The drone and the cyborg were born near the dawn of the nuclear age (i.e. the Vergeltungswaffen and the Kamikaze), and appeared in several previous conflicts, but they did not simultaneously reshape the dynamics of war until after 2001.
The armed drone represents a displaced subjectivity that eludes the laws of war and Eurocentric/ anthropocentric notions of sovereignty. The soldier operating the drone spies, hunts, and kills from thousands of miles away; s/he murders combatants and non-combatants without taking any risk or responsibility. The drone violates the sovereign territory of foreign powers for days at a time – the drone is becoming a permanent armed presence in the skies of the targeted zones. The armed drone is the manifestation of a literally disembodied soldier on the battle zone; the armed drone is an avatar.
The cyborg seems to be the opposite of the drone; s/he is flesh over mind. There is a temptation to view the cyborg as more human because of the relatively primitive technology employed in its manufacture. Nevertheless, the cyborg is also transhuman or a portent of a posthuman future – s/he fuses flesh and explosive matter in a manner that becomes indistinguishable. As Faisal Devji reminds us:
“And indeed the cyborg as a sign of the posthuman future is nowhere more clearly made flesh than in the figure of the suicide bomber who transforms his own body into an explosive device. Can the human and nonhuman parts of this cyborg be distinguished from one another so that we can say which does the killing and who does the dying?” (Faisal Devji, The Terrorist in Search of Humanity, 2008).
Like the drone, the presence of the cyborg has grown rapidly in the zone of combat. Before 2002, for example, Pakistan had only had one cyborg attack. Last year, there were ninety. In fact, the cyborg is increasingly integrated as a component of insurgent attacks.
Both the drone and cyborg are immoral and extralegal instruments of terror and vengeance. (If war is socially sanctioned murder, then neither technology has been socially sanctioned. The cyborg has been explicitly condemned by the ‘ulema). Both technologies are highly accurate, nearly unstoppable, and devastatingly lethal. These technologies are marked by a moral and tactical equivalence at least in the public statements of insurgents.


On a historic day in which Birmingham and the majority of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in an unprecedented referendum, there was to be one arrival in England’s Second City involving a European national that, alike the ‘Brexit’ vote, could bear significant effects in the long-term.
Robert Tesche – a German midfielder formerly of Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga, and up until recently Nottingham Forest, was announced to have joined Birmingham City on a free transfer on Friday afternoon, following his release from the City Ground at the end of his two-year deal.
Tesche had previously appeared for Birmingham at the tail end of the 2014/15 season, joining the club in March 2015 on a two month loan deal in which he made 12 appearances for the club and netted twice against Rotherham United and Bolton Wanderers, a stint which led to very positive acclaim from the Blues faithful and a widespread pursuit of the German’s services by manager Gary Rowett last pre-season.
Despite a deal being agreed and all parties being satisfied with the transfer, the move fell through at the last minute as Forest failed to give confirmation of the move and after stalling for too long, Tesche’s transfer never materialised and he remained at Forest for the remainder of the 2015/16 campaign, making 24 appearances in his final season with the club.
This signing comes at a positive time for Birmingham City following another promising season where the play-offs were within reach for the majority of the campaign, despite finishing in 10th place, a year in which the club spent their highest transfer fee in five years on another previous loan star – Diego Fabbrini, and with news that the turbulent ownership situation is close to coming to a long-awaited resolution.
All of the signs are there to suggest that Birmingham are finally on the up again after several years of discontent and uncertainty, after the honeymoon period of winning the Carling Cup in 2011 and appearing in the Europa League were quashed by financial struggles and a battle with relegation in 2013/14, following the fallout from the Premier League in 2011.
This is the biggest sign yet that the future is looking much brighter for the club than it did a few years previously, with the manager and the squad to compete for the promotion now in place coupled with the club being on a better footing. The signing of Tesche is the next big piece in the jigsaw in terms of adding real quality to the club’s ranks and in highlighting the ambitions of Blues going forward.
So why all the rage about the former Hamburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Arminia Bielefeld man? For a start, it quite says something when the fans beg for the signing of a player after appearing for the club for a relatively short space of time, in this case a mere 12-game loan spell. To have impressed not only the fans but the management at Birmingham City enough during this time to be highlighted as their main transfer target during the 2015 summer transfer window tells you just how big an influence Tesche had during his first spell at St. Andrews, and the hope is that he can have just as big an impact again, but this time on a permanent basis in a royal blue shirt.
Based on his performances at the end of the 2014/15 season for Birmingham, the German was the key component in making the midfield tick, controlling the game ahead of him sat in a deeper midfield role in the conventional 4-2-3-1 system that Blues adopt. Tesche’s style of play is simple but effective. He will help to break up opposition attacks before dictating the game around him by making decisive passes into the forwards that lead to a number of goal scoring opportunities.
In his first spell at St. Andrews, it could be noted how composed and comfortable Tesche looked on the ball, benefiting Rowett’s side enormously in the simple case of being able to use and keep possession more wisely compared to the likes of Stephen Gleeson and David Davis. The better control of the midfield aided by Robert Tesche led to a strong finish to the 2014/15 campaign and a plausible 10th position – a far cry from the 23rd place in the table occupied by the club, months earlier in October before Rowett’s arrival as manager.
