn back, gasping for breath in the thin air. It's certainly not a last-minute, might-as-well activity—the climb takes serious preparation and planning.
Although the mountain is the biggest attraction, you don't need to see it—much less climb it—to appreciate the park; in fact, few people who visit Denali National Park and Preserve will come any closer than 35 miles to the mountain's slopes—and most visitors won't even get that close.
The mountain becomes just a distant thought during the early stages of a trip along Denali Park Road, which offers sights you won't forget, including the chance to see grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, moose, and Dall sheep—the "big five" of Alaskan animals. And keep an eye (and ear) out for soaring golden eagles, clucking ptarmigans, and chattering ground squirrels. If you prefer to take in the scenery without glass between you and the wild, you can bike or hike along the park road. Or see it all from an eagle's point of view: flightseeing is one of the best ways to gain a full appreciation of the park, especially the wild spires of the Great Gorge along the flanks of Denali.
No matter how you come to the park—staying on the bus, flying over the peaks in a small plane, or hiking across the tussocks of the tundra on a route that takes you days away from the nearest person—exploring Denali offers rich rewards: wilderness solitude, a sense of discovery, amazing wildlife encounters, and a chance to truly appreciate the scale, the mystery, and the grandeur of this landscape.
The most prominent geological feature of the park is the Alaska Range, a 600-mile-long crescent of mountains that separates Southcentral Alaska from the Interior. Mt. Hunter (14,573 feet), Mt. Foraker (17,400 feet), and Denali (20,310 feet) are the mammoths of the group. Glaciers flow from the entire Alaska Range.
Another, smaller group of mountains—the Outer Range, north of Denali's park road—is a mix of volcanics and heavily metamorphosed sediments. Though not as breathtaking as the Alaska Range, the Outer Range is popular with hikers and backpackers because its summits and ridges are not as technically difficult to reach.
Several of Denali's most spectacular landforms are deep in the park, but are still visible from the park road. The multicolor volcanic rocks at Cathedral Mountain and Polychrome Pass reflect the vivid hues of the American Southwest. The braided channels of glacially fed streams such as the Teklanika, Toklat, and McKinley rivers serve as highway routes for both animals and hikers. The debris- and tundra-covered ice of the Muldrow Glacier, one of the largest glaciers to flow out of Denali National Park's high mountains, is visible from Eielson Visitor Center, at Mile 66 of the park road. Wonder Lake, a narrow kettle pond that's a remnant from Alaska's ice ages, lies at Mile 85, just a few miles from the former gold-boom camp of Kantishna.
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Look how pretty this gladiola is.
too bad, its in the wrong place, smack in the front of the walk up to the house, taking over some rain lilies.
I meant to pull it up last year after blooming, but forgot.
The rest of them are about 15 feet away...some squirrel must have been up to mischief with my bulbs a few years ago...
When I saw it again this year I decided (again) to move it...but (again) I want to wait until after the blooms die off.
As we were walking back into the house, Kaela noticed a petal falling off so she brought it to me......
pretty little heart shape.....isn't nature amazing!
Monday, May 23, 2011
4 comments:
- Rhonda said...
You are so right.... nature is awesome. I marvel at it every day!
- May 23, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- Crazy Amy said...
glads are my favorite flower (next to peony) I just put in a bunch and they have not yet bloomed but have sprung up. Aren't squirrels the best lil' helpers? it's really pretty!
- May 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- jillytacy said...
It's beautiful! I love that the leaves are heart shaped. I just bought some peony and some Mckana bulbs. I haven't planted either yet.
- May 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Robin (RsIslandCrafts) said...
That's so sweet. I love when nature gives us little gifts like that. It's even more special when our kids recognize those gifts and pass them along to us. Sometimes I forget to notice those little things and it's wonderful when the kids can drag me back to what's "real".
- May 24, 2011 at 5:00 AM
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If you've paid for a .com domain name in the last three years, the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) says that you've paid too much—and it's trying convince federal courts that the law has been broken.
VeriSign has an exclusive contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to manage the .com and .net DNS registries. According to a group of disgruntled registrars, the whole situation is an antitrust nightmare, one allegedly perpetuated by lobbyists, astroturfers, planted news stories, and "stacked" public meetings.
The case was brought back several years ago but was tossed by a federal judge before going to trial. Now, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (PDF) that CFIT can proceed with its case against VeriSign, a case based on "antitrust statutes drafted in the late 19th century."
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CFIT's complaint is based on the relationship between Verisign and ICANN. The 2006 contract awarding the main .com registry to Verisign, for instance, was allegedly done without any competitive bidding and it led to prices that "were artificially high."
CFIT cares about domain prices because it is made up of key DNS registrars (who can resell .com names but must still pay VeriSign) and DNS registrants. Under an older contract, VeriSign's prices for .com domains were capped at $6 until the end of 2006. After that, they were allowed to rise by seven percent in four out of the following six years.
If the system had been open to competitive bidding, said CFIT, "the costs of domain name registrations would have fallen to at least as low as $3.00 per domain name, with at least the same level and quality of services provided by VeriSign."
If you're buying or selling .com domains in bulk, cutting the price in half is a big deal—one worth going to court over. So CFIT went to court, arguing that VeriSign was acting illegally under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
But how did VeriSign convince ICANN to award it such a contract in the first place? According to CFIT, it used just about every technique you could imagine.
"In order to get ICANN to agree to the terms VeriSign desired," said CFIT, "VeriSign paid lobbyists to support its position, 'stacked' ICANN's public meetings with VeriSign supporters, hired purportedly independent organizations and individuals to advocate VeriSign's position, paid bloggers to attack ICANN's reputation, planted news stories critical of ICANN in mainstream media, threatened ICANN with litigation, arbitration, and government investigation, and indeed eventually brought suit against ICANN in federal and state court. VeriSign's suit against ICANN was settled, allegedly as a result of VeriSign's offer to pay ICANN a fee of between $6 and $12 million in exchange for the favorable terms in the agreements."
Despite the long list of charges, a federal court found that CFIT had not actually made a proper claim under the law against VeriSign. On Friday, the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco overturned that decision and said that the case could proceed in reference to .com domains; CFIT did not present enough evidence to proceed with its claims about .net domains, however.
Domain names have certainly been good to VeriSign, which recently announced 13 percent year-over-year revenue growth. The company says that there are now 183 million top-level domain names in the world, with the largest single chunk of those being .com.
Further reading:
- So who's behind CFIT? The Register answered that question back in 2005


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"Our Milky Way is just one amongst billions of galaxies in the universe."
As you settle into your plush seat and adjust your 3D glasses, it's a soothing narration by Jennifer Lawrence that introduces you to space.
