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£2.6m boost to fishing industry

EVERY fisherman in Moray and Scotland is to get a personal flotation device as part of a £2.6 million European funding boost.

The latest round of grants from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) includes £438,000 to the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation for the devices.

The aim is to improve the safety record of the industry and is linked to checks on professional qualifications and refresher training.

Grants to fishing industry companies across Scotland were included in the grants.

Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead, who announced the funding while hosting a Scottish reception at the European Seafood Exhibition in Brussels, said: “Scottish seafood is unsurpassed on the world stage for excellence and taste and is increasingly sought after.

“The Seafood Expo is a great opportunity for Scottish companies to showcase their produce and boost exports by gaining access to new markets.”

Scottish companies secured projected sales of £40 million, over a three year period, at last year’s event.

“The sea fishing and aquaculture industries - as well as the processing sector that supports both - provide an important economic contribution to Scotland, particularly in our coastal communities. That’s why the assistance we have delivered through the fisheries support funds - more than £69 million since 2000 - is so important.”

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Neil Cartwright of Million Media
Neil Cartwright of Million Media

IF you want an example of the kind of uncanny foresight that has made a digital guru of Neil Cartwright – Sony Music UK’s former head of new media – the way he got that job is a great example.

“It was literally right place, right time,” he laughed.

“I have always been into computer music since a little kid, had a computer and music was always a passion.

“So when I saw a technology called Real Audio, I just thought instantly ‘This is going to have an enormous impact on the music industry’.

“I wrote a speculative letter to someone in Sony – whose name I had literally got from phoning up a receptionist.

“And it landed on the desk of an executive who’d been tasked with finding someone to run the new media department.

“They didn’t have a clue about the internet and I think the fact my letter appeared on their desk made the guy think ‘He seems to know what he’s doing’.

“Two weeks after I wrote the letter, I was sitting behind a desk at Sony.”

But these days Neil has escaped what began to feel, for him, as if he was “sitting on the wrong side of the desk”.

He prefers to work surfing the excitement of digital trends, combining his love of music with forward planning, rather than – as he puts it – enabling other people’s start-ups and checking corporate spreadsheets.

Neil is managing director of Million Media, a digital marketing company that does everything from build websites to put together clients’ digital strategy plans.

He’s also got the perspective of seeing the history of how digital was sometimes reluctantly accepted but transformed the music industry.

“When I started off as the new media manager at Sony Music in 1997, those were the days when people were sceptical that the internet was even going to take off.

“For a few years there was a feeling amongst certain individuals that it was a fad, something that would not have the impact that it did.

“There were some famous instances - Rupert Murdoch went on record as saying that the internet was not a priority for News International. Even Bill Gates in the mid 90s was caught out by the internet and how big an impact it had.”

Had Neil found it hard to persuade people back then that the digital opportunities of big changes were coming?

“It tended to be on an individual basis. There were a few people there in senior positions who just thought , as I’ve said, that it was a fad.

“Also on the legal side you’d find out very quickly that what holds a lot of companies back is the precedential – the fear of setting a precedent.

“If they were ever to make a decision that they were later to regret, they would always err on the side of caution. They never wanted to enter into an agreement that they thought they might regret one day and that held them back to a huge degree.

“When you are selling a CD for £10 to £15 and you are making hundreds of millions of pounds a year, and then someone says ‘I think we need to sell individual tracks for 50 or 60 pence’, they’d do the sums and go ‘Well that’s going to mean an enormous drop in our revenue’.

“You’d go ‘Yes it is, but this is inevitable’.

“But you could never say that for sure, you can in hindsight. You can sit here and say ‘I told you’.

“But in the early days, you didn’t have that benefit of hindsight!

“You’d look at the trends and the technology, but people would just say ‘We will lose so much money if we go down that road’.

“CD sales have dropped by 50% in the last 10 years.

“Record label sales have declined, perhaps if they had taken that leap of faith 15 years ago they might have recovered more quickly.

“But it would have been a very brave chairman who would have to say to his head of sales ‘We’re going to start selling our back catalogues at a 10th of the price’.

“I can see why no one took that decision, but that is why it was really forced upon them to do something. The industry forced to adopt change.

“I do think you can see a lot of industries in exactly the same position.

“I think people now have accepted that digital developments are having an enormous impact on our daily lives, what they now want to know, I think, is not ‘Is it going to have an impact?’ but in what other areas.

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“Obviously a lot of jobs have been affected by the internet , I still think it’s a transition from one type of job to another. And for every job that has - unfortunately - been lost , you can go through retailers that have collapsed - there are very few High Street record stores any more, with the loss of jobs and that is unfortunate for those individuals - but for each one of those jobs lost there has been a new job created.

“Jobs like the young programmer or people who are working for Amazon or iTunes or Spotify. It’s been a balance between loss and gain.

“That transition is still happening and you might still be scared of what the future holds and how much more impact it’s still going to have.

“But every company now has a strategy in place for digital, they’ve had to employ digital marketing and IT people they have those in place, but no-one really know which way it is going to pan out. If people are scared then it’s simply, they know digital will have an effect, they want to know ‘What we now is need to put in place a strategy so we are not the victims, but are ready?’ and ‘What is the next wave of technology going to bring that would impact on us, our customers or consumers, the way they buy or the way they consume?’.

“So it has moved into a whole different phase.”

In 1997 when Neil was negotiating the first entry into digital downloads for Sony, most people hadn’t even heard of an iPod, he has pointed out..

Neil also explains why – at the beginning – the music industry seemed slow to embrace some aspects of the new online and digital opportunities.

“I think there is a misunderstanding about the record companies and the same can be said for lots of other companies.

“The record labels were very quick to get the promotional benefits of online. Time and again the labels were the first to launch profiles on things like Myspace and got into Facebook and YouTube very quickly. They saw it was a great way to reach the audience and ever since I was involved in music, music record labels and artists have always been at the forefront of these new technologies.

“Where they have had huge difficulties has been on the legal side because they had legacy contracts with artists. The big music retailers like HMV and Virgin megastores and Tower were their biggest suppliers and they didn’t want to upset the apple cart at that stage and put digital at the forefront, alienating their biggest customers.

“But the consumers - the public - moved very quickly from physical to digital product.