Amongst those 12 appearances were two goals to show for his efforts, two well-taken strikes against Rotherham and Bolton that are a testament to the efficiency of Tesche’s game. Italian playmaker Diego Fabbrini, now a permanent Blues man as of January this year, had also been on loan at the same time as the German and it was this midfield pairing in particular which had excited fans immensely. There is a clear consensus that the signing of Tesche could potentially help bring the performances of Fabbrini back to his peak, as the Italian has often been played out of position and had limited time to impress after his £1.5 million move from Watford.
The quality of the midfield had been boosted last season by the signing of FC Groningen’s captain, Maikel Kieftenbeld, who enjoyed a stellar first year in English football, adding to the choices already available in Davis and Gleeson, but this latest signing adds greater strength in depth to the Blues squad and will benefit the club enormously in this regard more than it may first seem in the long-term.
One of the biggest criticisms at the end of the previous campaign where Blues suffered a slump in form was that the midfield had become too predictable, a lack of options within the squad contributed to this, but this situation is unlikely to arise again with the signing of Tesche.
Analysing how the new Blues man will fit into the side for the upcoming season, it is likely Tesche will resume his role as part of a holding midfield pairing behind the three attacking midfielders and lone striker. The midfield duo of Kieftenbeld and Tesche is a tantalising prospect for Blues fans and once more signifies the steps the club has taken in the past two seasons to be able to field players of this ilk.
With this announcement and the prospect of around £10 million being made available to bring in players in accordance with an update on the ownership situation a few weeks prior, fans will hope further smart signings such as this one are to come in the weeks leading up to the start of the season against Cardiff at the beginning of August, not least in the form of a striker to rival Clayton Donaldson and provide much needed cover for the Jamaican international.
This was a key reason for the club’s downfall at the end of last campaign with no real competition being provided in the striker ranks, but with the club already making the move to bolster the midfield at this early stage of pre-season, Blues fans may not have to wait too much longer for the next arrival at St. Andrews.
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So then, not only did Intel release a really impressive processor series today, to support it, they also had to build a new infrastructure for it. This review is going to cover the basics of Intel's X58 mainboard chipset. The key features of course bringing support to QPI, triple-channel memory and Socket 1366 thus Core i7 processors. Before we start I need to say, this is in fact a reference review with supplied memory, cooler etc. We have another X58 review for you guys where we use multiple multi-GPU graphics cards, snazzy OCZ memory, 3rd party X58 mainboards, new cooling etc .. you know true Guru3D style. But this is the reference X58 Intel board, the first of many X58 reviews to come.
Though you have learned this chipset to be named X58, some of you might recognize the "Tylersburg" as well which was the developers codename.
This new chipset will use the same ICH10(R) "South bridge chipset" as the Intel P45 (Eaglelake) chipsets, but the X58 chipset overall obviously will be drastically different.
- The X58 Express will use the new LGA1366 socket (also known as Socket B).
- No more memory controller
- Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) the interconnect between the Core i7 processor and the X58 Express.
There's another feature about the X58 chipset that will appeal the enthusiast crowds like myself as well. This will be the first (besides Skulltrail) non NVIDIA chipset based mainboard which supports SLI and Crossfire making THE choice of weaponry for future high-end upgrades as you are no longer limited towards an NVIDIA supporting SLI chipset of for that matter a Crossfire bound infrastructure.
But to get SLI support activated, the mainbord series has to be submitted (by manufacturer) and certified by NVIDIA, after which they'll open up support through their drivers. To get multi-card graphics cards support Intel obviously had to include support for at least two x16 PCI Express 2.0 slots with the option for four x8 slots to support quad-graphics cards (CrossfireX).
All in all, plenty of stuff to talk about. Over the next pages we'll take a brief look at the chipset architecture, then a photo shoot and then obviously a test or two to get these geek juices flowing.
Though the architecture and eco-system as a whole is near perfect, the actual problems we ran into have to do a lot with the DX58SO PCB design. First off, the lack of IDE device support. Of course we need to move forwards but there are just too many people out there with at least one HDD/optical IDE device.
Also we feel strongly that we should have seen a PS2 keyboard connector on the mainboard, even if only as failsafe. Sometimes an USB keyboard is not recognized, how do you access your BIOS then ? Hey it happens man.
Also we really would have liked to see a second Ethernet connector on this mainboard. These remain minor wishes or preferences though. Inconvenient is the position of the 8-pin 12V processor voltage header, it's really embarrassingly placed. Then with Core i7 you'll go for triple channel DDR3 right. With such an investment, me personally I would have liked to at least have the option to drop another 3 DDR3 modules into the system in a later stage this six DIMM slots for two triple channel memory arrays. This is not possible on the Intel DX58SO, there are 4 DIMM slots which raises another question. Why four? You will only use three or maybe six. Up-to this point these are all forgivable choices though.
The one thing that doesn't fare well with me is the location of the SATA connectors. We explained that motherboards like these are designed for the enthusiast end-user. They for sure have high-end graphics cards, and these are lengthy. As such they'll stretch over the mainboard using all ATX specified motherboard length. The SATA connectors if utilized, will block at the very least
the lower card slot preventing you from inserting for example a second Radeon HD 4870 X2 or GeForce GTX 260/280. It can be solved if you pick up a set of SATA cables with 90 degree angle connector bend, but that SATA header location just doesn't make any sense to me.
