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Next: Jared Padalecki
(I just bought Season One of Supernatural)
"Laß sein. Laß sein."
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"you bet"
I've never seen Supernatural but I have a friend who loves it - I should borrow her dvds!
Jared Padalecki in "Flight of the Phoenix" with Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid in "The Long Riders" with Randy Quaid = BBM
Next: Bonnie Bartlett
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis ~~~~~~~~~Thurgood Marshall
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. ~~~~~~~~~ Mark Twain
Let me know what ya think of "Supernatural"!
Bonnie Bartlett was Patience in an episode of "Firefly" - another series I have watched until the DVDs wore out!
I can go one of two ways here...
Bonnie Bartlett was in PRIMARY COLORS with Emma Thompson who was in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY directed by Ang Lee.
Alternately, Billy Bob Thornton, who was also in PRIMARY COLORS, was in MONSTER'S BALL with Heath.
Ang and Heath :: BBM
Next: Jensen Ackles
Okay, using theatrical movies....
Jensen Ackles in the upcoming "My Bloody Valentine 3-D" with Jaime King
Jaime King in "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" with Steven Martin
Steven Martin in "Bowfinger" with Robert Downey, Jr.
Robert Downery, Jr. in "Iron Man" with Gwyneth Paltrow"
Gwyneth Paltrow in "Proof" with Jake = BBM
but if we use TV series, it's a lot quicker
Jensen Ackles in Dawson's Creek with Michelle = BBM!
Next: Mildred Natwick
Mildred Natwick was in DANGEROUS LIASIONS with Glenn Close who was in AIR FORCE ONE with Gary Oldman who was in THE DARK KNIGHT with Heath.
Heath :: BBM
Next: Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits in "The Jane Austen Book Club" with Maria Bello
Maria Bello in "Nothing is Private" with Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart in 'TDK" with Heath = BBM
Next: Strother Martin
Strother Martin was in THE VILLIAN with Arnold Schwarzenegger (he was credited as Handsome Stranger ) who was in LAST ACTION HERO with Ian McKellan who was in GODS AND MONSTERS with Brendan Fraser who was in PLEASANTVILLE with Reese Witherspoon who was in RENDITION with Jake.
Prob'ly shorter ways to go, but I liked being able to reference Ian McKellan and GODS AND MONSTERS.
and because he is playing on BBM RADIO at this very moment (Together Again), I curse thee with Dwight Yoakam.
Damn...that's some whiny shit...
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Jimmy knows he's made for stardom, but no one else in the business appears to agree. Fueled with resentment after his car is broken into, Jimmy wages a war that lands him and his sidekick more publicity than two wannabe actors could ever imagine.
Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe, John Cothran Jr.


Things just got a whole lot easier for U.S.-based companies wanting to use drones in their work after new rules for commercial flights went into effect on Monday.
Before now, businesses wanting to use drones had to apply for special permission, a process that could take many months. However, the new regulations – unveiled by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in June – do away with this procedure, allowing commercial outfits to incorporate the technology into their work far more quickly, so long as they stick to the new rules, of course.
They include operating drones weighing no more than 55 pounds, keeping them at an altitude below 400 feet, and at speeds no faster than 100 mph. In addition, they can only be operated during daylight hours, up to 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset.
Most significantly, they also have to be flown within the line of sight of the pilot at all times, a rule that clearly messes with Amazon's plan for a drone-based delivery service. Other big-name firms, Google and Walmart among them, also have plans for similar drone delivery operations, though such services are unlikely to get off the ground until a full-fledged air traffic control system for remotely operated and autonomous flying machines is firmly in place.
For some drone operations, including night flights and tasks that require a drone to fly above the 400-foot limit, businesses can still attempt to obtain special permission from the FAA.
In another notable change, the new rules also mean that commercial drone operators no longer have to be in possession of a pilot's license for a regular airplane. Instead, anyone who wants to operate a drone for commercial purposes now has to gain a "remote pilot certificate," which involves a basic knowledge test carried out at an FAA-recognized test center.
"With these rules, we have created an environment in which emerging technology can be rapidly introduced while protecting the safety of the world's busiest, most complex airspace," FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said in a release.
Industries interested in making use of the technology include agriculture, construction, surveying, conservation, and movie and TV production.
The FAA unveiled its first-ever set of comprehensive drone regulations in a 624-page document released two months ago, and said the new framework could help generate more than $82 billion for the U.S. economy and create more than 100,000 new jobs over the next 10 years.


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Born in Denver, Colo., Mack made his way to Las Vegas in 1995 to attend graduate school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During that time, he started his career in special events by serving as the media relations director for the Las Vegas Invitational, the PGA Tour event held at TPC at Summerlin.
In 1996, Mack joined R&R Partners full-time and spent the next eight years at the agency. During his stint, he served as the media relations director for the Las Vegas Bowl and the Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children. In addition, he served on the team that launched the NASCAR event in Las Vegas, as well as the Las Vegas Monorail.
Mack moved on to Las Vegas Events as director of marketing in 2004. He was promoted to vice president of marketing and communications in 2009. Over the past eleven years, Mack has led the marketing efforts for numerous major events including the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, FEI World Cup Finals, USA Basketball Showcase, America's Party: Las Vegas New Year and many more.
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Nat's One-Sentence Synopsis: A multi-layered tale of life and loss, Heather Gudenkauf's second novel is told from four perspectives that are anchored by one 5-year-old boy.
In 2009, TLC Book Tours introduced me to a debut novel, The Weight of Silence, by Heather Gudenkauf. Gudenkauf's writing style appealled to me, and I welcomed the chance to review her most recent novel.
These Things Hidden opens with 21-year-old Allison Glenn being released from prison into a halfway house. Gudenkauf slowly reveals the back story with a subtle hand, and readers soon learn that a young boy and his mysterious history is at the center of a tangled web which has been woven from tenuous strands of truths, lies, and secrets.
I blazed through this book–it's an unbelievably quick read despite the darker issues and themes–and was surprised by some of the larger plot reveals. A few of the twists and turns seemed too convenient to be plausible, but as a whole the novel worked and kept me guessing. While it's not a mystery per se, the novel does have questions to answer and secrets that need to be brought to light.
The ending of These Things Hidden reflects real life in that it doesn't have a tidy, happily-ever-after ending. I admire authors who resist the urge to tie everything up with a bow. I enjoyed this novel and know it would be a good book club choice or novel to grab when looking for a quick read that has more serious themes. There are discussion questions and an informative afterword on Safe Haven laws in the United States.
I'm reading this one right now, almost finished with it actually, and so far I'd agree with much of what you said here. I'm surprised by how invested I'm getting in the characters, and it really is a quick read!
i know–this novel is one that really goes by in a flash, unlike some others i could name. 🙂 looking forward to your review.
I admire authors who don't have to tie everything up in a bow too. Did you ever read Tana French's "In the Woods"? Most "un-tied-up-ending" ever!
Some fabu blogger–was it you??–sent me that french novel, but i've yet to dive in! i'm so bad, i know. i'm going to get to it sooner rather than later.
I quite like books that manage to tell the important backstory while still able to keep the present day story going. Sounds like an interesting one!
I already have The Weight of Silence on my list to read and will now add this one as well. It does sound like a good one for my book club!
I remember when the Weight of Silence came out and reading some pretty strong reviews for the book. Now this one sounds like something that I will want to read in the future. I'll have to just keep Heather Gudenkauf on my radar. She sounds like a pretty decent writer.
Just finished this one yesterday. It was a very quick read, and I loved that it was told from the perspective of several characters. However, about 2/3s of the way through the book I figured out the ending. There was no surprise for me there. But still a good read.


