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The European-Israeli project MIKELANGELO aims to fundamentally disrupt the architecture of virtual infrastructures for cloud computing. The project covers the whole software range of the modern computing stack for a broad set of use cases. Up to now compute-intensive applications such as big data and high-performance computing (HPC) do not use cloud services by default, since the input/output performance (I/O) is too low. If the I/O performance is not nearly as high as in the case of native installations the costs increase to purchase additional or more powerful hardware. cloud computing relies heavily on virtual machines (VMs). The physical hardware (server, storage systems, network technology) builds the foundation and on top of this lies the virtualisation layer. It offers near-zero overhead for computation, however reaching only about 60-70% efficiency for I/O operations.
This is the starting point of the MICHELANGELO project. The members work to improve the I/O performance of virtualized infrastructures and applications running in cloud. The consortium targets to increase I/O efficiency to nearly 100%, in an improved hypervisor, called sKVM. sKVM will be integrated with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), which allows direct access from the memory of one into the memory of another one with a minimum of communication overhead. No additional CPU overhead in VM is incurred, and I/O in VMs is increased. Improving sKVM is one of the key features of the project. The operating system OSv and the tool Capstan build on this feature to enable agile deployment of applications. Both are developed by Scylla DB, one of the MIKELANGELO project members.
MIKELANGELO ’s architecture also will include functionalities to ensure security in the host OS, hypervisor, and in the cloud middleware.
The GWDG integrates both sKVM and OSv with OpenStack, to provide the advancements in a productive environment to users of infrastructure services. This integration with OpenStack will include a new application deployment model, based on OSv. The GWDG embeds Capstan in the cloud layer, to deploy a large number of applications conveniently via various user interfaces. In addition, the cloud layer will feature advanced monitoring across all layers of the architecture, even for user-deployed applications.
At the end of the project GWDG aims to offer big data services on demand to its customers.
The coordinator of the project is XLAB.
5 student projects with high practical relevance for Bachelor's and Master's thesis. Apply now.
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I compare myself to people all the time. I mean, ALL THE TIME. It’s such a horrible habit and one that I think know contributes to not feeling great about myself.
Worse, sometimes I compare myself to MYSELF. As in, the person I used to be.
These two things are part of why I’m finding it impossible to get myself back into a gym routine. I don’t want to be out of shape!! I worked so hard to get in shape that the idea of starting from scratch is really daunting. It’s even worse this time because I know exactly what’s in store for me.
The first time I started exercising, I didn’t know that there would be days where I would have trouble walking up and down the stairs or sitting down on the toilet. I was oblivious to the coming consequences! ignorance really WAS bliss!!
Now I know. I know exactly what’s coming and I know how much it’s going to hurt. It’s preventing me from making the first, most important step back into the gym.
Worse, one of my roommates wants to go with me when I go.
It’s hard enough when I’m comparing me to me, it will be even worse to compare me to her. I know she’s in better shape than I am. And, as happy as I am for her, there’s part of me that resents the success she’s had over the last year or so. She’s taken off about 60 lbs since she moved in with me and looks fabulous. I feel like a terrible person because I’m so jealous! It’s not that I don’t cheer her success, I do! I just wish I was also having the same forward momentum.
There’s even a huge part of me that hates when she credits me for inspiring her and motivating her. I’m terrible, I know it and I’m trying to be ok with it.
I think the point of this post is that I feel bad. Really, really bad.
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This cross & lily hand embroidery design is perfect for church linens. My niece and I are working together to embroider a couple palls, and this is the design she wants to use, so I thought I’d post it here for anyone else interested in it.
This hand embroidery pattern could be used on a number of church embroidery items, but it is particularly suitable for a pall. A pall is a square piece of linen that rests on top of the chalice during Mass, and it is often embellished with embroidery, or sometimes, it is painted. (I prefer embroidered palls to painted palls!) Linen palls range anywhere from very small (about 4″ square) to large (up to 8″ square), but the standard size is around 6″ to 6.5″ square.
The only “rule” for a pall is that the part of it that rests on the chalice must be linen, and normally, there’s a tiny red cross embroidered in the middle of the back of the pall that covers the chalice. In years past, palls were constructed from folded linen, the layers in the folding providing the stiffness to allow the piece to rest like a small cover on the chalice. The sides were stitched up to hold the folds together into a finished square. This type of pall has its advantages – it can be cleaned without being taken apart, and once dry, it is stiff.
In some places, the pall was (is) only one piece of linen, which draped over the chalice. This type of pall does serve the primary purpose of the pall, which is to keep foreign matter from landing in the wine during Mass; however, it is not as desirable as the stiff pall. The stiffness of the pall serves several purposes. It supports anything that is placed on it, and is easy to remove from the chalice and replace on the chalice without having to fiddle with draping fabric.
The standard pall today is made up kind of like a pocket from a long piece of linen that’s folded in half to form the square, and then sewn up on two sides, to form the “pocket.” Into the pocket, a piece of board (like mat board or stiff white card) is slid, and the fourth side of the square is then hand stitched closed. Sometimes, instead of linen, the “pocket” (or main body) of the pall is made out of silk or satin or another fine fabric, and then a linen square is attached to the back of the pall, so that the part of the pall resting on the chalice is linen. Silk and satin can be embellished with paint or with embroidery. For regular cleaning, normally just the linen square on the back of the pall is cleaned – it is snipped off, cleaned, pressed, and sewn back on.
Palls are not always white-on-white. The designs can be stitched in colors, in silk, cotton, or whatever your choice of thread may be. Real metal threads don’t have a place on palls, because all palls pretty much eventually need to be cleaned. Some folks use synthetic golds to stitch designs on palls. Personally, I’m a bit hesitant to do so. The results can sometimes be pretty garish. But perhaps the most enticing thing about making a pall is that it is the perfect size for considering the embellishment – which can range from very simple (or nothing at all!) to very elaborate, but all confined within a doable 6″ square. This is probably why I like making them!
I’m kind of a purist when it comes to the pall, though. I prefer white-on-white embroidery (though some day, I may venture into one color – who knows?), and I prefer 100% linen for the entire pall.
After the pall is embellished, sometimes an edging is added around it, like a fine lace or some delicate tatted lace or something to that effect. This edging can be added when the pall is sewn up, or, with certain types of lace, it can be added afterwards. For example, a tatted edging can be tacked just on the outside of the seam. An edging like the latter has an advantage: when the pall must be taken apart to be cleaned, the edging can be easily removed and replaced.
So that’s a pall, and those are the things I keep in mind when preparing to make one.
Waiting anxiously to see the working design by you and your niece.
Your niece is very lucky to have an aunt to teach her. I am so excited to see what you girls have in store.
Is there a handbook for church embroidery? I’m intrigued by the “rules” you mention regarding the fabrics to use for the pall and the little red cross, etc. From where do you find designs to embroider church linens or do you draw them yourself? Other than EGA, is there a group of people who do ecclesiastic embroidery?
Hi, All! Thanks for your comments. I’ll see if I can answer some questions….
Kris – I’m not sure if there’s a current “handbook” for church embroidery. There are certainly plenty of books on the subject, that go far back in time, but the ones I most frequently refer to are the books by Lucy Mackrille (from the early 1900’s) and Hinda Hands (also from the early 1900’s). There are more recent ones, too – by Beryl Dean – and also a book on church linens by Elizabeth Morgan that’s really good (called “Sewing Church Linens” I believe). As for specific rules, they come from the prescribed descriptions from the church of what the linens should be and how they should be constructed. Of course, trends and tastes also influence the embellishment. The Catholic Church and the Anglican church both have their own prescribed ways of doing things. There are groups of people who do ecclesiastical embroidery – mostly sacristy guilds at individual churches, and there are even several convents around that still do church embroidery as part of their regular work.
Mona – the “IHS” originally come from the Greek, and is representative of the name of Jesus Christ (Iesous Christos). Basically, it’s the first three letters of Christ’s name in Greek, translated into Latin letters more or less. It carried over from the Greek into the Latin or Roman usage, and has been around since about the third century. Some sources say it stands for a Latin phrase that translates into “Jesus, the Savior of Man” but in fact, this isn’t true. It is simply a shortened form of name of Christ, from the Greek. The Greeks used these “abbreviations” a lot – you can see it on their icons.
Lacis has reprinted the catalog (Designs for Church Embroideries by Thomas Brown & Sons) and has the reprint available on their website, for something like $24. It’s well worth the price, as it’s packed with lots of designs that can be adjusted for a variety of uses.
I can’t wait to open your emails. I appreciate the historical aspect. Can you please educate me further and state what the initials represent?
I have no ideas except satin stitch. Just want you to know I appreciate the info on palls. I’m the person in my parish that launders the alter linen so I have seen what constant washing can do. I’ll be anxious to see what you do with this and then maybe I’ll have enough confidence to make one. White is a good choice because when someone filled in for me they used bleach so we now have pink crosses on the purifiers.
We mount our palls on a square of plexiglass. They can just be washed and dried when necessary!! I do like your pall patterns! Thank you for a wonderful daily newsletter and also for the amount of ecclesiastical work you talk about.
Thank you very much for the pall design. It’s perfect timing for my brother’s ordination at the end of next month.
I like to have some floral patterns for a pillow case.
Hi , Mary I am farideh and I am writing to you from Iran I want to know how can find Brazilian embroideries pattern? Please send me these pattern if you can . Thank you so much.
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Most of you know I lost my dear Georgie last year, in November. My holidays were blurry that first month…and so this year is my first holiday without my Georgie and the sadness and feeling of loneliness has been hard for me.
I enjoy hearing from all of you and I have been returning emails and helping anyone in need of a good talk through…but I have not been posting. I am in hopes that I will be able to concentrate and get posting again on a good speed in the new year. Its one of my first of the year goals.
Its my birthday…and New Years Eve and New Years Day used to be a happy time for me. I felt the whole world celebrated my birthday…so I always looked forward to it. In good times…George would always take me out dancing. Parties in cities close and far away. We were in the travel business…so traveling to a wonderful city for New Years was part of the excitement of the holidays. I am so aware of those memories when life was good and times were special with my guy. But what I want to share with you…is the fear and pain that took over when George started suffering from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
This idea that you give care until someone passes is really not true. The truth is, mental health issues mean that a person changes in personality and in their memory on a daily basis. So way before any end of life issues pop up…you are starting to lose the person you love. Each day their brain changes and in bits and pieces they leave and never return. So in essence you lose your loved one every day. It’s a very hard thing to live with and hard to understand. But you have to be aware its the truth. Doctors, nurses they do not tell you these things…they do not give care like you do. They treat and diagnose — you do the care giving so you feel and see the changes. It could be a forgotten name, or a forgotten word and you watch them try to find another word to use in the conversation. It could be an emotional outburst or a series of days when nothing is said at all…quiet! It could be a strange walking gait, or a repeated action over and over again.
The doctors don’t see it, your family doesn’t see it…YOU see it and FEEL it and it scares the beegeebies out of you! What can you do…how do you make it better? Can you exercise it out…can you calm them down…can you change how you have conversations with them. Can you take the car keys away, can you put alarms on the doors to hear when they just walk out…can you put up signs to help them remember things? Your mind starts to race and you feel. ALONE.
I can not take that feeling away from you. But I can tell you…that you must keep your mind on the goal. That goal is to give your loved one the best “end of life” that you can. It may be a year or ten years ahead…but just take a step at a time and try hard to get support. Write to me, join a support group…ask a few good friends to meet at your place each month so you can express your fears and upsets. YOU need to be strong…because the ride is not pretty and it’s not short.
You also need to have as much help as you can. Trying to be quiet about the struggle will only hurt you and your loved one. Telling family and friends and asking a few of them to be your mind and heart is what is needed. Do you have a friend that is good on the Internet…well ask them to look up the details of problems you are finding and working through. There are wonderful tips out there, but they have to be found so ask that friend to be your eyes on the world.
Do you have a friend that will drive you around? Ask them to take you to the hospital, doctor appointments and therapy treatments. That way you can control your loved one, keep them calm and the driving can be safely done by your friend. You have to ask, you have to say…I NEED HELP. If you don’t you are hurting yourself and your loved one.
The brain of a dementia patient is not going to magically heal…so you simply have to be verbal to people about the situation. I told everyone in the neighborhood. “If you see George walking in front of your house without me next to him. Go out and get him to come in for coffee and call me…please!” Who are you going to impress by being quiet? Let your village know that you have a situation that needs their help…and you will get it back. People want to help…they just don’t know what to do.
I know my loss of George, after his death, has been hard on me. I adored the guy and we were bestest friends and I feel empty. I have to heal and begin to bring new things into my life to feel whole again. I know that…but for me…its been a slow heal. What do I do?
I talk to family and friends about my sadness…I look at pictures of him, I have a little area in my bedroom that has an enlarged picture and candles that I burn each night. It calms me and I feel close to George when I do that…even though he is not there…I feel him there and it comforts me. You need to do the same thing….but in your own way. Find little routines that make you feel safe and start to fill up time in your life. Plan your days, have future events on the calendar and bit by bit…be a part of life around you.
I still pull away from big events. Sometimes in a big family gathering I feel more lonely than in a small one. So I say no…if I feel the event is too much for me. But I force myself to say YES…to events that are smaller with people I know well and love. I am trying to develop a new me and still give myself the honor of the old me that was a part of my duo relationship with George.
Just remember…do not do this alone. Do not think a nurse or doctor has emotional and physical answers to the day by day tasks of your care giving. Do not get upset of friends or family leave you all alone…and rejoice in the friends new and old that will stand by you when you ask for their help. Know that money is not going to grow on trees and you have to stick to a budget because it can be a long, long ride. Know that answers to help you are there…ask me or others that have gone through care giving to help…and be a trooper…ask again and again. Life is meant to live with others not on your own….ask!
I know you can do it…and I honor the fact you are standing there day after day giving someone who is unable to care for their own life…care. You are a good person. No one will give you a thanks…nor will you get a reward for your care. In the mind of your loved one they think they are still…just fine. Nothing has changed…you know better…you know life is now upside-down…yet they think their life is in control. Be brave…force yourself to be honest and talk about the dementia as if it was the flu…let out your voice and keep the honesty of the situation everyday. Hurting feelings is not the point, honesty is the point.
You saw the path to the end of their life was laid out…you stepped up and took their hand and walked next to them.Your loved one is not alone. That makes you a very special and loving person and I am proud to know you. I know you will be honest with them, your friends and yourself and not stand alone. I want you to remember the world does not know you have a problem or you need help…without your voice shouting it out. Be brave and shout and keep shouting till you have a group around you to help you in your journey. No one will say it…but you are loved. Your loved one does love you…even if they can not put that into words…so just hold the honestly of knowing they love you and you are doing the best job you can…each and every day.
Just returned from training for a few days had a great crowd and did a nice class in senior emergency preparation. It’s always enjoyable to train a good group that are active in their minds and bodies even at advanced ages. The word is aging, but trust me – they’re doing it with grace. For all of you that are joining my blog today…thanks for the good time hope you enjoyed all the new information. By the way you will find my Care-Givers Workbook 101 on the products page of my website and it has loads of tips for caring for dementia and Alzheimer seniors.
Dear Francy: My husband does not want to take any medications for his Alzheimer’s. He has good health and he does not want to “feel funny” – I care for him in our home and I am so worried about it all.
Well, bad news for your husband, his Alzheimer’s has impaired his ability to make decisions for his own health and you get to choose if he needs different medications or care. Your husband’s demeanor is only going to get worse. It will either go into highly frustrated and intense anxiety or it will slow into a non-responsive or retreating mode. Either way, they are not good for him or you.
Now, I know you have been a good kid and gotten a Health Care Directive and Power of Attorney to cover your husband. If not…this is the moment to do it. Go on the net and buy the Borderbund software called Family Law– it’s very inexpensive and it has a step by step program to take you through the legal part of the Health Care Directive. (Or buy a hard copy of the directive at Office Depot) Then go and get it notary stamped at the local bank and then make copies for his doctors so there is not question on who is making the decisions.
Then sit down and write your doctor ( a neurologist) a letter. On the top it will say. Please have doctor read this before our appointment on Thursday and then put into my husband’s file – his name here– Then you begin. You tell the doctor how your husband is acting at home. Is he upset and worrisome, or super quiet and not interacting with you? Just slowly go through a few things that bother you about it and ask the doctor to begin your husband on an emotional drug to keep him calm or keep him engaged in the world and a Alzheimer’s mediation that works for mild Alzheimer conditions. Always remember to ask for generic if he can so you can afford the medication. Then you will fax the letter (go to a Copy Shop for faxing if you need to) and make sure it is sent off and they receive it before your appointment. If you do not have an appointment make one and send the letter to arrive a couple of days head of your appointment.
This means the doctor has time to review your letter and make a review of your husband and his condition and when you arrive you will find him informed and ready to help you. Because this is really about you. You are the care giver, you are your husband’s only life line! Without you, he is not able to do anything. So, you are the important party here. If you are feeling overwhelmed and unable to give him good care, there is a problem. If the overwhelmed is from no medications, that is just not fair to you.
I have to help my husband with his meds twice a day. He would never, and I mean never remember, on his own. I had a day when I was training and then came home tired and he went all day without his meds. Morning and night. I had put them out, but I was not there to remind him. So, by the next day he was acting strange and I checked and was so disappointed in myself for not remembering to check on him. It’s hard for us as care givers. After all – I was tired and stressed with the training class and all that went around it and was gone, then home to be exhausted and losing my voice after training for five hours a day for three days…so, I was in need of a little TLC too! No one can be perfect, but we can try to do as good a job as possible. The next morning we started again, I gave him his meds and he went forward on his plan. But his body did not, he had a very bad reaction to the meds with diarrhea after the body had gone a day without them. So, this is why meds are so important to take on time and for us, as care givers, to have a plan in place if we get tired or sick.
My husband had a cell phone, so if I am not going to be handy…I set the alarm for his pill time. He is still well enough to remember what the alarm is when it rings. But if he moves out of that stage – and into a deeper problem with memory – I will just call my friend or sister and ask them to call him and remind him and ask him to take the pills while he is on the phone.
George’s Zoloft is so important to his emotional health that it reflects right back on me if he does not take it. So, I always say if George misses the morning pills, that “I have missed my Zoloft” – Even if I personally do not take the meds, they effect my life so negatively if he forgets to take them- it feels like we are one with this medication. Medications for emotional and mental conditions are simply to be prescribed and taken. There is no excuse other than selfish behavior- the reason for so many homeless people is that they have problems taking their meds and it reflects so badly on their abilities they can not function properly without them. Dementia and Alzheimer’s is a combo of emotional and mental conditions that have to be cared for and treated with medications to ease the symptoms.
Explain the changes in your spouses behavior to the doctor in a letter – sent before his appointment. Then you will not have to have an embarrassing confrontation in front of the doctor. This will allow the specialist (neurologist) to make a better choice of medications. Sign the letter with your name and Power of Attorney on the bottom…so he knows you have the ability to make these decisions.
Make sure medications are taken on time, everyday…no matter what is happening in your life. Most of these drugs are taken with food, so after breakfast and dinner is better. Ask for generic for your budget and if they are too expensive- tell the doctor to give you a slip that you can fill out and send into the drug company and they will gift you the drug – if you’re on a tight income range.
Remember the care giver is just as important as the patient. You are the reason for his health and well being. You are the strength that is going to carry him on for a long time in your own home. If he wants to be in his own home, you get to set the rules and taking meds and keeping him safe is your job. You make the decisions now. That can be hard for people that have had long time marriages and the husband has been the power point of the relationship. But life changes, you now have to stop being the nice girl that listens and follows and become the assertive lady that sets the pace and keeps the care level high.
Think of yourself as part of a care team. Your husband, then you, as the care giver, and then the doctor…that’s the triad that is going to make this tough situation of giving care for the long term, to Alzheimer’s spouse – successful in your home.
I applaud you for your kindness and patience in your care giving. Alzheimer’s takes more than a Seniors mind, it takes the once sweet relationship of husband and wife and turns it on it’s head. It leaves the care giver lonely and feeling alone before the spouse has even died. But you are not alone, you have so many others that are right behind you and you need only ask questions and we will all try to help.
Please go and enjoy the rest of the Alzheimer blogs on my Dear Francy blogs and visit my website www.seniorcarewithspirit.comto get more information. Don’t forget, when you get to the stage that you need care facility help for your loved one, please contact me and let me help you through that process with our Loving Memories – Senior Care Facility Placement Service that is FREE for you to use.
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02:18 — The boys of Ballet West practice handling their swords as the girls watch in awe. Catch Breaking Pointe tonight at 8/7c on The CW.
Two smiths, Jon Nagel and Mike Miller, take us on a personal tour of their home forges in this bonus scene from "The Naval Cutlass."
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Implementing and evaluating early intervention for children with autism: Where are the gaps and what should we do?
Despite recent advances, the evidence base supporting early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remains relatively sparse. The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) recently sponsored a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Implementing and Evaluating Community-Based Early Intervention. Across three meetings, in 2015, 2016, and 2017, conveners of this SIG engaged >200 members to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities for moving the field forward. Here, we summarize the perspectives that emerged from group discussion at the SIG meetings as represented by scholars working actively in the field. Despite encouraging progress, critical gaps and research priorities were identified across all the stages of intervention development and testing from conceptualization to community implementation. Key issues include the need for (a) formal theories to guide early intervention development, evaluation, and implementation; and alignment of intervention goals with scientific knowledge and societal changes that have occurred in the decades since interventions were originally developed; (b) increased focus on feasibility of treatment procedures and alignment with stakeholder values during pilot evaluations; (c) use of research designs that allow for comparisons of different interventions and formats, analyses of active ingredients of treatment, and identification of moderators and mediators of outcome; (d) use of community-partnered participatory research to guide adaptation of intervention models to community settings; (e) inclusion of constructs related to implementation processes and outcomes in treatment trials and; (f) an iterative approach to the progression of knowledge from intervention development to implementation. Autism Res 2018, 11: 16-23. © 2017 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.In this article, we summarize the themes discussed at the INSAR Special Interest Group (SIG) on Implementing and Evaluating Community-Based Early Intervention. Priorities for moving the field forward identified in the SIG included the need for (a) formal theories to guide the development and evaluation of interventions, (b) pilot evaluations that investigate feasibility and acceptability of interventions, (c) methodologies that allow us to determine for whom different interventions bring most benefit and why this is so, (d) strategies to include community members and other stakeholders in the process of developing and evaluating interventions, and (e) understanding of factors that make interventions more likely to be adopted and successfully implemented in the real world.
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Halbach, Volker and Horsten, Leon (eds), Principles of Truth, Hansel-Hohenhausen, 2002, 244pp, EUR 66,00, ISBN 3826712048.
Two strands of research are prominent in the philosophical literature on truth. One is provoked by the semantic paradoxes and makes extensive use of mathematical methods in order to develop sophisticated formal theories of truth. The other attempts to answer such philosophical questions as what it is for a putative truth bearer to be true or false or what practical and theoretical purposes are accomplished by our use of a truth predicate. The present volume consists of nine excellent articles on the interface between the two areas by distinguished logicians and philosophers. The collection aspires to draw attention to important connections between technical developments and insights from philosophical reflection on truth in the conviction that they will illuminate each other.
The editors have divided the articles in the volume in three groups. The articles by John P. Burgess, Paul Horwich, Volker Halbach, and Stewart Shapiro are concerned with the debate over deflationism. Two articles by Hannes Leitgeb and Vann McGee are grouped under the label “semantic approaches to truth.” The last three articles by Michael Sheard and Andrea Cantini, and Leon Horsten deal with axiomatic theories of truth and informal provability. In all but one case, the articles report on the author’s contribution to the conference Truth, Necessity, and Provability organized by the editors in Leuven, Belgium, in 1999.
The volume begins with an extended introduction in which the editors provide an excellent overview of a wide range of issues and technical developments in the literature on truth since Tarski (1935). This includes a valuable discussion of Tarski’s theory of truth, a superb account of the debate over deflationism and conservativeness, and a helpful outline of prominent typed and type-free approaches to truth. There are, however, occasional omissions that may disconcert a reader who is not careful to read between the lines. For example, when the editors write “PA(S) is conservative over PA” in the last paragraph of page 22, one should read: “PA(S) without the induction axioms involving truth is conservative over PA.” But this doesn’t detract from the value of the introduction as an attractive map of contemporary research on truth that stresses critical forks in the road and provides the reader with useful background for much of the discussion undertaken in subsequent articles.
The discussion of deflationism makes up the first and largest part of the book.
Deflationism is a general approach to truth that includes a wide range of more specific proposals such as minimalist theories of truth, disquotationalist theories, prosentential theories, redundancy theories and others. What is perhaps the most distinctive mark of all these views is the claim that, in general, an attribution of truth to a truth bearer is trivially equivalent to the truth bearer in question, and that it is precisely this equivalence that endows truth with its practical and theoretical utility. Different deflationists may differ with respect to whether they take utterances, sentences, or propositions to be the truth bearers, but they all reserve a special status for the equivalences between attributions of truth to truth bearers and the truth bearers in question. These equivalences are often summarized by an equivalence schema, which, again, different deflationists characterize differently. Moreover, the explanation of the respects in which instances of the equivalence schema are central to truth varies from proposal to proposal.
For all its virtues, this characterization of deflationism makes crucial use of the notion of assertability, and hence of assertion. And, as Burgess himself concludes, this suggests that deflationists must make it plausible that an account of assertion may be given that doesn’t presuppose truth.
The proposition that p is true if and only if p.
The principal burden of Horwich’s contribution to this volume, “Defense of Minimalism,” is to clarify and defend this minimalist thesis against a wide array of objections, some due to Horwich himself, some due to other prominent philosophers.
The next two articles in the volume are concerned with different aspects of the question of whether a satisfactory formal theory of truth may be developed in the spirit of disquotationalism.
where neg(x) is a term for a function whose value for any number that is the code of a sentence φ is [~φ]. The generalization depends upon an infinite number of axioms, but no proof may use more than a finite number of premises. A similar problem afflicts generalizations to the effect, for example, that other connectives and quantifiers commute with truth, let alone those that state that the axioms of the base theory are true or that the rules of inference preserve truth.
In “Modalized Disquotationalism,” Volker Halbach proposes a novel solution to this problem. The suggestion is to replace the (T)-sentences by an axiom that states that all (T)-sentences are, in fact, necessary. This requires one to expand the base language by both a one-place truth predicate T and a one-place necessity predicate N. Then one must expand the base theory with axioms designed to govern the added predicates. As one would expect, Montague’s paradox (see Montague 1963) imposes severe restrictions on the axioms one may adopt for N, and the proposed restrictions may seem somewhat artificial. However, the presence of a necessity predicate allows one to state Halbach’s axiom that all (T)-sentences are necessary. And the result is an attractive family of disquotational theories of truth that are able to prove, for example, that the truth predicate commutes with all the connectives and quantifiers.
Admittedly, Halbach’s solution is not what one might have initially expected. Instead, one might have attempted, for example, to augment the base theory by Tarski-style inductive clauses defining truth (or satisfaction). In two recent articles, Stewart Shapiro 1998 and Jeffrey Ketland 1999 have independently cast doubt upon the availability of certain satisfactory Tarski-style theories of truth for adherents of deflationism. They noticed that some such theories yield as (first-order) consequences sentences of the base language (in which the truth predicate is not involved) that are not consequences of the base theory alone. In other words, some satisfactory Tarski-style theories of truth are not conservative over the base theory. But, they argued, deflationary theories of truth shouldn’t deliver non-semantic information not previously encoded in the axioms of the base theory.
In “Deflation and Conservation,” Stewart Shapiro takes stock of the debate and responds to objections to his criticism of deflationism. After a helpful clarification of the technical situation, Shapiro refines the conservativeness constraint one should reasonably expect deflationary theories to satisfy. He then revisits a dilemma for deflationists who accept the conservativeness constraint: either they replace first-order consequence by a non-effective consequence relation in order to restore the conservativeness of satisfactory theories of truth or they had better be prepared to fall back to conservative, but presumably unsatisfactory, theories of truth.
2. Semantic Approaches to Truth.
The articles grouped under the label semantic approaches to truth are motivated by very different concerns.
The article by Hannes Leitgeb, “Metaworlds: A Possible Worlds Semantics for Truth,” explores a possible worlds semantics for truth. A sentence φ is thus assigned a set of possible worlds that, he suggests, corresponds to the proposition it expresses. A sentence of the form T([φ]) is then true in a world w just in case φ is true in all accessible worlds to which w is related. In some cases, when Tarski’s policy to separate the object language from a strictly richer metalanguage is observed, the accessibility relation may be the identity relation. Of particular interest, however, is the fact that when the language contains its own truth predicate, the accessibility relation gives rise to frames that are familiar from temporal logics. This strikes one as a fact that cries out for an explanation.
In “Ramsey and the Correspondence Theory,” Vann McGee is concerned with a prominent alternative to deflationary conception of truth. He discusses a correspondence account on which the activities of speakers are taken to forge connections between linguistic expressions and their semantic values, which, in turn, explain the truth conditions speakers attach to sentences. Unfortunately, this correspondence account faces formidable obstacles on account of vagueness and inscrutability of reference. If the activities of speakers are unable to pin down a referent for a name like ‘Kilimanjaro’, then it seems hopeless to suppose that sentences like ‘Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain of Africa’ acquire their truth conditions compositionally from the semantic values affixed to its components. How then are such sentences ascribed the truth conditions they have by the activities of speakers?
The primary purpose of McGee’s contribution is to outline an answer to this question. The answer is inspired in Ramsey’s program for theoretical sentences, but it is framed in terms of Tarski’s 1936 consequence relation, which makes no allowance for varying domains of discourse. The proposal is to declare a sentence to be true if and only if it is a Tarski consequence of the union with the theory speakers accept of the set of true observation sentences. The suggestion is that the truth conditions of a sentence like ‘Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain of Africa’ depend on how speakers use the words contained in the sentence, and this, in turn, depends in part on what their beliefs are.
3. Axiomatic Theories of Truth and Intensionality.
The last part of the volume is mostly concerned with axiomatic theories of truth and informal provability.
Michael Sheard, in “Truth, Provability, and Naive Criteria,” identifies six different criteria, based on central features of our use of the truth predicate, that one might use to assess both formal semantic and axiomatic approaches to truth. Each criterion has significant consequences for the comparative evaluation of systems such as the revision theory of truth, Kripke’s fixed-point semantics, or variants of the Kripke-Feferman system of partial truth. Sheard touches on the debate over deflationism, since he intimates that conservative theories of truth may, in fact, contravene some of the criteria he discusses.
The next contribution discusses an axiomatic characterization of Kripke’s fixed-point construction known as the Kripke-Feferman theory (KF) of partial truth. In “Partial Truth”, Andrea Cantini surveys results on the semantics and proof-theoretic strength of KF and some of its variants. He explores, for example, a variant of KF that he thinks is a candidate to be a deflationary, type-free theory of truth. And he looks at consequences of KF in the context, for example, of intuitionistic logic, to conclude that KF is, in fact, sensitive to the ground logic.
(ii) From φ to infer π([φ]).
Montague’s paradox is the observation that these expectations are contradictory. This presents us with a problem when we attempt to interpret π([φ]) as: “φ is necessary”, but, as Kaplan and Montague (1960) had noticed, similar problems arise when we attempt to interpret π([φ]) as: “φ is known.” In “An Axiomatic Investigation of Provability as a Primitive Predicate,” Leon Horsten is concerned with the interpretation of π in terms of informal provability. One attractive answer to Montague’s paradox is to restrict (ii) to disavow inferences from reflection to instances of: π([π([φ]) → φ]). But after an extended discussion of some implementations of this proposal, Horsten concludes that it doesn’t survive careful scrutiny. In the end, he suggests, the solution to Montague’s paradox will require us to restrict reflection. The article concludes with a discussion of the connection between the semantic paradoxes and the intensional paradoxes afflicting knowledge, necessity, and informal provability.
The deflationary conception of truth is, however, the prevalent theme of the volume. Even articles that are not primarily concerned with deflationism raise issues that effectively connect with the discussion of deflationism. Thus, for example, Andrea Cantini reports on the search for type-free theories of truth that capture the deflationary outlook, and Michael Sheard comments on the risks of adopting conservative theories of truth. The result is a compact volume whose treatment of deflationism makes plain that there is a continuity between the technical development of formal theories of truth and philosophical reflection on the role of truth. To the extent that this is one of the primary aims of the editors, the volume is largely successful.
There is, however, some irony in the fact that the semantic paradoxes seem to pose a particularly urgent problem for correspondence accounts of truth. To be sure, the semantic paradoxes afflict both deflationary and correspondence theories of truth. But while it seems in principle open to deflationists to restrict the equivalence schema to a suitably limited range of non-paradoxical instances without real harm to the position, correspondence theorists are forced into the rather uncomfortable position of admitting that we are far from understanding the connection between the truth bearers and the facts in virtue of which true attributions of truth are true and false attributions are false. Thus, as a look at Vann McGee’s article suggests, there is a great potential for interaction between reflection on correspondence accounts of truth and technical research on the semantic paradoxes.
Be that as it may, the editors have produced a highly attractive volume that contains a wealth of remarkably suggestive material for both logicians and philosophers. No one with an interest in truth and the semantic paradoxes will want to miss this book.
Horwich, P. (1991) Truth, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Horwich, P. (1998) Truth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, second edition.
Kaplan, D., and R. Montague (1960) “A Paradox Regained,” The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 1, 79-90.
Ketland, J. (1999) “Deflationism and Tarski’s Paradise,” Mind 108, 69-94.
Montague, R. (1963) “Syntactic Treatments of Modality, with Corollaries on Reflection Principles and Finite Axiomatizability.” In Richard Montague, Formal Philosophy pp. 286-302.
Montague, R., ed. (1974) Formal Philosophy, Yale University Press, New Haven.
Shapiro, S. (1998) “Proof and Truth: Through Thick and Thin,” Journal of Philosophy 10, 493-521.
Tarski, A. (1935) “The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages” 152-278. In Alfred Tarski, Logic, Semantics and Meta-Mathematics.
Tarski, A. (1936) “On the Concept of Logical Consequence” 409-420. In Alfred Tarski, Logic, Semantics and Meta-Mathematics.
Tarski, A. (1983) Logic, Semantics and Meta-Mathematics, Hackett, Indiana, second edition.
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Thursday, November 29 at 7:00 p.m., Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 924 Polk Blvd.