"There are hundreds of billion of stars here," she continues, as glowing-white specks race past your face. After gliding weightlessly through the cosmos, you come to a stop and gaze at one particular bright-orange star. "It's the most special place in all the cosmos," she says. "Orbiting this star is the only place we know, in all the universe, to harbour life."
On Wednesday, IMAX3D, in cooperation with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), launched A Beautiful Planet at IMAX Darling Harbour. The 45-minute film takes you aboard the International Space Station orbiting Earth, revealing never-before-seen perspectives of our planet from space.
Visiting from Houston to launch the film in Sydney is retired NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins. Ivins worked on the film as the space operations consultant, providing training and direction to the astronauts filming from the Space Station.
"When I worked for NASA, I had the opportunity to be trained by Toni Myers (the director) and James Neilhouse (director of photography) to fly the film camera on three of my flights," says Ivins.
"I could give the crew insights I'd learnt from doing it real-time myself, and they could also call on me to answer any specific questions they had," Ivins says. "I spoke the same 'space language'."
Ivins's consultancy, combined with groundbreaking technologies, has produced truly captivating footage of Earth and the effects humanity is having on it.
Daytime footage highlights natural wonders: Africa's dry Namib Desert; South America's vast Andes mountain range; Russia's active volcanic field, Jom-Bolok. The thunderstorms captured are like swarming paparazzi flashing their cameras. A typhoon looks like a swirling funnel.
Some of the most spectacular scenes are shot at night. The lush green and blue landscape transforms into black and electric gold. Major cities such as Amsterdam, Rome, Florida and Cairo shine so brightly you can see how populated the planet really is. Traces of how we interact can even be seen. One of the astronauts on board explains:
"The most noticeable [country] border at night is between North and South Korea. Seoul in South Korea is one of the brightest, most vibrant cities on the planet – the whole of South Korean is lit up. Then there's this line of the border and this complete darkness of North Korea with a few little white lights where Pyongyang is. But's there's similar number of people on both sides. You can really see the difference in how people live."
As well as showing Earth from space, A Beautiful Planet is a look into life in space for astronauts. Growing lettuce in a neon-pink-lit box; drinking a morning espresso out of a cup at zero gravity; and air-locked cookies and a pouch of milk for Santa at Christmas will make you smile. Terrifying footage of a crew member scaling the outside of the space station, surrounded by space's black abyss, will turn your stomach.
"It's a gift to share that with people who are interested and curious," says Ivins. "To see what it's like for people in space right now, but also to see the way the planet looks and the way our footprint has not always been gentle."
A Beautiful Planet is a call to action for the whole of humanity.
"Like it says in the movie, it's our responsibility to take care of the only planet, right now, that we have," says Ivins.
A Beautiful Planet is now showing in 3D at IMAX Darling Harbour. Tickets available here.


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The importance of nursing in the FICare model
The relationship that develops between NICU nurses and parents is the key component that facilitates the success of FICare. Parents need to understand that they have a role in the NICU and mutual trust needs to be established between the parents and nursing staff. The bedside nurse has a role in both information sharing and in coaching the parents as they grow into their role as care providers.
What is the role of nursing in FICare?
On arrival to the NICU, in addition to parent orientation to the unit (e.g., physical space of the unit, infection control policies, etc.), parents need to be informed of the importance of their role in their infants care. As parents grow more confident in the environment, they are encouraged to participate as much as possible in their infants care while gradually reducing nursing supervision. Nurses provide bedside teaching to parents on a variety of skills needed to care for their infant including the provision of skin-to-skin care, how to bathe, dress, and weigh their baby and how to check vital signs. Nurses may provide additional education on specific medical conditions, but this will depend on unit policies of the hospital. For example, at Mount Sinai Hospital, parents are educated on how to identify events such as apnea, bradycardia, and/or oxygen desaturation, including how to provide stimulation or knowing when to call for help. The extent to which parents can be involved in the administration of medications will also depend on hospital policies. Ultimately, nurses work with parents to develop a care plan which incorporates parent participation in medical rounds, attending parent education sessions, and providing basic bedside care. They are also asked to assess parents' knowledge and skills and to work with parents to complete their skills checklist.
The professional nurse charting responsibilities have not been changed in any studies of this model. As each hospital adopts FICare principles, they need to ensure that the model goes hand-in-hand with institutional standards and policies, as well as their professional college guidelines.


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I had taken my truck there to get cleaned a couple days ago. It was pretty dirty but I hadnt known about the extra charge for extra dirty vehicles, noone had advised me. This being said I paid my 40 $ to get my floors done seats wiped and interior wiped down, including the console and dashboard. When i had gotten my truck thru to the other side at the end, I had found out that my truck had not been compltetely cleaned on the exterior , there was still a bunch of mud down the side of the truck , and to my dismay i had discovered one of the young people working there was trying to wipe the mud off with a dry rag, hence , scratching the c@!p out of the side of my truck. I corrected him , telling him not to rub mud across a black truck, so he walkde away without saying anything. I looked in the interior of the truck and none of it was touched, i tried arguing with the manager and he had said that this truck was already holding up the line too long and it had to be taken out of the area. The coffee splatters around my cup holders are still there, and the little bits of mud on my door panels were not touched at all. They told me i could pay for another car wash if I wanted it cleaned again....
I am never going back to the chamois again,.. I was pretty disappointed after my friends telling me it was so good, then i have the opportunity to take my vehicle there and was let down greatly.


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DEWEY – Beginning Saturday, the Dewey Shooting Range will be open from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sundays.
Starting Oct. 23, the range will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day through Nov. 21.
The shooting range is located about six miles north of Stevens Point on Willow Springs Drive. For more information, call the Portage County Parks Department at 715-346-1433.
Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com: Hunting news from around the state


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Position of the Duesseldorf Express cargo ship June 11 (VesselFinder.com)
CAGLIARI, Sardinia
My 1973 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL is making good progress today, crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Valencia, Spain, to Cagliari on the southern tip of the Italian island of Sardinia. The sea is as smooth as glass today.
This is quite a trip, as the cargo ship in which my Mercedes is traveling weaves its way through the Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Majorca toward Sardinia. You could have a good argument over which of those islands has the most beautiful waters. A large section of Sardinia's seafront is called Costa Smeralda ("Emerald Coast") for good reason. The waters are the colors of precious stones such as emeralds, sapphires and turquoise.
I've written previously about Sardinia (My 36 Hours in Costa Smeralda) if you would like to know more.
Although Sardinia is a part of Italy, it is an autonomous region, that pretty much does its own thing. It has a long history of control over its own affairs, and in fact centuries ago controlled vast areas of Italy itself. Today, Russian oligarchs have infiltrated the whole island – especially the prettiest parts.