Gaming on X58 then. It's a wonderful experience really. But fact is that even a GeForce GTX 280 does not need this much horsepower to reap it's benefits and show what it can do. A decent system with a Core 2 Duo processor at 3.0 GHz will give you roughly the same amount of performance as this Core i7 did,except in the situations where you get CPU bound of course (lower resolution). The reality is that enthusiast consumers have high-end gear, thus typically work and game in a resolution above 1600x1200. And that's where your GPU is a bottleneck, and the CPU hardy has an effect. That role can obviously change with faster graphics cards released in the future, but right now it's the reality.
This is why it's so hard to show you the raw performance a processor and mainboard like this has outside the scope of synthetic tests. Only in multi-GPU situations would we be able to show you a difference. And that's what we are going to look at and thus test in a dedicated article for you guys. We build the ultimate gaming rig with proper cooling, OCZ memory, quality brand X58 mainboard and then test multiple Multi-GPU solutions. Again please have a look at the Multi-GPU article.
Now then, if you don't plan that second graphics adapter and the rest of my remarks is cool with you, hey then looking at it from the other side of the scope we must also mention that this to date is the fastest system we have ever laid our eyes and hands on. The combination of X58 and Core i7 is undeniably an experience with a golden thread. The performance even with early mainboards and processors like this is absolutely jaw breaking nice. As an eco system it works really well. Power consumption is within very acceptable levels, the performance amazing and the looks are just stunning. Next to that, even with stock cooling you'll easily get more performance out of your system by overclocking it. And fact is, it's quite an easy job to achieve as well. See, that's the other side of the scope.
Also bare in mind that this reference Intel DX58SO motherboard (at this time) does not carry SLI certification and as such would not support NVIDIA SLI. ASUS, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI currently have mainboards that passed this certification.
One last thing you'll have to take into consideration is the price. The X58 based Intel Extreme DX58SO will be launched at a 250+ USD/EUR sales price. And that's a lot of money. In all honesty we have to say, our feelings towards the Intel X58SO are a bit of mixed bag, even if it is a reference mainboard, we'll even advise you to at the very least carefully look at other X58 board partners. The DX58SO is feature rich yet lacks some pretty noteworthy features, that and the aforementioned location of some of the connectors/headers bring a brilliantly fast and speedy motherboard down a little. But yeah, it offers dazzling processor performance, fantastic triple DDR3 memory bandwidth and surely performance wise.
This is just a really fast system, and for only that reason alone you'll adore it the minute you've purchased it.
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A phobia is an irrational fear. In this respect “phobia” is a commonly used suffix attached to any one of a long list of words that make your fears seem more professional, or at the very least can make it appear to others that you have a good grasp on Latin. Add to the list a new phobia, Islamophobia. Congratulations to Bobby Ghosh for coining this one. I am not sure he is the originator, but I haven’t heard it as frequently used as I did on the Sunday morning news shows following the release of the 8/30/10 edition of TIME magazine, which simply reads on the cover, “Is America Islamophobic?”
The controversy over the building of an Islamic mosque at Park 51, near the site of Ground Zero, has resulted in anti-Islamic sentiment in the US of A getting press. During political seasons, where there is controversy there will be polls. 61% of Americans oppose the Park 51 mosque vs. 26% who are in favor and 13% who either don’t know or didn’t answer. The popular translation of this data is that most Americans are Islamophobes. Last week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called for an investigation of the opposition. Ghosh’s article in TIME cites anti-Islamic rhetoric from small town city halls and bakeries to conservative religious and political leaders like Franklin Graham and Newt Gingrich. “The concern now is that the mosque protests and the attention they have drawn from politicians may have brought Islamophobia firmly into the mainstream.” The tone of Ghosh’s article seems to be that the protests of Park 51 are fueled by an irrational fear of the Muslim faith and that they raise, “larger questions: Does the U.S. have a problem with Islam? Have the terrorist attacks of 9/11 - and the other attempts since - permanently excluded Muslims from full assimilation into American life?”
Labeling one’s opponents as phobic is a page out of the political correctness playbook. If you can make a man who has strong convictions against homosexuality seem as silly as a big man who is afraid of spiders, you can easily ignore his arguments because after all, he is irrational. It is easier to call a man insanely scared and paint him a coward than it is to deal logically with his reasons. Most people who oppose proposition 8 are not irrationally afraid of gay people, they are morally against homosexuality. It is the same with Isalmophobia. Is it irrational to believe that most of the 61% of those who are against a mosque near Ground Zero have good reasons for their opposition? If we were going to find a term to accurately describe the protest it would not be “irrational fear.” I am sure there are some people who are afraid, but given what happened at Ground Zero, “irrational” is no longer a fitting term.
People have good reasons for being against Islam. What is irrational is the attempt by pop-media to convince America that 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. It is also difficult to deny that Islam is not only a religious ideology, but a political one as well. Islamic states do not have a good international track record for human rights, freedom, or diplomacy. Ask Israel. Let’s not forget there is an Islamic holy site and a mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Why not build another one at Ground Zero? Why is America anti-Islam: Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Afganistan . . . look up the track record of almost any nation that is a part of the 57 member Organisation of the Islamic Conference and you will not find irrational fear, but good reasons why America does not want to be heavily influenced by Islam. In most of these states there is rampant and severe religious persecution. Now, who is the phobic? Take a field trip and find visit First Baptist Saudi Arabia. No one in New York or America is saying “you can’t build a mosque.” What they are saying is, “Build it, but don’t build it here.” Petition the Saudi government and ask them where you can build a church.