The dialogue features five representatives of Des Moines area religious communities: Rabbi Steven Edelman-Blank, rabbi of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue; Howard Croweagle, American Indian advisor to the governor of Iowa and president of Central Iowa Circle of First Nations; Shuji Valdene Mintzmyer, an ordained Soto priest at the Des Moines Zen Center; Baljit Navroop, an executive member of Iowa Sikh Association; and Ako Abdul-Samad, the Iowa State Representative from the 66th District.
The topic of the dialogue, religious responses to suffering, provides for an exploration of how the religions of the world both explain and empower responses to suffering.
Sikhism accepts suffering — biological, psychological, and spiritual — as a natural part of life. According to Sikh scripture, “our entire world is full of suffering” (GG, p. 954). But it also acknowledges suffering (dukh) as a medicine that is beneficial (daru). In light of the recent Milwaukee tragedy, Professor Singh will explore the Sikh understanding of suffering and its curative value for our global community.
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Crawford Family Professor at Colby College. She has published extensively in the field of Sikhism, and her views have been aired on television and radio in America, Canada, England, India, Australia, and Bangladesh. Born in India, Professor Singh came to American to attend Stuart Hall, a Girls’ Preparatory School in Virginia. She later received her BA in Philosophy and Religion from Wellesley College, her MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from Temple University.
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Ahead of an official drop for the upcoming Adsum collaboration, Reebok have officially revealed the Pyro retro.
Revisiting 1992's versatile trainer, 2018's Pyro releases stay true to the OG and couple lightweight mesh construction with synthetic suede overlays, a PolyLite midsole, and the brand's Hexalite cushioning tech. The kicks even feature period-correct branding cues, plus decidedly 90s colourways to boot.
Expect both pairs pictured here to hit the likes of Berlin's Overkill this December.
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0:04 What is an Aqueduct?
Explore the history, design and development of the Roman aqueduct and test your understanding of ancient Rome, the expansion of the Roman empire, and ancient building techniques.
Duct tape works fine for repairing minor leaks, but I doubt the ancient Romans would have found it very useful to maintain their plumbing. Instead, they used the aqueduct, which is a pipe designed to bring fresh water from mountain springs into cities that had either no fresh water or not enough to sustain the growing populations.
Roman aqueducts ran for miles both above and below ground. They're one of the foremost engineering achievements of the Romans, which is really saying something, and they transported millions of gallons of fresh water per day across the empire. Their design and construction was so good that, even after millennia, many are still standing today.
The first Roman aqueduct was commissioned by a member of the Senate named Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BCE, back when Rome was still a republic and not an empire. The population of Rome had grown so much that there wasn't enough drinkable water.
This aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, followed Rome's first major road, the Appian Way, 10 miles out of town underground to a fresh water spring. It brought in 75,500 cubic meters of water every day. Since gravity moved the water, the fountain had to be lower than the original spring, and it only supplied water to the lowest parts of Rome.
40 years later, the Old Anio aqueduct was commissioned. This aqueduct was above ground on arches that reduced the slope from the mountains to the city, meaning the water could be brought to the higher parts of Rome.
Aqueducts became one of the key features of Rome. This city alone had over 480 miles of aqueducts, about 29 of which were above ground, and brought in 300 million gallons of water per day. When Rome became an empire and spread across Europe, the Romans introduced aqueducts into their new colonies.
Territories captured by the Romans weren't always treated with tyranny and abuse. When an area came under Roman control, its infrastructure was upgraded, often bringing in new temples, public baths and markets, reliable roads, and aqueducts for fresh water. The longest Roman aqueduct system in the world was in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Called the Valens Aqueduct, its combined length of pipes ran over 600 miles.
The system of bringing fresh water to areas that needed it wasn't invented by the Romans. The Greeks had similar systems, and the Etruscans - the inhabitants of Tuscany before the Romans - had very advanced irrigation and water control. The Romans improved upon these systems, made them practical for wide use, and established an incredible network of water resources.
The start of an aqueduct is a fresh water source, usually a mountain spring. This water was directed into stone or concrete tanks that flowed into the aqueduct. Pipes were usually made from ceramics, although lead was also a building material. The amount of water flowing through them generally kept the lead too diluted to pose a health risk. The pipes had to be the correct width to accommodate enough water and maintain the slope of flow, and the aqueducts were lined with waterproof concrete to prevent leaks.
From here, engineers faced the daunting task of ensuring that the water could flow downwards all the way to its destination. They plotted courses over miles of hills and valleys, all while maintaining a steady, consistent slope of the aqueduct. This required tools like levels and dioptra, which was an ancient but effective surveying tool used to measure angles. Two other basic innovations were required: concrete and arches. The Romans perfected both of these and used them effectively in building projects for the first time in history.
At some points aqueducts would run underground, and at other points they had to be elevated by bridges. The Romans, always innovative, built roads on top of several of the elevated aqueducts. At points when elevation dropped suddenly, cascades were built in that let the natural waterfall effect oxygenate, or freshen, the water. If the elevation needed to increase, a tank was built that emptied out of another aqueduct near the top, maintaining the overall slope.
The aqueducts needed frequent maintenance due to amount of water they transported. A hollow casing around the pipe was designed to let maintenance crews access the pipes without disrupting much, if any, water flow. Different sorts of syphons were developed for maintenance.
Let's review. The Roman aqueducts were pipes that used the natural pull of gravity to bring fresh water from springs in the mountains to populous cities or areas with undrinkable water. The first one was commissioned in 312 BCE, back when Rome was a republic and not yet an empire, and was known as Aqua Appia, which followed Rome's first major road 10 miles out of town underground to a fresh water spring.
As Rome expanded, they built more aqueducts that were more advanced. They used arches to elevate the new aqueducts, which allowed the water to travel farther because they could control the slope of the water's flow. After Rome became an empire in the first century BCE, they developed the infrastructure of their new colonies, including the addition of aqueducts. This explains why they can be found across the world. Roman aqueducts effectively brought fresh water across the Empire, used new materials and techniques like arches, and were even designed for easy maintenance with tools like the dioptra, which was an ancient but effective surveying tool used to measure angles. So, if you think duct tape made a huge impact on the world, just check out the Roman aqueducts.
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The Sunday Telegraph is reporting that Steve Hilton, chief strategic adviser to David Cameron, is relocating to California where his wife - Rachel Whetstone - is taking up a six month appointment at Google's world HQ.
It appears, however - despite The Sunday Telegraph's headlines - that Mr Hilton will remain a key adviser to David Cameron, on full pay but playing a strategic, rather than a hands-on role.
It is a mark of Mr Cameron's respect for Mr Hilton that such a distant relationship has been accepted. So many decisions in politics come out of team discussions and a fast reaction to events. Mr Hilton's role will now have to be even more strategic - focusing on the big picture direction of the party.
Alongside George Osborne and Andy Coulson, Mr Hilton is part of what Iain Martin has called The Quartet that runs the Conservative Party, with David Cameron. Although Mr Hilton is seen as a moderniser - and was behind the greener, gentler emphases of the period up until the course correction of last August, September - he also strongly supports the party leader's social conservatism and commitment to marriage, fatherhood and the family.
Speaking to ConservativeHome last week Steve Hilton was full of the joys of fatherhood himself and his commitment to his own family explains this move to California.
If the move is only six months - as billed - there are advantages to the Project Cameron. This is a time for Mr Hilton to observe the US presidential campaign at close quarters and be refreshed in his strategic insights.
> More on the role each key Quartet adviser plays: Andy Coulson, Steve Hilton, George Osborne.
In the May survey we asked for views on the futures of Boris and Ken (Clarke!). There has been talk of Boris as a future Tory leader and of Ken Clarke returning to a Conservative Cabinet. The box below summarises the views of 1,483 members.
Yesterday, in our five-point tax and spend manifesto, we called on the Conservatives to abandon 'replacement taxes' - higher green taxes to pay for lower family taxation. There is simply no case for higher green taxes at the moment when motorists, hauliers and air travellers are facing rocketing costs. Noone would fault George Osborne if he got up and said that they're off the agenda for at least as long as oil prices remain so high.
David Cameron hasn't been talking much about green issues recently and the FT has noticed, writing "when [the Conservative leader] set out the priorities for a Tory government this month, he made no mention of green issues." The shift in emphasis has also reached the Westminster insiders polled by PoliticsHome.com. Just 13% expect the Conservative party to be the party most focused on green issues at the next election. 73% think it'll be the LibDems.
"The idea that green issues evaporate at the first touch of economic hardship betrays a misunderstanding of the environmental agenda. The necessity to build a sustainable economy is not just a “green issue”. It is just as much an economic one; business as usual is clearly unsustainable in the long term. Current economic stresses should underline that point rather than diminish it. Any public policy that makes our vehicles, homes and businesses more fuel-efficient and encourages the use of cheaper, more reliable sources of energy is not peripheral, but central. Green policies therefore become more important in times of economic stress, not less. The issues of increased energy costs and the need for emissions reductions must be addressed by policies to develop low-carbon technologies."
We can sign up to the thrust of the argument but the price mechanism - rather than government intervention - should be the main driver of any conservation.
The headline numbers point to a 24% Conservative lead. But the most interesting finding in the post post-Crewe poll - by YouGov for The Telegraph - is that voters have reached a clear conclusion that Brown is a massive liability to Labour.
Although a slim majority - 52% - don't think a change of Labour leader will make much difference, 32% think Labour's chances will improve and just 8% think things will get worse. Only 15% are satisfied with Brown's performance and 75% are dissatisfied.
There is much talk of the difficulty of getting rid of Brown. These sorts of polling numbers suggest to Labour MPs that Mr Brown's position is close to impossible. Could he really stay in post if Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, David Miliband and Alan Johnson call a meeting and tell him to quit? John Howard faced down such a delegation a year or so ago when the Australian Liberal Party was facing defeat under his leadership. He survived as Liberal leader but Labor's Kevin Rudd became PM in a massive win.
PS Who are the 2% of voters who told YouGov that taxes are too low?
Tonight's panel consists of Eric "the big man" Pickles, Global Vision's Ruth Lea, Geoff Hoon MP, Green MEP Caroline Lucas and military historian Dan Snow. The chatroom will be live at 10.30pm and will be moderated by a few nominated readers.
"I have had a fair number of meetings with a number of people who want to meet privately. I can understand that. They are coming to terms with the fact there will be a Conservative government after the next general election. They do not believe their members would understand what they are doing."
As Balfe wrote in an article for ConservativeHome at the time of his appointment, at least a third of union members are actually Conservative voters.
Companies leaving Britain because of our nation's high and complex tax burden. Anger over the 10p tax increase produces the biggest crisis of Gordon Brown's leadership. Tax and the cost of living dominate the successful Tory campaign in Crewe and Nantwich. The front page of The Mirror and thirty Labour MPs demand a tax break for motorists. Labour MP Denis MacShane tells Telegraph readers that it's time to cut taxes and spending. Nick Clegg claims that only his party is committed to reduce taxation for lower and middle income workers. Professor John Curtice notes that support for higher taxes hasn't been this low for more than two decades. PoliticsHome.com's 5000 panel finds that tax overtakes law and order in voters' list of concerns. And, just today, The Independent's Associate Editor, Hamish McRae asks: "When times are tough, you spend less. Why should it be any different for a government?"
How should the Conservative Party respond to this changed environment? The easy answer to that question is to stay doing exactly what the leadership has been doing. A large opinion poll lead would appear to vindicate the current strategy but David Cameron has rightly warned against complacency. Two years is a long time until the likeliest date for the General Election. We can't take victory for granted and we can't assume that Team Brown will keep shooting themselves in the feet. Most of all we need to think beyond politics and to the good of UK plc.
One: Don't renew the pledge to match Labour's spending.
Two: Promise we'll do for Britain what Boris is doing for London.
Three: Embrace deeper welfare reform and Iain Duncan Smith's social justice agenda.
Four: Promise to target tax cuts on the lowest income Britons.
Five: Abandon all schemes for 'replacement taxes'.
The Conservative Party has a new star - or, more accurately, grassroots members have recognised that Eric Pickles is a star.
David Cameron calls him the "big man" and he played leading roles in the victories of 1st May and at Crewe and Nantwich. Two months ago when Conservative members last ranked the shadow cabinet, the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ranked 10th but he's now shot up to 3rd - just behind the members' favourites; David Davis and William Hague.
Most of the shadow cabinet see their ratings rise compared with two months ago (ratings represent the percentage of Conservative members satisfied minus those dissatisfied). In addition to Eric there are big increases for Andrew Lansley, Oliver Letwin, Theresa May and Francis Maude. Francis Maude's increase is particularly striking. He has largely been in negative territory throughout these surveys but has a +15% rating this time. This may reflect strong recent media performances and a recognition of the importance of his 'preparing-for-government' role.
Sayeeda Warsi loses some ground after successive months of moving up the league table. More interesting is the continued weakness of Andrew Mitchell and Theresa Villiers. Even in these good times for the party - and with their portfolios in the news - their ratings are down.
This morning's Telegraph reports that the EU Parliament is attempting to make significant changes to the rules governing the formation of groups that are eligible for funding. Each group will need to have 30 MEP members, rather than 20, and have members from a quarter of EU states, rather than a fifth. The Telegraph sees the move as an attempt to thwart Euroscepticism within the Parliament and protect the status of the EPP and Socialist groupings. That may be true but the immediate consequence would be to make it much, much harder for Conservatives to form a group outside of the EPP, as David Cameron has repeatedly promised to deliver.
"The real aim of the game is to sabotage the Conservative Party's attempt to break away from the EPP group – a central part of David Cameron's strategy to parade his "Eurosceptic" credentials. Already, the Tories have had such difficulty in meeting the existing requirements to form a separate group that they have not yet been able to make the break. Lifting the barrier will make it near impossible for them to do so – which is precisely the intention. Without formal recognition as part of a group, the Tory splinter would have to sit as "non attached" MEPs, alongside communists, fascists and other odds and sods – a constant source of embarrassment and ridicule. Also, they would lose out on much coveted chances to become committee chairman as well as membership of delegations and the jollies that go with it."
Mr North also suggests that Timothy Kirkhope MEP is one of the drivers behind the move. This we cannot substantiate but Mr Kirkhope certainly dragged his feet as leader in fulfilling the London party's wishes before he was removed as Delegation Chairman last year.
Is this the thanks David Cameron gets for ensuring that all incumbent MEPs remain on the top of the lists for next year's European Elections?
Mr Cameron and William Hague must move quickly to ensure Conservative MEPs are no part of these rule changes. Failure to act will suggest that the Tory leadership is resigned to not delivering on its EPP promise.
Related link: Dan Hannan sets out Seven Reasons Why We Should Leave The EPP.
"At the meeting of the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee [on Tuesday], Conservative Spokesmen Timothy Kirkhope MEP and Vice Chairman of the Committee was a leading opponent of Richard Corbett's proposals to raise the minimum threshold for the establishment of political groups in the European Parliament and indeed, these proposals were indeed defeated in that committee, by one vote.
At the same time, Mr Kirkhope was able to secure additional amendments that could mean that smaller groups should not automatically be dissolved, were they to fall below a minimum threshold, as is currently the case.
The result of these votes means that either the proposals will have to be withdrawn altogether or they will come before the plenary session of the Parliament next month with little remaining credibility and of course Mr Kirkhope will be advising all Conservative MEPs to continue their opposition to any changes that would raise the threshold for the establishment of new political groups."
2.45pm, 29th May: Dan Hannan has now blogged on this topic.
ConservativeHome.com's May survey is now live. In addition to the regular tracker questions about the performance of David Cameron and the shadow cabinet we are asking questions about Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke, MEP selection and a few questions about ConservativeHome itself.
It's not just the general public that is becoming less concerned with green issues. The Guardian's Jon Harris told Adam Boulton yesterday that even the chattering classes assembled at the Hay arts festival have stopped chattering about climate change. Mr Harris was even paying tribute to budget airlines. It's amazing how an economic turndown changes priorities.
Some aren't giving up, however. The main news on this morning's Today programme was a report by a committee of MPs - chaired by Tim Yeo - that individual carbon accounts should be introduced for every single UK citizen.
"The initial response to the idea has concentrated on the enormous amount of computing and form filling there would need to be to capture everyone’s travel, heating, lighting and other uses of energy. It would make the ID computer look modest, cheap and not so intrusive. Government inspectors would need to watch over everyone’s habits and try to find a way of recording just about everything we do."
Complexity would only get worse if governments, for equity reasons, chose to adjust people's carbon limits for their age (older people spend more on heating), location (rural people spend more on transport) and health (very disabled people spend more time at home).
Fortunately the Conservative Party is almost certain to reject Mr Yeo's ideas. On all the big green issues - green taxation, nuclear power and airport expansion - the party's initial green fervour is fortunately giving way to a more traditional approach.
ConservativeHome placed an environment design in our pre-Cameron masthead of shields because we believe in the importance of protecting the environment but it should be a sensible, practical environmentalism of the kind practised by local Conservative councils: recycling, protection of natural habitats, planting of trees, action against litter, better home insulation, pedestrian-friendly transport policies in town centres. We don't deny that global warming may be real but sign up to the Copenhagen Consensus' analysis that there are more urgent things that can be done to improve human welfare than spend billions on green policies. Meeting again this month to take another look at global warming and other great issues, the CC has previously put action against malaria and support for free trade as better priorities for today's public policymakers.
"No one should be penalised for trying to do the right thing"
A few weeks ago we asked readers to suggest one memorable sentence that should sum up what Conservatism stands for under David Cameron's leadership.
Janet Daley has provided a very good answer in today's Daily Telegraph: "No one should be penalised for trying to do the right thing."
"Parents who are determined to get the best possible education for their children should not be treated like criminals. People who work for a living and provide for their own families should not be worse off than people who don't. Couples who stay together while raising their children should not be made poorer than those who do not. The needs of the law-abiding should always come before those of the criminal."
The elimination of the couples penalty that currently means that there is an incentive for very low income parents to live apart or to be dishonest - paid for by welfare reform.
Requiring unemployed people to undertake community work after they've rejected reasonable job offers.
The ending of the double taxation embodied in inheritance tax - paid for by a tax on non-doms.
Boris' hope to agree a no strike deal with the transport unions in return for honouring independently arbitrated pay deals.
A review of how we treat our soldiers by a commitment to renew the Military Covenant.
Across the board - including with regard to the Scotland-England relationship - there is enormous potential in this political theme. It can be summed up in one word, a word that is essential to Britain's understanding of itself: Fairness. After years of Labour failure, people are crying out for it.
As we've blogged before, the standard ConservativeHome talk to Conservative Associations over the last six months has been divided into two halves.
We begin with the good news and it's all political. The rise of the Conservatives and the decline of Labour. Bottler Brown's 'Ratner Saturday' was, we argue, the decisive turning point in Labour's political fortunes - and our own.
We then turn to the bad news: the weakness of Britain. Britain's problems are different from 1979 but at least as challenging. An economy built on debt. A tax burden that is putting UK plc at a terrible economic disadvantage. Schools that don't teach the basics. Hospitals that don't stand up well to international comparisons. A growth in extreme poverty. A policing culture that is cowardly in the face of militant Islam and anti-social behaviour. A culture that worships irresponsible behaviour and is indifferent to the importance of parenting and the family. An overstretched, underfunded armed forces. A constant bleeding of powers to the EU, a United Kingdom in danger from separatists and an unprecendented distrust of politicians.
In yesterday's Daily Mail Max Hastings provided his own catalogue of Britain's problems. It's a must-read piece. He says that David Cameron will need to "play hardball" as Prime Minister. Max Hastings is right.
In terms of meeting the big challenges we can take a lot of encouragement from Boris Johnson's first moves. On Thursday the new Mayor of London announced that Tim Parker had been hired as day-to-day chief of City Hall. Mr Parker has a great record of cost-cutting in both the private and public sectors. Unsurprisingly, the left doesn't like this inspired appointment. A record that he'll now bring to London after years in which Ken Livingstone allowed costs and council tax to get out of control.
Boris has also brought one of the two men behind Carphone Warehouse's success into an executive role for the Olympics. Hammersmith & Fulham's tax-cutting leader, Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh, is helping with an audit of City Hall. Ray Lewis, a very successful social entrepreneur, is advising Boris on London's problems of youth crime.
David Cameron has two years to prepare for 'hardball'. Personnel picks are going to be almost as important as policy decisions. The same individual helping Boris with his appointments - Nick Boles - is also right-hand man to Francis Maude; the shadow cabinet minister responsible for David Cameron's transition plans.
The Scottish party - backed by Conservatives in London - has decided against an early referendum as favoured by former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth and Scottish Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.
One of the reasons Lord Forsyth favours an early referendum is that he doesn't want Alex Salmond, SNP First Minister, to be in charge of timing. Alex Salmond hopes to turn his planned 2010 referendum into a verdict on what may be a new Conservative government in London - supported only by a handful of Scottish Tory MPs.
"The SNP leader says his administration, as well as civic Scotland, will resist Cameron's plans to cut welfare benefits, replace Trident and slash the country's funding settlement - and oppose any attempt by future Tory ministers to set fisheries and marine policy."
Eddie Barnes of Scotland on Sunday also imagines how Alex Salmond will react to the election of a Conservative government and reaches similar conclusions. Salmond, he writes, will ask the Scottish people to vote for independence on the basis that he rather than David Cameron should take the big decisions for Scotland.
Speaking to Scottish Conservatives in Ayr, on Friday, David Cameron said that as Prime Minister he would not frustrate SNP initiatives in Holyrood but he would never risk the Union. Although he said that a review of the Barnett formula for the distribution of public funds across the UK was "essential" he would not support a reform that endangered English-Scottish relations.
Funds raised in the north stay in the north.
There are Shadow City Ministers in Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Tyneside, Wearside and Teesside.
There has been a doubling of the professional staff in the North and the opening of new fully equipped campaign centres in Bradford, Salford and Newcastle.
The Bradford Campaign Centre opened by Party Chairman, Caroline Spelman in September 2007, is the most modern and best equipped political campaigning facility outside of London.
More visits to the north by David Cameron than any Conservative leader in modern times.
"I am delighted that Michael Bates will be joining the House of Lords. He will be an excellent member. He has a long record of public and political service. Most recently, he has worked hard to help re-establish the Conservative Party in the North of England. He will continue with that task in the months ahead. I look forward to working with him in Parliament."
"This is great news for the North of England and the Conservative Party, to both of which Michael Bates has already given outstanding service. He will be a strong voice in the House of Lords."
* Michael Bates' real title is yet to be announced!
Have you ever claimed less than the full entitlement, or repaid any excess?
Do you employ any family members?
They seem perfectly reasonable questions to us but only 19 of Britain's 79 MEPs were willing to provide full answers. Another 14 gave partial answers. Click here for a full breakdown.
Some Conservative MEPs answered in full: Richard Ashworth, Nirj Deva, Jonathan Evans, Dan Hannan, Chris Heaton-Harris, Syed Kamall, Sajjad Karim, Neil Parish, Charles Tannock, and Geoffrey van Orden.
"If you value your relationship with the Conservative Party I would recommend that you think very carefully about continuing with this... I regard the whole exercise as completely unnecessary."
Such arrogance stems, in part, from MEPs' almost untouchable status. The opaque selection process used by the Conservative Party meant that all incumbent MEPs were put straight back at the top of regional lists. The combination of a gerrymandered selection process and proportional representation means that it's almost impossible for ordinary voters to hold MEPs to account.
Now that the recent run of elections is over ConservativeHome is resuming our campaign on the MEP selection process. We hope to have something to say in the next few days.
"Bloody great campaign big man! You never let me down"
Stephen Gilbert was in Crewe and Nantwich from the morning of 2nd May and his early leaflets were decisive in framing the contest as a straight two-horse race between blue and red. He took the whole of Lord Ashcroft's marginal seats team up to C&N with him. There was no need to build a special team - the team already knew each other and gelled. David Mackintosh secured the geographically strategic premises and made everything happen on time. Stephen Gilbert's other key aides, Stephen Phillips and Stephen Parkinson also deserve a free drink when you bump into them next. Make that a few free drinks.
Alan Sendorek ably handled the media throughout the campaign. He was assisted in the final week by George Eustice, who had been drafting literature throughout the campaign and coordinating the softer, feature-style journalism.
Nick Timothy of the Research Department helped to identify the messages on 10p, cost of living and crime that the party's excellent literature then communicated.
(1) and (2) William Hague and George Osborne - two northern MPs who were constantly on the campaign trail.
(3) Angela Browning, the candidate's minder.
(4) Michael Fabricant, who coordinated the massive involvement of MPs in the whole effort.
Michael Fabricant was most assisted by a 'Magnificent Seven' MPs who worked alongside professional agents in each of the seven 'battle sectors'. They're all pictured on the right (with Liam Fox whose brilliant BBC performance has been praised by Iain Dale): Stephen O'Brien, Graham Brady, Philip Dunne, Robert Goodwill, Ben Wallace, Daniel Kawcyzinski and shadow cabinet minister Owen Paterson.
And a final tribute to local Chairman Donald Potter. Sometimes in by elections you end up with tensions between the local association and the central campaign team - and it is testament to his skills that the staff and local association worked together seamlessly. He was calm, constructive, added local knowledge to all that the campaign team did. Chairman of the Association for eighteen lean years he made sure that canvassing was never neglected and that gave the campaign a tremendous head start. He has a special reason to savour victory.
Who have we forgotten? The party's unsung agents. The hundreds of volunteers who gave up holiday, sleep and overtime. Great work everyone.
The men in top hats are gone! Labour threw everything at Edward Timpson but they failed.
Labour fought the most xenophobic, class war-rooted, backward-looking, negative, divisive campaign and it failed. They showed that they were no longer the party of aspiration. New Labour died on the streets of Crewe and Nantwich.
Voters didn't stay at home, didn't vote Labour, didn't vote LibDem - they voted Conservative.
But we will not give one hint of triumphalism or complacency. A by-election isn't a General Election. People have given us trust and we now need to earn it.
We must build the biggest coalition of change; something different, something bigger. We must end the era of top-down, bossy, high-taxing and wasting government.
11.55pm: Great quote from Andrew Sparrow at The Guardian: "Pickles should look cheerful, but he doesn't. "I've been up since 4 o'clock," he explains when I ask why. "For politicians, elections are like a combination of Christmas Day and root canal surgery.""
11.42pm: Reminder to read Jonathan Isaby's twittering from the count. Lots of good observations from him.
11.30pm: WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT CREWE & NANTWICH IS A TORY GAIN. WE EXPECT A 'SUBSTANTIAL' TORY MAJORITY. PERMISSION GRANTED TO CRACK OPEN THE CHAMPAGNE.
10.40pm: Graeme Archer has just posted on CentreRight about Tamsin Dunwoody standing as the Labour candidate when she could/ should have been grieving.
9pm: For context this graph (from The Telegraph's by-election HQ site) is useful. Three Line Whip's Jonathan Isaby will be 'twittering' from the count from 10pm.
7.50pm: O/T but have you seen this?: "The European Parliament and the European Commission have bought the former Tory headquarters near the Houses of Parliament for £20m."
7.30pm: Nigel Fletcher captured this photo of a Tory activist with LibDem MP Simon Hughes. Is this the new stage of lovebombing?
Welcome to our rolling coverage of the countdown to the result of the Crewe by-election. We'll be setting up a live chatroom later but will be blogging regularly within this post for the next few hours.
Sam Coates of The Times (not THE Sam Coates), has already recorded one dirty Labour trick of the day. We've just heard of another. Some Labour activist, wearing a Panama hat, has been swanning around Crewe all day in an open top car trailing blue balloons. Pathetic.
Plus two photos from earlier today: Top is a photo of four MPs - Alistair Burt, Mart Francois, Stewart Jackson and Daniel Kawczynski. The fifth guy is Andrew Griffiths; Eric Pickles' chief of staff and, we hope, the next MP for Burton. Below that is the number of poster sites that have been actioned by the campaign. 1,134 is a record by some margin. Also: Don't miss our earlier reports on the gingerbread men poll and news of the 4am GOTV effort.
A campaign to encourage public sector institutions to buy local produce for the sake of Scotland's economy and the wider environment.
The introduction of Bills that would produce a National Register of Tartans and another, from Murdo Fraser, that would protect rural schools.
David Cameron will address the Ayr gathering tomorrow. David Cameron has a positive approval rating of +19% in Scotland compared to Gordon Brown's negative rating of -41%. This 'Cameron effect' has yet to boost the Scottish party's overall standing, however. Scottish Tories are at the same opinion poll rating as last May. We're told that the party's opinion poll standing has improved! The source for this is the SNP! A study of four UK-wide opinion polls from May suggests Tory support in Scotland is now 21% cf 16% in 2005. That could produce six extra Tory Westminster seats.
Alan Cochrane reviews the Scottish party's performance in The Telegraph. He pays tribute to four MSPs, in particular: Derek Brownlee, Liz Smith, Ted Brocklebank and Alex Johnstone. But he calls for Annabel Goldie to spend less time dealing with the Nationalists and more time battling them. Former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth recently expressed support for an early referendum. He believes that the Unionist parties shouldn't be following Alex Salmond's timetable that would see Scotland vote on the Union in 2010. He - unlike the Scottish Party and Sir Malcolm Rifikind - wants a vote next year.
PS We'd like to compile lists of the best Scottish and Welsh Tory blogs. Please email us if you can help.
"I am sure when your Private Secretary reminded you of today’s event you felt like reaching for the nearest stab proof vest - and perhaps slipping into old habits and lighting up to calm your nerves... But as you have reassured us, you have moved on from these past indiscretions... Your recent crimes have been more for the serious fraud office than the drug squad!"
"You will say that you could not take any risks with inflation by conceding on police pay. But let me ask you this. How was it that the government found 2.7 billion pounds to dig itself out of a tax hole in advance of a by-election but couldn’t find 30 million pounds to honour our pay deal?"
"When teachers went on strike, the Prime Minister and the Education Secretary’s response was to say that it would be ‘irresponsible’ to over-ride the settlement recommended by their independent pay review panel. So it suited Mr Balls to defend the teachers’ panel deal but it didn’t suit you to do the same for us. Home Secretary, what is it that Mr Balls has but you do not..."
"Your decision not to honour the pay award was a breach of faith. It was a monumental mistake and I do not say this lightly when I say you betrayed the police service."
Here is a PDF of the full speech.
12.30pm: Gordon Brown ends by warning that he will be examining the performance of Conservative councils over coming months - particularly how they help the elderly.
12.27pm: Brooks Newmark MP asks for the PM's view on the fact that domestic violence incidents has trebled to over 600,000 incidents each year. [What a shocking statistic].
12.15pm: Nick Clegg asks about Afghanistan following his recent visit there. It might take thirty years, he says, to rebuild the nation and does more need to be done to persuade the British people of the need for a long-term commitment? He calls for the UK Defence Budget to be strategically reviewed.
12.12pm: Cameron responds by quoting Tony Blair who said that he didn't understand the tradition that PMs didn't attend by-elections. Brown says that David Cameron never asks substantial questions.
12.11pm: Cameron: Why hasn't the PM had the courage to go to Crewe and Nantwich to explain his views on 10p? Brown replies by saying that it's not usual for a PM to go to a by-election.
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Back in September 1991, The Simpsons kicked off its third season with a memorable episode entitled “Stark Raving Dad,” in which hapless patriarch Homer is shipped off to an insane asylum, where he meets Leon Kompowsky, a beefy fellow inmate who believes himself to be pop superstar Michael Jackson. Under the pseudonym John Jay Smith, Jackson himself voiced the role of the mental patient, making the episode a huge publicity coup for the still-young animated series on Fox. Spurred by this success, the writers wanted very much to do a follow-up episode about Leon Kompowsky, but this time, they had a different musician in mind for the role: Prince. Simpsons staffer Conan O’Brien wrote a script for the proposed show, but The Purple One rejected it. In the wake of Prince’s death last week, some excerpts from that script have started to resurface online.
Current (and former) Simpsons showrunner Al Jean has tweeted a couple of tantalizing excerpts from the unproduced O’Brien script. In one, Lisa attempts without success to purchase tickets to a Prince concert. Somehow, spiders are involved.
In another excerpt, Prince himself speaks, chatting amiably with Homer’s despised sister-in-law, Selma Bouvier. Disparaging references are made to several Prince films here, including Under The Cherry Moon, Sign O’ The Times, and Graffiti Bridge. Though this kind of self-kidding is par for the course on The Simpsons, Jean speculates that perhaps Prince wasn’t comfortable with this aspect of the episode.
Jean gives credit for finding the script to Jacqueline Atkins, who was an assistant on the show during the early seasons and served as the namesake for State Comptroller Atkins.
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2019-04-26T12:24:03Z
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https://news.avclub.com/found-the-rejected-simpsons-script-conan-o-brien-wrote-1798246571
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This evening, I was at a dear friend’s birthday gathering. Great food, great company, and a great opportunity to meet strangers.
Meet Jenny. She’s studying economics at Simon Fraser University. Any party where I can geek out about economics with someone without them leaving is a good party. She’s entering her fifth year of undergraduate studies, not attached to the idea of finishing a degree in an arbitrarily distinguished amount of years. She’s being practical about it. I appreciate that.
Jenny spent some time in a co-op program, working at a mortgage brokerage and learning about the way that side of the economy works. It gave her a renewed perspective of debt and how scary it can be. She’s also involved in the Young Women in Business program up at SFU.
She used to be a big fan of social media, with accounts on multiple platforms and with a pretty decent chunk of followers on Twitter. But, she told me, “it didn’t feel authentic –erm, the word authentic doesn’t even sound authentic.” We both smiled because it was true. It just felt like the connecting wasn’t real or personal through social media, she explained. She realized that she much prefers one-on-one conversations, not one-on-hundreds. That’s not conversation. She eventually deleted her accounts, only now coming back to them for new reasons and new endeavours. But she still doesn’t have Facebook.
Jenny has a very gentle presence — bright and brilliant but not blinding in an in-your-face kind of way. It was lovely to meet her.
As the night went on, we sang and played instruments together. Two of the guys from the world music store I talked about on day 29 were there, too. In fact, I got a ride home from my stranger from day 29. They say you shouldn’t hop into a car with a stranger… but if you start a project and write about their story first, then it’s okay.
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2019-04-26T08:38:20Z
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Sumptuous, sensuous visuals play off devastating repression in 19th-century rural Vietnam in this stunning first feature from Ash Mayfair.
As a rich landowner’s third wife, May (Nguyen Phuong Tra My) lives in an atmospheric world of lantern-lit trysts and lush tropical fields. Life and death cycle constantly on the estate, shown most evocatively in the repeated images of silkworms at work. At first, May enjoys her privileges, with servants always at hand, and quickly becomes pregnant. But as tragedy ripples through the farm, she starts to see her true role, as property and babymaker, a woman discovering her lack of agency at the same time that she’s finding her identity. It’s as beautiful as it is complex—an accomplishment that will remind you of early Zhang Yimou and Tran Anh Hung. If they were women, of course.