For instance, if you go out to dinner in tony Porto Cervo, the menus are printed in Italian, English and Russian. The joke is the Russians are the only ones who can afford to eat in the best restaurants anymore. (Years ago, at a dinner for five in Porto Cervo, we spent one million…lira – I think it was only about $700. But I always wanted to spend a million on something; the torta cioccolata for dessert put us over the top.)
The palatial waterfront homes are now owned by oligarchs; the yacht harbor is jammed with Russian-owned yachts.
Island life in Sardinia is very much dominated by travel on the seas. Yachts, ferries and cargo ships connect it to the Italian mainland, and the huge French island of Corsica, which nearly touches its northern tip. At one time, I thought about picking up my Mercedes in Cagliari, driving around the coast to the short ferry crossing to Corsica, touring Corsica and then taking the daily car ferry from Bastia at the north end of that island to Nice (about 100 miles). But the price of gas probably would have bankrupted me! That whole trip would have been several hundred miles in total.
Anyway, the cargo ship, the Duesseldorf Express, carrying my Mercedes to its rapidly approaching rendezvous with me, will only be a short time in Sardinia; then it will wind around the southern tip of the island, before heading up its glorious eastern coast, toward its next stop in the Tuscan port of Livorno.
And then its on to Genoa, where I plan to pick the car up, as soon as port authorities tell me it has cleared customs and is ready to go (hopefully that process does not take as long as it seems to for customs to clear my lost luggage at Italian airports). This two-month odyssey from my house in the western United States to my temporary home near Nice – a month of it on the high seas – is starting to get real…
Jerry Garrett
June 11, 2017


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President Bush Runs on a Pro‐Trade Platform
President George W. Bush speaks often of the benefits of trade for the U.S. economy and its broader foreign policy interests. But his administration has also retreated from free trade principles in the face of political pressure, casting a cloud of uncertainty over the trade policy of a second Bush term.
Nowhere has this tension between principle and politics been more evident than in U.S. trade with China. The Bush administration strongly supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization, and has worked constructively with China on a range of trade issue. It rejected a string of Section 421 requests by U.S. industries to restrict imports of Chinese‐made wire hangers, pedestal actuators and brake parts.
The Bush administration also dismissed two Section 301 petitions that would have imposed tariffs on Chinese imports in retaliation for alleged labor abuses and currency manipulation. The president's able trade representative, Robert Zoellick, negotiated settlement of a WTO dispute over China's tax treatment of imported semiconductors. During the administration's tenure, two‐way trade between the United States and China has continued its spectacular growth, from $116 billion in 2000 to $181 billion in 2003.
And yet President Bush has not been immune to protectionist pressures. He imposed special safeguard duties on Chinese‐made brassieres, dressing gowns, and knit fabrics. His Commerce Department has rejected arguments to designate China a "market economy" for purposes of antidumping calculations. And a steady parade of administration officials have pressured China to revalue or float its currency to supposedly boost U.S. exports to China, which have already grown by 75 percent since 2000.
Like his policy toward China, President Bush's overall record on trade is one of unsteady progress. On the plus side, the administration and USTR Zoellick were instrumental in launching the Doha Development Round and in keeping it alive with serious proposals to liberalize trade in industrial products, services, and farm commodities. The administration persuaded Congress to pass trade promotion authority after an eight‐year lapse, allowing the president to negotiate market‐opening agreements with Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, the Dominican Republic, and five nations in Central America.
On the minus side, President Bush in 2002 imposed temporary tariffs as high as 30 percent on imported steel through the Section 201 safeguards provision. He also signed the trade‐distorting farm bill that year that locked in subsidies at a level 80 percent higher than under the previous farm bill. Besides being costly to taxpayers and consumers alike, the farm bill undercuts the U.S. government's moral authority to argue for free trade in other countries. So the Bush record on trade can be described as one of good intentions and genuine progress compromised by tactical retreats in the face of political pressure.
A huge piece of unfinished business for the next president will be the ongoing Doha Development Round. A comprehensive agreement could be hammered out as soon as December 2005 at the planned ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Whoever is president would then need to shepherd any final agreement through Congress before trade promotion authority expires in 2007. Either a Bush or Kerry administration could bring the round to a successful conclusion, but Bush would probably have more flexibility to negotiate real limits on antidumping abuses.
Where Bush would differ most from Kerry on trade would be in more aggressively seeking bilateral and regional agreements. Nowhere will the contrast be sharper than on the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The Bush administration negotiated the agreement and strongly supports it in its current form, while Kerry has pronounced it unacceptable because it supposedly lacks adequate labor and environmental protections. A re‐elected President Bush would also pursue a U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement, while a President Kerry would be more likely to heed the objections of the United Auto Workers union, which fears competition from the Thai light‐truck industry.
No matter who wins in November, it is unlikely that the United States will deviate much from its post‐war commitment to a more open global trading system. But judging by both his rhetoric and his record, George W. Bush would be more likely to build and expand upon that legacy than his opponent.


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2019 Paving the Way to Educational Success Conference
October 15-17, 2019 | Kalahari Resort and Convention Center, Pocono Manor, Pa.
JOIN US for the 2019 Paving the Way to Educational Success Conference and leave inspired and equipped to take your job, your passion to the next level to better serve your students.
This conference is a HIGH-QUALITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY for professionals working with students experiencing homelessness and students in foster care.
2019 Paving the Way to Educational Success Conference is a joint conference of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Programs' Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness and Educational Stability for Youth in Foster Care, and is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Human Services.
2018 ECYEH Conference Presentations
The 2018 ECYEH Conference, "Meeting the Challenge: Educating Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness", was held October 24-25, 2018 in Harrisburg Pa. The conference provided homeless education information and resources to 240 professionals from across Pennsylvania who work with students and families experiencing homelessness. Following are select slide presentations from the conference.
Developing Policies and Procedures to Identify and Serve Out-of-School and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
Presented by Jennifer Kenny, Home and School Visitor, Elizabethtown Area School District; David Lehman, Superintendent, Conemaugh Valley School District; and Jillian Sitjar, Higher Education Program Manager, SchoolHouse Connection
Don't Panic! Surviving McKinney-Vento LEA Monitoring
Presented by Michelle Connor, ECYEH Region 8 Coordinator, Bucks County Intermediate Unit; Jane Hershberger, ECYEH LEA Monitor; and Barbara Naradko, ECYEH LEA Monitor
The Effective Use of Title I Funds to Meet the Needs of Students Experiencing Homelessness
Presented by Maria Garcia, Regional Coordinator, Division of Federal Programs, Pennsylvania Department of Education; and Erin Keating, Chief of Leadership Development and School Operations, Scranton School District
Exemplary Liaisons – What Makes Them So Special?
