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CAMT (Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching) starts tomorrow in San Antonio, TX. Texas math teachers know all about CAMT – it is a tradition, so you can be sure that Texas math teachers will be well represented. It's a huge conference with a large attendee turnout not only from Texas but from all over. When I was living in Houston, I attended and spoke at CAMT every year – it's a great conference with a really fun vibe – perhaps because it always happens in the summer and everyone is on summer break and feeling relaxed and pumped to get some new ideas for the upcoming year. Whatever the reason, it's always a great conference and is in beautiful San Antonio, TX this year, with it's lovely River Walk and great restaurants and shops. If you are attending, I wish you a successful conference where you learn new things to bring back to your classroom or schools.
Casio will be there naturally, with our fabulous Texas folks, Amy Chow and Marty Frank there ready to do some math with Casio technology and work with leaders and teachers on supporting their tech needs. Be sure to stop by booth #133 and check out all the calculators and resource books for all grade levels and subjects, and do some comparisons and hands-on learning. We also have several presenters who are doing some great technology workshops, which I have listed below:
- Wednesday, June 29 from 11:30 – 12:30 pm in Room 302 (Ballroom)
- Grades 3rd – 5th
- Presenter: Sandra Browning
- It's Elementary! Gain a deeper understanding of how technology helps students in grades 3-5 gain deeper understanding of patterns that build to proportional reasoning, an important concept in grades 5-8.
- Thursday, June 30 from 10:00 – 11:00 am in Room 005 (River level)
- Grades 9 – 12
- Presenter: Tracey Zak Johnson
- Pushing the Limits of Your Graphing Calculator for the EOC Algebra Test. Make the difference between passing and failing the STAAR exam with the natural-display graphing calculator. Learn testing strategies and bring life to linear and quadratic equations using real-life situations. This is a hands-on session so come learn and use technology to enhance math instruction.
- Thursday, June 30 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm in Room 217D (Concourse Level)
- Grades 6 – 8
- Presenter: Kathy Mittag from
- Have Fun Teaching Middle School TEKS Statistics Concepts. A hands-on workshop where participants will collect real-world data and then explore the concepts of mean, median and use various plots, such as stem-and-leaf, box, and histograms to explore and analyze data. TEKS statistics concepts will be highlighted in this session.
- Thursday, June 20 from 2:30 – 3:30 pm in Room 005 (River Level)
- Grades 9 – 12
- Presenter: Tracey Zak Johnson
- "Real Life" Math. This will be an exciting session, using real situations/pictures and designing a curve of best fit to model the data. Data interpretation from 8th grade math through calculus will be explored and all participants leave with free trial software to take the lesson back to their classrooms to help their students understand quadratics.
- Friday, July 1 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm in Room 005 (River Level)
- Grades 9 – 12
- Presenter: Catherine Tabor
- Polarizing Art. Delve into the exciting world of polar coordinates and equations through the use of polar art. Examine how changes in variables can cause radical changes in the graphs. Participants will create beautiful pieces of polar art using calculator technology and see what students have created. Participants will leave with ready to use lesson for their classroom.
- Friday, July 1 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm in Room 301 (Ballroom Level)
- Grade 9 -12
- Presenter: Kathy Mittag
- A Hands-on Mathematics Function Activity Integrating Science Gas Laws & Technology. New ides to integrate math, science, and technology to support student learning. This is a hands-on workshop using inexpensive manipulatives to model functions for scientific gas laws. We will cover topics such as measurement, mean, graphing, tables, independent/dependent variables, direct/indirect/inverse functions, dimensional analysis, domain, range, problem solving, interpretation of function graphs, percent error, and TEKS.
Those of you going – enjoy your conference, learn a lot, stop by say hi to Amy and Marty at booth #133, check out the sessions above – you will have a great time and walk away with some ready-to-use ideas for integrating technology. And don't forget to enjoy San Antonio!

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At the Council of Churches of the Ozarks, we understand that life happens and we're here to help. It's all we do!
If you're facing a crisis, you don't have to handle it alone: we're here to partner with you on life's happenings. Let's work together to give you one less thing to worry about.
Life happens
Some days, nothing goes right for us. And sometimes, those days can turn into weeks or even months. Real life has challenges and when those challenges become overwhelming, we can help. Through our nine services, we can help with food, shelter, clothing, essential home repairs and more. We don't stop there, however. We offer a network of compassion and an environment of dignity. It takes courage to ask for help.
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MCSIP Welcomes Town of Garrett Park as Member
Pamela Schroeder, Chief, Division of Risk Management announces the addition of a new member to the Montgomery County Self Insurance Program (MCSIP). Effective December 1, 2016, the Town of Garrett Park became an official member of the program. Through the direction of the MC Innovations, MCSIP provides services for program members to reduce cost and strengthen the workers' compensation program's fiscal position, improve services to the injured worker, assists agency representatives with the reporting and management of claims, and returns injured workers to gainful employment.


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Hello Everyone!
It's been a little while since I wrote a book review around these parts and I've been itching to post a book recommendation for you all but it had to be the right book, you know?
And then it happened, I read Seas of Snow by Kerensa Jennings.
Monday, 29 May 2017
Seas of Snow by Kerensa Jennings
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Monday, 22 May 2017
We Need To Talk | The State Of Blogging
Today's post is a little risky because I can imagine it might ruffle some feathers, but hey, what is life without a little honesty?
Everything I'm about to say is just my personal opinion and feeling lately, I may change my mind next week or even tomorrow, after all, opinions can change overnight, but for now, right at this moment in time, I'm going to divulge to you all my feelings on:
Why Blogging Is Beginning To Suck
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Monday, 15 May 2017
Urban Decay's New Jean-Michel Basquiat Collection
Hi Everyone!
If you follow me on twitter, you'll probably be in the know that I was at an Urban Decay blogger event last week in sunny old Newcastle Upon Tyne. The event was showcasing the new Jean-Michel Basquiat collection which is absolutely stunning and really unusual.
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Monday, 8 May 2017
Cuteness Overload
Today's post is what I consider to be a nice bit of light relief from the complexities of modern life, sometimes I find myself getting bogged down with life as we know it, I've mentioned these sorts of feelings before when I discussed our increasing inability to switch off and be alone with our own thoughts and also when I discussed the importance of taking time out and I still stand by these posts but I also think that sometimes we just need to look at nice things to get a happiness boost, for me that involves either taking a lovely walk outside through the hills or staying in and looking at lovely cute things that I fill my house with like a bloody magpie!
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Monday, 1 May 2017
How To Have Shiny, Healthy Hair In 3 Steps
Hello Everyone!
Today I'm here to talk to you a little again about hair, now I know that lately I've written a fair few hair posts but I've recently entered into a little love affair with all things hair.
It started last year, as many of you know, I had waist length hair that I chopped short and donated to The Little Princess Trust (and if you have long hair and are considering a haircut, please please PLEASE consider donating your locks to these children) and since that point, I've been experimenting with my new shorter, healthier hair.
There was the post about the straightening brush, then I discovered my new favourite straighteners which replaced my GHDs (shock!), I also tried the hair tong with the smile inducing name (The CoCo LoCo Long Tong) to experiment with curling my shorter hair and finally, last week, I tried some clip in ombre hair extensions which were really fun! However, through all of this I've often had comments and emails asking me how my hair is so shiny, well I'm here to let you know my top secrets my friends, get ready, we're going in.
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Today's Wednesday Factoid (oops, happening on Thursday because I forgot) is: Which feels better? Cooling off after being too hot or warming up after being too cold?
Everybody who knows me knows how I'll answer this one!