“So you had all of these old contracts and agreements and relationships.

“Sometimes it wasn’t through choice that they changed, but was forced upon them by the public and the way their habits changed.

“I think you can look at a lot of industries where that is the case.

“They just weren’t geared up to change their commercial ways, even though departments in those companies ‘got’ digital very quickly.

“Newspapers are another classic example, the way they held onto the old way as long as they could and only changed when advertising and circulation started to drop. All of these businesses were locked into a certain way of doing things - sometimes not even through choice - but that was their business and they weren’t prepared to give it up until it was taken from them. “

Neil pinpoints some of the big developments that forced change on the music industry, file-shiring services being one.

“The arrival of Napster, the sheer scale of it at the time. I knew that half the building loved it and people were saying ‘I can just get any track I want! I just put the name of the track I want in there and I can get it!’. That was a sea change in showing what applications and software were capable of.

“Another one would be the launch of iTunes and the speed that that took off. Within months it was selling millions of tracks.

“Those were two of the big points when people realised that this was really happening and that it was going to have an impact and that it was only going to be a fad lasting just weeks - or that CD sales will last forever.

“Also that argument ’People are always going to want the physical product’. You can’t base an entire business on ‘They like to have a physical product’. And of course that has proven to be untrue. People don’t want a physical product, most just want to hear the song.”

With iTunes still selling 79% of the world’s downloads, by being in so early, does Neil believe it will keep that dominance?

He said: “Companies like Spotify, Google - are going to be launching their own version, YouTube, Amazon have had a fair degree of success.

“But I always try and point out in my lectures that although the industry holds up iTunes as being very successful in fact when you look at the amount of devices iPods and smartphones sold in the world and divide the number of tracks sold on iTunes, you end up with about 20 or 30 tracks. That equals two or three CDs each. So in absolute terms, the number of tracks that iTunes have sold is phenomenal, something like 20 or 30 billion tracks, and that seems successful, then you think there are 400 million devices out there and that means we have only ever bought two or three CDs each. Even though each device holds over 4 or 5,000 tracks.

“Has it really been a success? Have people really taken to paying 79p for individual downloads?

“And the crushing answer from the industry is it hasn’t been a success if you base it on the number of tracks that have been bought per device.”

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Neil then says: “I don’t know if this is public knowledge, but it is certainly an open secret within the industry that iTunes locked in the price. The record labels couldn’t lower the price for anyone else, the price the industry has settled on.

“One of my favourite stories is Steve Jobs was asked where the 99 cent track download cost came from – it was just that it was one cent less than a dollar.

“So you have an industry that for nearly 10 years has been locked into a price because it looked nice.

“No science or research or consumer focus behind that, but it was a price that looked nice and that is where it has stayed for 10 years because iTunes has locked in the labels so they couldn’t drop the price!”

Neil himself has produced a short 50-page guide for musicians on how best to use digital, and has written that he is pitching it for on sales at 99 cents - what a musician gets for all the work and time that goes into producing a recorded song.

“I thought for an artist it takes six months to write a song and record it and this thing is only 50 pages, I will sell it at that. You don’t make much money though!”

Neil’s heart, as he believes is the case for many people who involve themselves in the music industry, is with musicians.

“In a way this is a terrible generalisation, but I always think that most people who work in record industry are failed musicians – you know what they say about teachers , those who can, do, those who can’t, teach. I think it’s a similar analogy.

“I think most people who work in record labels would swap places with a musician in an instant, but because they didn’t have the talent to be a musician, they think they will do the next best thing which is work in a record label.”

He’s also got a strong view that musicians’ priority should be their music, not getting tangled up using valuable time on the promotion side or upping their profile .

He laughed: “I do worry that a lot of artists spend too much time worrying about updating their websites and their profiles rather than doing what they should be doing – which is playing and rehearsing and getting better and writing songs!

“As I said, the music industry is full of people who can’t be musicians so they try and help musicians, and the music industry is full of very passionate people, passionate about music and genuinely sincerely wanting to help musicians, as that is what they would love to do themselves. It’s their job to worry about the updating and doing it properly.

“I accept that musicians have to have a website and a presence and they have to get noticed, but it’s a terrible shame that some gifted musician might not be putting in the rehearsal hours they need to be a brilliant musician because they are worried about updating their Twitter account!”

Back in 2008, Neil was announced as one of The Observer's Courvoisier 500 - influential people who would shape the future of the UK in the prestigious Courvoisier 500.

What did that feel like?

“It was fantastic, it felt great to be recognised.

“They also used to have get-togethers of all the members and it was amazing to see the range of people from all different industries used to get together, people who were really passionate about what they did – whether fashion or architecture or whatever – so it was fabulous to be part of it.”

Outside his work commitments, Neil’s love of music has seen him getting involved in a ground-breaking charity in London – Tower Hamlets charity, Community Music.

“I’m the chair of that,” he said. “They’ve been established for 31 years and are now one of the longest-running community music projects in the country – if not the world, I suppose.

“They take students every year and they do a two-year foundation course in music and we run a lot of workshops for the loal community and get involved in projects locally.

“It’s not just young kids who are introduced to music, but adults as well, people who have never picked up an instrument.

“There’s a large Bangladeshi community – Whitechapel and Tower Hamlets is a huge melting pot of different countries and cultures. And there were adults in those communities who have never had the opportunity to hold an instrument, they encourage their children to play, but have maybe gone through life without having the opportunity to try themselves.

“We run workshops and invite people in and maybe they pick up a guitar for the first time. Sometimes it’s a little bit mindboggling for us who don’t give it a second thought.”

Neil is also involved in the running of the Burlexe burlesque project, a London burlesque show inspired by the women who created the genre and perform the art  now also with Boylexe, the sell-out show about men in cabaret.

Neil said: “Our particular interest is about empowerment, about making anybody feel good about themselves and their body. There is this whole size zero debate and people being made to feel that unless they are a particular size and shape they are not beautiful or sexy. With burlesque by revealing everything – or nearly everything, there are still some bits covered but very little – onstage, you get a huge cheer at the end and you are made to feel you are a sex symbol. It’s really about that empowerment and telling people to feel good about themselves.”

Neil laughed when you ask if he’s got up there himself.