Another page out of political correctness propaganda is to immediately play the race card. Equating opposition to racism is another quick way to discredit someone’s argument and exile them from the public forum because they are insane, archaic, and irrational. Racism is irrational, sinful, and idiotic. Yet, the public outcry against a mosque at the WTC has nothing to do with race, but patriotism. I have not heard anyone angry because people in the mosque are Arabic, Indonesian, African, or Pakistani. My understanding is that it is the desire of Muslims for Islam to be very eclectic. How then can this possibly be a race issue? If Islam does not see itself as a “race thing” then why is it when you protest against it that it suddenly is? The opposition is over the tenants and ideology of Islam, one (even if it is an extremist minority) expression of which was largely responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans. As much of a misunderstanding of Islam as many claim this to be, it is hard to deny the context at Ground Zero.
If America is anything, it is not Islamophobic. It may be hypocritical, but it is not Islamophobic. If we are Islamophobic then we are even more so prayer-in-school-ophobic, God-ophobic, nativity-scene-at-the-courthouse-ophobic, and Merry-Christmas-ophobic. Why are we so suddenly passionate to publicly protect Islamic belief in God when we have all but dismissed Judeo-Christian ones from the public arena? Our hypocrisy further expresses itself in that we are suddenly constitutionally savvy toward Islam when we seemingly could not find a copy of the constitution during the health care debate, TARP, or banking regulation. Furthermore, Islamophobia is suddenly getting press because people do not want a mosque at Ground Zero. Are we also Greek-Orthodoxophobic? Apparently, St. Nicholas church, which was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, has been trying to rebuild near Ground Zero for 9 years. What is the rationale behind ignoring that story? Does the constitution apply to the folks at St. Nicholas? Why doesn’t President Obama issue a statement of their constitutional rights? Apparently he has been asked to do so. Did you know that if you try to share the gospel peacefully outside of an Islamic festival in Dearborn, Michigan that you will be arrested? What’s the phobia there?
As much as we hate to admit it, America is not actually free. We can only drive so fast. We can build only when and where we have permission. There are good reasons for not allowing a strip club to build next to an elementary school. It has nothing to do with irrational fear. There are good reasons we don’t want poker halls next to churches, or candidates at voting precincts, or coal plants in nature preserves, or mosques at Ground Zero. It has nothing to do with phobia.


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The closest grocery stores are The Fresh Market, 4 Paws Pet Food Store and Publix Super Market at McGinnis Crossing.
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Dineh man, editor, poet.
Chickasaw woman, two-spirit, language warrior.
Who wouldn’t want to come to Bird & Beckett for that!?
(Sorry, but airline problems have interfered with Jenny Davis’s travel plans, and she won’t be able to make the reading on Sunday! So Kim has recruited EK Keith to pinch hit! No tragedy, that! EK is a local hero, a wonderful poet and a deep soul! A teacher by day, a bohemian by nature, we all love EK!)
The poems in Bojan Louis’s poetry collection, Currents,Â explore American identity and the powers of myth, faith, doubt, and the environment, and the music of these poems resonate with strains of the English, Spanish, and DinÃ© languages. Louis, who has worked as a construction worker and electrician, moves fluently between the literal and symbolic dimensions of work, as he writes in the poem “Electricity”: “Any laborer gathered for a tear-out / agrees the pleasure of opening walls/is the view of what’s no longer behind.”
“It takes only the ring of the opening poems in CURRENTS to realize this book does exactly what one hopes a first book will do, bring alive a new, original voice. It’s a voice Bojan Lewis not only sustains, but builds, the way, say, a young Sonny Rollins, might shape and vary a singular solo that flows through song after song: raw, kinetic, authentic, a poetry in which language has in common with music the visceral feel of the breathing body behind it.”â€”Stuart Dybek
“Bojan Louis’ CURRENTS is piercing and polyglot. From the first stark poem, spoken in the voice of a hard-living construction worker in Alaska who regards the sea and thinks of Jonah (‘bowel-held / and undigested’), to the last in the voice of Xipe Totec (Nahuatl for Our Lord The Flayed One, as Louis’ useful notes tell us), we are swept into a fierce and sublime poetry, part incantatory vision, part caustic critique of government cruelty and injustice toward indigenous peoples. By turns a protest of the earth’s poisoning, and as in the title poem, a prayer offered in the DinÃ© ‘tradition and knowing,’ what CURRENTS crystallizes in these taut poetic concentrates goes straight to our souls: ‘The prayer, the prayed to, the offering / and the offered; / the bent back and the harvest.'”â€”Cynthia Hogue
“CURRENTS is charged and luminous under ‘butane flame dawn.’ Bojan Louis ‘stickframesnightmares’ into song â€” in attempt to heal and jolt awake stories in blisteringholler above his homelands of pot-holed desert highways andreservation borders. An electrician by trade, DinÃ© poet Bojan Louis’debut is a multilingual ceremony of electricity, earth and memory,where brokenness is the ground from which our stories continuereaching for HÃ³zhÃ³.”â€”Sherwin Bitsui
Jenny L. Davis’ forthcoming book, Talking Indian, is the first book-length ethnography of language revitalization in a U.S. tribe removed from its homelands.Â Â In south-central Oklahoma and much of â€œIndian Country,â€ using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as â€œtalking Indian.â€ Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompaâ€™ or Chickasaw. As author Jenny L. Davis explains, this colloquialism reflects the strong connections between languages and both individual and communal identities when talking as an Indian is intimately tied up with the heritage language(s) of the community, even as the number of speakers declines.