I don't actually get that hot when it's hot. Sometimes, yeah, it's pretty awful here in Florida during the summer, but I very rarely feel desperately hot to the point that I'm craving an ice cube bath or something. On the other hand, being too cold is something I'm way too familiar with, and warming up with a heated blanket or in front of a fireplace or by drinking a nice hot drink is the most wonderful relief there is.
I loooove being cozy and I despise being cold. Just hate it hate it hate it. (And I get cold easily, too. Even in Florida, I have to take a jacket with me in the summer because it's likely to be too cold for me inside buildings.)


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My name is Kiiza Benson. I am 10 years old in P4 class.
Nikibasika means to me a lot. That is to say this project pays my school fees.
Brian is my best friend because he helps me at school.
In my life I would like to be an engineer. The reason is that I want to construct some roads for our country.
The story that I would like you to know is that I am a boy who likes to play football.
The thing that is different is that I have a very big smile.
Thanks for the support you have given to me. Am what I am because of you people.
May God bless you.
I love U
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Mental Health In America
The Shift From Institutionalization To Incarceration
Learn more about recording law enforcement with ACLU https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police
Call 1-800-273-8255, the Suicide Prevention hotline if you or a loved one is experiencing suicidal thoughts or emotional distress
Explore the extent to which your state engages with mental health care funding at https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/national-studies/funds-for-mental-illness-is-your-state-generous-or-stingy-press-release.html
By Alexandra Bixler
The state of California granted the Smith family $2.5 million for the shooting of their son, Anthonie Smith, in July 2015. At the time of the incident, Smith was 18 years old and suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Smith was killed by law enforcement during a schizophrenic episode.
The tragedy began at 3 A.M. when Smith's mother, Sybil Davis, contacted law enforcement after Smith assaulted a family member in their home. When the deputies arrived, the teenager struck officers Deylan Kennedy and Sharee Anthony, fleeing the scene. A few hours later, Kennedy and Anthony caught up to Smith, shooting him nine times. The pair claimed that, prior to the shooting, Smith lunged at them and reached into his waistband for a weapon. These statements were later proven false by salvaged video footage. Sybil Davis' lawyer, John Harris, believed the jury utlimately sided with the Smith family due to footage which depicted Sharee Anthony firing the final shot when Anthonie was already on the ground.[1]
"They had concocted a story … that turned out to be a lie – that right before that last shot, Mr. Smith lunged at them," Harris said. "They also lied that he was reaching into his waistband for a weapon."[2]
Anthonie's fate is just one example of the many ways the mentally ill are disenfranchised by the criminal justice system. According to Ron Honberg, a Senior Policy Advisor at the National Alliance on Mental Health,"We call 911 for other medical emergencies and they bring specifically trained medical technicians, but when it's a mental-health crisis, we send the police."[3]
Honberg's assessment is the reality of America's mental health care system, often leaving police to pick up its broken pieces. Nearly half of Americans in need of mental health care that are not currently receiving it cited cost as their largest barrier. Additionally, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are in short supply. In fact, only 44 million Americans live in areas where the prevalence of these services is considered adequate.[4] Both of these factors contribute to individuals in need being left untreated.
While these lack of resources harm the mentally ill, societal stigmas hinder their recovery as well. Stigmas that the mentally ill are "weak", "lazy", "attention-seeking", or "lesser than" prevent individuals from seeking out needed treatment options. These stigmas become even more dangerous when they are adopted by medical professionals. According to the research conducted in the study Mental illness-related stigma in healthcare: barriers to access and care and evidence-based solutions, those with mental illness frequently report feeling undervalued and dismissed by the health professionals they come into contact with. The pervasiveness of this phenomenon suggests this is a systematic problem rather than a series of isolated incidents. Common themes of this mistreatment are: providing insufficient information, infantilization, excessive wait times and even being told that they will never get better. Patients who suffer from personality disorders such as borderline, antisocial, and schizotypal, often experience the most discrimination due to their perceptions as manipulative, difficult, and ultimately less-deserving of care.[5]
Since the 1950s, the United States has led the gradual process of deinstitutionalization by favoring outpatient treatment options. As more patients were deinstitutionalized, the incarceration rate for mentally ill individuals drastically increased, demonstrating a disturbing trend of substituting adequate healthcare for imprisonment. In the United States, people with severe mental illnesses are nearly three times more likely to be incarcerated than able to access consistent treatment.[6] Additionally, the six states with the worst access to mental health treatment (Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Arkansas and Florida) also have the highest incarceration rates in the nation.[7] According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 75% of females and 63% of males in local prisons have a mental health problem.[8] While institutions operating in early America received criticism for human rights abuses, deinstitutionalization did not stop the abuse of mentally ill individuals, instead transferring the abuse to another setting: prisons.
Society's current strategy for handling the mentally ill through the use of imprisonment is ineffective for several reasons. Firstly, inmates with backgrounds of trauma or poverty are not provided with the resources they need to improve their mental state. Nearly 50% of mentally ill inmates report that they did not receive their medication in prison.[9] Additionally, prisons do not serve as a beneficial healing environment to the mentally ill. Inmates with mental illnesses are more likely to get in trouble for behavior they cannot control. This results in punishment, often in the form of solitary confinement. Solitary confinement deeply worsens the mental state of the mentally ill and healthy alike. Roughly 60% of inmates that experienced solitary confinement and had their cases reviewed had severe undiagnosed or untreated mental illnesses. Solitary confinement is also not effective; in fact, incarcerated individuals that experienced it are 20-25% more likely to commit a violent crime upon release.[10] Discrimination also facilitates a hostile environment within prisons for the mentally ill. Less able to adhere to social norms, mentally ill inmates are 10% more likely to be the victim of prison violence, demonstrating an inability for inmates and prison staff alike to look after and understand the needs of the mentally ill.
States have the power to enact different variants of the insanity defense, which allows defense attorneys to argue that their defendant is too mentally ill and detached from reality to understand the nature of their crimes. This defense can greatly impact the outcome of criminal cases involving a defendant suffering from a psychotic disorder. However, Kansas, Montana, Idaho and Utah do not have this defense. Disregarding and belittling mental illness as irrelevant to a criminal case is a frightening reality, especially to defendants like Andrea Yates. Yates suffers from severe postpartum psychosis and has a history of multiple suicide attempts. In June 2001, Yates entered a catatonic state with the belief that her children were possessed by the devil, proceeding to kill all five of them. Initially, the state of Texas ignored Yates' claim to insanity. Her legal team argued that because she was extremely medicated during her trial, the jury didn't get to see her true mental state, thus hurting their argument. However, Yates' plea was later accepted during a retrial and she now resides at a high-security mental hospital.[11]
Texas, along with most states in America, have the M'Naghten Rule, the most antiquated of current insanity defense policies. It requires the insane to demonstrate specific evidence with proof of cognitive dysfunction. The second most common code is the Model Penal Code in 22 states, which offers a wider definition of insanity. The Model Penal Code also considers a defendant's ability to conform to legal standards, maintain impulse control, and understand their crimes.[12] The Model Penal Code is significantly more helpful to defendants that are classified as insane, as hospitalization is considered a more viable option than it is in states under the M'Naghten Rule or states with no insanity defense at all. The Model Penal Code is typically favored by those who want to reform America's "tough on crime" policies. "Tough on crime" is no longer resonating with voters, however; in fact, 3⁄4 of Americans believe America's criminal justice system "needs significant improvements." Despite this public opinion, reformers still face backlash from powerful lobbying groups that benefit from mass incarceration.[13] Recently confirmed District Attorney Rachael Rollins of Suffolk, MA claimed that she will not prosecute 15 petty offenses. The National Police Association's website, claiming to be against "anti-police officials," have now threatened to disbar her.[14]
As police shootings and injustices involving the mentally ill continue to escalate, many municipalities have instilled additional mental health training within their local police departments. These 40-hour CIT programs are designed to increase empathy towards the mentally ill. Officers have to take a certain amount of candy pills a day to help them understand how easy it is for someone to forget their medication. They also have to experience auditory simulations to understand what it may be like to be schizophrenic. This reminds officers that schizophrenic civilians may be ignoring what the officer is saying due to their inability to focus rather than out of insubordination. Officers also must respond to a certain amount of crisis calls from the mentally ill to better their understanding. While the effectiveness of these programs vary, Lt. Richard Cavanaugh of Montclair, New Jersey stated that when his officers received a call about a woman yelling obscenities and calling herself the Queen of the Nile, they responded to her with empathy and respect. Another woman attempted suicide, but when confronted by sympathetic police officers she willingly agreed to go to the hospital to receive medical care.[15]
Some police forces have hired a psychiatrist to ensure that trained mental health professionals can adequately respond to mentally ill behavior. The Albuquerque Police Department's psychiatrist works with law enforcement to medicalize and humanize citizens. These psychiatrists are also responsible for creating better care plans for at-risk individuals.[16] While employing a psychiatrist may sound expensive, as their average salary is $200,000 a year, Co-responding Police-Mental Health Programs: A Review suggests that a psychiatrist's presence on a police force can lead to savings as hospital and jail resources are no longer being wastefully utilized. Additionally, legal protections are slowly increasing for civilian allies that want to hold law enforcement accountable. As of July 2017, 60% of Americans have permission to legally record police due to federal jurisdiction.[17]
While progress is being made regarding the treatment of the mentally ill community, discrimination, inadequate care, and outdated laws still stand in the way of widespread change. Law enforcement reforms can limit police brutality, but allocating more funding to mental health is the most efficient way of preventing cases like Anthonie Smith's from happening again.