“No you see I’m still not that confident! Those who can do. I’m still teaching!”

He feels lucky he’s found his ideal role in life.

“So many people don’t know what want to do and some people never find the key.

“The thing is to find something that brings you joy.

“I would do this anyway, I would be following digital trends and getting excited by new technology and artists and music. To some people what I do would sound geeky and nerdy but it’s something I’m passionate about I’m not a millionaire I never did find THE start up, but I enjoy what I do and where I sit is the perfect place I want to be!”

Neil is the goNORTH festival’s opening keynote speaker on Wednesday (June 4) at 10.30am and chairs the session Where Next? The Future Of Digital on Thursday (June 5), also at 10.30am, both events  in the Mercure Hotel, Inverness.

Million Media ( is a digital marketing company, founded by digital veteran Neil, with a particular focus on the entertainment industry. Million Media launched The Artist Network ( as a resource and training academy for musicians.

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Web Feature Service (WFS)

A Web Feature Service (WFS) allows a client to perform data manipulation operations on one or more geographic features. Data manipulation operations include the ability to Get or Query features based on spatial and non-spatial constraints, Create a new feature, Modify a feature, or Delete a feature.

A WFS is primarily a feature access service that also includes elements of a feature type service, a coordinate conversion/transformation service and a geographic format conversion service. WFS offers direct fine-grained access to geographic information at the feature and feature property level. However, Web Feature Services does not confer administrative rights over the data to WFS clients. Clients can only retrieve or modify the data of the specific feature(s) they are seeking; they cannot retrieve the complete file or underlying data store containing the feature data.

Additional Information

OpenGIS® Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specification, and

OpenGIS® Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard

Related Information

Web Map Service (WMS)

Geography Markup Language (GML)

Filter Encoding (FE)

The Web Feature Service Standard and Specification have been developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

The OpenGIS® Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard is also published as ISO 19142:2010, Geographic Information – Web Feature Service Footnote 1.

Users may find the following OGC® tutorial useful: Using a Web Feature Service.

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WFS Operations

Classes of WFS

WFS Implementation

WFS Client Applications

WFS Operations

The Web Feature Service standard specifies the behaviourof a service that provides transactions on and access to geographic features in a manner independent of the underlying data store. It specifies 11 different operations, grouped as discovery operations, query operations, locking operations, transaction operations and operations to manage stored parameterized query expressions.

NOTE: The WFS standard does not address access control issues.

Discovery operations allow the service to be interrogated to determine its capabilities and to retrieve the application schema that defines the feature types that the service offers:

  • GetCapabilities: A WFS must be able to describe its capabilities. Specifically, it must indicate which feature types it can service and what operations are supported on each feature type.
  • DescribeFeatureType: A WFS must be able, upon request, to describe the structure of any feature type it can service.

Query operations allow features or values of feature properties to be retrieved from the underlying data store based upon constraints on feature properties, defined by the client. In addition, the client should be able to specify which feature properties to fetch and should be able to constrain the query spatially and non-spatially:

  • GetPropertyValue
  • GetFeature
  • GetFeatureWithLock (query & locking operation)

Locking operations allow a lock request on one or more instances of a feature type for the duration of a transaction, to ensure that serializable transactions are supported:

  • LockFeature

Transaction operations that service transaction requests, are composed of operations that modify features, i.e. create, update, or delete operations on geographic features:

  • Transaction

Stored query operations allow clients to create, drop, list and describe parameterized query expressions that are stored by the server, and can be repeatedly invoked using different parameter values:

  • CreateStoredQuery
  • DropStoredQuery
  • ListStoredQueries
  • DescribeStoredQueries

Classes of WFS

Based on these operational descriptions, three classes of Web Feature Services can be defined:

  • Basic WFS, or WFS-Basic: implements the GetCapabilities, DescribeFeatureType and GetFeature operations. This is considered a READ-ONLY Web Feature Service;
  • XLink WFS: supports all the operations of a WFS-Basic, plus it implements the GetGmlObject operation for local and/or remote XLinks, and offers the option for the GetGmlObject operation to be performed during GetFeature operations; and
  • Transaction WFS, or WFS-T: supports all the operations of a WFS-Basic, plus it implements the Transaction operation. Optionally, a WFS-T can also implement the GetGmlObject and/or LockFeature operations.

WFS Implementation

When software vendors implement their products in compliance with an open geospatial web service interface and data encoding specifications, end-users benefit from a larger pool of inter-operable web-based tools for geodata access and related geo-processing services.

The OGC® Web Map Service (WMS) products that have been developed to implement the international standard are prime examples of such tools. The GetCapabilities and GetMap interfaces defined in that specification give users on the web an interoperable way to combine and view map images from different sources. And the GetFeatureInfo interface gives those users a way to obtain attribute information about geographic features displayed in a map with a simple mouse click.

The OGC® Geography Markup Language (GML) Implementation Specification describes an encoding specification for geodata in XML that enables the storage, transport, processing, and transformation of geographic information. The state of a geographic feature is described by a set of properties where each property can be thought of as a {name, type, value} tuple. The name and type of each feature property is determined by its type definition. Geographic features are those that may have at least one property that is geometry-valued. This, of course, also implies that features can be defined with no geometric properties at all.

The WFS takes the next logical step by defining interfaces for data access and manipulation operations on geographic features using HTTP as the distributed computing platform. Via these interfaces, a web user or service can combine, use and manage geodata – the feature information behind a map image – from different sources by invoking the following WFS operations on geographic features and elements:

  • Create a new feature instance,
  • Delete a feature instance,
  • Update a feature instance,
  • Lock a feature instance, or
  • Get or query features based on spatial and non-spatial constraints.

The Web Map Service (WMS) allows a client to overlay map images for display served from multiple Web Map Services on the Internet (often referred to as “mash-ups”). Similarly, the WFS allows a client to retrieve and update geospatial data encoded in Geography Markup Language (GML) from multiple Web Feature Services. The retrieval process can be made more selective by using Filter Encoding (FE).

WFS Client Applications

For WFS, a transaction is a logical unit of work that is composed of one or more data manipulation operations. It is the function of a Web Feature Service, in its interaction with the developer’s data storage system, to ensure that any changes to data are consistent. However, many systems do support standard concurrent transaction semantics, so optional operations will allow a Web Feature Service to take advantage of such systems (e.g. relational database systems based on SQL).