Apple Photos isn't the best application to manage a large digital photo library, but the integration with iCloud, iOS, and macOS is extremely useful. But even though Photos can process and store raw images, it is severely lacking in terms of library management: Smart folders don't properly recognize them and there's no easy way to remove them from your library so these huge files can seriously clog up your iCloud account. I have developed a workflow to remove raw images from Apple Photos and iCloud and thought I'd share it. Hopefully Apple will do better in future releases.
Apple Photos can only detect raw files if they're (manually) set to be "Original". And there's no way to "divorce" raw files to remove them from the library (and iCloud)!
Although I don't love the slim editing features in Photos, I'm still using it because of the excellent integration between iOS, macOS, and iCloud. It's just plain useful to have all of my photos stored together and seamlessly synced to the cloud. Still, Photos is pretty terrible when it comes to dealing with raw images.
In macOS, Photos stores all images in a bundle. By default this lives in your Pictures folder and is called "Photos Library.photoslibrary", though macOS hides the extension so it just looks like "Photos Library" in Finder. A macOS bundle is actually just a regular folder marked so as to be treated like a single unit in Finder.
Inside the library, all photos are stored in Masters/year/month/day/event/file. For example, if you take photo with your iPhone on July 10, 2017, it might be called "Masters/2017/07/10/20170710-12304/IMG_2356.JPG". If you import a raw+jpg image from a camera (in my case, my Leica Q uses ".dng" files for raw), it will be stored similarly, perhaps called "Masters/2017/07/10/20170710-17385/L123521.JPG" and "Masters/2017/07/10/20170710-17385/L123521.dng". Note that both the jpeg and raw files are stored together in the same directory.
At least if you "Export Unmodified Original" it will export both the raw and jpg files regardless of which was marked as "Original"!
Apple Photos happily uploads both the raw and jpeg files to iCloud Photos for you, and will download them to any Mac connected to the account automatically. And Apple will generate a jpeg file for viewing on iOS devices too. This is good.
The problem is that these raw files can quickly clog up your iCloud account and there's no way to get rid of them short of deleting the image from the library. This is bad. Considering that every raw image from my Leica Q is 41 MB, my 200 GB iCloud account quickly filled up!
Warning: The following processes can cause the loss of your precious photos if not done correctly! Proceed at your own risk and make a backup first! In fact, make two or three backups!
This process is painful and incomplete: There's a lot of manual juggling and you will lose your tags, albums, and categorization. But at least your iCloud library will be smaller.
I've long used Fat Cat Software's PowerPhotos (formerly iPhoto Library Manager) to split and merge iPhoto and Photos libraries. Although it doesn't solve the problem of finding and exporting raw+jpg images, it does automate the tagging and photo import process so you won't lose as much when you jump through these hoops.
This process results in a complete library of only raw+jpg images, complete with the tags you added and edits you performed, along with a complete library of jpeg images in iCloud for you to enjoy and share. It's painful but functional. The only issue is that every time you repeat the process you get another Raw Photos archive.
I've asked Fat Cat to add a feature to handle this better in PowerPhotos and we'll see what they come up with.
I suppose I should just switch to Lightroom. But barring that, I guess I'll have to use the process above.


CNN's Martin Savidge reports from a flight simulator replicating what searchers endure during complicated weather conditions off the coast of Perth, Australia.
Did anybody check the islands surrounding the crash site they claim. Like the NIAS Island and the mountains in cambodia and so on? Where pamphlets passed out in the villages that don't have tv's and electric and all that stuff ? Maybe children fishing in a village might have seen something. The plane could be sitting somewhere where no reception is at. I wish the U S was in charge because they would have found it by now!!!!


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Where is information sourced from: the most reputable international sources (WHO, Chinese CDC, CDC, international media, medical journals etc …) and government websites.
Globally, as of 12 January 2022, there have been 312 173 462 confirmed cases(+16 907 207 new cases in last 7 days) including 5 501 000 deaths (+ 45 035 new deaths in last 7 days) reported to WHO.
As of 12 January 2022, a total 9.2 billion vaccine doses have been administrated and nearly 3.9 billion people have been fully vaccinated.
COVID by Region
South-East-Asia
South-East-Asia reported a total of 46 105 199 cases including 724 735 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Over 699 000 new cases and over 2300 new deaths have been reported. The highest numbers of new cases were reported from India (638 872 new cases, a 524% increase), Thailand (39 992 new cases, a 104% increase), and Bangladesh (7234 new cases, a 125% increase).
Regions of America
A total of 112 333 750 cases have been reported in Region of the Americas including
2 429 905 total deaths. Over 6 million new cases and 14 000 new deaths have been reported, representing a 78% and 25% increase respectively, as compared to the previous week. Countries that have reported the highest number of new cases were the United States of America (4 610 359 new cases, a 73% increase) and Argentina (461 408 new cases, a 101% increase).
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Eastern Mediterranean Region has reported 17 480 010 cases and 317 496 deaths in total since the beginning of the pandemic. Over 200 000 new cases and 1000 new deaths have been reported,an 86% increase and an 11% decrease, respectively as compared to the previous week. Countries having reported the highest number of cases include Lebanon (38 112 new cases, a 90% increase), Morocco (31 701 new cases, a 222% increase), and the United Arab Emirates (18 373 new cases, a 23% increase).
Europe (EU/EEA)
A total of 112 496 063 cases including 1 701 319 deaths have been reported in the European Region. Over 7.1 million new cases and over 20 000 new deaths have been reported, a 31% increase and 10% decrease respectively. Last week, the highest number of cases were reported from The highest numbers of new cases were reported from France (1 600 121 new cases, a 46% increase) and the United Kingdom (1 217 258 new cases, a 10% increase).
African Region
A total of 7 664 386 total cases including 159 065 total deaths have been reported in Africa. Over the last week, the region reported over 260 000 new cases and 2100 new deaths, an 11% and 84% decrease respectively. The highest numbers of new cases were reported from South Africa (53 433 new cases, an 11% decrease), Zambia (23 628 new cases, a 10% decrease), and Ethiopia (18 999 new cases, a 34% decrease).
Western Pacific Region
The Western Pacific Region has reported 12 378 337 total cases and 160 062 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Just about 732 000 new cases and over 2700 new deaths were reported. The highest numbers of new cases were reported from Australia (420 079 new cases, a 204% increase) and Viet Nam (130 302 new cases, a 19% increase).
Share of people vaccinated against Covid-19
92% of the population of United Arab Emirates and 90% in Portugal have been fully vaccinated. Only 27% in South Africa and 23% in Egypt have received a single-dose vaccine or both doses of a two-dose vaccine.
Vaccine booster doses
As of January 12, 2021, Europe has administered the highest booster doses, around 27.9 per 100 people. It is followed by Australia and North America with 16.9 and 16 vaccine booster doses respectively, administered per 100 people. Overall, there have been 10.3 booster doses administered per 100 people worldwide.


I've got tell all that He's done for me.
Exercise is one area where people often feel defeated. According to a recent study 69% of adults are overweight or obese in the U.S. Getting off the couch to get your heart pumping is imperative! Read that last sentence again and throw your excuses out the door. We wouldn't think of leaving for work without brushing our teeth, combing our hair or getting dressed. However, we often skip one of the most important parts of a healthy lifestyle: Exercise. Trust me I know it's easier to sit on the couch with a favorite cup of coffee and talk about 'needing' to take a walk. But talking about it won't change anything for the good.
So, where do you start? Well, how about one step at a time? One reason people become defeated and quit is because they set the bar so high they can't seem to ever measure up. It seems the favorite time to join the Y is the month of January. New Years Resolution I think we call it? Then one meeting and a couple late nights and we never get in the habit of going. Typically newbies walk around the Y wondering what the heck they are supposed to be doing. So, within a short amount of time it seems like time is wasting and we stop going. At least that's my story. I've joined the Y more times than I can remember.
Here's the deal, before you think of running a marathon you must first develop a habit of getting up early enough to exercise 4 or 5 days a week. So, start slow. This is a journey. If you haven't moved any faster than your walk to the dinner table for the last few months / years then start out by walking around the block. Spend 20 minutes each time you exercise to get your heart rate up. Also, talk with your doctor if you have questions or concerns about exercise and your current health situation. A couple things you need to know. It is totally okay to walk your dog. Whatever you do, do not walk your cat. That wouldn't be cool!
Exercise is one thing that will help raise your good cholesterol (HDL). So, let's get to it!
By the time there's another article about exercise you should be in a habit of walking most every day. Your heart is counting on it!