[1] Rokos, Brian. "$2.5 Million Awarded to Mother of Moreno Valley Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputies." Press Enterprise, Press Enterprise, 29 Nov. 2018
[2] ibid.
[3] Sullivan, John, et al. "Nationwide, Police Shot and Killed Nearly 1,000 People in 2017." The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 Jan. 2018
[4] Kliff, Sarah. "Seven Facts about America's Mental Health-Care System." The Washington Post, WP Company, 17 Dec. 2012
[5] Hamilton, S, et al. "Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Service Users' Reported Experiences of Discrimination." Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports., U.S. National Library of Medicine, Aug. 2016
[6] Varney, Sarah. "In U.S., There's 3 Times as Much Mental Illness in Prison than in Hospitals." MedCity News, MedCity News, 29 Mar. 2017
[7] "Access to Mental Health Care and Incarceration." Mental Health America, 14 Nov. 2017
[8] Glaze, Lauren E, and Doris J James. "Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates." Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
[9]Connell, Nadine M, and Jennifer M Reingle Gonzalez 2014. "Mental Health of Prisoners: Identifying Barriers to Mental Health Treatment and Medication Continuity." Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2014
[10] Eilperin, Juliet. "Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons." The Washington Post, WP Company, 26 Jan. 2016
[11]McLellan, Faith. "Mental Health and Justice: The Case of Andrea Yates." The Lancet, World Report, 02, Dec. 2006.
[12] "The Insanity Defense Among the States." Findlaw, 2018,
[13] "Overwhelming Majority of Americans Support Criminal Justice Reform." Vera, 25 Jan. 2018
[14] Fleming, Rory, et al. "Beware of the Backlash Against Reform Prosecutors." The Crime Report, 8 Jan. 2019
[15] Herbst, Diane. "Mental Illness and Policing: What Is Mental Health Training and Why Do Police Need It?" PsyCom.net - Mental Health Treatment Resource Since 1986, 2018
[16] Morris, Nathaniel. "Police Encounter Many People with Mental-Health Crises. Could Psychiatrists Help?" The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 July 2018
[17]Ford, Matt. "A Major Victory for the Right to Record Police." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 10 July 2017


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Through my recovery process, I discovered that I did not have to be perfect to be my own hero.
Through my recovery process, I discovered that my drive to be perfect hindered my willingness to take risks.
In the process, I discovered that my belief that I needed to do things perfectly fueled my fear of failure.
I discovered that I was being driven by a taskmaster — perfectionism.
I discovered that the taskmaster bullied me through the voice of shame.
But, thank God, that I met a different guide.
A Guide that gave me Hope. A guide that helped me to change my focus.
A guide that helped me to realize that I no longer had to do things perfectly.
A guide that helped me to realize that I could; instead, do things with excellence, a little at a time.
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The top United Nations official in Lebanon strongly condemned today's suicide bombing at an Internal Security Forces checkpoint in the eastern part of the country.
A UN spokesperson in New York told journalists that UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Derek Plumbly, telephoned the Director of the Internal Security Forces, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous, to express his sympathy following the death of a member of the Security Forces.
According to media reports, the blast in Dahr El-Baidar, which struck at the entrance to Bekaa Valley linking Beirut and Syria, also wounded at least 19 other people.
Mr. Plumbly also telephoned the head of General Security, Maj. Gen. Abbas Brahim.
The UN official has stressed to the Security Council the importance of Lebanese forces for the security and stability of the country.
In a Council meeting last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced his regret that the Lebanese Parliament was unable to elect a new president and called on Lebanon's leaders to select a new one "without delay."


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Come enjoy some live music and entertainment at Comporium Amphitheater. Concerts run every Thursday from June 6th to August 15th. Food trucks and beverage tents will be available. Be sure to bring a blanket or foldable chair to relax in.


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Attention All Pfeiffer 5th Graders
Are you interested in joining the band, choir, or even both for your sixth-grade year? If you are we would like to hear from you. Both of these ensembles are available to all students at Pfeiffer. If you think that you would like to join these ensembles as a 6th grader, return the interest form (handed out at the assembly, and attached to this post) and return it to your 5th grade homeroom teacher by Friday, May 5th, 2017. There are also information sheets for both ensembles attached to this post. No previous musical experience is required to be in either of these groups. We look forward to having you as part of the Pfeiffer Band and Choir in 2017!
Beginning Band in Perry Local Schools
Pfeiffer Choir Information Sheet
Pfeiffer Band & Choir Interest Form


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After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry's hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover.
Action/Adventure / Comedy
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Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy
In Theaters May 18, 2018
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July 31, 2007 :: Burgess to Lead State Regents in 2007-08
A Lawton businessman and attorney has been elected to chair the state's coordinating board for Oklahoma's public colleges and universities during the coming year.
At their recent meeting, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education named Bill W. Burgess Jr. as board chairman. He will lead the nine-member State Regents throughout the 2007-08 fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2008.
Other officers include Ronald H. White, M.D. of Oklahoma City, vice chairman; William Stuart Price of Tulsa, secretary; and Joseph L. Parker Jr. of Tulsa, assistant secretary.
Burgess is chairman emeritus of Techrizon, a software engineering company, and chairman of the board of Vortex, Inc. He was appointed to the State Regents in 1993 and reappointed in 2002.
Burgess graduated from Cameron University, Lawton, with a bachelor's degree and received his juris doctorate from the University of Oklahoma School of Law. He has served in a number of capacities on many education, technology, business, civic and alumni organizations and has been the recipient of several outstanding alumnus and civic awards. He has served as chairman of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable, Inc. and serves on the board of directors of the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce.
Burgess served on the Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council and as president of the Southwest Oklahoma Technology Association and is on the board of directors of the Oklahoma Technology Development Corporation. He also served as a member of the steering committee for the Oklahoma EDGE (Economic Development Generating Excellence) project.
Appointed to the State Regents in 2003, White is president of Oklahoma Cardiovascular
Associates. He serves as a member of the board of managers for Oklahoma Heart Hospital and as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.
