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Parenting a young child, while often one of life’s most meaningful experiences, is also one of the most challenging. This can be made even more difficult when parents are also facing other stressful life events or difficult experiences, have a personal history of trauma or adversity, or are parenting without support. Mom Power is a program that supports families who are facing adversity and stress through the challenges of caring for young children, offering a strengths-based, nurturing approach to promoting resilience in parents and children.
The Mom Power multifamily group provides a safe, trusting, and nurturing environment that allows families to learn and practice new skills. The 13-session group focuses on increasing parenting skills, connecting mothers to other mothers, connecting mothers to local resources, supporting mothers in using self-care skills, and supporting relationships between mothers and their young children. The group uses an attachment-based framework with a metaphor of a tree to support understanding of children’s needs. That is, when children feel safe and secure they can “branch out,” grow, and explore the world. In order to do this, they need a strong foundation, or roots, that support the branching out; these roots are built and strengthened through supportive interactions and connection with primary caregivers. Each multi-family group session includes a mealtime, playful activities between parent and child, and a period of time when parents and children participate in a separate group. Mom Power offers a closed group, meaning that the mothers who begin the group move through the 10 weeks together without the introduction of new members. This format provides the opportunity for connections to be made and bonds to be formed with a consistent group of parents without interruption. Individual sessions are conducted half-way through the group so mothers have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a group facilitator to explore how the mother feels the group is going for her personally, as well as to discuss any additional supports she may need.
Prior research confirms the efficacy and impact of the Mom Power approach. The model was developed in collaboration with mothers and other community stakeholders, and subsequent studies of Mom Power, including a community-based randomized controlled trial, indicate that mothers who complete Mom Power report decreased symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress, increased feelings of competence in parenting, and increased ability to identify and respond to their children’s emotional needs. Research using brain imaging technologies reveals that mothers who participate in Mom Power show alterations in their brain activity that are consistent with a capacity for greater empathic responding to their own children. Taken together, results of these studies indicate that participation in Mom Power can help build the roots that allow parents to grow and thrive together with their children. Given the demonstrated efficacy of this approach, the Mom Power model has since been adapted to meet the needs of other populations of parents/caregivers and young children. These include: fathers (“Fraternity of Fathers”), biological and foster parents (“Strong Beginnings”), early childcare providers (“Hearts and Minds on Babies”) and military families (“Strong Military Families”).
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2019-04-25T09:48:30Z
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https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/programs/zero-thrive/clinical-service/mom-power
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nku
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The Division of University Advancement works collaboratively to engage and inform the community, build relationships and secure financial resources to support the students of Northern Kentucky University. The division includes the departments of Development & Alumni Relations, Marketing & Communication, Advancement Services, Donor Relations, Goverment, Corporate and Foundation Engagement, and NKU Foundation.
Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc. was created to manage privately donated gifts for Northern Kentucky University.
There are many ways to make a gift to NKU - cash, a planned gift, stocks, and more. Learn how you can make an impact today.
Attend an event, join a council, advocate – these are just a few ways to get involved. Find the choice that’s right for you.
Without visionaries like you, NKU and many of our students would not be here. Learn more about how to make a planned gift.
Urge officials to continue to fix the funding disparity – contact, meet, and build relationships with legislators. Learn about our Invest in Success Campaign.
University Advancement works collaboratively to engage and inform the community, build and expand relationships, and secure resources necessary to enrich the lives of the students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of Northern Kentucky University.
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2019-04-20T08:12:44Z
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https://inside.nku.edu/universityadvancement.html
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Michael Berkeley's guest is journalist and former newsreader Trevor McDonald. His choices include music by Elgar, Verdi, Handel, Beethoven, Copland, Puccini and Chopin.
Michael Berkeley's guest on Private Passions this week is the journalist and former newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald. Born in Trinidad, he moved to Britain and began his media career as a BBC radio producer. He began his long association with ITN in 1973, first as a general reporter, then as a sports correspondent, and subsequently focusing on international politics - he secured interviews with Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, among other notorious international figures.
In the 1980s he became the first black TV newsreader in the UK. From 1992 he was the sole presenter of ITV's News at Ten, quickly gaining a profile as one of the best-known faces on British TV, and continued to present the evening news until he finally retired after the 2008 US Presidential Election. From 1999 to 2009 he hosted ITN's flagship current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald. He now focuses on presenting documentaries and features. He has won more awards than any other British reporter, and was knighted in 1999.
His musical choices start with Elgar's 'Introduction and Allegro', which he first heard as a young man played by the Halle Orchestra on tour in Trinidad. They continue with the Prisoners' Chorus from Verdi's Nabucco, which represents the cry for freedom of all oppressed people; an aria from Handel's 'Messiah', which moves him as an expression of faith; an excerpt from Beethoven's Violin Concerto played by Nigel Kennedy, whom he greatly admires as a violinist; the Shaker hymn tune 'Simple Gifts' from Copland's 'Appalachian Spring'; an aria from Act I of Puccini's 'Tosca', and the finale of Chopin's First Piano Concerto, played by Artur Rubinstein, another of his musical heroes.
First broadcast in June 2011.
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2019-04-22T20:37:55Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011pl6f
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berkeley
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Fig. 7 - Prospecting for fossils.
At left, the field crew prospects in the Mugher Mudstone for Mesozoic fossils. At right, UC Berkeley Professor Bill Clemens at one of the fossil localities in the Mugher Mudstone. Abundant fossil crocodiles and turtles were found at this site near Alem Ketema.
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2019-04-18T15:17:38Z
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https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/bluenile/blue5.html
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wordpress
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“Whew,” Simplia said, flinging her luggage through the door first, then stumbling in herself. “I thought we’d never get home. I’m ready to hit the sack!
The Simpletons heaved a great sigh and looked around them at the old home place. Yep. Everything looked the same. Except for the mountain of mail Flossie Squashblossom had left on the table for them. In spite of long hours sitting in the car, Sagacia pulled out a chair and sat herself down.
“Cha cha cha,” Simplia sang.
“Junk…” Sagacia ignored her. “Junk,…Charles Kiernan!” she exclaimed. “We have an actual letter!
“I think I’ll sleep on that one,” Simplia said.
“Oh, I see through that ploy,” Sagacia said, scooting out her chair. “You’re just hoping one of our magical friends will come up with the answer while you’re sleeping!” She stood and pushed the chair back under the table. “Well, so do I!” she said.
Doesn’t King Midas ‘right’ himself?
Yeah. Now that I see that you mention(ed) it (two weeks ago). I guess he does. But then he does that thing about his donkey ears, and that’s pretty base. But the “golden touch” Midas…yeah, I agree with you.
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2019-04-23T22:43:25Z
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https://fairytalelobby.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/not-evil-just-flawed/
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The tone of the voice carries information about the emotional state or intention of a speaker. Whereas the nature of acoustic features of contrasted prosodic signals has attracted a lot of attention in the last decades (particularly since Banse & Scherer, 1996), the communication of emotions/intentions remains poorly understood. Also, most of listeners seem to share the ‘code’ (or interpret adequately a prosodic signal) to access emotions/intentions of speakers but misunderstandings easily occur.
This project focuses on the cognitive processes involved in prosody comprehension. More specifically, we examine the categorization of utterances based on the integration of dynamic acoustic information with methods from psychophysics and electrophysiology. By clarifying how listeners deal (or fail to deal) with acoustic information carried by the tone of voice, we aim at better understanding a crucial human ability, that is, the communication of emotions/intentions through speech.
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2019-04-22T19:02:32Z
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https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/department-of-neuroscience/speech-language-brain/projects/prosodic-perception.html
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In 2017, Van Jones made a big move as he signed on to Roc Nation’s management team. January brought on the official premiere of Jones’ The Van Jones Show, and Jay-Z received the honor as the show’s first guest. He took this time to really expand on his publicized issues in his marriage with Beyoncé and the #MeToo Movement.
The Van Jones Show definitively hit all the hot bed topics as he even got HOV’s views on Colin Kaepernick, Meek Mill and of course his baby Blue Ivy.
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2019-04-21T17:26:06Z
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http://thesource.com/2018/01/28/jay-z-share-views-trump-metoo-movement-van-jones-show/
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We ask you to sign into MyStudentRecord because we need to verify your identity. As MyStudentRecord contains personal information about you such as your name, date of birth and address, we recommend that you always sign out of your account when you have finished using MyStudentRecord. If you're using a device that is shared with people you might not know, like a public terminal, you should always sign out before you leave it. You can sign out by clicking Logout at the top left-hand-side of the screen.
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2019-04-20T00:16:23Z
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https://srs.le.ac.uk/sipr/sits.urd/run/siw_lgn
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indiatimes
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street lights on even at 5 pm near Hero Honda chowk.
Reliance Jio_Pure Loot.Anil Jain | Sector -43, Gurgaon,Sector -43.,Gurgaon.
This bike is seen at Sector 56 circle of Gurgaon. Are our traffic police not able to see this?
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2019-04-20T21:12:05Z
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/citizen-reporter/gurgaon/crstories/query-gurgaon.cms?ref=6547154
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In this two-day intensive workshop, instructors will discover the methods, tools, and support options available at IU for creating instructional videos. In addition, instructors will walk through the steps to re-design a class of their choice for flipped learning and will explore active learning strategies for the face-to-face classroom.
Join CITL consultant Matt Barton as he addresses how to design and implement the flipped classroom approach for your course. The Flipped Learning Institute will meet twice; dates TBD. Participants will need to commit to attend both days for consideration.
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2019-04-23T08:04:02Z
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https://citl.indiana.edu/news/feature/fli.html
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© 2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2011.38 .
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2019-04-18T12:46:16Z
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https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10220/18133
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February 15, 2008 in Uncategorized.
The New Reserves or Whadya mean I have to look up my reserve book.
February 13, 2008 in Uncategorized.
February 4, 2008 in Uncategorized.
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2019-04-23T22:11:33Z
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https://kellerlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/02/
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Afghanistan's presidential elections have seen a decline in voter participation for a lot of reasons. With 70% of the population under 25, rap music is being used to encourage young people to turn out for next months' voting. Artists like Edris Bayan, rapping in Pashto about how voting is a "peace flag" and that you can be a "sword," are encouraging young people to take part in a musical contest, with the ultimate goal of increasing the turnout for next months' presidential elections.
Friedman on whether rap can make young Afghans interested in politics?
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2019-04-25T14:54:40Z
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https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/to-the-point/surge-of-central-american-children-crossing-into-the-us/afghanistans-upcoming-election-gets-a-rap-anthem
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If you are interested in meeting with a counselor in an ongoing fashion, you will want to schedule a 60-minute consultation.
If you are interested in meeting with a counselor for a single session to discuss a problem, you can schedule a 30 minute quick access meeting.
If you are in immediate crisis, and there are no 60-minute consultations available, you can schedule a 30 minute crisis management meeting.
When you call to schedule an appointment, you will be asked what type of appointment best fits your needs. Based on the type of appointment you schedule, you will receive different instructions about the first meeting.
If this is your first time at University Counseling Service, or it has been more than three months since your last time, we ask you to complete background information for your counselor. Allow 30 minutes before your appointment for your counselor to review your information. If you have had an appointment within the last three months, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before your appointment to update paperwork. If you are unable to keep a scheduled appointment, please call to cancel.
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These appointments provide an opportunity to speak with a counselor about an immediate crisis, get support, and develop a plan to help manage your crisis. You decide whether or not your experience is a crisis; examples include feeling suicidal, experiencing a recent trauma, or the recent death of a loved one. If you are unsure you can remain safe to attend your appointment, Call 911 or visit the hospital emergency room. You will be required to fill out forms providing background information to help you and your counselor address your concern. Please arrive 20 minutes before your scheduled appointment to allow time for the paperwork. If you are unable to keep a scheduled appointment, please call to cancel.
If you’re interested in possibly joining a group, you need to schedule a group screening appointment. The meeting can be 30 minutes or an hour long. During this appointment, the group leader and you will decide if group counseling is a good fit for your needs. You may be referred to a group screening appointment during your initial consultation appointment, or you can just call UCS and schedule a screening with the leader of the group you’re interested in.
UCS hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. M-F. Appointments are only during regular agency hours. For ongoing counseling, if your academic program requirements preclude you from coming to UCS during that timeframe, please contact us via phone at (319) 335-7294 or via email at ucs@uiowa.edu to discuss alternate arrangements.
We are an interdisciplinary and multicultural staff of psychologists, social workers, trainees, and a professional administrative staff. We’re Here For You! View our staff profiles.
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2019-04-23T15:50:23Z
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https://counseling.uiowa.edu/services/appointments/
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wordpress
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We Love this Hotel, Its our home away from home.. When we are travelling around the rest of the island and we decide its time to go back home we mean the MENTARI. It has a fantastic swimming pool. The rooms are clean and your linen is changed every day. The staff are fantastic. It is quite small and intimate ( it seems like there is a maximum of 20 or 30 rooms). When we travel, we usually have our children with us, so its important that they feel at ease, and The Mentari provides beautifully. One day we left Frank (our 12 year old) for the day as we had to go to UBUD for business. Mardini and Dayu the staff at the restaurant looked after him, brought him his breakfast in bed. There is a great multi-culturalism in the array of guests that stay, Swedish, German, English, Australians, Bangla Deshi’s…people from everywhere. Afternoons around the pool chatting to people from all walks of life, because its such a small establishment people tend to engage with each other, sharing travel tips. Its not a large anonymous hotel. Its away from the throng , being in North Sanur (just a 10 minute walk from the main drag in Sanur). Its just behind “Dunkin Donuts”, so when you arrive at the airport its really easy to explain your destination to the driver, you don’t have to stand in a queue waiting for a taxi voucher just cross the road outside the Terminal and it should only cost 100,000 rupee to get there. I know where my first port of call is when I arrive. And I believe the secret to a good holiday is how you arrive and The Mentari provides perfectly.
Our 2 days stay was good in this hotel. The lady in the reception warmly greeted us (and things should be like that-but you’ll not get it everywhere). Far from the main market (Denpasar market). The entrance from the main road is the bottleneck. There is a small food stall on the road and they keep all the waste/rubbish on the road as it becomes like a dustbin. You have to pass through this to go to the hotel. I strongly suggest to the hotel management to take urgent steps regarding this matter. It’s a serious problem. The pool area of the hotel is very clean and well managed. The breakfast menu should’ve more variety. They managed a Mini van to go to the airport at 3am. Also packed our B.fast which they brought to our room at night. We give our heartily thanks to them.
Sightseeing/Attractions Tip : Only 5 min. walk to the beach. Few massage parlour very near on the main road.
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2019-04-24T08:19:24Z
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https://mentarisanur.wordpress.com/2011/07/
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My Pasta Chef, Inc. is a Service-Disabled, Gulf War Veteran-Owned, Small Business that is independently owned and operated, while obtaining the right to use the name "Pompei" and use Pompei's original and authentic recipesunder a Trademark License Agreement. My Pasta Chef, Inc. is committed to serving authentic Pompei - Taylor Street recipes, using fresh and healthy ingredients, while maintaining excellent food quality, consistency and service.We buy our fresh ingredients locally and we make our food fresh daily. Food not sold at the end of the day is donated to area shelters. Download our app to place carry out and delivery orders, view our menus, book catering and more!
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2019-04-23T06:50:26Z
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https://downloads.zdnet.com/product/2056-76532358/
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Jesus wept … Lazarus come out!
The Burial Rite in the Anglican tradition affirms the paradox.
We began Lent in the Western Church with the honest statement, “remember that dust you are and to dust you shall return.” And (not but) on Easter we will sing with faith conviction, “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.” We say both.
I believe Jesus, in the story of the raising of Lazarus does wept and He does say with boldness, “Lazarus come out!!” He does both as God and He does both as man. He does both as fully God and fully man, the God-man.
I offer the following reflections from Fr. Alexander Schmemann and Elder Sophrony, to properly contextualize my comments, surrendering them to the affirmation and/or correction of the Holy Tradition.
Let us first of all understand that Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, personifies the whole mankind and also each man, and Bethany, the home of Lazarus the Man, is the symbol of the whole world as a home of man. For each man was created friend of God and called to this Divine friendship: the knowledge of God, the communion with Him, the sharing of life with Him. “In Him was life and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4) And yet this Friend whom God loves, whom in love He has created, i.e. called to life, is destroyed and annihilated by a power which God has not created: death. God encounters in His own world a power which destroys His work and annihilates His design. The world is but lamentation and sorrow, tears and death. How is this possible? How did this happen? These are the questions implied in John’s slow and detailed narrative of Jesus’ coming to the grave of His friend. And once there, “Jesus wept.” (John 11:35) Why does He weep if He knows that in a moment He will call Lazarus back to life? … the Orthodox Church teaches that all actions of Christ are “theandric,” i.e., both Divine and human, are actions of the one and same God-Man. But then His very tears are Divine. Jesus weeps because He contemplates the triumph of death and destruction in the world created by God.
In refusing to accept Christ as Eternal Man and, more importantly, as True God and our Saviour – whatever the form the refusal takes, and whatever the pretext – we lose the light of life eternal.
‘Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world’ (John 17.24).
Then we shall overcome in ourselves the sin of refusing the Father’s love as revealed to us through the Son (cf. John 8.24).
The moment the Holy Spirit grants us to know the hypostatic form of prayer we can begin to break the fetters that shackle us.
Emerging from the prison cell of selfish individualism into the wide expanse of life in the image of Christ, we perceive the nature of the personalism of the Gospel.
[…] It is a recognised fact that the ego is the weapon in the struggle for existence of the individual who refuses Christ’s call to open our hearts to total, universal love.
The persona, by contrast, is inconceivable without all-embracing love either in the Divine Being or in the human being.
Prolonged and far from easy ascetic effort can open our eyes to the love that Christ taught, and we can apprehend the whole world through ourselves, through our own sufferings and searchings.
We become like a world-wide radio receiver and can identify ourselves with the tragic element, not only in the lives of individual people but of the world at large, and we pray for the world as for our own selves.
In this kind of prayer the spirit beholds the depths of evil, the sombre result of having eaten of the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’.
But it is not only evil that we see – we make contact, too, with Absolute Good, with God, Who translates our prayer into a vision of Uncreated Light.
The soul may then forget the world for whom she was praying, and cease to be aware of the body. The prayer of divine love becomes our very being, our body.
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2019-04-23T20:21:29Z
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https://upwardcall.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/jesus-wept-lazarus-come-out/
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wordpress
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The $240 million deal offers the software titan an appealing slice of online advertising—and a $15 billion valuation for Facebook.
After losing many battles to Web behemoth Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) finally won one. On Oct. 24, the software giant prevailed in its bid for a stake in the social network Facebook. Microsoft agreed to buy a $240 million piece of the company in a transaction that values Facebook at $15 billion.
For Microsoft, the deal underscores the rising importance of online advertising. The arrangement gives Microsoft control over the placement of banner ads on Facebook outside the U.S., where about 60% of Facebook’s 49 million active users reside. Microsoft had already reached agreements to sell U.S. banner ads for Facebook through 2011. "It signals an enormous vote of confidence from our largest advertising partner," Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms & Services Div. at Microsoft, said during a conference call announcing the investment.