Presented by Erin Keating, Chief of Leadership Development and School Operations, Scranton School District; Katie Reiff, Home/School Visitor, Conestoga Valley School District; and Kerri Ruck, Principal-Student Registration, Stroudsburg Area School District
The Foundation of Dropout Prevention: Analyzing Assessment Data and Determining Strategies to Support Academic Success for Students Experiencing Homelessness
Presented by Jacinda Goodwin, Program Specialist, National Center for Homeless Education and Yolanda Yugar, Data Specialist, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Supporting Post-Secondary Opportunities for Students Experiencing Homelessness Part 1
Presented by Tiffanie DeVan, Higher Education Access Partner, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; and Stacey Havlik, Assistant Professor, Villanova University
Training All School Staff to Support the McKinney-Vento Requirements
Presented by Kristen Hoffa, ECYEH Region 2 Coordinator, Berks County Intermediate Unit; and Tabitha Kramer, ECYEH Region 2 Program Specialist, Berks County Intermediate Unit
What You Always Wanted to Know About Being a Homeless Liaison But Were Afraid to Ask – McKinney-Vento 101
Presented by Nicole Anderson, ECYEH Region 4 Coordinator, Allegheny Intermediate Unit; Melissa Gosnell, ECYEH Region 3 Program Liaison and Foster Care Point of Contact, Lincoln Intermediate Unit; and Yolanda Yugar, Evaluation Specialist, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Recorded Webinars
Understanding Dropout Prevention: Strategies to Support Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Dropping out of school is often a process of disengagement that occurs over time. The complexity of this process points to the need for systemic solutions that address root causes, necessitating changes in the way we "do" school. Over a million children and youth in the U.S. have been identified as homeless, a traumatic circumstance that can place them at greater risk for low achievement and school dropout. These students present their own specific challenges that schools and the greater community must be aware of and address in order for our children and youth to be educationally stable, successful and fully prepared for college, career or civic life. Attend this webinar to explore the challenges faced by students experiencing homelessness, and how we as educators and agency personnel can have a positive impact on their success.
College and Career Counseling for Students Experiencing Homelessness
The webinar will provide information about the new McKinney-Vento requirements for counselors and liaisons related to supporting the career and college readiness of secondary students experiencing homelessness. Dr. Havlik will discuss the challenges that these students face becoming career and college ready and provide specific strategies to enhance their career and college counseling preparation.
Claims, Red Flags and What to Do About Them
Learn how to investigate claims of homelessness, where to turn when a red flag is raised, and how to ensure you are making the most accurate determination based upon your findings. The webinar highlights the rights and responsibilities of both families and LEAs with regard to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and provides specific strategies to use in your work.
Youth Homelessness in Pennsylvania: Statistics and Solutions
Experts estimate there are at least 1.3 to 1.7 million youth who experience at least one night of homelessness each year. Through data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, 95,032 unaccompanied homeless youth were counted during the 2014-15 school year. In Pennsylvania during the 2015-16 school year, 20 percent – or 5,607 – of identified students served were unaccompanied youth. This number is rising both nationally and in Pennsylvania. This webinar features a panel of professionals with experience in addressing the needs of students who are homeless and unaccompanied. The panel provides more information about the national epidemic among young people, the expectations for serving this population per the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and specific strategies and solutions, which can help these students meet their academic and life goals.


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You know, when I sit down here and decide to pound out a blog posting, I always start thinking about what kind of image I'll end up using to illustrate what I'm trying to say. I think it's important since it gets people's attention and makes them want to read the copy. It's the copy and what I want to say, that's really important. Or so I tell myself.
The photo artwork is only a kind of compilation of what the article says. There is that old saying of the Chinese about a picture being worth a thousands words — which I think is true. Sometimes I want to use (with good reason) a picture of a thermonuclear mushroom cloud, but try not to. Why? Because it's a bit hyped-up and paranoid to do so. Yet the reality is that it's these people who are really over-doing the paranoia bit on your White butt.So I'm watching this show called Glenn Beck on FOX Jew news yesterday, and this image comes up in spades. Now, Glenn Beck is just another good old boy cable news personality, basically just an entertainer. You can tell because these people talk more than the guests they bring on (Bill O'Reilly especially). The guests are really there just to sell a book, while the personality is really there just to be personable.
Anyway, Glenn Beck had this Jew guy on named Joel Rosenberg (above left). Rosenberg is some kind of Neocon who apparently loves jerking the chains of the Dispensationalist Evangelicals with all the "End Times" business, writing both fiction and non-fiction (supposedly). So now he's on Beck's show pushing all the Iran paranoia biz so he can sell copies of his new book "Epicenter" to the concerned Goyim.
Beck and Rosenberg both turn into little Dr. Strangeloves over the Iranian threat — all the Mad Mullahs and nuclear bomb stuff — going off about Iran launching a satellite into orbit and all the crazy leaders. But Beck doesn't forget to say that most of Iranians are still good people, just to keep it all PC palatable for the indoctrinated Diversity masses. How considerate — too bad none of that makes one whit of difference to the real powers that be.
The History Channel has been on a tear lately with "End of the World" programming for some odd reason — from the usual Nostradamus crap to Aztec 2012 prophecies to the Bible code. What's up with that? Oh yeah, sometimes they do have shows on the evil Hitler and Chupachapras.
Basically, all this Dispensationalist "End Times" stuff is a take-off from the Revelation part of the New Testament, where this hermit guy named John, who lived in a cave on the island of Patmos, scribed away some wacked-out parchments about the hated Roman emperor Nero. It's full of breaking of the seals or jars or something in the heavenly abode, the Whore of Babylon (I love that one) and horses of the Apocalypse riding through the fires of hell — all right at your face, the viewer of tonight's History Channel show.
Jews, like this foul Rosenberg creep, have glommed onto all this Dispensationalism crap, not only to make shekels off books, but also to feed the Israel-supporting American putzes who hope that all the end time catastrophes will usher in Jesus, who will then put a stop to all the sleaze out of Hollywood (Jews always work both sides to the equation).
But the religious Jews believe it will be a Jewish Messiah showing up to the really big show and who's name could be anything, so far. Even Mikey, I guess.
So, Rosenberg is talking about the Mad Iranian Mullahs believing in a Messiah, something called the 12th Iman, whom they believe is due to make his appearance and will destroy the Great Satan (us) and the little Satan, Israel (his bros). This is all truly nightmarish since they are on the verge of getting the Bomb and looky-here America, they just launched a missile into outer space, so they can now come drop the Big One on us!
All the while watching this, I'm thinking to myself, hell, everything this Rosenberg Jew is blathering about is exactly, not a little, what many crazy Jews themselves think and can really do now. And what's worse is that some of them believe their Jew Messiah (Moshiach in Hebrew) will either wipe out or enslave all the Gentiles — not just those pesky Iranians, but even all those dam fool Christian Evangelicals back here giving them money!