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Living with and without antiquity
In this Dutch-language book project 'De oudheidconnectie - leven met en zonder oudheid', Maarten De Pourcq examines exemplary interactions between the ancient Greco-Roman world and the modern world.
Children of Medea
In this book project, Maarten De Pourcq examines receptions of the ancient story of Medea in modern and contemporary culture in the broadest sense.
An Anti-Eastern Ideology in Athenian World Heritage?
1 December 2022 until 31 December 2025 Research
This project envisions to enrich the study of classical archaeology and ancient history, and more widely, the field of cultural heritage studies by offering new insights into the Acropolis as an important symbol of cultural heritage.
NanoBubbles: how, when and why does science fail to correct itself?
The project investigates why it is so difficult to correct errors in the scientific literature. Scientists who identify errors often face a lot of resistance. NanoBubbles researches how to facilitate scientific correction.
Improving Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration in Public Health Crisis Management
This project examines the role of the sciences in policy advice during the COVID- 19 crisis.
Effects of bioturbators in greenhouse gas emissions from shallow inland waters
The overall aim of the project is to unravel the role of bioturbators on GHG emissions in shallow fresh waters under different scenarios (e.g.: temperature, sediments, bioturbators densities).
Building a Research Agenda
1 September 2022 until 1 April 2023 Research
This project is a collaboration with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdK). Its goal is to promote a research agenda to a new generation of historians that have enrolled in the BA History and the 3-year MA History programme at the AdK.
Indigenious Journeys
As transnational tourism continues to grow, craft cultures tend to provide a deep-rooted sense of place. This project brings together multiple stakeholders to form a holistic enquiry intersecting creative tourism practices with craft cultures.
TOS-Fonds (Taalontwikkelingsstoornissen)
Een taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS) is een neurocognitieve ontwikkelingsstoornis. Met dit fonds wordt onderzoek naar TOS gestimuleerd.
Nimwèègs from a dynamic point of view
1 November 2022 Research
The city dialect of Nijmegen, known as Nimwèègs in the local vernacular, is a dialect spoken in the city of Nijmegen. This project aims at understanding the communicative place of Nimwèègs in the linguistic ecology of Nijmegen.
Reading the Mind
1 September 2018 until 1 August 2023 Research
This project investigates the involvement of social-cognitive processes, such as empathy and theory of mind, during story reading.
Empirical foundations of poetic rhyme
The research project uses methods from experimental psychology and psycholinguistics to address fundamental questions about rhyme that have gone unnoticed in prior research.
Democratic innovations & populism: For better or worse?
This project of Dr Kristof Jacobs investigates the effects of democratic innovations (e.g. citizen-initiated referendums, participatory budgeting and citizens' assemblies) on populist citizens.
N-SAFE
The N-SAFE project examines the newly emerging role played by non- governmental organisations (NGOs) as they partner with governments around the world in the global fight against illegal fishing.
Tracing Syrian Refugee Return Dynamics across South/North Divides
This multidisciplinary project examines the connections between European return decisions.
(De)legitimation and international order
In this project, with funding by the GLOCAL hotspot, we are constructing a new dataset on the (de)legitimation of international order that will allow us to close these conceptual and empirical gaps.
Constructing Neoclassical Realism
This project seeks to explore and critically reflect on the politics of contemporary neoclassical realist (NCR) theorising in International Relations.
Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA)
The Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) dataset measures positions and attitudes of over 250 parties on key attributes.
EU Solidarity and Risk-sharing During COVID-19
This project examines the conditions under which European citizens support international cooperation in controversial policy areas.
1 October 2019 until 1 September 2024 Research
The focus of SPRINT is intonation, the modulation of voice pitch. Intonation is essential for communication, as it conveys information that helps listeners make inferences about the intent of the speaker.


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Impact of immigration on employment of British born
1. The proportion of British born people in work is now the same as in 2001. In effect, the extra 1.34 million jobs created in the past seven years have now virtually all gone to immigrants. A major reason for this is the arrival, since May 2004, of half a million workers from Eastern European members of the EU.
East European Migrant Workers
2. The government relied initially on a Home Office commissioned study which estimated that the net number of migrants from the eight new East European members of the European Union would be between 5,000 and 13,000 a year. Migrationwatch UK described this estimate at the time as "simply not credible".
3. When 170,000 immigrants arrived in the first twelve months, the government claimed that most were here for only a few months. This also proved to be wrong as the number in employment climbed to half a million by the first quarter of 2008. It is now suggested that East Europeans are starting to leave. However, they are also continuing to arrive, although at the lower rate of about 13,000 a month. The Labour Force Survey demonstrates that the number working in the UK has been stable at about 500,000 in the first three quarters of 2008.
Impact on the British born labour force
4. Examination of the Labour Force Survey since 1997 shows a very clear pattern displayed in the graph below (which is based on the Tables in Annex A):
5. Employment of British born workers and of migrant workers both increased as the economy grew between 1997 and 2004. However, the arrival of East European migrants after 2004 coincided with a sharp fall in the employment of British born workers. The British born working age population also fell during this period, so the proportion in work remained unchanged at 75.4%. Despite the considerable growth of total employment, there has been no progress at all in getting British born unemployed workers back to work after 2004. Most of the jobs created since 2004 have gone to East Europeans, and all of the rest have gone to other migrants. (It is important to be clear that "British Born" includes all those born in Britain, whatever the origin of their parents; it does not include migrants who have since become British citizens they are shown as "Naturalised UK")
6. These employment statistics are not, in themselves, absolute proof that the employment of British born workers has declined as the result of East European immigration but it is hard to find another explanation. The government have claimed that there has been "no significant impact" on British employment. This is misleading. What they are referring to is the Gilpin study for the Department of Work and Pensions.[1] This looked at various regions and found large "long-run" effects of A8 immigration, but the estimates were "statistically insignificant". This means that they are not statistically reliable. It does not necessarily mean that they are small which is how the general public would interpret the expression. What it does mean is that there is no firm evidence about the size of the effect and that the statistics are not clear enough to prove the point either way. The reason for this is that, with a UK workforce of 29 million, an extra half a million is a relatively small amount - especially when scattered across the country. Any effect they may have is further complicated by internal migration and by other changes in a flexible economy. However, it is now possible to take the workforce as a whole over a period of years and to see that there has been a clear impact on British employment. This corresponds with widespread anecdotal evidence.
7. The impact of East European workers has not been entirely negative. They have acquired a well justified reputation for hard work. They have also been a boon to employers by providing a very capable work force at close to the minimum wage. (80% of East Europeans earn less than £6 an hour).
8. It is also important to note that there is not a fixed number of jobs in the economy. The labour force is one variable among many. To the extent that East Europeans undertake work that British workers would not have done, they have added to the number of jobs. They also add to demand and therefore add indirectly to the labour force requirement. That said, it seems an inescapable conclusion that the sudden arrival of a very large number of very capable workers willing to work for low pay has had a negative impact on the employment of British born workers at the bottom of the pay scale. If any further argument was needed against lifting the restrictions on access to Britain for Romanian and Bulgarian workers, this is it. Annex A - View Larger Image Click here
Gilpin, N., M. Henty, S. Lemos, J. Portes and C. Bullen (2006),"The impact of free movement of workers from Central and Eastern Europe on the UK labour market", DWP Working Paper No 29.
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Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
Wilson, Harold S.
Surdam, David
Published by EH.NET (September 2002)
Harold S. Wilson, Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in
the Civil War. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii +
412 pp. $45 (hardcover), ISBN: 1-57806-462-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David Surdam, Graduate School of Business, University of
Chicago.
Harold Wilson, a professor of history at Old Dominion University, has written
a well-researched treatise on Confederate quartermasters and their relations
with southern manufacturers during the Civil War. In addition, Wilson devotes
roughly a fifth of the text to the postwar recovery.
Historians will be impressed with the author's exhaustive use of primary
materials. Economists, though, may be disappointed by the endless litany of
details without much analysis. As a piece of descriptive history, Wilson's work
is thorough and meticulous. Certainly there is a need for information regarding
the performance of the southern economy during the war. Readers will discover
how important cotton and wool were for a Victorian-era army: clothing,
harnesses, bandages, flour sacks, and tents are only the most obvious uses of
these products.
Wilson also does an excellent job in demonstrating that the southern economy,
although dominated by the production of staple products, compared well as an
industrial economy, ranking fourth behind England, the northern states, and
France. The supply of raw cotton and wool augured well for the quartermaster
department. Unfortunately, the migration of skilled laborers out of the
Confederacy or into the army hindered the productive capability of southern
manufacturers. Southern factories also depended upon imports of equipment and
machinery and, during the war, upon a shaky railroad system. The Union Navy's
blockade impeded the flow of replacement parts, while forcing an over-reliance
upon rail transport instead of coastal and river transport. Despite these
handicaps, the quartermaster department generally succeeded in equipping the
soldiers with clothing and footwear, although frequent shortages did occur.
However, in the absence of the disrupted antebellum trade patterns, the
Confederate government could have more cheaply purchased such items. Wilson
could have more fully developed the losses arising from disrupted international
The book also ably demonstrates the tension between southern manufacturers and
planters (although these were not mutually exclusive groups). Many of the
manufacturers were northern-born men who maintained their Whig beliefs. The
manufacturers were able to get the Confederate government to enact tariffs in
May 1861 that closely resembled those used by the Federal government. For
modern-day adherents of the belief that tariffs and not slavery caused the war,
the Confederate tariffs serve as a sharp rejoinder.
The manufacturers also confronted inept Confederate policies with regard to
labor, inflation, pricing, and taxation. Wilson does not necessarily believe
that greater Confederate control of the economy was desirable or useful, a
relative rarity among Civil War historians. Confederate policies included price
controls on output based upon a fixed percentage above costs. Such a system
created perverse incentives, and southern producers were not hesitant to react
accordingly. In general, though, government work paid less than private work,
and many producers followed the widespread practice of avoiding government work
when possible. To compel their effort in producing supplies for the government,
the Confederate government controlled manpower via impressing labor.
The book lauds quartermaster general Alexander Lawton's efforts to rationalize
the procurement process. Lawton attempted to monopolize the purchase of wool
and cotton; he succeeded, for a brief time, in getting the bulk of the raw
cotton and all of the wool, but ultimately, his efforts proved futile. Lawton's
predecessor, Abraham Myers, does not receive as much praise, but he was
starting from scratch. Myers' detractors based their criticisms upon such
personal traits as his Jewishness. Wilson also supplies the reader with such
juicy gossip as the contretemps between Jefferson Davis's wife and Mrs. Myers.
Wilson discusses the profitability of manufacturing during the war years, but
his lack of analysis is a real drawback. Wartime profit figures are inherently
suspect due to the chronic inflation and archaic accounting system in use.
Businesses did not make explicit depreciation charges against their revenues
during this period. In a period of rapid inflation, such a lack could easily
exaggerate profits. The dividends paid out may have been a cannibalization of
capital. In fact, trying to ascertain wartime profits is likely to be an "Alice
in Wonderlandesque" exercise, but I hope someone will attempt the endeavor.
During the postwar era, manufacturers scrambled to demonstrate their "loyalty"
to the Union. The Confederate policies of impressments sometimes helped
manufacturers convince Federal authorities that their production for the
Confederate government had been based upon compulsion. Patriotism, whether to
the Federal or Confederate governments, may have influenced some manufacturers
during the war, but almost all were enthusiastic adherents of self-interest.
The manufacturers adjusted to the new labor conditions in the South.
Eventually, they created a segregated labor force whereby blacks did most of
the unskilled work, while poor whites did the semi-skilled work.
The author also does not analyze how well the Confederate policies worked. He
amply describes such policies, but I wish he had devoted more effort to such an
Future researchers interested in Civil War economics will need to read this
book — its surfeit of information is valuable. If and when a definitive
account of the wartime southern economy is written, this book will be among the
chief secondary sources.
David Surdam recently published Northern Naval Superiority and the
Economics of the American Civil War (University of South Carolina Press).
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction


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Petraeus ends 'historic' military career to lead CIA
By the CNN Wire Staff
"I wanted this job. I am taking off the uniform I have worn for 37 years to do this the right way," Petraeus said earlier this year.
NEW: Petraeus looks back on his "amazing" journey at his retirement ceremony
NEW: Mullen praises Petraeus' "historic" leadership
Petraeus starts his job as the head of the CIA on Tuesday
His experience in working on counterinsurgency efforts was cited in his nomination
(CNN) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who served as the top U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, ended his military career Wednesday to take the reins at the CIA.
"Our journey with the U.S. military has been amazing one," he said, speaking for himself and his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony after 37 years in the Army. The ceremony was held at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.
He added that the journey was not coming to an end, "even though we're about to begin an exciting new journey with another extraordinary organization."
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised Petraeus' "historic leadership."
Among Petraeus' accomplishments, Mullen said: overseeing the "Herculean" task of organizing and training a new Iraqi Army, an "astounding" achievement.
Deadliest month for U.S. in Afghan War
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Petraeus is also the architect of the military's counterinsurgency strategy. Mullen noted that Petraeus assembled "an incredibly talented and diverse team, drafting the Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which would not only serve as the blueprint for our successes in Iraq and Afghanistan, but would also go on to become a best-seller."
Petraeus, 58, said the U.S. military has "learned since 9/11 that we don't always get to fight the wars for which we're most prepared or most inclined. Given that reality, we will need to maintain the full spectrum capability that we have developed over this last decade of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere."
He added that he departs with a "sense of great confidence in our military and in our country. Despite the innumerable challenges that face our nation and our world, I believe in our citizens, our system of government, and above all our men and women in uniform."
President Barack Obama cited Petraeus' experience in working with the CIA on counterinsurgency efforts in the field as a reason for his nomination as its director.
Petraeus assumes his new role next week, on September 6.
As the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Petraeus was dubbed "King David" for turning around what seemed like a losing battle.
He took over in Afghanistan in July 2010 after the retirement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose departure came on the heels of unflattering remarks he made about administration officials in a Rolling Stone magazine article.
On July 18, Petraeus handed over Afghan command to Gen. John Allen.
Petraeus graduated in 1974 from West Point and began his career as a second lieutenant in the infantry. He went on to become arguably the most influential general of his generation, and Esquire magazine called him one of the most influential people of the 21st century.
"I wanted this job," Petraeus said at his Senate confirmation hearing. "I am taking off the uniform I have worn for 37 years to do this the right way."
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Gabe A. Kwong, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity
Ph.D. Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
B.S. Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
gkwong@gatech.edu
Dr. Kwong is an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory School of Medicine. He is a member of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Integrated Cancer Research Center, Georgia ImmunoEngineering Consortium, and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. As director of the Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity (LSI), Dr. Kwong leads a multidisciplinary team dedicated to advancing human health by merging engineering approaches with discoveries in immunology. His lab pioneers powerful new technologies to address frontier clinical challenges – including ultrasensitive diagnostics for early detection of disease, engineered T cells as curative therapies, and high-throughput tools to study rare immune cells. His research directly impacts a broad range of complex human diseases including cancer, organ transplant rejection, and infectious diseases. His work has been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology and Nature Biomedical Engineering, and broadly covered by the media including The Economist, NPR, BBC, and WGBH-2, Boston's PBS station.
Born and raised in California, Dr. Kwong earned his B.S. in Bioengineering with Highest Honors from the University of California, Berkeley. He conducted his Ph.D. studies in Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology with Professor James R. Heath, and postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Professor Sangeeta N. Bhatia at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. In recognition of his work, Dr. Kwong was named a "Future Leader in Cancer Research and Translational Medicine" by the Massachusetts General Hospital, and selected by the National Academy of Engineering to the US Frontiers of Engineering. He is recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Georgia Tech/British Petroleum Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Award, and the NIH Director's New Innovator Award – a national distinction given to "exceptionally creative" early career investigators. Dr. Kwong is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Glympse Bio, which is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases. He holds 4 issued and 17 pending patents in biomedical technology.
Fang-Yi "Ida" Su
Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of Washington
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, National Tsing Hua University
fsu8@gatech.edu
Ida was born in Tainan, Taiwan and graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering. Her passion in applying biomaterials and engineering concepts to improve human health led her to complete a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering at University of Washington in 2018. Under the mentorship of Prof. Patrick Stayton, Ida developed polymeric antibiotic prodrug systems that were highly effective against pulmonary bacterial infections. During her graduate studies, Ida was awarded the HHMI International Student Research Fellowship and two scholarships from the Taiwanese Government¬— the 2013 MOE Technologies Incubation Scholarship and Studying Abroad Scholarship. Currently, Ida is a postdoctoral fellow in LSI where she seeks to harness protease activity to improve cancer immunotherapy and to develop a universal tool that allows high-throughput peptide screening for disease-associated proteases. When she is not in lab or on her way to lab, Ida can be found training for her next half marathon race. She has completed 7 half-marathons in Taipei, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Hathaichanok "Noina" Phuengkham
Ph.D. Nano Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University
B.Eng. and M.Eng. Biomedical Engineering, Mahidol University
hathaichanok.phu@gmail.com
Noina was born in Thailand and graduated with a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering from Mahidol University, Thailand. At Mahidol University, she developed nano drug vehicles for cancer therapy and antibacterial treatment. Afterwards, Noina received the H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's scholarship to continue her Ph.D. studies at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea; there her interest in cancer treatment led her to Prof. Yong Taik Lim's lab to develop nanomedicines for cancer immunotherapy. During her Ph.D., Noina advanced several biomaterial platforms such as nanovesicles, implantable scaffolds, and injectable gels for local modulation of immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments to enhance low response rates of cancer immunotherapy. Currently, Noina is a postdoctoral fellow in LSI where she seeks to develop technologies to improve clinical problems in cancer therapy. She spends her free time cooking Thai foods, swimming, and shopping.
Shreyas Dahotre
B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
GT President's Fellow | NSF IGERT Trainee | NSF Graduate Fellow
shreyas.dahotre@gatech.edu
Shreyas grew up in Knoxville, TN and graduated from Duke University summa cum laude with a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Biology. As a Pratt Research Fellow at Duke, he worked in Dr. Jennifer West's lab where he investigated (1) thermally responsive hydrogel-nanoshell composites for optically triggered drug delivery and (2) near-infrared irradiation of gold-silica nanoshells for siRNA transfection. His studies formed the basis for his undergraduate thesis that earned him Department Distinction. Currently, Shreyas is a graduate student at Georgia Tech/Emory in Biomedical Engineering where he is a NSF IGERT trainee, a Georgia Tech President's Fellowship recipient, and a NSF GRFP awardee. In LSI, he is broadly interested in incorporating DNA nanotechnology for use in cell sorting and profiling applications. Outside of lab, Shreyas enjoys watching college sports, exploring Atlanta's food scene, and traveling. Go Vols and Blue Devils!
B.S. Chemistry, Furman University
imiller7@gatech.edu
Ian hails from Massachusetts but is a global citizen, spending formative years in the Philippines as well as England. Ian attended Furman University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Chemistry. His studies were supported by selective scholarships, including the Furman Achiever, Keeler Chemistry and the Alden Pre Engineering Scholarships − the latter awarded to a single student per year. At Furman, Ian was selected as an NSF REU researcher and worked in Dr. Jeff Petty's lab studying the interactions between silver nanoclusters and DNA for biosensing applications. Ian also worked for Dr. Tarek Shazly in the University of South Carolina's Biomedical Engineering Department on an NSF RII-funded project where he examined the mechanical properties of tissue engineered blood vessel constructs and their native counterparts. Ian's current research is focused on engineering T cells for cancer immunotherapy. He is from Medford, MA and supports all Boston area sports teams, especially the New England Patriots.
Quoc Mac
B.S. Chemistry, UNC at Chapel Hill
NSF Graduate Fellow
qmac@gatech.edu
Quoc grew up halfway around the world in Saigon, Vietnam. Due to his love for computer games, he studied Computer Science at the University of Science for two years before his family immigrated to the US and settled in North Carolina. Quoc then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he graduated with highest honors and highest distinction with a B.S. in Chemistry. There he worked in Dr. Qi Zhang's lab and studied the dynamics of hammerhead ribozymes using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), showing that a lowly populated state is essential for their catalytic activity. For his research, Quoc was awarded the HHMI Future Scientists and Clinicians Fellowship, the Jason Altom Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research, and the Chancellor's Venable Medal for Excellence in Chemistry. Currently, Quoc is a graduate student in BME where his research is focused on the broader applications of synthetic biomarkers for cancer and disease diagnosis. Quoc likes to spend his free time playing video games, watching sports, and traveling. He is a die-hard fan of the Tar Heels and the Red Devils.
Yun Min "Danny" Chang
B.S. Chemistry, University of Florida
danny.chang@emory.edu
Danny was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the US at the age of 9. He grew up in Tarpon Springs, FL and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Florida. As a University and HHMI Scholar, he worked in Dr. Weihong Tan's lab developing artificial-aptamer lipid receptors for cellular modification. He was later awarded the Pasteur-HHMI fellowship which allowed him to work at the Pasteur Institute in France. There, he worked under Dr. Oleg Melnyk to develop novel selenium-based linkers that facilitate native chemical ligation of peptides. For his senior year, he was awarded the prestigious HHMI EXROP and the HHMI Capstone fellowships to work with Dr. Stuart Schreiber at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. There he studied genomic biomarkers for rapamycin sensitivity in cancer cell lines and the efficacy of decitabine combination therapy in ovarian cancer. His undergraduate research studies culminated in 5 peer-reviewed publications. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was appointed as a J. Wayne Reitz Scholar and inducted into the UF Hall of Fame. After graduation, he worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow in Dr. William Gahl's lab at the NIH where he helped discover and characterize the mutation in the LAMA1 gene underlying the Poretti-Boltshauser Syndrome. This finding was later published on the cover of Journal of Medical Genetics. Currently, he is an MD/PhD student studying Immunology at Emory. He is jointly advised by Dr. Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center, developing novel therapies to modulate the differentiation of effector, memory, and exhausted T cells in the context of human cancers. Danny loves to travel, attend music festivals/concerts, and play golf in his free time. Go Gators!
Lena Gamboa
Sc.B. Biomedical Engineering, Brown University
GT President's Fellow | GTBioMAT Trainee | NSF Graduate Fellow | Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
lena@gatech.edu
Lena grew up in Orlando, Florida (arguably the happiest place on earth) and graduated with honors from Brown University with an Sc.B. in Biomedical Engineering. At Brown, Lena worked in Dr. Ian Wong's lab investigating the epithelial-mesenchymal transition by tracking and analyzing single-cell migration dynamics in 2D and 3D cancer co-cultures. She is a Questbridge Scholar and a recipient of the Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, as well as Brown University's School of Engineering George H. Main '45 Award. Currently, she is a GTBioMAT trainee and a President's Fellowship recipient in the joint Georgia Tech & Emory University BME Ph.D. program. Her research focuses on engineering T cells for cancer immunotherapy. Lena is dog-person, a life-long Orlando Magic fan, loves Beyoncé, and enjoys watching football, basketball, and volleyball. Go Magic!
Brandon Alexander Holt
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
GT President's Fellow | GTBioMAT Trainee | NSF Graduate Fellow
brandon.holt@gatech.edu
Brandon grew up in Lawrenceville, GA, but often traveled to spend time with family in Sweden and Romania. He graduated from Georgia Tech summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Physics. As a Petit Research Scholar at GT, he worked in Dr. Todd Sulchek's lab where he engineered complement-modulating microparticles, which resulted in a first-author publication in Biomaterials Science. Additionally, with MSE student Shawn Gregory he developed an antimicrobial agent that can chelate to textiles to produce residual efficacy against multiple pathogens, around which they formed a startup. Currently, Brandon is a graduate student in BME where his research is focused on analyzing multiplexed protease signatures for disease prediction and diagnosis. Brandon spends his free time playing hockey, swimming, listening to M83, and enjoying time with his girlfriend and family.
Anirudh Sivakumar
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
GT President's Fellow | Emory Laney Graduate Fellow | NSF Graduate Fellow
anirudh.sivakumar@gatech.edu
Anirudh grew up in Dallas, TX. His love for chemistry and tenure as a mathlete spurred him to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics. As a Cockrell Engineering Honors Scholar, Anirudh worked in Dr. Lydia Contreras' lab, investigating the effects of disease-impactful chemical modifications on tRNA structure, and later in Dr. George Georgiou's lab, helping engineer a protein therapeutic to fight cancerous immune suppression. He spent his summers studying the structure of proteins related to stroke and HIV latency at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (with Dr. Patrick Wintrode), and Merck Research Labs. Anirudh is now an NSF Fellow in the joint Georgia Tech and Emory University BME PhD program and joined the LSI to make an impact on cancer immunotherapy. Outside of graduate school, Anirudh loves watching sports (excessively), trying new foods, spending time with family, and exploring Atlanta.
Ali Zamat
M.S. Bioengineering, UCSD
B.S. Bioengineering: Biotechnology, UCSD
GT President's Fellow
az@gatech.edu
Ali was born and raised in San Diego, California before moving to São Paulo, Brazil for three years. He returned to San Diego to attend the University of California, San Diego where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Bioengineering: Biotechnology in 2018. During his time as an undergraduate, he developed and implemented an after-school STEM immersion program for a local high school. Ali started a project investigating innovative drug delivery techniques to reduce patient non-compliance which received funding from NSF I-Corps and the UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program. He continued his studies and conducted research with Dr. Yingxiao Wang exploring novel methods to remotely activate cells using heat before graduating with an M.S. in 2019. Ali is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at LSI to develop novel therapies augmenting the immune system to target cancer. Ali loves to travel, eat, and play pick-up sports in his free time.
Adrian Harris
B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
aharris334@gatech.edu
Adrian was born in Dover, Delaware but spent half of his life in Dahlonega, GA. He graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia, where he received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. During his undergraduate years, he worked in Dr. Medlock's laboratory, investigating the regulatory roles of Peroxiredoxin 5 and Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component 1 in heme biosynthesis. Upon graduating, he worked for Omega Bioservices, an offshoot of the larger Omega Bio-tek, where he focused on DNA/RNA isolation as well as DNA sequencing through Illumina platforms. In his spare time, he enjoys reading anything nonfiction, playing video games, and exercising.
Anna Romanov
Stamps President's Scholar
BME, Class of 2020
aromanov3@gatech.edu
Lee-Kai Sun
Petit Research Scholar
sunleekai@gatech.edu
Kevin Tao
ktao30@gatech.edu
Sam Stentz
samuelstentz@gatech.edu
Jared Meyers
jmeyers@gatech.edu
Isabel "Mimi" Curro
icurro3@gatech.edu
Hyoungjun Sim
hsim7@gatech.edu
Nadia Ahmedin
nahmedin@gatech.edu
Anna Hart
ahart34@gatech.edu
Qingyang "Henry" Zhao
henryzhao0410@gatech.edu
McKenzie Tuttle
mckenzie.tuttle@gatech.edu
Melanie Su
msu44@gatech.edu
Rafi Ahmed
Vaccine Center Director
Emory Vaccine Center
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery
Peng Qiu
Georgia Tech and Emory University
James Dahlman
NIH Tetramer Core Facility
Edward Botchwey
Samantha Stammen
Undergraduate (2015-2016)
Quality Engineer I, Abbott
Joe Maenza
Medical School, Florida Atlantic University
Hassan Fakhoury
Co-founder, Buzz Mobile Health
Medical School, Vanderbilt University
Samantha Torres
Undergraduate (2016)
Olivia Delmas
Lab Technician (2016-2017)
Research Specialist, Emory Virology Core
Jason Weis
Research Assistant, ReadCoor Inc
Claire Stoffers
Research Scientist, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Justin Kahla
Research Associate, Guide Therapeutics
Mukund Pandiri
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)
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Faith Colaguori
Haoxin Li
Graduate School, Harvard University
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Lab Technician (2018)
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To the surprise of few, volunteering has great benefits for those being helped, however, to the surprise of many volunteers actually experience greater health benefits than those receiving their support. Volunteering has numerous advantages that come to the volunteer, including strengthening social interactions with others, boosting self-confidence and self-worth, and helping you live longer. The best part? Anyone can do it!
By volunteering we increase our interactions with other people, forming lasting friendships with those around us. These friendships formed by helping around the community will likely be with people who have similar interests as you, which also helps strengthen the friendship and promotes goodwill towards the task at hand.
Help Guide reports that volunteering can also be "one of the best ways to make new friends and strengthen existing relationships." It states that by volunteering with people we already know, such as family and friends, we build up the relationship. Not only this, but volunteering as a family makes it more likely for children to go out and volunteer when they're older.
A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that volunteering gave retirees more life satisfaction than others who worked for pay gained from their work.
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(ISC)2 opens nominations for GISLA
The GISLA program, which is sponsored by the (ISC)2 U.S. Government Advisory Board (GAB), was established in 2004 as part of an effort to recognize federal information security leaders whose commitment to excellence is helping to improve federal information security and to advance an in-demand workforce.
"The federal information security workforce is in need of leaders who, despite intense legislative and budgetary challenges, have a vision for a more secure nation and inspire those in the workforce to advance this very important mission", said W. Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2 and former CIO for the US Department of the Interior. "We consider these leaders some of the government's greatest cyber assets."
The timing could not be more apropos given the recent laser-like focus on government cybersecurity. With high-profile hacking of government targets in the headlines, two anti-cyber-espionage bills circulating in Congress and information-sharing initiatives rolling out across federal infrastructure in the wake of President Obama's February executive order, cyber-security is top of mind.
Awards are given in several categories to recognize individuals and teams whose initiatives in the areas of technology improvement, process/policy improvement, workforce improvement, and federal contractor or community awareness have led to significant improvements in the security posture of a department, agency or the entire federal government.
A nominations committee comprised of senior information security experts from government and industry will review and select winners from the five categories of finalists based upon the selection criteria and eligibility requirements.
The 2013 GISLA judges read like a laundry list of heavy-hitters: Steven Hernandez, CISO, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Ray A. Letteer, chief of the Cybersecurity Division of the Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4) Department at Headquarters, US Marine Corps; Charles "Chuck" McGann, corporate ISO, US Postal Service; Marc H. Noble, director of government affairs for (ISC)2; Robert "Rocky" E. Young, director of cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Outreach (CIAO) and Mobile Security Division, Defense-Wide Information Assurance Program (DIAP), Identity and Information Assurance Directorate (IIA)-DoD Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Dara Gordon Murray, director of IT security for the program support center, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Art Friedman, senior strategist for the Enterprise Engineering Office, National Security Agency; and Jerry G. Ormaner, CIO, CISM, senior information technology project manager, operations services staff, U.S. Department of Justice.
The submission deadline for nominations is August 2, 2013. (ISC)2 officials, sponsors, and others will honor the 2013 GISLA recipients at a gala dinner and awards ceremony on October 29 in the Washington D.C. metro area.
(ISC)² Opens Nominations for US Government Security Awards
(ISC)² Announces GISLA Award Winners
(ISC)² Recognizes Excellence in Government Cybersecurity
(ISC)² creates McNulty award to honor a government security pioneer, names GISLA winners
(ISC)² Announces GISLA Award Finalists for Government Security