The transaction also reflects the rising—and some would argue, lofty—valuations for social networks. Facebook, run by Mark Zuckerberg, is also among the hottest on the block, growing by 200,000 registered users every day. According to Web tracker Hitwise, Facebook received nearly 1% of all Internet visits in the week that ended Oct. 20. And over the last year, its traffic has more than doubled (BusinessWeek.com, 8/6/07). The valuation for Facebook makes the $580 million News Corp. (NWS) paid for MySpace look like an outright bargain.
Facebook’s allure certainly wasn’t lost on Google, which also bid for a stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Facebook Vice-President Owen Van Natta declined to discuss why the company chose Microsoft. "We were very fortunate to have a lot of folks interested in partnering with us around advertising," he said about the bidding competition, on the conference call.
Google already has a lock on placing ads on the top social networking site MySpace. In a transaction outlined in 2006, Google is in charge of placing search-related ads on MySpace. Google also serves as the main MySpace search engine. Among social networking sites, MySpace received 76% of U.S. traffic in the week ended Oct. 20, compared to 15% for Facebook.
In the end, the deal was more important for Microsoft because the software giant has badly lagged Google in online ad revenue. While Microsoft won the right to serve banner ads overseas, it’s unclear what else the company got. Van Natta said the deal didn’t include Web search, a business that could prove quite valuable.
Google executives, at a meeting for analysts on Oct. 24, didn’t comment directly on Microsoft’s Facebook transaction, but highlighted the merits of Google’s own social networking technologies, including its site. Orkut is "one of the leading social networks," said Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of technology. "We don’t feel we need to own everything that is successful on the Internet."
Rumors of the Microsoft deal have been swirling for weeks, and with so much hype surrounding social networking companies such as Facebook, some investors worried that Microsoft might overspend (BusinessWeek.com, 9/25/07) to win a piece of it. Microsoft’s 1.6% stake ultimately is much smaller than early speculation suggested. Indeed, for a company that had $23.4 billion in cash at the end of June, the price tag is a pittance. "The return on investment question almost becomes moot, with the amount we’re talking about," says Charles Di Bona, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. "Microsoft sneezes that much up in day."
Most important for Facebook is the value now ascribed to it. According to press reports, Facebook is expecting to earn a profit of $30 million on $150 million in sales this year. So if it were a publicly traded company, it would be valued at a whopping 500 times earnings. Google, no slouch when it comes to market value, is currently trading at about 53 times earnings. Zuckerberg, 23, wants to take Facebook public at some point. Facebook’s Van Natta says the company will use the money to add employees, expand into new markets, and innovate.
In the end, this deal may be more about winning credibility than redefining markets. Facebook earns a lofty valuation, and Microsoft improves its standing as a Web force. And for each company, that’s good enough.
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https://phonglengocky.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/microsoft-and-facebook-hook-up/
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People don't like change. And when the change involves their social media profiles, they outright hate it.
Whenever the likes of Facebook and Twitter come up with a new feature, a backlash follows.
Users are angry and confused. They start petitions and call for the changes to be reversed. Step-by-step guides of how to get rid of the new feature emerge.
Facebook introduced the standalone messenger app in 2014, as part of its plan to become a mobile communication player -- the same plan that saw the social network spend $22 billion buying the messaging app WhatsApp.
A lot of users really hated the move. The Facebook Messenger received over 50,000 negative reviews on iTunes, and the company was forced to issue a statement debunking some of the myths about the feature.
Twitter ditched its stars and favorites for hearts and likes on Tuesday. The company said it adopted the change to make itself easier for newbies to understand and use Twitter.
But users don't seem to like the change too much. Tens of thousands criticized the move, pushing #TwitterHeart into trending topics.
When Facebook decided to roll out a "feeling fat" emoticon that users could post as part of a status update, it sparked a huge backlash.
More than 16,700 people signed a petition demanding Facebook take the emoticon down. They said it is making fun of people who might suffer from eating disorders.
Facebook got rid of it just a couple of days later.
Google's attempt to launch a microblogging element to its Gmail service was a massive flop. It was launched in May 2010, and killed off only 20 months later.
When Facebook rolled out its newsfeed feature in 2006, more than 740,000 of its users joined a group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." They were concerned about privacy and didn't like the idea of everyone being able to track their Facebook activities.
Facebook recognized the problem, rolled back on some of the features, and strengthened its privacy protection settings.
Any other changes you hated? Let us know in the comments!
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2019-04-25T14:50:19Z
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https://money.cnn.com/2015/11/04/technology/twitter-facebook-hated-changes/index.html
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Many of you have expressed an interest in microfilm.
We are trying to sell a lot of it CHEAP and it has never been used.
Sorry Allen; I just could not let this one pass.
> at a steep discount, please contact me directly.
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2019-04-23T21:56:25Z
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https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0212&L=RECMGMT-L&P=97966
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Nick Cannon vows to continue Nipsey Hussle’s mission. “Can’t Kill Us ALL!!!#Fearless #Marathon #SpiritualWarfare” said Cannon.
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2019-04-21T00:56:03Z
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http://whur.com/tag/nick-cannon/
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In April 1968, I was at the Hyères Film Festival to present my philosophical short film, Héracilite l’Obscur (1967). Philippe Garrel was there with his cameraman, Michel Fournier, to present their opus, Marie pour mémoire (1967). This film made a big impression on me and I admired its photographic quality.
During May ’68, I saw Garrel and Fournier again in Paris at the home of Alain Jouffroy, where a group of spiritual brothers and soul sisters got together. Happenings, music, demonstrations, revolutionary films and various radical texts resulted from those gatherings. When, in July 1968, I was ready to begin filming Acéphale, it seemed only natural to ask Fournier to shoot my film.
Forty years after our collaboration, I remember his good taste, his perfectionism and his silence, his demanding nature as well as his concentrated and alert frame of mind. Soon I was describing him as a “mystic of light”, because he knew better than anyone how to use Kodak’s black-and-white 4-X to obtain contrasts that had not been seen since F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang or Carl Dreyer, and with his images he could create both an indescribable darkness and a bath of lustral light.
A problem occurred during the shoot. The actor Edouard Niermans proposed biting off the neck of a rooster in imitation of a gesture of ancient savagery. Which he did. Fournier who was already a vegetarian was appalled and abandoned the set. This is how Guy Gilles happened to finish shooting Acéphale. I hadn’t seen Michel since then, when he appeared, dressed all in white, and with his gentle, ironic smile at the Cinémathèque a few years back. After all these years, we hugged each other, with no hard feelings.
Patrick Deval is a filmmaker and poet.
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2019-04-23T14:15:41Z
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http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/in-memoriam-michel-fournier-1945-2008/michel-fournier-patrick-deval/
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One of the things that few people know about me is that I suffer from chronic insomnia. I have seen more 4AMs than is decent for any man to see. There is something incredibly soul-destroying about 4AM. An hour to early too feel comfortable to be awake, but late enough that every second you lie awake brings you closer to the point at which going back to sleep is no longer an option.
As I said, quite soul-destroying.
Insomnia does funny things to your head. You start to think about sleep all the time as you lie awake, and it goes from being a state of rest, to being a fickle woman who has teased you, and now won’t give you any more. You start to feel a love/hate relationship with it. You long for her, and at the same time hate her for her callous disregarrd for your feelings.
I wrote a poem about this, which I published over at fictionpress. I wanted to call it “I can’t get none” but I decided that the poem was already too unclear about who I was talking too. I wanted to create the feeling I have described above, of being abandoned by someone, but still make it clear that I am talking about sleep, and not an actual woman.
I think I have failed miserably, and am trying to remedy the situation.
When I finished the piece, I looked at my clock.
… but books are still best.
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2019-04-25T03:51:31Z
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https://davidseven.wordpress.com/tag/insomnia/
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We have the finalists for A LOWCOUNTRY WEDDING Giveaway!
I confess it was tough to choose only three. We received so many heartfelt videos sharing story after story about why a couple should win the $40,000 dream wedding in Charleston, SC. Thank you ALL for your entries. But we only have one wedding to give away. After much discussion the committee selected the three entries. But the final decision is not mine to make. Now it’s up to YOU to vote!
Click on the contest image to watch the brief videos from the finalists and cast your vote. And please share it with your family and friends. Everyone gets to help play a part in making one couple’s wedding dreams come true!
This contest wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of Charleston’s best, award-winning, A-list businesses in the wedding industry. They make wedding dreams come true every week of the year!
Wear something classy and new from the LulaKate collection. For you brides, you’ll love everything at Kate McDonald Bridal!
Get dressed by Charleston Tuxedo for your next special event, and complete your look with a handcrafted original feather bow tie from Brackish that you’ll cherish forever.
Buy something special from Croghan’s Jewel Box, Charleston’s oldest family owned jeweler and engraver. It’s a treasure trove!
Find Sweet Lulu’s Bakery on Wheels (cutest food truck in town) in Charleston so you can enjoy one of Karen’s gorgeous desserts in mason jars!
Let EventWorks and Squeeze On Site transform your space into the most memorable party. And Charleston Virtuosi (Kiral Productions) will set the tone with music entertainment.
If you need a party planner, try luxury event planner Ashley Rhodes Event Designs. Her talents are front-cover magazine worthy. Another highly regarded talent in town is Christy Loftin, who can help plan your special day or be your officiant.
Preserve the memories of your special event on video with Dock House Digital Videography.
Then, send out customized party invitations from Studio R.
And don’t forget your floral arrangements from the superb team at Wildflowers Inc.
Looking for things to do in Charleston? Take the family to Charles Towne Landing to experience the city’s history, enjoy the views, trails, and animals. Also on site is the historic Legare Waring House, an antebellum plantation home where legendary parties of past and present are held.
Firefly Distillery on Wadmalaw Island is a popular destination in Charleston. Get a tour of the state’s largest distillery and have fun with friends in the Firefly Tasting Room where you can sample any of the Firefly brands (ask them to make you ‘A Lowcountry Wedding’ while you’re there). Drink responsibly and hire a driver from Carolina’s Executive Limo Line.
Make a reservation at one of Charleston’s best bed & breakfasts, The John Rutledge House Inn. Located in the heart of downtown Charleston, you’ll enjoy southern hospitality at a national historic landmark. Perfect place to celebrate anniversaries and love!
Pamper yourself with a fresh haircut or manicured nails at SalonSalon of Charleston. I’ve gone there for years. And a new favorite in town is Stox and Co, where you can treat yourself to a luxurious facial or massage. You won’t regret it!
Whatever adventure you go on this summer in Charleston, perhaps give yourself the gift of an on-location photo shoot with Riverland Studios. Isn’t it time to update the family album?
Again, thank you ALL who entered this $40,000 LOWCOUNTRY WEDDING Giveaway! Who will win this dream wedding in Charleston? We’ll find out June 27th–so vote now!
Happy summer reading season my friends!
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I am having trouble voting for my couple Julie & Ryan. I was able to vote for them & then all of a sudden it keeps giving me “Thank You for voting” again & again. I am using an IPhone & have tried everything I know to do. Any ideas of what I can do to help me to vote? Thank you!
It is working correctly. I tweaked the post-entry page this week so that after a vote is cast, the voter receives the ‘Thank you for voting’ page. If you scroll down to the bottom of it, you can also share the voting page with others on Twitter, Facebook, Email, etc. Thank you for voting in the contest! Keep those votes coming in!
How can i vote ?
Voting is over. Winner was revealed June 27th. Julie & Ryan from Beaufort, SC will soon begin planning their dream Lowcountry wedding. I’ll periodically post updates about their wedding planning and special day.
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2019-04-22T20:11:11Z
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https://maryalicemonroe.com/2016/06/17/vote-favorite-make-dreams-come-true/
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437 Ma ophiolite-like suite emplaced in continental crust at Halti, N Scandinavian Caledonides. Implications for basin evolution and subduction systems during Baltica-Laurentia collision.
Remove author: Gee, David G.
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2019-04-18T22:19:23Z
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https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication?q=author%3D%22Gee%2C+David+G.%22+or+(documentType+any+%22bookEditor+conferenceEditor%22+and+editor%3D%22Gee%2C+David+G.%22)
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1. characterized by excessive elegance.
Passing the Daily Challenge to Bizarra!
I did manage a few hundred words on my day, yay for that. :) I have hopes for working on my WIP today, fingers crossed. Meantime, it's your turn bizarra -- good luck!
"'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France."
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2019-04-22T20:09:00Z
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https://1-million-words.livejournal.com/2019/01/09/
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whotv
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Superstar Madonna may still be making headlines for her songs and Super Bowl performance. But, it's the styles she made popular during the over-the-top decade of the 80's that are popping up in closets this century.
When Iowa State University Student Kate Howe thinks of the 80's she says, "I definitely think Madonna, all the way."
It's hard to ignore the fashion icon when you talk about 80's fashion. Student Lisa Bradshaw says, "I just think of bright colors, patterns."
Fashion forward students at Iowa State University's Apparel Design and Merchandising department say even though many of them weren't alive during the glitz and glamour of the eighties, they're still rocking the bangle bracelets and leggings leftover from the decade. Junior Kenzie Besch says, "I think it was a really fun decade. I think there was a lot of different trends going on that we're seeing that are coming back, like the leggings, the off the shoulder look."
And, design students Sam Silver and Kate Bell are trying to bring back a trend you may have forgotten. Silver says, "We're using, if you remember Hypercolor, from the late 80's, early 90's."
Hypercolor is a technique that uses a special dye, so the heat from your hand changes the color of the shirt when you touch it. Silver and Bell are designing five high fashion outfits with the dye for a special project this spring. Bell says, "I know a lot of people who don't remember Hypercolor shirts when we were younger. They have heard about our project and they're like, oh, that's really interesting, I would wear a shirt like that."
But, there are some trends people who lived through the 80's don't want to see make a comeback. Iowa State University Professor Emeritus Jane Farrell-Beck says, "Those big shoulders."
Farrell-Beck has written books about the history of fashion. She says, "I do see things coming around again, but maybe not in the same way."
She says designers are always looking for inspiration and styles comeback in cycles, usually every twenty to thirty years in slightly different fashion. As an example, she points out the off the shoulder look, saying, "But normally it's layered with something, instead of just showing the shoulder, it's showing a bra strap, it's showing a camisole."
And, she says so far the comeback isn't as over the top, so maybe we won't see another big style statement of the decade: big hair. Bradshaw says, "Stay away from the hair."
You can see the Hypercolor fashion project on display at Iowa State University's MU this April. You'll also be able to check out other student designer's work at the school's annual fashion show. Tickets go on sale February 13 for the April 14th show at Stephens Auditorium.
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2019-04-26T04:47:26Z
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https://whotv.com/2012/03/02/fashion-comeback-styles-made-popular-during-the-decade-that-made-madonna-popular-make-a-comeback-2/?shared=email&msg=fail
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"Expect the Unexpected" features our beloved Pi the Pirate....the painting says the rest...This will hopefully be the first of many paintings of Pi (who got her name because she has 3.14 legs). This captures her personality, her sense of calm, and nose for adventure!!!!
This limited edition giclee on canvas arrives rolled in a tube, or ready to hang. The above measurement refers to the image itself. All giclees are coated with w/Eco Print Shield gloss coating to protect your art for years to come.
The ready to hang version comes in a black matte finish frame with a I ½ inch face and trimmed in silver skull and crossbones!!!! Only a few of these frames remain.
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2019-04-24T09:54:33Z
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https://www.cindycoats.com/limited-edition-prints/expect-the-unexpected
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The University of Florida Board of Trustees holds in-person meetings at least three times per year and may meet via conference call to attend to matters that require a timely response. The Trustees also hold an annual retreat. Agenda and materials are posted in advance of any regularly scheduled meeting. These materials will remain available until the final minutes are posted. Final minutes are posted by Committee and incorporate the materials presented at the meeting. The minutes of full Board meetings and special sessions are also posted along with any presented materials. Draft minutes are posted within two weeks of any meeting and will remain available until the final minutes are approved. For questions regarding the content of this page, please contact the UF Board of Trustees Office ufbot@ufl.edu.
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2019-04-25T16:42:38Z
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http://trustees.ufl.edu/meetings/
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smugmug
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Sheffield Wall Murals & King Solomon's Caves, Tasmania, Australia. Images scanned from 35mm Transparencies.
9 December 1995. These photos have been scanned from 35mm slides.
This day was a 'day off' during the Champion School of Australia basketball tournament, being held in Devonport, Tasmania.
Tailor - Wall Murals at Sheffield, 9 December 1995; , Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Des Thureson, scanned from 35mm transparencies.
Wall Murals at Sheffield, 9 December 1995; , Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Des Thureson, scanned from 35mm transparencies.
Perhaps a Radio Studio? - Wall Murals at Sheffield, 9 December 1995; , Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Des Thureson, scanned from 35mm transparencies.
Early Christian Heritage - Wall Murals at Sheffield, 9 December 1995; , Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Des Thureson, scanned from 35mm transparencies.
Printer / Printing Press - Wall Murals at Sheffield, 9 December 1995; , Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Des Thureson, scanned from 35mm transparencies.
King Solomon's Cave; Liena Road, Liena, Tasmania, Australia; 9 December 1995. Photos by Des Thureson - http://disci.smugmug.com. Photos scanned from 35mm transparencies.
Northern Tasmania, south of Devonport and north of Sheffield.
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2019-04-18T20:39:42Z
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https://disci.smugmug.com/Travel/Sheffield-Murals-solomons-cave
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yale
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[Plans of the major cities and towns of continental Europe] [cartographic material].
29 maps ; 44 x 67 cm. or smaller.
Cities of Europe in 1910.
Town plan of Bonifacio [cartographic material].
Town plan of Aosta [cartographic material].
Town plan of Bergamo [cartographic material].
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2019-04-19T20:58:21Z
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https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4166569
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yahoo
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New Delhi, Mar 22: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may not be a force to reckon with in the national politics, but when it comes to Delhi, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party is one of the major contenders. The way Delhi votes is quite interesting. In the last general elections, all seven Lok Sabha seats were won by BJP. The very next in the assembly elections, AAP won 67 out of the 70 seats and formed a government in the national capital.
This shows that Delhi voters are conscious and clear whom they want in the Centre and whom to govern the city. Was this a one-off phenomenon, or is this the way Delhi would continue to vote is something that only the time will tell. While there's a general acceptance that the AAP government has done good work - especially in primary education in Delhi schools, and in implementing regular water and electricity supply, there are some complaints and people do feel that the AAP government has not met all the promises yet.
Soon after Arvind Kejriwal formed a government in the national capital after winning elections with a thumping majority in 2015, he spoke to several channels, and when asked about stark difference in the way people voted for assembly and general elections, the CM had said, "People know clearly that they want Modi in Centre and AAP in Delhi. They are clear about it."
But will this happen this time around? We spoke to some residents of Delhi about AAP pushing the Congress for an alliance, and finally deciding to go alone after Shiela Dikshit said a firm "No".