In general terms, here is the protocol to be followed to process web feature service requests:

  1. A client application requests a capabilities document from the WFS. Such a document contains a description of all the operations that the WFS supports and a list of all feature types that it can service.
  2. A client application (optionally) makes a request to a Web Feature Service for the definition of one or more of the feature or element types that the WFS can service.
  3. Based on the definition of the feature type(s), the client application generates a request.
  4. The request is posted to a web server.
  5. The WFS is invoked to read and service the request.
  6. When the WFS has completed processing the request, it will generate a status report for the client. In the event that an error has occurred, the status report will indicate that fact.

Note that “client application” may include Registries and other middleware, as well as conventionally understood “end-users”.


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Building National Geoscience Capacity-Africa

Following the adoption of the African Mining Vision (AMV) by the Heads of States in 2009, the World Bank started developing a pan-African initiative entitled the “African Mining Geoscience Initiative” (AMGI) also known as the “Billion Dollar Map”.  This initiative was officially launched in July 2014, at which point  the "Development" arm of the then named Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), presently known as Global Affairs Canada (GAC),  approached ESS about the feasibility of developing a complementary Canadian initiative to be the entitled the Building National Geoscience Capacity-Africa (BNGC-Africa) project.

Project Realizations

The BNGC-Africa project is funded by Global Affairs Canada, through the Canada-Africa Extractives Cooperation for Enhanced Economic Development (EXCEED) Program.  The approximate budget of the project is $20M. The International Affairs Unit of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada will lead and coordinate the multi-year initiative.

The goal of the BNGC-Africa project is to provide support to the National Geological Survey Organizations (NGSO) of Côte D’Ivoire, Senegal and Tanzania to produce, manage and disseminate on-line geoscience data, information and knowledge of their territory.

The BNGC will be implemented through two phases:

Phase I - completed

The BNGC-Africa phase I consisted of scoping missions to Senegal, Tanzania and Côte D’Ivoire to evaluate their respective NGSOs. These missions focused on the NGSOs’ data production and management, distribution infrastructure as well as human and financial resource capacity to produce, manage and make accessible geoscience and geospatial data. The findings that were captured during the scoping missions is being used to develop the project proposal toward the implementation of Phase II.

Phase II

Phase II of the project will be the implementation of the project proposal which was derived from Phase I findings. It is expected to last five-year starting in 2016 and will consist of ESS working with the NGSOs each of Senegal, Tanzania and Côte D’Ivoire. The project will be tailored to suit the needs of each NGSO, ensuring that they are can produce, manage and disseminate geoscience data, information and knowledge of their territory.

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The Public Safety Geoscience Program undertakes hazard research to support risk reduction from the effects of space weather, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides and marine geohazards. The program develops knowledge and tools to reduce future economic, social and environmental losses from these hazards. These products help guide land-use decisions; increase the resilience of built structures; and inform the location, design and operations of new structures.

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Space Weather Canada provides space environment forecasts and short-term and long-term forecasts of geomagnetic activity in Canada as well as information about effects on technology.  NRCan also operates the Canadian Geomagnetic Observatory Network to provide data about the Earth's magnetic field and calculators of the magnetic field and magnetic declination.

The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has been involved in forest fire research for decades. The CFS works with partners across the country to increase the knowledge base about wildland fires, and to improve the ability of authorities to predict and manage risks and benefits.

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Registered Nurse Career Guide

A registered nurse (RN) is a professional health care worker who cares for patients of all ages across the lifespan by addressing the needs of the whole person; the physical, emotional and mental. RNs perform an array of medical procedures and tasks independently and in conjunction with other RNs or doctors. They work in every healthcare setting and in homecare by fulfilling orders given by physicians for the health and well-being of their patients.

RNs are known to be pioneers of medicine who were inspired by Florence Nightingale during the 1800's. Florence Nightingale's dedication to caring for wounded soldiers during the Crimean paved the way for RNs today. Registered nurses are a caring professionals who believe in listening to patient needs and advocating on their behalf.  RN services also include addressing issues in patients' families and communities by working to improve environmental and social conditions. RNs are involved in research and work by gathering data that is statistically analyzed to help develop interventions which improve the health and welfare of society.

Before gaining acceptance into an RN program, students will have to successfully complete pre-requisite classes in chemistry, biology and pre-algebra. They will then be able to choose which type of RN program is best for them to enroll in. RN students have many options to attaining their educational goals. RN programs are offered at two-year community colleges, four-year colleges and in universities.

  • Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs are concentrated programs which cover caring for patients of all ages utilizing theoretical and scientific principles. A large percentage of an ADN programs are concentrated on clinical rotations, which give students ample hands on opportunities to experience many types of patient health problems. An ADN program prepares students to sit for the NCLEX-RN and is the quickest way for a new RN to start working and earning a salary. There are many educational bridge opportunities for ADN nurses to take advantage of which advance their career to the next level.
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs teach with a heavy concentration on theoretical views in nursing. Students learn to care for patients across the lifespan and participate in required clinical rotations. BSN programs prepare nursing students for higher levels of education through learning research, gathering data and statistical skills. After successfully completing a BSN program, students are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN and work in a many types of health care settings.
  • Masters of Science Degree in Nursing programs prepare nursing students for higher levels of care, such as specialties involving primary patient care. Students are required to participate in research studies, compose a thesis and complete community service requirements. Students also complete an internship under the supervision of a nurse who holds a master’s or higher degree in their chosen field of study. Students who hold a master’s degree in a different area other than nursing are able to attain a MSN in nursing through accelerated program. Upon completion of part of the master's of nursing program, students are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN
  • Nursing Diploma programs, although now fading away from nursing education scene, they also lead to NCLEX RN examination and into becoming RN.

Job Description

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The cleanup of the Ascon /NESI landfill in Huntington Beach has been delayed for six months while officials come up with an air safety plan.

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The state previously announced that they would notify residents living a quarter mile from the landfill on the corner of Magnolia Street and Hamilton Avenue about meetings on the site cleanup. ascon0119_color

The quarter-mile radius is standard with cleanups ordered by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control, according to the agency.