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2019-04-26T02:22:38Z
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https://www.straight.com/movies/1145746/viff-2018-third-wife
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First segment is interview with Dr. Jeff Starke, of the Baylor College of Medicine, and Dr. Virginia Moyer, of the University of Texas Medical School, and City Councilmember Dale Gorczynski, about reports regarding the low standard of healthcare for children in Houston. Second segment is interview with Pete Speers, District Attorney from Montgomery County, about the Clarence Brandley case and his belief in Brandley's guilt. Third segment is interview with Edward Cude, a candidate for governor, Richard W. Murray, Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, and Robert Newberry, from the Houston Post about Cude's gubernatorial campaign. Fourth segment is interview with Benjamin Pigott, President of the Houston Lawyers Association, about the Confederate flag, and Judge Allen Daggett's decision first to display, then to remove, it from his courtroom. Fifth segment is interview with curator and artist Kevin Cunningham, artist Benito Huerta, and artist Suzanne Bloom, about new funding guidelines for the National Endowment for the Arts regarding obscenity, and their exhibition entitled "Peaceably Assembled," which addresses the guidelines. Includes commentary from former City Councilmember, Jim Westmoreland, about the Houston Chronicle's piece on his use of a racial slur.
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2019-04-23T00:53:05Z
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https://av.lib.uh.edu/media_objects/j67313767
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TTU K-12, a unit of the Texas Tech University eLearning & Academic Partnerships division, is an accredited, print-based and online kindergarten through 12th grade school that has been meeting students' needs for 25 years. Affiliated with Texas Tech University, a Carnegie tier-one research institution, TTU K-12 boasts a rigorous curriculum that allows students to work ahead, make up failed credits and achieve their goals.
TTU K-12 began in 1993 as a "Special Purpose District" designed to help students whose educational needs were not adequately met by traditional school districts. Since then, we have grown to serve students across the country and in over 60 nations around the world.
Our program is accredited by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which ensures all TTU K-12 curriculum meets the standards set by the State of Texas and that students will be prepared for the TAKS, STAAR and EOC exams. TTU K-12 is also accredited by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
We offer open-enrollment testing solutions and even a full-time Texas high school diploma program that concludes with a graduation ceremony on the beautiful Texas Tech campus.
Whether students purchase one supplemental course or enroll full-time, they will find themselves included in a community dedicated to excellence and honor. With a team of over 75 certified teachers, affordable pricing, and flexible enrollment dates, students can start our program at the time that is right for them.
When a student enrolls with TTU K-12, they will experience a program that is consistent with of the excellence and tradition of Texas Tech University. To learn more about TTU K-12 and take your next step, we invite you to request more information from us or discover more by reading some of our student stories.
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2019-04-24T20:21:28Z
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http://www.depts.ttu.edu/k12/about-ttu-k12/index.php
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There are many ways to design your study abroad experience! One important consideration is how you will engage with the host culture. Internships, service-learning, volunteering, research, and student teaching and classroom experiences enhance learning while abroad by increasing students’ cultural learning as well as individuals’ transferable skills for employment and graduate school. There are many programs that offer opportunities for experiential learning. Take a look at all of your options!
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2019-04-21T10:49:06Z
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https://studyabroad.marquette.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Abroad.ViewLink&Parent_ID=0&Link_ID=1C65DD6D-5056-BA1F-7138C86A33A34E62
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Fire swept through a dry dock near Dubuque over the weekend, demolishing several pleasure boats. Five houseboats in storage at Massey Marina were lost, with a combined value of a quarter-million dollars. Foul play is -not- suspected. The Saturday morning fire in Key West, just south of Dubuque, likely started in one boat, then spread to the others.
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2019-04-25T08:01:35Z
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https://www.radioiowa.com/2002/04/01/fire-damages-boats-in-key-west/
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The proposal budget is a plan for expenditure of project funds by specified cost categories. Many agencies provide budget forms or require budgets to be presented in specific formats. Contact ORSP for agency-specific spreadsheets that will assist you in preparing your budget.
Your budget is a financial proposal that reflects the work proposed. It outlines the expected project costs in detail, and should mirror the project description. A budget is presented as a categorical list of anticipated project costs that represent the researcher’s best estimate of the funds needed to support the proposed work. The term “best estimate” is important here. You will be held to using the costs detailed in your budget, so make sure you’ve correctly estimated what you will need to complete the project.
A detailed budget should be prepared for each proposal. ORSP will assist in the completion of any sponsor budget forms and the budget justification.
Direct Costs include salaries and wages, fringe benefits, materials and supplies, equipment, travel, participant support, sub-awards, and other direct costs. An escalation rate for salaries and wages is generally included. Fringe benefits are charged for faculty/staff and graduate students at TU’s current rate.
For projects supported by federal or state government, tuition is contributed for graduate research assistants up to 19 hours per year (12 month period) or 18 hours for the academic year. Tuition for graduate research assistants should be charged to all other sponsors. A 5% escalation is used to estimate costs for tuition in multi-year projects.
Materials and supplies are items less than $5,000.
Equipment is defined as articles of non-expendable tangible property having a useful life of more than one year and an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit. They must be reasonable and directly allocable to the supported activity.
Office supplies, postage, copy charges and local phone calls are examples of costs not normally allowed as direct costs.
Travel should be broken down into domestic and foreign categories. Many solicitations require that travel be detailed to include travel destination, number of people traveling, number of days traveling, ground and/or air transportation costs, lodging and per diem. Remember to always check sponsor guidelines to make sure foreign travel is allowed before including it in a proposal.
Subawards are those made to other entities/institutions conducting the research. The amount of each subaward must be listed as a separate line item. An authorized scope of work, budget and budget justification must be submitted for each subaward, as well as a letter from the authorized institutional official. Indirect costs are assessed on the first $25,000 of each sub-award.
Other direct costs may include publication costs, consultant costs, or contracts for services.
Indirect costs (facilities and administrative costs) represent those expenses that cannot be easily identified to a specific project. These include operation and maintenance of facilities, library expenses, space, utilities, university administrative costs, and other services. The indirect cost rate is negotiated with DHHS and include both on- and off-campus rates.
For assistance with budget presentations, contact: Adrienne Blalack at 918-631-2480, Lori Watts at 918-631-2940 or Debbie Newton at 918-631-2192.
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https://utulsa.edu/research/office-research/pre-award-services/proposal-preparation-submission/budget-preparation/
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If you have a question for the Paint Gurus click here to email us.
Thank you for your questions. We will respond within 48 hours.
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2019-04-25T20:03:34Z
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The outraged son of a Bronx man killed in a hit-and-run crash vowed Wednesday to take justice into his own hands if cops fail to find the heartless driver.
"If they don't find him, trust me, I will," said Christian Delgado, 21, the son of victim Dennis Gandarilla, a deliveryman and father of four.
"He was actually finishing his job delivering food at a shelter," Delgado said. "He was walking home when the van hit him."
Gandarilla, 49, was struck by a dark-colored SUV on Macy Place near Rev. Ricardo Tanon Ave. around noon Tuesday, cops said. Witnesses said the driver sped away.
"If I was there, the person driving the car wouldn't be living," Delgado said.
Medics rushed Gandarilla, who grew up in Puerto Rico, to Lincoln Hospital, where he died.
"He was a family man . . . close to his family," Delgado said. "He was a good father. He was funny, outgoing, understanding. He didn't deserve this."
Delgado's mother is inconsolable over her husband's death.
"She's not doing well," the son said.
The crash was the second hit-and-run accident in the city within 24 hours, police said.
Twelve hours before Gandarilla was killed, a Jeep Liberty struck a 55-year-old man walking his bicycle down a Queens street.
Witnesses said Mariusz Szabat, of Queens, was on Juniper Valley Road near 75th Place at 11:45 p.m. when the gray Jeep knocked him into a parked Toyota, leaving him with serious injuries, cops said.
The driver of the Jeep Liberty stopped briefly, then took off, police said.
Responding officers recovered the SUV's front passenger side quarter panel at the scene and the rest of the vehicle was found abandoned five blocks away on Juniper Valley Road, police sources said.
Medics took Szabat to Elmhurst Hospital for treatment, cops said.
The two smashups come as the city continues to implement Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative, which includes new speed restrictions, enforcement and street reconstruction and has helped bring down traffic injuries and fatalities in the five boroughs.
As a result, the city has seen a 27% drop in pedestrian deaths this year, police said.
As of Oct. 17, the city had investigated 83 deadly accidents with pedestrians throughout the five boroughs — 31 fewer than the 114 reported this time last year.
The number of bicycle deaths are at 17, the same as this time last year, cops said.
Anyone with information regarding either hit-and-run is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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2019-04-22T20:46:54Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/son-bronx-man-killed-hit-and-run-vows-find-driver-article-1.3571700
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This research relates finance topics of initial public offerings (IPO) and lockup to examine the hypothesis that the timing of lockup expiration is crucial to the earnings management (EM) behavior in the post-IPO period. The unique two-stage lockup regulations make the Taiwanese sample an excellent candidate for examining this hypothesis. The evidence indicates a strong need of EM lockup period. Significantly positive discretionary accruals (DA) begin from the IPO quarter to the quarter right after expiration of 1(superscript st)-stage lockup. Furthermore, the DA in the quarter of 2(superscript nd)-stage lockup expiration is significantly positive. The Results indicate that the lockup provision is crucial to the literature findings of significant EM in the IPO year and the following year. Examining five specific items of DA, we find notable variation in implementing DA instruments between IPO and lockup periods. Among them, discretionary account receivable and discretionary inventory are most intensively used throughout IPO and both lockup periods. It seems that the reversal nature plays a role in the behavior of DA and of specific DA items. Finally, the regulation change in 2001 did affect the EM behavior in 1st-stage lockup.
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2019-04-19T18:16:57Z
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https://ir.nctu.edu.tw/handle/11536/129039
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God created you with every single ‘nut and bolt’ needed to fulfill your purpose on this earth!
Every thing else is just an addition……..
an embellishment if you will.
You WILL still function to your full potential without the peripherals, you know?
The question is do you believe that?
Special acknowlegment to my sister Valerie.
This entry was posted in Daily Inspiration, Food for the soul, Food for thought, Scripture, Uncategorized and tagged Daily Inspiration, Divine Purpose, Divine Strength, Encouragement, Food for the Soul, food for thought, Identity, Life, Potential, Self Worth.
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2019-04-23T10:36:39Z
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https://innateexpressionsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/you-are-enough/
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Olivia Newton-John assured her fans she's "doing great" in a new video posted Wednesday, amid rumors the legendary performer is in declining health.
"I just want to say that the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated, to quote a very famous quote," the singer said in a video posted to her official Facebook page. "I'm doing great and I want to wish all of you the happiest, healthiest 2019 that's possible."
This week, tabloid reports claimed the "Grease" star was in failing health.
In her video, Newton-John thanked her fans for their "wonderful love and support for me and for my Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Center in Melbourne, Australia."
"Here's to a wonderful 2019," she added in a tweet .
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2019-04-23T22:27:41Z
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https://www.wptv.com/news/national/olivia-newton-john-pokes-fun-at-exaggerated-rumors-about-her-health-im-doing-great
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The University of Houston sets minimum standards for graduate admissions, but the Department of History has established supplemental requirements. All students seeking admission into the graduate program in History must complete an online application from the University Office of Admissions. Please consult the History Department website (http://www.uh.edu/class/history/) or contact the graduate advising assistant for further information on completing this process most effectively.
Information about the university’s application procedures can be found at http://www.uh.edu/graduate-school/prospective-students/how-to-apply/.
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2019-04-21T03:51:02Z
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http://www.uh.edu/class/history/graduate/admissions/index.php
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Heart And Soul is a painting by Angela Melendez which was uploaded on January 20th, 2013.
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2019-04-23T06:19:36Z
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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/heart-and-soul-angela-melendez.html
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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 2009: The first of an ongoing series of seminars, presented by API dealer Eastern Acoustics and hosted at the Radio Broadcast Facilities of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in July, will mark the arrival of the first API 1608 console in Africa. Sound Sessions '09 will feature renowned engineers Vance Powell and Fabrice Dupont conducting a two-day recording and mixing workshop in Cape Town on July 13 and 14 and in Johannesburg on July 16 and 17.
To celebrate the arrival of the API 1608 all discrete analog mixing console, API and Eastern Acoustics have also arranged special pricing on selected gear. One lucky participant in each city will also walk away with an R24 two-channel, four-band equalizer from API's Arsenal Audio brand.
"I've always needed a good reason to bring an API 1608 to South Africa," says Akbar "Aki" Khan of Eastern Acoustics. "It's amazing to now have purchased one and actually have it under the African skies. I think it's going to be a landmark."
Khan and Sound Sessions '09 co-organizer Matt Allison of Cape Town's Ashton Audio have for some time been making a concerted effort to overcome South Africa's years of isolation at the southernmost tip of the continent, Khan reports, visiting AES conventions, the Frankfurt Musikmesse and Tape Op magazine's affiliated Potluck Conference to forge relationships with manufacturers and engineers. Allison, who is also an engineer, has also worked with both Powell and Dupont on various projects. The pair hopes to grow Sound Sessions into the premier annual pro audio event in South Africa, uniting the local audio community, while also attracting overseas visitors.
Vance Powell, who will be presenting the workshop on day one, won the 2008 Grammy for Best Engineered Album-Non Classical for his work with the Raconteurs. Powell is chief engineer at Nashville's Blackbird Studio, which houses two API Legacy Plus and several 1608 consoles, and has also worked with Jars of Clay, Keb' Mo', Buddy Guy, and the White Stripes. His workshop will focus on the art of tracking a live band, from set-up to break down, in a real-time environment and will cover topics like mic techniques, the creative use of effects and processing, and much more.
"My workshop will present the American rock sensibility and recording techniques to the South African market," comments Powell. "A band will set up on the stage in the broadcast studio, which has an elevated seating area and is where they typically do choral recording." Rather than utilizing the facility's control room, the recording equipment will be set up near the stage area: "The API 1608 will be the centerpiece," says Powell.
Fabrice Dupont, on day two, will share tips and techniques from his Mixology workshop series, including the ergonomics of a mix room, trimming the fat (getting rid of gear you don't use), mixing in the box versus outside the box, summing and gain staging, and patch bays. Dupont has worked with Bon Jovi, Jennifer Lopez, Toots & the Maytals, and Queen Latifah, among others.
ABOUT API Automated Processes, Inc. remains the leader in analog recording gear, with the Vision, Legacy Series and 1608 Recording Consoles, as well as the classic line of modular signal processing equipment.
PHOTO CAPTION Akbar "Aki" Khan of Eastern Acoustics (left) and Matt Allison of Ashton Audio install the new API 1608 console in time for the July 13-14 workshop, with Blackbird's Vance Powell handling the first day of demonstrations.
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2019-04-23T22:05:06Z
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https://www.mixonline.com/the-wire/groundbreaking-api-1608-console-arrives-south-africa-july-13-14-workshop-410803
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There are literally no words for my reaction to how this book ended this book was … it messed up with my head!
Alrighty here is the break down. It starts super eerie. Mara is with her friends Racheal (her bff) and Claire (Racheal’s friend not really hers) are celebrating Racheal’s birthday. Racheal wants to play the Ouija board and so they do.
I’ll leave at that. Later on in the book, Mara ends up in an accident and has no recollection what’s so ever of the incident.
I honestly didn’t know what was unfolding here! I was lost along with Mara! I was getting paranoid! I think I may have started to see things! I need to get my hands on book two !!
I thought this book was very different than any other book out there. It really kept you guessing until the very end and even the last page was shocking. It was very creepy and a fresh take on the girl losing her memory story.
I found the characters to be ok, I didn't love any of them but they were all very interesting to read about. I surprisingly grew less and less fond of Noah as the book progressed. He just seemed to get very controlling. I liked Mara, she had a lot of struggles and did a lot of bad things but you could tell that she never meant for anything bad to happen. At times though it kind of felt like she depended on Noah for everything, which I didn't like.
The whole idea of the story was clever and well written. Although at times there were long stretches were not a lot happened, I was still very into the book and the style of writing. It did have some creepy parts but the book itself was not totally scary.
It was really interesting seeing how Mara deals with her struggles and for a lot of the book she thinks that she is crazy. There were parts that I started to believe she was crazy. You really don't know her whole story until the end of the book and even then you're still left with questions.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a chilling but fun read. Good book when you want a refreshing new story.
Everything about this book is just jaw dropping-ly amazing.
What would you do if your whole world was turned upside-down?
This book is amazing. I love the plot twists, which are well thought out and explained.
The whole concept is brilliant.
One of my favourite books, and I bought this for my friends birthday and she loves it, and has even bought the next book.
Great read, keep up the good work Michelle.
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is a book where you have to unravel all of the pieces to completely understand the plot. Mara Dyer is a very eccentric book. I truly enjoyed this book .
I think the plot is very well written and put together. I personally haven't read any YA books like this and to be able to is very refreshing. It is relevant to the whole paranormal thing but still unique by separating itself into a world where the main protagonist could possibly be psychotic. but its still very recognizable with the whole new girl at school, girl meets bad boy who couldn't possibly have a care in the world.
The parts that angered me was when the "bullies" of the school had framed Mara's only friend Jaime and he had gotten expelled. Mara Dyer is witty, cynical, humorous, and just so real. The way that the author had written a teenage girl in the 21st Century diagnosed with PTSD is very believable.
Noah Shaw and Mara Dyer are probably one of my favorite characters of all time. Noah Shaw is your typical narcissistic, sarcastic, manwhorish bad boy who gets whatever and whoever he wants because of his charming good looks, not to mention his parents are filthy rich and sponsor the school. When Mara and Noah first met I had to put the book down and just laugh. I like how straightforward Noah is.
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was very entertaining and I definitely want to buy this book and the next two in the series. Michelle Hodkin did a very good job with this being her first book. I have already read the Evolution of Mara Dyer and it was by far my favorite from the series. I need to know what happens next. But unfortunately the third and final book comes out early 2014.
The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer is one of those books that you either love or hate it. A bunch of reviewers I trust have given this book 1 star, while other reviewers I trust have given this book 5 stars. Mara Dyer is definitely an odd book and I definitely can see why there such a divide in opinions. I'm definitely the odd man out because I definitely enjoyed reading Mara Dyer but at the same time it annoyed me so much.
Mara Dyer is marketed as a paranormal novel but that's not entirely true. Most of the book reads like a contemporary romance, there are only little sprinkles of paranormal aspects spread out through this 450 page book. The bulk of Mara Dyer's paranormal components are part of the book's conclusion and came way too late in my opinion.
Since Mara Dyer is the new girl at school, she suffers from not knowing anyone. She immediately gets on the bad side of the stereotypical mean, popular girl. There was really nothing special about her and she was so memorable that I forgot her name. I expected there to be some sort of paranormal fight between Mara Dyer and "Mean Girl". I wanted Mara to show "Mean Girl" that isn't okay to pick on other people just because they're different, that being different is okay or something cliche like that. I guess I kind of hoped that "Mean Girl" had some sort of ulterior purpose other than making Mara's school feel kind of generic.
The other supporting characters are kind of weak and felt a bit pointless. I kind of liked Jamie but he started to annoy me towards the middle of this book. I felt like Jamie didn't have much of a purpose, other than to warn Mara about Noah. You know about that friend who doesn't like the paranormal love interest and has to warn her friend that he is bad news. I'm way too familiar with this characters and I have seen it in so many paranormal books including Twilight. The other supporting characters didn't really stand out to me and they weren't anything special.
The best thing about Mara Dyer is definitely Mara and Noah's relationship. Mara and Noah's relationship was slowly and realistically developed. Thank you Michelle Hodkin for not including insta-love or a love triangle! I loved reading the banter between Noah and Mara, it made me laugh a few times. Their relationship slightly veered to the cheesy side but I guess that's a typical thing for a romance subplot.
Noah Shaw, thou are truly awesome! Noah definitely was my favorite character throughout this novel and he made The Unbecoming an entertaining book. He had a great sense of humor and Noah's dialogue is by far the best in the entire book. Noah definitely reminded me of Jace Wayland from The Mortal Instruments and that's definitely a compliment in my book. Even when Shaw was acting like a jerk, Hodkin still managed to make him an appealing character which is a very hard thing to accomplish. One thing that really bothered me about Noah was how much of a wastrel he was when it came to money, he didn't think at all before spending boatloads of cash. Maybe it's because I was raised frugal but Noah's irrational use of money kind of bothered me. Other than that, I loved the way Hodkin developed Noah Shaw and brought him to life.
Mara Dyer was definitely an entertaining book but I definitely feel like it could have been condensed a bit. I would have liked to see more paranormal aspects throughout the novel instead of having them most clumped up in the end. The ending of this book was definitely written well and it had this compelling effect on me. I didn't want to know what was going to happen next, I desperately needed to find out how everything was going to end. The ending was kind of a cliffhanger and it made me want to read book #2 immediately. I'll hold off on reading book #2 for a little bit, I really do hope it's more paranormal than Mara Dyer was. The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer, in my opinion, was kind of disappointing and I hope The Evolution Of Mara Dyer is a stronger novel.
-Noah Shaw is one of the best bad boy characters I've ever read about.
-The ending is such a cliffhanger and it makes you want to read the next book.
-The dialogue is definitely humorous and I chuckled a few times.
-I liked reading about Noah and Mara's relationship and it was definitely developed well.
The first part of this book and the second part of this book read like almost two separate stories to me. The first part is mainly about Mara dealing with her PTSD, which is pretty understandable and quite interesting. It’s well-written, intriguing, and emotional. The second half, when the paranormal part of this book starts to play in, is fast-paced, adventurous and even though it sets a really great creepy mood at times, is much less emotionally compelling. I think I liked the first half of the book more, even though I knew the paranormal was going to creep out at any moment.
I have to say, the characters in the story get two thumbs up for being interesting. At times, I really felt for Mara(mostly at the beginning of the book, though). As the story went on, Mara became a little more unlikable, but the supporting cast of characters are all really great. The thing that really gets me about this book is that I don’t find any of the characters particularly likable or nice, but I’m still interested by the story. It takes good writing to pull that off, so I give total props there.
The main thing that makes this just a 3 star book for me is the plot, and further, the pacing. The plot itself is great. I mean, it’s a really great and intriguing idea. However, the book’s pacing is so sporadic that it really takes away from the plot often. The middle of this book dragged much longer than it should have. Ultimately, I think the Unbecoming of Mara Dryer would have been a much better book if it had been more tightly edited.
Final Impression: At times, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was a really great read, but at others, it lagged quite a bit. Ultimately, I think the story wasn’t sure what it wanted to be, and ended up feeling like two different stories being told, in which I much preferred the first half. 3/5 stars.
Fast paced and couldn't look way even though I was confused. A lot.
I went into book knowing not a whole lot except Mara was a good character and this book was highly recommended and well reviewed.
I came away from this book knowing being in Mara's head is an adventure I will not soon forget.
Michelle writing was great and I was constantly guessing what was going on. I didn't know if Mara was crazy if there was some paranormal aspect that I didn't know about or some other explanation. (Again, didn't look at genre and that just made it even more of an adventure.) I was confused at times, shocked at others, creeped out at spots and wondering about Mara but one thing I knew is: I didn't want to put down the book. I had to get to the bottom of what happened and what was going on.
I also couldn't get enough of the enigma that was Noah. Every time I thought I had figured him out, he would do something else that had me questioning again. But like Mara, I had to have more. Even knowing his bad boy personality and reputation, I couldn't look away. There were some breathtaking and hot scenes and I loved watching their banter and the chemistry.
I guess that I didn't rate this book higher since I was glued to the pages is because I am still confused. I will continue with the series at some point I am sure, but I still don't really understand exactly what was what, and what happened in this one.
Bottom Line: Fast paced and couldn't look way even though I was confused. A lot.
I wasn't sure about this book for the longest time. I would always look at it but something would end up preventing me from buying it. I eventually gave in and I absolutely loved it. This is one of those novels that just got into my head and seriously messed with me. Even at the time of writing this review (2 days after I finished the book) I can't stop thinking about it. The twists were intense, the subject was dark at times and it was creepy.
I don't know about anything else but I love books where the main character can't remember what happens and they believe that they're crazy. There's just something about seeing things through their twisted perspective that just makes the story creepier than if it was being told through someone else.
I loved Mara. Slipping into her head during her descent into madness was absolutely thrilling. Just like Mara, I had trouble telling what was real or a delusion until she figured it out herself and that just made the story because I was constantly left wondering if an event really happened or not. Then thee is Noah Shaw. That boy is just completely swoon worthy. He seems like the typical arrogant bad boy but there is so much more to him. He's actually a pretty deep and caring character. I absolutely did not see the twist with him coming in the story either.
If you haven't read this book yet all I have to say is go get a copy. This is one book that even after you turned the last page it will keep you up at night wondering just what exactly is going on. I will be reading the next book in this series as soon as I have a chance and I am absolutely looking forward to it.
What I expected: A very haunting book with lots of accidental deaths, and purposeful death as well. A book that related to the title, as Mara becomes a different person via Noah.
What I got: A book with characters that are kinda soft, and the plot not entirely chilling. The hallucinating with Mara was very well done, but was really obvious what was happening. The beginning was really great, but she didn't really lose much memories, not as much as I would of like, it would of made the mystery deeper. The ending kinda dropped off, making the book lose its great plot. There were some confusing parts, like drinking the blood, and waking up afterwards.
I thought that it was great to have Mara hallucinating. It brings a whole new level onto her character, as well as the plot. I thought that it was great to have a damaged character playing the lead, as it lets the character and the reader fight through. Even though Mara is damaged, she still comes out with great lines, especially that one about the hierarchy of asses.
I didn't really like Noah. It's not just because of his reputation, but that does play a part, but it's mainly because I see nothing that really deserves Mara's love. He just sees she's different than everyone else, then wham, he's stalking her, and she's just falls in love. He also doesn't seem that nice of a person, as he acts like an 'asscrown'.
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer has a great start, middle, but a not so great ending, as the plot slowly drops off. There are some great lines, and great scenes, some creepy, some funny, some adventurous. This book is not my type, but if you look at the other reviews, you can see it might appeal to you.
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2019-04-24T16:37:40Z
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http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/10705-the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer
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In my thirty-third year, Molly and something else unplanned and unexpected began to stir in me. I hid the pregnancy a while…My parents were so worried about us having three kiddos already. I know that they thought it was not prudent nor practical. But just like Molly, who seemed to be product of divine breath, songs, lyric and literary works were stirred to life in me. All those inhalations in Mrs. Barton’s were finally being released. I taught myself guitar that year. I had to; I needed chord progressions to offer musicians as a base. Musicals and plays and all these wonderful and so inconvenient, holy things began rushing out…I couldn’t hold it back anymore. The baby was coming, regardless of my efforts to hide or cloak such. For about a year I wrote, by myself, and with collaborators of skill far beyond mine, for friends, for ministry projects, and for fun.
The summer of my tenth grade year Megan Thompson encouraged me to go to Student Council Camp with her at Berry College. I was up to go most anywhere with Megan, so I went. It was a God set-up all the way. I remember the feeling when my foot first hit the ground at Berry. Everything seemed to shimmer, like a lake disturbed. The place, the very grounds seemed alive. There was this motion, this other realmness. I looked around silently for agreement. Had I lost it? Some people seemed totally unaware of it…others betrayed a slight acknowledgement in their eyes and smile.
We did all kinds of team building stuff the first day, it was really fun. I loved the people on my team and our leaders. My roommate was a sweet girl from a county not too far from ours. I liked her. As we lay down to sleep she got her Bible out to read and asked if it was okay for her to keep her lamp on a minute or two. I had started reading through the Bible myself, no one required it, it just seemed a good idea to me. So, I got my own Bible out and started where I had left off. It was somewhere in John. When I began to read, this time, the words leapt off the page at me. It was alive, too. My heart raced…I looked to my roommate quietly reading. She was totally unaware of the earthquake within me. I read on until she reached for her light. Then I made myself close the Bible and try to sleep.
The next night we all had vespers at this old stone chapel. As we were about to enter the air, wind surged..it was if God was pressing, nearly shoving me forward.
The following night Cathy, a friend I’ll write more about later, sang…and shared…and then and things became clearer…And who these people were, so many at least, became clear. The leaders were pretty much all believers…incredible ones for their age. And so many of them were headed to UGA, to my town for the next four years. We became friends that summer and began to write one another…I even went down to visit them at St. Simons Island and to see all that God was doing there to prepare a generation of leaders in his Church, catholic.
Megan and I remained friends throughout high school. She didn’t push me along with God. There were people in place to do that for me now…people she introduced me to at Berry. She watched and loved me and continued to light the way for others to come near. She went off somewhere to college and then off again, I imagine, to serve someone else.
I was first introduced to her as Mrs. Cooper. I have no idea how old she was or wasn’t. She was one of those women who seem ageless. She was tall and thin and wore a wig, sometimes a bit ajar on her slightly large head. She dressed smartly, usually in pants suits, and carried herself like a choir director. She may have in fact been one on the side. I offer such as everyday, everyday, we sang. She would have us all stand for the pledge and then we, Mrs. Cooper’s 4th and 5th grade class, would sing. Usually we started with “Amazing Grace,” Mrs. Cooper had a pretty strong voice so she pretty much matched our effort, but we all sang. You did not fail to sing, the earth would open and swallow you or Mrs. Cooper would be mad which was worse. “She didn’t take no foolishness,” she often reminded some about to be punished plebe before sentencing. She didn’t. Not many of us, even myself at 4 foot something were scared of our 5’1” principal fellow, he was harmless, but Mrs. Coooper was a whole other story. We sang…”Amazing Grace,” maybe “God Bless America” or “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and always, always…”Let There Be Peace on Earth,” her favorite of all favorites. Yes, this was public school in the 1970’s, Yes, in the most liberal and progressive county in the state of Georgia, and No! no one ever dared tell that to Mrs. Cooper. Mrs. Cooper had by her choice, the top ten and the ten poorest academic performers. A few regular folks were thrown in to absorb some of the divergency. Everyday, Mrs. Cooper would tell us how very smart that we were, all of us, because she had us, and she only got the best. And then she would steal a look at us in the smart zone and dare us to be less and live. Everyday, while the rest of the crowd tried to read or copy spelling words, she walked among us relating how we would be valedictorians of our class. She named every valedictorian she had ever taught, and how one day we would add to her list and become famous for such as well. Then we would receive our nearly college level reading assignments and be let loose on them. A 10:55 a.m. everyday, Mrs. Cooper sent the children out to get some air on the playground conveniently located outside her huge picture window. Her “babies,” that is legitimate future valedictorians, were allowed to linger…At 11:00 a.m. her friend, Miss Thompson came across the hall, her class disposed to P.E. or some purposeful pursuit. It was usually my job to turn on the t.v. On came Bob Barker and The Price is Right. Barring nuclear disaster, she watched it faithfully. She would pull out peanut butter crackers, the orange packaged kind and tell one of us to run go get her a can of Coke, handing the lucky envoy a quarter. Sometimes she bought us one. Then we would watch …or read or do something deathly quiet. There was no talking for children during The Price is Right. But she and Miss Thompson laughed and carried on at folks on the show. When the credits rolled, one of us called the kick ball and four square gangs on in for spelling tests. Here is where we earned our special status. Mrs. Cooper purposely filled her class with the most gifted and the least gifted academics. She explained to us, with high hopes of duplicating herself, “You don’t really know this material until you can can get them to know it.” We were regular tutors for some children, occasional tutors for others. It built skills in us, but more importantly, humility and compassion…It broke my heart to see some of the children in that class try so hard and barely succeed in things which came so very easily for me. This was long before the age of “special needs students” having much special care…of course we had all types…but we worked with them one on one everyday. We succeeded when they succeeded in mastering what was required of them. Mrs. Cooper’s system broke every rule the Clarke County Board of Education could ever think to draft. But it worked…it produced better minds and hearts. I learned two important things from Mrs. Cooper…1. Every child is the best that there is because they are yours, and 2. Some rules and the folks who make them just need to be stared down. A few times someone called her out on her methodologies, she’d tell us about it, until The Price Is Right came on. We asked her what she said. “I didn’t say anything, I just stood my ground and looked them up and down.” In my two years as her student, she usually got her babies twice, I never saw her change her ways except to ramp them up a bit. She kept on singing and kept us singing and kept on speaking life and kept on requiring more where more was given and kept on watching Bob. Mama told me not too long ago that she saw that Mrs. Furr, she dropped her “new husband’s” name after she divorced him and returned to the name of her good as gold first husband, had died. Lord, I don’t know how old she was. I don’t have any idea how old she was when she taught me. But if she was 60 and I was 12 then she was 92 when she died. And for the record, she got her valedictorian our year; I give her all the credit.
Think Miss Frizzle as an English teacher, that’s Mrs. Barton. She was the zanniest adult that I had ever encountered…and she changed my world on so many levels. Mrs. Barton is the first person who spoke directly to the artist in me. It was sort of our secret. I think she spotted that well camouflaged streak in me the first time we met…She was always searching out brethren. I was not the outgoing singer, dancer, performer type. Yes, I could give a speech or oral report well, I could be in front…but my giftings weren’t really there. She knew that I loved to read and she had to suffer through my papers so I guess it showed itself somehow in such.
Mrs. Barton first introduced me to theatre. She took us to plays after school. Our parents had only to drop us off and she met us at the local venues. She opened my eyes to another way of living: free and uninhibited, though often through another’s experience. I remember in 7th grade thinking How do I throw off this accountant type persona – and be that? the artist? How do I free myself of all this weight and responsibility and prudence? A few years later when I reached high school and watched the drama kids from the respectable distance of a student council president, I thought about the many silent challenges Mrs Barton had made to me, every time she took me to those performances, Be an artist, I dare you, do it! I so badly wanted to…but I had set my course and relations and they would have none of it…So I watched in envy for years and years…and years. I have a “Me Book.” I got it when I was six. It has all these preferences which the owner fills in. They address things like: My favorite food is__________, I like the color_____________, and I like to wear______________. The book then addresses future goals. When I grow up I want to play what instrument _____________. When I grow up I want to be a_________________. I am, like most of my family, not musically inclined. It has been my worse subject in school, the only thing that I did not readily master in my academic career. I put down in the “Me Book” ( and I really meant it) I want to play the guitar. In a big steady hand I penned, “I want to be an artist.” I somehow knew even then it was impossible, we didn’t do things like that in my family. But I wrote the words anyway. I had to. That line in my book was my secret desire…how I saw myself, who I knew I was to be. I wrapped and protected that desire for years and years. I held the dream close to my vest to protect it. I whispered to it regularly, …one day. One day…when the responsibility slackens, when there is time and permission is not needed, one day…I will feed you, little fire…I promise…one day I will. Mrs. Barton stoked that little fire in me…when no one else even knew to. Somehow she saw it. I remember that everyone loved her as a teacher. Her class was so fun. I learned a lot about creative writing ( I hope). But I don’t remember many specifics about her class. I just remember being so glad to be in there, with her, breathing this air that was different from all other, air that just seemed to better suit my lungs. I conciously breathed that fortified oxygen in deep, so afraid that I would have no more for a long, long time. I didn’t. All through high school, my favorite teacher was Mrs. Lubbs, who was a scream and so like Mrs. Barton in many wonderful ways. She taught speech which I had to take, and drama, a door I never darkened…but peeked around every chance I got. I couldn’t go in… I knew that I would never come back out. All the plans for my future: business degrees and security would be cast to the wind…I knew I was one whom the first drink addicted. So, I turned down the wine extended and poured myself a water. And I survived …but joylessly.