Today a tribe of more than sixty thousand members, the Chickasaw Nation was one of the Native nations removed from their homelands to Oklahoma between 1837 and 1838. According to Davis, the Chickasawâ€™s dispersion from their lands contributed to their disconnection from their language over time: by 2010 the number of Chickasaw speakers had radically declined to fewer than seventy-five speakers.
Davis shows how in the case of the Chickasaw Nation, language programs are intertwined with economic growth that dramatically reshape the social realities within the tribe. She explains how this economic expansion allows the tribe to fund various language-Âlearning forums, with the additional benefit of creating well-paid and socially significant roles for Chickasaw speakers. Davis also illustrates how language revitalization efforts are impacted by the growing trend of tribal citizens relocating back to the Nation.
Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.
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Organizational justice and perceived team and management support: the mediating role of managerial exemplarity Rémi FINKELSTEIN , Matthieu POIROT, Workshop on Research Advances in Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management ,IAE, Université de Toulouse, may 2008.
A scale was developed to tap this conception of exemplarity composed of 7 items that cover two dimensions: requests relating to the task and requests relating to interpersonal relations.
The items are formulated in the following way: « Is your hierachical superior as punctual for appointments or meetings as she/he asks you to be ? » followed by a 5-point scale ranging from « not at all punctual » to « much more punctual »
A first study (Martin, 2007) valided its strong psychometric properties :
internal consistency of 0,8
Factorial analysis confirmed the two intented dimensions
Scale predicted work-related stress, negative and positive affect at work, LMX and turnover intention.
The effects of organizational injustice on the various aspects of attitudes and behaviours within organizations have been widely documented in the literature (see the metaanalyses conducted by Colquitt et al., 2001 and Cohen-Charash & Spector, 2001).
Tyler (1992) and Van den Bos (2002) showed that the employees always had no means to judge if they could trust in their manager.
Faced with uncertainty, the employees are particularly sensitive to injustice and they use behaviours of their managers as heuristic of judgement.
In our study, we consider managerial exemplarity as an heuristic of justice who could mediatize the impact of oranizational justice on LMX and TMX.
Organizational Justice, Exemplarity and LMX, TMX
Taking into account the strong influence of the three types of organizational justice discussed in the literature, our assumptions predict a partially moderating effect of exemplarity on the relationship between justice perceptions and LMX and TMX.
Mediating rol of Exemplarity Organizational Justice LMX TMX Managerial Exemplarity
Exemplarity plays the expected mediating role between perceptions of justice (except for procedural justice), and perceptions of managers’ support as measured by the evaluation of leader-member exchange (LMX) and co-workers as measured by the team-member exchange score (TMX).
results show that exemplarity contributes to decrease the negative effects of hierarchical status on LMX to the point of extinguishing it.
Futur research on Managerial Exemplarity Transformational Leadership Self-efficacy at work Managerial Exemplarity

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AMD prepare Athlon X2 demise: K10 refresh Q2 ’08
AMD will also stop taking orders for Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 4000+ processors by the end of this year and will launch a 65W Athlon 64 X2 4600+ clocked at 2.3GHz and with 1MB L2 cache in second quarter of 2008. AMD will launch a new series of dual-core products based on its next-generation architecture, Athlon 6000, in the later half of second quarter next year. First to launch will be the Athlon 6250 and 6050, the sources revealed. Although the core frequencies of the two CPUs have not been set yet, they will adopt 1MB L2 cache and 2MB shared L3 cache, the sources added.


For 20 years now, we’ve heard about the benefits to Weston if only people could rent houses or apartments to tourists. That’s when the first of many proposals was brought to the Weston Board of Aldermen. That one would have turned small houses dotted around Weston into mini-hotels. Every few years, someone else brings in a proposal, and each time, the board at the time, has turned them down.
During the last two years, bills have been introduced in the legislature that would take away cities’ rights to regulate short-term rentals. They are supported by some Missouri residents, but the real money is coming from the on-line advertising platforms that make millions each year from the business of vacation rentals.
To counter those efforts and to add clarity to the issue, the Weston Board of Aldermen Monday added language to several city ordinances banning whole-house, short term rentals.
Anyone, anywhere in the city can have an in-house short term rental, by conforming to the Bed & Breakfast ordinance. This continues the emphasis in Weston on housing for residents, while still making it possible to draw income from your property in a creative way.
Around the world, cities are grappling with housing shortages, fueled by the rise of whole-house vacation rentals.
A recent study by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (admittedly not a disinterested group) shows that 81 percent of Airbnb’s U.S. revenue comes from whole-unit rentals. The review covered 13 of the nation’s largest markets: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Oahu, Portland, OR, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
“Once upon a time Airbnb might have simply been a home sharing company, but this analysis shows that’s just a fairytale now,” said AHLA President and Chief Executive Officer Katherine Lugar.
What Weston is trying to do, is preserve housing for residential use, for people who want to live here.