The landfill for 70 years was a dumping ground for oil drilling byproducts, construction and plastic materials. It all left the 38-acre site heavily polluted.

Some nearby residents say they were never told about the landfill; others say they weren’t aware of any health dangers. Some cite nearby residents with cancer and other diseases and blame the toxic site.

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Alabama quarterback Cooper Bateman appears to become the Crimson Tides’ starter

LOS ANGELES – USC settled its quarterback quandary earlier this month.

Alabama, at least publicly, has not.

The Crimson Tide is the consensus No. 1 team entering this season, ranked atop the Associated Press poll and coaches poll after winning the national championship last January. Yet the most prominent question remains unsettled less than a week before the teams’ opener in Arlington, Texas.

There are three candidates in the mix at Alabama: fourth-year junior Cooper Bateman, redshirt freshman Blake Barnett and freshman Jalen Hurts.

“They know who we’re gong to start, so I wish we knew who they’re going to start,” USC safety Chris Hawkins said. “But the world’s not perfect. You can only focus on you and what your team can do.”

It has left the Trojans to focus on a couple possibilities.

To prep for Bateman and Barnett, more traditional pocket passers, they have faced Max Browne in practice.

As Sam Darnold, a more mobile quarterback, factored into USC’s competition, he helped as they practiced for Hurts, respected for his running ability.

“The combination of both has given good looks and good preparation,” Trojans coach Clay Helton said.

Alabama coach Nick Saban has not said if he would announce a starter before the game.

“Either way they go about it, we’ll be ready,” safety Marvell Tell said.

Whomever Saban chooses will be the third starting quarterback that offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, the former USC coach, has worked with in his three seasons in Tuscaloosa.

What direction will they ultimately head in?

Phil Savage, the former NFL executive who works as an Alabama football radio analyst, thinks they might play two quarterbacks against USC.

He told a local radio station last week that he sensed Bateman would start, while Hurts rotated in. Last February, Hurts was a consensus four-star recruit.

It was a setup they tried at the start of last season. Bateman split reps with Jake Coker and started in the third game, a 43-37 loss to Ole Miss in mid-September.

Coker eventually took over as the lone starter.

Saban was not exactly forthcoming when he was asked by reporters about the possibility.

At a news conference last Thursday, he said that his staff had not discussed the option of playing two, before adding, “Like I’d tell you if we were going to.”

Cooper, who was in Browne’s 2013 recruiting class, is the only Alabama quarterback to have thrown a pass in a college game.

Last season, he completed 37 of 52 passes for 291 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.

Alabama is aiming for its fourth national championship in six seasons. It could become the first team to start and finish a season atop the AP poll since 2004, when the Trojans went wire to wire.

Outside of quarterback, they have faced other questions to sort out this offseason, including the departure of Heisman Trophy-winning running back Derrick Henry, who declared early for the NFL draft, and the loss of the core of their defensive line.

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Anyone Get the Early Muzzleload Hunt?

Discussion in 'Bucks and Does' started by autopartman, Sep 7, 2005.

  1. Anyone Get an Early Muzzleload Hunt?

    My father and I were drawn for the Wildcat Hollow early muzzleload hunt. I never hunted this area before. Any information on this area, like where to start scouting, deer sightings, past kills, ... would be appreciated.

    Thanks :D
  2. Got pulled for Saltfork.Don,t know anything about wildcat Hollow.some info on

  3. I drawed saltfork as well for the 24th. thru the 29.doe only.if i find any info on these to places i`ll pass it along.

    good luck guys.

  4. I was lucky enough to get drawn for Salt Fork! Looking forward to using my brothers muzzleloader on a nice fat doe!
  5. Crawl- you going for the entire week?i think it`d be nice if we all could meet up some where there to put a few faces with the names.
  6. I Drew Plumbrook 2 Yrs Ago..deer Everywhere.
  7. Autopartman, I was drawn for the wildcat hunt also. I've been trying to get info also but no one is talking yet. I did find a nice map on Ohiodnr pages. They have camping there but its primitive and first come basis.
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    My wife was chosen for Salt Fork, but I was not. Never been there before but am planning on going up and scouting in a couple of weeks for her. If anyone could pass on any information I would be really appreciative. Will openly share all I can find as well.

  9. BubbaHunter- No, I think that I'm going to rent a cabin there friday and saturday and just hunt on those two days. I bowhunt also, so that's the reason I won't be going all week.
  10. i think i`m gonna hunt the first 2 days and if i dont score i`ll be back friday morning.good luck to everyone that got a draw.

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    worminator I'll be bach

    Me and three buddies from work got picked for the salt fork hunt. Just wondering if they will handle it like the other controlled hunts or will they just open the whole area up for people with a permit??? Plan on going down soon to scope it out and shoot some targets at the range. Any takers on a Saturday tromp threw the woods???? I'm thinking about sept. 24th for a walk about.
  12. I Have Gotten Drawn For Salt Fork Hunts An The Arsenal Hunts Also..the Arsenal Has Really Gotten Down Hill..i Have Been There Twice Without Even Seeing A Deer..the Salt Fork Hunts Are The Opposit With Deer Everywhere...
  13. Smallie Gene

    Smallie Gene Banned

    I got drawn to hunt The Wilds down outside of Cumberland. I used to do a lot of fishing down around the AEP ponds down there but don't know anything about The Wilds except they say there are some trophies down there!

    Good luck everyone and be safe.


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West Lafayette,IN ????

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by exexec, Aug 22, 2005.

  1. I am thinking about going over for the Perdue vs Akron U. game in sept. I can't seem to find much to do over there. Anyone who has some knowledge of that area please let me know what activities are available such as FISHING or good sightsto see.
  2. Not a whole lot to see there -- just a typical college town. The wabash river runs thru there, but I haven't talked to many who have fished there. More fish wildcat creek for smallmouth, which is a trib of the wabash. You can drive around two hours north to fish the lake Michigan piers (from Gary to Michigan City) or the creeks (trail, salt, st. Joe) for salmon and steelhead trout. If you are hauling a boat, the lakes near Monticello (a bit north and east of Lafayette) and spillways below are good for stripers/hybrids that time of year.