All stories have certain elements. If they are missing, you don't have a story. The most obvious example is CHARACTERS–you must have characters in order to make the events in your story happen. The good news is I have never known a student to leave characters out of a story!
This one is a little tougher. Every story must have a problem or CONFLICT. Your main character is your protagonist. This character can have a conflict with another CHARACTER (the antagonist) as in the classic good-guy-beats-the-bad-guy story. The protagonist can also have a conflict with NATURE, as in the good-guy-battles-the-terrible-storm story. Your protagonist can also have a conflict with SELF, as in the bad-liar-loses-all-his-friends-and-learns-to-stop-lying story.
Remember when you introduce the problem to the reader you need to show why it is a problem. For example, bringing an elephant to school is not a problem. When it breaks down the wall coming through the door, that's a problem.
Finally, every story must have an ARC, which you may know as a beginning, a middle, and an end. Without an arc, the story is merely a boring listing of events. The arc gives it a reason to be a story. Think of the story arc as a roller coaster.
The beginning is when you are in the station loading the cars. Here is where you introduce your protagonist and the setting, and maybe hint at the problem. The inciting event is what starts the roller coaster moving up the hill. This might be where your protagonist first tangles with your antagonist.
The top of the roller coaster hill is the climax of your story. This is the epic battle, or the event that changes the world. Have you ever in your life known a roller coaster to stop at the top of the hill? No. Please do not ever end your story here!
The last part of the roller coaster ride is the downhill plunge into the station. Your story must have an ending that wraps up the loose ends and reveals what changed in your protagonist. What lesson was learned? Plan this part of your story as completely as you plan the rising action. Please get your characters safely home!
As with most writing, careful planning is more than half the task. When a story is well planned, the actual writing is very rewarding!
It's true that all stories have to have a problem, but how many problems could there be in your story?
One major problem/conflict that the protagonist is trying to solve or overcome. Of course, lots of problems can pop up along the way to hinder them!
We will work together to publish a book of stories for NaNoWriMo, though.
Yeah, NaNoWriMo will be lots of fun. Some pretty funny things happen in class. Maybe you could use those ideas in your novels.
Like I did with Xavier's Desk Monster? 🙂 I had an idea to write about kids going to Science Camp, since kids are always a combination of scared/nervous before hand and they all have such a great time. It would be something I could read at the beginning of the year to fifth graders. Still thinking about it.
ya……….that would be awesome! It is so cool that our class,only our class will be able to write a novel!!
Ya! I have an idea for a story….maybe…. It may be an adventure or a classic mystery!
I would do a mystery if I were you. I think it would have a better climax.
Maybe you're right, it would be better than a classic mystery or maybe even an adventure. Thanks Lan!
What are you planning to write for NaNoWriMo?
I think I might write a murder mystery.
I can imagine there being so many actions and one mystery leading to another……. Good luck Lan!!!!
You know, I changed my mind. Now, I'm thinking of doing it on a girl who moves away to a new state and has to adapt to everything.
No! Keep your murder mystery! Trust me, it will be cooler!
Long time no see 🙂 I like the story arc because Mrs. Hsu is assigning more writing assignments. Every 2 weeks she gives us a story to write. This week we have to write a fictional story on Halloween. It could be scary or not. HOwever, 6th grade is getting harder so 5th graders TRY YOUR HARDEST!
Good advice, Justin! I'm relying on all you sixth graders to give encouragement to my fifth graders during NaNoWriMo this year.
The roller coaster idea for a story really makes sense to me. You are building up to the climax, it happens, and then it all slowly comes to an end. But maybe you could call it a slow motion roller coaster because a real roller coaster doesn't go down slow, it's really fast!
I think the hardest thing for a student to do is conflict. In a lot of stories that I've read, they give a lot of explaining and details but there is no conflict within the story. I always think there has to be some big fallout to make the reader gasp. The thing that I love is when there is conflict and the story ends in an unpredictable way. That is what you need to make a really good story. I think this is what the teachers should talk to students about to make sure that their story isn't flat.