Alok Paul, a Delhi resident, told OneIndia that the very move by the AAP to seek an alliance from Congress has dented its image.
"AAP will lose it's support base further because the only reason people picked them at first place was there anti-corruption motto which after seeking an alliance with Congress will fade away...Kejriwal looks like losing his mind every time during Lok Sabha elections, he should have learned few lessons from last Lok Sabha results ...BJP will have an edge I believe if Congress ties up with AAP in Delhi," he said.
The AAP on March 19 shut the door on the alliance with Congress that had lately seemed to consider the idea again. "There will be no alliance with the Congress in Delhi," AAP leader Gopal Rai said.
"Talks are still on and I think they'll go into an alliance. Chances are very dim with or without alliance for both Congress and AAP in Delhi," Paul further said.
Bhupesh Bisht told OneIndia that may be a tie-up of Congress and AAP may help to thwart the BJP in Lok Sabha polls in the national capital.
"I believe alliance will help beat BJP and currently that's the whole story in India. Also, I hope BJP wins the social media battle. I feel they are already ahead in the social media campaigning. But the core voter which doesn't use social media will think otherwise. Outer Delhi might give an edge to AAP, I still feel," he said.
"Aana toh Modi ne hi hai (Modi will come to power)," said Rakesh Gulati, an IT professional, to OneIndia. "Some say there is no Modi wave, it is there. Modi is popular among the working class. Those who understand things he has done for the countries, will vote for him," he added.
Vishal Verma, a Delhi resident, said, "Allying with Congress is the only way AAP can stop the BJP from sweeping Delhi. Even then it would be difficult to stop, Delhi voter is very clear who he want in Delhi, and who can do good for India."
"I feel BJP will sweep Delhi. Kejriwal has lost his credibility by siding with others. His main USP was that AAP is different from other parties. Now by showing desperation for alliance and hobnobbing with other parties, even he is just another politician. Where is the difference," said Gaurav, an IT professional.
We also spoke to several people off the record in Delhi. Some opined that the strong support in Delhi is for Modi and not for the BJP, so to speak. Delhi's autowallahs were one of AAP's earliest and most loyal support bases, but now that support is not as strong as it was in 2015.
The BJP won all seven 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi with 46.40 percent vote share, while the Aam Aadmi Party stood second with 32.90 percent vote share. The Congress was a distant third (15.10 percent vote share). In the Delhi assembly elections 2015, AAP swept -- winning 67 of the 70 seats (54.3 percent vote share). The BJP won just three seats with 32.3% vote share, and the Congress failed to win a single seat (9.7% vote share).
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2019-04-21T17:17:28Z
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https://in.news.yahoo.com/aap-doing-thing-going-solo-233030569.html
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ajc
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Ghadir Taher of East Point died in the January 2019 bombing in Manbij, Syria. She was an interpreter for the U.S. Army.
A memorial service has been set for Ghadir Taher, the East Point woman killed in the Jan. 16 bombing in Syria.
Friends, family and supporters are invited to gather informally Saturday, Jan. 26, between noon and 4 p.m. at Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta Airport, 4700 Southport Road, Atlanta.
Taher, 27, born in Syria, emigrated to the U.S. as a child and returned to the country of her birth as a translator for the U.S. military. She was a graduate of Tri-Cities High School in East Point.
The bombing at the Palace of Princes restaurant killed 19, including three other Americans.
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2019-04-23T19:03:21Z
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https://www.ajc.com/news/education/service-set-for-east-point-woman-killed-syria/DJguHaT0yQAfoe93yuEsaK/
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Research projects are scholarly works that clearly will contribute to increased knowledge and understanding of factors affecting women’s involvement in physical activity, movement, health and the female body in culture.
A brief description of those involved in the project, including the number of women students and faculty that will be involved in conducting the research. When requesting RA/PA support, if known, please specify the gender and name of the PA/RA.
A cover page with the proposal title, name(s) of the Principal Investigator(s)/Faculty Mentor and address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address for the contact person.
Brief description of the project and its purpose.
How the proposed research relates to women’s physical education, activity or movement and the female body in culture.
Potential impact of the project on women in general.
Evidence that supports the need for the proposed project and the unique contribution the findings will make to our understanding of women’s physical activity, movement and/or the female body in culture.
Plans for ongoing support of the project.
A brief description of those involved in the project, including the number of women students and faculty that will be involved in conducting the research.
A resume/curricula vitae for the Project Coordinator/Principal Investigator(s).
Benefits will be automatically calculated and added to the budget request for personnel salaries (faculty, staff, graduate student or student hourly).
Maximum graduate student support will be 50% appointment for 9-months.
Tenured faculty are not eligible for summer salary coverage.
Travel funds are limited to $1000 for domestic travel and $2000 for international travel and should be justified as related to the project.
If you have previously received support from this fund, you must provide a 1-2 page progress report for any projects still in process or a final report of the last project funded from this source.
A Budget Sample is provided here for your convenience.
After completing your budget, upload your form here.
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2019-04-24T04:54:50Z
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https://www.education.wisc.edu/soe/about/leadership/committees/vhh/application-forms/research-grant-application
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fanpop
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Do Du think he is a good teamate for Phelps?
Should Ryan Lochte have an e-mail that Fans can contact him by?
What hairstyle do Du prefer on Ryan?
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2019-04-19T07:36:29Z
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http://de.fanpop.com/clubs/ryan-lochte
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wordpress
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Plattitudes | The random ramblings of a former journalist who went up a hill and came down a game designer.
The random ramblings of a former journalist who went up a hill and came down a game designer.
Thanks to David Ball at Ongoing Worlds for taking the time to ask questions and spread the word!
Ever heard people talking about MUSHs or MUDs in the same breath as PBEM or PBP? They’re actually quite similar, and I was able to interview Wes Platt, the creator of OtherSpace, an original space-opera MUSH. He’s been running OtherSpace for 14 years and has a following of over 200 members.
So what is a MUSH?
A MUSH – also known by the rather silly name “Multi-User Shared Hallucination” – is a text-based platform that players can go online to connect with from all over the world.
If you like reading and writing stories in real-time, improvisationally, with other people, it’s the sort of thing you’d probably enjoy. It’s a lot of fun if you get a kick of developing characters and crafting dialogue on the fly, reacting to situations, and following chains of action and consequence toward not-always-predictable territory.
So, this week I attended my first Durham writers meet-up gathering at the Barnes & Noble on New Hope Commons.
I haven’t thought of myself primarily as a writer in a long time. I’ve never really stopped writing, because I certainly created a lot of content for Fallen Earth, wrote poses, descriptions and dialogue for OtherSpace, but all that work has been in service to something else: Game design.
The last time I felt something akin to what occurred Tuesday night was probably more than twenty years ago, back when I sat in that comfortable circle of chairs with the staff of the Valencian magazine at Valencia Community College. This group I met with was the subset that’s specifically interested in science fiction and fantasy. Every couple of weeks, they meet to share what they’re working on and to get feedback from others.
Back at Valencia, where I met two of my best friends, Jeff and Liz, our work was rendered anonymous, photocopied, handed out, and then scored with critiques. Ironically, after a few sessions, the anonymity sort of went out the window because people could spot our writing styles. But there’s no anonymity in this new group, which sits around a table in the bookstore and reads selections aloud before getting feedback.
I didn’t submit anything to read for the first meeting. I just wanted to get a feel for how things worked, study the group a little, and get a sense of the personalities at work. But I didn’t just sit there and listen. When people read, I gave feedback that I certainly hope was helpful. I don’t think I savaged anyone, I just pointed out when things felt too passive or when I wanted a better feeling of urgency and immersion.
* I’ve joined this writers group. So, time to get back to writing. Really writing. This would motivate me to get the ball rolling almost immediately.
* I’m not good at fence-sitting. I want to be in the mix. That means diving right on in. Best way for me to get the most out of the group.
* It’s only fair. Several people read their work Tuesday night and got my feedback, good and bad. They ought to have the chance to return that favor.
So, up went my hand.
I’m now on the hook to write something new to share with the group. It’s exciting. They’re a bunch of good people, sharp and funny, and all interested in improving their work and helping others to do the same. I’m glad that I’ve connected with them.
It was hard for him to argue. The Nall hadn’t left much standing on this block when they pulled out of the Llivori capital on Kamsho. Their home, on the third floor of the Jarmol Building, had two fully collapsed walls. Most of the furniture that hadn’t been blown out onto the street below had been ruined by fire, smoke, or extinguishing chemicals.
“We can start over,” he said.
Merrick didn’t care much for the idea himself. They’d lost their entire home universe, it seemed, to the whims of the Kamir and their usual abuses of unspeakable power. Three years ago, they’d been with the refugees aboard Hancock Station during the voyage from Nocturn to Hiverspace. They lived in a shanty in an enclave aboard Comorro for about a year after that. Then they moved to Kamsho; got themselves a small apartment in the city of Vor. He thought they were done moving for a while. Maybe for good. He enjoyed the city. They welcomed Outversers here. Gave him a decent job working on their communications infrastructure. His wife, Carly, worked as a nurse in the main metropolitan hospital.
“I love an idiot,” she said.
“I want to go home,” Carly whispered.
“Probably isn’t definitely,” she argued.
The horse reared back on its hind legs, pistoning the front hooves just inches above the snout of a Nall warrior named Ralk of Hatch Kavir.
Heavy shadows danced along the pebbled flesh of the warrior’s snout as he cradled the plasma rifle, coils burning hot and ready to open fire. Several of his comrades lay trampled on the stone floor of the planetoid cavern.
The Light Singer never said anything about a horse.
Ralkkavir hadn’t seen one in the flesh before. This would’ve been the last place he would ever expect to do so, on some forgotten pirate outpost in the wilds of Hiverspace. Yet here it was, carrying a human rider and stomping his comrades to death.
And he would be next, if he failed to act. More Nall warriors scrambled down the ramp from the transport behind him. Ralk wouldn’t suffer this beast to survive long enough to hurt any more of his comrades.
A clawed finger tugged on the trigger. Surprisingly little recoil to the Atasuin Sundagger plasma rifle, especially after seeing so much use on Kamsho without access to a lot of spare parts for maintenance.
With an agonized squeal, the horse toppled over, nearly crushing the rider.
Ralk felt grim satisfaction as he watched the beast die. That soon faded, though, as the human drew his blades and rose in a fury to storm toward him. The softskin’s outrage impressed.
He almost didn’t feel the end when it came.
The squeegee squeaked against the dusty window of the fifth floor office building that overlooked downtown Eiru on Pyracan.
Billy Lucas carried that black plastic tool with him like a sacred scepter, a holy relic from a lost age, but he liked to think that he wielded it with the finesse of a sharp-eyed gunslinger.
He’d been using it that afternoon in 1985, high above the streets of Manhattan, to clean the windows of the Chrysler Building. Then came the eruption of luminescence, God’s own blue-light special or the hand of fate. Whatever. It snatched him out of the realm of Reaganomics and into a 27th Century universe full of aliens and humans who got around the galaxy in faster-than-light starships.
But he didn’t know how to fly a fancy spaceship. He couldn’t speak many Earth languages besides English, let alone all the weird tongues heard in the vaulted cavities inside Comorro Station. He wasn’t a techy. He didn’t know how to hunt.
He could clean a window, though. Knew how to make it shine. Everyone wanted clean windows, no matter what century, right?
So, Billy bartered his grandfather’s silver pocket watch, hitched a shuttle to Pyracan, settled in among other human refugees, and found work as a freelancer. He’d been here for about a year.
It wasn’t hero work, but it kept a roof over his head. A few more gigs like this, Billy figured he could afford a ring for Meghan.
He dipped the squeegee in the water bucket, shaking it about, getting it soaked again for the next pane. Then he felt the suspended platform rattle. Earthquake? Not unheard of in Eiru, but rare. Billy looked up to make sure the ropes and pulleys weren’t tearing loose. So far, they looked fine. He looked down toward the street. Flashes of blue light – a bunch of them – rips in space and time, he thought, just like the one that grabbed him from the 20th Century.
He didn’t recognize the sinuous little bipedal reptiloids that came out of them, armed with really big rifles. The absurdity of the sight would’ve made him laugh under other circumstances. The thing is, they almost immediately started gunning people down in the street. Sooner or later, they might look up and shoot him. Or Meghan might be down there. Nothing funny about that.
Billy fumbled for the commlink in his pocket. He wanted to call Meghan and warn her. But then the rifts snapped shut with a thunderous consequence. Billy was staring at his own reflection in that perfectly cleaned window pane, link in one hand and dripping squeegee in the other, when it exploded.
The one thing he liked most about the office was the chair. Cushiony, but firm. It felt used, but not worn out.
He hated the coffee, though. Didn’t stop him from drinking it.
“Good days and bad,” Raleigh answered.
“Not great,” the chief agreed.
The scaled hand drew back the pale yellow sheet, revealing a gaunt olive-skinned face framed by loose-hanging silver hair.
Balthazar didn’t weep for his son. He shed no tears. That time had passed. He looked toward the Zangali coroner and asked, “Did he suffer?” But the leader of the Shohobian Mystics knew the answer before Zototh “Too-Tall” Salaban replied with a lie.
The Mystic gave a vague smile to the coroner. He appreciated the sentiment behind the deception, but it didn’t matter. Balthazar knew the truth. Odalath suffered for at least a few minutes after the knife penetrated his abdomen once, twice, thrice.
“I am sorry for your loss,” the large reptiloid said.
Balthazar nodded, lacing his fingers together. He certainly knew sorrow. The day he said goodbye to Odalath on the landing pad at Overlook Mesa, he had wept, for he knew the doom that awaited his only child. The vision had come to him a week before that. The Voice, that which guided the Mystics along their path, had placed within his mind the understanding that Odalath must go to Earth, to the city of San Angeles, with a warning about the crisis. The tampering had to stop. Humans, ever ambitious, tread once more where they should not.
The Eye had seen: Odalath in half-shadow, talking to a figure obscured in twilight. Insistent. Pleading. “You mustn’t use it anymore. The damage is getting worse. If you persist, I will have no choice but to report your actions to the media.” Then comes the knife. Flash of silver and splash of crimson.
Balthazar could have stopped this from happening, but he did not. He had a choice, but he chose to let his son die, for he had seen what would come to pass if he intervened.
The guilt for one son’s death, he could endure. Balthazar could not suffer the loss of the multiverse in total.
Free to download in PDF format!
Coming soon: 31 Days of OtherSpace - 1 work of fiction a day during March 2011.
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Desmonds, Terri (2016) Mechano-electrical transduction in cochlear hair cells: channel blockers, an anomalous mechano-sensitive current and TRPC knockout mice. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.
This list was generated on Sun Apr 21 22:05:33 2019 BST.
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Re: "Visit Newport Beach is not calling for airport expansion?" (July 29): Former Daily Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson was amazed and surprised by my letter; I'm delighted by his.
Tom, with his characteristic candor, at least clarifies a fact that Visit Newport CEO Gary Sherwin was working on the John Wayne Airport's Marketing Task Force, not as head of Visit Newport Beach, but as head of the Orange County Visitor's Bureau. Sherwin and Visit Newport Beach together are participating in marketing JWA to bring more visitors to JWA and then possibly to Newport Beach.
Well, that's a problem. The residents and the city should not pay Visit Newport Beach one cent to market JWA at all; surely, we should not pay them the more than $3 million paid in 2012. It's bad for the city, it's bad for the residents, and it's bad for our environment and property values. And there is no guarantee that Visit Newport Beach's marketing of JWA will actually result in more visitors to Newport Beach.
I believe that AirFair supports bringing more visitors to Newport Beach. However, we have also supported the city's policy efforts to distribute the passenger load to other area airports, including Ontario. The city, in the past, has adopted policies and sent mayoral correspondence supporting Ontario Airport. We also support the city's policies regarding protecting our residents from the adverse impacts of JWA, including more passengers and more flights.
So, if as Tom maintains Visit Newport Beach, and Mr. Sherwin as its CEO, seek to bring more passengers to JWA, the city has a huge problem: we are subsidizing a group which seeks to expand JWA.
As I pointed out in my letter, the proposed settlement agreement will substantially increase the allowed passenger loads at JWA if Visit Newport Beach and Mr. Sherwin are successful. I call on all of the community groups, including AirFair and Airport Working Group, as well as the Aviation Committee and the City Council, to oppose these efforts.
Re. "Commentary: The fellowship of runners" (July 29): I enjoy the various human-interest stories that are shared in the L.A. Times and Daily Pilot. This one especially caught my eye.
Carrie Luger Slayback wrote such a touching story. She really captured the spirit of her running group, the bond they share and the compassion they have for each other.
Sometimes we don't realize how common interests can create lifetime friendships. Though Carrie admits her running group does not socialize, that doesn't mean the caring and kindness for one another is not present. Their friendship is based on their training and support for one another's fitness goals. They have fun and joke with one another, then go their separate ways until the next run. But their hearts remain connected. Thank you for bringing balance to my day with refreshing commentary such as this one.
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In general, test sessions have been designed to allow sufficient time to complete the test.
Individuals with a documented disability may submit a request for alternative testing arrangements, including additional time, at the time of registration. During the registration process you will be asked if you are requesting alternative testing arrangements. You will be required to submit a signed statement from a qualified professional describing your diagnosis or disability. In addition, you will complete the Alternative Testing Arrangements Request Form.
Individuals for whom English is not a primary language may request an extension of testing time, up to one and a half times the standard test session length. All requests for additional time require appropriate documentation and are subject to approval. To request additional time for this reason, you must submit a completed Alternative Testing Arrangements Request Form, and submit documentation that certifies that English is not your primary language.
MTLE Exams scores are released approximately 21 days after your exam test date. Your scores will be released on the score report date. Your score report will be available online as a PDF document for 45 days after the score report date. You may view, print, and save your score report from your account during that period. After that 45 day window, you will no longer be able to access your .pdf score report from Pearson. It is IMPORTANT to be sure to download and save your .PDF score report. If you do not save the score report date within that window there is a fee of $10 per copy online at request a score report.
Note: it is very important to put UMD as a recipient of your scores, this will help expedite license application processing.
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https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/departments-centers/department-education/students/teacher-licensure-exam/policies-procedures
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With works as broad as handmade paper, sculpture, jewellery and paintings, it's no wonder there were a record number of entries in last year's NSW Parliament Aboriginal Art Prize. And the winner, Nicole Foreshew, became the first artist to win for a photographic work.
Nicole, whose photographs were projected in enormous proportions (and great effect) onto the Australian Museum during the Hetti Perkins' produced Corroboree Sydney, is also a recipient of a NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship, which will cumulate in an exhibition at the Albury Regional Art Gallery this year.
The Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize is one of the largest art prizes for Aboriginal artists with a $40,000 prize awarded by an independent panel of experts. It is open to artists born in or living in New South Wales, and offers entrants the opportunity to be considered for a UNSW Faculty of Art & Design Aboriginal Arts Residency Award.
All artists, established or emerging, are encouraged to enter. The finalists' works will be exhibited at Parliament House throughout October and toured in regional galleries in 2016. The winner will join Nicole Foreshew, Roy Kennedy, Esme Timbery, Danny Eastwood and Karla Dickens - their work becoming part of the permanent collection of the Parliament of NSW.