    If you play golf, the Purdue Univ golf course (Kampen) is worth playing. A professional-level golf course that doesn't break you to play there. Arrive early for the game, since parking is normally a pain there.

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    johnboy111711 SOLID MEAT

    good thing perdue sucks this year!
  4. I graduated from Purdue in 1983 and haven't been back to the campus in 20 years. I worked on one of the research farms so I had access to a nice pond where I did most of my fishing.

    When I fished public water I usually fished the tailwaters of Lake Freeman which was near Monticello. There is a county park (Fort Ouiatenon) on the Wabash River just SW of campus which may offer some fishing opportunities also. This link for the Fort also lists some other county parks which may allow fishing:

    I also went to France Park once to swim. Everyone would jump off the cliffs into the quarry. It was good for a drowning or two every year and quite a few injuries. It wasn't exactly legal back then so I'm sure they really frown on it now. You can fish there when the beach is closed and I guess there are hiking trails and other things to do.

    If I remember anything else I'll let you know.


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R.K.: And welcome to the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show WNJC 1360 AM out of Washington Township reaching Metro Philly and South Jersey.  Sponsored by opednews.com.  My guest tonight is Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD.

She spent her career studying the criminal mind. She was one of the most senior profilers of the FBI until her retirement in 2009.  She has helped capture, interview, and understand some of the world's most infamous people and she is recognized as the FBI's leading expert in the area of psychopathy.  Psychopaths.  Welcome to the show.

M.O.: Thank you so much.  My pleasure to be here with you.

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R.K.: Well as I emailed you, I have been doing a series of articles and interviews about psychopaths and I was delighted to find you when I discovered an article on the FBI website titled, The Corporate Psychopath which you co-authored with Paul Babiak and even more delighted once I found out that you're the trainer who trains the people at the FBI about psychopaths.  Tell me a story about psychopaths.  I like to start off my interviews kind of throwing it out to you out of the blue. Tell me a story about psychopaths.

M.O.: Well I think this is a good story and it's not fiction. There was a serial killer operating in the northwest for a little over twenty five, probably even closer to thirty years and he was approaching women on the street and convincing them that he was safe to go with. They would get into the car, despite their street savvy and their knowledge that there was a serial killer operating, and they would go with him because he looked so normal and he came across as very non-threatening.

In the end, Gary Leon Ridgway was identified as the Green River Killer and he pled guilty to forty nine murders of women in one county, ONE county, in the state of Washington.  I had the opportunity as we were investigating the case and attempting to locate all of the victims to interview Gary over a period of weeks.

And I can tell you, having interviewed a number of these individuals, he was, he came across as very normal, he's not out of touch with reality, knows right from wrong, had a sense of humor, a pleasure to talk to. He was very proud of being the Green River Killer, but absolutely had no remorse for what he did to the victims, or their families.  He was a thrill seeker.  He was very grandiose. He had all of the markings, all of the traits of psychopathy.

As I sat across the table and next to him, I thought no wonder you were able to elude law enforcement for more than thirty years.  You look just like us.

R.K.: Yeah.  That's the way it is with psychopaths, isn't it?

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M.O.: It is the way it is.  We're looking for people that Hollywood creates as monsters.  Someone that we can just look at physically and tell that there is something very malevolent about this person, or ominous.  Or if I meet a psychopath I know the hair on the back of my neck will stand up.  Well guess what?  That doesn't happen.

R.K.: So, reading, from what I've learned, psychopaths, it's the opposite of that.  Psychopaths are turn-ons.  They're charismatic, they're attractive, that's part of their camouflage, natural camouflage, like a chameleon changes colors, they make themselves look attractive.

M.O.: That's a good word that I use as well.  Chameleon.  For your audience, here is a thumbnail overview of someone who is a psychopath, or psychopathic is the disorder.  These are individuals who are glib and charming, but they're very grandiose.  They believe the world revolves around them.  They are not crazy, it's not a mental illness.  They are thrill seekers and attention seekers.  Their hallmark is that they have no empathy.  They don't bond with other people. They don't bond with their children, their spouses, and that's okay with them.  They're not distraught about the fact that they don't bond.  In fact, they view feelings like you and I have as almost a weakness.

Psychopaths exist in every culture, in every country in the world and always have.  Most psychopaths are males.  They're intelligence reflects the intelligence of the average person so most are average in intelligence, some are married some are single, some have families, some do not.  Some live on the street homeless and some, as you read in the White Collar psychopath, can run a company.

They can be in politics, they can be lawyers, they can be drawn to law enforcement or medicine.  Any career, so psychopaths exist among us and they always have been but, the beauty of the research that's been done on psychopathy which has been spearheaded by Dr. Robert Hare, spelled like the bunny, is that the twenty traits of psychopathy exist in every psychopath, so if you meet a psychopath from, let's say Ireland, (I say that because of my last name), that person will have the same traits as a psychopath who lives in Philadelphia.

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HERE IS a story that has never been told before:

When the Titanic was well out into the Atlantic, its crew mutinied.

They demanded higher wages, less cramped quarters, better food. They assembled on the lower decks and refused to budge from there.

A few old hands from the engine room tried to extend the scope of the protest. They claimed that the captain was grossly incompetent, that the officers were nincompoops and that the voyage was bound to end in disaster.

But the leaders of the protest resisted. "Let's not go beyond our practical demands," they said. "The course of the ship is none of our business. Whatever some of us may think about the captain and the officers on the bridge, we must not mix matters. That would only split the protest."

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The passengers did not interfere. Many of them sympathized with the protest, but did not want to get involved.

It is said that one drunken English lady was standing on deck, a glass of whisky in her hand, when she saw the huge iceberg looming. "I asked for some ice," she murmured, "but this is ridiculous!"

FOR A WEEK, or so, all the Israeli media were riveted to the goings on at the UN.

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Ehud Barak had warned of a "tsunami." Avigdor Lieberman foresaw a "bloodbath." The army was prepared for huge demonstrations that were certain to end in unprecedented violence. No one could think of anything else.

And then, overnight, the bloody tsunami faded like a mirage, and the social protest reappeared. State of war Out, welfare state In.

Why? The commission appointed by Binyamin Netanyahu to examine the roots of the protest and propose reforms had finished its work in record time and laid a thick volume of proposals on the table. All very good ones. Free education from the age of 3, higher taxes for the very rich, more money for housing, and so on.