White has been a member of the board of directors for Oklahoma Gas and Electric since 1989 and is a founding member of the board of commissioners for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. He received his bachelor's and medical degrees and a cardiology fellowship from OU and served as a member of the OU Board of Regents for 14 years.
Price is the owner of an oil, gas and energy company in Tulsa and was appointed to the State Regents in 2004. He has been in the oil and gas industry since 1983, having previously managed and owned an independent oil and gas company that focused on drilling production of natural gas in Oklahoma and Arkansas. He is a graduate of The University of Tulsa School of Law and a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Price has been a member of the National Petroleum Council, the Governor's Energy Committee and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA). He has served as trustee for the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, chairman of the Tulsa City Park and Recreation Board, trustee of the University Center at Tulsa, a member of the Rogers State College Foundation and national co-chair for fundraising at TU's College of Law.
Appointed in 2005, Parker is chairman of the board for Anchor Stone Co. in Tulsa, a company involved in the production of crushed limestone, sand and gravel and in heavy equipment brokerage. In addition, he serves on the board of directors for SunTx Capital Partners in Dallas, Texas, and currently serves as president of Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa.
Parker has served on numerous civic boards in the Tulsa area, including Friends of the Fairgrounds Foundation, Holland Hall School, the Center for Legislative Excellence and the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and earned his MBA from the University of Washington.
The State Regents are the coordinating board of control for Oklahoma's 25 public colleges and universities. The nine citizens who comprise the board are appointed to nine-year terms by the governor and confirmed by the State Senate.
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Profit from Rare Events – Beware the 'Ronda Rousey' Effect
I believe that having faith in 'the law of averages' can be deadly. A timeless piece of wisdom I learned was, "if you can't swim, then never cross a river if it is on average 3 ft. deep."
Meaning the river could be 1 ft. deep along the entirety of it – except in the middle, where it is suddenly 15 ft. deep…
Ah, the law of averages.
Knowing this wisdom – I will try to use the mistakes from trusting averages to my advantage. But, I recommend you read the books and works of Mark Spitznagel, Nassim Taleb, Nate Silver, and Benoit Mandelbrot. These men understand uncertainty and "tail" events in a unique way and how to position yourself.
I tried to make a simple Normal Distribution vs. Fat Tail Distribution graph to help explain this costly error that the "statistically" dependent make.
To put it lightly: I hunt for fat tails. I look for topics, mostly stocks or even sports betting, to use the crowd's faith in the numbers against them.
But it isn't easy. You have to have an independent, knowledgeable, reasonably realistic opinion, and a bit of luck that the market is not pricing in certain risks.
A couple examples I like to use is remember the holy-grail of pharma-stocks, Valeant (VRX)? How the seemingly unstoppable rising stock price collapsed90% within a couple of months – better known as "V-Day" for investors.
What about Enron? or even the entirety of 2008?
Outside of finance – remember when Ronda Rousey was knocked out cold by Holly Holm during UFC 193? It was an unthinkable event. Ronda was the undefeated champion. She was considered the greatest ever. And so on.
I gambled on that fight. The odds of Ronda winning were so high that I would have had to bet $500 to simply make $100 profit. I don't know about you, but betting $500 to only make 1/5th of my money in profit with a 50/50 chance of being right or wrong, isn't attractive.
But that is what the bookies offered…
It isn't even about taking the underdog all the time. It's about finding the asset that the market becomes emotional and complacent over. The market was so crazy about Ronda that no one cared to think, "what if she slips? Are we underestimating her opponent? What if Ronda is having a bad night? Has she lost her competitive advantage since now people study her fighting style?"
I asked these questions. I also thought that betting $100 to make $500 made much more sense.
I guess using the past averages of her wins and the crowds euphoria, betting on Ronda winning seemed like a sure thing. Even the independent thinker could have seen how the odds of Ronda winning were still fairly good.
But not that good to bet $500 for $100…
That is what "hunting for fat tails" is about. It isn't really the event happening itself, but you're betting against the sentiment of it. I didn't bet against Ronda losing per se. I bet against the markets sentiment and the price it cost to i.e. the risk/reward.
For stocks I buy long dated out-of-the-money options on the assets that are priced for perfection. These are my way of betting.
Another example, look at Chipotle (CMG) recently.
Of course these types of sudden "tail" events don't occur often. If they did the market would price it in. But it sure as hell happens more than the numbers tell us.
Usually the ones advocating that the risks of things not going right are higher than everyone assumes are laughed at.
That is, until it happens…
Today I am advocating going against the markets sentiment that volatility (VIXM) is dead and instead to go long volatility assets.
I don't trust averages, but in the last year alone the VIX spiked over $15 on five different occasions. That is over 50% from current VIX prices today.
Is this as rare and un-probable as the market is making it out to be? I don't think so.
And to our benefit, the longer the lowVol goes on, the higher the chance of volatility spiking occurs. That is, the more individuals feel that volatility is gone, the riskier they get, which naturally breeds higher volatility in the future.
I detail this in a previous article about the infamous "Minsky moment."
I like to say that the lowVol times is the author of highVol times; and
vice versa…
When investors feel safe from turbulence, they make riskier decisions. It is like how wearing a helmet while bike riding can make you do things you wouldn't do without a helmet on. Contrary to that, if investors fear turbulence and uncertainty, they become risk averse and freeze up and wait. Such is human nature.
One breeds the other: the risk aversion leads to quiet markets and only the least riskiest things survive, which eventually calms markets down. Once the calm and stability is reached, investors slowly move back into riskier assets. Rinse – wash – repeat.
And today I believe the VIX is horribly underestimating the future as well as gold (GLD) and the VanEck Junior Mining ETF (GDXJ). I am long both through out-of-money long dated call options and own put options on various other stocks, especially car related.
This week the Vix index, the most popular short-hand measure of expectations for near-term volatility for US stocks, has traded close to the lowest level since Bill Clinton was elected in 1993, prompting a further furrowing of brows from those exasperated at such apparently reckless levels of market relaxation – wrote the Financial Times.
Growth is weak. Inflation is softening. Retail sales and real incomes are weak. And yet the S&P500 (SPY) is trading at all time highs.
So who is chasing stocks higher in a time of such low volatility? It appears it is companies borrowing money to buy their own stock back…
The lack of volatility is something we have heard the Fed speak about over the last month. It is their fear that markets have become "complacent".
Three weeks ago, the president of the San Francisco Fed said he was "somewhat concerned about the complacency in the market…there seems to be a priced-to-perfection attitude out there…" and "the stock market is very much running on fumes." That same day, the vice chair of the Fed said, "We know that complacency must be avoided." Last week, the president of the Kansas City Fed said the "combination of asset valuations…together with low levels of implied volatility in equity and bond markets, could be signaling broader complacency in financial markets." – wrote Brian Reynolds, Canaccord Genuity analyst
They have flat out said it, and no one seemed to care. The Fed is worried that the markets are becoming calm in times where diligence is needed. What if the Fed had to switch from tightening to easing? Markets would puke all over themselves because of how complacent they have gotten with things as is or expect to be.
They are walking a fine line…
With the Fed tightening, volatility seemingly dead, the economy weak, and complacency with a stock market bubble, these are recipes for a market crash.
And as I wrote above, tail events, such as the Fed actually reversing its tightening and switching into easing mode, are not as unlikely as the market thinks.
Just look at the T-bill yield today. US default risk has flatlined for weeks. But now with Trump not being able to get anything done with Congress and the Senate (who's surprised there), the market is having debt-ceiling anxiety.
The CBO stated that the US Treasury will run out of cash by mid-October.
Ending with that: Although volatility is quiet, it seems like the tails for extreme event probabilities are higher than the crowd complacently assumes.