So many of the people who I remember and love best are teachers…I think my teachers always knew that I would one day succumb to the call as well…Maybe that’s why I received the extra attention from so many of them…they knew.
Mrs. Keach taught me second and third grade at Barnett Shoals Elementary School. She was beautiful with wild, flowing flames of hair. Our teachers taught us all subjects but I remember her passion for science. Her brother was a deep-sea driver in the navy famous from the many Natural Geographic specials that tracked his endeavors to discover the depths of the ocean…He was the first guy down in the bathosphere. All that was going down my third grade year. We watched the specials with what felt like ring side seats and special materials about the bathosphere sent from Commander Keach. It was a thrill. I remember so much about the unit: all the weird fish we tried to duplicate with paper mache’ and paints that adorned a net hung across the back wall of her classroom. I remember how fun learning was for her and consequently us. I remember our unit on the gas shortage…it was 1973 and OPEC pressed hard upon us. Lines at the pump were long…sometimes there was no gas and when there was we paid an obscene $1.00 a gallon. Mrs.Keach had the very advanced kids…but she she pushed us far beyond our more difficult vocabulary words and algebraic math problems. She made us think, asked us questions that weighed heavily on us and stretched our hearts as well as our minds…I remember first feeling the “stress” of problems, not my problems, but the world’s, in her class at a white formica countertop staring out a window before me. Thinking of those problems and wondering, What is mine to take up?
In my seat next to that counter, I watched children play hopscotch out of the window behind me. I watched a manned helium balloon and a tornado fly through the window before me. The class was like that, we were allowed to enjoy life and learning freely, but we were pointed toward more than our own enjoyment…In that class we were prepared to journey to those places once unapproachable, to recognize those things that brought destruction, and to ask ourselves What in this is mine to do?
Mr. Campbell was my school bus driver all the years I went to Barnett Shoals Elementary School. He was tall and thin, older than my Daddy, and he wore a government green or brown pressed uniform everyday. He was the type of man who wore his belt perfectly aligned and whose shoes or boots were freshly shined. When it was cool he wore a cap that sort of matched his shirt. He didn’t talk much; it helped that he towered over even the fifth graders. Our route was particularly long, especially since most of us lived close enough to walk or ride our bikes to school. But for some reason, I never knew why or cared to ask, our route ran all the way out to the very edge of the county where a couple of stray students lived, then wound back around to my house. It was fine with me; I loved the ride. We left the school and headed due west toward the near corner of Morgan county. We drove a quiet highway that basically paralleled the Oconee River and the few neighborhoods along it. An occasional 100- 150 year old homestead that somehow lived on brought me smiles and an imagined life under its huge trees. Further out the homes were younger and less inviting, but we didn’t cater to those neighborhoods. At the end of Barnet Shoals Road, just north of its namesake, we left out our first passengers, a brother and a sister who lived in this mobile home, settled down in this little draw right alongside the road. That was the end of our county, Clarke. We turned around in their driveway. We headed back north through beautiful cropland…no longer seriously planted. About the only farmers left in Clarke County were university professors and their graduate assistants. Then we turned east on Whit Davis Road, the address of my family’s lake and cabin…my other home anytime weather permitted and Nana or Dada, Mama or Daddy would take me. I loved seeing the huge nondescript gate with its wired on “LOCK THE GATE” sign and knowing the secrets beyond that no one else could even fathom. We rolled across some feed cropland and by another glorious old lady with monstrous columns and then turned left at a beautiful highly detailed Georgian Greek Revival that someone was always sinking a small fortune into, trying to restore it to its glory. Then we continued back north and toward civilization on Lexington Road. We traveled down a long hill, over an inviting creek and its breathtaking little valley where rust brown and white cattle collected awaiting their dinner. As we climbed again, houses and neighborhoods, every paint hue and door style forever fixed in my memory, faithfully ticked by. A little farther and we came to my neighborhood, Green Acres. Another hundred yards past my neighborhood, in opposite direction lay Barnett Shoals Road. Down it a half mile was our genesis. The ride took about 50 blissful minutes. I can only remember one time that we did not keep our appointed rounds. After turning around at the county line, Mr. Campbell turned on his blinker before Whit Davis Road. I was sitting in my seat of choice, right behind Mr. Campbell. He began to turn down this red road, it needed gravel badly, there were big ruts which he tried to navigate carefully…Most of the kids were oblivious. A few looked around confused and then went back to giggling with a friend. My eyes were wide, my ears strained for some clue. We drew closer and I recognized exactly where we were. I knew from what I saw through the windshield and what I saw on Mr. Campbell’s face. We were at his house. He quickly descended the bus, ducked inside his house for a moment and then jogged back to the bus and cranked the engine. Our eyes met for the briefest of moments. My eleven years hadn’t prepared me. In that millisecond of eternity my eyes tried to tell him: I respect you, Mr. Campbell. I think that you are decent and good and everything I would want in a Daddy. I trust you and count on you and think no less of you because your house, as tidy as you, is out here, down this not good road, near these not all good folks…We…you and me…we are still the same. I couldn’t tell him that I knew the place well. My Mama and I used to carry Aida, our maid who took care of me when I was little, home right down from his house to a little ramshackle dwelling…and its occupants. Aida was never in a rush to go home. She always kept finding ironing or something to do for me. Now I could better understand why she preferred our cool in the summer, warm in the winter small house in Green Acres and just eating a bite of dinner with Mama and me and my baby sister. We finished the route, on time…pulled up to my stop…435 Brookwood Drive, like always. Mr. Campbell nodded goodbye to the gang of kids who exited before me. I followed them down the steps and out into the sunshine. I turned back and looked up to Mr. Campbell, “Have a good day, Mr. Campbell!” I called. “You too, Honey,” he answered. “Yes, sir,” I smiled in relief. Things were the still the same.
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The multi-faceted partnership marks the beginning of a new era of expanded collaboration between Sir Mick Jagger and co and the music company (UMG).
The band’s catalogue includes some of the most celebrated and influential albums of all time, from 1971’s Sticky Fingers to 2016’s Grammy-winning Blue & Lonesome.
UMG will continue to distribute the band’s music catalogue globally, with future projects and reissues to be released through UMG’s labels and networks around the world.
Bravado, UMG’s brand management and merchandise company and the leading global provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists, will handle global merchandising rights, retail licensing, brand management and e-commerce on behalf of the band, including their iconic tongue logo.
It will also work with the band and management to identify new opportunities for creative collaboration within the worlds of art, fashion, retail, sport, lifestyle and touring merchandise.
Eagle Rock, the UMG-owned producer and distributor of music programming for broadcast, DVD, Blu-Ray, TV and Digital Media, have expanded their global distribution rights to the band’s extensive long-form audio visual catalogue.
As part of the agreement, Eagle Rock will re-issue several classic concert films from their archives including Atlanta (1989), Steel Wheels (1989-90), Voodoo Lounge (1994), Bridges To Babylon (1997-1998), Four Flicks (2002) and Bigger Bang (2005-2006).
UMG’s chairman and CEO, Sir Lucian Grainge, said: “After a decade of working in partnership together, we are thrilled to expand and extend our relationship with The Rolling Stones.
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Interpersonal assessment has broad appeal to the clinician interested in capturing their patient’s interpersonal dysfunction in a systematic way. The most basic approach is to evaluate the patient on an interpersonal surface (e.g. interpersonal problems) using a self-report inventory. From this data, the clinician can gather the general level of interpersonal distress (elevation), the prototypicality (R2) and distinctness of interpersonal distress (amplitude), and the theme of where the patient’s interpersonal difficulties lie (dimensional scores of agency and communion, or displacement) (Wright, Pincus, Conroy, & Hilsenroth 2009). This information could be important in treatment response and expected pitfalls (Ambwani & Hopwood, 2009; Dawood, Thomas, Wright, Hopwood, in press; Kachin, Newman, & Pincus, 2001; Salzer et al., 2010).
The clinician can also gather additional reports from that same patient to compare their interpersonal features across surfaces, particularly useful in identifying where a patient’s interpersonal strengths and values are at odds (Wright & Pincus, 2011). Or the clinician can gather additional reports from other informants to evaluate agreement between self-rated interpersonal features and informant ratings of that individual’s interpersonal features (e.g. Pincus & Gurtman, 2003). Using a more complex model of the interpersonal circle (Structural Analysis of Social Behavior; Benjamin, 2000), the clinician can evaluate the patient’s internalized representations of important persons as well as the patient’s reactions and responses to such people.
The majority of these methods articulated for interpersonal assessment of a single individual have been at the dispositional (time-invariant) level. However there have been several advancements in modeling interpersonal behavior over time and some of these methods may be usefully leveraged to evaluate interpersonal behavior in a dynamic (time-varying) way.
Interpersonal theory has been applied to time-varying behavior in the laboratory as well as in the daily lives of patients. The former typically employs a laboratory based interaction task (with strangers or confederates), in which the participants’ interpersonal behavior is coded and evaluated by a trained observer on a second-to-second level (see Sadler, Ethier, Gunn, Duong, & Woody, 2009). Recently, Thomas and colleagues (under review) applied this coding method to the Gloria psychotherapy tapes, demonstrating the usefulness of coding therapy sessions to examine cyclical patterns of interpersonal processes, the attunement of interpersonal patterns among two individuals, whether the interpersonal patterns become more stable or dynamic, and how each person’s behavior influences each other. Such an approach holds considerable promise for understanding the second-to-second interpersonal dynamics occurring within a prescribed setting such as a therapy session. Yet, much of the patient’s interpersonal difficulties are experienced outside of session, and such second-to-second evaluations of interpersonal behavior would be difficult to gather when the patient is not in the therapy room (but see Holtzman, Vazire, & Mehl, 2010).
Another method is to collect brief self-report surveys of the patient’s interpersonal experiences across a variety of occasions and relational contexts. This approach is termed intensive repeated measurements in naturalistic setting (IRM-NS; Moskowitz, Russell, Sadikaj, & Sutton, 2009), and is typically implemented by asking the participant to record their interpersonal experiences after an interaction lasting at least five minutes (event-contingent recording). Such approaches are particularly useful for assessing interpersonal dynamics because they can focus assessment on interpersonal exchanges as they occur in that patient’s daily life.
The present paper focuses on IRM-NS, and how it can be applied to help the clinician better understand a single patient. To begin, principles of contemporary interpersonal theory is reviewed, focusing on the assumptions of how interpersonal processes unfold. I review research findings that support such principles in IRM-NS studies, then describe the data-collection method for our single patient, and demonstrate the methods developed to examine the patient’s interpersonal experiences and its relationship to his self-reported functioning.
At a conceptual level, contemporary interpersonal theory suggests that the most important things in life we experience are interpersonal in nature (Pincus, Lukowitsky, & Wright, 2010). These interpersonal experiences can be organized based on the two meta-constructs of agency (e.g. mastery, assertion) and communion (e.g. to belong, connect, share with others). These meta-constructs can be represented at the behavioral level (to dominate vs. to submit; to be friendly vs. to be cold), as well as at the level of interpersonal perception (to perceive dominance vs. submissiveness in others; to perceive friendliness vs. coldness in others). Interpersonal theory suggests that perceiving an interaction partner as dominant tends to invite one to respond with submissiveness (agentic complementarity) while perceiving an interaction partner as friendly tends to invite one to reciprocate with friendliness (communal complementarity). Naturalistic longitudinal studies have generally confirmed these patterns of complementarity (Fournier, Moskowitz, & Zuroff, 2009; Moskowitz, Ringo Ho, and Turcotte-Tremblay, 2007; Roche, Pincus, Conroy, Hyde, & Ram, in press).
Another consideration is how agentic and communal experiences go together. Agency and communion are commonly regarded as orthogonal (uncorrelated) dimensions, however, Fournier and colleagues (2009) found that the within-person association of agentic and communal behavior is not orthogonal for many individuals, and between-person differences in these associations relate to adjustment. Within-person association of agentic and communal perceptions are also not orthogonal for many, and individual differences in these perceptions are associated with distinct types of personality pathology (Roche, Pincus, Hyde, Conroy, & Ram, in press). Thus complementarity and covariation are useful interpersonal processes that organize how dynamic interpersonal exchanges and experiences are structured.
Clinicians can certainly be informed by research that articulates how patients or student samples organize their interpersonal processes generally, yet the clinician is likely most concerned with how their patient structures their interpersonal exchanges and experiences, as well as how that structure relates to that patient’s functioning. This project aims to articulate the methods and statistical analyses most useful in summarizing a single patient’s interpersonal processes to demonstrate the usefulness of collecting person-specific longitudinal data for clinical purposes.
Participants and Procedure. The participant is one of 10 participants recruited for a clinical IRM-NS pilot study. He attended a 1.5 hour training session where he learned how to answer the self-report questions and was introduced to the smartphone he was given to complete his responses. He also had access to a 24-hour helpline, which he could call in case of an errant response or confusion. Since this was a pilot study, clearance to view his clinical records and diagnosis were not obtained and cannot be reported here. He was 49 years old, male, married, and was currently receiving treatment at the local psychological clinic. He reported 136 social interactions (face-to-face interactions that lasted at least five minutes) over a 21-day period. Although the primary focus is evaluating him, part of this will also include examining the extent of agreement between his and his wife’s reports throughout the study (as she was concurrently enrolled in the study). Specifically I considered the reports in which both husband and wife reported on the same interaction (n=85), determined through interactions where they both reported interacting with their spouse, and the ratings for each were completed within 10 minutes of each other.
Figure 1. An event contingent recording survey to assess interpersonal dynamics in daily life.
Measures. The participant (and his wife) used a smartphone with a pre-programmed survey application to record his responses. All dimensional responses (0-100) were reported by selecting a point along a touch point continuum (see Figure 1), where he rated his own behaviors, his perception of his interaction partner, and his reaction to that interaction (e.g. anger, self-esteem).
Using a simple correlation between how he perceived others agency and his own reported agentic behavior, there was evidence for agentic complementarity (r= -.54, p<.05) across his 136 interactions (see top left of Figure 2).
Figure 2. Plots and moderators of interpersonal complementarity. Agentic complementarity (top left), communal complementarity (top right), and the moderating effect of self-esteem on agentic complementarity (bottom left). Dots on the top figures represent the raw (0-100) scores the participant reported. Low/High scores for other agency and self-esteem calculated as -/+ 1 standard deviation from the sample centered average. Sample based on 136 observations reported by the husband.
I next explored how complementarity concurrently impacted his functioning by constructing a hierarchical linear model, where his agentic behavior was predicted by his perception of agency, as well as self-esteem, anger, and the interaction of these functioning variables with agentic perception (see Table 1). There was a significant interaction, indicating that during social interactions with lower agentic complementary (e.g. weaker negative association between his agentic perception and behavior), he experiences lower self-esteem (see bottom of Figure 2). I further explored these effects by coding his interactions by whether he perceived himself in a dominant (his agentic behavior score was greater than his perception of his partner’s agency, n=62) or submissive position (n=71). After recalculating his agentic complementarity correlations in these two subsets of interactions, correlation coefficients were compared. When he was in the more dominant position, agentic complementarity remained (r= -.46, p<.05) but when he was in the less dominant position, agentic complementarity was not found (r=.02, p>.05, rdiff = .48, Z=2.94, p<.05). In other words, he was much more likely to engage in agentic complementarity when he was in the dominant role, and this might point to difficulties or conflicts with relying on, deferring to, or cooperating with others. The same analyses were conducted for communion, finding that he also reported complementarity on the dimension of communion (r= .71, p<.05, right side of Figure 2), but anger and self-esteem did not moderate this association.
Next interpersonal covariation is considered. The top left of Figure 3 demonstrates that he perceived agency in others as unfriendly (r=-.51, p<.05), but associated his own agentic behavior as friendly (r=.38, p<.05). This suggests the participant has a core interpersonal schema where he tends to perceive other’s dominance as cold, yet he reports his own dominant behavior as warm. I then explored how covariation concurrently impacted his functioning using the same approach described for complementarity (and see Table 1). During interactions where he perceives dominance and coldness are more strongly linked, he also reports higher self-esteem, but no significant association with anger (see Table 1, bottom left of Figure 3). During interactions where he tends to behave dominant and unfriendly he reports higher anger and no significant association with self-esteem (see Table 1, bottom right of Figure 3). Thus the type of covariation (perception, behavior) had differential impact on his functioning (self-esteem, anger).
Figure 3. Plots and moderators of interpersonal covariation. Covariation of interpersonal perception (top left), covariation of interpersonal behavior (top right), moderator of perception (bottom left) and behavior (bottom right). Dots on the top figures represent the raw (0-100) scores the participant reported. Low/High scores calculated as -/+ 1 standard deviation from the sample centered average. Sample based on 136 observations reported by the husband.
To evaluate him further, the 85 interactions where he and his spouse both completed records of their interpersonal exchanges is considered. To start, correlations between his reported agentic behavior with his wife’s perception of his agentic behavior were computed, finding modest agreement (r=.29, p<.05) between the two (see Figure 4).
Figure 4. Husband and Wife agreement on his agentic behavior. Agreement of husband’s behavior on agency (top left) and the moderators of agreement (bottom). Dots on the top figures represent the raw (0-100) scores the participants reported during the same interaction. Positive slope indicates agreement between wife (horizontal axis) and husband (vertical axis) on his behavior. Low/High scores calculated as -/+ 1 standard deviation from the sample centered average. Sample based on 85 observations reported on by both husband and wife.
Next a hierarchical linear model was constructed, where his agentic behavior was predicted by the wife’s perception of his agency (forming an agreement parameter), his and her self-esteem and anger, as well as interactions between self-esteem, anger, and agreement for both husband and wife (see Table 2). Constructing the model in this way allows us to concurrently evaluate what aspects of functioning (self-esteem, anger) are impacted, and who (husband, wife) is impacted by such disagreement over his agentic behavior. Significant main effects suggested that when he reports behaving with higher agency, he also tends to be feeling higher self-esteem and more anger. There were two marginal effects (p<.05, but not below the bonferroni corrected significant level), impacting both the husband and wife (see Figure 4). When there is greater agreement on his agentic behavior (i.e. positive slope), the wife tends to experience lower self-esteem, but he tends to experience higher self-esteem.
Next, his communal behavior was associated with his wife’s perception of his communal behavior, finding stronger agreement (r=.65, p<.05, Figure 5). Similar to before, a regression model was built to evaluate the impact of agreement on husband and wife functioning (Table 2). Significant main effects suggested that when he reports behaving with higher communion; he also tends to be feeling higher self-esteem and lower anger. Again there were significant interactions for both husband and wife. Lower agreement on his communion was associated with his wife reporting more anger, but the husband reporting higher self-esteem (Figure 5). Thus, both the husband and wife were impacted by the extent to which they saw eye to eye on his interpersonal behavior.
Figure 5. Husband and Wife agreement on his communal behavior. Agreement of husband’s behavior on communion (top left) and the moderators of agreement (bottom). Dots on the top figures represent the raw (0-100) scores the participants reported during the same interaction. Positive slope indicates agreement between wife (horizontal axis) and husband (vertical axis) on his behavior. Low/High scores calculated as -/+ 1 standard deviation from the sample centered average. Sample based on 85 observations reported on by both husband and wife.
Together these analyses build an interpersonal landscape of how an individual typically experiences others, and how interpersonal experiences impact his (and her) functioning. This participant engaged in both agentic and communal complementarity. At a molar level, adherence to complementarity may be indicative of normal interpersonal functioning. Deviations from agentic complementarity impacted his self-esteem, but deviations from communal complementarity did not. This may suggest an underlying sensitivity regarding agency. Consistent with this, agentic complementarity was only present when he was in the dominant position.
The behavior covariation score suggested he experiences more anger when he tends to behave with dominance and unfriendliness (or submissiveness and friendliness). It could be that behaving dominant and unfriendly is his way of discharging anger. Alternatively, this result could be capturing experiences of anger and frustration when behaving in a friendly submissive way towards others (rather than being able to express dominance with them).
The participant endorsed higher self-esteem when perceiving dominance and unfriendliness (or submissiveness and friendliness) as linked. In other words, he experiences a positive self-image when he perceives another as agreeing with him (submissive/friendly) or perceiving their dominance as somehow also unfriendly. Perhaps the tendency to link perceptions of others’ dominance with unfriendliness is why he is unwilling to engage in complementarity when in the submissive position.
Agreement on his agentic behavior is modest between himself and his wife. When they agree, he tends to experience higher self-esteem, and she tends to experience lower self-esteem. In other words, when she is recognizing his agency he feels satisfied and fulfilled, while she experiences the opposite feeling. This finding potentially highlights a source of conflict within their relationship which they could choose to explore further. Agreement on his communal behavior is stronger (compared to agreement on agentic behavior). Disagreement on his communal behavior tended to be associated with her experiencing more anger, and him experiencing higher self-esteem. This finding might suggest a bias in which he perceives himself to be friendlier than she sees him. Viewing himself this way bolsters his self-esteem, but leaves her feeling angry. Linked with the other information, it is possible he is motivated to report that he behaves both friendly and dominant (behavior covariation), but disagreement over how “friendly” he is enacting his dominance may lead to interpersonal conflicts with those close to him. This is also consistent with his unwillingness to complement another’s agency when he is put into the submissive position and the experience of anger during interactions when he is behaving friendly and submissive. Together, it appears his interpersonal exchanges and experiences are characterized by a complex theme of agentic strivings and reactions to those needs not being met.
This type of analysis allows clinicians to see how the dynamics of interpersonal dysfunction occurs naturally in their patient’s daily life. It can uncover whether the patient generally engages in complementary social exchanges, and can zoom in to uncover the particular contexts (e.g. dominant position) where this pattern deviates. This is clinically quite useful for identifying focal problems, targeting therapeutic interventions, and strengthening interpretations by drawing from the existing data the patient provides. However, this approach is limited by the patient’s ability to accurately self-report and potential effects due to self-monitoring as the patient continues to complete the assessments. The data is also limited by the interactions the patient chooses to report, and potentially meaningful exchanges could be lost if the interaction did not last the required 5 minute duration to be reported. The final limitation addressed is the lack of a normative sample with which to compare these person-specific associations. For example, the patient’s agentic complementarity was associated with self-esteem, but it could be that most people also have this association, making this significant finding normative. It would mean this association does not distinguish this patient from others. However, if the concern of the clinician is how the patient links their interpersonal processes to their functioning, and not how different these patterns are compared to others, the person-specific approach still has clinical utility. The most effective analysis would combine both approaches which could inform the clinician of their patient’s patterns, and how rare these patterns are.
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Phycology Section, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Pinnularia abaujensis var. linearis (NADED 52002). https://diatom.ansp.org/taxaservice/ShowTaxon1.ashx?naded_id=52002. Accessed 24 Apr 2019. This web service reports all information about a given algae taxon available at the time of retrieval.
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http://diatom.ansp.org/taxaservice/ShowTaxon1.ashx?naded_id=52002
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Betrayal is a gift that keeps on giving. I think without biofeedback this time around, I would’ve given up, the recent injurious effect on my motivation would’ve stopped me cold. Biofeedback and some very, very kind people on Twitter, that is. What I experienced this past weekend is the true incredible ability of social media: to connect people together so that they can lift each other up, support each other, encourage and root for each other. Anyway, gamma brain biofeedback keeps on going and astonishingly, though less so, still seems to be working, despite the events in my life striving to knock it back.
*Update: I really need to pay attention to the proper measurement amounts: milli-amperes or milliamps (mA) are not the same as full amperes or microamps!
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2019-04-20T02:45:05Z
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https://jeejeebhoy.ca/2013/08/20/the-days-that-test/
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ASU’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy is actively working with AHCCCS on the Arizona Opioid State Targeted Response (STR) initiative.
The overarching goal of the Arizona Opioid STR initiative is to increase access to Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment, coordinated and integrated care, and recovery support services and prevention activities to reduce the prevalence of OUDs and opioid-related overdose deaths.
The project approach includes developing and supporting State, regional, and local level collaborations and service enhancements to develop and implement best practices to comprehensively address the full continuum of care related to opioid misuse, abuse and dependency. This includes creating and implementing curricula and reducing stigma surrounding Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), access to MAT and increasing MAT providers within the State.
This initiative was made possible by grant number H79TI080250 from SAMHSA. The views, opinions and content of this publication are those of Arizona State University and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or policies of SAMHSA or HHS.
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https://cabhp.asu.edu/medication-assisted-treatment
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Here’s how to make a rockin’ little turtle from rocks and small pebbles.
I think this project is an excellent summer nature craft for camp, scouts or guides.
This is a quick and easy project and makes a great paper weight for Dad or use as a garden ornament.These can be made as large or small as you like and they are really inexpensive to make.
Begin by collecting a few stones, pebbles or rocks. They can be any size. My turtle measures about two inches from head to tail. After making this little turtle, I headed for the garden centre and picked up some large stones to make another turtle to use as a garden ornament. The large turtle will measure about 12 inches once complete and the cost to purchase the large stones, was only 75 cents.
Arrange your stones on a flat surface until you’re satisfied that they work together. Wash your stones with dish detergent and water, rinse well and allow the stones to dry completely. Once dry, paint the stones that will become the legs, head and tail with a dark brown paint and set aside to dry. Paint the body stone with a dark green paint and allow it to dry.
To add a little extra detail to the body stone, paint little circles using a mix of the dark green and brown paint. Add a few dots of brown randomly inside the darker circles and allow the paint to dry.
Glue the legs, head and tail to the underside of the body stone. Allow the glue to dry completely. Patio Paint on its own will withstand most weather conditions, but for a little extra protection, you can add a coat of polyurethane or varnish.
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https://www.allfreecrafts.com/nature/shells/rockin-turtle/
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You may view 2019 fee information here for reference only. The information at this link is for 2019 fees and WILL NOT be the same for 2020.
Paid by student at the time expenses incurred.
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https://studyabroad.ucdavis.edu/programs/quarterabroad/taiwan/cost
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Mitra Alice Tham’s first public performance was at the age of three and her international debut at the age of eight in Japan. Originally from Malaysia, she has won prizes at a variety of international competitions, including the Rosario-Marciano Preis for the most eminent artist personality, the Russischer Musikpreis for the best interpretation of Russian music, the coveted title ‘The Excellent Player Award’ at the prestigious Asia Oceania Festival held in Thailand and the ‘Young Millennium Pianist’ of Singapore.
She was the recipient of scholarships from the Purcell School, the Singapore Lee Foundation, the Singapore National Arts Council, the Shaw Foundation, and the Chiron Trust and received the ‘Gifted Young Musician’ Bursary. Mitra attended the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied under Patsy Toh. She obtained her Master’s degree at Mannes School of Music, New York where studied with the distinguished late Cuban-American pianist Jacob Lateiner.
Mitra was awarded the Blüthner scholarship to study at the International Sommer Musikakademie in Leipzig, during which she performed at the Göhliser Schloßer at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig. For two consecutive years she was awarded a scholarship by the Mozarteum Universität and was selected to perform there. Mitra was awarded a full scholarship to attend the 33rd International Workshop of the America Institute of Music Society (AIMS) held at Graz, Austria.
Her performances in Asia, Europe, United States and Great Britain include solo and chamber music concerts. Her performances exhibit her special talent of composing live on stage, and she has been featured extensively on television throughout Asia. She has performed to dignitaries such as the late President of Singapore in the Singapore President Charity Concert and HRH The Prince of Wales, in a performance at the Purcell School that was aired on national radio later that evening. Prince Charles in an interview described the performance as ‘brilliant and excellent’.
Mitra is a skilled composer and arranger, and commissions have included a transcription of ‘The Entertainer’ and other famous works for piano quintet and choir and other various ensembles. She gave a London premiere of Leroy Anderson’s Piano Concerto to a sold-out concert with the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra. The Classical Music wrote of “…Tham’s flying about the piano with great bounce and gusto”. Mitra has also performed the complete Prokofiev Sonatas in a 3-concert series in London. She was specially invited to be a guest at a Reception “A Celebration of Young People in the Performing Arts” given by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Mitra was invited to Malaysia to give a Masterclass, Interview Forum and Concert where Malaysia’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun, led a standing ovation.
In 2014, Mitra was commissioned to compose the anthem for the launch of a Malaysia national project: Melaka Gateway. This launch was presided over by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, with Mitra on the podium conducting. Mitra was also invited to give a recital in conjunction with the Ecuador Embassy in UK and to Malaysia to adjudicate in the MYO Festival. Mitra regularly gives recitals, masterclasses, seminars and adjudication in South East Asia and United Kingdom.
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https://www.allsaintskingston.co.uk/event/lunchtime-concert-mitra-alice-tham-piano
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I have been taking my 4 kids since they where born. My oldest is 29 and she still ask about him .His staff is very friendly .I refuse to go anywhere else.
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Johnson Curtis A Jr MD can be found at S Harrison St 280. The following is offered: Doctors & Clinics. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In East Orange there are 72 other Doctors & Clinics. An overview can be found here.
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2019-04-20T06:22:21Z
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https://businessfinder.nj.com/johnson-jr-curtis-a-md-east-orange-nj.html
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Peanuts Quotes - Frieda. . Wallpaper and background images in the Peanuts club tagged: photo peanuts frieda.
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http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/peanuts/images/37600353/title/peanuts-quotes-frieda-photo
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If this lighthearted obituary seems like it could have been written by a child, that's because it was. Five-year-old Garrett Michael Matthias, aka "The Great Garrett Underpants," wrote his own words for friends and family to remember him shortly before he died of cancer. In his final farewell, the Iowa boy wrote about his favorite superheroes and how he wanted to be a professional boxer when he grows up. InsideEdition.com's Leigh Scheps (http://twitter.com/LeighTVReporter) has more.
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2019-04-18T14:22:10Z
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https://www.insideedition.com/media/videos/5-year-old-iowa-boy-cancer-wrote-his-own-obituary-his-death-44984
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Barbara Palvin is the newest Victoria's Secret Angel.
The lingerie company announced in an Instagram post Thursday the 25-year-old Hungarian model has officially joined its Angel roster.
"Drumroll please... introducing @realbarbarapalvin, our newest ANGEL!" the post reads.
Palvin celebrated the news in a post on her own account.
"I don't know where to begin but I'll try: I never thought it would happen and it has exceeded all my expectations. I'm very excited to announce that I'm official a @victoriassecret ANGEL!" she wrote.
Palvin, who walked the Victoria's Secret fashion show in 2012 and 2018, voiced her gratitude to the company, her family and friends.
"Thank you for believing in me," the star wrote.
"There were times where I let my own thoughts hold me back and it was a hard climb away from those but my family, my team, Ed, and everyone at VS they were always there to support me and uplift me."
"I am proud to represent Hungary, and most importantly, all of you in this new chapter of my life! Thank you all so much again," she said.
Palvin's boyfriend, actor Dylan Sprouse, was among those to congratulate Palvin online.
"The missus has a big announcement, officially a VS angel! Proud of all the work you've done leading up to this and here's to more years of success and a little less Ben and Jerry's ice cream," he wrote on Instagram.
Palvin joins Behati Prinsloo, Lily Aldridge, Martha Hunt, Stella Maxwell and other models on the Victoria's Secret Angel roster.
The Angels star in Victoria's Secret campaigns and appear in the company's annual fashion show.
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https://www.realitytvworld.com/news/barbara-palvin-named-newest-victoria-secret-angel-1070430.php
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These are uncertain times. Never has that statement been more pertinent in 2016 which played host to seismic political events such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. This allied to a sluggish global economy presents plenty of challenges for multinational firms operating across the globe. The acronym VUCA which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity is a trendy management term that perfectly encapsulates the conditions that many multinationals are operating under.
Automation will also have an impact on certain job sectors and roles. According to an Oxford University study, administrative jobs topped the list of jobs most at risk of automation while health sector occupations such as nursing had a less than one percent chance of being replaced by robot labor. Companies and in turn HR departments face a unique challenge with automation, warns Brian Kropp, HR practice leader at CEB.
Kropp argues that with the potential for such significant decreases in headcount poses a question for organizations. “Should they reduce headcount and achieve the cost savings and then hire new people as the need arises? Or, should they invest significant resources in up-skilling their employees that will have their jobs eliminated with automation and prepare them for their next, different-in-kind role? In the past the decision was almost always the former, but with the increased attention that companies are playing in society and the additional scrutiny they are facing, they are actively debating if they should do the later instead.
Filler argues that the ability for HR departments to work with predictive analytics around skills need, resource requirements and sourcing strategies, as well as compensation and legal governance while at the same time move quickly will be in ever greater demand if HR is to remain relevant.
A recent Korn Ferry executive study found that nearly three-quarters of respondents reported that culture was core to the success of organizational financial performance. “This means that in 2017, employers will need to focus on and invest in their employer brand to help candidates understand the company culture and motivations within the workplace,” comments Filler.
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2019-04-26T08:17:45Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenhigginbottom/2016/12/28/challenges-facing-hr-directors-of-global-firms-in-2017/
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UNICEF/UNI108172/Nesbitt A newborn baby lies under his mother's arm at the Garissa Provincial Hospital in the provincial capital of Garissa in Kenya.
Social cash transfers are an increasingly popular tool in African national governments’ social protection strategies, but a question that often comes up about their use is will such programmes – targeted to families with young children – encourage parents to have larger families in a region with stubbornly high fertility rates? Researchers at UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti conducted rigorous analysis using data from the Transfer Project to find out.