All very nice, but far short of what the protesters had demanded. The almost half a million demonstrators some weeks ago did not go out into the streets for that. Economics professors attacked, other economics professors defended. A lively debate ensued.

This can go on for a few days. But then something is bound to happen -- perhaps a border incident, or a settlers' pogrom against a Palestinian village, or a pro-Palestinian resolution at the UN -- and the whole media pack will veer around, forget about the reforms and return to the good old scares.

In the meantime, the military budget will serve as a bone of contention. The government commission has proposed reducing this budget by 3 billion shekels -- less than a billion dollars -- in order to finance its modest reforms. Netanyahu has voiced agreement.

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No one took this very seriously. The slightest incident will enable the army to demand a special budget, and instead of the suggested tiny reduction, there will be another big increase.

But the army has already raised hell -- quite literally -- describing the disasters that will surely befall us if the diabolical reduction is not choked in its cradle. We face defeat in the next war, many soldiers will be killed, the future investigation committee will blame the present ministers. They are already shaking in their shoes.

ALL THIS goes to show how quickly national attention can swing from "protest mode" to "security mode." One day we are shaking our fists in the street, the next we are manning the national ramparts, resolved to sell our lives dearly.

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Most reports on the selection of William Daley as President Obama's new chief of staff and Gene Sperling as the head of his National Economic Council included a few lines of criticism from progressives who were unhappy with these picks. Since there was not much space for the argument, these lines probably left many readers wondering why progressives don't like Daley and Sperling.

To remove this sense of wonder, I will spell out the progressive case against the new team. (I get to do it because this is my column.)

Both Daley and Sperling were major actors in the Clinton administration. At the center of the Clinton administration's economic policy was the idea that reducing the budget deficit was the key to boosting the economy. He held the view that if the deficit fell, then the private sector could be counted on to provide the demand to fill the gap created by less demand from the public sector.

While the private sector did fill the gap in the late '90s, it did so from growth that was driven by a stock bubble. The stock bubble primarily fueled consumption, which hit a record high as a share of the GDP. It also led to somewhat higher investment, although much of this was in hare-brained, Internet start-ups of little or no value.

The stock bubble burst over the years 2000-2002. The resulting recession featured what was at the time the longest period without job growth in the post-World War II era.

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Three other features of Clinton-era policy made the recovery from this recession more difficult. First, Robert Rubin's high dollar policy led to a massive trade deficit. An overvalued dollar provides a huge subsidy to imports, and effectively imposes a tariff on exports.

Banks like Citigroup (where Rubin took a top post after leaving the Clinton administration) may like a high dollar because it makes them more powerful in an international context, however it is about the worst imaginable policy from the standpoint of manufacturing workers. The high dollar is the main factor behind the loss of six million manufacturing jobs over the last 13 years. The basic story is simple: it is very hard to compete when your currency gives your competitors a 30 percent cost advantage.

A second part of the story were the NAFTA-type trade deals that further depressed the wages of manufacturing workers by deliberately placing them in direct competition with low-paid workers in the developing world. The predicted and actual result of placing manufacturing workers in competition, while leaving highly paid professionals like doctors and lawyers largely protected, is an upward redistribution of income.

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This is bad to those who want to see the gains from growth broadly shared and also from the standpoint of sustaining high levels of demand. These trade deals transfer money from those most likely to spend it to people higher up the income ladder who are likely to save a larger share of their income.

The Clinton economic agenda was also about setting Wall Street loose, even as the huge banks maintained their "too big to fail" training wheels. This meant that they could take enormous risks with creditors, knowing that the government will come to the rescue if necessary.

It was this growth path that laid the seeds for the economic wreckage that engulfed the country when the housing bubble finally burst in 2007. To be sure, the Bush administration left these policies in place and ignored all the warning signs, even as the dangers grew ever larger. For this it deserves at least an equal share of the blame. But there is little reason to believe the Clintonites would have changed course before disaster hit had they been at the helm.

This is the small matter that leads progressives to be unhappy with the renewed dominance of the Clinton economic team. If progressives had devised policies that caused 25 million people to be unemployed or underemployed, cost the economy $4 trillion in lost output and caused millions of people to lose their homes, they and their children and their grandchildren would be exiled from policy circles for the next century. However, for the Clinton crew, it's just a matter of putting on a "pro-growth" hat and going back to work.

This is not just a matter of demanding atonement for past errors of calamitous proportions. There is the concrete issue of how the Obama administration is going to address the problem of near double-digit unemployment.

Working with a Republican Congress is not going to make things easy, but Obama could take the position that he has the job plan to put people back to work and the Republican Congress is trying to block him. Or, he could take the position that times are tough and we (meaning not people like the policymakers) will just have to tough it out.

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Unfortunately, the new Obama team seems likely to follow the second route. This will mean that tens of millions of people across the country will experience economic hardship because the people designing economic policy can't shoot straight. But hey, why should this get anyone upset?

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U.S. President Barack Obama's operation (click on this for the documentation) to exterminate pro-Russian voters in Ukraine, was discussed back in July by Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief foreign affairs advisor, Sergei Glazyev, in an interview by Alyona Berezovskaya, of this website

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U.S. news-media have not been reporting about the U.S.'s hiring nazi (otherwise known as racist-fascist) Ukrainian politicians, and nazi mercenaries, in order to eliminate the residents in Ukraine's southeast, where the people had in 2010 voted at around 90% for the very same man whom the Obama Administration overthrew in a violent Kiev coup on February 22nd of this year.

So, let's now see whether U.S. news-media will report (even this belatedly -- it's already four months) on the Russian Government's view about this important matter.

Here is the key portion of Glazyev's interview, in which the Russian Government, essentially, presents its view of Obama's ethnic-cleansing program in Ukraine, to get rid of Moscow-friendly voters in Ukraine:

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A.B. The war between the United States and Novorossiya is getting more intense. The Pentagon has announced weapons deliveries to the Ukrainian punishers, while accusing Russia of delivering weapons to the self-defense forces. Does this mean that the US has a right to officially deliver weapons and finance the punitive forces and ulra-nationalists? How should Russia react to this?