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By Juan Arango
Throughout the 50's and 60's América was mired in mediocrity. They were the laughing stock of Colombian football but the fans remained faithful to that "Mechita" (string) of hope. The team was exactly that as they fought to avoid relegation.
Their fortunes changed slowly in the late 60's and in the 70's began the push towards becoming contenders. That finally came to fruition in 1979. After coming up short a couple of times before, América arrived to the top of the domestic mountain.
After that they emerged into one of the glamor teams of South American football. Adding players like Ricardo Gareca, Julio César Falcioni, Juan Manuel Battaglia, as well as former New York Cosmos star Robert Cabañas and many of the top Colombian players such as Willington Ortiz and Anthony D'Avila. There the
If the past 24 hours have not been a display in ineptitude and complete desperation, then nothing is. It is so sad to see a club that in the past 30 years was mired in glory, despite the controversy, to have come down so low. I am not condoning what the people that ran the club during those glory years did, I am only talking about what the players and teams did on the pitch. América are literally on life support and are trying everything in order to remain afloat.
If we mention the problems that this once-glorious club has right now there is no doubt that we would have to do a five-part (hmmm, sounds like a good idea) feature on it.
Within this time period we've seen the players finally decide to stop playing after being owed nine months worth of wages. And with time running against them, they began to take a "react then think approach".
One of the first steps was to sack coach Jorge Bermúdez due to his lack of efficiency in his role as coach. The former América and Boca Juniors man so far has not been able to revert the adverse situation that the Cali club is currently going through on the pitch.
Now comes the next step. Who do we hire? There were names being thrown around, but many of them refused based on the fact that there was little guarantee of payment outside of what the Dimayor could help pitch in. That might not have helped because one of the conditions in which the players were going to come back and play was only if the club reinstated Bermúdez as coach.
So much for that plan.
According to reports from the Colombian media, Dimayor president Ramón Jesurún and the club agreed to split the costs on one month's wages of the nine that are currently owed by the club.
This little detail helped propel the players to jump on a 6am flight to Medellín and play Envigado in a match that will mean much more than pesos and centavos to the club. In the end, all the drama was good for a soap opera as they came in and dismantled a hapless Envigado side 3-1. The win helped their cause in the relegation race, but still sees an uphill battle on the promotion end.
The win might have eased anxieties a little bit, but the reality is still there. The team still owed their players eight months worth of wages. They are fighting for their first division lives. Jorge Bermúdez is still at odds with the media and the club. The club is still between two entities that are completely cash-strapped and fighting against the tide and the effects of the Clinton List. The latter had a dubious effect especially with any corporations that deals with an entity on that list. Every single possible avenue for revenue was removed and that is a major hindrance if a club would like to operate properly.
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Kingdom Tower, the Saudi skyscraper set to be the world's tallest building, will probably have construction funding in place by the end of the first half, the developer's chief executive officer said today.
The company is in talks to bring in Riyadh-based Alinma Bank as an adviser and lender, Mounib Hammoud, CEO of Jeddah Economic Co., told reporters today on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai. BNP Paribas (BNP) SA is currently advising the company, he said, without disclosing the size of loan being sought.
The builder has been looking for financing since at least April 2012, people familiar with the matter said at the time. They asked not to be named because the matter is private.
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"The slogan of the company now is 'it's happening' because, before I joined last September, people were asking whether the project is happening," Hammoud said. "We are up and running."
Kingdom Holding Co. (KINGDOM), Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's investment company, and partners including tower builder Saudi Binladen Group are trying to arrange funding after investing 8.7 billion riyals ($2.3 billion) in the project, Hammoud said. They are seeking a bank loan with a maturity of five to seven years, he said.
Kingdom Tower, with a height of more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), will cost 6 billion riyals to build. The first phase of the Jeddah Economic City development, which includes the tower and the surrounding area may cost as much as much as 14 billion riyals, the CEO said.
"Raising money through bonds is on our minds, but that has perquisites and we are building them," the CEO said. "Bonds need income and they need revenue, and that is coming."
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- Capacités des nouveau-nés face à l'information sociale
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- Les premières expériences globales ont des conséquences importantes sur le développement social, affectif et cognitif à court et à long terme.
Capacités des nouveau-nés face à l'information sociale
In particular, an interdisciplinary project (Prof. A. Streri, devt Psychol) on intermodality has been developed looking at starlings and newborns' abilities to deal with social information. Human newborns preferentially direct their attention towards videos where an adult's lip movements are congruent with the sound produced and memorize only faces of adult strangers if they direct their visual attention towards them. Adult starlings placed in single cages and given the possibility to trigger a picture or sound of a conspecific are extremely motivated, and more motivated by visual than auditory social stimulations.
Electrophysiological studies revealed that the responses of more than half of the auditory neurons of field L (primary auditory area) can be modulated by social visual information. It decreases when starlings are presented pictures of a familiar conspecific but increases when the picture represents an unfamiliar conspecific. The same experiment with starlings raised in groups of naive peers (without adults) reveals no sign of such discrimination of social familiarity.
L'attention visuelle est un facteur clé de la cognition sociale
Overall, visual attention can be considered as a key factor for social cognition. The presence of adults during development seems to be a prerequisite for the development of social cognition.
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NBC President Steve Capus, in an interview with longtime foreign and national correspondent Oprah Winfrey, said good journalism is sometimes bad pr. He was referring to NBC's airing of the video and rantings of Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui.
I think good journalism is always bad pr….for someone. Good journalism exposes things that people don't want exposed on a micro and macro level. Good journalism is dying (my pessimistic days) or morphing (my optimistic days) into something that may not be good journalism but passes for it. Good journalism not only inspires but it should make readers squirm because they realize that the rosy pictures painted elsewhere ain't always so. On a pessimistic day, I could say that journalism died a long time ago. How else to explain how the Virginia Tech massacre story died by week's end. Gone. Buried. The only thing that revived it briefly was when the newsweeklies showed up in the mail box. (Can anything look stupider than a Newsweek or Time cover three days after the media has left the story??)
David Halberstam (good journalism) died too young in a car wreck. While he made the front page of the S.F. Chronicle among three other obits, he was below the fold! The lead obit on the front page (in fact the lead story) was the heart attack of a local ballet notable. Nice editorial choices.
Virginia Tech. Halberstam. Tonight the House is debating the war funding resolution in Washington. This is not a Pelosi-Bush, Democrat-Republican face off; this is a fascinating moment in the history of perpetual battle between the legislative and executive branches of government. This is great stuff! It's about the very fabric and ideal of our nation!
What's the hot news? Rosie is leaving The View.
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April 26th, 2007 @ 9:47 am
Ratings don't lie. The majority of people are more interested in Anna Nicole Smith than in the state of the union.
The question is what, if any, remedy there should be for that. Resuming civics in schools (I never had to take a civics class; I don't know anyone required to take one today)? Reform journalism?
Everything in your blog tells you journalism is in the process of being reformed right now. John Stewart might be a comedian, but Pew says his viewers are better informed than viewers of the Fox network. If the best information available about politics gets mixed in with comedy, well, what the hell? It's still the best information available, and it most certainly is still politics.