The Chabad-Lubavitchers (also called Chabad Hassids) think that once the Great Rabbi of the Sanhedrin appears, he'll magically increase the borders of Israel to include the entire globe. What this really means is, of course, you'll be under their yoke and a slave to them, or be one dead Goyim.
These Lubavitchers are everywhere (70 nations — exactly what they think is needed for the big takeover) and have a multi-million dollar operating budget. This is not some poor minor sect at all. The Mossad is said to use them for safe houses all over the world, for the usual kinds of Zionist shenanigans. Remember the terrorist business in Mumbai, India? That Jewish Center, where the husband and wife where killed, was a Chabadist house. Many suspect, with good reason, that they were really sacrificed for a Mossad false-flag operation. They've done it before.
All these Orthodox Jews are big time right-wingers or Likudniks who love Bibi Netanyahu, now in a tight race for PM with the Kadima party's hard-liner woman and daughter of Irgun terrorists, Tzipi Livni (the elections were just today). They love to chant "Netanyahu is good for the Jews." And let's not forget what Netanyahu once said was so good after witnessing all the death and destruction of 9/11; when he just happened to be in New York that day (curiously, he was also in London during the subway bombings of 7/7):
"It's very good," he said, then quickly added "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)."
But you'll never, ever see one dam thing about any of this Jewish religious craziness in the US media, though. That, my friends, is the power of Jewry. They can go off all day to us about the dangers of mad Muslims and all their efforts at making a nuke, but not breath a word about themselves doing and thinking exactly the same mad things.
Ask yourself these questions: Why do they absolutely never mention the Jew's Talmud whenever the History Channel does a program on religion? Or discuss the Federal Reserve's beginnings? Why do we never see the History Channel doing something on Israel secretly building the nuke? For that matter, why do we absolutely never hear one word about Israel's nuclear capability on the mainstream news? Most Americans don't even know that Israel has 200 to 400 nukes, ballistic missiles, US Stealth bombers and even German-made submarines.
You should check out the story of Mordecai Vunanu (above), the brave Israeli (called a "self-hating" Jew), who converted to Christianity and brought to the West concrete evidence of the extant of Israel's nuclear program. The Mossad then literally kidnapped him from a sovereign country (Italy) and threw him in jail for 18 years. When they finally released him, he wanted to leave the country (wouldn't you?), so they threw him back in jail to keep him from becoming a symbol. He's still there, last I heard.
This is one guy who really should win the Nobel prize, but you'll never see that one happen. Wonder why? Check out this quote from Vunanu when he temporarily had his freedom and the situation in America with the US media:
"Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew… Thanks to Jesus Christ I survived…This US media who are here in Jerusalem are afraid of Israel. Because I am under orders and they don't want trouble, they cooperate with Israel. A good example is the US media who talk about freedom of knowledge, freedom of information like CNN, ABC, 60 Minutes. In this case they are all silent and cooperate with Israel; they fear the Israel lobby and the Israeli authority here. My view is the US Media is totally under the Israeli control. Very sad, very bad that US Media is not free. The Zionist lobby in Washington decides what people in the US should know and hear about. Not just the West Bank is under occupation, but the US Media is under Israeli occupation too." Read more here
Just the barest time researching this on the Internet will show you all this about Israel. But that's not the issue. Get it straight in your head: Why do we not hear about things like this on the telly? Should that not well-prove to you the power and will of these people to keep you in the dark in the US? Note the operative verb there — the "will" to keep you in the dark over what they don't want you to think or know!
The Iranians are not a threat to the US of A. We can melt them into a sheet of glass within 30 minutes should we want. They know this, we know this. The Iranians are simply fighting against the Jew's hegemonistic designs in the region and genocides of fellow Muslims, the Palestinians. The Jews cannot have the Iranians become a power in the region because of what they want to eventually do with the Palestinians and their "Greater Israel" designs on Iraq and Syria. Already, Kurdish Jews are moving into areas of Iraq and forcibly displacing the Chaldean Christians, who lived there for eons.
And there is plenty of reasons to think the Iranians want peace. Even Ahmadinejad. Hell, the Jews often lie when it comes to this guy (he's the new Hitler of the world and it's 1939 all over again!). The Jews at 60 Minutes and Mike Wallace did a interview with him and carefully edited the piece to make him look evil to the American public. That's the kind of Jew-job propaganda tactics they employ on your head!
Jew propagandists (mistakenly called journalists) are all over the airwaves and in print, too. Not only in America, but Britain (bottom left), Canada or any White country really. White Americans have little idea of the pervasiveness of their viewpoints and how vigorously they work to protect Jewry's image, no matter what they do.
All Jews wants you to believe that they are the "good guys," unmercifully attacked simply because they are always "eternally victimized." They are the masters at this schtick on the stupefied, sleeping White populations of the West. It's like this: You accept their view of things, but if you dare to say anything about it, then it's you who are the terrorist supporter, anti-Semite, Hater, or NeoNazi, blah-blah, blah-blah.
Glenn Beck is just another Goyim media personality who knows what he can and can't talk about. All of the talking heads on the air are like this, on both sides of the political equation — MSNBC, CNN, FOX. That's right. Have you ever noticed how people define themselves on what news channel they watch on TV? You can be a Kieth Oberman guy (tough guy liberal) or a Bill O'Reilly fan (tough guy conservative) or in the middle, like the friendly Charles Gibson of ABC.
All of them are really Jew tools when you get right down to it. They would be gone in a Jew York minute should they dare mention "the Jews" or any inconvenient fact about the sacred State of Israel. You can see how they tiptoe around it with all the careful wordage used in any story involving Jews or Israel. Most of the time they take the easy way out and just ignore it entirely. That's how it works, people.
Let's look at a little thing that happened last night on Obama's first press conference. These kind of things are carefully staged, the reporters with questions specifically selected and seated; they won't take questions from just any journalist and if you present problems about the whole deal, then you'll never get another chance — which could easily end your entire career.
An ancient fixture in all this, Helen C. Thomas (right), asked a question about the "so-called terrorists" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She ended by asking him directly "do you know what countries in the Mideast have nuclear weapons?" Simple question, really.
Obama went on and on about Pakistan, etc. but deftly skipped on by the question on exactly what country in the Mideast has the nuke, saying he wasn't going to speculate and how he didn't want to see things "proliferate." Then he quickly he went on to another reporter just as Helen Thomas vainly tried to ask the question again: "the question was on what countries have them!' Which Obama completely ignored.