Arthritis not only affects people, but our beloved furry friends too. In fact, arthritis affects one in every five adult dogs in the U.S. and is one of the most common sources of chronic pain that veterinarians treat. Although not as common, arthritis also affects our feline friends.
What exactly is arthritis? Osteoarthritis, a.k.a. degenerative joint disease or osteoarthrosis, is an irreversible, non inflammatory degenerative damage of the bones that make up joints. Osteoarthritis can occur in any joint, but most often affects the hips.
-Non steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), such as Rimadyl and Meloxicam, can be used to help reduce inflammation in the joints.
-Other pain medications, such as Tramadol and Gabapentin, can be used in conjunction with NSAIDs to alleviate pain and discomfort.
-Chondroprotective agents, such as Adequan, Cosequin and Glyco-flex, work to protect cartilage as it attempts to repair itself.
Please do not give your dog or cat any pain medications without consultation with a veterinarian first. Many human anti-arthritis drugs can cause serious, even fatal, results in animals.
Weight Management and Exercise: Drug therapy is most effective when combined with appropriate exercise and weight management. Weight control is probably the most important thing an owner can do to help their arthritic pet. Low impact exercises, such as swimming or walking, are good ways to keep an animal thin and may enhance the nutrition of the cartilage.
Surgery: If medical management fails to reduce pain and improve function, surgical intervention may be an option. There is a wide variety of surgical corrections, alteration, replacements and salvage procedures that may be helpful in certain situations.
Other Therapies: Physical therapy, acupuncture and special diets are some more good options for dogs and cats with osteoarthritis.
Should you believe your pet is suffering from arthritis or has been recently diagnosed, keep in mind that although this condition is irreversible there are many things that both you and Encina Veterinary Hospital's staff of veterinarians can do to control pain/discomfort and slow the course of the disease, giving your pet a full and healthy life!