I used to be concerned with what people might do when they stayed here, but now I’m more concerned with the nights a whole-house, short term rental is empty. That is likely to be four to five nights per week. What does that do to the fabric of a neighborhood? Nothing good.
Below is an exerpt from Beth's editorial from this week. The entire editorial may be found in this week's print copy of the Weston Chronicle


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I continue to come back and look at this beautiful drawing of apples and porcelain from such a good friend. It is one of the most beautiful drawings ever here at Queeky and probably on the whole internet. I love it Damian, and Love you as well my friend. Thank you!
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2022 Dove Awards Performers Announced: Maverick City Music, TobyMac
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) has announced the performers gracing the stage at the 53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards. The award ceremony lauded as one of Gospel Music’s biggest nights recognizes and honors outstanding achievements and excellence in the Christian/Gospel music scene.
The 2022 GMA Dove Awards will air exclusively on TBN and the TBN app, Friday, October 21st at 8:00 p.m. ET and 10:00 p.m. ET. The ever-amazing gospel artists Chris Tomlin and Erica Campbell would be Co-hosting this year’s edition and also performing.
The star-studded list of artists/bands to perform at the 2022 Dove Awards include Highroad, Jekalyn Carr, Karen peck, Kim Hopper, Anne Wilson, Blessing Offor, Brooke Ligertwood, Crowder, DOE, Erica, Campbell, Chris Tomlin, Maverick City Music, Phil Wickham, Social Club Misfits, Steven Malcolm, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Tobymac.
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Community Compassion | July 31, 2020 🏔
As the day starts to unfold, please check in on one another. Even sitting in the quiet place and just present will allow others to step in and others to step up.
The unnatural deaths that have occurred has triggered a lot of emotions, the constant state or survival has given birth to fight or flight.
When this is recognized as natural emotions we can work together to continue the healing.
The gossip, backstabbing, rivalry, and untold truths are they worth it all? The equalization of gender roles can be utilized in a healthy atmosphere. The division has brought friends and family pitting against each other. This brings about a stress that blankets a society, topped with grief, loss, stress and uncertainty can be seen like watching a rubber band being stretched beyond it's limits.
We can have unity, we can have differences of opinions, to respect each opinions of others allows clarity of the world around us. To sit in our truth as we know and validate it, can be utilized in ways that allows for communal growth.
Look at each other, be present in the moment and recognize that when a tragedy hits us, it is those who were taught to the natural thing, to help, is not a pay off, but a payback of how we were raised.
We have an abundance of knowledge keepers, why can't we be in collaboration with those around us, to bring forth a unity of change. Every skill, every opportunity to learn from others will being about change.
If we gave each other a chance can you imagine what that can look like?
If we gave each other the gift of time - can you imagine what that can look like?
If we showed respect like our Grandmothers did, can you imagine what that can look like?
When we lower our voice of opinion, and that we don't have all the answers and look to our community champions for guidance, can you imagine what that can look like?
There is a time and place for heated discussions - and when you start those discussions look around and see if the place you are in, ask yourself ”Is now the right time?”
Remember: Be kind and gentle with yourself, today and in the days to come.

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Stillwater bridge backers make their case in D.C.
Local supporters of a new St. Croix River crossing near Stillwater traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with congressional members and lobby...
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August 4, 2011
New traffic signal timing coming to high-traffic Woodbury intersection
Washington County officials announced Thursday that a new traffic control signal at the intersection of Radio Drive and Valley Creek Road should be up an running by the end of the month. According to a county press release: County transportation staff from Washington County will...
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July 27, 2011
Transit plan calls for station in Woodbury
Woodbury would be home to at least two major stops in a transit plan linking St. Paul with Eau Claire, Wis. Under a plan released last week by a commission tasked with mapping out transit possibilities along Interstate 94, Woodbury would see transit stations for either bus-rapid...
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Flashing yellow light coming to a Woodbury intersection near you
A Woodbury intersection next week will be receiving a new traffic signal. Washington County will be installing flashing yellow arrow (FYA) left-turn control at the existing traffic signal at the intersection of Woodbury Drive (County Road 19) and Fox Run Road/Wynstone Drive during...
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833 faces strained transportation budget
District 833's transportation budget for 2011-12 shows a deficit of $490,000, School Board members learned last week. Though there are reserve funds to balance the budget, reserves would go down even further in 2012-13, something that concerns School Board Member Tracy Brunnette. "It...
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Local students' distracted driving PSA wins $1,000 and MTV Video Music Awards TV spot
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May 19, 2011
Manning Avenue to close May 20 to May 22 for bridge placement
A well-traveled Woodbury road will be closed later this week for construction. Washington County will be closing Manning Avenue at 6 p.m. Friday, May 20, until 6 a.m. Monday, May 23, to set the Gateway Trail Bridge over Manning Avenue, immediately south of Manning Trail Court. County...
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Assessments could be applied to traffic calming measures
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Stillwater Lift Bridge now closed, water continues to rise
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After an interesting emo-pop presentation by Hot Chelle Rae, it’s the NFC’s best against the AFC’s best this season at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Super Bowl lies a week away, but for now, we have got NFL football players playing some glorified backyard flag football. It’s mildly entertaining, but it’s no Super Bowl. (With the Pro Bowl scoreboard at http://www.nfl.com seemingly hacked or bugged, it is definitely not the Super Bowl.)