After the show, Bill O'Reilly had the Neocon Bernie Goldberg on to dissect the press conference and wax Jewish on Obama's performance. Both of them had a big laugh about Thomas as being too old and out of it; saying Thomas should have quit her job back in the days of Lincoln (the first one). And, of course, they ignored her very sharp and important question about nukes in the Mideast. Funny, huh?
Dick Morris and Eri Fleischer also joined Bernie on Bill O'Reilly's little show to dissect Obama's hot air. Guess what? All of them are dam Jews. Hell, Ari Fleischer is a ordained rabbi in the Chabad Lubavitcher Orthodox Jew group I talked about earlier; the ones who are real-life religious crazies and are every bit as bad as the mad Muslim fundamentalists. Every G-Dam bit.
All Jews, all the time: 1) Bernie Goldberg, Bill O'Reilly's guest "pragmatic, conservative" Jew mouth and book-pusher (all of them write Iran paranoia books, even the liberal ones). 2) Goldberg with CNN's Old Jew, Larry King, who recently gushed about his kid wishing he was born Black. 3) Dick Morris, a "crypto-Jew" who now, supposedly, is not Jewish (because he married a Shiksa) and 4) Ari Fleischer, former Bush spokes-liar and now a Chabadist-Lubavicher Rabbi. Fleischer doesn't wear the usual Chabadist attire nor grow his beard out, like the bunch (5) chumming it up with former Bush White House Chief of Staff, JoshUA Bolten (yep, another Jew). Fleischer must've had special dispensation so he can look Goyish on FOX Jew News.
It's all Jews and how they view the issues. It's their perspective and if you dare to see it any other way and have the temerity to speak openly, then out comes all the "Nazi" business. Not only with all us out here in sheep land, but also with the real White news people, too (or the rapidly increasing number of on-air Negro talking heads).
It's all a sham folks. All of this is a set-up to keep YOU from seeing THEM. Why? Well, if you cannot talk about the almighty Jews and what they do and want to do in the world, then that's what it is. All a distraction to keep you from asking the real questions. Questions they don't want you asking or even thinking.
And it's not only TV, people. These Jews are all over the media — top to bottom — writing stories and editorials in newspapers from the New York Times to your local rag. Magazines too: Newsweek, Time magazine and any of the political "organs" (weird Commie term). They might write about conservative or liberal topics, but pretty much every one of them protects Jewry and toes the Israeli, Zionist line.
Now, I'm certain that some of you who come here are yelling "he's a conspiracy nut!" and all that. If you read so far, then I want to thank you for at least that. But the majority of people who jump to this conclusion will not bother to hear me out any further — they want to live in the false world created for them by the Jew-controlled media. The very same media that stays silent about real things that makes this world much worse and possibly very dangerous to all of us in the near future.
It's dangerous because of what some of these people propose to do. The Iranians learned from the Jew's out-of-the-blue attack on the Osirik reactor that Saddam Hussein built in Iraq, so they buried everything underground, as well as spreading things out. To fully put a stop to it, they'll need to use tactical nuclear weapons. Anything less, will only be damaging and just serve to piss off the entire Muslim world and maybe even Russia and China.
Look, we don't want these kind of bald-faced liars telling us the news, always giving us the Jew perspective and leaving all kinds of stuff out. We don't want them hypocritically manipulating the religious thinking of people in the US, people that are already messed around with by the elite Jew liberals in the media. One would hope you can see all this and be willing to speak out about it to everyone you know.
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The details are still coming together, but while I was busy at the Forrester Consumer Forum, this little tidbit came out, as trumpeted by Gigaom via the New York Times.
Yes, I knew that the new UI for the Xbox 360, due out in late November, was going to feature Netflix streaming. That wasn't news. But the interesting bit is that apparently, there will be HD movies as part of the deal. Reactions are quite positive so far, from the tweets I'm reading on Twitter. UPDATE: It appears Netflix has plans to roll this out to all its non-PC streaming platforms, not just Xbox 360 — read this post at CNET for details, including the high bandwidth requirements.
And I have to say that while this is a good move, and a relatively easy move, it's more of a symbolic victory than anything else. For Netflix, the symbolic victory comes in being able to say it will be streaming HD quality movies to the TV not the PC (Hulu.com already streams hundreds of movies to the PC), something that cable companies charge much more for. For the Xbox 360, it will finally elevate the device's chances of breaking through as a gaming machine to a home entertainment machine. When you add up how many people have watched video on the Xbox 360 — Microsoft says its about 30% of it's 14 million Windows live customers, or more than 4 million people — that makes it more important than TiVo or the Apple TV in terms of the number of people it's reaching, as I've said before. So going this next step makes sense.
But the move won't push either company into new revenue or subscriber growth mode. Instead, it will confirm existing subscribers and remind them why they have already signed up in the first place. That's always a worthwhile goal, especially in a recession, but a modest one.
It's the long-term effect I'm interested in and I suspect that's what Netflix is positioning for. Today, when you want to watch a movie, what are your top 5 choices? How different will that list be in two years? Maybe the better way to ask it is, where did you get the last 5 movies you watched? For me, without straining too hard to recall, it's probably:
- Hulu.com streaming (watched bits of John Carpenter's The Thing just yesterday while eating room service)
- Netflix by mail
- DVD rental from Hollywood video (it's like, 2 mins away)
- Netflix streaming to Roku box
- Little bits of a movie my daughter was watching on ABC Family.
Here's what's not on my list even though I have these options: Apple TV, Xbox 360, premium movie channels, or cable VOD. What's your five? Go on, surprise me:


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Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
Giving an inspiring lecture at Direct Media Academy (DMA), Tobias Wacker, Creative Director at hasan & partners, one of the most creative and most successful agencies in the Nordic region explained why the advertising sucks today and how to make it a real thing.
Tobias' work has been included in final rounds and awarded with Epica, Eurobest, Cresta, Red Apple, Cannes Lions, ADC*E, Guldägget, iF Communication Design Award, Effie Awards, Golden Hammer, and national advertising awards in Finland, the Netherlands, and Germany. He was a member of many national and international jury panels – from White Square International in Minsk to New York Festivals. In 2015, Hasan & Partners was included among the top 15 creative agencies in the world.
Less than a month before the death of Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, the legendary Motörhead frontman filmed a milk commercial for Valio, the Finnish dairy giant. Instead of airing the ad, the hasan & partners team change it and made a tribute. The agency created the first world's first Complaints Booth where people could trade their worries for a cruise. Showing emotions can be difficult – especially if you're a silent Finn. So it makes sense that Finland has become the first country with its own set of national emojis – again hasan &partners work that gained global attention.
Media Marketing: The audience at Direct Media Academy awarded you with big applause. You presented some great campaigns of your agency, still your lecture was sobering. Why do you think advertising sucks today?