Entries are open until Friday 31 July 2015.
For more information on eligibility criteria and for full terms and conditions of entry visit Campbelltown Arts Centre or phone 02 4645 4100.
The Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize is made possible by a partnership between the Parliament, Campbelltown City Council, Arts NSW and the UNSW Faculty of Art & Design.
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2019-04-19T17:02:21Z
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https://news.aboriginalartdirectory.com/2015/05/2015-parliament-of-nsw-art-prize-call-for-entries.php
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Native Americans in southwest Oregon are a heterogenous group comprising one-quarter of the state's total Indian population. Despite their notable size, Native Americans in this six county area are either ineligible for, or inaccessible to, federally sponsored Indian health facilities available to Native peoples elsewhere. Research was conducted over an eight month period to determine the prevalence of Native American mental health problems, rates of service utilization, and cultural appropriateness of available services. For thesis study, inquiries focused on use of traditional medicine and Indian providers as viable alternatives to the established non-Indian mental health system. Under the supervision of the Southwest Oregon Indian Health Project, interviews were held with service providers, clients, and members of local Indian populations. Results show that southwest Oregon Native Americans underutilize county mental health facilities due to real and/or perceived barriers to treatment. Among these are cultural barriers in which non-Indian therapists do not, or are unable to, respond appropriately to tradition-oriented Indian clients. An exception is the alcohol programs which Native Americans use more often. It is clear that participation in these programs is greater due to the higher prevalence of alcohol problems, increased cultural sensitivity among staff, and differing attitudes toward being alcoholic as opposed to "crazy". Three Indian-specific alcohol programs within or adjacent to the service area are particularly attractive to Native American clients. Native peoples frequently expressed interests in developing their own programs, accessing traditional medicine people, and having more input within the existing county system. Indian alcohol programs have become a rallying place for Indian self-determination in mental health care because they adhere to Native beliefs and values, and are refuges for traditionally- oriented providers and clients. Unfortunately, their existence is tenuously linked to non-Indian funding sources and regulations -- a situation difficult to improve from either side. Research conclusions indicate that Native American mental health treatment is in a transitional period. A resurgence of interest in the use of traditional medicine has been part of the transition. Improved legislation for Indian health care and religious freedom have contributed to the articulation and organization of Native American concerns. Answers to self-determination in southwest Oregon Native American mental health care will become more evident as Pan- Indian issues are resolved and communities develop better communications and referral networks with local Indian populations. Infringing economic constraints can be alleviated if community treatment facilities use more sensitive, personalized outreach to Native Americans in their areas, and if they allow them greater control in determining traditional treatment alternatives.
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2019-04-26T03:51:06Z
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https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/736668865
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To the Editor of the Baltic Times.
A year ago you published an article that I had written about a set of soft power “tools” that we have invented in England designed to bring all the world on board and working together to tackle their greatest problems, starting with climate change.
One of those those tools was a Paddle for Life, signed by world leaders to be used as a perpetual trophy for a boating regatta to start the ideas in any country. In late 2013 President Grybauskaite signed three Paddles for Life for China, the United States and the European Union.
At the signing ceremony in Brussels I was deeply impressed by the great enthusiasm towards the EU by the young Lithuanian team . In our conversation, Russia was mentioned and I became aware that I had forgotten all about Russia in my work. I realised I had made a big mistake.
I immediately wrote to President Putin and suggested to him that Russia might like to use the ideas as a great project for their young people after the Sochi Olympics. The events after the Sochi Olympics led to me believing that all was lost, but I decided to try again. I had a positive response from the Russian embassy in London and I now believe that with the help of the people of the Baltic states these ideas can bring peace to the Ukraine, help to weld the European Union together and change the course of world history.
One of the soft power tools is a children’s story for people of all ages. It can be adapted for any country. On Christmas Day I adapted it for Russia and it is now in Moscow being considered by the Foreign Office. I have also sent it in PDF form to all my friends and contacts around the world.
I believe that if this story was translated into Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian, made available to all through PDF’s on you website, and then the people of the Baltic states used their renowned media skills to spread it throughout Russia, then President Putin will quickly be made aware and be delighted to take part.
I hope that through this letter I can inspire the people of the Baltic to read the story and take part. They will change the course of history, within weeks!
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2019-04-23T20:57:19Z
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https://www.baltictimes.com/to_the_editor_of_the_baltic_times_/
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I will be exploring the relationship between Winifred Lamb’s work as an archaeologist in the Aegean, and her role as Honorary Keeper of Greek Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In the museum there are recognisable strands to her curatorial work: the display (and publication) of the Greek figure-decorated pottery, supplemented by the Ricketts and Shannon loan (and later Shannon bequest); the formation of a prehistoric gallery; the development of a collection of Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes; and finally material from Anatolia. The Greek pottery interest was influenced by her work with (Sir) John Beazley in Room 40 during the final stages of World War 1.
In a second paper I will consider the process of writing Lamb’s biography: the archive sources including her correspondence, diaries, and photographs; her acquisitions for and gifts to the Fitzwilliam; and her publications. I will then turn to the writing of a life from an essay in Breaking Ground to the memoir in ODNB. What should be included or excluded? Where do the emphases lie?
I have been reflecting on why Winifred Lamb deserved a biography.
First, she pursued two parallel careers (captured in the sub-title). She was an active field-archaeologist during the inter-war period at sites that included Mycenae and Sparta, and her own excavations on Lesbos, Chios, and later at Kusura in Turkey. At the same time she was the honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum over nearly a 40 year span.
Second, she was closely involved with the on-going work of the British School at Athens (and contributed to its Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1936). She was also involved with the establishment of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara after the Second World War.
Third, she worked alongside some key figures in the discipline of archaeology. Among the names was Sir John Beazley with whom she worked in Naval Intelligence (Room 40) during the First World War. Sir Leonard Woolley introduced her to the Turkish language section of the BBC during the Second World War.
Fourth, she was one of a small group of women who worked at the British School at Athens immediately after the First World War. She was also one of the first women to excavate in Turkey in the 1930s.
HARN Member, David Gill, has sent us the following information about his forthcoming book.
One of the caryatids from the Roman ‘lesser propylaia’ in the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis was obtained by E.D. Clarke and now resides in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It is currently part of an art installation by Hugo Dalton.
Another caryatid from the ‘lesser propylaia’ is now displayed in the Eleusis Museum. Both appeared in the documentary, ‘The Sacred Way‘, by Michael Wood (1991).
The lesser Propylaia was a benefaction of Appius Claudius Pulcher.
In 1816 Viscount Fitzwilliam made a spectacular bequest to the University of Cambridge and this led directly to the establishment of a museum that now bears his name (“Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum marks 200 years“, BBC News, January 2, 2016). The building that now holds the collections opened in 1848.
My own interest is in the classical collections: from the sculptures donated by Dr John Disney (‘the Disney Marbles’) and E. D. Clarke; the figure-decorated pottery that once formed part of the collection of Colonel William M. Leake; the prehistoric collections derived from excavations by the British School at Athens on Crete (Palaikastro) and Melos (Phylakopi); and the bronzes brought together by Dr Winifred Lamb.
Dr John Disney is best known for the creation of the eponymous chair of archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and the donation of the ‘Disney Marbles’ displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Professor David Gill gave the 2015 Morant Lecture on the theme of ‘Dr John Disney and Essex’ in Ingatestone parish church. The church contains the grave of Thomas Brand-Hollis who bequeathed The Hyde, near Inagatestone, along with its collection of classical sculptures, to Disney’s father, the Reverend John Disney. The Reverend Disney had been co-minister of the Unitarian Essex Chapel in London alongside his brother-in-law the Reverend Theophilus Lindsey. Brand-Hollis was one of the main supporters of the chapel.
The Reverend Disney’s brother, Lewis Disney-Ffytche, lived at Danbury Place near Maldon. His daughter Sophia married (Dr) John Disney, and her sister Frances married (Sir) William Hillary (best known for founding the RNLI).
Dr Disney was recorder of Bridport in Dorset, and on moving back to Essex after his father’s death, stood as MP for both Ipswich and Harwich. He served on the committee to bring the railway to Chelmsford and Colchester. As a member of the Chelmsford Philosophical Society he helped to establish the Chelmsford Museum. He was also a key figure in the establishment of the Colchester and Essex Archaeological Society.
In later years he was a member of the board of Le Nouveau Monde Mining Company that was involved with the California gold rush.
Slides for the lecture can be found here.
Dr Liz Hide is leading the development of the University of Cambridge Museums consortium and the delivery of the UCM’s Major Partner Museum programme Connecting Collections. Her background is in geology and palaeontology and previous roles include Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the National Museum of Scotland. In Cambridge she chairs the county-wide Cambridgeshire Museums Advisory Partnership, and is a founding member of the Cambridge Arts Leaders group. In 2012 she prepared ‘Impact and Engagement University Museums for the 21st Century’ on behalf of the University Museums Group, and is currently leading on the development of short film promoting the work of University Museums in the UK.
University Museums are a diverse species. Large, multi-themed institutions such as The Manchester Museum, The Ashmolean in Oxford and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge are the main cultural providers in their region, contrasting strongly with specialist collections embedded within research departments. Their collections may form the backbone of research activity, or be sidelined to an awkward corner as research trends move on. Gallery spaces may hum with new ideas and debate, or bristle with resistance to change. In this seminar Liz will explore what it is that University Museums do, and demonstrate why, in changing times, she thinks University Museums lie at the heart of the wider museums sector. She will discuss the role they play within their parent Universities, the many impacts they have on audiences, and their potential for the future. There will also be an opportunity to share your experiences with university museums and collections – please do feel free to share them!
This event is open to all UCS staff, students and visitors.
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2019-04-19T07:25:49Z
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https://heritagefutures.wordpress.com/tag/cambridge/
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Feds want to keep commercial Web site references out of children's programming, but some say the rules don't go far enough.
CNN can promote its advertisement-laced online presence however it likes during broadcasts, but new federal rules mean TV channels like Nickelodeon that cater to children no longer enjoy the same freedom.
The Federal Communications Commission decreed that during shows geared toward children age 12 and under, cable and broadcast operators may not display addresses for Web sites that contain any links to commercial content. The rules took effect on January 2.
Never mind that recent visits to NickJr.com and Noggin.com, online properties of kid networks, turned up more advertisements for Tylenol cold medicine and Nissan minivans than for anything youth-targeted. And some child advocacy groups would argue that many kids' television shows amount to program-length commercials for the toys and edible goodies endorsed by their stars.
"The entire new media landscape is one immense personalized ad targeted at kids."
The new rules came about because regulators were concerned that some broadcasters were using children's programming as a billboard for addresses to Web sites "established solely for commercial purposes"--and thus sneaking around federal law. Under the 1990 Children's Television Act, every hour of children's programming may contain only 10.5 minutes of advertising during weekends and 12 minutes on weekdays.
The nameless example the FCC cited was a Web site address displayed "in a crawl at the bottom of the screen." (PDF) In its view, "including the display during program material converts that program material into commercial matter, just as a host telling children to race to their local toy store would."
A 2004 version of the FCC's rules prompted outcry primarily from the advertising, cable and broadcast industries, which argued the restrictions violated their First Amendment rights. The final product, adopted last September, arose from an agreement from the four major broadcast networks, three major children's cable networks (Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network), and a coalition of advocacy groups called the Children's Media Policy Coalition.
The practical effects of the final rules remain to be seen. At the moment, no one is accusing the networks of failing to comply. A few hours of recent Nickelodeon and Disney Channel viewing turned up no sign of the companies' Web site addresses during programming time, although they appeared in some ads and promotions seemingly viewed by the same audience.
Under the new rules, that's permitted. In general, any addresses for sites with commercial content can be displayed so long as they're against the networks' allotted advertising minutes and "clearly separated" from show content.
The rules also permit the display of addresses for "noncommercial" Web sites during actual show broadcasts. Sites fit that bill if they offer "a substantial amount of bona fide program-related or other noncommercial content," aren't primarily intended for commercial purposes, clearly label commercial content, and don't link directly to e-commerce sites or other pages with commercial material.
That means Nickelodeon wouldn't necessarily have to redesign its Nick.com home page if it wanted to broadcast the Web site address to its young viewers, even though the site on a recent visit turned up at least four ads and more than one link to an e-commerce shop selling branded paraphernalia. The popular network would have a number of other options for promoting its Web site, including simply relegating it to display during commercial breaks.
The situation has perplexed some children's advocates. "It's left major loopholes for advertisers and marketers to target kids," said Susan Linn, a psychologist and co-founder of the advocacy coalition Campaign for A Commercial-Free Childhood.
A Nickelodeon spokeswoman declined to comment on the channel's practices except to say it was "in compliance." Representatives for the cable and broadcast industries and other major children's networks, including ABC Disney, did not grant interview requests.
The new FCC rules also attempt to include the Internet in what were once only TV-oriented restrictions on using children's characters to endorse merchandise.
Existing rules prohibit TV channels from running ads that use so-called "host selling" during commercial breaks adjacent to children's shows that feature the same characters. For instance, if Company X makes Winnie the Pooh its spokesman for a brand of candy, networks can't air Company X's ad during commercial breaks during programs starring the golden cartoon bear.
Some said that approach, whether directed at TV or the Internet, misses the mark.
"If Sponge Bob Square Pants is on myriad products, including junk food and junk toys and clothing and wallpaper or whatever, then the program itself is a program-length commercial for those products," Linn said.
She and others said they viewed the rules as only a first step in protecting children from what they consider excess commercialization. They said they'd like to see the FCC impose a ban on so-called "interactive" advertising, a technique they fear will take hold in the future.
"We don't want kids to be able to click on a Web address or on a specific character from the television screen and be transported to a commercial Web site," said Patti Miller, a representative from the California-based advocacy group Children Now, which helped to negotiate the final rules. "This type of advertising would violate the FCC's rules about the separation between program and advertising content."
"We don't want kids to be able to click on a Web address or on a specific character from the television screen and be transported to a commercial Web site."
That issue has already attracted attention in Congress. Last summer, a U.S. Senate panel unanimously adopted an amendment to a massive communications bill that proposed requiring broadcasters and cable operators to "prevent interactivity" in commercial messages aired during children's programming. The amendment's sponsor, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), has not decided whether to reintroduce that bill but hopes to hold hearings this year, a spokeswoman said.
The idea is sure to encounter renewed resistance from the advertising industry, which has accused the policy's supporters of "stifling the development of new technologies and innovative forms of programming even before they exist."
It's unclear what steps the FCC might take next. FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, a Democrat, acknowledged in a statement (PDF) last year that some parts of the rules "are not models of regulatory clarity and certainty" or were too scaled back. Agency spokesman Clyde Ensslin said there are no immediate plans to issue any clarifications to the current rules, and any inquiries are being handled on a "case by case" basis.
What remains is "a quiet-before-the-storm period," said Tarah Grant, a McLean, Va.-based attorney with the firm Hogan & Hartson. "The rules are now effective, but the FCC hasn't begun investigating complaints for alleged violations."
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2019-04-18T12:35:34Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/kids-tv-faces-new-net-restrictions/
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In conjunction with exhibition, "Marcia Hafif: A Place Apart," a conversation in honor of Marcia Hafif with Nancy Buchanan, Connie Butler, Michael Ned Holte, Jane McFadden, and Barbara T. Smith at Pomona College. Recorded on September 15, 2018.
"Gendering Memories of Iraq," a collective performance created by artist Hayv Kahraman. Performers: Vaneh Assadourian, Merjen Atayeva, Toritseju Danner, Sacha Elie, and Karina Fathi.
Performed on October 11, 2018 at Pomona College in conjunction with exhibition "Hayv Kahraman: Project Series 52."
In conjunction with, "Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco"
Adela Goldbard’s monumental sculptures after being exhibited are completely reduced to ashes, utilizing gasoline and pyrotechnics. Her focus is criticism, and she burns the sculptures using an old Mexican custom that represents the triumph of good over evil. Currently, the artist is creating a microbus like those used for urban transport in Mexico. To cover it with papier-mâché, she is using newspapers brought from Mexico, with articles published under different journalistic perspectives.
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, Odisea Ocotepec (Ocotepec Odyssey), 2014. Excerpts from nine-channel video installation on view in upcoming exhibition, “Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco” opening August, 29, 2017 at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
A symposium convening national and international scholars and artists to examine the deep connections between the art and material culture of Haiti and the United States.
"The Crossing/La traversée: Art in Haiti and the U.S." is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Thornton F. Bradshaw Fund at Claremont Graduate University and is co-sponsored by the Pomona College Museum of Art, the Pomona College History Department, and Claremont Graduate University. “Restoring the Spirit: Celebrating Haitian Art” originated by the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, and is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena, California.
An excerpt from artist Michael Parker’s “Jucerina” concert at the “R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona” book release party at the Pomona College Museum of Art on October 29, 2015.
Guerrilla Girls performance on February 5, 2015 in conjunction with exhibition “Guerrills Girls: Art in Action” on view at the Pomona College Museum of Art from January 20 – May 17, 2015.
Mowry Baden Demonstration and Talk on "Dromedary Mezzanine"
On January 22, 2014, artist Mowry Baden visited a Pomona College class to demonstrate and discuss his immersive, large-scale sculpture "Dromedary Mezzanine," which is on exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art from January 21 - April 13, 2014. For more information, visit the exhibition page.
From September 3 to October 20, 2013, the Pomona College Museum of Art presented "Project Series 46: Hirokazu Kosaka: On the Verandah." This was the first solo exhibition examining the early performative work of Kosaka from 1969-1974. This video includes footage of the exhibition, and video from the archery demonstration and calligraphy workshop that Kosaka gave on October 17, 2013.
On November 21, 2013, artist Krysten Cunningham offered a largescale weaving demo during Art After Hours at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
Charles Gaines on drums with noted musicians and jazz legends Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Terry Adkins on sax, Louis Lopez with electronics, Nedra Wheeler on bass and AJ Fanning on cello.
In honor of Karl Benjamin (1925-2012), esteemed professor at Pomona from 1979 to 1994. This video was produced in conjunction with the 1994 Pomona College Montgomery Gallery (now Pomona College Museum of Art) exhibition "Karl Benjamin: The Pomona Years." The video is narrated by Richard Chamberlain '56. The video was produced by Bob Bassett '64 and Janell Shearer.
A backstage look at 2011-12 "It Happened at Pomona" exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Video created by Donald Pollock, University of La Verne, and produced by Anthony Troli.
Artist conversation with Chris Burden.
Performance at Pomona - "Burning Bridges" by James Turrell '65 - January 21, 2012.
Performance at Pomona - "A Butterfly for Pomona" by Judy Chicago from Pomona College - January 21, 2012.
Performance at Pomona - "Preparation F" by John M. White - January 21, 2012.
Well-known art historian and art critic Thomas Crow ’69 delivered the opening lecture for the Pomona College Museum of Art exhibit "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona."
This show is the first a three-part exhibition for "It Happened at Pomona," which is part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative in Southern California.