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This sounds like a cracked screen.. a leaf you say? is the leaf a graphic, perhaps an icon.. is it centered on the screen at all?hmm.... I would take it to a certified repair center to see if they can replace the LCD panel. So ... Digital Cameras
I am traveling through Brazil with my Nikon Coolpix S220. I had it in a ziploc bag in my sports bra. I took it out and started to look at photos when the screen turned white with gray lines. I continued to take pictures w/out the screen working and uploaded them. They appeared fine. The next day when I turned the camera on, the screen was still white and now the on button started to flash. It would not take any pictures. Now it won't even turn on. Is there anything I can do? I am traveling for t
Hi there, some how the the screen pressed and the LCD get damaged.\015\012After that you use is continue. You are lucky because camera does not sense the damaged parts. But now your camera memory detect the LCD is damaged & stop working. Th ... Nikon Digital Cameras
When ever i turn my fujifilm s5000 on the screen is white in both viewing taken photos or when trying to take a photo in both lcd and eye piece you can still change the date ect. and even scrowl thru memory card {white screen still} as if you were looking at the photos it tales you the code number of the photo or if its a video but still a white screen sometimes when you flick it to take a picture it comes up with the image then turns white and some times flickers of black lines go thru the scre
Hi,Have you tried to Use the Camera After Pulling out the Memory Card?If not Try it and let me know.Hope i helped you.Thanks for using ' Fixya ' and have a nice day!! ... Digital Cameras
Only Red When I turn the camera on the screen shows only a blur and not of the image of what I am taking, but just a color blur or a white blur, depending on the lighting. when I take the picture I get what shows on the screen. When I turn off the display and take a picutre the picture comes out like what is on the screen. Please help
This definitely sounds like a defective CCD imager. If so, Canon should fix this for you for free, including free shipping both ways. This is regardless of your camera's warranty status. Please check the following two links for more info: \015\ ... Canon PowerShot S500 IXUS 500 Digital Camera
Lcdscreen white when turn on camera screen is white My camera works fine in every other aspect but when I go to take a picture it is just a white screen any picture I take these a few lines on the screen
What is the model and manufacture of your new camera?Thank you again for trusting us with your problem. Please reply as soon as possible so that we can finish answering your question.\015\012\015\012For understanding how to wo ... Fuji FinePix S5000 Digital Camera
Screen blank ive got a kodak c813 and its only a few months old. when i turn the camra on to take a picture the screen is blank. when i try to take a picture the flash flashes and takes a picture but the picture is blank. i cant understand whats wrong with it. unfortantley it was a gift and i dont have the receipt to send it back so am just wonder if you could suggest what the problem could be? its working fine apart from that.
Do you have the Lens cap off ? Just asking. ... Kodak Easyshare C813 Digital Camera
When I turn my camera on white streaky lines appear horizontally across lcd screen. This is intermittant - does not always occur, but when I take the photo, the picture quality is diminished, washed out and has a pinkish hue.
EARTHS TRANSFORMATION INTO THE 5TH DIMENSION I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH ALL THE OCCUPANTS OF MOTHER EARTH THE \015\012REASONING BEHIND THE "DOUBLE SHADOW". MOTHER EARTH HAS BEGUN A \015\012SERIES OF EVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATIONS, ONE OF WH ... Canon PowerShot S410 / IXUS 430 Digital Camera
LCD White-out I have had this Fuji FinePix A350 since Christmas 2006. This August while on vacation and taking quite a few pictures with a new 1GB XD card, the LCD screen would come on with a blank white screen as the camera was turned on. I continued to take photos using the optical viewfinder to frame my pictures, hoping that it was still working even if I couldn't view them. Fortunately, all the photos did come out fine even though some were totally out of focus (focusing was sometimes a prob
Defective ccd imager!! company will replace this ccd imager free of charge. Year 2002 up to 2005 released unit has a factry defect ccd imager. the company recalled these unit and replaced with a stronger version of ccd imager( they are still doing it ... Fuji FinePix A350 Digital Camera
My Samsung s630 digital camera has a totally white screen when turned on. I changed batteries, repeatedly turned on and off, switched modes, but screen still only white. The camera is taking pictures OK, because I can access memory card using usb cable, and pictures are saved. Any help? Thanks.
Possible fault with the display unit. The display unit is not processing the video image and could be defective in this circuit.\012Since the camera is working fine I would advice that you use the camera fully than to open to tamper. But if you ... Samsung Digimax S630 Digital Camera
White screen theres a white screen on my camera. it won't show any of my pictures and i can't see nothing but a blank screen, when i turn it on it's just plane white. when i plug it in to my PC. it shows the pictures i take. please help? Aloha Queene Fort Worth, tX
Mine too!It beeped three times, then went black. then went white and now won't do anything! ahh! ... Samsung Digimax S500 Digital Camera
I have a canon powershot sd1100 IS and bought it on ebay back in the fall. I havent had any problems and it was in great condition. One night I went to erase some pictures before going out- the camera was fine. About an hour later, I took the camera out of my purse and when I turned it on I saw the screen was white whether I went to take a picture or view one. I can still take pictures and load them on my computer but I can't see what I'm taking because of the white. Is there a way to fix this?
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Help! My camera is doing the same thing other's do too. I turn it on and it says "Turn power off and on again" and the lens comes out and goes back in halfway. sometimes I hold down the play button for about 5 secodns and then press it again and it allows me to take (bad) pictures. When i say bad pictures I mean the screen starts shaking and gets static or something and then when i finally can take a picture they exposure comes out so bright that the picture is just a all white or it comes out t
Hi try turning on and taking hold of the end of the lense and gently pulling and twisting you may hear a click but dont force it. then turn off and on again. then you may want to try\015\012\015\012\015\012Press Menu button to ... Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55 Digital Camera
My HP CA340 10.0 megapixels with 3x optical zoom lens only shows a white screen when I turn it on. I can still take pictures with great quality as I could before, I just can't see what I'm doing. It was working fine yesterday, when I turned it on, it seemed fine, then the screen randomly turned white. I would like to know if there is a way to fix this before I actually have to send it in for some one else to repair.
My CA340 turns on and off all on its own...makes the camera almost useless... I sent a trouble report to HP support...tho I doubt I'll get any resolution. Should have stuck with Canon ... HP CA340 Digital Camera
My minolta dimage X20 whern turned on is all ready to take a picture but is only showin blackness, i can preview pictures etc and do every thing else My Minolta DiMAGE X20 is doing the same thing and has been for a year. I've just been too lazy to go buy a new one. When I turn it on the screen is completely black, but sometimes when you point it at the light it will get a couple white streaks across it. When you take a picture this is the only image that comes up. When in playback mode, I can s
Good day to you Sir Toonz. I was really very happy to have read your 'best solution" posted Nov 17th however, I was also disappointed because, \015\012sony repair services will only repair their defective cameras on certain areas such as U. S. ... Konica Minolta DiMAGE X20 Digital Camera
My minolta dimage X20 whern turned on is all ready to take a picture but is only showin blackness, i can preview pictures etc and do every thing else My Minolta DiMAGE X20 is doing the same thing and has been for a year. I've just been too lazy to go buy a new one. When I turn it on the screen is completely black, but sometimes when you point it at the light it will get a couple white streaks across it. When you take a picture this is the only image that comes up. When in playback mode, I can s
Thats called "vigneting" and is caused by misalignment of the lens.... has it been dropped or mishandled? if so, it needs re calibrating and setting up by a pro camera technician. ... Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6 Digital Camera
My sony dsc-w1 got very wet, caught in a rainstorm and did not have the case. I have left it dry out for 4 days and it turns on, lcd works, can read memory stick and display old pictures on the lcd. But when I try to take a picture the lcd displays a black a screen and the picture that it takes is just a black box, flash illlumintor everything else seems to work, except the ability to take a picture, lens moves in and out, but picture is always black, any idea, is the ccd shot
Maybe the shutter got wet and sticky. You can try look into the lens then press shutter button to take picture. If you don't see the movement inside the hole, the shutter doesn't open, it will take black picture. ... Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W1 Digital Camera
Black Screen I have taken really good care of my camera and it has never been dropped. I went on a Cruise a few months ago and one day into the cruise the screen wouldn't show anything. It was just a black screen. When I took pictures they turned out black too. I am still able to navigate the menus and see pictures on my SD card. Even after returning to Colorado, a dry climate, the screen is always black and taking black pictures. Is there something I can do to fix this problem or should I just
... Nikon COOLPIX L18 Digital Camera
Troubleshooting problems I have a canon powershot s60. I tried to take a picture earlier and the screen is completely white. The camera turns on, the battery is fully charged and there is nothing wrong with the digital card. THe camera wasn't dropped nor did it get wet. I keep trying to turn it off and on, but all I get is a white screen. No images. But there are 900 images on the camera card and i just used it this morning. Please help. Thanks, Shannon
Take a picture with the camera and download it. If the pictures also shows up white then this probably is a defective CCD imager. If so, Canon should fix this for you for free, including free shipping both ways. This is regardless of your camera's w ... Canon PowerShot S60 Digital Camera
My camera was working perfectly fine then the screen turned white, I can still take pictures and see them on my laptop when connected with the USB lead but the screen is constantly white when its turned on, is this fixable?