Now to the post-game analysis:
- After San Francisco 49ers David Akers kicked the ball, Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger‘s drive went into a quick three-and-out for the AFC.
- With Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers at the NFC’s helm, after passes to Atlanta Falcons Tony Gonzalez and Green Bay Packers Greg Jennings, Arizona Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald scores off a 10-yard reception to bring the score to 7-0 with 9:20 in the first quarter.
- After an onside kick by David Akers and recovered by Chicago Bears Charles Tillman at the AFC 44-yard line, Aaron Rodgers threw a 44-yard pass to Larry Fitzgerald for yet another touchdown to bring the score to 14-0 with 9:14 in the first quarter. A trick play paid off big for the NFC!
- After an entertaining series of events involving an interception by Green Bay Packers Clay Matthews and lateral to Chicago Bears Charles Tillman, Ben Roethlisberger launched the ball to Cincinnati Bengals A.J. Green for a 34-yard AFC touchdown to bring the score 14-7 with 7:01 in the first quarter.
- After a fumble by Philadelphia Eagles LeSean McCoy, Ben Roethlisberger launched the football to Miami Dolphins Brandon Marshall for a 75-yard touchdown reception to tie the game.
- After a batted-ball recovery by Aaron Rodgers, the NFC drive stalled in the closing minutes of the first quarter.
- With New Orleans Saints Drew Brees in for the NFC in the second quarter, Brees steadily made it down the field with Larry Fitzgerald and Tony Gonzalez. Brees capped off the drive with a 1-yard pass to New Orleans Saints Jimmy Graham with 9:47 in the second quarter.
- On the other side, San Diego Chargers Philip Rivers made it down the field with passes to San Diego Chargers Vincent Jackson and Antonio Gates. He capped off this drive with a 29-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall to tie the game 21-21.
- After a drive led by several passes to Jimmy Graham, Saints Drew Brees threw a 11-yard touchdown pass to Green Bay Packers Greg Jennings to bring the NFC up 28-21 with 5:22 in the second quarter.
- AFC’s Philip Rivers answered quickly with passes to San Diego Chargers Vincent Jackson and ultimately finished the drive with a 27-yard touchdown to Antonio Gates with no time left.
- After the interception of Carolina Panthers Cam Newton, Cincinnati Bengals Andy Dalton steadily moved down the field, but the drive stalled at NFC’s 19-yard line. Oakland Raiders Sebastian Ganikowski booted a 37-yard field to bring the score 31-28 AFC with 12:23 in the third.
- With 12:09 in the third quarter, Cam Newton threw a 55-yard touchdown reception to Carolina Panthers Steve Smith to bring the score 35-31 NFC. Cam Newton certainly has the physical assets of a great quarterback for that pass.
- After another onside kick by David Akers, an interception by Houston Texans Johnathan Joseph and his 26-yard return, Jacksonville Jaguars Maurice Jones-Drew 39-yard rush, the drive ultimately stalled, and NFC is forced to punt.
- In a split second, Cincinnati Bengals Andy Dalton threw a 47-yard touchdown reception to Brandon Marshall with 3:53 in the third quarter to bring the AFC up 38-35. Marshall had an amazing juggle catch as he tumbled onto the ground.
- After the 36-yard return by Pittsburgh Steelers Antonio Brown off the kickoff, Baltimore Ravens fullback Vonta Leach rushed for 1-yard touchdown rush to bring the score 45-35 AFC with 11:40 in the last quarter.
- Cincinnati Bengals Andy Dalton threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall to bring the AFC up 52-35 with 8:25 left in the game.
- Denver Broncos Von Miller gets an 8-yard sack on Cam Newton and the first and only in the game with 8:25 in the fourth. Cam Newton gets his second sack by Von Miller with 6:16 left in the game.
- NFC’s Cam Newton was intercepted by San Diego Chargers Eric Wheddle with a 29-yard return who lateraled to Kansas City Derek Johnson for a 60-yard touchdown run to bring the score of the AFC up 59-35.
- Newton’s redemption came in a 36-yard touchdown reception to Larry Fitzgerald to bring the score 59-41 AFC with 2:37 in the last quarter.
- Saints Drew Brees drop-kick field goal is no good with 2:37 left.
The first half was a match of offenses trading blows through the air. Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger could not find any rhythm, but Philip Rivers did. New Orleans Saints Drew Brees played like he usually does and performed well with a 144.3 quarterback rating, only above Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers with 140.1 in the Pro Bowl. All of the running backs on either the NFC or AFC side ran very little.
In the second half, the defenses for the NFC and AFC became more relaxed and began playing hard. Cam Newton certainly began feeling the pressure as he had two sacks by Von Miller and an interception return for a touchdown by Eric Wheddle and Derek Johnson. To release the pressure, both teams began rushing from running backs and fullbacks.
In this Pro Bowl game, AFC’s Cincinnati Bengal Andy Dalton was the best performing quarterback with a 152.5 quarterback rating with New Orleans Saints Drew Brees as second-best with his 144.3 rating. The best running back performer was Jacksonville Jaguars Maurice Jones-Drew, and lastly, the best wide receiver of this Pro Bowl was Miami Dolphins Brandon Marshall with his 177 receiving yards and 4 touchdowns. His four touchdowns broke a Pro Bowl record, and Marshall rightfully deserved the Pro Bowl MVP award. On the NFC side, Carolina Panthers Cam Newton performed miserably with a 44.8 quarterback rating with 193 passing yards, 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions in a Pro Bowl game nonetheless which means he won’t be getting any MVP awards.