To celebrate the opening of the Pomona College Museum of Art exhibit "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona," Mowry Baden '58 and Hal Glicksman took part in a conversation moderated by noted art historian and critic Thomas Crow '69.
"Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" is the first a three-part exhibition for "It Happened at Pomona," which is part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative in Southern California.
Judy Chicago: A Conversation With Her Younger Self.
On October 9 at Pomona College, renowned artist Judy Chicago performed a reenactment and response to a feminist lecture that Chicago originally delivered at Pomona College in 1970.
This special event celebrates Chicago’s involvement at Pomona College and is part of the Pomona College Museum of Art’s three-part exhibition “It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973.” Photo-documentation of her work “Snow Atmosphere” is on view until November 6 in “Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona.
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https://www.pomona.edu/museum/watch-and-listen
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from "Well-tempered Clavier Vol.1 No.5 D major, BWV.850"
Amiable addition to number one.
Agnéz Varda enjoyed making her scavenger film so much she went out with her handi-cam and did it again. The whopping great distribution can't have slowed her down either.
One of the subjects says she shouldn't have been in the first one so much, so she minimises her presence - ineffectively because the winning, quirky first person author is still the star. Detail of the character who lives off garbage and runs in the Paris marathon is particularly intriguing. The insets of the first film, the hand made movie from the early years or the withered heart shape potato that got a mutter of recognition when I saw it, all liven up the film. I liked the second thought ending too.
These films are like spending time in the company of a great raconteur. The fact that she turned out to be possibly the most accomplished Nouvelle Vague director is a bonus. Hope she does another twenty.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345128/
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In the video process below I show you how create a simple card using the Hybrid Inks!
Hello crafty friends, it’s Erika here with another CAS card made with the Hybrid Inks!
Hi everyone! It’s Erika here to share a simple card made with one of our new stamp set and Hybrid Inks!
I love custom backgrounds, I have a lot of fun crating this kind of project and in today’s video I show you how the lips stamps in “Girl Power I” set inspired me.
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2019-04-23T21:53:24Z
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https://scrappika.wordpress.com/tag/hybrid-inks/
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Boston for the Dogs is the brainchild of Hannalore, born out of a lifetime of loving and caring for animals. She brings an unparalleled passion and devotion to her business marked by an unconditional, unapologetic, fierce love for each dog.
She is an active member of the Roslindale community and her social media content cultivates a family atmosphere and network of dog lovers.
With a background apprenticing with various trainers, Hannalore has gained a skillset of basic obedience to match her love of all breeds. She is continuously adapting her services to meet the diverse needs of her clientele, and is willing to work with you to best serve your dog. By personally scheduling each dog, Hannalore is able to evaluate and modify each plan to provide the most reliable, loving pet service tailored to each client.
When not hanging out with your dogs, Hannalore enjoys craft beer, hiking and spending time with the BFTD family.
If Hannalore is the wind behind Boston for the Dogs, then Corey is the windmill. With 4 years of canine handling under his belt, Corey joined Boston for the Dogs as a co-operator and part owner in 2016. He has a background in basic obedience training but his real gift lies in his calm approach that makes both humans and dogs feel comfortable. He has a knack for house training puppies and dogs and has successfully fostered multiple rescue dogs.
Corey offers a patient, understanding approach to everything he does and loves assisting families in their transition to dog ownership. Corey loves working with large breed dogs, and a has a knack for dealing with some of our most difficult cases. Dogs come home after Corey's hikes feeling happy and exhausted, which is a delight to both dog and human.
Corey enjoys craft beer, shoe shopping, history and charcuterie.
Kaela has extensive experience working in doggy daycare as well as boarding dogs. In addition to her dog handling skills, Kaela has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a Masters Degree in Management from Mt. Ida College. This unique blend of skills makes her an asset in the field as well as in the home office. When not hanging out with her dog Ziggy, Kaela loves exploring Boston's food scene.
Gian was the first employee of Boston for the Dogs, and joined the pack in 2013. Inspired by the success he achieved (with the help of Hannalore) in training his own skittish pup, Gian brings his ever-positive attitude to help dogs be their best selves. His gentle, calm demeanor coupled with a strong presence gives him the edge over timid and untrusting dogs, allowing him to diffuse tense situations with grace.
Everyone (both dogs and humans) inevitably falls for his quiet confidence and winning smile. Gian is able to handle some of the most challenging pups with ease, assisting them in gaining the confidence and skills they need to succeed.
Cara hails from an animal and music loving background, having spent her past few years at Berklee College of Music obtaining a degree in Songwriting and spending her free time working at a doggy daycare close to her hometown. She’s looking to expand her handling experience beyond walks and playgroups and to learn about training as well. Cara loves her active structured hikes but also takes refuge in her solo walks, where she can spend some quality 1-on 1 time with her doggie pals. She plans on attending lots of Practice in the Parks and is so excited to learn from the BFTD family! When she’s not working at BFTD, she is playing music, hiking, cooking, and spending all her money at Trader Joe’s.
Ejay Eisen first started working with animals at the age of 15 and has dedicated his life to them ever since. He has nearly 2 decades of work with animals, through boarding, walking, training and even has his own sustainable livestock operation and in-home boarding/training facility. Ejay lives with his wife, his service dog Rio, their working therapy dog, Swanson, their part-time garbage disposal dog, Badger and two senior kitties.
Ejay is a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, and is familiar with all tools and modes of training from puppy basics all the way through service dogs, with a particular focus in PTSD medical service dog training. He is proficient in e-collars, off-leash training, severe behavior modification and foundation training for agility and nose work. He is also certified in pet first aid, and has completed the Dog Cognition program through Duke University and is always seeking to add more knowledge to his training style!
In his free time, Ejay and his wife enjoy roller derby—he as a traveling skating official and she as a competitive skater. Ejay is beyond thrilled to join the Boston for the Dogs Team, and can’t wait to start hiking and training your dog!
When Madi isn't out with the team, you can find her working with her own two dogs, Diesel and Daisy, searching for the best Mexican food in the Greater Boston Area, or enjoying the beaches in New Hampshire.
Born and raised in California, sprinkled with some time in Utah, Thy (pronounced like “T”) moved to Boston in 2014 with her letterpress printing husband and two lab mix dogs. She’s an independent graphic designer contracting part-time with Reebok, as well as working with her own clients who range from outdoor to food industries. She joined BFTD to break away from being at the computer all day and to improve dog handling and training skills. BFTD has cultivated such an incredible community and mission, so being a part of it and getting to know the amazing people within the tribe is a privilege to her. When she’s not working, Thy enjoys record store diving, reading books and planning future travels abroad.
Having spent her summers growing up in the White Mountains, Bev has always loved the outdoors and was excited to explore the Rockies when she moved to Colorado for college. Although the hiking out West was undoubtedly beautiful, she missed being able to hike with her favorite four-legged friends. After graduating with a degree in psychology, she moved back home to Boston, where she now takes every opportunity to head to New Hampshire and get outside with her family’s two corgis, Teeka and Roger. Having rescued both dogs, Bev appreciates how rewarding it is to earn the trust of a furry friend and to put in the work to help them become their best self. She is so excited to join BFTD, learn from the team, and work with some awesome dogs!
Leritza is a dog lover with a huge soft spot for sighthounds. She has experience fostering and training psychiatric service dogs in Western Massachusetts. At BFTD, she’s excited to develop new skills with a diverse group of dogs and people. As much as she loves her Italian Greyhound mix Chico, spending time with the BFTD pack brightens up her day. She is currently majoring in Microbiology and Social Thought & Political Economy at UMass Amherst. In her free time, Leritza loves to go to concerts and watch Scrubs.
Originally from rural New Jersey, Danielle moved to New Hampshire to attend film school. After graduating and commuting to Boston for a few years, she moved to Massachusetts to start a full time job as a labor coordinator for special events. Despite working in a dog-friendly building, she still needed more dogs in her life, so joining BFTD as a sitter was an easy decision! In her free time, Danielle is an avid Netflix binge-watcher, a true crime fanatic, and collects license plates.
After attending BU and NYU, Sam was a sports writer for nearly four years before she decided to pursue her passion: working with dogs. Sam boarded and walked dogs independently with Rover for two years before taking it on full time with Boston for the Dogs. She boards in her apartment with her husband (who obsesses over the pups as much as she does) and wants to learn more about training from the BFTD fam.
When Sam isn't walking your dogs, she's most likely watching the Red Sox, Patriots, or Celtics. Sam also loves cooking, writing, going to national parks, Marvel movies, and Beyonce.
Serena joined the Boston For The Dogs team officially in 2018 but has been a part of the family since her mother, Melissa Gorash, joined in 2015. She currently attends Suffolk University and is pursuing a major in finance. Serena has an unbreakable bond with just about every dog she comes in contact with, which makes her a great fit for the team. Her calm, responsible, and mature approach make her an ideal handler, and her positive and supportive energy make her an asset to the team. Serena cannot wait to learn more about each type of dog and the skills it takes to work with every one of them. In her free time, she loves to obsess over the Patriots, cook for her family, go to the movies and make crafts.
In addition to walking your dogs, Fatima is currently working on an associates degree in entrepreneurship. During her free time, she loves to work on a variety of artwork, including mixed media work, painting, drawing, and tattooing. She loves going out to eat and watching sports (especially football) with her family. Her favorite part of the day is coming home to her Belgian Malenoa, Cosmo. Although he can be a big troublemaker and a loudmouth, Cosmo has taught her a lot about herself, and shown her that the patience and dedication in taking care of a “bad dog” do pay off.
Sarah has a degree in architecture from Northeastern University and has been working in the design and construction world since graduation in 2016. While working full time in Design & Construction and now working towards a Masters of Architecture, she knew her life was still missing something: dogs. She joined BFTD to fill that void and now enjoys taking homework breaks with some puppy therapy, while continuing to grow her dog handling and training skills. For Sarah, nothing is more calming than snuggling on the couch with a pup or going for a hike in the woods with a few four legged friends. In her very limited free time, she also figure skates and fantasizes about where in the world she will travel next.
Eliana received a dual undergraduate degree in Politics and History in May 2018. Shortly after, she adopted her own dog, Lucky Duck. This was inspired by her first dog in life. Eliana grew up with a sassy miniature schnauzer named Cicci who lived until she was 15. Cicci is the reason for Eliana's current love of animals. In particular, Eliana has a soft spot for dogs with a rough past. She's incredibly patient and willing to learn each dog's distinct personality. Eliana works full-time as an Administrative Assistant at Social Finance during the week and enjoys spending evenings and weekends with the BFTD family and her own dog.
Rachel received her undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from Simmons College and is currently in grad school at Tufts, where she’s doing her second year of clinical rotations and studying to become a Physician Assistant. Rachel grew up with two dogs who she misses greatly since moving out on her own. As a result, she volunteered for a dog rescue and walked dogs part time before moving to JP and finding BFTD. When she is not studying, she enjoys cooking and baking, hiking with any dog who is willing to join her, and snuggling up on the couch.
Hey fellow dog lovers! My name is Madeline, and I'm a college graduate who just moved from sunny Southern California. My main interests are animals, nature, and psychology, and I'm combining all three of those by working for BTFD while studying to attend grad school in counseling psychology in the next couple of years! I've lived around animals all my life, and can't wait until the day I can adopt a dog. For now, I've got two sweet cats that both fell into my life by serendipity. In my free time, you can find me exploring Boston (especially restaurants and cool outdoor spots), playing video games, reading, and finding new ways to volunteer and give back to my community. Jamaica Plain has been so great to me and I couldn't ask for a better home! I'm looking forward to meeting and spending time with all your furry friends!
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© Clifton Bennett. All rights reserved.
Date Uploaded: Sept. 25, 2010, 4:18 p.m.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/people/greatgranddaughter-looking-bored/
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With a runoff presidential election in Afghanistan appearing likely, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN on Friday that she expects the current president, Hamid Karzai, to win.
Hillary Clinton lauds the president's patience and persistence while deciding about troop strength.
"It is likely that they will find that President Karzai got very close to the 50-plus-1" in August's balloting, she said in an exclusive CNN interview, referring to the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff. "... I think one can conclude that the likelihood of him winning a second round is probably pretty high."
Clinton said the timing of President Obama's decision on whether to commit more troops to the fight in Afghanistan will not hinge on the election results. "I think the president is expecting to make a decision on his own timetable," she said, "when he is absolutely comfortable with what he believes is in the best interest of the United States."
Karzai faces allegations of corruption and vote fraud in the election, but the secretary of state sidestepped a question of whether he is a "reliable" partner for the United States and the international community. Administration officials have said that without a reliable partner, a counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan would not succeed.
Clinton said that Obama, while accepting the likelihood that Karzai will be returned to office, is taking a dual-track approach: putting pressure on Karzai to improve his performance while working with other power centers in Afghanistan.
"Let's wait and see how this election turns out," she said. "Let's determine what the winner -- assuming it is President Karzai -- commits to do and the measures of accountability that can be put into place to more effectively guarantee the outcomes that we're seeking."
Obama, she said, now is looking at "how we can have a different and more effective relationship with the Afghanistan government, whoever is the final victor, but not only with the government in Kabul, but with governors throughout the country, with what they call subnational, regional, local leaders. And there's been a lot of thought given as to how we would do that."
Over the past eight years, the United States and the international community did not set high enough expectations for Karzai, the secretary said. But, she added, "we're going to change that, and we are in the process of working through the best ways to do that."
Clinton also revealed more about how Obama is approaching his decision on troop strength. Obama and members of his Cabinet, she said, "wanted to examine every assumption" about the situation in Afghanistan.
"There were no questions or topics off limits," she said. "I think we've done a thorough job of analysis, and now we're moving into the decision phase, and I'm sure that the president's going to be asking all of us what is our advice to him, and then, when he makes a decision, what is it we are all going to contribute to actually executing his decisions."
Everyone in the process "has learned a lot," she said. "I think the president has been extremely skillful in probing and asking all the hard questions. We've had just the most thorough scrubbing."
"I just think that it's to the president's credit that he has had the patience and the persistence to really force the process without responding prematurely."
Clinton did not say whether she has urged the president to commit more troops to protect State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development staff working in Afghanistan on civilian and development projects.
She noted, however, that "the military at least has the capacity to defend itself. You know, they get to carry guns. Our agronomists or our economic advisers, you know, are pretty much out there dependent upon the security environment that can be created by the military."
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/clinton.afghanistan/index.html
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A Common Embryonic Origin of Stem Cells Drives Developmental and Adult Neurogenesis.
Berg DA1, Su Y1, Jimenez-Cyrus D2, Patel A3, Huang N3, Morizet D1, Lee S1, Shah R1, Ringeling FR4, Jain R5, Epstein JA6, Wu QF7, Canzar S4, Ming GL8, Song H9, Bond AM1.
Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Cellular and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Epigenetics Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: gming@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Epigenetics Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: shongjun@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
New neurons arise from quiescent adult neural progenitors throughout life in specific regions of the mammalian brain. Little is known about the embryonic origin and establishment of adult neural progenitors. Here, we show that Hopx+ precursors in the mouse dentate neuroepithelium at embryonic day 11.5 give rise to proliferative Hopx+ neural progenitors in the primitive dentate region, and they, in turn, generate granule neurons, but not other neurons, throughout development and then transition into Hopx+ quiescent radial glial-like neural progenitors during an early postnatal period. RNA-seq and ATAC-seq analyses of Hopx+ embryonic, early postnatal, and adult dentate neural progenitors further reveal common molecular and epigenetic signatures and developmental dynamics. Together, our findings support a "continuous" model wherein a common neural progenitor population exclusively contributes to dentate neurogenesis throughout development and adulthood. Adult dentate neurogenesis may therefore represent a lifelong extension of development that maintains heightened plasticity in the mammalian hippocampus.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.010
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oreilly
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In Chapter 3, we discussed MVC and built an application using it. You learned about outlets and actions, and you used them to tie a button control to a text label. In this chapter, we’re going to build an application that will take your knowledge of controls to a whole new level.
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-iphone-development/9781484201992/9781484202005_Ch04.xhtml
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Have you ever owned a fake bag?
I've never owned a fake bag before so I used it to go to the mall just to try it. Within 10 minutes, I rushed back to my house and switched bags pronto! I don't know, it just didn't feel right.
Have you ever owned a fake bag before?
Yup. I owned a bunch of fake kate spades cause I didn't know they were fake. I didn't know anything about bags back then. I didn't know who kate spade was or what Prada made and such. I googled it one day and it was the worst feeling ever. They're all gone now.
Nope..never ever. It feels wrong and I feel like I'm disrepecting the designer and myself by carrying one. I don't disrespect people who choose to carry fake bags or can't afford them. To each their own but personally I wouldn't subject myself to the feelings of insecurity that would plague me. I figure that if I'm going to spend $ on a fake bag, why not save up a little longer and just purchase the real thing?
I did a long. time. ago.
There's this street in Houston called Harwin and there were fakes EVERYWHERE!
I had about 5 differnet fake KS's and always felt a little weird carrying them. I sold them in a garage sale about 6 yrs ago for $5 each and have never carried a fake since!
As I've said before yep yep yep, I have a fake Cabas Alto, and gasp, as compared to my real one, it's a pretty poor fake!
i have one. it's a little LV flap bag. i bought it in the beginning of high school on a trip to new york with a bunch of friends. i didn't have or desire to have designer bags at that point, and it just seemed like a cute touristy thing to do on canal street. i didn't know the whole story behind fakes or what a problem it was. i never felt comfortable enough to carry it, though, because it still seemed vaguely tacky. it went out once, maybe twice. i still have it because it's such a wonderful reminder of a great trip and a great time in my life, even though i'm kind of ashamed to have not gotten rid of it.
I have never owned a fake. I have looked at fakes for sale at a time when I didn't know any better, and even then thought the quality was too garbagey for me.
Check back on that "identical" speedy 30 in about a year and see how it's holding up compared to the real one.
When I really wasn't aware of handbags back in high school, I did own a few fake LVs. I didn't even know what LV was. Now, no.
Nope, no fake bags. But I do own a pair of fake Burberry mules I bought on Canal Str. Never used them.
I had a bag that was a knockoff of kate spade that I bought from a guy on the street. But at the time I wasn't familiar with designer bags, and just thought it was a cute cheap bag. It didn't have a ks label or anything, just was the same design as her first fabric satchels. It was cute too, a red & white gingham!
I used to only wear Coach (only authentic) and had a couple of fake LV. I wasn't into LV, didn't know/didn't care about it...then I got active on LJ and started seeing the quality difference and learned more about LV and the real deal behind fakes, and immediately trashed all the fakes and from then on I've been adamant against fakes.
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https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/have-you-ever-owned-a-fake-bag.3053/
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livejournal
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Ideally I'd like to have voting started asap on the White Knight Awards site, however there are a few categories that only have one nomination. While that wouldn't normally be a problem as I could simply carry that category forward to the next round, one of the categories is for New Author, which I simply *can't* postpone voting on that for 12 months.
Hey, hon, I have a question: I nominated some things the other night. Did you get them?