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Q: concrete5: How to render RESTful content programmatically on a page like in Laravel What I'm trying to do is to break down c5 single page controllers and views to be closer to RESTful API.
Take for example a Classifieds package. It has a Dashboard controller called Classifieds in packages/classifieds/controllers/single_page/dashboard/classifieds.php and a corresponding single page view in packages/classifieds/single_pages/dashboard/classifieds.php. This page is templated and themed as any other Dashboard page.
The controller has many actions: view, add, edit, save, delete etc. All code is in the single kilometer long file. Same with the view, all action views are in that single kilometer long file. All is working - no problem. But it's a nightmare to find and edit.
What I want is the following. I want to be able to have a single Dashboard templated page (e.g. like a Laravel's layout app.blade.php) and a number of separate view files with content depending on the controller actions, e.g. index.php, create.php, edit.php, show.php etc. which would be inserted into the main template page. This way each file will be nice and short. Can this be done?
I've tried following this doc:
https://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/framework/routing/views
but it doesn't work because all c5 themes need stylesheets and my content doesn't render. I tried this:
RouteList:
use Concrete\Core\Routing\RouteListInterface;
use Concrete\Core\Routing\Router;

class RouteList implements RouteListInterface
{
    public function loadRoutes($router)
    {
        $api = $router->buildGroup()
            ->setPrefix('/dashboard')
            ->setNamespace('MyPackage\Controllers')
            ->routes(function($groupRouter) {
                $groupRouter->get('/my_package', 'TestController::index');
            });
    }
}

Controller:
use Concrete\Core\Http\ResponseFactoryInterface;
use Concrete\Core\Controller\Controller;
use Concrete\Core\View\View;

class TestController extends Controller
{
    protected $responseFactory;

    public function __construct(ResponseFactoryInterface $responseFactory)
    {
        $this->responseFactory = $responseFactory;
    }

    public function index()
    {
        $view = new View('test');
        $view->setPackageHandle('my_package');
        $view->setController($this);
        $view->setViewTheme('elemental');
        $view->setViewTemplate('full');

        $this->set('content', 'This is a test');

        return $this->responseFactory->view($view);
    }
}

View:
<?php defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");

    echo $content;

?>

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My Funny, Funny Family: How Was Our Christmas? Abundant.
How Was Our Christmas? Abundant.
What happens when you cross four loving grandparents with two adorable children on the biggest gift-giving holiday of the West? Why, good times, of course: Nutmeg and I made a dessert for my parents' house that she called "A Land of Sugar," Pebbles enjoyed more than just the wrapping and learned to bark aggressively at Nutmeg when the elder sister grabbed at her toys, Epu and I -- for the first time -- got to watch Nutmeg creep downstairs and discover a bulging stocking and a plate of cookie crumbs.
You also get a lot of toys. As in, get rid of all previous occupants of the playroom shelves. As in, the poor old hatchback that once seemed such a roomy car could not accommodate all the haul from even one of the grandparents' houses, much less both. The video below shows our tree with gifts aplenty, but this is minus, well, more than half the gifts the girls received, which are still in Wisconsin. The audio track is part of Nutmeg's first CD, her Christmas gift to her daddy.
What to do? Well, be thankful that our girls are so well-loved. Be charitable with some of the old toys that need to make room for the new. Be glad that many of the toys are still at both grandparents' houses so we can introduce them gradually to prevent boredom in the long winter stretching ahead of us.
Oh, yeah, also be charmed that kids' toys are so much fun now that Nutmeg is older. I actually asked her several times today, "Nutmeg, wanna play with your new critter house/globe/blocks?" just because I wanted to play with them myself.
As always, there was also a dark side of Christmas: An overtired 3-year-old frequently spoke to mommy and daddy in a snotty manner, although, knowing which side her bread is buttered on, she seemed to be all sweetness for the grandparents. The baby's sleep schedule peaked at perfection about a week before Christmas and is now smashed to smithereens, with multiple nightly wakeups and over an hour of crying each night before falling asleep. But hell, it's all part of the package, and this year it was such a pretty package and I made such nice little gift tags for the package that who's going to remember a few stuck-out tongues when the kids are grown up? Also, neither of my two biggest fears came true: Nutmeg displayed no jealousy over Pebbles' gifts, nor did she tell anyone that she hated her gift. To be fair, she loved all her gifts so that wasn't a big feat of manners on her part, but it was a relief all the same.
Oh, I love Nutmeg's singing! You have to bring her to one of my music classes one of these weekends. :) Too cute.
We're in the same boat over here w/regard to toys. C'est le deluge (ou la bordelle, vachement)!


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Q: Check if two elements have been clicked, and a value has been entered in a textbox in Javascript Here's a demo of what I'm talking about - http://jsfiddle.net/MatthewKosloski/qLpT9/
I want to execute code if "Foo" has been clicked, and a number has been entered in the input.. and if "send" has been clicked.

Foo

<input type="text" id="amount" placeholder="Enter in a number."/>
<button id="send">Send</button>

I'm pretty sure I'm overthinking this, I'd appreciate the help on such a concise question.

A: As per your statement & taking some assumptions, try this way:
(This executes function twice - When there is a change of text or a click of the button).
HTML:

Foo

<input type="text" id="amount" placeholder="Enter in a number."/>

<button id="sendBtn">send</button>

JS:
document.getElementById("amount").addEventListener("change",poorRatingCalculation);
document.getElementById("sendBtn").addEventListener("click",poorRatingCalculation);

function poorRatingCalculation() {

    var rating = document.getElementById("amount").value;

    if(rating=="poor")  alert("Poor Service");
}

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/wTqEv/

A: A better, self contained example:
http://jsfiddle.net/qLpT9/7/
(function()
{
    var clicked = false;

    var header = document.getElementById("header");
    var amount = document.getElementById("amount");
    var send = document.getElementById("send");

    header.addEventListener("click", function()
    {
        clicked = true;
    });

    send.addEventListener("click", function()
    {
        if(!clicked)
        {
            return
        }

        // Foo has been clicked

        var value = amount.value;

        console.log(value;)
    });

})();

A: try this one: jfiddle link
var send = document.getElementById("send");
var h1 = document.getElementsByTagName("h1");

var foo_clicked = 0;

h1[0].onclick = function(){foo_clicked += 1; };

send.onclick = function(){
    if(document.getElementById("amount").value !='' && foo_clicked >0 )
    alert ('poor rating');

};

A: Is this what you were looking for?
http://jsfiddle.net/qLpT9/5/
function poorRatingCalculation(){
        if(myInput.value) {
            alert(myInput.value);
        }
 }

        var foo = document.getElementById("foo"),
            myInput = document.getElementById("amount");

  foo.addEventListener("click", poorRatingCalculation, false)


Join Sara Bigatti and me for a Workshop Partner Yoga & Acro Yoga July 10th in Ancona, Italy at Rajas Yoga. You can sign up my sending an email through my contact form. The workshop will start at 2.30 pm and finishes at 5.30 pm. Costs: 30 euros.
If you want to have a full day of yoga, you can join the morning yoga class with Sara Bigatti as well. She will teach a vinyasa flow class from 9.30 am till 12.30. After that you have time to lunch and let your food settle down before we start the Partner Yoga & Acro Yoga workshop. If you do both workshops, you pay 55 euros. If you only want to do the morning class with Sara you pay 30 euros.
Both workshops are held at Rajas Yoga: Via Toti, 5, Osimo Stazione.
The Workshop Partner Yoga & Acro Yoga will be an all levels one. We will start with a little warming-up together and then move into some partner stretches. First to warm-up even more, then to go deeper. Finally we will slowly progress to some more advanced and more acrobatic partner yoga poses and flow from there into the Acro Yoga part.
If you have no experience at all: perfect. Come, play and learn new skills. If you are very experienced: perfect. Come,play and fine tune your skills. We will make the workshop challenging for everybody.