Tobias Wacker: There simply are too many bad ads out there, and people are frustrated with being interrupted and underestimated. Content needs to stand out to make an impact on people, and content should be so interesting that people want to spend their time with it on their free will. We still need to think much more about human motives and emotions. And we need to use data and all the tools we got to support that thinking, currently the analytic part of the work is too disconnected from the emotional part. Also, the way how advertising campaigns are bought, planned and rolled out is still very similar to how it has been done years back, but the world has changed dramatically. Advertising is still out of sync with the development speed of the real world.
Media Marketing: You underlined that we should reinvent ourselves as marketers. How should that process look like?
Tobias Wacker: First of all we need to look into that what we call strategy. Very often brands are lacking a purpose and a mission, a reason to exist, which is the only way to give them meaningful and relevant roles in people's lives. And the only way to give a competitive advantage. Most brands have a brand strategy, but very often it is neither insightful nor relevant and competitive. It's just technically executed. Instead of thinking how marketing can help to sell products and services, we need to think which brands could sell certain products and services. But talking about the process, lots of things need to change. Organizations should be brand driven and look into what a brand promises to people, even in B2B companies.
Agencies need to collaborate with a much wider set of creative people and blend different kind of talent to be able to find really new solutions instead of selling the talent they have. The best brands and agencies out there do that already, but for most it is a long way to go. Maybe too long.
And last, we need to learn to focus again, there's a million things to do in terms of technology and channels, but we need to select the best and most impactful ones for our brands instead of doing them all and being mediocre.


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An inflatable rubber suit
Text Type
- Informative: Students write a set of instructions for the use of an amazing inflatable suit.
Background notes for teachers
This black and white family photograph of V.P. Taylor in Inflatable Rubber Suit depicts Vincent Patrick Taylor floating on San Francisco Bay in the USA in 1926. The nephew of George Augustine Taylor, who was one of Australia's first aviators, Vincent Patrick was a balloonist and a stunt man.
The photograph is part of a large collection of family photographs (1884 – 1968) donated to the State Library of New South Wales by his uncle George Augustus Taylor who was an aeronaut, artist and bookseller. An aeronaut travels in hot air balloons and other flying vehicles. An aviator is a person who flies aeroplanes.
Student Activities
Activity notes for teachers
Activity 2
Informative Text
- are factual statements that give an action to perform or do - such as a recipe for a cake
- often explain how to use or assemble a product
Instructions are structured in the following way:
- Usually in small increments or steps
- Organised into manageable tasks that have a clear order
- Steps are ordered first, second, third and so on
Instructions have the following features:
- Begin with an action verb. The reader must DO something after each instruction.
- Are written in short and simple sentences
- Use common vocabulary the reader will understand. Technical terms or jargon are explained in a simple way.
- Are written in present tense, using an active positive voice
- Are precise and include small incremental steps
- Address the reader using 'you' or 'your' e.g. "Your next step is to…"
- Often include diagrams or pictures to assist the reader
An easy way to put instructions in order is to write out each step on a slip of paper. Move them around until they are in the best order. Then number them sequentially and remove unnecessary words.
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum: English K-10
A student:
- composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts EN3-2A
- uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies EN3-3A
- uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies EN3-6B
- thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts EN3-7C
Engage personally with texts
- understand and appreciate the way texts are shaped through exploring a range of language forms and features and ideas
- experiment and use aspects of composing that enhance learning and enjoyment
Develop and apply contextual knowledge
- explore and analyse the effectiveness of informative and persuasive devices in texts
- Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
- plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
Develop and apply contextual knowledge
- understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
- understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold
Develop and apply contextual knowledge
- understand that language is structured to create meaning according to audience, purpose and context
- understand that choices in grammar, punctuation and vocabulary contribute to the effectiveness of texts
Understand and apply knowledge of vocabulary
- understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
Respond to and compose texts
- select appropriate language for a purpose, eg descriptive, persuasive, technical, evaluative, emotive and colloquial, when composing texts
- experiment with different types of sentences, eg short sentences to build tension and complex sentences to add detail
Engage personally with texts
- recognise and explain creative language features in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that contribute to engagement and meaning
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
- understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
In each year of Stage 3 students must study examples of:
- visual texts
- media, multimedia and digital texts
Across the stage, the selection must give student experience of:
- a wide range of factual texts that present information, issues and ideas
- an appropriate range of digital texts, including film, media and multimedia
Learning across the curriculum
General Capabilities:
- creative and critical thinking
- literacy


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Painting was not a career choice or something that I could quit doing. I tried other majors like civil engineering, but I never stopped painting during my hiatuses. I'd go crazy if I wasn't in the middle of painting something. I'm always working on a study or preparing something for a show. I think I'd be painting regardless of who or what for. I studied the atelier method throughout my foundation years. Even with academic training, art is very much a self-taught self-propelled field, one has to study art for the entirety of their life to master it. I believed that art should be created without the use of modern technology. I tried very hard not to work from photographs.
I bought my first camera in high-school as a way to take pictures of my paintings to sell on eBay. Photography eventually became a coping mechanism, a way for me to fight my social anxiety. I used to 'hide' behind my camera. After I purchased my first professional-grade camera, my camera went everywhere that I did. This way I would have a purpose for being somewhere because I was doing something productive. If anyone asked what my rates were I would politely tell them that I would gladly work for beer. My Saturday night bar hopping adventures usually involved me taking photos of beer glasses and pool tables, candid shots of locals. Nearly every social situation involved me taking pictures of the oddest things and people. People used to ask me what I 'do' with all my photographs; to an outsider, the concept of taking photos non-stop seemed sort of 'weird' and looking back it definitely was. Sometimes I would tell the truth — I mostly just delete them. I do not have the disk space to save hundreds of photos. At the start of my photographic experience, I would only take a decent photograph by accident, so deleting them became second nature. Other times I would sarcastically tell people that "I build a shrine out of them". Questions from strangers about why I took hundreds of photos of useless things were redundant. I didn't take photos for some purpose, like shrine building or an art project. I took photos as a way to provide me with a purpose when I went outside, like a pseudo-volunteer-job. My therapist said that this was called a "safety behavior". Simultaneously, I was never truly 'included' in these social interactions. My photographic process became a way to 'study' the real world. I never saw myself as a photographer, but as a scientist taking notes. I couldn't even go to a concert without my camera. Eventually, people noticed my photography and started paying me real money. After a few years of event photography, I became a skilled photographer.