Hey sweetie - pretty sure I did, I'm about to do more updates right now so if you check and see the ones you nominated are missing can you let me know?
I think we're all squared away. I also just nominated someone else. I am trying to find some to fit the low categories as well.
Excellent - thank you sweetie!
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https://whiskyinmind.livejournal.com/1018979.html
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nationalreview
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Aware that fracking could devastate the Russian economy, the Kremlin has secretly financed environmentalist groups across the globe.
As Mitt Romney understood all too well, Vladimir Putin has long sought to interfere with domestic American politics. Years before Donald Trump came down that escalator and Hillary Clinton’s staff was tricked into giving up its e-mail passwords, Russia was pouring millions of dollars into anti-fracking campaigns across Europe and the U.S.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a drilling technique in which high-pressure liquids are blasted into rock, allowing for the extraction of oil and natural gas that was previously impossible to reach. The technology is the main reason that the U.S. has moved toward energy independence in recent years, and it could potentially allow Europe to break its dependence on Russian oil and natural gas. Which, naturally, makes it a threat to the Kremlin’s interests.
In 2012, Bulgaria issued a shale-gas license to Chevron. Immediately, activists pounced, peddling hyperbolic warnings that fracking pollutes drinking water. (In reality, the practice carries a minimal risk of groundwater pollution when done properly.) Protests erupted, and the Bulgarian government caved, banning fracking entirely. Gazprom, Russia’s state-run energy company, proceeded to give the Bulgarian government a 20 percent discount for signing a ten-year contract for the provision of natural gas.
One year later, Romania fell victim to a similar campaign, believed to be spearheaded by Putin. The Pungesti commune, in the northwest, “became a magnet for activists from across the country opposed to hydraulic fracturing,” the New York Times reported. Russia “is playing a dirty game” to “keep this energy dependence,” concluded Iulian Iancu, the chairman of the Romanian Parliament’s industry committee.
And why wouldn’t it? European countries that are dependent on Russian oil and natural gas — especially those in the east — help keep Russia’s economy, and thus Putin’s regime, afloat. Gazprom supplies 30 percent of the European Union’s natural gas, which means that the Kremlin has the power to turn off much of Europe’s energy supply at any time. In fact, it already did so once, during the coldest months of 2009.
We were up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand up against any effort, “Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,” and a lot of that money supporting that effort was coming from Russia.
Nothing has changed since Clinton was in office. While investigating Russian meddling in the November presidential election these past few months, the U.S. intelligence community found that Russia is concerned “about the impact of fracking and U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market” and Gazprom’s “potential challenges” if other countries begin fracking.
In 2015 alone, the intelligence community found that RT, Russia’s state-run media outlet, produced over 60 anti-fracking stories. “There are a lot of studies that say fracking is dangerous,” one RT segment began, “So why do you think some countries and companies think it’s worth the risk?” RT conveniently left out the fact that over 60 percent of Russian exports are oil and natural gas, and that countries that “risk” fracking would no longer be dependent on the Kremlin.
According to the reports, entities connected to the Russian government are using a shell company registered in Bermuda, Klein Ltd. (Klein), to funnel tens of millions of dollars to a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) private foundation, the Sea Change Foundation (Sea Change). This money appears to move in the form of anonymous donations. Sea Change then passes the money originating in Russia to various U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations such as the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, and others. These funds are dispersed as grants that will be used to execute a political agenda driven by Russian entities. The purpose of this circuitous exchange of foreign funds is to shield the source of the money.
Before it was revealed publicly, members of the Sierra Club, et al., were likely clueless that Putin and the Russians had been funding their anti-fracking initiatives. The protesters in Bulgaria in 2012, and the protesters in Romania in 2013, were also likely clueless. But the truth is out now, and Secretary Mnuchin ought to immediately open an investigation into Russian ties to anti-fracking campaigns across the country. Otherwise, the Kremlin’s meddling in our domestic affairs will continue apace.
Does the Environmental Left Understand How Modern Pipelines Work?
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2019-04-24T18:49:35Z
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/anti-fracking-groups-russia-secret-funding-protects-kremlin-interests/
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Ahoy! The Land of Ooo is underwater and it’s up to Finn and Jake to find out why.
A new Adventure Time game is now available in North America and landing soon in Europe. Join Finn, Jake, BMO, and Marceline as they explore a flooded Land of Ooo.
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2019-04-25T12:53:50Z
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https://rpgamer.com/game/adventure-time-pirates-of-the-enchiridion/
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Games
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berkeley
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The UCCONNECT Faculty Research Grants for FY 2017-18 were awarded in November 2016. More than eighty world-leading faculty and practitioners in transportation related fields as well as a great number of Caltrans subject matter experts participated in this effort. Click on the link below for more information.
The UCCONNECT Summer Program at Cal Poly Pomona kicked off on June 20th. The program is a staple of our center's workforce development activities. Participating students pursue research in a transportation-related topic under the guidance of consortium faculty members. Additional information can be found in the link below.
A new issue of ACCESS magazine is now available online. It covers all kinds of transportation modes: airplanes, cars, public transit, and running. Learn more about this multimodal issue in the link below.
The 2017-2018 UCCONNECT-sponsored faculty research call is now closed. Seven proposals from PIs within the consortium were selected and more information for each can be found in the link below.
Timothy Brathwaite has been announced as the UCCONNECT 2016-17 Student of the Year! Click on the link below to read more.
A leading research center dedicated to enhancing economic competitiveness by improving mobility and maximizing the performance of surface transportation systems. UCCONNECT sponsors and organizes a wealth of activities in the Research, Education, and Workforce Development fronts, with a focus on surface transportation.
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2019-04-22T08:16:30Z
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http://www.ucconnect.berkeley.edu/
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The definitive guide to What's On in Dundee!
With a local charity. Get skills. Build experience. Meet People.
The complete singles and dating guide for Scotland: speed dating, singles parties, events, matchmakers, dining, activity and social clubs.
... Singles parties, events and speed dating in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee.
around the American concept of #SayNoToShallowDating.
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2019-04-23T10:05:36Z
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http://nsrtndxz.sweb.cz/page-144.html
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Melissa and Alex say I do at the Grade Dunes Ocean Club!
This entry was posted in Bouquets, fall weddings, Gigi Noelle Events and tagged bouquets, brides, ceremony, champagne, cupcakes, dessert, diy wedding, fall, Gigi Noelle, Gold, grande dunes, love, myrtle beach, vendors, wedding gowns, weddings, White. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-25T18:48:21Z
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https://giginoelleevents.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/melissa-and-alexs-wedding/
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Arts
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everything2
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A rather unfortunately named New York ska band, made up of members from the now-defunct Edna's Goldfish and Step Lively.
Why so unfortunate? Here's the deal: The time, Oct, 2000. The place: The Wetlands club, New York. This is the last show Edna's Goldfish will ever play. Many ska-loving eyes were be-misted that night, I will tell you, my friends. Two of the greatest ska bands of our generation (to some, not myself, personally) were being dissolved.
As is the custom, flyers were distributed liberally to the crowd. And what is this? "The Reunion Show?" Place that phrase in the context of a "last show ever" type event, my friends, and you have a collection of smoldering punks and rude boys all thinking more or less the same thing: "Wait... I thought you said this was the last show ever and now you bastards are telling me they're "reuniting" in a week?"
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2019-04-22T19:55:15Z
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https://everything2.com/title/The+Reunion+Show
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uib
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Background: Women living in resource constrained settings often have limited knowledge of and access to surgical treatment for pelvic organ prolapse. Additionally, little is known about experiences during recovery periods or about the reintegration process for women who do gain access to medical services, including surgery. This study aimed to explore women’s experiences related to recovery and reintegration after free surgical treatment for pelvic organ prolapse in a resource-constrained setting.
Methods: The study had a qualitative design and used in-depth interviews in the data collection with a purposive sample of 25 participants, including 12 women with pelvic organ prolapse. Recruitment took place at the University of Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia, where women with pelvic organ prolapse had been admitted for free surgical treatment. Indepth interviews were carried out with women at the hospital prior to surgery and in their homes 5–9 months following surgery. Interviews were also conducted with health-care providers (8), representatives from relevant organizations (3), and health authorities (2). The fieldwork was carried out in close collaboration with a local female interpreter.
Results: The majority of the women experienced a transformation after prolapse surgery. They went from a life dominated by fear of disclosure, discrimination, and divorce due to what was perceived as a shameful and strongly prohibitive condition both physically and socially, to a life of gradually regained physical health and reintegration into a social life. The strong mobilization of family-networks for most of the women facilitated work-related help and social support during the immediate post-surgery period as well as on a long-term basis. The women with less extensive social networks expressed greater challenges, and some struggled to meet their basic needs. All the women openly disclosed their health condition after surgery, and several actively engaged in creating awareness about the condition.
Conclusions: Free surgical treatment substantially improved the health and social life for most of the study participants. The impact of the surgery extended to the communities in which the women lived through increased openness and awareness and thus had the potential to ensure increased disclosure among other women who suffer from this treatable condition.
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2019-04-20T22:39:45Z
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http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/18650
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cedarville
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Objectives: The objectives of this study were to (1) describe asthma knowledge, control, and administration techniques in Hispanic caregivers of pediatric asthma patients in primary care clinics and (2) determine the association between asthma knowledge and control.
Methods: A pilot, cross-sectional study was conducted by administering a survey to Spanish-speaking primary caregivers of children under 12 years old with a current diagnosis of asthma. The survey contained: demographic questions (8 items), a modified version of the Asthma Control Test (ACT, 5 self-assessment items, 5-point, Likert-type scale), knowledge (21 items, correct/incorrect response), and inhaler use (1 item, rank ordering steps for using inhaler). Descriptive statistics were performed for all items, and a Pearson correlation analysis was utilized to assess the association between asthma knowledge and control in SPSS v. 22.0 (Armonk, NY), with α =0.05.
Results: Of the 12 caregivers, who completed the survey, all were parents of the patients. Seven patients (58%) had controlled asthma. On the asthma knowledge portion of the survey, three caregivers of these patients (25%) scored over 75%, three (25%) scored under 50%, and six (50%) scored between 50-75%. There was a statistically-significant, positive correlation between asthma knowledge and asthma control (r=0.668, p=0.017). No caregivers were able to correctly order the eight step sequence of using an inhaler.
Conclusion: A positive correlation between asthma knowledge and asthma control was found in caregivers of asthmatic pediatric patients. Inhaler technique, recognition of asthma triggers, and understanding situations necessitating a physician visit were areas in which participants showed a knowledge deficiency.
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2019-04-26T02:06:45Z
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https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/research_scholarship_symposium/2015/poster_presentations/6/
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The Contact Veto Register enables a birth parent or an adopted person to prevent another party to the adoption from making contact with them.
You may only lodge a Contact Veto if the adoption order was made before 26 October 1990. A Contact Veto remains in force unless the applicant decides to remove it or is deceased.
A Contact Veto only prevents contact with the person who has lodged the veto. It does not prevent the release of identifying information about all the people involved in the adoption.
In the past, many adoptions were kept a secret and sometimes a birth mother or birth father’s parents and their extended family did not know about the pregnancy.
Subsequently, a birth parent may have never told their partner, children or grandchildren about the birth and may be fearful of the consequences of their secret being found out. They may then lodge a Contact Veto as a way of protecting their privacy.
An adopted person may not wish to be contacted by a birth parent or other birth family members as they may not wish to have contact whilst their adoptive parents are still alive.
adopted people from the age of 17 years and 6 months.
If you register a Contact Veto, you are encouraged to leave a message to help the other person affected by the veto to better understand your reasons for the veto should they seek information. It is also helpful for the message to include some information about your current circumstances (married, children, general wellbeing) and some family medical history.
attach a message / letter to the application if you want to leave a message on the RIR.
There is no fee to lodge a Contact Veto.
A Contact Veto takes effect within a maximum of five days from the date your application is received at the AIU. A Contact Veto is not effective if prior to someone lodging a Contact Veto, the identifying information has already been released.
When an application is made to the AIU for an Adoption Information Certificate (identifying information) and a Contact Veto is found to exist, a caseworker will support the applicant by telephone and inform them of their options. The applicant will also receive any information that has been left for them on the registration form.
The applicant will be required to sign an Undertaking Not to Make Contact with the person who has placed the veto, before the Adoption Information Certificate or identifying information can be released to them. The undertaking is legally binding and acknowledges awareness of the veto and the applicant’s agreement not to make contact and not to ask anyone else to make contact on their behalf. If the undertaking is breached and contact is made, they may be liable to pay a fine of $2750 and / or incur twelve months imprisonment.
The applicant may choose not to sign the undertaking. In these circumstances, they will not be provided with any identifying information.
The AIU is required to notify a person who has lodged a Contact Veto of an application for an Adoption Information Certificate. If you lodge a Contact Veto you will be informed in writing when such an application is made, whether the person signs the undertaking or not.
In certain circumstances the AIU can approach a person who has lodged a Contact Veto a minimum of six months after they were first informed of the application for an Adoption Information Certificate. This is to determine whether their circumstances have changed and if they still feel the same way about contact.
A person who lodges a Contact Veto may choose to remove or vary it at any time by submitting their request in writing to the FACS Adoption Information Unit with two forms of certified identification (at least one form of identification needs to include your signature).
Requests for variations cannot be accepted by email or other electronic means.
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2019-04-23T17:15:27Z
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https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/adoption/finding-info/contact-veto-register
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ign
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Oct 12, 2018 - With another Call of Duty game in the wild, we decided to rank the top 10 games of the series.
Sep 10, 2016 - Breaking free of the constraints of historical battles, Call of Duty 4 brought the fight into present day.
Jul 18, 2014 - Today, Bobbya plays another round of free-for-all. Watch as he struggles to master the art of sniping.
Oct 28, 2011 - Pumped for Modern Warfare 3 but have no idea what's going on in the series? Watch our quick video wrap-up.
Apr 14, 2011 - Two editors rant about the reasons they hate the most successful video game of all time. Warning: These guys are idiots.
Nov 04, 2010 - We take a trip down memory lane to see how the visuals of the Call of Duty series have progressed over the years.
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2019-04-19T07:18:10Z
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https://www.ign.com/videos/games/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-pc-902593?filter=feature
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livejournal
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I'm me. That says everything and nothing, I know. I love to read and write. Genres I tend to like better than others are, historical, romance, mystery, science-fiction, and fantasy. I enjoy cooking, especially baking, and really like experimenting with recipes. I have a very eclectic taste in music, classical (in the broad sense), swing, pop, soft and classic rock, show tunes, folk, some jazz and blues, foreign, and probably more that I can't think of right now. I like to sum it up like this, "I love Beach Boys, Beethoven, and Broadway, and lots of stops in between."
My journal will probably be a lot about Sims2, WoW, and anything else I decide to include. And it will often ramble and babble. I tend to do that when I don't edit myself.
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2019-04-22T02:38:00Z
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https://lauriempress.livejournal.com/profile
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The Genebank of the Institute of Conservation and Improvement of the Agrodiversity (COMAV) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia stores a collection of near 15.000 accessions of approximately 200 species of vegetable crops. A big proportion of the accessions belongs to the Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae families. Composite, Leguminous, Crucíferae and Umbellifers are other families with high quantity of accessions. .
Most part of the collections has been collected by the COMAV´s team in collecting expeditions carried out in Spain and also in other countries. Donations and exchange with other genebanks contribute to increase the number of accessions.
Activities conducted in the Genebank are conservation, collecting, characterization, evaluation and documentation of the stored genetic resources. The use is promoted by contacts with farmers, public and private researchers and other institutions. The evaluation of accessions for resistan ce to diseases and quality parameters, using classical methodologies and the most advanced techniques on genomics, conducted in the COMAV´s laboratories facilitates the exploitation, diffusion and promotion of the genetic resources stored.
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2019-04-19T10:56:56Z
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https://www.comav.upv.es/index.php/databasesgermplasm/bancoger
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blogs
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He is cute! Did you make him yourself?
I think he is just what you need when your under the weather - no matter how old you are. My sister has a soft giraff which she often mutters to when unwell. Her partner has become quite fond of the little chap!
Lol he is very funny indeed and would brighten up anybody's day!
Poorly Martin is fantastic! even though it is late, i'm glad that i had the chance to see him.
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2019-04-21T07:04:49Z
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https://mollychicken.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/06/silliness.html
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wordpress
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Yeah… this “I HAD NO IDEA… HOW SICKENING… MEN I KNEW…” blah blah blah is getting quite tiresome.
I was really troubled after learning for the first time that Catholic bishops, cardinals and priests were involved in that awful stuff. What a shock! Who would have thunk it?
But I am feeling better today, knowing that those bishops are really, really sorry. This time. Again.
I think things are going to be OK.
Finally, I hear from you what I have been saying for decades. One will never find moral deviation without doctrinal deviation. Every Novus Ordo priest and bishop should be approached with extreme skepticism.Forget their words and watch only their actions.
I welcome your message, but I have not heard of you, sir or ma’am. Do you have a blog or book we could read? Thank you.
Whatever the percentage is, it is far, far, far too high. Even after the modest cleanup of the worst pink palaces.
Let us pray that the traditional priestly societies maintain their vigilance against such pathologies. No community is ever completely immune. Even the FSSP got fooled once by Carlos Urritigoity, and the ICRSS by Timothy Svea.
Agree. I was going to say something about this, but skipped it. I’m glad you brought it up. It is a constant threat and requires monitoring.
I feel safer – far safer – with any of the traditional societies on this score than anywhere else in the Church.
But this does make them targets.
Both the SSPX and the FSSP got fooled by Urritigoity. Eventually, both figured it out, and to their credit, they did something about it, if perhaps not as quickly as I might have liked. +Fellay especially shines in this regard. He did not rest with the simple resolution of booting him out. He warned Timlin, too (to no avail).
The ICRSS screwed up in their screening with Svea; but to his credit, Msgr Wach moved expeditiously when it blew up, so far as I can tell.
My belief and hope is that these were teething problems for very new and very small priestly societies, who struggled to figure out their screening and formation systems. I think the ICRSS struggled especially because their leadership was European and spoke limited or no English, and they had a harder time with their few American vocations back then.
But they must remain extremely vigilant, and so must we as laypeople. They cannot let their guard down. The Enemy would rejoice greatly to corrupt any one of them.
The article says that O’Rourke’s record of corruption has been hidden well, but the article does a good job of painting him as a criminal.
Hopefully, Tantum could do a short post on this topic.
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2019-04-19T21:03:32Z
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https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/dallas-where-the-clergy-sex-abuse-crisis-got-its-start-proves-francis-wrong-yet-again/
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Education and literacy are key drivers of economic development and reflect a nation's stock of human capital. Basic literacy and numeracy skills increase a person's chances of finding paid employment and escaping poverty. In a rapidly changing, technology driven world, adult literacy is increasingly important.
Education and literacy are key drivers of economic development, reflecting a nation’s stock of human capital. Basic literacy and numeracy skills increase a person’s chances of finding paid employment and escaping poverty. The youth literacy rate reflects the quality of basic education and its degree of inclusiveness.