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Stories, StoryCorps, Libraries, and Ferguson
August 6, 2015 vspatz National Issues, storytelling Leave a comment
Storytelling is among the oldest means humans employ of understanding, remembering, and transmitting knowledge. The art of storytelling and the content of shared stories are key elements of education – even if hard to place within the structure of the Common Core and other contemporary curriculum guides. In the ancient world, story was the backbone of what we now call history, geography, science, and literature – to name just a few subjects – and the essence of what we now consider entertainment and culture. It remains one of the most basic ways human organize and share thought.
Some adults in U.S. culture were shortchanged on the range and depth of the art. We might imagine story as the realm of the Library Lady with a room full of six-year-olds or an old uncle repeating family lore at Thanksgiving. But contemporary schools, libraries, and other institutions are working to broaden that understanding and make storytelling in all its power accessible to all ages.
Here's just one example: The Municipal Library in Ferguson, Missouri – along with some 40 other libraries around the country – has been partnering with an organization called Storycorps to help residents tell essential stories and to house those stories for future generations.
"StoryCorps @Your Library" is a partnership between the American Library Association and StoryCorps. It helps communities create multiformat public programs on themes of oral history, local and family history.
Materials for communities interested in pursuing this kind of work are available for free from Storycorps. (Toolkit here.) And the project collaborates with National Public Radio and others to share the stories and promote National Listening Day, a relatively new annual observance scheduled for the day following Thanksgiving.
Ferguson and StoryCorp
Communities like Ferguson, MO, are using Story Corps @Your Library to help community members tell, share, and preserve stories as ordinary life and complex, momentous events unfold. For example, Scott Bonner, director of Ferguson Municipal Library, Tweeted the following message yesterday:
Thinking about this past year? We all are. Now is the time to tell your story. Storycorps at the #Ferguson library.
As the first anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown, and the uprising that followed, approaches, Ferguson Library is using the structure of its months-long recording period to help residents understand, remember, and transmit their individual and collective stories. An ancient art in active use.
For more on storytelling, see also Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance and Story District, formerly "Speakeasy DC" (Education Town Hall interview).
…In another form of storytelling: We Act Radio co-owner Cliff Schechter has produced a feature film, The Algerian, which opens this Friday.
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Duke fan implies UNC coach was subject of Notorious BIG's adultery rap
Published on 02-22-2015 12:10 AM Number of Views: 1089
If you don't understand what's going on here, I've got a story to tell. Notorious B.I.G. had a song on his second and final album, 1997's Life After Death, called "I Got A Story To Tell," in which he... well... tells a story. He was having an affair with the girlfriend/wife of a player on the Knicks, and one day, when that player came home Biggie and his significant other were in the bedroom. After a brief moment of panic, Biggie formulates a plan: he ties her up, makes it look like a robbery, and then holds up the player at gunpoint. He leaves with a wad of cash and the athlete doesn't realize he was cheated on. But he never identifies the player, only saying it was "one of them 6'5 n****s."
Whether this story is true or not, we'll probably never know. However, Bomani Jones, who has established himself as the world's No. 1 journalist in the field of "I Got A Story To Tell" research, had this to say: "btw, we've had a couple of people tell us unequivocally biggie wasn't talking about hubert davis. take that for what it's worth."
Jones had previously asked 1990's Knick John Starks about the song, with Starks acknowledging that it was true while denying it was about himself.
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Here's what travellers have asked, with answers from Speak Easy Homestay staff and other travellers.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars — a find that the mission's chief scientist called exciting.
The discovery did not come as a complete surprise. NASA decided to plunk Curiosity down inside Gale Crater near the Martian equator because photos from space hinted that the spot possessed a watery past. The six-wheeled rover safely landed Aug. 5 after a nail-biting plunge through the Martian atmosphere. It's on a two-year, $2.5 billion mission to study whether the Martian environment could have been favourable for microbial life.
The latest evidence came from photos that Curiosity took revealing rounded pebbles and gravel — a sign that the rocks were transported long distances by water and smoothed out.
The size of the rocks — ranging from a sand grain to a golf ball — indicates that they could not have been carried by wind, said mission scientist Rebecca Williams of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
It's unclear how long the water persisted on the surface, but it easily could have lasted "thousands to millions of years," said mission scientist Bill Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley.
Curiosity chanced upon the dried-up streambed while driving to Glenelg, an intriguing spot where three types of terrain meet. Its ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a mountain rising from the centre of crater floor, but it was not expected to travel there until the end of the year.
While an ancient streambed holds promise as a potentially habitable environment, scientists don't think it's a good place to preserve the carbon building blocks of life. That's why the rover will continue its trek to the foothills of Mount Sharp where there's a better chance of finding organics.


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Black lacquer cast iron base with specially developed 'ported vacuum' fitting.
Factory set brass float, made in USA on original dies.
Available only from Stromberg Carburetor. A brand new carburetor with Stromberg on one side. A big 97 on the other. And on this model, a specially developed fitting to provide 'ported vacuum' for your modern vacuum advance distributor.
Please note: 'Ported vacuum' is taken from just above the throttle plate and therefore provides no additional advance at idle or higher revs – only at light load/part throttle conditions (cruising). Please check your distributor specification. Simple ported vacuum is not compatible with distributors designed and tuned to work with manifold vacuum. And not with the 1949-53 Ford flathead Loadamatic distributor, which has no static mechanical advance and needs a special, compatible carburetor.
In our part throttle/light load dyno tests, we set the RPM at 1800 and locked the throttle position with the vacuum advance disconnected. Connecting it raised the RPM to 2000 and the torque by 3 to 4ft-lbs. The exhaust sound changed considerably, making it obvious that the engine appreciated the extra timing, and throttle response was noticeably better.
The ported vacuum 97 base is also available separately if you already have a suitable Stromberg 97. See part No. 9514-VP, under Service & Restoration parts.
Brass ported vacuum fitting hidden in behind the kicker linkage can be blanked off and plugged with set screw provided.
A specially developed S-Jet twin-ball inlet valve.
Also available with cable choke and/or LZ-push throttle options – to special order.
Remember, like any carburetor, the Genuine Stromberg 97 needs proper installation and tuning for optimum performance. Every 97 comes with full installation instructions and further help is available at the Stromberg online Tech Center. Please remember to set your timing with the ported vacuum temporarily disconnected.


Regardless of what type of learner you are, the one thing you need to learn your ACLS algorithms is the actual algorithms! Here we have provided them for you in one easy point of reference.
Having an understanding of ACLS algorithms is essential to passing your Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification exam. While there are also many other topic areas you will need to be familiar with to prepare for your ACLS exam such as medications and ECGs, having your algorithms memorized will help you answer a significant portion of questions on the exam.
The process of learning how to properly use and memorize your ACLS algorithms can be stressful. There is no need to panic, however. There are a number of tricks and tips you can use to help commit them to memory – chiefly, mnemonic devices, which abound on Google and can be implemented in whatever fashion works best for you.
While these don't always work for everyone, as we all learn differently, many people find them invaluable. Once you identify how you learn best, you can make use of studying strategies that best complement your style of learning.
If you learn best by seeing, using note cards to quiz yourself can be very effective. If you are an auditory learner, repeating things out loud nay be your best avenue to learning. Kinesthetic learners will usually absorb information best after writing it down several times. The key is to find what works for you and stick with it.