Social transfer programmes have protective impacts on a range of well-being, economic and protection outcomes among children and their family members. However, implementing the programmes hits a major barrier in some countries due to a belief that transfers aimed at households with young children will encourage families to have more children to obtain or maintain eligibility. In sub-Saharan Africa, fertility declines have occurred more slowly than in other regions and the total fertility rate still stands at 5.1 (the highest of any region globally). Thus, unintended consequences like fertility incentives are understandably a concern for policymakers designing social policy.
UNICEF/UNI119459/NesbittCommunity Welfare Assistance Committee members talk to Lightson Ngonga, his wife Loveness Mwenya and children in Kabwe village in Zambia’s Northern Province. The family benefits from the social cash transfer program for an under-5 child.
Evidence from around the world, including in Latin American and Africa, largely suggests that cash transfer programs targeting poor households (usually with children) do not, in fact, increase fertility. Specifically, in Africa, research from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and now Zambia, demonstrates no increases in fertility as a result of national government cash transfer programs. In fact, in South Africa’s Child Support Grant, a national, fully-scaled up program targeting poor households with children – the most likely place we would see unintended fertility consequences – fertility did not increase, but in fact women receiving the benefits for their first child were more likely to delay a second birth than similarly poor women who did not receive the grant, suggesting that the grant empowers women to reduce unplanned pregnancy.
Impacts of a large cash transfer programme on fertility in three districts of Zambia are examined in a working paper released by UNICEF Innocenti. The Child Grant Programme, which universally targeted households with children aged zero to five years, was implemented through a cluster randomized control design, in which control households were to be enrolled three years after implementation. This enabled researchers to rigorously evaluate impacts of the programme on a range of outcomes, including food security, housing conditions, child health, and productive activities. Further analysis of this evaluation data found that the programme had no impact on fertility over a four-year period. This was true among women directly receiving the transfers as well as other (and younger) women in the households.
This new evidence from Zambia supports growing evidence from around the world that fears of unintended consequences, particularly encouraging fertility, of government cash transfer programmes are not supported by rigorous impact evaluations.
Tia Palermo is Social Policy Specialist in the Social & Economic Policy Section at UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, where she conducts research with the Transfer Project.
The Transfer Project is working to provide rigorous evidence on programme impacts in an effort to inform future programme design and scale-up. For more information on the Transfer Project’s research on cash transfers, we invite you to read our research briefs here or follow us on Twitter @TransferProjct.
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https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/cash-transfers-and-fertility-new-evidence-from-africa/?replytocom=1941
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Cassie Parks loves the ocean, dancing for no reason and the power of possibly. Her best-selling books include the topics of money, business and lifestyle design. She is a mentor for those who want to turn their wildest dreams into their dreams come true.
In this episode Adam and Vanessa wax poetic about their recent adventure in Peru.
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2019-04-18T12:52:35Z
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http://beethewellness.libsyn.com/2018/04
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Review of Highs and Lows #8, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam, 18 March 2015. Presenting: Bodyless Heads, by Setareh Fatehi with Nadia Bekker and Paula Chavez; Limitation Sky, by Svetlin Velchev; and Aria di Vetro, by Martina Francone and Simone Tecla.
The audience enters a low-lit room where three people are sitting in front of three projections of indistinguishable light and shadow forms. There is music in the background. As the onlookers take a seat and wait for something to begin, one realises that it has already started. Perhaps it was there all along but no one paid attention – any close attention, until now. Caught between a mixture of organic and electronic sounds coming from the rear of the room, a source now lost amidst the crowd, and the shifting images on the wall across the room, half-obscured by three bodies seating with theirs backs to the audience, one gradually realises that one is presented with extreme close-up shots of body surfaces. Is this what is to be seen? The bigger picture seems elusive and can only be approximated by a series of contrapositions or inversions.
The performers come between the audience and the projections of their bodies on the wall. Their shadowy outlines barely move while the close-up images pulsate with life. One might be able to locate the position of the camera on the body of the performer, but the projected image is so amplified that it acquires its own presence. The attempt to bridge the gap between the performing body and the projected image is fuelled by a desire to secure meaning. In an interplay of light and shadow, close capture and outline, movement and sound, what is exposed is not the body but the pleasure one seeks, and which is now denied, from its confinement and identification.
To compensate, one may choose to concentrate on the image and detach it from its source. The wall projections reveal and explore the depth of the skin not just as a surface but as a microcosm, a universe in itself. Still, the bodies of the performers come in the middle. As the location of the camera changes, the projections become dark and left immobile; the performers lean back on their benches and look at the audience. One turns to the source of this exploration and discovery with anticipation. Who is the subject and who the object?
By being on the stage, the performer allows her own body to be overpassed. The intimacy that is built up between the performer and the camera is constantly reconfigured; rather than incorporating presence, the performing body exceeds its own material surface. It meets the onlooker at the other end of the projection where the blown-up images become, at an organic level, images of any body including that of the spectator’s. This causes tension between any spectatorial demands for disclosure and resolution, and the laying bare of inter-subjectivity and one-ness drawn to the surface underneath layers of fragmented identities and gendered bodies.
Bodyless Heads creates indeterminacy between the habitual binaries of subject/object, gaze/body and exposure/concealment that it stages, and achieves a tentative inversion of voyeurism. Well allocated in space and orchestrated, it allows for an exploration of one’s body at a close-up but not under scrutiny, intimate but at the same time defying identification and ownership, escaping any totalising view or possessive gaze.
The dialogue between the body and its projection, presence and absence, light and shadow are some of the themes explored in Limitation Sky. The piece is divided in two parts that build on the metaphor or day- and night-dreaming. The room is dark. In the first part, colour lights, mainly blue and red, flash against a white wall while the dancer moves to an electronic beat. His body comes between the light and the rigid surface but seems to gradually lose consistency and to fragment as one’s eyes drift to the growing shadows that spread behind him. Pivotal and rolling sequences, as well as the lack of direct contact with the wall due to the use of a small ball give to the execution an additional feel of ethereality.
The shadows take precedence. Despite the close view of the performer and the sounds of the moving body, there is a growing sense of immateriality and dilution of focus and presence. The body seems to fuse with its supporting surface and to lose its clear contour; at the same time, the multiple shadows resonate, emerge from the wall and acquire substance. Across moving shadows and tangible surfaces, Limitation Sky articulates a struggle between one’s weight and weightlessness, the body and its sprawling projections, form and imagination. The choreography is well staged and there are seamless transitions between the object that casts a shadow and that shadow as the initiator of movement.
In the second part of the piece, this analogy is reversed. The placement of the body and the projection surface changes and a rigid grid of light dots appear on a shadowy corner wherein movement is executed. Movement and melody are more fluid, and the performer’s clearly outlined shadow is cast on the dotted walls. Their geometry, however, seems to enhance the tree-dimensionality of the architectural space. As a result, the projection of light seems to extract the shadow away from the wall and to pull it across the space of its trajectory, a space that real bodies occupy.
In this way, the piece generates a series of inversions and operational duplications of light and shadow, object and subject, origin and effect. It counters frontality by drawing the background to the fore, by lifting a two-dimensional surface against which movement is executed over the performing body, and by indulging the passing of shadows through the body as the latter undertakes a journey of exploration, initiation and engagement. At the same time, as attention is diffused away from the inverted presence of the performer, the viewer is drawn into a mesmerising dreamy state. But it is not an immaterial, abstract sphere but one grounded in and enabled by the corporeal. In that sense, rather than creating the impression of an alternative escapist state, Limitation Sky seeks to unlock the possibilities of the body and its imagery.
The third and last performance of this Highs and Lows edition, Aria di Vetro, is a performative dialogue between body and sound. When talking about the performative gesture, meaning is enacted through interpretive engagements that are conditioned by the inter-subjective context. In addition, the open-endness and dialogical process of interpretation are underlined as the work stages playful tensions through which meaning is actualised.
The piece has a minimal setting where a drum set is located under the spotlight. As the musician begins to play and to explore the different surfaces that surround him, pieces of straw and metallic tokens bounce off the surfaces of the drums and roll on the ground. This gives an earthly, tangible feel to the act, and an element of theatricality that denotes the physicality of space. This space is explored and occupied in different ways. One route of exploration is led by the musician, who at times stands up to reach for and use the instruments and at times moves above their surfaces without touching them, letting the sound of the last beat resonate across the space and become absorbed by it.
In parallel, the space is explored by the dancer, who walks out of the audience and begins to move in horizontal and vertical sequences across the room. Metallic bracelets around her wrists create an additional layer of communication across different bodies, between sound and movement, seeing and hearing. This conversation constantly morphs and becomes part of the space geometry, tunes in and out of the rhythmic beating of the drums, of breathing and jingling; and culminates when both performers move in space and gesture one another without really touching.
From one perspective, the piece mediates intent by materialising sound into body and dematerialising body into sound. However, this act is not left to linger on in some void stage or to be congealed into a static binary. Rather, it becomes part of a constant attempt to devise new ways of communication. With particular reference to intimacy and interpersonal relations, the piece seems to ask: what is said in silence, in absence, in retraction?
In response, bodies, sounds and movements grow and communicate across the material and the immaterial, the visible and the audible. More than an execution of a music piece or its choreography, Aria di Vetro gives presence to the agents of the act and, perhaps most importantly, to the exchange between them as real, living and breathing beings. It also allows reflection on how sometimes it becomes necessary to obscure in order to make visible, to silence in order to speak and to stand still in order to communicate a meaningful gesture.
Highs and Lows #8 brings together three central themes: the body of the other as one’s own, a recognition enabled by the intermitted projection of close-up body shots that exceed possession; fluidity and the body of shadows, in the exploration of presence, projection and surface; and the in-betweens of bodies and sounds, seeking new vocabularies of communication. In this enquiry, performance itself acts as inversion – an inversion of order, binaries, and habitual modes of seeing and communicating; but also of roles, risks, discovery and play. The structure of the event itself, with these acts being presented in different spaces, further supports the exploration of space and its extensions, physicality and exchange.
Netherlands. 4bid manages the evenings from the 4bid gallery located at OT301.
their eyes and explore the space.
completion. It is good to keep in mind that these works are mostly works in progress.
expressive in his face and movements.
audience to understand what they were to see.
This entry was posted on March 29, 2015 by 4bid gallery.
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https://criticalwritinginperformance4bid.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/hl-8-by-eve-kalyva/
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At MUSC, patients come first. We strive to provide information that makes sense.
Reaching out to fellow professionals, knowing that education is the key to better medicine.
A wide variety of clinical trials and research are the basis for better G.I. solutions.
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http://ddc.musc.edu/public/diseases/esophagus/index.html
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weebly
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What's that? You say I need more sleep?
During sleep some areas of the brain can be more active than during the waking state - laying down memory and the processing of information. So the information coming in throughout the day is processed off-line while you sleep. Sleep supports cognitive ability, memory enhancement, and our ability to come up with innovative solutions to complex problems.
The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced.
Infographics expert Manuel Lima talks here about the thousand-year history of mapping data — from languages to dynasties — using trees of information. He tells the fascinating history of visualizations, and the urge to map what we know. He talks about networks and the way we use them to explain decentralization, interconnectedness, interdependence. He sees this new way of thinking as critical for us in solving many of the problems we are facing nowadays. The diagrams and pictures are worth a look, just for themselves.
This book is impossible to put down. It tells of the main characters Guy, Rafi, Luke and Penny – and the reader is simply compelled to find out what will happen next.
The book uses a real life event as the basis of the plot.
In 1985 The National Gallery of Victoria had purchased the work “The Weeping Woman”, by Picasso, for A$1.6 million. The theft was claimed to be made by a group calling itself "Australian Cultural Terrorists". After an anonymous tip-off to police, the painting was found undamaged in a locker at Spencer Street Station on 19 August 1986. The inclusion of letters to the editor from that time add values to the story.
So how do these four people feature here? Guy is a world class expert in Hacky Sack and is failing at school. A Girl (Rafi) is overly responsible, smart and lives with, and cares for, her mother. Her mother is tormented by the death of her son and believes in the curse of La Llorona. An artist (Luke) has a rebellious nature and is the one to watch, the one to buy - he just didn’t care. The girl (Penny) used to live with Luke and has a young son, Joshie. She keeps hoping they will get back together.
The lives of Rafi, Penny, Luke and Guy intersect on one night in Melbourne – and their lives are changed forever.
This is a book about love, madness, art, grief and making mistakes. The story, heart-warming and heart breaking, is so beautifully written that the reader really cares about the characters and what will happen for them. This book also urges the reader search the internet to find out more about the heist and of La Llorona.
Today, at lunch time in the library, the Robogals from The University of Adelaide worked conducted a workshop on programming Lego Mindstorm robots. In these fun and educational workshops, students learn the basics of engineering, robotics and programming using LEGO Mindstorms NXT kits. The robot disco at the end of the session was spectacular, and lots of fun.
This interactive site lets you look at the a list of the 100 top bands, with information about the artists, and traces the influence between bands.
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http://readnlearnpathfinders.weebly.com/library-news/archives/08-2015
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Neptune goes direct late Saturday in Pacific time zone, but at 2:52 am Sunday in the Eastern time zone. It goes direct at zero degrees, 22 minutes of Pisces. Neptune went retrograde the first full week of June at 3 degrees Pisces. Neptune retrogrades give us an opportunity to erase boundaries between people, as we reach out to those who are different from us on the outside but share many traits under the skin. Let’s hope that we carry forward the things we have learned and the friends we have made.
Mars at 15 degrees Sag opposes Jupiter in Gemini at 8:54 am Sunday. Mars opposite Jove is a bit too willing to risk everything on a gamble – be it a bet on game or any other type of risk – and come home with pockets empty. You had best know your game inside out if you insist on playing today. On the other hand, in sports this can be a very good aspect, one that helps you utterly vanquish your opponent. This is when pitchers throw a shut-out, or a football team prevents the other side from making any touchdowns.
Venus enters its home Libra at 9:04 am Sunday. A weak or immature Venus in Libra is afraid to speak up for her values, and winds up merely appeasing others. But a more mature Venus is willing to risk the Miss Congeniality title by standing up for injustices. The only real or lasting harmony is that founded on principles of equality and fair play, and those are the values that Venus must support and institute wherever she goes.
On a personal level, Venus in Libra puts the object of her love on a pedestal. This Venus is the kind that would never sell her love for money or security, happily romanticizing a tiny apartment or empty purse. This placement natally gives one fine artistic gifts, with a love of ballet and other forms of dance. Famous people with Venus in Libra include: painter Pablo Picasso, singer Petula Clark, and Martin Luther.
Mercury enters Sag at 2:18 am Monday. Recall that Mercury rules its opposite sign Gemini, so that means it is not at home in Sag and will at times act like it IS in Gemini. Merc in Sag will jump to conclusions and then bombastically defend them to the death. ALTHOUGH when someone with this placement learns discrimination, he is able to separate his wishful thinking from thoughts based on empirical evidence. Can have difficulty concentrating for any length of time on his studies, flitting from one thing to another like a butterfly. Luckily he is gifted with enough intuition to save his life. The one really good thing about this placement is that they are honest to a fault, sometimes blurting out the truth at awkward moments. Famous people with Mercury in Sag include: Rudyard Kipling, Marie Antoinette, actress Patty Duke, tune-smith Jule Styne, Frank Sinatra, and Charles de Gaulle.
Mercury promptly bewildered by a square to Neptune in Pisces at 1:40 pm Monday. Easy to get lost under this transit. Make sure your directions are correct. Also be careful of flim-flam artists, because the deception won’t be obvious until the transit is over. Take at least three days to consider a contract or any other arrangement.
Ceres at 3 degrees Cancer goes retrograde at 11:46 am Wednesday. You may rethink what you need to make you happy, while busily cleaning house. Cancer may impel you to stock up on supplies, can the last of the harvest, or take inventory of house or office.
Venus at 5 degrees Libra opposes Uranus in Aries at 6:05 pm Thursday. It will be very easy to fall in love with a foreigner, someone with an accent, or other unusual person. It can be lots of fun to experience these Venus-Uranus transits, but the fun generally does not last longer than a few months at the most. In this instance it may only last till Saturday, when Venus squares Pluto! Just look upon this person as someone who adds an exotic dash to any gathering.
The Sun enters Scorpio at 8:14 pm on Monday, October 22. Possibly the most libeled sign in the zodiac, let us praise the sign that gave us artists like Pablo Picasso, singers Petula Clark and Joan Sutherland, dancers Eleanor Powell and Anne Reinking, clergymen Martin Luther and Billy Graham, researchers Marie Curie and Jonas Salk, playwright Eugene Ionesco, and jurists Felix Frankfurter and Edward H White II.
The Scorpio ingress may be a bit stressful because the Moon is entering Aquarius the same day, setting up a square. Scorpios may have to assert themselves to re-balance relationships, after having been content to blend in with the woodwork. The Sun will soon catch up with Saturn, which just entered your sign also. Sun-Saturn can mean a lot of hard work, even physical work, and weight loss. Saturn gives you the discipline to work hard to become an authority in your field, and to achieve your ambitions. Sun trine Neptune may sap your physical energy, but also bring renewed spirituality, creativity, and imagination.
The Sun at zero degrees Scorpio trines Neptune in Pisces at 7:15 am Tuesday. Sun-Neptune aspects, even the so-called good ones, can mean delusion and self-delusion and more delusion. It’s OK if you are on vacation and want to be carefree, thinking of nothing at all. Don’t do anything important in business or with finances. Don’t sign contracts. Be very careful of any new people you meet that day. But it’s great for having your own film festival on the couch!
Let me report a bit of my personal experience with Neptune. I have Neptune rising which has generally translated into a sensitivity to music and a lot of self-doubt. Now natal Neptune is being trined by transiting Neptune in Pisces. I have had a bit of a struggle the past few months with retaining water and having puffy ankles and feet. Ordinary measures have not helped and now I am trying to observe a balanced diet while avoiding added sodium.
Mars at 5 degrees Sag trines Uranus in Aries at 6:33 am Monday. Mars-Uranus sounds like it would be flammable, but really this transit is a marvelous time to step out of our ruts and be open to new experiences. Just think twice before you go bungee jumping or get some weird tattoo. BTW Mars-Uranus trines are a good time to buy mechanical or electronic items. This includes cars.
We have a New Moon at 22 degrees Libra at 8:02 am Oct. 15, featuring the lights closing in on Saturn. Pallas opposes the lights at 27 degrees Aries, while Vesta is trine at 25 degrees Gemini. The lights when near Saturn are very hard-working and take their jobs or other responsibilities seriously, and avoid getting bogged down in their own feelings. The impact of the asteroids mentioned will depend on what house they occupy in your own chart.
Mercury at almost 15 degrees Scorpio sextiles Venus in Virgo at 8:31 am Tuesday. Venus in turn squares Jupiter at 16 degrees Gemini at 7:34 pm the same day. Mercury-Venus sextile can be very pleasant and relaxing, altho you relax while in motion. It is easier to express love and affection under this transit, too. So it might be a good idea to take that day trip with someone special, or at least “do lunch” together. Venus-Jupiter together are very sociable, although shopping can get out of hand!
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If you like the idea of soundtrack music that might not sound out of place in a Tarantino film, some wistful soul and slow-motion funkadelics with an exotic ambience that offers flavours from countries as far-flung as Iran and Thailand, then you need some Khruangbin in your life.
Khruangbin is a psychedelic trio originating from Texas but currently residing in Los Angeles where the sun always shines and the musical possibilities are endless like the blue sky.
Their name means ‘aeroplane’ in Thai (symbolising the international set of influences that shaped the music, says the band). When they first got started back in the mid-noughties, they found inspiration in Thai funk sounds and styles of the 60s/70s cassettes they discovered on the cult Monrak Pleng Thai blog.
Their debut 2015 album The Universe Smiles Upon You was followed up by the critically acclaimed second album Con Todo El Mundo (translates to ‘with the whole world’ – fitting title, eh?), released in 2018. The album has been supported by a pretty much sold-out world tour. They are a popular bunch and you certainly understand why!
Made up of Laura Lee (bass), Mark Speer (guitar) and Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson (drums), the band are simultaneously tight and laid-back. At the core, Khruangbin is a band who loves to jam, full of endless grooves and hypnotic soundscapes that are instantly gratifying upon first and umpteenth listen. It’s so good they don’t even need words to accompany the melodies.
Come get lost on a trip inside Khruangbin’s fertile, psychedelic world when they play Roskilde Festival 2019.
In the meantime, you can check out their radio station called AirKhruang. Choose your own “flight” and start your journey.
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To leave Barcelona right when the first kick of the European championship soccer final starts is dumb. Even dumber is to land in Lisbon when Barcelona wins and celebration throughout the city starts. But that's what I did last week and I will not complain… Lisbon is a beautiful town. It is warm but pleasant, Portuguese is soft and musical, and the food is delicious.
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In February 2018, some 30 hand-written documents of imprisoned members of the Trotskyist Left Opposition from the years 1932-1933 were found in the Verkhneuralsk prison in the Southern Urals of Russia. Most of them were written in notebooks. The documents were discovered during maintenance work under the planks of the floor in chamber No. 312 of the prison.
Only a small portion of the Trotskyist opposition’s literature that was written in the Soviet Union in this period has hitherto been known. The Stalinist secret police, the OGPU-NKVD, did its best to destroy the documents produced by the Trotskyists. Only a few of them made it across the border, where they could be published in the Bulletin of the Opposition, which was edited by Leon Trotsky, the leader of the Left Opposition, and his son Lev Sedov.
The discovery of these documents is of major historical and political significance. The contents of the three documents published so far are a powerful vindication of the decades-long struggle of the Trotskyist movement, which founded the Fourth International in 1938, against counterrevolutionary Stalinism. Their publication constitutes a major blow to the Stalinist and post-Soviet schools of falsification, which, for decades, have sought to slander, belittle and silence the Trotskyist movement.
In historiography, the view has been entrenched that after 1927, after the defeat of Trotsky, the Left Opposition in Russia de facto ceased to exist. But this discovery proves that even the Stalinist prison could not break these people—they organized and continued the struggle. Based on the manuscripts, it is clear that they were indeed striving to create a certain alternative program for the development of the USSR.
The Left Opposition emerged in the fall of 1923, in the last period of Lenin’s life and amid the aborted German revolution, when the growth of bureaucratism in the Soviet state and the Communist Party was already arousing opposition within the party and the working class as a whole. The backwardness of the Russian economy, the inheritance of tsarism, and the delay of the international, and especially the European, revolution strengthened conservative, nationally oriented layers in the party and state apparatus. They found their ideological justification in the theory of “socialism in one country,” which was advanced by Bukharin and Stalin in late 1924 in direct opposition to the internationalist spirit and perspective of the October Revolution of 1917.
During the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the mid-1920s, the Left Opposition criticized the dominant faction within the party leadership, headed by Stalin and including centrist and right-wing forces, for adapting to the petty-bourgeois and aspiring bourgeois Nepmen and to the kulaks (rich peasants), as well as for blocking proposals to accelerate industrialization and for suppressing inner-party democracy. In foreign policy, the Trotskyists condemned the increasingly opportunist line of the Comintern, which led to a series of devastating defeats of the working class, including in Great Britain and China.
In the fall of 1928, the right-wing course of the official leadership of the Bolshevik Party was replaced by an ultra-left zig zag. One of the reasons for this was a grain crisis provoked, as the opposition had foreseen, by the unwillingness of the kulaks to sell grain to the state at unfavorable prices. After a period of slow industrialization and increasing reliance on market mechanisms, the Stalinist leadership shifted to the other extreme—a chaotic and adventurist policy of super-industrialization and violent collectivization of agriculture.
Along with the political prisons in Yaroslavl and Suzdal, the Verkhneuralsk Prison, whose building had been constructed in the 1910s, became a center for the incarceration of expelled dissidents, including the Bolshevik-Leninists, as the Trotskyist oppositionists called themselves.
Among the best known figures in the Verkhneuralsk political prison were the former Politburo members Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, the former head of the Gosbank (State Bank) and vice-head of the VSNKh (Highest Council of the Economy), Georgii Piatakov, the former secretary of the Comintern, Karl Radek, the former editor-in-chief of the Komsomol'skaia pravda, Aleksandr Slepkov and his friend, the writer Dmitrii Maretskii, who was the brother of Vera Maretskaia, a famous Soviet film star in the 1930s. The prisoners also included small groups of Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries and representatives of other political tendencies.
A list of 117 names of imprisoned Bolshevik-Leninists, published in the Bulletin of the Opposition in March 1931, included some of the most outstanding representatives of international Trotskyism at the time: Fedor Dingelshtedt, a leading theoretician of the Left Opposition; Viktor Eltsin, the editor of Trotsky’s Collected Works in Russian; Man Nevelson, the husband of Leon Trotsky’s younger daughter, Nina Bronstein, and a leading oppositionist in his own right, Musia Magid, and Igor’ Poznansky, one of Trotsky’s former secretaries and among his closest collaborators.
The state-organized counterrevolutionary coup that just occurred in Germany, the March counterrevolution, is an event of the greatest historical significance. The imperialist world war has not solved any of the contradictions of capitalist society. On the contrary, it extraordinarily intensified and deepened them, bringing them onto a higher stage… The world economic crisis has deeply shaken the foundations of capitalist society. Even an imperialist leviathan such as the USA has trembled under its blows.
The document emphasizes that the decision of German capitalism to place fascism in power signified an escalation of the counterrevolution internationally. The German bourgeoisie, the Bolshevik-Leninists argue, had decided to destroy whatever concessions it had been forced to make in the wake of the betrayed 1918/19 revolution of the German workers and sailors.
.... In rejecting the international permanent revolution, it [the bureaucracy] feeds the counterrevolution. The bureaucracy of the USSR has constantly cleared the way for world reaction to crush the communist movement. The USSR is isolating itself from the world proletariat just as the latter is being isolated from the proletariat of the USSR.
Declare openly and courageously to proletarian public opinion in Germany that it is not alone in its heroic struggle with fascism, that the proletariat of the USSR will help it crush the c[ounter]-revolution with all the resources the country has [at its disposal], including with armed forces, that have been awaiting this historical moment in full mobilizational readiness, that the Russian proletariat will fulfill its duty toward its German brothers with the same decisiveness with which the latter fulfilled theirs toward Russia in 1918.
The German working class constitutes half of the country. We are living in an epoch of wars and revolutions, when the political experience of the masses grows quickly, when all processes of social life are moving at sevenfold speed, when classes cannot remain for a long time in a state of confusion or passivity, no matter how cruel the defeats they had suffered.
The world revolution is entering into one of its most dramatic phases. To explain this to the workers of the entire world, to mobilize the workers, to make sure that the working class understands the causes that have led to this phase, that it understands that the victory of the proletariat is impossible under the Stalinist regime, not just here [in the Soviet Union], but that it is also made more difficult in Europe, that international Stalinism is one of the decisive barriers that the working class needs to crush in order to overcome the giant wave of world reaction—this is our primary task. And we are obliged to fulfill it with all the possibilities and in all forms that we have at hand.
The theses were signed by 30 imprisoned Trotskyists, including: Dingel’shtedt F., Kariakin M., Papirmeister P., Shinberg B., Novikov P., Abramskii A., Portnoi M., Bodrov M., Papirmeister Ya., Fel’dman, Nevel’son M., Kessel’, Borzenko, Blokh, Kugelev, Kozhevnikov N., Zaraikin, Papirmeister S., El’tsin V. B., Danilovich L., Khugaev K., Brontman, Vashakidze, Gogelashvili, Topuriia, Efremov, Shiptal’nik, Sasorov, Kholmenkin, Shvyrov.
The document is, in every respect, extraordinary. Cut off from the International Left Opposition and imprisoned, the Soviet Trotskyists offered an analysis that on all critical points completely coincided with that of Trotsky, adding aspects and emphases that are important for a comprehensive historical assessment of 1933. While not yet calling for the Fourth International—a call Trotsky himself would issue only later that year—there is no question that, judging by this document, the leading Soviet Trotskyists would have supported and contributed to the building of the Fourth International. Moreover, distribution of such documents in Europe and especially in Germany, amid the total collapse of the old leaderships, would have had a huge impact on the consciousness of thousands if not millions of workers.
These documents underline, illustrate and, in some sense, concretize the scale of the historical crime that the Stalinist bureaucracy committed in first isolating these cadres from the Soviet and international proletariat and then murdering them in the political genocide of the Great Terror. It is precisely because the Stalinist bureaucracy recognized that their political line resonated with the living experiences of the working class internationally and clearly articulated its historical and political tasks that it repressed them with historically unprecedented ferocity.
Starting in 1933, the oppositionists were carried off to labor camps, and by the end of 1936 they were virtually all in the two most awful places—the camps of Kolyma in Eastern Siberia and the camps of Vorkuta near the Polar circle in the very north of the Urals.
Here many died of hunger, disease or forced labor, or were executed. Fearing that an upsurge of the working class internationally would benefit the Trotskyist movement, the Stalinist bureaucracy moved to escalate its repressions and launched the Great Terror, in which no less than 20,000 to 30,000 Soviet Trotskyists and hundreds of thousands or even millions of Communists and socialist intellectuals were killed. Virtually all of those from the Verkhneuralsk political isolator were among those murdered.
There is no question that the cadre that was destroyed by Stalin would have played a central role in leading the revolutionary movements against fascism that erupted within the European working class both on the eve of World War II and in the early 1940s. The mass terror of Stalinism against the Trotskyist and communist movement, soon abetted by the horrendous murder rampage of Nazism, provided the conditions under which these movements could be manipulated politically and brought under the control of Stalinism.
These documents powerfully vindicate the Trotskyist struggle against the counterrevolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy. Every element of their analysis was confirmed by events. No one, having read these documents, can argue that the Left Opposition was an insignificant political force in the Soviet Union. Every line in these documents is imbued with revolutionary optimism, tenacity and foresight, and a proud, hardened fighting spirit.
The Trotskyist movement was and has always been, as the Bolshevik-Leninists emphasized, first and foremost an international tendency. This is why, whatever the horrendous crimes of Stalin and whatever the extraordinary losses the Trotskyist movement had to suffer, it could not be either defeated or destroyed as a political tendency.
The Fourth International was founded in 1938 in Paris amid the greatest wave of counter-revolutionary terror in world history. It was, as David North put it in The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century, Trotsky’s victory over Stalin. In the end, it was the Stalinist bureaucracies, their mass parties and apparatuses, that ingloriously collapsed in 1989-91, while the Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International, has proceeded to build what is now the most widely read socialist website on the Internet, the World Socialist Web Site.
Significantly, the discovery of these documents was broadly covered in the Russian media, with leading news outlets, including the business daily Kommersant and the Komsomol'skaia Pravda reporting on it. Kommersant, one of the most widely read newspapers in Russia (as of 2013, it had a daily circulation of between 120,000 and 130,000) printed two of the documents in full in its online edition (the first two discussed in this article) and interviewed a series of historians about them.
There is a profound sense in Russian society that this historical material and the questions it raises are important, not just for archivists, but from a contemporary political standpoint. Hundreds and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people in Russia will have read these documents by now. Many of them will be impressed by the degree of historical and political clarity, sharpness and foresight the Trotskyists evinced in them.
We urge the readers of these documents to contact the World Socialist Web Site and discuss these questions with us. The International Committee of the Fourth International represents the sole continuation of the heroic struggle of the Soviet and international Left Opposition. It has fought over decades to defend the Trotskyist perspective of international socialism and its analysis of the counterrevolutionary role of Stalinism, which these documents so powerfully illustrate.
Earlier this year, the ICFI published the Russian translation of David North’s In Defense of Leon Trotsky, which constitutes a major contribution to an understanding of the basic historical and political issues that were bound with the Stalinist betrayal of the October Revolution, the struggle for Trotskyism and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification.
Buy this book and help us distribute it as widely as possible! Contact us if you are interested in working with us on these historical questions on a principled basis!
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2019-04-18T16:18:30Z
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Smectic order has been generated in superconducting Nb films with two-fold symmetry arrays of symmetric pinning centers. Magnetic fields applied perpendicularly to the films develop a vortex matter smectic phase that is easily detected when the vortices are commensurate with the pinning center array. The smectic phase can be turned on and off with external parameters.
©2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
We thank Spanish MINECO grant FIS2013-45469 and CM grant S2013/MIT-2850 and EU COST Action MP-1201. D.G. acknowledges RYC-2012-09864.
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Posted on April 30, 2012, in Austria, Europe, Photographs and tagged Architecture, Art, City, Europe, Everyday Life, Photography, streets, Travel. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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2019-04-20T20:59:38Z
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The Division of Gynecologic Oncology at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) is at the forefront of the nation’s efforts to find the most effective ways to prevent, detect and treat gynecologic malignancies.
The division offers a comprehensive balance of research, patient care and education about cancers affecting the female reproductive system. For patient care and research, the division works with a multidisciplinary team of top scientists and specialists, including radiation oncologists, molecular pathologists, genomics experts and genetic scientists whose pinpoint specialization gynecologic cancers helps them better understand each malignancy at the molecular level and provide targeted therapies to stop it.
This expert team creates an individualized, comprehensive treatment plan for each patient that not only treats their cancer but addresses all of their needs, including psychosocial, nutritional, financial and genetic. Through our world-class combination of specialization, experience and advanced research and technology, the OSUCCC – James is transforming how gynecologic cancers are prevented, detected, treated and cured. For our gynecologic cancer patients, that means better outcomes, faster recoveries, fewer side effects and more hope.
The division sees patients at two locations, JamesCare Gynecologic Oncology at Mill Run and the Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center, and operates at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (The James).
Research also is paramount in our division. We are actively involved in surgical research and clinical trials, focusing on therapeutic (treatment) and nontherapeutic (observational) research of ovarian, endometrial, vulvar and cervical cancers.
Specific areas of research include less-invasive forms of surgery such as robotic surgery for patients with gynecologic cancers. We perform more than 500 major robotic surgeries per year, making The James one of the leading centers for gynecologic oncology robotic surgery in the country and our physicians the experts in this specialized field.
Dr. Cohn is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he has been a faculty member since 2001.
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https://cancer.osu.edu/research-and-education/departments-and-divisions/division-of-gynecologic-oncology
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Through the evolution of technology both print and process have become more predictable and reliable. As a result, innovations in the press and plate coating technologies along with imaging software technologies have challenged the way we view print. With lithography being the predominant printing process, printers now have to find ways to differentiate themselves from others especially in the color reproduction arena. For years, traditional halftoning methods have reproduced original continuous tone images with success. Today, however, the once accepted rosette is now being challenged by a new technology that does away with conventional screen rulings and dot patterns. This new technology called Stochastic Screening, offers many benefits and is loudly touted by its champions. Tone reproduction whether it be through conventional screening methods or stochastic screening methods is influenced by all parameters in the printing process. In this study, the effects of inking on dot gain and print contrast were studied. A test form was developed to test the prediction that stochastically screened images will perform equally or better than conventionally screened images under normal and increased inking conditions. Evaluation of the test results shows that conventionally screened images actually performed better than stochastically screened images. Stochastic images actually experienced increased dot gain and loss of print contrast in the 48% and 70% tint areas under normal and increased inking conditions. Although stochastic images had less of a performance, the images appeared to have less variation throughout the run. At the height of implementation, it is not likely that stochastic screening will become the standard for industry because there are many unanswered questions that still surround this new technology. It is also obvious that implementation of this new technology is bound to be limited by the challenges of controlling a wide variety of equipment across industry, as well as the need to control the plating and printing processes themselves.