Education and literacy are key drivers of economic development, reflecting a nation’s stock of human capital. Education is also strongly correlated with health and wellbeing, and economic productivity of nations. Mean years of schooling is an indicator of the aggregate stock of human capital available in an economy and society, and is comparable across populations.
Healthy and educated women benefit their family, community and nation. Educating girls has been shown to have huge benefits as it is associated with delayed marriage, lower fertility and improved health and survival rates for infants and children.
This ratio is a comparison between how many women and how many men attended secondary school.
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2019-04-25T22:33:24Z
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https://www.jcu.edu.au/state-of-the-tropics/data/education-and-literacy-rates
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Health
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psu
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Membrane proteins have important roles in physiology of biological cells and they comprise the largest group of drug targets making them an attractive field of reasearch. Availability of membrane proteins is limited due to their low abundance in natural sources and low expression titers in heterologous expression systems. In the work presented; we employed Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1., a purple photosynthetic bacterium, for expression of functional membrane proteins with medical and industrial relevance. The breadth of the expression system was tested with several membrane proteins from distinct families including Cytochrome-cy from Rhodobacter capsulatus; GhoT from Escherichia coli; human Occludin; human AQP9, a human water channel protein; BcsAB complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and finally R. sphaeroides RsAqpZ. Target proteins were overexpressed, purified and their functionality was determined by specific activity assays. Expression titers were significantly improved for AQP9, BcsAB and Occludin compared to previous studies. RsAqpZ was overexpressed at ~20 mg/L, characterized and evaluated for utilization in biomimetic water desalination membranes made from tri-block copolymers. RsAqpZ proteopolymersomes had superior water permeability compared to the reports for E. coli AqpZ, which is commonly used in aquaporin based water desalination membranes. A new method based on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) was developed to determine single channel properties of membrane proteins. FCS was used to determine the number of membrane protein per lipid vesicle, which in combination with stopped flow light scattering for permeability measurement of vesicles, enabled calculation of single channel water permeability. It also enabled determination of reconstitution efficiency of RsAqpZ into phospholipid vesicles. C-terminal mBanana fluorescent protein fusion of RsAqpZ was used as the fluorescent tag. The presence of mBanana did not affect the water permeability as measured by stopped-flow light scattering. Thus, single channel permeability and insertion efficiency of RsAqpZ was correctly determined by combining the FCS and stopped-flow light scattering experiments. Finally, a thin film trickle-bed photobioreactor prototype for high density Rhodobacter culturing was built and initial characterization was carried out, in which light penetration problems were addressed.
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2019-04-22T18:15:42Z
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https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/22662
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| 0.984092 |
microsoft
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What is possible with Silverlight and Expression?
Top Banana online video browsing, sorting, and editing tool.
Silverlight Airlinesvisually mapping out your flight route.
Silverlight Showcase includes examples from NETFLIX, BBC, CBC, and more.
Microsoft Popfly is a easy way to build and share mashups and web pages. Here's a videoto see Popfly in action.
A lot of training materials are available at the Expression Product site.
Silverlight Screencasts by Tim Sneath's Team each video is about 5 mins long on a particular topic of using Silverlight.
How-Do-I Video Series Expression videos, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) videos.
Silverlight.net a more community-oriented site than the link above, which includes a lot of Silverlight showcases built by Microsoft partners and community enthusiasts.
Silverlight 1.0 Beta QuickStart a quick guide of different parts you'll need to create a Silverlight application.
Microsoft Design a central place to communicate about Microsoft's design culture, mission, experiences, people, and much more.
WindowsClient.net a new community site for WPF and Windows Forms, which provides a common place for the community to understand a unified .NET/Windows client offering.
WPF Hands-on Labs including "Using Data Binding in WPF," Creating Rich 2D and 3D content in WPF," and much more.
Expression Team Blog provides updated Expression product news, links to samples and tutorials. There are links to individual team member's blogs on the site as well.
Tim Sneath's Blog is great at aggregating examples that best showcase the technologies.
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2019-04-25T16:49:45Z
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/canux/2007/08/01/silverlight-resources/
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Arts
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News
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state
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1.Demonstrate mastery of reading, writing and mathematics skills through nationally normed assessments, a professional skills portfolio, or accredited college coursework, among other methods of demonstrating skills mastery.
2.An alternative licensure pathway for non-native English speakers seeking licensure to teach in a language immersion program.
By February 1, 2014, task force members must submit their written recommendations.
History: The Task Force was established to make recommendations on requirements for teacher licensure applicants to demonstrate mastery of reading, writing, and mathematics skills through nationally normed assessments, a professional skills portfolio, or accredited college coursework, among other methods of demonstrating skills mastery; and an alternative licensure pathway for nonnative English speakers seeking licensure to teach in a language immersion program. These recommendations are to be forwarded to the Board of Teaching, the education commissioner, and the education committees of the legislature.
The task force shall sunset the day after submitting the report under subdivision 6, or February 2, 2014, whichever is earlier.
governing the skills portion of the teacher licensure exam.
The Task Force held eight meetings beginning on August 1, 2013, and completed its work on January 16, 2014.
(11) one representative from the Minnesota School Boards Association.
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2019-04-22T04:33:34Z
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https://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/agencies/detail?AgencyID=2146
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psu
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9. Familial Paternalism in the Federal System: Do The Types of Family Arrangements Matter?
Familial Paternalism in the Federal System: Do The Types of Family Arrangements Matter?
10. Latino/as with Disabilities: Do gender and race influence vocational rehabilitation?
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2019-04-26T09:51:16Z
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https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog?f%5Bkeyword_ssim%5D%5B%5D=race&f%5Bkeyword_ssim%5D%5B%5D=gender
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loc
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The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The weekly Republican.
-v. 3, no. 22 (Oct. 22, 1892).
Description based on: Vol. 3, no. 6 (July 23, 1891).
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2019-04-18T15:03:53Z
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89077832/
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Arts
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reuters
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TOKYO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices were narrowly mixed on Friday as traders awaited U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech at a gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Ten-year JGB futures eased 0.01 point to 150.45 in thin trade, with a trading volume of 22,812 lots.
The benchmark 10-year JGB yield inched up half a basis point to 0.095 percent, while the 20-year yield was flat at 0.610 percent.
The 30-year JGB yield fell 0.5 basis point to 0.835 percent.
At the shorter end of the yield curve, the five-year JGB yield and the two-year yield rose half a basis point each to minus 0.080 percent and minus 0.120 percent, respectively.
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2019-04-22T09:02:41Z
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https://cn.reuters.com/article/japan-bonds-idCNL3N1VF2V4
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Arts
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bbc
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Abusive calls to 999 call handlers are on the rise, according to emergency services in the West of England.
South Western Ambulance Service says paramedics and call handlers dealt with 1,118 incidents of violence and aggression in 2018, up by 73 on 2017.
In one call to the Bristol control centre, a caller threatened to stab and set fire to the call handler's house. He was later taken to court and fined.
Ken Wenman, from the service, said it was "totally unacceptable".
"We will take whatever action is necessary to ensure that our staff are protected and those responsible for such attacks are prosecuted," he added.
South West Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust is working with other emergency services from across the region to highlight the rise as part of the ongoing 'Unacceptable' campaign against the abuse of frontline staff.
Media captionAbuse and threats to 999 call handlers are on the rise.
Based on 2017-2018 figures, the forces estimates more than 1,400 police officers from Devon and Cornwall Police, Dorset Police and Avon and Somerset Police will have been assaulted in the past financial year.
In September it was announced maximum prison terms for people found guilty of common assault against emergency workers were to double.
Call handler Natalie said verbal abuse and personal threats were a regular feature of the job.
She said: "We are trained to diffuse what can be very traumatic situations and we completely understand abusive language from a stressful situation is different to being personally threatened with violence.
"It's very upsetting, it's very hard, but we are all humans, personal violence is as upsetting to us as it would be to a person on the street but in the back of our minds we want to care for the patient."
Mr Wenman said he hoped the campaign could "make a significant impact in reducing the number of assaults and abuse on our staff".
Where are the most violent workplaces?
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2019-04-20T14:31:10Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47948695
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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Welcome to our newly designed website. We will now continue our journey from before retirement , after, present, and beyond, through photos and stories. As we look back on how we got here we hope you enjoy the journey. It will be a work in process as I am rebuilding the site from scratch. I will be starting slow as I get back into everything. Please be patience.
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2019-04-23T02:49:56Z
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https://ayoungretirement.wordpress.com/about/
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Arts
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rangercentral
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Enjoy your Friday by jamming to the Ninja Storm theme. The days when two ninja academies and a Samurai fought to save the world. A time to savor the first female Blue Ranger in the franchise. Tori, Shane, Dustin, Cameron, Hunter, and Blake all fought and lived extreme sports.
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2019-04-21T05:19:07Z
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http://rangercentral.com/content/ninja-storm-opening-theme-3
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unibo
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Novel mixed-mode cation exchange (MCX) and HPLC methods were developed to d etermine codeine and its metabolite from human urine and porcine plasma. Fo r sample cleanup, spiked sample solutions were acidified followed by a well -thought-out MCX method using 3 cc, 60 mg Oasis(R) MCX cartridges. In this MCX method there is no need to condition and to equilibrate the sorbent; th e sample is loaded directly onto the sorbent. Recoveries from human urine a nd porcine plasma matrices were greater than 87% with RSDs less than 5.4%. For the HPLC analysis, the separation was obtained using a Symmetry(R) C-18 column with a simple mobile phase of 0.05% TFA/acetonitrile/methanol at 90 .5.5. Good peak shapes were obtained without the need of addition of any co mpeting reagent to the mobile phase.
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2019-04-22T06:22:23Z
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https://acnpsearch.unibo.it/singlejournalindex/8770177
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rfa
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology assistant professor of China Studies Timothy Grose (L) and Xinjiang University professor Rahile Dawut (R) in an undated photo.
Authorities in China should immediately and unconditionally release a prominent scholar of Uyghur culture who disappeared from the country’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in December and is believed held in a political “re-education camp,” according to a watchdog for academic freedom.
Rahile Dawut, a professor of Uyghur studies at Xinjiang University in the XUAR capital Urumqi, went missing in December 2017 after informing her family that she planned to travel to Beijing.
Family members announced her disappearance in August, and suspect she is among a growing number of Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas who since April 2017 have been jailed or detained in re-education camps throughout the XUAR, where members of the ethnic group have long complained of pervasive discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression under Chinese rule.
In a statement on Wednesday, New York-based Scholars at Risk (SAR)—an international network of institutions and individuals promoting academic freedom—said it is “gravely concerned” for Dawut, noting that authorities have not publicly disclosed her whereabouts or details of her well-being, access to legal counsel, or any charges against her.
“SAR calls for letters, emails, and faxes respectfully urging authorities to secure Professor Dawut’s immediate and unconditional release and pending this, to publicly disclose the circumstances of Professor Dawut’s detention,” the group said.
The call for Dawut’s release comes as the official Global Times reported Friday that director of the XUAR Economic and Information Commission Weli Barat, a former president of Xinjiang University, was placed “under investigation by the XUAR Discipline Commission for serious violations” of the law.
Barat was appointed president of Xinjiang University in March last year, after his predecessor, Tashpolat Teyip, was sacked for being a “two-faced official”—a term applied by the government to Uyghur cadres who pay lip service to Communist Party rule, but secretly chafe against state policies repressing members of their ethnic group.
Prior to serving as the president of Xinjiang University, Barat was the head of Xinjiang Normal University and has held several positions within the ranks of China’s ruling Communist Party.
The report provided no further details about Barat’s alleged crimes.
Dolkun Isa, president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, told RFA that the detention of Dawut—an internationally recognized scholar who has received numerous awards from China’s Ministry of Culture—“proves the fallacy of Chinese claims that it is only offering vocational training to Uyghurs influenced by extremism” at the camps.
Last month, in its annual “Free to Think” report detailing global academic freedom, SAR noted “with grave concern” efforts by Chinese authorities to detain Uyghur scholars, saying that those who question restrictions under the guise of anti-terrorism and national unity policies on Uyghur language and exercise of the Islamic faith have been targeted with imprisonment and persecution.
Among those targeted, it said, was outspoken economics professor Ilham Tohti, who in September 2014 was sentenced to a life term behind bars on charges of promoting separatism, after regularly highlighting the religious and cultural persecution of Uyghurs in the XUAR.
SAR said the detentions recall the days of China’s Cultural Revolution, when authorities arrested many of the country’s scholars, public intellectuals, and young people, and subjected them to forced labor and physical and psychological abuse.
“Revival of these tactics today could result in similar consequences: the loss of a generation of scholars and students and a shrinking of the space in which all Chinese—not only Uyghurs—enjoy their right to freedom of thought and inquiry,” the group said.
SAR called on authorities to immediately release scholars, students, and other members of the Uyghur community who have been detained for peacefully exercising their rights to academic freedom and, pending their release, to disclose the basis of their detention and their location, and uphold national and international obligations to due process and treatment of persons in custody.
The group urged Chinese authorities to refrain from further detentions, re-education efforts, and other actions that restrict academic freedom, and called on states and higher education authorities outside of China to press Beijing to do so.
Reported by Sada and Alim Seytoff for RFA’s Uyghur Service. Translated by Alim Seytoff. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
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2019-04-26T15:04:53Z
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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-11022018134451.html?searchterm:utf8:ustring=+rahile+dawut
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psu
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The latest episode in the “Ask the Experts” series features Danielle Symons Downs, professor of kinesiology and obstetrics and gynecology, and associate director of the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State, discussing her research on the links between cesarean section deliveries and opioid prescribing after birth.
Danielle Symons Downs, professor of kinesiology and obstetrics and gynecology, associate director of the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State, discussed her research on the links between cesarean section deliveries and opioid prescribing after birth. The presentation was the latest episode in the "Ask the Experts" video series. The series, which is produced by the Center for Health Care and Policy Research at Penn State, invites leaders in the industry to share their perspectives on key topics affecting health care delivery and policy.
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2019-04-20T00:18:02Z
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https://news.psu.edu/story/549704/2018/11/29/public-events/ask-experts-addresses-opioid-epidemic-cesarean-sections
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Health
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tripod
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"Nature Boy" Ric Flair Sting 01/11/1991 WCW was a member of the NWA, but made their own World Belt and the two #1 contenders wrestled for it which were Flair and Sting. When Flair left WCW for the WWF he was stripped of the title.
Sting(3) Hulk Hogan 12/28/1997 Starrcade On 12/29/1998 Nitro Sting beat Hogan in a controversial match and a new champ would be decided at Superbrawl 8 in 02/1998 which Sting won.
Hulk Hogan(5) Kevin Nash 01/04/1999 Nitro Nash puporsely layed down for Hogan so Hogan can win the title.
Chris Benoit Sid Vicious 01/16/2000 Souled Out Benoit & vicious were top 2 contenders for belt and wrestled for it. Next day Benoit quits WCW for the WWF, and is stripped of the title.
Sid Vicious Kevin Nash 01/17/2000 Nitro Nash & Sid wrestle where the winner gets the belt.
Jeff Jarrett Diamond Dallas Page 04/16/2000 Spring Stampede Jarrett & DDP were top 2 contenders for the belt and wrestled for it.
Jeff Jarrett(4) Ric Flair 05/29/2000 Nitro On 07/09/2000 at Bash at the Beach Jarrett layed down for Hulk Hogan in a title match, later WCW head booker, Vince Russo said the belt Hogan won was revamped the 'Hogan Memorial Belt' and that Jarrett is still the WCW Champ.
"Triple H" Hunter Hearst Helmsley See Notes 09/02/2002 RAW Awarded the belt from Eric Bishoff as a separate "World Title"
Chris Jericho(3) See notes 09/07/2008 Unforgiven CM Punk was scheduled to defend the belt in a 6 man Scramble match, but after a pre-match beatdown, Punk was incapacitated and removed from the match, though his belt still went up for grabs in the main event and was won by Chris Jericho.
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2019-04-19T22:35:21Z
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http://kulasd.tripod.com/titlehistories/wcwworldhistory.html
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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Officials from North and South Korea have begun three days of high-level talks in Seoul aimed at restarting the reconciliation process stalled since last November.
The meetings taking place in the South Korean capital come just over a month after a naval clash between vessels from the two sides that left 17 sailors dead.
Pyongyang last week expressed its regret over the incident.
South Korean officials said they expect the current talks to focus on several projects that have been on the table for some time, including resuming construction of a railway linking North and South, and aiding an ailing tourism project to the northern Kumgang mountains.
Discussions may also raise the possibility of more reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Economic cooperation will be a major focus says Peter Beck of the Korea Economic Institute of America.
No peace treaty has ever been signed between the two sides ending the conflict and as such they remain officially at war.
The two Koreas celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday next month, and officials in the South have expressed hope these talks could lead to a reunion in the northern mountains for that holiday.
The South also wants to hold follow-up talks between military officials to discuss ways of preventing further military clashes, although such defense issues may be more difficult to broach.
There had been concern after the June sea battle that North Korea would follow a harder line with the South, but that has not been the case.
The two countries are set to hold a joint soccer match in November, and there are other signs the North is warming to the idea of more talks, such as participating in the 14th Asian Games in September in Pusan, South Korea.
South Korean analysts have said increased talk of possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq -- part of President Bush's so-called "axis of evil" that also included Iran and North Korea -- is one reason the North is more amenable to the idea of cross-border discussions, as a way to show the world it is more engaged in the region.
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2019-04-21T00:25:17Z
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/11/koreas.talks/
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Games
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treehugger
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Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen cookware. Or, maybe you want to ask for some decent cookware for your first new home, but don't know where to get green items that won't make your family laugh out loud? Thanks to GreenCookingPots, you can get all of these things checked off of your holiday wish list.
Greencookingpots are the new creation by cooking duo, twin sisters Mica and Cafe McMullen, who like to create great, . The pots are all enamel, cast-iron and chemical free. Plus, they hold up to other designer dishware by distributing heat evently around the pot - ensuring you won't over cook your items or ruin a dish with a burnt crush and a soupy middle. The pots are also oven-safe, and can stand the heat. While other cookware materials - teflon, aluminum, etc - have raised health concerns, these cast iron pots are the "healthy" alternative.
In addition to pots, you can get saucepans, grill pans, roasting pans, dutch ovens and come in bright, primary colors like red, orange, yellow, green and blue. You can even get cute little shaped pots and impress all of your guests. The chefs suggest that the pots are easy to clean with just a sponge and soapy water, and any stains will lighten with just a little bit of lemon juice. Skillets start at $33 USD and 4-piece sets are $131 USD.
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Rivian introduces 3 ton "electric adventure vehicles"
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2019-04-21T19:28:01Z
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https://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/greencookingpots-offer-le-creuset-designer-style-without-the-designer-price-tag.html
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Shopping
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anuna
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Sound is all around us. Music, as one form of sound, is everywhere in our daily lives, influencing us both consciously and unconsciously.
I was always fascinated by music and what it can do. As a child I couldn’t resist reacting to the sounds I was hearing, responding to every beat, phrase, or colour with movement. Although I don’t come from a musical family, I come from a creative one. My parents encouraged my natural response to music initially through dance before I took up playing the saxophone at age ten.