ALL YOU NEED IS TO BRING IN SERVICE CENTER FOR REPLACING THE LCD. ... Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS5 Digital Camera
The screen has turned white in the picture taking mode. Later it turns blank. Willl not take pictures. All sudden, no drop of damage incident. What is wrong?
Try this site - known problem with CCD for the A95\015\012\015\012 ... Canon PowerShot A95 Digital Camera
My pictures and the lcd screen come out blurry and pink, with horizontal lines across I have a Sony CyberShot DSC-T1 Digital Camera with 5 megapixels and 3x optical zoom I got in 2004. When I take pictures using flash, the light or white colored objects and people turn out pink on the LCD screen. The image isn't distorted and there aren't any lines or blurry images. Things just turn pink... Very frustrating!
Hi,\015\012Camera symptoms shows bad CCD Imager in camera and this part needs to be replaced.\015\012Sony has announced free of cost repair scheme for such problem in DSC-T1 models. Please click ... Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T1 Digital Camera
My kodak M863 worked great. then one day the screen turned white. the flash goes off when i try to take a pic. and it turns off and on fine. the screen is just always white. any advice????
Have you taken out the batteries for a minute and then put them back in? That usually resets the camera and any problems that were just a glitch.\015\012\015\012If your camera was dropped or exposed to liquids it will have to be sent to ... Kodak EasyShare M863 Digital Camera
Screen error! unless i hold the lense when i first turn it on and press with my finger to the left or press the view button and hold the lense the press it again to take pictures the screen is black sometimes it is purple and sometimes it white. unless i keep a hold on the lense but then i can only take so many pictures that way! is there a short in it or dust? please help me!
Sorry to tell you but I think you have a bad cable on your CCD. You have to take it to be repaired at a shop. ... Fuji FinePix F470 Digital Camera
My Canon A2200 has a white screen when I turn it on and stays that way can't see what I am taking a picture of or any menu items . It still takes pictures but cannot view them on the camera and don't really know what I am taking pictures of. Is there anything I can do to correct this. I have chrged the battery fully taken out the memory card and battery and still nothing.
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Q: My pet has come in contact with a skunk. What can I do to clean off the skunk smell?
A: Use the following to clean your pet: Skunk Bath AntidoteIngredients: ¼ cup baking soda - 1 tsp liquid soap (such as Dawn dish soap) - 1 qt 3% hydrogen peroxideDirections: Mix the above ingredients just before using. Bathe pet in shampoo first. Then in the skunk antidote bath, scrub for 10 minutes. Bathe again in skunk antidote if necessary. Make sure to rinse completely after all baths, and do not get into pets eyes.
Caution: This solution cannot be stored. Use right away. Do not mix in a closed container, as it can explode.
You can also use Listerine mouth wash. Apply Listerine mouth wash to dry coat and wet thoroughly allow to drip dry and avoid eyes.
Nothing will take 100% of the skunk smell away. If pet becomes damp or wet you may smell skunk again.
Q: My pet has eaten something I am not certain was safe for them - where can I find more information on this?
A: You can first check the ASPCA Poison control link here: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control.
Q: My pet has had some vomiting and/or diarrhea. It has been recommended for me to feed a bland diet. How do I feed a bland diet?
A: Vomiting &Diarrhea Treatment for pets over 6 months old
If your pet vomits at all on water your pet should be seen for an examination. Please call for an appointment.
Otherwise, withhold food for 24 hours. After 24 hours you can start to give small amounts of a soft, bland which would include one of the following:
Do not feed your pet any dairy products, their regular food/treats, or any oily/greasy food.
If your pet vomits at all on the soft, bland diet your pet should be seen for an examination. Please call our office for an appointment.
If your pet is better while on the bland diet feed only this diet for 2 to 3 days, feeding your pet small amounts 3-4 times daily. On the third day begin to mix small amounts of their regular food with the bland diet.Gradually transition them back to their regular food over the next few days.
If vomiting or diarrhea resume after switching back to their regular diet, please call our office.
If your pet vomits at all on water or on the bland diet,please call our office.
Q: How do I brush my pet's teeth?
A: Starting young allows for a lifetime of dental health:
Tooth brushing tips:
Q: How do I care for a bandage and/or splint my pet has had applied?
There are 3 main things you need to be aware of for proper at home bandage care.
1. Make sure the bandage doesn't get wet.A wet bandage can lead to a skin infection because dark, moist, warm areas are breeding grounds for bacteria. If a skin infection has started you may notice a nasty odor to the bandage. Please check the bandage daily for dampness or odor. It is necessary to cover the bandage when your dog goes outside. This can be done by placing a simple plastic bag over the bandage. Once inside remove the cover to allow the bandage to "breath". Leaving the plastic bag on all the time will cause moisture to build up inside the bag and cause it to get wet anyway.2. Make sure the bandage isn't too tight and hasn't slipped.If a bandage is too tight it can cut off blood circulation and cause the toes to swell. Please monitor your pet's toes at home for any swelling. If you are not sure what normal toes should look like, simply look at the opposite foot to compare. Even the best of bandages can slip, and therefore become useless. Very energetic dogs and dogs with shorter stockier legs tend to be difficult to bandage.3. Make sure the bandage doesn't get chewed.Your dog must not be able to lick or chew at the bandage. Your pet has been sent home with an e-collar and it should be worn at all times. Even when a pet is uninterested, they can chew the bandage when they get bored or start feeling itchy or painful. They can cause a lot of damage in a short period of time and possibly return the healing process to square one. Also swallowing parts of the bandage could cause a blockage of the intestines. The bandage should be scheduled for changing regularly. If you notice any of the problems mentioned above please call your veterinarian to schedule an appointment for the bandage to be assessed and/or changed sooner than your pet's regularly scheduled bandage change appointment. Bandage changes should always be performed by a veterinary professional.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 prices drop at online U.K. Microsoft Store
So just what is the difference between the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and the previous model? One of the main differences is with the screen size. The newer machine offers a 12 inch display, up from the 10.6 inch display on the Surface Pro 2. The Intel Core i5 on the latter is replaced with the Intel Core i7 on the newer tablet.
Microsoft doesn't want to write off a whole slew of unsold Surface Pro 2 slates, so the price cut is being done to keep inventories of the slate moving. Last year, the company ended up having to write off nearly $1 billion of unsold Microsoft Surface RT tablets that were collecting dust in the warehouse.
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Members of the Shepparton South Rotary Club were treated to an egg and bacon roll and hot coffee this morning (THURSDAY AUGUST 3) at Shepparton Villages new pop up food van.
The Rotary Club donated their old food van to Shepparton Villages and it has since been refurbed, received the tick of approval and now operating each week day from 6.30 am until 1.30 pm selling food and drinks.
Shepparton Villages is using the food van as a fundraiser, serving the tradies on site at its new 120 bed, $34m development at Tarcoola.