S. G. The main task that the American puppet masters have set for the junta is to draw Russia into a full-scale war with Ukraine. It is for this purpose that all of these heinous crimes are committed -- to force Russia to send troops to Ukraine to protect the civilian population, which has been fleeing to Russia in the hundreds of thousands and begging for help. Naturally, Russia can't remain indifferent. Therefore, the American supervisors of the Ukrainian Nazis call far escalation of violence and more victims. Heavy artillery is used against women and children. People are trapped in blockaded cities without water and food. Some cities are facing a real famine. In other words, genocide is being committed on orders from America to force Russia to interfere and protect the civilian population, the same ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, living on the other side of the border. And I should say that the public pressure provoked by these tragic events is very high.

A.B. Many politicians and experts believe that America needs this war to cleanse the territory for shale gas production in the future. It's a well known fact that major shale gas deposits are located in the Donetsk People's Republic. Today, we are witnessing the cleansing of Donbas. Those who refused to leave for Russia will be killed or put in filtration camps.

S.G. The war has been provoked to destroy the Russian World, to draw Europe into it, and to surround Russia with hostile countries. Unleashing this world war, America is trying to deal with its own internal problems, which are much more serious than shale gas or a Ukrainian gas pipeline.

A. B. A war for the sake of war? Shouldn't there be a financial interest?

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S. G. The bankruptcy of the US financial system, which is unable to service its foreign debt, the lack of investments to finance a breakthrough to a new technological order and to maintain America's competitiveness, and the potential defeat in the geopolitical competition with China. To resolve these problems, Americans need a new world war. Using Ukrainian ultra-nationalists as a tool to unleash this war, they are not facing any risk, since they are killing Ukrainians with the hands of the Ukrainians. Pushing the two largest countries of the Russian world against each other, they are trying to destroy and weaken Russia, causing it to fragment, as they need this territory and want to establish control over this entire space. We have offered cooperation from Lisbon to Vladivostok, whereas they need control to maintain their geopolitical leadership in a competition with China. Nazis are their main instrument. They have been training them for decades. It's a well known fact that following the liberation of Ukraine from the fascists, hundreds of thousands of Banderites and their families fled to America and Canada. They served as a basis for cultivating an aggressive Ukrainian Nazism. It was then exported to Ukraine and today we see American agents in power, who are using ultra-nationalists to foment a new world war against Russia.

A. B. If it is so obvious, and Russian authorities understand that the current leaders in Ukraine are US agents, being used to destabilized the situation around Russia and undermine Russian statehood, should Moscow engage in a dialogue with Kyiv?

S.G. The fact is that not everyone in Moscow understands the essence of the tragic events in Ukraine. People always try to avoid complications, but unfortunately, it doesn't work. Despite the willingness to hold peaceful negotiations and to stop the killings, it's not working, as you can see. This has to do with the fact that the real president of Ukraine is not Petro Poroshenko, but the US ambassador in Kyiv.

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--WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) 5/6/11 The U.S. drone aircraft attack ... in Yemen on Thursday was targeting ... U.S.-born radical known for encouraging attacks on the United States.
CBS News and The Wall Street Journal ... said  Anwar al-Awlaki was not hit when a missile was fired at a car in southern Yemen on Thursday, killing two brothers.

\"We were hoping it was him,\" a U.S. official told CBS News.

Imagine, there he is among kin and countrymen in sunny Yemen, a nation known for leadership in pure devotion to Islam, occupied by British infidels in 1839 and persecuted by British military over most all of its history since then, his country as well as the kindred nation of the Somali people having their strong tradition of the given nobility of all men before Allah intact though kept down by the armies and navies of the imperialist nations to be among the poorest fourth of mankind.....

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.....imagine him feeling the honor of having come to the attention of the president of the strongest nation militarily in all history, the chief executive of the arrogant exceptionally wealthy superpower of the world in which half of the humanity it dominates struggles to survive and a billion souls suffer chronic hunger, disease and short life.....

.....imagine sensing the significance, prestige and esteem in the eyes of so many, that he, Anwar Aulaqi, of humble origins, is designated a man of great influence among the enemies of the United States by the chosen leader of the white world, wielding great power despite being a person of color like majority mankind.....

..... that throughout the Arab world as the good people look to the sky in watchful anxiety for the unmanned contraptions that unleash bolts of light bringing explosion and almost certain death, that he, Anwar Aulaqi, though a fellow citizen of those aiming these deadly marvels of ingenuity, will be, in Yemen at least, held in awe by most, in esteem by many, cursed by others, for being considered by the President of America, to be of prime importance to assassinate.

One might also be curious whether this collateral assassination of his  two brothers will steel al-Awlak\'s resolve and gain him sympathy and enhanced respect of his peers, and thus perhaps cause the drone attack to protect Americans to have been counterproductive.

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First of all, we have to realize that this impeachment movement is brand new. There has never been anything quite like it in the history of the US.

We need to build it slowly and gradually. This movement is a young and fragile plant that must be protected and nurtured. Impeachers must consistently encourage and support one another.

First of all, we have to continuously educate people, and not assume that they know what we know. Even people who come to meetings may not understand what impeachment is, how it works, why Bush and Cheney must be impeached, and why this must be done by "we the people". We who have been active for a while understand that Congress will not act on its own, but most people still assume that Congress will provide leadership for impeachment.

We have to explain to them that Congress is working for corporations, just like Bush and Cheney, and not for the people. They will only impeach if there is a huge groundswell.

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Our job is not to lobby the politicians, it is to lobby the people. They have to become outraged, and the mainstream media will not give them information that will get them outraged. That is our job. We have to provide information, and not only by way of the internet, because most people do not spend hours reading alternative news sources.

We need the right tools. We need websites, yes, but also lots of flyers and posters. Groups like ANSWER and Not in our Name rally thousands of people with visually exciting material, displayed in many locations. We should do the same.

People need to wear impeachment- on their T-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons. People like to buy stuff. We need signs for windows, DVD's to send out, photo-ops like city council resolutions with big placards for local TV. Lots of businesses will donate services and materials for this cause.

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The American people are disgusted with Bush and Cheney, and want them gone. Our job is to arouse them, and provide tasks, jobs, for people to get involved with, so that their commitment will be greater. We can do it! Let's get going!

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