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With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we will spend the next several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists are the “Best,” don’t just take our word for it: We polled 200 local music experts to pull together the nominees this year, so they come on pretty good authority.
It has been said hundreds of times before, but it’s oh so true: Dallas’ hip-hop scene is rich, deep and seemingly on the cusp of bursting onto the national scene as a powerhouse for the genre. Long gone are the days of Dallas’ boogie raps. Today, the city’s producing popular trap music from the likes of G.U.N and backpack raps from the likes of –topic with the best of ‘em. But this year, these five nominated rap/hip-hop acts released material that stepped outside the norm and pushed the creative envelope to a point that can and should establish a new identity for the city.
Blue’s long-anticipated 2014 album Child In The Wild was an achievement for the rapper and producer. It was a culmination of the artist’s two halves. For so long, whether he was going by King Blue, Brain Gang Blue or his current pseudonym, he built a reputation in the city as one of the most unique and innovative producers in the city. While he rapped too, it wasn’t until Child In The Wild that his rhymes caught up with his sounds. Now, though, Blue, The Misfit is the complete package: Rapper, producer and performer extraordinaire. Blue has been on a tear, showing off his skills as a performer and winning over crowds at shows and festivals, which also earned him a DOMA nomination for Best Live Act.
Buffalo Black does not mince words. The rapper and poet does not shy away from speaking on subjects that often go overlooked in popular music today, whether it be political strife, social injustices or his own personal battles. His songwriting and production abilities have gone as far as attracting the attention of famed movie director Spike Lee, who featured Black on the soundtrack for his 2014 film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Black isn’t resting on his laurels just yet. He has released an impressive amount of material in the past two years, and added the SURRILLA LP to his catalog just last month.
Lord Byron followed 2013’s remarkable Dark Arts Vol. 2 up with Digital Crucifixion this year. The first album displayed a more brooding and boastful Byron, and this time around he's a more polished rapper. Like his previous release, it’s a rewarding task for the listener to keep up with Byron’s stream of conscious flow and his avant-garde track selection that is sonically unmatched by any other Dallas rapper. Once again, Lord Byron proved he’s one of a kind.
If there were ever a designation, The Outfit, TX would be the chosen ambassadors of Dallas’ hip-hop scene. In June, the group’s de facto leader Mel Kyle penned a primer for Vice’s music blog Noisey that highlighted the current goings-on in the local scene and stirred a good amount of buzz. As for the trio of Mel, JayHawk and Dorian themselves, they have been busy touring, performing locally and working on new material. In July, the group released the Deep Ellum EP, featuring a gang of Dallas artists, and more recently they’ve announced a new album titled Down By The Trinity is on the way.
Of the nominees listed here, $kaduf is the newcomer. He appeared on the scene last year with the release of “40oz and Big B’s Burgers” from his Grove Side The Realest EP. The soft-spoken Pleasant Grove rapper takes a reflective and introspective approach in his music to share his vivid descriptions and understandings of his neighborhood. $kaduf’s offerings have been enticing enough that we’re looking forward to hearing what else he has in store.
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The “Multi-sectoral interventions to address the humanitarian and recovery needs of Ivorian refugees and Liberian host community members in the four emergency counties” program supported the continued delivery of humanitarian assistance for Refugees from the Ivory Coast who sought refuge in Liberia following the disputed elections in November 2010. The four counties mentioned include Nimba, Grand Gedeh, River Gee and Maryland counties.
The refugees were welcomed and hosted, adding on to the already tenuous circumstances created from previous immigration flows. This large influx of refugees has placed a significant burden on the scarce resources available. The emergency response had taken into account the needs of both host population and refugees in order to prevent diseases and safeguard the rights of children. More resources was invested in effective coordination amongst various Government Ministries, UN agencies, INGO's and NGOs , which were considered critical in ensuring the effective delivery of assistance to those most in need.
A summative evaluation of the ECHO-supported “Multi-sectoral interventions to address the humanitarian and recovery needs of Ivorian refugees and Liberian host community members in the four emergency counties” will be conducted in January 2012 and February 2013 as part of ECHO funding requirement. The four counties mentioned include Nimba, Grand Gedeh, River Gee and Maryland counties. An external consultant will be hired to complete this evaluation. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the effectiveness, impact and relevance of this program and to extract lessons learnt and good practices.
Scope and Sample Size of the Final Evaluation: The Final Evaluation employed both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Although the project was implemented in 134 communities in four counties, namely, Grand Gedeh, Maryland, Nimba and River Gee, a total of 14 communities were selected through systematic sampling (Appendix 4). Prior to the application of the systematic sampling method, the four counties were arranged alphabetically. Partners and districts in each county were arranged alphabetically. Communities under each district were also arranged alphabetically. The number of communities in each county by sector was also identified, and a sample size of 10% was chosen, thereby determining the number of communities to be sampled in each county. An additional WASH community – Marlay was added in order to maintain sector balance. Table 1 shows the sectors, the number of communities in each county and the 10% sample size for each sector and county, while Table 2 shows the communities that were selected through the systematic sampling method. Appendix 4 statistically captures the sample size.
Equity was observed throughout the implementation of the project; both the well off and worst-off, disabled and physically fit, girls and boys had equal access to community facilities. Even at CFS, there were specific games set aside for children who could not engage in vigorous sports like football, volley and kickball. All health centers visited were equally accessible by the rich, poor, well-off and worst-off.
Even though the project had several challenges, it catered to the huge humanitarian needs that were created in the communities as a result of the refugee crisis. Ivorian children were not only in the position to go to school, but children from refugee camps were able to score high marks in the Government exams. This indicates that the psychosocial aspect of the project under child protection was well in place, thus enabling the children to be stable and concentrate on their lessons. Additionally, the lives of malnourished children were saved. Residents of 16 communities are having access to safe drinking water, although the pumps are easily accessible by everyone in most of the communities.
Although activities of the project were not implemented in a timely manner due to the bad road condition and the time of the implementation (July – December), people in all of the 15 communities visited were knowledgeable of the project. Structures erected by the project were also visible in the communities. The CFS did not only provide a safe place for children to play, but also impacted the children’s lives in several ways. Children were relieved of stress through playing of game, singing, dancing and other traditional activities. Children were also protected from several child right violations such as child labor, early marriage, verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual exploitation.
2. Vocational skills to activities at CFS for children between the ages of 12 -17.
7. Ivorian refugees who feel secure in host communities and intend to settle in host communities should be given the opportunity to do so.
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Our discoveries, ASASSN-14li and ASASSN-18ey, are in the news (January 2019).
Extreme heartbeat star characterized using ASAS-SN and TESS (January 2019).
Our Kepler-field supernova ASASSN-18bt is in the news (November 2018).
New ASAS-SN telescope, named Tian Shan, has been deployed in China! (November 2018).
Our ASAS-SN Sky Patrol now serves both V-band and g-band light curves (September 2018).
We have added 300,000+ light curves to ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database (September 2018).
With 150 bright SNe discovered in 2018 so far, we are doubling our SN discovery rate (June 2018).
ASAS-SN was awarded a grant from OSU Women & Philanthropy to support our research (May 2018).
ASASSN-18fv: Very bright and mysterious transient near the Carina Nebula (March 2018).
ASASSN-18ey: Exciting Galactic Transient Discovered by ASAS-SN (March 2018).
ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database is now public (57,000+ bright variables) (January 2018).
See more ASAS-SN News here.
We are now partially funded by 5-year grant GBMF5490.
and the Villum Foundation (Denmark).
We thank George Skestos for his generous gift to Prof. Kochanek, partially used to expand ASAS-SN.
The sky is very big: even in the present day, only human eyes fully survey the sky for the transient, variable and violent events that are crucial probes of the nature and physics of our Universe. We are changing that with our "All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae" (ASAS-SN) project, which is now automatically surveying the entire visible sky every night down to about 18th magnitude, more than 50,000 times deeper than human eye. Such a project is guaranteed to result in many important discoveries, some of them potentially transformative to the field of astrophysics---think about ASAS-SN as the "SSST" - Small Synoptic Survey Telescope, complementing LSST and other time-domain projects by frequently observing the entire bright sky. Bright transients, Galactic and extragalactic, discovered early by our high-cadence survey, are especially valuable, as they are easy to study using relatively modest size telescopes.
ASAS-SN currently consists of 24 telescopes, distributed around the globe. ASAS-SN first unit, known as "Brutus", which also happens to be the name of the Ohio State mascot, comprises of four robotic 14-cm telescopes deployed at the Hawaii station of the Las Cumbres Observatory. ASAS-SN second unit, named "Cassius", also consists of four 14-cm telescopes deployed in Chile. In 2017, with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant GBMF5490, we deployed additional 8 telescopes at two other LCO sites: "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin", deployed in South Africa, and "Henrietta Leavitt", deployed in Texas. In addition, using a combination of funds from Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Science South America Center for Astronomy (CASSACA), and the Villum Foundation (Denmark), in September 2017 the 5th ASAS-SN unit, "Bohdan Paczyński", was deployed in Chile. Finally, using funds from the Peking University and the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), in November 2018 the 6th ASAS-SN unit, "Tian Shan", was deployed in China. All these telescopes allow us to survey the entire visible sky every night, and are making our network much less sensitive to weather conditions.
We are discovering numerous bright supernovae in both hemispheres: see below where our SNe are located on the sky (bigger symbols - smaller distance) We also discover numerous other bright transients, many of which are being intensely observed by professional and amateur astronomers.
See below our sky coverage plot for the last 365 days - we are frequently observing the entire sky!
At this point we are focused on discovering bright, nearby supernovae, but we like all kinds of variable objects, so if there is an object with g,V-band magnitude between g,V~9 and g,V~18 that we might have in our data, send us an e-mail (ben.shappee@gmail.com) and we will check what we have (see our Sky Patrol service first).
We thank Las Cumbres Observatory and its staff for their continued support of ASAS-SN: we truly could not do this without your help.
Udit Basu, a local (Ohio) high school student who worked with us for 3 years, is now an undergrad at Princeton Astrophysics.
An important part of our project is the follow-up effort with bigger telescopes to get confirmation imaging (our images have ~8" pixels). We are fortunate to have a number of "unpaid professional astronomers" working with us on ASAS-SN "ad hoc" SN confirmation effort, including G. Bock (BOSS), E. Conseil (Association Francaise des Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables, France), I. Cruz (Cruz Observatory, USA), J. M. Fernandez (Observatory Inmaculada del Molino, Spain), S. Kiyota (Variable Star Observers League in Japan), R. A. Koff (AntelopeHills Observatory), G. Krannich (Roof Observatory Kaufering, Germany), P. Marples (BOSS), G. Masi (Virtual Telescope Project, Ceccano, Italy), L. A. G. Monard (Klein Karoo Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa), B. Nicholls (Mt. Vernon Obs., New Zealand), J. Nicolas (Groupe SNAUDE, France), R. Post (Post Astronomy), G. Stone (Sierra Remote Observatories), W. Wiethoff (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA). You can see from many joint Astronomer's Telegrams we have published that it is a very fruitful collaboration - we have confirmed together more than 400 supernovae!
A large number of professional astronomers have also contributed their effort and telescope time to ASAS-SN, which we most appreciate. You can see the names of our collaborators on ASAS-SN results annouced so far on ASAS-SN papers and ATels. So when you get an e-mail from us, asking to collaborate on a new exciting ASAS-SN target, we hope you will say "yes"!
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2019-04-26T11:39:26Z
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http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml
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This chapter studies how three successive German societies constructed the boundary between peace and war: The German Empire (1871-1918), Nazi German (1933-45), and the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 –present). In each case the ritual of taking an oath of allegiance was central act, both collective and individual, in making an individual into a warrior. Oaths of allegiance have been a standard instrument in creating individual warriors and groups of warriors since at least antiquity. They are powerful tools of governmentality since they are means of controlling the conscience of a subject and linking personal salvation to compliance. In the Imperial and the Nazi period, taking the oath was considered a binding deed that transformed the individual and commanded his loyalty.
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My parents’ record collection was probably typical of most British people who grew up during the sixties. The break-up of a number of significant 60s acts led to a glut of albums by solo artists. Some were good and some were great and some were awful. Obviously the Beatles led the way in this overabundance of twelve inch vinyl and while those older than myself were expecting tablets of stone from the individual Fabs, I just heard the bits of the early solo LPs which my father thought were good enough for us to hear. Hence he edited “McCartney” down to a decent EP, dropped “I don’t want to be a soldier” and “Oh Yoko” from “Imagine” and brutally cut down “All things must pass” to a measly six songs. But hell those six songs were absolutely fantastic, and we didn’t have to sit through “I dig love” or “The art of dying” on our long car journeys. We had “John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band” as a prerecorded cassette but I never heard it, ever. Maybe there was too much swearing on it for our tender ears. (This didn’t stop my brother and I learning a lot of dirty words from my father’s Penguin copy of “Lennon Remembers” around the same time – this was mid 70s). I’ll look at the Beatles in more detail another time but for this article I want to look at two solo artists who were freed from their bands or partnerships – though the ties still bound in both cases – and who produced superb debut solo albums, then look at their second and third albums.
As time passed through 1969, Paul Simon felt restricted by the format of his partnership with Art Garfunkel. It didn’t help that Artie had a part in the film “Catch 22” but Simon’s part had been written out of the final script. So while Garfunkel was shooting the film in Mexico, Simon was brooding into songs like “The only living boy in New York”. After a final tour to promote “Bridge over troubled waters”, they went their seperate ways, Garfunkel moving towards Jimmy Webb songs and angelic cover versions and rabbits.
As I have mentioned previously, my parents loved Simon and Garfunkel and had all their albums. When the partnership split in 1970, it was clear which member of the duo would have the most success. At least it seems that way from my parents’ viewpoint as they never bought an Art Garfunkel album but had all Paul Simon’s solo albums up to the late 70s. (This isn’t strictly true, I know my mother had an odd compilation tape which had S&G plus solo material on it – which is why I have Art singing “All I know” in my head at the moment).
Simon’s debut album was issued in January 1972 and is almost faultless. Being 3 years old at the time I don’t remember it arriving, but I know the album cover was a familiar item from an early age. After all, Simon was wearing a fur lined snorkel jacket like I wore to school. So it must have been cool. (Or he was trying to hide his receding hair?). “Mother and child reunion” is sort of ska, almost reggae, cooing female vocals, those peculiar hihat stop and starts, minimal guitar lines. And those words. I don’t care what Simon says about it – a meeting of chicken and egg in a Chinese dish? – I always think it’s about the Beatles, sort of – “I know they say let it be”. But it swings as freely as little else in early 1972. “Duncan” shows progress from “Bridge over troubled waters”. Whereas there Simon and Garfunkel sang over an existing Los Incas backing track, here they are integrated within the song. It’s a pencil sketch of a loner’s search for something – freedom, peace, love – and the lyrics paint skillful vignettes of incidents in a life. But Simon sings like he is Duncan himself – those “I know I know I know”s between verses are joyous, he turns “survival” into an eight syllable word. It’s Simon’s freedom from the restrictions of the harmonies with Garfunkel. I still love these lyrics, so enigmatic yet so perfect. “Everything put together falls apart” is mainly Simon on guitar and vocal with a little electric piano and harmonium in the background. But God the words! He’s singing to his generation more than one person – “Watch what you’re doing taking downs…”. The sixties people are getting older, the idealism is melting away, the real world is imposing and looking scary. “Run that body down” says the same thing, kind of. Simon goes to the doctor who tells him to slow down, then he says the same to his wife, before turning it to everyone – “Boy you’d better look around, how long d’you think that you can run that body down?” But there’s an easy jazzy swing to the music, vibraphones and major seventh chorded guitars. The medicine is being sweetened at the moment. “Armistice Day” could be about the Vietnam war dragging on, but is so oblique to be hard to discern. There’s a droning quality to Simon’s acoustic guitar playing – heading back to his days in London with the likes of Bert Jansch and other folk guitar innovators. Around 90 seconds in, a rhythm kicks in alongside a funky electric guitar and some strange horns and it sounds like a precursor to “Spirit of Eden”. Actually what it reminds me of more than anything is “Blank Project”, the new album by Neneh Cherry – the stark beauty of the music, the directness of the rhythms, the focus on the words and voice, cutting the song to it’s barest essentials to exist. But back to “Armistice Day”… When the electric guitar kicks in, Simon gets more impassioned, trying to reach his congressman (why?), hitting wordless falsetto notes. Something is bothering him, but nothing is delivered.
“Me and Julio down in the schoolyard” is another calypso treasure, another shaggy dog story. Lovely. “Peace like a river” is modal tension, based on a rhythmic tape loop – is this about some kind of underground resistance? Eventually the tension is released by the chorus – a bank of wordless backing vocals (last seen on “The only living boy in New York”) engulf Simon as he makes his position clear – “You can beat us with wires, you can beat us with chains, you can run out your rules but you know you can’t outrun the history train”. I feel I’m reading too much into these songs – for me they capture the spirit of the early 70s, the movement, the desire for revolution, the embers slowly burning out by the time of Nixon’s re-election, yet with Watergate ticking like a time bomb in his second administration. And then I watch “Songs of America”, the CBS documentary S&G made in 1969 and they take themselves so seriously that I believe my ideas on this music is at least half right. “Papa Hobo” harks back to “The boxer” with its bass harmonica, but it’s an acoustic waltz – built on Simon’s guitar and a quiet harmonium, but there’s little joy here – a glimpse of a Detroit denizen’s sad life. “Hobo’s blues” is pure joy though – Simon throws some jazzy acoustic guitar while Stephane Grappelli improvises a sweet violin over the top. “Paranoia Blues” is mean – the slide guitars could cut your throat, Simon sounds like’s he clinging on the edge – “There’s only one thing I need to know, who’s side are you on?”. More early 70s paranoia. It’s a personal favourite – all the little details, chow fong in Chinatown! Downright brilliant. “Congratulations” is weary from its own misery, and hints at the direction Simon would take, the use of electric piano and the gospel organ in the background. It’s another generational hymn, a warning to those on the verge of falling apart – the last words on the album are “Can a man and a woman live together in peace?” A theme Simon would return to. “Paul Simon” is short but not a second is wasted.
Eighteen months or so from his debut, Simon gets the full treatment from CBS’s art department – a colourful gatefold sleeve, with only a small picture of Simon within the cover (hair receding fast). And the opening track “Kodachrome” is one of the most perfect songs about memory vs reality. That second verse is so right – “Everything looks worse in black and white”. And there’s a change in the music… There’s a richer palette of instruments, organs and pianos and horns and more overdubs. This is not to the song’s detriment. (Odd aside – since the first time I heard “Asylums in Jerusalem” in ’85 it always reminded me of a Paul Simon song and I never put it together with “Kodachrome” until now). And then the album hits a brick wall. “Tenderness” has a bitter lyric – “honesty is such a waste of energy” – some horrible cocktail jazz piano and guitar, and it drags. It sounds like a bad night at a supper club. “Take me to the Mardi Gras” is pleasant enough and enjoyable, especially when the Onward Brass Band kick off at the end. “Something so right” is another slow meditation on relationships which drops bars as it goes along, but doesn’t retain much interest. The arrangement doesn’t help, mushy strings and more electric piano and a parping flute in the background (on loan from the end of “So long Frank Lloyd Wright”). “Cloying” is the word I’m looking for. (An aside – there’s a demo version of this song on a recent reissue which has different chorus words, but is just Simon’s voice and guitar and is far superior – more intimate and heartfelt). “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor” is far better but wastes a fine intro – that piano line really stuck with me as a youngster – on a boogie-ing verse. Still, it’s uptempo and makes a decent enough point about apartment living, and there’s some return to the debut’s paranoia too.
“American tune” is absolutely faultless. For a start the production and arrangement are totally sympathetic (Paul Samwell-Smith and Del Newman respectively, the team behind Cat Stevens at the time) and the song itself is one of Simon’s best. It starts as a state-of-the-nation address – or maybe it’s one of the characters from “America” looking at what he’s seen five years on. “I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered, I don’t have a friend who feels at ease…”. And then the camera pulls back, the narrator dreams of dying, or is it flying, seeing the Statue of Liberty drifting off, that symbol of what America stands for… Then it turns historical, to the Mayflower and the hope of the new land, and is “the age’s most uncertain hour” the historical time of the Mayflower or 1973? This song is so multi-layered, and the melody (based on a Bach chorale) rises to the words. Absolutely beautiful. “Was a sunny day” is quite mellow in contrast, and I used to sing this one as a child. Very pleasant. “Learn how to fall” is remarkable – not least the syncopated introduction which (to me) anticipates some of the “Graceland” songs like “I know what I know” and “Gumboots”. The song is great too, not over-complicated with some lovely details – that organ punctuation, some tasteful guitar work. The lyric rises to the challenge too, it also points towards his Eighties songwriting, less specific but wise. “St Judy’s Comet” I didn’t understand when I was younger but bloody hell a song about getting your son to go to bed makes sense to me now! It’s actually quite touching, and even has a sense of humour – “Cos if I can’t sing my boy to sleep well it makes your famous daddy look so dumb”. Musically this always makes me think of “Lovely day” by Bill Withers, but that’s not a problem. “Loves me like a rock” closes the LP on a high – all rock’n’roll chord changes, gospel shouts and cheers and this was another childhood favourite. Pure joy.
“There goes rhymin’ Simon” then has some great moments, but is let down by a few poor songs and arrangements. Maybe it was an attempt at a more commercial album, and some of the songs reference back to the music of the late 50s and early 60s. A good album then, but a step down from the debut.
It’s bland. Maybe I’m not the right person for this album, maybe I never will be. For a start, Simon’s acoustic guitar is surplanted by more and more electric piano. The title track is dominated by that tremelo Fender Rhodes, has that mid 70s clean ‘thud’ drum sound, not showy, and a slushy string arrangement. And is that a sax solo? Yuck. And the words are small minded and petty. I mean…I know I might get stick for this because this is probably a much loved album (checks reviews on Amazon…yes people love this album) but I find it so disappointing after the first two LPs. Anyway, back to the music. “My little town” sees Art Garfunkel return to the fold, and it actually pushes Simon a bit. “You sing such sweet songs” he told Garfunkel. This isn’t sweet and it hurts. Anyone wanting to get away from their own “little town” would identify with this song. Again I remember it from my childhood, that piano introduction, the build up. For once the arrangement is good and when Simon and Garfunkel really let go at the end it feels like they are trying to tear their past to pieces. Then we return to the swirling Univibe guitars of the mid 70s of “I’d do it for your love” and it all goes to mush again. A collection of scenes from a relationship in freefall, and is this a mid 70s “Abba on the jukbox”? Perish the thought. “50 ways to leave your lover” is great, from the distinctive drum pattern onwards – another favourite of mine. And considering the chorus was a rhyming exercise wriytten for his son, it struck a chord wlith me when I was young. For all my moaning, some of this is good which makes the bad stuff so frustrating. I’m sure “Night game” is really clever, an extended baseball metaphor for a relationship. Or is it just about a baseball game? Whatever, I find it dull. Sorry. “Gone at last” at least has some energy, even if it’s a retread of the gospel stylings of “Loves me like a rock”, only faster. “Some folks’ lives roll easy” is snoozeworthy, more Fender Rhodes. I feel like I’m missing something really important on some of these songs. Other people like them, love them – why don’t I? “Have a good time” I really don’t know how to take. Is Simon being ironic? Is he taking the piss out of the Me Generation? Or did people take it at face value? I hope not. I keep thinking of the word “enervated”. Or maybe it’s all ennui. Ditto to “You’re kind” really. It’s like a petty letter to a former lover. “Silent eyes” tries to be dramatic but just slides along using all the ideas already used on the album – the 6/8 rhythm heavy on the hihat, resounding piano, restless melody, gospel backing. Andwhat for? Oh hang on, there’s meaning here – is it about his Jewish faith? I don’t know, I don’t get it, and I’ve lost interest.
Well from here it was a greatest hits LP for CBS with two new songs (was this the first hits LP with new songs to entice purchasers?), then an appearance in “Annie Hall” then a move to Warner Brothers with the promise of a film (“One trick pony”) which flopped. And from there, a return to S&G in Central Park, and “Hearts and bones” (under-rated and featuring some of his best songs) then “Graceland” and onwards and upwards (and downwards with “Capeman”). Simon has always been interesting and rarely boring. But on “Still crazy” he sounded smug, self-centred and tired. Maybe that’s what 1975 was like.
By 1968 Colin Blunstone had had enough of music to leave the industry completely and become an insurance salesman. The Zombies’ swansong “Odessey and Oracle” had been generally ignored in the UK and the band had split up, with Rod Argent and Chris White forming a new band to go in a ‘heavier’ direction. Then Al Kooper boosted the band’s profile in America and “Time of the season” had become a hit, and slowly the band’s reputation was restored and “Odessey” started it’s slow but relentless climb to become a much-loved classic. (I purchased a foreign CD of it in 1988 with a horrible blue cover and sounding like crap, but the album’s brilliance shone through).
Blunstone quietly returned to active service, recording a number of singles as Neil McArthur for Deram which were very much period pieces – Neil’s version of “She’s not there” leaps between intimacy and orchestral bombast, with some heavy fuzztone guitar soloing thrown in for good measure. He does a peculiar version of Nilsson’s “Without her” too. And then he disappeared, to return with his debut album in November 1971. In the meantime Argent and White had assembled their own band named Argent which would back Blunstone from time to time, as well as provide material for him. In November 1971 Blunstone issued his debut album “One Year”.
It’s not quite a concept album, but it’s a diary of one year – the movement from one relationship to another. Blunstone’s short and sweet sleeve note explain this – “this album is the story of a year of mine…a time of searching and beginning all over again”. The album starts quite conventionally – “She loves the way they love her” is a full band song written by Argent and White. It’s a witty take on the fame game, noticable for the harmonised lead guitar parts which anticipate Brian May’s work in Queen, and for Blunstone’s beautiful voice, breathy and high. A good start then. “Misty roses” is of course the Tim Hardin song, and it starts in a typically folkish way, a solo fingerpicked acoustic guitar and Blunstone tenderly singing the words. (This seems to be the blueprint for a lot of the acoustic side of Blueboy’s work, by the way. No bad thing). And then at 1 minute 40 seconds the final guitar strum is matched by an ominous low cello note, and a beautiful string arrangement enters. And my word what an arrangement! It moves from flowing to brutal atonal stabs, with the instruments spread across the stereo spectrum it sounds like an argument in audio form – sharp cuts, harsh words, stunned silences, cutting from left to right and back again. Someone (Marcello I expect) could probably tell me the arrangement is based on a particular composer but I don’t know these things. All I know is that it hits me hard in the heart and brings tears to my eyes. When Blunstone returns to reiterate a verse, the arrangement is playing strange harmonies off the song’s real chords. I know I used to hear this song back in Leeds (aged five or thereabouts) and be absolutely terrified of this song. “Smokey day” – another Argent and White song – is just as ominous. Blunstone harmonises with himself at odd angles and the strings and a harp drag around the room. The girl has going but the memories remain. Scary. “Caroline goodbye” is Blunstone’s first self-written song and what a start. Finally confessing her name (it was actress and model Caroline Munro), it’s another full band song with some lovely string arrangements by Tony Visconti. Blunstone’s words cut hard – “I should’ve seen sooner, no use pretending, I’ve known for a long time your love is ending”. But he sings them so tenderly, so gently. “Though you are far away” is more harp and strings – stark and stunning. It’s hard to say if this is to the old love or the new love, but it again hits home. Another Blunstone song, he really hid his light under a bushel by not writing for the Zombies. The arrangement again is shot through with silences and dischords. And that’s just side one.
Side two starts with “Mary won’t you warm my bed”, a bit of a Motown / “What’s going on” stomper with another Visconti arrangement. It’s lush – in the proper sense of the word – lots of pianos and guitar stabs and horns. It’s great stuff, and Blunstone lets rip with a wonderful vocal, hitting high notes all over the place. And a perfectly natural key change too. From here onwards, the band pretty much disappear and it’s strings and harps all the way. “Her song” is intimate and beautiful, a picture of lovers awakening. Dammit, I’m tearing up again in the chorus. Sorry. That’s such a lovely portrait of devotion. “I can’t live without you” shows the relationship progressing, Blunstone’s own song and it’s simple – what he can’t say beyond the title, he just sings a high wordless melody for the chorus and hell that’s enough. “Let me come closer to you” is all brass band, but not brash at all. Is he singing to his new love, or is it to his audience who he is also approaching? Back to his sleeve note – “this album is the key back to the road, and so to people – where music really is”. Finally “Say you don’t mind” is utterly joyous. Of course at that age I didn’t know Denny Laine’s original, and probably not a lot of people did. But this is just wonderful – the happy string arrangement, and Blunstone sings with audible joy. And that final note at the end – it’s the sound of freedom unleashed. It sends shivers down my spine.
While Blunstone looked pensive and away from the camera on the sleeve of “One year”, holding his hands behind his head, elbows pointing forward – on “Ennismore” he is in full black and white casual portrait mode, a faint smile on his face looking directly at the camera. All doubt is gone, he is now approaching his audience. By now he has played some concerts, some with a string quartet, and has taken his music to the people. “Say you don’t mind” has been a hit – reaching number 13 in the charts – so he has re-established himself. Time for a second album, with the same team of musicians – the Argent crew again, with guitarist Russ Ballard adding songs too. Indeed the opening track of “Ennismore” – and lead single – is Ballard’s “I don’t believe in miracles”. This is a lovely ambiguous song – is it about a relationship, or is it about the search for faith? The song is very subtle, and the backing is perfectly understated, and Blunstone sings like a fallen angel. The fact that this barely reached the top 30 in late ’72 is criminal. The next four songs are all listed under the subtitle “Quartet” and it’s like a miniature “One year”, all written by Blunstone – most of the album is written by him actually. “Exclusively for you” is all Fender Rhodes and bass guitar with a little string arrangement, but the emotional depth is lacking. It’s quite conventional, unlike “One year”. “A sign from me to you” is odd because I’ve not heard it in many many years. And what’s oddest is that the chord sequence and melody is almost identical to “The weird wild and wonderful world of Tony Potts” by the Monochrome Set. Again it all goes a bit mid 70s rock when the full band comes in, which is a shame because the song is great. But I can’t get over how similar to the Monochrome Set song it is – I knew that song was familiar when I heard it years ago. Oh, and the lead guitar part would dearly love George Harrison to be playing it. “Every sound I heard” is also very familiar and rather pleasant. Damned by faint praise there. Actually all the changes from full-on to quiet are effective. In fact with the backing vocals this sounds more like the Zombies than anything else so far. The lyrics however seem quite cliched – rhyming ‘life’ with ‘wife’. Oh no. “How wrong can one man be” is better, even with a few clunky lines – “That last and final time”? Oh dear. The next few songs whizz past in a haze of normality. “I want some more” sounds like it should soundtrack “Holiday ’73”. “Pay me later” is all boogie piano and slide guitars. I can’t help feeling Blunstone’s heavenly voice is being wasted on these songs. And then he shows he still has the magic. “Andorra” is less ‘seventies rock’, built on acoustic guitars and piano and with some appropriately Spanish touches – castanets, Spanish guitar and mandolin trills. Even the sighing backing vocals hark back to “Time of the season”. The song is gorgoeus – a travelogue of a holiday, searching for the sun and finding none. And… I always feel there’s something darker in this song, something unspoken, some hidden horror from the holiday that isn’t mentioned. I’m probably wrong. “I’ve always had you” is perfectly average to begin with, gentle acoustic guitar and voice then halfway through it all goes wrong – electric piano, Leslie-tones guitar and a wailing sax. Why? Oh yes, because it’s the seventies. “Time’s running out” and so is my patience. “How could we dare to be wrong?” is heartfelt but it’s so utterly cliched, tired guitar licks, tired music. Oh Lord this should be better than this. And the album ends and I don’t want to hear it again. The bad outweighs the good – the opener, the quartet songs and “Andorra”. It’s clearly Argent in control, and the unique nature of “One Year” is slowly fading away.
Oh I wish I could find some kind words to say about “Journey”. It starts well, at least. The opening trilogy “Wonderful” / “Beginning” / “Keep the curtains drawn” is absolutely fantastic. The use of the Kings Singers and the arrangements on those three songs is great and unique. It tells a story too, the anticipation in waiting for the loved one and their return and hiding away and getting close with them. And having created a fantastic ten minute opening, Blunstone coasts for the rest of the album. Slight changes to the musicians – Pete Wingfield on keyboards, Duncan Browne on guitars – but it sounds like session musos going through the motions. It goes in one ear and out of the other. It makes “Still crazy after all these years” sound like a work of godlike genius. “This is your captain speaking” is the album’s nadir, a strange concoction about a drunken pilot announcing he’s pissed over the tannoy. Please don’t make me hear this again.
After his third solo album, Blunstone left Epic Records and moved to Elton John’s Rocket Records but the hits dried up. He still had the voice though, and used it on songs for the Alan Parsons Project – I remember “Old and wise” being played a lot on the radio even if it didn’t seem to be a hit – and there was a synthpop version of “What becomes of the broken hearted?” with Dave “Not that one” Stewart which got Blunstone back on Top of the Pop to Peter Powell’s surprise. And then the inevitable happened. As the reputation of “Odessey and Oracle” increased and the reunion circuit beckoned, the Zombies reformed and played the album live, alongside some Blunstone and Argent songs. There’s an “Odessey” live CD with three songs from “One year” showing what that these songs can be performed live with a respectful audience listening. Blunstone is still making music and touring with various Zombies and my parents have seen a show or two and really enjoyed it.