I was always excited by the performance of new, or ‘contemporary’ music, particularly music composed in Ireland. It was an exciting prospect to create as opposed to recreate. I always felt Irish music shouldn’t be restricted or defined by genre so I went on to curate a number of concerts designed to blend traditional and contemporary Irish music. Michael McGlynn’s instrumental music was the perfect way to link everything together, transcending the boundaries of genre.
Two things define ANÚNA for me; storytelling and the breath. These two aspects are so crucial and natural in our daily lives, but yet are rarely held with such importance in music. These two factors, both of which I always tried to harness for my own performance, were my gateway into ANÚNA. The breath is key. It's such a fundamental aspect of life. And it informs the music, linking performer, composer and listener in a moment.
I'm a huge believer in the ability for music to tell a story without words. Even though there are beautiful texts in the pieces we perform, ANÚNA does just that. The music and intent alone can tell the story. When combined with the words, it can then be extremely powerful. No matter what language ANÚNA perform in, there is still a connection or experience to be found for each listener.
If the island of Ireland could sing, I really believe ANÚNA would be its sound.
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2019-04-25T08:45:08Z
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http://www.anuna.ie/gavin-brennan
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fineartamerica
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Whimsical Deer is a painting by Diane Fleming which was uploaded on October 7th, 2010.
This canvas is an abstract rendering of a deer hidden in the middle of the forest which seems to engulf and protect it. It is a play on how Mother nature camouflages the inhabitants in her realm.
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2019-04-24T02:32:20Z
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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/whimsical-deer-diane-fleming.html
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sfgate
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The Warriors Community Foundation raised nearly $450,000 for eight organizations via the Hoops for Kids program this season, the team said today.
The Warriors raised the money in partnership with PG&E, the Koret Foundation and Taube Philanthropies, team representatives said.
Through the Hoops for Kids program, each Warriors three-pointer during the regular season yields $500 for eight organizations working locally to improve opportunities and outcomes for youth, according to team representatives.
"The initiative is special because the team's on-court performance directly benefits the off-court performance of countless children in our Bay Area community," Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in a statement.
This year's Hoops for Kids program supports the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland, Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, CHAMPS at UCSF Benioff Oakland, which helps students of color in Oakland and Berkeley prepare for college, College Track, which helps low-income students graduate college, and the East Oakland Youth Development Center.
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2019-04-23T09:56:38Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Warriors-Community-Foundation-Raises-450-000-For-12797961.php
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autodesk
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We had another great release today!
For RFIs, we rolled out the “Act on behalf of” feature. As in submittals, Admins will be able to add a response to an RFI on behalf of a reviewer. In the activity log, the action will reflect that the Admin “acted on behalf” of the assigned Reviewer.
We also released the much requested SUBMITTAL ITEM SUMMARY REPORT! This much requested report completes our quick reports run directly from the Project Management module. We will continue working to expand custom reports directly from the Insight reporting module. Thanks to the BIM 360 Reporting team for all their hard work to get us across the finish line!
And if that weren’t enough, we are extremely pleased to release Single Item Workflow Optimization!
Now Managers will be able to choose whether to add an item to a package, or just submit to a reviewer.
If an item is submitted directly, we will automatically create a package for it – no need for additional administrative steps by the user.
To complete the flow, when the Reviewer review the last item in a package (or the only item in a package), they will be prompted with the option to Return to Manager.
This means that teams who choose to work at the item level will not be bothered by the additional administrative steps of managing packages.
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2019-04-22T20:39:15Z
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https://blogs.autodesk.com/bim360-release-notes/2019/02/06/project-management-update-february-5-2019/
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weebly
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If you would like to use my images for commercial or editorial use, advertising or product packaging...now you can!!!
Thanks to 500px Prime license. Get the license here!
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2019-04-19T01:18:54Z
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http://shamjolimie.weebly.com/news/get-the-license-to-use-my-images-shamma-esoof
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touretown
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This article was originally published in the Lexington Herald Leader on June 1, 2018.
How did Kentucky, a state known the world over for fast-food fried chicken, land the most sophisticated culinary show on reality television?
By baiting the hook with beautiful horses and bourbon, then reeling it in with beer cheese, a slice or two of Miguel's Pizza, homemade marshmallows, fresh-caught fish, 2-year-old country ham and 25-year-old Pappy Van Winkle, that's how.
The payoff will be exposure (the show averages more than 2 million total viewers) that will put Kentucky on the culinary tourism map. Already officials are preparing a Food and Wine official tour that will launch after the show airs this winter.
What should the state expect?
"Batten down the hatches!" joked "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi.
"It’s a chance to show how specific and special and unique different parts of this country are. I think that’s what 'Top Chef' does for a city … It allows that city to show to a wider world ... what you can only experience if you actually were here," Lakshmi said. "It’s a chance for Kentucky to shine, to show itself in all its nuances rather than with a wide brush stroke of just clichés. To get to the deeper, more rooty local things."
The quest for exposure started in 2016 when Kristen Branscum became the state travel and tourism commissioner. She noticed that Kentucky wasn't getting a lot of culinary love.
And, she was tired of going to conferences and seeing the same foods highlighted.
"It’s all about shrimp and grits … or gumbo and beignets," Branscum said. "Where’s our food?"
With a background in agriculture, Branscum knew Kentucky had the goods, so she started looking for the best way to showcase what the state's farmers and producers were doing. And in August 2016 in Florida, she found it.
"I was at a conference, and one of the producers for 'Top Chef' was on a panel with Art Smith, Oprah’s chef, talking about culinary tourism," Branscum said. She managed to get the producer's last business card.
"I thought, 'I’m going to take a swing at this.' I invited her to the Kentucky Derby," Branscum said. Early on in a May 2017 visit, she told the producer "you know I want 'Top Chef' here. We'll talk when you're ready. For now, I just want you to have a good time, enjoy Kentucky."
First up: A trip to a horse farm. They went to Pin Oak Stud, right outside Frankfort, for a tour. Then they visited Jeptha Creed, a unique craft bourbon distillery run by women.
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2019-04-22T06:07:18Z
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https://www.touretown.com/articles/post/how-kentucky-landed-top-chef-and-what-it-will-mean-for-food-bourbon-tourism/
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Zero Motorcycles, the global leader in electric motorcycle manufacturing, today announced that United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood received a personal demonstration of Zero's 2011 electric motorcycle product line. The program was held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2011 (APEC) Senior Officials Meeting being held this week in San Francisco. Zero participated in the Innovative Technologies in Sustainable Transportation program hosted across the bay at FedEx Oakland Airport. Zero highlighted its electric motorcycle technology amidst a wide variety of alternative fuel transportation solutions, including the Nissan Leaf, Honda Clarity, Chevy Volt, BMW Mini-E, and Ford Focus EV.
"We are honored to be here and to see the interest from Secretary LaHood. Not only did he see the potential for these electric motorcycles, he was very encouraged by the green transportation jobs Zero Motorcycles is creating here in America," said Jay Friedland, Vice President of Strategy and Sustainability for Zero Motorcycles. "Our motorcycles are truly game changing and once you ride one, you immediately realize that electric motorcycles are here to stay. Our motorcycles are high performance, fun to ride and the best part is, you can buy one today."
Besides an overall interest in the Zero product line, LaHood showed particular interest in the efforts to extend Federal Tax credits for electric motorcycles. In a brief discussion with Zero staff, LaHood expressed support for seeing that these valuable incentives remain available to consumers and help create more American jobs.
Zero Motorcycles is the next step in motorcycle evolution and represents the ultimate electric motorcycle technology. Unencumbered by conventional thinking about how they design, manufacture and sell high performance electric motorcycles, they are on a mission to turn heads and revolutionize their industry by combining the best aspects of a traditional motorcycle with today's most advanced technology. The result is an electric motorcycle line that's insanely fast and environmentally friendly.
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2019-04-20T11:58:34Z
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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zero-motorcycles-demonstrates-its-electric-motorcycle-technology-to-us-secretary-of-transportation-ray-lahood-129871718.html
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synthasite
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http://moneytoday.synthasite.com/privacy-policy.php
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jhu
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Postcard from ethnomusiologist Sidney Robertson Cowell to Frances Schillinger, asking about the Rhythmicon [the first electronic rhythm machine built by Russian inventor Louis Theremin]: "could a composer afford to buy it? I've known someone who needs it & would put it to good use, but of course he has little money. You don't say how much you want for it - It cost [Nicolas] Slonimsky $300, 25 years ago!"
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2019-04-22T18:29:56Z
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https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/34813
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librarything
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Caroline Whitman Everett is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Caroline Whitman Everett is composed of 1 name.
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2019-04-23T20:12:10Z
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https://www.librarything.com/author/carolinewhitmanevere
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Arts
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Reference
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usu
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Chainsaws, like other types of equipment on the farm, provide valuable service, but they are inherently dangerous. The risks of operating chainsaws are obvious. What is less obvious is the fact that there are over a hundred causes of chainsaw injuries and deaths.
Webster, Jill, "Chainsaw Safety" (1999). All Current Publications. Paper 384.
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2019-04-25T22:42:56Z
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https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/384/
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Arts
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Reference
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voidhawk
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The Peter Grant series has become one of my favourite current series, the adventures of a Metropolitan Police Constable recruited to be the apprentice of one of Britain’s last wizards had been consistently entertaining over the last four books. The previous book, “Broken Homes”, had ended on the best finale in the series so far as a sudden reversal snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the Folly’s effort to capture a very dangerous rogue magician. Foxglove Summer picks up the story a few weeks after the end of the previous book but isn’t really a continuation of the story, instead it sees Peter being sent far away to rural Herefordshire to investigate whether there’s any supernatural involvement in the disappearance of two 11-year old schoolgirls. There are occasional references to the ongoing investigation into the Faceless Man and his allies but most of the focus on the abduction case. While it is a little bit frustrating to have to wait longer for the next chapter in the series’ primary plotline I think the book does benefit from focusing on a single case, in the past splitting the narrative between two different plotlines had left the second book “Moon Over Soho” feeling like the weakest entry in the series so far with one plotline far more compelling than the other.
There might not be much progress in the case against the Faceless Man but we does get some information about other elements of the background, namely some welcome detail about what happened during World War 2 in Ettersburg, an event that’s been frequently referenced due to its cataclysmic event on Britain’s magical community but one that had only been vaguely referred to in the past. There’s also some good ongoing characterisation for Peter as he has an opportunity to try to heal some of the emotional scars left by the traumatic events in previous books. Most of the characters in the book are new, but there is a return appearance for Peter’s potential romantic interest Beverly Brook and while the appearances by the River families in previous book have sometimes felt a bit disconnected to the main plot I think it works better here.
Characterisation has been one of Aaronovitch’s strengths in the series and there are some interesting new characters in minor roles although few of them get much in the way of characterisation. Local policeman Dominic Croft does make a likeable sidekick for Peter although he does seem unrealistically blasé in the face of the revelations about magic. In previous books London has almost seemed like a main character in the stories, this book takes Peter out of his urban comfort zone so there aren’t as many of the asides on local history that featured in his narration of the previous stories with a few scenes showing Peter a bit baffled by the way of life in the English countryside.
The abduction case is one of the more interesting mysteries in the series. The tension caused by the girls’ mysterious disappearance is shown both by the panicking families and their differing reactions and by the increasing desperation of the local police force to try to solve the mystery while the local and national press are breathing down their necks. The portrayal of police officers and their investigations in the series has always felt very plausible (aside from the magical elements) and this continues here with the police showing both cynicism and a stubborn determination to do as much as they can to solve the crime.
The story all builds to a tense finale and I think the resolution to the plot does work well although it does perhaps a bit rushed towards the end. There are a number of unanswered questions left at the end, I think it is reasonable to leave a number of mysteries particularly in regard to the motivations of supernatural beings but it might have been nice to at least hear Peter’s theories about why events unfolded the way they did.
Overall, I’d say this is up there with the best of the series so far although hopefully the next book will feature a return to the series’ main plotline.
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2019-04-20T23:05:41Z
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http://www.voidhawk.com/wordpress/?p=582
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amazon
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I have published a skill and was wondering can i use it in the august promotion and also in the student promotion ? or am i only allowed to submit one skill her promotion and cant use if for another promotion and will have to create another skill ?
Unfortunately, they need to be different. Thanks!
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2019-04-19T08:29:05Z
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https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/83272/can-i-use-the-same-alexa-skill-for-more-than-2-pro.html
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Arts
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Reference
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libsyn
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Marriage. The Holy Family. Father, Mother, and Child. When we look at the engagement of Joseph to Mary during the season of Advent it reminds us that God is present even through the rocky and difficult times. This season of the year is hard on many families but particularly on marriages. Join us as we look at righteous man, caught between two nearly impossible choices.
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2019-04-22T08:27:29Z
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http://cgrocks.libsyn.com/waiting-at-the-altar
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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A new dsungaripterid species from Brazil.
I finished #4 before #3, but Tupandactylus will be declared finished some time this weekend. As usual, finished means 95-99% done. I can always correct something, rip out a bone, reshape. I only add resin to the parts which may wear out (jaw and spine connections), so I can always improve other parts of the skull as I learn more about it.
This specimen is a truly imaginary pterosaur, but that may change. It is based on yet unpublished research, and it does have proposed species and specific names. When all of that becomes public, I will update this blog and change the category names for the posts on pterosaur #4. But, of course, there is a chance that the article may be rejected, and that this pterosaur does not really exist. If that happens, I might add some teeth and transform pterosaur #4 into the chinese Dsungaripterus, or leave it the way it is, Imaginary, until someone digs one out someday 🙂 Below are some pictures of the finished skull.
This is a view of the skull from underneath showing the palate. It is completely speculative. Most fossils are closed and don’t show these details, so I based it on the other pterosaurs that I have studied so far, like the Anhanguera. I still need to see better pictures at different angles to understand how to make a good pterosaur palate.
These views have the mandible connected.
Soon I will start making the body of one of the last three pterosaurs: Anhanguera, Tupandactylus or Pterosaur #4. I still haven’t decided which one.
There is no more foam work to do for the unnamed toothless dsungaripterid. Just gauze and acrylic resin. The mandible is done.
I just started to add the gauze to fill the gaps in the head cavities. This is a view of the top back showing the upper temporal apertures.
This is a view of the skull (without the mandible).
And this is what it looks like underneath so far (a lot of work to do there still).
We can add the mandible and now it smiles!
And this is a dorsal view of the the skull.
Compare it with this real fossil of a Dsungaripterus (from David Hone’s Archosaur Musings.
The angle in my photo is slightly different, but my goal is to have it look exactly like that (without the teeth of course, since my pterosaur is not a Dsungaripterus but a related toothless species).
In the foam sheet where I dug out the Tupandactylus (which is still under construction), there was another pterosaur. This is probably an unknown species and I will comment about it later. It is a dsungaripterid pterosaur, related to the Chinese Dsungaripterus. But it seems to have no teeth! Well, maybe we will find out later that it is something else, but this is the Imaginary Pterosaur project, so finally we imagined something like this.
Two halves, already cut out. From there, I trimmed the foam at an angle to attach the lower edges of the mandible, and the upper edges of the beak. Then I separated the rear crest so I could later add some foam to make a better 3D head.
A bit of folding and we have something in 3D. That was only about an hour and a half of work.
Next day, after working a bit on the Tupandactylus, I cut out the insides of the head, molded a bit more and now have another skull to work on.
Here is what Pterosaur #4 looks like after fitting the mandible.
Today I expect to finish the foam parts of both the Tupandactylus and this still unnamed Dsungaripterid. If both are done before Friday, I might have time to begin my search for the fifth Imaginary Pterosaur.
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2019-04-21T16:26:24Z
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https://imaginosaurus.wordpress.com/category/pterosaur-4-banguela-oberlii/
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The Civil Engineering Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
Graduates will be employed in industries, academia or state and federal government agencies or enter into or complete graduate or professional degree programs. Graduates will use modern engineering techniques, skills, and tools to identify, formulate, and solve civil engineering problems; or design structures or systems considering functionality, safety and cost effectiveness; or evaluate the impact of civil engineering solutions in a global, societal, and environmental context consistent with the principles of sustainable development. Graduates will engage in the professional practice in civil engineering or closely related fields. Graduates will demonstrate an understanding of ethical, societal, and professional responsibility; engage in life-long learning opportunities; and demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills within multidisciplinary teams.
Civil Engineering professionals plan, design, construct, and operate facilities which are essential to the quality of modern life, the Civil Engineering curriculum is based upon providing a fully-integrated design experience by beginning with introductory courses in the study of engineering history and economics, then progressing through a broad coverage of the primary areas of practice within Civil Engineering (surveying, structures, geotechnical engineering, construction engineering, water resources, transportation, and environmental engineering), and finishing with a year-long capstone Civil Engineering senior design project. The goal of the Civil Engineering program is to prepare students to pursue graduate education in their specific areas of interest, to pass the Fundamental of Engineering and Professional Engineer exams in the areas of practice within Civil Engineering, and become involved in design, project planning and research.
The objective of the Concentration in Environmental Engineering within the Civil Engineering program at Temple University is to provide students with the skills needed to understand environmental problems and to design environmental systems to reduce and/or mitigate pollution. Environmental Engineering is a hybrid of Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and it is thus natural for a civil engineer to broaden his/her knowledge in Environmental Engineering. Students in this concentration would be in a program that satisfies ABET accreditation for civil engineers, but they are more equipped to pass the Fundamental of Engineering and the Professional Engineer exams in the Environmental Engineering Category.
* Senior Design topic must be approved by the chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
+ Courses must be passed with a C- or better.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) offers a five-course (15 s.h.) undergraduate Minor in Environmental Engineering. Undergraduates from the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering are eligible to participate in this program.
The purpose of the Minor is to allow students from a wide range of undergraduate majors to obtain an introductory background in sustainability, pollution prevention, environmental modeling, and pollution control technologies most appropriate to their interests and major field. The Minor in Environmental Engineering will add considerably to students' major program skills and make them more valuable to employers. Mathematics and Science majors will gain an understanding of engineering problem-solving processes and standard pollution control technologies. Engineering majors will understand the environmental effects of technologies in their major field and how to manage those effects. After the student completes the requirements for the minor, the minor will be recorded on the student's official university transcript upon graduation.
Students are required to complete prerequisite courses (shown in parentheses above) as indicated for the two required courses. These prerequisite courses do not count toward the minimum of 15 semester hours. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering maintains an approved list of elective courses.
Students who are interested in pursuing an Environmental Engineering minor should speak to their advisor in the school or college in which they are pursuing their degree. Students should formally declare the Environmental Engineering minor upon completing no more than 6 credits toward the minor. There is no penalty if the minor is not completed. For more information and to declare the minor, please contact the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Below are the five-year curricula for the Co-op programs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Environmental Engineering. The minimum requirement for graduation is 127 semester hours.
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http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/archive/webarchive/bulletin2012/Academic_programs/schools_colleges/eng/programs/civil/eng_civil.shtm
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