"During peak times on this build, there will be upwards of 100 tradies working on this fabulous new two storey facility and we thought what better way to raise some money than to feed them!" Shepparton Villages CEO Kerri Rivett said.
Rotarians Clyde Young, David Groves and David Earle came down to inspect the new van and taste the goods!
"We used to run this van 20 years ago first at International Villages and then at Queens Gardens," Clyde explained.
The idea back then grew out of food vans at markets in Queensland and the enterprising local Rotarians established the van as part of their Rotary Queens Garden markets.
"We had some good times working in this van," David Groves said.
Past President David Earle explained the Queens Gardens markets of which the food van was a big part raised well over $1m over the course of 20 years.
"We stopped using this old girl in 2016 and moved to a barbecue trailer as the van was getting a bit cumbersome to tow around.
"We are just so thrilled to see it up and running and serving a purpose to help Shepparton Villages out," Mr Earle said.
The food van is open to the public – already residents and staff at Shepparton Villages have enjoyed cappuccinos, chips and gravy, hot pies and pasties, salad rolls, cakes and others goodies, while the tradies on site at the new build have loved an egg and bacon roll first thing in the morning.
The van is operated by a Shepparton Villages catering employee and will be supplemented by volunteers during busy times.
All profit made will go back in to the new $34m building to help refurbish it and make it home for the 120 residents who will live there.
CEO Kerri Rivett said the food van, accessible via Maculata Drv, will operate until the new building is completed in mid 2018 and will then be moved to the next big project site for Shepparton Villages at Rodney Park n Mooroopna.
"We've got big plans long term, and the van will be a wonderful fundraiser and community project over the next few years," she explained.
Students form Berry Street School have been helping paint the van.
The food van is open to all members of the public and those wanting to purchase are encouraged to wander in via Maculata Drive between 6. 30 am and 1.30 pm each week day.


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The first editorial meeting for the MMU Times, the student newspaper at Mount Mercy University, was today.
Like an inevitable tide, it feels like fall is sweeping in. This week is Iowa Private College Week, a reminder, as if one were needed, that the next semester is basically two weeks away.
What happened to you, summer of 2015? In weather terms, you were mostly gorgeous, although you also blew in all kinds of tempests in my life. Still, where did the time go?
And yet, it was a thrill to see the students in the newsroom again today, eager young adults ready to take on the world and tell it like it is. An enthusiastic student news staff is an awesome thing, and a pretty good tonic for any regrets at the fading out of summer's free time.
So I'm back on campus at least four days this week, and no doubt will be working more-or-less full time from now on. I know, I know, those of you with 9 to 5 full-time, year-round work are not exactly dripping with sympathy—although in my defense, 60-hour work weeks are bearing down on me soon enough.
The oddest thing to me about becoming a professor after a career in the "real world" is how uneven the academic sense of time is. June drifts by in a fog of recovery and resting and lazy days, July the drumbeat starts to pick up, and then, bam, August. And after August, the frantic rush and pressure of the school year.
Yes, I know, longer breaks are a perk of the academic life. But until you've taught full time and survive the frenzy of a finals week, you might want to reconsider how green the grass on the other side actually is.
And so, we are on the verge. A new school year dawns. Am I ready? Heck no. But I have a couple of weeks …


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Khaled Alashqar is a staff reporter for Inter Press Service
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Monday, September 08, 2014
War Over but Not Gaza's Housing Crisis
GAZA CITY - "When the [Israeli] shelling started, I gathered up my family and headed for what I though was a safe place, like a school, but then that became overcrowded and lacked sanitation, so we ended up in the grounds of the hospital." Islam Abu Sheira from Beit Hanoun, a city on the north-...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
Burning the Future of Gaza's Children
GAZA CITY - "My child became blind and lost the ability to speak, his dad died and his three brothers are seriously wounded. He still has not been told about the loss of his dad," says the mother of 7-year-old Mohamad Badran. Mohamad is in hospital for treatment after being seriously injured in...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Gaza Under Fire – a Humanitarian Disaster
GAZA CITY - As a result of over two weeks of Israeli bombardment, thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes in the north of Gaza and sought refuge in schools run by the UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Among the worst affected are Gazan children who have been forced...
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Breaking the Spine to spotlight forthcoming books.
This week I can't wait to read...
Then she's accepted by a boarding school for the musically gifted. All of her new friends are bursting with talent, but they're also keeping secrets. Can she trust Vincent, who's so sweet that his very touch makes her fears melt away? Or Xavier, who's trying to tell her something but is hiding even more?
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My Aunt passed away last night at 19:30 eastern time. She was the last of that generation and a grand and wonderful lady who had a great personality and a sharp wit. She will live on in her seven children (three boys and four girls) and all who knew and loved her.
I am going to post some pictures that I have taken of her over the years. These first two were at a family reunion back a few years ago:
She had found an old photo of her when she was young and had a T-shirt made up with that picture on the front. Then she laid down on the grass to duplicate the pose. She was always willing to go that little extra to please others and give them joy. We tried to pay back some that by making and sending her cards every day.
This next picture was taken only a few years ago of me and her, but before she fell and broke her hip and then ended up in the nursing home.
The next two were taken the last time I saw her, and that was back before I had the diesel pusher MH. Not sure exactly when it was. She was always happy and joking:
She even got me laughing:
And of course my wife was there, too:


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One of the biggest risks for senior executives is isolation. One of the smartest solutions is coaching — from subordinates.
The problem for senior executives is that the people who give them feedback don't usually see them in action. Robert S. Kaplan, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, writes that senior executives "may be 'overseen' by a board of directors or very senior boss," but those superiors are probably not closely watching their daily behavior.
"One of the first questions I ask senior executives is, 'Who is your coach?' Many respond with a list of mentors who are outside the company or perhaps on the board of directors." But these mentors have huge blind spots and only know the narrative they're provided, Kaplan says.
In McKinsey Quarterly, Kaplan offers a counterintuitive suggestion: Seek out feedback and coaching from direct reports.
Subordinates actually observe an executive's behavior on a regular basis. Normally, though, they don't have any incentive to be candid. "Subordinates do not want to offend the boss and may believe that constructive suggestions are unwelcome and unwise," writes Kaplan. "Many senior executives also unwittingly send off a 'vibe' that while they claim to encourage constructive criticism, they really don't want to hear it."
Asking subordinates for feedback is not a practice that has been modeled very much, which explains part of the resistance executives have towards it. But the value can be huge.
Kaplan tells the story of one CEO who agreed to talk one on one with five direct reports. Kaplan told him to ask just one question: "What advice would you offer to help me improve my effectiveness? Please give me one or two specific and actionable suggestions. I would appreciate your advice."
After some awkwardness, "the CEO received some surprising, jarring, but very useful advice." He was perceived as someone who didn't care what people thought and who didn't listen well. He was viewed as guarded. His leadership meetings were seen as procedural instead of a space for debate.
Result: he made changes based on the feedback. He held monthly leadership team dinners to discuss and debate key issues. He worked on his "soft" skills like listening better. Ultimately, "this CEO learned that asking for advice and coaching was a sign of strength rather than weakness," writes Kaplan. "Using these techniques, he now found that he could rely more heavily on his subordinates for advice and as an early-warning system for his own performance."
Kaplan's article, "Top executives need feedback — here's how they can get it," is available to anyone who registers for free at the McKinsey Quarterly website.


text: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, was a remarkable woman who has made a great impact on the thought of the Western world. In her own day, she was controversial because of her remarkable abilities of extrasensory perception, her forthright and outspoken nature, and her fearless attacks on hypocrisy and bigotry. Even today, she continues to be the center of curiosity and attention as the precursor of "new" ideas. Her great metaphysical knowledge is embodied in her literary work, which has directly or indirectly influenced inquiring minds all over the world.