Is this a scientific test that requires a conclusion? No not really. My main conclusion is that simplicity can often produce the best music. Both debut albums revel in their simplicity, their nakedness, their honesty of expression. They aren’t overloaded with overdubs or musicians or solos, they say what they need to say as concisely as possible then push off. No extrapolation, no showboating. It’s odd – this week I picked up a copy of “Mid-Eighties” by Robert Wyatt, an artist I’ve admired rather than loved or understood. I’ve struggled with “Rock bottom” for twenty years now. I recognised some song titles from the “Work in progress” EP that Peel played extensively in ’84. I’ve played it over and over in the last few days. Again it’s simple, organ and piano and vocals and sometimes rhythm – percussion or drumbox. But it gets to me, I understand it, and I feel like a door has opened into Wyatt’s music so I can go and explore it. And the CD reminds me of “Love letters”, the new album by Metronomy which is equally simple in execution but complex in thought. And that goes back to the Neneh Cherry LP too. Simplicity is often the best policy. And I listen to some modern hyper-produced hit single by Katy Perry or Lady Gaga or Bastille and it sounds TOO MUCH. There’s too many layers. What’s great about Pharell’s “Happy” – and “Get lucky” to some extent – is that the song is at the heart, it’s not about over-production, being bigger louder stronger overpowering. It’s about songs, human expressions, communication – joy, sorrow, pleasure, pain. “Paul Simon” and “One Year” communicate, pure and simple.
Next time – Dive into yesterday.
Tremendous writing as ever – a heroic effort, even!
Thank you so much. I can imagine the opening trilogy on “Journey” having huge emotional resonance to both M and yourself then.
Great article – but a minor point of information…..Colin Blunstone did write a couple of songs for the Zombies, although in terms of output he came a distant third to Chris White & Rod Argent. ‘Just Out Of Reach’ & ‘How We Were Before’ are Blunstone compositions. Check them out, they’re good!! The reformed Zombies are excellent – I’ve seen them on numerous occasions over the last decade (including one of their ‘Odessey & Oracle’ 40th anniversary gigs) and they never disappoint. Blunstone solo is worth seeing, too – he covered a good half of the ‘One Year’ album when I caught him in Stratford Upon Avon in 2012 much to the delight of the audience. He still sings like an angel after all these years!!
Thanks for the corrections Andy! Cheers.
Thanks Rob. Most enjoyable. I’m a recent convert to One Year and Ennismore.
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In this last part of the chapter, we are going to take a look at image galleries. Image pop ups are a very good option, but when we need to show a number of images, galleries are a better option. This time, we are going to use a very new plugin available at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery/10809, which will help us in building the gallery.
As always, we can also perform a search for "pPGallery" in the JED. After we download it, we need to go to Extensions | Install/Uninstall, select the file, and upload it.
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joomla-15-javascript/9781849512046/ch01s04.html
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This year's contests feature a blind state senator, the first female Hispanic chief of staff in the Senate, and three openly gay Republicans.
With the control of the Senate squarely at stake this year, comparatively little attention has been paid to House races. But even if Republicans hold a near-lock on the majority, it doesn't mean there aren't consequential races taking place in November, which will offer clues about the national political landscape.
All told, given the favorable national environment for Republicans, the majority party is expected to net seats. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden's goal is to win 12 additional House seats, the upper end of The Cook Political Report's latest projection, which calls for GOP gains of 2-12 seats. But more interesting than the final seat breakdown are the personalities of the candidates involved.
In Minnesota, a blind state senator is running in a competitive race for the Republicans, while the first Hispanic Senate chief of staff is one of the Democrats' top recruits. And Republicans boast three openly gay candidates — two of whom hold solid odds of defeating House Democrats. Important issues are being litigated, too, whether it's the president's health care law for Democrats in conservative-minded districts or immigration for Republicans representing diverse battleground seats.
Barber is one of the most vulnerable House Democrats, a surprising turn of events since he won election as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's handpicked successor. Barber was seriously injured in the attack that wounded the congresswoman, but the former Giffords district director recovered to comfortably win a competitive special election in 2012 against a tea-party-aligned opponent. However, against a stronger Republican challenger in November — retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally — Barber barely won, prevailing by just 2,454 votes.
McSally is running again, and her prospects are more promising the second time around. An April poll from her campaign showed her leading Barber by 3 points, a good position for a challenger this far out before November. If she wins, her military profile promises she'll play a prominent role for House Republicans. One X factor: the role Giffords will play for her former staffer, which could make a difference in a close contest.
Valadao is something of an anomaly in the House Republican caucus. The freshman congressman is one of the few members of his party to represent a district where Hispanics make up a majority of the voting-age population, and supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as part of a comprehensive immigration plan. He won his first election after Democrats failed to land a credible recruit to run against him.
That's changed this year. He's likely to face Democrat Amanda Renteria, the first female Hispanic chief of staff in the U.S. Senate (for Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow). For a party lagging behind Republicans in recruiting national Hispanic political leaders, Renteria would carry a high profile in Congress. She's got a good chance to win in a district where President Obama won 55 percent of the vote in 2012, but she'll need to turn out enough liberal-minded Hispanic voters in a midterm election to do so.
If Republicans hope to improve their party's battered brand, a good start would be picking up a seat in this coastal San Diego district, held by freshman Democrat Scott Peters. The GOP recruited openly gay former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio to enter the race, and he's been running as a "new-generation Republican" — moderate on social issues, but fiscally conservative. (He aired an ad that shows him holding hands with his partner at an LGBT rally.) But if the GOP nominee for California governor is tea-party activist Tim Donnelly, it could dampen Republican turnout in November and help Peters's reelection prospects. The all-party primary results in June should give important clues about the trajectory of this race.
For a case study in how a politician can reinvent himself, look no further than Coffman, who was elected in a deeply conservative seat but was redistricted into a swing, diverse Denver-area district. He faces one of the most high-profile Democratic challengers of the cycle, former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, who has raised more than $2.5 million for the race. This is one of the few GOP-held seats where immigration is poised to become a major issue in the campaign, because the district is one-fifth Hispanic.
Coffman's district is the type of affluent suburban seat that a future Republican presidential candidate needs to win. Obama won 52 percent of the vote here in 2012, and if Coffman loses in a midterm year, it wouldn't bode well for the GOP's long-term prospects.
Can red-state Democratic senators like Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu hang on to their seats in a tough environment? Ask Barrow, who's the last white House Democrat left in the Deep South. Barrow has managed to fend off numerous GOP opponents, despite representing a district where Obama only won 43 percent of the vote. He's won over enough Republican voters by breaking with the president on numerous issues, most recently emerging as the first Democrat to call for embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki's resignation. In the past, Republicans have struggled to recruit strong candidates in this conservative district, but businessman Rick Allen won an impressive 54 percent of the primary vote to avoid a runoff. If Barrow loses in November, it's a sign of a GOP wave, at least in the South — one large enough to sweep Republican Senate candidates to victory.
The seat is one of the true House bellwethers of the cycle — it's one of only 18 districts Obama carried in 2012 that's held by a House Republican. With popular GOP Rep. Tom Latham retiring, Democrats are excited about their prospects with former state Sen. Staci Appel, who's vying to become the first female member of Congress from Iowa.
This is one of the strongest Democratic pickup opportunities: Republicans face a crowded June 3 primary while Appel faces no Democratic opposition. Appel's a stronger candidate than her prospective GOP rivals, but she lost reelection to the state Senate against a tea- party-aligned candidate in 2010. The environment could be similar in 2014, with Republicans getting a boost by a strong showing from Gov. Terry Branstad at the top of the ticket.
In the last 22 years, no member of Congress from Massachusetts has lost reelection, but Tierney is one of the most threatened incumbents in all of Congress this year — thanks to his family's involvement in a gambling scandal. Despite representing a Democratic-friendly seat, he barely defeated Republican Richard Tisei, a former state Senate minority leader. Tisei is mounting a comeback this year and running in a more favorable political environment than in 2012. But first Tierney needs to get through the primary, where he's facing strong opposition from Harvard-educated Iraq War veteran Seth Moulton, who has outraised the congressman in three straight quarters. If Moulton wins the nomination, Democrats' chances of holding the seat increase markedly.
Minnesota state Sen. Torrey Westrom may be one of the most intriguing House recruits of the year. When he was 14, Westrom lost his vision in a farming accident but persevered as an accomplished high school wrestler. He put himself through law school, and was elected to the Minnesota state Legislature at age 23.
He will have a challenge unseating Peterson, a 12-term congressman and ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee who has easily won every campaign since 1994 — even surviving the 2010 GOP wave. But as one of the few rural, moderate Democrats left in the House, he's been exposed as the Democratic Party has drifted left. Like many other Blue Dog Democrats, Peterson considered retiring, but decided to run for reelection just several months before the filing deadline. Count this as the sleeper race of the cycle.
If there's a GOP wave in November, Shea-Porter will be one of the first members of Congress to feel it. The congresswoman who ran on an antiwar platform was elected in the Democratic sweep of 2006 and then was ushered out of office four years later when Republicans retook control of the House. On the heels of Obama's reelection in 2012, she won back her old seat but is facing another tough contest in 2014.
In September, Republicans face a competitive primary, pitting former Rep. Frank Guinta, who lost to Shea-Porter in 2012, against Dan Innis, one of the three openly gay Republicans running for Congress this year. Guinta begins the race as the favorite.
Rahall is another House Democrat who is facing the hard reality that House races have become increasingly nationalized. A protector of his district's coal interests, the 38-year House veteran has seen his fortunes decline as his party has sided with environmental interests over energy production. After winning only 54 percent of the vote in 2012, Republicans recruited a former Democrat, state Sen. Evan Jenkins, to challenge him. Early spending from Koch-affiliated groups badly hurt Rahall's standing, but Democratic super PACs have responded in kind to keep him in contention.
CORRECTION: Renteria was the first female Hispanic Senate chief of staff, not the first overall Hispanic Senate chief of staff.
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2019-04-20T11:06:06Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-10-most-compelling-house-races-of-2014/448911/
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The leader of the largest in the Ukrainian Parliament faction Yuriy Lutsenko considers necessary to discover the candidate for Prime Minister, which is able to consolidate the overwhelming majority in the Parliament And implement the new program of the government for 2016.
The 2nd December was one year since the appointment of the current composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. On the last working day of the week, the government wants to report about the results of work for one year. After the report, the Cabinet loses the immunity And the elected officials have the opportunity to raise the question of his resignation. The MPs part of the coalition factions criticize the current government And advocate for change premiere. First of Yatsenyuk hinted that in case of its resignation under his control faction "popular front" will come out of the coalition, which increases the probability of the cast to early parliamentary elections.
explaining the possibility of the resignation of Yatsenyuk, Lutsenko said that MPs Should not discuss the names of the candidates and in the coming weeks to form a government policy for the subsequent year.
"The country cannot live Only on external borrowing. We need to reduce taxes, to restore their own economic growth. At the same time It Must be agreed with the IMF because without the next tranche of financial system of Ukraine will collapse. It's hard, but can be. Only After this creation of the technical task of the government to the new economic policy is possible And Necessary to discuss, who is able to implement. Here, in my opinion, any coordination with foreign countries we do not need. The question is not last name, or personal feelings toward the candidates. Need to find the Prime Minister, which is able to consolidate on the workplace the overwhelming majority of the Verkhovna Rada ", - wrote Lutsenko in his Facebook page on Tuesday.
Lutsenko: " Block Poroshenko conducts dialogues on cooperation with the " Popular front "
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2019-04-23T20:16:39Z
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https://news.rin.ru/eng/news/140185/
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Two thumping victories for the touring South Africans in the first and second test matches did not merely give the Australian cricket establishment the scare of its life; it suggested a potential implosion.
The rot starts at the top!
Incompetent selectors and hey presto a side thoroughly thrashed by minnows! Experience? Yes and the sort we create by not holding back emerging talent, on the patently puerile grounds of lack of experience!
Our best cricketers were included in adult teams when still callow youths! Bradman Ponting etc!
And so arrived at test standard level suitably experienced, yet still trending towarding toward their physiological peak, with their best years and performances ahead of them, rather than well past it as is the case for most so called professional selections?
We were short of a couple of quicks, and they were a fully fit and ready to trundle Cummings and Paterson! neither of whom are mugs with the bat!
Speed and swing without having to resort to ball tampering! Which FINALLY ought to see, a new nil by mouth applied to all levels of cricket!
And the player's union ought not be allowed to function as a de facto selection board!
Players need to be chosen on current meritorious form; not yesterday's reputation or family member/former friend influence deep inside the system!?
And injured players too often rushed back far too soon only to see them succumb to the same injury, only more so, and often with whole of career, tragic outcomes!
I would allow sheffield shield averages to act as a selection panel, then an A and B team trial test game or games to self select for positions; some in the final team and others as ready made, slot right in understudies!
Simply put, you can't polish a turd, nor can you teach talent! But with the best system in place you can hone and bring it forward, before age wearies it!
Finally the shield comp ought to go back on air (Aunty?) so we can use footage in a far more clinical diagnosis of CURRENT SHIELD FORM or easily remedied, flawed technique! Give me the job, I'd be hard placed to do worse?
Who gives a rats about cricket as a sport? Its the biggest waste of time ever. At least 22 players and only 4 or 5 players if that, moving at anyone time.
Its only use is for the ABC to fill the airwaves with hour after hour of drivel so that their presenters can take some leave.
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2019-04-18T23:18:12Z
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=18682
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Networking is available to all current undergraduate and graduate students with an approved WildcatLink profile. Through the Wildcat Network, users may view, search for, and contact other users with public profiles. Student profiles are only visible to those the student chooses to contact.
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2019-04-24T02:58:10Z
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http://enewsletters.k-state.edu/parentsandfamily/wildcatlink-provides-k-state-students-with-a-network-of-alumni-and-mentors/
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Int J Cancer. 1998 Dec 18;79(6):614-8.
Discrepancies between detection of Bcl-2 by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry in human prostate cancer tissues.
Fiorentino M1, D'Errico A, Barozzi C, Grigioni WF.
F. Addarii Institute, Department of Oncology, Bologna University School of Medicine, Italy.
Extensive study of Bcl-2 protein expression in prostate cancer (CaP) tissues by means of immunocytochemistry (IC) has provided evidence that it positively correlates with high grade and stage of CaP and is associated with resistance to anti-androgen hormone therapy. In the present study, we investigated the expression of bcl-2 mRNA by non-isotopic in situ hybridization (ISH) in a series of 36 CaP with or without previous anti-androgen hormone treatment and performed a comparison with IC-detected Bcl-2 protein expression. Expression of Bcl-2 mRNA detected by ISH consistently differed from that detected by IC, especially in lymph node metastases (whereas no relevant variations of Bcl-2 mRNA levels were found in treated vs. untreated CaP patients). In particular, high content of Bcl-2 mRNA was found in 25/36 cases of CaP (in 13/18 hormone-treated and 12/18 untreated patients). Conversely, Bcl-2+ immunostaining was observed in only 7/36 CaP (in 4/18 hormone-treated and 3/18 untreated patients). Furthermore, ISH revealed Bcl-2 mRNA in 4/7 lymph node metastases, all 7 of which were Bcl-2(-) by IC. We conclude that, in the absence of a demonstrated post-transcriptional control of the bcl-2 gene, detection of mRNA by ISH in prostate archival tissues appears to be a reliable alternative method to assess differential expressions of the bcl-2 gene.
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2019-04-23T00:08:57Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9842970&ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
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flsouthern
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Notes Pictured from left to right: unidentified man, Kenn Lockhart (an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright), Frank Lloyd Wright, Dr. Ludd M. Spivey (Florida Southern College's President, 1925-1959) and Reba Kelley. The building in the background that the Esplanade connects to is the E. T. Roux Library. Branding on back of photograph: "THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK"
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2019-04-25T18:13:14Z
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http://archives.flsouthern.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/flwp/id/967
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wordpress
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When we learn a new language we discover and assimilate new words and phrases connecting them with those we have already learned. The way this works in our brain is an amazing process.
How does it work? We remember words and phrases, and store them for future retrieval. Remembering works best, when learners of Spanish language are able to engage in relevant, situational, day to day conversations which have personal meaning for them.
Some words and phrases would be remembered but if tailored to the student’s interests and needs in a ‘meaningful’ way it becomes easier for the student to make these connections and therefore easier to remember and use.
As children we learn to speak when experiencing real life situations. Patterns, words and phrases begin linking in our brains and before we know what has happened we have the ability to communicate with other people through shared experience expressed in language.
How do we learn a new language in a classroom if we are not living the language in real life?
We do this through games, fostering spontaneous conversations, role play, videos, audios, interactive activities, exercises, written work and associating graphics, drawings or videos with words, phrases or expressions.
Connections and patterns begin to emerge building a network in our brains. Words and phrases embed themselves, ensuring we not only learn quickly but we will also remember what we have learned.
It is during this process of learning that we start associating the right ways to express ourselves. We learn to associate an object, the qualities of an object or an action, with words, actions and with grammatical constructions. We start to uncover patterns and rules or principles. These patterns help us to use this new information and they are retained in our brains with the information we already know.
Tailored learning helps us to memorise more patterns and as this knowledge becomes anchored in our brains our confidence and capacity to learn more of the new language increases.
I am currently learning Spanish. Thank you for these interesting thoughts. The article clearly explains the need for context.
Thank you for your interest. Please contact me by email: info@spanish-tutor.info and I would be happy to discuss Neruda’s work in more detail with you.
Its not my first time to visit this site. I agree with what you say about learning in context. Thanks. C.
Remarkable blog about Spanish. Languages are a fascinating world.I speak 5 languages .English.,Arabic,Armenian ,German,and Turkish.Thank you for visiting my blog.Best regards.
Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comment. I am impressed you speak five languages, I only managed to learn three!
Great post and interesting in that I was considering going back to brush up on my Spanish.May we meet again on these pages.
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2019-04-19T06:53:36Z
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https://spanishtutorinfo.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/learning-spanish-in-context/
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Full-time for Fox Soccer: Bad news for US-based fans of what is known around the world as “the beautiful game:” Fox has announced that Fox Soccer Channel, the only American network dedicated to soccer, is to cease broadcasting in September to be replaced by a youth-oriented channel. The new channel FXX, will complement the existing entertainment channel, FX. Fox will broadcast soccer matches, including games from the showpiece UEFA Champions League, on a new multi-sports channel, Fox Sports 1, that will likely launch in August.
Google’s Guidelines: In a post on the Google News blog, Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras reaffirmed that the site was not in the business of posting links to articles that masquerade as news while trying to sell a product or monetize links. “Google News is not a marketing service, and we consider articles that employ these types of promotional tactics to be in violation of our quality guidelines,” he wrote. Gingras advised site owners to clearly separate their news pages from their promotional content.
CIA spook under wraps: The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the woman running the CIA’s clandestine operations approved a controversial 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of prisoners being subjected to treatment some have described as “torture.” In doing so, the Post acquiesced with the CIA’s request not to name the woman, because she is still undercover. The woman is currently directing clandestine operations on a temporary basis; the revelations are problematic for CIA Director John Brennan, who is mulling a decision to give her the job permanently.
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2019-04-23T19:53:23Z
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http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/29/what-were-reading-this-week-17/
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Danica Dakić, Zenica Trilogy (still), 2019.
With the 2019 Venice Biennale set to open in May, the last few participating countries are announcing plans for their pavilions, and today brings word that Bosnia and Herzegovina has selected Danica Dakić.
Though she’s a veteran of international surveys like the 2014 Bienal de São Paulo, Documenta 12 (in 2012), the 2010 Biennale of Sydney, and many more, Dakić has shown only rarely Stateside, so the showcase will provide a special opportunity for Americans visiting the Floating City to catch up with her work, which has tended to use photography and video to take up intermingled questions of history, memory, politics, and various ideologies.
The Bosnian pavilion will be housed at the Palazzo Ca’ Bernardo in Sestriere San Polo and is being commissioned by the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo, with Anja Bogojević, Amila Puzić, and Claudia Zini serving as the curatorial team.
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2019-04-26T13:47:19Z
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http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/30/danica-dakic-2019-venice-biennale-bosnia-herzegovina/
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If you are interested in any of my products , I will be at NAMM Show 2019.
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Brass and Woodwind specialists Odyssey are delighted to announce that they will be making their debut on the show floor at NAMM 2019.
Having attended NAMM shows previously, 2019 will see the burgeoning UK brand receive a profile boost state-side with their first product exhibition. An assortment of the company’s Debut, Symphonique and Premiere collections of horns, flutes, clarinets, saxophones will be exhibited on the coveted NAMM show floor; in addition, Odyssey’s wide-ranging choice of mouthpieces, accessories and instrument care kits will be displayed too.
the Odyssey on the JHS stand, 6404.
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2019-04-23T00:55:40Z
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https://pollardtrumpets.wordpress.com/
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Yellow Rose is performing an a capella clogging number, and some of our dancers are performing in other numbers throughout the show. It's two hours of fun you don't want to miss. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and $15 for 14 and under. Purchase tickets at http://vvshows.org.
RSVP for Vaud Villities – "Blue Skies" to add comments!
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http://yellowrose.ning.com/events/vaud-villities-blue-skies
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Q. Are there any Macs in the library?
Yes. There are multiple Macs in the Student Multimedia Studio and in the Library & IS Computer Commons on the 1st floor of the University Library.
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https://libanswers.library.kent.edu/faq/85803
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Didn’t quite finish those pesky Norman knights in time, though these are virtually guaranteed for next month!
January started off as a fairly frugal month, but several boardgame purchases (with miniatures that I intend to paint) as well as the start of a new project – ‘Rangers of Shadow Deep’ – ensured a massive influx of miniatures at the start of the year, which is never a good start!
Neil simply didn’t want to put the rest of us off from keeping a tally. As a true gentleman, he set a standard that all of us can strive to match. I for one intend to start my own tally and will just as proudly proclaim “No miniatures painted!” for January. As for purchasing — hmm — when do you count a Kickstarter? I assume when they actually arrive since there is a chance that may be never!
There comes a time when you have to admit your real hobby is purchasing miniatures.
Great start on the Normans though. Hopefully, this will inspire to start painting again as well.
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2019-04-18T12:20:47Z
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https://meeples.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/painting-tally-january-2019/
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This project's goal was to investigate hunting (consumptive) and hiking (nonconsumptive) recreational effects on wildlife throughout the mid-Atlantic region. The Smithsonian and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences trained volunteer citizen scientists to use, Reconyx© Hyperfire PC 800 and Bushnell Trophy Cam HD, motion and heat activated cameras to deploy a set of 3 cameras along trail systems on public lands. Within each set of 3 cameras, one camera was deployed on a human trail, one camera was 50 meters from the trail, and the last camera was 200 meters from the trail (100 meters in some urban parks). In addition, natural areas were selected in pairs of hunted and un-hunted lands. The project started in August 2012 and ended in December 2013 and surveyed public lands in 6 states and 32 public lands.
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https://emammal.si.edu/recreation-effects-mid-atlantic-wildlife/content/recreation-effects-wildlife-project
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This is an invitation to participate in two symposia: one about emotions, and one about the specific concept of "perezhyvanie". Ana Marjanovic-Shane will submit this second one, and I will submit the first one.
Research that involve some analysis/discussion about emotions, rather than only superficially acknowledging them.
The challenge in these two symposia is to present what is what CHAT offers for the understanding of emotions, i.e. what is our research contributing to the understanding of emotions?, what are our findings?, and mainly, what are the implications for practice (both in terms of policy making and in terms of the work of practitioners) that make CHAT an important approach to develop? I see this as a collective task, in which many of us are engaged, and despite our differences, we are in the way of constructing a CHAT approach necessary to understand (and ‘do things’ taking into account) emotions, in the context of the educational and social challenges that we face in contemporary societies.
As there is a growing group of scholars that have worked about perezhyvanie (or maybe perezhivanije), a concept that is not easy to translate into English, the idea is that this might generate a particular interest in the concept, and its implications to research practices and other kind of practices in education. In this way, this particular symposium will be submitted for people that work on the concept and want to present what it offers to the understanding of emotions.
Why we want to submit two symposia?
Last year we submitted a ‘big’ symposium about emotions (i.e. a symposium with many presenters), and it can make more sense if we submit two, in order to have two slots to further discuss on these issues. This is why we thought that a second symposium could be submitted on this particular concept of perezhyvanie.
How do you understand emotions in CHAT?
What is the specificity of CHAT compared to other (or another) approach(es): psychoanalysis, social and emotional learning –SEL-, emotional intelligence, emotional labour, emotions in contemporary neuroscience, etc.?
What kind of methodologies we have developed in CHAT in order to study emotions (audio, video, conversation analysis, etc.)? And how do these methodologies are linked to the theoretical construction of a CHAT approach?
How do we study emotions in CHAT to avoid 'dichotomies' such as cognition/emotion, individual/social, etc.?
What are the practical implications of the study of emotions in CHAT? This can involve considerations that go from practical implications (for example to practitioners such as teachers or psychotherapists), to political implications.
In the second symposia, this question would involve a discussion about the concept of perezhyvanie. Ana foresees that the fourth question might be particularly addressed in it, but all the other questions can make sense for engaging in rich discussions about emotions in this symposium as well.
In both symposia, the questions work as a general structure, which will be accommodated according to the people that express interest. You might want to discuss one, two or three of the questions. Please consider that the time is quite tight (possibly 10 to 15 minutes for each person). Depending on what the people that participate choose to discuss, the shape and focus that each of the two symposia will take. We might select to focus in one or some of the questions depending on the presenters’ interests.
As this year there was some criticism of the organisation in small groups, for next year we can try to have conventional presentations in a row, and maybe invite more than one discussant of the papers. However, other organisations might be agreed among the participants in each symposium.
All these are general outlines but the actual shape of each symposia will be defined depending on the interests of the people presenting.
If you are interested, please send an expression of interest as soon as possible, defining in few lines what questions you would be interested in addressing. Please write to Ana (ana@zmajcenter.org) and me (m.encinas@ioe.ac.uk) – preferably please not to xmca, as this just saturates everybody’s inbox.
- Each presenter must indicate whether the research being conducted for the paper has been reviewed for human research protection and approved by an institutional review board (IRB) or that IRB review is “Not Applicable."
- Each presenter will be asked to indicate his/her willingness to participate in the AERA Online Paper Repository. Participation is encouraged. If the option is selected, the final commentary paper will be placed in the Repository.
- All presenters at accepted symposium, structured poster, working group roundtable, and demonstrate/performance sessions must prepare and upload a paper or commentary paper into the AERA online submission system at least three weeks before the start of the Annual Meeting. Papers or commentary papers are a maximum of 1,000 words. Papers will be available to all participants in the session.
Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites.
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2019-04-19T00:51:48Z
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http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2009_06.dir/msg00198.html
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Christy Perrin provides leadership to initiatives that involve multiple sectors and citizens in planning, studying, protecting and restoring water resources in a sustainable manner. She coordinates the statewide NC Watershed Stewardship Network in partnership with UNC Institute for the Environment and many other organizations.
She has special interests in helping public and private organizations to enhance community development while protecting natural resources, particularly in historically underserved areas, and to build citizens’ capacity for collaborative leadership.
Perrin joined North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system after managing Watershed Education for Communities and Officials, or WECO, a North Carolina State University Extension program, from 2001 to 2014. She began her career at NC State with the Natural Resources Leadership Institute.
She earned her Master’s in Public Administration with an environmental policy focus from NC State, and has extensive training and experience in community mediation and group facilitation. In addition, Perrin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science, with a wildlife biology minor, and an advanced certificate in corporate sustainability from the University of Vermont.
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https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/about-us/our-team/christy-perrin/
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Semiology, the science of signs, gains its meaning from being communicable within a given field of science. The same holds true for somatic medicine, following what Michel Foucault described in 1963 as the "fundamental isomorphism of the structure of disease and the verbal form that describes it." The sign indicates the symptom, just as a wheeze indicates pneumonia. Woven into the mesh of concrete banality and everyday life, psychiatric symptomology lends itself less easily to a system of directly meaningful and unchanging references. From this viewpoint psychoanalysis appears to escape any form of semiology that might be useful in treatment. But metapsychology, which theorizes experience and justifies procedure, does supply a form of semiology that is both specific to it and appropriate in certain situations.
The only semiology useful to the clinical situation is specifically context dependent, belonging solely to a particular analyst/analysand relation. The observer, the analyst, is involved in a unique relation involving the dynamic of transference and counter-transference. Therefore the reality involved in analysis, even when it concerns external facts, can only serve as a reference frame for a fantasy that supports the narrative at a particular moment, for reasons that are specific to it alone. At most the reality of analysis, its framework and the patient's attitude can, from one case to another, present some invariant elements. At all other times the sign will depend only on the context; to this extent, the symbol can express the contrary to what it might indicate elsewhere. We know that defenses can take the form of a movement of the drive and that interpretation provides no truth, but reveals a pathway of associations and reroutes energy between two sign-posts without any absolute value. And finally, nothing can at the same time be experienced and understood other than in small doses (Strachey, 1934).
Nonetheless, metapsychology can shape a semiology that can be applied in three areas. During the evaluation, it can help to understand psychic structure and function, and thus indicate modes of therapy. The ability to associate, observed during the interview, or their various avatars, the defensive methods of repression, denial, projection, and so on, the expression of affects, and regressive forms, are all elements that can constitute a system of signs for evaluating the manifestations of the unconscious and their dynamic in the organization and operation of psychic agencies. Similarly, one can read the inconsistencies and weak points in a conflict, where the risks of depressive or delusional decompensation are present. A semiotic method is perhaps even more useful in cases where a breakdown is manifested through psychosomatic symptoms. These same semiological data could be used by psychotherapy, in which the patient apprehends external reality. Such data can clarify fears of the phobic patient with regard to oedipal positions. The splittings and idealizations of the borderline patient can split, or idealize, for reasons of archaic violence and narcissistic fragility.
Finally, psychiatry as a whole can be entirely revised in light of psychoanalytic semiology, which intersects psychiatric semiology, introducing the dynamic of metapsychology into clinical situations, where the unconscious reveals its presence in the most biological manifestations and the most external events.
See also: Neurasthenia; Psychoanalytic nosography; Psychotic/neurotic; Symptom-formation.
Strachey, James. (1934). The nature of the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 15, 127-159. Reprinted 1969, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 50, 275-291.
Gay, Volney P. (1982). Semiotics as metapsychology: The status of repression. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 46, 489-506.
Harris, Adrienne, and Aron, Lewis. (1997). Ferenczi's semiotic theory: Previews of postmodernism. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 17, 522-534.
Olds, David. (2000). A semiotic model of mind. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48, 497-530.
"Psychoanalytic Semiology." International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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2019-04-21T17:02:49Z
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/psychoanalytic-semiology
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Smart home solutions provider LightwaveRF said annual losses widened from a year earlier as revenue declined and costs swelled amid a ramp up in spending.
For the year ended 30 September, losses before tax widened to £2.54m from £0.85m a year ago, and revenue declined to £2.81m from £3.03m, which the company blamed on a weak first-half performance.
The revenue run rate for the first two months of the 2019 financial year was up a further 25% on a strong last quarter of the 2018 financial year, the company said.
'I have been greatly encouraged by the sales performance since I joined Lightwave in July 2018, with the monthly revenue run rate up significantly on where it was previously. This jump in sales has gone hand-in-hand with the improvements made to our marketing, customer engagement and distribution channels, said Jason Elliot, Chief Executive of LightwaveRF.
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2019-04-20T00:38:22Z
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http://investorshares.telegraph.co.uk/news/article/6239966/LightwaveRF-losses-widen-as-revenue-slips-costs-swell.html/?epic=LWRF
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Joss Whedon has had a cult fanbase for years, thanks to his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly (and to a lesser extent, the comic book Astonishing X-Men), but writing and directing Marvel's The Avengers was undoubtedly his most mainstream success to date.
The movie was so successful - with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating and nearly $1.5 billion in the bank - that Marvel signed a three-year deal with him that includes directing The Avengers 2 and writing/directing the pilot for a new S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. In a recent interview, Whedon talked about all of the above and more.
"[The three-year contract and being able to help on other Marvel projects] was part of what made [working on 'The Avengers 2'] attractive to me. I loved the idea of being a consigliere. Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun! I also love these characters and the Marvel universe, and I grew up reading the books, and I've been going back and reading the old books and realizing that they shaped my storytelling way more than I give them credit for.
"Now I'm starting up a TV show, which is something I really wanted to do, but I thought it wasn't going to be a part of my life for the next several years. It's like a tapas menus of projects that excite me, in addition to the 'Avengers' sequel, which I'm excited for because I'm incredibly excited about the next story that I'm going to tell. For me, it's a huge win. […] What's great is that the deal with Marvel is nonspecific, so I will give all I can, but the moment I can't [help with projects other than 'The Avengers 2'], I just walk away. The moment I say, 'You know, I'd like to help more on this project, but I need this time for "The Avengers."' There's no obligation."
One imagines that whatever deal he received from Marvel gave him far more creative flexibility and authority with The Avengers 2 - and the other Marvel projects - than he ever had on The Avengers, which, by Whedon's own admission, had a number of studio stipulations.
"The important thing to me is that we know what the show is. We love what it is. It came together very organically, so when we went in to pitch [to Marvel], it wasn't like, 'We're trying to find this because you want a TV show,' it was, 'Check this out.' And that's a good way to walk in a room. […]What I do know is that it's the show it should be, and we've got some really dope notions. It's going to work very well for people who either love the Marvel universe or for people who've never dipped a toe in the Marvel universe."
Although Joss Whedon is not the showrunner for the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series - that role will be handled by his brother, Jed Whedon, and Jed's wife, Maurissa Tancharoen - he is, as previously stated, going to write and direct the pilot and will almost definitely continue to have a role with its development.
"Two factors. One: The movie was three hours long. Two: Audiences didn't respond to it as well in the movie as I think they would as a DVD extra. Most of them didn't know who this character was or what the context was, and they were like, Uhhh, I don't know why I'm supposed to be personally involved in this character I don't know. The rollout to the Avengers getting to Loki was so gradual that people were getting restless. I thought Cobie nailed it, and the reason I thought it was necessary is because I was trying to make a war movie and I wanted to give context that something bad had happened in the past. In a war movie, you don't know who's going to live or die, but you do know that this war happened and that [the characters] are going to be in a dire circumstance, and I wanted to create that atmosphere."
The Internet response to the deleted scene was decidedly mixed. Some felt the somberness of the clip gave the film a seriousness - and gravity - that may have been missing from the overall story in the theatrical release. And yet others felt that the somberness totally undermined the point of the superhero team-up, and ultimately clashed with the overall tone.