Like a living cliche, at one point I formally renounced and dropped out of college, and then I renounced (and quit) my day job. I was quite the elitist. I believed that art should be created without the use of modern technology. I tried very hard not to work from photographs. That was until I met Tom. Tom was a 70-year-old figurative oil painter who lived in the studio across the street from mine. He was in the exact same school of thought. Our favorite subject was figure painting. The thing is, Tom had been studying art his whole life, and he was only 'kind of' a skilled painter I remember one conversation, Tom had told me that many of the successful figurative oil painters living today worked from photographs in combination with live models (these people are called hyper-realists), and that many of them use giant computer screens so that they can zoom into any photo and see the details, or change the contrast, or mess with the colors — and Tom made it clear that he was against this method. I remember something that my dad told me when we went to a museum and I made fun of a painting for using tape to paint perfect lines. He said to me "using tape or not using tape doesn't really matter, what matters is the final painting".
Out of the fear that I would one day end up like Tom — studying an artform my whole life and never mastering it — I decided that it was time to start working with innovation instead of against it. This put me in a good position because I had trained for years as an atelier method painter. Believe it or not there have been many innovations in painting, such as Aluminum Panels, higher quality pigments, acid-free materials. I continued experimenting. Sometimes I staged scenes, or created dioramas to work from. Little models of ships and plastic animals make excellent reference resources.
Often I use a photo or a combination of photos as a starting point. What I love about reality is that you don't have to imagine the ridiculous, it already exists. I do live sketches of the subject when I can, I experiment with color schemes and compositions. I think that it's important to study the subject in order to understand the subject. Many of my paintings are not staged at all, in a 'definitive moment' kind of fashion, they're photos of strangers whom I met on the street. While others, like the painting titled "Maya G.", involved a makeup artist, a rented wardrobe, and a location.
"I believe that art should be a subjective experience and that the motifs that I place within my artwork should only start the conversation."


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It's Throwback Thursday so let's go back through Upper Deck's trading card history and come up with a fun giveaway. Yesterday Upper Deck released 2014 SP Authentic Golf, which includes the first autographed rookie card of Rory McIlroy. In 2011, McIlroy set a record score of 16-under-par on his way to an eight-stroke victory at the U.S. Open which is chronicled in the "Authentic Moments" insert set in the new 2014 SP Authentic Golf. With The Masters right around the corner and Rory set as a favorite, hopefully we will see some more record-breaking golf from this future legend! So let's put up that "Authentic Moments" card and see if our fans can come up with some great captions for Throwback Thursday! Please share your comical caption to this card for your opportunity to score one (1) 2014 Upper Deck 25th Anniversary Promo Set!
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Come On Mike, Vinny And Pauly D! Lets Fist Pump!!!!!!
I am glad I finished this course quickly as I forgot to put on my sunscreen!
Bugs! Bugs! Blue and White Bugs!!!!
What a "PAR" fect round
Yesssss !
She thinks I'm cute!
Major Victory, Major Talent, Major McIlroy!
I'm biting my lip hoping I make a upperdeck trading card for the way I just played!!!
Is this gonna be a trophy I can drink out of?
Rory was very happy to find out he win the best dressed golfer award at the US Open. When asked about it, he said, "I knew the belt really tied this outfit together, but I wasn't expecting it to get this much attention!"
Thats right, I can bend golf balls better then james mcavoy in Wanted!
Never letting go of this rabbit's foot in my fist. Never. Ever.
Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course…..
Yeah I won the Open, take that Tiger!! Oops three more rounds left nevermind!!!
This is how my dad used to dance!
I told you Tiger wasn't in this tourney! …now we have a chance!
I learned this celebration from my friend Happy Gilmore.
Wooo… What a relief. I finally conquered Level 10 of Candy Crush!
Tiger withdrew! Yes! I really enjoy playing Tiger Woods, on the Wii!
Rory waiting for Carolines answer after popping the question!
I don't care what anyone says, I make this outfit look great and that makes me the winner.
Cinderella Story…..
Maybe if I act happy they won't notice I hit myself with my club!
"Haha! One heck of a bounce off the cart path!"
And thats how its done Old Guys…
Boots and pants boots and pants boots and pants I'm loving this beat… Fist pumping baby!!!
Hooray …. I told you I was terrific with all my clubs!!
Now, THAT'S how you do it!
I'm trying out signature celebrations. This one is the "try to get the trucker to honk." What do you think?
Finally got the spinach out of my teeth!
I wanna be like the Rock and drop the peoples Elbow on the rest of the field!
Alright I just scored some front row Justin Bieber tickets
Mario Lopez had a laugh out loud comment this week! Congrats on scoring a 2014 Upper Deck 25th Anniversary Promo Set! Thanks to everyone for participating and stay tuned for next week's TBT!!
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A majority of financial advisors do not describe their life insurance sales and advice as successful or very successful, according to a recent survey.
Saybrus Partners, Inc., Hartford, Conn., published this finding in a summary of results from a survey of 131 broker-dealer registered reps, registered investment advisors (RIAs) and dually registered advisors. The survey polled advisors at the INSITE 2013 conference in Hollywood, Fla., held June 5-7.
More than half (52%) of financial advisors do not describe their efforts to provide life insurance and related life insurance-based advice to their clients as "successful" or "very successful." Additionally, 44% of those polled say that over the last three years, no more than 10% of their current portfolio of clients had proactively asked them about approaches to life insurance that may be appropriate for them. Only 14% say more than half had proactively inquired about life insurance.
Additionally, more than two-thirds (70%) say they do provide life insurance to their clients "when appropriate."
When asked to identify the most complicated part of understanding and selling life insurance solutions, more than a third (37%) of those polled say, "the variety of different types of policies and riders and how they fit specific client needs." A quarter of advisors cite "the abundance of paperwork required to sell and issue a policy" while 13% cited "frequent product development changes."
Other aspects noted were:
Regulatory changes" (9%)
Understanding combination products that address multiple needs (e.g., LTC) (8%); and
Leveraging policies for uses other than protection of heirs/income (e.g., succession planning for business owners)"(8%).
Among the 30% of advisors who do not regularly provide life insurance to their clients, almost half (49%) say "selling life insurance detracts attention away from their practice," and nearly one out of five (17%) say they don't sell it because "life insurance is too complicated."


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EVERY Australian household should stockpile at least 10 weeks' worth of food rations to prepare for a deadly flu pandemic, a panel of leading nutritionists has warned.
World health experts now agree a pandemic is inevitable and will spread rapidly, wiping out up to 7.4 million people globally and triggering rapid food shortages.
Australia is expected to be among the first countries hit because of its proximity to Asia and high levels of international traffic.
But Woolworths and Coles, the nation's two major supermarket chains, will run out of stock within two to four weeks without a supply chain – or even faster if shoppers panic.
This has prompted a team of leading nutritionists and dietitians from the University of Sydney to compile "food lifeboat" guidelines to cover people's nutritional needs for at least 10 weeks.
Their advice – published in the Medical Journal of Australia – would allow citizens to stay inside their homes and avoid contact with infected people until a vaccine becomes available.