This game was won easily by the AFC 59-41, and this game is the highest scoring Pro Bowl game, not that it means much in light of the regulations. After this charade of a game, the Super Bowl will be coming with the New York Giants and the New England Patriots meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be a Super Bowl rematch with Giants Eli Manning facing the Patriots Tom Brady, and the game should be more entertaining than this Pro Bowl game. Get the pizza, beer and chips ready!


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Director Teja, has always been a man who does not mince his words. The talented director who gave huge blockbusters in the past is currently lying low. After his not so successful ‘Niku Naku Dash Dash’ Teja is back with 1000 Abaddhaalu.
Speaking to a leading daily, Teja revealed his desire for making new age cinema and also shared his strong opinion on the current Tollywood scenario “I don’t like the way Telugu films are being made currently. Telugu industry has adapted a different track altogether and is going nowhere. I would love to change the trend by making some thoughtful yet entertaining films” said Teja. 1000 Abaddhalu is set for a August 15th release and stars Sai Ram Shankar in the lead role.
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I have a little obsession, these days…with the color purple!!
I never like purple, never used it, and now, I just can’t get enough! What has come over me?!
You know what else I am obsessed with?? Mixing and matching the gorgeous 7 Dots Studio collections…I have a little bit of Love Is In The Air, All I Ever, Dreamer, and Messy Head happening on this page…a beautiful combination, I think!!
This sweet, sweet photo is my youngest daughter and her beloved Daddy, taken on Christmas! They have a very special bond…I just love it!
Thank you so much for taking a look! Have a wonderful day 🙂

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|Product Name||Purple sweet potato pigment colorant code E163||Classification||Food Colorants|
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Our presentation will consider findings from an institutional reverse mentoring study between students who self-identify as under-represented at University and senior leaders. We worked with students from underrepresented groups including mature, international, UK ethnically minoritised, and widening participation background. Reverse mentoring in higher education flips ‘traditional’ roles, positioning students as ‘mentors’ and staff as ‘mentees’, with a view to educating and empowering both sides and catalysing cultural change through sharing and discussion of unique lived experiences.
The project was piloted in 2021 by Steve Gleadall from Educational Engagement, the department with responsibility for leading the University’s access and student success work, in collaboration with the Students’ Union. Following the pilot’s success and positive feedback, it was developed into a research study, supported by Rachael O’Connor as academic lead, and expanded across the University in 2022. The key aims of the study were to assess the impact of staff/student reverse mentoring relationships on: (i) students’ feelings of value, visibility and belonging; (ii) staff understanding and appreciation of challenges and barriers faced by under-represented students and (iii) the daily practice and influence of institutional leaders within their areas of responsibility.
Our presentation will share and explore data gathered from project participants in light of these aims and reflect on the future direction of reverse mentoring within our University and the wider higher education sector. Participant reflections on being mentors (students) and mentees (staff) in the project were gathered both quantitatively (pre- and post-intervention surveys) and qualitatively (one-to-one reflective conversations) during the project period and further longitudinal data is to be collected six months following the scheme. The project relates closely to the ‘student engagement’ sub-theme of the conference given its focus on students from under-represented backgrounds and close connections with representation and student voice. We ultimately argue that reverse mentoring is a positive and potentially revolutionary intervention, which supports us to rise to the grand challenge of creating an institutional culture and experience that supports all students to feel they are valued, visible and belong.
Steve Gleadall (he/him) is a manager responsible for leading packages of work to support access and student success at the University of Leeds. Since 2018, he has been involved in developing and delivering the University’s Access and Student Success Strategy. Steve is passionate about ensuring all students, regardless of their background, are supported to make informed choices and receive an equitable experience in order to achieve successful outcomes. Working closely with students and authentically representing the student voice is key to informing his work.
In 2021 he piloted a University-wide reverse mentoring scheme which created space for students to safely share their experiences and highlight the hidden aspects of the student experience. Steve currently champions work to address the hidden curriculum at Leeds, delivering training sessions for staff, creating and sharing resources, and reporting on the impact of this work to inform further positive change at the institution.
Rachael O’Connor (she/her) is an Associate Professor, Director of Student Support and APT Lead in the School of Law at the University of Leeds. She comes from a working class background and was one of the first in her family to go to University. This contributes towards Rachael’s passion for improving University experiences for students who self-identify as under-represented. The focus of Rachael’s scholarship is developing authentic staff/student relationships through reverse mentoring. She has won several prizes internally and externally for this scholarship.
Rachael is currently undertaking a three-year fellowship exploring the intersections between co-designed staff/student reverse mentoring and academic personal tutoring. Rachael is also a trustee of legal mental health charity LawCare and is currently undertaking a research project in partnership with LawCare to pilot a reverse mentoring scheme between aspiring and junior lawyers and those working in EDI, wellbeing and trainee support in the legal profession.
As well as this session Rachael will also be presenting Sharing insights from reverse mentoring in HE: the power of listening and learning for developing authentic staff/student relationships on the second day of the conference.

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