"You know, at some point, the numbers become meaningless. They're large, and you can't really count that high. I felt like I had a particular mission in making what I felt was a slightly old-fashioned movie, because I grew up wanting to make summer movies and wanting to make superhero movies, and I got to do both at once. I felt like summer movies haven't been what I remember them to be, so I felt like I would love to evoke something that's less hip and ironic and more heartfelt and character-driven, and apparently, other people cared about that in a large way. I don't think it's a perfect movie. I don't even think it's a great movie. I think it's a great time, and I'm proud of it, but for me, what was exciting is that people don't go to see a movie that many times unless it's pulling on something from within, unless there's a need there. That's very gratifying."
Regardless, the movie was a smash success in every measurable sense, one that smartly embraced its comic book and old adventure movie roots in a way that almost seemed (young) Spielbergian. It's hard to recall the last live-action film that managed all that.
The Avengers 2 - which will probably be called something else - hits theaters May 1st, 2015. There's no word yet as to when S.H.I.E.L.D. will begin production.
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https://screenrant.com/joss-whedon-the-avengers-2-shield-tv-show/
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - During his two-month banishment for fumbling, Knowshon Moreno promised himself if he ever got another shot, he'd let neither the opportunity nor the football slip through his fingers again.
He's had 389 touches since that fateful fumble in Atlanta in Week 2 last year and he's gotten up with the football in his hands all 389 times.
"I just think it's that important to him, this team, this game," Denver running backs coach Eric Studesville said. "He plays this game in a way that I absolutely love because it's every bit of who he is, and he gives you every bit of what he has."
It's a lesson his three young backups are learning themselves as they try to put fumbling issues aside so they can take the load off Moreno and help the Broncos (9-2) balance out their high-powered offense.
Moreno's ball security was never more pronounced than last Sunday at frigid New England, where the football looked like a frozen turkey in everyone's hands but his. Moreno set career highs with 37 carries for 224 yards before leaving Gillette Stadium in a walking boot after bruising his right ankle.
"It's a shame we lost that game because that was one of the better performances I've seen by a running back," offensive coordinator Adam Gase said.
Moreno, who ditched the boot and crutches by midweek, looked sharp and smooth at practice late in the week. He said he's ready to start in Sunday's showdown at Kansas City between 9-2 teams vying for first place in the AFC West.
"My body feels really good," Moreno said Friday, showing no lingering effects of his heavy workload aside from the bright red scrapes on his elbows.
Finally living up to his status as a first-round pick out of Georgia in 2009, Moreno is a leading contender for Comeback Player of the Year.
He leads the AFC with a career-high nine TD runs and his 824 yards rushing are second in the conference to Jamaal Charles' 918.
Moreno emerged from coach John Fox's doghouse this time a year ago only because of Willis McGahee's season-ending knee injury. He rushed for 510 yards and three TDs down the stretch, then caught a touchdown pass early in the playoff game against Baltimore before an injury to his right knee proved costly.
Behind undersized rookie Ronnie Hillman, the Broncos were unable to run out the clock in the fourth quarter and lost to the Ravens in double overtime.
They went out and drafted Montee Ball, the bruising Badger who set the NCAA record with 83 touchdowns at Wisconsin, and Hillman bulked up to 195 pounds. The two of them battled in training camp but made enough mistakes for Moreno, who is better at picking up the blitz and holding onto the football, to win the job.
His coaches take no credit for his turnaround.
"I wish I could say it was something that we did or drills. It wasn't that," Studesville said. "This has been a credit to him as a young man to have gone through such adversity, people saying things about you, whether you're not playing, inactive. And yet, he stayed focused. He came to work every day, never complained, was never an issue, was never negative and had the patience and the mental toughness to stay the course and eliminate all the outside noise."
Moreno said not a day goes by that he doesn't ponder ball security, and, therefore, job security.
"In the NFL, holding onto the ball is your livelihood," he said. "All you can do is block it all out and on that one play just make sure you get up with the ball in your hands."
Once a cautionary tale, Moreno is now a model running back, one all the others on Denver's roster are trying to emulate.
Hillman was benched a month ago for fumbling. Ball, who fumbled just twice in 983 touches in college, has three fumbles in 83 touches in the pros, including one that sparked New England's comeback, after which he didn't see another snap from scrimmage.
Instead, it was undrafted rookie C.J. Anderson giving Moreno breathers, but he, too, had a critical fumble on an exchange in overtime. He recovered it himself, but that miscue helped kill a drive 5 yards short of Matt Prater's range for a winning field goal attempt.
Asked what they've learned from Moreno, all three backups answered "overcoming adversity" - something they're all trying to do themselves now.
"We have no other options," Gase said. "I mean, nobody is coming through that door. At some point one of these three guys, these young guys, they have to step up. We have to be able to not have 'Know' go 37 carries a game. So one of these guys has to step up and hold on to the ball."
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2019-04-21T04:33:48Z
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https://www.lubbockonline.com/sports/2013-11-30/moreno-has-made-most-his-second-chance
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a word used to denote the marriage of a man of high rank to a woman of lower station with stipulations limiting her claims, also of the marriage of a woman of high rank to a man of lower station; 1727, from French morganatique (18c.), from Medieval Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam "marriage of the morning," probably from Old High German *morgangeba (Middle High German morgengabe) "morning gift," corresponding to Old English morgengifu (see morn + gift (n.) ).
In an unequal marriage between a man of royal blood and a common woman, this was a gift traditionally given to the wife on the morning after consummation, representing the only share she and her children may claim in the husband's estate. Also known as left-handed marriage, because the groom gives the bride his left hand instead of his right, but sometimes this latter term is used of a class of marriage (especially in Germany) where the spouse of inferior rank is not elevated, but the children inherit rights of succession. Related: Morganatically.
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/morganatic
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Berhane, who was ejected from the car, was airlifted to Hollywood Memorial Regional Hospital.
The second crash happened just after 6:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-75, just south of Miramar Parkway.
In this case, Ludwig Makovy was heading north in the left lane when he veered into the median, according to FHP. He then veered back to the right and cut across all the lanes of traffic.
The left front of Makovy’s car struck Oscar Rojas’ car, as Rojas headed north in the right lane. Both cars ended up on the dirt shoulder. Rojas’ car flipped several times and landed by a garbage container.
Rojas was ejected from the car and taken to Memorial Regional, where he died.
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2019-04-26T12:12:47Z
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article63032302.html
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Drug discovery is gaining momentum in academia in an effort to bridge the so called “valley of death”. The Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at UNC is engaged in developing probes and drug-candidates for novel therapeutic targets. Computational approaches are instrumental in collaborative translational projects. Virtual screening, structure-based techniques and molecular simulations are of particular interest in an academic setting. Two stories will illustrate the role and significance of computer-aided modeling in the translational research at UNC: (i) discovery of Mer kinase inhibitors to target Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and (ii) development of chemical probes for functional characterization of methyllysine histone effectors.
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2019-04-19T21:25:34Z
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http://biophysics.fsu.edu/events/2027/dr-dmitri-kireev-seminar/
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This post is in partnership with Inc., which offers useful advice, resources and insights to entrepreneurs and business owners. The article below was originally published atInc.com.
In a recent episode of the new ABC drama Mind Games, one of the characters mentions an interesting personality trait that defines the most popular people: they more readily admit their weaknesses rather than waiting for them to be revealed over time. The show is about using cunning tricks to manipulate others and ensure a positive outcome, so it’s a bit ridiculous, but there’s truth in the observation.
In the office, it’s possible to exhibit traits that help you to be more likable. In my years as a corporate manager and developing my writing career, I’ve noticed when people appear more likable and I’ve tried to develop these traits myself. Here’s a few to cultivate.
I’ve noticed people who ask questions are often well-liked. It’s human nature to be helpful and we all have a great desire to share what we know. When someone appears to need our help, we tend to like them more because we like being the one who provides the answers.
A no-strings-attached approach to helping others also makes you more likable. Think of the person you like the most–usually, it’s someone who will help you with the copier machine or is willing to read through your business proposal in a pinch. Of course, those who help just to be liked always reveal a manipulative trait, so make sure you’re genuine.
I mentioned how talkers tend to be more likable, and that’s true. Sometimes, over-communicating puts people at ease. But it’s also important to pause once in a while and listen. Good communicators take a breath once in a while! Likable people are always listeners who are curious to (genuinely) learn new things. The best communicators talk and talk–and then listen for a response. That makes them an office favorite.
How do you develop the personality trait of caring? It can be difficult, especially in an age of social media where everyone is dangerously close to being a narcissist. Caring is an act of setting aside your own interests and ambitions for a while and helping others. It requires effort. You have to consciously decide you are going to care about someone else. When you do, and you are genuine about it, you’ll find that more people will like you.
6. Admit it, you don’t know everything.
We all know how important it is to steer clear of the office know-it-all. Why is that? Part of the reason is we know that person won’t ask for our help, and we like to be helpful. More importantly, those who have all of the answers are usually pushing their own agenda. In their conceited attitude, they exhibit a sense of pride that’s not attractive to anyone.
It’s hard to hate a jokester or someone who has a carefree approach to life. Usually, the most-liked people are those that can fill a room with laughter. It might not be in your nature to joke around, and that’s okay. Just make sure you are ready to see the humor in something. Be someone who can laugh easily and smile often. You’ll win people over.
I will admit to struggling with this one. I’m a serious person with serious concerns! (Most of the time.) But it’s better to see the big picture in life. Really serious people are essentially acting selfish because they focus too much on their personal issues. Highly likable people at work are those who can set aside their concerns and go with the flow. They’re selfless.
Here’s an interesting one–and difficult trait to master. I went on a road trip with someone a few years ago, and I remember how he told me he doesn’t have highly distinct tastes. What does that really mean? For starters, he’s not that selfish and won’t push his preferences–he’ll go to lunch at any restaurant and listen to any form of music. He’s flexible. That makes him likable because he will adjust to the situation.
That character on the show Mind Games is right: Admitting weaknesses makes you more likable. People figure them out on their own anyway. Of course, it’s important not to act like a victim or share your problems with everyone you meet. At work, it’s okay to go into a meeting and lead with the challenges you face. People are more likely to suggest a few solutions, come to your aid, and even pat you on the back.
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A woman died at home alone despite repeatedly calling the NHS 111 helpline for assistance, an inquest has heard.
Anne Roome, 68, from Derby, died from bronchopneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at her flat in June 2014.
Derby Coroner's Court heard she had called the helpline 26 times but did not get the care she needed.
DHU Health Care, which run the 111 service, has apologised to the family for its "failings".
Louise Pinder, assistant coroner, concluded Ms Roome died of natural causes and was satisfied 111 had taken steps to improve its service.
She said even if an ambulance had been sent, by the time of her last call, it probably would have been too late.
Ms Roome was a frequent caller to the service and it was said this may have clouded the judgement of call handlers, who were "very distressed" by the outcome.
Ms Roome made her first call at 18:35 BST on 16 June 2014 and her last at 05:41 the following day. She was found dead by her carer a few hours later.
Her daughter, Rebekah Burgess, who flew over from New Zealand for the inquest, said: "Mum died alone in pain.
"She deserved a hand to hold as she took her last breath."
She said the simplest thing would have been to send an ambulance.
Dr Aqib Bhatti, clinical director of 111, accepted there had been "clinical mismanagement" of the case and that correct procedures "weren't always followed".
Stephen Bateman, chief executive officer for DHU, said: "We are deeply sorry to the family of Anne Roome for our failings.
"We absolutely accept the findings of the coroner.
"The standard of care was well below the standard we expect... it is clear that we didn't do enough for Anne."
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SEIU’s outspoken defense of the law has prompted charges of hypocrisy from Republicans, given that some of the union’s chapters have sought waivers exempting them from a key provision of the law requiring the phaseout of health plans with low caps on annual benefits.
Proponents of the law argue that some limited-benefits health plans should be exempted temporarily from phaseout because it would cause low-income and part-time workers to lose insurance or see their premiums rise.
A spokesman for SEIU referred questions about the union waivers to a fact sheet on its website.
According to SEIU, the overwhelming majority of its members are covered by health plans that comply with the law’s requirements.
Some of its chapters have obtained waivers, the union concedes, but notes the waivers were anticipated by Democrats who passed the law.
“The waiver process is a key part of healthcare reform because it helps ensure that workers won’t lose their employer-provided health coverage,” SEIU states on its website.
Well, cry me a river of crocodile tears. Maybe if the union hadn’t helped pass ram this unconstitutional monstrosity down our throats in the first place, those low-wage workers it claims to be so concerned about wouldn’t be in danger of losing their coverage — thanks to SEIU and its progressive-statist allies.
“Hypocrisy” doesn’t begin to cover it.
Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre came into office on New Year’s Day vowing to fight the corruption and criminal violence tearing his state apart. One of his first acts was to appoint retired general Manuel Farfán as police chief of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, and one of Mexico’s most violent cities.
Gunmen killed the recently appointed police chief of Nuevo Laredo late Wednesday in a brazen response to the new governor’s vow to restore order to the violent Mexican state bordering south Texas and the Rio Grande.
Manuel Farfán, 55, a retired army brigadier general, was shot down on a downtown street shortly before midnight. At least one of the general’s police bodyguards and his personal secretary also were killed.
Farfán was one of 11 retired army generals recently named to head municipal police departments across Tamaulipas state. He took office with the change of city and state governments on Jan. 1.
Upon taking office New Year’s Day, Tamaulipas Gov. Egidio Torre had vowed that his government would put an end to the state’s “cruel, unjust and difficult” wave of violence.
“The people of Tamaulipas want to trust again,” said Torre, who was elected following last June’s assassination by gangsters of his brother, the gubernatorial candidate of the state’s long ruling party.
“We are going to diminish violence at its root causes and extinguish impunity,” he said.
Aside from expressing condolences to Farfán’s survivors and dispatching the commander of the state police – also a retired army general – neither Torre nor other senior Tamaulipas officials commented on the assassination Thursday.
The killing is comment enough: one theory is that Chief Farfán refused to be bought or or play along with the Zeta cartel, whose “territory” Nuevo Laredo is, and they decided to show what happens. Another is that he was killed by the Gulf Cartel, which is at “war” with its former vassals and may have considered the Chief a threat to their efforts to take Nuevo Laredo back.
The killing of Chief Farfán is just the latest sign of the breakdown of the rule of law in Mexico, but he, at least, made it almost a month; in 2005, Nuevo Laredo Chief Dominguez was killed just hours after being appointed. As the article mentions, the entire police force of one small town near Monterrey quit after two of its officers were beheaded, and the police chief of Cancún was tortured and killed in 2009 by one of his own men, who was in the pay of the local cartel. Local and state police officers are either intimidated, corrupted, or assassinated. As I’ve said before, when the State can’t even protect its own, words such as “sovereignty” and “rule of law” are meaningless.
It’s small wonder that some colleges are canceling their study-abroad programs in Mexico.
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Nicole Kidman gets 'anxious' when Keith Urban doesn't answer his phone.
The Lion actress admitted in the new issue of W Magazine that she will keep 'calling and calling' when her spouse fails to acknowledge her attempts to get through to him, but she knows her insistence on ringing until he finally picks up is 'terribly demanding'.
However, the 49-year-old actress - who has kids Isabella, 24, and Conor, 21, with ex-husband Tom Cruise and daughters Sunday, eight, and Faith, six, with Keith, 49 - isn't always mad at her husband as his romantic nature made her 40th birthday her most memorable.
Nicole still has vivid memories of her first kiss, which was a 'weird' experience as she and her then-boyfriend got romantic while watching horror movie The Shining.
She recalled: 'This is crazy: We were playing hooky from school. I had my first kiss while watching The Shining. Is that not weird? And we did a few things other than kiss too! I didn't see a lot of the movie."
These days, the Hours star is more 'careful' about the movies she watches as she is growing increasingly more emotional.
The interview comes as it was alleged Nicole engaged in an embittered argument with husband Keith.
Moments before the handsome couple hit the red carpet to pose for photographers, New Idea reports they had a 'furious row' after speaking with media.
According to the magazine, fans have revealed the power duo spoke to reporters and then proceeded to trade 'bitter insults' with each other.
The cause of the alleged spat is claimed to be Keith's purported displeasure at his wife's career getting in the way of their reunited family time in Australia.
An insider allegedly revealed hectic work schedules - Keith's six months of touring and Nicole's back-to-back films - caused the pair to spend most of 2016 apart.
Nicole and Keith married in Sydney in 2006.
Keith, who has battled alcohol and drug demons in the past, suffered a relapse in 2006, three months into his marriage with Nicole.
The country star's uncle Paul told New Idea: 'After the wedding he went back to dope and booze and had a relapse.
The New Zealand-born star has spoken openly about his battle with his demons and how he checked into rehab for drug and alcohol addiction shortly after marrying Nicole - his third stay in eight years.
He told the Huffington Post last year: 'I’ve learned so much since getting married.
The Grammy award winner added although he wished he had been sober during the early stages of their relationship, his downward spiral has made them stronger as a couple.
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(1) Agency management may establish a volunteer program.
(iv) documented hours worked by a volunteer.
(2) A volunteer may not donate any service to an agency unless the volunteer's services are approved by the agency head or designee, and by DHRM.
(a) Agency management shall approve all work programs for volunteers before volunteers serve the state or any agency or subdivisions of the state.
(3) A volunteer is considered a government employee for purposes of workers' compensation, operation of motor vehicles or equipment, if properly licensed and authorized to do so, and liability protection and indemnification.
(4) The Executive Director, DHRM, may authorize exceptions to this rule consistent with Subsection R477-2-2(1).
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This wikiHow teaches you how to format an SD card, which is a form of removable storage found in cameras, tablets, and phones. Formatting a drive of any kind removes all of the drive's files, so make sure you back up your SD card's files (such as photos or videos) before formatting it.
Make sure your Android's SD card is in place. If you need to insert the SD card, you may need to remove the back from your Android.
Tablets and phones use microSD cards, which are miniature versions of the SD cards found in cameras and such.
In some cases, you'll need to remove the battery from your Android as well before you can access the SD slot.
. It's a gear-shaped app in your Android's App Drawer.
Scroll down and tap Storage. You'll find this option about halfway down the Settings page.
On a Samsung device, tap Device maintenance.
Tap your microSD card's name. It should be below the "Portable storage" heading.
Tap ⋮. This option is in the top-right corner of the screen.
Tap Storage settings. It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu.
Tap Format or Format as internal. If you want to set up your SD card as an internal storage option, tap Format as internal. If you're simply attempting to erase your SD card, tap Format.
You may first have to tap Storage at the bottom of the page on a Samsung device.
Tap ERASE & FORMAT. It's at the bottom of the page. Doing so will begin formatting your SD card for your Android device.
This process should only take a few seconds. Once it's complete, your SD card has successfully been reformatted.
Insert the SD card into your computer. Your computer should have a thin, wide slot on its housing; this is where the SD card goes.
Make sure you insert the SD card angled side first and label side up.
If your computer doesn't have an SD card slot, you can purchase an SD-to-USB adapter that plugs into a USB port and into which you'll plug the SD card.
. Do so by clicking the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
You can also press the ⊞ Win key.
. It's on the left side of the Start window. This will open the File Explorer.
Click My Computer. This monitor-shaped icon is on the left side of the File Explorer window.
Click your SD card's name. You'll find it below the "Devices and drives" heading in the middle of the This PC window. Your SD card will typically have "SDHC" in its name.
Click Format. This icon, which is in the top-left side of the window, resembles a flash drive with a red, circular arrow on it. Doing so opens the Format window.
FAT32 - The most widely compatible format. Works on Windows and Mac, but has a total storage limit of 2 terabytes, however individual files are limited to a max size of 4 gigabytes.
Click a format. Doing so will select it as the formatting type.
Click Start, then click OK. Windows will begin formatting your SD card.
Your SD card's photos will be deleted during this process.
Click OK when prompted. This indicates that your SD card has been altered to support your selected format.
Many newer Macs don't have an SD card slot, so you'll need to purchase an SD-to-USB adapter in order to connect your SD card.
Open the Finder. It's a blue, face-shaped icon in the Dock.
Click Go. This menu item is on the left side of your Mac's menu bar, which is at the top of the screen.
Double-click Disk Utility. It's in the middle of the Utilities page.
The utilities on this page are usually arranged alphabetically.
Click your SD card's name. You'll see it in the window that's on the far-left side of the Disk Utility page.
Click a format you want to use. Doing this will set your selected format as the preference for your SD card.
Click Erase, then click Erase when prompted. Doing so will cause your Mac to begin erasing and reformatting your SD card. Once this process is complete, your SD card will support your selected format.
My visual land says my DD card is mounted, but I can't download or upload to it. What should I do?
Your card or your card reader may have burned out or they may be incompatible. Test the card in another computer just to be sure.
I have a micro SD card, which is showing in the notification bar that it is blank or has some bad applications. I tried to format it through my phone as well as computer, but it's still not formatting. What should I do?
You need to download an application called Rufus from the Internet. It will help format your SD card.
What if I delete a file on my SD card and it comes back?
1. Go to another directory then come back, sometimes it can show a file, but it's not actually there anymore. 2. If its still there, unplug the SD card (Don't forget to eject). 3. Find the pin on the side of the SD card. There should be an icon showing a lock, as well as an arrow. Make sure the pin is the opposite way from the way the arrow is pointing. If there isn't an icon, push the pin towards the end with the connectors. 4. Plug the SD card back in. This will now mean that your SD card is unlocked, and you can edit/delete the contents on the card.
I had an SD card in another phone for a short time. Do I have to format it in my android phone before using it?
No, the SD is simply a storage method. Formatting will remove all photos, etc. that you took on the previous phone.
Why is my SD card not recognized after formatting is complete in my dashcam or GPS?
It most likely was not formatted in the type that is supported in your dashcam or GPS. Check to ensure it is the correct format.
How do I format a protected SD card?
There is a physical lock on the card that prevents writing (and erasing) of its file system. Unplug the SD card, then flick the switch up. This is located on the left side of the card.
When I try to format my SD card I get a message that the disk is write protected. How do I deal with this?
There is a physical lock on the card that prevents writing (and erasing) of its filesystem. Unplug the SD card, then flick the switch up. This is located on the left side of the card.
Do you have any more suggestions if the listed options don't work for removing the content of an SD card?
Try using the Windows DISKPART utility. Open Command Prompt and type Diskpart. Type "select " and then the number of your disk (i.e 3). Type "clean", followed by "create partition primary".
There is no option in Storage on my ZTE cellphone to format my SD memory card. What do I do?
The SD cards come pre-formatted. Double check by going to the ZTE website to search for "Format SD card." If it is a used SD card, then format it on your computer with FAT32 and default for the rest of the options.
How can I format if I get an error saying "Your device is write protected"?
Try following the steps on How to Remove Write Protection on an SD Card, then follow the steps here again.
What do I do to format my SD card?
When I try to format it says " unable to complete the format." What do I have to do?
The SD card in my phone was working yesterday. Today it says my phone does not detect the SD card and neither does my laptop. What should I do?
I bought a Class 10 256GB SD card, which I put in my Fire Tablet, and it stated the card is Class 2 and will be too slow. Will it recognize the card as Class 10 if I format it as EXFat?
It says that Windows is unable to complete the format. What should I do?
An SD-to-USB adapter will typically cost less than $10.
If you don't back up your SD card before reformatting it, you won't be able to retrieve the deleted files.
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Join us for an information session for the Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program at Jefferson University. Prospective students will learn about the majors, schedules, transfer credits, financial aid, the admissions process and much more!
The presentation will begin at 6 PM at the Bucks Campus. Refreshments will be served.
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The fun thing about this is before I got to the last (full) paragraph, I was already thinking that I'd like to try the elements in another dish based on what you said in your reaction! I think I'd try it in a fresh spring roll, but with fresh mango (sorry!). Failing that, I think your salad idea sound fantastic.
I can't tell you how much i love this blog.
oppppps. please ignore my last question. i'm a knuckle head. i see that The French Laundry blog is listed in your 'links' section. sorry.
I LOVE the idea of pickled cucumber, mango, lemon, and ginger. I want to make salsa with it right now. Plus, how pretty are those pictures?
Long time reader, first time commenter, because...I clicked through to the Barry Manilow album.
I couldn't stop laughing as I played the song samples. Then I started playing "name that tune" with my wife in the next room. "Wait. Is that...Wham?"
You are the perfect blend of science geek and obsessive spaz and brilliant writer. I dont miss a post. I would eat this one.
I have to say that despite the general weirdness of these recipes, and my instinctive desire to run back to FLAH, I am becoming intrigued. I actually want to taste this! However,I mirror your pickle aversion with my fruit leather one, so your idea of the poached mango in the salad is more appealing.
Well, how about that? That darn Grant Achatz knows what he's doing! I always hold my breath, reading one of your posts, til I get to the end to see if you like it or not. You never know (I remember well back from the FL@H days). I just wish I could taste some of these beautiful creations. I saw Achatz on Oprah and his story is horrifying. I just pray that he's okay now.
You know what's funny? I just learned what a refractometer was last week - also that the Brix scale (wtf?) is measure from 0% to 32% (again, wtf?). I'm finding it very strange that two times in one week refractometers come up, when I'd never heard of them before. I'm being stalked by refractometers.
Wonderful, interesting post. I have no idea why, but I'm reminded of a bánh mì sandwich. Perhaps your description of the pickling process? Anyhow, I would probably add carrots and jalapeños, and turn the elements into petite bánh mì.
I saw this recipe and couldn't believe it called for a refractometer. I am a chemist and haven't used one since junior year of college and don't remember how to use it. I am glad that you didn't really need one.
I am SO happy to hear that you don't like pickles or sauerkraut either!!
I know you will understand the tragedy when at work the other day I went to pull the sheet cake I was storing in our enormous fridge and somehow an ENTIRE jar of pickle juice had spilled UNDERNEATH the sheet cake and there was green juice flowing freely over my pants and feet (and this is right before I had to go to a restaurant opening!!!) :( I was the only one in the kitchen at the moment and was covered in pickle juice, the fridge bottom shelf was covered in it and the floor was covered in it. As WELL as the bottom of the huge sheet cake I was now holding in my arms(making my arms covered in pickle juice as well).
I ALMOST cried as I had no choice but to clean up the mess and touch the foul liquid through paper towels and rags.
Whew! Must be a record for my longest comment ever left on a blog! Hope you at least enjoyed that :).
Thanks to you and your reader Leslie for sharing that, for it totally made my day.
My aunt drinks pickle juice.
Second - when are you going to quit your day job and start writing full-time?? Seriously.
Carol, Carol, Carol...... Barry freaking Manilow....."Vomit and gackiness"...exactly.
wondering, did the saffron come thru or was it covered up with all the other flavor elements going on?
I love Barry Manilow, and I don't care who knows.
I hate pickles, too. If I order something that comes with pickles as garnish, I hate the pickle juice that contaminates the rest of my food and have to remove the pickle and sop up the juice with my napkin.
I would refractometerize everything if I had one too. I also like that you've included links to the equipment and supplies you're using.
I don't like mangoes, but now I'm tempted to give them a try. The presentation on the spoons looks geometrically beautiful!
Well done! I have had a busy month and was a bit behind reading your posts. This post was delightful!
I am a mango hater but I think I will try this. You inspired me to put aside my chicken hating and try TKs Bouchon chicken which I now make twice a month. Who knows, maybe I will change my mind about the Mango.
Dude...I loved this post because I love pickles and can totally imagine...oh wait...don't need to imagine what you look like when you don't like something. Like Jim K faux-barfing.
Anyhoo...love it. I'd eat that. Except Juniper smells like cat pee to me. So that might not be so pleasant.
Carol, I heard that raw mango and alcohol can cause a bad reaction -- perhaps that's what happened on your date?
I really love how you took the elements of this dish and came up with something that you could make for a regular meal.
Just made this tonight...couldn't find any juniper berries, so I added like 3 drops of Hendrick's Gin to the fat end. Still came out amazing!
How do you think this would be with peach leather instead of mango? I'm trying to do a local/seasonal thing, and mangos just don't fit that picture!
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This entry was posted in Community, Success Stories and tagged service-connected disability, success story, U.S. Navy, veterans, Veterans support services. Bookmark the permalink.
Proud to work with you Smitty!
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is called a gas giant because Earth fits into Jupiter 1,321.3 times, though it is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter's radius is 69,11 km squared. Its surface area is 61, 418, 738, 571 km.
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i'm leavin' today (say goodbye to your favorite face). - time keeps pushing me on now.
i'm leavin' today (say goodbye to your favorite face).
so if i want to send you an anatomically correct inflatable sheep, all i have to do is send it to that address with your full name in the lower left corner? sounds good to me.
Let it be known to all that WMU is a bunch of jerks and the Kzoo show is now in Battle Creek. Please still come, but don't get shot!
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Galway reached their second All-Ireland final in a row after overcoming a stubborn Clare side in another excellent game. Here we discuss the key talking points as Limerick discovered their All Ireland final opponents.
The replay was similar to the first game as Galway started strongly and surged into an early lead before Clare came roaring back. The Tribesmen were 1-9 to 0-3 ahead after 20 minutes but Clare ultimately left themselves too much to do. The wide count for both teams was high, similar to last week while Galway once again lost a big lead. It contributed to another cracking game of hurling in the summer that keeps on giving.
Galway were caught cold tactically in the drawn match but Micheál Donoghue and his management team got their tactics right, especially in the opening period. Galway varied their puckout strategy which reaped a rich reward especially when Joseph Cooney collected James Skehill’s short puckout and drove the ball into Johnny Glynn who slotted home Galway’s goal. Conor Whelan played a roving centre-forward role which freed up space down the middle for Canning and David Burke.
The Banner men showed terrific character throughout this Championship but their Achilles heel of poor shot selection was their downfall. They shot 19 wides while Peter Duggan missed a relatively straight forward free to draw the game level. Aron Shanagher missed a double goal chance when he scooped the ball onto the post after James Skehill saved his first shot. Clare will be left to ponder what could have been. It really is a game of inches.
After the epic All-Ireland semi-finals last weekend, some complained that goals were becoming too rare. The three goals scored in this game were top class finishes. Johnny Glynn’s one handed finish was excellent while Peter Duggan’s goal was top class. Shane O’Donnell hit the goal of the year so far as he withstood fierce pressure from Daithi Burke and John Hanbury before dummying a shot and then striking it on the half volley. The Championship has lacked goals but these three were worth the wait.
Joe Canning made some interesting comments immediately after Galway’s victory. Speaking to Sky Sports, the Portumna man remarked that he felt his men were not given enough respect coming into the replay.
“We felt as a group, we didn’t get too much respect. Clare only led last week for only one time in the match, and they didn’t lead at all today. We had five of our key players missing in extra-time last week as well, and they couldn’t finish it off. We thought ourselves that we didn’t get enough respect coming into today.” Galway and Canning used this perceived injustice as motivation.
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2019-04-22T04:09:10Z
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The symptoms of hammertoe are progressive, meaning that they get worse over time. Hammertoe causes the middle joint on the second, third, fourth, or fifth toes Hammer toes to bend. The affected toe may be painful or irritated, especially when you wear shoes. Areas of thickened skin (corns) may develop between, on top of, or at the end of your toes. Thickened skin (calluses) may also appear on the bottom of your toe or the ball of your foot. It may be difficult to find a pair of shoes that is comfortable to wear.
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2019-04-26T14:45:54Z
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https://mirnafilippi.wordpress.com/category/hammertoe/
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“For those of you who associate this collar with the status quo, please be advised: I want us out of our undeclared war in Vietnam, I founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, I registered voters in Mississippi, I’m a pacifist and I believe in social protest, and I’d like nothing more than to turn you on to the possibility that you can make a difference!” declares the priest-professor character in NBC’s miniseries The ’60s (Sunday at 9 p.m.). Not only does Father Dan rabble-rouse the freshmen, he wears an army surplus jacket over his clerical garb, a scandalous addition to his vestment and a harbinger of social upheaval as significant as the worthy causes he has ticked off.
when whalebone corsets and floor-dusting hems gave way to flapper frocks, had a fashion revolution so starkly altered the way people thought about clothes. Not only were quaint notions of suitability and appropriateness thrown out the window— people born after 1960 hardly know that once there were strict rules about what could be worn where and by whom.
classless, profoundly transgressive way of dressing, as shocking at its inception as it is taken for granted today. Remnants of the old rules leave the historian incredulous: Can it really be true that the leadership of a seminal 1965 gay rights rally imposed a strict dress code? (“Clean-scrubbed demonstrations will get us ahead . . . FAR, FAR faster than court cases. . . . The man in a suit is STILL the overwhelming norm in this country,” opined an organizer.) Did Mademoiselle magazine, as late as June 1967, really run a feature called “June Week at Annapolis” with student-models sporting boater hats and little white gloves?
Whatever the failures of The ’60s, it chronicles the sartorial revolution neatly. When the Beatles turn up on the family’s TV (the program weaves documentary footage throughout), Dad utters predictably, “Look at the hair!” (What’s surprising to contemporary viewers is how short the Beatles’ hair really was.) The dissoluteness of son Brian, a gung ho marine who returns from his Vietnam tour semi-psychotic, is signaled by his David Crosby walrus mustache and the longest locks of any character on the show.
Sarah, the levelheaded activistpretty girl in The ’60s, is a walking billboard of the decade’s fashions. For a 1964 antiwar teach-in— the guys are still wearing ties— she dons pearls and a sweater set; a few scant years later she’s wearing a waistless shift printed with Mondrian color blocks and listening avidly as the boys discuss Franz Fanon and pass around marijuana brownies. By the 1967 march on the Pentagon, Sarah’s in a fringed cowgirl jacket; to cover the trial of the Chicago Seven she chooses an Indian pink silk kurta with gold embroidery.
The funny thing is, as these characters rapidly metamorphose— every year brings more startling social theories and more outlandish outfits— by the end they’re dressing like a lot of people do in 1999. But fashion often proceeds in such fits and starts: long periods of relative tranquility are suddenly burst apart by a tornado of creative activity.
There are those who would argue that the right-wing stereotype of a ’60s protester— a spoiled, slovenly, Dr. Spockcoddled baby boomer who demands immediate gratification— was responsible for a sweeping cultural infantilism, of which clothing is only one manifestation. At any rate, fashions once reserved for kindergarteners have overtaken all levels of society: pull-on stretchy pants, comfy sweatshirts with hoods, sneakers that close with Velcro tabs, silly little baseball hats that make grown-ups look like Peanuts characters, have made of us a nation of toddlers. The only thing missing is a bib.
Of course, things could have been worse. Things could have stayed exactly as they were. The woman of 1999 could be facing the millennium in a girdle with garters, a little hat with a veil, and a circle skirt over a crinoline, tottering off in compulsory high heels to a segregated lunch counter, all ready to share a Coca-Cola float with a sad sack in a gray flannel suit.
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2019-04-26T07:47:20Z
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https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/02/02/the-way-we-dress-now/
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